Last week in Hermit's Cave Forum

[They are a charming and crazed lot over at our forum, which you can check out for yourself by clicking here. Ed.] Weekly Folly
Busy, busy week. Unfortunately it was a result of everyone heaping abuse upon me. I'm still trying to figure out how to jam this forum sideways up the rectal opening of a few of you lot.

Not much to go on Started off with me asking the GP for a little help in identifying a song. I only had a snippet, but within ten minutes Frnht had figured out who had written it, and within 35 minutes he had located no less than 13 bands that had covered the song. They talk about a time when people will be physically integrated with computers. I'm pretty sure that Frnht isn't looking forward to it, as it will just slow down his interface. The abuse started here early in the week. 'Twas Kenny that

started in at this point. Cupid made a futile attempt, but was really more of a crap joke. He should know better than to start telling crap jokes within earshot of Spinola. Led to more than a few recycled substandard jokes. Ended the week with SDMYHIENEY talking about his new hobby, drinking. Apparently he has little experience in that arena. Begs the question of how he got involved with this lot.

Hypothetical dodgy software KrAP was apparently headed to Cyprus (some place east of New York and west of China for us colonials) and figured he might sneak back some dodgy software (Not Microsoft, street vendor type). There was a bunch of on topic blather, centered mainly around which bodily orifice KrAP was going to sneak the packaging back in. Luckily at some point Dinq mentioned Macs and that set us upon a long overdue round of Mac bashing, and a little Josh bashing.

Shawn aka John luvs ME. True Confusing thread as Spinola kept changing the threads name. Something with SDMYHIENEY trying to add or move things within his RAID system. Just initialize the container mate, that will solve most of your problems. Or at least consolidate them into one large problem.

There was bunches of hardware geek talk which is at least more tolerable than software geek talk, as long as they aren't talking about marking benches with CPU's and such.

We went on a bit for a while with our poor taste interests during our misspent youth (Hardy boys and Shaun Cassidy), along with some name misspelling wibble. Siruis1eleven showed his true geek colors when we had completely pulled the subject off-topic (from RAID controllers to sportsman's "packages") and he insisted on carrying on the RAID topic. As well as showing that he was trained, or reared, by Spinola, trying to get everyone to hand him their network identification. Once a Spinola, always a Spinola.

BURKS Flassman too was corrupted by the geek discharge. Posting a link for some Boxed geek set from his wasted ute. I mean this thing came with everything but the unwashed hair and the pocket protector. I think after you download it they send a Jock over to beat the crap out of you.

Later in the day Fat Fred showed up (A rogister leftover) and there was a few "hey old bean" comments, and a little paradox talk. Then someone mentioned nurses, which got Alex and the Irish git worked up into a lather (don't ask, and in particular don't ask about the other sexual perversions discussed.)

I'll have to remember the nurse bit, seems like an interesting way to get off topic in geek threads. Yeah I'm definitely going to have to remember that.

Inquirer Suits Fund Well at this point I think it necessary to talk about Siruis1eleven. He's kind of like the stillborn offspring of Spinola and Frnht. In that he seems to drink allot, he doesn't make much sense and talks in non-sequitors.

He also has this predilection to talk about cpu benchmarks. When he's really in his cups he seems to talk about some Inquirer 2.0 jazz. Anyways, in this thread he started to talk about getting the always-dapper Mageek and staff a wallmart suit or something for business meetings.

There was an obvious fashion theme, which is rich coming from this lot. We've got Josh wearing the same Blue shirt (unwashed), Spinola wearing the same rogister t-shirt (unwashed, and what's up with that anyways.) The only one who wouldn't get thrown out of a high-class restaurant is Welsh Bloke. Well until the wine started flowing that is.

One for the HP/Q folk Continued this week with a bit of "Woe is me" from our local (forum wise) Comcrap folks. Complaining about having to sit in the cafeteria for hours on end instead of doing any actual work. Near the end they discussed all the freebies they had gotten as a result of the collision… er ah, merger.

Of course one can't talk freebies without talking about spinolaing. So there was a round of who had gotten what, and how we can get more. The record is a tie with a gas plasma wall screen in one corner, and in the other a Muhnkey. Book boy came in with a looooooooong crap joke, bad enough to be worthy of Spinola himself. Then the book boy rattled on about the La-z-boy chair he'd like. Who is he fooling; a brain in a jar with electrodes coming out of it doesn't need a chair.

A little blabber on SDMYHIENEY's automotive endeavors. This led into some rather fanciful thoughts on how to get an engine with some real horsepower into an English car.

Big Gun Silly Picture Well Tigger wanted us to believe that he was languishing at the wrong end of a dial up modem in his Ma's house, yet he was surfing for high res pictures of artillery pieces. Going back to our roots of kars kats guns and trucks, we wibbled on for a bit, talking about and looking at pictures of big guns.

Somewhere along the line we got to talking about Flash (the software bit) and the "Skip shite" button. Normally I'm not fond of geek talk, but bashing Flash and Mac users is my kind of fun. Had they included talking about how useless Java is, I could have quite enjoyed it.

Where is Tigger? TCB came up with some picture of a grasshopper and tried to pass it of as some kind of Tigger thing. The resemblance was seriously lacking. There was a bunch of out of work Tigger talk, crappy modem connections. And a fire suppression system at Flassman's Uni that you don't even want to think about.

Peru vs MS Now we're talking about politics. I thought there was a moratorium in place for that sort of thing. What's happened to this place? When Hermie was still around we talked about subjects worth talking about. Like Ice cream, and "healthy young girls," now were talking about pols pissing on Uncle Bill. I'm all for pissing on Uncle Bill, but lets leave the pols out of it. At some point one of the little TCB's had to go to the hospital, was a slight cause for concern, we think. See TCB posted the little TCB's temp in Celsius and by the time we figured out whether it was good or bad, the little tyke was fine and back home eating Berties. Slight SETI talk at the end.

Old Monitors - London Alex was pawning off some monitors. There was less interest in that than how to ork a cow. I don't even want to know. There was a fair amount of talk about a town called Kidderminster, who the frell calls a town Kidderminster. What is it overrun with baby goats or something?

I shouldn't have mentioned Hermie and his Ice cream. I'm going to have to see if there are any fresh blueberries out at the supermarket yet.

Hermie's Quotable Quotes
To: frnht451 2-Aug 02:30
yeahhhhh! It's an early evening 18:30ishh. Been a lovely day, checked the river out, what there is left of it.

Got a gallon of vanilla ice cream, had to buy a large sack of frozen blue berries and one of black raspberries. Set up for bed time snack that way.

Think tonight I'll have ramen noodles with prawns and bean sprouts garnished with celentro and a small handfull of that red colored pepper.

Hermit
D. Martin

To: tcb.Net (TCB500) 27-Oct 23:32
MY Grandotter is into a couple anime charecters and prior to them getting on the net she asked me to download some pictures if I could find them.

Got interested for while myself. There are/were a bazillion Japanese sites for anime. Ranging from melt your monitor to very tame and suited for children. None of which had a thing to do with the way they set the site up. Lord. Colors, moving backgrounds, frames, gifs, flicker flashing flash, a riot of insanity. Kinda like Flash and F451 on holiday.

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