Re: Coordinated effort to force Danny to join WAAglami

[DG]

Op 2-12-2022 om 14:58 schreef ervaqre:
> Danny, we have to talk. In this post, I will try to convince you to
> join us other Aglamians on WAAglami. Below, I will describe what is
> is not included in this incredible offer:

Wait, what was this WAAglami thing again? It's on some phone app isn't
it? Already not liking it. I legitimately hate doing stuff on smart
phones. I actually use a non-smarty phone for text and calls, I even
rarely do that. Almost every communication is PC based. All I'd use a
smart phone for would be maps/GPS or photographs.

> - You get to talk, in a textual manner, with wonderful people you all
> know.

Yeah, I'm already doing too much of that. I spent quite some time making
a X-mas list that wasn't even directed at me...

> - As opposed to the usenet, where replies can take months because I am
> slow, you will receive replies usually within one day.

I might not want quick replies.

> - In addition to text, you will also receive information in media
> formats such as photos, videos and audio recordings. You wouldn't want
> to miss out on photos of the 3362 Christmas lights in garden, would
> you? Also, every Friday night, neppie posts a recording of her beautiful
> singing for us to listen to.

If she's anything like madame Edith from 'Allo 'Allo, I don't have
enough cheese.

> - We also talk about games, such as the new Monkey Island game.
> Sometimes, we also discuss other games and talk about this and also
> write about this.

I'm not playing a lot of games right now. Don't have the time or
patience currently.

> - We are also a support group. Whenever one of us gets hit by the
> harshness of life, a whole bunch of awkward people with serious
> communication issues will say it's all going to be okay. This will
> usually make you feel even worse.

Hey! Watch it! *I* am the one usually saying it's all going to be okay.
Then it starts to rain, if not pour. The next few hours are spent trying
to corral all those cats and dogs. Great if you've got allergies.
Allergies that get you sent back and forth when you're getting your
fourth Covid shot even though you didn't have any unusual reaction the
three previous times. It probably had something to do with my awkward
communication skills.

Then again, inaction is underrated. Some problems just blow over. They
don't make good stories though.

> - Of course, you can contribute as much or as little as you want. We
> even have some Aglamians that are only occasionally active. It's no
> problem. You also do not need to mark your threads as [OT].

Oh great, so it's a bunch of filthy anarchists. No wonder *YOU* like it.

> We all know you are a very secretive person and we often make hilarious
> jokes about this. But since you already joined Facebook (*), it should
> not really be a problem for you to join WAAglami as well. All we will
> know about you is a phone number and we already discussed you will
> probably use a burner phone to hide your identity, so no problems there.
> You can be as secretive as you want.

Ha! See? This is all a ploy to get my phone number. Now I suddenly have
to get another burner phone with a simcard in it that becomes invalid
because I don't use it enough. Okay, no joke here, I've had some BAAAAAD
experiences (more than one, yes, but one really bad, though not what
most people would consider surprising) with companies having my number.
Heck, I've even had people trying to get me to forward mails from a debt
collector that ended up with me because they gave out my email as
theirs. They didn't even know me, I only found their actual mail address
because of tons of spam that I got with enough of their private
information. Not to mention the fact that some apps are very liberal
with what they "need" to function. Like complete address books.

I've even had people send my email to obvious spam accounts with a CC
not BCC to their whole address book forwarding hoaxes. That was over 15
years ago, but still... Imagine what could happen with a phone number.
How many viruses my PC would get according scammers with a list of known
good phone numbers. Don't get me wrong: I don't think any Aglamian would
do that deliberately. But one app with address book access getting
hacked? Yeesh.

In short: nope.

> How to join? Well, give your number to somebody by e-mail of Facebook so
> that we can add you. You know how to reach us.
>
> * You called me a bully on Facebook! That will not be forgiven.
>
Interesting you say I won't be forgiven, yet not say I'm wrong. I mean,
this whole getting me on WAAglami push is kinda like bullying. :-p

- I don't like using smart phones.
- I don't trust apps.
- I don't give out my number (or even my address).
- I'm not getting a second phone number for this.
- I often think I shouldn't be doing Facebook either.
- I already spend too much time on this stuff. I should actually spend less.

If anyone surmises I'm actually a secret agent, I may have to kill them.
Or have one of my superiors have a stern talking to them. The latter is
worse. Don't ask how I know. I could add that stern talkings often
involve sharks, but that would actually encourage some.

Either way a happy 2023. Or should I say 2024? Considering your posting
schedule.

--
Danny.

[DG]

Op 3-12-2022 om 09:33 schreef ervaqre:

>>> Danny, we have to talk. In this post, I will try to convince you to
>>> join us other Aglamians on WAAglami. Below, I will describe what is
>>> is not included in this incredible offer:
>>
>> Wait, what was this WAAglami thing again? It's on some phone app isn't
>> it? Already not liking it. I legitimately hate doing stuff on smart
>> phones. I actually use a non-smarty phone for text and calls, I even
>> rarely do that. Almost every communication is PC based. All I'd use a
>> smart phone for would be maps/GPS or photographs.
>

> You need your phone to activate it, though you can simply use your
> computer to do the actual communication. It is what I do most of the
> time, except when I am sitting on the toilet. But there's a web client
> that also has no access to the files on your computer.

Be careful to remind yourself what hand is holding the phone and what
hand is holding the paper.

>>> - You get to talk, in a textual manner, with wonderful people you all
>>> know.
>>
>> Yeah, I'm already doing too much of that. I spent quite some time making
>> a X-mas list that wasn't even directed at me...
>

> As if you have anything better to do. It's not even the cycling season.

Yesterday did almost 100K. Admittedly the longest distance in about a month.

>>> - As opposed to the usenet, where replies can take months because I am
>>> slow, you will receive replies usually within one day.
>>
>> I might not want quick replies.
>

> You just open it less often?

Obvious solution, one would think. Yet I regularly have to avoid hitting
people that cross the road in front of my bike with a phone in their
hand. It's even worse when they drive a friggin' truck. So if they can't
do the "just open it less often" thing, I might end up like them. Just
without the safety of a truck around me.

>>> - In addition to text, you will also receive information in media
>>> formats such as photos, videos and audio recordings. You wouldn't want
>>> to miss out on photos of the 3362 Christmas lights in garden, would
>>> you? Also, every Friday night, neppie posts a recording of her beautiful
>>> singing for us to listen to.
>>
>> If she's anything like madame Edith from 'Allo 'Allo, I don't have
>> enough cheese.
>

> Well, okay, I admit that this one was false. I just made the part about
> neppie singing up so that you would be more eager to join.

Ha! I sniffed out the shenanigans!!! Apparently shenanigans smell like
old Gouda and earwax.

>>> - We also talk about games, such as the new Monkey Island game.
>>> Sometimes, we also discuss other games and talk about this and also
>>> write about this.
>>
>> I'm not playing a lot of games right now. Don't have the time or
>> patience currently.
>

> Dice Wars must be getting old?

It's even older than GTAV, since it has dice.

>>> - We are also a support group. Whenever one of us gets hit by the
>>> harshness of life, a whole bunch of awkward people with serious
>>> communication issues will say it's all going to be okay. This will
>>> usually make you feel even worse.
>>
>> Hey! Watch it! *I* am the one usually saying it's all going to be okay.
>> Then it starts to rain, if not pour. The next few hours are spent trying
>> to corral all those cats and dogs. Great if you've got allergies.
>> Allergies that get you sent back and forth when you're getting your
>> fourth Covid shot even though you didn't have any unusual reaction the
>> three previous times. It probably had something to do with my awkward
>> communication skills.
>>
>> Then again, inaction is underrated. Some problems just blow over. They
>> don't make good stories though.
>

> I'm not sure if the one getting allergic reactions to the fourth Covid
> shot is you in this story. Perhaps you should leave the house less often
> and spend more time in WAAglami? I might also know a Chinese welder who
> can weld your door shut, if you're interested.

I didn't get allergic reactions to shots (just normal local muscle
ache), but I slightly allergic to cats. And to being hauled around the
facility out of overly careful care-workers and mild incompetence. I
couldn't get across that I had NOT gotten any adverse reactions to
earlier shots. Kinda like I didn't get across what I meant like right now.

>>> - Of course, you can contribute as much or as little as you want. We
>>> even have some Aglamians that are only occasionally active. It's no
>>> problem. You also do not need to mark your threads as [OT].
>>
>> Oh great, so it's a bunch of filthy anarchists. No wonder *YOU* like it.
>

> I hate it. I prefer it when I am the dictator. But most people don't
> come to the Usenet anymore, so I joined them instead.

Wait, YOU hate it? You just want me to suffer too??? Misery loves
company. What's next? Getting locked up in a cabin by a scruffy lady
that breaks my leg?

>>> We all know you are a very secretive person and we often make hilarious
>>> jokes about this. But since you already joined Facebook (*), it should
>>> not really be a problem for you to join WAAglami as well. All we will
>>> know about you is a phone number and we already discussed you will
>>> probably use a burner phone to hide your identity, so no problems there.
>>> You can be as secretive as you want.
>>
>> Ha! See? This is all a ploy to get my phone number. Now I suddenly have
>> to get another burner phone with a simcard in it that becomes invalid
>> because I don't use it enough. Okay, no joke here, I've had some BAAAAAD
>> experiences (more than one, yes, but one really bad, though not what
>> most people would consider surprising) with companies having my number.
>> Heck, I've even had people trying to get me to forward mails from a debt
>> collector that ended up with me because they gave out my email as
>> theirs. They didn't even know me, I only found their actual mail address
>> because of tons of spam that I got with enough of their private
>> information. Not to mention the fact that some apps are very liberal
>> with what they "need" to function. Like complete address books.
>

> You're overly paranoid now. *Another* burner phone? How many do you
> have? WA doesn't need permission to anything, except to your sms
> messages to verify the first time you install it. After that you can
> disable it.

Yes, I am overly paranoid. It's one of my more endearing traits.

> I don't have any debt collectors to give your phone number to, but I
> cannot speak for the other Aglamians. You may have a point there. Then
> again, the app doesn't have access to your address book on your PC.

I just have a general dislike for apps and I overstate my suspicion a
little bit. But I really can't bring myself to do it.

>> I've even had people send my email to obvious spam accounts with a CC
>> not BCC to their whole address book forwarding hoaxes. That was over 15
>> years ago, but still... Imagine what could happen with a phone number.
>> How many viruses my PC would get according scammers with a list of known
>> good phone numbers. Don't get me wrong: I don't think any Aglamian would
>> do that deliberately. But one app with address book access getting
>> hacked? Yeesh.
>>
>> In short: nope.
>

> You'll come around. You even joined Facebook. Not even I did that.

You're just upset you can't be the dictator of the Facebook. It already
has pale alien sunscreen guy.

>>> How to join? Well, give your number to somebody by e-mail of Facebook so
>>> that we can add you. You know how to reach us.
>>>
>>> * You called me a bully on Facebook! That will not be forgiven.
>>>
>> Interesting you say I won't be forgiven, yet not say I'm wrong. I mean,
>> this whole getting me on WAAglami push is kinda like bullying. :-p
>

> Here on usenet I can still pretend to be a dictator. Apparently, on
> WAAglami, I am *softer* (whatever that means and I know I do not like
> it). Neppie even said I should use that to convince you to join.

You also said she sings on Fridays. Maybe you're "softer" because of
less muscle at old age. Or you just seem softer compared to certain
tough talking politicians. Especially war starting ones.

>> - I don't like using smart phones.
>> - I don't trust apps.
>> - I don't give out my number (or even my address).
>> - I'm not getting a second phone number for this.
>> - I often think I shouldn't be doing Facebook either.
>> - I already spend too much time on this stuff. I should actually spend less.
>

> You can always try and delete it when you decide you don't like it?
> We're really not interested in your phone number or anything, we just
> thought it would be good to have you join us, that is all.

My previous phone number fell into the wrong hands thanks to an
employer. Started getting random calls as soon as I didn't work there
any more. Did not care for that.

>> If anyone surmises I'm actually a secret agent, I may have to kill them.
>> Or have one of my superiors have a stern talking to them. The latter is
>> worse. Don't ask how I know. I could add that stern talkings often
>> involve sharks, but that would actually encourage some.
>>
>> Either way a happy 2023. Or should I say 2024? Considering your posting
>> schedule.
>

> You're a month early! We haven't even had Sinterklaas yet!
>
First you say you're slow, now you're all get on up and go. I figured
you wouldn't be reading this until at least Easter.

--
Danny.

[DG]

Op 3-12-2022 om 09:33 schreef ervaqre:

> You can always try and delete it when you decide you don't like it?
> We're really not interested in your phone number or anything, we just
> thought it would be good to have you join us, that is all.
>

Tin foil hats aside. It is nice to think someone would actually like
having me around on some social media to say silly things.

--
Danny.

[DG]

Op 9-2-2023 om 17:31 schreef ervaqre:
> Hello. As you may have noticed, I changed the subject. This is because I
> had a dream. I had a dream with you in it, DG. I didn't want to start a
> new thread to prevent a thread overload on the usenet, so I kind of
> merged it into the current thread.

This sounds terrible already. I mean, there aren't supposed to be any
photographs of me on the internet. So how do you even visualize me? In
ASCII???

> It was a very strange dream where we were talking in a hotel in a
> fictional Panama City in a fictional world looking like the world in
> Duke Nukem II. It was a huge hotel though, several km high and hundreds
> of meters wide, just like all the other buildings that were connected
> with skybridges.

Well, that bit sounds nice.

> Anyway you were talking about how you would go out and kill some more
> animals that were roaming in the outside jungle to sell for a high
> price. Lots of other hunters around as well. It was a tough job.

Doesn't sound like something a vegetarian would do.

> Strangely, we were not talking at the beginning, but typing on little
> terminal devices with black backgrounds and neon green text. Then later
> we started talking in English and later still in Dutch. We both said it
> was very weird. After that I left your bathroom (where you received
> guests to talk) and that was the end of it.

We weren't in Panama, but in the Matrix???

>>> You need your phone to activate it, though you can simply use your
>>> computer to do the actual communication. It is what I do most of the
>>> time, except when I am sitting on the toilet. But there's a web client
>>> that also has no access to the files on your computer.
>>
>> Be careful to remind yourself what hand is holding the phone and what
>> hand is holding the paper.
>

> My previous paragraph ended with toilet things and now we are talking
> about toilets again. Seems like the toilet is an integral part of my
> life. My other hand usually holds food or coffee though. For cleaning I
> use buttons (like in Japan).

I use the three shells.

>>> As if you have anything better to do. It's not even the cycling season.
>>
>> Yesterday did almost 100K. Admittedly the longest distance in about a month.
>

> Well, at least this time of the year the cycling paths are mostly empty.
> 100 km is a bit too much though. What if you suddenly get tired and are
> very far away from home? I usually cycle no more than 15 km per day
> nowadays.

I average about thirty km. But that's with Summer getting over 1500 km a
month.

>>>> I might not want quick replies.
>>>
>>> You just open it less often?
>>
>> Obvious solution, one would think. Yet I regularly have to avoid hitting
>> people that cross the road in front of my bike with a phone in their
>> hand. It's even worse when they drive a friggin' truck. So if they can't
>> do the "just open it less often" thing, I might end up like them. Just
>> without the safety of a truck around me.
>

> You have a point there. Though I personally only take out my phone when
> I am cycling, not when I am driving. Taking out my phone while cycling
> is easy when nobody is around since like any Dutch person, I tend to
> cycle without my hand anyway.
>
> It's usually when I am in a place where I don't know my way around and
> need to look at the map. Very useful. I suppose you still have a
> Michelin map from the 1980s in your fietstas?

Nope, did use to have an Aldi book of city maps. Now I mostly know my
way around. Also there are these nifty little maps an road sings.
They're even better when they are not vandalised, visible in the dark
and actually accurate.

>>>> I'm not playing a lot of games right now. Don't have the time or
>>>> patience currently.
>>>
>>> Dice Wars must be getting old?
>>
>> It's even older than GTAV, since it has dice.
>

> I recently started playing Quake (a remaster but very much like the
> original from 1996). Have you ever played that?

Maybe the demo. Played original Doom and Duke 3D a bit.

>>> I'm not sure if the one getting allergic reactions to the fourth Covid
>>> shot is you in this story. Perhaps you should leave the house less often
>>> and spend more time in WAAglami? I might also know a Chinese welder who
>>> can weld your door shut, if you're interested.
>>
>> I didn't get allergic reactions to shots (just normal local muscle
>> ache), but I slightly allergic to cats. And to being hauled around the
>> facility out of overly careful care-workers and mild incompetence. I
>> couldn't get across that I had NOT gotten any adverse reactions to
>> earlier shots. Kinda like I didn't get across what I meant like right now.
>

> I have no idea what you are going on about. You were vaccinated in a
> room with a cat in it and then got an allergic reaction? What was the
> cat doing there??!

The last shot I got I mentioned I had a slight cat allergy and the next
10 minutes I was sent around the place with different people telling me
different things, making things nice and annoying. Without the nice...
I'd rather have spent that time petting a cat.

>>> I hate it. I prefer it when I am the dictator. But most people don't
>>> come to the Usenet anymore, so I joined them instead.
>>
>> Wait, YOU hate it? You just want me to suffer too??? Misery loves
>> company. What's next? Getting locked up in a cabin by a scruffy lady
>> that breaks my leg?
>

> Well, there are positive things as well. Since the usenet is all out in
> the open, I need to be very careful what I write. I am sure there are
> people who are spying on me right now, so I should take care not to
> disclose any personal information.

Hello, my name is Rumpelstiltskin. I just use a name that dozens of
other people already have.

> Also, I can post photos, usually of boring things such as work I am
> doing around the house such as cutting down trees or whatever. I tend to
> use it as my personal blog.

Like the one you had in China. You wouldn't even be able to post a
picture of a beloved Disney bear there. Not without getting arrested.

>>> You'll come around. You even joined Facebook. Not even I did that.
>>
>> You're just upset you can't be the dictator of the Facebook. It already
>> has pale alien sunscreen guy.
>

> I hear that on Facebook all sorts of people from real life will add you.
> That sounds extremely frightening to me.

Indeed. Indeed.

>>> Here on usenet I can still pretend to be a dictator. Apparently, on
>>> WAAglami, I am *softer* (whatever that means and I know I do not like
>>> it). Neppie even said I should use that to convince you to join.
>>
>> You also said she sings on Fridays. Maybe you're "softer" because of
>> less muscle at old age. Or you just seem softer compared to certain
>> tough talking politicians. Especially war starting ones.
>

> It is true that I haven't started a war in a long time. When was the
> last time we even invaded another newsgroup?

Are you thinking about invading alt.ukraine or something???

>>>> Either way a happy 2023. Or should I say 2024? Considering your posting
>>>> schedule.
>>>
>>> You're a month early! We haven't even had Sinterklaas yet!
>>>
>> First you say you're slow, now you're all get on up and go. I figured
>> you wouldn't be reading this until at least Easter.
>

> According to the supermarkets Easter is just around the corner, but I
> figure I might even read your next reply before Easter. Though I also
> still have a lot of work to do around the house during that time.
>
You just want to put in traps to catch the Easter Bunny so you can keep
all the delicious chocolate for yourself, you heel!

--
Danny.