Please fucking pay attention

[chibiabos]

They're = They fucking are.
Their = Shows fucking possession.
There = Specifies a fucking location.
You're = You fucking are.
Your = Shows fucking possession.
We're = We fucking are.
Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
Where = Specifies a fucking location.
Than = A fucking comparison.
Then = A point in fucking time.
To = Where it's fucking going.
Too = An excessive fucking amount.
Two = A fucking number.
Lose = You fucking lost it.
Loose = You fucking untied it.
Judgment = For fucking Americans.
Judgement = For fucking Brits.

The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
fucking nonsense.

Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

-chib

--
Member of S.M.A.S.H.
Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor

[Billy-Bob Bobbob-bobob]

chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote in news:120520120932019074%ch...@nospam.com:

> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>
> -chib
>

I second thats emotion. I hates it when there to stoopid too post good.

Billy-Bod
--
.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:

>They're = They fucking are.
>Their = Shows fucking possession.
>There = Specifies a fucking location.
>You're = You fucking are.
>Your = Shows fucking possession.
>We're = We fucking are.
>Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
>Where = Specifies a fucking location.
>Than = A fucking comparison.
>Then = A point in fucking time.
>To = Where it's fucking going.
>Too = An excessive fucking amount.
>Two = A fucking number.
>Lose = You fucking lost it.
>Loose = You fucking untied it.
>Judgment = For fucking Americans.
>Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
>The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
>fucking nonsense.
>
>Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

Could of, would of, should of.

>-chib

This actially happened to me in a Denny's soon after I emigrated to
the US...

"I can't place your accent but you speak English real good for a
foreigner"

"Thank you, you speak it really well for an American"

I couldn't help it. it just came out.

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"chibiabos" <ch...@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:120520120932019074%ch...@nospam.com...

> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

"Its" amnd "It's." The most common error by far.

[raven1]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:

>They're = They fucking are.
>Their = Shows fucking possession.
>There = Specifies a fucking location.
>You're = You fucking are.
>Your = Shows fucking possession.
>We're = We fucking are.
>Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
>Where = Specifies a fucking location.
>Than = A fucking comparison.
>Then = A point in fucking time.
>To = Where it's fucking going.
>Too = An excessive fucking amount.
>Two = A fucking number.
>Lose = You fucking lost it.
>Loose = You fucking untied it.
>Judgment = For fucking Americans.
>Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
>The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
>fucking nonsense.
>
>Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

Santa Claus - Lives at the fucking North Pole
Santa Clause - A fucking movie about Santa Claus

Its - shows fucking possession
It's - it fucking is

---
raven1
aa # 1096
EAC Vice President (President in charge of vice)
BAAWA Knight

[panamfloyd@hotmail.com rade]

On May 12, 2:27 pm, raven1 <quoththera...@nevermore.com> wrote:

"Too" can mean "also" or "as well", too.

-PF, Atl.
#2015/KoBAAWA!

[chibiabos]

In article <1matq7d448jn9bulr...@4ax.com>, raven1

Great fucking additions. I totally fucking missed its and it's.

[chibiabos]

In article <sd4tq7lmeks9mmeuo...@4ax.com>, Christopher A.

Lee <ca...@optonline.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >They're = They fucking are.
> >Their = Shows fucking possession.
> >There = Specifies a fucking location.
> >You're = You fucking are.
> >Your = Shows fucking possession.
> >We're = We fucking are.
> >Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> >Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> >Than = A fucking comparison.
> >Then = A point in fucking time.
> >To = Where it's fucking going.
> >Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> >Two = A fucking number.
> >Lose = You fucking lost it.
> >Loose = You fucking untied it.
> >Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> >Judgement = For fucking Brits.
> >
> >The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> >fucking nonsense.
> >
> >Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>
> Could of, would of, should of.

Absolutely one of my fucking pet peeves.

> This actially happened to me in a Denny's soon after I emigrated to
> the US...
>
> "I can't place your accent but you speak English real good for a
> foreigner"
>
> "Thank you, you speak it really well for an American"
>
> I couldn't help it. it just came out.

Bwa-hah-hah-hah! We'll never understand the difference between "real
good" and "real well."

Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.

[Christopher A. Lee]

Apples - more than one fucking apple
Apple's - things fucking owned by apples

[Christopher A. Lee]

For emphasis?

Hollywood often uses British actors to emphasise differences from
Americans.

Most Americans probably first saw David Suchet in "Air Force One" as a
terrorist and Allan Rickman as a baddie in "Die Hard" or "Quigley Down
Under".
>-chib

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"chibiabos" <ch...@nospam.com> wrote in message

news:120520121214294309%ch...@nospam.com...

> Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.

I thought he was Australian.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:

>They're = They fucking are.
>Their = Shows fucking possession.
>There = Specifies a fucking location.
>You're = You fucking are.
>Your = Shows fucking possession.
>We're = We fucking are.
>Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
>Where = Specifies a fucking location.
>Than = A fucking comparison.
>Then = A point in fucking time.
>To = Where it's fucking going.
>Too = An excessive fucking amount.
>Two = A fucking number.
>Lose = You fucking lost it.
>Loose = You fucking untied it.
>Judgment = For fucking Americans.
>Judgement = For fucking Brits.

Condom - for fucking both Americans and brits

>The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
>fucking nonsense.
>
>Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

Criteria - more than one fucking criterion.

>-chib

[SkyEyes]

On May 12, 9:32 am, chibiabos <c...@nospam.com> wrote:
> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.

What chib said.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
BAAWA Knight of the Golden Litterbox
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net OR
skyeyes nine at yahoo dot com

[Jim Burns]

On 5/12/2012 4:06 PM, Robert Parker wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:14:29 -0700, chibiabos
> <ch...@nospam.com>wrote:

>> Bwa-hah-hah-hah! We'll never understand the difference between
>> "real good" and "real well."

I totally agree. We'll never understand the difference real well,
but there is still a real good difference.

>> Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.
>

> I believe the Geico Gecko (love that) is a ozzie. Aussi?

No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
("aussi" == Fr. "too")

[linuxgal]

It's how they speak in London's east end.

[Smiler]

Or fucking owned by Wozniak and Jobbs...

--
Smiler,

The godless one. a.a.# 2279

All gods are tailored to order. They're made to

exactly fit the prejudices of their believers.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:22:53 +0100, Smiler <Youm...@JoeKing.com>
wrote:

>> Apples - more than one fucking apple
>> Apple's - things fucking owned by apples
>
>Or fucking owned by Wozniak and Jobbs...

Woozier is an all-round good bloke.

When Apple went public, he wanted their loyal employees to get
something out of it so he asked Jobs to join him in giving some of
their shares to them.

Jobs refused but Woozier gave them some of his own anyway to reward
them even though he was under no obligation.

He had a handicapped son and after he left Apple he got a job teaching
handicapped kids. It must be great to have enough money you don't lose
anything by doing the kind of job you really want to so but pays
peanuts.

He's also been a major benefactor and philanthropist around San Jose.

People think a lot of him here.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 16:32:23 -0700, Christopher A. Lee
<ca...@optonline.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:22:53 +0100, Smiler <Youm...@JoeKing.com>
>wrote:
>
>>> Apples - more than one fucking apple
>>> Apple's - things fucking owned by apples
>>
>>Or fucking owned by Wozniak and Jobbs...
>
>Woozier is an all-round good bloke.

Look what the spelling checker did!

[Jim Burns]

On 5/12/2012 7:16 PM, linuxgal wrote:
> Jim Burns wrote:
>> On 5/12/2012 4:06 PM, Robert Parker wrote:
>>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:14:29 -0700, chibiabos
>>> <ch...@nospam.com>wrote:

>>>> Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.

Well, he can't be American. He's a lizard, for pete's sake!

>>> I believe the Geico Gecko (love that) is a ozzie. Aussi?
>>
>> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
>> ("aussi" == Fr. "too")
>
> It's how they speak in London's east end.

My bad.

I'm curious. Was lower-class London a strong influence
on the Australian accent?

Has everyone else known this for a couple hundred years
and they were just waiting for me to notice?

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"Christopher A. Lee" <ca...@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:ejftq71ekjopsuj9f...@4ax.com...

Teles = Fender Telecasters
Tele's = Something that belongs to a Telecaster

I lurk on the Telecaster chat board, and I see more grammar mistakes there
than anywhere on the internet. I guess they were too worried about their
guitars to pay attention in school.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:14:29 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:

>Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.

The current gecko is a British broadcaster from Northampton named Dave
Kelly.

The original Gecko was Kelsey Grammar, but in his commercials he
didn't work for Geico and told viewers to stop calling him when they
wanted Geico.

[linuxgal]

Jim Burns wrote:
>
> I'm curious. Was lower-class London a strong influence
> on the Australian accent?

No doubt. Australia was a dumping ground for the criminal dregs.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 19:43:07 -0400, Jim Burns <burn...@osu.edu>
wrote:

>On 5/12/2012 7:16 PM, linuxgal wrote:
>> Jim Burns wrote:
>>> On 5/12/2012 4:06 PM, Robert Parker wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:14:29 -0700, chibiabos
>>>> <ch...@nospam.com>wrote:
>
>>>>> Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.
>
>Well, he can't be American. He's a lizard, for pete's sake!
>
>>>> I believe the Geico Gecko (love that) is a ozzie. Aussi?
>>>
>>> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
>>> ("aussi" == Fr. "too")
>>
>> It's how they speak in London's east end.
>
>My bad.
>
>I'm curious. Was lower-class London a strong influence
>on the Australian accent?

They're nothing like.

A lot of Americans think a British accent they don't recognise is
either Australian or Irish.

The actor is actually from Northampton, 75 miles from London but he
does a pretty fair working class London accent.

One of the best ones anybody can hear is Michael Caine's especially in
his early movies.

[Dakota]

On 5/12/2012 11:32 AM, chibiabos wrote:
> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>
> -chib
>

Great fucking list. I'd add a few more. 'That' is regularly used where
'who' is correct. e.g "He's the guy that did it." Misuse of 'Who's' and
'whose' probably deserves a mention as well. The misuse of 'less' and
'fewer' has become sufficiently common that the distinction will likely
soon be deemed an artifact of an earlier era. Misuse of 'Who' and
'whom', 'he' and 'him', 'she' and 'her, and 'I' and 'me' also make my
list. I may be a bit of a stickler on those as my father always
responded to "Who is it?" with "It's I." The misuse of 'myself' grates
on me. "Please submit responses to this memo to Susan or myself." Yikes!

In the late '80s I read a newspaper column by a grammar maven - perhaps
William Saffire or Edwin Newman - that inveighed against the then
current crop of journalism graduates who didn't know the difference
between 'due to' and 'owing to'. I could hardly believe that anyone
ignorant of the distinction could be considered an English speaker at
all. Of course, I had no idea that there was a difference so I set out
to discover what it was. My modest library of grammar guidebooks gave no
clue. Visits to public libraries in Denver were no help. A few years
later, I moved to South Dakota where I found the answer in a old grammar
text in the Vermillion public library. 'Due to' is an adjectival
construction and must modify a noun. 'Owing to' is an adverbial
construction and can modify a verb. Ergo, 'Due to rain, the game was
canceled.' is incorrect unless the game itself was the result of rain
and was canceled for some other reason.

I regret that I am not fucking clever enough to to put my fucking
quibbles in a fucking form suitable for your fucking list.

(It's a well demonstrated usenet phenomenon that a person who criticizes
another's grammar invariably commits at least one grammatical violation
in the critical post. I look forward to reading the corrections to this
post with a bit of apprehension.)

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 16:35:05 -0700

Christopher A. Lee <ca...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012 16:32:23 -0700, Christopher A. Lee
> <ca...@optonline.net> wrote:
> >On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:22:53 +0100, Smiler <Youm...@JoeKing.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>> Apples - more than one fucking apple
> >>> Apple's - things fucking owned by apples
> >>
> >>Or fucking owned by Wozniak and Jobbs...
> >
> >Woozier is an all-round good bloke.
>
> Look what the spelling checker did!

Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?

> >When Apple went public, he wanted their loyal employees to get
> >something out of it so he asked Jobs to join him in giving some of
> >their shares to them.
> >
> >Jobs refused but Woozier gave them some of his own anyway to reward
> >them even though he was under no obligation.
> >
> >He had a handicapped son and after he left Apple he got a job
> >teaching handicapped kids. It must be great to have enough money you
> >don't lose anything by doing the kind of job you really want to so
> >but pays peanuts.
> >
> >He's also been a major benefactor and philanthropist around San Jose.
> >
> >People think a lot of him here.

--
Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
"Billions upon billions of years of random mutations can lead to
astonishing results. But then, so can 6,000 year of inbreeding."
-- Tronscend Furu (April 6, 2012)

[Mike Duffy]

Jim Burns <burn...@osu.edu> wrote in news:4FAEEA88...@osu.edu:

> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.

"only" ? Are Brits better somehow?

--
http://pages.videotron.ca/duffym/index.htm

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Mike Duffy <Use_guest...@website.in.sig> wrote:
>> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
>
> "only" ? Are Brits better somehow?

Friendly rivalry

--
Jews, Christians & Muslims
The content of your posts will show how much you
really believe God is looking over your shoulder

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>> Look what the spelling checker did!
>
> Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?

Noooo, not the MS bashing!

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:03:51 -0500, Mike Lovell
<mike....@null.local> wrote:

>On 2012-05-13, Mike Duffy <Use_guest...@website.in.sig> wrote:
>>> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
>>
>> "only" ? Are Brits better somehow?
>
>Friendly rivalry

Anybody's better than Dennis Lillee when he tried to use an aluminium
cricket bat <shudder>.

[Jeanne Douglas]

In article <4FAEF58B...@osu.edu>, Jim Burns <burn...@osu.edu>
wrote:

Hmmm, since the initial settlers were convicts, I would hazard a bet
that lower-class London was well-represented among them.

--
JD

"the lybian lier"

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"linuxgal" <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote in message
news:iYmdnUvtf5hHcjPS...@giganews.com...

My friend from Australia talks just like the lizard.

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"Christopher A. Lee" <ca...@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:0estq7lhid6jnmtau...@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:22:53 +0100, Smiler <Youm...@JoeKing.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> Apples - more than one fucking apple
>>> Apple's - things fucking owned by apples
>>
>>Or fucking owned by Wozniak and Jobbs...
>
> Woozier is an all-round good bloke.

Jobs wasn't. He never gave a penny to charity, unlike Bill Gates and other
philanthropists. He was given cancer by Jesus Christ and Satan because he
was so stingy.

[linuxgal]

There's a difference. Go rent "The Limey":

"How's it going, squire, all right? Now listen -- when I was in the
nick -- second time, it was -- no, third. Third stretch, yeah. There
was this screw had it in for me. That geezer was top of my list. Two
years after I was slung, I saw him. He was sitting on a bench in
Holland Park. There was no one else about. I coulda gone up behind him
and snapped his fucking neck. But I left it. Coulda nobbled him, but I
didn't. 'Cos what I thought I wanted wasn't what I wanted. What I
thought I was thinking about was something else. This berk on
the bench wasn't worth my time. See what I mean? It didn't matter. It
meant sod all in the end."

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"Dakota" <ma...@NOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
news:jon02u$kr3$1...@dont-email.me...

> I moved to South Dakota where I found the answer in a old grammar text in
> the Vermillion public library.

I drove through South Dakota last year in January! It was COLD. But it was
cold in Oklahoma when I left and snow was on the ground. In fact, snow was
on the ground on the entire trip from Oklahoma to North Dakota.

[linuxgal]

Al Gore please call your office. Snow in North Dakota in January, you
have some 'splainin' to do.

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein <zachariasm...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>> Woozier is an all-round good bloke.
>
> Jobs wasn't. He never gave a penny to charity, unlike Bill Gates and other
> philanthropists. He was given cancer by Jesus Christ and Satan because he
> was so stingy.

Jesus and Satan are working together now?

Job's was a world class a-hole, the amount of human suffering in sweat
shops he presided over was inhuman. While he amassed an immoral amount
of money.

It's a shame there isn't a hell, it really is. Jobs deserved it.
Cancer couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>> I drove through South Dakota last year in January! It was COLD. But it
>> was cold in Oklahoma when I left and snow was on the ground. In fact,
>> snow was on the ground on the entire trip from Oklahoma to North Dakota.
>
> Al Gore please call your office. Snow in North Dakota in January, you
> have some 'splainin' to do.

Is that an inconvenient truth?

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:43:11 -0500
Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein
> <zachariasm...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>
> >> Woozier is an all-round good bloke.
> >
> > Jobs wasn't. He never gave a penny to charity, unlike Bill Gates
> > and other philanthropists. He was given cancer by Jesus Christ and
> > Satan because he was so stingy.
>
> Jesus and Satan are working together now?

They even made a few appearances on a South Park episode (season 1,
episode 8) where everyone (including the Father of the local church)
gambled on Satan and then he purposely took a fall in the boxing match
and Jesus cleaned house (for he was the only one who bet against Satan).

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/episodes/s01e08-damien

It was a fantastic episode, especially the work they did on the Damien
character (Lucifer's son) who even got some councilling from Mr. Mackey
on how to get along better with others. Michael Buffer made an
appearance too -- one of his claims to fame is his "Let's get ready to
rumble" line.

> Job's was a world class a-hole, the amount of human suffering in sweat
> shops he presided over was inhuman. While he amassed an immoral
> amount of money.

He was a successful artistic capitalist. I do like how he managed to
push the big music labels around though, that took real stones because
they really don't like to be pushed around.

> It's a shame there isn't a hell, it really is. Jobs deserved it.
> Cancer couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

I heard that his cancer was discovered at an early enough stage that it
could have been cured with an operation, but that he instead put his
faith in some medical quackery that didn't work. Does anyone know more
about this, or if it was just a crazy rumour?

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"All gods are tailored to order; they're made to exactly fit the
prejudices of their believers."
-- Smiler, the godless one

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:03:07 -0500
Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
> <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>
> >> Look what the spelling checker did!
> >
> > Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?
>
> Noooo, not the MS bashing!

I sure hope you're not suffering from the Redmond Syndrome:

http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one."
-- Che Guevara

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>> >> Look what the spelling checker did!
>> >
>> > Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?
>>
>> Noooo, not the MS bashing!
>
> I sure hope you're not suffering from the Redmond Syndrome:
>
> http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html

I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04

I just don't get the MS bashing

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
> [...]

> I heard that his cancer was discovered at an early enough stage that it
> could have been cured with an operation, but that he instead put his
> faith in some medical quackery that didn't work. Does anyone know more
> about this, or if it was just a crazy rumour?

I'd heard this too, but as a rumour also.

Either way, it was a good outcome for humanity.

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:05:38 -0500
Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
> <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>
> >> >> Look what the spelling checker did!
> >> >
> >> > Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?
> >>
> >> Noooo, not the MS bashing!
> >
> > I sure hope you're not suffering from the Redmond Syndrome:
> >
> > http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html
>
> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>
> I just don't get the MS bashing

Actually, it wasn't really intended to bash Microsoft, rather it was
about Microsoft bashing Steve Wozniak.

(Our social intercourse is going to drive Zacharias Mulletstein around
the bend because he's been guessing that we're the same person.)

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you
ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect
me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."
-- Richard P. Feynman

[Free Lunch]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 18:42:23 -0700, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com>
wrote in alt.atheism:

AGW deniers say the most ignorant things.

[Mitchell Holman]

linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote in
news:85ydnbEjKcgGZzPS...@giganews.com:

So was Georgia.

Well, that DOES explain a lot..............

[BJ]

On 13/05/2012 5:49 AM, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:10:03 -0700, chibiabos<ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> In article<1matq7d448jn9bulr...@4ax.com>, raven1
>> <quotht...@nevermore.com> wrote:

>>
>>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos<ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They're = They fucking are.
>>>> Their = Shows fucking possession.
>>>> There = Specifies a fucking location.
>>>> You're = You fucking are.
>>>> Your = Shows fucking possession.
>>>> We're = We fucking are.
>>>> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
>>>> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
>>>> Than = A fucking comparison.
>>>> Then = A point in fucking time.
>>>> To = Where it's fucking going.
>>>> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
>>>> Two = A fucking number.
>>>> Lose = You fucking lost it.
>>>> Loose = You fucking untied it.
>>>> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
>>>> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>>>>
>>>> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
>>>> fucking nonsense.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>>>

>>> Santa Claus - Lives at the fucking North Pole
>>> Santa Clause - A fucking movie about Santa Claus
>>>
>>> Its - shows fucking possession
>>> It's - it fucking is
>>
>> Great fucking additions. I totally fucking missed its and it's.
>>
>> -chib

>
> Apples - more than one fucking apple
> Apple's - things fucking owned by apples

Lead - a fucking heavy metal
Led - how you're taken up the fucking garden path

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

"Lead" can also mean taking others up the "screwy" garden path.

(This whole thread is "humping" brilliant, by the way.)

--
Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
stands explained."
-- Mark Twain

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>> > http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html
>>
>> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>>
>> I just don't get the MS bashing
>
> Actually, it wasn't really intended to bash Microsoft, rather it was
> about Microsoft bashing Steve Wozniak.
>
> (Our social intercourse is going to drive Zacharias Mulletstein around
> the bend because he's been guessing that we're the same person.)

He thinks I'm someone called Colanth or something

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 19:11:15 -0700, "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent

atheist goddess" <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:05:38 -0500
>Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
>> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
>> <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> >> Look what the spelling checker did!
>> >> >
>> >> > Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?
>> >>
>> >> Noooo, not the MS bashing!
>> >
>> > I sure hope you're not suffering from the Redmond Syndrome:
>> >
>> > http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html
>>
>> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>>
>> I just don't get the MS bashing
>
>Actually, it wasn't really intended to bash Microsoft, rather it was
>about Microsoft bashing Steve Wozniak.
>
>(Our social intercourse is going to drive Zacharias Mulletstein around
>the bend because he's been guessing that we're the same person.)

Apart from bloatware that means upgrading your computer regularly to
run it, which must be the ultimate capitalist dream for both Intel and
Microsoft, Gates is a pretty good bloke with his money.

He's one of the worlds biggest philanthropists, and his money goes to
worthwhile projects like third world vaccination etc.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:20:15 -0500, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us>
wrote:

They imagine that local cold somehow disproves global warming when the
average sea temperature is rising, the Arctic ice cap is melting at
such a rate that polar bears are in serious danger as a species
(magnificent animals), glaciers in Iceland and Greenland are melting
and dumping cold fresh water in the North Atlantic which affects the
Gulf Stream that keeps Britain much warmer than one might expect a
country so far North to be causing much harsher winters, parts of
Antarctica are now green instead of covered with ice, etc.

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Christopher A Lee <ca...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Apart from bloatware that means upgrading your computer regularly to

> run it, [...]

You go too far Sir.

I blame the progressive slow-down on the user. The amount of shit I
have to clean off family members PC's is epic! They start of fast, but
give them a week and they manage to reduce them to a crawl.

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"Mike Lovell" <mike....@null.local> wrote in message
news:slrnjqu5ni.k9...@usenet.home.b0h0.com...

> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
> <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>>> >> Look what the spelling checker did!
>>> >
>>> > Ha ha! Are you using one of Microsoft's?
>>>
>>> Noooo, not the MS bashing!
>>
>> I sure hope you're not suffering from the Redmond Syndrome:
>>
>> http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html
>
> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04

I use Windows 7 but I have a virtual box program that lets me run Ubuntu and
Windows XP.

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:46:44 -0500
Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
> <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>
> >> > http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01084.html
> >>
> >> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
> >>
> >> I just don't get the MS bashing
> >
> > Actually, it wasn't really intended to bash Microsoft, rather it was
> > about Microsoft bashing Steve Wozniak.
> >
> > (Our social intercourse is going to drive Zacharias Mulletstein
> > around the bend because he's been guessing that we're the same
> > person.)
>
> He thinks I'm someone called Colanth or something

He guessed that about me too. I suspect it may be because I quoted
Colanth a few times (including this time -- see my signature below).

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"Considering that the Catholic Church held us back for about 1,400
years, we should have reached the moon around the time the Norse
discovered the long boat."
-- Colanth (January 6, 2012)

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein <zachariasm...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:

>> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>
> I use Windows 7 but I have a virtual box program that lets me run Ubuntu and
> Windows XP.

XP??? But why?

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

I'm not convinced that Microsoft and Intel conspired, but I do agree
that Microsoft's software has been growing enormously over time (and I
increasingly wonder if it's really necessary).

> He's one of the worlds biggest philanthropists, and his money goes to
> worthwhile projects like third world vaccination etc.

Bill Gates is one of the smartest businessmen in history. He truly
understands the power of marketing, and I suspect he's got a specialty
in social psychology (I'm not sure if it's natural or learned though).

Although I approve of his financial support for vaccinations in the
third world, I would like to see more focus on local issues as well
which can potentially enable a great number of new charitable minds to
focus on the rest of the world for centuries to come. The fact that
he's using his money to help people in need, though, is the most
important factor that has easily earned my respect for him.

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"Christianity is a cult of human sacrifice. ... It is a religion that
celebrates a single human sacrifice as if it were effective."
-- Sam Harris

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 19:51:03 -0700

I'm not convinced that Microsoft and Intel conspired, but I do agree
that Microsoft's software has been growing enormously over time (and I
increasingly wonder if it's really necessary).

> He's one of the worlds biggest philanthropists, and his money goes to
> worthwhile projects like third world vaccination etc.

Bill Gates is one of the smartest businessmen in history. He truly
understands the power of marketing, and I suspect he's got a specialty
in social psychology (I'm not sure if it's natural or learned though).

Although I approve of his financial support for vaccinations in the
third world, I would like to see more focus on local issues as well
which can potentially enable a great number of new charitable minds to
focus on the rest of the world for centuries to come. The fact that
he's using his money to help people in need, though, is the most
important factor that has easily earned my respect for him.

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
> He guessed that about me too. I suspect it may be because I quoted
> Colanth a few times (including this time -- see my signature below).

Ah yes, I hide them by default, never realized before.

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 22:18:23 -0500
Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein
> <zachariasm...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>
> >> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
> >
> > I use Windows 7 but I have a virtual box program that lets me run
> > Ubuntu and Windows XP.
>
> XP??? But why?

Ha ha! Don't you dare start bashing Windows XP! It ran circles around
Windows Vista, which was anything but frustrating given its slowness
and steadfast unreliability. Sure, Windows 7 is better than Windows
Vista, but it's still cumbersome and the screen looks fuzzy sometimes
(I think they tried to copy Apple but went too far).

Microsoft probably wouldn't have lost so many customers to Apple if
they had continued to sell and update Windows XP. I really think XP
was the best OS ever produced by Microsoft, and still do today even
with Windows 7 so well entrenched (Windows 7 is still confusing,
although not as horribly as Windows Vista was).

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"You're a great American."
-- Lou Dobbs (said to Jon Stewart on January 30, 2012)

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
> Ha ha! Don't you dare start bashing Windows XP! It ran circles around
> Windows Vista, which was anything but frustrating given its slowness
> and steadfast unreliability. Sure, Windows 7 is better than Windows
> Vista, but it's still cumbersome and the screen looks fuzzy sometimes
> (I think they tried to copy Apple but went too far).
>
> Microsoft probably wouldn't have lost so many customers to Apple if
> they had continued to sell and update Windows XP. I really think XP
> was the best OS ever produced by Microsoft, and still do today even
> with Windows 7 so well entrenched (Windows 7 is still confusing,
> although not as horribly as Windows Vista was).

Very unpopular when it came out though.

But he said he's running Windows XP *inside* a VM in Windows 7.

That's what's confusing me, as to why.

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 22:38:26 -0500
Mike Lovell <mike....@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess
> <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>
> > Ha ha! Don't you dare start bashing Windows XP! It ran circles
> > around Windows Vista, which was anything but frustrating given its
> > slowness and steadfast unreliability. Sure, Windows 7 is better
> > than Windows Vista, but it's still cumbersome and the screen looks
> > fuzzy sometimes (I think they tried to copy Apple but went too far).
> >
> > Microsoft probably wouldn't have lost so many customers to Apple if
> > they had continued to sell and update Windows XP. I really think XP
> > was the best OS ever produced by Microsoft, and still do today even
> > with Windows 7 so well entrenched (Windows 7 is still confusing,
> > although not as horribly as Windows Vista was).
>
> Very unpopular when it came out though.

It's not difficult to find people who still hate Windows Vista though.

> But he said he's running Windows XP *inside* a VM in Windows 7.
>
> That's what's confusing me, as to why.

My guess: Some older software that runs on Windows XP that he needs
but which also isn't compatible with Windows 7.

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"For a while, I avoided cracks in the sidewalk because of that "step on
a crack and you break your mother's back" saying. Then I turned three
years old."
-- Daniel San (February 25, 2012)

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>> Very unpopular when it came out though.
>
> It's not difficult to find people who still hate Windows Vista though.
>
>> But he said he's running Windows XP *inside* a VM in Windows 7.
>>
>> That's what's confusing me, as to why.
>
> My guess: Some older software that runs on Windows XP that he needs
> but which also isn't compatible with Windows 7.

But he said he runs Ubuntu too.

In which case, Ubuntu + Wine will run almost everything (legacy).

[Waldo Tunnel]

On May 12, 6:43 pm, Mike Lovell <mike.lov...@null.local> wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein <zachariasmulletst...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>
> >> Woozier is an all-round good bloke.
>
> > Jobs wasn't.  He never gave a penny to charity, unlike Bill Gates and other
> > philanthropists.  He was given cancer by Jesus Christ and Satan because he
> > was so stingy.
>
> Jesus and Satan are working together now?
>
> Job's was a world class a-hole, the amount of human suffering in sweat
> shops he presided over was inhuman.

Baloney.

> While he amassed an immoral amount of money.

I think you got it wrong.

"Later, under Jobs, Apple signed to participate in Product Red
program, producing red versions of devices to give profits from sales
to charity. *Apple has gone on to become the largest contributor to
the charity since its initial involvement with it.

"The chief of the Product Red project, singer Bono cited Jobs saying
there was 'nothing better than the chance to save lives,' when he
initially approached Apple with the invitation to participate in the
program. Through its sales, **Apple has been the largest contributor
to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, according
to Bono.**

From Wiki

[Waldo Tunnel]

On May 12, 6:42 pm, linuxgal <linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
> Zacharias Mulletstein wrote:
> > "Dakota" <ma...@NOSPAMmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:jon02u$kr3$1...@dont-email.me...
> >>  I moved to South Dakota where I found the answer in a old grammar
> >> text in the Vermillion public library.
>
> > I drove through South Dakota last year in January!  It was COLD.  But it
> > was cold in Oklahoma when I left and snow was on the ground.  In fact,
> > snow was on the ground on the entire trip from Oklahoma to North Dakota.
>
> Al Gore please call your office.   Snow in North Dakota in January, you
> have some 'splainin' to do.

What? Either you're severely brain-damaged, or the new vacuum cleaner
has arrived.

[Olrik]

Le 2012-05-12 12:32, chibiabos a écrit :
> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

Nice off-colour humour.

[linuxgal]

Mike Lovell wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess <god...@fidemturbare.com> wrote:
>>> Very unpopular when it came out though.
>> It's not difficult to find people who still hate Windows Vista though.
>>
>>> But he said he's running Windows XP *inside* a VM in Windows 7.
>>>
>>> That's what's confusing me, as to why.
>> My guess: Some older software that runs on Windows XP that he needs
>> but which also isn't compatible with Windows 7.
>
> But he said he runs Ubuntu too.
>
> In which case, Ubuntu + Wine will run almost everything (legacy).
>

That's what the WINE people would like you to believe. Back when
Linspire was still Lindows, they dreamed the same dream. The only
commercial music creation software that I could ever get to run on WINE
was Acid 2.0. I can't get it to run any of my software from Magix except
the one I use for authoring DVDs. I can install my beloved Cakewalk
Kinetic but I can't get it to see my sound card from inside WINE. I can
run ReBirth, which emulates the TB-303 bassline synthesizer, but that
lets me make "antique" 1988ish techno. I can run Audacity, plus my map
software from National Geographic, CDEX for ripping CD's, and Terragen
for making virtual landscapes. For IRC I can get Mirc 5.9 to run on
WINE but the fonts are substandard. Office 97 works, but what's the
point when I can just install Open Office?

[linuxgal]

Mike Lovell wrote:

> But he said he's running Windows XP *inside* a VM in Windows 7.
>
> That's what's confusing me, as to why.
>

I just got a $30 recycled Compaq and installed XP Pro (grabbed from the
ol' Pirate Bay, arggg!) and no emulation. The reason why is simple. XP
is compatible with everything.

[Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess]

Ha ha! That was off-colour humour.

--

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess

"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humour by their hopes and
by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
-- Samuel Richardson

[linuxgal]

Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote:

> I'm not convinced that Microsoft and Intel conspired, but I do agree
> that Microsoft's software has been growing enormously over time (and I
> increasingly wonder if it's really necessary).

I mostly run Windows 98SE these days. I can still get online with my
wireless LAN and browse (Opera 10.10) and chat (Mirc) and USENET
(Mozilla Seamonkey). It's clean as a whistle, no malware, no nothing.
I've got Norton Firewall but I haven't needed to install it yet. The
whole C Drive can be backed up into one corner of a USB stick. And if I
type "BOOTPUP.BAT" I'm soon in Puppy Linux.

[Mike Lovell]

Well you're not running Windows XP inside Windows 7 then :-)

Old PC, I'd be Linux all the way.

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:

>> In which case, Ubuntu + Wine will run almost everything (legacy).
>>
>
> That's what the WINE people would like you to believe. Back when
> Linspire was still Lindows, they dreamed the same dream. The only
> commercial music creation software that I could ever get to run on WINE
> was Acid 2.0. I can't get it to run any of my software from Magix except
> the one I use for authoring DVDs. I can install my beloved Cakewalk
> Kinetic but I can't get it to see my sound card from inside WINE. I can
> run ReBirth, which emulates the TB-303 bassline synthesizer, but that
> lets me make "antique" 1988ish techno. I can run Audacity, plus my map
> software from National Geographic, CDEX for ripping CD's, and Terragen
> for making virtual landscapes. For IRC I can get Mirc 5.9 to run on
> WINE but the fonts are substandard. Office 97 works, but what's the
> point when I can just install Open Office?

Possibly because you're running obscure applications. Generally legacy
stuff will work well, but also they're pretty hot on the new as well.
For example WoW will ran, HL will run. That's pretty impressive.

If he wants to run Windows applications generally, I don't know why he
doesn't just use Windows 7, his host OS.

Running Windows 7 with Windows XP as a guest, doesn't make sense to me
still.

[Olrik]

I smell mothballs.

Stale mothballs.

But, you know, everyone has a grandma!

Happy mother's day, linuxgal!

[linuxgal]

Mike Lovell wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>>> But he said he's running Windows XP *inside* a VM in Windows 7.
>>>
>>> That's what's confusing me, as to why.
>>>
>> I just got a $30 recycled Compaq and installed XP Pro (grabbed from the
>> ol' Pirate Bay, arggg!) and no emulation. The reason why is simple. XP
>> is compatible with everything.
>
> Well you're not running Windows XP inside Windows 7 then :-)
>
> Old PC, I'd be Linux all the way.

You kind of have to. Puppy Linux will still work with 64 MB of RAM,
which is what you had in the year Y2K with your 4 GB hard drive and 433
MHZ clock speed.

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:

But you are clearly insane, as anyone running Windows 98SE is.

[Mike Lovell]

Excuse my French, but bollocks.

You can get a distro/version that will run on any hardware XP will.

[SkyEyes]

On May 12, 4:43 pm, Jim Burns <burns...@osu.edu> wrote:
> On 5/12/2012 7:16 PM, linuxgal wrote:
>
> > Jim Burns wrote:
> >> On 5/12/2012 4:06 PM, Robert Parker wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:14:29 -0700, chibiabos
> >>> <c...@nospam.com>wrote:
> >>>> Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.
>
> Well, he can't be American. He's a lizard, for pete's sake!

The very American lizards who live in my garage in Tucson, Arizona beg
to differ with you, sir.

<Snippage>
>
> I'm curious. Was lower-class London a strong influence
> on the Australian accent?

Yes, because Australia was originally settled as a prison colony, and
many prisoners were the poor from the East End of London.
>
> Has everyone else known this for a couple hundred years
> and they were just waiting for me to notice?

'S okay, sweetie. Everyone can't know everything all the time.

Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
BAAWA Knight of the Golden Litterbox
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net OR
skyeyes nine at yahoo dot com

[SkyEyes]

On May 12, 7:25 pm, Mitchell Holman <nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
> linuxgal <linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote innews:85ydnbEjKcgGZzPS...@giganews.com:

>
> > Jim Burns wrote:
>
> >> I'm curious. Was lower-class London a strong influence
> >> on the Australian accent?
>

> > No doubt.  Australia was a dumping ground for the criminal dregs.
>
>    So was Georgia.
>
>    Well, that DOES explain a lot..............

Question: Why did America get all the religious zealots and Australia
get all the criminals?

Answer: Because Australia got the first choice.

<Rimshot>

[SkyEyes]

On May 12, 8:18 pm, Mike Lovell <mike.lov...@null.local> wrote:

> On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein <zachariasmulletst...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>
> >> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>
> > I use Windows 7 but I have a virtual box program that lets me run Ubuntu and
> > Windows XP.
>
> XP??? But why?

XP's a nice, stable platform that runs all of Microsoft's software
(possible exception being IE9). I've been using it on my home PC
since 2007, and haven't experienced any problems with it at all.

[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sun, 13 May 2012 00:15:24 -0500, Mike Lovell
<mike....@null.local> wrote:

>On 2012-05-13, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>>> Old PC, I'd be Linux all the way.
>>
>> You kind of have to. Puppy Linux will still work with 64 MB of RAM,
>> which is what you had in the year Y2K with your 4 GB hard drive and 433
>> MHZ clock speed.
>
>Excuse my French, but bollocks.
>
>You can get a distro/version that will run on any hardware XP will.

I like Puppy but I couldn't get it to recognise my USB wireless
adapter, even using ndiswrapper.

When I installed Ubuntu on top it, everything worked.

Which is a pity because I like the small size of Puppy on the old Dell
laptop which was high end for its time.

I also tried Damn Small Linux but that didn't recognise it either.

[Waldo Tunnel]

On May 12, 9:49 pm, linuxgal <linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote:

> Mike Lovell wrote:



>  I can run ReBirth, which emulates the TB-303 bassline synthesizer, but that
> lets me make "antique" 1988ish techno.

That brings back memories. I used to have a TB-303.

[Zacharias Mulletstein]

"Mike Lovell" <mike....@null.local> wrote in message
news:slrnjqu9vv.k9...@usenet.home.b0h0.com...
> On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein

> <zachariasm...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>>> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>>
>> I use Windows 7 but I have a virtual box program that lets me run Ubuntu
>> and
>> Windows XP.
>
> XP??? But why?

Because some programs won't run on 7. Besides, it's a good OS.

[hypatiab7]

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:32:01 PM UTC-4, chibiabos wrote:
> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>

> -chib

Here you fucking are, old friend.

A lot (two fucking words) - a whole fucking bunch
Lead (pronounced leed)- the present fucking tense
Led - the past fucking tense of lead (pronounced leed)
Lead (pronounced led) - a metallic ore

Someone else can do lay, lye and lie.

[hypatiab7]

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 3:14:29 PM UTC-4, chibiabos wrote:
> In article <sd4tq7lmeks9mmeuo...@4ax.com>, Christopher A.
> Lee <ca...@optonline.net> wrote:

>
> > On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> > >They're = They fucking are.
> > >Their = Shows fucking possession.
> > >There = Specifies a fucking location.
> > >You're = You fucking are.
> > >Your = Shows fucking possession.
> > >We're = We fucking are.
> > >Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> > >Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> > >Than = A fucking comparison.
> > >Then = A point in fucking time.
> > >To = Where it's fucking going.
> > >Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> > >Two = A fucking number.
> > >Lose = You fucking lost it.
> > >Loose = You fucking untied it.
> > >Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> > >Judgement = For fucking Brits.
> > >
> > >The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> > >fucking nonsense.
> > >
> > >Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
> >

> > Could of, would of, should of.
>
> Absolutely one of my fucking pet peeves.
>
> > This actially happened to me in a Denny's soon after I emigrated to
> > the US...
> >
> > "I can't place your accent but you speak English real good for a
> > foreigner"
> >
> > "Thank you, you speak it really well for an American"
> >
> > I couldn't help it. it just came out.
>
> Bwa-hah-hah-hah! We'll never understand the difference between "real
> good" and "real well."

>
> Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.
>

> -chib
>
He isn't. I think he's a New Zealander.

[hypatiab7]

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:08:10 PM UTC-4, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:03:51 -0500, Mike Lovell
> <mike....@null.local> wrote:
>
> >On 2012-05-13, Mike Duffy <Use_guest...@website.in.sig> wrote:
> >>> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
> >>
> >> "only" ? Are Brits better somehow?
> >
> >Friendly rivalry
>
> Anybody's better than Dennis Lillee when he tried to use an aluminium
> cricket bat <shudder>.

Okay.

Aluminum -American
Aluminium- British

[Waldo Tunnel]

On May 13, 12:47 am, "Zacharias Mulletstein"
<zachariasmulletst...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
> "Mike Lovell" <mike.lov...@null.local> wrote in message

>
> news:slrnjqu9vv.k9...@usenet.home.b0h0.com...
>
> > On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein

> > <zachariasmulletst...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
> >>> I'm typing this from Ubuntu 12.04
>
> >> I use Windows 7 but I have a virtual box program that lets me run Ubuntu
> >> and
> >> Windows XP.
>
> > XP??? But why?
>
> Because some programs won't run on 7.  Besides, it's a good OS.

Anyone who thinks Windows is a good OS is full of it.

[hypatiab7]

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:03:51 PM UTC-4, Mike Lovell wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, Mike Duffy <Use_guest...@website.in.sig> wrote:
> >> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.
> >
> > "only" ? Are Brits better somehow?
>
> Friendly rivalry

Yup

Curb - American
Kerb - British

[hypatiab7]

On Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:28:23 PM UTC-4, linuxgal wrote:
> Zacharias Mulletstein wrote:
> >
> >
> > "linuxgal" <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote in message
> > news:iYmdnUvtf5hHcjPS...@giganews.com...

> >> Jim Burns wrote:
> >>> On 5/12/2012 4:06 PM, Robert Parker wrote:

> >>>> I believe the Geico Gecko (love that) is a ozzie. Aussi?

> >>>
> >>> No, from the accent, I think he's only an ozzie.

> >>> ("aussi" == Fr. "too")
> >>
> >> It's how they speak in London's east end.
> >
> > My friend from Australia talks just like the lizard.
>
> There's a difference. Go rent "The Limey":
>
> "How's it going, squire, all right? Now listen -- when I was in the
> nick -- second time, it was -- no, third. Third stretch, yeah. There
> was this screw had it in for me. That geezer was top of my list. Two
> years after I was slung, I saw him. He was sitting on a bench in
> Holland Park. There was no one else about. I coulda gone up behind him
> and snapped his fucking neck. But I left it. Coulda nobbled him, but I
> didn't. 'Cos what I thought I wanted wasn't what I wanted. What I
> thought I was thinking about was something else. This berk on
> the bench wasn't worth my time. See what I mean? It didn't matter. It
> meant sod all in the end."

Beautiful example showing both the language and
how people can change without even realizing it.

[Doc Smartass]

chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote in news:120520120932019074%
ch...@nospam.com:

> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.

This would sound so fucking awesome if Ian McShane read it in character
as Swearingen from "Deadwood."

--
Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling aa # 1939

Kooks! http://kookclearinghouse.blogspot.com/

Books! http://jw-bookblog.blogspot.com/

Proud to be everything the right wing hates.

[Doc Smartass]

chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote in news:120520121214294309%
ch...@nospam.com:

So he sounds smarter than an American. *rimshot*

[John Baker]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:14:29 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:

>In article <sd4tq7lmeks9mmeuo...@4ax.com>, Christopher A.
>Lee <ca...@optonline.net> wrote:
>

>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>

>> >They're = They fucking are.
>> >Their = Shows fucking possession.
>> >There = Specifies a fucking location.
>> >You're = You fucking are.
>> >Your = Shows fucking possession.
>> >We're = We fucking are.
>> >Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
>> >Where = Specifies a fucking location.
>> >Than = A fucking comparison.
>> >Then = A point in fucking time.
>> >To = Where it's fucking going.
>> >Too = An excessive fucking amount.
>> >Two = A fucking number.
>> >Lose = You fucking lost it.
>> >Loose = You fucking untied it.
>> >Judgment = For fucking Americans.
>> >Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>> >
>> >The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
>> >fucking nonsense.
>> >
>> >Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>>

>> Could of, would of, should of.
>
>Absolutely one of my fucking pet peeves.
>

>> This actially happened to me in a Denny's soon after I emigrated to
>> the US...
>>
>> "I can't place your accent but you speak English real good for a
>> foreigner"
>>
>> "Thank you, you speak it really well for an American"
>>
>> I couldn't help it. it just came out.
>
>Bwa-hah-hah-hah! We'll never understand the difference between "real
>good" and "real well."

Or "really well", for that matter. <G>

>
>Why did they make the Geico gecko a Brit? Does. Not. Compute.
>

>-chib

[Irreverend Dave]

chibiabos <ch...@nospam.com> wrote:

> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location.
> You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
> Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>

> -chib
>

Lets = allows
Let's = let us

also all those other contractions the morons don't (dont) know how to
punctuate....




--
"Theology is not a source of genuine knowledge and therefore is not a
science. Reason and religion are thus at odds with each other."
- William Lane Craig

[Mike Lovell]

On 2012-05-13, Zacharias Mulletstein <zachariasm...@isalwaysright.com> wrote:
>> XP??? But why?
>
> Because some programs won't run on 7. Besides, it's a good OS.

But then you have Ubuntu/WINE

They do if you know what you're doing! :-)

[raven1]

On Sun, 13 May 2012 12:25:34 +1000, BJ <ye...@right.mate> wrote:

>On 13/05/2012 5:49 AM, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:10:03 -0700, chibiabos<ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article<1matq7d448jn9bulr...@4ax.com>, raven1
>>> <quotht...@nevermore.com> wrote:

>>>
>>>> On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos<ch...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> They're = They fucking are.
>>>>> Their = Shows fucking possession.
>>>>> There = Specifies a fucking location.
>>>>> You're = You fucking are.
>>>>> Your = Shows fucking possession.
>>>>> We're = We fucking are.
>>>>> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
>>>>> Where = Specifies a fucking location.
>>>>> Than = A fucking comparison.
>>>>> Then = A point in fucking time.
>>>>> To = Where it's fucking going.
>>>>> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
>>>>> Two = A fucking number.
>>>>> Lose = You fucking lost it.
>>>>> Loose = You fucking untied it.
>>>>> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
>>>>> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>>>>>
>>>>> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
>>>>> fucking nonsense.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>>>>

>>>> Santa Claus - Lives at the fucking North Pole
>>>> Santa Clause - A fucking movie about Santa Claus
>>>>
>>>> Its - shows fucking possession
>>>> It's - it fucking is
>>>
>>> Great fucking additions. I totally fucking missed its and it's.
>>>
>>> -chib
>>
>> Apples - more than one fucking apple
>> Apple's - things fucking owned by apples
>
>Lead - a fucking heavy metal
>Led - how you're taken up the fucking garden path

Led Zeppelin - a fucking heavy rock band

---
raven1
aa # 1096
EAC Vice President (President in charge of vice)
BAAWA Knight

[MarkA]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos wrote:

> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location. You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location. Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>

> -chib

Could you tell us the difference between "affect" and "effect", and
"continuously" and "continually"? Those always trip me up.

--
MarkA
Keeper of Things Put There Only Just The Night Before
About eight o'clock

[MarkA]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:01 -0700, chibiabos wrote:

> They're = They fucking are.
> Their = Shows fucking possession.
> There = Specifies a fucking location. You're = You fucking are.
> Your = Shows fucking possession.
> We're = We fucking are.
> Were = Past fucking tense of "are."
> Where = Specifies a fucking location. Than = A fucking comparison.
> Then = A point in fucking time.
> To = Where it's fucking going.
> Too = An excessive fucking amount.
> Two = A fucking number.
> Lose = You fucking lost it.
> Loose = You fucking untied it.
> Judgment = For fucking Americans.
> Judgement = For fucking Brits.
>
> The grammar nazis have finally snapped and will take no more of your
> fucking nonsense.
>
> Please let me know if I've fucking missed any.
>
> -chib

Read - the fucking past tense of "Read"
Read - the fucking present tense of "Read"

Deer - a hoofed mammal
Deer - the plural of "Deer"
Deer - the singular of "Deer"

[Dakota]

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/affect-vs-effect/

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/continuous-or-continual/

I can spend hours at that site.

[John Baker]

Led Boots - a fucking song by Jeff fucking Beck.

[linuxgal]

Mike Lovell wrote:
> On 2012-05-13, linuxgal <linu...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
>> Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not convinced that Microsoft and Intel conspired, but I do agree
>>> that Microsoft's software has been growing enormously over time (and I
>>> increasingly wonder if it's really necessary).
>> I mostly run Windows 98SE these days. I can still get online with my
>> wireless LAN and browse (Opera 10.10) and chat (Mirc) and USENET
>> (Mozilla Seamonkey). It's clean as a whistle, no malware, no nothing.
>> I've got Norton Firewall but I haven't needed to install it yet. The
>> whole C Drive can be backed up into one corner of a USB stick. And if I
>> type "BOOTPUP.BAT" I'm soon in Puppy Linux.
>
> But you are clearly insane, as anyone running Windows 98SE is.
>

I had to upgrade to 98 because I couldn't get Win3.1 to pick up my
ethernet card.