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>Sooooo, when you 'ferriners' think of Great Britons, who springs >to mind, Lets see... -Churchill -That football player who married the spice girl.... Beckham, yeah. -The Spice Girls -Adam Smith -Thatcher -William Wallace. -Does U2 count? Or are they from the wrong Ireland? -The dude who invented the spinning jennyJames Hargreaves > and why? Hell if I know. Just some people from the misty islands I think left a mark in the history...

Eeeewwww... to the Netscape 4, that is.

As it happens, the person in question is lurking right now...

>we might do some nice CRW together Do I get to jump my Fury or do I have to jump one of those scary Express thingies? >or least plan to do CRW OK? Planning sounds definitely good. And of course no good plans can be formed without the aid of alcoholic beverages.

>Erno what do you think it would take to tilt the planet enough >so that we can enjoy some sunny warm stuff? I'm not sure yet. I think I did mention that when my plans for world domination get properly executed, I'm going to tilt the axis so that Finland is a bit closer to the equator. I'm sure I'll think of a way of doing it before I'm the undisputed ruler oif the world. I was thinking along the lines of a big mother of all explosions that would bump the earth a bit. Or maybe a really big magnet? Or a jet engine? Oh yeah, almost forgot: MWAHHAAHHAAHAAA!

>Good morning, the NA thread has been bumped for you >convenience. Are you having fun chatting to the colonials? Silent bunch, aren't they? Guess I'll go back to our segregated corner of the forums.

>and the nest was on a ledge, and you had to go up the crane to >reach the nest on the edge of the building? No, I understood that the silly bird had actually built the nest on the crane? She's in for a surprise when the buildings finished and they take the crane apart...

>I get in today and the latest topic of discussion is....coffee. >Niiiiiiiiice, I love coffee. It does such good things for me. Mmmmm. Coffee...

Good morning guys and gals. The NA thread was buried somewhere under boobies and beer so I decided to start the day in here.

>I hate this time of year because now it's freakin' DARK when I leave work! Amen! It's dark when I wake up. It's dark when I go to work. It's dark when I leave work. Sun is something vaguely familiar I see out of my office window if the sky isn't overcast.

>Nothing personal but I don't subscribe to that point of view. Same here. I think more like "If it ain't broke, tinker with it until it is, and then try to fix it". Narcimunds suggestion with the regional flags is the best one I've heard so far. Just add a possibility to tag a post as 'regional:'. Every user could select in his profile the region(s) he wants to see regional posts from, in addition to the global posts in Talkback. Further refining the idea: There could be a way of only showing the regional posts in talkback, some sort of simple switch for filtering... This way there'd be a way to check the regional posts from your region even if they would be buried under 3 pages of boobies/beer-posts.

Ah. Although I am not an engineer, but a programmer, I am also familiar with the third kind... The feeling when you understand that you've made irrepairable damage to a client is just something you can't describe in words...

>I can understand that there are sometimes discussions that >are relevant to specific regions or countries only and this may >be a home for those. That's a valid point. I have very little use for info on US-boogies. On the other hand, such threads don't bother me the least in the Talkback forum. I'm afraid that if you create, what, six? seven? different regional forums, there will be very few messages on other than the North American one. What would be the definition of the regional forums? There would be of course the discussion and info on boogies and such. What else? >It can also help contribute to building community within regions. I think that could be detrimental to the global community. I do agree that talkback-forum has lately seen the birth of a community within community, but it's not regional, it's time-zoney. The regional communities have a tendency to form themselves in the traditional way, you know, in Real Life(tm). The best thing about DZcom is that it is a truly global community. I see no reason to change that.

>hehe how do you know what is what??? I've been using both English and Finnish windows all my adult life, most of the time I don't even notice which one I'm using at the moment...

Sven Hassel... Now there's a name I haven't heard since I got out of the army. Appropriately, the battalion library had a good amount of his books. I don't know if it was actually the quality of the translation, but I read two of his books, and I wouldn't have believed they were by the same author. "The Legion of the damned" was fun to read, with the guys almost too busy with their other antics to fight the war. Then I read one of the books he wrote much later(I can't remember the name), and it was pretty much just a splatter movie turned into a book. I really don't recall but I may have not finished the book at all.

>But, two Wrights made an airplane! And airplanes are better than revenge! Yeah! Wrongs just suck! So, like, if two Wrights make a plane, what would come out of three? Must be really something else...

>Nice Taskbar. Are we able to label you a window whore ? I guess... The scary bit is that I actually use all of them. >If nothing else, that JPEG has taught me the word 'Start' in >another language. Here's the right-click menu from the desktop for good measure.

>If your kicked and you roll over you will just be kicked again. >That turn the other cheek shit is bullshit. In that sense yes. The proper response is of course to grap the bastards foot and twist his ankle off. However, if you wake up in a gutter after being kicked senseless, it's not healthy to try and find the bastard so you can kick him back. Instead, call the cops. Seek justice, not revenge. And yes, the karma thing will get him.

>Minister of "entertainment" .... I suppose this means I'm the >one who has to show boobies? Damn scratch, she reads you like an open book! And nacmac, the 'cultural attache to Iraq' got me slouching again...

>I keep a 'full window" of something work related open with >the small dz.com stuff going on top of that, safety is never >more than a mouse click outside of the fun window pane. I use Opera, which has a multiple document interface. Since I do web-stuff, I'm supposed to have a browser open, and there are plenty of work-related web pages only ctrl-tab away. >Also minimise the start bar if you leave your desk, but are still >logged on....put the moose over the top of the start bar border Whoa. Heavy duty computing... I have an approach completely different from yours... See attachment.

>Or maybe you have just a *little* more time than the rest of us >to stay up to date... I should be insulted by such suggestions. yes the sarcasm switch is on... Just today I have updated many pages, containing for example such intriguing topics as "European Union structural funds projects" and "Youth political seminar in Helsinki 5.-6.11.2002".

>Jraf gets some minor post where he can make noise and do no damage Isn't that called "management" or something? >Aggidave to head up the 'Abolition of firearms commitee' That'll be effective... >Do I hear any seconds...all in favour say "Aye" Aye!

>If anyone has any more tips, let me know. You can set in your "edit profile" that you don't want other peoples pics to be shown. There was a discussion in "Suggestions and feedback" a while ago, where someone (I think Quade) suggested a stylesheet that would make the forums look like a spreadsheet. Alas, nothing came out of it.

>don't know how believable it was, but Belinda has just brought >me a glass of water and a tissue to wipe the tears away ... The Force is strong in this one.

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