# Non American members - who's renewing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412 "2005-03-20T11:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/61 "2005-03-22T15:36:38Z")
**Boyo Jim** IIRC was originally **yojimboguy** and changed it due to several misunderstandings about whom posted what. **TheLoadedDog** > [@](#): > > I know that I go through my own cycles of troughs and peaks with this place. At the moment I’m hitting the bottom of it, but I know that will change, so I pushed myself to renew. If I didn’t, I’d regret it six or twelve months down the track. This place has been good to me over time, and I think it’s worth the few bucks to keep my account alive. I do still like the SDMB. Now this has made me think. I may renew and just go away for a few months and see how the land lies when I return. Hmmmm… Any way enough of whether I’m a diddering non-committal fuck or not. Back to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/62 "2005-03-22T16:17:28Z")
I just have. between the half price for first wavers and the strong pound, it would be silly for me not to! Plus it would be terrible if I missed a chance to gloat at **Owl** by only a matter of weeks! ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/63 "2005-03-22T16:37:39Z")
> [@vinryk](#): > > Actually it sort of is. > It also has some relation to my real name. That’s so cool. hehehe. Why, Thank you, **Larry Borgia**. You made me blush and you made my day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/64 "2005-03-22T17:17:01Z")
> [@One And Only Wanderers](#): > > I just have. between the half price for first wavers and the strong pound, it would be silly for me not to! Plus it would be terrible if I missed a chance to gloat at **Owl** by only a matter of weeks! It ain’t gonna happen old chap. No siree bob. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/65 "2005-03-22T17:43:10Z")
If you’re counting foreigners living in the US - I’ll definitely renew. Whether you like it or not. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/66 "2005-03-22T18:04:14Z")
When do we have to renew ? Well I’m staying around for another year… SMDB is a too good a source of debate and info to be a miser about. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/67 "2005-03-22T21:42:09Z")
> [@Rashak Mani](#): > > When do we have to renew ? Click on the “User CP” menu/link above, then on “subscription” (or was it “subscribe”?). It’ll tell you when you subscribed, and when it runs out. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/68 "2005-03-22T21:56:40Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > Click on the “User CP” menu/link above, then on “subscription” (or was it “subscribe”?). It’ll tell you when you subscribed, and when it runs out. You can renew whenever you want. It isn’t ‘exactly a year’ It’s renewed until the same fixed date - 28/4/2006 I’ve already forked out the bank-busting 4 pounds 5 p. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/69 "2005-03-22T22:33:06Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I’ve already forked out the bank-busting 4 pounds 5 p. You wuz had…mine was a whole 1% cheaper!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/70 "2005-03-22T22:49:28Z")
I bought two years to start. The boards’ just as polite/impolite as it has ever been. Anyone who thinks things are more nasty here than they’ve been before is just engaging in nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/71 "2005-03-22T23:03:37Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I bought two years to start. > > The boards’ just as polite/impolite as it has ever been. This is quite easy to check. Simply search the older Pit threads. There was lots of old -style SDMB “felchwad” type stuff, and some of it was very nasty indeed, but there isn’t the sheer venom of the current board. > [@](#): > > Anyone who thinks things are more nasty here than they’ve been before is just engaging in nostalgia. I’m not so sure about that either. I can point to periods where things were better than at other times longer ago. It certainly hasn’t been a steady decline. I signed up in early 2001, but I think the board was at its best for me about a year or so later. I’m not sure why exactly - I know we got some good new blood around that time, so that might have had something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/72 "2005-03-22T23:53:50Z")
Already re-upped about a month ago. Sure, there’s been a general change in tenor the last while; but I always think of the SDMB as akin to Saturday Night Live; the cast changes every so often, and unexpectedly, there is a renaissance in quality. And it is pretty cheap entertainment, when all is said and done, with the added fillip of actually learning something once in a while. There is a certain US-centric tendency to the boards; but after all, it’s an American clumn, in an American newspaper that’s at the heart of all this…plus, I think the International Brigade adds just enough worldview to compensate. **¡No Pasarán!** Anyway, we must all continue to fight ignorance of our American cousins, particularly in the vital field of what, finally and definitively, constitutes a “smartie.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412.md?page=3)