Nth Post Angst? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

skip spence · 10-21-2008, 06:38 AM

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And do you actually care?

I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous!

Lalwendë · 10-21-2008, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by skip spence

I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous!

I wouldn't hold your breath, I'm such a flibbertigibbet these days I might do just what Rune says and waste it being facetious

What' funnier is with every pointless post I make time is counting down and using it to go "Hey! That was funny!" in response to an Assigned To Mordor post (and is the process even possibly getting chat-skwerled just to add to the sense of misery) is increasingly likely

Morthoron · 10-21-2008, 10:49 AM

Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 10-21-2008, 11:17 AM

When it comes to me, I usually realise my n-th post had just happened right after I make it (except for my last jubilee, i.e. 3000th post, when I realised it only several posts later and not immediately. Maybe I am getting blind). From the "EDIT: Wow! #th post!" words which I have seen many times, I assume that this is no rare phenomenon. I think many people, like me, don't realise something special is happening until the number they were used to changes suspiciously. Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.

Aganzir · 10-21-2008, 12:15 PM

I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?

Even now I don't remember how many rep points I have, and about my posts I only remember there's 1,100-something of them. Occasionally glancing at the number actually makes me rather surprised: how come I have this many posts already! The worst thing is that I have no idea where I have posted that much.
I think I noticed I had passed one thousand only when I had something like 1,010 posts.

So no, no storing up for me.

Lalwendë · 10-21-2008, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Aganzir

I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?

You're just too cool

I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum - in fact I'm so sad I got upset that I recently missed my car passing 50k because my dad was driving it. Grrr...

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Originally Posted by Legate

Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.

Well uncannily I am just a couple below that and I'm watching that counter grow each time I post and look, you've just made it go down more...

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Originally Posted by Morthoron

Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.

Any more of those amusing letters to the editor sir and you will soon be going "Oh God, my 1,000th post! What do I do to mark it!"

I think I might use it for a Crazy Caption actually. Why the jiggins not? I have a load of thread ideas stewing on topics I've been wanting to discuss but the irony is here I am rambling on and....

Formendacil · 10-21-2008, 05:06 PM

The only post I ever bothered to track the arrival of was the 500th--for the obvious reason of then becoming eligible for a title, though that still wasn't something that came my way for a good while thereafter, and was not necessarily a consequence of attaining that lofty figure.

Actually... I don't even know how many posts I have right now.

Mithalwen · 10-23-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

You're just too cool

I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum - in fact I'm so sad I got upset that I recently missed my car passing 50k because my dad was driving it. Grrr...

I missed 50K too

- one of those times when I realised I was a couple of miles off one evening but forgot all about it the next morning. But it hit 51K tidily as I pulled into my parking space yesterday. Most exciting of all was when my old car had the speedo reading 54321.0 as I climebed a hill in Kent.

I did think my 5555 should be special then I forgot.

10-21-2008, 10:49 AM	#3
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,515	Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal. __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.

10-21-2008, 11:17 AM	#4
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	When it comes to me, I usually realise my n-th post had just happened right after I make it (except for my last jubilee, i.e. 3000th post, when I realised it only several posts later and not immediately. Maybe I am getting blind). From the "EDIT: Wow! #th post!" words which I have seen many times, I assume that this is no rare phenomenon. I think many people, like me, don't realise something special is happening until the number they were used to changes suspiciously. Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

10-21-2008, 12:15 PM	#5
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post? Even now I don't remember how many rep points I have, and about my posts I only remember there's 1,100-something of them. Occasionally glancing at the number actually makes me rather surprised: how come I have this many posts already! The worst thing is that I have no idea where I have posted that much. I think I noticed I had passed one thousand only when I had something like 1,010 posts. So no, no storing up for me. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

10-21-2008, 05:06 PM	#7
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,328	The only post I ever bothered to track the arrival of was the 500th--for the obvious reason of then becoming eligible for a title, though that still wasn't something that came my way for a good while thereafter, and was not necessarily a consequence of attaining that lofty figure. Actually... I don't even know how many posts I have right now. __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.