I am addicted to Toytown, help!

I'm supposed to be planning lessons for an english/summer camp that i'm going to be working on, starting Sunday, but instead of doing that I keep coming back to read about people needing information about buying bread, vodka or cheese, or posting idiotic comments about Barack Obama, or adverts for baked beans. Please unhook me from this drip feed of pointless banality!

Didn't Topsy ask for this to be done some little while ago?

Aye, she did, about 2 or 3 years ago. She was banned between 9 and 4 I think during the day.

But if you got banned between certain times because you are addicted, couldn't you just go an create another account? Or find something else on the internet to distract you? :-}

You think that’s bad, I work for a company that provides software that reports on IT Service Metrics and basically monitors everything someone does including phone calls, email, web usage, instant messaging, etc, etc.

I just know that the boss is two meters away on the other side of this wall behind my back checking what we all do in this office, yet I can’t help but hit F5

EDIT: Shit i just realised that the people in my office who lurk on TT will know who I am now.

Hello OM

Well, this thread especially is not helping as I keep checking who else has a similar problem/addiction compounding the whole thing!

There should be some kind of support group. How about weekly get togethers for the afflicted?

I propose Tuesday evenings in Munich, and Thursday evenings in Berlin. I'll start a thread.

well, there I was, quite happily not-addicted to TT, when I had a server problem this morning and got in quite a panic at not being able to access my messages!!
I guess, love it, or hate it, I NEED TT !!!

FC just phone the German authorities and tell them just how much TT is costing the German economy with all these Aulander workers surfing all day and being paid for it - they will probably get it shut down or devise a way of making companies block access to it.

No way BB. I have learned so much about not only Germany, but expats from England, Wales, Scotland, America, South Africa, et al. I've also learned about the election cycle, political history, how NOT to train a dog, where to get your clothes tailored and how to cook a good romantic dinner from don_riinas. Who knew that you had to start a list in January for a table at Oktoberfest in Sept? God Help me. I am not giving this up now! It's been my lifeline to the world for the past 12 months. The information and laughs have saved me from isolationist insanity many a day.
Think of it NOT as an addiction, but a window to the world.
Carry on.

I think it's time EB started to rate every thread with points out of ten or something, at least you could then make some kind of informed decision about whether or not to waste a minute of your life reading the mindless drivel that swamps the intelligent, well written posts on TT.

"Hi, my name is _____________ and I'm a TT addict."

Editor Bob: Would you write the guidelines for a 12 Step program that the support groups can follow? OK, I'll start...

1. I am powerless over TT, and my life is unmanageable.

You started that all wrong, all wrong. The road to recovery and salvation begins with the following:

"Hi, my name is _____________ and I'm buying."

I don't want Yeti as my sponsor. He would lead me further down the road to perdition.

2. I will come to believe a power greater than Editor Bob will help restore sanity and order to TT.

3. I will come to realize that courage, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and awareness are the social lubrication that stop friction between myself and other members.

4. I will no longer exhibit anger, rage, anxiety, tension toward members as this is a clear indication I have a tormented mind.

5. I will search to take my own moral inventory and refrain from taking it of others.

6. I will admit the exact nature of my wrongs to release myself of guilt, resentment, and fear so I can sleep with a clear conscious.

7. I will humbly try to remove my own shortcomings and not point out the shortcomings of others.

8. I will make a list of all members I have harmed with my obnoxious rheteroic and be willing to make amends.

9. Today I will make direct amends, so if I get ratty I will be apologetic.

10. I will sort through all threads free of neurotic thoughts that I have to respond to all comments based on my belief system in an effort to save the world.

11. I will practice these same principles in other areas of my empty life.

12. Today I would rather do good so I prefer to kiss someone's feet, than to fight on TT.

There is already a topic rating system. See the button on the top of the topic, to the left of the "Options" button.

Yeah I know, but EB's would be like a QC stamp or something. Anything else you can just do a search for.