Red Bubble Addiction Check
With a tongue (mine, if you are asking) firmly in my cheek, I offer you this helpful little checklist, and wish you good health!
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Inspired by a comment from sarah moore a few weeks ago, which she’s may well have forgotten by now(!)
Red Bubble Addiction Check belongs to the following groups:
United Kingdom1 – Do you spend at least 1 hour daily on RB?
2 – Do you regularly go to bed very late at night, sometimes past midnight, because you just wanted to upload one more image / writing / T-shirt?
3 – Do you go to sleep wondering how many views that one last image / writing / T-shirt will get?
4 – Do you dream about how you’ll set up or edit your next piece?
5 – Do you get up in the morning and log in to RB to see if you were right about your views?
6 – Do you crave the adoration of favouritings?
7 – Do you long for comments?
8 – Do you believe Photoshop has the power to change the world?
9 – Do you take your camera / paintbox / sketchpad / notepad everywhere with you hoping for that RB moment?
10 – Do you pray that your image / writing / T-shirt will be shown on the RB HomePage?
11 – Do you only go on holiday / vacation where you know you can get Internet access so you can check your Bubble Mail?
12 – Do you hope that everyone that you watchlist, will watchlist you in return?
If you can answer, ‘YES’, to six or more of the above, then you may have, Red Bubble Addiction.
There is but one cure: Go to your nearest shopping centre / mall, dressed as any character from Sesame Street, or even in a giant kangaroo costume, and yodel your National Anthem through a load-hailer until arrested. You will then be taken to a place where there is no Internet Access, but plenty of severe nurses with no necks and suspiciously hairy top lips, who will ensure your best care in one of their small, but well appointed rooms. Thus ensuring a cure will be affected.
Do it now, before it’s too late!!
poppykitten
Oh no, I knew there was something wrong, but I could not put my finger on what it was,
Dr Dave has diagnosed my problem. Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh its, true.
I am addicted to Red Bubble.
Deborah Parkin
i have just had a good lol – i remember being in the lake district with no internet – it was like taking my oxygen away lol!!! A bit more balanced now (not quite midnight yet).
StacyLee
LOL!!! I’ll pass this on to Frank ;)
Heather Loster
They’re coming to take me away, Ha Ha,
They’re coming to take me away, Ho Ho,
To a happy place with nice young men in brite white suits and rubber walls,
They’re coming to take me away, Ha Ha!
I answered yes to at least 9. I will see all of you soon in the insane asylum!!
Cathleen Taraw...
Rack off, know-it-all! You forgot dreaming about how you’ll set up or edit your next piece. :)
Irene Burdell
Get me a nurse right away ,I have definitely got IT.[The addiction.] Something went wrong the other night and I couldn’t upload any pictures ,I couldn’t sleep thinking I might never get back onRB, and what on earth would I do?Maybe I should get a life before i end up in that well appointed room.
Halcyon007
No, I refuse to believe that only scoring 10 and a half makes me an addict.
Halcyon007
Hello
My name is Stuart and i’m a bubbleaholic
Sarah Moore
BA anonoymous here we come!!!!
Paul Louis Vil...
LOL!!
Nurses with hairy top lips!!! Aaaaarrrrgggh!!
I can’t stop picturing that in my head! :D
..and yes I answered yes to 6 or more of the above too!
Joan Smart
WHAT IS THE CURE IF YOU DO ALL OF THE ABOVE??? MY SON HAS A GIANT KANGAROO COSTUME WILL THAT WORK JOAN
loramae
Aw…you are wonderful for a much needed laugh! Thank you much , needed that!
Christine Beswick
Had started thinking I was addicted when I realised how often my husband’s asleep when I get to bed. Now I know I am! (score 7.5).
Probably better than some other addictions we could have, and I’m certainly avoiding the cure.
PhotogeniquE IPA
@Joan – yes a giant Kangaroo costume should do the trick (see above)
@Cathleen – dreaming about editing – added!
Melinda Kerr
So my red bubble tattoo is normal? Phew.
Sharon Perrett
OMG it’s serious stuff I have the above mentioned affliction, not keen on the cure as I can’t yodel….......but thank you for highlighting my problem
kristian94
i got 8
Durotriges
I only got five. So I’m not addicted… honest.
SnapHappy
I got 10, so it could be worse : 0
Lou Green
uh oh…. Nurse Ratchett here i come…
Renate Dartois
Oh that is funny-I think I have it…..
Deborah Bowness
OMG, I answered Yes to nearly all of them, yes it’s official, I’m addicted!! I knew that already, but this has just confirmed it! So acurate!
Jenny Haskey
RB adiction me not at all… I don’t score anywhere near 6… I’ve just managed a whole week away from RB & I had access to a computer… See I’m fine… I don’t need no cure man…
OK I lied, I scored 10… had computer with no internet access… no need for me to dress up in a costume yodelling in a public place for me to be dragged away – a week away from my beloved RB did the trick for a date with the scary nurse!!! Have come back more addicted than ever – and so much to catch up on… Addiction even worse now I realise what can be so easily missed if you are not on RB every second of every day!!!
Jason Byrne (joB)
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA IM UNDER YOUR CONTROL AH AH AH AH AH AH….
Faizan Qureshi
Hahahahaa… I can say YES to all of them!
Claire Armistead
If i ticked every box; do i get a prize?...what’s that i hear you cry?......One of my pictures featured on the homepage for eternity…....woohoo!
Love this piece and made me feel like i wasn’t the only one suffering from this addiction! x
Arlene Zapata
Well this was fun, even though I knew the answer before I started…
jesika
I didn’t bother counting,not enough fingers and my toes are on the end of my feet, which are at the bottom of my legs which are…
Oh, sod, I blame Barb & Lance for this.
j
cleanartdirtyart
IV GOT THEM ALL YEHA IM ADDICTED TO SOMETHING BESIDES CIGERETS AND MY WIFE.
cleanartdirtyart
HELLO MY NAME IS HENRY AND I AM A BUBBLEOLIC. LOL
Suzanne German
very very very clever – very very very true!!!!!
cheers
SG LOL!
Paul Tupman
I wonder what the best lighting would be to catch that hairy top lip at its best.. should I take my macro? And I wonder how many comments and favouritings I would get on that… Ohhhh, I’m never going to sleep now!
Lorraine Creagh
It was suggested to me in a journal that I wrote a while back that I call 1300 QUIT RB
Funny …I tried and no one was there…
I guess there is not cure…
We’ll have to live with and love it…
SpaceAce07
No to all the above. I’m not addicted I just treat it as another art site. I do spend a bit of time here, but only if i have nothing else to do.
MissKristy
as much fun as the cure sounds..I do love my addiction :))
flower68
Well if I COULD leave the computer I would.My addiction has paralysed me from the hips down.
Shopping centre..I recall them vaguely :}
flower68
I scored 10.Somebody called a Doctor for me but he was on Red Bubble and could not be reached.
Jen Whyte
Help!! Lemme out!!!
Trace Lowe
Ok, I have it
gordontant
AAAARRRGGGGGHHHH
Hi My names Gordon and I’m A Redbubble addict
blimey I didn’t think I would feel so good saying that
Derivatix
LMAO, you’re such a nut, you know? And soooo right!
Colin Tobin
I am shafted!
Andy Mueller IPA
Yup, I got it as well. I do have an antidote however: Join Shutterpoint !!! You will maybe get a comment every few days. Only a few folks will add your work as a favorite, and if/when they do, you will not know about it. Oh, and you have to pay for your storage.
Cheryl Hall
I thought I had Red Bubblitis…but I squeezed it and it was a zit! LOL…..still got RB fever though!!!!!
LeeAnn Alexander
Why are you in my head? GET OUT!!! I don’t need one more thing to think about.
Stephen Mitchell
1. One hour on week nights, often as many as six hours on Saturday nights. I need a social life.
2. Only one weekends. A few weeks back I was on RB and flickr for 22 hours straight.
3. Nope.
4. Nope. Premediated photography often leads to sorrow: Being pleasantly surprised by what you find with your camera is much more fun.
5. Yo. Nes.
6. Heck no. I barely take notice.
7. I yearn for comments that say something about the piece. ‘Nice’, ‘Wow’ and other similar comments are barely enough. Tell me what you see, how it makes you feel and if you have anything similar.
8. Nope. The only that will change the world is bleach. Lots of bleach.
9. Yes, my camera goes everywhere I go, but not for RB. For me. Because I like photography. Because I get asked to take photographs.
10. Wow, good question. Not sure. I know how difficult it can be to keep up with what everyone is doing, and I particularly know how time-consuming RB can be . I’d rather know that someone is watching me and thinking, ‘This guy not only knows where his towel is, he’s using it.’ (Google “hhg2g towel” to understand that.)
wiltedvic
oh bugger i can tick of all of the above, will the men in white coats come knocking on my door now?
PhotogeniquE IPA
@steve – you missed out 11 &12!!
Kimberley Gifford
Yep me to a tea!!! I’m trying to go to bed now but I caaaaan’t..aaah help meee!!
Jennifer Resemius
guilty as charged!! hahahaha….. now the only decision is which Sesame Street character… Elmo? Cookie Monster? Oscar??? hmmmmm…..
Cathie Tranent
Damn – too late …...
regina
i have a giant sheep costume!
will that work as well????
AmandaWitt
I got 5 – I take pen/paper or sometimes use my mobile to record poems that come because like Stephen, i write poems for me, and i may put it on RB if it suits one of my groups.
Jennifer Vickers
too funny… I think the cure would be worse than the addiction.
Stephen Mitchell
Finally, I return to answer those two extra questions.
11 – My wife hated that whilst we holidayed in NZ six years ago I stopped at EVERY internet-cafe to check, send, receive and vet email. (And we still managed to shoot 14hours of film and over 1,000 photographs.)
12 – No.
That cure is meant to get me incarcerated for the term of my natural life?! Not likely.
See, I’ve always wanted to purchase a gorilla-masquerade outfit, head to foot. And then wear it to every themed party, no matter what the theme. Goth? Perfect, it’s black fur. NYE? I have a vest my wife made for the Y2K NYE. The cure would be just another addiction…
Raymond Carle
We’re all screwed, aren’t we?
Marichelle
IT’S YOUR FAULT RAYMOND, YOU GOT ME INVOLVED!!!!!!!
MAY