You know you're addicted to the forums when ... [Archive]

dancersdreamland

09-21-2003, 11:47 AM

Hmm...I guess it would be the constant nagging ich to logon and see if any new posts have been added....even if it's only been an hour or two since my last visit.

This place is SOOOOO addictive! :D

SDsalsaguy

09-21-2003, 12:45 PM

An hour or two??? Hell, if I'm even in the same room as my computer I feel like I need to check every 5 minutes! Its the first thing I do when I wake up, the last thing I do before I leave the house, the first thing I do when I walk back in the door, and the last thing I do before I go to bed! :shock:

Swing Kitten

09-21-2003, 01:17 PM

I'm not addicted... I can stop any time I want to! :lol: :lol:

MissAlyssa

09-22-2003, 12:51 AM

when I have it on my to do list to check all new posts..

pygmalion

09-22-2003, 01:15 AM

I'm with SD. If I'm in the house, then the computer is on. If it's on, then I'm checking the forums every few minutes, just to see who's on, or if there are any new posts. Yesterday (Sunday) was kind of disappointing. I guess everybody else had a life, but I didn't. Not much posted. :( :cry:

Vince A

09-22-2003, 06:19 PM

Don't you all have something better to . . . "WAIT, WAIT, WAIT" . . . someone just responded to one of of my posts . . . get back to you in a few!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink:

dancer at heart

09-22-2003, 10:30 PM

hehe......I guess I discovered that I had become an addict when I check the forum before I check my email whenever I get a chance..... :o

Swing Kitten

09-23-2003, 12:22 AM

oh yeah.... e-mail.... I'll be right back

pygmalion

09-23-2003, 09:43 AM

Oh my goodness. The local area network I have set up in my house went down last night (right in the middle of my composing a long and complicated post :evil: )

And you know what I thought? I thought oh no! I'm going to miss all the cool stuff happening in the forums! :cry: It never occurred to me that there might be something wrong with my computers or printers. I just wanted to get back in the forums. :shock:

I've got it bad. :lol:

d nice

09-23-2003, 02:48 PM

LOL. You all need a 12-Step program.

Swing Kitten

09-23-2003, 03:10 PM

LOL. You all need a 12-Step program.

Suuure, point the finger d nice! I know you spend more time here than I do!

... and Jenn... you do have it bad!! :lol:

Danish Guy

09-23-2003, 04:58 PM

I've got it bad. :lol:

Do you need professional help, to get down to only logging on about 10 times a day? :?

Hope you get time for some dancing too :P

pygmalion

09-23-2003, 05:03 PM

Any why would I want to cut back to ten times a day, when there's so much information, silliness, and high drama in the forums? Hmm? :lol:

And yes, I do dance. That's the only thing that always comes ahead of forum-watching. :lol:

dancersdreamland

09-23-2003, 07:41 PM

Utter silliness, I say! :D Gotta love the forum family!!! :D

pygmalion

09-27-2003, 01:23 PM

That's it! Sign me up for the twelve-step program. It's a perfectly nice Saturday afternoon, and I'm in the house staring at my computer screen. Enough is enough. Isn't step one something like admitting you have a problem, or seeking help from a higher power, or something? Help me out here, folks. :lol:

SwinginBoo

09-29-2003, 06:44 PM

I'm not even a week into this and I get anxious when I'm going to be away from an internet connection for too long. :lol:

dancersdreamland

09-30-2003, 07:27 PM

I know, this is probably going to cause some shock...but I've been reading Harry Potter and haven't checked the Forum in like three days...gasp!!!

Swing Kitten

10-01-2003, 12:42 AM

so you replaced one addiction with another... that's healthy!!

SDsalsaguy

10-01-2003, 01:54 AM

Do we allow other addictions here (except for dance addictions of course)? Just curious...

SwinginBoo

10-01-2003, 09:46 AM

I check email compulsively :oops:

dancersdreamland

10-02-2003, 08:15 PM

so you replaced one addiction with another... that's healthy!!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Too funny!!!!!

Seriously though, I can hardly put HP down!!! I finished the first book in less than a week and am nearly through the second. At work, we've been divided into groups to decorate a specific space for Halloween...I'm pretty much the leader, creative person in our group...and guess what our theme is...a LOT of wizardy. Ahh...I'm just hopeless I guess.

SDsalsaguy

10-02-2003, 09:03 PM

You know you're addicted to the forums when... you go to check on a :gasp: different forum but, out of habit, end up here anyway! :doh:

pygmalion

10-02-2003, 09:08 PM

That happened to me today. I thought I was logging into aol by typing in the url, but I ended up here! So I posted a few things. What the heck! :lol: THEN I checked my email. :D

Swing Kitten

10-02-2003, 11:40 PM

oh yeah, e-mail

hopelessly_addicted

06-01-2005, 12:29 PM

ok is it my recent addiction to DF or DF's unusually slowness last 1 week :lol:

kansas49er

06-01-2005, 01:03 PM

I AM NOT addicted. I can quit anytime I want to. Quitting is easy. I have done it dozens of times :wink:

pygmalion

06-01-2005, 01:40 PM

:lol: :lol: :lol:

WRhythm

06-01-2005, 01:53 PM

You (if by "you" I mean "I") know you're addicted to dance forums when rather than pack for the six week trip you leave for in two days, you're checking to see people's reactions to Corky Ballas.... :oops:

Sagitta

06-01-2005, 03:15 PM

I don't deny or admit anything. I take the 5th.

dancersdreamland

06-01-2005, 08:56 PM

Okay so I went through DF rehab (wedding planning, moving, etc.) and hand't checked the Forums in probably six or seven months.

Then in a moment of weakness I logged in to see what was new...and now I'm entirely addicted all over again... I'm so addicted I have joined the non-partner dance forum and become a moderator of several boards.

My goal to be a dance educator (even if it is only online) has begun! :D

Sagitta

06-02-2005, 12:56 AM

DancePoet

06-02-2005, 05:17 PM

I just keep coming back like the energizer bunny. ;)

Ooops! :shock: This isn't the bunny thread. :oops:

I think the fact that I even know what the bunny thread is tells me I'm addicted. :lol:

pygmalion

06-02-2005, 05:36 PM

My goal to be a dance educator (even if it is only online) has begun! :D

That's a cool way of looking at it. Hmm ... 8)

dancersdreamland

06-02-2005, 11:50 PM

Don't you teach a class as well? I thought you mentioned something about that a while back in the dance schedule thread. :?

Yep. I recently started a dance group at my place of an employment (a two-year college). The group is only for employees right now and we kind of bounce around between various dance styles. We had someone else come in to teach a little hula, and a sample Nia session. Lately, though, I've been teaching line dancing. It's a slow starting group...only one to two attendees each week.

It sounds like a group of students want to start a student dance club next year to perform at various campus events and intermural sports. The cool thing is, if it goes through, they've already asked me to be the club advisor! :rocker:

tacad

06-03-2005, 03:55 PM

DancePoet

06-07-2005, 07:11 PM

I just keep coming back like the energizer bunny. ;)

Ooops! :shock: This isn't the bunny thread. :oops:

I think the fact that I even know what the bunny thread is tells me I'm addicted. :lol:
Yeah, tell me about it. :doh:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

This was likely very appropriate in more ways then one! ;)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

chachachacat

06-07-2005, 07:21 PM

Here's how hooked I am... We were ousted from our apt. last week while they worked on our bathroom. We were at a hotel from Tuesday through Friday - No DF!!! ACK!!!! To make the torture worse, Wed. night was the first episode of DWTS, and I SO wanted to talk about it with other dancers!! But nooooooo, there I was, laughing and commenting to myself, while the boyfriend and the cats were ignoring me!
:kitty: Kitty say what? Did I miss something?
Yes, I missed the best DF time ever! :cry:

pygmalion

06-07-2005, 07:37 PM

How dare your cats ignore you!!! :evil: Surely they must know who has the key to the kitty-food pantry? :P :lol:

Zhena

04-13-2007, 06:30 PM

You know you're addicted to Dance Forums when ... you know there's a really old thread about being addicted to Dance Forums.

fascination

04-13-2007, 06:52 PM

when your post count...approaches your salary.... but not your dance budget

quixotedlm

04-13-2007, 09:40 PM

All you poor people... so addicted to DF :rolleyes:

Zhena

07-27-2007, 12:19 PM

When, after reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, you realize it is probably the first long fiction you have read since you discovered DF ...

fascination

07-27-2007, 12:22 PM

when you make your spouse stay home in case the dog dies b/c a)you don't want to mess up your back lifting the dog and b) you don't want to mess up your knees burying the dog....and we all know why

waltzgirl

07-27-2007, 02:33 PM

. . . when your dance shoes feel so natural you almost walk out of the studio still wearing them.

fascination

07-27-2007, 02:35 PM

I'm supposed to take them off?...gasp

samina

07-27-2007, 02:37 PM

. . . when your dance shoes feel so natural you almost walk out of the studio still wearing them.

oh yeah...

fascination

07-27-2007, 02:37 PM

when all of your dresses that tie at the waist look goofy b/c you won't tie them on the left side where the designer intended

when read the above comment and don't need to ask why

Zhena

07-27-2007, 03:06 PM

when all of your dresses that tie at the waist look goofy b/c you won't tie them on the left side where the designer intended

when read the above comment and don't need to ask why
OK, I'll show my ignorance. Why?

fascination

07-27-2007, 06:04 PM

b/c I cannot be connected properly with a big knot that close to my left rib cage and below

Zhena

07-27-2007, 06:45 PM

b/c I cannot be connected properly with a big knot that close to my left rib cage and below
Now I feel really clueless. I can see a problem on the right side, or on the front, but I can't see a problem on the left side. I'm missing something.

SDsalsaguy

07-27-2007, 07:05 PM

...is it just me or does this also seem more applicable to dance addiction vs. forum addiction? :?

Zhena

07-27-2007, 07:18 PM

...is it just me or does this also seem more applicable to dance addiction vs. forum addiction? :?
mmmm... yeah... so we hijacked ...

waltzgirl

07-27-2007, 08:40 PM

. . . you know DF so well that you don't bother to read the whole titles of threads you recognize--so you post in the wrong thread!

fascination

07-27-2007, 11:48 PM

lordy...I need a vacation...look buddy, it's been a long week

waltzgirl

07-28-2007, 12:05 AM

lordy...I need a vacation...look buddy, it's been a long week

Well, I was talking about myself! I did it, too! :D

elisedance

07-28-2007, 05:22 AM

when you care more about the continued survival of the thread you started than your cat

er, not that thats me or anything...

SlowDancer

07-28-2007, 09:16 AM

when you care more about the continued survival of the thread you started than your cat

ROFL!:kitty:

Zhena

12-25-2007, 12:14 AM

Liz asked about how often people check DF, and I remembered about this old thread ....

Are you addicted?

and123

12-25-2007, 12:17 AM

hmmmm, let's see. It's officially Christmas in my time zone (12:17 am), and here I am checking DF :rolleyes:

latingal

12-25-2007, 12:22 AM

hmmmm, let's see. It's officially Christmas in my time zone (12:17 am), and here I am checking DF :rolleyes:

yeah, so am I....what's up with that?

p.s. Merry Christmas and123!

elisedance

12-25-2007, 04:29 AM

I'd forgotten there was such a thread - in fact I just suggested someone should start one and then here it is again - Magic!

when checking virtual dance (DF) makes you late for real dance (practice) ...

meow

12-27-2007, 03:47 PM

I would say I am addicted to this forum as I can't seem to stay away very long no matter what is going on in my life. But, I don't use any other forum so I think I am only addicted to DF and not forums, in general.

elisedance

01-04-2008, 03:38 AM

when you spend your night going back through the forums replying to dear old threads that have been mislaid....

latingal

01-04-2008, 03:44 AM

when you spend your night going back through the forums replying to dear old threads that have been mislaid....

wait, isn't that when you're a mod on the DF forum? *grin*

elisedance

01-04-2008, 03:58 AM

Mods are post-addiction. they are on the 7 Point Recovery Plan - that obviously failed...

elisedance

01-06-2008, 04:17 AM

when you reply to yourself and feel oddly content....

SDsalsaguy

01-06-2008, 05:18 AM

Mods are post-addiction. they are on the 7 Point Recovery Plan - that obviously failed...
What does that make admins??? :shock:

elisedance

01-06-2008, 05:31 AM

Admins ARE DF. You can't be addicted to yourself can you? :)

DWise1

01-06-2008, 04:17 PM

Admins ARE DF. You can't be addicted to yourself can you? :)

I think it would depend on one's level of narcissism.

elisedance

01-06-2008, 09:33 PM

well, maybe if you are as gorgeous as I am, perhaps but thats rare :roll:

waltzgirl

01-07-2008, 03:08 PM

. . . you check the "You last visited" counter to see how much sleep you've gotten -- because you're usually on DF last thing at night and with your first cup of morning tea.

Zhena

07-28-2008, 01:15 AM

You know you're addicted to DF when you are at a dance camp, you're absolutely exhausted, you have a chance to take a nap, and instead you use the time to check for new posts on DF ... At least I restrained myself from writing anything, so I managed to sleep a little most afternoons, which enabled me to enjoy the parties until at least midnight every night. I was astonished at the number of people my age who lasted until the wee (or not so wee) hours of the morning and still showed up in class. Of course most of them were there more to socialize than to learn much new, but I'm a relative newbie so it was important to me to be functional in class ;).

I'm actually back home now, but getting ready for another camp before returning to work.

Edited to add: This is my post number 395. I'm going to try to keep track for a while ... I think my status changes from Bourgeois at number 400 ....

QPO

07-28-2008, 07:02 AM

Well I am not that bad, but I check as often as I can. I dont ahve time to do it at work and as I am out most nights of thewek I can only doing for a fuew hours about twice a week. but I want my post counts t0 rise to Demi God level, I on ly have a few years to go!

DWise1

07-28-2008, 10:18 AM

Edited to add: This is my post number 395. I'm going to try to keep track for a while ... I think my status changes from Bourgeois at number 400 ....

Nope. You had it by 399.

samina

07-28-2008, 10:32 AM

...you'd be a millionaire if you had a dime for every time you've clicked "new posts"

emeralddancer

07-29-2008, 11:18 AM

when you've changed everything on the internet (ie: myspace, facebook, etc ....) to be ballroom related.

Standarddancer

08-06-2008, 09:04 PM

you bookmarked DF on your computer at work regardless there is company policy no personal websurfing allowed and check new posts on DF now and then using working hours

anntennis

08-06-2008, 09:26 PM

You keep checking New posts at work, and can't care less what your boss is saying. He can wait!! You are in a hot argument at DF. My boss came back and asked me if i have time for him now.

emeralddancer

08-06-2008, 09:55 PM

When your boss at works sees you on DF and tells you that apparently you don't have enough work to do. (Like what? Am I 5?)

sambanada

08-07-2008, 12:20 AM

When you go on before work. Then...again at lunchtime...then after work...then before sleep. OK...I am totally addicted. Is there a DFA (as in AA)

hereKittyKitty

08-07-2008, 12:23 AM

You know you're addicted to DF when you use your cell phone to surf the competition guide:( Omg where will we compete next?:confused: quick check with verizon!