*wide-armed welcome
what em, you're moving in? what about that treehouse you were building in the bay?
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*wide-armed welcome
what em, you're moving in? what about that treehouse you were building in the bay?
Treehouses have net hookups don't they? Anyway, I'm sure my rat minions can do something useful with tin cans and string. :D
i just love you all....i love that we are all nuts together
CBW, on this forum one can choose to have serious discussions or not and some of the most caring, intelligent, helpful people on the internet hang out here. welcome, most warmly.
Oh, we're in danger of starting another Love Fest! *group hug* Nah...on second thought, don't touch me. *touches index fingers a la Matt Groening's fez people*
LMAO...
you go Em, be true to yourself!
My dysfunction is being hyper sensitive to touch, poke me and I may not jump physically, but my heart will be racing, and I also have trouble expressing emotions which tends to get other people hurt.
So as practice I am going to say, By the way it's been nice to meet all of your on this forum, I am thouroughly enjoying it.
yay...simon, a breakthrough.
its been nice meeting you too.
Hehe thanks VB.
And most equally enjoyable company you are, simon! :D (If you move down here and feel inclined to join my church choir, btw, be advised to take my lead and come late all the time -- they make everyone give each other a shoulder-massage as part of the warm-up. *shudder*)
If you ladies are done kissing I'm ready to talk about the movies I cried in :D.
There are only 2: The Family Man because the beginning COMPLETELY mirrored my relationship with my girlfriend. I drove her to the airport and put her on a plane to England for 6 months without me, and saw it like a week later. That was depressing.
Bowling for Columbine. The first time I watched that I was half drunk/half high fully sleep deprived and all kinds of Emo.
um, not to digress already ;) but kik, you have to be the only guy i've ever heard who doesn't want girls to kiss. :D
yuch, never mind.
is that why you moved to England, your honey was there?
Actually I was quoting Kung Pow. If you guys actually did want to kiss for real, I wouldn't complain. ;)
hehe, i need space like you wouldn't believe. the only person who ever gets close enough to kiss had better look and smell like my boyfriend. except!! for cats of course. :D
oh yeah! this is a malfunction thread. so, (i forgot) do any of you read way too many books at once, like five plus in rounds of no particular order - is that vaguely normal for anyone else here?
Sorry, I didn't even see this half of the question.Quote:
Originally posted by amuse
is that why you moved to England, your honey was there?
Actually, we came here together originally, then we both came back home, but then she came back when I couldn't afford it. So we were apart for 6 months. That was hard times.
And I sometimes read a bunch of books at once, other times I just stick to one. Depends on how stressed I am with other things.
Hey, I nearly cried during Bowling for Columbine, it's the closest I have ever come to crying during a movie.
Az, I start books one after the other, and then never finish any of them. Such as... oh, Bros. K and Hunchback? We'll see.
I blubbered like an infant at "Lost in Translation." "Columbine," I think my jaw was hanging open from about 10 minutes in till, oh... five days later.
I don't read more than one at a time, but I have to have a book with me at all times. If I even think I'm going to have extra time, I have to have my book with me. If I am just sitting somewhere and do not have a book to read I will literally start reading anything (shampoo bottles, backs of cereal boxes, writing on desks, etc..). People say it's my addiction. I do not drink or smoke but I do books. Without my "fix" I will get the shakes. It is really bad. I do not know anyone else like that. I really got a lot of funny looks when I brought books to read to the gym. I would read on the treadmill and the stationary bike.Quote:
Originally posted by amuse
oh yeah! this is a malfunction thread. so, (i forgot) do any of you read way too many books at once, like five plus in rounds of no particular order - is that vaguely normal for anyone else here?
And since I am not a library person, this is a VERY expensive addiction. Sometimes I will buy 3 a week.
I know I'll hate myself for picking on this, but when i read this sort of things my mind keeps reminding me that the only relationship I had was one where I saw him averagely every 4 months, for like 1 or 2 weeks... Little more than 2 months in total, spread over almost 2 years. (and he never drove me to the airport, well never drove me anywhere cos he doesnt drive... he just let me get the train to the airport, alone) And? Nothing, I just like to look for pity, damn me. Sorry Kik, I know how it feels so should be sympathetic, shouldnt I, instead of always complaining.Quote:
Originally posted by IWilKikU
[B]Sorry, I didn't even see this half of the question.
Actually, we came here together originally, then we both came back home, but then she came back when I couldn't afford it. So we were apart for 6 months. That was hard times.
Back on topic, I once tried to read 3 books at the time but then I didnt... I dont even start readong things for my enjoyment when I should study, not to get distracted...But then I get distracted in other ways anyway :D Right now I'm actually reading 2 books... But it doesnt feel like that cos they're related to study.... I'm reading a biography of Anna Achmatova, and that feels like studying cos I can't help considering 'study book's everything that's not a novel, and Barry Lindon, that's for a course too actually, but being a novel it doesnt feel like that :D
I have a big malfunction: my sense of duty. I can't persaude myself to do things lightheartedly, I get paranoid if I skip a lesson or leave earlier, even when it's not important anyway... I can't leave things half-done, unless theyre things I chose, but if I got a task, I have to get to the end even if I hate it... When people who just are able not to care live better than I do :D
*gives Koa sympathy* :( . Don't worry Koa, were together ALLLLL the time now :D, so it makes up for it.
I just realized another major malfunction that I have. I just developed a cumpulsive habbit of playing Freecell. I've started playing all the games systematically. I just finished game #46. Wow.
good for you kik, on your miraculous undertaking of what i feel is a huge pain in the butt game...
now the Sims? there is a game i have to lock in a safety deposit box while school is in session. i once spent 32 hours in a row (literally not leaving the computer) trying to advance my "guy" to the next job promotion, and then one more friend, more friend? so another promotion, and so on....you get the idea. it was brutal, my friends were going to organize an intervention.....
ooohhhhh, wait..school's out. i have to go, where is that safety deposit box key??
I had to literally delete Tetris from our computer, like my own private little intervention/detox treatment. Then it was Lines, which I'm still not quite over. I see this forum gradually taking its place...eep! Don't worry, I won't go cold turkey on you guys, even if I get get to itching. Besides, my college (love saying that -- "my college") is infamous for the dump-truck loads of reading they heap on you, so I won't even have time to be as addicted as I already am.
lol I do that as well; it's very weird.Quote:
If I am just sitting somewhere and do not have a book to read I will literally start reading anything (shampoo bottles, backs of cereal boxes, writing on desks, etc..).
Ppl have been very open on this thread. I don't really have any major dysfunctions. I did get a little addicted to forums when I first started but have curbed it back now and I'm pretty neat although not obsessively so.
great :)... that doesnt help ME, but i should get used to that... i just can't have a normal life. :(Quote:
Originally posted by IWilKikU
*gives Koa sympathy* :( . Don't worry Koa, were together ALLLLL the time now :D, so it makes up for it.
I am sooo addicted I sometimes want to see a doctor...Quote:
Originally posted by dhm
lol I do that as well; it's very weird.
Ppl have been very open on this thread. I don't really have any major dysfunctions. I did get a little addicted to forums when I first started but have curbed it back now and I'm pretty neat although not obsessively so.
Oh I also read everything I find, especially bottles and ingredients on packets...ingredients in all languages :D
LOL me too Koa. I read the English directions on shampoo or something and then read the ones in French and Spanish. Sometimes there are others, depending on where they were made. I know how to say "CAUTION" in like 5 languages...unfortunately they're all pretty much the same. :p
I got obsessed with EverQuest. It was really bad. First, it was just my husband. He would play it and talk to his friend on the phone, who was also playing. Then I started watching. Then he set up my own account. It was so addiciting. We could sit there and play it the entire weekend, with little to no sleep. Someweeks, my husband would take an entire weeks vacation just so we could keep playing. This was throughout the entire summer. Then when school started, I shut it off. He didn't. Over the winter break I played a little more. And over the next semester I played, because my semester was very light (due to being pregnant, I didn't take many classes, non that were strenuous). Once the baby was born I could no longer afford the time to play the game so I stopped. He continued for a few months and then got bored with it. He is now looking forward to World of Warcraft to come out.
I have no games that I play continuously as of the moment. Just forums. ;)
I know people that had to drop out of college because of thier EQ addictions.
uhoh...what is this EQ game? i have never heard of it....
maybe, dont tell me, for my own good...
no. tell me
Well badmom, everyone simply MUST know EQ, so:
EverQuest was the first MMO-RPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game). It was the first game to exist solely on a multiplayer basis. The world was HUGE and allowed for years worth of time to explore, conquer, ect... Everyone in EQ exists in realtime and everyone is interactable. Its like a real world inside the computer. The economy in EQ is in the top 50 economies in the world. It beats most REAL countries. There are people who make careers out of selling thier EQ items on ebay. All in all, its rediculously big, addictivtive, fun, realistic, ect... It spawned a plethora of imitaters and made MMOs into a genre rather than a single phenomanon. There are now like 6 continents to explore, over 1,000,000 living characters playing that you can interact with, its just unreal. Dont go near it or it will suck you in.
that sounds awful; what about the real world? do they have books there to water, or plants to read, or hair to chat with, friends to brush, or anything normal like out here???? how scary.
LOL
i had to read that a couple of times to actually get it...hehe. very clever!
you know, i was thinking about what you said, though, and i realized that i havent owned a hairbrush in six years..not even a comb. in fact, one time, when i was cutting my son's hair i actually had to try and create one using a plastic fork. i dont know what this is all about, but good thing im already in the malfunction thread....
aren't you lucky vbm! some of us can't do without the things - look like we just woke up without 'em. :eek: ;)
"Oh Aunty Eeeem," called Dorothy, roflhao. ;) :D :D
all right so the lysol ruined my bran cells and my brain. tee hee hee hee. malfuncshun!!!
*let me know if i offend you em, i will stop statim.
ps. did you ever see my hair??
lol
it's so pretty!!! :) ahhhhhh...
LOL no offense taken. It's impossible to offend me, I swear to god.Quote:
Originally posted by amuse
*let me know if i offend you em, i will stop statim.
Okay I know I overanalyze, and this really doesn't matter, but I'm gonna type it anyway because.... anyway: I just took pause looking at that "swear to god," realizing what a bizarre expression it is for me to use (as I happen to do so constantly). Maybe it's just a regional one... or I just don't notice, seeing as it's usually tacked on the end at lightning speed. (If you've been up to the extreme northeast, you know how people talk -- especially young people: -- bunchofwords...pause...anotherbunchofwords...pause ..."S'trueIsweart'god.") Anyway, I just realized the point to posting this: There have been a lot of times here where I've stopped and looked at a phrase in a different way because I've never seen it written out before, or never wrote it out myself. This forum is an interesting opportunity to put into type what is ordinarily relegated to verbal conversation. Have any of you had similar experiences here? Has it caused you to stop using a specific phrase, or to think about something you hear or say in a different light? Or are there other ways your experiences here have affected your "real" life?
[edit:] P.S. VBM, how do you survive without a brush? Granted, not everyone's hair is as long as mine, but even an hour or two after I brush it it's all coiled around itself in strands again. Although I do have a friend whose hair, when it was only like shoulder-length, he could just put his head down, toss it back, run his fingers through it, and it looked gorgeous again. Grr....so, do you have very short hair or did you make some type of deal with the devil? :D
Two guys on a bus in the North East:
I could-int buleve it, I musta had fwahty Beeahs, I sweartogod fwahty Beeahs. I had horns out to heeah. The cops, they pulled me ohvah. I booted right theyah in the cop cruisah. I could-int buleve it, Fwahty Beeahs!
Of course we our own colloquial crosses to bear down south.
*Dies laughing* *is resurrected* *promptly dies again* whoop...thanks there, God.
LMAO more like two guys on the Green Line in Southy. Fortunately, I don't bear that particular cross, and most people under 35 here don't, but I've heard some pretty lousy "Hahvahd Yahd"-type impressions, and Sancho that was stellar. Spot on. *lying on carpet beating the floor* Oh God, that's great. :D :D :D
*Reads it a few hundred more times*
I heard a stand up comic once say that all the 'R's get sucked out of New England and swirl around in the atmosphere, and rain down in the south where people put thier clothes in the warshing machine.