What are some signs that you are spending too much time on DU?

[JimmyJazz]

For me, I just tried to log into our imaging system at work by using my DU screen name and password. :silly:

[motely36]

1. Everytime my boss walks by

I have to shrink my DU screen....I think she's seen it a couple times :)

[Silverhair]

2. Household chores not done.

Drop in income due to not working. (I am self employed on the internet.)

[Radio_Lady]

55. Unmade beds and now I have to make lunch for my husband --

but I'm thoroughly addicted. Enjoy the interface (but not face to face) with other human beings.

I really have to go and cut vegetables now. I wish I could invite you folks over to a CATERED lunch (I have to cook!)

That would be fun and exciting!

[Lavender Brown]

3. You feel comfortable enough

to tell other DUers really embarrassing stories. :shrug: :hug:

[JimmyJazz]

10. That wasn't embarrassing. Seriously.

And thank you for telling me. Back at ya with the :hug:

[lizzieforkerry]

4. 4 year old telling daddy that he was starving because mommy

was on the 'puter all day and didn't give him lunch. (Not entirely true)

[Shoeempress]

5. Actually calling Hubby, Hubby to his face. Not really that personal touch

I was going for.

[sundog]

6. you roll out of bed & log in

[XemaSab]

7. You go to fill out your timesheet at work

and have the sudden, horrible realization that though you were at work all last week, you billed maybe 15 hours...

[ulysses]

8. your wife asks you to take out the trash, & you reply "Robb is a dingbat"

[JimmyJazz]

12. I know what you mean. I looked at my four year old and said,

"don't you get snarky with me!" I had never even heard of that word before DU :D

[sniffa]

9. when i need/want to taLk to the wife

i pm her. :P

[JimmyJazz]

11. Oh my! It is sad that the quickest way to reach your SO is thru DU!

:o

[Kathy in Cambridge]

13. LOL

:-)

[sniffa]

14. i just asked her to take meat out of the freezer

i'm sweet Like that with my pm's. :P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

19. You guys grilling tonight?

:-)

it's too damn hot to cook indoors.

[sniffa]

22. griLLing is for peopLe with griLLs

:cry:

i think i'LL make bacon & eggs for suppah.
aLL the poLLs about bacon has got me saLivating. :9

[McKenzie]

15. driving a car and...

having a car pull out in front of you then looking for the BACK button instead of the brake pedal...

cheers JJ

[Jara sang]

16. When i started having dreams about other DUers

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. I've had dreams about being on DU

It's official I have the most boring dreams in the world

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

17. I'll find out in November

If I fail the bar exam, I'll know why!!

[caty]

18. My tush is starting to look like

the seat of my chair.:blush:

[Modem Butterfly]

20. When you talk about DU so much, your partner/SO knows posters by name

And s/he doesn't actually read DU him/herself.

[bicentennial_baby]

21. when the asses of your pants all start to rip out

even though i have a tiny bum, i sit in my office chair waaaaaay too long :P

[RedCloud]

24. When my buttocks and chair start to fuse together.

Or I get all blurry eyed.

[Parrcrow]

25. When you start appearing in the **MILESTONES** threads...

on a daily basis.

[SOteric]

26. Dreaming about a parade of DUers

in which you subconscious mind assigns them the identity of their avatars or siglines.

So, matcom is a spanky purple hippo, progmom is a bouncing crowd and a dj...

[JimmyJazz]

41. Just out of curiousity....what am I? If anything?

[SOteric]

42. Your avatar. n/t

[JimmyJazz]

43. Great. I picture you as a glamorous Italian godess and you

picture me as a skinny dude with a mohawk. The inflation of my ego knows no bounds :crazy:

[SOteric]

47. Only in my dreamstates do I picture you that way...

When I'm awake a picture you as a perky blonde with great muscle definition.

So pour that on your ego and rub briskly.

[Democracy White]

49. What bout me? What do I look like?

[SOteric]

52. Truthfully, you've never appeared in my dreams, - but

if you did, I'm betting the blue scorpion would be involved.

[Democracy White]

56. Probably...

That is the first thing that people see when they read my posts.

I am not well known enough yet and part of that problem is... I don't have my own computer and thus rely on the library's or my dad's

So I can't do heavy Net surfing.

Dee

[progmom]

51. i'm not just the dj?

i'm the bouncing crowd, too? x(

[SOteric]

61. Right, right, I can see how that would be

traumatically distressing for you.

Next time I'm doing some lucid dreaming about DU, I'll edit that right out. -Any other changes you'd like? Should I make you a tall, blonde, Nederlandische supermodel DJ...?

:7

[progmom]

62. brunette

the rest works for me. :P

[SOteric]

63. I'll get right on it.

:D

[flvegan]

27. You consider sending copycat e-mails at work.

Or, you e-mail someone at work and add "Ask me anything!" to the subject line.

[ComerPerro]

37. LOL. The idea of sending copycat emails makes me happy

LOL

[sundog]

28. water is shooting out of a pvc pipe in your house & you finish your post

before attending to it

[Cerridwen]

30. and then come back and post all about it in the lounge?

Not that I have any experience with this, however.

:rofl:

[sundog]

31. my house is on fire! ask me anything!

[sundog]

29. you start laughing uncontrollably while walking alone in the supermarket

when you remember some lounge shit

[FuzzySlippers]

32. You too?

:rofl:

[sundog]

33. this morning. thinking of this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3682968

i hurt myself laughing last night :rofl:

[JimmyJazz]

38. I have DEFINITELY done that.

All I have to do is think about RKZ posting "I spilled bong water on my copy of The Purpose Driven Life," and I crack up :D

[dajoki]

34. my ass hurts and carpal tunnel

:rofl:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

35. When you start having the same sense of humor in real life

as you do in the lounge.

[FuzzySlippers]

46. You have an irresistible impulse to make a smart ass remark

no matter how inappropriate it is to the situation.

[sundog]

67. and when you do, no one finds it funny

:scared:

[texas1928]

36. You put colons around words...

Hoping it will be a smiley.

[JimmyJazz]

40. I do that in e-mails to co-workers and wonder why no smilie appears.

:o

[ComerPerro]

39. You use the word FReeper in everyday life

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. Getting home and saying:

"Honey, I was fired. Ask me anything."

[Initech]

45. I refer to Bush in real life as Commander Cuckoobananas!

And the funny thing is, people seem to know what I'm talking about!

[Democracy White]

48. Have Matrix-like dreams of being in DU

seriously, I have the most coolest, kick ass sci-fi dreams.

Dee

[Beware the Beast Man]

50. You slash your finger on a broken wineglass and post about it

BEFORE you go to urgent care (true story).

[JimmyJazz]

53. Did you do that?

:o

[Beware the Beast Man]

54. Yes I did.

:freak:

[kick-ass-bob]

57. I literally do these:

:rofl:
and
:spray:

when something is really funny.
:eyes:

[progmom]

58. as you hunch over a sink in the ER while a resident pokes your head wound

...with a needle of lidocaine, you bite your hand and try to write the perfect headline for your post about the experience.

[sundog]

66. haaaaaa

:rofl:

[Up2Late]

59. Being Un-employed for almost 2 Years, but telling people...

...that you are "Just taking a 'Break' from work."

This IS "Networking," Right?:shrug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

60. I don't know if it's too much but, I can give the most poignant,

smartass answers to a Bushie and make them think ........

[JimmyJazz]

64. But, that's a good thing. And, thanks for the tag team last night!

It was WAY past my bedtime. :hi:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

65. Oh yeah. You're the one who asked me. Sure anytime.

I going to PM you.

[Trigger Hippie]

68. My boss fussed at me yesterday

for spending too much time on the net at work. I don't think I can post here as often anymore. :cry:

[JimmyJazz]

69. I think you need to have skinner write a note to your boss telling him

how important it is for you to post here daily. That should do the trick :silly:

[Radio_Lady]

70. "It's addictive and threatens his income" --

(From Skinner's fantasy letter to this guy's boss...)