Awww but Mum... I don't wanna!

Okay, so Mum came over for lunch at my house today.

She saw my PC was running, so she had a nosey at what it was doing.
eMule just happened to be completing a download, and she said
"What's this?"

Now, my Mum (bless her) is what I call a reluctant PC user.
She uses computers at her job - email, data entry... just basic stuff, and she leaves the rest up to the techs.

Therefore, I have to keep explanations of computer-y stuff short n' simple when talking to Mum... otherwise she simply doesn't want to know.

So I just told her it was eMule, which is sort of like Kazaa, and it was sharing files.
Mum's eyes lit up and she said
"Kazaa? isn't that the program I saw on the news that can get music for free?"
I said it was.
She asked if my 'Mule could do it too. I said yeah, it was the same basic principle...

Then she asked if I could do her a favour. As it's Mum, I said I'd try.

So now I'm stuck with downloading... *shudder*

The best of the Bee Gees. :shutup: :frusty: :angry:

Hahahahaha

sucka

:lol:


hope no one checks my shared music

I just hope my 'Mule can forgive me. :crying:

Jus make sure yer friends don't see it..........

You'll be branded for life.........

Know that feeling :lol: Be feel more sorry for me though - She gets me to download line dancing albums :pinch:

Having said that, my brother's got enough albums to fill a 400-CD case with DVDs so usually he'll have what I don't :)

:lol:
don't forget to make a special bee gees cover

http://www.philcoradio.com/beegees/i...horizontal.jpg

Yogi - Yeah I hear that. This download is strictly need to know information for my local mates. And they totally don't need to know. :sick:

Illuminati - Line Dancing? :blink: Man, that's gotta hurt. Suddenly the Bee Gees don't seem so bad.
Hang on. Yes it does. :ermm:

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Originally Posted by 15%

:lol:
don't forget to make a special bee gees cover

http://www.philcoradio.com/beegees/i...horizontal.jpg

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Okay, those are what Mum would call "nice boys". :rolleyes:

I recognize Robin, Barry and Maurice, but I've never seen those 2 other guys before. Not that I really want to know who they are... but the guy on the left looks like one of the hobbits out of the LOTR movies. :lol:

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

I recognize Robin, Barry and Maurice, but I've never seen those 2 other guys before.

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You know suspiciously too much -sometimes its better to :shutup:

:lol: at least u got the bee gee's my mom wanted me to find all of cher's albums :wacko:

:fear:

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Originally Posted by 15%

You know suspiciously too much -sometimes its better to :shutup:

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That's all I know, and yeah, you're right - it's too much.

Anyway, I blame my knowledge on Mum being a Bee Gees fan while I was a kid.
Some facts are bound to rub off on impressionable young minds. :(

bujub - Cher? :ohmy: *BIG shudder* :sick:

Oh no... I just realized something. This could be a dangerous precedent.
Mum used to like Bread (the band, not the food) too. :ph34r:

Maybe it would be best if I let this download "fail". :shifty:

Nah, she's your mum, and I bet she'll be happy about it.

Cheap way of making her so.

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

bujub - Cher? :ohmy: *BIG shudder* :sick:

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yes my moms a big elvis and cher fan :frusty:

Yeah, I know. I'll play the good son and let it finish.
But if she asks me to DL Bread, she's definitely gonna be outta luck.

ed2k: Bread - Baby I'm A Want You.mp3 :sick: :shutup:

I can handle Elvis in very small infrequent doses, but I just wish Cher would STFU and put some clothes on.

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Originally Posted by Illuminati

Know that feeling :lol: Be feel more sorry for me though - She gets me to download line dancing albums :pinch:

Having said that, my brother's got enough albums to fill a 400-CD case with DVDs so usually he'll have what I don't :)

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shite.
dvd's hold roughly 50 albums of good quality 192 and above. 50x400=20,000 albums. yeah you're talking out your arse.

prawned.

cocktail

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

Illuminati - Line Dancing? :blink: Man, that's gotta hurt. Suddenly the Bee Gees don't seem so bad.

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The torture to my ears every time I have to hear the damn music is worse than it seems :(

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Originally Posted by Spider_Dude

shite.
dvd's hold roughly 50 albums of good quality 192 and above. 50x400=20,000 albums. yeah you're talking out your arse.

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Am I really the kind of person to engage in the music equivalent of penis envy? Honestly.

I honestly don't know how much of each of the discs he's filled - He has a list of which album is on which CD. I just know I had to lug a 400-CD case between homes when my mum wanted some Line Dance Fever on her new MP3 player.

It could have been closer to 300 but I'm not sure - I stopped checking the IDs after that. But I think he just gets whatever he can with mates at work - Doubt he's personally listened to more than a handful of them albums. Eight years of collecting that crap does mount up.

We both leave each others' stuff alone unless one of us has something the other can't - Him usually asking me about software and that.

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e-peen envy, something lamsey suffered with for long enough

Haha! Pwned!! :lol: Teh Bee Gees will eat out your soul! :01:

i always thought your name was Spatulagreekgirl

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Originally Posted by Spider_dude

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e-peen envy, something lamsey suffered with for long enough

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He's suffered from that damn unibrow for longer ;) but now he's got bigger problems:
http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/liam.jpg
Then again, he's making lemonade - Word is he's going to bleach his hair and tour the country as a Rolf Harris lookalike ;)

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Originally Posted by Spider_dude

i always thought your name was Spatulagreekgirl

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Who would`ve thought it.

I thought it said that as well:whistling

Spatulagreekgirl? But next to location: it clearly states Scotland, then again if you can miss read my name it's possibly not beyond you to fail to notice this.

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Originally Posted by Illuminati

He's suffered from that damn unibrow for longer ;) but now he's got bigger problems:
http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/liam.jpg
Then again, he's making lemonade - Word is he's going to bleach his hair and tour the country as a Rolf Harris lookalike ;)

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Stylish! The young man has taste. :shifty:

The wee lad certainly has become hirsute since his departure from the board.

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

Okay, so Mum came over for lunch at my house today.

She saw my PC was running, so she had a nosey at what it was doing.
eMule just happened to be completing a download, and she said
"What's this?"

Now, my Mum (bless her) is what I call a reluctant PC user.
She uses computers at her job - email, data entry... just basic stuff, and she leaves the rest up to the techs.

Therefore, I have to keep explanations of computer-y stuff short n' simple when talking to Mum... otherwise she simply doesn't want to know.

So I just told her it was eMule, which is sort of like Kazaa, and it was sharing files.
Mum's eyes lit up and she said
"Kazaa? isn't that the program I saw on the news that can get music for free?"
I said it was.
She asked if my 'Mule could do it too. I said yeah, it was the same basic principle...

Then she asked if I could do her a favour. As it's Mum, I said I'd try.

So now I'm stuck with downloading... *shudder*

The best of the Bee Gees. :shutup: :frusty: :angry:

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hide your porn. cos you know she's gonna fumble around your pc while trying to find music

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Originally Posted by TheDave

hide your porn. cos you know she's gonna fumble around your pc while trying to find music

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:lol: No chance of that... like I said, she's a reluctant user.
She normally just looks at the monitor, and if it isn't Excel or an email client, she just glares at it then walks away.

Unfortunately, eMule was finalizing a download when she looked at my PC today, so it caught her interest, thus leaving me with the request for the testicle-less trio in my download queue. :dry:

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

Unfortunately, eMule was finalizing a download when she looked at my PC today, so it caught her interest, thus leaving me with the request for the testicle-less trio in my download queue. :dry:

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It's a shame that such old stuff cannot be found on the 'mule network... ;)

It's also a shame that Mum knows when I'm telling her lies. :lol:

It's like she has a built in polygraph or something. Nothing gets past her. It's uncanny. :ph34r:

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

It's also a shame that Mum knows when I'm telling her lies. :lol:

It's like she has a built in polygraph or something. Nothing gets past her. It's uncanny. :ph34r:

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Its that 'look' you get in your eyes that no matter how old you are, is still the same as it was when you were 8 and trying to deny all knowledge of any misdeed.....a bit like our little smiley bloke here....:whistling

Mums have scary superpowers.
Some sort of training in the use of the Force maybe. :geek:

The bee gee's are 1337 ;)

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Originally Posted by Sara

Its that 'look' you get in your eyes that no matter how old you are, is still the same as it was when you were 8 and trying to deny all knowledge of any misdeed.....a bit like our little smiley bloke here....:whistling

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Thanks for the tip Sara. :)
I'll put on sunglasses if she asks me to d/l any more sucky songs...

"Sorry Mum, I couldn't find any sources for Bread's Baby I'm A Want You" :cool:

:D

Guillaume - Yeah. Mindreading mothers make deception so damned difficult. Its just not sporting. :lol:

Linkin Park - :lol:

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Originally Posted by Linkin Park

The bee gee's are 1337 ;)

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I didn't realise they were that old. :blink:

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Originally Posted by lynx

I didn't realise they were that old. :blink:

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haha lol :rolleyes:

i have beegees and level 42 :blink: (who are they) down loading from ares for my mum, and i can sympithis it makes me cringe when i see them on my download list...

Level 42? Damn.. there's a blast from the past.
I think they were a 1 hit wonder sometime around 1985?

Btw, welcome to the board BoB!1! :)