You're alone. Well maybe not, I don't have a real girlfriend, I am married to my closest buddy in the world, so maybe that counts as a girl friend. But she don't give me no flak. Now the addiction part? I guess maybe I am. I way behind on a design project and I'm here. What's that tell ya?
Hahaha...you're not alone on that. If my girlfriend posted, she'd reiterate this verbatim (stolen from the "How Ya Got on the HAMB" thread): Bryan
Oh man! Sad to say, you're DEFINITELY not alone! I do very little at work (I'm there right now) and my EX hated this ****! I used to get the stink eye all the time when I logged on. I knew it was really bad when I was with another HAMBer at a bar the other night and we were talking to a couple chicks and they asked how we knew eachother. We looked at eachother and at the same time went "uhhhhhhhhh...." and sort of chuckled. There was no way for it to sound good and COMPLETELY nerdy! So always leave your addiction out of conversations and definitely out of conversations with females that wouldn't get it... or anyone else that wouldn't get it for that matter... YIKES! I think we're going to have to start a support group... H.A. HAMBers Anonymous.
Actually the only time I usually have to work is the last hour of the day filling out production reports. The rest of the time I'm usually on the H.A.M.B., Fordbarn, or Ebay. Lucky ******* ain't I. And I get PAID for that ****. Today, I almost had withdrawals when it went down.
Sound to me like there are a lot of you folks that have a real problem. I, on the other hand, can quit any time I choose.............. really........................ YOU don't believe me do you? Well here goes. Frank
Yep, me too....I think I maximize and minimize it every 10 mins. It's sick, sick, sick..... But I love it.
Well it does keep me from getting house work done... but the worse was when Big Tony called and asked me to log on and tell him what was going on cause his cable was down.... and of course I did!!!!
theres been so many times i couldve got something done on the car if i wasnt spending time cruisn the hamb, is this some sort of chemical inbalance
My computer was down for about 5 days. I got it back Monday pm. I spent the last 2 afternoons catching up on all the stuff I missed on here and Ebay. I was actually amazed by day 4 how much work I got done that I hadn't gotten around to when I had a computer to keep me busy instead! I usually long on here 3 to 4 times a day for at least a :20 per time. plus an hour or so over on Ebay.
hahahaha..what EVERYBODY said.I own a bike shop,doing the work of 3 people..oh,wait,that's what I tell customers when I tell them it's gonna be a few days before I get their **** done..damn good thing the computer is in the back of the shop..my non car buddies go in the back,see the HAMB on the screen,usually give me **** about that '****ing car board"..I just laugh when they say "no wonder you aren't getting **** done"..so I feel guilty as hell,go in to work on Sundays........ and sign on as soon as I turn the ****ing lights on...
I've always subscribed to so many car mags that I could never keep up with them. Now that I'm on the HAMB all the time, they're REALLY piling up.
The problem is the forum is so damn active, if you miss a day you feel so far behind because there's pages and pages of new threads! Here's a speed tip for you thread addicts: - Install the Firefox web browser - Go to the General Discussion page - ANY thread that tickles yer fancy, right click, "Open Link In New Tab" - Keep scanning threads - When you're ready, you have a whole bunch of tabs, one for each thread you want to read Oh yeah, I can't believe I'm the only one on Bloglines subscribed to the cl***ifieds RSS feed... I don't even have to check out the For Sale section, they come to me!
I was checking in at least 3 times a day as a lowly lurker.Now, after listening to what you people have to pony up to I am wondering about my next three or so years!!!!
I was just thinking the same thing about being addicted and had to laugh when i saw this post. I found myself checking the hamb at a restraunt on my cell phone once. Its bad and I too would get more work done if I wasnt reading the hamb so much but you gotta do what you gotta do.
OMG! Get back to work! That's almost as bad when you took a break from your job rolling servers to see the "Villiage Idiots" on Tuesday. Now that's fricken cool...I would have done the same thing!
hell yeah, I'm logged in at least once a day, everything from a couple of minutes to hours......... lots of good stuff, that you don't want to miss. / primerkid
imagine this little 20,000 people comunity if it were a real town!!!OMG!!!what a world...heaven on earth!!you think 32'a are high, i bet my doublewide crack shack i live in would be a million dollar house in HAMBVILLE!!!and worth every penny... and just think of the barn finds!!!
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