What draws you back to the Cellar?
 

I'm sure this has been addressed sometime in the past, but there are lots of us newer folks so i'm curious - why are you here? What is it that made the Cellar stick in your head enough that you repeatedly come back? What do you get out of the Cellar to make the time spent here a worthwhile investment?

I've really been thinking about this one, because I obviously spend quite a bit of time here. I will post my thoughts in awhile, but I am curious about the rest of you.

I'm just a glutton for punishment. :D

its sorta like that cool neiborhood bar you stumble up on ever now and then , where the mix of folks range from collage profecers and brick layers to net geeks ( no offence intended ) and electritions . collage prof's and brick layers haveing a drink and a friendly argument about politics , or economics , or the best way to fry cat fish . :D
An intresting mix of folks with MANY view points and opinions .

If I had to pick a top, number one reason? It's because you guys make me laugh. I appreciate nothing more than a good, dry wit, and there are several here.

I'm doing research on my PhD thesis on life amongst the dregs of humanity. :D

I come back to the Cellar just to give Lookout a hard time. :3eye:

Plus, this place is just strangely addictive. I have yet to figure it out.

I have nothing better to do...and someone's gotta keep you bitches in line. :)

The sparkling personalities.

Y'know, I think the IotD got me here in the first place (it was linked in someone's sig at Slashdot, probably UT). I spent my first couple of days here going through the IotD archives. I kept coming back because I found the people fascinating and, as Clodfobble pointed out, funny. My first post was, I think, about something I had heard on NPR about a Muslim(?) holy day during which people bloodied themselves up pretty good. I half expected Dave to send me packing, but no one gave me grief so I hung around.

Actually, I hang around because I just *live* for Tomas' Friday posts.

You and me both, girlfriend! :beer:

Mostly boredom to be honest, too much time spent stuck places without much to do that and the 1-in-100 thread that really sparks my interest.

Good question. I think it's probably one of the few places I can go and get the right wing perspective in a way that doesnt make my skin crawl .....ouch did I just say that? Apparently I did. I sometimes find myself drawn back to try and set something straight, usually when I percieve an unfair balance of power in an issue......But I am also drawn because I think most cellarites are smart in some area, myself included and that makes for an interesting exchange of ideas. I have on a few occasions been made aware of a different analysis of issues I thought I knew well enough and that has given my own perspective on those things a little more depth I think.

Most of the people here are also funny. By which I mean amusing, not bitchy, though hell they can be that too. As of course can I. Be bitchy I mean, Id leave others to judge humour.

Ultimately though I suppose I have become accustomed to your [cyber]faces

All I can say is most of you have the same opinions as I about:

Whiskey
Women
In-laws
Outlaws
Drug Laws
Gun Laws
Sex
Social libertarianism
Being an attention whore and not getting shit about it

and last but not least: Naked Twister

I love you guys!

I like bitching about politics

the fresh sticky buns.

I come to The Cellar time and again simply because it is the one place where I can be as psychotic as I want and everyone thinks I'm just being clever.

Pictures and knowledge, damn cheap.
Don't forget to tip the toad. :blunt:

Oh,.....and to annoy bitchy women without giving up everything I own.

And we love dishing it right back at you, Bruce; but we all still love you, anyway! :p

Geez B, nobody's gonna tip me now that I've said there's a tiny chance I could be in something *really* money-making.

(Or if I don't put the paypal button back up.)

I guess I should clarify that the multi-multi-billionaire stuff is pretty long odds and at the moment I *am* still struggling to pay the mortgage of this pretty nice place.

This dude said to me yesterday aren't you a successful entrepreneur? not yet

i stumbled down the stairs at the suggestion of someone who no longer visits here when he realized i like to discuss just about anything under the sun. my first venture in saw me get lit up by LJ and i've been here ever since.
i like the fact that i can discuss touchy issues with my real thoughts without worrying about offending someone or possibly sending clients running for the hills. because we aren't al drinking buddies, we don't feel the need to all go along and get along. it makes for interesting enlightening discussions. i guess it all boils down to the fact that we are all allowed to be extremely honest here.

except for the fact that i'm not a 30 year old financial advisor, i'm really a 14 year old girl in study hall. other than that, i'm perfectly honest about everything here.

Hey! I'm actually a 15 year old boy on detention! Do U have pic? :D

i stumbled down the stairs

That's awesome.

I find the alternate viewpoints from the members here a good read -- its always interesting to listen to others, especially in regards to current events and politics.

You're all wrong, but I still like reading it.

Great read, BootyCall is a friend of yours, no? :haha:

well... my local BBSs' had all gone to crap... and I stumbled down the stairs one day whilst @ idleworm.com and the next thing you know.. i have somewhere else to say nothing important.. heh luv ya all... thanks.. really

What draws you back to the Cellar?

Sometimes I need a broader view, you people provide that. Oh and some of you b:)st:)rds are too funny.

If it doesn't involve the following terms, good luck and keep us up to date when it all goes public:

Social Software
Semantic Web
MetaCommunity
Knowledge Network
Database Filesystem
Metadata
B2B
Grid Computing

If it does, you might want to sacrifice a goat or something. If it involves one of the above with one of the following..

Wireless
Mesh Network
P2P
RSS
Mobile

Consider very carefuly indeed.

I followed a link here from someplace, but for the life of me I can't remember where. The other message board where I (used to) post went to pay subscription, which was fine, but it seemed like the mods and admins also got huge sticks up their asses about the same time and ran many of my favorite posters off, making it decidedly un-funner.
I keep coming back here for the wit, sarcasm, yelling and profanity. And there are a few regulars here whose posts I seek out intentionally, knowing they will always have something interesting to say, and some whose principles I agree with. The boards always run quickly and smoothly, but there aren't so many threads that it's impossible to keep up.
I like this place. :)

What draws me back to the Cellar?, i keep on posting, and posting, and posting, and nobody here freakin' reads me.

i believe thats what draws me back here.

We read it.
You leave us speechless. ;)

Everything about this place drew me in, and keeps me here. I love it.

Pale blue is addictive.... so blue.... so pale....

Hey Jane Says... are you a Jane's Addiction fan?

I like it because it's not full of teenagers, the people are mostly intelligent and witty, um, and that's it.

:tinfoil: Whew, I thought that just applied to me. I started calling myself "the Thread-Killer". Okay, who else here has self-esteem issues? Wolf, do you want to moderate? :)

What keeps me lurking here? The people the people the people. ^_^

IotD and the Cellar taglines I keep coming back for too.

The Cellar banzai!

It's the smell. I love it. DO you smell that? man! what a great smell.

howdy all - apparently it is a thread that i started that draws me back. i haven't been around lately as i've been busy with little lookout. the little bugger has been pretty sick and the doc can't figure it out. he has had between a 99 and 104 degree temp for nearly a month and a sinus infection that won't give up. one round of amoxicillin barely put a dent in it before it came back stronger than before. he's had chest xrays, sinus xrays, blood tests, urine tests, strep tests, mono tests... pretty much everything but a calculus test.

everything has come back negative - except for a sinus infection. the doc says "there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with him - other than he spikes 103.5 every other night." the doc is good, attentive, and proactively seeking answers - so it isn't that the doc isn't interested in looking for the cause - it's just that we haven't found it yet.

LL was born a month premie after spending 5 months being held in by a circlage that forced my wife into 24/7 bedrest (5 months!) during that time she was in constant labor, so they had to pump her full of steroids and other fun stuff to strengthen his lungs as quickly as possible so that if he came out too early he had a fighting chance. he has minor allergies, and minor asthma but has been otherwise healthy. until now.

so there you have - why i come back to the cellar. the ability to disappear for extended periods of time, drop back in, vent, and get back on with life. i have to go rock my son now.

[just]I don't think you're worth it.[/kidding]

*very evil grin*

(I'm a professional, kids. Don't try this at home.)

Blessings, hugs, and healing. I'll keep LL and your family in my prayers.

I am keeping you and yours in my prayer too Lookout. Stay positive he will get through this and be okay. From a mom of 3 girls...Amoxicillin sucks. It does nothing. He is so little they probably don't want to try anything stronger but it sounds like this sinus infection needs a bit stronger medicine to kick it's ass. Keep us posted.

I come back here for the abuse. The people in my everday life make me feel relatively smart. I need to come here for my reality check.

I'm with you. that's what keeps me coming back. The hopes that someday *sigh* someone will answer one of my witty posts with a laughing smiley face.

That and I come here for the music.

Man. I know that the IotD brought me here when I was still living in Vegas. That was Pre LJ and during the last dying throes of Dave-ness.

I lurked for a few months, then got my toes wet and was promptly smacked down. I tried to quit once, tried the "alternate name" thing (for about 2 posts), and then found my balance.

I come back because:

.all of the different points of view in one place.
.so many people know so much more than I do about lots of stuff, and I try to learn from them.
.someone usually has it worse than me, and I can lend an encouraging word
.when I need some support or advice, folks here will usually offer me an encouraging word, or at least their opinion.
.there is an ignore function. :D
.there are no avatars.
.UT isn't one of those admins that you have to agree with (which I respect the hell out of and appreciate)
.I have no RL friends.

Well.....I appear to have wandered back into the Cellar again :P Lookout, hope the doctors figure it out soon and put your mind at rest.

I just come here for the sex and the drugs.

I thought you brought them.

Why do I come back here? I'm not sure...where the hell am I, anyway?

Keeping up the good vibes for healing for the little one...

I come here because I like you guys. You know, except for Pie. Nobody likes Pie! (Pie, that's a joke, coz I like you, too, :)

the only person I have it out for is SteveDallas as I have NOT forgotten his slavish adherence to grammar issues in another thread. :)

And, Lookout, I will send along good vibes, too, and I did wonder where the hell you'd gone.

if it wasn't for this place, i would've not gotten drunk last weekend in Paragould with Zippyt! that and y'all are a great group of guys!

:lol:

I come here to catch up on everything I have been missing out on for too many years - while I was married, while I was sick, and while I was living in Fresno :blush:

Fresno can't really be that bad, can it?

Yes it can. It didn't used to be one of the armpits of the world, it took about 20 years to get it to this point. If you ignore most of the laws of economics, sociology, development, government, and civic engineering for that period of time, YOU TOO can produce a Fresno. But please don't.

It's Kalifornia. I think that says nearly enough ... other than it's not Ellay, SanFran, or Sacrimento.

Not enough that the governator is Ahnold, WE have Bubba (Alan Autry) as our mayor. But the laws of logic do not apply here and Mr. Autry is actually doing a BETTER job than anybody has done for such a long time that we totally support him. Well, until he decided to go to NO on the City credit cards with the goal of "recruiting" 400 of the leftover dispossessed to come and live in Fresno. Forget that nobody has yet figured out what to do with the 3,500 Hmong the Feds sent us from Thailand since last year, who don't have homes, or jobs, or good health, or can read or speak English. Fortunately, when the Feds heard that Mayor Bubba was considering putting the new 400 in the baseball stadium until more permanent arrangements could be made, they nixed it.

The Hmong will learn to speak English and eventally get jobs. The people from Louisiana won't.

The refresh button.

Maybe Tony could get an endorsement from a distillery. :drunk:

Hey! I'll have you know I shower every day, or at least hit the Refresh button. :p

Actually, I've been on the Cellar since the dial-up days. As far as I know, it's the oldest Philadelphia area BBS still in existence. I have seen some very interesting characters, some of who actually made it onto my 'ignore' list.

Actually, I would love to see a live debate among some of our more opinionated denizens past and present, some of whom I actually agree with most of the time.

Let's see, we would have to find Barak, invite Radar to come east, call up TW.... :eek:

ok, so a 103 degree temp is not supposed to fucking happen after nearly a @Q#$!! month on antibiotics. he's four. when a fucking four year old says "i don't know why i'm sick daddy. i'm sorry, i keep trying to get better." my instinct is to gut someone - but there is no one to blame. FUCK! viral infection my ass. the kid is rarely sick so he hasn't built up a tolerance to amoxicilin. he took a full schedule of that for two weeks. no change. the doc upgrades (downgrades) him to augmentin and the only difference is that the boy shits himself if he laughs, sneezes, coughs, or thinks too hard. then he cries and says, "i'm sorry for making a mess daddy." i would gladly take his place, hell i'd kill my own mother to make him feel 50% better!

every single blood, urine, enzyme, xray, (you name it, he's had it) test has come back clean except for a sinus infection. the kid begs me not to "let them poke any more holes in him." my ped actually had me bring him over to his house because it was closer than the office this morning and the kid goes into near hysterics if we say "we're going to the dr's" now.

FUCK!




thanks for reading my rant.

l123, I know, I've been there. **I** would trade with the little guy. I remember the frustration when our kids were that little, and sick. Hearing them apologize for being sick just broke my heart. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm hanging in there with you as much as I can through this connection in the cellar.

I pray LL will be well. I pray for peace for you and your wife. I pray for wisdom for the doctors. I pray for strength for LL.

It sucks right now, and I'm sorry.

Nice discussions, nice people.. I really hope to chat with everybody here.. this is really a cool site!

I'm sorry man. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Hang in there, Lookout.