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# Sympathy please
<rant>

I arrive on holiday in Kephalonia, and feel three earthquakes on the first day (!)

Try to hire a car and there aren't any because of some greek festival.

Have to get walk for several kilometres down a dirt track in the mid-day sun carrying my luggage because the taxi refuses to drive me to my accommodation, then have to walk back again, but up a steep hill to buy water that is safe to drink.

Finally manage to hire a car after a couple of days, and decide to drive up Mount Einos (huh huh huh), only to discover that the earthquake has dislodged have the road making it completely unsuitable for a Daewoo Scrotum (well it was called something like that). Scrape the bottom of the car and damage it, so have to do a three-point turn on this dirt track to try to get back down again.

Go out for a drink in the evening only to get phoned up by parents shrieking about a forest fire. Walk out of bar to see fire heading towards villa. Take an impressive photo on my lovely digital camera, then ran up the hill to join in the spraying trees effort. That was eventually put out by the fire brigade.

Go to the beach on the last full day and go for a swim. Get back to find my lovely digital camera stolen.

Decide to get thoroughly pissed in the evening to make up for the loss of £500 of camera (insurance will only pay £200 of it). Go down to the beach to have a quick swim before returning to the villa... disrobe to see a man crouching in the bushes watching me and my friend, smoking a fag. Suggest we move to a long way down the beach. Grab clothes and move way down. Get into water, and see man heading towards the pile of clothes. He is clearly pissed and starts trying to talk to us in greek. Get out the water rapidly and grab our clothes and run away from him, back up the huge bloody hill to the villa. Where I find that I've dropped the keys on the beach. Have to go back down to the beach where I know the dodgy pissed bloke is and have to try to dig around in the sand to find the keys. Luckily find them after about 20 mins of searching. See the man again. Run fast back up the hill. I'm not very fit; it hurts.

Spend next morning sat in a sweaty police station trying to report the theft of my camera for 2 hours. After this they cannot give me the necessary incident number until a week after. I had a plane to catch in 3 hours.

Arrive back home and go into work today to find that the cunting arse of a network administrator at my small company has decided to raid my computer while I am away and look for any dodgy stuff. Finds an old copy of Photoshop (v5) that I don't have a licence for, as well as some freeware apps (including my FTP client) and a bloody flight simulator that HE installed and I have never used! Has deleted all the legal free ones, including shitloads of my work, and all my FTP logins to suppliers and clients sites that I needed today to meet a deadline. Then find that he's trying to push disciplinary proceedings against me, despite the fact that I have probably the least warez-infected PC in the building.

This is all revenge for my showing how stupid he was, when he was telling me to log my home PC off the VPN because it was throttling the company bandwidth, by informing him of the limited ability for an idling VPN connection on a 256kB link to saturate a 44MBit office connection.

And all this after the last 4 months of working up to 18-hour days for £20k a year, no bonuses or advantages, doing a job that very few people in the country can do.

CUNTING HELL I NEED A DRINK.

</rant>
(I helped save b3ta! The Boy T, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:23, archived)
# Oh shit
I was going to post a picture I had made.

Here it is

(I helped save b3ta! The Boy T, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:23, archived)
# hahahahaha
brilliant, just brilliant
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:27, archived)
# That's actually painful.
(goat thinks you're shit, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:30, archived)
# woo
love the queue.
bummer about everything else...at least you've got a good story for the next 12 months ;)
(I helped save b3ta! lemonhead, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:34, archived)
# heheheheheheheheh
it didn`t animate in Opera, so I was wonderin why there was just a pic of a bank!

WOO! (now that it animates)
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:38, archived)
# if you scroll so the pic goes off your screen
and then back on to it it usually starts animating
(I helped save b3ta! evil pixie, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:41, archived)
# haahaha !
top notch !
(I helped save b3ta! oCo, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:46, archived)
# Can't be arsed reading it.
Why don't you go somewhere where someone might care? Pictures here please!!
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:24, archived)
# Oi!
That's our mate having problems there.

It's a community you know.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:25, archived)
# it is indeed.
everyone is ultra nice to me when im mid crisis, which seems to be most of the fucking time, so I demand the same with other people!
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:28, archived)
# Bollocks.
There aren't any rules. If you, or anyone else wants to use b3ta as a place to catch up with your buddies, that's fine. It was founded with no rules other than it it's a place to fuck about with Photoshop. So fuck off. You cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:32, archived)
# you fuck off.
if there arent any rules, hes perfectly entitled to write a big fucking rant and post it on the board then isnt he? you just painted yourself into a corner there my friend.
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:37, archived)
# you
aren't pointy anymore

I was down yesterday meself, needed cheering
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:32, archived)
# Tough bollocks!!
It's a picture posting arena! Fuck him. I hope he dies!

(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:28, archived)
# Why thank you.
I take it you failed to notice the apology immediately after posting, and the addition of a picture?
(I helped save b3ta! The Boy T, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:30, archived)
# <Ignore> That </ignore>
chin up mate :)
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:31, archived)
# heheheh
I like your response! True Baz style...

.... but some people, like Boy T, deserve that little bit more!!
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:31, archived)
# Nobody deserves fuck all.
Impose your rules on someone else.
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:33, archived)
# fair
enough - but I don`t impose rules on anybody, or try to!
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:36, archived)
# Soz dude...
...just tryin' to whip up a bit of hatred. I love it!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:42, archived)
# No rules
just common courtesy.

That alright?
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:37, archived)
# Whatever you want is fine with me.
But whatever I want is fine with you too. OK?
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:38, archived)
#


(just cos I haven`t used it in ages, and felt like it - nothing too personal!)
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:41, archived)
# That's the spirit!!
Fuck the weak. Natural selection. Ban all whineing wankers!!!
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:43, archived)
# I like your attitude!
you`ve obviously not hit the mid 20s yet!!
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:52, archived)
# dont start.
you know well enough theres room enough for everything.
Dont make me get get PICA-TCHURES out
(thediscokingpin, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:28, archived)
# Take a deep breath
and pick up a book.

I feel for you, but you must try and make the best of a bad situation.

We love you, if that helps :)
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:24, archived)
# Cheers mate

hopefully the whole situation will backfire and he'll get fired for being utterly incompetent (our mail server is down every week).
(I helped save b3ta! The Boy T, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:28, archived)
# well
I'll keep fingers crossed for you, some admins get off on the power, twats
(I helped save b3ta! Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:33, archived)
# I haven't read your dribbling
but I hope YOU get fired for being a wuss.
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:37, archived)
# at what point in time did you turn into a complete twat?
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:42, archived)
# Long before
you cunts arrived.
(I helped save b3ta! routine has perfected burgers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:44, archived)
# fair answer.
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:45, archived)
# Where do you work?
I need somewhere to burn down.
(goat thinks you're shit, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:25, archived)
# here
have some sympathy.
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feel better now?
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:26, archived)
# *hugs*
that's really shitty. wish i could hug you better
(I helped save b3ta! evil pixie, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:27, archived)
# you poor fucker
1. Welcome to Greece

2. Get another job - and then go back, meet this cunt in private, and take a brick to his head

3. Have your drink
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:27, archived)
# have them all killed.
perhaps.


i feel your pain though, i started a new job a few months ago and i have to really bite my tongue when we (as the IT dept) discuss 'security' as they appear to have limited knowledge on the subject....


i would be ruder, but they might read this (i have mailed them the link when in a better mood ...)

hope it goes ok with the insurance anyway ...
(I helped save b3ta! spiny - things are looking up, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:29, archived)
# fucking hell!

YOU DO NEED A DRINK!
(I helped save b3ta! Naive Amoeba Bored Cig, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:29, archived)
# jesus!
poor you!
(I helped save b3ta! rogue Big knickers, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:29, archived)
# wow
i think you've filled your quota for bad luck if that make you feel any better.

hopefully for the next couple of years.

*hugs*
(I helped save b3ta! cwethan, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:29, archived)
# fuckaduck
that's a run of shitness
pour yerself a large one
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:30, archived)
# Thank you all
to the nice people and cock off to anybody else :)
(I helped save b3ta! The Boy T, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:38, archived)
# Can I just point out, as a network administrator
that we're not all cunts, you just have one who probably has a small penis. Whenever I find someone with illegal software I just give them a jokingly telling off and tell them that that they should think about getting rid of it in case someone senior finds it. Heavan forbid they should look at my work PC and find the sort of stuff I have on it. Greece is a crappy country, I went to Athens in June, and you were just unlucky.
(Toomz, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:40, archived)
# Nah
We are all cunts. It is our one reward for having to put up with fuckwit questions from fuckwit users.
(I helped save b3ta! kinell, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:47, archived)
# In this case
I doubt I could be called 100% of fuckwit PC user - my current job is designing motherboards. The deadline I was referring to was my sending off of our final production design files to the PCB manufacturer in Taiwan for my first prototypes to be finished in a couple of weeks :o)

And Toomz, I concur - our other network guy, who actually knows his stuff, is a thoroughly sound bloke! Greece has been pretty good to me in the past, and at least I wasn't in Faliraki...
(I helped save b3ta! The Boy T, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:56, archived)
# I understand what you are saying
but I work on the cake principle. I fix your computer, you buy me cakes, you go to the top of my call log.
I fix your computer, you don't even say thank you because you think i'm just doing my job, even though I helped you get that important proposal out on time because you deleted a file and you try to tell me that the network isn't working properly and it must have deleted the file itself, I treat you like woodlice.
(Toomz, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 1:00, archived)
# yeah
I went to Athens in 1999 and got hit by a quake too :-) it`s amazing how walls BEND!

wish I was a network administrator now.. instead of a bloody Java code monkey :-\
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 23 Aug 2003, 0:54, archived)