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Author:  Curiosity [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:27 ]
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I just nearly sent out an email that referred to 'The Penison Regulator'.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:32 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
I had an AOL account

hahahahaha fucking n00basaurus
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:33 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Grim... wrote:
That's the email address I still use for you (not that I email you very often, but, well, you know). Why'd you ditch it?

I can't remember, to be honest. I had an AOL account which I started using instead for personal but serious things, like job applications (dno't really want to be sending out my CV under the pimp one), and I guess I just kept using that one for everything.


Things that won't help you get a job, #4327: Sending out CVs from an AOL account.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:34 ]
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Mr Kissyfur
  • Doesn't like the right things
  • Thinks power can be generated by magic
  • Credits the general public with intelligence
  • Buys houses that fall down
  • Uses AOL


:kiss:
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:34 ]
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WTF is wrong with an AOL account?
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:35 ]
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EDIT - clarification - WTF is wrong with using an email address on my dad's AOL account?
Author:  Zio [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:37 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
EDIT - clarification - WTF is wrong with using an email address on my dad's AOL account?


It puts you in a position where one might assume you personally use AOL's 'services'.
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:39 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
EDIT - clarification - WTF is wrong with using an email address on my dad's AOL account?


When we were kids, we used to mess around with computers. How did you end up being the least tech-savvy person I know, including my wife?
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:39 ]
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Connie's a slag, then?
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:39 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Mr Kissyfur
  • Doesn't like the right things
  • Thinks power can be generated by magic
  • Credits the general public with intelligence
  • Buys houses that fall down
  • Uses AOL
  • Wears cardigans
  • Likes the wrong news readers


:kiss:
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:40 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Mr Kissyfur
  • Doesn't like the right things
  • Thinks power can be generated by magic
  • Credits the general public with intelligence
  • Buys houses that fall down
  • Uses AOL
  • Wears cardigans
  • Likes the wrong news readers


:kiss:

She's a weathergirl, gimpface.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:40 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Connie's a slag, then?

That's not a nice way to talk about Mrs Craster.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:40 ]
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Craster wrote:
How did you end up being the least tech-savvy person I know, including my wife?
You know who owns TUAW, don't you?
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:41 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
She's a weathergirl, gimpface.

She talks about new weather though, twatchops.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:42 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Craster wrote:
How did you end up being the least tech-savvy person I know, including my wife?
You know who owns TUAW, don't you?

I kept meaning to mention that to you.
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:42 ]
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Is it Dimrill?
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:45 ]
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Craster wrote:
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
EDIT - clarification - WTF is wrong with using an email address on my dad's AOL account?


When we were kids, we used to mess around with computers. How did you end up being the least tech-savvy person I know, including my wife?

I found women.

WTF is wrong with AOL email then? Come on. Explain.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:46 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
WTF is wrong with AOL email then? Come on. Explain.
Are you for fucking real?!
Author:  GazChap [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:47 ]
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I is just catching up.

That Pulse Rifle is shit, no ammo counter on the side. Instant fail :P My pulse rifle's ammo counter actually works.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:47 ]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:47 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
WTF is wrong with AOL email then? Come on. Explain.
Are you for fucking real?!

Yes. Next.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:47 ]
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GazChap wrote:
I is just catching up.

That Pulse Rifle is shit, no ammo counter on the side. Instant fail :P My pulse rifle's ammo counter actually works.

So does his.

[edit]I'd also debate the fact that yours works - I mean - does it actually count ammo? I suspect not.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:47 ]
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New sig!
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:50 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.

ah, nerd snobbery.
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:50 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Craster wrote:
How did you end up being the least tech-savvy person I know, including my wife?
You know who owns TUAW, don't you?


Yes - that's entirely irrelevant though. Their abilities as a media conglomerate have nothing to do with their image as an ISP.
Author:  TheVision [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:51 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.

ah, nerd snobbery.


TBH this happens a lot with email addresses. I always mock my friend for using Hotmail over Gmail.
Author:  devilman [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:51 ]
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Just taken a call from one of our external consultants. His wife has bought him some flight simulator software and a joystick and was phoning for help in installing it on his company laptop.

I don't know why we bother with an IT policy. No-one reads the thing.
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:53 ]
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devilman wrote:
Just taken a call from one of our external consultants. His wife has bought him some flight simulator software and a joystick and was phoning for help in installing it on his company laptop.

I don't know why we bother with an IT policy. No-one reads the thing.


On the plus side, it's ammunition of you need to dispose of him through misconduct.
Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:54 ]
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AOL is synonymous with beginners and silver surfers. Remember the CDs that used to drop out of every newspaper or magazine in the mid 90s? They forced their users to use a crappy, fisher price browser, snubbed search engines for a walled garden approach to the net and pretty much noddyfied the whole experience.

Us cool kids were all on freeserve with clara.net subs back in the day.
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:55 ]
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Cool kids were dialling into each other's computers with 28.8 modems to play Co-op Doom.
Author:  Malabelm [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:55 ]
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I was on IC24 using my friend's login details. I had free Internet after 7pm but had to redial every hour or something daft.

Ah, the past.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:56 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.

ah, nerd snobbery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol#Controversies

But it's more of that. It's the joke of all the Internet Providers, used pretty much by people who have no clue about the Internet or computers.

You have, what, 19,000 posts on an Internet forum in less than three years - how can you not know about this?

If someone applied for work here with an AOL email address, I wouldn't even bother opening their CV. Seriously.
Author:  kalmar [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:56 ]
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AOL Broadband was actually pretty decent until Carphone Warehouse or TalkTalk bought it and knacked it up.
I'm actually transferring from them today, after quite a few years.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:56 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Cool kids were dialling into each other's computers with 28.8 modems to play Co-op Doom.

I did that too, see.
Author:  kalmar [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:56 ]
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Malabar Front wrote:
Ah, the past.



LOL.
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:58 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Cool kids were dialling into each other's computers with 28.8 modems to play Co-op Doom.

I did that too, see.


Shit, and I do own 3 cardigans and a model aeroplane.
Author:  Malabelm [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:59 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Shit, and I do own 3 cardigans and a model aeroplane.


And the lawyer thing, and being regular handsome.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:00 ]
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Malabar Front wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Shit, and I do own 3 cardigans and a model aeroplane.


And the lawyer thing, and being regular handsome.

And they both expressed interest in driving my Tomcat (MaliA did, of course - Mr Kissy seems to have forgotten).
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:00 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.

ah, nerd snobbery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol#Controversies

But it's more of that. It's the joke of all the Internet Providers, used pretty much by people who have no clue about the Internet or computers.

You have, what, 19,000 posts on an Internet forum in less than three years - how can you not know about this?


It's never come up?

As I said, I've used an address on the AOL account as it's free (it's my dad's, he's had it for, christ, 15 years) and it's a "clean" address that I can remember the login details for. I haven't even bothered with our BT account as the interface is fucking hateful.

I've got about half a dozen hotmail and gmail accounts, but I can't remember any of them.

Quote:
If someone applied for work here with an AOL email address, I wouldn't even bother opening their CV. Seriously.


Fair enough - but I'm not an IT bod, see.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:01 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Malabar Front wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Shit, and I do own 3 cardigans and a model aeroplane.


And the lawyer thing, and being regular handsome.

And they both expressed interest in driving my Tomcat (MaliA did, of course - Mr Kissy seems to have forgotten).

Christ, I have, yes. 10 October, wasn't it?
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:02 ]
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Quote:
Fair enough - but I'm not an IT bod, see.


Doesn't matter. It's an association that's filtered into the general consciousness.

Get a gmail address and use that and that alone.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:03 ]
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Craster wrote:
Doesn't matter. It's an association that's filtered into the general consciousness.

If by "general consciousness" you mean "general consciousness of nerds", yes.

Has gmail stopped being crap, then?
Author:  Zio [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:04 ]
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Malabar Front wrote:
I was on IC24 using my friend's login details. I had free Internet after 7pm but had to redial every hour or something daft.

Ah, the past.


Heh... my first ISP was Nildram. I didn't have an account with them, just one of my more foolish mates had let slip what his username and password were.
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:04 ]
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It was always the best of the webmail offerings.

Apart from occasionally being offline - but then that really would never matter to a home user.
Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:05 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September is the root of the AOL mockery.

ah, nerd snobbery.


TBH this happens a lot with email addresses. I always mock my friend for using Hotmail over Gmail.


I use hotmail :(
Author:  TheVision [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:06 ]
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Craster wrote:
Quote:
Fair enough - but I'm not an IT bod, see.


Doesn't matter. It's an association that's filtered into the general consciousness.

Get a gmail address and use that and that alone.


Excellent! I've just set up Pikeybadboy"at"gmail.com.

Get that on my CV and watch the job offers come rolling in!
Author:  kalmar [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:09 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Has gmail stopped being crap, then?


It's never been crap, you wrongmerchant!
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:10 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Malabar Front wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Shit, and I do own 3 cardigans and a model aeroplane.


And the lawyer thing, and being regular handsome.

And they both expressed interest in driving my Tomcat (MaliA did, of course - Mr Kissy seems to have forgotten).


I'm Phil to Kissyfur's Gary.

Great.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:11 ]
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kalmar wrote:
Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Has gmail stopped being crap, then?


It's never been crap, you wrongmerchant!

Wasn't there a big huff about it when it was set up, with all the context senstiive advertising based on your email contents? Or was that only in the beta or only just a mooted plan? Or something?
Author:  Cras [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 16:11 ]
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kalmar wrote:
It's never been crap, you wrongmerchant!


It did have a period of being regularly....off.
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