ask_user24 User24 if the sun shines blue on a tuesday or if my shoe is made of silk ask_user24 if you've got any question or something of that ilk bad rhymes are great, aren't they ;) 030913 ... misstree what's your favorite flavor of flavorice? (those little tubey colored sugar water things) 030913 ... User24 hah, I eat those almost every day (but never knew their name - thankyou) well, the shop near my work sell a really nice red one, the tubey bit is very thick and chewy, but my favourite has to be the blue ones; very thin tube, but very flavoursome. :) 030913 ... jane mac or pc? 030913 ... User24 PC, i'm afraid, though macs do look sexy, and they do have a lot of cool bitsnbobs (like the 3d filebrowser) 030913 ... jane i feel the same way...drawn towards the mac because they seem to kick ass but at the same time it would be incredibly counterintuitive 030913 ... Toxic_Kisses If you had to choose what color of world you wanted to live in (ex: everything is a variation of green, Forest green Plates, Mint Green signs and so forth) what colored world would you want to live in? 030913 ... misstree actually, used a mac for a job for a long time, and they are far more intuitive than pcs, to me anyhow 030913 ... User24 actually, it probally would be green; a nice soothing, natural colour. or maybe blue... hmm.. no, I think it would be green. 030913 ... User24 agrees with jane; while macs are easy to learn, and nicer to work with, I'd miss all my lovely arcane keyboard shortcuts, plus I wouldn't be able to be ubergeekus maximus. 030913 ... once again 1. What kind of shoes do you wear? It's been bothering me. 2. What is your opinon of McDonald's chicken nuggets? anyone else feel free to answer. 3. Can you turn a cartwheel? 4. Favorite BRITISH authors? at least two please, more if you like 5. If you had a boat what would you name it? Okie Dokie... 030916 ... User24 1. I wear german paratrooper boots with holes in the leather and the soles, and there's a little face drawn in red biro on a part of my right boot, where the leather has completely worn away to the toughened plastic underneath, his name is Bob the boot man. (the above is true, anyone who knows me will testify) 2. They're actually not bad, however, nothing in the fast food snacky world can possibly beat BK onion rings. breaded! yes! woooooooo! 3. No. 4. Ian Banks (scottish, but that counts, right?) Susan Cooper (check out the 'dark is rising' series (it's for kids, but it's great!)) Robert Westall (Devil on the Road, Futuretrack 5 (again, kids books)) J Meade Faulkner (Moonfleet (need I tell you what the target audience is?)) Terry Pratchet (Discworld series (duh!)) 5. Oh good question, hmm, what would I name my boat.. *thinking* jhgjhgjhgjhjhgjhjhg don't know. I'll get back to you when I get a boat, I can tell you it would be named after a legend, greek, roman, irish or welsh I cannot say, but it would be something that represented the taming of the ocean. 030916 ... TK have you ever dressed in drag? 030916 ... User24 yes. 030916 ... TK wooo-whooooo! oh oh give me details! Panties and all? if so what kind of panties? 030916 ... misstree whenhowwhyfordidyouhavefundoyouhavepicturespleasepleaseplease? *bouncebouncebounce* for some reason, i have convinced myself that this has something to do with the rocky_horror_picture_show, but that's prolly just 'cause it's been on my brain lately. *visions of bois in skirts dance through my head* 030916 ... User24 it was Linds' sister's long red dress (hellen, she was the one dressing me (along with Linds)), I think I wore a bra stuffed with tissue, too. :) 030916 ... User24 no, it was on a slightly (but not very) drunken night in Hellen's flat 030916 ... TK don't mean to sound like a perv, but you didnt answer my Q What about panties! did you wear any?? 030916 ... User24 oh sorry! yeah i did, just my normal, though ( as far as I can remember, this was ~3 years ago) 030916 ... TK ooooooh So what you’re saying is you normally wear panties then? What kind of panties do you prefer? Cotton? Silk? Lycra? Mixed blend? What do you think feels the best? 030916 ... User24 lol. lycra. no, I don't normally wear ladies underwear. :P 030916 ... once again that's a shame because thongs are really rather liberating. =P 030922 ... Dafremen Dear User24, I've been quite impressed with your attempts to bring blather into the 21st century through technological innovation. I was wondering if you would mind forging ahead with the idea of a blather download area that contains text-encoded pieces of software that can be cut and pasted from a blather, run through a little program, and run on the user's computer? (I'd do it myself, but I'm afraid that the writing as a career thing is really taking away from my quality nerd time.) 030923 ... ashmanzhou will they let me out and allow me home after i (spectacularly) failed my evaluation 030924 ... User24 daf; interesting proposal, however I'm not sure how far it would reach; (btw, you could just use mime, no?) 030924 ... User24 ashmanzhou, no, probally not, but you can hope.. 030924 ... Dafremen Indeed, except doesn't mime use characters that blather would filter out? 030924 ... User24 possibly.. I'll have to look up the MIME spec heads off to rfc-editor.org 030924 ... jane can you increase the maximum upload size...even to 4 or 5? 030924 ... User24 jane, see: user24 031001 ... jane hey how do i make a test page? 031022 ... Toxic_Kisses is it time yet? 031022 ... User24 jane, like blather_black, blatrix, etc? tk; time for what? 031023 ... Toxic_Kisses no -we- ask the questions, not you silly ^.^ Would you please describe the color red olny useing words that have the letter B in them? 031023 ... misstree is not at bombdiggity psst... i'm really interested in this whole near-resignation thing... if not posting story here, email it to the addie that this post links to? and take all the time you wish for ask_use24, been busy on quite a few fronts meself and i've got a couple of buckets of patience stored up. and if you could have a superpower, what would it be? 031023 ... User24 wow, tk, this is very hard.. here goes: blindingly beautiful blushing beams, basic brilliance but barely blithe, bright, borderingly brown. (I cheated; dictionary.com and thesaurus.com) misstree; check yo mail. 031023 ... User24 ooh, and right now my choice of superpower would be the ability to transcend space and time. (basically I wanna walk through walls, and go into the future or past at will.) mm.. thinking along those line, I'd actually love to be able to go into a past version of me, and make different choices, based on hindsight.. I wonder how paradoxical that'd become.. ;) 031023 ... jane yes. 031023 ... Toxic_Kisses even though you did itw/ the help of dictionary.com and thesaurus.com thats still rather amazin U24! I'll give you an easyer one this time around as a reward ^.^ what's your fave type of juice? 031023 ... User24 I don't actually drink much, I don't care much for cranberry, orange is quite boring unless it's made from real oranges with little bits of orange floating in it, pineapple is always nice, grapefruit is good, but you didn't want an essay, so my fave would probally be pineapple. or apple. oh god! help! no, pineapple. phew! 031023 ... Toxic_Kisses *L* and here it was I thought that would be an easy question to answer! um, ok how about this one, maroon or lime green? 031023 ... User24 now that's easy; lime green every time. :) 031024 ... Lemon_Soda Playstation or xbox? College or craft school? Writer or reader? Talker or listener? Love or hate? Real or fake? ...and WHY. 031024 ... User24 I almost finished answering this yesterday, but the damn PC crashed.. I should upgrade to win2k.. anyway, right: Playstation or xbox? neither, I don't play many computer games, in fact I can list all the ones I do play; gta1, quake1, civ3, theif2; so as you see, I've no need for either. College or craft school? wtf is craft school? Writer or reader? By default, writer, due largely to this really cool website I found called blather.newdream.net, you should check it out, you'd like it. I read on the bus to work, and i my lunch break. Talker or listener? again, neither, I'm fairly socially recluse (like, there's 3 people outside of work that I talk at least every month... and one of them is my fianceé) But if I had to choose, it'd be listener, because whenever I talk I seem to intimidate people by talking about things they don't understand. Love or hate? love, it's so much more constructive, plus I can't really hate, I pity instead. Real or fake? real of fake what? what you see is what you get with me, I'm very real. 031025 ... jane you never answered my question 031027 ... User24 sorry jane! I didn't see your answer to my question.. I'll email you a guide within the week(I would put it on blather, but then everyone'll want one) 031027 ... jane thanks man 031027 ... u24 t'will be done by friday, jane (if I get my act together (unlikely)) Doar; did ya like it? 031029 ... Lemon_Soda A craft school is an instituition similar to a university save that it teaches only one skill or set of skills. Not much props are given to such schools witch is a shame because they can teach you a helluvah lot more about a single subject that a university ever will. and "real or fake?" just seemed to fit. I was on a role. I don't even know what I was asking when I hit that one. 031029 ... blather homophone check roll 031029 ... Doar that was an especially good breakdown of the way a company should not be run. It was great. So you mentioned that it caused some improvement. Let me know how. 031029 ... Lemon_Soda No, no. Role fits perfectly fine by my view of it. But if you need to switch it out for your own comfort, feel free. Don't forget to promounce your silent e. 031029 ... User24 thanks for the clarification, Soda, university, and, still real :) Doar, yeah, it's getting better slowly, putting some procedures in place that should have been there all along, also, as we've now got a much smaller team, there's a little more team_spirit than before. I won't really be able to tell if it's got a huge amount better until a month down the line, but for the mo', I'm staying.. thanks for asking :) 031030 ... Death of a Rose hey there Mr. 24, something has been nagging me, and I more than likely read it somewhere, but I'm far too lazy to do any sleuthing this morning, I get the impression you reside in England. Am I right? Also, how did the family get together go? Cheers mate. 031030 ... User24 user24_is_british_right and, yeah, it went really well, last two meetings with my bro have revealed previously unknown similarities between us (on the surface, we're very different) :) 031030 ... bruceaisher I wonder if you could impart some advice to me. Me and my girlfriend of a year broke up recently, becuase I became very grumpy over the summer becuase I worked in a toilet and got shouted at every day. She took it personally. We broke up 8 days after our anniversary. I begged her to take me back on the night and she refused continuously. She said that she would never see us getting back together. She lives by herself, hardly ever goes out, works extremely hard. When I went round yesterday, she hugged me so tight, and I caught this look in her eye, like she knew she had made a mistake but is too proud to admit it. I dont want to ask her out again in case it seems like I'm too obsessed. I love her so much, if soul mates exist she is mine. I felt we were so right for each other and then this happened. I want her back, what so you think I should so user24? 031128 ... u24 interesting situation, well, I'd say ask her if you can get back together; you were together for a year, it's not going to sound like obsession, also, if you think that she thinks she's made a mistake, she may welcome the chance to make amends. :) good luck. don't give up. ps: why did she break up with you? pps: I'd leave it at least 3 days after you broke up before asking her back out; that way it looks like you've been thinking about her. (sneaky, but effective) 031128 ... bruceaisher We broke up on the 8th of November so its been three weeks, in that time I have seen her three times, once to discuss where she said i never see us getting back together one day later, the second time was to discuss that statement about three days later and the last time was a day ago which was when I got the hints that she had made a msitake (if you require more detail, Ill give it). we are both at University. She said it was partially to do with the amount of work she had to do for her Law course and becuase she thinks I shout at her. This however is not true, I have never once shouted at her, there may have been tension in my voice, or maybe it was the tone, I dont know but whatever it was, I know I wasn't as nasty as she makes out. She has extremely low self confidence, and so I think that the grumpiness over the summer, she turned into a personal attack even though it wasnt, I was just tired and that from the day. I still came in and cooked her dinner, whether she had been at work or not. I bought her many presents, I wrote her cards and letters all the time, I told her I loved her at least 5 times a day and held her with a passion so strong that everyone around us could feel it. Everyone thought we would last forever, 'the cute couple' We had even discussed marriage after UNI, we are both towards the back end of 19. I'm sorry I have asked this question, maybe its the anon. aspect of it, its hard to ask people like my flatmates about scuh intimate issues, the irony is I am able to be completely open with someone I have never met. 031128 ... Doar i know this isn't my page Mr. 24, so i'll give Mr. Heartlost some encouragement. persist m'man, communicate with her, eventually you'll convince her to let her pride fall onto the floor 031128 ... Death of a Rose oh and i do have a question for you! this webcam dealie for the upcoming blathercon 2004, do you have any suggestions as to the type of webcam and software we should use? i've asked Mr. Dafremen and Mr. RO about their opinions, i would like to tap your brainbox too. peace overseas bro. 031128 ... minnesota_chris ooh ooh me too. Question. I read an article that said that British policemen don't carry handguns. Guns at all. I wonder, how do they catch the bad guys, do they just talk them into jail? 031128 ... u24 lol, chris, yeah, a few of them carry guns, but I think only outside parliament / number 10, etc.. they do have big hard sticks, though. :) as far as webcam software goes.... "easy free webcam" is ok, but.. http://www.at32.com/doc/comcam.htm I think is better; that what we use at the URL at webcam.. I'm not really into hardware, so I can't really say which actual camera to use; if you're buying a new one, ask to see a sample picture taken with the camera, and also see what filesize it is, etc, smaller filesize the better for webcams; you'll need to be uploading the images a lot, so smal files are good - the quality doesn't -really- matter so much - as long as you can make the picture out ok.. blahblahblah! :) 031129 ... Death of a Rose thanks overseas bud. . 031129 ... Rowbes Dear 24, How can I get Adobe premiere without paying hundreds of dollars? (or pounds in your case) was here 031130 ... u24... hit one of the filesharing networks, I've not really been into that for a while, I would normally suggest www.kazaalite.tk, but honestly, I don't trust that network anyone, search for bittorrent or winmx, and let me know how you get on with them - I couldn't get bittorrent to work, but then I only spent half and hour trying to get it running. good luck :) 031201 ... u24 dammit why is my net connection doing this to me??? every time I post something, when I return to the blathe, my comment isn't there.. guess it's my ISP cache.. :( 031201 ... rubydee hey, can i take you up on your candy offer? i've been lurking recently, reading is easier than typing when you've got a toddler pounding at the keys playing elmo's keyboard-o-rama. please send sugar. i need stamina. that or marijuana to make playing bob_the_builder at seven am tolerable. cheers (even though someone on your side of the lake invented that pint-sized handyman....yes we can!!) email me: tunamungaricaAThotmail 031201 ... Doar another non-technical question for you Mr. 24 (it just feels so proper to call you that...hehe). Have you seen the movie "The Last Minute"? and if so, can you let me in on the what the hell the ending was supposed to be all about? Many Blue Blatherskies for ya. 031202 ... Little Lost Riding Hood Dear U24, Where in England do you reside? and.... How old are you? (Sorry.) 031202 ... u24 ruby; did I email you? I forget.. :) ... doar; not seen it, but I think the end is mostly about lemons. and cats. ... Riding hood; Northampton, midlands, and I'm rapidly approaching 21. (16 Dec, but please, no happy_birthday_u24 pages, drop me a congratulatory email by all means) :) 031202 ... Little Lost Riding Hood Thanks U24 - Midlands eh? I know Northampton, my mothers best friend lives near the big army barracks - do you know it? I also am swiftly approaching 21, though in life I feel about 100 at the moment!! 031203 ... u24 yeah, I there's a few RAF/USAF bases nearby.. can't remember the names.. I feel about 48. 031203 ... Toxic_Kisses Do you feel the need to keep up some sort of "reputation" while in blather? See: U24 031211 ... u24 in that instance, no, I was just joking, in general.. no, I don't think I deliberately do things to keep up my rep (do I have a rep?).. I pretty much say whatever I feel. I'm not too happy about a lot of the things I've said, I act like a prick sometimes (what_does_everyone_think_of_me, and about a million other stupidnesses) so yes, in general, I feel I care too much about what people think of me (I don't want to be the guy who everyone hates) but I don't think it stops me saying what I want to say.. If I ever do want to say something and fear I'll be regarded as a hypocrite (who isn't) I sometimes (rarely) post it anonymously. :) 031212 ... Bespeckled Phrasing in the form of a question: User24, are you alright with the fact that you will always be user24 to me? 031212 ... User24 of course! - the u24 alias is only to distinguish when I'm being chatty (at least that's the idea.) Ok, that wasn't very well explained: the idea is that when I'm saying things that I think matter, I try to use User24, and when I'm just chatting and generally keeping up with the blather population, I try to use u24. However, the reality is that u24 is much easier for me to type, so I've ended up using that for pretty much everything. but yes. I still consider myself as User24, not u24. and nobody should be offended if I write to you as u24.. it's probably just me being too lazy to type U-s-e-r-2-4. :) 031212 ... oE i haven't forgot your question U-24, been kinda busy lately..look for an answer sometime this weekend peace.. 031212 ... u24 never ever smoke non tobacco derived substances if you want to retain coherent memory... what question, where, when? ;) 031231 ... somebody where should I be in life? 031231 ... User24 without knowing who you are, and where your talents and potential lies, I cannot answer. so, thisisjustarant on how I think people should live, IMHO, in general.. you may find it useful, you may not. You should follow the desiderata. that's always a good start, beyond that; Don't betray your will for others, it's ok to fail in others' eyes, as long as you are content within your self. Only you can judge the success or failiure of your decisions and actions, because only you know your true desire. Do not set out to hurt anyone who has not intentionally caused harm to you. Never take anyone else's advice without due consideration. Understand people's true motives; people do not say what they mean, instead they (subconsciously) try to manipulate and trick you - if you understand what they really want, then you can avoid being their puppet. Your life is YOUR life, therefore do not make unneccessary compromises, but understand that this does not mean you should ignore or hold in contempt others; often the path to pleasure lies in pleasing others. Be unobtrusive, if you know you are correct, surely that is enough and there is no actual need to argue. (that is not to say that you shouldn't argue under certain conditions - conflict is a neccessary and healthy part of nature and existence.) Decide what you believe carefully, and constantly challenge and adapt your beliefs - no-one can arrive at the whole truth in an instant, the world is constantly changing - so should your understanding of it. Finally, always give lots of money to people with the numbers '2' and '4' in their names . 040101 ... u24 you should be where you want to be. 040101 ... somebody That actually helped out quite a bit, thank you for answering User24 040101 ... u24 no bother at all, it was fun writing it. 040102 ... jane to_all_british_blatherskites 040210 ... u24 I would like to ask who you are, somebody. but if you wanted to tell me, you would have. I suppose if I don't ask I'll certainly never know. who are you? 040618 ... Not somebody I know, but I won't tell. 040618 ... Death of a Rose Do you have a tattoo Mr. U24? If so, what and where? 040618 ... johnbryson User 24, the king of code, could you please delete all of the bullshit "# days to iraqi....." blathes, I don't believe they have any purpose. If I wanted news on Iraq, I'd go and look it up myself. 040623 ... somebody do you feel overwhelmed? 040623 ... baka would you glady pay me tuesday for a hamburger today? 040623 ... u24 doar; no, but I want to get a small pentagram with chaos star inside it on my shoulder. ... johnbryson; annoying though it is, I will not remove/hide anything on blather without permission of everyone who's blathed on it. In fact, I do my best to revert any deleted pages I see. ... somebody; Not really. underwhelmed. I think it's worse. See, when overwhelmed, you can always do something to rectify the situation, but when underwhelmed, there's nothing to do but wait. ... baka; I wouldn't gladly pay anyone at any time for a hamburger. . 040624 ... baka howabouta boka burger? :) 040624 ... u24 a veggie burger? maybe. 040628 ... silentlybroken Are you in dispair? 040628 ... silentlybroken *Despair. (sorry, I was reading that joke where they are in three different costumes and one is in "dis pear". 040628 ... u24 no, resigned acceptance. 040630 ... sab ok, i will. what sustains you when everything else is stripped away? 040630 ... sab and what do you have with you when your alone in the dark 040630 ... User24 when I'm alone in the dark, I have my thoughts. (and probably my headphones.(-: ) what sustains me when everything else is stripped away? I find that satsumas help. seriously, though, I haven't been in a totally 'stripped away' situation for a while. when I was, I cut and cried. I don't know if that sustained me, but I'm still here now, so I guess it can't have been too bad for me. Nowadays, when feeling lost, I just put up with it; even the fiercest storm will blow over. :) 040630 ... nonlucid How does blather know when an underscore's an apostrophe? 040712 ... u24 it's stored in a database, so whenever you add to a word, it goes and grabs the entries from the database, and adds them to a html page, with most current links, etc. it's only when it saves the page that the ' is changed to an underscore. I don't think I explained that very well. sorry. 040811 ... tyler waters that made perfect sense.. i wanted to ask how you do the test pages, but i see jane beat me to it.. could you send me one of those emails too? i'd really like to know. im technically.. oh, what's the word.. adequate. i.e. you can use big computer words and i'll figure it out 041114 ... u24 not sure if I still have the page, but I'll poke around the 'puter and upload it somewhere 4 ya, alternatively, view source on one of the test pages, search for 'style' and you'll see how it's done. 050111 ... .&. how's the violin? 050111 ... ? Do you ever get tired of ppl treating you like Tech Suport? 050111 ... u24 miles away and unused for a long time :-( it was nothing more than a distant dream, I'm afraid.. those types don't translate well into reality. 050112 ... u24 I enjoy doing tech support; I am a geek, after all.. 050112 ... . why isn't this page loading for me? 050112 ... . oh, it's working now.) 050112 ... . ... 050112 ... slippery magee what kind of gaming system do you prefer? xbox ps2 gamecube 050618 ... slippery magee i don't think pc was an option 050622 ... u24 but it was the correct answer. 051214 ... z is it possible to search for all blathes which contain posts from 2 (or more) specific blatherskites? 060523 ... u24 yup. puremango.co.uk/xref.php anne-girl has done a version that allows 3-way checking: blathertools.iscreamsundays.com :-) 060523 ... z thank you. and you too anne. 060523 ... u24 you might be interested in some of the other blathertools at puremango.co.uk/cm_blather_87.php there's some there that I haven't put on p2's server yet. (the_wander_button and skitedigger) 060523 ... z is it possible, using a cookie, to protect an alias, such as user24, so that only you can blathe using it? 060609 ... u24 no, there'd be nothing to stop other people using it. cookies only work for the computer that they're stored on (ie yours). With a modification to blather's actual code of course, they could get it to have a login system or whatever else, but it's extremely unlikely to happen. 060609 ... Huhh? Is User24 your real name? Was your mom or dad named User23? 060610 ... z has_anyone_else_noticed_this 060613 ... superleni i don't want the world to tread on every word in every thread change is change but dead is dead and easy found is easy bled. 060613 ... z is it possible to find a given skite's (say paste!) longest blathe? 060724 ... u24 Hi Z, sorry I missed you. been absent lately. no, but if I find time I'll write something.. it would take a big chunk of processing power to search though, so I wouldn't be able to provide an online interface to it (but I can run it from my home PC) I should stop talking about it as if it's already written. superleni; that's not a question, silly! but I liked it nonetheless. 061011 ... superleni sorry. what i meant to say was, what happens if one day blather just isn't here? would someone recreate it? would blatherskites regroup? 061012 ... endless desire what is everyone talking about when they refer to certain blathes being deleted? 061012 ... u24 "what happens if one day blather just isn't here?" haha. sigh. I really don't know. The internet archive will always have a copy. I'd probably create a new one somewhere, but it would never be the same. i secretly hope that one day it will disappear. "what is everyone talking about when they refer to certain blathes being deleted?" i really don't know. people have a tendency to be paranoid about things they love. there are a few things that come close. I've 'removed' two blathes using two different techniques, one as a proof-of-concept, and another upon request of the sole contributor to that blathe. In truth, there's no way that I or anyone not from newdream can completely delete a blathe (short of actually hacking in), so any blathe I've removed is more like a blathe being painted over - the words are still there underneath. dallas removed all the spam (thankgod) when he put the captcha in. We can assume that this was the first and only direct "tampering" with blather by newdream. At least, I don't know of any other edits. People often think that blather is too big and they_are_deleting_blather to save on disk space, but a) dreamhost is a huge hosting company, they have enough space, and b) dallas told me via email that blather "really isn't that big" (I'm guessing that his concept of big is, well, bigger than most...) Sometimes people think they've lost blathes on their who list, this is because of the email bug; see my_correct_email_address and another blathe that I can't find. OMG! maybe they deleted it! :D 070420 ... Doar Why are you so @#$%%^^@ likable? . 070420 ... Doar Hmmm...didn't you know that I like the whole (pun intended) gangster look? . It makes the room more holy (another pun intended). But whatever, if the thought was malignant, then...oh....well....I can't stay mad at you, you big computer expert you......come on...give us a hug. :) 070420 ... Doar Hmmm...didn't you know that I like the whole (pun intended) gangster look? . It makes the room more holy (another pun intended). But whatever, if the thought was malignant, then...oh....well....I can't stay mad at you, you big computer expert you......come on...give us a hug. :) 070420 ... Doar Fucking internet connection. . 070420 ... u24 lol, nah, I just saw the word HQ and just couldn't resist a ninja stealth attack - nothing personal :D 070420 ... sameolme Regarding the recent proliferation of posts that appear to be inane junk tossed into blathes randomly, often containing misspelling, (damn, I hope I'm not describing my stuff!); I get an uneasy feeling that they might not be produced by a human. Is it possible this is a new, more sophisticated form of spam? 070421 ... u24 yeah, I'd noticed that as well. They're rarely on-topic (I know, I know "blather has topics?", but still...) I think we've just been infested with a few 10 year olds, for some reason. I don't think spam is that advanced yet (but it will be one day..) 070421 ... pobodys nerfect *waves* Hi 24! Speaking of spam, have you ever eaten it before? (I mean the edible kind,of course!) =0) 070422 ... u24 *waves back* hello! :D yeah I have... when we were very poor at the flat, we once had to eat spam and pasta or some such vile concoction. we've also eaten sweet and sour corned beef and pasta. yummy! 070422 ... pobodys nerfect Yum,they sound like delicious meals! =0) Okay i'm lying. They actually sound pretty disgusting. =0/ So,do you hang out here pretty often,or is this place a graveyard anymore? I haven't been here in a dogs age,so i have no idea who's still around! 070422 ... u24 heh, yeah they were horrible. it's nice to see you around. I haven't really been around much lately. I have the same problem as you; not knowing who's still here and who isn't. did you see the blomic? :D 070423 ... misstree re the really random stuff, may i direct your memory to the prodigious paste! taloofa i can taste some small difference in the randomness of paste!'s writings and the recent spurt, but i have no idea how to put my finger on it. 070423 what's it to you? who go blather from