# You know you're a hardcore Doper when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625 "2004-08-13T01:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/41 "2004-08-14T22:31:36Z")
When you mouse hover irritably on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) or [msn.com](http://msn.com), flapping the poor mouse back and forth, saying “where’s the damned thread preview?” ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/42 "2004-08-15T01:36:15Z")
Your post count is in scientific notation. You look though the morning paper and are frustrated when you can’t find the MPSIMS section. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/43 "2004-08-15T06:10:59Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > An inordinate number of your IRL conversations start with, “I read on this message board I go to…” Guilty guilty guilty. I’m torn between actively urging all my friends to sign up, because, well, why wouldn’t you, and a selfish desire to keep it all to myself! Well, me and the fourty thousand other people. They can play too. I’d like to add: - a sort of cosmopolitan message board snobbishness. Message boards with bright colours or long sigs or big pictures of kittens now strike me as a little, well, provincial. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/44 "2004-08-15T11:07:07Z")
> [@Nightingale](#): > > A friend or coworker makes a statement and you demand a cite. You beat me! I go “cite?” and people go what? Uhh, “Cite? As in, have you got any evidence bitches?” Why won’t people just accept one word sentences! ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/45 "2004-08-15T11:22:31Z")
You wake up, realise it’s the time when the boards are down, and go back to sleep. You know more about US politics than you do about the politics of the country you live in. You have the Doper dream (wierdly, nobody had faces, just their user names at the top of their bodies). You feel cheated because you can never think of a decent Pit thread, and you want to pit yourself for your placid nature. ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/46 "2004-08-15T14:59:45Z")
> [@manx](#): > > I’m torn between actively urging all my friends to sign up, because, well, why wouldn’t you, and a selfish desire to keep it all to myself! Exactly! > [@manx](#): > > - a sort of cosmopolitan message board snobbishness. Message boards with bright colours or long sigs or big pictures of kittens now strike me as a little, well, provincial. And have you noticed how stupid and ignorant some of the inmates – at some of those other message boards – seem? ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/47 "2004-08-15T15:14:49Z")
You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and have to “check the boards” before you can go back to sleep. \*\*mr\_smartini \*\* does not understand this behavior…add one more to the list 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625/48 "2004-08-15T16:52:36Z")
**Twickster** , I’m kind of proud of never having opened that thread. Sort of like I’m proud to have never seen an episode of _Dallas_, _Survivor_, and many other very popular TV shows. > [@Ruby](#): > > Where is this “number of responses” of which you speak? It’s not in the thread, it’s next to the thread title on Forum page. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-a-hardcore-doper-when/259625.md?page=2)