That Moment...

TMW a day or so after Photobucket demands $400 to let you show your pictures to other people, they send you an email inviting you to buy coffee from some sort of Amazon knockoff they're trying to start.

Srsly?

 

TMW your older (60-something) very liberal colleague reveals, through some online locker-roomish joking, that he is still very much a product of his times.

I guess he'd never heard of pegging before.

 

TMW when Iain yet again reminds you to get your photos off Photobucket.

Thank you for this public service.

P.S. Have you found a way to mass download images? I'm poking around and can't see anything obvious...

 

Haven't had time yet, but I think you can download full albums as zip files, although some people are complaining that they're coming in corrupted.

 

Just found the option, thanks!

 

TMW you've completed your biannual "drinks with co-workers" event to convince them that you're not a complete asshole (even though, in context, you probably are) and you want nothing so much as to get the fuck out and back home...

 

The moment you return home in the morning and 'drunk prick' has spray-canned the entire house.

But, we did it. With white paint and thinners, nothing shall defeat us, the 'so-called' parents. Only the outline of a swastika over my desk.

 

That moment when you have to stop writing for the night because you just can't handle the feels.

 

TMW you notice members strolling through really old threads and wonder what took them to those remote hinterlands.

 

The hunger for knowledge, I would assume. We're here to LEARN, Wreybies!

 

How do you get back that far? Just by scrolling? Where do you start?

 

But page 58 of... what? Like, a search?

 

Whoa. I just found a post from 2007 with the poster asking if s/he could send submissions on CD instead of "the traditional printed out pages". That was only ten years ago!

 

You can also reverse-search a subforum. I do it all the time in my never-ending task of emptying out the General Writing subforum in the upper quarter of the forum. Just click into a subforum and at the top of the page where it says Start Date, click those words (it's a button) and it will rearrange threads ascending or descending (just look at the arrow) by when they were started rather than by their last reply.

 

Oooh... there's a global warming thread from 2006 -

 

When I first joined we were balls deep in paranormal romance. The forum citizenry was also generally much younger in those early days. Flame wars were about team Jacob vs. team Edward. No one talked about politics. No one.

 

Into the other subforums in that section of the forum. Occasionally into subforums further down. That one particular subforum - General Writing - grew so large that it acquired a kind of gravity, pulling in everything that comes close to its gravitational well. "Oh, this looks like the busy subforum. I'll post my thread here even though my thread title clearly says "need help with plot development". At this point I have now literally moved thousands of threads from that subforum to where they actually belong. This past Friday, General Writing was at 9508 threads, today...