“This place is like chocolate-covered crack” I don’t know who said that originally, but it is sooooo true.
No, I’ve just got a touch of 'flu today.
I enjoy it and I certainly can imagine myself posting 10 times a day, I mean that’s only 2 interesting threads in the 5 forums I frequent. Heck I could probably double that if I tried to be more opinionated and didn’t fret over posting too many times in a single thread. But right now I’m kinda off, I get that way every now and then (like Cartooniverse). Many threads seem repetitive or copies of ones from a few months ago, or a year ago. People seem to be saying the same thing over and over. Even the post padding threads in MPSIMS, usually insane places that are interesting to read through seem more like attempts to turn this place into chat. I can’t seem to get past the first paragraph of long humorous OPs like some of our more amusing dopers are occasionally want to do. So right now I’m down to 2 posts a day instead of my usual 5.
You know what it might be though? I’m really frustrated at the entertainment industry and their stupid freakin’ DVD release schedules. I thought that getting a region free player would enable me to fill my coffers with DVDs not available in ol’ region 1 but oh-ho-ho they’re smarter then that. Yes, yes they released Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Sleeping Beauty in region 2 and region 4 and if they were available in Japan or Taiwan or Mexico I’d snatch them up. But they aren’t, they’re only in PAL countries like Australia and the UK. I suppose if I was eloquent I’d write a killer pit thread that would satiate myself but I can’t. I just want to stomp around “rackin’ and frackin’” every living thing related to the industry until I’m blue in the face but it doesn’t help. (sorry I simply had to say it somewhere and it is sorta related. I can’t tell you the hours I’ve spent trying to maneuver around Amazon Japan with an unopen and unread SDMB thread in the background trying to find The Rescuers another film available only in PAL, even though they wont ship DVDs to the US. I thought I could work up some DVD exchange of some sor… Damn I can’t stop talking about this stuff.)
Anyhoo, I suppose eventually it will pass. Untill then I shall feel frustrated, post little and moon over expensive PAL to NTSC converters.
I was playing with the kids at the playground and this guy came over and whipped out his laptop. He offered to let me post a message on the board. He said the first one would be free.
I started posting once or twice a week - you know, just to let off a little steam. Then I went through a rough period and started posting 6 - 7 times in a day. Once I passed out in the middle of writing a new thread and woke up to find myself nude, hunched over a keyboard and afraid to log off.
Parents, talk to your kids about Straight Dope.
This is your mind on eggs.
This is my mind on a thread.
Definitely addicted. The SDMB is going to get me fired one of these days.
Ya think? Jeez… :eek:
:: slowly angles monitor toward inside of cube and away from aisle, continues doping ::
Oh yeah - gone, baby. This Dope is the grooviest!
[Parliament / Funkadelic]
Make my Dope the Straight Dope - I wants ta get Doped up!
[/Parliament / Funkadelic]
Heh, these are pretty funny. I guess he’s not alone, then. And I don’t post a lot, since I don’t think of cute things to say, plus, I’m not addicted to this place.
I’m addicted to MUSHing. 
Yep. Hopelessly addicted. I would post more but you guys are just better with words so I would just end up keying “me too” a whole lot. 
Hi. My name is Kittenblue, and I’m a Dope-aholic.
I used to use books as my form of procrastination, but now that I’m on the Dope I haven’t touched a book in…days. When my computer died last year I thought I’d be able to kick the habit, but my brother-in-law managed to fix it, and then my son offered to pay for a cable modem. When I got back online, it was the Winter of Our Missed Content, and I thought, hey, I’m doing okay without it! Then all those old sensations came back…and I’m lost, truly lost…I can’t even just lurk anymore, I have to post. It’s gotten so bad I don’t even hide it from the kids anymore, though I won’t let them read it…they see me doing it, but they don’t really know how much I’m doing.
Gotta go take a hit of the Pit now…
So, is it even more pathetic if you’re addicted, but don’t post very much?
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Yeah, I thought so…
I’m such an addict that I go to the library because my home and work online connections are both down and I need my Straight Dope fix and this is going to cut me off in one minute now…
I am addicted and I just found out about SDMB about a month ago and got registered only 2 days ago. I even check the SDMB at work since I make a lot of calls and am usually on hold and I use that time to check it out. I unfortunately even got my brother intrested and now I have to fight him everyday for the computer. I am older so I usually win 
Also he does not own a car so he needs to do what I tell him or he will need to take the bus to school;)
:: LucChiq stands. Group turns. ::
“Hi, LucChiq…”
:: Group quickly returns to posting. ::
Seriously though, as a fellow newbie I welcome you to SDA.
I think that was either ultress or purple crack whore.
Yep. Addicted. I’ve considered emailing Tubadiva and asking for a voluntary banning to keep me from spending too much of my work time here.
Yes.
Shit, you mean to tell me there are people who aren’t addicted?!? Weirdos. I might not post much but I check the site at least once a day. My family rarely sees me anymore.
We just rack up these post counts for the hell of it, you know?
Yea you get addicted to it in the beginning. But take my word for it, it does start to wear off and you do start to live again after a while. When you first get on the board and you are meeting all the people and establishing yourself as a doper it’s like a daily high. Then, you start to see new people come on, the same topics being posted again and again, all the new flirt threads, all the ‘me too’ posts, it starts to wear thin. You will never lose your love of the board or the people, but you’ll start to scan through the threads, especially when you learn the people and learn which ones are on the board to kill time and post anything, and which dopers are on the board to give true input and humor. You’ll start to ignore most of those posts. I stayed on the boards constantly for about 4 months when I first joined. Now I run through and check the threads in the morning, hardly ever on weekends, and I go days sometimes without posting. No need to. If I can’t add something new, why bother wasting other people’s time and bogging the board down.
But I don’t think I would leave the boards unless they shut down.