Dude, this thread has 12 pages, and the link in my post is a direct link to the post in this thread.
That remark came after seeing people mentioning pages several times in a short period time so I was sick of it. I usually just hope that somebody will read my sig, but I guess that is not very likely
Anyways, everybody doesn't use the same posts per page setting, so you can't really say the thread has 12 pages (or me saying 3 pages, or anybody saying any number of pages), since the number of pages isn't a property of the thread but of how the thread is displayed. There is a difference.