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Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit
tyroneking writes "Phil Hartup on bit-tech.net has captured the Zeitgeist of the web-aware generation: The
Age of the Web Hermit describes how some lucky souls can live their lives, earn money, buy necessities and even find love on the Internet. 'Is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more?'; not me!"
The Internet cannot get you drunk. I should know, I've tried.
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The internet: the only place where you can change your penis size.
I mean, if you consider "reading Slashdot" as "going out and socializing"....
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I don't use the internet. What a bunch of suckers.
Are you sure? What makes you feel this way?
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"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Are you sure? What makes you feel this way?
Hah! I knew it!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
My cronjob web-based order to pizza hut should kick in within the hour. Automatic bill-pay for my bills, telecommute and direct deposit for work...but no, I'm not a friggin hermit. I'm running GAIM and posting to slashdot. I play games online once in a while...that's considered human interaction, right?
If you want a web hermit, go stick a picture of Stallman with the relevance of ESR and you've got yourself your posterboy.
Now if you can give me a dynamic World of Warcraft type immersive game where everyone else is AI, then maybe I'll be a hermit.
Problem solved!
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
I confess, I'm a hermit. I'm probably one of the very few people who goes to college and spends all his time in his room. I'm not a full-hermit, though, since I do go out to buy groceries and things like that, but my social life is basically non-existent. I don't even have friends in college, and I have maybe a total of 5 people I talk to through IM. Being a hermit isn't that bad, but most importantly, it's my choice. Some people may prefer to hermit themselves due to social anxieties or phobias. At least the Internet makes hermitting more entertaining. The biggest draw-back is probably the lack of physical contact. I haven't received a hug in years. I don't miss talking out-loud much though. As a matter of fact, since I haven't talked in so long, when I talk out-loud my throat gets sore. Ouch.
Yeah, get it on with your bad web hermit self.
I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who aspire to be a balding fattie eating delivery pizza every day and jacking it to internet pr0n. I hear guys like that drive the women wild.
I consider it natural selection -- self removal from the gene-pool.
Go Darwin go!
/hug
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
(just like you do on your way to Starbucks) I may be confused, but if I am on my way to Starbucks and ignoring people, how I am totally living my life online??
I just think the statement is a little contradictory to the topic at hand. Shouldn't I be paying someone to go pick up my Starbucks for me since I am living a life of luxury and never want to go outside? I mean, if *I* have to go get my own Starbucks, obviously I'm not a hermit nor am I living a life of extreme luxury.
Um...plenty o' fat pipes in prison.
It's just sorta like Soviet Russia.
You don't use the pipe to access society, (prison) society uses the pipe to access YOU!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
I mean, when was the last time someone gave you a hug through your monitor?
*hug*
-Stephen
"Some lucky souls can live their lives, earn money, buy necessities and even find love on the Internet."
Why, those lucky souls truly have everything in the palm of their hand.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
I do everything except the very frequent things (bread buying etc) from the net.
'Net' is our country, we are its citizens. We are the 'Net'.
As an added bonus, i can opt to go out and 'socialize' in the old fashioned way, in the manner and time i choose.
Isnt it fantastic ?
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The ultimate limit on your online time is when you get bedsores on your ass.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I have an imaginary friend, doesn't even matter if my internet it down :)
In many places in this wide world, you can get pussy delivered.
Only on Slashdot could this be modded "Interesting".
But why is the rum gone?
Oh man, I don't even want to think about the /. forums with all those faces and voices in a tiny little window.
Moral of the story? If you are a modern day hermit, atleast take the time to introduce yourself to the pizza man incase your stalkers find you out and erase your IDENTITY.
Alternatively, when being chased by phychopaths who want your data, remember to back it up on a trusty floppy disk. NOTHING can hurt those!
Alternatively, always choose Macintosh, the only laptop that effieciently upload viruses to alien space crafts and save the planet.
Alternatively, if you are as hot as Sandra Bullock and are also a modern day hermit, I would like you to have my ICQ#, I'm here to help ANY WAY I CAN.
Problem solved :
http://www.fu-fme.com/
Don't look at me. I modded it "Informative."
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You know, I just came to the realization that I've never met a stupid introvert. Every stupid person that I've ever met was extroverted, and usually extremely so.
And a hot babe and gf with it. :-)
;)
Just try to makes sure they never meet. Unless of course you think they'd be down for that sort of thing
Or for faster service.
...every time I meet a woman from the Internet in person, she looks less like Sandra Bullock and more like Jim J. Bullock.
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Well then in your case, you can just order down from upstairs.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"