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Main Forums => Political Opinions => Topic started by: sarah2005 on June 01, 2005, 11:59:55 AM
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Hi, members of the Geek forum, I was wandering if you could please help me out with the British television programme I'm researching. It's about addiction (and yes, that includes internet addiction).
My name's Sarah, and you'll find my contact details at the bottom of this post. I look forward to hearing from you...
So, do you have an extra-ordinary addiction?
Are you, for example, addicted to:
Text messaging,
Pornography,
Jelly Babies,
The Gym,
Television,
Something even stranger?
Do you have a fascinating tale to tell?
What impact has your addiction had on your life?
Has it ever pushed you close to death?
Are friends and family aware of your addiction?
Do they understand?
Have you ever sought help?
Are you a forthright and honest individual willing to talk openly about your addiction on TV?
Can you take viewers on a journey into the darkside of your addiction?
Are you able to provide words of wisdom to other addicts?
Are you willing to confront your addiction whilst in front of the camera?
If so, you may be just the person to take part in a forthcoming
documentary about modern addiction for a mainstream terrestrial
broadcaster.
Please e-mail me, sarah@addiction.me.uk, telling me:
• about you
• about your addiction
• your age
• your gender
• your contact details
• and your locality
(all contact will be strictly confidential)
Deadline for applications: August 2nd 2005
I really look forward to hearing from you. Thanks again for your time. :)
http://www.addiction.me.uk
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I'm addicted to being rude to people on forums.
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WTFH are Jelly Babies?
I echo what my esteemed colleague Demosthenes said.
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Wooo! "esteemed"!
That's much better than mongoloid.
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Hello i have a fascinating tell to tale and I'm embarased to say this but I've been hanging out with a stranger at the local gym and we've been text messaging each other ascii pr0n while eating jelly beans and human babies but the strangest thing of all is that i run on a threadmill at this gym and the threadmill makes a TV run and the other day martha stweard was on there talking about some fucking gourdes and shit so io stopped running in order to shut the TV off then i became fat but i kept text messaging the ascii pr0n all along and now i'm so fat i'm affraid i'll just drop dead and it's not like my family can help the bastards don't understadn what it's like to be a fat ascii pr0n adict so i join a fact ascii pr0n support group to find support from the group but it's not helping and i'm thinking about calling dr phil but i'll settle for dr judge if dr phil is booked but all i can say is don't text message ascii pr0n in a gym while runing on a threadmil that powers a tv which features martha steward's fucking gourdes because it will turn you into a fat horrible 28 year old man like myself who resides in eastern canada and can be contacted by pressing the email button below this reply. Also, I have a this habbit of emulating PB's posts.
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Also, I have a this habbit of emulating PB's posts. Thats horrible, ointment stat! :shock:
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I'm currently addicted to this picture (http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/omgwtf.jpg)
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Can't... stop... laughing!
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I CAN QUIT INTERNET ANY TIME I WANT
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How are we going to find out what the fuck hell jelly babies are if she's banned?
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Jelly Babies are small sweets.
Perversely they are shaped like babies. Even stranger the recommended way to eat them is either
1) Bite their heads off, seen as a quick and merciless death
2) Eat them from the feet upwards, a more cruel method of imbibing sugar
We in Europe have had many more centuries to become truly somisphacated, as can be seen by our culinary habits.
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So kind of like human baby shaped gummi weasels or something.
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I see someone's corrupted my good natured poll - I must make this clear to any serious respondents.
:cry:
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Sarah,
We've been getting a LOT of hit-and-run posters lately, generally falling into 1 of 2 categories: "OMG HELP ME WITH $something" or "OMG VISIT MY WEBSITE."
When you come to teh Geekery (OMFGLOL), the forum at the very top is the "Hi! I'm new here!" forum. Please, please, please, for the love of Pepe, post in that forum first and then lurk and/or respond for a short while before hitting us with a poll like this. We're a small community here. We notice new people.
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I voted for the third option. It seemed to make the best sense.
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GIS for corrupted, goodnatured pol... neh. Too easy.
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if someone truly was addicted to the internet, it doesn't seem likely that they would believe themselves to be.
same with pretty much everything else, i guess...
people who admit it to themselves are taking the first steps towards rehabilitation and therefore not being addicted anymore...
consider for example someone you know who smokes forty-eight packs of cigarettes a day and yet claims he can give it up any time he likes. this man is an addict although he says he is not. the man who says "i'm addicted" realises the problem and can give it up any time he likes.
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if someone truly was addicted to the internet, it doesn't seem likely that they would believe themselves to be.
same with pretty much everything else, i guess...
people who admit it to themselves are taking the first steps towards rehabilitation and therefore not being addicted anymore...
consider for example someone you know who smokes forty-eight packs of cigarettes a day and yet claims he can give it up any time he likes. this man is an addict although he says he is not. the man who says "i'm addicted" realises the problem and can give it up any time he likes.
I disagree completely. While realizing you have an addiction is important, it does not mean that you can then "give it up any time you like". Here's an example. I smoke. I am fully aware of the fact that I am addicted to it. I cannot just give it up any old time, because it's an addiction. You see, there's a difference in knowing that you have an addiction and taking steps to rid yourself of said addiction. I know that I have one. I choose not to do anything about it at this point in my life.
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the man who says "i'm addicted" realises the problem and can give it up any time he likes.
Da nile ain't just a river in egypt, yo!
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I know that I have one. I choose not to do anything about it at this point in my life.
you know you have an addiction because you're told you have one. there's enough anti-smoking paraphernalia hanging about for you to be an informed individual and realise that you have an addiction. where addiction to the internet differs is in the fact that it is not widely publicised and, where it is, is not necessarily regarded as a good or bad thing - therefore the individual can make their own minds up about whether they do or do not have an addiction.
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I have an intraweb addiction because I experience some classic addiction symptoms, not because I'm told.
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I experience some classic addiction symptoms, not because I'm told.
and you know about these "classic" addiction symptoms how? i'm sure they didn't appear automatically in your head so you must have been told. perhaps not verbally and face-to-face by someone you know but probably via the media and/or books on the subject if you happen to be interested in that sort of thing.
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From experience. I have an addictive personality. I was adicted to drugs, to nicotine, to gambling, just to name a few.
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you've learned the word "addiction" and you've obviously researched "addictive personality"
admit it, you're an informed individual. :P
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
some people wont lay down and die. :x
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Some people really couldn't care less.
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Some people really couldn't care less.
very true :D :lol:
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
I disagree.
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
I disagree.
No you don't
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
I disagree.
No you don't
I do.
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
I disagree.
No you don't
I do.
I doubt that.
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Some people are just addicted to arguing.
I disagree.
No you don't
I do.
I doubt that.
How can you doubt that? It's plain as day.
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How can you doubt that? It's plain as day.
I disagree.
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How can you doubt that? It's plain as day.
I disagree.
How can you disagree when it was you who first asserted it? Are you a waffling flip-flopper? Are you one of those spot-changing leopards? Or is it just multiple personality disorder?
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How can you doubt that? It's plain as day.
I disagree.
How can you disagree when it was you who first asserted it? Are you a waffling flip-flopper? Are you one of those spot-changing leopards? Or is it just multiple personality disorder?
Yes.
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How can you doubt that? It's plain as day.
I disagree.
How can you disagree when it was you who first asserted it? Are you a waffling flip-flopper? Are you one of those spot-changing leopards? Or is it just multiple personality disorder?
Yes.
No you aren't
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You guys are BOTH wrong.
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You guys are BOTH wrong.
So are you.
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Am not.
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R2
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Yes your not