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Pod
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 Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: I hereby throw myself at your mercy, o wise ones |
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Greetings from the USA! And how might you all be doing on this fine Sunday morning? Quite well, I hope.
Here are my stats:
- Student in high school (bleh--sucks to be me!)
- Loves computers, but ultimately knows nothing about them (as you can see by my uber-cute signature poem)
- Loves music
Uh.. I'm not interesting, I promise.
This whole thing started when I tried to update iTunes.. oops, that story doesn't go here. So yeah. I must go seek help in the proper forum!
Anyway, HELLO EVERYONE!!! 
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Alas, please come aide me
I have so many problems with my PC
I never know what to do
and this is why I'll turn to you
I need your help to make Windows XP
Happy and friendly and virus-free.
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Erikalbert
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Pod
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Awwww, no sense of humor?  You remind me of my computer. =P
I'm kidding! 
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Alas, please come aide me
I have so many problems with my PC
I never know what to do
and this is why I'll turn to you
I need your help to make Windows XP
Happy and friendly and virus-free.
- written by me |
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olliver
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Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Last Visit: 02 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| SailorTriforce wrote: |
Awwww, no sense of humor? |
Actually I found Erikalbert's reply to your overly poetic subject line quite funny. Something you'd expect the least after such an introduction 
| Shakespeare wrote: |
Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:
Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;
Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'
Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;
The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us! |
Something like that as response would have been more appropriate, but not as much fun, though 
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Pod
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| SailorTriforce wrote: |
Awwww, no sense of humor? |
Actually I found Erikalbert's reply to your overly poetic subject line quite funny. Something you'd expect the least after such an introduction
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What's wrong with my intro?
>.>
<.<;;
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Alas, please come aide me
I have so many problems with my PC
I never know what to do
and this is why I'll turn to you
I need your help to make Windows XP
Happy and friendly and virus-free.
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olliver
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Last Visit: 02 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| SailorTriforce wrote: |
| What's wrong with my intro? |
I've got no objections against it, but that's just my personal opinion and my weakness for obscure ideas like this catchy subject line . So I'm afraid I can't give you any relief in regard to the question how others may feel about it.
This dialogue in itself was sort of funny, how your attempts at making a good impression and attracting attention were thwarted by an emotionless single word reply. Difficult to explain, it's got nothing to do with you as a person but merely with the course of the conversation.
May have been a good start for a Monty Python sketch or so...
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Erikalbert
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| This dialogue in itself was sort of funny, how your attempts at making a good impression and attracting attention were thwarted by an emotionless single word reply. Difficult to explain, it's got nothing to do with you as a person but merely with the course of the conversation. |
Exactly, my point. You want to be one of us (one of them really since I'm not one of them...us... whatever), you need to work for it, no shortcuts, no fake chummy introductions... |
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Oldfrog
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| You want to be one of us (one of them really since I'm not one of them...us... whatever), you need to work for it, no shortcuts, |
We are really all the same here, just at different points or paths along the road. There isn't any "us" or "them" except for the member/nonmember distinction. Other than that we are all "us".
@Erikalbert: You must be one of "us" as 1) you registered here as a member and activated that membership, 2) you post here, 3) others interact with you, and 4) you have not been banned. |
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olliver
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Erikalbert wrote: |
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| This dialogue in itself was sort of funny, how your attempts at making a good impression and attracting attention were thwarted by an emotionless single word reply. Difficult to explain, it's got nothing to do with you as a person but merely with the course of the conversation. |
Exactly, my point. You want to be one of us (one of them really since I'm not one of them...us... whatever), you need to work for it, no shortcuts, no fake chummy introductions... |
I'm afraid your point isn't quite my point here. Perhaps SailorTriforce's self introduction wasn't quite conventional, but remember you raise your voice in a forum that is read by many many persons. That's just like speaking in front of a large audience. Not everyone is capable of doing it without being nervous, in particular if you come here as someone that has to admit a kind of defeat/weakness and ask for help as last resort.
Under "normal"* circumstances some people would shake their heads and criticise you for your "stupidity". It's not happening here, which is a great plus, but keep in mind people automatically expect it could happen if they made this experience several times before. Sometimes you have to wait a bit longer before you can judge a person, but that's just my personal experience that may not apply to others (cue disclaimer)
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Erikalbert
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:07 am Post subject: |
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I'm afraid your point isn't quite my point here.
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Actually I got your point perfectly. I fully understood the humourous intent of SailorTriforce, and my response was calculated exactly to achieve the results you pointed out. Yes, I'm aware playing the straightman is a an art form itself.
What I might have missed though due to an overly quick reading is that he was really asking for help as opposed to just wanting to chat. |
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Erikalbert
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| Oldfrog wrote: |
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| You want to be one of us (one of them really since I'm not one of them...us... whatever), you need to work for it, no shortcuts, |
We are really all the same here, just at different points or paths along the road. There isn't any "us" or "them" except for the member/nonmember distinction. Other than that we are all "us".
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We are really all the same? That's a nice sentiment, it really is Oldfrog but you know it ain't true.
In reality there is the "us" who are MVPS and various helpers (some retired), and the "us" who are not. And then there is I. 
We can also safely ignore the "us" who post here for help and then disappear.
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@Erikalbert: You must be one of "us" as 1) you registered here as a member and activated that membership, 2) you post here, 3) others interact with you, a |
Even if the interaction is mostly negative? Where everyone of my questions is immediately followed up with "Why do you want to know??" .
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| nd 4) you have not been banned. |
Some people are working on that as I speak. |
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Oldfrog
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| In reality there is the "us" who are MVPS and various helpers (some retired), and the "us" who are not. And then there is I. |
I respectfully disagree with that. There are a number of members here who are neither MVPs nor "helpers" (in the HJT sense, at least) whose competency I highly respect. I think that we, the community at large, does a good job of also respecting those whose competency may be less but who are looking for answers. There must be, as you imply, a dividing line somewhere between those of us who "know" and those of us who "don't know". At the same time I don't know where on the spectrum of experience/knowledge here that line falls. It probably falls in different places for different people. You fall somewhere on that spectrum as well, and not nearly as low on it as you sometimes like to suggest.
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| Even if the interaction is mostly negative? Where everyone of my questions is immediately followed up with "Why do you want to know??" . |
Let's face it, you have an ability to rub people the wrong way and make them suspicious of your motives. Repeatedly asking the same question after being told that it is not open to discussion doesn't really help that image. On the positive side, you have started some good topics here and made some posts that were rather insightful. I personally read all of your posts with interest.
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| Some people are working on that as I speak. |
Ban or not ban, there is no work on. |
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olliver
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: |
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| Erikalbert wrote: |
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I'm afraid your point isn't quite my point here.
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Actually I got your point perfectly. I fully understood the humourous intent of SailorTriforce, and my response was calculated exactly to achieve the results you pointed out. |
Thanks for clarifying your position. You seem to have a good sense for other people's weak spots. That's a gift useful for psychotherapists or social workers, but on the other hand there's always some kind of risk to use it as a weapon. Weapons should only be used to defend oneself when being attacked (in my opinion).
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| Yes, I'm aware playing the straightman is a an art form itself. |
Hm, playing sounds suspicious to me. Wouldn't being it a better alternative?
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| What I might have missed though due to an overly quick reading is that he was really asking for help as opposed to just wanting to chat. |
And that he is actually an 18 yr old she
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Erikalbert
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Oldfrog wrote: |
There must be, as you imply, a dividing line somewhere between those of us who "know" and those of us who "don't know". At the same time I don't know where on the spectrum of experience/knowledge here that line falls. It probably falls in different places for different people. You fall somewhere on that spectrum as well, and not nearly as low on it as you sometimes like to suggest.
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I find your last sentence pretty condescending!
"Not nearly as low ...." okay so you are saying I'm not a low grade idiot or Imbecile but a high level functioning moron? Thank you very much.
But that's okay I'm used to be condescended to. Deserve it even sometimes.....
[quote] On the positive side, you have started some good topics here and made some posts that were rather insightful. I personally read all of your posts with interest.
Flattery will get you everywhere. |
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hornet777
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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meps, meps
SailorTriforce, I'm sorry your introduction got hijacked in such a graceless manner, but rest assured it is not always so contentious here, although (dare I say?) no one is afraid of challenging and being challenged. A good bunch, but kinda rowdy sometimes, that's all.
Best wishes. |
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