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» Evil Pranks
Piracy is theft
In the 80s, I was asked to make a copy of Fruit Machine Simulator on the spectrum 48k for my brother's friend.
However, instead of copying it, we wrote a programme something along the lines of
10 PRINT "The reason you are seeing this message"
20 PRINT "is because you have pirated this software"
30 PRINT "We have detected that your address"
40 PRINT "is 16 Butterfield Close"
50 PRINT "and the police have been informed"
..and saved that on the tape.
The friend's dad loaded the game and apparently was thinking about phoning the police in order to hand himself in.
(Fri 14th Dec 2007, 12:28, More)
Piracy is theft
In the 80s, I was asked to make a copy of Fruit Machine Simulator on the spectrum 48k for my brother's friend.
However, instead of copying it, we wrote a programme something along the lines of
10 PRINT "The reason you are seeing this message"
20 PRINT "is because you have pirated this software"
30 PRINT "We have detected that your address"
40 PRINT "is 16 Butterfield Close"
50 PRINT "and the police have been informed"
..and saved that on the tape.
The friend's dad loaded the game and apparently was thinking about phoning the police in order to hand himself in.
(Fri 14th Dec 2007, 12:28, More)
» Walkman Flashbacks
buttercup
A friend of mine told me that he really liked that "build me a buttercup" song. Why? I asked, it's horrible.
"It was playing at my girlfriend's house, when their dog came in and started trying to hump me" he explained.
So now, whenever I hear that song, I think of my friend being assaulted by a great dane in front of his girlfriend's horrified parents.
I have no idea why that makes him like it.
(Thu 24th Mar 2005, 11:53, More)
buttercup
A friend of mine told me that he really liked that "build me a buttercup" song. Why? I asked, it's horrible.
"It was playing at my girlfriend's house, when their dog came in and started trying to hump me" he explained.
So now, whenever I hear that song, I think of my friend being assaulted by a great dane in front of his girlfriend's horrified parents.
I have no idea why that makes him like it.
(Thu 24th Mar 2005, 11:53, More)
» Hotel Splendido
Bournemouth
A few years ago, myself and two friends went on holiday to Bournemouth. The landlady of the hotel seemed nice enough and showed us to our rooms. During the night, however, we could hear quite a bit of shouting from somewhere in the hotel.
The next day, I went out for a walk and what appeared to be a drunken tramp shouts something at me from down the street as I was leaving. As is usually wise, I chose not to turn around to a drunken shout of "Oy!", but instead I walked faster in the opposite direction and hoped that he'd ignore me.
However, the tramp ran after me and wrestled me to the floor.
The tramp then accused me of burgling his house.
It was only then that I realised that it wasn't a friendly old tramp at all, but rather the alcoholic wife beating husband of the woman who had showed us to our rooms.
Somewhere in his brain, he mustn't have realised that it was a hotel where he lived, but thought it was just his house.
The next day, he got his wife to appologise on his behalf. Like he seemed to get her to do everything for him. The twat.
(Fri 18th Jan 2008, 13:39, More)
Bournemouth
A few years ago, myself and two friends went on holiday to Bournemouth. The landlady of the hotel seemed nice enough and showed us to our rooms. During the night, however, we could hear quite a bit of shouting from somewhere in the hotel.
The next day, I went out for a walk and what appeared to be a drunken tramp shouts something at me from down the street as I was leaving. As is usually wise, I chose not to turn around to a drunken shout of "Oy!", but instead I walked faster in the opposite direction and hoped that he'd ignore me.
However, the tramp ran after me and wrestled me to the floor.
The tramp then accused me of burgling his house.
It was only then that I realised that it wasn't a friendly old tramp at all, but rather the alcoholic wife beating husband of the woman who had showed us to our rooms.
Somewhere in his brain, he mustn't have realised that it was a hotel where he lived, but thought it was just his house.
The next day, he got his wife to appologise on his behalf. Like he seemed to get her to do everything for him. The twat.
(Fri 18th Jan 2008, 13:39, More)
» What's the most horrific thing you've seen?
Rabbit
More sad than disturbing, but I once saw a baby rabbit hopping along a main road. I drove a bit further and saw a flat mother rabbit.
That still makes me cry.
(Fri 22nd Jun 2007, 12:55, More)
Rabbit
More sad than disturbing, but I once saw a baby rabbit hopping along a main road. I drove a bit further and saw a flat mother rabbit.
That still makes me cry.
(Fri 22nd Jun 2007, 12:55, More)
» Prejudice
Stereotypes
It's my belief that more or less all people who conform to stereotype act that way out a desperation to fit in and act like they are told they should, rather than act like they feel they should.
Hence, the mentality of a gay man who acts overtly camp (as opposed to effeminate - which is more a physical trait) is probably exactly the same as a black man who acts like an American rapper despite being English.
It's worth pointing out here that there is such a thing as a straight white male stereotype. They are usually Jeremy Clarkson fans.
Whereas with most people, when you talk to them, your brain starts to register them as a complex individual, and ignore their physicality, people who act stereotypically usually do seem to be pretty two dimensional and predictable and thus you are always going to think of them as simply the one thing they are projecting themselves as.
Hence, I'm quite prejudiced against anyone who seems to be acting to stereotype because they are usually incredibly predictable and dull.
In fact, it's often quite good to swap the word "stereotypical" with "unimaginative" ie Duncan Norvelle's entire act is to pretend to be an unimaginative gay man.
(Thu 1st Apr 2010, 16:47, More)
Stereotypes
It's my belief that more or less all people who conform to stereotype act that way out a desperation to fit in and act like they are told they should, rather than act like they feel they should.
Hence, the mentality of a gay man who acts overtly camp (as opposed to effeminate - which is more a physical trait) is probably exactly the same as a black man who acts like an American rapper despite being English.
It's worth pointing out here that there is such a thing as a straight white male stereotype. They are usually Jeremy Clarkson fans.
Whereas with most people, when you talk to them, your brain starts to register them as a complex individual, and ignore their physicality, people who act stereotypically usually do seem to be pretty two dimensional and predictable and thus you are always going to think of them as simply the one thing they are projecting themselves as.
Hence, I'm quite prejudiced against anyone who seems to be acting to stereotype because they are usually incredibly predictable and dull.
In fact, it's often quite good to swap the word "stereotypical" with "unimaginative" ie Duncan Norvelle's entire act is to pretend to be an unimaginative gay man.
(Thu 1st Apr 2010, 16:47, More)