# Guinastasia, Walk Away from the computer **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 15, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431 "2006-03-15T07:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/161 "2006-03-16T11:55:34Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I met my husband on a computer message board 20 years, 360 days ago. I was with his daughter when our first grandchild was born. She’s in college now. Too much time? Idle hands? Uphill. Both ways. In the snow. I met my husband on a computer message board (you know, you’re allowed to call them BBSs) 14 years ago. I helped raise three of his kids. WE have three kids. Happy as clams. HOWEVER. There are definitely better things I should have been doing with my time. Getting a steady job. Making ANY local friends. Actually attending my college courses. At the time, any and all of these things should have been far more important than tying up the phone line on local BBSs. I won’t argue with the life I have ended up with as a result, but that’s all in hindsight. At the time, I was young and dumb and wasted my time on the computer when I should have been doing other things. So, yeah: too much time AND idle hands. Things worked out beautifully all things considered, but I can’t say I don’t sometimes wonder how far I could have gone if I hadn’t spent so much time fucking off on the computer. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/162 "2006-03-16T16:06:03Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > And you would be guilty of a crime and could lose your license to teach. And the bears down at the lake could smell the peanut butter and banana sandwich in your pocket and maul you to death. Agreed: The ripping out and lake throwing is plenty bad. Thank you for pointing this out before one of us went too far. You are the fucking best! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/163 "2006-03-16T16:56:18Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > Heh, I’d be willing to bet a lot of you plug other doper’s usernames into google. I spent a grand total of five whole seconds. That is hardly spending a great amount of time finding reasons to fuck with somebody. :rolleyes: You spent time looking for reasons to fuck with somebody? What, you drew her name out of a hat or something? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/164 "2006-03-16T17:01:54Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > You spent time looking for reasons to fuck with somebody? What, you drew her name out of a hat or something? 😃 Careful, who knows who will be next. Though it looks like being oitted by \*\*Klaatu \*\* could be a positive. Jim ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/165 "2006-03-16T17:33:12Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > 😃 Careful, who knows who will be next. Though it looks like being oitted by \*\*Klaatu \*\* could be a positive. His pitting skills are like a relaxing massage compared to some of the folks around here. I doubt I’ll ever be pitted. Too boring. I need more boobies in my posts. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/166 "2006-03-16T18:05:00Z")
You know, I haven’t been around for a while and this thread is heart warming. Not because Guin was pitted, but because I recognize so many names in the thread! (I’m not entirely sure that the previous sentence wasn’t a fragment. Seems on in common parlance, though.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/167 "2006-03-16T18:28:03Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > His pitting skills are like a relaxing massage compared to some of the folks around here. > > I doubt I’ll ever be pitted. Too boring. I need more boobies in my posts. You could try adding these [Boobies](http://www.td-club.com.tw/images/Image_Gala/Bird/Masked%20Boobics%2002m.jpg) to your posts. I know a stupid joke, but I felt compelled. Jim ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/168 "2006-03-16T18:56:46Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I doubt I’ll ever be pitted. Too boring. I need more boobies in my posts. The Pitting would only happen if they were sub-standard boobies. I’m sure any number of us would be more than happy to give you an impartial eveluation. Make sure the photos are clear and cover every angle. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/169 "2006-03-16T19:28:58Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I doubt I’ll ever be pitted. Too boring. I need more boobies in my posts. For a small fee, I could arrange for a very toasty pitting for you. Maybe we could work the booby angle a bit. It would also help if you did something dumb, but it isn’t strictly necessary. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/170 "2006-03-16T20:23:20Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > His pitting skills are like a relaxing massage compared to some of the folks around here. > > I doubt I’ll ever be pitted. Too boring. I need more boobies in my posts. We could pit you for not having enough boobies in your posts, how’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/171 "2006-03-17T00:59:16Z")
> [@](#): > > **Hamadryad** : HOWEVER. There are definitely better things I should have been doing with my time. Getting a steady job. Making ANY local friends. Actually attending my college courses. At the time, any and all of these things should have been far more important than tying up the phone line on local BBSs. But that was _you_ and you’re projecting your experience onto others who spend lots of time on the internet. **Guin** is obviously productive. I had my degree and was teaching. Now I’m retired. It just seems naive to think that we can know what someone else “should” be doing with their own time. **Waverly** , I have a low tolerance for bullies in the profession. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/172 "2006-03-17T01:04:01Z")
Well, I do have plans for this weekend, that I’m really looking forward to. And I went shopping yesterday and bought the cutest new hoody. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/173 "2006-03-17T01:20:08Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, I do have plans for this weekend, that I’m really looking forward to. And I went shopping yesterday and bought the cutest new hoody. > > Does that help? Should you be revealing that kind of personal information to us? ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/174 "2006-03-17T01:33:23Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I had my degree and was teaching. Now I’m retired. > > It just seems naive to think that we can know what someone else “should” be doing with their own time. You were a teacher, and you do not approve of giving input into what someone should be doing with their time? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/175 "2006-03-17T01:35:55Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > And I went shopping yesterday and bought the cutest new hoody. Wow! You got a [pet crow?](http://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/Hooded%20Crow020105.htm) Wicked cool! Does he talk? 🆒 Oh. Hoody, not hooded. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/176 "2006-03-17T01:37:08Z")
> [@Waverly](#): > > You were a teacher, and you do not approve of giving input into what someone should be doing with their time? Consider the source: teacher or trashman? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/177 "2006-03-17T01:46:22Z")
I don’t think it’s difficult at all to see both sides of the issue. On one hand, it’s her life and it’s her business how she wants to spend her time. Nobody has the right to tell an adult what to do, as long as she’s not hurting anyone else or committing a crime. On the other hand, it’s pretty sad to look back at a thread from FIVE YEARS ago and see that not much has changed in her life, except now she has 20,000 more posts. When I consider a young woman of 22, with good parents and a college education, with so much potential and so much to offer the world, has pretty much frittered away some of the best years of her life, I have to pause at that. I certainly would pit her about it, but it does make me go hmm. I don’t think an anonymous message board poster is the person that should be doing an intervention, but if she doesn’t have anyone else in her life that will tell her what she may need to hear, then so be it. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/178 "2006-03-17T03:47:46Z")
I had to spend 15 bucks just to say how much you miserable fucks wanting company disgust me. Despite being an anonymous message board poster, and thus a Satan spawn, I had to come in and back up **trublmakr** ’s point. Guin, you’ve always seemed like a decent and intelligent girl. Has becoming independent and making a life for yourself really been abondoned as a goal? Do you not worry that posting ~30 posts per day to your various communities is how your OCD has snuck back into controlling your life? Like **trublmakr** said, it’s your life. But jeez. And ETF you particularly dissappoint me. “Consider the source” is a nicetoss away line so we can all ignore the messenger. Have you actually considered the source? Does the source have some well established history of being a jerk for jerkiness sake? gawd. Oh well, I’ve expended my 15 dollars worth of outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/179 "2006-03-17T04:18:31Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Guin, you’ve always seemed like a decent and intelligent girl. Has becoming independent and making a life for yourself really been abondoned as a goal? Do you not worry that posting ~30 posts per day to your various communities is how your OCD has snuck back into controlling your life? Like **trublmakr** said, it’s your life. But jeez. No, and no. “But jeez” yourself. Don’t pretend you’re all concerned or saddened for me. That’s especially funny coming from you. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431/180 "2006-03-17T04:33:04Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I had to spend 15 bucks just to say how much you miserable fucks wanting company disgust me. That’s awesome. This is a money machine, baybee! Quick, someone pit someone else. Cecil needs a new pair of shoes! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-walk-away-from-the-computer/348431.md?page=10)