My boy found this, it raised a titter. Dunno if it's a ginge, CBA to find out either. http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=matrixpong.wmv Worksafe too, BTW -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified) M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
As Pip seems to be slacking and I'm in a foul mood. 1. Attributions - sort them. 2. Shift key - work out where it is. 3. Punctuation - you're probably not ready for that yet. 4. Post content - wtf carry on as you are, we all have off days.
Hardly. I had to give myself a verbal warning after watching that in my office when I was supposed to be working.
**** off, eh? This is usenet, not fucking GCSE English. I may just be in a bad mood, but regulars dogpiling n00bs for petty reasons just winds me up.
JC says... I think LN's slating is justified. It's not hard to work out how to post in a manner that is readable, but some fuckwits still insist on fucking that up.
Make me. GCSE English would be a standard for the OP to aim for. Join the club. dogpiling? That's an unknown expression. I take it it is similar to criticising? Oh dear. Anyone, new or not, who posted like that would, if it caught me at the wrong time, get the same response. It isn't petty. If you are trying to assimilate a large quantity of information then basic netiquette is a huge help. As others have pointed out repeatedly if you want your posts to be read (by those with taste and discernment *cough*) then format them in the standard convention for the group. I usually just move on but every now and again it jars enough to get a response. I saw 4 posts from this chap who bounded in with all the grace of a labrador on ice. I have a passion for language, I hate seeing it abused. I have a certain amount of respect for newsgroup convention. I don't like seeing it flouted. Still at least he didn't top post.
Fully acknowledged. After all I've only lurked for 3 years and only been posting regularly since the BOSM. Though I did post once or twice under an old addy back in the late 90's but a groups search suggests I was x-no-archive at the time.
Lady Nina wrote How can you be so sure? I suspect that in fact he did and then deleted everything below it.
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 01:03:04 +0000, steve auvache Of bad netiquette I wrote.. I bow to your greater experience in these matters oh wise one. I liked it when it was felching. Have you read that book yet?
Lady Nina wrote Funny you should mention that. You must be psychotic or something. No. I had it in my hands only today as it goes. Flicking some dust off it I was. It occurred to me that I hadn't read it yet and that really I should, if for no other reason than to get it out of the pending skip. Then I shed a little, because I cannot read it because I am a muppet and I forgot to buy a cheap set of reading glasses[1] Almost as quick as it came though, the little tear was quickly replaced by a little smile as I remembered that tomorrow was Wednesday, the day me new bins come in. I can read again tomorrow I thought and I chortled gleefully to myself and did a little jig of delight right there in the middle of the living room. What is it about The Mad Italian Woman who lives over the road eh? She always comes past when I am doing things. Know what I mean? Last week she caught me telling the tree off. The wind blew and I caught me hair in it as I walked past and I was just giving it a warning, "I am warning you. Once more tree and you'll be short a couple of leaf buds." Who'd do different? A couple of months ago it was the argument I had with the bin bag. I didn't know I was standing on it did I? I had me boots on. She crosses the road and mumbles and plays with her rosary when she sees me. Snot my fault, it is just an unfortunate set of coincidences. A happier set of coincidences though is what made me add a little whoop of joy to the little jig I was doing in the living room as I realised that, as Wednesday was scheduled to be my first day off this month, I could spend the evening breaking in my new bins with a bowl of nuts and raisins and have a purely self indulgent read of A Proper Book. It's been an odd day in the way of coincidences, quite surreal at times. [1] I have just spent the best part of a week being functionally illiterate. It ain't pleasant I can tell you.
Don't you fucking start. I'm just on apercentile all of my own. There'd better be a good excuse... Dangerous game dust flicking. If you get it wrong there can be dire consequences. <thinks about the 8 library books renewed today, doesn't think about the ones that are on loan from friends or the recent purchases> Skin, hair, inhibitions? Two whisky tumblers and duct tape. Don't count your glasses before their adjusted. Or summat. Don't get me started on opticians. I had to sit on my hot sweaty little hands and wriggle during that optician thread. Didn't enjoy it one little bit. Don't over exert yourself now. Define mad. <looks around to see who is watching and making notes> Yes. Ask me about neighbours popping their heads over the fence at inconvienient moments at some point. And admonishing items of furniture. Oh and stairs, but those fuckers are being sold now and I stomped on them good. <realises it is only ukrmers and if they haven't worked it out by now they're not very bright> Not me. The one out the back was severely chainsawed a couple of years back, so now I just remind it what happened last time and it seems to have taken heed. Fairies wear boots. they too are unable to sense small flat plastic objects through the thick soles. At least she hasn't got the bell, book and candle out. Could happen to anyone. Chocolate and coffee - the only way to be really sure. With nuts you get those strange stains on the pages. Synchronicity innit. Lovely stuff when you're paying attention. If I couldn't read I think I'd cease to function.
How many books do you read at the same time tho? I'm currently reading When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?, Time, Space and Things and the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. I keep switching between them till I finish.
Usually 3 physical books on the go plus web stuff. I go through phases of devouring a book or more a day, then I'll dip in and out and take up to a week to finish something. I'm re reading Chocolat and Feersum Endjinn dipping in and out of both. A strange combination. I'm still tired from the weekend so not in sitting down with book mode. I've read the first couple of pages of Ella Minnow Pea which is meant to be excellent but I've not had my reading head on. And I'm ploughing through the poetry eddas and various other original myth source works for the on going research. A lot of this is on line now which means I can be doing half a dozen things at once but still be working. Honest. Currently following your lots lesser of two weevils on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2004/vote_usa_2004/default.stm which has a snazzy little map. I've been doing the maths on yellow post it notes and have come to the conclusion it's not looking good. It will be florida all over again and the reports from voters on Michael Mooore's site hardly inspire confidence. I should just go to bed <sigh>
So I'm not alone in this behavior then. We met a couple from San Francisco while on our tour of Ireland. Both graduated from Berzerkly and he is a published poet and magazine editor. We were invited to his 60th BD last week and it was kinda cool listening to him and others reading various bits. I had a mate write a limerick for me to read. It was well received, which was a surprise. I was going thorough my stuff and found a few things from Coleridge that I read again. I may be hooked. I may even attempt a poem for Bammy's BD. Depressing innit. I just want to scream.
[..] I didn't see any of it, all I got was a message saying "Spybot reports that you want to download 'Gator'" If I block this, I don't get any download. Curious, eh?
Must be old age, or something, as it's been posted here before, I'm certain, and is as old as the hills.
