sidney_b

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  1. Seriously, I love that avatar. It should be made into a tshirt.
  2. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xanatos_NA View Post
    Just manually copy & paste the link into your...um...task-bar-tool-bar-search-engine-bit-where-you-type-the-URL's-I-can't-remember-it's-name.
    Address bar? Well, unless you're in Firefox 3.5, where they call it the "Awesome Bar", even though some of its functionality appeared previously in other browsers.
  3. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eikochan View Post
    You must be familiar with this guy, too:
    I think they've blocked your hotlinking.

    This is the link to the image: http://eatliver.com/img/2007/2128.jpg

    Edit: Ah, how crude, it checks the referrer.
    Edit edit: egads, now it shows. One would think they'd be better at this...

    But I don't recognize the location in Chicago.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cien_Fuegos View Post
    [SIZE=4]* gives out coffee and milk in champaigne (sp?) glasses*
    ...
    Champagne flutes, actually. But one serves sparkling wine if the vintner isn't actually from the Champagne region of France.
  5. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ascendant_NA View Post
    I would! I love that guy! Without him and his homemade sandwich boards, I'd have no way to keep up with developments in communist weather/mind/salad/whatever control technology. In fact, he's a central member of the Chicago Crazy Pantheon, right up there with the Hi Guy, the Scammist*, the Redliner*, and Dr. Cranium*.

    *Yeah, that's right: I make up names for the crazy people I run across on a regular basis. I lie awake at night worrying that this makes me part of the Chicago Crazy Pantheon.
    There was a guy on the 55 Garfield bus, back when I rode it from the Red Line to home in Hyde Park, who would repeatedly try to sell everyone products with this line: "I got CDs, DVDs, Pornos, CDs, Pornos, Pornos, Pornos, Pornos..."

    I'm surprised he didn't sell LPs, because he skipped like they did at certain points.

    Also, I'm glad I don't live in Uptown anymore. I only found out after I moved there that there used to be a mental hospital in the area that closed down. And no, I don't like that Billy Joel song.
  6. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Haetron View Post


    Sid hides in the bushes, waits silently for her moment, and then she GATLING POSTS YOU TO DETH.

    <3s
    Well, according to my reputation ticker, I'm apparently, even after all these years, missing the point.

    Which is quite true, I wasn't aware this thread had a point.

    Also, that's a really big gun. It's almost like I'm compensating for something.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Haetron View Post
    You're doing it wrong Virtue.

    Tags are meant to group likeminded threads together for group consumption. Giving threads one-off, never applicable again tags, defeats the purpose and just adds to more bandwidth waste.


    Don't be that guy Virtue. Don't waste tags.
    It's too bad we can't self-police and remove other tags.
  8. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JJDrakken View Post
    I swear, if I met most the Posters here, I would shoot them & bury them somewhere deep in the woods.


    -scowls-


    JJ
    Wouldn't that be a Haet crime?
  9. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Haetron View Post
    The mod has spoken man.
    I still need to up my post count and pretend to reply when I know nobody will respond.
  10. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Elysienne View Post
    Thread over,you say?

    But can't we leave this thread up as a single, unified thread for Haet to vent his spleen in? If nothing else, the irony'd keep me well-nourished for at least a week.
    This is why I <3 Ely, even if we have that legitimate beef over the Medic badge.
  11. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Merry_Mint View Post
    You misrepresent the Rookery position. The Rookery uses a daily thread not just for the convenience and organization, but because it's less daunting and more inclusive to newcomers.
    I would disagree.

    There have been times when it looked like an actual conversation was starting in a Rookery thread... only to have it rollover to the next day, and the thread wither and die.

    And even if the thread is repeated daily, tabula rasa, everybody in it already seems to know each other, so it's more difficult to get into the natural rhythms and patterns.

    There have been examples when new posts have been completely ignored, because the thread has already started blowing, as clouds do, in another direction, and there's little effort made to reconnect with previous threads.

    Convenience and organization, perhaps. I don't see the inclusiveness.
  12. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by YellowjacketX View Post
    Because you are the ones seeking to limit. Why don't you implement the tools at your disposal to simply ignore what you view as extraneous or fluff? Having to move that mousewheel one more tick is not at all like telling people that can only have one thread ever.
    Not quite. You're the one in here trying to shut them up, so it's not like you're on the high horse here.

    You could, after all, ignore what you view as irritating, offensive junk.

    Thanks for playing though.[/QUOTE]
  13. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by YellowjacketX View Post
    I would think that if there is anything approaching irony about this whole thread it's that individuals who were so deeply criticized for their fluff are now on some crusade to limit other people's fluff. Absolutely hilarious. What is it about the Internet that turns otherwise intelligent people into such a petty bunch of *******? Why do you want to limit the fun of other people who are not hurting you?

    Think on that for a bit.
    Actually, I think the biggest irony is that the people complaining about the Rookery are having fun. In their own thread. And you're the ones trying to limit their fun by coming in and argue with them.

    And the funny thing is, that's probably heightening their enjoyment, just like how hearing the whinging of humans always makes releasing the neurotoxic gas into the labs that much more fun.
  14. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vivace View Post
    Already counted 2, there was a total of 9 Rookery threads, and something like 48 (I think, without looking) regular threads.
    I think your numbers are off. If it's 5 pages, and we presume 25 per page, 48 + 9 = 57, which doesn't work.

    We should be trying to figure out the number out of 125.

    If we're talking about just the two you counted, pages 1 and 4, that should be 50 threads: 7 out of 50 is what you had, which is still a relatively high 14%.
  15. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Elysienne View Post
    Well it worked for the Native Americans, right?

    ... this thread was a lot funner about six pages ago.
    Lies. The more hostile it gets, the funnier and funner it is.
  16. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vivace View Post
    Now, currently I see 3 Rookery threads on the front page of Virtue and 22 non-Rookery threads on the front page. That's about 7.3 regular threads for every 1 Rookery thread. It certainly doesn't seem like that much when put in terms like that, does it?

    Oh page 4, I see 4 Rookery threads and 21 non-Rookery threads. That's less than 5.5 regular threads for every one Rookery thread. Again, it doesn't seem like that much, and certainly doesn't seem like you have to scroll through a ton of Rookery threads to get to non-Rookery threads.
    3 Rookery-related threads out of 25 leads to 12%, or almost an eighth of all threads. Virtually all other threads are one-offs; in other words, 4%. (We are, for the moment, excluding the Stickied threads.) It's significantly more.

    How significantly more? Well, that's a 200% more Rookery threads, if I've done my math right, than each one-off regular thread. 3 times as many.

    And that's on the first page.

    Sure, bring the math. There's always a way to make it look bad.
  17. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fedor View Post
    Noone has to read the thread if they don't want to. It's easy enough to look past it. The Mods said it's not a violation. So why would anyone so opposed to it waste time discussing it so much?
    The guy who stands on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, proclaiming that Obama is a part of the Russian Communist plot isn't violating any rules, and it's easy enough to look and walk past him, but after the first few days of seeing him, his presence just starts getting... well, let's just say that if they institutionalized him, most people wouldn't mind.

    Those town hall meetings for the health care program, nobody has to go to them if they don't want to. They're easy enough to ignore, and they're probably good for our form of democracy. So why do people go to them just to shout down other people for no reason?
  18. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Reiraku View Post
    I agree, which is why I feel that the Rookery posts should be consolidated into a single thread. Barring that, kept to a social group specifically (though I do understand that isn't as inclusive as they would like).

    I know I've had more trouble than I'd like looking for a particular thread only to wade through dozens of others, half of which being Rookery threads, to find it. The Rookery is all well and good for what it is, but keep it to a thread. Daily threads are just excessive and unnecessary.
    Every now and then I peek in. Sometimes I find a off-hand statement that I'd like to respond to. So I do.

    Then I realize it's like spitting into the wind. Don't get me wrong, a breeze is a breeze, and they're always nice, even if you're Marilyn Monroe, and it's staged and coming from a vent below you, but if you're sensible, you quickly realize there are other places more worth your time.
  19. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Haetron View Post
    18/f/ca

    U?
    iono asl ???
  20. sidney_b

    Hi guys!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Haetron View Post
    Whats up LOL?
    y helo thar!!!

    a/s/l?
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JJDrakken View Post
    IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, LET ME REPHRASE A PART: "The continuity freaks need to get a life."


    JJ
    I have very little invested in G.I. Joe, since at the time of my youth, I was more entertained by My Little Pwnies and Tetris, but I find it odd that we're placing so little value on continuity.

    Or is it just specific to this franchise, where we say frak all to what's been established before?
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Flea_Mark_Evil View Post
    Film is good if you ignore the requirements for plot and/or canon-linked sense, same as just about every other TV series/Comic based film of the past decade (seriously folks, there were only about three that stayed on the ball for the whole thing).

    Also....Reputation and comments totally lulzworthy folks. 'Pretentious snot'? Haha.

    -tl:dr version

    Generic Summer action movie involving guns, explosion, ham acting and attractive women in rather snug and tight outfits.

    If that makes me pretentious then you may want to go back into hibernation for the next Harry Potter film.
    It's not quite pretentiousness if it's not an affectation.
  23. sidney_b

    New forums...

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ChancellorRxa View Post
    I was noticing a performance problem on the new forums. I did some digging, it appears that new forums are actually a skin on top of the old forums and your computer is still rendering the old forums in the background.
    Can't have been much digging. The last forum software was UBBthreads, while this one's vBulletin. While both are written in PHP connecting to a MySQL backend, they're entirely separate products from different, competing companies. I think the owners of vBulletin wanted to sell to UBBthreads at one point, but never got there.

    I'm not sure why they didn't cut costs and just use phpBB instead.

    As far as the joke... meh.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyrantula View Post
    Yeah, the acting was a bit wonky, plot holes abound, but!

    It was what it was supposed to be, a fun forget-about-your-troubles, exciting summer action picture, nothing more, nothing less. I had a great time, and I would enjoy a sequel.

    I'm glad the studio declined to screen it for critics before release, all they would have done is slam it hard while they stuffed their fat ***** with expensive cheese and wine.

    Not every movie has to be an academy award winning formula with overpaid actors.

    Go Joe Yo.
    *shrugs* We all look for different things in a movie. For a dumb summer flick, this doesn't meet my requirements.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angry_Angel View Post
    But to keep in line with the position (that it was marketing toy lines to kids), did it not disturb anyone that the 2 hour commercial had a woman gutted like a fish fairly early on while her male superior officer walked away with a flesh wound in comparison. They were in the same office.. come on. They didn't need him. Unless they did but then again, I fell asleep if you recall.
    Is this like, Women in Refrigerators-style "Thanks for showing up, GTFO now" ?