Only revolutionaries take the bus

[hirez]

Long silences are annoying from some people (I'm so angry with you, but you're going to have to work out what terrible sin you've committed yourself), rather pleasant from others (ditto) and cheerfully companionable when they involve nice people that I care about

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[quercus]

Long silences are annoying from some people
I need A Life. Read that and parsed it as "Long LJ posting silences".

Though there was this huge optical jukebox that we just threw out.
SureStore? They were fetching an absolute hatful of cash a year or two back. Lots of mid-90s legacy projects running out of workable hardware and looking for spares.

I used one once and could spend ages just watching it do its toast-juggling thing. Do you reckon HP designed it as double-sided media, just so the geeks had an excuse to build a pancake tosser into the jukebox mech?

[hirez]

Pfft. I don't do Ebay.

[hirez]

(Blast. When do we get 'edit comment'?)

I think there was a line of blokes in brown coats with a big pot of Araldite, gluing the optical media together somewhere.

The DLT jukes are very Prisoner. With a pile of spares from those things, you'd never want for gears, sprockets or wee motors again.

[purple_spider]

Long silences are annoying from some people (I'm so angry with you, but you're going to have to work out what terrible sin you've committed yourself)

LOL! This is something I hate too. Not naming names, but I had this sort of behaviour from people in the past. It was suddenly decided that I had committed some terrible offence and suddenly I was no longer worthy of being spoken to. So when I tried to ask one of these said individuals, all I got was a very snappy "If you don't know what you've done then I don't see the point in telling you, people need to find out what they have done for themselves". I think I am supposed to look deep within my soul and analyse my inner child. To this day I am at a loss as to what it is about. But I don't care anymore anyway, I have friends and Louise and family and a pretty great life atm ;-) Not going to waste my time analysing my inner child etc.

hugs
debs
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[hirez]

Well, quite. If anyone should be having a quiet word with their inner child, it's the tedious sort who's clearly acting like one.

I believe the correct response is to get the hell on with the rest of your life.

[purple_spider]

My inner child can't be arsed with anymore analysis these days, two psychotherapy sessions in the last 4 years is enough I think ;-) As for looking deep into my soul, the last time I checked my soul it was chillin back with a bacardi on a tropical beach just soaking up the rays.

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cheerfully companionable long silences

[silentq]

Being a quiet person myself, I pretty much have to find people who are comfortable with long silences. There's one woman who I'm trying to befriend who's even quieter than I am, and I'm suddenly on the other side of the equation, and trying to attain equanimity while in her presence. The main difficulty is not to impose my assumptions on her silence.

Re: cheerfully companionable long silences

[hirez]

It's the nervous (presumably) people who can't handle the idea of quiet that nark me off every time. Chatter chatter (nervous giggle) chatter. All The Bloody Time. Agh!

[reddragdiva]

"second-division observational standup"

Yeah. I try to post daily but don't get Rollins about it. It's nice to strike a topic that does the comment-whoring for me.

Posby was on alt.gothic, as I recall.

I need to get streaming. The Uncyclopedia writing competition is in progress and I was specifically told I wasn't allowed to judge it because they wanted me to enter. So I've said I'll write some towering tastelessness to leave Cancer Porn in the dust, and another piece that someone might actually read on the front page without sporking their brain out. Must get to work. Arkady and I came up with the start of a routine about green neon ninjas this afternoon.

[hirez]

Posbina?

The H-R lexicon comfortably pre-dates Usenet, and indeed that person's birthday I'll warrant. Unless it's older than me.

Posby == The sort of thing that readers of the Daily Mail would care for.

[jendama]

[hirez]

You'll find that there's a hidden nob-gag in most of my posts. A kind of 'Where's Willy?' if you will.

(I have been talking to markeris just slightly too long.)

[jendama]