Why do people not respect the rules?
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I wonder how many people here personally knew someone who was killed in a car accident in a residential area. (Puts up hand) The reasons for speed limits in residential areas aren't rocket surgery, but some idiots are even too stupid for that.
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When I was (a lot) younger I used to drive fairly fast everywhere as I was always in a hurry to get to the next exciting part of my life. One day, after having decided that driving fast on narrow English residential streets with cars parked on both sides of the road might not be a good idea, I was going, for the first time I remember, slightly under the 30 mph limit. I saw a small ball bounce out into the street just ahead of me. I hit the brakes and skidded the car sideways and actually stopped with my door just an inch away from the small boy who ran out between the parked cars in single-minded pursuit of the ball. He stopped, yelled in surprise, fell over and started to cry. His frantic mother came running out after him and I thought, "I am in trouble here!" However, she yelled at the idiot kid, smacked him (the good old days of direct parental feedback), picked him up, mouthed a tearful "Thank you!" to me and ran back inside with him. It took me a couple of minutes to straighten up my car (how I didn't hit the cars parked either side of me I don't know) and about twenty minutes to stop shaking. There are definite reasons for some rules and they should definitely be followed - all the time! PS. It made me feel good about following the rules for once in my life until I found out later that that little boy grew up to be a lawyer! ;) Well, you can't win 'em all!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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When I was (a lot) younger I used to drive fairly fast everywhere as I was always in a hurry to get to the next exciting part of my life. One day, after having decided that driving fast on narrow English residential streets with cars parked on both sides of the road might not be a good idea, I was going, for the first time I remember, slightly under the 30 mph limit. I saw a small ball bounce out into the street just ahead of me. I hit the brakes and skidded the car sideways and actually stopped with my door just an inch away from the small boy who ran out between the parked cars in single-minded pursuit of the ball. He stopped, yelled in surprise, fell over and started to cry. His frantic mother came running out after him and I thought, "I am in trouble here!" However, she yelled at the idiot kid, smacked him (the good old days of direct parental feedback), picked him up, mouthed a tearful "Thank you!" to me and ran back inside with him. It took me a couple of minutes to straighten up my car (how I didn't hit the cars parked either side of me I don't know) and about twenty minutes to stop shaking. There are definite reasons for some rules and they should definitely be followed - all the time! PS. It made me feel good about following the rules for once in my life until I found out later that that little boy grew up to be a lawyer! ;) Well, you can't win 'em all!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When I was (a lot) younger I used to drive fairly fast everywhere as I was always in a hurry to get to the next exciting part of my life. One day, after having decided that driving fast on narrow English residential streets with cars parked on both sides of the road might not be a good idea, I was going, for the first time I remember, slightly under the 30 mph limit. I saw a small ball bounce out into the street just ahead of me. I hit the brakes and skidded the car sideways and actually stopped with my door just an inch away from the small boy who ran out between the parked cars in single-minded pursuit of the ball. He stopped, yelled in surprise, fell over and started to cry. His frantic mother came running out after him and I thought, "I am in trouble here!" However, she yelled at the idiot kid, smacked him (the good old days of direct parental feedback), picked him up, mouthed a tearful "Thank you!" to me and ran back inside with him. It took me a couple of minutes to straighten up my car (how I didn't hit the cars parked either side of me I don't know) and about twenty minutes to stop shaking. There are definite reasons for some rules and they should definitely be followed - all the time! PS. It made me feel good about following the rules for once in my life until I found out later that that little boy grew up to be a lawyer! ;) Well, you can't win 'em all!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I'm glad that you don't have to live with something terrible on your conscience. And sad that the world has yet another lawyer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If Fidel Castro was gay would his lover be an infidel? Sex, politics, and religion there.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
BURN THE WITCH!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
given that sex is what most people think about for a large proportion of their time
Mark, I have some news for you: some male Homo Saps, changing physically, hormonally, mentally, in the move into older age (the process, the outcome, of course, modulated by genetic endowment, experience, health, social/cultural reality) ... ... in some cases achieve almost full migration of the fifty-percent or more of his mind that was, in adolescence, located in the crotch area, from down there upo into that crinkled jelly-jar held in the skull. The change in patterns of perception and interior mentation will vary from individual to individual, but, in general, there is some adjustment of the bandwidth devoted to more corporeal forms of sexuality. Whether or not you can look forward to this, or will look forward to it, or how you may react to this change if it occurs ... I cannot say without asking you for a small donation to cover my expenses in summoning Cthulhu. cheers, Bill
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Things are different, today I hear every fogey say Old blokes need something to help things not calm down But the thing for you here, Bill Is a little bluish pill So go rushing helter-skelter For the Woodruff's little helper It'll help you on your way To get your oats in one more day <Jews' harp solo>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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M Sukhdeep wrote:
Gargle ur own bile after drunk posting
Sober, you cum gargler.
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I'm glad that you don't have to live with something terrible on your conscience. And sad that the world has yet another lawyer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm glad that you don't have to live with something terrible on your conscience. And sad that the world has yet another lawyer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I once came within inches of running over a Tory MP. By the time I realised who it was I'd already come to a stop. Damn my lightening reflexes. At least I got to give him a stream of abuse.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You only get sht1 from me when you try to turn a discussion into a google "I Gotta Win!" fight. That ain't what people go to a Lounge for. Especially when you google up totally inaccurate cr@p like Greek Frappe being French, and Italian (Gelato) Frappe being American; and talk about "stab mixers", which we ain't got in England (and which is probably a single word in German, but I ain't gonna google to check, because this is a discussion, not a google "I Gotta Win!" fight). Don't expect people to be waste time on pleasantries with you when you pull that kind of google bullfactory. Reasonable behaviour receives reasonable responses.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Its not about winning Mark, its about putting you right after you turned a discussion into an argument by acting like a jerk, as you usually do. Take your own advice.
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When I was (a lot) younger I used to drive fairly fast everywhere as I was always in a hurry to get to the next exciting part of my life. One day, after having decided that driving fast on narrow English residential streets with cars parked on both sides of the road might not be a good idea, I was going, for the first time I remember, slightly under the 30 mph limit. I saw a small ball bounce out into the street just ahead of me. I hit the brakes and skidded the car sideways and actually stopped with my door just an inch away from the small boy who ran out between the parked cars in single-minded pursuit of the ball. He stopped, yelled in surprise, fell over and started to cry. His frantic mother came running out after him and I thought, "I am in trouble here!" However, she yelled at the idiot kid, smacked him (the good old days of direct parental feedback), picked him up, mouthed a tearful "Thank you!" to me and ran back inside with him. It took me a couple of minutes to straighten up my car (how I didn't hit the cars parked either side of me I don't know) and about twenty minutes to stop shaking. There are definite reasons for some rules and they should definitely be followed - all the time! PS. It made me feel good about following the rules for once in my life until I found out later that that little boy grew up to be a lawyer! ;) Well, you can't win 'em all!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
My only car accident happened a little more than 6 months ago, keeping the safety distance AND respecting the limit - barely. I crashed behind a distracted girl that thought at the last moment that she had to brake in order to wait to invade the other lane to enter the gas station. I had a spli second distraction checking the speed AND the rear view mirror as the womand behind me already almost crashed into me twice in two subsequent roundabouts so I was a little edgy... when I saw the aforemetioned girl with her car fully stopped in the middle of the road. I braked with all I had but still came crashing behind her, luckily I had little remaining speed and I still managed to take 5.000€ of damagers to my car. Now I drive 10 km/h UNDER the limit and those who want to overtake are very free to do it as they please. Just the other day I was almost involved in what could have been a nightmarish accident - the guy behind me was in a stupid hurry overtaking anyone and travelling basically in the middle of the road, half car in one lane and half in the opposite... while approaching a 90° curve... when from that curve another Darwin Award candidate came from the opposite direction at 90 mph with a very coarse trajectory that placed him at the extreme border of its lane. And then guy behind me was at most at 50 cm from my behind so if those two crashed frontally I could have been involved without having done anything.
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Garth J Lancaster wrote:
the post beginning with 'Hello Infidels' is just wrong
I can't even find that one.
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
it doesnt matter that the poster probably has used that to mean 'unbeliever of Pastafarian', there's just so many other ways it can be mis-interpreted
It absolutely does matter that the poster probably has used that to mean 'unbeliever of Pastafarian'. You could ban every word in the English (and every other) language, by following the rule you're suggesting. "If a word could be misinterpreted, it is banned from the Lounge!" An entire genre of jokes is about making the listener think/feel one thing, then turning it around, and that is what this was. Or are you saying that we don't just ban every word in the language, but also all jocularity? (I've gotta admit, though, that there have been people whom I wished had been banned from telling jokes, in here)
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You certainly get my up vote. As thought anyone gives a d----
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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BURN THE WITCH!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
How dare you! Why not the BURN THE WARLOCK? Sexism rears its ugly head.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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He gets special allowance because he is a fellow countryman of Maunders and possibly a personal friend. Maunder does on occasion have to remind him to control his language, but as in all things, the rules are not applied evenly.
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
I agree and I have seen the same issue you are discussing in a wide range of forums. The underlying reason for this is that the Internet provides primarily anonymous communications on forums as no one has to sign with their real names. This and other technologies have led to a sociological breakdown of traditional courtesies over the years (among other things) as well as traditional barriers that many people adhered to, even the rascals who make disrespectful and hurtful comments to others. As a result, a basic self-censorship was imposed. This is not the case anymore as many people now feel that they can say anything they want and get away with it. In addition, many forums are no longer being moderated for proper postings and the people who would abuse such a privilege know it...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
And what are the rules for those that slip through for the rest of us? For example, in our company, we have a HUGE rule. When it comes toe email communications, if a message can be interpreted in multiple ways, EVERYONE MUST interpret it in the MOST POSITIVE way! The reason is simple... We cannot correct what was written or sent. we may not know the ultimate intent of the email, and we MANY TIMES have misinterpreted something and got bent out of shape over it. So, AFAIAC, I would suggest we have a rule that says if someone posts something you don't like, that you do not respond to it, and that you are welcome to notify a moderator to deal with it. They will slip through. I accidentally asked a question about an article I wrote. I was not trying to create a Click Bait conversation, I was curious. And I was TOLD not to do this, and I wont do it again. You get used to talking to people in this forum as friends. And sometimes, one conversation you might have with your other friends makes it into the forum. It is the death knell of the forums if that is all we get, and we don't moderate. But PLEASE do not suggest we ban words like Infidel, etc. The answer to free speech you don't like is more speech. Or a moderator email with a reminder of the appropriate place, and a delete. In general, it happens, just like emails that sound worse than they were intended to be. It is how we RESPOND to them that determines the type of community that we are!
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
What I can never understand is why people use "children" as the reason to avoid talk of sex, as though pre-pubescent children would really care either way. Personally, I think using kids to justify avoiding taboo subjects is just a proxy of adults' personal embarrassment.
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yes, I wondered if it was just me being sensitive and thought "I'll bite my tongue" - but the post beginning with 'Hello Infidels' is just wrong, anywhere, in my books - it doesnt matter that the poster probably has used that to mean 'unbeliever of Pastafarian', there's just so many other ways it can be mis-interpreted
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You certainly get my up vote. As thought anyone gives a d----
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I'm more than aware that people only voted for that posting because of the line at the bottom.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!