Who Is Responsible For ATS's Recent Downtime?

Last night, when I was in the throes of full on ATS withdrawals, and we were all comforting one another and crying on Facebook..and making fun of Heff because his mascara was running all over his face... I realized that I truly have a serious addiction to ATS.

I might need a 12 step program.

*looks around shyly* My name is Daryllyn, and I'm an ATSaholic.

We should start an ATS Anonymous thread, because, more ATS is obviously the answer.

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Haha! Yes!
Hi I'm nat and I'm an ATSaholic.

Peace and love
-nat the crazed cat-

I couldn't cry with you guys last night because I do not have a fb page

I AM NOT AN ADDICT!!!!

Sorry... my superpower is denial.

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It's never too late to start one

You don't even have to use your real name, a ton of ATS people have one under a 'fake' name.

No pressure, of course

While I was in the throes of a full on ats withdrawal fit, I decided the only thing left for me to do was systematically purge my floors of every speck of dirt...the anxiety from not being able to log in, coupled with the fear that north Koreans were coming for us sent my OCD into overdrive. I try very hard not to be a neurotic house cleaner, but left without my beloved ATS I went on a real bender...it got ugly, but luckily I did not decide to break out the bleach and sanitize from top to bottom...next time though, I may not be so lucky!

I hope that I never have to resort to such tedious domestic activities again

But even though I didn't post, I wanted to say thanks to all the people who did and how much it meant to me to see familiar names when I checked in every 10 minutes between scrubbing floorboards and tooth brushing tiles. You guys really helped, and yes...I too need to sign up for ATS anonymous, I now can officially add it to my ever growing list of obsessions

Originally posted by Hefficide

I AM NOT AN ADDICT!!!!

Sorry... my superpower is denial.

The bigger the letters...the bigger the addiction...or so I've heard.....

BTW, it's your turn to bring cookies to the next 12 step meeting...NO Beezer cookies.His raisins are questionable....

Des

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While I was in the throes of a full on ats withdrawal fit, I decided the only thing left for me to do was systematically purge my floors of every speck of dirt...the anxiety from not being able to log in, coupled with the fear that north Koreans were coming for us sent my OCD into overdrive. I try very hard not to be a neurotic house cleaner, but left without my beloved ATS I went on a real bender...it got ugly, but luckily I did not decide to break out the bleach and sanitize from top to bottom...next time though, I may not be so lucky!

You can come to my house next time

If that doesn't get your OCD all in an uproar, I don't know what will.

I have boys and they are awesome at messing up a clean house. It is their mission in life, I'm convinced.

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I'll bring the econo box of paper towels and 6pack of Lysol, but I"m used to little kid messes, I have two of my own, so that would be no challenge for me...I'll bring my 2 kids, 2 cats and dog to shake around a bunch of pet hair that I can relentlessly sticky tape off your sofas...then we'll be rockin!

Personal thanks to you daryllyn, des, heff, Chris and many others because I was really about to go ham on every computer in my house in a moment of desperation at one point, my husband would have came home to the entire guts of every computer in our house scattered across the floor and me clutching a screwdriver for dear life

Originally posted by Mijamija
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I'll bring the econo box of paper towels and 6pack of Lysol, but I"m used to little kid messes, I have two of my own, so that would be no challenge for me...I'll bring my 2 kids, 2 cats and dog to shake around a bunch of pet hair that I can relentlessly sticky tape off your sofas...then we'll be rockin!

Personal thanks to you daryllyn, des, heff, Chris and many others because I was really about to go ham on every computer in my house in a moment of desperation at one point, my husband would have came home to the entire guts of every computer in our house scattered across the floor and me clutching a screwdriver for dear life

Well, I am glad we were able to stop you from dismantling the computers.

If there were 4 kids, 4 cats, and 2 dogs all in this house... there would be hours of cleaning. It would probably never stop. And, you wouldn't need the tape. I have a sweeper designed for pet hair, there are many attachments, some of which I have no clue what they even do, AND it has a Febreeze filter.

I would share it with you as long as you promise to wind the cord back up when you were done.

I'll even make coffee and bake some bread. Unless you are one of those no carb people... then I will make you a salad instead.

And, you wouldn't need the tape. I have a sweeper designed for pet hair, there are many attachments, some of which I have no clue what they even do, AND it has a Febreeze filter.

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I love you!

Seriously though, I do want to know why anyone would do something like this? I mean, I know there are a lot of disgruntled ex ats members with axes to grind, but I've never understood why they would take their vitriol to such a level...this is a "entertainment" conspiracy site and most of us are just here to learn, laugh and share thoughts. I've read some pretty mean comments on ATS but usually stuff seems to get handled pretty well by most posters and if not I think the mods try their hardest to be reasonable in dealing with upset members, so who the heck felt like they had to take it to such an extreme??

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Hey now... the Interwebz are serious business.

After the fifth hour i was debating on whether i should pull the truck in the garage and start wrapping the house in foil. That would go down well with my neighbors.

"Hey man what's up, is your house drafty? No. No it's not. I don't know what's going on. I can't get on ATS and it's been six hours. Nevermind. Shut up, GET OVER HERE AND HELP ME WITH THIS NOW!"

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It is my understanding (someone please correct me if I am wrong) that this was a large scale attack. I wouldn't think that a few users would have been able to pull off such a strong and lengthy attack.

I have no idea who or, more importantly, why anyone would want to do such a thing. Don't they have something better to do all day???

Originally posted by JackBauer
After the fifth hour i was debating on whether i should pull the truck in the garage and start wrapping the house in foil. That would go down well with my neighbors.

"Hey man what's up, is your house drafty? No. No it's not. I don't know what's going on. I can't get on ATS and it's been six hours. Nevermind. Shut up, GET OVER HERE AND HELP ME WITH THIS NOW!"

You guys are all making me giggle so much that Mr. Daryllyn thinks I have lost my mind. He wants to know what is funny every so many minutes and I can't even begin to explain it to him.

But, yeah.. you guys are all cracking me up

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I woke up this afternoon (as I had been awake frantically working through the night) to the prospect of having to peel my way out of my tinfoil insulated room. So. Many. Layers I didn't think it through before, but my security blanket of ATS was missing and I was skurred!!

Gawrsh, this is like Ats-cateer role call...

Who's the leader of the site we all rely upon... S-K-E-P-T-I...

Ahh, never-mind

I was thinking though, most of us are survivalists, and it was so cool to watch human nature play out the way it did. We gravitated toward one another, stabilized, comforted and carried on

I'm sorry I'm keeping up with the Anon-thing... but there are a few reasons:

1) a few daughters and many potential stalkers
2) people I know in real life just wouldn't get it (bloody muggles!)
3) Know the artist by her work
4) As Invariance, I can be me without expectation or judgement... You base your opinion on what I have to say, not who I'm related to, what I have or "how it looks"

Thank you for letting me just be myself.

In other news, I have started an ATS BOB

Here's what I have so far...

1. Puffs tissue with moisturizer
   
2. A spare container of Heff's mascara
   
3. A map to rendezvous points
   
4. A spare Avatar (you never know if I'll have to make a twitter account or something
   
5. dental floss
   
6. A flash light to light your way
   
7. a deck of cards
   
8. Des's spare tinfoil hat
   
9. a roll of tinfoil to mare more hats
   
10. a Geiger counter
    
11. Chocolate- lots and lots of chocolate
    
12. a proxy
    
13. a radio
    
14. flint and steel
    
15. coffee
    

I know I'm forgetting something here...

reply to post by Invariance


Brilliant!!!

I think you should market these kits...sell them to less prepared ATS-kateers.....:

I've got dibs as Director of Sales Southern Territory....

At my own expense, I'll include a collapsible cup...embossed with my sales contact info, of course....

Des

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My hubby keeps looking at me as well when I begin to laugh out loud. I try to explain..but I am getting a blank stare...yup..blank stare....


peace and love
~nat cat~

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Sounds good to me...

but I need to finish the list first, I think it needs a few more things

No bacon in your kits????

Amateurs.