Be Excellent To Each Other

I just assume everyone is excellent until proven otherwise.

Makes me quite poor at the game of 'Mafia' though.

"sinisteragent's friend" would probably have been sufficient to uniquely identify you.

I have heard he is a massive twat. True?

I'll fight for your hand, mortal kombat style.

LESBIAN NINJAS



probably. i just like being special, apparently.

John Cauldwell is the one who owns it, it's his bro Brian who I've met. But if Brian is anything to judge by, yes, he is a massive twat. loud and arrogant and pushy.

Or geese.

I have heard he is a massive twat. True?[/quote]
ComicalGnomes is the brother of the man who owns phones4u?

A real-life friend of sinister agent might not with to give themself such a lofty status, or imply he only has the one, perhaps?

Aha! Interesting perspective. I was just about to say that putting it like that is a confirmation and boost to sinister agent's status, given that the concept of having a lesbian 17 year old friend is agreed to be a good one.

I never even considered the possibility of having several at once. But I have now. Fnarr.

Mutated Budgies with a yearing to swim.

Hang on, multiple friends? What lunatic extravagance is this?

This is the thread that keeps on giving.

Absolutely, like I say obviously you were excluded from the point in the other thread (which was mostly about girls joining games forums and doing the very sad "Hey look I'm a girl, I bet I'm the only one on here. Girl!" thing, usually following it up about a week later with a whine about being treated differently/not being take seriously.) In your case it was indeed relevent.

Purple hair is probably a very good thing




Oh it is, or rather as interesting as the first 2 bits of information we had. Each of those things is, to me, as much or more a part of you than the sexuality thing, especially on this medium. In future each of them is likely to make more difference to any of the great conversations I'm sure you'll have with all of us than that will, and considerably more likely to cause a blazing row than the sexuality ever will on here. Brown? Seriously? Is it just because it's difficult to hate a puppy getting constantly kicked in the face, even if that puppy is a large faced lardass scottish twat?

And hey I've got nowhere to stand on the sports issue, I was in the school netball team when I was 10.

You need to get used to the fact that one day you're going to have to quit the team, Duds.

Probably, these days they're all taller than me.

Dudley playing sports. Yesterday.

Man, there's an image I haven't seen for a few years. As the littler one appears to have "I AM TEA" written on his chest, I'd hope the other has "I R COFFEE" on his. "I B HOT CHOCOLATE" as the ref, obv. *insert Errol Brown picture here*

I'm struggling to see the difference, to be honest.

I have to echo this sentiment.

And I'd like to stress and reconfirm, just for the record, that Gordon Brown is, at best, a deluded arsehole, not least for the fact that's he's making me want a Tory government. And that's just fucking wrong.

EDIT: And a third here for the penguins, obv.

Couple of things for obvious.

1)It's the only salient fact we had about the gal, and it was the central reason for the unravelling sequence of events that caused her to end up here.

2) Her nickname is not "QueenLesbos" or somesuch, on RG we literally had a "Video gamer girl" and a "Retogrl" as if that's the only thing remotely interesting about them. In reality, it pretty much is, one barely posts now they can't attention whore and the 2nd constantly just asks the segment of the forum that's no idea what a woman is to do her homework for her.

There are two refs in basketball* </pedantic>

*Yes, even midget basketball

wait.. uh, can I change my username?

Quiet you.

I want to be a Sapphic Princess ):

And his mate "I P BOVRIL"

I imagine a lot of the men on this forum want you to be one as well, if that's any motivation.

this signals the time for me to shut up, don a moustache, and pretend to be called Chuck.

I'm sure a lot of the men would like that too..

Hi btw.

Malc

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When they say "The train now arriving at platform 1 is your district line service to Ealing Broadway."

For that you need to be listening...

Malc

If nobody on the platform is listening, is the announcement still made?

Do you have to be listening to hear something?

I'm not listening to the "it". I am hearing other local noise sources.

I always though hearing was passive, and listening was active, if you see what I mean.

I am inclinded to agree with you. The brain can filter out background noise very well, as long as you know what you should be listening for. For example, I can hear the aircon buzzing behind me, but I can listen to the conversation going on on the other side of the lab at normal talking volume.

EDIT: You do the same thing with sight as well.

Yes, but you can certainly hear things that you are not listening to/for if they are intrusive enough. If you are talking and filtering out the noise of traffic through the window, you can cease to hear the cars, but if one of those cars backfires then although you were not listening for it you still hear it.

If the subject of that clip had been more intrusive then you couldn't help but see it.

You can train your brain to filter out stronger and stronger distractions as part of meditation. Apparently you can practice mediation to the pint that you can block out the noise of a train arriving whilst you are sitting at a platform. Which is a bugger if it makes you miss your train

Or, if you're unlucky, you're like me, and find it almost impossible to properly filter noise. If I'm in a room with a bunch of people talking, I often have to listen very intently and partially lip-read to hear what's being said. And my most recent hearing test a few months back was well above average, too.

I have this! Aw man, I thought I was alone If I have loads of people talking around me, I can't filter out their conversations to have one of my own.

Isn't that one of those "it's a sign of autism" things which is almost certainly rubbish?

I read a great research paper once. Someone rigged up an audio version of the datacentre traffic, mapping traffic types to jungle sounds. A SQL request going into the server may be a parrot calling, overall bandwidth usage a distant waterfall (traffic=volume), port scans from outside the network were a monkey calling, and so on. His theory, which the results in the paper validated, was that over time you begin to ignore all the normal sounds but start to spot odd patterns in the sound, e.g. lots of monkeys calling indicated a potential network intrusion. Apparantly the system worked quite well. This is, of course, the same instinct that meant our ancestors could live in noisy environments and not get eaten by critters.

I thought this was fascinating, and a reminder to those working in IT that you still have to accomodate the animal parts of the human when desigining interfaces.

So all of it, then.

Probably. With me, I suspect it's down to having monster tinnitus. I have several different ringing noises in each ear, and if I eat dairy—or sometimes just at random—I also get a rapidly repeating bassy rumbling noise, like a car turning over, which drives me nuts when I'm trying to sleep. Sometimes, I also get a 'booming' echo over the top of that lot, too. The cliché is that silence is golden, and what I'd give to be able to hear silence (or close to it) for even a short while.

Anyway, the upshot is that th noises inside my ears can distract from those outside, although largely in a subconscious manner (I'm currently quite lucky as far as tinnitus goes—some sufferers have noises they say are about as loud as a passenger jet taking off.) And Dimrill, I know quite a few people who have this problem, so you're definitely not alone!

Some of us have civilised bits too.

So do most other animals, in their own way. I AM PEDANTIC ANIMAL!

Fixed.

That's fascinating. Is the paper online anywhere?

I've only had a brief look but can't find it, but I'm about to go home.

However, this is interesting:

Fatal accidents due to train surfing in Berlin.
Strauch H, Wirth I, Geserick G.

Institute of Legal Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Not that I can find. I am racking my brains trying to figure out where I read this. I either read the paper itself sometime during my PhD I reckon -- we would regularly circulate unusual or amusing papers -- or (probably more likely) I never read the paper itself but just a summary in the New Scientist somewhere.

I've done some googling but to no avail so far.

Damn straight!
Geese are a bitch to fit in a luchbox and dont have jokes printed on their wrappers...