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No posting new threads. Talk about everything in here. Things are getting cluttered. smile

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Hey how about that Red Wedding episode tongue

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Thanks for making a new thread just to state that smile..  Im sure everyone will follow by example tongue..

You might be a king or little kid sweeper.  Sooner or later, you'll dance with the Reaper....

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well my thread got closed!  which is bogus because I have a thread in October on the subject but if I bounce my old thread it will get closed

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Well Yelleh, new fmods are confused.  As Keerb said when closing your thread, there needs to be a place where we can go and post random stuff.  Previously that was the purpose of the general forum, not sure what the purpose of the general forum is now if we can't post general things in it.  Generally I have used the general forum on a general base to post general every day goofiness.  That is no longer allowed.

Now we have a general thread inside the general forum, and the only reason I can come up with is that the general forum has become the Mafia forum and Keerb got tired of having to see more than 1 post each day.

But now we are in a general within a general....if we go a little deeper maybe we can plant the idea in Stefan's mind to finally sell IC to someone that cares about it!

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Ah, but Sir UD, you forgot about the general theory of general discussions. Generally, each time a general poster posts a thread in the general topic, the general outcome is that bickering and a general sense of discomfort will be genuinely apparent. As you know, the fmods generally wish to avoid such general attacks stemming from the general threads generally posted. As such, it is generally a good idea to keep posts generally on topic. I, also, genuinely do not know the general idea of this, my post, in the general thread within the general topic, where I generally do not post.

And remember kids, being selfish is a virtue.

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7 Reply by Keerb (edited by Keerb 04-Jun-2013 15:02:01)

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My point is that if you want to make a thread about an episode of a series, go ahead but give the thread something to talk about. There are so many threads popping up with one-liners which might have been a lot more suitable in chat or a "Random" thread. It doesn't bring anything to the table.

For example, if you want to discuss an episode of GoT and it's reaction make a thread called Game of Thrones Ep 9 *Spoilers* And write a little more about it than "Peoples reactions to last GoT was funny". What kind of thread are we expecting to get out of that?

I'm not sure what mods have used to allow on here before but I'm just seeing several threads like this popping up without any real content!

TL;DR version: If you want to make a thread to discuss an episode of a series, or a series in general, or any other topic. Feel free to make the thread, but add some content to it!

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After a quick chat with UD and Wendy I've realized I was too triggerhappy on that one The Yell and I apologize for it. I guess I mainly wanted to bring up the topic of adding some content to the threads being posted making them more interesting. Not a good way of doing it admittedly but still, something to think about.

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thanks I wasn't complaining, just explaining why I'm here

I always thought I should be allowed to bump the old thread when in time inevitably I was proved relevant and interesting big_smile

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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bumping an old thread is permissible, provided that the bump is a significant contribution to the thread and not just a troll.

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lol Tbh, in 13 years of IC, nobody ever moderated General forum except for spam and profanity =p

Sex without the e is still SX!

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NolIo make me 1

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wait when did Nolio become a mod??

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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he begged Primo

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Nolio wrote:

lol Tbh, in 13 years of IC, nobody ever moderated General forum except for spam and profanity =p


yes but the post Yell had made could easily be mistaken for spam.

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yikes  well yeah if you didn't know where I'm coming from

I'm like the Sewer Urchin in "The Tick", i seem odd in your surface world but I roam the depths like a god

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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"so have u ever made an asprin this big before?"
"well yeah I made one that came kinda close"
"and how big was it?"
"about the size of a dime"

Been dreaming, I've been waiting, To fly with those brave ponies
The Wonderbolts, their daring tricks, Spinning 'round and having kicks
Perform for crowds of thousands, They'll shower us with diamonds
The Wonderbolts will see me right here at the Gala!

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ok so in December 2011 we learned:

For the first time the researchers have been able to mutate the H5N1 strain of avian influenza so that it can be transmitted easily through the air in coughs and sneezes. Until now, it was thought that H5N1 bird flu could only be transmitted between humans via very close physical contact.

Dutch scientists carried out the controversial research to discover how easy it was to genetically mutate H5N1 into a highly infectious "airborne" strain of human flu. They believe that the knowledge gained will be vital for the development of new vaccines and drugs.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien … 79474.html

and then in April 2013 we learned:

A Dutch company called Mars One began looking Monday for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars. Departure for the Red Planet is scheduled for 2022, landing seven months later in 2023.
The space travelers will return ... never. They will finish out their lives on Mars, representatives from the nonprofit said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/world/mars-one-way-ticket

So first Dutch taxpayers figure out how to kill all life on earth, and then Dutch non-profits figure how to evacuate a few people to Mars.

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMM

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Valcona wrote:
Nolio wrote:

lol Tbh, in 13 years of IC, nobody ever moderated General forum except for spam and profanity =p


yes but the post Yell had made could easily be mistaken for spam.


No

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If Valcona doesnt watch a show - the name of which wasn't in my post - he wouldn't know what  I was talking about

ofc then he has some pop culture homework to do!

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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The Yell wrote:

If Valcona doesnt watch a show - the name of which wasn't in my post - he wouldn't know what  I was talking about

ofc then he has some pop culture homework to do!


exactly, and the one line post that isn't even a sentence would easily be seen as spam.

btw it wasn't me that had closed the thread just saying it pays to elaborate on the purpose of the post.

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So I was sitting in my garden about an hour ago and I felt something on my neck, so I put my hand on my neck and felt something, closed my fingers to pick it up and look at it, then I felt a really weird pain in my finger and opened my hand. I got stung by a Teeny Tiny Wasp
lke about the third of the size of a standard wasp. it was weird smile

total freaked out like 5 seconds after I realised what happened tho tongue

Been dreaming, I've been waiting, To fly with those brave ponies
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Perform for crowds of thousands, They'll shower us with diamonds
The Wonderbolts will see me right here at the Gala!

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I was once stung by a giant wasp. He opened the front door and came up to me while I was standing in the hallway. He must've been at least 1,90 tall. I was like "Whatsup?" And he just silently walked up to me, pulled down his drawers and stung me in the stomach. He then proceeded to pull up his drawers, wave and say "Bzzz" then walked out the door. Closed it behind him aswell.

That was weird.

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God he sounds like a jerk.
Did u phone the police or anything?

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Footy: Gateway to Fascism!!!!

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/9338 … turns-ugly

Warning: that link is the best of modern American sports reporting.  You will need about 600 GB of RAM and 100mB of bandwidth to begin reading the short novel that is that article.  Basically, Italy is fascist and they gave it away by going to soccer games.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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