Top 20 signs you're addicted to ATOT
You're addicted to ATOT when...
1. When a friend comes up, starts talking about their gf/bf and you immediately say "Pics?"
You need help if the person (bf/gf) is standing in front of you and you dont notice him/her and still involuntarily blurt out "Pics?"
2. If you've read a post about food and suddenly went out to eat
Bonus if you ordered and ate something a member of ATOT reccomended
Addtional bonus if you used a coupon from hd forum
Additional bonus if you went to Quiznos and ordered the "RossMAN special"
Extra additional bonus if you know the contents of the "RossMAN special" by memory (medium black angus, bowl (not cup) of clam chowdah, and a beverage)
3. You know where ATOT members went to college (how's the weather at the swamp aphex?)
4. You made the phoenomenon of people speaking without listening to the comments of other people first, AKA the "Skoorb effect" as your senior thesis
5. ATOT memebers ie: russ, gopunk, windogg, rossman, etc... work into daily conversations.
6. If you've said an ATOT-ism in real life. (Example: Bruce lee vs Coke vs Nissan Maxima, Pics?, MOD pls lock, gopunk made lifer, you're more annoying than Jerboy, etc...)
Bonus if you've used said ATOT-ism at the dinner table and your parents give you the *deargodmykidspendswaytoomuchtimeontheinternet* look
7. If you ever referred to a teacher or insrtuctor at your school as a MOD
8. Instead of saying shut up to someone, you mumble "please lock this" to yourself
9. If you've gotten new car advice from Brandon, AT's Ace Reporter AKA: NFS4
10. You've ever used the term nef in daily conversation
11. You've read the unfocused ramblings of Monel
You've done some of the stuff Monel suggested
You've gotten arrested for doing something Monel suggested, got arrested, and started a "NEED LEGAL ADVICE, IS THERE A LAWYER IN THE FORUM?" thread
12. You've done a paper including a member of the AT forums
13. When you hear someone talking about someting you heard earlier that day you scream "REPOST!"
14. When you rely on ATOT movie review threads (usually sully) instead of imdb or the newspaper.
15. You know when neffing.com goes 404.
16. You can name at least 5 of the women that regularly post in OT (hotchic, gf, arazele, baffled2, klee58, and luvly)
17. You've listened to the mod and bought a Nissan.
18. You cant ask a girl out, but have the guts to ask for advice (usually bad) on ATOT. *cough*kev1n*cough*
19. You have ATOT bookmarked...
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=38
http://forums1.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=38
http://forums2.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=38
http://forums3.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=38
20. You have this sudden urge to start a thread titled "PsychoAndy for Elite!"