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Sometimes I just despair...

joefishjoefish
edited April 2014 in Chit chat
Who new that a recycled Two Ronnies gag could be so controversial?
Have a quick scan of this piece on The Register about the end of XP support from Microsoft:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/08/microsoft_windows_xp_end_of_life_data_protection/

Then go to the comments, read my one at the top; note the 'thumbs-down' count and read the replies to it. Jesus. What have I done? :confused:

I think some people forgot to patch their sense of humour for four-digit dates and think we're in 1914 and there's a war on or something.
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited April 2014
    four candles
  • RorthronRorthron
    edited April 2014
    I can't believe there are so many people who don't get irony and feel the need to write dumb comments on the internet.

    Oh, wait....
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  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited April 2014
    That reminds me of the time I used a Lee Evans joke on a woman in the pub one night. We were talking about sports and what we were good at and I said "I was always good at boxing because I always came 2nd. 3rd if there was a ref" and now she's convinced that I used to be a boxer :lol:

    I love it when people become irony deficient :-D
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited April 2014
    you only got 3 downvotes thats nothing ya big n00b
  • beanzbeanz
    edited April 2014
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    That reminds me of the time I used a Lee Evans joke on a woman in the pub one night. We were talking about sports and what we were good at and I said "I was always good at boxing because I always came 2nd. 3rd if there was a ref" and now she's convinced that I used to be a boxer :lol:

    I love it when people become irony deficient :-D

    Reminds me of a caravan Holiday in Rhyl when I was 18 with a friend.

    We picked up a couple of girls in the next caravan...I'd been playing Punch-Out in the arcade all week..they asked "what we'd been doing all week till you met us?" my buddy pointed at me and said "He's been boxing (referring to punch-out)"....they said "oooh you're a boxer?"....I perpetuated the notion and it served me well the rest of the holiday ;)
  • joefishjoefish
    edited April 2014
    Oh I've had worse than that. Whenever they do something about some new tech from LEGO, all the old gits on there start going all James-May about how it was better when all you had were three colours of 2x4 bricks and when you grew out of that there was Meccano; then someone says they're sexist for designing sets for girls. If you try and point out how since they licensed Star Wars they're beating even Hasbro in toy market share (second only to Mattel) and the girls sets do in fact include a martial arts class and robotics workshop, they really don't want to listen. Apparently even a roof brick with a slope on it is too specialised.

    A shame - they're missing out on some absolutely hilarious translations from the Danish of more recent LEGO part descriptions:

    http://brickset.com/parts/4623481
    http://brickset.com/parts/4520320
    http://brickset.com/parts/6055578
    http://brickset.com/parts/6055524
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  • fogfog
    edited April 2014
    yer amateur hour compared to daily mail comic err comments section :)

    I guess it might see a bigger take up on linux for older machines perhaps.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited April 2014
    I particularly like this one from Wemb.

    "Yes, we spent millions and millions of pounds fixing the Y2K bug and in the end nothing happened.... Because we spent millions and millions of pounds.'
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  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited April 2014
    Mebbe they don't know what 'Grecian 2000' is :lol:
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited April 2014
    Well it was either that or the one about Y2KY-Jelly, helping you get four digits in every [SNIP! - Ed.]
    Joefish
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  • JimmoJimmo
    edited April 2014
    The Y2K problem... Oh yes, I remember seeing a piece of really poor journalism on either the BBC or Ch4 where the reporter stated that "all silicon chips have a 'Clock' and this could cause them to fail at midnight 1st Jan 2000' and obviously hadn't done any research into what the 'clock' actually was in regard to microprocessors.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited April 2014
    Are you sure it wasn't Stephen Fry? That sounds like one of his expert technological explanations.
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  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited April 2014
    joefish wrote: »
    Are you sure it wasn't Stephen Fry? That sounds like one of his expert technological explanations.

    Yes, I fear his grasp of technology is only as good as what's on his autocue.
  • guesserguesser
    edited April 2014
    Matt_B wrote: »
    Yes, I fear his grasp of technology is only as good as what's on his autocue.

    At least you can be sure where he is because his autocue constantly transmits his position up to GPS satellites ;)
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  • ADJBADJB
    edited April 2014
    El Reg's commentards, a strange bunch at the best of times.

    A pity Eadon has gone, no doubt he / she / it would have blamed Microsoft's unpublicised take over of Grecian.

    That reminds me, we haven't had a good solid holy war on there for at least a week.
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