Disassociated banter and homeless chit-chat thread
 

Being the kind of guy that tries to find win-win solutions to sticky problems, may I suggest that this location might suit our three newcomers who seem to have penetrated deeply the nostrils of many longer-serving incumbents - and for that matter it could also be a place for anyone else who wants somewhere to vent such communications.

This way the established topic and thread structure that makes this forum such an enjoyable place to be remains intact, and at the same time there is a place to accommodate the style of belonging that our newies enjoy. Result: everyone achieves and retains Goldilocks standard of presence (you know, the one she found after trying a couple of alternatives that ended up being just right...)

See, we old buggers can come up with interesting ideas and solutions on occasions.

I hope Messrs Flint, Steve Bsjb and Dev of AG consider this proposal in the spirit it is given and intended and (to continue the fairy story theme) actively ambrace its intention to allow us all to live happily ever after (all together now.... aaaaahhhhh....! - and also please note Brit bods diehard attempts to refrain from splitting any infinitive!)

Seems that yoo hoo may have already establioshed such a location - can therefore also use old age as an excuse for making an unnecessary suggestion....

I tried that already, Cyclefrance. There's a whole thread about it down in the Internet Forum. They ain't buying. So much for fantasyland. Speaking of, they remind me of those aliens you came up with in our little fiction project. What did you call them, again? Where's Sheila's grandmother when you need her? And me with all my crochet hooks already packed! (sigh)

They do SEEM to be settling down - sort of.:headshake

I can't think of a polite way to broach the subject of these chronological age references.

Well Cyclepants... I don't really understand why it is you feel the need to segregate me to a certain thread or lump me into any particular group... I find little to no pearls of wisdom in these post by you that gives you any authority what so ever to dictate where anyone can post or not post...

Why don't you take a deep breath now and regain your heart rhythm... and peddle your ass around this forum and find out how many threads I've made and post that were idle chit chat... you act as if you've been here forever... but your born on date hasn't even left the brewery...

Last time I checked... I'm able to post where I want... when I want... and how I want... administrators can put and end to this here... and I'll just go elsewhere... until till then... I'm in control of what and where I post... I don't need anyones help in dictating where or when or how much that will be...

there... was that long winded enough for ya... incase you were wondering... that was a rhetorical question... :cool:

Yeh , what he said Ya poopy head !!!! ;)

What who said?

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Yoo-Hoo :p

Pamplemousse!

"By their fruits shall ye know them." (A.K.A. "If the foo shits, wear it." or "the duck test") It's been awfully reminiscent of "Senior Week" in a high school around here lately. :-) I'm expecting to find a Volkswagon on the stage of the auditorium or a urinal on the front lawn any day now.

Speaking of high school... 20 year class reunion this year! Woo-hoo!

:lol2: thats' reeeaally great...:lol2: very funny... :lol2: love it, love it - you really are too much, my sides are hurting now....:lol2:

someone's knickers just got hoisted up the flagpole!

I didn't know reform schools held reunions! Which cell block are ya all planning on holding it in? :rolleyes:

:::CBOL::: ;)

Polite? Why start now, punk?

Am I getting the AG style down, yet? /p

It's funny, really. For me, the main advantage of the internet, as a communication format, is the removal of superficial aspects of our physical person, IE age, sex, race, location, appearance, socio-economic status, etc.

On the internet, and specifically in pure text, you are a disembodied intellectual entity. The text is not as nuanced as natural speech, but the trade off is that the format functions as an equalizer of people.

So, it's always funny to me when people refer to age on the internet. Back at AudioGalaxy, people on some of the peripheral boards would assume I was old, whatever that even means.

I'm old and they kep interrupting me to take my meds.
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What? Only one reply so far? I have dial up and I'm faster than you guys. Guess the meth dealer hasn't been by, yet.

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@marichiko: You sure got a mouth on you, as the old saying goes.

@Flint I'm typing as fast as my arthritis allows.


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@ Flint Your witty come back skills need work.

ALT + CTRL + DEL

This is boring. You guys are too slow for me AG died of ennui.

<SHIFT + CTRL + F8>

@marichiko: At the flip of a switch I can be a fierce and tenacious boardie who will go to great lengths to obliterate your rebuttals with the force of pure logic. I haven't even begun to post here. Idle chit-chat is not interesting to me.

(btw: < ALT + 0160 > is the manual input code for a "space" that registers as a character)

@Flint: So far, I'm not impressed. But I'm sure I will be any moment now.

Just you wait...

Any second now...

(BTW, ALT + CTRL + DEL throws you into your computer's control panel screen. It can also be a useful sequence to hit when your system freezes up)

Flint - I am more of a lurker than a poster and a fairly new Cellarite myself... but I gotta tell ya I believe the gauntlet has been thrown down... IMHO Mari is a very formidable and intelligent board member (postess, poster, post person???)... possibly caution would be the better part of valor in this case.
just some friendly advice.....

I'm not looking for any epic battles. If I was, there would need to be a topic for me to take Devil's Advocate on. So far we're on the level of "mama jokes" here.

Why, thank you, Fallen! Its just that here at the old folk's home, there's really not much else to do, and I get to hog the computer because the rest of my colleagues are too senile to even know how to turn it on. It passes the time.

*Slap! getta away from me nurse! Can't you see I'm busy? No, WE don't want to drink OUR ensure now. WE will let you know when we're ready!"*

Now, what was I saying? Oh yeah. :lol:

So far, the AG gang have mostly been an annoying blip on the board. I'm sure we'll all either settle in and play dirty together - CELLAR STYLE - or they'll find better sport, elsewhere.

Meanwhile, I need to start thinking about packing. I'm gonna make a 400 mile move across two mountain ranges in only 30 days all by my little frail self. I'm really not going to have much time for board wars. ;)

So "CELLAR STYLE" consists of stating the obvious over & over & over?

Hey Mari-check the CO levels in your trailer-I think they are getting a little high again.

"They" have been playing quite nicely now for awhile. Frankly, now YOU are getting on my nerves...

*turning away, shaking head*

I think there are more meaningful descriptors of a person than "which website you came from" . . . that's a little like saying all people of < insert ethnicity > possess < insert posivive/negative quality > . . . the only thing members of AudioGalaxy ever had in common was a love of free music . . .

Point taken, Lab Rat. The INDIVIDUALS do seem to be settling down. I am cranky about pulling the details of this move off, I guess. Anyhow, like I said, I need to be packing, not posting.

How do you pack for something like that?

Well, first you go to the supermarket and get all the card board boxes your car can hold...;)

I like the boxes that office paper comes in, for smaller, breakable items, and for books. I have a collection of those small paper boxes, which have a lid. Then there are the boxes that 14 X 17 laser film comes in, those have reinforced handles built in. After that, I go to those plastic $3 storage tubs. I have about 30 of those.

Highly recommended. Everyone that helped us move agrees.

Well, for all the reticence about using a dedicated area it seems to be clocking up a few pages quite nicely.

Agree about the $3 tubs - although our last major move the removal men gave us a 100+ of those flat-folded cardboard jobbies and a few rolls of that brown tape that you can only only tear with your teeth (scissors can be used but the 'where-did-I-put-those -down' syndrome hits early when you're making up so many cartons...)

Let's EAT them NOW!!!:yum:

Besides....people don't "come from a website". (At best they might come *because* of a website.) But there have been people long before there were websites...in fact, long before there was a web (archie, gopher, Usenet) or even an Internet.

The Cellar is older than HTTP, too. In fact, I downloaded my first copy of Netscape (0.98 beta thenkewveddymuch) *from* The Cellar.

Thanks for the suggestions, Flint. I really adore those apple boxes with lids that you get if you sweet talk the over night stocking crew well enough.

My real problem is figuring out how to come up with the money to rent a U-HAUL and pay for gas. A check I was expecting didn't come through, and there's not much give in my teensy income. Oh well, I'll think of something (sigh).

Sounds like Mari has a lot on her hands with the move, I'd help if I weren't 8,000-9,000 miles away (I know, lame excuse), but any of you guys out there close by to where she is now or where she is going? Maybe you could lend a hand someway, even if it is with a bit of temporary storage nearer the new place so she could move things closer before the big move day comes along? Friends of ours did that for us when we moved here, and I can rell you it made a hell of a difference - brought down the stress levels significantly

You sound like a shipper, Cycle.
Mom said I came from a cabbage patch..... or was it a turnip truck? Well, something veggie.
It's almost a pleasure to help someone that has mostly uniform containers/cartons. ;)

VERY lame excuse! Some friend YOU are, Cyclefrance! :lol:

I don't know of anyone from the Cellar who lives remotely near the 4 Corners region of Colorado. Ferret would be the closest, but he's still something like 300 miles away to the south, so that lets him off the hook, too. The problem with doing it by stages is that each time, this would involve an 800 mile round trip over mountain passes that are still covered with snow this time of year. I'm probably best off waiting until the end of the month when the passes will have begun to clear and just get it over with all at once!

It's almost a pleasure to help someone that has mostly uniform containers/cartons

And Sheer hell is when you show up to help some body move and they show up at their front door in a bath robe , then you notice that NOTHING is packed or boxed up !!!!

Can't y'all start your own thread to chit-chat about this?!

Truly, this thread has abandoned the spirit of banter and chit-chat.

You'll find thread drift is common. :lol:

Can't you start your own thread to chit-chat about thread drift?!

YOU started it!


:p

The fine art of the thread drift is an honored old Cellar tradition. Why, would you like me to go back to insulting you? I thought we had kissed and made up! :love:

ooo the afterthought - captured in the quote, or not in the quote

Yes, we can edit our posts here. Nice feature, eh? So are we still going steady or not? *pouts*

that's more like chit-chat. good good.

:)
I had beer for lunch pizza for supper and now more beer...

I drank too much last night, taking the night off now. Tomorrow is mom's birthday dinner with the fam. Don't wanna be hungover.

Can't you start your own thread about ^^^this^^^?! - Flint

Yeah I could but I am feeling like a lazy lurker today.....so instead I will re-hijack this banter thread and redirect it back to moving Mari... :right:

ahhhh I love Mondays!


Mari - one possible route is to look at freight movers - that's how I am moving my things to New Mexico in July... the UHAUL total move, including gas was over 4 grand! (mind you I am moving 1842 miles - so it's a longer trip than you) BUT - moving my entire household through a freight mover is costing me approx. $1600... they bring a shipping container and leave it at your home - you pack it and then they come and take it to your destination... possibly this could be a solution for you...some charge by the amount of space you take on the truck - some charge by the pound... but it is something to look at.

Also - the first time I moved from Virginia to Seattle... I found a long haul trucker who was making a coast to coast trip with a light load... he moved all my belongings for 200 dollars ... hell he was going that way anyway!

I hope you get all this worked out - if I was already in NM I would grab Ferret and we'd come lend a hand!!
(how f***ing sweet I am to drag Ferret into this!
Sorry Ferret!!)

I know we Brits, all mouth and trousers, but, God, you move so far over there - those sorts of distances here would have us in the ocean! OK - it seems like you will have to make a big move of some description, but if you want to cut down the size of the load, how about....

You leave some things that aren't urgent to have with various friends local to where you are now, and give them the deal that they are invited to your new place for a meal/stopover (date to be decided) on the basis that they bring your left goodies with them. If it's a weather issue then on the same basis, cancel the meal/stopover and make a second trip when the weather's good to pick up the left items from friends

Not sure how many options you can have beyond that, given the logistical nightmare of your relocation...