Holy Shit! It's LabRat!!!

Aliantha • Nov 17, 2011 5:00 pm
Wow! Did I miss something or is this the first appearance in ages?
footfootfoot • Nov 17, 2011 5:57 pm
I'm checking out this thread and all I see is a post by you and the post I'm typing.
footfootfoot • Nov 17, 2011 5:57 pm
Now I can see both our posts.
footfootfoot • Nov 17, 2011 5:59 pm
Hey! There's another one of mine.
I still haven't seen LabRat.
Aliantha • Nov 17, 2011 6:03 pm
Well I saw her logged in but by the time I put this post up, she was gone. I assume it was her, cause there's only ever been one labrat right?

Now it's still just posts from you and me.
jimhelm • Nov 17, 2011 6:09 pm
and me.

why you outtin lurkers?
Aliantha • Nov 17, 2011 6:11 pm
I wasn't doing it in a bad way. It's just that I think it's sad she had to leave, and hopeful that she feels welcome to come back if it's the right thing for her to do.
Aliantha • Nov 17, 2011 6:12 pm
And you better be careful Jim or I'll out you too! :)
jimhelm • Nov 17, 2011 6:17 pm
I'm pretty sure I have no secrets.

well....besides my crush on you... but now THat's out too!
Aliantha • Nov 17, 2011 6:19 pm
No, I'll tell them about the OTHER thing. hehehe
jimhelm • Nov 17, 2011 6:20 pm
i've repressed it
Aliantha • Nov 17, 2011 6:20 pm
Well watch yourself or it's gonna get unrepressed!
infinite monkey • Nov 17, 2011 6:23 pm
jimhelm;773732 wrote:
i've repressed it


That's why it looks so small! :smack:
Pico and ME • Nov 17, 2011 6:25 pm
tee hee
jimhelm • Nov 17, 2011 6:32 pm
infinite monkey;773735 wrote:
That's why it looks so small! :smack:


OH SHIT.

you di'int!

i'll get you monkey... and your little dog too.....
infinite monkey • Nov 17, 2011 6:35 pm
:p:

It was there, I couldn't help it. Ripe for the pickin'!

;)
jimhelm • Nov 17, 2011 6:36 pm
i was swimming!

there was shrinkage!

I'm Irish!


fuck you

fuck you in the neck!
infinite monkey • Nov 17, 2011 6:38 pm
It's been so long I'd just figure that's how they do it these days. :lol:
sexobon • Nov 17, 2011 10:54 pm
Aliantha;773716 wrote:
Well I saw her logged in ...

Perhaps, just to close the account.
Aliantha;773723 wrote:
... and hopeful that she feels welcome to come back if it's the right thing for her to do.

Maybe; but, under another username.
monster • Nov 18, 2011 12:32 am
She's been lurking on and off for a while.
sexobon • Nov 18, 2011 6:21 am
A user need not log in (which shows up under Currently Active Users) to simply lurk. It seems more likely the user is PMing; or, has authorized someone else to monitor account activity.
ZenGum • Nov 18, 2011 6:57 am
ZOMBIE!!!!!
Clodfobble • Nov 18, 2011 7:00 am
Logging in also lets the system keep track of what posts have and haven't been read, otherwise the New Posts button doesn't work at all.

Don't pressure her, y'all.
Aliantha • Nov 18, 2011 7:09 am
You're right Clod. I kinda wish I hadn't started this thread now, but I was just hopeful that she might be planning on coming back.

I've missed her.
ZenGum • Nov 18, 2011 7:11 am
I hope her profile picture changes to a face painted on a stone.
sexobon • Nov 18, 2011 8:33 am
Clodfobble;773834 wrote:
Logging in also lets the system keep track of what posts have and haven't been read, otherwise the New Posts button doesn't work at all. ...

That's not it, the sheer number of new posts that accumulate between intermittent viewings would make the feature virtually useless.
monster;773808 wrote:
She's been lurking on and off for a while.
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 9:42 am
She doesn't show up in the members list anymore. I didn't think we could delete ourselves. *shrug*

edit: dunno, an old link took me to her profile.

Whut Ev.
Undertoad • Nov 18, 2011 9:45 am
what the
sexobon • Nov 18, 2011 10:00 am
Yes, the account is still active. You can use the search function to find the user's posts by typing in the username; then, click on the username in the results page to access the user's profile. Only the membership listing is missing from the public board.
glatt • Nov 18, 2011 10:06 am
Maybe it's my super secret mod powers, but I see her on the member list, even when I refresh. What are you all talking about?
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 10:10 am
I'm talking about looking up "community" then "members" then "L" and not seeing her listed.
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 10:11 am
Ha! Wasn't there last night, wasn't there a few minutes ago when I looked. It's there now.

This game is stupid. Apropos.
Undertoad • Nov 18, 2011 10:14 am
turns out users awaiting email confirmation are not shown.
sexobon • Nov 18, 2011 10:30 am
:lol: I too had checked several times. The first time I saw that it wasn't there was the reason I earlier speculated (post # 19) that the user might have signed in to request that the account be closed. Live and learn.
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 10:32 am
Why do you need confirmation if you've been a member since 1952?????
Undertoad • Nov 18, 2011 10:35 am
if you forget your password and say, want to post or something
footfootfoot • Nov 18, 2011 10:53 am
Zippy, check your PM
zippyt • Nov 18, 2011 11:04 am
done
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 11:33 am
That was the funniest PM ever. Did you write it yourself?
zippyt • Nov 18, 2011 11:43 am
oh im saving and printing That one out to hang on the wall !!!
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 11:55 am
Me too!
sexobon • Nov 18, 2011 12:37 pm
Monkey see, monkey do!
jimhelm • Nov 18, 2011 2:26 pm
I don't want to be a buzz kill, but I'm pretty sure she promised her hubby that she'd stay away from us degenerates.... I think you were actually mistaken ali. I think you must have seen me logged in with my sockpuppet "Larbat" ...yeah... that must have been it.
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 2:29 pm
Nah, I dunno and I duncare but I've seen her on the 'who's online' list a few times lately.

Just so Ali doesn't feel gaslighted. :neutral:

http://www.cellar.org/member.php?u=1635

last activity 11/17/2011 4:44 PM
limey • Nov 18, 2011 2:52 pm
Isn't this just a little bit like stalking?
infinite monkey • Nov 18, 2011 3:41 pm
I was thinking the same thing!
classicman • Nov 18, 2011 5:46 pm
No one knows whats going on with her. Maybe she wanted to pop in say hi and wish you all a happy holiday season or something.
BrianR • Nov 18, 2011 10:24 pm
I might be able to find out.

She has popped into chat once or twice
I'll ask her for an update on the sly.
Sundae • Nov 19, 2011 6:29 am
Please do.
Ask her how she is I mean. I'd love to have an update. I do miss her, she was such a gentle person.
sexobon • Nov 19, 2011 6:41 am
limey;773978 wrote:
Isn't this just a little bit like stalking?

NO! The user has a control panel option of being "Invisible" and not showing up on the "Currently Active Users" list and "Last Activity" record. This is a user who WANTS to be noticed without interacting knowing full well that revealing a presence here is likely to generate discussion and probing. It's a diagnostic endeavor to elicit our feelings, after the passage of time and attrition, without the user ever having to actually ask us and it's being pulled off by someone already known to be smart enough and have an evasive character. If you need to put a label on the community's response to being used like this, you can call it counter-lurking. :eyebrow:
infinite monkey • Nov 19, 2011 10:01 am
Yep!
ZenGum • Nov 19, 2011 6:15 pm
It isn't stalking, but it is kinda blowing her cover if she is trying to slip back for a discrete reconnaissance.
monster • Nov 19, 2011 6:16 pm
then she should go invisible
Aliantha • Nov 19, 2011 6:18 pm
Really? wow. Sounds like you'd be happy not to see here here again sexobon.

I personally didn't attribute anything more to it than that perhaps someone had pm'd her and she came to respond to it or something.

It's been a while since all the stuff went down. I just thought that she might have worked through it with BR and that they might both have felt it would be ok.

Clearly, some people are not very forgiving.
fargon • Nov 19, 2011 6:19 pm
Maybe she is.
fargon • Nov 19, 2011 6:21 pm
monster;774215 wrote:
then she should go invisible

Maybe She did.
sexobon • Nov 19, 2011 7:27 pm
Aliantha;774216 wrote:
Really? wow. Sounds like you'd be happy not to see here here again sexobon.

On the contrary, I be happy to see a return (without the dirty laundry) just as I was happy to see Mari leave and I was happy to see Sam arrive.
Aliantha;774216 wrote:
I personally didn't attribute anything more to it than that perhaps someone had pm'd her and she came to respond to it or something.

Gee, I wonder where you got that idea? :rolleyes:
sexobon;773826 wrote:
... It seems more likely the user is PMing; or, has authorized someone else to monitor account activity.

Aliantha;774216 wrote:
It's been a while since all the stuff went down. I just thought that she might have worked through it with BR and that they might both have felt it would be ok.

Then why no posts from either of them? They don't need our permission.
Aliantha;774216 wrote:
Clearly, some people are not very forgiving.

Clearly, some people are not very logical.

Really, it's not your forte.
Aliantha • Nov 19, 2011 11:45 pm
WTF is your problem?

What did I ever do to you to deserve this hostility?

Do you think that just because you suggest something you're the only one that might have a thought ie
I personally didn't attribute anything more to it than that perhaps someone had pm'd her and she came to respond to it or something


What's with the attitude?
zippyt • Nov 20, 2011 12:08 am
What's with the attitude?


PMS
Aliantha • Nov 20, 2011 12:18 am
:lol2:
sexobon • Nov 20, 2011 4:28 am
Aliantha;774216 wrote:
Really? wow. Sounds like you'd be happy not to see here here again sexobon. ... Clearly, some people are not very forgiving.

You posted an erroneous negative conclusion about me. Obviously LabRat never did anything to me so there's nothing to forgive. I never said that I didn't want LabRat back and all anyone had to do was ask if they suspected otherwise. You chose not to ask. In your assessment of me, you showed the same lack of forethought in consideration of another member as you did in starting this thread:
Aliantha;773838 wrote:
... I kinda wish I hadn't started this thread now ...

If I were to follow suit and jump to conclusions, I would say that your remarks about me were made to draw attention away from yourself for outing LabRat and in retaliation for the direction this thread has taken after you set things in motion.

Instead, I choose to give the benefit of the doubt. So, if in the future you're simply concerned enough about my opinion to post about it, feel free to ask me for a definitive answer before extrapolating. Now, run away with me and I'll buy you a castle in Switzerland, I'll even adopt the kids! ;)
Aliantha • Nov 20, 2011 4:36 am
I think I've made it pretty clear why I started this thread. I've also made honest statements about how I feel about it in hindsight.

This drama is just stupid. I'm grown up enough to live with the consequences of my actions, particularly if those actions were in good spirit in the first place.

Slant it whichever way you like. It doesn't matter to me.
sexobon • Nov 20, 2011 4:52 am
The way you slanted my statements DID matter to me. I take pride in being able to treat people fairly.
Aliantha • Nov 20, 2011 5:06 am
Your statements came across as very judgmental to me. I apologise if the misunderstanding was mine.
sexobon • Nov 20, 2011 5:30 am
[SIZE="3"]I don't see the subject of my statements disputing ANY of them.[/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Gray"](*cough* elicitation *cough* wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more)[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Aliantha • Nov 20, 2011 5:33 am
If she's not here by now, I don't think any number of hints are going to draw her out. lol
LabRat • Nov 22, 2011 4:15 pm
I have been popping in lurking from time to time for a loooong time, without logging in. No need to log in to see what people are up to. Awhile back I decided I might be ready to start posting again, but realized I had forgotten my password. UT kindly reset it, and I was able to finally log in again. One of the things I first did was change where my emails go if someone wants to email me. I didn't realize that screwed something up until I wanted to actually post something. And couldn't. I tried several different times before checking with UT to see what was up. So, that's why you saw me online, but I never posted anything. I just found out today that all seems to be back in order when someone pointed me in the direction of this thread.

I have no alterior motives for the log-ins, and I would never register under a sock puppet. I fucking hate them.

When I have time for 20 questions, I will gladly open myself up to it. Until then, Red and I are doing fine.
classicman • Nov 22, 2011 4:17 pm
Hiya LabRat! Really nice to see you here again.
Glad things are well with you and Red.
Hope you get to posting more soon, if not have a great holiday!
zippyt • Nov 22, 2011 4:18 pm
YEAHHHH Labrats BACK !!!!!!!!!

Glad to see you kiddo !!! :)
BigV • Nov 22, 2011 4:19 pm
What's making me happy today:

Until then, Red and I are doing fine.
LabRat • Nov 22, 2011 4:20 pm
sexobon;774259 wrote:
[SIZE="3"]I don't see the subject of my statements disputing ANY of them.[/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Gray"](*cough* elicitation *cough* wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more)[/COLOR][/SIZE]


BTW, I see and am choosing to ignore this BS.
glatt • Nov 22, 2011 4:21 pm
Good to see you checking in.
DanaC • Nov 22, 2011 6:17 pm
yey! Glad you guys are ok LabRat. Lovely to see you:)
jimhelm • Nov 22, 2011 6:43 pm
Glad to see you pop in too, Labrat. I don't really have a Larbat sockpuppet. That was just obfuscation.

Glad Red is well, too.

would you mind if I called you Cock, just for old times sake?
wolf • Nov 22, 2011 8:51 pm
Welcome back, Labrat! You're like an early Christmas present.
monster • Nov 22, 2011 9:58 pm
huzzah! How's your little girl?
Clodfobble • Nov 22, 2011 10:11 pm
Hey chiquita! Good to see you around. Glad the family is well. I, too, would love an update on the munchkin.
Nirvana • Nov 22, 2011 10:55 pm
i am thankful that labrat is back :p: now if i can locate a new keyboard tomorrow....
Aliantha • Nov 23, 2011 4:07 am
Nice to see you again Labrat, and I honestly am sorry if I caused you any stress or annoyance when I created this thread. My humblest apologies to you. I am glad to see you post again though. xx
limey • Nov 23, 2011 5:30 am
WB LR!
Sundae • Nov 23, 2011 9:42 am
Great to see you Labs x
ZenGum • Nov 24, 2011 5:24 am
:jig:

Great to see you!
Pete Zicato • Nov 28, 2011 4:47 pm
It was good to hear from you LR. Good to know you and Red are doing well.

I hope you will be able to visit for a bit sometime soon.