People And Names(rant)

Nietzschean · 10-01-2005 4:28pm #1

don't ye just hate that people all have different names? twould be so much handier if everyone just had the same name, ye'd never be wrong, sure ye could throw on a number at the end like ian11234 but in casual conversation u could then refer to everyone as ian. O so handy......(would avoid situations of using the wrong name n stuff, as i just did, sry david

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Shrimp · 10-01-2005 4:32pm

no, thats bad.. if someone said.. I'm gonna find where Ian112312 Lives and kill him, but who he was really looking for was Ian11312, then there'd be a problem..

hahaha... unusal topic tho..

Pet · 10-01-2005 8:51pm

don't ye just hate that people all have different names?

I know, it's so unreasonable, oh my GAWD..

I feel your pain though, I'm atrocious with names too

Shrimp · 10-01-2005 8:57pm

My names very different, suppose you'd hate that, I'm so sorry guys, focking shame...

Kevin_rc_ie · 10-01-2005 10:06pm

my name is actually frank. muhahhahah. fooled yas

10-01-2005 10:12pm

You could just call everyone Dave.

ApeXaviour · 10-01-2005 11:08pm

I'm notoriously bad with names. First day of term today and I forgot the name of a load of people in my course (there's only like 15 of them). There's one chap I kept calling George even though his name is really brian. They're

Somebody informed me of this of recent. Not so bad 'cept they did it infront of everybody.

elivsvonchiaing · 10-01-2005 11:14pm

When I first arrived in college, was asked "any relation?" <someone more famous than me who went there> Also worked in a company where used to get emails meant for the guy that shared my name - him likewise - having a unique name would be a blessing tbh!

10-01-2005 11:19pm

Its happened plenty of times that I've been introducing one friend to another and I forget one of the names. The worst is when you're talking to someone for ages who you knew in school, and you can't think what their name is.

John · 11-01-2005 12:12am

SkyLynx wrote:

sure ye could throw on a number at the end like ian11234

That's such a stupid idea

sleepingbeauty · 11-01-2005 9:47pm

Myth wrote:

The worst is when you're talking to someone for ages who you knew in school, and you can't think what their name is.

thats happened to me before...i managed to get through the conversation without mentioning their name though thank god. if i was with someone else though and had to introduce them- :eek: actually come to think of it cant remember their name again....

yup im also bad with names...i dont necessarily forget them but mix them up with someone elses (i.e call person A person B's name and vice versa)- tad annoying at times!

and ian, wouldnt the world be really boring if everyone had the same name?! i for one like to be different

arbeitsscheuer · 12-01-2005 11:57am

yeah, I have a nightmare putting names to faces

... I usually just say "mate" if it's a bloke, and "darlin" or "gorgeous" if it's a girl... I'm from South London so nobody bats an eyelid...

Havin' a unique name's ok, except it means that everyone remembers your name, while u can't remember their's.. Dammit!

Nietzschean · 12-01-2005 12:32pm

blankcanvas wrote:

and ian, wouldnt the world be really boring if everyone had the same name?! i for one like to be different

well you could have ian<unique number here> so u get to be unique n i stilll don't need to do any think'n

thats happened to me before...i managed to get through the conversation without mentioning their name though thank god. if i was with someone else though and had to introduce them- actually come to think of it cant remember their name again....

Only once? lucky u, i end up doing it all the time

no, thats bad.. if someone said.. I'm gonna find where Ian112312 Lives and kill him, but who he was really looking for was Ian11312, then there'd be a problem..

though you could just say the same about normal names tho, there is alot of people called 'dave'...

My names very different, suppose you'd hate that, I'm so sorry guys, focking shame...

Just makes em easier to remember...

Chick · 12-01-2005 3:51pm

blankcanvas wrote:

i for one like to be different

Yeah! Like where's the indiviuality if were all called the same thing. How fcuking stupid :rolleyes:

PrecariousNuts · 13-01-2005 7:09pm

Hey Ian is there a graphical kind of PuTTY way ala Remote Desktop or VNC to log onto the maths servers from home? I'd like to be able to use the likes of xdvi etc.

sleepingbeauty · 13-01-2005 7:30pm

Hey Ian is there a graphical kind of PuTTY way ala Remote Desktop or VNC to log onto the maths servers from home? I'd like to be able to use the likes of xdvi etc.

that entire post just went right over my head

:rolleyes: so many things ive never heard of before!!

Nietzschean · 13-01-2005 7:35pm

PrecariousNuts wrote:

Hey Ian is there a graphical kind of PuTTY way ala Remote Desktop or VNC to log onto the maths servers from home? I'd like to be able to use the likes of xdvi etc.

what you want is a local X11 server, hummingbird/winaXe provide this, so you can login from putty and then run the apps and they will appear locally.

Sophie wrote:

that entire post just went right over my head so many things ive never heard of before!!

ah thats ok, aslong as ur good at the housework/cooking

Nietzschean · 13-01-2005 7:36pm

and what u doing in col so late? its like half 7 n ur a 2nd yr...

Pet · 13-01-2005 7:57pm

ah thats ok, aslong as ur good at the housework/cooking

Hehe, you're so gonna get your ass kicked for that.

Jim · 13-01-2005 8:10pm

SkyLynx wrote:

ah thats ok, aslong as ur good at the housework/cooking

Fly the flag good Skylynx.

Kevin_rc_ie · 14-01-2005 8:23am

continuing along the line that ian is the guru of all things tech......how do you connect to msn messenger from within college. webmessenger.msn.com no longer works. windows messenger doesnt launch on anything other than macs. i'd use psi with netsoc jabber a/c but i cant install it or it's equivalent on college pcs. i'm certain there's a text based command line type thing i can use to connect to msn thru netsoc or maths but i cant find it. i'd rather not use the thing u told precarious because it probably won't install on a college pc. any ideas ?

Agent Smith · 14-01-2005 8:28am

webmessenger's gone?

ahh for feck sake

looks like its back to spying on the nurses, how else am i ment to keep myself entertained?

sleepingbeauty · 14-01-2005 8:38am

SkyLynx wrote:

ah thats ok, aslong as ur good at the housework/cooking

Pet wrote:

Hehe, you're so gonna get your ass kicked for that.

damn right he's gonna get his ass kicked :mad: *insert rant* (its too early to be thinking of a comeback :rolleyes: )
oh and fyi i hate housework, and ive got to be one of the worlds worse cooks, and im pretty damn proud of it!!

Ian wrote:

and what u doing in col so late? its like half 7 n ur a 2nd yr...

course i wasnt at college at 7 at night, thats just wrong..i was elsewhere (i.e. at home!) ... oh and in case you start talking bout what am i doing in college so early, i have a lecture at 9 and had to do some stuff on the comps first- i have like 4 9am starts this term, its inhumane

Agent Smith · 14-01-2005 8:43am

9am lectures? nasty

Evilution · 14-01-2005 8:54am

agent smith wrote:

9am lectures? nasty

Jaysus, I haven't had one of those in a year or two.

Agent Smith · 14-01-2005 8:58am

i have only ever had one, where my lecturer was away and we were in with the Deaf class, lingustics lectures in ISL are VERY VERY hard to understand,
hell lingustics lectures in english are hard enough

ApeXaviour · 14-01-2005 9:04am

You people are all up too early..

I'm supposed to be in my lab now. Instead I'm in Lucan. Think I better go in soon..

Evilution · 14-01-2005 9:05am

ApeXaviour wrote:

You people are all up too early..

I'm supposed to be in my lab now. Instead I'm in Lucan. Think I better go in soon..

Currently sitting in the computer labs in Aras an Phiarsaigh, willing myself to finish off a political psychology essay. Its not a good day, but it will be after 12 when I hand the shagging thing up.
At least its friday

Evilution · 14-01-2005 9:29am

Evilution wrote:

Currently sitting in the computer labs in Aras an Phiarsaigh, willing myself to finish off a political psychology essay. Its not a good day, but it will be after 12 when I hand the shagging thing up.
At least its friday

Fukkin' brainstorn lads, I'm on the muthafukka now

Should have this done by 11.

Nietzschean · 14-01-2005 9:30am

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

continuing along the line that ian is the guru of all things tech......how do you connect to msn messenger from within college. webmessenger.msn.com no longer works. windows messenger doesnt launch on anything other than macs. i'd use psi with netsoc jabber a/c but i cant install it or it's equivalent on college pcs. i'm certain there's a text based command line type thing i can use to connect to msn thru netsoc or maths but i cant find it. i'd rather not use the thing u told precarious because it probably won't install on a college pc. any ideas ?

hrmm well if you drag your ass up to the maths computers u can run amsn up there for it.
as for a console version, i don't need one myself but u could setup
http://www.geocities.com/montajoe/gtmess/
on your maths account and run it from a ssh session.

Nietzschean · 14-01-2005 9:32am

blankcanvas wrote:

damn right he's gonna get his ass kicked :mad: *insert rant* (its too early to be thinking of a comeback :rolleyes: )

Sure sure, you love it really though

oh and fyi i hate housework, and ive got to be one of the worlds worse cooks, and im pretty damn proud of it!!

I never said u hadda like housework, just be good at it

, and well plenty of time to be improving ur cooking yet...........

course i wasnt at college at 7 at night, thats just wrong..i was elsewhere (i.e. at home!) ...

well thats good to here, tho i myself was in college till about half 10 or 11....the joy's of 3rd year....

oh and in case you start talking bout what am i doing in college so early, i have a lecture at 9 and had to do some stuff on the comps first- i have like 4 9am starts this term, its inhumane

I just fell outa bed so i really wasn't planning on asking.....

Agent Smith · 14-01-2005 9:36am

i just cant be bothered going to college today, tbh

PrecariousNuts · 14-01-2005 10:04am

winAxe / hummingbird seem to want me to pay for them, thats not what I had in mind. Are there any free ones? I'm going to try this one http://www.starnet.com/ but I'm not sure if it will be any good but at least it has a trial

Nietzschean · 14-01-2005 10:20am

PrecariousNuts wrote:

winAxe / hummingbird seem to want me to pay for them, thats not what I had in mind. Are there any free ones? I'm going to try this one http://www.starnet.com/ but I'm not sure if it will be any good but at least it has a trial

winaxe has a 30 day trial which u could 'extend' somehow....

anyway if all else fails u can just vnc in, preferably via an ssh tunnel for compression/encryption.
(done by running vncserver via an ssh session, it will tell u what session number something like :2 or that then add that number to 5900 and then port forward to that port n use a vncviewer to connect to it www.realvnc.com )

14-01-2005 12:27pm

Or you can log into your netsoc a/c, open Hummingbird (aka Exceed - have a look in the program files) - then type "gaim" into netsoc.

Apparently you aren't meant to do this too often.

Another way would be to use http://www.e-messenger.net/ - I was getting sick of webmessenger.com anyways, for some reason every time someone replied, windows media opened up. Kept happening, drove me mad...

Oh that reminds me, my amsn isn't working...

Kevin_rc_ie · 14-01-2005 1:10pm

Ok thanks guys. myth that was bang on advice much handier solution.

Nietzschean · 14-01-2005 6:28pm

Myth wrote:

Oh that reminds me, my amsn isn't working...

You whine, you bitch , you moan, but when i actually go have a look it works fine. :rolleyes:

Kevin_rc_ie · 14-01-2005 6:46pm

in case anyone cares, which i doubt, i actually went all the way to the maths room (full of geeks) and used gaim from netsoc which worked well. my quest is complete. why i want to use messenger while in college is an all together different depressing story.

on another note, Agent Smith, is there still a society in college which gives free or cheaper sign language lessons or something similar?

Agent Smith · 14-01-2005 7:33pm

the sign language soc.....

Kevin_rc_ie · 14-01-2005 7:38pm

oh.

sleepingbeauty · 14-01-2005 9:04pm

SkyLynx wrote:

Sure sure, you love it really though

I never said u hadda like housework, just be good at it , and well plenty of time to be improving ur cooking yet...........

ugh men :mad: :rolleyes:

Nietzschean · 14-01-2005 9:06pm

blankcanvas wrote:

ugh men :mad: :rolleyes:

14-01-2005 9:28pm

SkyLynx wrote:

You whine, you bitch , you moan, but when i actually go have a look it works fine. :rolleyes:

Meh, it always doesn't work until you have to show it to someone*

no inneundo within this phrase

yawnstretch · 15-01-2005 11:52pm

I never forget faces even over decades but names are a pain.

My solution? Relevant Nicknames describing a feature of the person. Maybe unpleasant nicknames arent allowed... or something

And he said:
IT SHALL BE! Henceforth I shall be known as yawnstretch to ALL! (Or maybe hunkasaurus Rex?)

Evilution · 16-01-2005 2:14am

yawnstretch wrote:

I never forget faces even over decades but names are a pain.
My solution? Relevant Nicknames describing a feature of the person. Maybe unpleasant nicknames arent allowed... or something

Yeah, good in theory until one day an old friend from 10 years ago comes up to you and the first words out of your mouth are "jaysus, arsebandit, long time no see".

16-01-2005 12:49pm

Or Father Fluffy Bottom...

Crash · 16-01-2005 1:29pm

Fluffylip is one of the lads in my year. no idea of his real name. should really check that out.

Chick · 16-01-2005 3:00pm

agent smith wrote:

looks like its back to spying on the nurses, how else am i ment to keep myself entertained?

Oh get a real hobby!! :rolleyes:

Nietzschean · 16-01-2005 3:32pm

Chick wrote:

Oh get a real hobby!! :rolleyes:

eh thats not a bad one at all at all, though usually things go better if one talks to women instead of spying on them...but thats just my opinion...

Chick · 16-01-2005 3:33pm

SkyLynx wrote:

eh thats not a bad one at all at all

It's not even a hobby at all!!!

Shrimp · 16-01-2005 3:36pm

it's a fetish.. not a hobby..

People And Names(rant)

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