|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: I'm cheating on you
|
Organ Builder
Shipmate
# 12478
|
Posted
Ship of Fools, you know you'll always be my first love, and the one I check first every morning but...um...I have more love than a single bulletin board can handle. I've been cheating on you. I'm sorry if that hurts you, but I know I'm not going to change.
And you know your best friend? That shipmate with all the posts? Well, they're cheating on you too!
There, there...don't cry. I'm sure after you've had time to think about, you'll realize it's better this way...
So, Shipmates, confession is good for the soul! When you're not here, what bulletin board gets your time-wasting attention. Let's just take facebook as a given so that we don't have to post it. My favorite lurk-fest at the moment is Television without Pity. I'm not even a registered user yet, but it's usually good for killing the odd few minutes when the threads on the Ship aren't grabbing my interest. Tell us about your secret guilty pleasures...
--------------------
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
Posts: 3337 | From: ...somewhere in between 40 and death... | Registered: Mar 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
# 15560
|
Posted
I'm on a series of Linux forums. Mod/Admin on one. Linux is truly the modern via media. Not the 'one thing for everyone' of the catholic-like Mac world. Not like the 'we're in control of you and have all the answers of the fundie micro$oft world, but the flexible world where the structure allows many under the one roof an even on the lawn (e.g., BSD), thee's a Linux operating system distribution for everyone, and everyone can have an opinion and contribute. And there there are 16 possible ways to do most things right.
(Currently running Linux Mint.)
--------------------
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
\_(ツ)_/
Posts: 11498 | From: Treaty 6 territory in the nonexistant Province of Buffalo, Canada ↄ⃝' | Registered: Mar 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
|
Posted
I have a total reputation of over 13K on various stackoverflow forums.
However, I gave up on the Christian one, because it is not as much fun as the ship.
--------------------
Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
Posts: 18859 | From: At the bottom of a deep dark well. | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Paul.
Shipmate
# 37
|
Posted
I'm on a couple of Goodreads groups - which I blow hot and cold on. I have bursts of enthusiasm but then get jaded. One in particular is turning largely into indie authors talking to other indie authors.
I'm also on a site called mobileread which is about ebooks and ereaders and such. Spent a lot of time there when I first joined it but once you've had a few versions of a few key topics - why DRM is bad, whether copyright should be eternal or non-existent, whether Amazon is a an evil wanabe monopolist or is saving us from the outdated restrictive practices of the Big 6 - it gets a bit samey. Mind you so does PSA, the Anglican gay issues and whether church is too girly for real men ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
You mentioned Facebook but I honestly spend more time on Google+ than FB - but it's mostly reading stuff not posting.
Then there's always Slashdot.
Posts: 3689 | From: UK | Registered: Jun 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
# 57
|
Posted
I was there.
--------------------
It is better to be Kind than right.
Posts: 9778 | From: The Dark Tower | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Eigon
Shipmate
# 4917
|
Posted
Living History Forum is useful for keeping up with the UK re-enactment world, and Brass Goggles is fun for the Steampunk world. Creative Living is good for crafts and green lifestyle. I go to those roughly once a week. I'm also quite keen on Absolute Write Water Cooler, a writers' forum.
I've tried a few different history forums, and literature forums, and the ones that I'm visiting at the moment are Historum and Literature Network.
However, I come to the Ship nearly every morning.
--------------------
Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind.
Posts: 3710 | From: Hay-on-Wye, town of books | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
You mean there are OTHER on-line bulletin boards and forums?
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Val Kyrie
Apprentice
# 17079
|
Posted
I'm on a Diabetes forum, where we discuss, um, diabetes.
That's fun.
Posts: 27 | From: Up North | Registered: Apr 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Og, King of Bashan
Ship's giant Amorite
# 9562
|
Posted
For Lent, I gave up my top three most visited websites: Facebook, the Ship, and Home Brew Talk, a home brewer's web forum. Related to that last one, I lurk quite a bit at Jim's Beer Kit, a UK based home brew web forum. My goal is to make the kind of real ale that you can't always find in the States, and I am particularly focusing on the small styles- Ordinary Bitter and Mild. And while you do see some discussion of those styles on the American sites, as you might expect from a web forum dominated by young American men, the discussion tends to lean heavily towards the 8% alcohol and pound after pound of hops brews. Thus the cross-pond lurking.
--------------------
"I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?" ― Walker Percy
Posts: 3259 | From: Denver, Colorado, USA | Registered: May 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
LutheranChik
Shipmate
# 9826
|
Posted
I used to cheat on SOF with Beliefnet's Christian-Christian Debate forum (actually I think initially it was in reverse), but a few crazypants/trollish individuals have managed to drive away most of the interesting participants and intelligent discussions. The thrill is gone.
Now I feel so...dirty.
[ 27. April 2012, 02:42: Message edited by: LutheranChik ]
--------------------
Simul iustus et peccator
http://www.lutheranchiklworddiary.blogspot.com
Posts: 6462 | From: rural Michigan, USA | Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
The5thMary
Shipmate
# 12953
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Val Kyrie:
I'm on a Diabetes forum, where we discuss, um, diabetes.
That's fun.
I sometimes pop in and read the posts on the American Diabetes Association message boards but get tired of just discussing every conceivable thing about diabetes. I mean, there's a regular posting of what everyone's morning blood glucose was and I think to myself, "Really? You feel the need to tell everyone what your wake-up b.g. is? Unless my morning b.g. is really low or really high, I don't care to mention it. But it's good to be able to ask questions of people who have had diabetes for a long time.
--------------------
God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
Posts: 3451 | From: Tacoma, WA USA | Registered: Aug 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
# 3216
|
Posted
I had some affairs in the past, but I'm SoF monogamous now.
--------------------
I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
Posts: 9474 | From: Brazil / Africa | Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
# 3216
|
Posted
PS It seems that SoF is cheating on me with around 17083 people ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
--------------------
I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
Posts: 9474 | From: Brazil / Africa | Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Japes
Shipmate
# 5358
|
Posted
Twitter... but even there it's with SoF folk that I cheat with!
--------------------
Blog may or may not be of any interest.
Posts: 2013 | From: Somewhere in the middle | Registered: Dec 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
# 4360
|
Posted
Apart from the Book of Face, I'm also a member of a UK-based railways board, a couple of boards related to the football team I support, and one related to my favourite webcomic.
But my combined postings to all four of them don't come near to the amount I post here.
--------------------
Hail Gallaxhar
Posts: 30100 | From: Adrift on a sea of surreality | Registered: Apr 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
crunt
Shipmate
# 1321
|
Posted
I used to two-time the Ship terribly with Dave's ESL Cafe, especially the Korean job forums. But I no longer live in Korea (as of 2012), so the Ship is getting more of my online bulletin board browsing time - though I do sometimes pop back to Dave's, just for a look...
--------------------
QUIZ: Bible
QUIZ: world religions
LTL Discussion
languagespider.com
Posts: 269 | From: Up country in the middle of Malaysia | Registered: Sep 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Unjust Stuart
Shipmate
# 13953
|
Posted
Tardiseruditorum and Adventures of the Wife In Space - two truly wonderful Doctor Who blogs.
--------------------
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation and said.
Posts: 281 | From: Hendon. Finchley. Around there. | Registered: Jul 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
# 5557
|
Posted
Haven't been there a lot lately, but hitRECord.org has been kinda fun. For me, it's only fun on the fringes. Mostly I enjoy looking at, and encouraging, other people's creative work. I would never have the energy or really the interest to keep up with the main projects there, or to try to be part of them.
--------------------
I reserve the right to change my mind.
My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
Posts: 7773 | From: Detroit | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
mark_in_manchester
not waving, but...
# 15978
|
Posted
I flirt a bit on a few technical boards, including the UK vintage radio site which also gives space to enthusiasts of other forms of obsolete electro-technical gnosticism. This link will take you to a thread which, as I type, has 199 posts on obsolete flourescent light fittings . ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I'm sure someone on the ship can share a ballast-resistor anecdote and take it past 200...
--------------------
"We are punished by our sins, not for them" - Elbert Hubbard
(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
Posts: 1596 | Registered: Oct 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
BessLane
Shipmate
# 15176
|
Posted
I lurk a bit on Beer Advocate and several hunting bulliten boards. And I have to admit I do check out one particularly unpleasant local gossip website. It is self-defense. I've learned from past experience that if nasty rumors are going to start flying about me, this site is where they start. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
--------------------
It's all on me and I won't tell it.
formerly BessHiggs
Posts: 1388 | From: Yorkville, TN | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
WhateverTheySay
Shipmate
# 16598
|
Posted
I'm on one other web forum, about mental health. But the Ship is the only place I come to discuss Christianity.
--------------------
I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going
Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011
| IP: Logged
|
|
Caissa
Shipmate
# 16710
|
Posted
I frequent 3 Canadian left-wing sites and 2 Canadian chess related sites along with Facebook and twitter.
Posts: 972 | From: Saint John, N.B. | Registered: Oct 2011
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
I am bunnywithanaxe on IMDB and bunny with an axe on TWOP... Funnily, I was just wondering if any other shipmates were on either. I am currently discussing a truly horribly made horror flick and was thinking, "I wounder what the Shipmates would make of this one?"
And I'm just putting this out there-- y'all know I am a film nerd, and if anybody wants to hunt me down on IMDB and discuss a cool film they have seen-- do it! always up for it!
[ 27. April 2012, 18:29: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
chive
Ship's nude
# 208
|
Posted
I spend a lot of time with the mentalists who contribute to this site. Intelligent discussion on mental illness and a collection of good blogs that I read.
--------------------
'Edward was the kind of man who thought there was no such thing as a lesbian, just a woman who hadn't done one-to-one Bible study with him.' Catherine Fox, Love to the Lost
Posts: 3542 | From: the cupboard under the stairs | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
# 2832
|
Posted
I'm another Television Without Pity addict. It's become so bad, these days, my choice of viewing is based on how good the conversation is on the board. I know I wouldn't be watching shows like, "The Bachelor," if I wasn't looking forward to the hilarious snark afterward.
Posts: 6817 | Registered: May 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
Heh. So there with you, Twilight. The only thing that makes "Top Model" bearable is the post-game snark. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
# 292
|
Posted
I'm monogamish... There's songwriter's board that I visit every now and then, but it's nothing serious, really... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
--------------------
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
Posts: 6114 | From: PDX | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
# 3492
|
Posted
I really don't go anywhere else with any regularity to speak of unless My Fitness Pal counts: I check in there at least twice a month.
--------------------
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
# 5557
|
Posted
I visit IMDB from time to time, Kelly, but have never registered. For me it's more of a reference site. Sometimes I do go to see what people in the discussions think of a film, either before I bother to see it, or after I see a film I'd heard good things about that I didn't like!
Someone here on the Ship (I don't remember who, just that it was from a link here) turned me on to Sporcle, and I wound up signing up there, as churchgeek. It's not really a forum, although there are comments on the quizzes.
--------------------
I reserve the right to change my mind.
My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
Posts: 7773 | From: Detroit | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
savedbyhim01
Apprentice
# 17035
|
Posted
As a sports fan, I am on hornfans and spurstalk a lot more than this forum. I used to visit the Crosswalk forums until they moved to Facebook. I almost never get on Facebook so don't bother with those anymore.
--------------------
Matthew 28:18-20
My Inductive Bible Study Notes
Posts: 31 | From: China | Registered: Apr 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Val Kyrie
Apprentice
# 17079
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
quote:
Originally posted by Val Kyrie:
I'm on a Diabetes forum, where we discuss, um, diabetes.
That's fun.
I sometimes pop in and read the posts on the American Diabetes Association message boards but get tired of just discussing every conceivable thing about diabetes. I mean, there's a regular posting of what everyone's morning blood glucose was and I think to myself, "Really? You feel the need to tell everyone what your wake-up b.g. is? Unless my morning b.g. is really low or really high, I don't care to mention it. But it's good to be able to ask questions of people who have had diabetes for a long time.
I'm on a UK site but, as you say, it's more for the health advice than the sparkling wit and conversation.
Posts: 27 | From: Up North | Registered: Apr 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
The 365 project.
I am utterly and completely hooked. I now have 3 albums and it still isn't enough. I even dream in photographs!
![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
<edited typo>
[ 28. April 2012, 10:53: Message edited by: Boogie ]
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
# 8783
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by savedbyhim01:
As a sports fan, I am on hornfans and spurstalk a lot more than this forum. I used to visit the Crosswalk forums until they moved to Facebook. I almost never get on Facebook so don't bother with those anymore.
As a Canadian hockey fan, I love to visit the forums on tsn.ca and sportsnet.com as one is expected to behave and post like a complete moron there.
They do, occasionally, blank out naughty words and comments; more or less randomly, though.
--------------------
TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
Posts: 5954 | From: Southeast of Wawa, between the beach and the hiking trail.. | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Printer-friendly view
