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I HATE computers :flare: :flare:
I am sure there is a computer conspirarcy tryingg to destroy my life .....with error messages
and viruses and flashing lights and I have decided ther is only one resort left for the dying human race to take
Pull the Plug>>>>>> :crash: :crash: :crash:
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I wonderif I should horrify you with the knowledge you are using a computer... or just leave you to figure it out one idle tuesday afternoon two months from now.
I belive I should have said I hate my dependancy on the thing:D
*smiling at taliesin's 'cellar door'*
Classic movie. (But who WAS the author they were referring to>?)
We have heard that it was Tolkien. He has said that "cellar door" is the most beautiful in quite a few of his writings, though this saying has been ascribed to other people too.
I got this in my inbox this morning and this is what i think...
>>Why it's good to be a woman:
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>>We got off the Titanic first.
and we are proud we left people to die why exactly??
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>>We can scare male bosses with the mysterious gynaecological
>>disorder excuses.
hum I can think of better ways of scaring people than this and awhat happens if your boss is an OB whatsit???
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>>Taxis stop for us.
and then charge very high rates
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>>We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
Gross generalisation
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>>No fashion faux pas we make, could ever rival the Speedo.
ever heard of a thong?
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>>We don't have to pass gas to amuse ourselves.
OOkay
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>>If we forget to shave, no one has to know.
but men can pretend theyve decided to grow a beard and just quit shaving all together
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>>We can congratulate our teammate without ever touching her rear end.
Humm i think this is more a culture thing than a gender one
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>>We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our
>>privates are still there.
I think we will just skip this one
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>>We have the ability to dress ourselves.
This ability is all realitive
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>>We can talk to the opposite sex without having to picture them
>>naked.
:eek: :eek: please tell me this is not hinting at what I think it is hinting :sick:
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>>If we marry someone 20 years younger, we are aware that we will
>>look like an idiot.
Granted
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>>We will never regret piercing our ears.
rubbish my ears were pierced as a 2 year old and hardly a day goes by that i dont regret it
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>>There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.
Finally some sense mind you have you ever heard of Gall stones??
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>>We can make comments about how silly men are in their presence
>>because they aren't listening anyway.
Sorry but wouldnt that just be annoying???
ive almost got the full list lol
How very droll.
drolling for fish on the trolls where the gremlins linger along the side of the road where we haven't the time to stop and honk at the roses, in our mindless ragea gainst all that is beautiful
Sword chuckery would have been more useful than swords or nunchucks.
Please keep your posts within Forum Rules and common courtesy.
My Siggy from back in May comes to mind most forcibly leaving nay burning a MARK. As it forms a wall agianst my Temper
King Lear or a winters tale which is the on Im thinking of 3 daughters? Jester who is wise? or is that hamlet? no its a grave digger in hamlet
bahh all my shakespear is tied up in knots.!
:confused:
Yes some posts have been deleted because I don't want to lock this topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Please re-read Scher's above post if you're wondering why your posts have been deleted. :)
HAy thoughts will keep you healthy :D
Please re-read Scher's above post if you're wondering why your posts have been deleted. :)[/QUOTE]
Scher's post requests that people respect the Forum Rules and common courtesy.
Starting with the Forum Rules, I'm pretty sure that the deleted posts were neither "obscene" nor "vulgar" nor "sexually-oriented" nor "hateful" (even if a little resentful) nor "threatening" nor "otherwise violative of any laws". There was some mild "flaming" going on but I don't think anyone got sufficiently seriously burned to warrent the deletion of posts. "Baiting", I assume, refers to when people probe away at the temper of another messageboard member with the sole purpose of drawing from them an angry tirade. Again, I don't think this was happening. I don't know what "trolling" is so perhaps someone might be kind enough to explain it. I suppose there may or may not have been trolling going on - I don't know - but I'd like to think that there wasn't.
As for common courtesy, I don't think this term can be reasonably taken to mean unerring and absolute civility. There was clearly some friction occurring but it was all in good spirit and can be considered constructive personal criticism. Life's pretty boring when everyone's super-nice to everyone else all the time, and I would have thought that in a situation like this, which is devoid of normal human relations (and these aren't normal human relations), that constant super-niceness is even less in people's best interests. I'm not saying that people should be having a go at each other for no reason but if there's substance to the personal criticism and it's funny or insightful and not genuinely hurtful then I'm all for it where it's due. I really hope that people on here don't consider other users to be real friends. The real point of these messageboards is, in my opinion, to have a laugh by getting involved with a bit of interesting and/or funny discussion, and this will inevitably involve posts which are slightly provocative. I don't see why even the slightest hint of subversiveness should be clamped down on as if it precluded any possibiliy of civilised discussion.
The high-minded, pretentious, and overly serious tone that almost completely pervades this forum renders it an astonishingly joyless place. Ironically, it appears to be populated for the most part by college students who should be having fun but instead seem intent on foisting their intellect on other users, never missing an opportunity to back up their inane, vapid comments with quotations or to otherwise display their erudition like monkeys displaying their genitalia. I understand that this is a literature forum and its users, who are of an intellectual bent, want to talk about literature. But if there's absolutely no edge or humour to the discussion then it's just boring. Life's too short to be forever worrying about whether the things you do and say make you appear thoughtful enough. I want to come into forums like this and have a laugh and I can't believe that others don't feel the same.
Please don't delete this; it would be annoying and counter-productive.
I couldnt post this in the right thread for lots of reasons so here it is a few words I found interesting.
Flaming- is the performance "art" of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting in the social context of a discussion board (usually on the Internet). Such messages are called flames, and are often posted in response to flamebait. Flaming is one of a class of economic problems known as The Tragedy of the Commons, when a group holds a resource (in this case, communal attention), but each of the individual members has an incentive to overuse it.
Troll - From the fishing term. As a noun, synonymous with flamebait. As a verb, to post controversial or provocative messages in a deliberate attempt to provoke flames.
Flamebait or trollbait is a message posted to an Internet discussion group, such as a newsgroup or a mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response (a "flame"). Various motives or explanations can be sought for this puzzling behavior; the desire for attention and the desire for entertainment at others' expense are two leading motives.
In other words to troll to bait and to flamebait/trollbait are all the same thing.
:cool:
:banana:
I love finding out new things:D
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Next thing anyone know anything about the Tragedy of Commons Google is not being very helpful!
Who be the judge of what's considered 'funny or insightful and not genuinely hurtful'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan Dollard
I beg your pardon, some members DO consider other members REAL friends.
There's nothing about having to be super-nice mentioned in the rules, but being nice doesn't hurt. First try to get to know a person's approach to having people being nice to them and then decide to try doing the 'funny' thing, it's safer, you never know how would a person defend him/herself. I'm not one to defend 'political corectness' but it'll be nice not having members attacking each other. If you start off calling people names and then hope for civilised discussion...
You can have an 'edge of humour' even on an intellectual forum. There's room for both both serious and fun topics, wow, even on a literature forum.
I have no idea why your last post should be deleted, doesn't happen too often here anyway. This is a moderated forum and some posts get edited or deleted if the mods/admin think it'll do with some editing and/or deleting. If you stick around longer and won't try to 'display your genitals' by testing how much offensive you can be until they notice and do something about it, you might even like the forum.
Btw, welcome on board http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...leys/taunt.gif
Additionally to boatrafting, the Oxford and Cambridge university have also contested in writing limericks. There was one compulsory element: Timbuktu, that had to be in their limericks.
The Cambridge team:
Raging through the desert sand
Came an endless caravan
Man and camel, two by two
Destination Timbuktu
The Oxford team:
Tim and I huntin went
Passing by a hookers' tent
They where 3 and we were 2
So I booked 1 and Tim booked 2
Mark
Strange! I guess I always thought of trolling looking something like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
http://www.giltedgedgoblins.com/imag...l%20guitar.jpg
:lol:
Wow, I missed some... I say we keel-haul the scurvy dog that almost caused the locking of the blessed thread!
lol, not flaming, just being true to me avatarrrr. lol :D
That is a truly terrifying creature. It looks like what was trying to crawl underneath my blankets and bite my toes off when I was sick with a temperature. Flame on stanilslaw, for all you deny it.
I sing to myself
"Where have all the marks gone
long time passing
where have the marks gone
long time ago"
disjointed comments, strung together to create a story; it never works out the way we wanted it to weigh: wanted for murder and double parking the little things musn't ever get lost in the losing system where poeple who are never going anywhere and will do nothing wiht their life decide to spend theirs ruining yours, the power trips the power struggles the power outages of orange porportions.
*stretch* *scratch* *sniff-sniff*...*mark* ahhhhhh.
Old school mark, lol
http://www.yellow22.com/bild/Footpri...4163917776.gif
I left my mark. :)
atlast, maybe some will not forget this glorius, dying thread, or perhaps we should bury it as a viking would be, Death with honour!
When the world spins around in circles is it you or the heavens that move???
the heavens provide the moving song where we all dance to the music, and listen to the band play out their aggressions against the world, head banging on he table top tennis courts where people have no idea of the correct answer, but some take wild stabs anyways, i know this because he was stabbed 49 times in the center mass before choking on his last blood-infused words.
"I'm a wizard mind you, this place is kept by powerfull gods..."
:D
yawn :yawnb: what???
mark mark what mark
Tis just conan the barbarian quotes.
barbaric quotes with nothing but unsubstantiated circumstantial evidence of proximity has nothing to do with the actual twin identity of the elder scrolling across a sea of water and an expansively wastelining paradigm
Conan the barbarian? humm you know what I think I once saw one of those books in my school library in egypt...didnt read it thought it looked to be even more barbaric than Tarazan
(which btw i read and mor or less enjoyed)
Mark has died
Just practicing my smilies...http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/001.gif[img] http://svr01.thump.net/640408/pump_m...ing_banana.gif [/img]http://photobucket.com/albums/b329/s...randdancer.gif http://www.websmileys.com/sm/music/musik15.gif
oh well 3 out of 4 ain to badd for a rookie
aie, I quite enjoy the series, beutifle women, sword play, monsters, some sorcery, more beutifle women, revenge, beutifle women... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
yeah I sort of got that from the cover sort of a mix of Bond and Tarazan is it?
anyway B-mental the prob with the second smilie is that there is a gap between the [IMG] and the code..better luck nex time
OH yes MARK
markalicious tiffany lamps i love lamp like a lamp with a genie inside the game genie with nintendo, there will be no pirate flag above my door, i'm in creme, and never will do that again, because of the way it made me feel inside and i'll be there still i'll let it past and hold my tongue and you will think that kanashii goubastistu doesn't love you anymore.
Just because it is funny. :p