you may be addicted to IRC if ...
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you may be addicted to IRC if ...
Top 10 signs you may be addicted to IRC.
10. Your service provider calls *you* for tech support.
9. Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
8. You have ever had a dream about the people in your channels.
7. You have to scroll through your popup menu.
6. You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on.
5. Your friend Tom tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
4. You've called out someone else's nick while making love to your husband.
3. You keep begging your friend's to get an internet account so "we can hang out."
2. Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
1. You laughed at this list.
You also might be addicted to irc if....
...your friends are now convinced that IRC stands for "I Repeat Classes."
...you want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
...you once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups."
...you sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all."
...when you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!"
...you're a heterosexual male, but one time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks."
...you come home from class, look at your roomates, and say "ib."
...you wait for your roomates to say "re."
...the words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey.
...sometimes you type commands from the unix prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
...you've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
...you make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily.
...you have over 2 megs of .wav files on your mirc directory.
...you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's.
...your child ignores your request and you wonder if she is lagged.
...you send internet Christmas cards. *wink*
...you've ever felt the urge to type "*wink*."
...you have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
...you have an irc web page.
...you've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you loosers don't even know what irc is, do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
...you've ever logged on to dalnet.
...you join #hispanola "just to work on my Spanish."
...when someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
...you join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow.
...you've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone."
...you go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message.
...you have a vanity car tag with your nick on it.
* you live on #twilight_zone for months praying for an O: line
* you end up with 7 O: lines
* to get revenge on someone you know in RL, you mail bomb them..through the US postal service, that is
* you have met over 100 ircers
* you /umode +s because you dont feel right without it
* you dont know your boyfriend/girlfriend's first name
* your boyfriend/girlfriend in RL gets on IRC coz its the only way to reach you
* you know which servers are major hubs..in *.tw
* you call your S.O (boyfriend/girlfriend is too long to type) a HNG
* you use words like 'leet' and 'lame' in RL
* you find yourself wishing that that bitch on your hall were on irc so you could flood her
* you read operlist
* you tell your rfiends you have plans already on saturday night when you dont
* your .ircrc is over 80k
* you feel a need to talk in all caps to certain people in RL
* your desk is the only part of your room you ever use (screw the bed
* you have ever put a smiley in a paper for school
the JehovA's Witnesses knock on the door, and all you can think of doing is flood them with PINGs.
You get a call from a telemarketer, and instead of hanging up on them, you set down the phone, and set their mode to -v
You call up your friend Nick, and /invite $nick to #watch_TV
You offer the babysitter OPS when you go out for the night
You refer to rush hour traffic as LAGGED... or to avoid traffic, you tell your passenger you need to quit for a second to switch servers
The word I is now replaced in your vocabulary with /me.
You raise your hand in class, and say "BRB"
You have more than 3 private MSG windows going simultaneously
You won't subscribe to a certain internet provider because they don't offer unlimited time per month
Instead of taking a disk home from work, you set up your BOT to serve it to you later that night
You no longer have to stop and explain to your friends what "RE ALL" means
You begin to say hehehehehehehehe instead of laughing
You don't sleep at night because you are too stay up late thinking of a new NICK
You know and use regularly, more than 10 different ways to smile in ascii text
..when someone says "what did you say?" you reply "scroll up!"
..you find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the might when your spouse is asleep to get more irc time in!
..you turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know that you are on irc again!
..you know more about your irc "friends" daily routines than you do your own spouses!
..when someone in a channel says "where is today, and you know exactly where that person is and why they are not logged on.
..you find yourself lieing to others about your irc time. When they complain your phone is busy, you claim it was off the hook!
..you have an identity crisis if someone else is using your nick.
..you would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much instead of the truth (up all night on irc!)
..you change nicks so much that you have to type /me to see who you are!
..you put on special mood music while talking to certain people in private chats!
..your friends on irc were above your RL friends on your Christmas card list!
..you find yourself involved in channel politics on irc!
..you ever turned down real hugs for {{hugs}} from your irc friends.
..you have actually kept up with 10 converstions at one time! <---this one shows either great skill or that you are too far gone!
..you postpone your college graduation date so you can keep your free .edu account!
..you have ever written a pen-and-paper letter to someone and found it _impossible_ to do without smilies
...you don't even bother answering the phone anymore...
... If you're broke and your modem burns out and you go out on to the streeets to sell your body to get a new one..
...If you are willing to risk a divorce because your husband doesn't like all the time you are spending on the computer
...If you are willing to sell a kidney to get to the next #anne-Rice channel meet
...If you are risking your job by staying on #anne-rice in the afternoon
...If you open up your home to 15 strangers for a week merely because they have computers and cute nicknames
... if you consider getting an THIRD phone line so your S.O. can get online on a diff acct
...If you yell at ppl cause they aww using more than 2 w's and are messing up your URL list
...if your kids are standing at your side going "mommy, please come cook dinner" and you'd rather type another "LOL!"
...If the first thing you say after coming out of a movie is, "Hey. Remember that funny line? It would make a perfect info line!"
...you Marry your cyberboyfriend RT and you both sit at your own computers and chat to each other every night from across the room!
...you have ever had netsex with a bot.
... you have to go on Irc by sneaking on your friend/Father's Laptop while they are at work or are away.
...you are a X files fan and go on #X-files just to say "Does anyone here like the X-Files T.V.Show?"
...you go on but can continue after your computer searches for your server you yell "Dumb, Server".
..... you constantly say "hello?" or "you lagged, boy" to anyone on the street.
* you use the words "donut" or "broked" in email
* you type in all lowercase now, even while typing assignments
* you keep an irc window open while doing homework
* you use irc as an excuse for procrastinating on homework
* you've gone through more than one keyboard because you can't leave irc long enough to have a cig
* you type messages to people while you're talking to them on the phone
* you hack your server idle time "so lamers donut bug me"
* you've ever actually used "donut" or "woii" in a sentance
* your nick is mentioned on an irc web page (or worse...it's published in printed material somewhere)
* you keep a client on 24/7 so someone doesn't steal your nick
you *do* preface things in email with /me
you feel the urge to /kick and /ban annoying peopel in person
... you argue with your kids over whose turn it is.
...when you write a letter you put :-) at the end of a sentence
...You wont work at a job that doesnt have a modem involed
...you sign your nick instead of your "real name"
...you take your girlfriend on a date to #redlobster, then to a movie at #cineplex_odeon.
...you want to kick-ban your sister from your house.
...you hang out in the #florida room on dalnet and are involved in the soap opera that goes on there
...you look at your cat and say mmmm chicken
...you sat around for more than 2 minutes trying to think of a witty "You might be addicted to irc if..." joke to add to this list.
...refuse to go to alt.irc.recovery when your friends tell you too...
...your dog leaves you...
...you have to ask what the year is...
...build a toilet into your computer chair so you never *miss* anything...
You can handle 10 messages
You can't even remember the names to all the channels you have ops on
Your internet provider disconnects you for using an *unlimited* account too much
After the above happening you seriously consider a dedicated account
you have a map on the wall with red thumbtacks to mark where people are
You have to take an vacation from IRC because you can not keep up with the messages anymore
You have IRC in the background with the word AWAY after your nick while viewing this page
People /msg you even when your nick has AWAY in it
People have your AWAY nick in thier notify list
Your spent more than $300 on long distance calling those you met on IRC
Whenever a netsplit or mode change occurs and someone asks what happened everyone in the channel says to ask you
You got tired of answering what happened and have made popups to describe netsplits and mode changes
You have 5 copies of an IRC client installed on your hard disk to be on more than one net at a time
Your might miss *important* action in a channel while submitting this
...you look at an annoying friend and wish you could type /ignore
...you can carry on a conversation with the bot(s)
...a woman make me come on the net
you type zandzeepsodemineraalwatersteenstralen in 1 time !
...you drink less water cuz u don't wanna go to the washroom during your chat.
...you wrote your nick as your name in RL
...Your time on-line is measured with a Calender.
...You use your lunchbreak to jump back on to look for memo's
...You get pulled over by the police, and they inform you that you were reported missing 2 months ago.
...You bring a sack lunch and cooler to the terminal.
... Your SO kisses your neck while you type and you think "uh oh DCC Chat request"
... Your wife starts mabbling at you on the bed and you try to find the /Ignore all command
... You get an instant turn on with the phrase "5'11 tall long blond hair blue eyes"
... The keys of your keyboard are refusing to work properly after few months and you end up writing something like " I'm professionl relly!"
10. Your service provider calls *you* for tech support.
9. Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
8. You have ever had a dream about the people in your channels.
7. You have to scroll through your popup menu.
6. You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on.
5. Your friend Tom tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
4. You've called out someone else's nick while making love to your husband.
3. You keep begging your friend's to get an internet account so "we can hang out."
2. Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
1. You laughed at this list.
You also might be addicted to irc if....
...your friends are now convinced that IRC stands for "I Repeat Classes."
...you want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
...you once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups."
...you sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all."
...when you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!"
...you're a heterosexual male, but one time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks."
...you come home from class, look at your roomates, and say "ib."
...you wait for your roomates to say "re."
...the words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey.
...sometimes you type commands from the unix prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
...you've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
...you make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily.
...you have over 2 megs of .wav files on your mirc directory.
...you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's.
...your child ignores your request and you wonder if she is lagged.
...you send internet Christmas cards. *wink*
...you've ever felt the urge to type "*wink*."
...you have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
...you have an irc web page.
...you've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you loosers don't even know what irc is, do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
...you've ever logged on to dalnet.
...you join #hispanola "just to work on my Spanish."
...when someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
...you join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow.
...you've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone."
...you go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message.
...you have a vanity car tag with your nick on it.
* you live on #twilight_zone for months praying for an O: line
* you end up with 7 O: lines
* to get revenge on someone you know in RL, you mail bomb them..through the US postal service, that is
* you have met over 100 ircers
* you /umode +s because you dont feel right without it
* you dont know your boyfriend/girlfriend's first name
* your boyfriend/girlfriend in RL gets on IRC coz its the only way to reach you
* you know which servers are major hubs..in *.tw
* you call your S.O (boyfriend/girlfriend is too long to type) a HNG
* you use words like 'leet' and 'lame' in RL
* you find yourself wishing that that bitch on your hall were on irc so you could flood her
* you read operlist
* you tell your rfiends you have plans already on saturday night when you dont
* your .ircrc is over 80k
* you feel a need to talk in all caps to certain people in RL
* your desk is the only part of your room you ever use (screw the bed
* you have ever put a smiley in a paper for school
the JehovA's Witnesses knock on the door, and all you can think of doing is flood them with PINGs.
You get a call from a telemarketer, and instead of hanging up on them, you set down the phone, and set their mode to -v
You call up your friend Nick, and /invite $nick to #watch_TV
You offer the babysitter OPS when you go out for the night
You refer to rush hour traffic as LAGGED... or to avoid traffic, you tell your passenger you need to quit for a second to switch servers
The word I is now replaced in your vocabulary with /me.
You raise your hand in class, and say "BRB"
You have more than 3 private MSG windows going simultaneously
You won't subscribe to a certain internet provider because they don't offer unlimited time per month
Instead of taking a disk home from work, you set up your BOT to serve it to you later that night
You no longer have to stop and explain to your friends what "RE ALL" means
You begin to say hehehehehehehehe instead of laughing
You don't sleep at night because you are too stay up late thinking of a new NICK
You know and use regularly, more than 10 different ways to smile in ascii text
..when someone says "what did you say?" you reply "scroll up!"
..you find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the might when your spouse is asleep to get more irc time in!
..you turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know that you are on irc again!
..you know more about your irc "friends" daily routines than you do your own spouses!
..when someone in a channel says "where is today, and you know exactly where that person is and why they are not logged on.
..you find yourself lieing to others about your irc time. When they complain your phone is busy, you claim it was off the hook!
..you have an identity crisis if someone else is using your nick.
..you would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much instead of the truth (up all night on irc!)
..you change nicks so much that you have to type /me to see who you are!
..you put on special mood music while talking to certain people in private chats!
..your friends on irc were above your RL friends on your Christmas card list!
..you find yourself involved in channel politics on irc!
..you ever turned down real hugs for {{hugs}} from your irc friends.
..you have actually kept up with 10 converstions at one time! <---this one shows either great skill or that you are too far gone!
..you postpone your college graduation date so you can keep your free .edu account!
..you have ever written a pen-and-paper letter to someone and found it _impossible_ to do without smilies
...you don't even bother answering the phone anymore...
... If you're broke and your modem burns out and you go out on to the streeets to sell your body to get a new one..
...If you are willing to risk a divorce because your husband doesn't like all the time you are spending on the computer
...If you are willing to sell a kidney to get to the next #anne-Rice channel meet
...If you are risking your job by staying on #anne-rice in the afternoon
...If you open up your home to 15 strangers for a week merely because they have computers and cute nicknames
... if you consider getting an THIRD phone line so your S.O. can get online on a diff acct
...If you yell at ppl cause they aww using more than 2 w's and are messing up your URL list
...if your kids are standing at your side going "mommy, please come cook dinner" and you'd rather type another "LOL!"
...If the first thing you say after coming out of a movie is, "Hey. Remember that funny line? It would make a perfect info line!"
...you Marry your cyberboyfriend RT and you both sit at your own computers and chat to each other every night from across the room!
...you have ever had netsex with a bot.
... you have to go on Irc by sneaking on your friend/Father's Laptop while they are at work or are away.
...you are a X files fan and go on #X-files just to say "Does anyone here like the X-Files T.V.Show?"
...you go on but can continue after your computer searches for your server you yell "Dumb, Server".
..... you constantly say "hello?" or "you lagged, boy" to anyone on the street.
* you use the words "donut" or "broked" in email
* you type in all lowercase now, even while typing assignments
* you keep an irc window open while doing homework
* you use irc as an excuse for procrastinating on homework
* you've gone through more than one keyboard because you can't leave irc long enough to have a cig
* you type messages to people while you're talking to them on the phone
* you hack your server idle time "so lamers donut bug me"
* you've ever actually used "donut" or "woii" in a sentance
* your nick is mentioned on an irc web page (or worse...it's published in printed material somewhere)
* you keep a client on 24/7 so someone doesn't steal your nick
you *do* preface things in email with /me
you feel the urge to /kick and /ban annoying peopel in person
... you argue with your kids over whose turn it is.
...when you write a letter you put :-) at the end of a sentence
...You wont work at a job that doesnt have a modem involed
...you sign your nick instead of your "real name"
...you take your girlfriend on a date to #redlobster, then to a movie at #cineplex_odeon.
...you want to kick-ban your sister from your house.
...you hang out in the #florida room on dalnet and are involved in the soap opera that goes on there
...you look at your cat and say mmmm chicken
...you sat around for more than 2 minutes trying to think of a witty "You might be addicted to irc if..." joke to add to this list.
...refuse to go to alt.irc.recovery when your friends tell you too...
...your dog leaves you...
...you have to ask what the year is...
...build a toilet into your computer chair so you never *miss* anything...
You can handle 10 messages
You can't even remember the names to all the channels you have ops on
Your internet provider disconnects you for using an *unlimited* account too much
After the above happening you seriously consider a dedicated account
you have a map on the wall with red thumbtacks to mark where people are
You have to take an vacation from IRC because you can not keep up with the messages anymore
You have IRC in the background with the word AWAY after your nick while viewing this page
People /msg you even when your nick has AWAY in it
People have your AWAY nick in thier notify list
Your spent more than $300 on long distance calling those you met on IRC
Whenever a netsplit or mode change occurs and someone asks what happened everyone in the channel says to ask you
You got tired of answering what happened and have made popups to describe netsplits and mode changes
You have 5 copies of an IRC client installed on your hard disk to be on more than one net at a time
Your might miss *important* action in a channel while submitting this
...you look at an annoying friend and wish you could type /ignore
...you can carry on a conversation with the bot(s)
...a woman make me come on the net
you type zandzeepsodemineraalwatersteenstralen in 1 time !
...you drink less water cuz u don't wanna go to the washroom during your chat.
...you wrote your nick as your name in RL
...Your time on-line is measured with a Calender.
...You use your lunchbreak to jump back on to look for memo's
...You get pulled over by the police, and they inform you that you were reported missing 2 months ago.
...You bring a sack lunch and cooler to the terminal.
... Your SO kisses your neck while you type and you think "uh oh DCC Chat request"
... Your wife starts mabbling at you on the bed and you try to find the /Ignore all command
... You get an instant turn on with the phrase "5'11 tall long blond hair blue eyes"
... The keys of your keyboard are refusing to work properly after few months and you end up writing something like " I'm professionl relly!"
funny, but I couldn't get 1/2 way through that 
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From: SF Bay Area, CA
i used to be really addicated to irc. It stared back when I was like 12 and went for 5-6 years. At the peak of it I was on IRC for 8 hours at a time and waking in the middle of the night to see what's happening on IRC (i'm not kidding). Donno why it was so addictive. I once refused to go spend a weekend snoboarding with my friends just to be on IRC because there were some management changes on a channel. Sad huh ? But it went away, thank god. I think I meat like 90% of the first post by me with "you're addicted to irc if ...".
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Originally posted by hessogood
/me finds that funny
/me also hates IRC
/me finds that funny
/me also hates IRC
LOL
I was addicted to it too. I would sit there at my desk at work and get annoyed if the phone rang because I didn't want to miss anything. Then as soon as my daughter was in bed, I'd be back on chatting. I finally walked away from it and glad I did. Now I come here!
I used to be so addicted.. I spent all my days scripting and I was DAMN good. Been using it for about 10 years now
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