The conversation about everything and nothing

i must have been smoking the wrong thing, or i don't visit those threads; i haven't noticed it (except of course my 'bout' with garbled English that i tried for a while when practicing 'future slang' for my science fiction forays) but that was readable if not always clear.
where do you see this?
[it could simply be massive incompetence with the keyboard:roll: ]

One hardly ever sees that on A2K... but, everywhere else, people write like this. The weirdo who continued to write atrocious 'poetry-bash' pornography about me until I used my wits to stop them, had their MSN sign in name as 'mUmMy TrAdE'-- perhaps, it's just some signal between freaks (of the bad kind, because there's nothing better than to be a freak of the good kind!)

Why did you need broken English for Science Fiction? Do you still write?

sorry got lost and trashed my last post;
here's a link to my "Buggered English thread":
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10173

i wished to approximate the projected speach patterns in a future society that had simplified their communications protocols and adopted certain obvious short cuts.

i still have stories on the go, but my current hot topic is non fiction.

[i am, of course, unpublished!]

O, I was wondering why you wrote so... 'brevely'... in the past and not now! Yes, the problem with that was that it could have confused/turned away quite a few people, even though it was an interesting concept.

'Of course[?]' You deserve to be published; so many A2kers do, but you stand out amongst quite a few as a person who balances innovation with coherence... have you sent anything off to be scrutinised?

our little secret; i'm a thinker not a doer; sad but true. i come up with the ideas which then languish in limbo while i go dreaming elswhere.
but i'm trying to turn the tide maybe soon
[i should take a page out of OccamBill's book - and see if i can kick the laziness habit ]

Ah.. I carry out most of my ideas and try to get them to a level that I find acceptable; the only problem is that I have about 100 things that need writing, and I have no time! Its being summer doesn't help at all, either...

Occom stopped being lazy? And, it's not being lazy, it's being a thinker rather than a doer;... they are certainly two different things.

What did I learn on A2K today? If you don't like the green text ads, you can simply change the board style in your profile, and you won't see them.

That's a very good idea, Cav.
Personally, I prefer the green ads to pop-ups, though; you don't have to open them if you don't want, unlike pop-ups or scroll page things that are always there... I click on them a few times, because the last thing that I would want would be for this place to close...

I don't really mind them, but some do, so I just thought I'd pop that in. I would hate to see members who don't like them leave over something so trivial.

I am also partial to the green ads. I wish I could ad them to my web site and get paid scads of cash each time someone clicks on it.

I haven't seen them yet.

I am going to have to sit down and write about the strange dinner party I went to last night. It was a perfect nexus of neurosis...

sorry for the confusing post OBill is quiting smoking; i'm the one addicted to laziness!

Cav i have it over the 'grapevine' that Setanta is 'pissed' over these adds (that i don't see at all in Opera )

Perhaps you could PM that info to him with an explanation (blame me)?

I'll send something to him; but, I don't think that he's even visiting A2K without posting..

Make sure that you post about the dinner party, Osso; if you're posting elsewhere, write the link in here! The stupidest dinner party that I've ever attended culminated into a veritable brawl over who was the greatest Greek philosopher. Not a nice sight to behold. How about everyone else?

Is there such a thing as giving up laziness? I thought that one had to give up being lazy before giving up being lazy, which is impossible if one doesn't know where to start!

Drom,

I was able to witness (Not take part in) a bar clearing brawl that started with an argument over the true color of a famous actress' eyes!! I left when the bartender reached for the phone. Damage was in the thousands and many arrested were eighty-sixed over it.

The place was closed for a week for renovation and remodeling. It re-opened as an up-scale, yuppie bar. It was a quieter clientele and more affluent, but lost it's flavor completely. No more live intertainment, by a house band that played requests. It's big thing is Karioke on Wedensday and Saturday nite. Somehow, another decent biker bar bit the bullet. All over the color of Liz Taylor's eyes. I never rode bike, but liked the people when clean and sober.

I hope so, but i'm too damn lazy to look it up!

I guess you didn't like them very often.............

That was before my changes, Bo. But, that didn't stop some of them from hitting on me. Unfortunately, most were way to far into drugs for my interest. The others were hooked up with women and I wouldn't get into a physical fight with any woman, then or now. I won't give some guy the pleasure of seeing such behavior. Besides, I am a lady. :wink:

It's really sad when that happens, Wiyaka. My mother used to run an old pub called The Richmond; I hated living in a pub, but I loved the architecture... because, since we left, fighting came back, the Council have approved of a plan to knock the place down and turn it into a Kentucky Fried Chicken hut.

It's amazing, what people will do just because of the pettiest arguments! (Why would they want to see such behaviour?)

Drom,

It was the Friday and Saturday night entertainment. The band was basically for background music. Mostfights were just between two people, sex didn't matter. However, after that one fight, it was over for good.

I had been a pocieman and county deputy prior, so I could tell fairly well in advancce,who would get into things and guessed within five minutes of thactual start time. It saved the staff problems, when I would get them aside and say, "Watch that one. He'll be starting things in about 15 minutes." or whatever. I was offered a job there as bouncer, but I had recently returned to university at the time and didn't like having to give weekly statements to the authorities, after the brawls.

I returned to that town five years ago, after coming out, and had a duece of a time trying to locate the biker bar. It was a very quiet, subdued place, but I found a few of my old friends. Most have sold their bikes and bought into mainstream society. They had no problems with the changes in me and some of the men even hit on me...in a friendly way. :wink: The other patrons were either from the neighborhood or very young, boisterous students, trying to impress everyone with their new found knowledge.

The original bar was upscale for about five years, then it became a deli that sold spirits. Now, it's a furniture store. It isn't the same.