You know you have spent too much time on the forums when...

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  • You actually start looking for your codpiece in the morning...
  • You expect the Inquisition
  • Your post count reads infinity...
  • When you get irritated that someone has changed their picture, and you don't recognize them anymore.
  • You spend more time on the forums than working
  • When you are one of the first ten people to post on a topic when the topic is about being on the forum too long
  • When you talk about your private life more on this forum than in a pub... asking dating advice and such...
  • When you spend more time on here complaining about ASF High Elves than you do the rest of the hobby combined.
  • When you get withdrawal symptoms when the server's down for maintenance
  • When you start up groups of forum goers and randomly accuse people - *cough* inquisition *cough*
  • When you convince your wife/family you need to buy relics so the inquisition doesn't arrest you
  • When you write all your tax cheques out to "Midaski"
  • When you end all your online correspondence with P.I.O.M.T.
  • When you’re always trying to come up with a witty acronym that spells something somewhat vulgar.
  • When you feel a sense of loss when your favourite thread gets locked.
  • If you're a Mod/Administrator
  • When you dont care if your thread goes off topic because the OT conversation was better anyway.
  • When the original poster takes his own thread off topic
  • When its your homepage.
  • When your wife asks if you fed the dog and you reply: "For the last time, Dogs of War are legal, the army list is still available on the GW site!"
  • The Inquisition wakes you up and tells you they've found Midaski's codpiece under your bed.
  • When you start to look like your avatar.
  • When you start characterizing members that you’ve become so familiar with; such as Mods, Inquisitors, grizzled Vets, rules Lawyers, and Pigtailed.
  • You have been on W-E too long when you put on a blonde wig and wink at the other members.... And you have definitely been on W-E too long when you find said wigged member attractive!
  • When you look at a current halberdier vs swordsmen debate and realize, upon doing a search, that you've taken different sides in the argument over the course of months.
  • That when you see a "Which weapon is the best for state troops?" post, you can do a search, and either cut and paste an earlier responce, or provide a link.
  • You meant to type in Google but you wound up here instead
  • When the Google search engine knows you so well, 90% of the results go to Warhammer-Empire.com
  • You know who wrote the post without even looking at the poster's name
  • You start posting pictures of you measuring the height of bases to prove other people wrong.
  • You know you’ve been on W-E too long when the threads start to blend together and you can't tell one from the next...
  • When you change the colours of your operating system to match the forums.
  • When you can spell halberdiers, flagellants, pistoliers, war altar and helblaster without having to look them up...
  • When somebody posts "I left my IQueek at home" you know what they mean...
  • When you search your own name to find new topics
  • When you are surprised that people don't actually look like their avatars.
  • When you suddenly realize your name is spelt wrong...

Compiled by someone with nothing better to do (Wyzer1)




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