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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: tuftedduck on October 28, 2007, 04:19:36 PM
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Thanks to BT and a "situation" in their exchange, I have just suffered a 24 hour disconnection from the great world of the internet. :(
I have been up the wall, down the wall, kicked the dog (and the neighbours dog), taken to drink, committed suicide, divorced the missus of 50 years, stuck pins in effigies of BT engineers and wept in a darkened room. :'(
Back on now, maybe just in time to regain some sanity. ;D
You can get hooked on this internet business, can't you, and when deprived, it is like losing an arm. :o
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Surely all you needed to do was take to drink. That's my normal approach to deprivation. :lol:
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Think what it was like for me back in July without my internet for a week... it's a good job I live alone, otherwise I would have been unbearable.
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A week ???? Good grief, how did you survive ? :no:
The trouble with only taking to drink and putting all the childish stuff to one side is that the missus may then come back............can't have that !! >:D
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another thing u could do is rip the whole of your favorite web site and then when ya net is down, load it up and relax ..... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh !
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Agh......... DeJavu
Sounds just like a dream I had last night. :lol:
I have even discovered recently there are people out there that don't even have a PC, let alone internet connections
You know the ones, the ones with the nice tidy houses and gardens and always seem to be decorating or washing the car or some other kind of chore, is this just to keep busy I wonder? >:D
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I think you've hit the nail on the head there OF, to think I used to run the vacuum round every day!!!! it's lucky if it's done once a fortnight these days :lol:
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AAaaaaaaaarrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh !!
Spoke too soon......just taken three hours for the modem to "wakeup" and make a connection.
BT have checked all their stuff and tell me the problem is with Virgin. Virgin have checked all their stuff and tell me that the problem is with BT.
Going back to quill pen and fax machine. :'(
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Have you considered keeping carrier pigeons?
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Men think that computers should be referred to as female, just like ships, because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The language in which they communicate among themselves is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. The message "Bad command or File Name" is about as informative as "if you don't know why I'm mad at you, I'm certainly not going to tell you !"
4. Your smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval.
5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you spend half your salary on accessories for it.
6. You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong.
Women think computers are male because:
1. They have lots of data, but are still clueless.
2. They are supposed to solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
3. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had only waited a bit longer, you could have had a better model.
4. To get their attention, you have to "turn them on".
5. A big "power-surge" will knock them out for the rest of the night !
6. It is always necessary to have a backup.
7. They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons.
8. Size does matter.
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Eric, you're not speechless are you ?? :D (I'm posting this from the naughty corner :lol:)
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You're forever making me speechless, Kate :D
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A friend used to be a very keen gardener. She grew veg, fruit, you name it. They never needed to buy spuds or carrots. Loads of tomatoes in summer etc etc.
Then I introduced her to online gaming - specifically first player shooter games (MoH:AA I think). They need to buy LOTS of veg now :lol:
Edit - she is very very very good at FPS games though. She's no slouch at flight sims (fighting ones) either which is unusual for women as they generally have poorer spatial awareness than men (well there HAS to be something we're better at :P )
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I must admit after now being in my 10th year online not having access to the net does seem strange.
Ive just been away where there was no nettage and one evening was extremely bored at what was on tv, so was anti-social and pulled out my lappy whilst everyone else watched the match. As I was sat coding one of the things that annoyed was I couldnt just quickly pull of a reference to a website or look up something.
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... yeah i know what you mean .... when at the outlaws ... sorry inlaws in wales i feel isolated ... i think they only just got a water supply
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It's funny how we get to take these things for granted. When I was a boy we didn't even have a telephone or a television set, yet now being without an internet connection would seem like real deprivation.
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T last, after six days of misery my connectio is working a treat again. ;D
Now, where are these porno sites............. ;)
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Oh I would have died for internet access when I was 12. We moved to the Western Isles and if you remember TV in the 1970s it ran when the programmers decided it would. Radio was king but way the hell up there? We didn't get ANY FM stations until 1984 I think and then it was Radio 1 or ermmm Radio 1. MF was pretty pointless as there weren't any transmitters nearby until 1980 or so - even then they were still pointless in winter (Heaviside layer obviously - google if interested). Longwave, well that was shipping forecasts and the Archers :D
It felt like the edge of the world and in conjunction with the 1980's recession (outside SE England of course) I would have given anything to talk to people elsewhere in real-time. Heh - remember penpals? I do.
There really isn't anywhere remote now in information terms. I used to think that was good but now I wonder if it isn't the worst thing ever as few people seem capable of "independent" thought. We all get fed the same.... well you can guess eh? I deliberately removed all mainstream news bookmarks from my browser a year or so ago now. I have to type in the url now and I feel a lot less stressed - click on the bookmark rather than think "oh I wonder what news.bbc.co.uk is saying, I'll just type it in".
I've been online at home from when the first 1000 Demon users got a TCP/IP stack on Windows 3.1. I'm still not convinced that the internet has brought benefits but perhaps that might be a thread all of its own? I am convinced that the internet has resulted in a lot less original thought - the first recourse of my eldest daughter's generation (she's year 7) is to "ask google". It never occurs to them that the results they get might be skewed on the basis of who owns Google.
Another thread perhaps?
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I think you've hit the nail on the head there OF, to think I used to run the vacuum round every day!!!! it's lucky if it's done once a fortnight these days :lol:
I'm not coming for afternoon tea while it's like that! The place is alive.