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Boreades
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | I do not know what 'page source' refers to |
We should remember at all times that it is quite normal for many people, including Inner City Intelligentsia, to blunder through life with no understanding of how things work. Including the very web browser they use daily to tell the world what they think.
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Mick Harper
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I love it when experts form an orderly queue to abuse me when I ask for some information, but never quite get round to giving me the information. It reminds me what twerps experts always are.
I am an AE-ist. We pride ourselves on being experts on nothing save the ability to ride on the backs of experts.
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Mick Harper
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My braces arrived and after some difficulty with two novel aspects--viz, they do not attach to buttons on trousers and my mother is no longer around to help--I was soon beginning This Bracing Life (just a working title at the moment).
It is more complex than I had anticipated.
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Boreades
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | I love it when experts form an orderly queue to abuse me when I ask for some information |
OK, you know that little thing you wiggle around to point at words on the screen?
That's called a mouse.
Can you see it's got a couple of clicky things on it? They are called buttons, there's one on the left called The Left Button and one on the right called The Right Button.
Move the mousey pointy thingy until it's over some of these words. Now click once with The Right Button. If you do that, a popup menu will appear. "View Page Source" is one of the menu options. Click that.
Lots of HTML code will appear in a new browser window. Including things like the make and age of the forum software.
phpBB 2.0 , 2005
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Shocking News!
Revisionist Historians exist even outside of AEL.
I've been told there's this thing called FaceBook.
| Almost 20,000 people have shared a Facebook post claiming to have evidence that Australia, the country, does not exist. |
Who wrote it?
... written by Shelley Floryd and offers multiple theories as to how Australia is actually "one of the biggest hoaxes ever created."
"Australia does not exist," it reads. "All things you call 'proof' are actually well fabricated lies and documents made by the leading governments of the world. Your Australian friends? They're all actors and computer generated personas, part of the plot to trick the world." |
Why?
Floryd writes that Australia was actually invented by Britain so it could kill tens of thousands of convicts rather than send them to a country on the other side of the world.
Floryd, who lives in Stockholm, also writes that nearly every person at every level is in on the massive scheme, including airline pilots, who have actually only been flying tourists to islands or "in some cases, parts of South America." |
Has anyone been annoyed by this?
| Tens of thousands of people have commented on the theory, mostly angry Australians trying in earnest to prove that the country they were born in actually exists. |
Perhaps Floryd should write a book about it?
The History of Australia Revealed.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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M'Lady Frau Boreades tells me there's even a German version.
| Bielefeld is offering €1 million ($1.1 million) to anyone who can prove that the city of more than 300,000 people in northwestern Germany doesn't exist. |
Why?
| The Bielefeld conspiracy (German: Bielefeldverschwörung or Bielefeld-Verschwörung,... is a satirical conspiracy theory that claims that the city of Bielefeld, Germany, does not exist, and is instead an illusion propagated by various forces to distract or mislead the German public. |
Bielefeld's mayor calls time.
Seeking to do away with a long-running conspiracy theory and score some publicity, Bielefeld's mayor said he wanted to give those who believe the joke "one more fair and generous chance" to prove the nearly 800-year-old city is just an illusion.
"We are excited about the creative submissions and are 99.99% sure that we will be able to refute any claims," said the head of Bielefeld Marketing Martin Knabenreich. |
Only 99.99% sure? That 0.01% chance means there's still a chance. Some AEL theories have had even slimmer odds.
| Proof that the city doesn't exist can be submitted until September 4. | |
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Brian Ambrose
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🤣
Which reminds me, is there anything in the rules about not laughing? And if so, is it a complete blanket, or does it only apply to Mick?
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Mick Harper
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| Borry wrote: | I love it when experts form an orderly queue to abuse me when I ask for some information
OK, you know that little thing you wiggle around to point at words on the screen? That's called a mouse. Can you see it's got a couple of clicky things on it? They are called buttons, there's one on the left called The Left Button and one on the right called The Right Button. Move the mousey pointy thingy until it's over some of these words. Now click once with The Right Button. If you do that, a popup menu will appear. "View Page Source" is one of the menu options. Click that. Lots of HTML code will appear in a new browser window. Including things like the make and age of the forum software. phpBB 2.0 , 2005 |
See, it wasn't that difficult, was it?
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Mick Harper
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| Brian wrote: | | 🤣 Which reminds me, is there anything in the rules about not laughing? And if so, is it a complete blanket, or does it only apply to Mick? |
I am extremely interested in this both for personal and for AE reasons. (To do with whether you laugh only if you agree/disagree with a given position.)
If you can bring yourself to do it, I would greatly appreciate--and no doubt others would benefit from--your expanding on this theme using your own experiences here on the AEL. As well as elsewhere. You may, on this occasion, be as cruel as you like.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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This hardware shop just opened. Its stuff is rubbish and wildly overpriced but I've started using it. Why? He listens to me. He goes round the shop with me showing me this and that--which is rarely what I came in for but I buy a coupla things anyway. You never know when you might need them. In fact I've started dropping in when I don't want anything at all just for a chat. I get the feeling he's a bit lonely.
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Brian Ambrose
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Personally I laugh when I find something is funny whether I agree, disagree, or something is purely visual. On this site I have laughed out loud many times at some of the humour (yes, including Mick.) I just wondered whether it is inappropriate to show appreciation or if there is a rule against it because nobody seems to do it. I don’t want another black mark.
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Mick Harper
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| Borry wrote: | | Some AEL theories have had even slimmer odds. |
I feel a 'bogus list' is called for. They will be rejected with contumely if your 99.99% figure is correct.
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Mick Harper
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| Brian wrote: | | Personally I laugh when I find something is funny whether I agree, disagree |
You're one in eight thousand million in that case. But then you already knew that.
| or something is purely visual |
| On this site I have laughed out loud many times at some of the humour (yes, including Mick.) |
Surely you mean 'just Mick'. I have not laughed many times--I nearly said any times--at others' attempts. Though we've managed to put a stop to the tiresome joshing that used to go on.
| I just wondered whether it is inappropriate to show appreciation |
It is true we are curmudgeonly with our appreciation generally. It makes people try harder.
| or if there is a rule against it because nobody seems to do it. |
No rule that I know of. But I don't make the rules, I just enforce them arbitrarily.
| I don’t want another black mark. |
If you would let me know how many you already have -- there are none on your record card but that proves nothing -- I can tell you how close you are getting to the ultimate sanction.
PS This answer of yours is totally inadequate and has been given a black mark.
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Boreades
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| Brian Ambrose wrote: | 🤣
Which reminds me, is there anything in the rules about not laughing? And if so, is it a complete blanket, or does it only apply to Mick? |
I can neither confirm nor deny that Mick went to the same School of Humour as Ed Milliband.
It appears the AEL management is attempting to recalibrate the Mick Argument Bot by adding a "Funny Stories" forum and testing some material there.
We all laughed when Mick said he wanted to be a comedian....
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