Topic: This forum is like a family (Read 46300 times)

Thrillho · « **on:** 27 Jul 2013, 12:34 »

You know, the more I think about it, the more I feel like this forum is like another family to me.

This occurred to me after a discussion with Garand the other day in which I realised I kinda feel like he's the forum's older brother who'd beat people up for us.

It's also kind of like a support group at the same time.

...it's also certainly as annoying as a family can be at times

LeeC · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 12:37 »

can I be the step brother who lights things on fire but somehow you manage to get blamed?

SageJiraiya · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 12:41 »

In the short time I've been here this seems to constantly be the case. You guys get along like brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, moms and dads, and grandpas and grandmas. I've seldom seen such a close community before, and I'm glad to have joined it.

Redball · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 12:50 »

By age, of course, I'd be a grandfather. I haven't yet learned to act like one, even to my IRL grandkids. Nevertheless, the forum is certainly a family to me. I tend to recognize that quickly, since I'm always on the lookout for families to glom on to.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #4 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 13:40 »

I guess I'm certainly part of the younger generation here, and haven't been a member of this group for long. Still I think of everybody here as a very good friend. I've shared stuff with you guys which I didn't really share with anybody I know in person. You've helped me when I was having trouble, and I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't be as positive about my life as I am now if I hadn't met all of you forumites. Many of you have cheered with me when I was happy, all of you gave me support when I needed it. You have definitely helped me to shorten depressive moods.

You're all great!

jwhouk · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 13:43 »

...Does that make pwhodges "Great Grandpa Paul"?

I'm that weird uncle who lives out in the middle of nowhere and pops in at odd hours.

Loki · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 14:13 »

Gareth-bro is best big bro.

Edit: this is not a statement meaning to downplay other big brothers or other forum members. It's just that I meant to say this exact sentence for... a while.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 14:25 »

I'm pretty sure I'd be the weird uncle.

Thrillho · « **Reply #8 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 14:29 »

Quote from: Loki on 27 Jul 2013, 14:13

Gareth-bro is best big bro.

Edit: this is not a statement meaning to downplay other big brothers or other forum members. It's just that I meant to say this exact sentence for... a while.

Loki, I owe you a hug and a beer.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #9 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 14:35 »

Quote from: ackblom12 on 27 Jul 2013, 14:25

I'm pretty sure I'd be the weird uncle.

Seconded. Weird everything actually.

Loki · « **Reply #10 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 14:45 »

My, we certainly have a lot of uncles. This says heaps about our grandfather

Gareth: the hug I'll gladly accept. The beer I will have to treat you to.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #11 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 14:49 »

First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #12 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 15:03 »

Good consequences, or bad consequences?

ankhtahr · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 15:12 »

Gareth, your comment made me remember that Loki promised me to celebrate my 18th birthday should we ever meet in person…

By the way, this one goes out to all regulars in this Forum:

Edit: and before anyone asks: yes, I have slightly edited Steve's speech bubble.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 15:15 »

Honestly I doubt some of you would be able to tell the difference Nae

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 15:15 »

I'm guessing I'm the cousin who keeps to himself much of the time and listens to what other people have to say.

J · « **Reply #16 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 15:16 »

i guess i'd be one of those obscure cousins who lives nearby, but nobody really knows very well.

~~Valdís~~ · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 15:20 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 14:49

First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

Onii-chan~~!

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Kugai · « **Reply #18 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 16:02 »

I'd probably wind up the weird nephew/cousin. The one whose a bit odd/goofy and a little shy/quiet but you like having round 'cause he's OK.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 16:10 »

Quote from: Valdís on 27 Jul 2013, 15:20

Quote from: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 14:49
First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

Onii-chan~~!

(click to show/hide)

Wouldn't our continued flirtations be siscon then?

LeeC · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 16:15 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 16:10

Quote from: Valdís on 27 Jul 2013, 15:20
Quote from: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 14:49
First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

Onii-chan~~!

(click to show/hide)

Wouldn't our continued flirtations be siscon then?

I demand to see this settled through agni kai!

(click to show/hide)

~~Valdís~~ · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 17:46 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 16:10

Wouldn't our continued flirtations be siscon then?

Hn..? Flirtation? I don't know what you mean onii-chan~! You're being weird again!

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~~Valdís~~ · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 17:51 »

Also Gareth actually is like a nice goofy older brother with slight incestuous tendencies

Quote from: Valdís on 13 Apr 2013, 17:09

Quote from: Gareth on 13 Apr 2013, 16:36
this forum is a lot like a family

xxx

I am so not used to being kissed repeatedly by family!

ooo

Quote from: Gareth on 13 Apr 2013, 17:12

And you sure you don't want some familial kisses

Carl-E · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 20:39 »

Grumpy old "uncle" who's not really related to anyone in any way that anyone can remember.

Mostly hangs out to complain.

Occasionally has an insight, and it's usually pretty unpleasant.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #24 on:** 27 Jul 2013, 21:53 »

What's my role?

J · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 02:01 »

i suppose you'd be the uncle who babysits us all and breaks up fights

snalin · « **Reply #26 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 03:42 »

Quote from: Loki on 27 Jul 2013, 14:13

Gareth-bro is best big bro.

In the the plethora of Japanese honorific postfixes; the -san and -chan and -kun, we can now add -bro. I'm going to go and make an alternate Naruto fan-dub. "But, Sasuke-bro!", "Wait, Sasuke-bro!", "Isn't Sakura lovely, Sasuke-bro?"

Lines · « **Reply #27 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 07:38 »

I claim the cousin that makes you handmade gifts whether you want them or not, but you don't care, because they usually involve some kind of baked good.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #28 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 08:09 »

Quote from: Linds on 28 Jul 2013, 07:38

I claim the cousin that makes you handmade gifts whether you want them or not, but you don't care, because they usually involve some kind of baked good.

With none of us suspecting that the lovingly baked goods are in fact poisoned! (With love....and Poison! The band, of course. Who also added poison!)
*Gasp*
You want the family fortune all for yourself!

nekowafer · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 08:54 »

I'm guessing I'm the aunt that thinks she's still a kid and talks about sex and makes poop jokes.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 09:19 »

I guess these days I'm the distant cousin who visits once every few years and no one quite remembers.

Thrillho · « **Reply #31 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 09:30 »

Quote from: nekowafer on 28 Jul 2013, 08:54

I'm guessing I'm the aunt that thinks she's still a kid and talks about sex and makes poop jokes.

I have, to be fair, never known anyone to use the word 'butt' so much.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 09:42 »

I've no idea what the hell I am. The talking pet?

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 09:57 »

You're the forum clamp weasel

Thrillho · « **Reply #34 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 10:00 »

That made me laugh far too much

Loki · « **Reply #35 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 10:25 »

Quote from: J on 28 Jul 2013, 02:01

i suppose you'd be the uncle who babysits us all and breaks up fights

I think of Method of Madness as the older kid who babysits the youngsters.

Welu · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 10:40 »

What am I? Some kind of Little Sister?

Carl-E · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 10:55 »

Okay, if you want.

But that image was a bit disturbing... keep your needles to yourself!

Loki · « **Reply #38 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:00 »

Unicorn is the crazy (in the nicest way possible) and occasionally insightful pair of traumatized twins who speak in unison and are pale and seem to look right through you far away into the distance.

Noone knows what happened to their parents or how they are really related to the family, but noone dares to ask.

GM is the guy sitting on his veranda with a shotgun in his hand. However if he lets you in his house, you will realize that he is knowledgeable about all gun things and he also probably has deer heads all over the walls.

Akima is the Australian cousin of ...somebody and can be most frequently found meditating under a tree on a hill. The children sometimes gather around her to listen to her stories. Occassionally some adults come up with them too, listening in fascination as well.

Game and Watch Forever is the distant relative who rarely speaks and rumor is he once killed a man with his bare hands. Or twenty.

Patrick · « **Reply #39 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:10 »

Quote from: Redball on 27 Jul 2013, 12:50

By age, of course, I'd be a grandfather. I haven't yet learned to act like one, even to my IRL grandkids. Nevertheless, the forum is certainly a family to me. I tend to recognize that quickly, since I'm always on the lookout for families to glom on to.

"glom" is one of my favorite verbs ever.

snalin · « **Reply #40 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:31 »

Quote from: Loki on 28 Jul 2013, 11:00

GM is the guy sitting on his veranda with a shotgun in his hand. However if he lets you in his house, you will realize that he is knowledgable about all gun things and he also probably has deer heads all over the walls.

My image of Garand is Clint Eastwood's character from Gran Torino.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #41 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:34 »

Quote from: Loki on 28 Jul 2013, 11:00

Game and Watch Forever is the distant relative who rarely speaks and rumor is he once killed a man with his bare hands. Or twenty.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #42 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:39 »

Ouch.... I'm not quite that old...

cesium133 · « **Reply #43 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:41 »

I'd guess I'd be the giant inflatable spider sitting outside the house or something?

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #44 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 11:48 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 28 Jul 2013, 09:19

I guess these days I'm the distant cousin who visits once every few years and no one quite remembers.

I remember you!! And I remember when you posted all the time! In fact, when our new friend in the comic was dubbed "May", I thought of you instantly.

I don't know if this means that I have a good memory or that I'm creepy.

I'm not entirely sure who I would be in our little family.....Hmmm...must think about this one.

Loki · « **Reply #45 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 12:29 »

Quote from: snalin on 28 Jul 2013, 03:42

Quote from: Loki on 27 Jul 2013, 14:13
Gareth-bro is best big bro.

In the the plethora of Japanese honorific postfixes; the -san and -chan and -kun, we can now add -bro. I'm going to go and make an alternate Naruto fan-dub. "But, Sasuke-bro!", "Wait, Sasuke-bro!", "Isn't Sakura lovely, Sasuke-bro?"

This took me way too long:

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ankhtahr · « **Reply #46 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 12:47 »

I still don't see who I am in this.

nekowafer · « **Reply #47 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 12:58 »

You seem like the younger brother type. And maybe I am not technically related because I hit on everyone.

~~Valdís~~ · « **Reply #48 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 13:01 »

The slightly younger br--

Quote from: nekowafer on 28 Jul 2013, 12:58

You seem like the younger brother type.

Yeah, what she said! Yay, I'm a middle child!

Loki · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 Jul 2013, 13:04 »

I third the "younger brother" opinion

(Confession: I don't actually know what siblings are like)

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