THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Inlander on 24 Mar 2010, 22:26
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Sometimes, in my remorseless reach for Orwellian omnipotence, I find myself clicking on the "Who's online" button at the bottom of the forum's main page. This takes me to a page that tells me straight away who's currently reading the forum, and what they're doing. In my occasional wandering into this dank netherworld I've had occasion to observe some frankly baffling and yet curiously widespread behaviour, and it has led me to ask the following question:
Why on earth would anybody want to print a thread on an online forum?
Any information and speculation leading to an answer to this question, however spurious, would appreciated with a fervent gratitude matched in its immensity only by the corresponding smallness of any reward I might be willing to offer.
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So you can document it as evidence in future legal matters. /print
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Someone is printing pictures of you for masturbation material, Harry.
Face the truth.
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Either that or they want something to do when they take a shit. For example, back in college there was this one lanky dude who became notorious for printing out a whole bunch of articles and basically fumigating the caf restroom. It was kinda vile.
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Someone is printing pictures of you for masturbation material, Harry.
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Someone is printing pictures of you for masturbation material, Harry.
Face the truth.
truth is, his posts induce more lady boners than his face ever could.
oh snaps.
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damn bitch
you got jacked bitch
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Dayum.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apu_585SW18&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apu_585SW18&feature=related)
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I hope you're happy now Anna.
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Man is it weird that "lady boners" is like...a mega arousing phrase to me?
Is that weird, guys?
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Yes.
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I'm inclined to second that.
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Man is it weird that "lady boners" is like...a mega arousing phrase to me?
Is that weird, guys?
/print
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I click on the "Who's online" button as well sometimes when I'm bored, and what I've noticed is that among the "viewing the board index", "posting in the topic _" and such, sometimes it says "nothing, or nothing you can see..." What the hell are you guys doing?
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Are they mods? Mods have their own "secret" forum that only they can see where they basically bitch about the rest of us.
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(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020701h.gif)
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Are they mods? Mods have their own "secret" forum that only they can see where they basically bitch about the rest of us.
No, it's pretty much everyone, even guests. It's weird!
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Whatever it is they're doing, it's probably for the best that we can't see it.
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Also, I live in perpetual fear of clicking "Who's Online" and seeing someone else listed as "Viewing Who's Online." It's my secret sneaky pass-time! I don't want to get caught out!
Well, too late for that now, I guess.
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If only there was a "Who's Masturbating to the Photo Thread" button
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I think it's assumed that that's the default position. It's more notable for the forum software to catalogue when anyone's not masturbating to the photo thread.
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Also, I live in perpetual fear of clicking "Who's Online" and seeing someone else listed as "Viewing Who's Online." It's my secret sneaky pass-time! I don't want to get caught out!
Wow, I thought I was the only one who did this.
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I've been known to accidentally click the Print button when I'm going to click Next for the new topic. It's a little annoying.
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I didn't know we even had a print button!
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sean doesn't even have a printer cuz he's tru punx you fucks.
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Man is it weird that "lady boners" is like...a mega arousing phrase to me?
Is that weird, guys?
i want to tell you how hot you are, but you'll think i'm being sexist.
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Other fun button stuff: I don't know if it's the same for you plebs, but in the top row of buttons on my screen, wedged between the "Search" and the "Profile" buttons, I have a button called "Admin". I have never touched it; I fear that at best, clicking on it frivolously could lead to a warning or a fine or even jail time as when somebody is caught making prank calls to the emergency services; at worst it could mobilise the forum Admins to declare war on some rival internet forum. And we all know where that kind of behaviour leads. (Well, except the people who've only joined in the last couple of years.)
Of course I also have access to all sorts of other fun buttons but I can't tell you about them. They're secret.
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sean doesn't even have a printer cuz he's tru punx you fucks.
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/antithesis9/P3250112.jpg?t=1269526687)
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i print my own shit instead of paying to use the school printers so thats diy and therefore trupunx
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you fucks
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would that "admin" button be capable of turning a Regular Internet Person into a Rad Moderator Type Person, perhaps?
i don't know, i have no access to the secret buttons in this place.
sigh. :|
also sean, keep up the excellent diy. o/
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it doesn't
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Everybody who read this thread has now changed their settings to hide their online status.
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I've been known to accidentally click the Print button when I'm going to click Next for the new topic. It's a little annoying.
yeah it's probably this, i know i have done it like a million times
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Now I'm thinking there's something wrong with the forum. According to Who's On-line, three guests are currently printing this topic from 2005: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,3216.0.html
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No, they just have really slow printers.
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If ever I have appeared as printing a thread, I assure you, it's a damn lie!!
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i only print the correct ones. so, that's none of them these days.
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All this means is that my new favorite past time is leaving a window open with Harry's profile 24/7 in the background on my comp.
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all it means to me is not hiding my online status and toning down the sweetness with people i don't have any real interest in.
meh.
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Phil that won't do it, it'll only show activity when you load the page the first time.
What you need to do is get a script to keep refreshing Harry's.
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They are documenting your downfall.
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It began on the 8th of March, 2005.
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hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that boring day and year.
Except Jhocking.
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I just clicked 'post' for another thread, and instead of posting, it offered to save the thread to my desktop.
Is there some sort of bug?
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There is a bug. It is inside your mouse. It is running as fast as it can to try to get out of this thing it is trapped in, but all it is succeeding in doing running in circles and confusing the optical sensors a bit, so that your cursor clicks on the wrong spot.
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I forgot this feature existed. Sometime ago I would watch it to see who is where and wonder why
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I just clicked 'post' for another thread, and instead of posting, it offered to save the thread to my desktop.
Is there some sort of bug?
This happens to me a lot, something must be wrong with the server.
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I just realised, that if you use this feature to see what people are doing, I'm almost always "posting in...".
No posts ever appear, but I'm pretty much always "posting in...".
I think there's more posts that I don't make.
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I type lost of posts out then don't make them. Not so much on this forum as others.
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I am discomfited by the implication that there are people on this forum that actually think before they hit "post". Doin' it wrong, you guys.
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I have printed something out of both the fashion & hair threads to use for reference. Just so you know...
(I never think, I drink & watch cartoons, I have no brain left)
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Now somebody's printing out the "What are you listening to" thread from the music forum.
It goes for more than 70 pages. Why does anybody need a permanent record of that??
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Blackmail.
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Why? I already admit to having no taste.
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It's seventy-four pages long!!
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Everyone start printing threads to piss off Harry.
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BRB printing the mediafire thread
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But dude you can't even print music, man
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Everyone start printing threads to piss off Harry.
I'm not pissed off, I'm just utterly bemused. Like when you see someone drinking an alcopop.
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Seeing someone drink an alcopop makes me angry.
SO FUCKING ANGRY GODDAMNIT!
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But dude you can't even print music, man
No, but you can print the HexCode of all the uploaded music files, then in 50 years when all of the digital formats of today are obsolete and nothing can read our primitive "discs", it will be simple to OCR the stack of papers to extract and convert the information to holographic storage and transform into sound waves once again.
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Adobe Audition can output an audio file as an image. The idea is that you can edit it in Photoshop and re-import it to get new (aka weird) effects. You could, of course, print the image.
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Someone was printing BABIES?
I'm wondering if it's not just a hiccup of the status indicator. It can make mistakes, right?
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How's this for creepy:
Guest 11:53:23 AM Nothing, or nothing you can see...
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Now somebody's printing out the "What are you listening to" thread from the music forum.
It goes for more than 70 pages. Why does anybody need a permanent record of that??
Oh, I get it. it's seventy-four pages long, so if you want to read the entire thing in one go, or search for something particular, you get the entire thread in one single page. Mystery solved! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go print out the Pointless Thread.
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But dude you can't even print music, man
No, but you can print the HexCode of all the uploaded music files, then in 50 years when all of the digital formats of today are obsolete and nothing can read our primitive "discs", it will be simple to OCR the stack of papers to extract and convert the information to holographic storage and transform into sound waves once again.
This reminded me of this (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1) articlewhich is awesome and everyone should read
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I just clicked 'post' for another thread, and instead of posting, it offered to save the thread to my desktop.
Is there some sort of bug?
I've never had this, but often when I search it asks me if I want to save a file called index.php
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That's what I thought Sox meant, it's what I experience.
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This reminded me of this (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1) articlewhich is awesome and everyone should read
I did and it was, thanks!
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Yes, that article was so awesome I knew what you were referring to even before I opened it.
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Someone was printing BABIES?
How is BABIES printed?