You know you've been on b3ta too long when...
go for it kids!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:40, 31 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

^^
Says it all really!
( wanderlust, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:44, Reply)

^^
You have a houseful of real-flesh friends and you nip out to the PC to see what your net friends are up to.

I have a feeling I shall be doing this on occasion tomorrow night.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:48, Reply)

You find yourself
automatically typing b3 before you realise b3ta wasn't actually the webiste you wanted to look at.
( wanderlust, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:52, Reply)

... you can't write proper emails any more, you just
*do this instead*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:53, Reply)

You forget
that it's not polite to talk about goat sex infront of relatives.
( wanderlust, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:57, Reply)

People look at you funny
when you offer them non-existent cake.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:00, Reply)

you
check your gaz before you check your email
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:01, Reply)

Anytime you do anything
you wonder if it'll make a good answer for QOTW.
( wanderlust, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:03, Reply)

^^
This!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:04, Reply)

You try to click 'I Like This'
in normal conversation.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:07, Reply)

@DIT
Or worse, 'Ignore'!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:11, Reply)

^^
When the phrase "Fucksocks" has crept into everyday use.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:11, Reply)

Al suggested
"You fantasize about what the person you are conversing with looks like naked."

Up until a few months back (and in some cases more recently) you could miss the 'naked' bit off the end, because very few of us had profile pics, or HoN pics.

But now we all have seen each other, either in pictures or in person, al's statement is entirely true...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:14, Reply)

^
you define obvious things as "ronseal"


edit: I am actually doing this on a spreadsheet right now.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:14, Reply)

You spend more time
conversing with your b3ta friends, than interacting with real people.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:15, Reply)

You know you've been on QOTW too long when
- Your week begins at some random time on Thursday.
- You plan your activities according to the 'sacred calendar'.
- When b3ta is down, instead of getting on with things in the real world, you manage to find a forum for b3ta refugees.
- You start losing weight because your diet consists mostly of virtual cake.
- You want to shag and marry all your fellow b3tans (and shoot the trolls).

You know you've not been on QOTW long enough when
- You only just realise that Saturday on the 'sacred calendar' has been changed.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:17, Reply)

Sometimes, you'll find yourself thinking in LOLCAT.
O, HALP!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:19, Reply)

you think that your b3tafriends' usernames
are actually their real names and get confused and anxious at the thought that they might have normal names like steve or daphne.

I would cry if I discovered that althegeordie's real name wasn't in fact althegeordie but graham. or susan.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:24, Reply)

@ Devil_In_Tights
I actually had an urge yesterday to type a filenote in LOLcats. Didn't think teh boss would likey...
(Holloway_Girl To err is to be human, to be a fool is to believe, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:28, Reply)

phew
thanks graham.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:32, Reply)

I always find that being called 'Devil'
can be too general. Like a title.

You may call me Lucifer. Or Old Nick.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:34, Reply)

do you prefer DiT?
?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:40, Reply)

I quite like DiT, ashally.
And I was only jokin', I like bein' ze Devil.

"I'm the Devil
I can do what I want
Whatever I've got
I'm gonna flaunt
There's never been a rock-off that I've ever lost!"
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:51, Reply)

You know you've been on b3ta too long when...
You end up dating someone because you
a)liked reading their posts
and
b)*really* like the look of them from their HoN picture.



*Hangs head in shame*

*Well, not that much shame*

B3ta dating, FTW!!!



and btw, I always thought FTW meant Fuck The World! ahem...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 17:56, Reply)

You know you've been on B3ta too long when....
You have trouble remembering what you did with your time before you found B3ta.

Did I actually exist before B3ta?

Must have done. I've got the posts to prove it.
( girlinthehole, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 18:54, Reply)

@ BGB
I existed before b3ta but I was a poor shadow of the woman I am now.


Before b3ta I was....married!

*Looks shocked and horrified*

Not that being married is a bad thing...it's very good for a lot of people...and in truth it was reasonably good for me for a bit...providing I forget the controlling evil family who behaved like stalkers.

Ho hum.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 19:57, Reply)

Fuck The World
I always thought it somewhat negative, but at first that's all I ever read when I saw 'FTW'...
( Moey, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 20:18, Reply)

^ ^
I thought that too, before I learned what it meant.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 21:07, Reply)

....when you are talking to a fellow b3tan on the phone
and you find you are doing it as if you were replying to a story or using phrases like "teh fluffeh" and "GC". Or you call them by their user name rather than their real name. Then you end the call not by saying, "Call me tomorrow", but by saying, "Gaz me!"
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 4 Jul 2008, 21:49, Reply)

You know you've been on b3ta too long when...
You hear someone start to tell an anecdote in work, and you automatically assume it will have a clever twist or pun at the end...

And you find out it's a story about how they bought the wrong sized lightbulbs while in Ikea.
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 21:57, Reply)