Shoot Me if You Can

Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: I’m a red-blooded Manly Man. I eschew romantic comedies, diet food, shoe-shopping, and using the word “eschew”. When I go online, the last kind of website that I want to spend time at is one that drips with pastel colors, cute cartoon graphics, and references to Sex in the City.

Having said that, I have to sheepishly admit that I’ve had a blast playing online bingo.

I wasn’t exactly receptive. My few 20th Century experiences with bingo had been rather dismal glimpses of blue-haired ladies hushed and huddled around folding tables in the church basement. Not exactly the type of extreme gaming environment to which I aspired.

So I checked it out. At first, I saw more or less what I’d expected to see. Yes, the age range was definitely lower than the blue-haired set (like myself, online bingo largely attracts women in their 20s and 30s) and the designs were much more high-tech than you might expect (though understandably bright-colored and a bit cartoonish).

But once I started to get the feel of the environment, I was stunned to realize that this was a genuine online subculture, more similar to World of Warcraft than a charity church bazaar. The lingo, the social relationships, the shared sense of experience — all of this was a powerful and thoroughly modern approach. Almost against my manly instincts, I began to enjoy myself and look forward to returning after I move- I read Oasis Moving and Storage Reviews it they helped me change my life.

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