# How the hell did I end up here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073 "2012-10-08T08:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/61 "2012-10-11T05:37:55Z")
He’s found out by now. :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/62 "2012-10-16T01:51:01Z")
This thread is about to become a closed, recursive strange loop that will eventually become self aware and will bring about the technological singularity. Thanks a lot, **NRayeMc!** Just, whatever you do, don’t Google for “nightmares”. Oh, no… what have I done! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/63 "2012-10-16T02:44:28Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > this thread is about to become a closed, recursive strange loop that will eventually become self aware and will bring about the technological singularity. There is Another System. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/64 "2012-10-17T04:02:59Z")
This is the Forum Of No Return, This is the Forum Of No Return! You have stumbled in, You have fumbled in Now you can’t get out! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/65 "2012-10-17T04:15:46Z")
It’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/66 "2012-10-17T05:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=the watchman] That’s nice. You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave. [/QUOTE] .. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/67 "2012-10-17T06:34:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Secret tunnel number _four?!!_ Yike. We’re going to need the face shields. Oh, _man_! Really? I put mine away for the winter. ---
**Author:** ![timid1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@timid1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timid1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/68 "2012-10-17T17:46:46Z")
We are all here because we are all not there ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/69 "2012-10-17T20:50:24Z")
Ah, SDMB, the IKEA of forums. You wander aimlessly for days looking for one lousy Glork, and next thing you know you’re eating discount meatballs with jam and drinking $1 coffee while constantly misplacing the in-laws… ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/70 "2012-10-17T20:59:04Z")
> [@getitrite](#): > > This place is really more like the TARDUS,… Time And Relative Dimension **Under** Space? ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073/71 "2012-10-19T17:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Ah, SDMB, the IKEA of forums. You wander aimlessly for days looking for one lousy Glork, and next thing you know you’re eating discount meatballs with jam and drinking $1 coffee while constantly misplacing the in-laws… Also the consumer of coffee breaks and lunchtimes. Please, sir, may I have my 30 minutes back? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-did-i-end-up-here/637073.md?page=3)