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Louche
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Internet. Favourites. TMO Talk. That's how I get here. That's how most people get here, I suppose. Maybe they've got more exciting, preferential bookmarks set up. Maybe Snorton's takes him straight to Society, to see what's on the go there. Or maybe some of you have set your bookmarks so the first thing you see is the Active Topics screen. Then you can pick and choose. Get a delicious mouthy watering sample of what's happening from the truncated sentences and the tantalising web addresses of posted pictures.
But. Internet. Bookmarks. TMO Talk. That's what I have. Takes me to the index page. Fora spread out before me like, er, forums. TMO in all it's glory. TMO without a light on in Sex and Relationships. TMO as we know and love it.
And in the right hand column it says: Moderators: Mr. Nice, Admin. The Admin's Darryn, innit? That's easily worked out, I reckon. Not rocket science. Who's Mr. Nice? Deep, deep in the recesses of my battered, abused and alcohol shrunken brain I reckon I've read something, somewhere, on here once about who was Mr. Nice. But I've forgotten what it was. This isn't surprising, some days I forget my middle name. In the next couple of years I expect I'll start forgetting important things. Like where I live and whether or not I like apples.
But! I would, today, like to ask, Who is Mr. Nice? and to throw open the floor for people to ask questions of their own. With our current influx of angry newbies, this could be a thread which binds and unifies us all in our collective search for knowledge.
Or it could become about bumsexx in four posts. Which, let's face it, seems more likely.
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At work I don't have TMO in my favourites, for some sort of deluded security reasons, but the browser address bar auto-completes the URL when I type in "www.them" and makes me think I'm going to the secret rebel base of Them Who Non-Line, a mysterious cult who don't follow any rules from The Man, man.
But then the page opens and I'm brought back to reality with a bump.
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I never understood the whole "lol £", or indeed $ or gold pieces or whatevs. I don't remember how it started, or why. I also never got to the bottom of what happened in that Mexican restaurant when 'it all went wrong', either.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: I never understood the whole "lol £", or indeed $ or gold pieces or whatevs. I don't remember how it started, or why.
I can answer that one. It sprung out of a comment (made by kovacs, I believe) about how some people seemed to get a 'lol' because they were seen to be somehow more fragile and in need of encouragement. The idea was pretty quickly rejected, with everyone talking about how they only ever wrote genuine 'lols', and a poster (VP I think), joked about how you could have a currency next to the 'lol' to show its genuine worth. So lol(£) is theoretically better than lol($) although both are genuine, as opposed to just lol, which I guess is "Look, that really wasn't funny, but I was worried you might kill yourself if I told you that". Except of course that most people have forgotten all about how the tradition started and it's just a fun way of adding a bit of sparkle to an internet cliche.
Louche
Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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I didn't even know that it had all gone wrong, nevermind in a Mexican restaurant.
When does it become permissable to scream FUCK OFF AND STOP BOTHERING ME YOU TWAT FACED CHEERY HEADED PATRONISING GUNTWHACK at a chugger? Specifically, the same chugger who tries to chug at youwhenever you go for a fag?
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I've vaguely wondered about this for some time. It's boring but someone might be able to shed some light on it for me. Apostrophes: This ---> ' is so much nicer than this ----> ‘
If I write a longish post then I write it in word and then copy it into TMO. In doing so, all the pretty 's are replaced with ugly ‘s. Is there a way around this?
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quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I've vaguely wondered about this for some time. It's boring but someone might be able to shed some light on it for me. Apostrophes: This ---> ' is so much nicer than this ----> ‘
If I write a longish post then I write it in word and then copy it into TMO. In doing so, all the pretty 's are replaced with ugly ‘s. Is there a way around this?
’ is the correct apostrophe ---> ' is what you’d use for imperial measurement ieg. Jonesy is 5' 7" with a 10" penis (when fully enraged).
quotes and apostrophes ---> “” ‘’ feet and inches---> "" ''
Well, I could write it in TMO and then copy it into word to spell check and then copy it back again but usually I'm writing it in Word because I'm in the workplace and I'm trying to look like I'm doing something productive. Notepad looks too much like notepad (a piece of software I would never have open in my everyday work). I just assumed there was some setting or other in the Clueless Fuckwit sub menu or something saying "change apostrophe paste settings", or some such thing. Oh well.
I always like to start the day with the most boring post ever. Tomorrow is gonna be a tough morning after today’s record breaking effort.
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It’s part of the autocorrect settings. As an alternative, you could use Outlook to write your posts. If you go into Tools, Email Options and then under the Format tab, there’s an option to edit emails with Word. Turn this off and it’ll turn off all of the autocorrection in your emails. You’ll then have to tell it to manually spellcheck but then at least it wont be changing anything you don’t want it to.
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Jones, I think I saw you at Victoria Station during morning commuter hell-rush a few weeks back. 'You' had a brown jacket on and a fag hanging out of your mouth at a slovenly angle.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It’s part of the autocorrect settings. As an alternative, you could use Outlook to write your posts. If you go into Tools, Email Options and then under the Format tab, there’s an option to edit emails with Word. Turn this off and it’ll turn off all of the autocorrection in your emails. You’ll then have to tell it to manually spellcheck but then at least it wont be changing anything you don’t want it to.
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Jones, I think I saw you at Victoria Station during morning commuter hell-rush a few weeks back. 'You' had a brown jacket on and a fag hanging out of your mouth at a slovenly angle.
It's possible. I gave up smoking three weeks ago and I finished commuting from Victoria about four weeks ago, so maybe. You should have said hello. Then we could be sure.
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