You Know You've Been On The Computer For Too Long When...

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You Know You've Been On The Computer For Too Long When...
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1. You forgot how to work the TV remote control
2. You see something funny and scream, 'LOL, LOL!'
3. You meet the mailman at the curb and swear he said "You've got mail!"
4. You sign off and your screen says you were on for six days and 45 minutes.
5. You buy a laptop and a mobile so you can have AOL in your car.
6. Tech support calls YOU for help.
7. You beg your friends to get an account so you can 'hang out'.
8. You get a second phone line just to call out for pizza.
9. You purchase a vanity car license plate with your screen name on it.
10. You say 'he he he he' or 'heh heh heh' instead of laughing.
11. You say 'SCROLL UP' when someone asks what it was you just said.
12. You sneak away to your computer when everyone goes to sleep.
13. You talk on the phone to the same person you are sending an instant message to.
14. You look at an annoying person off-line and wish you had your ignore button handy.
15. You sit on MSN waiting for six hours waiting for that special someone to sign on.
16. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
17. You end your sentences with...three or more periods...!
18. You're on the phone and say 'BRB'.

 

[sms_117b]

19. When you look out the window and the sun is rising....wait..damnit
20. You ask restaurants if they accept paypal

 

[Blue Sonnet]

21. You have dreams about witty forum posts you're going to make tomorrow
22. You can still see the last page you visited when you shut your eyes

(I've seriously had dreams about Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper II when I first got them - apparently my mother dreams of Mahjong tiles)

 

[goater24]

23 - You find your only aroused by your partner when she's on a webcam.

 

[dukethepcdr]

You stand up from a long session and your rear is sore from sitting too long. I've got to get a more comfy desk chair.

 

[Woundingisfun]

25 - You run around town killing innocent people with a gun while screaming "NOOBS, NOOBS!"
26 - You steal a watch in the store and just stand there waiting to log off.

 

[xitel]

You discover that the reason your foot doesn't hurt anymore because you haven't had feeling in it for about 15 minutes.

 

[Cahlee]

27: When you realise you haven't eaten in 3 days

 

[stompy]

... you need glasses.

 

[10BIT]

30 - Your first thought when looking outside is 'OMG! These graphics are amazing!'.
31 - You instinctively reach for the 'Control' and 'F' keys when trying to find something in a book/newspaper.

I've fallen victim to both too many times.

 

[ShogunGino]

31. You see your OS's shutdown screen when you close your eyes to go to sleep.
32. You can hear YouTube videos playing, but your speakers are off.
33. You make sad attempts to facially imitate the thingy.
34. You try to remember a password before entering any building.
35. You decide that selling your soul to that guy on eBay for $100 would be a fun thing to do.

 

[TheBluesader]

36. You find yourself compulsively refreshing your Escapist profile page to see if anyone's responded to a post.

37. When you see no one has, you go back and edit your old posts to try and make them funnier so SOMEONE pays attention.

38. You contemplate grabbing an empty Gatorade bottle to dwiddle in because you haven't gone for 6 hours but you're still in the middle of the latest Zero Punctuation and you just can't bring yourself to pause the funny.

(I know these are all Escapist themed, but when I'm staying up way too late online, it's because of this place.)

 

[Matthicus]

39. You hear dripping water and realize that you haven't been to the bathroom in twenty hours.
40. When you finally get to the bathroom, your pee is brown because you're dehydrated.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

When your right hand automatically goes into the position it does to hold your mouse

 

[The Irrelevant Gamer]

11. You say 'SCROLL UP' when someone asks what it was you just said.

I'm going to start doing this.

 

[Sewblon]

42. You google erotic fanfiction when you are neither bored nor horny. Just fell victim to it.

 

[Cameoflage]

43. You find yourself constantly disappointed by your inability to make things fly into your hand from across the room. (This has actually happened to me. Too much HL2.)
44. You say "" out loud. (It's pronounced "dee". You can turn it into "?" or "D:" with the right intonation.)

 

[Mr Fatherland]

44.When you can't hear what someone has said so you look for a volume dial to turn them up.

 

[ChocoFace]

46. When someone wants to beat you up and you try to use Hadouken