Post #158,062
6/2/04 7:38:16 AM
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When I'm World Dictator, I'm going to ban...
1. Reality TV. First to go will be "$COUNTRY's Funniest/Stupidest/Craziest/$ADJECTIVEest Criminals/Animals/Drivers/$WTFEVER". 2. Plastic toilet seats. 3. Guns. Get over it. 4. Mobile phone tariffs that take more than 100 words to describe in plain English. 5. White Supremacists who cannot demonstrate their supremacy. This will involve mental, physical and artistic testing. The only people likely to pass are unlikely to be White Supremacists. 6. People who phone up the helpdesk in order to have the online documentation for $APPLICATION read aloud to them. This goes double for programmers. If you're a programmer and you can't work the on-line help, you're banned, baby. 7. People who relate unfunny stories to you while you're trying to concentrate at work. 8. "War on $THINGYOUCANTHAVEAWARON". 9. People who can't operate an apostrophe. 10. SUVs. They're stupid. Buy a proper car. Buy a Land Rover Defender if you really need to go offroad. 11. Chavs. Google it. 12. People who eat hot foul-smelling food in the office, and then bugger off into the test lab for the rest of the afternoon, leaving you with the faint scent of someone else's chicken tikka masala filling your nostrils. 13. People in 100% computer-oriented jobs who have never bothered to learn to type. 14. The indicator stalk in a Vauxhall Vectra. 15. Vauxhall Vectras. 16. Mobile phones that cannot hold a charge for 24 hours, yet have the ability to surf the web and play Doom. Yes, Peter's SPV, I'm looking at YOU. 17. Windows XP's Luna theme^WVisual Style. 18. Skins for software applications. Debug the code, assholes. I don't care what it looks like. 19. CEO salaries in excess of 20x the office cleaner's. No-one's that good or that useful. If you could be replaced by a software program that responds "Yes" or "No" at random, then you're probably a CEO. 20. The free ride that cyclists get on the roads. Get licenced, get insured, get taxed and get out of my way at roundabouts, you ignorant gits.
When I'm World Dictator, I will be commanding my persons of hench (i.e. you, if you're lucky) and my underlings (i.e. you, if you're not) to identify additional ban-worthy items. You may find it saves time to do this now in the space provided when you click "reply".
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,064
6/2/04 7:53:06 AM
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21, re 18
21. People who say asshole when they should be saying arsehole. 22, therefore, would have to be US cultural imperialism :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #158,068
6/2/04 8:32:54 AM
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23.
23. French words that have similar sounds that are spelled completely differently (e.g. Renault and Pugeot and Cezeaux and ...).
Cheers, Scott. (Who knows that the IGM has already [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=116627|discussed ] this...)
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Post #158,072
6/2/04 8:51:06 AM
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glad you banned guns
my pistols and rifles will be fine, plastic toilet seats in favor of what? The late model Land Rovers suck, get pre 78 if you want usefulness ban coffee that costs more than $1.25 enforce the HOV lanes make it a 5 year sentence for a stylist to do a mans hair, barbers need to earn a living. just a few thanx, bill
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Post #158,078
6/2/04 9:22:53 AM
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Wooden toilet seats, of course.
Warm in winter, cool in summer. Essential for The Reading Room.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,079
6/2/04 9:26:53 AM
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cant tell whats under my sheepskin covers
which is what I will install after the gang that couldnt shoot straight leaves home. thanx, bill
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Post #158,080
6/2/04 9:33:26 AM
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Uhh ... no
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Post #158,091
6/2/04 10:46:09 AM
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I guess you like germs/bacteria/viruses
all of which are far more plentiful and live quite happily inside the grain of the wooden seat, compared to the plastic seat. I'll take better hygeine over temporary warmth any day.
lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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Post #158,098
6/2/04 11:14:23 AM
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thats what bleach and guest toilets are for
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Post #158,102
6/2/04 11:40:56 AM
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Wuss.
Overobsessive hygiene leads to allergy-prone people with feeble immune systems, IMHO.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,106
6/2/04 12:01:51 PM
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Hmmm.
It's been shown that less bacteria grow on wooden cutting boards than plastic; dunno whether a similar study was ever done for toilet seats...
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning, As hopeless as it seems in the middle, Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,107
6/2/04 12:07:37 PM
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Seen a study stating that it was safer to eat your lunch
in the bathroom that at your desk, bacteria wise. thanx, bill
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Post #158,108
6/2/04 12:10:35 PM
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Saw that.
Phones & keyboards are minging, basically.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,112
6/2/04 12:28:35 PM
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It has been shown? (new thread)
Created as new thread #158111 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=158111|It has been shown?]
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
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Post #158,074
6/2/04 8:56:17 AM
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World Dictator Wannabes
Especially if they can't ride bicycles.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning, As hopeless as it seems in the middle, Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,093
6/2/04 11:00:09 AM
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6a
6a. Online documentation for $APPLICATION which does nothing more than iterate through $CONTROLS with the text, "$CONTROL. Operate this $CONTROL to perform the $CONTROL operation."
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Post #158,119
6/2/04 12:55:35 PM
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chavscum.co.uk
About 50-cent, the rich thug who should be smashed under a giant sneaker like a disgusting bug:
Mumbling rather than rapping about guns, ghettos, bitches and ho's, young provincial chavsters see 50 Cent as a role model! They want to be a thug just like him! Check out that bling and the prison tattoos. We should not mock 50 Cent though. It is quite obvious from this picture that he suffers from some kind 'trench cock' fungal infection that makes the poor boy grab his itchy nadgers every 30 seconds! I did I mention he's been shot 9 times? A chavster role model for us all!
-drl
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Post #158,179
6/2/04 6:24:54 PM
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11a. ChavScum
[link|http://www.chavscum.co.uk/celebrity.html| Here]. Chavs, Neds, Townies, Kevs, Charvers, Steeks, Spides, Bazzas, Yarcos, Ratboys, Kappa Slappers, Skangers, Janners, Stigs, Scallies, whatever you know them as, this site is about them, Britains peasant underclass that are taking over our towns and cities! Got to Love Brit trash-word inventiveness, all with that certain soup\ufffdon of onomatopoeia and faint aroma of the Edgware Road + tossed cookies. [cf. those pix documenting the Apple Powerbook scam, biting the scammer on his a\ufffd\ufffd.. Barber Bites Bogus Billabong; tears hair after enriching Her Majesty's Customs.. Damn - lost the link for that cute story of Comeuppance.] Your Jim Davidson sounds like cloned from the rib of O'Rush & Company, but I see that Eminem's skummy shtik has not gone unnoticed, unreviled. Oh please, tell us they Aren't taking over our towns and cities!..and there's no Wimpy's atop Mam Tor. Yet.
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Post #158,193
6/2/04 8:29:30 PM
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why are they pickin on Pikeys?
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Post #158,816
6/7/04 12:35:16 PM
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Suicidal tendencies, huh?
7. People who relate unfunny stories to you while you're trying to concentrate at work.
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Buy high, sell sober.
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Post #158,821
6/7/04 12:50:31 PM
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Name an unfunny story I've related to you at work.
And no, "The American Electoral Process" doesn't count.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,822
6/7/04 12:52:33 PM
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Oh my, he is seriously riled...
It's a joke, son, a JOKE!
I just could no tresist.
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Post #158,823
6/7/04 12:54:25 PM
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You're banned.
Report to the Office Of Dictatorial Bannedness to find out which website you're designing spinning skulls and marquees for.
Mark my words, you will rue the day that you heard the words "Webring" and "My cool links".
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,832
6/7/04 1:27:11 PM
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Mercy! My skull is spinning already!
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Post #158,835
6/7/04 1:47:01 PM
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NO MERCY
You will be in 1996 Frontpage Express Web Hell FOREVER.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #158,837
6/7/04 1:52:03 PM
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Didn't they have to dig a tenth level for that?
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Post #158,838
6/7/04 1:52:22 PM
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But
Would you REALLY force him to simulate BLINK tags by using animated .gifs?
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning, As hopeless as it seems in the middle, Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #158,840
6/7/04 1:56:02 PM
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And why would you want blink tags anyway?
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Post #158,843
6/7/04 2:16:14 PM
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<blink>You are a WINNER!</blink>
Pay us some money, and the headaches will stop.
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Post #158,848
6/7/04 2:50:23 PM
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We <blink>WERE</blink> talking about <blink>Hell</blink>
<blink>1996 Frontpage Express Web Hell</blink>, to be exact...
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning, As hopeless as it seems in the middle, Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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