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You are an Australian. You blow up a US embassy in Iraq. Who trials/prosecutes you???

― Annabelle (bella1618), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be 'tries'. Actually, this might be one of the msot interesting threads you've started! Way to go. Now shut up. Please, for my sanity's sake.

Also, are you a friend of Bonnie's?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

bonnie who??

― Annabelle (bella1618), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

another person who tends to talk a whole lot more than they listen

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, dont kno her

― Annabelle (bella1618), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

An Aussie teenager who's been making an enormous nuisance of themselves: reviving loads of non-answered threads with the same puerile joke, then being an obnoxious little tosser on thread where people actually were having interesting discussions. This is over the last couple of days, and it's a bit of a coincidence you turning up now and starting more threads that mean very little. Get it?

Or what ipso said! Heh verbose me.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Well you're just as dull.

xpost.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wait a sec! I AM NOT bonnie! The bonnie i kno is a cow i dont kno the one ur tlking about. and i didnt kno they were old threads.

― Annabelle (bella1618), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care who you are. It's would be nice if you read the boards a bit before deciding to ask people what their favourite ice-cream flavour is. I'd imagine that there have been many threads on this very subject already, so the Search function might be useful.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I said on another thread, maybe in the light of recent events, maybe we should have some kind of admin procedure preventing new users from ASKING MULTIPLE QUESTIONS ALL IN A ROW cause this is actually starting to get a bit irritating.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, ice cream IS a pretty worthwhile topic. Revive away!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Well sorry. i'll just bugger off and leave you unsuccessful depressed adults to screw around with 'important things'. I hope u think about what u say 2 ppl in da future. and i hope some throws a super-cooled nitrogen bomb on you , therefore, causing all ur bllod to xpand and causing a haemorrhage, then u will endure the most painfull 28 seconds of your life before dying . but 10 seconds in i think i will let our a frag grenade. but i wouldn't expect a old coozer like u 2 understand infact, this is probably so over your head u would even kno what a p-90 is.

― Annabelle (bella1618), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we also have something that slaps people who are too lazy or dumb to spell properly?

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

But you're not Bonnie right?
x-post

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

― saf, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude you're confusing 'important things', which some of us do occasionally talk about, with interesting things. And being *yawn* threatened with grenades by a child on the other side of the world is not interesting in the slightest.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Keep working on that flux capacitor, Belle, I'm sure the Year 3000 will be a lot better without all us depressed adults...

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I guess the fact that she wants us all dead proves our scorn is justified. Would our blood really expand if we were hit by liquid nitrogen?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh kate you're just a depressed adult who doesn't get it!! it just goes over your head!

― BonniePinkCharlie (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Our blood would freeze instantly, so probably, yeah.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

its a bloody _pun intended_ science fact u dicksnaps.

― yes, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, our 'bllod' would freeze.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Why are Australian teenagers the dumbest?

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ach, Bonny Prince Eyebrows, Kick out old Hannover and soon we'll recover our auld libertie...

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

at least i am not american. and i dont worship them

― at least, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh great God BUSH, please rid us of the tiny Antipodean!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There is alot of american worship here it is true!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

You kno what would be interestin- if u dicksnaps answered the thread instead of saying i am a dicksnap.

― wpo, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

God, the only thing I love more than Americans is AMERICAN TEENAGERS, WOOOO!!!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe you mentioned the delightful word 'dicksnap' before anyone else!
x-post

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

We didn't call you a dicksnap.

Oh wait, you're totally a dicksnap.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i kno y ur pissed... coz ur POV

― i kno, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Is he speaking yiddish?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

She's speaking dumb mark, that's why you don't get it grandad!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Werthers Original?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh don't mind if I....damnit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I JUST SAID THAT i know why your are all pissed... it is because you are all extremly POV

― POV, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Points Of View? You'll have to do better than that, Anne Robinson.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

POV? I thought that stood for point of view, well it does here at least. Damn I'm so old & sooo not down wit tha kidz!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

POV - poverty- poor useless depressed adult.

― asd, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

so why are you hanging about since we all suck so much?

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

aaah I see now, Ipso you POV! heh heh (Ipso pls do not kill me! ;-) )

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I'm extremely pov, but i'm down with my povness

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

whats ur iq

― asd, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

strawberry flavoured

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

oops wrong thread

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

my IQ is in the negative

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

184

― Robert Buella, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, why do adults suck so hard? Always hating on my fun, stopping us from being FREE to RIDE OUR MACHINES without being HASSLED BY THE MAAAAN!!! Don't trust anyone over 30! I mean, erm, 19! Yeah!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, wait up.....

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

You're all miserable and poor cause yer GRUMPS and I'm going back in my bedroom and HOLDNIG MY BREATH until you TAKE ME SERIUSLY!!!!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you Want to be sitting on the stairs, young lady?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

YOUR STAIRS DON'T SCARE ME!!! I'M CALLING MUM!!!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

She'll just say the same thing. and I'm not going to raise my voice...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

So did ILE get mentioned in some teen mag/website in Australia or something? There must be some reason for the recent appearance of bonnie/annabelle...

Maybe they should go play around here:
this is the thread where the flaming aussie mongrels cannot stop talking to the nz sheepfuckers

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

no, Rob, all the stupid Antipodeans moved from that thread to this one over here

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And a note to the 'kids': new posters are welcome, but remember:
*THIS IS NOT A CHAT ROOM
*Limit the short-form txt-speak a bit, mmm-kay?
*Write a little more than a few words per post whenever possible
*Think of something useful to say. If not, at least try to be witty.
*Don't start threads until you have done a Search to see if your topic has been disucssed before. If it has, feel free to revive it if you have something interesting to add.
*Oh, and try not to threaten us all with death by liquid nitrogen or frag grenades. Doesn't usually go down well.

I know I don't speak for all of ILE and this sounds a bit heavy-handed, but it may be useful advice for certain recent newbies (and potentially their friends, who may be watching...)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry Rob, this isn't a shot (well it is, but just a little one) but spelling out mmmmm-kay really makes my blood boil, I don't know why I can just see a patronising smug face whenever I see it.

other than that - you're great.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I think patronising and smug is TOTALLY called for in this case!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Point taken chris. Funny, that was the only thing in my post that I felt weird typing out.

But don't worry about your blood boiling - soon annabelle will be hitting our blood (or 'bllod') with liquid nitrogen so you'll be just fine!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the internet! There are no rules. A little etiquette maybe.

And how is this not a chatroom?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Because it is a message board. Completely different structure, completely different etiquette and completely different back end. If you can't tell the difference between a message board and a chatroom, perhaps you shouldn't be on either. Grrrrr. [/pissed-off programmer]

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

LOL! BRB

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Threads start, people chat to one another and it's not a chatroom?

I'm not trying to provoke you, Kate (your psycho prefix veered me away from that), but the semantics between a message board (are the posts for information purposes?) and a chatroom are a blur.

Don't be so precious!

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

asl?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

A chatroom is by its very definition live and happening in realtime. A message board writes to a database, and the users read the messages when they access the board at their own leisure. A busy messageboard like ILX may *seem* like a chatroom because of the instantaneous nature of many concurrant users, but it is not one.

I can understand mixing up a chatroom and an instant messager or something, but mixing up a chatroom and messageboard is like confusing the wall of a bathroom stall for your mobile phone.

The terminology may not be clear, with regards to internet technology, but they are very separate entities, with very different uses and techniques. This is part of the very basic atmosphere of a web community which a person *should* bother learning before participating.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the difference is i can pull on chatrooms

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

::resists obviously set up joke::

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

any h0nry layd33z wann c hat PM me!!!!!

― HNG (daveb), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The terminology may not be clear, with regards to internet technology, but they are very separate entities, with very different uses and techniques

and most importantly cultures.

― David_X (David_X), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that's me told.

I agree with you partially (the technical aspects of the constitution of both chatroom and messageboard are beyond me), although your middle paragraph analogy is too obtuse.

I disagree with you final sentence, however. I don't like the way some people treat new posters. If a load of teenagers log on and the tangent of the threads shifts or the nature of discussion careers off in a direction that isn't to your liking, leave them be.

If they find this isn't for them, they'll go. It's not as if there are finite threads. You have the ability to start your own.

There is no basic atmosphere to learn before you post, just as I said a few posts back, etiquette. And that etiquette isn't cast in stone.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

::forty thousand links to boring arguments about the nature of ILX to thread to spare this from going any further::

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

People are often referring to 'that chatroom you go to'. I think they must assume I am going 'lol ru gay wtf?' and trying to pick up kids for sex. I sometimes bother to point out it's not a chatroom but not very often.

In answer to the original question, I assume the Americans do, seeing as they're in control of Iraq at the moment.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a kind of stigma attached to chatrooms. I know I'm always very clear that while I met my husband online, it wasn't in a chatroom, it was on a music message board (as if this somehow makes things better).

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, let me try it this way. The difference between a chatroom and a messageboard is like the difference between meeting your partner in a meat market singles bar and meeting your partner in the reference stacks of a library... oh, fugeddaboutitt!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

no thats a very good analogy, pretty much what I was trying to say.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

meeting your partner in the reference stacks of a library

You mean like those weirdos who are found wanking to Robert Mapplethorpe books?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

is that weird? wanking to Jacqueline Wilson books might be weirder

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Grrr. F@ck off, ~~librarian~~ researcher!

I mean, like in the section of a bookstore pertaining to a subject you're really interested in, for example.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

IT IS WEIRD TO WANK BETWEEN LIBRARY STACKS FULL STOP, ALAN. It is high time you accepted this.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yes. i forgot.

what about if you work in a library?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't recall ever wanking to any book.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I like how this thread went from a terrorism/legal question, to newbie-bashing, to arguing the nature of ILX, and ultimately, to wanking. All roads lead to wanking, it seems.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Working in a library is not weird per se, no.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I have!

::hides copy of Brideshead Revisited with pages stuck together::

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I read non-fiction exclusively. Last book I read was "What to Make 1946" There wasn't anything in there that could inspire me to have a good wank, however I could probably knock you up a nifty birdseed dispenser or something though.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Stuck together? Ewwww.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Non-fiction? Erm, any Nigel Spivey book, plus, erm, Heroes Of The RAF... (it was the bomber jackets! I couldn't help it!)

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

and i guess theres always the old stand-by -the joy of sex

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

And its literary companion, the Joy of Sex in Libaries.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Teehee!

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My girlfriend's company publishes the Joy of Sex, so we have copies at home. When, I'm, er, suffering a loss of form, she flicks through them until I buck my ideas up.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You make it sound like a gigolo catalogue.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

which is the name of my new band obv.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

They've got rid of the off-putting sketches of that beardy man now, haven't they?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Us adults, we're so boring, bring up sex, and all we do is start talking about libraries.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the bearded man has gone. The bearded lady remains.

sorry

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think your bllod would expand if you were hit with a batch of liquid nitrogen because the nitrogen would evaporate so quickly. You might get a bad frostbite if you were wearing clothes that trapped some of the n2 inside though.

― marianna, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What if you DRANK liquid nitrogen?

At least we can thank Terminator 2 for showing us what it does to a liquid-metal cyborg from the future.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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