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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #1 on: May 1st, 2003, 3:29pm » |
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Me no matter what it has written under my name...!!
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #2 on: May 1st, 2003, 3:34pm » |
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Lives on the east coast of Canada.
Drinks massive quantities of horrible tasting rum called 'Screech'.
Is rarely employed (during the fishing season or any other time)
Gets new visitors to his island to kiss a dead cod.
oops! thought you said Newfie! 
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Main Entry: new·bie
Pronunciation: 'nü-bE, 'nyü-
Function: noun
Etymology: irregular from new
Date: 1985
: BEGINNER, NOVICE; especially : a newcomer to cyberspace
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In the context you are probably asking: a newcomer to this site.
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Virgin.....yum!!! ;D
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #5 on: May 1st, 2003, 4:18pm » |
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on May 1st, 2003, 4:09pm, jonny wrote:
DING! Proof once again that Wotan speaks thru many mouths. Time to dump the "Newbie" thing, and use a term more apropo to the intelligentsia.......
Loose _Lips_ sink ships,
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Beginner or novice to what? (Pertaining to this board.)
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #7 on: May 1st, 2003, 8:10pm » |
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I like new family memeber! I think that is a good one!!!
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don
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I like that one to Elaine but I'm pushing for something not as simplistic as that. Based on Franks previous post on the board pissing him off.
Someone new to the board?
Someone new to CH ?
Both?
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #10 on: May 1st, 2003, 8:59pm » |
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Define Newbie:
Me, about a year ago! ;D
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on May 1st, 2003, 8:46pm, don wrote:I like that one to Elaine but I'm pushing for something not as simplistic as that. Based on Franks previous post on the board pissing him off.
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A "newbie" as I referred to in my earlier thread is someone who is new to this message board. Someone who has just found this message board and comes here seeking our SUPPORT and UNDERSTANDING. Someone who hasn't been here long enough to know there is such a thing as the "archives"... who may also not yet know about all of those wonderful "buttons on the left". A person who has only posted 1 to 10 times who may not want to stay around if he/she is flamed for asking seeming stupid questions.
I sense the reason why you started this thread. So... if you think that what I said in my earlier thread is completely full of shit.... just say so... and explain why you feel that way.
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #12 on: May 1st, 2003, 9:32pm » |
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It really depends on the person, Don. Some folks show up here and a lot of us can just "tell" if they have been genuinely battling the beast for a long time, by how they present themselves. They're not newbies. They're the brother we never knew we had that's finally come home. They were never newbies.
Then we get the people that sound like they've been misdiagnosed and are lost (maybe not believing their diagnosis either), but still trying to find a box to put their pain in. They're not newbies either - they're just lost.
Then there are the wannabes - they are folks who fit neither category but have an urgent need to belong to a social group (for ANY reason). Why anyone would WANT to say they qualify to be a cluster peep is beyond me, but...it's a lonely old world out there.
Newbies? I dunno either now. Maybe it's the ones who also dive into water without checking depth first - meaning the ones who arrive here and start snapping orders and spouting rules (that actually hasn't happened for a long time.
Oh, I KNOW - Waterdog. he will ALWAYS be a newbie.
so, in other words - I don't have anything of value to contribute here LOL i'll just be shutting up now.
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #13 on: May 1st, 2003, 9:33pm » |
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Hey Frank - you're full of shit.
Not the post you are talking about, I liked that.
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on May 1st, 2003, 9:33pm, Marc wrote:Hey Frank - you're full of shit. ;D
Not the post you are talking about, I liked that.
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Usually around 6:00am, and again around 6:00pm. ;D
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #15 on: May 1st, 2003, 9:40pm » |
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...apprentice....
...journeyman...
...master.....
...bachelor...
...master...
...doctor...
...freshman...
...sophmore...
...junior...
...senior...
...deputy...
...sheriff...
...marshal...
...private...
...corporal...
...sergeant...
...yadda.....
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...hadda life...
...lost a life...
...get a life...
....fuckit......
...don't like labels.....
we're all either *together*.....or like when we found *this*:
alone.....
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #16 on: May 1st, 2003, 9:42pm » |
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I'd say a newbie is someone new to the MB.
Seems like most people posting for the first time have either recently been diagnosed or have or have known what they have but didn't know about this website.
When they do post for the first time they usually say they have had these for x amount of years.
You very rarely see anyone who's just started getting hit find their way in here. Most people already know about the beast, they just haven't been formally introduced yet.
When it first started happening to me I was like WTF was that! I had no idea there was a name for it other than WOWTHISFUCKIN'HURTSBIGTIME!!!
so even though we weren't down with the i-net back then I wouldn't have known what to look for anyway.
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don
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well Frank
your sense is completely wrong. About 180 degrees to the wrong. If I thought you were a fuck head and full of shit I would have said so already.
I think your definition of "newbie" is to shallow. As is your paranoid response.
JDH you are are almost on the same thought track as
me.
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on May 1st, 2003, 9:45pm, don wrote:well Frank
your sense is completely wrong. About 180 degrees to the wrong. If I thought you were a fuck head and full of shit I would have said so already.
I think your definition of "newbie" is to shallow. As is your paranoid response. ;D
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OK... if I mis-guessed your intent, I am sorry. So, what is a "newbie"?
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I never said I have the answer. It was a thought provoking question and I'm still thinking about it.
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I should have said "Pertaining to the reasons for this board"
So far I have come up with this;
A newbie is someone who finds us. They are in a state of emotional and mental crises. They may have suffered for 1 year or 40. Time is not a common denominator. The common denominators that would have someone search us out are fear and isolation. Not the fear of having CH, the fear of not knowing why. The fear of being a sole victim and completely alone in an unexplained misery. The pain of the CH has penetrated the physical and has saturated the "newbies"spirit. The "newbie" has been made to feel physically, mentally and emotionally feeble and susceptable. It is a sense of sheer terror that drives someone to search us out.
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #20 on: May 1st, 2003, 10:08pm » |
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Oh oh... Me me! I'm a newbie! Right here! I iz the eternal newbie! Right here and now in the text! Here I am!
PFDAN........................................... Drk^Angel
P.S. Dunno about this board... But in iNet terms... A newbie is someone who just don't get it... Whether it's your first time around, or you're an old grampa on the block... If ya don't get it... You's a newbie. And I never get any... 
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #21 on: May 1st, 2003, 10:18pm » |
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This is where ya go ta get slapped around a lill bit by NEWBIES.......revenge of the newbies.......they have there own network and are tryin ta fool us and lure us into there world....it's a trick it's a trick ! Not a newbie no mo Pam
http://newbies.fateback.com/
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on May 1st, 2003, 9:54pm, don wrote:I never said I have the answer. It was a thought provoking question and I'm still thinking about it.
I should have said "Pertaining to the reasons for this board"
So far I have come up with this;
A newbie is someone who finds us. They are in a state of emotional and mental crises. They may have suffered for 1 year or 40. Time is not a common denominator. The common denominators that would have someone search us out are fear and isolation. Not the fear of having CH, the fear of not knowing why. The fear of being a sole victim and completely alone in an unexplained misery. The pain of the CH has penetrated the physical and has saturated the "newbies"spirit. The "newbie" has been made to feel physically, mentally and emotionally feeble and susceptable. It is a sense of sheer terror that drives someone to search us out. |
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Good definition. But if time is not a common denominator... Would that mean that a person who has suffered CH attacks for years, who knows as much about CH and it's treatments as anyone who has been here forever, and has been doing all of the right things to treat his/her CH... but ends up here anyway... is not a "newbie"?
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Re: Define Newbie
« Reply #23 on: May 1st, 2003, 11:03pm » |
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So.....it would seem that quite often the term simply doesn't apply here. Is the term simply antiquated? I can accept that....
I most certainly recall the tears (literally) when I found this place - as a Newbie...... ;D
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Damned if I know. I've been in and out of this board since 1998 and I'm still listed as a newbie.
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