As part of our birthday celebrations I thought it'd be entertaining to start a thread along the lines of "You know you're a Spooks fan when..."

So, for this thread, state how your life would be different without Spooks Forum.

Here's a few of mine:

Without Spooks Forum my inbox would be half as full as it is now.

Without Spooks Forum I wouldn't have a clue what Lucas' tattoos mean.

Without Spooks Forum I wouldn't have had sleepless nights trying to get the site back online so there wouldn't be an uproar.

Without Spooks Forum I wouldn't have up-to-date information on the weather in different places around the world.


Your turn...

Without the Spooks Forum I wouldn't be able to quickly calculate what time it is in the UK or Austrailia or Germany...

Without Spooks Forum I would get a helluva a lot more work done!

Without Spooks Forum I would drive my husband, kids, friends, cat and fish CRAZY deconstructing a TV show.

Without Spooks Forum I would have no one to drool over Peter Firth with me!

Without Spooks Forum I wouldn't hear my nine year old say to me "You sure do like your MI5!'" (Yes, dear, yes I do!)

Happy Birthday Spooks Forum. Keep up the good work! I am very glad you are here!

Without spooks forum Harry and Ruth would just be two more run-of-the-mill names.

Without spooks forum I wouldn't have learned how to divert e-mails from my inbox to their own little a sub-directory.

Without spooks forum I would never have known that JHyde never sleeps, Silktie is quite the writer, A Cousin likes gadgets, Berto has a really skewed sense of humor, Tea Lady and Bea can seemingly find any obscure location in and around London, etc, etc, etc.

Withouy spooks forum I'd get a lot more work done in the office.

Happy B-Day spooks forum!!

Without spooksforum I wouldn't have so many friends all over the world. Not to mention I'd have fewer Facebook friends.

Without SF I wouldn't have learned the natty trick of Control + F5.

Without SF I wouldn't have been inspired to sharpen my Photoshop skills to create my own avatars.

Without SF I would have been REALLY bored during the Soccer World Cup.

Without SF I would have recognised a few less flags of other countries.

Without Spooks Forum I wouldn't have seen season eight of Spooks yet!!!

(28-07-2010 02:47 AM)bertowud Wrote:  Without spooksforum I wouldn't have so many friends all over the world. Not to mention I'd have fewer Facebook friends.

Seconded!!! So great friends

Without SF I wouldn't have improved my English and hadn't learnt so much vocabulary, idioms, acronyms...

Without SF I would feel alone in my spooks addiction

And SF has definitely helped me go through my civil sevice exams!

(28-07-2010 05:42 AM)Silktie Wrote:  Without SF I wouldn't have learned the natty trick of Control + F5.

Control + F5 Silktie?? What does that do?

Without the SF I would have no one to talk to about my Peter Firth and R/H addiction.

Without the SF I would not have known what a Shipper was.

Without the SF I would have lots more money as I seem to spend it all on theatre tickets going to see past and present Spooks.

Without the SF I probably would get more insurance work done instead of reading Silktie's fanfic and Secrets repeatedly.

Without the SF I would not know every street in Ealing having "virtually" trawled through every one, looking for Ruth's house.

Without the SF I would not know what Twitter is.

Without the SF I would not have met such nice people from such foreign places as Australia, Spain, South Africa, US, and Lancashire...

without SF i would have nothing do at work at lunch time
Without SF i wouldnt have admited my love of HN/RM
Without SF i wouldnt have been able to enjoy this fandom as much as i have in such a short space of time!