While we may get our kicks from celebrating our forum post count, I'd rather celebrate time. Time wasted, time spent, time lost. Just time in general. (27 days, 20 hours and 25 minutes to be exact.)
This time last year, I was strolling around aimlessly through the internets. A frequenter of the Crossing Jordan forum, on which everyone is nice to everyone 100% of the time, I was a little naiive and oh so stupid. But then, then I stumbled on this place.
Spotted I an introduction board! Ah, thought I. This is just the place. So I started a topic, probably called something completely boring and generic, just to get you all reeled in. I don't remember getting bashed up in the thread, so I don't think I was Veronica-loving annoying. Nor did I say LOL. I remember Aleks warning me that school kiddies (I had just started year 12) were not really the 'norm' around here and that I better watch myself. And of course the generic "hai thur how are you I don't actually care but I'll ask to look nice" and "watch out for such and such".
Anyway, I grew disillusioned with the forum, see internets background outlined above. I stayed for a while, to see if it grew on me. I remember having an argument with Fades, JB and Fritz about them abusing some other newb because they were doing year 10 at TAFE. (Seemed fair to me at the time). Anyway, after that died down I did too, rushing back to my "nice" forum and revelling in their "niceness". I even posted a thread about how shit this forum was, citing threadssuch as "Get Offended at the Previous Post" and other such atrocities.
But I had had a taste of what a
real forum should be like. I suddenly realised that it was stupid to be nice to everyone even if/when they say something stupid. So I came back.
And... *sniff*... it's been the best internets year of my life! You really wake up in the real world once you frequent a place like this. If you bother about pointing out someone's stupidity in the Cyberworld, why not in the real world, where it actually may make a difference?
I was, however, stil frequenting the CJ-Board at the time, until I posted a thread about evolution. Some idiot came on and said "zomg the world is 6000 years old and I hate you!" So I told her where to stick her stupidity and consequently got heaps of PMs telling me to apologise. Pfft.
(Actually I should probably check that thing - I am supposed to be a mod. Hmm...)
But, I digress. For all intensive purposes, it's been a good year for me. I've learnt when to shut my trap and just listen, I've learnt that being in existence doesn't automatically give you the right to be respected, I've been inducted into the Frohood
, provided the thread that was the "context" to the Hothouse Debacle and basically just feel like a real arrogant bastard! (But to think that when I first came here, I was told that school kids weren't the norm! How times have changed.
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I really just *sniff* wanted to say thanks to everyone *sob* for slapping me around a little and making me a better person!! [/corny]
Now fuck off.
