Why do you post on message boards?

[springscansing]

It's a big waste of time dontcha know. Speaking to a bunch of handles and nicknames whom the only thing you know of them is their signature.

I mean I do it, but why? You only live once, limited amount of time. Is this really how your want to be spending it? Waiting for some company, who in all reality is just out for a good buck, to put a nicer chip in their computers so you can check your email 20% faster?

Not only do you spend time waiting for something so silly, but you even spend time to talk about waiting for it.

Plus, how many posts have you posted that had no reason for their posting whatsoever?

I bet some of you have a year of your life, if not more, wasted on message boards. How pathetic is that? You could be doing virtually anything else, and have it be more worthwhile. Art, music, sex, reordering your sock drawer, virtually anything is better than this in all practicality considering life's time limit.

Why do you do it? Why do you post on message boards?

[vniow]

Why not?

[springscansing]

*post removed because i'm a douche bag who can't control himself at 2AM after too much movie viewing*

[springscansing]

Bah, I really shouldn't watch movies. They wreck havoc on my mind. I turn into some kind of emotionally-bound zombie or something. It's terrible.

Snatch is one hell of a film though. If you haven't seen it... go see it. Much more worthwhile than message boards.

[vniow]

Wow, that was a lot of nothing.

[springscansing]

Originally posted by vniow
Wow, that was a lot of nothing.

Damn you respond fast.

[vniow]

Originally posted by springscansing
Damn you respond fast.
Originally posted by springscansing
*post removed because i'm a douche bag who can't control himself at 2AM after too much movie viewing*

Also very observant.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=251618

[springscansing]

Sorry V. ;-)

Now seriously, I want answers!

[shadowfax]

i don't understand. this is nothing but a boatload of hypocrisy. first you ask what's the point of posting here, and then you come here and do it, on the same bloody thread where you questioned the value of doing so.

what's the point? education, maybe. a good time, maybe. the irony of this is that you wax existential, and then you suggest an alternate such as trashing your mind with films. what's the point of that?

oh, sh*t, better go exercise and live life to the fullest. damn, you haven't read dostoevsky? you better, you've only got a few more years! don't forget Joyce, Heller, Dickens, Solzhenitsyn, Emerson, Thoureau, Dickinson, Orwell, Huxley, Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, Mallory, Rousseau, Jefferson, Voltaire, Hobbes, Locke, Twain, Plato, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Luther, Calvin, Augustine, Aquinas, on, on, on, on, on, on, on....
don't forget all that music that's better than macrumors.
oh, damn, you'd better learn to play an instrument too. hell, why not play them all?
Sports. what? don't have an olympic gold medal? man, you're a f*cking loser!

i dunno. when you start to get insights on the meaning of life, i suggest you not jump on your soapbox till you have things worked out a little better. there's no construction to this whatsoever. there are also a hell of a lot of things you've demanded we take a priori, such as the notion that one way of life is inherently better than another. you're ranting about it, but you didn't say anything at all about the meaning of life. are we all going to hell in a handbasket? if so, does it matter that we post here? is the chief end of man heroism? if so, who are you to lecture us? is a balance of things the ultimate goal in life? if so, how can you extrapolate that we don't live balanced lives, seeing as all you know about us is in our sigs?

lol.

sorry, i started writing this when i had seen you blow up at vniow, which annoyed me. i'm too lazy to go back and make the tone friendlier because i realize you are sorry, and the philosophical main if the post stands, so i'm going to leave it as is. sorry if it has some offensive stuff in it.

[springscansing]

That post was idiotic. I admitted right off the bat I'm in the same boat with you people.

Don't take it so personally. Jeez.

[springscansing]

Eh.. fantastic. I'm gone!

No more posts from me. Sweet.

I think my system is to discredit myself so much and make such an ass out of myself, that I am forced to leave. Why I can't just stop posting I don't know. Stupid maybe?

Down to 2 mailing lists, 1 message board, and 1 game of email Diplomacy. Yay!

[losfp]

Well, it's 6:30pm here :) just bought a new house so we have to clear that up, I have a DVD playing in the background, while looking up other stuff. So in short, yeah I have hobbies. In fact, that's WHY I'm on messageboards all the time. I like computers, TVs, DVDs, music, movies, I follow about 6 sporting teams. I want to know more about them so I go on boards. Mostly I read. Sometimes I post when I need help, or when I can help. Without the boards, I doubt I'd know as much as I do, or known as many decent people who share the same interests as I do.

So there you go :)

Oh, by the way, Snatch IS great :D

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by springscansing
That post was idiotic. I admitted right off the bat I'm in the same boat with you people.

Don't take it so personally. Jeez.
Originally posted by Shadowfax
sorry, i started writing this when i had seen you blow up at vniow, which annoyed me. i'm too lazy to go back and make the tone friendlier because i realize you are sorry, and the philosophical main if the post stands, so i'm going to leave it as is. sorry if it has some offensive stuff in it.

the point is, you haven't expressed any core values, so how can we possibly suggest a point? you could start a macrumors religion that worshiped the highest posters, and then there would be a heck of a point to the place. so what's your value system? modern societal ones? PBS's?

here's some more food for thought:
Originally from Radiohead, "Fitter Happier"
Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that's driven into frozen winter ****
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

[wdlove]

It's very addictive, I admit. I do enjoy the opportunity to share and listen to the view points of others!

[Dale Sorel]

Originally posted by springscansing
I bet some of you have a year of your life, if not more, wasted on message boards. How pathetic is that? You could be doing virtually anything else, and have it be more worthwhile. Art, music, sex, reordering your sock drawer, virtually anything is better than this in all practicality considering life's time limit.

http://homepage.mac.com/dsorel/MiscWebPhotos/Roll-Eye-Med.gif

[Dont Hurt Me]

All i can say is WOW did you stir shadowfax! Its kind of fun, i like the mac talk and the insights on mac use, and whats to come from mac since they wont tell us, and politics and on rainy days why not? by the way its been raining here almost all day.

[scem0]

It isn't like we aren't learning things about ourselves, others, and
anything discussed here. I post on these boards because I enjoy
it. It is pretty much that simple.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by scem0
It isn't like we aren't learning things about ourselves, others, and
anything discussed here. I post on these boards because I enjoy
it. It is pretty much that simple.

That is the whole point to enjoy life! ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
All i can say is WOW did you stir shadowfax!

lol. yeah. it was a dead effort too. i don't even know that i made a whole lot of sense. it was like 3:00 AM though. everything kinda muddles together. that's the first flame i've done in months, it seems.

[beatle888]

it doesnt take much to get sf to sound off.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by beatle888
it doesnt take much to get sf to sound off.
what's sf?

[wdlove]

He should refer to your proper name Shadowfax! ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
He should refer to your proper name Shadowfax! ;)
oh, right. he has some good experiences with me ;)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
oh, right. he has some good experiences with me ;)

I hope that are of the proper nature! ;)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
I hope that are of the proper nature! ;)

I meant, with me "flying off the handle"--at him, several times:rolleyes:

[Les Kern]

I've met some rather intelligent folks here, and I enjoy the banter. I find myself drawn to the political forums, but all of them are stimulating in some way.
Sometimes I feel like it's like crack to me. Escapist? Don't I have a life? Hell yes I do, but this is fun, infuriating, funny (rarely), timely, insane... better than most movies out now. Plus, while my daughter watches Monsters Inc. for the 50th time, I can do this with a minimum of effort.

[MrMacMan]

Wait wait wait...

Was this some sort of bye 'i'll never see you again' thread?

Um... bye?

[Over Achiever]

Originally posted by MrMacman
Was this some sort of bye 'i'll never see you again' thread?
That's what I thought. But I don't know...but whatever.

Bye?

[MacFan25]

I post on message boards because it is something to do. I read through them, and sometimes I post, and sometimes I don't. It just depends. I don't really think that it is a waste of time, because it is something to do.

[mymemory]

Why people are building atomic bombs?
Why humans become part of the military to kill themselves?


We have time to spare, that's all.

I'm not having sex all the time, I'm not working all the time, but sure I rather spend time in a forum rather than watching tv.

I know people that spend at list 6 hours per day watching tv. That is a waste of time.

[markjones05]

Where else can i find a plethora of answers to all my new mac questions?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by mymemory
Why people are building atomic bombs?
Why humans become part of the military to kill themselves?


We have time to spare, that's all.

we make war because we're bored?

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
we make war because we're bored?

Or because we can't deal with the other issues?

If I'm correct Ceaser did this. :rolleyes:

[shadowfax]

there are more reasons to go to war than a man can count, methinks. you can go to war because you feel you're being oppressed, because you're power hungry, because of racial prejudice, because of relgious convictions... the list extends.

[wdlove]

It can also be out of insecurity.

Posting on a forum is better than TV, because it's a think process.

[cr2sh]

Originally posted by vniow
Wow, that was a lot of nothing.

Finally! You recognize the quality of your own posts! :p

Ugh, I post here because 4 hours into a 8page paper.. I need a break! I'm out of smokes, my diet coke is warm, there's no one else in this lab who I could stand to talk to, and there is NOTHING ELSE on the entire internet.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by cr2sh
Finally! You recognize the quality of your own posts! :p

actually, if you notice, buddy, she was commenting on an asinine, mean remark that springs made that he subsequently retracted. i think you should follow suit, too. :p :p :rolleyes:

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
actually, if you notice, buddy, she was commenting on an asinine, mean remark that springs made that he subsequently retracted. i think you should follow suit, too. :p :p :rolleyes:

ha. cr2sh was accurate though. no problems there

me? anything i do on the internet is tied to porn/getting off... so....

[cr2sh]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
buddy, asinine, mean

Mine was a joke.. I have nothing but affection for vnoiw! She makes my heart pump big, thick love. Vniow is one of the reasons why I post at macrumors. :)

Don't feel bad shadowfax, you're pretty swell too! :)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
me? anything i do on the internet is tied to porn/getting off... so....

springscansing sure seems to have gotten off.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by cr2sh
Mine was a joke.. I have nothing but affection for vnoiw! She makes my heart pump big, thick love. Vniow is one of the reasons why I post at macrumors. :)

Don't feel bad shadowfax, you're pretty swell too! :)

lol. i wasn't insulting you with those words. i was talking about springscansing's post (that is no longer with us, like him). vniow tends to have that "thick love effect" on people;)

[job]

And this thread seems to have gotten off...off topic.

Oh, wait, that's the entire essence of online message boards. :p

[jelloshotsrule]

i think a more fitting question for a thread would be something like

why do people have plenty of time to waste on web forums, and insist on using abbreviations for so many stupid things?

UR so crazy! LOL ROFLMAO

i think i'll start using IHY. save myself sooooo much of my oh so *precious* time.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i think i'll start using IHY. save myself sooooo much of my oh so *precious* time.

LOL!

*sob* YHM? OMG! im goin to jus' go an kill myself!:( :( :( :( :(

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
LOL!

*sob* YHM? OMG! im goin to jus' go an kill myself!:( :( :( :( :(


hahaha. so you knew what it meant? is that an abbreviation that's commonly used or what? i just made it up. but yeah, i guess it makes sense.


ahh. great usage of one of the best... ie "omg"

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
hahaha. so you knew what it meant? is that an abbreviation that's commonly used or what? i just made it up. but yeah, i guess it makes sense.


ahh. great usage of one of the best... ie "omg"

"IHY" kinda fit some other posts of yours, in spirit if not in technicality :p :p

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
"IHY" kinda fit some other posts of yours, in spirit if not in technicality :p :p

ha. i love how "well" sarcasm reads on here....

but for the record, even if i were to say that to anyone on here, it wouldn't be you. after all, you complimented me on my way with words... subltly and such. ha

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
ha. i love how "well" sarcasm reads on here....

but for the record, even if i were to say that to anyone on here, it wouldn't be you. after all, you complimented me on my way with words... subltly and such. ha

I was just thinking--GTH is another good one, hehe;)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
I was just thinking--GTH is another good one, hehe;)

I'm lost what is the abbreviation GTH mean?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by wdlove
I'm lost what is the abbreviation GTH mean?

go to ____, lol.

like programming, only less humane.

[wdlove]

It takes me a while to figure out the shorthand, most I just skip over if I can't understand. Thank you for your kind understanding! ;)