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14 Sep 13 - 07:41 AM (#3558845) Subject: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: selby On another thread someone has mentioned a number of times that they are leaving, but they keep coming back (That thread issue is NOT the discussion point). Therefore the question is do you find Mudact and its community addictive? |
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14 Sep 13 - 08:37 AM (#3558851) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: frogprince Yep |
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14 Sep 13 - 08:52 AM (#3558856) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: akenaton Only if you inhale. The people who threaten to leave all the time, unfortunately never do it. Usually they are getting the worst of some argument or other and its a tactic to avoid admitting they were wrong. |
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14 Sep 13 - 10:32 AM (#3558874) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: YorkshireYankee ABSOLUTELY! If I'm not careful, I can lose many, many hours! Hours which I could be using much more productively... Sometimes I don't let myself even look at Mudcat for a month or three - can't afford to let myself be tempted. |
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14 Sep 13 - 10:44 AM (#3558876) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: GUEST MC kinda' kinda' reminds me of a girl I once knew ... addictive! bob(deckman)nelon |
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14 Sep 13 - 11:06 AM (#3558886) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Elmore Certainly my favorite web site, along with Concert Window. |
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14 Sep 13 - 11:45 AM (#3558897) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Ebbie I wouldn't call it 'addictive' exactly. When one is away from home one likes to stay in touch, right? That is kind of how I feel about the 'Cat. OTOH, I don't call home twice a day. :) |
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14 Sep 13 - 12:52 PM (#3558912) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Larry The Radio Guy Hi folks. I'm just sneaking onto the computer from my mudcat addiction treatment program.......so please don't let the counsellor's know. But really, I have it under control. Honest. I'm leaving now. But I'll be back in a couple minutes to see if anyone's responded to this. |
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14 Sep 13 - 03:30 PM (#3558920) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: MMario funny how this scurilous rumour keeps cropping up. Mudcat addictive? Hardly. |
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14 Sep 13 - 03:43 PM (#3558923) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: GUEST,achmelvich no |
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14 Sep 13 - 03:57 PM (#3558927) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Keith A of Hertford I can not keep away, but Mudcat is slowly fading. Very few BS threads these days. |
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14 Sep 13 - 04:39 PM (#3558935) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: gnu Keith... agreed. But, it is harvest season and fall festival season. When winter winds blow, the BS will pick up but it will never be the same as many folk can't stand the trolls and twits. Even steadfast champions who pitted themselves at length against such have said "Fuck that bullshit." and gone off to greener pastures. Heroes they were in the old days. Spaw is most notable for me. He can't be arsed to finally get connected and finally post in irreverence of some twit. I could name lots of Spaws. Even me... I often pen a post or two on a controversial thread and then just say gnightgnu rather than flail away at every inane piece of garbage I find as an affront on intelligence. Matter of fact, I am tempted to shit profusely on one of the posts above but, nowadays... gnightgnu. |
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14 Sep 13 - 06:26 PM (#3558951) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Joe_F No. I could quit it any time I wanted to. But no sensible person would want to. |
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14 Sep 13 - 07:02 PM (#3558955) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Little Hawk YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posting on Mudcat is about the most addictive habit I've ever dealt with in my entire life. I shudder to think of the time I've used up on Mudcat Cafe, specially the time spent responding to the less pleasant people here, and all the other and more useful things I might have done instead with that time. The saving grace, though, is I've also met some very nice people here, whom I can call friends, and a few of those in person too. |
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14 Sep 13 - 10:18 PM (#3558988) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Rapparee I can quit anytime I want to. Really. After I get over the shakes and the vomiting and the chills and the hallucinations...hmm...come to think of it, maybe MC is a hallucination. Must have been all those drugs back in the...when was it now? Anyway, we were telling Jerry not to bogart the joint and Kathy said she had some dynamite acid and after that everything was blank for years and years. |
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14 Sep 13 - 11:07 PM (#3558996) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: frogprince I could almost repeat L.H.'s last post word-for-word for myself. I think he is a bit more addicted to posting than I am, but if you consider my total package of posting and "lurking", I may have it just about as bad. But I would say in my own defense that I became "hooked" in great part because, soon after stumbling in here, I encountered a lot of genuinely thoughtful content, along with a good dose of really funny stuff. And I too now have several very good friends I would never have known otherwise. |
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14 Sep 13 - 11:16 PM (#3558998) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Suzy Sock Puppet Nah. Everything is a so-called addiction these days. More like a club. People stop by- or not. There are old members, new members. To some it means more, to others not so much. And it all varies depending on whatever is going on in each person's life... You get the picture. |
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15 Sep 13 - 12:23 AM (#3559002) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Bill D no more than breakfast or breathing is addictive. I get music, I get viewpoints...(some of which I had no idea existed)... I get to examine my own thoughts by typing them out. I discover great people, and because of the Getaway, I get to meet a lot of them. .... So... in 2 months it will be 17 years since this non-addiction began. |
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15 Sep 13 - 12:28 AM (#3559003) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Suzy Sock Puppet Bill D., I like your take on Mudcat. |
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15 Sep 13 - 01:34 AM (#3559007) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: MGM·Lion ♫♫♫♫ I'll break this habit, in two minutes at most······ When I've posted just one more post ~M~ apologies Sydney Carter |
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15 Sep 13 - 02:15 PM (#3559114) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: selby I think it is I have been out for the day, but one of the first things I did was see what was going on in Mudcat land when we returned home. Keith |
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15 Sep 13 - 10:00 PM (#3559163) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: ChanteyLass I must be addicted. I try to check in every evening. When I miss a day or more than one I feel compelled to read everything that's been posted on threads I follow until I've caught up. Did I miss a birthday? An obit? How's everyone's health? What's going on? I need to know! |
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15 Sep 13 - 10:16 PM (#3559166) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Elmore Thread Drift: ChanteyLass: How was the AA attendance? PM me if you wish. Thanks, Elmore. |
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15 Sep 13 - 11:46 PM (#3559184) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Elmore Forgive me. I just read your posting on the subject about which I inquired on the thread where it belongs. |
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16 Sep 13 - 12:34 AM (#3559188) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Little Hawk I know an addiction when I'm experiencing it, Bill, and posting here is definitely an addiction for me, and for most (if not all) of the regulars who come here. Eating breakfast, however, and breathing are not addictions for one simple reason: eating and breathing are necessary actions in order to maintain bodily life. Posting on Mudcat is not. People will continue in an addiction if: 1. they like doing it more than they wish to quit. and 2. they don't have the strength to overcome it. This is not to say that some addictions aren't worthwhile for at least a certain period of time. One learns something eventually from going through them, and they can be fun until one gets tired of them. |
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16 Sep 13 - 01:28 AM (#3559200) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Ebbie I would conjecture that I am addicted to the Mudcat. It feels like a necessary part of my day. However. In the last couple of years I have had several episodes of not having the internet for a number of days. Aside from an unsettled feeling I got by better than I expected, and in fact, when I finally was able to check in on the 'Cat I had a sense of distancing. It took several reading times before I felt the immediacy of involvement that I was used to. Does that mean that I would survive? |
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16 Sep 13 - 01:41 AM (#3559202) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Little Hawk Yes. ;-) |
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16 Sep 13 - 09:44 AM (#3559318) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Suzy Sock Puppet I think something is an addiction if it takes over your life in a negative way. It's a lot more than simply feeling compelled to do certain things. I'm thinking back to a post from GfS that I wish I had printed out and saved. Something about how people do their learning and bonding best in the spirit of joy and fun! Absolutely true. I go to church every Sunday and I basically like the people there. But yesterday we had the ordination of two deacons and a grand party afterwards. The bishop was there. Lots of smiles and laughter and you could feel this bonding taking place. I have a master's degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies so I could write you a five page intellectual paper on this very topic. That's why when I read his post, it struck a mighty chord. So Ebbie, if you feel compelled to check in on Mudcat, it doesn't make you an addict. It makes you a lovely person who likes to reach out, care and share with others. Nothing wrong with that :-) |
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16 Sep 13 - 10:05 AM (#3559321) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Suzy Sock Puppet Btw, MtheGM, I loved your post. You're such a cutie. |
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16 Sep 13 - 10:10 AM (#3559322) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: MartinRyan The problem is not that it's addictive - it's that it's not fatal... Regards |
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16 Sep 13 - 10:56 AM (#3559327) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: MGM·Lion Why, thank you, dear Miss SSP. We do out ickle best 2 pleez... ~❤·M·❤~ |
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16 Sep 13 - 10:58 AM (#3559329) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Bill D Not fatal? Have you SEEN the long list of obits? |
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16 Sep 13 - 11:04 AM (#3559333) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Ebbie lol |
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16 Sep 13 - 01:16 PM (#3559370) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Claire M Hiya, Hmm........yes & no. I'd say yes cos though my living arrangements mean my Consort & I live w/ quite a few people due to our disabilities, any conversation we have w/ most of them is ½ -♥ed. There's one woman here who cries when she drops things & tells me I'll get in trouble when/if I drop my paper/spill my cup of tea all over myself, & a man who shouts that he's "not a f***ing woman" every 5 secs; the Consort hates it. Our needs are met, so neither of us want to move. Mudcat reminds me of the community I grew up in which I dearly miss, also mostly older people, who were really interesting; recommending/finding me things they knew I'd enjoy; copying their vinyl for me,. Etc. I find it sad that I see more of a community on Mudcat than where I actually live. I'd say no, cos I doubt my world would end were Mudcat to no longer exist. I've been on 1,000s of websites & my interest/passion always ends up going. |
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16 Sep 13 - 03:17 PM (#3559404) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Little Hawk Everything seems to become fatal if you do it long enough... |
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18 Sep 13 - 05:14 AM (#3559515) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: G-Force Well, you certainly miss it when it's not there. Welcome back old friend. |
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18 Sep 13 - 05:26 AM (#3559521) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Keith A of Hertford Just in time! |
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18 Sep 13 - 05:35 AM (#3559522) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: selby Just started the cold sweats and hallucinations, but it was back, before it got to serious PHEW!!!!!!!! Keith |
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18 Sep 13 - 06:28 AM (#3559532) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: gnu Bill D... hahahaaa! |
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18 Sep 13 - 02:26 PM (#3559627) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Claire M Hiya, That's true. Didn't mean to sound depressing re living arrangements. Tried to give up love of folklore few yrs back. Sure that contributed to my getting ill. If my interests ran to X-Factor or Big Brother, I could chat about them freely but they don't; this place is tailor-made for me. So I'd be better off chatting about it all here, & love doing so. Just signed guest book for Goddess Temple, which I hope to go to one day. People would help me sign up to these sorts of things & come w/ me on various trips but very few are interested themselves, . One woman who accompanied me @ a Maddy Prior gig was so bored she spent almost the whole time playing w/ her phone! |
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18 Sep 13 - 03:28 PM (#3559644) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: Ebbie Did our talk about it make it go away? :) Doing without the Mudcat made me uneasy so maybe I just won't talk about it anymore. |
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18 Sep 13 - 06:44 PM (#3559678) Subject: RE: BS: Is Mudcat Addictive From: ChanteyLass Whew! I was in withdrawal. It must be an addiction, but I'm not ready to quit! |