I think I know what's up with Idol.

Mary is quite persuasive so I decided I'd mine fst they way she does. That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.

So that was a week ago. I had forgotten why I only ever read the off-topic areas. I don't think I'm going to give up as some of the comments on the news articles are quite interesting and all of a sudden I'm thinking about getting back into newsgroups, too. However, reading all the crap people post when they either want to trade BT accounts or are trying to get enough posts to get into the BT section is horrific. The simple fact that none of these people are posting just for the fuck of it, or to help someone, or cus they fancy a chat kinda slowly sucks the joy out of a person's forumular experience.

I've only been doing it a week and I can already see that it's impinging upon my usual demeanour around here - and I don't even care that much about the BT scene.

So, yeah, I can only imagine the effect of reading that shit for years.
The moral of this post is that it's a good thing Mary doesn't have feelings like the rest of us.

I actually filled out a bit of missing info from mary's lexicon earlier on, the 'buffered account', which will probably now give her even more reason to beat the tards senseless now that she has figured out what the sneaky little fuckers are up to.

I saw that and think Mary probably already knew.
Did you misread her post :unsure:

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That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.

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When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

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I saw that and think Mary probably already knew.
Did you misread her post :unsure:

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You never can tell with the inscrutable obfuscator, I thought the inquiry sincere, If not I'll kick him in the bawls later. :blink:

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I saw that and think Mary probably already knew.
Did you misread her post :unsure:

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You never can tell with the inscrutable obfuscator, I thought the inquiry sincere, If not I'll kick him in the bawls later. :blink:

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Simple rule of life is to never trust Asians as then tend to be inscrutable as fuck.

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That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.

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When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

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Did you just parenthesise one of Mary's attributes. You cad.
I agree with your thinky srsnz. A different decent member certainly doesn't spring to mind.

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I saw that and think Mary probably already knew.
Did you misread her post :unsure:

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You never can tell with the inscrutable obfuscator, I thought the inquiry sincere, If not I'll kick him in the bawls later. :blink:

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Maybe she was just saying that the bittards use the word buffer a lot and they have no idea what it meant originally.
I say maybe but I'm fairly sure as that was exactly what she said :schnauz:

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When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

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Did you just parenthesize one of Mary's attributes. You cad.
I agree with your thinky srsnz. A different decent member certainly doesn't spring to mind.

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Not grammar this time....just speeling

Arty, arty arty :no:

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You have smileys that can type here? Where do I find them?

Oh we have lots of smileys, look here comes one now, just for you. :ghey:

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If you're not drunk, you can use your crayons and colour me disappointed.

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Oh we have lots of smileys, look here comes one now, just for you. :ghey:

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That's a relief, I was worried for a minute that typing smileys might just have been a side effect you were suffering after watching glue dry for a long time :wacko:

No....not drunk, but my PC is on it's last legs and doing some deeply flakey things, including random reboots, graphics shutdowns and keyboard/mouse disconnects, so I'm sort of taking what I can get at the moment.....sigh. I really, really couldn't post anything after four tries then, so if you think your disappointed, color me deeply fucked off!

(The story of woe is in the hardware section but if you have been reading the new posts you know this already).

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Oh we have lots of smileys, look here comes one now, just for you. :ghey:

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That's a relief, I was worried for a minute that typing smileys might just have been a side effect you were suffering after watching glue dry for a long time :wacko:

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No, I meant that your posts had a similar affect on me as watching glue dry i.e. you are as boring as fuck, you need to go and find some where else to peddle your wears, you are a rather vapid individual.

Whereas I meant your posts give the distinct impression that you are high on glue. etc.

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No....not drunk, but my PC is on it's last legs and doing some deeply flakey things, including random reboots, graphics shutdowns and keyboard/mouse disconnects, so I'm sort of taking what I can get at the moment.....sigh. I really, really couldn't post anything after four tries then, so if you think your disappointed, color me deeply fucked off!

(The story of woe is in the hardware section but if you have been reading the new posts you know this already).

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I did :smilie4:
I also know about your water-cooling problem and its compounding by Chinese smiley people.

The reason for my enquiry as to your sobriety was to get to the root of your erroneous use of the magenta internets sharpie.

Hokay, you originally wrote the word parenthesise which I came along and sharpied mit a 'z' on the last s, which is how I was taught it should be done, but let me guess, you are going to interject, both forms are functional. Unfortunately I was a bad person and used American english using a z instead of an s, but that's what you get for having American culture rammed down your neck. Although a colony of the empire and still acknowledge Liz as the Queen and having a Governor General and all the palaver, it gets very confusing so fucking sue me.....

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Hokay, you originally wrote the word parenthesise which I came along and sharpied mit a 'z' on the last s, which is how I was taught it should be done, but let me guess, you are going to interject, both forms are functional. Unfortunately I was a bad person and used American english using a z instead of an s, but that's what you get for having American culture rammed down your neck. Although a colony of the empire and still acknowledge Liz as the Queen and having a Governor General and all the palaver, it gets very confusing so fucking sue me.....

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Indeed but can you imagine my surprise while having a wee chat with a fellow Brit, I was told to Americanise my parlance.

I can tell you what I did. I put down my black coffee, went straight to the kitchen and made myself a nice cup of tea - which I then drank while holding my little finger askew.

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Hokay, you originally wrote the word parenthesise which I came along and sharpied mit a 'z' on the last s, which is how I was taught it should be done, but let me guess, you are going to interject, both forms are functional. Unfortunately I was a bad person and used American english using a z instead of an s, but that's what you get for having American culture rammed down your neck. Although a colony of the empire and still acknowledge Liz as the Queen and having a Governor General and all the palaver, it gets very confusing so fucking sue me.....

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Indeed but can you imagine my surprise while having a wee chat with a fellow Brit, I was told to Americanise my parlance.

I can tell you what I did. I put down my black coffee, went straight to the kitchen and made myself a nice cup of tea - which I then drank while holding my little finger askew.

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I know the shame of it all, I went and banged my head in the door, It really does actually get confusing without being facile at all. When I was at school we suddenly went from imperial to metric, so there you are, everything you learned you can unlearn and start again, and while your at it, we've changed the currency too... We used to have pounds and pence just like the U.K. but then changed (I've still got some old sixpence pieces).
The same very much has happened to the language here, it very much was proper British with the Oxford dictionary as the standard, and in the 70's and 80's the proper accent for a radio or television announcer was a British one. But times have very much changed. I find myself cutting the u from common words like for instance colour to become color because that is how the print media spells it now, the evil peril is everywhere American english is derigeur and I corrected my grumpy welsh invisible sharpie wielding frustrated english teacher with an americanism, a faux pas for which I am sure I will burn in hell's eternal flames....mea culpa....mea culpa.....mea culpa......

The they in the first post did bother me.

It's okay, mate. I'm just glad that it's all out in the open now. You're among friends and it's not like we'd ever take the piss or anything.
Imagine if your poor wife knew of your secret shame.

This literary invasion is a menace and it must be stopped.

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It ruined your lovely flowe. True story.

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It ruined your lovely flowe. True story.

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Oh, you mean like the bittards.

Jebus, when did you get so esoteric.

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That's all I meant. Hippie.

OH!
You fucker, I read that first post like 23 times looking for an error and didn't see it.

And also, if only Arty had seen that instead :no:

Did the first post-bit of my first post-knot give you a raging clue.

It should have but I still couldn't quite see what it was you were on about :idunno:

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That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.

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When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

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:wub: And, I appeared on your birthday...

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Indeed but can you imagine my surprise while having a wee chat with a fellow Brit, I was told to Americanise my parlance.

I can tell you what I did. I put down my black coffee, went straight to the kitchen and made myself a nice cup of tea - which I then drank while holding my little finger askew.

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I know the shame of it all, I went and banged my head in the door, It really does actually get confusing without being facile at all. When I was at school we suddenly went from imperial to metric, so there you are, everything you learned you can unlearn and start again, and while your at it, we've changed the currency too... We used to have pounds and pence just like the U.K. but then changed (I've still got some old sixpence pieces).
The same very much has happened to the language here, it very much was proper British with the Oxford dictionary as the standard, and in the 70's and 80's the proper accent for a radio or television announcer was a British one. But times have very much changed. I find myself cutting the u from common words like for instance colour to become color because that is how the print media spells it now, the evil peril is everywhere American english is derigeur and I corrected my grumpy welsh invisible sharpie wielding frustrated english teacher with an americanism, a faux pas for which I am sure I will burn in hell's eternal flames....mea culpa....mea culpa.....mea culpa......

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I actually read all of that. :O

As for forum speak, when I first started here, I was quite surprised at how 'Merkinized the interwebs really is- especially seeing how many Brits and former colonized areas have posters here. Even the Indians write in an Americanized English. Fuk it is cool not having to learn anything new. :01:

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You never can tell with the inscrutable obfuscator, I thought the inquiry sincere, If not I'll kick him in the bawls later. :blink:

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Maybe she was just saying that the bittards use the word buffer a lot and they have no idea what it meant originally.
I say maybe but I'm fairly sure as that was exactly what she said :schnauz:

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I haven't gotten to that timeline of the board yet, but that is exactly what I meant. I might have skipped over it, was it in a trade thread?

Anyways, it wouldn't be the first time Miss Arte has explained to me something that I already know, and in each instance seemed fairly obvious I was well informed. In the beginning times, I would evaluate it as a form of extreme sarcastic condescension, but now that a pattern has been established, I use light dismissals.

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When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

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You know that one smiley that's kind of reddish and has these fluttering hearts? Well, I'm not going to post one of those at you. You're going to have to learn to just deal with it.

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The moral of this post is that it's a good thing Mary doesn't have feelings like the rest of us.

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I can emulate all the ones that seem necessary given the situation.

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When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

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You know that one smiley that's kind of reddish and has these fluttering hearts? Well, I'm not going to post one of those at you. You're going to have to learn to just deal with it.

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Just realized I've been here 3 years.

Welcome, N00b... :dry:

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Well, sort of, the emulation still comes across as that, an echo of the real thing, like a thin Santa Claus at a cheap outlet store with a cotton ball beard. :blink:

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I can emulate all the ones that seem necessary given the situation.

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like a thin Santa Claus at a cheap outlet store with a cotton ball beard. :blink:

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What a fantastically apt simile :happy: