OT: 118th Obsequious Banter Thread: February is the month of food days

[Beef Invictus]

There was a guy at Library of Congress who is retired now, but prior to his retirement he basically singlehandedly kept typewriting alive in the agency. He was so unwilling or unable to learn PCs, yet had to much institutional knowledge, that they just shat all over efficiency to accommodate him. They had to maintain supply contracts of typewriter ribbon just for this guy, which is not efficient. He would typewrite stuff and then someone else would scan and email them because nobody wanted to get faxes. One of my friend's duties was making all this happen. She'd print off his emails to read, he'd type replies, she'd get them sent along.

 

[Jack Straw]

Snowing here now. Coming down pretty good.

 

[trostol]

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Back in the day, you had a limited number of hours to access the Internet each month via the AOL discs. You had to monitor your usage.

Then, there were the chat rooms...

I remember the yahoo messenger chat rooms. Used to hang out in the NHL ones. It was clown central many nights

 

[Embiid]

All 3 of them need a Spanky

 

[Embiid]

I remember the yahoo messenger chat rooms. Used to hang out in the NHL ones. It was clown central many nights

The Aol ones were fun. I used to get booted by the moderators sometimes. I went into one computers chat room once (circa 1998) and this dude used to harass people and say they didn't know what they were talking about, Mac computers sucked etc and bragged how he worked for Compaq computers. I started razzing him back and said he worked for "Fudgepaq" bc he was anal retentive. I got a lot of lol's but then got booted after some back and forth. The booted sound was kind of funny. It was fun back then...wild wild west of technology. Kind of like A.I. now.

 

[flyersnorth]

The Aol ones were fun. I used to get booted by the moderators sometimes. I went into one computers chat room once (circa 1998) and this dude used to harass people and say they didn't know what they were talking about, Mac computers sucked etc and bragged how he worked for Compaq computers. I started razzing him back and said he worked for "Fudgepaq" bc he was anal retentive. I got a lot of lol's but then got booted after some back and forth. The booted sound was kind of funny. It was fun back then...wild wild west of technology. Kind of like A.I. now.

I remember all the sysop power trips on mIRC and BBSes. I swear that title was a license to be a d*ck.

Just like the linux/unix community early on. The number of times some smug user would just type out RTFM was cringey. So many gatekeepers!

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I remember all the sysop power trips on mIRC and BBSes. I swear that title was a license to be a d*ck.

Just like the linux/unix community early on. The number of times some smug user would just type out RTFM was cringey. So many gatekeepers!

Those people grew up and became technical middle management.

Related: I do not missing being in corporate InfoSec.

 

[flyersnorth]

Those people grew up and became technical middle management.

Related: I do not missing being in corporate InfoSec.

Do you still work in IT in some capacity?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Do you still work in IT in some capacity?

I'm semi-retired now, but I still do some security consulting.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

The Aol ones were fun. I used to get booted by the moderators sometimes. I went into one computers chat room once (circa 1998) and this dude used to harass people and say they didn't know what they were talking about, Mac computers sucked etc and bragged how he worked for Compaq computers. I started razzing him back and said he worked for "Fudgepaq" bc he was anal retentive. I got a lot of lol's but then got booted after some back and forth. The booted sound was kind of funny. It was fun back then...wild wild west of technology. Kind of like A.I. now.

The yahoo ones were unmoderated so you could say just about anything

 

[Lord Defect]

All mail bombs and all those little things were crazy.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Snow is in the forecast for central and northern New England this weekend. Up to 6 inches here and maybe a foot further north. We haven’t had any measurable snow in over a month.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

@Captain Dave Poulin I think this is the thread we’re supposed to use to laugh at Calipari. He’s been so bad for so long. This finally has to be it.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@Captain Dave Poulin I think this is the thread we’re supposed to use to laugh at Calipari. He’s been so bad for so long. This finally has to be it.

I have been squealing like a young female pig since it finished HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

EAT SHIT, YOU F***ING SCUMLORD

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I have been squealing like a young female pig since it finished HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

EAT SHIT, YOU F***ING SCUMLORD

This is my favorite stat in years.



How is that possible?!

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I have no idea why but Twitter keeps putting tweets on my time line about non-Americans complaining that Americans use Fahrenheit for temperatures & not Celsius.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This is my favorite stat in years.



How is that possible?!

Are you seeing this load playing for NC State (the one that just got the charge)? Holy shit

 

[Kermit the Prog]

We need to step up our posting to get to 1,000 for this thread. February is in the title and we're about to head into April and I cannot live unless I know other posters' food preferences.

 

[trostol]

This is my favorite stat in years.



How is that possible?!

dude is a specialist lol

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

We need to step up our posting to get to 1,000 for this thread. February is in the title and we're about to head into April and I cannot live unless I know other posters' food preferences.

Pizza is the GOAT.

RE:chat rooms
I came to the internet fairly late in life, for my age, but I will never forget one of my first experiences with that. I went to visit a buddy in college. We're sitting in his dorm room with a couple of his friends just being assholes. I don't even remember how it all went down, but he was talking to some woman, then made a new username who started bashing his original one. The woman actually started defending his original one. I had never seen anything like that. She eventually sent a pic to his original name. It wasn't a flattering IG pic, and the comments we made (not online) were also not. At age 21, we all got a kick out of it. Now? I'll never not believe the anonymity of the internet is the easiest way to bring the worst out of people. Such a double edged sword

 

[Striiker]

LOOK AT THE WIRING

 

[DancingPanther]

Me, spacing out after coming home and cleaning up dog shit from under the piano: 0____0

Girl: ...you ok? You're making a face...

Me: *snapping back* oh no, no faces. Just staring into the æther.

Girl: .....well if you were @Beef Invictus you'd be staring into the beefer

Am I being pranked?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Spring

 

[Beef Invictus]

The Child has explained that her baby sister doesn't cry, because she is too cute. She "sadly yells"