Yeah, I’m an internet junkie. Have been since I first signed up on an ISP in 1995. I like the games, the trivia, the humor, the shopping that you can find online. I can also find pics of real pretty girls almost as cute as my GF (I had to put that in, in case she sees it).
I’m online more than most of our friends, mostly because I find TV to boring, except for a few shows, and because I have a great schedule (self employed, pretty good at what I do, so I can charge a nice price it. No, not computers, remodel, like This Old House stuff)
But, she thinks I’ve gone a little crazy over the SDMB. Probably half my internet time is now spent wafting through the Dope. And I post alot (7.60 PPD). I’ve only been here a couple of months.
In defense of the Dope, I informed her that here I can find amazing humor, interesting debates, info on important subjects, info on subjects only 3 people in the world care about, great new insults, and a place where I can trade views on things I find neat, and I get to feed my creative writing monkey.
In defense of my GF to all of you, she is cute. (no pics, sorry) And perdy dern smart, in most things…
I think of people who think the internet is this great (i.e. big) waste of time, and I think to myself “Grace a Dieu I found someone who quite thoroughly disagrees”
7 PPD is a good bit, though probably right around “average” for those people who post here anymore. Take a look at the folks who have high post counts if you want to show her how much worse it could be;)
Archenar, yes. Some of the Enterprise stuff where we make up stuff before the show actually airs, a language thread I started, some of the more meaningful debates… She just doesn’t get it. What’s so great about SDMB anyways? I reply it’s the quality of the board… She’s just not that interested in boards in the first place.
Oh well, we still have lots of other things in common.
But I meant, has she read any of Cecil’s books or columns? They’re great, and educational, too! And they probably give an idea of the kind of people who like this sort of thing.
oh yeah, I had to show her the duck’s quack thing. Every time one of us would get that stupid e-mail, I would rant and rave about how half (or more) of that stuff was just BS.
So, one late long night, I looked up all the UL busters I could remember and found the quack thing on SD. When I showed her, she sarcasticly tells me I’m always right (but she did kiss me to make not so accusatory)
Like I said, she just doesn’t get it. But, she tolerates it. Like I tolerate one of her friends who I find tedious (poor girl, needs all the friends she can get, the tedious one, not the GF)
I haven’t got any books yet. Will in a month or so I bet!
Now why should she think we are weird? In MPSIMS alone right now we have threads titled: “Include a spelling error with every post”, “Say hi to the Moto Twins”, “So there were these two naked priests in the sauna,” “The new fellatio-mimicing lollipop,” and “So my wife wants me to make her depressed” to name just a random few.
Yeah, she’s right, sorry. She nailed it…but then again, sanity has long been overrated.
Well no exactly crazy, but it took me awhile to convince my parents that the Straight Dope has nothing to do with drugs and Dopefest aren’t big get togethers where people just smoke dope an’ get high.
There couldn’t possibly be more than one meaning for the word dope could there? Nah, I didn’t think so.
I think I rather prefer that “not everyone gets it.” After all, would we have attracted such a smart and eclectic group if this was Popular.com ? Hell no !
Oh yeah and fizzes I had to have a similar discussion with the co-employees who share my computer. This NOT a drug influenced webpage.
Well, one day during a family dinner a question came up about somethingorother to which no one had an answer and my sister said “Well, Cheri, why don’t you ask your dopey friends?”
Of course, I guess that is better than “Well, Cheri, why don’t you ask your crazy friends?” But then, if she had said that she would have been referring to my OTHER friends…
[sub]and my crazy friends have no credibility at ALL, thank you very much![/sub]
Wow, I just realized something - the same guy introduced me to The Straight Dope (newspaper column form) and basically helped me get together with the man who’s now my husband!
He spoke very highly of the SD column, so I picked up a newspaper with it, started reading, and got hooked. He and I were also talking with each other about our respective relationships, neither of which was going well. I was in a long-distance relationship that I didn’t want to admit to myself was falling apart, and becoming interested in a mutual friend of ours; I’d tell him about this when we talked. He did honestly help me to realize that my relationship wasn’t going anywhere, and secretly was going to our friend to tell him that I was interested but feeling vulnerable, etc. So here I was seeing how my old relationship wasn’t that hot, and this mutual male friend was being soooo sweet, and one thing led to another. (My husband told me later what had happened, and I just had to laugh.)
Scott, if you’re reading this, thanks for everything.
Totally forgot to add - yes, we’re crazy, and no, it’s not uncommon for our spouses/partners/whatever to think that way, so at least you’re in good company!
We’re crazy?!
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