Re: TOT: Spawn of the Devil


"spawn of the devil" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1138923966.230215.90130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
thankyou


It's a pleasure. Now the rules are:
1. You don't have a silly name (oh dear, never mind). People with names like
'John Bull', 'Hamish MacTavish', or 'Sunita O'Reilly' generally provide
useful input. People with names like '.', '*', Mr Turd', 'Man U Fan',
'Fartomatic', and 'Toyboy' are either disaffected employees of large and
scarey companies who wish to impart secrets (rare) or irresponsible
unemployable time-wasting sexually deviant wind-up merchants (common).
2. You put OT if it isn't really about digital TV and TOT if it can't by any
stretch of the imagination be said to be about digital TV.
3. You try to post helpful comments.
4. You tolerate fools gladly, unless they're rude as well as stupid.
5. You only loose your temper and bawl someone out about once a month, but
when it happens you must do it in style. No half measures.
6. You don't take the piss out of people's poor English, unless they mention
that they are a student, in which case they are fair game for a severe
ragging. This is hard on engineering students but we don't care.
7. You don't pass racist, homophobic, ageist or disability-related remarks
because there's lot of one-legged elderly black queers on here and they
don't like it.
8. You don't top post, because to some people it has the same effect as
telling the Woman's Institute lady on Little Britain that the cake was made
by an Asian.
9. Sexism is totally forbidden. We never pass snide comments about the
ladies. Never. Not ever.
10. We assume that those who drop in for a bit of help have total ignorance
and infinite intelligence.
11. If you get curry on the keyboard you clean it up yourself. Typos where
four adjacent keys have gone down together are obvious curry induced faults
and we can spot them a mile off. And don't use lager to clean the keyboard.
It's a waste.
12. If anyone annoys you just call them 'anally retentive'. No-one knows
what it means but it sounds unpleasant.

Advice:
If you go to the toilet turn your monitor off or we'll talk about you behind
your back.

By the way (TOT) you know when we were on the phone earlier and I was
moaning because the Panasonic telly in the office was acting strangely? Well
it tuned out that someone had roamed in here with another Panasonic remote,
so there were two. One was in my hand and the other was on the desk under
some files with a button pressed. Lucky I noticed because the telly was
seconds away from the skip.

Bill


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