You know you're addicted to Buffy Boards when...

[VisionGuy]

What do you think are signs of Buffy Boards addiction?

1. You keep pressing the 'new posts' button hoping somebody responded to a thread.
2. You leave BB logged in at home or work all day even if you're not at the cpu.
3. One of the first sites you check when you get on the cpu is BB.
4. You have abbreviations for some of the members. (VG, BEG, N4H)
5. You get caught up in the house wars. MERRICK RULES!
6. You spend hours on BB and accomplish nothing.
7. You start threads like this.

[Black Eye Guy]

8. You go on the Internet on your mobile/cellphone just to check BB.
9. You think about something someone said hours later and laugh about it when your out with friends.
10. You think about threads or replies to post when your in school/work.

1. You keep pressing the 'new posts' button hoping somebody responded to a thread.

Im the worst for that, it will say 0 new posts and ill still click it! lol

[Blondie Bear]

Do you think they make a patch for this? LOL.

[Cangel]

11. you confuse the forum style with your actual wallpaper, because the forum is all you've seen lately
12. you browse the forum even though you know you have something much more important to do that can't be delayed
13. you can name more users from BB than people you work/go to school with

[palabravampiress]

Guilty as charged - on, like, all counts.

*Hangs head in shame.*

I'd rep you for this cool topic, VisionGuy, but it appears as though you are the last person to whom I gave karma.


14. You have all but abandoned your previous board/fandom for the Buffy Boards... and even though you feel guilty about it, you still can't seem to click away!

[GATEGOD]

15: You've posted from your ipod..
16: You find a way to contribute to this post :silly:

[VisionGuy]

17. You've won a Buffy Award.
18. You made Mod. LOL

[Lyri]

17. You've won a Buffy Award.
18. You made Mod. LOL

yay us!! lol

19. You count certain members as close, personal friends.

[Vicariously]

20. you find yourself spending time on *clears throat* ahem Myspace doing something related to BB *wink*
21. You create graphics just to use on BB
22. You secretly hope that you will one day win an esteemed BB award :P
23. You have been a member less than a month and you find yourself talking to your friends about how cool the board is
24. You aren't ashamed at all when your friends call you a looser for posting on a buffy website and you just simply smile and say proudly "Yes I am!" LOL

[The Chosen]

25. You make your MSN screenname directly relate to BB, even though no one on your MSN knows of your Buffy love or BB.

[Tranquillity]

26. you quote the BB, complete with reference or link, on other forums you visit (which are not as good) just to try and encourage others to come here.

[SpikedBuffy]

27. Your url for your myspace account is your BB name.
28. Your sign on names for things is your BB name (and you signed up for those looooong after starting the BB)

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

cool thread :)

29. when you go away for a few days without computer access, you feel BB withdrawl
30. you've gone to the sorting tome and gotten yourself a house
31. you've adopted other members

[Tranquillity]

32. you go roaming the internet for juicy bits of information to post in spoiler and speculation threads.
33. you feel a great sense of validation when you are the first to post such information.
34. it gives you a genuine thrill when there is a karma message waiting when you sign in.

[Wanabee-slayer]

Hey I resent that! AI think we should start a support group! BBers Anonymous! I'll start!

Hi I'm Jessica, Wanabee-slayer, and I'm BBholic!

[white avenger]

35--When your minister has a sermon on Sunday morning entitled "Faith Is The Key," you mentally say, "No, Faith is the Slayer, DAWN IS THE KEY," and miss the whole sermon because of it.

[Aussie]

35--When your minister has a sermon on Sunday morning entitled "Faith Is The Key," you mentally say, "No, Faith is the Slayer, DAWN IS THE KEY," and miss the whole sermon because of it.

hahaha. Definatly what I would be thinking.... If I ever went to church :p

Yeah wannabe slayer we definatly should have a BBs annonymous.
:whistle:

[Keanoite]

36. When you have only been here 3 months and alredy have over 2000 posts :blush:

[Faith]

37. You travel to another country to meet your friends from the boards.

38. You are up to insane o'clock in the morning online

39. You stilll laugh at the inside jokes on MSN about the crazy times that you had together

[~angelic slayer~]

Awesome thread! SO true! Lol have to hang my head in shame as well, I do way too many of these things.

40. You are a member of BB, BB on myspace, BB on facebook...
41. You end up staying awake half the night doing the things you were SUPPOSED to do, but came on BB instead ;)
42. You took the day off work to see the Buffies.... or pouted all the way through your shift wondering what was happening

[Blondie Bear]

43. The boards go down for a few minutes and you're all "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

[Black Eye Guy]

44. "www.buffy-boards.com" was the first full line of text you could fully touch type because your so used to typing it.
45. You were kinda excited to get home today to see what other funny stuff people have posted in this thread.
46. You know the short codes for the smilies (like you could just type in : nibble6 : properly to get: :nibble6:)

[GATEGOD]

47. You are logged onto the boards for nearly 72 hours or more a week!
48. You come here and want to talk about other shows because you no longer visit that many other boards!
49. You are on Buffy-Boards while you watch t.v. and while you listen to music and while you...

[Black Eye Guy]

Spirit_Of_Fred agrees: wow. i just tried, and i can touch type it! :) lol, im addicted! :P
lol, I did it the first time by mistake, I began typing 'www'. and someone asked me a question and I looked away but continued typing, and looked back and I had filled out the address!

50. When logging on is part of your Wind down ritual before bed, I always check the boards while im in bed right before I actually properly go to bed. Even if I come back from a night out I could be drunk and I still would come on and have a look through (Not always though, sometimes it's come home and fall into bed)

51. When you like to sit on the 'Who's online' page after you've posted a thread to see who's taking a look.

[Harm's Way]

52. Once you've realized someone has replied to your thread (which you anxiously waited for) you are as excited
as a little child on christmas morning. ...or hanukkah morning....sorry willow. :nod:

[Black Eye Guy]

53 - You get home, check the boards then fall asleep for a few hours wake up and think Oh cool there'll be some new posts on BB

[TabulaRasa]

54. When you come to Bb and see there are 233 new posts in 3 minutes and you think...'that's it?'

teehee

[Bangelxx]

55-Sometimes when you're talking to your friends at work/school you say "yeah, keanoite/TabulaRasa/wiccianslayer etc told me that!!"

and i have to add another
56- everywhere you go you see references to Buffy or you remember something that a Buffy-Boarder once said to you. Then you start laughing.

[Keanoite]

57. When you get the early bus to work just so you can check in on BB before your day begins

[palabravampiress]

58. When you start teaching yourself how to use GIMP just so that you can create fanart to use on Buffy Boards.

[The Chosen]

59. When you're emotionally torn between hanging out with friends or being at the BB Awards.

[Bangelxx]

Heres a load more reasons! last night i couldn't sleep cuz i kept coming up with more and more!

60.You think "Buffy Summers" is an all-powerful goddess of greatness!
61.You get SO MAD when your character in BtVS survivor dies! *cough* Social Suicide *cough* Joyce Summers
62. You spend FOREVER choosing the perfect av for the "rate that avatar" thread
63. You write "DROGYN PRIDE" or whatever house your in all over your school books
64.You stay up late thinking of more of these reasons
65. You have nightmares about being kicked off BB
66.If you suddenly get a trip to a holiday spot, all you can think about it "But, I'm gonna miss stuff on BB!"
67.You write "BUFFY BOARDS AWARDS CEREMONY!" on all your calendars
68.You write your BB buddies birthdays on every calendar!
69.On the bus/car ride home you listen to OMWF on your iPod and think of good thread ideas!
70. You confide in your BB buddies:)

[Amber Benson]

71. You get annoyed at the manditory wait of 30 seconds between clicking.
72. You literally cry when you're reading old threads from 2 years ago.
73. You plan a trip around the world just to meet people you've never seen before and probably don't know their REAL first names... and are confused when your RL friends look at you funny... and make you complete your Will :)



That's all for now ;)

[Dlou444]

Sadly, I have some....

74.) You drive around running errands wishing you could call members on the phone because you feel like you're missing out on conversations.
75.) Your husband comes home and instead of asking what happened in your life he asks if there are any interesting discussions on the BB to debate about.
76.) You've only EVER closed the BB window when the computer crashes. (I think I've only signed in the first time!)
77.) Your kids are so used to seeing the BB screen up when you're supposed to be working they say, "Oh, you're working".
78.) You put down the comic and RUN to the computer because now you can read the comments about it without worrying about Spoilers!

[The Chosen]

79. You find yourself hoping Heaven has a BB.

Edit
Keanoite agrees: sometimes you are just the cutest little dumbass!

Hehe! Thanks! :D

[Keanoite]

80. When you book your trip to Paris with having access to BB as one of your main criteria when choosing a hotel.

[Lyri]

81. When you're sitting in a room with Vincent Kartheiser, Juliet Landau and Jonathan M. Woodward, and you're wondering how the Buffies are going! :lmao: I'm obsessed!!

[~angelic slayer~]

82. You have actually tried to load BB on that TINY little screen of your cell phone... and then become angry when your phone says that the page is too large to view! :silly:

[Hello Cutie]

83) When you get to uni at 9am with the intention to go to your lectures/seminars, only to look at the time and realise you've missed them all because you've been in the library on the computers, doing alot of the previous numbers!
84) When you've only been a member 3days and you're doing number 35!

Edit:

oops sorry... see im not with it... its cuz im supposed to be in a seminar!!!

[Buffy obsessed fan]

83. Everytime your posts reaches the next 100/1000 you get really excited
[My posts just reached 800 and I squealed so loudly my Mum wondered what was wrong :p]
84. When someone disagrees with you, you automatically find yourself saying 'People on the BB would agree!' and when they look at you like you're crazy, you walk away, laughing.
85. When you're sat listening to a teacher talking, when someone says something in mono-tone, and they say 'Once more, with feeling' you find yourself singing 'Walk through the fire' for the rest of the day
[I admit that happened to me a few weeks ago :lmao:]

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

87. when a thread you like has been inactive for a while (long or little), you post there just in hopes that you will get more replies to it :)

[The Chosen]

88. When you get so used to the reputation comments and you've grown to love them and find them so handy that you get extremely mad at other boards for not having it as a feature.

[Keanoite]

Buffy Summers agrees: Chiquita, that's a little bit sad, even for me lol

Believe me I know...I've sought perfessional help:D

[Crazy Flakes]

Time to revive this thread!

89. You crack up every time someone mentions Jimmy Choos, then everyone just stares blankly at you.
90. When you've had a bad day and you long on to Buffy Boards to see that you have any new rep comments, your day is all better.
91. You feel genuinely sad and insulted when you receive negative rep.
92. You constantly urge your friends to go to Buffy Boards, even though they've never even seen the show.

[Lyri]

93. When you're sitting here at 2am reading the latest replies, even though you know you have to be at work in the morning!

[littlewilly]

94. when you feel wrong for being on buffy boards hour after hour after hour, day after day, week after week. should i not be doing something more productive with my time?

[JCC]

95. When your nightmares consist of being chased by a big red negative rep box.

[Cangel]

96. When you think posting on BB is a valid sleep replacement.
97. When your real life (Buffy-hating) friends sign up here, because that's the only way to keep in touch with you.

[Aethra]

98. When your friend invites you to stay the night at her house and you think, "Why not, BB is down, I've nothing better to do!"

[caitaintdead]

99. When I turn on the laptop, furrow my brow, look disappointed, turn it off again and everyone in my household goes "awww... Buffy Boards down?"

[SC7 Fan]

100. When you get detention for not doing your homework because you've been on buffy-boards instead of doing your homework.

[Cangel]

101. When something happens to you that disrupts you life a bit and the first thing to cross your mind is 'I have to inform BB so they know I haven't abandoned them'

[SC7 Fan]

102. You know you should come off BB and do something else instead but you just don't want to

[Bluebird]

104. Staying on the boards so long you end up late for work, even though you start at 1pm everyday!

[Keanoite]

105. You know you are addicted to BB when you come up wacky ideas like getting Buffy-Board merchandise and then actually do it!

[Cangel]

106. When you buy all of this #105 BB merchandise

[TheHeartist]

107. When other members use abbrieviations for other members i.e. BEG, N4H, TC, e.t.c. and without reading the rest of the thread, you know exactly who they mean straight away.

[Aethra]

108. When you constantly have to keep rewinding your DVDs because you were paying to much attention to the newest posts that you kept missing plot points, and you keep on playing DVDs while on BB because you're just too stubborn to admit that you're THAT addicted.

[Bluebird]

109. When you have just had this conversation -

'Is that your computer on?'
'Yeah'
'Is that the first thing you do when you wake up?'
'Yeah'
'That Buffy Forum? Why?'
'Cos...cos...I just have to!'

[Joyce Summers]

110. When your husband/'insert other appropriate partner title here' sighs in the middle of a phone call and says 'You're on Buffy-Boards again aren't you?'.

[randiann]

111: When you compulsively check this thread for updates to see if any of the above apply to you!

By the way....I want BB merchandise! That'd be awesome. Where can one procure said merchandise?

[Dlou444]

112: When it gets late and the boards are almost empty and you find yourself looking up time zones for other countries to figure out when people might be returning and thinking, "It's almost NOON there! Where IS (insert random names here)"

Edit:

I don't do that. You're insane. And I'm in YOUR time zone!

Yes, I DO always feel stupid when I look YOU up three times a day!:kiss:

[Aethra]

113: When you're constantly running out the door while pulling on socks and shoes, because yet again, you casually glanced at the clock while checking the new posts and realized you had to be at work in ten minutes.

[Blondie Bear]

114. (To go along with 113) You put off your evening ritual (showering, tooth brushing, changing, etc.) to read posts . . . for 3 hours.
115. You browse blogs and news sites and junk just for something to do while you're waiting for someone to post.

[~angelic slayer~]

116. BB knows more about what's going on in your life than your offline friends.
117. Your jaw drops and your eyes threaten to buldge out of your head when you see the much-hated "No Unread Posts [since your last visit]". Then promptly re-load and yell at the monitor-- there must be some mistake!

[Bluebird]

118. When you're still on the boards, it's 4am and you know you have other things to do, like for example, sleep hehe.

[InLoveWithBuffy]

119. You have shortcut for BB in your desktop and it opens everytime you open your computer

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

120. you go to your friend's house and dominate their computer for hours, utterly ignoring them, just to visit BB while your computer isnt working.

[InLoveWithBuffy]

121. You see dreams about other members of BB

[Bluebird]

122. When you're still lying in your pyjama's at 3.30pm and not moved from the computer since waking up:whistle:

[SC7 Fan]

123. Your mates come round to see you and they see you're on BB. You tell them your busy and they decide they're going to go back home because they know you are going to be busy for a long while.

[Dlou444]

124: People come to you with news stories and your answer is, "Oh yes, I read about that on the Buffy Boards....here's what they had to say."
(My Aunt is about to have me committed for that one!)

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

125. when you keep refreshing the front page just to see which random quote will be generated next! :D
126. when you play a game trying to guess which random quote will be generated next before you hit 'refresh'

(i dont know if anyone would actually do 126, but i think it would be a true sign of obsession...especially if you get it right a lot! :p)

[littlewilly]

127: i want to go to bed right now. Right now. But i cant. seriously. i actually cant.

[Lyri]

126. when you play a game trying to guess which random quote will be generated next before you hit 'refresh'


128. When you actually play this game, but only to guess when one of your quotes will be generated.

[InsaneMystic]

129. When you have a fake wake-up inside a Buffyverse-related dream, and while still dreaming the first thing on your mind is "I've got to tell the guys on BB about this one!"

[Bluebird]

130. When you're at your friend's house and she's on the boards, posting away and you can't - and it makes you so jealous! :lmao:

[Aethra]

131. When you're a bit upset you can't come up with a new reason that you're addicted.

[Blondie Bear]

132. When the biggest reason you're mad that TFAW hasn't shipped your newest Buffy comic yet is that you're missing all the discussion on BB.

[InLoveWithBuffy]

133. When you don't get sleep at night, you will start thinking about [insert random name here]'s todays posts.

[KhaoticLove]

134. When you cant stop yourself from ditching friends just to hangout on BB.
135. When you wake up with your head on your keyboard and notice your late for something important because you were on BB all night long and didn't even get an hour of sleep.
136. When you'd rather be on BB than hanging out with your boyfriend.[yes boyfriend its true, sorry.]

[Blondie Bear]

Maybe not Buffy Boards, but you know you're addicted to Buffy when you use the episodes as a relaxing concentration exercise to go to sleep--and get annoyed because you realize that you haven't actually memorized "Welcome to the Hellmouth."

[MSchett]

137. When you shut off the computer get into bed, only to get back on 5 minutes later to check for a new post.

[LorneyTunes]

138- when you wear a buffy tshirt and watch buffy then go on the buffy boards and use you buffy mouse mat x

[MozYa]

139. When you agree to stay at a friends house with the stipulation your allowed to use there comp to come on BB.

(Currently doing)

[NightBird]

194. When people in your house say 'Did you see BB last night?' and you think Buffy their thinking Big brother and then you run to the boards remembering your not there already.

[Bangelxx]

195: when you have dreams about other BB members but some of them look like their avs:p

(my dream last night!)

[SC7 Fan]

196. When you feel bad about not being able to come on for more than 2 days. I'm gunna feel really bad soon cause I'm going on holiday for a week. I'll miss you all! How am I gunna get through a whole week without being able to come on here!

[InsaneMystic]

197. When you wake up after four hours sleep, after having forced yourself to bed away from BB at three AM almost napping in at your PC, and seeing you're unable to fall back asleep after 5 minutes you think "Ah well, I can just check on new posts and then try sleeping on".

[Lily]

198. When you make friends with the IT guy at your new job so you can convince him to unblock BB, because 10 hours without it is too long (it helps that it always means they turned out to be a Buffy fan!)

[Fake Shemp]

199. When its lunchtime so you get on BB and you're eating a sandwich with one hand and typing with the other because you cant be on for long (major poutyness)

[Blondie Bear]

200. When you check the BB after waking up in the morning and go "Only 70 new posts?! What have you guys been DOING all night?!"

[InLoveWithBuffy]

201. When you notice that you have fallen to love with other member at bb, even if you don't know what he/she looks like and you are hoping to be older so you can marry he/she.

[Buffy obsessed fan]

202. When you read through this thread and think 'We're only up to 202?!'
203. You look at people in the street thinking 'I wonder if they're secretly from the BB...'
204. When you can finally do something you've wanted to do for a long time, you're to engrossed in a BB thread to actually do it.
205. You sit for hours skipping through Buffy episodes just so you can find scenes mentioned in topics that you don't remember.

[randiann]

206: When you are freaking out because you realize reasons 140-193 have "disappeared" and you must know if they apply to you or not....
207: You risk getting in trouble at work just to post on BB

[Joyce Summers]

208. When going to stay with a friend for a little while, one of your first thoughts is if they will lend you their laptop so you can check on BB.

[Fake Shemp]

209. when you read 'buffy obsessed fan''s reasons and then go back to see who couldn't count in this game (nightbird im looking at you)

[Crazy Flakes]

210. When you buy an iPhone, and the first thing you do is go onto Buffy-Boards in Safari...then, you wind up spending more than an hour on there before you even think about checking out the other features.

[Aethra]

211. When you become increasingly upset when you go a whole six days without any rep comments, and you begin to wonder what it is you've done wrong.

[Bluebird]

212. When the boards go down, you get a bit lost thinking - 'What will I use my computer for now?' since every minute that you're on your computer is dedicated to BB.:lmao:

[InLoveWithBuffy]

213. When you are going away for 5days, you just wonder how you can survive without BB.

(This is happening to me now, i'm going away till friday):(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

[Aethra]

(I don't want to do the math to get us back on track right now, sorry)
214. When more than half of your browser's frequently visited pages are BB threads.
215. When you can guess which post of yours got the newest rep points before viewing it.
216. When you have several pages open at once for maximum postage.
217. When you get seriously annoyed at the "This forum requires a 30 second wait between posts. Please wait x seconds" message (or whatever it says)

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

218. when you spend hours posting back and forth just to win buffy/angel survivor ;)

[Bluebird]

219. When you've been logged in for about 14 straight hours and you think you've started to lose your mind. :lol2:

[KhaoticLove]

220: When you dream about posting on BB
221: When you ditch family stuff because youd rather be on BB.
222: You post a quote everyday on BB
223: When you have BB as your home page.

[Aethra]

224. When you're talking to your friend online, and after a few minutes of silence she says "are you on your Buffy boards or something?" (copy/pasted that!)

[Dlou444]

225. When you're standing at Walmart thinking you should go look at the DVDs because you haven't been able to post in the "What's The Last DVD You Bought" thread in a LONG time....at LEAST a week!

[Aethra]

226. When people start threatening you with negative karma (*whistles* Kinslayer...), and it WORKS.

[Black Eye Guy]

227. When you just sign up to the boards and you are pissed that you missed out on previous years of having it! (I remember signing up and being pissed I'd missed so much fun stuff!)

[Ripper 08]

don't no if it's already been said but i'm going away on holiday soon and will have no internet conection for 2 whole weeks,i'm new to the boards and already panicing over mising 2 weeks of buffy boards

228.going on holiday with no chance to buffy-board for sometime(days or weeks lol)

[SC7 Fan]

229. When talking to mates on MSN and they ask what you're doing and you tell them that you're on BB. Their reply is " I should've known you'd be on that"

[Rebecca]

230. When you're going on holiday and you will only book hotels with free wireless internet connection so you can access Buffy Boards

[DarklyDreamingDrusilla]

231: When your family knows some of the members User Names on BB because you talk about them sometimes.

[SC7 Fan]

232. When your brother keeps moaning about not being able to go on the computer because you're always on BB.

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

233. when one of the worst parts of being sick is that you feel too weak to get up, go to your computer, and visit BB.

[~angelic slayer~]

234. When you join another forum and are immediately horrified by some of the vast differences between it and BB. Then immediately scurry back to the comforting url of buffy-boards.com :)

(No banners? No personal art threads? No Vahla Ha'nesh? No VisionGuy?? Really, there's only one place to be!)

[The Kinslayer]

Let´s not cheat people. We´re really on 180 since someone had trouble with the numbers.

180. Then you´re considering staying up all night refreshing Survivor: Buffy Boards Members (http://www.buffy-boards.com/showthread.php?t=39584) just to see if you´ll survive.

[InsaneMystic]

181. When you actually try to figure in the last votes for your Board Member Survivor posts, even though you know there's no chance on earth the tally will be right due to all the simultaneous triple posts - but you couldn't bear wrong numbers on something THAT important.

[Crazy Flakes]

182. When the boards go down for about five minutes and you begin to experience a terrible thing called BB withdrawal.

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

183. when you're scared to visit any BB threads except survivor until everyone goes to bed or to elsewhere because you're afraid your person/place/etc. will die.

Edit:

184. when you see a quote at the top of the front page, and it says it was said by "Buffy Summers", and you think it was a quote from our administrator before realizing who's its really from :p.

*crosses fingers* pleasemergepostspleasemergepostspleasemergeposts :silly:

EDIT:

yay! crossing fingers worked!

[Cangel]

185. When you're living a life altering moment and all you can think about is 'Hmm, I gotta tell the people at BB about this'

[untouched]

186. When you've copied all the reasons of "You know you're addicted to Buffy Boards when..." and made it your Bible.

[VisionGuy]

187. When you consider typing all these up so that all the BB members can have a copy and put it on their wall. :blush:

[SC7 Fan]

188. You keep refreshing the thread What do you think of when you hear the word......? because you thought of something really good to post but nobody will post the word you need.

[Aleris]

189. You used to stalk people on Facebook, but now when you have nothing better to do you lurk around here finding something to talk about.

[Dlou444]

^
THE BUFFY BOARDS!
Reforming Stalkers Since
(uh....when was it 2002?)

[wiccianslayer]

190 - Your talking to a Friend on Yahoo instant messengar and then you put the window down to look ata thread and get so engrossed in the thread you forget all about the friend and leave her/him hanging for a few minutes.

[Dlou444]

191. You're actively TRYING to log out and it WON'T LET YOU!
Go ahead....TRY and log out people! It doesn't work! ACK!

[Aleris]

192. You don't ever logout. Nor do you ever try!

:P

[Dlou444]

193.) When you stay up ALL NIGHT (with a partner in crime....*NUDGE*) giving other members a make over and you're having SO much fun you can't wait for them to see it!

[Aethra]

194. When your previously-resistant-to-Buffy irl friends consider watching the show, just so they can join BB, because you talk about it SO much.

[MozYa]

195. When your best friend thinks something is wrong because you haven't messaged him much on MSN and when he asks is something wrong and you reply no he goes, your on Buffy Boards aren't you.

[Bluebird]

196. When BB has taken over your life so much that it makes you late for work every single day..:blush:
197. You daydream about BB in work.
198. When your real life BB friend(LorneyTunes) phones you while she's away for a few days and the first thing you say to her is 'I've got to tell you what happened on the boards...'

[Cangel]

199. When you spend more consideration on your avatar on the Boards than your daily outfit.
200. When you in company of other people mumble something about 'something important to do' and everyone goes 'oh, Buffy Boards?'

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

194. When your previously-resistant-to-Buffy irl friends consider watching the show, just so they can join BB, because you talk about it SO much.

^you reminded me of something i considered:

201. when you consider asking other non-buffy-fan friends to join BB just because you get to talk to BB-people much more than them :p.

[~angelic slayer~]

202. You actually get grouchy with your friends because something funny happened on BB and despite you itching to talk to someone about it, it would take far too long to explain to them (the anti-BBers).

[InLoveWithBuffy]

203. You're sad on vacation because you can't be on BB

[Dlou444]

204. You have dreams (nightmares) about the Sorting Tome and what it may or may not decide to do!

Edit:

Let me just say, dreaming you're in a HUGE red room where this magical entity is deciding important things about your life and then waking up to realize what you were dreaming about is REALLY disturbing!

[Angel's _Bud]

1.You keep pressing 'new posts' button hoping someone will respond to a thread.
8.You go on the internet on your mobile/cellphone just to check BB.

[NightBird]

205. When you feel a moral and social obligation to visit BB every day and feel 'wrong' when you don't.

[cookie of spike]

you know you're addicted when on your first day you spend 6 hrs even though you don't know what the heck you are doing and keep asking your friends about this and that only to find out yourself...sorry Crzy Flakes/Yam sham/ Kinslayer/ Blondie Bear

[Blondie Bear]

207. When you put your computer away so you can do the nightly get-ready-for-bed routine and halfway through it you HAVE TO get the computer back out and check to make sure nothing cool happened on the Boards in the last 15 minutes.

[Cangel]

208. When you've gone a whole day without posting (for whatever crazy reason) and start feeling guilty about that.

[Aethra]

209. When you start to measure the amount of sleep you got the previous night not in hours, but in the number of new posts there are when you wake up.

[MozYa]

210. You go out to a house party and see they have a comp with internet access and can only resist the urge to stay away from Buffy Boards for 10 minutes.

Oh yeah, you know I'm doing that right now.

[untouched]

211. When you already forgot your password 'cause you never even logged out.

[DarkAvenger]

203. You're sad on vacation because you can't be on BB

Right, I'm going to Algarve tomorrow morning and i'm staying there for 2 weeks and a few days! and i'm really sad cause i wont be able to come here! :( I'm going to miss you guys :'(

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

212. when you think the day of The Buffies should be a national holiday

[Bluebird]

213. When you say goodnight thinking you're going to go offline but you can't actualy do it. That's right - it's nearly 4am here.

[MozYa]

214. When you have an argument with a friends for disconnecting the internet whilst your on BB at a party.

I was well annoyed since she did it like right after I posted that I was on here at a party.

[Bluebird]

215. When your wireless connection is being temperamental so you end up sitting on the floor in the hallway with your laptop so you can be on BB.:lol2:

[The Kinslayer]

216. Then you´re making a bb "soundtrack" with songs that makes you think of specifik members.

[DrusillaRox]

217. When you're sick, you spend all day on bb starting from 730 and going till 930
218. You feel guilty when you're off bb for more that 6 hours
219. You havent done any actual work in about a week because your favourite rp is on

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

220. you calculate how long it will take a member to reach a million posts :D.

[MSchett]

221. When you spend an hour thinking of a good user title quote when you have something else that needs to be done.

[~angelic slayer~]

222. Most of your days off are spent painstakingly matching your avatar to your signature.
223. You spend hours refreshing the "Bag Eggs" forum in hopes of gaining a new adoptee (and still lose out to someone else ;))

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

224. you marvel at the fact that it took a whole seven days for someone to come up with more reasons!

[SpoonsAreCool]

225. You think "I can probably go to sleep infront of the screen with my eyes open if I really tried, can't be that hard"

:lurking:

[Blackloliita]

226. When you're counting how old you'll be when it has its 10 years old birthday (18/19 years btw :D)

[Lyri]

227: When you plan on being here for the 10th birthday.

[punkypower]

228. When you've managed to procrastinate with friends IRL about getting MSN for years, and now REALLY want to download it so you can chat even more with your BB buddies. :Þ

[Crazy Flakes]

229. When you see buttons in people's sigs that say "Every night, a strange Swede tells me when to go to bed," not only does it make perfect sense, but you know exactly who that Swede is even though no one told you.

230. You are terrified for school to start because you fear that you won't be able to keep up with BB.

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

231. you stay up all night memorizing the FAQ to be a perfect and knowledgable board member :).

[DarkAvenger]

232. when you look at something and you relate it to buffy. eg. my sister was playing gta and i looked to the screen of her pc and i read "buying SMG blablabla" (i think that is supposed to be an item name or something lol) and after reading that i thought: Sarah michelle gellar!!

[Aleris]

233. When you've contemplated reading or posting to BB from your iPhone at Uni, when you're in a dull class/lecture.

(Next step ... ACTUALLY post from iPhone ... :D)

[pernilleborup]

234. When you skipped class, to mooch on the library computers just so you can get on BB!


(And the y said drugs were bad for us? BB is like THE most addictive thing)

[MozYa]

235. When your family asks you how you can be more excited about becoming NMotM than going on holiday or your 18th birthday.

[Aethra]

236. When you wish your irl dorm had a cool name like BB's (these ones are so laaaaame)

[Cangel]

237. When, while doing your psychology studies, you already think about how you could work your newly gained information and insight into BB threads to give better answers and explain some Buffy phenomena.

[untouched]

110. When your husband/'insert other appropriate partner title here' sighs in the middle of a phone call and says 'You're on Buffy-Boards again aren't you?'.

This just LITTERALY happened to me RIGHT NOW !
It was so creepy 'cause I remembered of this and I had to come here and tell you !

[MSchett]

238. When you wake up in front of the computer... with BB still on!

[DarkAvenger]

239. when your mother cuts off the electricity (of the house) because it's late and you're still here (yeah, that happened last night...) :mad30:

[untouched]

239. when your mother cuts off the electricity (of the house) because it's late and you're still here (yeah, that happened last night...) :mad30:

L00L and I know it

furious mom attack xD

[The Kinslayer]

240. Then you actually do the math to find out your vm-average since you got you first one, and realizes that it´s more than 10/day. (Some people really needs to get msn!! ;))

[pernilleborup]

241. When your internet shuts down, and you start screaming at the screen, and then break down crying

[Dlou444]

241b. When your internet goes down AND then there are thunderstorms and you just stop your life and go to bed early because the depression and misery of all your missing is causing you to want to leap off the roof.
Then you wake up feeling all hung over and miserable like you're going through drug-rehab withdrawals!

[Blackloliita]

242 When you're so tired of being on IRC-chat or BB that you just fell asleep without putting your pyjamas on.

[pernilleborup]

243 When the computer is broke, and after 2 days with no BB, you get abstinenses

[Blackloliita]

244 When you're talking about stuff with your friends, and you think in yourself: oh that's a good thing to ask in the Drogyn thread :p.

[pernilleborup]

145 When you are sitting in a class doing a very important test, and all you think about is: I need to get back on BB...education my ass

[Dlou444]

146. When you've been playing in the IRC chat all day and then you're sister calls and you're so giggly that you keep calling her "lame" and suggesting that she drop an anvil on her bosses head.
And you end up looking like a crack addict freak who can't stop laughing at her very serious story.

[Aussie]

When you have been on BB and IRC chat for over 24 hours, C'mon - that is commitment! (or insanity, take your pick)

[Blackloliita]

148 When you are trying like hole time you are in chat to make "certain people" speak english... :)

[Cangel]

249. When you plan to build a BB town with the dorms and all the members on The Sims.

[pernilleborup]

250 When you keep trying to find reasons to how you know you're addicted to BB, just so you can post it in this thread.

[DarkAvenger]

^lol

251 When BB is your "home page" ;)

[Melon]

...You keep coming back?!!! lol

[pernilleborup]

252 (I believe Melon's suggest' already is there) :

DAMMIT!

[Melon]

^^ ^^^ AND............

EDIT - Oh. I also think your's has already been said too.

[DarkAvenger]

253. when you keep saying to your sister/friends/etc how awesome BB is!

[freakydorky]

254. You find yourself crawling back for more after nearly 1 year MIA

[pernilleborup]

255: When you kee trying to make your mother understand how awsome BB is. (so far... no succes)

[untouched]

I know this is going to sound VERY weird but here I go:
256. When you really want to go to the bathroom but you just can't because you're so into our games and such :D

[SC7 Fan]

257. When you internet connection goes down and you try for about 2 or 3 hours a day to try and get on BB. It worked! It's back!

[pernilleborup]

258: When you look at the clock and goes "What the--It's evening already?"

[DarkAvenger]

^that happens to me everyday!!

259. When you're thinking about what you're going to do for your next signature when you're not here in BB.

[pernilleborup]

260: When you bless the internet for letting you go on BB

[Blondie Bear]

261: When something happens that pisses you off really bad and the second (after the husband) group of people you think to share it with are the BB. (But then have to remind yourself that not everyone else is going to care, hence you don't post about it.)

[freakydorky]

262. You remember the Great Deletion of '06

Edit:

In February of 2006 a great deal of BB members visited the boards to discover that their accounts had been deleted. It caused a great deal of confusion and anger... especially on my part. A couple months later.. this post came out and I encourage all of you to read it.
http://buffy-boards.com/showthread.php?t=24333

[Lily]

^ i remember, i was so RELIEVED that i wasn't deleted :D

[DrusillaRox]

263. you see people as theire avatars
264. You get freaked out when girls use male avatars and when guys use female avatars
265. You plan to make a checklist and do everything on this list by tomorrow
266. You feel guilty for not contributing enough
267. You make tons of banners eveny though you dont know how to put them up

[RestInPeace]

268) When you spend time on your holidays logging on. :lmao:

[hannahfngrl26]

269.)When you dont go on for two days and your ship lost because you were gone and you get really angry and start hating all those teenagers that love spike so much :) Just kidding, I know it is not only teenagers that love him so.

[pernilleborup]

270. When you think of BB and get a warm feeling inside...


271. When you bring your computer flowers, for giving you the opputunity to get on BB

[~angelic slayer~]

272: You post both your home screen AND your work screen in the "Post Your Desktop" thread ;)

[SC7 Fan]

273. When you actually want to stay in class just to go on BB.

[Fake Shemp]

274. your response to "lecturer is in hospital so class in cancelled" is yay ive got three hours till ive got another lecture so i can go on BB

[NIX]

What do you think are signs of Buffy Boards addiction?

1. You keep pressing the 'new posts' button hoping somebody responded to a thread.
2. You leave BB logged in at home or work all day even if you're not at the cpu.
3. One of the first sites you check when you get on the cpu is BB.
4. You have abbreviations for some of the members. (VG, BEG, N4H)
5. You get caught up in the house wars. MERRICK RULES!
6. You spend hours on BB and accomplish nothing.
7. You start threads like this.
8. You go on the Internet on your mobile/cellphone just to check BB.
9. You think about something someone said hours later and laugh about it when your out with friends.
10. You think about threads or replies to post when your in school/work.
11. you confuse the forum style with your actual wallpaper, because the forum is all you've seen lately
12. you browse the forum even though you know you have something much more important to do that can't be delayed
13. you can name more users from BB than people you work/go to school with
14. You have all but abandoned your previous board/fandom for the Buffy Boards... and even though you feel guilty about it, you still can't seem to click away!
15: You've posted from your ipod..
16: You find a way to contribute to this post
17. You've won a Buffy Award.
18. You made Mod. LOL
19. You count certain members as close, personal friends.
20. you find yourself spending time on *clears throat* ahem Myspace doing something related to BB *wink*
21. You create graphics just to use on BB
22. You secretly hope that you will one day win an esteemed BB award :P
23. You have been a member less than a month and you find yourself talking to your friends about how cool the board is
24. You aren't ashamed at all when your friends call you a looser for posting on a buffy website and you just simply smile and say proudly "Yes I am!" LOL
25. You make your MSN screenname directly relate to BB, even though no one on your MSN knows of your Buffy love or BB.
26. you quote the BB, complete with reference or link, on other forums you visit (which are not as good) just to try and encourage others to come here.
27. Your url for your myspace account is your BB name.
28. Your sign on names for things is your BB name (and you signed up for those looooong after starting the BB)
29. when you go away for a few days without computer access, you feel BB withdrawl
30. you've gone to the sorting tome and gotten yourself a house
31. you've adopted other members
32. you go roaming the internet for juicy bits of information to post in spoiler and speculation threads.
33. you feel a great sense of validation when you are the first to post such information.
34. it gives you a genuine thrill when there is a karma message waiting when you sign in.
35--When your minister has a sermon on Sunday morning entitled "Faith Is The Key," you mentally say, "No, Faith is the Slayer, DAWN IS THE KEY," and miss the whole sermon because of it.
36. When you have only been here 3 months and alredy have over 2000 posts
37. You travel to another country to meet your friends from the boards.
38. You are up to insane o'clock in the morning online
39. You stilll laugh at the inside jokes on MSN about the crazy times that you had together
40. You are a member of BB, BB on myspace, BB on facebook...
41. You end up staying awake half the night doing the things you were SUPPOSED to do, but came on BB instead
42. You took the day off work to see the Buffies.... or pouted all the way through your shift wondering what was happening
43. The boards go down for a few minutes and you're all "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
44. "www.buffy-boards.com" was the first full line of text you could fully touch type because your so used to typing it.
45. You were kinda excited to get home today to see what other funny stuff people have posted in this thread.
46. You know the short codes for the smilies (like you could just type in : nibble6 : properly to get: )
47. You are logged onto the boards for nearly 72 hours or more a week!
48. You come here and want to talk about other shows because you no longer visit that many other boards!
49. You are on Buffy-Boards while you watch t.v. and while you listen to music and while you...
50. When logging on is part of your Wind down ritual before bed, I always check the boards while im in bed right before I actually properly go to bed. Even if I come back from a night out I could be drunk and I still would come on and have a look through (Not always though, sometimes it's come home and fall into bed)
51. When you like to sit on the 'Who's online' page after you've posted a thread to see who's taking a look.
52. Once you've realized someone has replied to your thread (which you anxiously waited for) you are as excited
as a little child on christmas morning. ...or hanukkah morning....sorry willow.
53 - You get home, check the boards then fall asleep for a few hours wake up and think Oh cool there'll be some new posts on BB
54. When you come to Bb and see there are 233 new posts in 3 minutes and you think...'that's it?'
55-Sometimes when you're talking to your friends at work/school you say "yeah, keanoite/TabulaRasa/wiccianslayer etc told me that!!"
56- everywhere you go you see references to Buffy or you remember something that a Buffy-Boarder once said to you. Then you start laughing.
57. When you get the early bus to work just so you can check in on BB before your day begins
58. When you start teaching yourself how to use GIMP just so that you can create fanart to use on Buffy Boards.
59. When you're emotionally torn between hanging out with friends or being at the BB Awards.
60.You think "Buffy Summers" is an all-powerful goddess of greatness!
61.You get SO MAD when your character in BtVS survivor dies! *cough* Social Suicide *cough* Joyce Summers
62. You spend FOREVER choosing the perfect av for the "rate that avatar" thread
63. You write "DROGYN PRIDE" or whatever house your in all over your school books
64.You stay up late thinking of more of these reasons
65. You have nightmares about being kicked off BB
66.If you suddenly get a trip to a holiday spot, all you can think about it "But, I'm gonna miss stuff on BB!"
67.You write "BUFFY BOARDS AWARDS CEREMONY!" on all your calendars
68.You write your BB buddies birthdays on every calendar!
69.On the bus/car ride home you listen to OMWF on your iPod and think of good thread ideas!
70. You confide in your BB buddies
71. You get annoyed at the manditory wait of 30 seconds between clicking.
72. You literally cry when you're reading old threads from 2 years ago.
73. You plan a trip around the world just to meet people you've never seen before and probably don't know their REAL first names... and are confused when your RL friends look at you funny... and make you complete your Will
74.) You drive around running errands wishing you could call members on the phone because you feel like you're missing out on conversations.
75.) Your husband comes home and instead of asking what happened in your life he asks if there are any interesting discussions on the BB to debate about.
76.) You've only EVER closed the BB window when the computer crashes. (I think I've only signed in the first time!)
77.) Your kids are so used to seeing the BB screen up when you're supposed to be working they say, "Oh, you're working".
78.) You put down the comic and RUN to the computer because now you can read the comments about it without worrying about Spoilers!
79. You find yourself hoping Heaven has a BB.
80. When you book your trip to Paris with having access to BB as one of your main criteria when choosing a hotel.
81. When you're sitting in a room with Vincent Kartheiser, Juliet Landau and Jonathan M. Woodward, and you're wondering how the Buffies are going! I'm obsessed!!
82. You have actually tried to load BB on that TINY little screen of your cell phone... and then become angry when your phone says that the page is too large to view!
83) When you get to uni at 9am with the intention to go to your lectures/seminars, only to look at the time and realise you've missed them all because you've been in the library on the computers, doing alot of the previous numbers!
84) When you've only been a member 3days and you're doing number 35!
83. Everytime your posts reaches the next 100/1000 you get really excited
[My posts just reached 800 and I squealed so loudly my Mum wondered what was wrong ]
84. When someone disagrees with you, you automatically find yourself saying 'People on the BB would agree!' and when they look at you like you're crazy, you walk away, laughing.
85. When you're sat listening to a teacher talking, when someone says something in mono-tone, and they say 'Once more, with feeling' you find yourself singing 'Walk through the fire' for the rest of the day
[I admit that happened to me a few weeks ago ]
87. when a thread you like has been inactive for a while (long or little), you post there just in hopes that you will get more replies to it
88. When you get so used to the reputation comments and you've grown to love them and find them so handy that you get extremely mad at other boards for not having it as a feature.
89. You crack up every time someone mentions Jimmy Choos, then everyone just stares blankly at you.
90. When you've had a bad day and you long on to Buffy Boards to see that you have any new rep comments, your day is all better.
91. You feel genuinely sad and insulted when you receive negative rep.
92. You constantly urge your friends to go to Buffy Boards, even though they've never even seen the show.
93. When you're sitting here at 2am reading the latest replies, even though you know you have to be at work in the morning!
94. when you feel wrong for being on buffy boards hour after hour after hour, day after day, week after week. should i not be doing something more productive with my time?
95. When your nightmares consist of being chased by a big red negative rep box
96. When you think posting on BB is a valid sleep replacement.
97. When your real life (Buffy-hating) friends sign up here, because that's the only way to keep in touch with you.
98. When your friend invites you to stay the night at her house and you think, "Why not, BB is down, I've nothing better to do!"
99. When I turn on the laptop, furrow my brow, look disappointed, turn it off again and everyone in my household goes "awww... Buffy Boards down?"
100. When you get detention for not doing your homework because you've been on buffy-boards instead of doing your homework.
101. When something happens to you that disrupts you life a bit and the first thing to cross your mind is 'I have to inform BB so they know I haven't abandoned them'
102. You know you should come off BB and do something else instead but you just don't want to
103. Posting on another forum feels like cheating on Buffyboards, and you hope you don't get caugh
104. Staying on the boards so long you end up late for work, even though you start at 1pm everyday!
105. You know you are addicted to BB when you come up wacky ideas like getting Buffy-Board merchandise and then actually do it!
106. When you buy all of this #105 BB merchandise
107. When other members use abbrieviations for other members i.e. BEG, N4H, TC, e.t.c. and without reading the rest of the thread, you know exactly who they mean straight away.
108. When you constantly have to keep rewinding your DVDs because you were paying to much attention to the newest posts that you kept missing plot points, and you keep on playing DVDs while on BB because you're just too stubborn to admit that you're THAT addicted.
109. When you have just had this conversation -

'Is that your computer on?'
'Yeah'
'Is that the first thing you do when you wake up?'
'Yeah'
'That Buffy Forum? Why?'
'Cos...cos...I just have to!'
110. When your husband/'insert other appropriate partner title here' sighs in the middle of a phone call and says 'You're on Buffy-Boards again aren't you?'.
111: When you compulsively check this thread for updates to see if any of the above apply to you!
112: When it gets late and the boards are almost empty and you find yourself looking up time zones for other countries to figure out when people might be returning and thinking, "It's almost NOON there! Where IS (insert random names here)"
113: When you're constantly running out the door while pulling on socks and shoes, because yet again, you casually glanced at the clock while checking the new posts and realized you had to be at work in ten minutes.
114. (To go along with 113) You put off your evening ritual (showering, tooth brushing, changing, etc.) to read posts . . . for 3 hours.
115. You browse blogs and news sites and junk just for something to do while you're waiting for someone to post.
116. BB knows more about what's going on in your life than your offline friends.
117. Your jaw drops and your eyes threaten to buldge out of your head when you see the much-hated "No Unread Posts [since your last visit]". Then promptly re-load and yell at the monitor-- there must be some mistake!
118. When you're still on the boards, it's 4am and you know you have other things to do, like for example, sleep hehe.
119. You have shortcut for BB in your desktop and it opens everytime you open your computer
120. you go to your friend's house and dominate their computer for hours, utterly ignoring them, just to visit BB while your computer isnt working.
121. You see dreams about other members of BB
122. When you're still lying in your pyjama's at 3.30pm and not moved from the computer since waking up
123. Your mates come round to see you and they see you're on BB. You tell them your busy and they decide they're going to go back home because they know you are going to be busy for a long while.
124: People come to you with news stories and your answer is, "Oh yes, I read about that on the Buffy Boards....here's what they had to say."
125. when you keep refreshing the front page just to see which random quote will be generated next!
126. when you play a game trying to guess which random quote will be generated next before you hit 'refresh'
127: i want to go to bed right now. Right now. But i cant. seriously. i actually cant.
128. When you actually play this game, but only to guess when one of your quotes will be generated.
129. When you have a fake wake-up inside a Buffyverse-related dream, and while still dreaming the first thing on your mind is "I've got to tell the guys on BB about this one!"
130. When you're at your friend's house and she's on the boards, posting away and you can't - and it makes you so jealous!
131. When you're a bit upset you can't come up with a new reason that you're addicted.
132. When the biggest reason you're mad that TFAW hasn't shipped your newest Buffy comic yet is that you're missing all the discussion on BB.
133. When you don't get sleep at night, you will start thinking about [insert random name here]'s todays posts.
134. When you cant stop yourself from ditching friends just to hangout on BB.
135. When you wake up with your head on your keyboard and notice your late for something important because you were on BB all night long and didn't even get an hour of sleep.
136. When you'd rather be on BB than hanging out with your boyfriend.[yes boyfriend its true, sorry.
137. When you shut off the computer get into bed, only to get back on 5 minutes later to check for a new post.
138- when you wear a buffy tshirt and watch buffy then go on the buffy boards and use you buffy mouse mat x
139. When you agree to stay at a friends house with the stipulation your allowed to use there comp to come on BB.

194. When people in your house say 'Did you see BB last night?' and you think Buffy their thinking Big brother and then you run to the boards remembering your not there already.
195: when you have dreams about other BB members but some of them look like their avs
196. When you feel bad about not being able to come on for more than 2 days. I'm gunna feel really bad soon cause I'm going on holiday for a week. I'll miss you all! How am I gunna get through a whole week without being able to come on here!
197. When you wake up after four hours sleep, after having forced yourself to bed away from BB at three AM almost napping in at your PC, and seeing you're unable to fall back asleep after 5 minutes you think "Ah well, I can just check on new posts and then try sleeping on".
198. When you make friends with the IT guy at your new job so you can convince him to unblock BB, because 10 hours without it is too long (it helps that it always means they turned out to be a Buffy fan!)
199. When its lunchtime so you get on BB and you're eating a sandwich with one hand and typing with the other because you cant be on for long (major poutyness)
200. When you check the BB after waking up in the morning and go "Only 70 new posts?! What have you guys been DOING all night?!"
201. When you notice that you have fallen to love with other member at bb, even if you don't know what he/she looks like and you are hoping to be older so you can marry he/she.
202. When you read through this thread and think 'We're only up to 202?!'
203. You look at people in the street thinking 'I wonder if they're secretly from the BB...'
204. When you can finally do something you've wanted to do for a long time, you're to engrossed in a BB thread to actually do it.
205. You sit for hours skipping through Buffy episodes just so you can find scenes mentioned in topics that you don't remember.
206: When you are freaking out because you realize reasons 140-193 have "disappeared" and you must know if they apply to you or not....
207: You risk getting in trouble at work just to post on BB
208. When going to stay with a friend for a little while, one of your first thoughts is if they will lend you their laptop so you can check on BB.
209. when you read 'buffy obsessed fan''s reasons and then go back to see who couldn't count in this game (nightbird im looking at you)
210. When you buy an iPhone, and the first thing you do is go onto Buffy-Boards in Safari...then, you wind up spending more than an hour on there before you even think about checking out the other features.
211. When you become increasingly upset when you go a whole six days without any rep comments, and you begin to wonder what it is you've done wrong.
212. When the boards go down, you get a bit lost thinking - 'What will I use my computer for now?' since every minute that you're on your computer is dedicated to BB.
213. When you are going away for 5days, you just wonder how you can survive without BB.
214. When more than half of your browser's frequently visited pages are BB threads.
215. When you can guess which post of yours got the newest rep points before viewing it.
216. When you have several pages open at once for maximum postage.
217. When you get seriously annoyed at the "This forum requires a 30 second wait between posts. Please wait x seconds" message (or whatever it says)
218. when you spend hours posting back and forth just to win buffy/angel sur
219. When you've been logged in for about 14 straight hours and you think you've started to lose your mind
220: When you dream about posting on BB
221: When you ditch family stuff because youd rather be on BB.
222: You post a quote everyday on BB
223: When you have BB as your home page.
224. When you're talking to your friend online, and after a few minutes of silence she says "are you on your Buffy boards or something?" (copy/pasted that!)
225. When you're standing at Walmart thinking you should go look at the DVDs because you haven't been able to post in the "What's The Last DVD You Bought" thread in a LONG time....at LEAST a week!
226. When people start threatening you with negative karma (*whistles* Kinslayer...), and it WORKS.
227. When you just sign up to the boards and you are pissed that you missed out on previous years of having it! (I remember signing up and being pissed I'd missed so much fun stuff!)
228.going on holiday with no chance to buffy-board for sometime(days or weeks lol)
229. When talking to mates on MSN and they ask what you're doing and you tell them that you're on BB. Their reply is " I should've known you'd be on that"
230. When you're going on holiday and you will only book hotels with free wireless internet connection so you can access Buffy Boards
231: When your family knows some of the members User Names on BB because you talk about them sometimes.
232. When your brother keeps moaning about not being able to go on the computer because you're always on BB.
233. when one of the worst parts of being sick is that you feel too weak to get up, go to your computer, and visit BB.
234. When you join another forum and are immediately horrified by some of the vast differences between it and BB. Then immediately scurry back to the comforting url of buffy-boards.com

180. Then you´re considering staying up all night refreshing Survivor: Buffy Boards Members just to see if you´ll survive.
181. When you actually try to figure in the last votes for your Board Member Survivor posts, even though you know there's no chance on earth the tally will be right due to all the simultaneous triple posts - but you couldn't bear wrong numbers on something THAT important.
182. When the boards go down for about five minutes and you begin to experience a terrible thing called BB withdrawal.
183. when you're scared to visit any BB threads except survivor until everyone goes to bed or to elsewhere because you're afraid your person/place/etc. will die.
184. when you see a quote at the top of the front page, and it says it was said by "Buffy Summers", and you think it was a quote from our administrator before realizing who's its really from
185. When you're living a life altering moment and all you can think about is 'Hmm, I gotta tell the people at BB about this'
186. When you've copied all the reasons of "You know you're addicted to Buffy Boards when..." and made it your Bible.
187. When you consider typing all these up so that all the BB members can have a copy and put it on their wall.
188. You keep refreshing the thread What do you think of when you hear the word......? because you thought of something really good to post but nobody will post the word you need.
189. You used to stalk people on Facebook, but now when you have nothing better to do you lurk around here finding something to talk about.
190 - Your talking to a Friend on Yahoo instant messengar and then you put the window down to look ata thread and get so engrossed in the thread you forget all about the friend and leave her/him hanging for a few minutes.
191. You're actively TRYING to log out and it WON'T LET YOU!
Go ahead....TRY and log out people! It doesn't work! ACK!
192. You don't ever logout. Nor do you ever try!
193.) When you stay up ALL NIGHT (with a partner in crime....*NUDGE*) giving other members a make over and you're having SO much fun you can't wait for them to see it!
194. When your previously-resistant-to-Buffy irl friends consider watching the show, just so they can join BB, because you talk about it SO much.
195. When your best friend thinks something is wrong because you haven't messaged him much on MSN and when he asks is something wrong and you reply no he goes, your on Buffy Boards aren't you.
196. When BB has taken over your life so much that it makes you late for work every single day..
197. You daydream about BB in work.
198. When your real life BB friend(LorneyTunes) phones you while she's away for a few days and the first thing you say to her is 'I've got to tell you what happened on the boards...'
199. When you spend more consideration on your avatar on the Boards than your daily outfit.
200. When you in company of other people mumble something about 'something important to do' and everyone goes 'oh, Buffy Boards?'
201. when you consider asking other non-buffy-fan friends to join BB just because you get to talk to BB-people much more than them
202. You actually get grouchy with your friends because something funny happened on BB and despite you itching to talk to someone about it, it would take far too long to explain to them (the anti-BBers).
203. You're sad on vacation because you can't be on BB
204. You have dreams (nightmares) about the Sorting Tome and what it may or may not decide to do!
205. When you feel a moral and social obligation to visit BB every day and feel 'wrong' when you don't.

207. When you put your computer away so you can do the nightly get-ready-for-bed routine and halfway through it you HAVE TO get the computer back out and check to make sure nothing cool happened on the Boards in the last 15 minutes.
208. When you've gone a whole day without posting (for whatever crazy reason) and start feeling guilty about that.
209. When you start to measure the amount of sleep you got the previous night not in hours, but in the number of new posts there are when you wake up.
210. You go out to a house party and see they have a comp with internet access and can only resist the urge to stay away from Buffy Boards for 10 minutes.
211. When you already forgot your password 'cause you never even logged out.
212. when you think the day of The Buffies should be a national holiday
213. When you say goodnight thinking you're going to go offline but you can't actualy do it. That's right - it's nearly 4am here.
214. When you have an argument with a friends for disconnecting the internet whilst your on BB at a party.
215. When your wireless connection is being temperamental so you end up sitting on the floor in the hallway with your laptop so you can be on BB
216. Then you´re making a bb "soundtrack" with songs that makes you think of specifik member
217. When you're sick, you spend all day on bb starting from 730 and going till 930
218. You feel guilty when you're off bb for more that 6 hours
219. You havent done any actual work in about a week because your favourite rp is on
220. you calculate how long it will take a member to reach a million posts
221. When you spend an hour thinking of a good user title quote when you have something else that needs to be done.
222. Most of your days off are spent painstakingly matching your avatar to your signature.
223. You spend hours refreshing the "Bag Eggs" forum in hopes of gaining a new adoptee (and still lose out to someone else )
224. you marvel at the fact that it took a whole seven days for someone to come up with more reasons!
225. You think "I can probably go to sleep infront of the screen with my eyes open if I really tried, can't be that hard"
226. When you're counting how old you'll be when it has its 10 years old birthday (18/19 years btw
227: When you plan on being here for the 10th birthday.
228. When you've managed to procrastinate with friends IRL about getting MSN for years, and now REALLY want to download it so you can chat even more with your BB buddies. :Þ
229. When you see buttons in people's sigs that say "Every night, a strange Swede tells me when to go to bed," not only does it make perfect sense, but you know exactly who that Swede is even though no one told you.
230. You are terrified for school to start because you fear that you won't be able to keep up with BB.
231. you stay up all night memorizing the FAQ to be a perfect and knowledgable board member
232. when you look at something and you relate it to buffy. eg. my sister was playing gta and i looked to the screen of her pc and i read "buying SMG blablabla" (i think that is supposed to be an item name or something lol) and after reading that i thought: Sarah michelle gellar!!
233. When you've contemplated reading or posting to BB from your iPhone at Uni, when you're in a dull class/lecture.
234. When you skipped class, to mooch on the library computers just so you can get on BB!
235. When your family asks you how you can be more excited about becoming NMotM than going on holiday or your 18th birthday.
236. When you wish your irl dorm had a cool name like BB's (these ones are so laaaaame)
237. When, while doing your psychology studies, you already think about how you could work your newly gained information and insight into BB threads to give better answers and explain some Buffy phenomena.
238. When you wake up in front of the computer... with BB still on!
239. when your mother cuts off the electricity (of the house) because it's late and you're still here (yeah, that happened last night...)
240. Then you actually do the math to find out your vm-average since you got you first one, and realizes that it´s more than 10/day. (Some people really needs to get msn!! )
241. When your internet shuts down, and you start screaming at the screen, and then break down crying
241b. When your internet goes down AND then there are thunderstorms and you just stop your life and go to bed early because the depression and misery of all your missing is causing you to want to leap off the roof.
Then you wake up feeling all hung over and miserable like you're going through drug-rehab withdrawals!
242 When you're so tired of being on IRC-chat or BB that you just fell asleep without putting your pyjamas on.
243 When the computer is broke, and after 2 days with no BB, you get abstinenses
244 When you're talking about stuff with your friends, and you think in yourself: oh that's a good thing to ask in the Drogyn thread

145 When you are sitting in a class doing a very important test, and all you think about is: I need to get back on BB...education my ass
146. When you've been playing in the IRC chat all day and then you're sister calls and you're so giggly that you keep calling her "lame" and suggesting that she drop an anvil on her bosses head.
And you end up looking like a crack addict freak who can't stop laughing at her very serious story.
147, When you have been on BB and IRC chat for over 24 hours, C'mon - that is commitment! (or insanity, take your pick)
148 When you are trying like hole time you are in chat to make "certain people" speak english...

249. When you plan to build a BB town with the dorms and all the members on The Sims.
250 When you keep trying to find reasons to how you know you're addicted to BB, just so you can post it in this thread.
251 When BB is your "home page"
252 (I believe Melon's suggest' already is there) :
253. when you keep saying to your sister/friends/etc how awesome BB is!
254. You find yourself crawling back for more after nearly 1 year MIA
255: When you kee trying to make your mother understand how awsome BB is. (so far... no succes
256. When you really want to go to the bathroom but you just can't because you're so into our games and such
257. When you internet connection goes down and you try for about 2 or 3 hours a day to try and get on BB. It worked! It's back!
258: When you look at the clock and goes "What the--It's evening already?"
259. When you're thinking about what you're going to do for your next signature when you're not here in BB.
260: When you bless the internet for letting you go on BB
261: When something happens that pisses you off really bad and the second (after the husband) group of people you think to share it with are the BB. (But then have to remind yourself that not everyone else is going to care, hence you don't post about it.)
263. you see people as theire avatars
264. You get freaked out when girls use male avatars and when guys use female avatars
265. You plan to make a checklist and do everything on this list by tomorrow
266. You feel guilty for not contributing enough
267. You make tons of banners eveny though you dont know how to put them up
263. you see people as theire avatars
264. You get freaked out when girls use male avatars and when guys use female avatars
265. You plan to make a checklist and do everything on this list by tomorrow
266. You feel guilty for not contributing enough
267. You make tons of banners eveny though you dont know how to put them up
268) When you spend time on your holidays logging on.
269.)When you dont go on for two days and your ship lost because you were gone and you get really angry and start hating all those teenagers that love spike so much Just kidding, I know it is not only teenagers that love him so.
270. When you think of BB and get a warm feeling inside...
271. When you bring your computer flowers, for giving you the opputunity to get on BB
272: You post both your home screen AND your work screen in the "Post Your Desktop" thread
273. When you actually want to stay in class just to go on BB.
274. your response to "lecturer is in hospital so class in cancelled" is yay ive got three hours till ive got another lecture so i can go on BB

275. you made this thread into a list!!!!

[scobro]

276.. you accidentally delete BuffyBoards from your bookmark bar and you heart nearly attacks you and fear of not remembering the address grips your heart like a vice.

[hannahfngrl26]

277. You get really angry at all the survivor games because Angel never wins but you keep coming back and coming back and coming back cause you are crazy....................for the BB.

[Spirit_Of_Fred]

278. if you literally die from BB withdrawl (hopefully, that doesnt actually happen to anyone ;))