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  • L Lost User

    Eswa wrote:

    ...but try and forward this story to as many as possible...

    So essentially this is a very lazy attempt at spam?

    Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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    Henry Minute
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    ChrisElston wrote:

    So essentially this is a very lazy attempt at spam?

    Hardly lazy given the seemingly never endingness of it, though it could have been pasted. Definitely spam, that makes me throw up too.

    Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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    • D Dalek Dave

      What a bucket load of 'Hallmarkised', vomitous, saccharined, anti-motivational, dire, repulsive sputum. Please, grow a pair and man up. It is this kind of hideous obsiquious drivel that is driving the world to boredom and depression as well as a decline in our species' ability to survive. Pass me a bucket whilst I puke the specious clap-trap into the Latrine of Crapulent Prose.

      ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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      Slacker007
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      Dalek Dave wrote:

      What a bucket load of 'Hallmarkised', vomitous, saccharined, anti-motivational, dire, repulsive sputum. Please, grow a pair and man up. It is this kind of hideous obsiquious drivel that is driving the world to boredom and depression as well as a decline in our species' ability to survive. Pass me a bucket whilst I puke the specious clap-trap into the Latrine of Crapulent Prose.

      I usually don't agree with you Dave but I have to on this one. Well said. :thumbsup:

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      • J Johnny J

        In one way, you're right. But here's the explanation: It is my understanding from reading posts of a similar type (all made by Indians) - that you like this sort of texts in India. There's nothing wrong with that. But a big part of western users will feel like upchucking (like DD). Luckily it was posted before lunch... ;) Therefor: Posting stuff like this in the lounge will often generate a rain of univotes, whereas it will generate 5-votes in GIT. Hence my suggestion - for the OP's own sake...

        Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

        My first reaction to the new forum was that we would start having "Get lost in the Indian forum" messages

        Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum, because I didn't like the way it separates users in two or more camps. But now that it is there, and you have the opportunity of directing a post towards the people that will appreciate it the most, why not use it?

        1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

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        Vikram A Punathambekar
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        I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun. I've seen some nasty comments like "Where's the 'Move to the Indian forum' button?" that really piss me off.

        Johnny J. wrote:

        that you like this sort of texts in India

        Not all of us do :)

        Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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        • V Vikram A Punathambekar

          I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun. I've seen some nasty comments like "Where's the 'Move to the Indian forum' button?" that really piss me off.

          Johnny J. wrote:

          that you like this sort of texts in India

          Not all of us do :)

          Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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          Johnny J
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          No problem... thanks! :thumbsup:

          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

          Not all of us do

          I know...

          1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

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          • V Vikram A Punathambekar

            I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun. I've seen some nasty comments like "Where's the 'Move to the Indian forum' button?" that really piss me off.

            Johnny J. wrote:

            that you like this sort of texts in India

            Not all of us do :)

            Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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            Lost User
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            Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

            I realize your original post was not said with malice, my apologies for jumping the gun.

            Good man. (5).

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            • J Johnny J

              So in what way is a gargoyle synonymous with a freak? You're out on a limb here trying to rescue what little honour you have left... ;P :cool:

              1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

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              Dalek Dave
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              I never mentioned being a gargoyle, merely a Grotesque.

              ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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              • D Dalek Dave

                I never mentioned being a gargoyle, merely a Grotesque.

                ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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                Johnny J
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                So you're satisfied being a thesaurus grotesque? :) OK, if you apply it to yourself then I'll buy it, otherwise I will still maintain that the term "a thesaurus grotesque" makes little or no sense at all... :-\

                1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

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                • M Mark_Wallace

                  Grotesque isn't used much as a noun now, but it still is one (because of legacy texts that contain it being used so).

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  Dalek Dave
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                  Nonsense. Look at some of the work by Quentin Matsys. He painted Grotesques. Here is a picture of one.[^]

                  ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    A grotesque is what hangs off a cathedral. It is like a Gargoyle, only it does not act at a rainwater remover. Perhaps a dictionary would help you... See under the Noun terms[^] or maybe a Picture[^].

                    ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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                    Simon_Whale
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                    Pictures always make it so much easier :)

                    As barmey as a sack of badgers Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.

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                    • J Johnny J

                      In one way, you're right. But here's the explanation: It is my understanding from reading posts of a similar type (all made by Indians) - that you like this sort of texts in India. There's nothing wrong with that. But a big part of western users will feel like upchucking (like DD). Luckily it was posted before lunch... ;) Therefor: Posting stuff like this in the lounge will often generate a rain of univotes, whereas it will generate 5-votes in GIT. Hence my suggestion - for the OP's own sake...

                      Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                      My first reaction to the new forum was that we would start having "Get lost in the Indian forum" messages

                      Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum, because I didn't like the way it separates users in two or more camps. But now that it is there, and you have the opportunity of directing a post towards the people that will appreciate it the most, why not use it?

                      1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      Johnny J. wrote:

                      Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum

                      Me too. There shouldn't be separate fora for different programming languages, movie watchers, book readers, sports fans, people of certain ages or places, or Barbie lovers, either. There should be one, and only one, Internet forum, where everyone posts messages about anything and from any perspective. Wading through 750,000,000,000 messages a day is not too high a price to pay for togetherness.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      • M Mark_Wallace

                        Johnny J. wrote:

                        Actually, I have always been against opening the Indian forum

                        Me too. There shouldn't be separate fora for different programming languages, movie watchers, book readers, sports fans, people of certain ages or places, or Barbie lovers, either. There should be one, and only one, Internet forum, where everyone posts messages about anything and from any perspective. Wading through 750,000,000,000 messages a day is not too high a price to pay for togetherness.

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        Johnny J
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                        Sorry - haven't got time to play with you today...

                        1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r3411y n33d 70 g37 14!d Gotta run; I've got people to do and things to see... Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house... Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!

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                        • D Dalek Dave

                          Nonsense. Look at some of the work by Quentin Matsys. He painted Grotesques. Here is a picture of one.[^]

                          ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                          Look at some of the work by Quentin Matsys.

                          Correction:

                          Mark Wallace wrote:

                          Grotesque isn't used much as a noun now, but it still is one (because of legacy texts that contain it being used so, and paintings of them).

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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