You know you've spent WAY too much time on FR when.....

The dark corners of my mind........... | 04/21/03 | 4mycountry

[4mycountry]

Let's face it, FR is addictive. In fact, it's probably the most addictive site on the web. But when does it become so bad that you might need to take patches to stop it from becoming your obsession? Here's when:

You know you've spent WAY too much time on FR when.....

1. Your homepage is FR.
2. When you get angry at your friend, you cry, "I'm gonna FReep you!!"
--2a. double points if you actually do.
3. You have a freerepublic t-shirt.
--3a. double points if you have a bumper sticker
--3b. triple points if you have all FR merchandise
4. The strongest curse word you know is "liberal"
--4a. double points if number two is "democrat"
--4b. triple points if number three is "Clinton"
5. You send Jim Robinson fanmail monthly.
--5a. double points if weekly.
--5b. triple points if daily.
--5c. quadruple your points if he has told you to stop.
6. You attend every freeper rally in your state.
--6a. double points if you attend rallies not in your state.
7. Your child's first word is "freep".
8. Your 4-year-old knows who Tom Dashle is.
>8a. double points if he/she calles him "Tiny Tommy".
9. You tell all your friends about freerepublic.
--9a. double points if you tell people who aren't your friends.
--9b. triple points if you tell those you don't even know at all.
10. You have more FReepmail than e-mail.
11. You have joined DU just to torment them.
12. You sign you letters, "FRegards, _______"
13. You are grooming your children to become members of FR.
--13a. double points if they say this is what they want to be when they grow up.
--13b. triple points if they have picked out screen names.
14. When you talk about "MadIvan" or "chance33_98", etc, your family knows who you mean.
15. You are guilty of 3 or more things on this post.

[4mycountry]

*beams* Thought this up myself. Feel free to add your own!!

And yes, I am guilty.

[rhombus]

Your finger hurts from pressing the refresh button.

[dirtboy]

You've spent too much time on FR when:

You yell "PING!" to your wife when you want her to come in and see what's on the TV.

You throw out the S&W tomatoes your wife brings home from the store, not realizing they're made by a different company.

You can't pull the cheese out of the dairy drawer without thinking "moose" to yourself...

[Desecrated]

You see breaking news on tv and actually think "This could be series and hugh!"

[Tijeras_Slim]

You yell ZOT! whenever you swat a bug.

[2right]

Guilty as charged!

[walden]

Proudly GUILTY!!

[Mr. K]

There's a button for that...????

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Does it count if you rarely use your computer for anything but FR?

How about if you have dificulty keeping from using HTML code even when you are using a word processor with explicit Underline, Bold, and Italics functionality?

[Eala]

You missed one:

When your home page is Slashdot to force you to see it, because you never leave FR.

[MelBelle]

Great, thanks for the laugh... this is perfect!

[My2Cents]

When you use your FR screen name on your business cards.

[Mr. K]

You miss Quiddam and Eschoir

[Lil'freeper]

You hit refresh on other websites expecting to see something new.

When discussing current event at the watercooler you say "And then so and so posts ..." and start quoting from the thread.

[Mustang]

"....Way to much time on FR when...."

One's spouse delivers divorce notification via e-mail.

Mustang sends from "Malpaso" news.

[Mr.Atos]

You understand anything in this thread!

Forgive! I'm a newbie. Lot's to learn.

[dirtboy]

When discussing current event at the watercooler you say "And then so and so posts ..." and start quoting from the thread.

Actually, I've found that it is a symptom of FR that I don't even bother discussing politics with my co-workers any more - they simply cannot debate on anything remotely resembling the level that I'm used to here.

[vollmond]

I am deeply saddened by this thread. Every painful cliche of this community will be repeated as if it were fresh humor. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these posts :).

PS - Ann Coulter is the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You forgot the most important one: You use Free Republic as your main/only source for news.

[bmwcyle]

You have seen this thread over 100x.