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03-06-2002, 05:28 PM
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It is strange how much more fun it is to post at GB when you really should be doing something else. So, my question is, how many of you are escaping from some boring, frustrating must-do assignment or whatever?
Personally, I have to touch up on my resumé. Well it turned out to be a complete rewrite since the old one was dull and, well, dull. Sofar, today, Ive managed about three sentences. The last few hours have resulted in one lousy sentence which I immediately deleted... In the meantime I've set a new record in number of posts in one day 
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03-06-2002, 05:35 PM
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GB is a temendous distraction for me in the workplace. GB is one of the reasons I am not looking for a new job as hard as I should. In my current position, I'm an IT guy. The workplace is small and the challenges are few now that I've rebuilt our entire network infrastructure in my own eyes; things runs smoother and problems are fewer, which has allowed to generate a lot of posts in the past few months.
On the flip side, I'm not very challenged anymore in the workplace and that I feel, is detrimental to one's well being. I need the challenge, I like it when things break and figuring out how to fix them. At the same time, I'm really hooked by SYM and all of GB. I don't know if it is really to escape but rather, I just like the people who contribute here. Awwwwww. 
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03-06-2002, 05:51 PM
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SYM is my best companion during those long nights when I, like tonight, are trying to write clever things in my articles and get stuck. When you get stuck writing, it's often best to think of something else for a while and return to the text a little later. Same thing with reading. I often read articles on the computer (all major scientific journals are on-line as well as in paper), and then I like to keep GB in another window and spam in between.
I almost spam from work, only when I work at home. I don't spend much time before the computer at work, and even if I did I feel that would be a distraction. I think I've posted at GB once or twice from work, at late evenings.
@Silur: I agree that spamming here seems even more fun when you have a frustrating assignment - it's amazing how many topics for new threads I can think of right now! 
@Ned: Oh, sounds like you need a new job. Without challenges, we wither away and crumble into dust. I can assure you that a challenging and demanding job doesn't interfere with spamming here, I have +3000 posts And no dissertation
No, seriously, I joke about spamming instead of writing my articles, but truth is that SYM doesn't interfere more with my work than my real life social life does - if I spammed less here I wouldn't work instead, I would probably spend that time chatting with friends by the phone (well, they are mostly asleep at the time I usually spam here), view a movie, read a not-so-demanding book, play computer games or other leisure activities.
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03-06-2002, 06:09 PM
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I just come to SYM because its just plain fun to post here. It lets me let loose.
*grins evilly*
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03-06-2002, 07:33 PM
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My main goal here at SYM is to save the lives of all non believers....with no credit to myself. | | |
03-06-2002, 07:55 PM
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I come here when the full moon becomes so stong that the light blinds, and the howling voices raise themselves above the ordinary discipline of my mind and shout once again their immemorial shout, "Go out, run, become one with your brothers, kill the two-legged types, smell their fear as you rend their flesh." SYM effectively blocks that. Neat, huh?
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03-06-2002, 09:19 PM
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I spam here because God told me to. In accordance with the prophecy...
Actually, I seem to be spending a lot of time drinking here.
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03-06-2002, 09:24 PM
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I'm a white, teenage male. I'm in highschool, and currently have no girlfriend. I enjoy computer games, reading, writing, and tabletop gaming. Do I really need to explian why I'm here? | | |
03-06-2002, 09:31 PM
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@Aegis: You forgot to mention that you live in The Frozen Wastelands of Canada...reason enough!
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03-06-2002, 09:35 PM
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03-06-2002, 09:54 PM
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| | I'm a college student with a lot of homework and no irl friends her age. Need I say more?   | | |
03-06-2002, 11:28 PM
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I have no idea what I'm doing here. 'Prolly the same reason as Ned ("Get lost!") Flanders - though I have never met any of you in person (I think), your personalities, thoughts, attitudes, and philosophies of life, are pretty clear to me right now, as I'm sure mine is to you. And I suppose that sense of being known and understood, even through such an impersonal and sometimes even deceptive medium like cyberspace, is still, nevertheless, comforting.
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03-07-2002, 03:34 AM
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Well lets see, my last year of college 1 class and full time work.
I frankly don't want to hang out with my friends every night of the week after an exhausting day at work.
Plus i live oustdie of town and no car, and transportation is lenghty.
I have to wait 1 hour before i can get the next train home if i miss the first one.
The nights i am not here, i am out with friends, but on those very few rare occassions i am working or i just don't want to see my friends.
I like my privacy and need to be on my own sometimes.
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03-07-2002, 04:47 AM
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| |  Quote: Originally posted by CM
I frankly don't want to hang out with my friends every night of the week after an exhausting day at work. | Thats one reason why I'm on GameBanshee and other is when I don't have much homework. Like tonight, as I've just had enough of Access for one day.
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03-07-2002, 04:51 AM
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Yeah just don't tell your friends that!!
Some of the more mature and closer ones will understand.
Some don't.
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