What's your Angle?

[MAC]

Well. What's your angle?
If you had three people in your life on a daily basis that you could truly talk to
would you be here?
Hell NO!
You'd be IRL.
Instead you're UBB.
So what makes it worth being here?
Are you an Einstein here to debate the highly complex and theoretical world around us?
Are you testing your philosophical boundrys?
Do you need to see how others tick?
Do you need the light humor and kinship of people with similar problems?
Has no one else ever offered to share your pain or joy?
You've got to have an angle or you wouldn't even have posted once.
Maybe you are looking for and anchor so your fantasies don't carry you away.

If you wanted to feel crappy or be abused and insulted, if you wanted to feel stressed to compete everyday for cliche status you'd be someplace else.
Cause that's not here.
Here you find your own place and you're welcome to it.
Like it or not you DIDN'T come here to bitch about being out of place or gripe about someone else being stupid or an asshole.
If your sitting around wondering if you add anything of "value" your probably not applying your angle to your own benefit.
So if you're doubting, just sit back and find your angle.

You don't have to be me.
I don't have to be you.

Your wasting valuable posting time.


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Don't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

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<FONT face="Trebuchet MS">I took his advice and posted.

TOP!</FONT f>

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Non sibi sed patriae


Non nobis Domine, Domine! ...Sed nomine Tuo da gloriam!

[Escape Artist]

WHy? Because more often than not, a conversation between me and three people here equals the intellectual stimulatoin of a month's worth of them with the people I know IRL. The boundaries here are a lot more open to me than what one would expect IRL..

Hell, I like it. Simple, no?

[skalie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by theMAC:
Well. What's your angle?
If you had three people in your life on a daily basis that you could truly talk to
would you be here?
Hell NO!
You'd be IRL.
Instead you're UBB.
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Negative.

IRL goes on, UBB has replaced certain old school entertainments, i.e. TV guides are a thing of the past, the videotheek does't profit from my patronage and the scrabble set hasn't seen the light of day for a while.

I must admit I miss the scrabble.

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[Kayla]

hehe i just figured out what IRL means....

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So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

[Inky]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by theMAC:
If you had three people in your life on a daily basis that you could truly talk to
would you be here?
Hell NO!
You'd be IRL.
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This is real life. Try as we might to qualify it, the internet is real and the people on the other end of these words are real too. I have friends that I can physically share space with. Funny, that... I actually spend more time talking on the telephone with people I could get in my car and in 5 minutes be sitting down with. I imagine that when the telephone was first mass-produced and became a commonplace in households, people felt the same way about it as we do now with the computer. It's not real. In some ways, this is almost moving back in time, instead of someone hearing my voice over a telephone line, they read the text I have written sent over a telephone line. Very weird, really.

If you had three people in your life on a daily basis that you could truly talk to
would you be here?
Hell NO!
You'd be IRL.

Would you? Really?

I have a question, for all you tribals that live within miles of each other. I understand that you don't often see each other? Why is this?

Why is it that Deadpool lives close by and we have never met? Or that Demi and I live nearby and have met but actually seem to prefer to spend time talking with each other on the computer than over the phone or in person?

Can we have the first Hypertribe online BBQ? Where we all pick a time and each of us actually BBQ's in our little corner of the world? We can drink some cold beer and all sit in chat and enjoy the patio lights and swat at virtual mosquitos. We can listen to music and ask each other to dance. Maybe someone will have too much too drink, or some people will be attracted to each other and pair off for the evening, maybe for awhile. At the end of the evening we will all say good night, shut down our boxes and go off to bed.

Just like the real world.

Sorry, I have no idea what your topic was at this point, it was your first words that stuck in my head and that I responded to.

Excuse my ramblings...





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[Mudflap]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by theMAC:
Well. What's your angle?

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<FONT COLOR="Orange">About 32 degrees.

Obviously I post here to be a wise ass. Once in a great while, I'll post something quasi-serious and cerebral. Once in a great while.</FONT c>

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[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

I have lots of people I can talk to IRL.. I'm actually quite a social person. Being a Mum does mean I stay home at night a lot, and I find this more interesting than melrose place or whatever crap they have on the TV. Besides, you people provide me with endless witty tales to tell my 'other' friends, and (well, mostly at the stile project actually) have been the source of a couple of articles I have written on censorship and pornography and libertarianism. I like you people. This is fun....I need another reason????

[slappy]

<font color=#ff9900>sometimes i come here for escape, or out of boredom. just like i used to when i was a teenager, watching telly all day long. blocking everything out and separating myself from the real world. but whereas i spent hours on end glued to the telly (and remember, we only have 5 channels over here) watching the same kind of drivvel day in and day out, i find that the majority of my time spent here and on the internet in general has taught me a hell of a lot. i can come here and tell people my problems and get advice that people irl wouldn't give me. i hear different stories and opinions from people all over the world. i love to learn, and i find this is a great place to learn.</font>

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[Faceplant]

my angle....


this computer is my theropy.(sp)

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Ass, gas, or grass...no free rides.

[Mr. Snrub]

I'm bored at work.

Also, I get a view of the world here i can't get from my current acquaintances. Rogue has actually managed to convert me into a bit of a libertarian. I'll have to work on the gun-toting however.

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This day, like any other day, is like no other.

[Koliedrus]

I think of this place as a mental gymnasium. When I'm not working out, I can sit back and watch the acrobatics being performed all around me. If someone is having trouble getting the hang of a particular exercise that I know something about, I can casually walk up to them and offer assistance. If one of us needs a spotter, they're abundantly available.

I always leave feeling a bit stronger than when I arrived.

It's part of my daily routine. I'm healthier for making the effort. Sure, I could work out alone but there's nothing like sharing motivation.

Just don't park in my spot. I know the owners http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/wink.gif

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Oyster-brain in a cookie jar.

[MAC]

Damn.
I don't post for 1 day and you revive 2 of my previous threads including 1 I had lost one night while Quake II was going on and I retyped later in a much nicer tone.

In retrospect that's why I post here.
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Don't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

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[Billyman]

ubb-irl-http i don't know what any of this means.

i don't know how to hyperlink or even post pics over the net.

but angle, oh yea, i got angle.

always remember, never go in unless.............

the angle of the dangle is in direct proportion with the heat of the meat!