how many here only lurk, rather than posting occasionally?

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Oh, yeah sorta a joke. The Original Poster and a few of the rest of us just really like ice cream. That's all.

I thought it was just a random thing auntblabby inserted.

I resisted making a reference to the ice cream option in my post, which took some strength of will as I am an absolute ice cream junkie. Not joking here, among my family, I am known as the ice cream and popsicle addict.

I did vote for the ice cream option in this poll, though.

You're not missing anything -I suspect it was a "neutral" option added to the poll so that you would feel invited to post even if neither of the first two choices applies to you.

I lurked first, then joined, the posted one post except it didn't put the counter up to 1 as it wasn't on the forum but one of the other links. For some reason this really put me off. I left but then returned and really got into posting. I've become slightly more selective. I've only ever started one thread (in Random).

Hey, I personally have nothing against Ice Cream. In fact, I'm all for it! I just wish it wasn't so fatning!

Longshanks

there are fat-free and low-carb icecreams that IMHO are yummy!
out of curiosity, as a military officer, don't you have to be active sufficient to easily burn off any excess calories? i know when i was active duty, the fear of god was put into us all to keep slim, as our "remedial PT" was led by a ROTC drill instructor who basically tortured those unfortunate PT failures. in a small MEDDAC hospital with 10 flights of stairs, he in his smokey bear hat would have those poor slobs huffing and puffing up and down the stairs, and doing pushups and such in the muddy field behind the hospital. he was a sadist, AFAIC. if he is still alive [this was in the mid-80s] i sure hope he has hemmorhoids that itch like crazy.

LOL. Yeah, I recall a few times like those. I eat ice cream once a week as a treat. I do a two mile run with a 60 lb pack every other day and then I weight lift on the days I don't run. Sundays are for rest. I don't work out then - and that is when I have my ice cream. Looking back, there was a time when during OCS I couldn't do anything right for love nor money. We were in the mess hall and the DI told me he didn't want to even speak to me anymore. I was to bring him a glass of milk everytime he banged his fist on the table. Problem was, when he got mad, he banged his fist all of the time. He got mad at another happless candidate and was banging his fist and I wound up bringing him fifteen glasses of milk. I wound up doing a lap around the track for each glass of milk with a rifle and full pack. I was awful sore afterward, but I still had a smile on my face!

Longshanks

Occasionally, I post. Really, it depends on the amount of relevant topics worth responding to.
Additionally, ice cream is great, but not at this moment. It's too cold and dark for ice cream. I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to ice cream - I only really eat it when temperatures are high.

I lurked for a long time but I post a lot more nowadays

It is like I am IRL, sometimes I am more talkative and sometimes I am mute, thus also if I read something I can relate to a lot, it can happen that my words in my head and writing "mute" somehow. But I do read a lot here, because I have never seen before so many posts written I can relate to as much as here and I like a lot the clearity and honesty of people writing here.

Ice cream is like a bag of turkey giblets. They're both delicious.

I would have said i'm an occasional poster, but then I see posts from those with counts higher than mine who joined later than me who describe themselves as mainly 'lurkers'...so it's a matter of how you see yourself.

I am reticent & would like to interact more,
but getting thoughts in a coherent state,
then co-ordinating fingers on keyboard,
and self-editing natural verbosity that is only love of words in me but which over-elaborates my writing,
then thinking whether my words have unclear meaning that could be misconstrued,
and then thinking just what the internet doesn't need is one more bunch of electrons with over-ambition to be something meaningful
... and this almost always leads to the "oh s*d it i'm off to make a cup of tea" scenario, where electrons have been left unpeturbed* & I haven't felt like an idiot for some vaguely ill-defined reason.

Ice lolly please. Or sorbet. Yes I was that one odd kid that didn't like ice cream. But that means there more left for the rest of you

*Apart from those electrons sacrificed to the Kettle God of course

I lurk the forum a lot on my phone...the site doesn't work too well on my phone (it skips a lot), so I just read stuff and make a rare post.

I'll post more often on the PC, but not a lot...I read way more topics than I post in.

I mostly lurk. I guess what I want is to be useful to people and so I try to respond to posts here with (what I think is) helpful advice. Sometimes my comments seem to genuinely help someone. Mostly they seem to go un-noticed. So I go into lurk mode again. Or else I disappear for months at a time. That's pretty much the way I deal with my friends in real life.

I do this as well. But every so often I'll get drawn into a some really interesting discussion and post 20 times in a day.

I lurked, off and on, for about a year before I joined.

i feel where you are coming from.

Thanks. It helps to know people understand.