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Prolific 'lithers: an invitation to reflect

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Baz Auckland

22:18 / 19.12.06

All this talk of wingmen made me think to post a link back to the "Steve's classic wingman thread" until I re-read it, and realized that Ender started that one... stop the madness you fool!

Ender

22:35 / 19.12.06

No, the story of my wingman days is too good to leave on the shelf.

I think the occasional jest would be alright.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:46 / 19.12.06

It's easy to rack up posts.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:46 / 19.12.06

Allegedly.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

00:17 / 20.12.06

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Not what I expected (or perhaps hoped for) when I started this thread, but interesting all the same. Sometimes, the portrait paints itself...

Papess

00:44 / 20.12.06

I had just passed you when you came back! Now you're 200 ahead!

Oh my. Apparently, I have been posting in my sleep.

Baz Auckland

00:54 / 20.12.06

...and welcome back! I wasn't implying that it wasn't good to have you around!

Evil Scientist

08:14 / 20.12.06

Ha! I'm on 2007 posts. I'm not posting again until the new year.

I...

Uh...

Oh toss.

Whisky Priestess

08:20 / 20.12.06

I think you'll find some of those rankings will change just as soon as Big Brother starts up again. At that point Ganesh will pass Haus and the natural order will be restored.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:23 / 20.12.06

I'd also like to ask (again, wihtout prejudice) whether if you could have those hours (days? weeks?) you've spent on Barbelith back, you'd spend 'em again in much the same way.

Hmm. I've spent a ridiculous amount of my time on here over the last few years, and that's time I'm never getting back. BUT I've met some utterly wonderful people (both online and in real life), and learned a metric shitload of stuff, and had some amazing conversations, and I don't really think I can put a value on that. I'd do the same again, I think.

Ganesh

10:56 / 20.12.06

I think you'll find some of those rankings will change just as soon as Big Brother starts up again. At that point Ganesh will pass Haus and the natural order will be restored.

Indeed; it's a seasonal thing with me. Barbequinox.

It's amazing* how these "ooh, look at the leader board" threads inevitably deteriorate into a flurry of one-word posts.

*in a not-amazing-at-all kind of way.

Ganesh

10:59 / 20.12.06

And yes (ha - qualifier post!), I'm perfectly happy with the amount of time I've spent. I can think of several Real Life experiences for which I'd want a temporal refund but this isn't one of them, particularly. Contributing to the Big Brother threads I consider an integral part of my consumption of modern culture.

(Always end on a pretentious high-note, that's what I say.)

grant

14:42 / 20.12.06

I'm guilty of using Barbelith as a brain extension -- often, things I either want to remember or figure out, I'll post here.

As a new topic.

There's also a happy intersection between things I write about for work and things that get discussed on here for fun.

Sax

14:43 / 20.12.06

I can think of several Real Life experiences for which I'd want a temporal refund

I am so stealing that for something.

grant

15:51 / 20.12.06

Another happy intersection, then.

iconoplast

16:16 / 20.12.06

I'm actually surprised; since 2001, I've made eight hundred and some-odd posts. I feel like I should have made more - Barbelith had a really deep impact on me when I first found it, and (I think) helped shaed a lot of the way I view the world now.

Apparently, it did all that without me necessarily having to post about it.

Feverfew

16:17 / 20.12.06

Woo-hoo! Up a place!

... Ahem. Sorry.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:07 / 20.12.06

What terrifies me is that back around June, I had only something like 600 posts. Now it's December and I'm quickly approaching 2200. What the hell happened in the past few months????

Quantum

17:41 / 20.12.06

Gp to Ann Summers.com and look up wingman. Go on.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:59 / 20.12.06

BLIMEY.

I mean...

erm

BLIMEY.

Ticker

18:07 / 20.12.06

What terrifies me is that back around June, I had only something like 600 posts. Now it's December and I'm quickly approaching 2200. What the hell happened in the past few months????

CD Mixes?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:18 / 20.12.06

I don't think I can blame 1600 posts on CD mixes.

Spatula Clarke

18:24 / 20.12.06

Proper answer:

Barbelith's been really important to me over the six or seven years I've been here and played a core part in each of the major decisions that I've made in that time. It's also been a real source of support for me while I've had to work through the fallout from those decisions.

Simply put, without Barbelith I'd probably be pretty fucked by now. Certainly, prospects for the future wouldn't be looking anything like as positive as they are. So no, I absolutely would not want the time I've spent here given back to me.

I think this might also be why I find myself drifitng further away from the place. I don't currently *need* it as much as I once did.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:24 / 20.12.06

See, I'm all confused. I thought it was Late Shift threads that bumped my count up. And I don't do those much these days.

I think I just don't know when to shut the fuck up. DAMN. My real life curse has followed me into cyberspace.

ARSE

Quantum

18:30 / 20.12.06

My cyberspace curse has followed my wingman into my ARSE. (NSFW)

Sorry. Some days Conversation is my favourite forum.

Ticker

18:34 / 20.12.06

gah something about the PINK MERRY link has caused my eyes to bleed.
Also is always nice to label such links as NSFW, dear boy.
Not that I don't look at worse at work mind ya, but the other folks might get into le trouble.

Quantum

18:42 / 20.12.06

Well it depends where you work. Fair enough though, I perhaps should have mentioned THE LINK IS UGLY AND IS A SEX TOY, BEWARE THE LINK OF WINGMAN DOOM.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

19:05 / 20.12.06

Love the marketing copy for the 'Wingman':

"Like the Goose to his Maverick - every man needs a buddy"

I wonder if they do an 'Iceman' upgrade?

Twice

19:08 / 20.12.06

Only 20 quid, though, and fly-by-wire. How long's the wire?

Jake, Colossus of Clout

19:22 / 20.12.06

You can only buy in quantities of five, though. Seems so wrong.

Quantum

19:38 / 20.12.06

Wouldn't five be a winghand?