# SDMB, how i loathe thee...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 10, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267 "2003-03-10T07:21:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Quiddity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/1 "2003-03-10T07:21:42Z")
I wish I been warned!
‘Upon entering the Straight Dope world, your life will never be the same’…
You won’t go a day without checking the latest banter from all those odd people…
Everyone else you encounter from then on will seem so… normal and plain!
No matter how many threads you scour or useless facts you learn, your addiction to the boards will never be cured.
…Any advice for recovery or is it too late already?
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/2 "2003-03-10T07:28:10Z")
Nope, you actually summed it up pretty well. Everything IRL sems so vanilla comapred to the collective experience of the SDMB.
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/3 "2003-03-10T07:31:49Z")
:smack: Such a silly slide for silver selection without seeing sudden simpers… ;j
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### Author:  [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/4 "2003-03-10T07:32:18Z")
Hi, Quiddity! Welcome to the SDMB. (And, yes, you’re doomed.)
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/5 "2003-03-10T12:15:26Z")
_Another_ one lured in? Man, we’re having a good day today!
Welcome to the SDMB, **Quiddity**. Relax. We’re told the assimilation process doesn’t hurt a bit. After a while, they even say the right eye stops twitching. 🙂
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/6 "2003-03-10T12:55:58Z")
What’s really bad, **Quiddity** , is that the obsession goes to a whole new level once you start posting – because now you have to give special attention to all the threads you’re posting in.
Yup, it’s all downhill from here.
Welcome!
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### Author:  [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/7 "2003-03-10T13:15:37Z")
Don’t worry about it too much **Quid,** because with time you’ll have posted to 15 or 20 threads, checked the responses and started a couple of your own before you ever realize that your project was due 3 hours ago.
Then you’ll rationalize that the project deadline was uselessly short and hit a few more threads before starting it.
When you reach this point, you’ll be a true Doper. Until then, you’r pretty safe.
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### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/8 "2003-03-10T13:44:38Z")
Get out while you still can! While you’re still physically able.
For many of us, it’s too late. Leaving the 'dope would be determental to our lives. The withdrawal would kill us.
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/9 "2003-03-10T14:05:22Z")
Quiddity, how could we warn you if we had no idea of your existence? Hmmm?
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/10 "2003-03-10T14:48:49Z")
Well, you’ve gone and actually posted. Now you’re done.
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### Author:  [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/11 "2003-03-10T16:00:09Z")
You are screwed. Even if you just lurk in the shadows like me, you still end up checking the place out regularly. The place remains original and entertaining after going on four years. Worse than drug addiction.
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### Author:  [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/12 "2003-03-10T16:19:12Z")
There realy should be a Surgeon’s General warning on the top of the web page. Would have saved me. OK, probably not, but at least I would have been warned. Then I could have damned the consequences like I do with everything else.
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### Author:  [@Quiddity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/13 "2003-03-10T17:26:04Z")
It’s just as I feared!
Since I’m in too deep to turn back now, I may as well go for #2…
Thanks for the support everyone. I was beginning to worry after I noticed hours mysteriously vanishing from my day. But I guess this is a known side-effect?
Here I go, sitting back and finally giving in. There isn’t a group of people I would rather share my fate with.
-Quiddity
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/14 "2003-03-10T19:30:00Z")
You better watch yourself, Quiddity. Some of us have been known to succumb to the point of marrying other Dopers and moving to a different country.
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### Author:  [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/15 "2003-03-10T19:58:00Z")
You sign up for a board with the word “Dope” in the title, and you’re _surprised_ when you become addicted? 😉
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### Author:  [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/16 "2003-03-10T20:06:12Z")
Yep, you’re stuck, **Quiddity**. There really should be a Surgeon General’s warning on the SDMB, but maybe the long-term effects have yet to be determined…
In any case, enjoy your new addiction, and please have some Imaginary Welcome Cookies. I’ve been handing them out all day, but there are lots left.
Love, Kn\*ckers
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/17 "2003-03-10T20:15:30Z")
[The Eagles]You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave[/The Eagles]
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### Author:  [@it\_sjustme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/it_sjustme)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-how-i-loathe-thee/160267/18 "2003-03-11T08:10:58Z")
**Qiddity** , come on, don’t pretend that you didn’t see the “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here” sign on the door!😃