Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) Get a life

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Rince, I bow before you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> - Jeez, never thought of looking this phrase up in the internet - I really have to learn - thank you a ton <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" />

BTW, I never liked the macho role Shatner played in Star Trek => I'm changing my mind now - care to found a fan club? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

Kiya <thinking of all those wasted hours where Star Trek/Star wars fans tried to explain these worlds and got lost in details, whereas I had difficulties in keeping awake or feigning an interested facial expression>

Some good replies here, some way too philosophical though.
To me the phrase 'get a life' has always meant 'be normal' or 'do something normal instead of rotting in front of a monitor all day'. Sometimes used by the wife.....
What the hell is normal anyway? Personally, the normallity of my existence changes from day to day, as does my life. What I'm trying to say is that whatever you do you should like doing and let that be your life.

'Get a life' is basically a conformist statement IMO.

Short rant over with. Better get back to work. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

yep i agree with womble's defination, except for a bit more added on

well the phrase 'get a life' to a 14 yr old mean to me, is either that you are a loser, or a pervert, or you just have no life-you don't go out stay in all the time and 'spend to much on the computer'<--bit like me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Actually I reckon this phrase is almost a product of the technological age. It seems that society has been divided by the PC. There are those who know how to use them and enjoy it and there are those who are, frankly, jealous. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I've used this phrase often as a retort when I saw my flatmates lounging around watching godawful soap operas or just wasting time in front of the TV. Yet they could never understand why I would spend hours in front of my computer....
Still, a long time ago. It appears I 'have a life' now. Or at least a wife. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

why do people actually like watching soap operas, i seen one, omg so boring went on and on and on and on..(10minutes later)...and on and on, whoops gots a bit carried away.

yep everyone is jealous of me cause i know how to use my computer to have fun <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

n gd for you, you 'have a life', dunno if i have one just yet

Even worse : The poorer countries cannot afford huge lcenses made by big companies. They are more or less " cut off" the "Internet Information Stream" - unless they use Open Source products.

great stuff... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />....all of it and it all applies...
good job Rince... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Hmmm soaps eh? "GAL" fer sure... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
but computers all day is OK! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
it's a learning thing! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

in one sense or another... it's one of those multi=purpose words

[color:"yellow"] Jeez, never thought of looking this phrase up in the internet[/color]

good thing, too... you might not have posted, and this has been an interesting thread <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

[color:"yellow"]I never liked the macho role Shatner played in Star Trek [/color]

didn't think much of him, myself, until i realized he plays it with tongue stuck firmly in cheek. he's got a great sense of self-mockery, and has done some wonderful spoofs of Captain James T. Kirk over the years.

and he is actually a funny guy.....
or tries to be.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

my life is calling....

actually it's my stomach calling...... gotta eat!

what a life! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Hm, they needn't be jealous, they may only feel excluded, this involves a whole bunch of emotions - and one of them might be jealousy - but I believe, a lot really deals with "norms" being "normal", "normative" => fitting into a little labeled box saying: "I'm like the rest, I'm like you". (Reminds me of a swarm piranhas - if one dances out of the line - normally ill - the rest turns on it and kills it.)

If social contact is the key to having a "life" regardless of its quality, I'd call this "life" as empty, shallow and running away from "life" as locking oneself in a room and staring on the screen. I think a "life" deserves this name if one feels happy with what one's doing => alive - be it collecting stamps, reading, gardening etc. => all not very social interests.

What really fascinates me about this phrase "get a life" is that specially PC people use it a lot themselves. So I ask myself: are they insecure of what they're doing? Do they feel "not ok" by doing this? Why do they use this phrase coming originally from non-PC-junkies? do some consider themselves secretly to be "nerds, geeks"... forgot the 3rd word.

And about illusions in a virtual world => lies, hiding, making up etc. exist in the real world as well as in the virtual world, I see no difference - even physical contact, body language etc. does not prevent one from this.
Kiya

I have a very strenuous job involving a lot of social contacts, so I cherish these silent hours in front of the screen - just the game and me - when I come home and am totally drained. I'm glad I can shut out some senses (talking and listening) - the thought of sitting in a crowded loud pub and listening again to people with the same, neverchanging problems is not really attractive for me or watching them get drunk, or quarrel or whatever. I think some people are hermits and others homo sociologicus - plurality is the mix.

and look what hit the newswires today:

LONDON (Reuters) - The typical Internet user -- far from being a geek -- shuns television and actively socializes with friends, a study on surfing habits said Wednesday.

The findings of the first World Internet Project report present an image of the average Netizen that contrasts with the stereotype of the loner "geek" who spends hours of his free time on the Internet and rarely engages with the real world.

Instead, the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much as five hours per week compared with Net abstainers, the study added.

lol ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

yep yep yep <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
good points kiya
man... you can go deep can't ya! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"] Netizen [/color]

Did my little eye spy a new word there, cause in the past heck err 6-7 years on the net I have never heard that one ?

Even I heard this before ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

For me 'Get a Life' means get your nose out of my life and worry about yourself.

Dear members of the forum, I'd like to inform you about a decision growing within myself since 2nd Jan. 2004:

I spent a lot of my scarce leisure time here - and loved it when I felt happy/content, saw it as a constructive and educational way on a voluntary free basis - my gain was energy for my job and learning.

It has changed now. Spam and ups/downs in this virtual social atmosphere seem to belong together like 2 sides of the coin. I observed them as floods - and I have been involved in one too many now. Each high tide left me back a bit more worn out, aggravated, fed up and disgusted. So, I started to ask myself the following questions:

Is this a phenomenon, regardless of individual, gender, age, nationality? => yes
Do I accept its inevitable existance? => yes
Do I like it? => nope
Can I change it or at least my attitude towards it? => nope
Can I control the destructive impact it has on myself (emotional hygiene)? => nope
Can I ignore it and simply concentrate on the positive sides? => nope

Conclusion => I choose to spend my future free time with things I feel happy with - in a peaceful, spamless, silent atmosphere, in my own way.

I thank those who provided me with fun, contact, friendliness, warmth and laughter.

Farewell and take care <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Kiya

PS: Please, leave this post uncommented, if you can - I do NOT intend to open another futile debate about spam, I merely wish to inform you - thanks in advance for respecting this.

I have no more tolerance, patience and humour to offer - only my honesty and my self-honesty. My decision does not involve no more engagement for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> or <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> - so, Goldy, you'll get further new screenies <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

This is actualla a very important topic that you posted here Kiya..
Why??
For me the frase "Get a Life" is as you said it almost every time meant in a Negative way.. The reason is that the people who says it dont have the life they wants,or dreams off..
In Norway we have this new thing, SMS programs at night on the tube.. There people is sending in SMS to be read on the screen,they chat about nothing and everything.. What I have noticed there is that there is always someone that sais "What do you people do this for? using money to chat at TV, get a life"
There is the frase used again.. "GEt a life" Then I tend to wonder.. Why in the heavens name do they complain about people chatting there?? When they obvissly are doing it themselves?? It is not that they are looking down on the people that is doing it, they dont like themselves.. They have a poor selfimage and to compansate for that they talk negative about others.. Too feel good about themselves.. So my point is: If you just accept who you are and what you are doing, this problem wouldnt be an issue..
I know that this never is happening, the human mind is to complex.. But if we are doing it and always are positive, we can influence other "negative" people too get more positive attitude.. Becouse who doesnt want to have a good life..

Ftr: My answer to your 4. question is: A life to get is a life were you are happy with yoursel and your enviroment.. That you like yourself..

People say "Get a life" to infer that the person whey are talking to is a loser and incredibly lame. It's an incredibly weak insult used only by those who have the brainpower of a cactus, a deformed catus at that.