When someone asks you what you've been doing, and you reply "I make memes of a bunch of pseudo hippies on an outdated forum"
When you frittered away a decade or more of your life, have little or no in-person friends, no degree, no career, no family of your own, and fantasize about things that should have happened a decade ago and probably won't ever happen.
^this... or you keep going back to your User CP to see if anybody has posted after you or on a particular thread
i was installing new trailer lights earlier this evening (i like all my trailers to have efficient less fragile LED lights)...while sitting on a milk crate using a lighter to shrink the heatshrink tubes i thought "i wonder if this is how squirrel guy smokes his crack"
When you start telling your real life friends about funny things people have posted, and they just look at you with a blank stare
When you think Skip is the guy inside The Barney the Dinosaur suit, as no one else can love that much purple
Just did that yesterday with thhe hip speed dating service thread...I find the first two pages absolutley hysterical.