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I Just Couldn't Keep A Straight Face Due To The Technology Conspiracy...

  • 11-09-2006 8:58pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭


    Right as some of you may or may not know, I work in retail and today I reckon had to be the funniest day I've ever had in my 4 years. I was working in college green when an austrailian/kiwi woman in her thirties came in and asked me if there was anywhere she could view loose film, eg from a videotape, reel to reel etc, and have someone look at it or transfer it to another media.
    I told here there was nowhere that I could think of, off the top of my head, but that I was sure there was. I suggested that perhaps she could get in contact with RTE as they might have experiance with old or damaged reels. This is when it all started.

    She told me she couldn't do that as they were the 'worst offenders', that they were in on the conspiracy. She told me in 15 years she hasn't found anyone willing to help her as they all know she is onto them and out to expose what she know's. I mentioned that was rather unfortunate and that perhaps she could visit a university and speak to someone there. Seemingly everyone in universities is in on the global technology conspiracy and she's been there and done that and they are unwilling to 'help her'.

    Basically it seems that there is a technology conspiracy and all this wonderful technology is being used against us to keep awful truths hidden from us. It seems it's all being tracked from bases in the states and the UK and they know every small detail about us. I was informed that they've been tracking her for the last seven years. Also I was rather fortunate to have met her as she has all the proof we could need in the bags and bags of film that she has, but she is unable to view this and have it put on another medium as the greater powers have influence over the people who could help her. Seemingly all the evidence of women and children being kept in underground bases was on her person, though I was unfortunate not to view it myself.

    The blaxtard that I was working with scarpered as soon as she asked me my opinion on things as he knew he was going to be asked next. G'ss I can tell you I had the hardest time keeing a straight face. I don't think I have ever bitten the sides of my mouth so hard. She was so serious and reasonable I was waiting for her to tell me I was on a hidden camera show.

    Anywho, I just had to share that with you. She was nuts and it was a tough job to keep a straight face. Damn tough.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Ah wheres tunaman when you need him. :) You should have went along with old dear and sold her a tinfoil hat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭bluedolphin


    that's so cool. well, it must have made your day anyway :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    But was she hot?

    Ive come to the conclusion (particularly after footage of this summers world cup celebrations) that the only ugly fairly young woman in Aussie history is Kylie Minogue, and the rest are absoloute princesses. It seems that whilst our present female skanger breed are prone to being fat, having a bad taste in fashion and talking sh1te (generally, sure there is the odd stunning skangbag, but tbh its 90% warrayableedinsayinoilkillyisall), the thieves we and the UK deported in the 1800s had the healthiest best looking genes in the isles :(

    Damn brits, if it wasnt for them 90% of skanger bitches would be stunning :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Dampsquid


    Sounds like one of those candid camera setups.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    I want whatever she is smokin!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    I'm afraid she wasn't even remotely good looking. I'm fairly sure she was even sporting a little moustache and beard too. I didn't look too intently though, I was trying not to make eye contact as I was obviously on the brink of laughing hystericaly at her.

    Yeah I was wondering was it a candid camera setup, but I couldn't see anywhere that she could have been filming, either from outside or from on her person.

    It was just nuts, she was coming out with some incredible stuff and she was so serious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Dampsquid wrote:
    Sounds like one of those candid camera setups.

    Very 'Naked Camera' alright, that was my first impression.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Dampsquid wrote:
    Sounds like one of those candid camera setups.

    I reckon so, are you sure you didn't hear.."You've just been caught on..."? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,186 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Why did you bother trying to keep a straight face? Surely she was was only keeping you from working?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭ThrownAway


    Ruu wrote:
    Ah wheres tunaman when you need him. :)
    I miss that guys strange pms with conspiracy videos :(


    That is very weird....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Ruu wrote:
    I reckon so, are you sure you didn't hear.."You've just been caught on..."? :)

    Indeed I am Sir. I was certain for a while that she was going to come out and say this, but it just never happened. She was just completely nuts.
    Sangre wrote:
    Why did you bother trying to keep a straight face? Surely she was was only keeping you from working?

    Well now that we're a 'better' nation some customers can be very difficult to deal with in retail and I didn't want to risk a complaint, even though she was nuts. Yeah I think I might have been blunt with her had there been other customers, but it was the last two hours of the day and there was no-one else in the shop, so it wasn't like I had anything else to do. But g'sss I had a good laugh out loud as soon as she was gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    eo980 wrote:
    I'm fairly sure she was even sporting a little moustache and beard too.

    Sounds like Jeremy Beadle up to his old tricks again alright.

    ==

    Surely (if she can't trust anyone) with 15 years she could have learnt how to do reel-to-reel transfer herself? :confused:

    We're through the looking glass here people!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Pigman II wrote:
    Surely (if she can't trust anyone) with 15 years she could have learnt how to do reel-to-reel transfer herself? :confused:


    Ahh but see now your thinking rationally, and I'm not sure she has thought rationally in a long time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,186 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Did she have the bag with her? I know exactly what I would have done...

    I would have hopped over whatever counter there was, grabbed the bag off her and then thrown it on the ground. Then I would have proceeded to energetically stomp up and down on it screaming 'YOU FOOL, YOU FELL RIGHT INTO OUR TRAP!!'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41 Aoide


    Or maybe.........

    she was right :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Sangre wrote:
    Did she have the bag with her?

    She did have a bag with her full of old videotape, the thing was full of it. I should have stomped Sangre. Heh, wonder what she would have said then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    Pigman II wrote:
    Sounds like Jeremy Beadle up to his old tricks again alright.


    If Jeremy Beadle jumped me post prank, id make the whole thing un-broadcastable by yelling "CHRIST, WHATS THE FCUKIN STORY WITH YOUR MAD HAND?!!!??"

    What a get out clause/claws if yiv been made a fool of on telly.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭shoutman


    eo980 I know the exact person you are talking about, she is a definite loon.
    Sometime last year I was on the top deck of the 130 heading towards clontarf, this women got on in ballybough and sat upstairs, there were some young girls 12-13 years old by my estimation sitting talking loudly as young girls do, then this women comes over and starts asking them questions thinking that they know what is happening too.... the girls are positively scared, quite funny to watch however. Anyway there was a teenage roughian sitting on the back seat of the bus (90degree scap, scanda jacket, the lot) Anyway he shouted out shut up ya freak to which she says to the girls, "see i told you they were following me" She went through the whole rigmaroll of the american and austrialan governments and all that lark.

    It was entertaining but at the same time you have to feel for the poor women.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭cooperguy


    ThrownAway wrote:
    I miss that guys strange pms with conspiracy videos :(


    That is very weird....
    I never got any PM videos I feel left out :(


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,532 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Did she ask you for the secret handshake?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    shoutman wrote:
    eo980 I know the exact person you are talking about, she is a definite loon.
    Sometime last year I was on the top deck of the 130 heading towards clontarf, this women got on in ballybough and sat upstairs, there were some young girls 12-13 years old by my estimation sitting talking loudly as young girls do, then this women comes over and starts asking them questions thinking that they know what is happening too.... the girls are positively scared, quite funny to watch however. Anyway there was a teenage roughian sitting on the back seat of the bus (90degree scap, scanda jacket, the lot) Anyway he shouted out shut up ya freak to which she says to the girls, "see i told you they were following me" She went through the whole rigmaroll of the american and austrialan governments and all that lark.

    It was entertaining but at the same time you have to feel for the poor women.

    Woo Hoo, she's gonna become a local legend, like that old lady year's ago that used to dance on o'connell street.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,186 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    eo980 wrote:
    Woo Hoo, she's gonna become a local legend, like that old lady year's ago that used to dance on o'connell street.
    She was having an epileptic fit you insenitive bastard. Someone needed to call her a doctor and all you sickos would do is throw money in the bag she dropped on the ground.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Sangre wrote:
    She was having an epileptic fit you insenitive bastard. Someone needed to call her a doctor and all you sickos would do is throw money in the bag she dropped on the ground.

    You are kidding right? I don't know if we're talking about the same person. She used to appear on O'Connell Street reguarly in the 90's and just dance away. Stupid me, I KNOW you are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭abetarrush


    Maybe u were on the new series of Naked Camera


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    abetarrush wrote:
    Maybe u were on the new series of Naked Camera

    No seemingly she's a genuine looney. She's been at it in Clontarf as well, some time back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    eo980 wrote:
    Woo Hoo, she's gonna become a local legend, like that old lady year's ago that used to dance on o'connell street.
    She's still at it, just not as frequently as she used to... I must have seen her about a month or so ago.... she used to dance at Nelson's Collumn... but they blew it up... she doesn't seem to have taken to the Spire at all though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Tha Gopher wrote:
    If Jeremy Beadle jumped me post prank, id make the whole thing un-broadcastable by yelling "CHRIST, WHATS THE FCUKIN STORY WITH YOUR MAD HAND?!!!??"

    LOL. Chris Morris (of Brasseye fame) said publically that the funniest prank Jeremy Beadle ever played was trying to shake hands with someone.

    If it was one of those prank shows, she would have said so at the end and you would have been asked to sign a release form so that they could show your mug on TV.

    She sounds like a classic psycophrenic case to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    I heard she's a member on boards, hangs out in the conspiracy forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭ArphaRima


    the only ugly fairly young woman in Aussie history is Kylie Minogue

    Jesus you obviously havent seen many aussies. There are irish criminal class butt ugly ones. And then there are delicious beach babe ones. The good looking ones obviously come from elsewhere. And despite all that the aussies are like the worst of the British and Americans combined in terms of temperament, education, and personality etc.

    Irish people are ugly because the vikings pillaged all our good looking ones and took them to Iceland. Seriously the Icelandic people celebrate this in their national museums. They came over, too any good looking birds, then raped and "married" them. It worked for them. They are a damn fine looking people. Henry street has never been the same since they pillaged.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    fluffer wrote:
    Jesus you obviously havent seen many aussies. There are irish criminal class butt ugly ones. And then there are delicious beach babe ones. The good looking ones obviously come from elsewhere. And despite all that the aussies are like the worst of the British and Americans combined in terms of temperament, education, and personality etc.

    .

    Funny... thats what I thought of the irish. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭skywalker


    eo980 wrote:
    You are kidding right? I don't know if we're talking about the same person. She used to appear on O'Connell Street reguarly in the 90's and just dance away. Stupid me, I KNOW you are.


    I saw mad Mary dancing on Grafton St last year sometime. Havent seen her since though so she musnt have taken up home there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    how do u know she wasent right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    User45701 wrote:
    how do u know she wasent right?

    Heh, a conspiracy buff eh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    skywalker wrote:
    I saw mad Mary dancing on Grafton St last year sometime. Havent seen her since though so she musnt have taken up home there.

    Would this Mad mary, by any chance, have very short white hair, and always wear crazy colourful clothes, and (I think) her real name is Anne? If so, I think I know where she's located.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Sofaspud wrote:
    Would this Mad mary, by any chance, have very short white hair, and always wear crazy colourful clothes, and (I think) her real name is Anne? If so, I think I know where she's located.


    That's the lady.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Fools, there is a conspiracy!
    The technology manufacturers are in cohorts with our governments, and are monitoring our ever cyber move and seeing what we see (monkey pr0n included monkeyfudge). That report that AOL released is just the beginning. The Illuminati allowed that to be released because they don't want everyone to know they exist, so they release the odd thing like that just to pretend that these so called "leaks" and whatnot, are just pure fluke and that conincidence is actually something.

    Just wait. Oh just wait, you'll all fall victim to this and will one day drop your guard, and then BAM! A tree the Illuminati felled will be on you, crushing your every organ, your life-blood running through the leaves on the forest floor. A deer dances merrily in a meadow, and it accidently steps on a rabbit. Killing it. The rabbits parents are upset and one volunteers to assassinate the deer.
    It loads it's PSG-1, and takes aim. The cigarette hanging from it's mouth glows angrily for a second, as the rabbit takes a deep drag.
    The smoke drifts lazily in the air, twisting and curling in the light autumn breeze. A crack rings out. The rest of the deer heard scatter, all except for one. It tries to follow, stumbling a few feet forward. Suddenly it's legs give way, and it falls slowly to the ground, blood drenching it's once fine white shimmering coat.
    It's eyes fixed on the clouds, and the blue sky. They begin to glaze over and the world turns to perpetual darkness. The deer, never again rising from Death's sleep.

    Up on the hilltop, a solemn tear falls from the rabbit's eye. It runs the length of it's cheek, and falters at it's jaw. Then, like a meteor gliding through space, it drop to the ground.
    The rabbit clicks on the safety of his rifle, slings it on his back, and slowly returns to his family.

    Far away in the forest, a deer raises it's head, and looks toward the red moon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    Rabbit with PSGs? Now there's a conspiracy!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Sofaspud wrote:
    Would this Mad mary, by any chance, have very short white hair, and always wear crazy colourful clothes, and (I think) her real name is Anne? If so, I think I know where she's located.
    used to see her in Leixlip quite a bit, but that was about 15 or 16 years ago.
    haven't seen her since then. i assumed she was dead. i don't visit Dublin all that often.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭Töpher


    The ol' Mad Mary from O'Connell St also used to be in Ringsend/Sandymount alot. Ain't seen her in years!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    I assume this is a different one to that crazy 'ol bint who used to bless each paving stone and the random passer-by on O'Connell street?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Spike wrote:
    I assume this is a different one to that crazy 'ol bint who used to bless each paving stone and the random passer-by on O'Connell street?
    yep.
    it ap[pears she gets around quite a bit too.
    someone needs to take a picture the next time they see her (god bless camera phones), post it here and see if anyone from other parts of the country recognises here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    eo980 wrote:
    Basically it seems that there is a technology conspiracy and all this wonderful technology is being used against us to keep awful truths hidden from us.

    You mean, you didn't know?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    julep wrote:
    yep.
    it ap[pears she gets around quite a bit too.
    someone needs to take a picture the next time they see her (god bless camera phones), post it here and see if anyone from other parts of the country recognises here.

    Not a bad idea. G'ss she was old in the 90's when she was a regular on O'Connell Street, she must be ancient now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    Ladies and gentlemen, I have an extremely important announcement. Mad Mary is alive and well, and frequents the K2 nightclub in Howth.

    I had no idea she was this famous, I thought she was only known in Howth.
    She dances in K2 on friday and saturday nights (she's been there pretty much every time I have), and is often danced around, as a centrepiece. I'll try to get a picture next time I see her.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    eo980 wrote:
    I was working in college green when an austrailian/kiwi woman in her thirties came in .

    would you ride her?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
    http://www.ispai.ie/dataret.htm

    if it's standard VHS you could wind it on to a casette and try it - but you'd have to make sure it's not upside down or back to front

    of course you'd need to ask her where it came form to try to ID the format used if not VHS


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Kastro


    maby she was on a life time acid comedown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    would you ride her?

    Did you read the part where I mentioned she had extensive facial hair?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Kastro


    some people are into that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
    http://www.ispai.ie/dataret.htm

    if it's standard VHS you could wind it on to a casette and try it - but you'd have to make sure it's not upside down or back to front

    of course you'd need to ask her where it came form to try to ID the format used if not VHS


    Uh huh, fair enough. But I doubt it would have made any difference to her anyway.


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