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    #3332
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    ninja900 wrote: »
    Ah c'mon Banna, it doesn't take a vivid imagination to conjure up a situation where one would rather one's search terms/browser history/etc. would rather remain private!

    Such as buying a present :)

    This is true. I myself am in serious present buying avoidance mode.


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    #3333
    sephir0th
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭sephir0th


    Sarky wrote: »
    You mean the higher class of Boards users? Why yes I am!

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8kIuSigLPTE9NsyQFGMCWmYg0cNwmw7PITb_tTzmZAxqXDV9BuKR-WKyJBA

    super-computer-nerd.jpeg


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    #3334
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    ninja900 wrote: »
    Maybe we should start a 'Pics of A&A posters holding random objects in front of their screen while browsing A&A' thread :)
    Great idea! Check out my new mouse.

    mouse1.jpg
    The dodgy tabs are on purpose!


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    #3335
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,293 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Liamario wrote: »
    Seems to have been deleted. Censorship at it best. Nothing I said was offensive.
    no, you just decided to pick on your point in a series of comments commiserating on a story about a second teenage suicide. the best place to raise this issue is somewhere you're *not* poking at other people's well wishes.


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    #3336
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    I think my cock may be Gay.


    Aw feck- I have forgotten how to do this so pic shows in post...


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    #3337
    postitnote
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭postitnote


    You cheat at scrabble you cheater!!!!!
    Link to scrabble word finder indeed!


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    #3338
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    And here I was closing down my extra tabs because I thought giant robots and zombies would label me as some sort of freak...


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    #3339
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    postitnote wrote: »
    You cheat at scrabble you cheater!!!!!
    Link to scrabble word finder indeed!

    Yet I still lose :(.


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    #3340
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    232738.jpg


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    #3341
    swampgas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,535 ✭✭✭swampgas


    sephir0th wrote: »
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8kIuSigLPTE9NsyQFGMCWmYg0cNwmw7PITb_tTzmZAxqXDV9BuKR-WKyJBA

    super-computer-nerd.jpeg

    leet++ ??? (I really must find some new jokes. )

    I was at the market and some bloke tried to sell me 8 legs of venison for €100. I said no, that's too dear.

    Ba-dum-tish.


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    #3342
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    No, it's Leet+.

    Where leet people can come together to mock everyone else who thinks they're leet, but are not because they disagree on some points with well-reasoned arguments so of course they're trolling and probably rapists.


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    #3343
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    robindch wrote: »
    232738.jpg

    To Infinity and Beyond!
    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/431221/232739.JPG


    How do I make it show in post :(?


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    #3344
    Liamario
    Registered Users Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭Liamario


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    To Infinity and Beyond!



    How do I make it show in post :(?

    Click the attachment on your post and then copy the url of the attachment and put it in these tags [IMG][/IMG]

    The image is a little big though.


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    #3345
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Liamario wrote: »
    Click the attachment on your post and then copy the url of the attachment and put it in these tags [IMG][/IMG]

    The image is a little big though.

    See what you mean - sooo...how do I make image smaller? :o:o:o


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    #3346
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    How do I make it show in post?
    When you've attached a file to the post as you're doing already, you need to right-click on the link, select "Copy link address" (or the equivalent in the browser you're using), then either click on the picture icon and paste in the link and press <Enter>, or just paste the link directly into the message between a pair of and tags. You should probably also resize the image as your Fuji camera is producing ginormous images - if you don't want to bother doing this using MSPaint which comes with Windows, then try something like the Web Resizer here.

    232740.JPG


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    #3347
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    ^^
    Thank you Robin.

    Well - I managed to kill that joke stone dead. :rolleyes:


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    #3348
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ninja900 wrote: »
    People who value their online privacy certainly shouldn't use Chrome.

    I use Opera and lock it down as far as possible :p

    The idea of signing into a browser on multiple devices and my browsing history being conveniently stored in the cloud really unnerves me.


    Just out of interest, is anyone else still using the old boards layout? I hate that 16:9 seems to be the default for computer screens these days and the hanging headers that are all the rage now make browsing feel like looking through a letterbox.


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    #3349
    General Relativity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭General Relativity


    Dades wrote: »
    Great idea! Check out my new mouse.

    mouse1.jpg
    The dodgy tabs are on purpose!

    Sexy Christains
    How to make your own hijab


    Edit: Foiled by white text.


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    #3350
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    General Relativity wrote: »
    Edit: Foiled by white text.
    Heh. I had to include that in case nobody believed they were on purpose. :p


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    #3351
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Sarky wrote: »
    No, it's Leet+.

    Where leet people can come together to mock everyone else who thinks they're leet, but are not because they disagree on some points with well-reasoned arguments so of course they're trolling and probably rapists.
    Leet++

    And you call yourself a scientist...


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    #3352
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    No, other people call me a scientist. I go along with it in case they stop paying me >_>


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    #3353
    sephir0th
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭sephir0th


    Sarky wrote: »
    No, other people call me a scientist. I go along with it in case they stop paying me >_>

    So you're basically the opposite of JC


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    #3354
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Nor completely :) :eek: :p :pac: :) :cool:


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    #3355
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    sephir0th wrote: »
    So you're basically the opposite of JC

    I think J C considers himself a "scientist" because he did some dodgy course on the Internet that sent him out a certificate that "qualifies" him as a scientist.

    I have many things to say about him which would probably get me banned.


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    #3356
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just out of interest, is anyone else still using the old boards layout? I hate that 16:9 seems to be the default for computer screens these days and the hanging headers that are all the rage now make browsing feel like looking through a letterbox.

    Yeah, me. At least they changed the new one (I never sign into boards at work, but have a look at weather forecasts threads etc. sometimes, so see the new theme then) so that the stupid floating header goes away if you make the window narrower than 1024 pixels.

    Reading text that goes all or most of the way across the screen is just wrong, WRONG I tell you. Newspapers use columns for a reason. It makes text much more readable. Well designed websites don't just allow text to flow all across the screen as the window gets wider and wider, they limit it and/or allow the user to make the window as narrow as they want without breaking the design. I prefer 800-850 px wide for normal reading on boards

    And if I'm following a match thread (on auto-reload every 1 or 2 mins) I want to be able to read unrelated threads in one browser window 750-800px wide, and still be able to see updates to the match thread in the other window.

    As you say, stuff on websites that wastes vertical space is unforgivably stupid. Most people are forced to use 16:9 or 16:10 screens these days, many laptops have only 800 vertical pixels or even fewer, so vertical space is always at a premium.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3357
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    232787.JPG


    Wonder how many levels of 'visual feedback loop' we can get? :pac:


    Mighty impressive cock btw Banna...


    Are you sure that's not a bong, Robin??

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3358
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    ninja900 wrote: »
    Are you sure that's not a bong, Robin??
    A bong needs an inside. That's a Klein Bottle which doesn't have one. Klein Bottles are produced by Cliff Stoll -- he of The Cuckoo's Egg fame -- and are available exclusively from here:

    http://www.kleinbottle.com/


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    #3359
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    robindch wrote: »
    A bong needs an inside. That's a Klein Bottle which doesn't have one. Klein Bottles are produced by Cliff Stoll -- he of The Cuckoo's Egg fame -- and are available exclusively from here:

    http://www.kleinbottle.com/

    Very cool! I've just bought one. Happy Christmas, me.


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    #3360
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Single-surfaced object just ordered :pac:

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #3361
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Pfft... I'll see your fancy bottle and raise you a Gömböc.:)


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