88 Signs of being online too long!

Kefka

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88 signs of being online too long.

1. Tech Support calls "YOU" for help.
2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL" out loud.
3. You find yourself trying to cock your head 90 degrees when you smile.
4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.
5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hangout".
6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
7. If you are male and see a female in the "Real" world that you wish to meet, your first thought is to IM her.
8. If you are female and you see a male in the "Real" world that you wish to meet, your first thought is that you wish he'd IM you.
9. You don't understand the humor in the above mentioned #7 and #8 since the "real" world is at your fingertips.
10. You have to get a 2nd phone line just so you can call Pizza Hut.
11. When you have sex, you no longer are concerned about sexually transmitted diseases.
12. You walk into a room, and, finding that it has more than 23 people, you inform management that there is an error.
13. When looking at signs, you wonder why they are always "yelling" at you.
14. You go up to people you are attracted to "in real life" and ask them for their GIF.
15. Although you don't know what they look like, you become insanely jealous of people hitting on your cyber-love.
16. You don't even know what your cyber-love looks like.
17. When at work, your boss constantly reminds you that the word i should be capitalized.
18. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.
19. Your spouse now complains of you moving your fingers in your sleep instead of talking.
20. Your kids are eating cereal morning, noon, and night.
21. When someone says, "What did you say?" you reply, "Scroll up!"
22. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.
23. You turn down the lights & close the blinds so people won't know you're on-line again.
24. You know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your own spouse's.
25. You find yourself lying to others about your time on-line & when they complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook.
26. You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own.
27. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth (online all night).
28. You change your screen names so much that you have to look at your own profile to see who you are.
29. You go into labor and you stop to type a special E-mail to let everyone know you're going to be away and how you're feeling.
30. You marry your cyber boyfriend/girlfriend and you both sit at your own computers & chat to each other every night from across the room.
31. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.
32. You understand the humor in all of these jokes because you have committed then yourself!
33. Your dog leaves you.
34. You are doing things more and more that you swore you would never do when you first got online.
35. You sign on & immediately get 10 IMs from people who have you on their buddy list.
36. You have a map on the wall w/ LOTS of red thumbtacks to mark where people are you have met.
37. You look at an annoying person off-line & wish you had your ignore button handy.
38. You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer.
39. Your significant other kisses your neck while you're chatting and you think, "Uh oh, cyber sex perv".
40. You go thru "withdrawal" if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.
41. Your buddy list has over 100 people on it.
42. You understand what BIF ISO BIM means. (I wonder how many will get this one...If so, you've been hanging out in *strange* places).
43. You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your first cup of coffee.
44. You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake.
45. You have your computer set so it goes directly into AOL's welcome screen.
46. You wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home from work.
47. You don't know where the time has gone.
48. You end sentences with 3 (or more) periods while writing letters by hand.
49. Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.
50. You get up at 2 am to go to the bathroom but turn on the computer instead.
51. You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo.
52. You enter a room & 23 people greet you w/ {{hugs}} or **kisses**.
53. You stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno andlemme.
54. Your voicemail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n & I will TTYL".
55. You type faster than you think.
56. You got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL too & are now undergoing therapy in private rooms instead of at his office.
57. You want to be buried with your computer when it dies or vice versa.
58. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.
59. You can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie.
60. People say, "If it weren't for your super reflexes in your eyes and fingers, you would have been classified as a vegetable!"
61. You dream in "text".
62. Being called a Newbie is a "MAJOR" insult.
63. There is absolutely no interesting chat in any room & you're really bored.
64. You don't want to leave in case you miss something.
65. You double click your TV remote.
66. You can now type over 70 wpm.
67. You think about starting a 12-step recovery group for AOL junkies.
68. You are on the phone a minute & need to do something else & say"BRB"or "BBL".
69. You check your E-mail and forget you have real mail (a.k.a. snailmail).
70. You go into withdrawals during dinner.
71. You spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone in a room.
72. You stop speaking in full sentences.
73. You have gone into an unstaffed Tech Support room & ended up "giving" tech support to other AOLers.
74. You have to be pried from your computer by the "Jaws of Life".
75. Your last sexual experience was really just a "textual" experience.
76. You know what a "snert" is.
77. You set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to "check your mail" & while there you "just wanted to see who was online."
78. You meet people from AOL in public & you have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their screen name.
79. You've even gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face-to-face.
80. When seeing someone you wish to meet, your second thought is wishing they'd be on AOL so you don't have to meet them in person.
81. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.
82. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences.
83. You have met over 100 AOLers.
84. When meeting a stranger, you ask for their profile. If they have a profile you ask them for an age/sex/location check.
85. You understand the humor in all of this.
86. You keep telling yourself to Get a Life.
87. When someone online says BRB, gotta go pee, you ask them to go for you, and think they can.
88.if you took the time to read all of these!
 
89
when you think, you refer to your self by your screen name... *shut up wiemar, uh... I mean... what the hell is my real name again??*

90
when you are talking to frined you find yourself saying "yea, it was dot-dot-dot well you know dot-dot-dot if you catch my drift colon-endbracket" <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>

91
you use net language while writting your history exam...

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Whats the point of living if you cant do anything stupid?

92, you have more friends online at any moment then you could call in they were all home

[This message has been edited by weimar_republic (edited June 23, 2001).]
 
ummmm what does BIF, ISO and BIN mean?

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ISO : International Standard Organisation. They fix some industrial standards. One of the most famous is the 7 layer ISO model, that was the prequel to the TCP/IP suite. It might also be a format. When you burn a cd, you can make a "iso" image file.

BIN is simply binary format.

BIF: Uh? don't know. Ah yes. Born In France.
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Other questions?
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Bif Iso Bim means bi female in search of bi male, but because I know that it doesnt make me strange
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Originally posted by weimar_republic:
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You do realize that a colon-endbracket looks like this :-}. I think you were going for :-) or colon-end parenthesis
Sheesh.....get it straight!!!

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Now...I will comment on each of them. (The ones I don't quote....I don't have a comment.)

1. Tech Support calls "YOU" for help.
I AM TECH SUPPORT!!!! In my JOB and ONLINE!!!


2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL" out loud.

Well...haven't done that yet....but I do write LOL and smilies on letters and memos....which is probably a sign of a problem.


5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "we can hangout".

Of Course!!! This is so obvious....


6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

I think they did a study and said that CTS isn't as related to typing as they first thought. Kind of like the breakthough in Cell Phones....They have NO IDEA!!!


22. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.

Instead of a mid-night snack, its a mid-night hour of Civ.
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26. You have an identity crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own.

No....but it annoys me greatly.


28. You change your screen names so much that you have to look at your own profile to see who you are.

NEVER!!!!!!


30. You marry your cyber boyfriend/girlfriend and you both sit at your own computers & chat to each other every night from across the room.

My mother and her boyfriend (Which we moved in with last year) still do that!!! She tells me to get off the computer so she can chat with Mack. I say, "HE'S IN THE BEDROOM!!!!" GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!


31. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.

Yep.


32. You understand the humor in all of these jokes because you have committed then yourself!

Isn't that obvious.


40. You go thru "withdrawal" if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.

Well.....I have to keep busy....like playing cards or sports or something. Like I'm going to Tampa for 3 days with NO COMPUTER!!! I NEED LAPTOP!!!! *drool*


41. Your buddy list has over 100 people on it.

Over 150!!


62. Being called a Newbie is a "MAJOR" insult.

Damn Right!!!

74. You have to be pried from your computer by the "Jaws of Life".

With threats, or physical pain....but not "Jaws of Life".................yet.


89 when you think, you refer to your self by your screen name... *shut up wiemar, uh... I mean... what the hell is my real name again??*

Well.......haven't done that yet....but I do call other people by their name. Like when I can Andrew....I say "FISH!!!!" because when we go on ICQ we greet each other the same way.

93: The fact that I spent half of my lunch at work writing this up!!!

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58. You actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.

oh yeah!

I like WR's one...I do call myself kittenOFchaos face-to-face.

But i call D&D players in public often by their character name...one guy i call Malice in conversations! oh he gets pissed, and no-one else knows who I'm talking about
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76. You know what a "snert" is.
well, i don´t. what is it?

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Jee what's wrong with typing faster than 70wpm??
 
Well it is a very funny thread...Quite a few I have done but others I have not so I think my addiction is okay for now...
 
When your brain to digital interface cord gets stuck and you can not bull it out or you skull socket without a pair of pliers.
 
Originally posted by Sixchan
You actually know what http:// means.

hyper-text transfer protocol (I think only professionals or people who used the internet when you actually had to type http everytime. html is hyper-text mark-up language

Btw, what does url mean?
 
Originally posted by mike
Bif Iso Bim means bi female in search of bi male, but because I know that it doesnt make me strange
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Hmm... :rolleyes:

When first reading the joke, I thought that it is a misprint and should be Bin not bim, and that iso and bin refer to cd-rom image files (not that I have ever downloaded any of them of course :cool: ;) ) :rolleyes:
 
98) 'Forgetting' homework to play on Civ and go on MSN for 5 hours per night. (You can't prove anything ;) )

I regularly say LOL when i am amused and I took a history exam in which I used computer shorthand by accident, and got a D because none of my teachers could understand it (I go to a British private school).
 
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