are skeptics party poopers?

We're both applying our own psychological projections to the image at hand. And it's just an image.

If I'm in a room of 20 people, all of whom are astrologers, and I say, "Astrology is bunk." I may be a rabble rouser, but I am not a party pooper.

If you and I are ever at a cookout, and I put down my weenie and rest my head on my hand, you can be sure I'm still listening to you.

!Alex! - "To me, that gesture says "you are full of shit" more than it says "I am feeling gengle and kind."

Well since this is your subjective reading, it really says more about you than who you're attributing a certain attitude or quality to. I'd suggest that if you're busy judging books (and people) by their cover not their contents, not only are you missing out on a whole, lot but you're also mistaking your subjective beliefs which you've projected onto an object (a photo in this case) for being somehow an objective fact or universal.

Personally I'm okay with people believing in things I don't and I love make believe, mythology and creative storytelling. It's when someone tries to assert that their subjective fictions are reality or promote pseudoscience to try to validate their ideas, and consequently endanger others, when it becomes a situation where someone has stepped over the line from personal belief to insisting that their fantasy is reality and trumps fact, that it becomes an issue for me. Personally I really enjoy people who are way out there and getting to know their interior world, just because someone's not firmly grounded in reality doesn't mean they're somehow invalid as an individual or not of interest to me or a potential friend. Of course, it often depends whether someone's put their fantasy life in service of art and they understand they're creating mythological "realities" or if they've mistaken their creativity/imagination/fantasies for reality and channeled it into being a religious fanatic.