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So, who here compulsively skimreads?
I always do. I haven't thoroughly read a document in about 5 years unless it's absolutely necessary.
I couldn't imagine how tedious life would be if I had to read everything word-by-word "out loud" in my head. Yuck.

It does however mean I occasionally turn up in the wrong place for meetings.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:42, archived)
I do if it's documentation.
Which is maybe why I spend most of my geek-life breaking stuff.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:43, archived)
Fuck
ANOTHER ONE

"Just text your name and your partners name to 81234 and we will tell you if you are compatible"

THREE QUID A TEXT

Fucking twats
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:49, archived)
The secret is, if you send a text to it, you're not compatible with any human being.
Foolproof.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:50, archived)
:D

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:52, archived)
You know what my favourite one is?
Get your future partners initial, updated weekly!

Some magnificent bastard has a computer texting people a single random letter for £2.50 a week.

That, my friend, is fucking genius.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:50, archived)
I'm simultaneously impressed and in despair.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:52, archived)
This.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:53, archived)
The best one is the guy who will tell you the sex of your baby
You hold your bump (females only) near to the screen while on his website, send him £30 and he'll reply with the sex. If he gets it wrong he'll refund your money
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:55, archived)
EXCELLENT :D

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:56, archived)
what if it's triplets and he gets them all wrong?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:57, archived)
That's so unlikely to happen that it'll still be a nice earner in the long run.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:01, archived)
Seriously?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:58, archived)
Derren Brown said it on Friday
It must be true.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:00, archived)
Indeed

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:58, archived)
people who use these services
should be shot

the thing is they moan about it after when the bill comes in which annoys me more
forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1887
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:51, archived)
Teal deer.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:53, archived)
That wasn't her fault though, surely
If the SIM was used without her permission
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:54, archived)
An old ex was being charged 10 quid a week for her star signs cos she forgot the "stop" number
Still, that cunt deserved everything she got
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:58, archived)
on this case it was not her fault
but yesterday the mods over there removed a similar one where a diffedrent person used jamster and similar, and wondered about her £400 bill

but when they swap the sim it shoudl be dead, makes me think the vodafone store in question is on the fiddle like luton store
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:58, archived)
To be fair it seems that it's not her fault

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:55, archived)
Bloody hell.
Someone stole her return key.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:56, archived)
for some strange reason that made me laugh way too much

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:59, archived)
tl;dr

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:53, archived)
I avoid this problem by not reading with an internal voice.
I just see the word and read what it says, I don't need to mentally vocalise it.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:43, archived)
^This

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:44, archived)
It blew my mind when I heard someone "reading to themselves" quietly when reading something out of a book.
The inefficency is staggering!
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:44, archived)
I have tea.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:43, archived)
Two sugars, white
Ta
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:44, archived)
i had tea
but used my last tea bag what shall i do go to the shop or be a fattie on here
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:45, archived)
Hang the old teabags out to dry

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:46, archived)
Tea bag?
Bah.
Real men use loose leaf tea and teapots.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:47, archived)
YOU STINK OF LIES

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:47, archived)
TEABAGS ARE INCOMPARABLE

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:51, archived)
My sister works with a guy who insists he has tea from a teapot
even if it's made with bags. He can tell if you just put the bag in the cup.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:57, archived)
*teabagging joke*

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:47, archived)
*suggestion piston_broke might post something involving his girlfriend about this*

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:48, archived)
"That reminds me, last night I was making my AMAZINGLY HOT, SEX FIEND GIRLFRIEND suck on my balls"

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:49, archived)
At the risk of SHOCKING PEOPLE -
Poor piston, he's all excited and happy and everything's new and lovely for him. I think people should give him a break. Granted, I don't go shouting about my omgboyfriend on here at every given opportunity but I think we should be pleased for him.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:50, archived)
Why should he get preferential treatment?
If I said silly things on here I'd fully expect a reaming.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:51, archived)
Oh no, I don't mean be NICE or anything.
I just feel a bit sorry for him, I must be turning soft in my old age.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:53, archived)
Awwww, you sweet-hearted softie, ;)

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:56, archived)
Well, that's just silly.
*reams*
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:53, archived)
YES!
High five!
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:56, archived)
*fives*
*continues reaming*
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:02, archived)
bring me up to speed, why are people believing him now?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:59, archived)
Why not believe him?
There's more than a few people on here that I'd be more inclined to disbelieve if they had news like that.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:04, archived)
I'm just sceptical
because of stuff

and things
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:14, archived)
Oh come on
People started taking the mickey out of Limey for mentioning she was in france. People take the piss out of JMG for going on about fatties. If I kept trying to crowbar mentions of a new car into a conversation I would rightly expect that someone would take the mickey out of that.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:10, archived)
quite
i doubt he's in anguish because a bunch of fat truckers won't believe that he's met someone who's making him happy

although of course he hasn't really lol

i think the thing that makes me feel awkward about it is the socially-inept fat truckers joining in. it's like watching joey deacon taking the piss out of stephen hawking
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:33, archived)
if you wanna teabag
bou will be here soon (unless she's been banned again)
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:49, archived)
I got tired of banning her
So cleared out 127 of her accounts and made her a permanent one.
And have forced her to use the ignore function.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:51, archived)
127!
That's crazymad.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:52, archived)
127 FUCK ME
gosh i never though she was that bad
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:53, archived)
I've actually got a South African Detector toolkit now

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:55, archived)
GeoIP rocks my world

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:01, archived)
There are at least three people here that I think actually need medical help about their obsession with this place
She's one
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:01, archived)
127!!

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:16, archived)
So, who
do
5 years
life
I
wrong
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:44, archived)
i do this all the time
hence i am stuck in s fucking stupid credit arrangrment now :(

threadjack has AOL blocked cr3ation? as it keeps 404'ing on me?
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:44, archived)
Nah cr3ation is down
Might be back some time
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:45, archived)
ah no sweat
cheers for that
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:46, archived)
I used to read books and websites about software development
these days I just download the MS instruction videos and half-pay attention to them

reading is rubbish, print is dead
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:46, archived)
Interesting
I'm well rubbish with audio learning. I have real trouble understanding people over the phone.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:47, archived)
the downloadable videos are great
it's like having some fat bloke sat there telling me how to do my job

plus the network gnomes at work get pissy with me for using too much bandwidth, so that's a plus
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:51, archived)
Haha, christy!
I could never live with bandwidth monitoring. No sir.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:52, archived)
I occasionally download DVD images I don't need
just to piss them off
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:54, archived)
*thunderous applause*

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:56, archived)
*presents you with a trophy*

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:16, archived)
I've never seen an MS instruction video.
I'm just imagining a lot of "Try switching it off and then back on again"
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:48, archived)
Are you ABSOLUTELY sure it's plugged in?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:48, archived)
"Yes"
*makes toast*
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:50, archived)

download the MS instruction videos and half-pay attention to them wank over squirrels. WITH TITS.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:48, archived)
pffft you loon

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:51, archived)
SQUIRRELS WITH TITS!
YES!

hello
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:52, archived)
Good morning Gilgy Wilgy

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:54, archived)
I'm the opposite at the moment
I've just read a 3 page document about a mysql database holding stock levels that a guy has written, and I'm still not sure how the stock get s between Sage and the database.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:00, archived)
If I may spoil the ending...
it is carried there by squirrels. With tits.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:02, archived)
Ok
I've read it again and I still don't understand
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:02, archived)
without giving away too many confidential details
if it's anything like how the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games results system was designed then there's probably a P133 somewhere reading a text stream via its RS232 port
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:03, archived)
I don't
but reading out loud in my head is at least twice as fast as speaking.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:34, archived)
A telegraph is a machine that sends telegrams.
Why isn't a camera called a photograph and a photograph called a photogram?
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:40, archived)
Go outside

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:41, archived)
Short, sweet, to the point.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:41, archived)
Just like me

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:42, archived)
My hair's all wet.
When it's dry I'll go for a walk.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:42, archived)
Because YOUR MUM

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:41, archived)
Who the fuck are these morons who subscribe to Jamster?
I'm sure I don't know any, but there must be hundreds due to the ads on E4
£4.50 a WEEK and they are fucking advertising shitty catchphrases and novelty CHRISTMAS SONGS, It's not even June

If you know anyone who pays for this shite, punch them in the face and tell them Hankster sent you
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:32, archived)
I am baffled by things like this.
*baffled*
see?
Hello fatso.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:33, archived)
Hello
It's not like you can't put anything you like on your phone for FREE just by plugging a cable into it

Morons. I hope they all die
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:34, archived)
Prezactly.
Maybe they deserve to pay that amount of money for being stupid. Stupid-tax, if you will.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:35, archived)
See also: Scratch Cards; Lottery; ITV premium rate competitions

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:37, archived)
WIN £1000! WHICH OF THESE IS NOT A DOG?
A) POODLE
B) DISHWASHER
C) LABRADOR

TEXT YOUR ANSWER TO 81199! ENTRIES ONLY £2!
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:38, archived)
Ah
But I won 60 quid on a scratchy last month, you don't win by having a voice on your phone saying "You is got a message, innit?"
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:39, archived)
I meant the ones you get free out of magazines
MATCH THREE BELLS AND SEND US MONEY AND YOU MIGHT WIN A HOUSE but you'll probably win 25p hahahahahahaha fuckers
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:41, archived)
A gift voucher for 25p*
* Minimum spend £10
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:43, archived)
After calling the premium rate number at a cost of eleventy quid

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:43, archived)
Ah
GUARANTEED PRIZE WORTH AT LEAST TEN POUNDS


Ball point pen
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:44, archived)
It's an interesting idea from a business point of view
A variation on the "1 in a million" theory. If they pay £xxxx on blanket-advertising the fuck out of everything and get just 10 people to subscribe for a year, it'll pay for itself.

I should imagine that if done correctly, something like Jamrag could be done with very few staff, and make huge profit.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:34, archived)
I know
I just wanted a rant
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:35, archived)
I can subscribe you to ranting updates from your friends for just 50p a minute, if you like
Just text B3TADRAMA to LOLCLIQUES.
To stop at any time, text your national security number followed by 9:14 from the Book of Job
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:36, archived)
pfffffft

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:36, archived)
Good god no
I don't care who's fucking who this week, and they are not my friends
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:38, archived)
We're all friends here, Dave.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:40, archived)
FETCH THE PITCHFORKS!
I imagine it's just 12 year olds, thick cunts, and lobotomy patients.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:34, archived)
start one called Hankster

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:34, archived)
I remember when it was just £3 a week.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:34, archived)
SPACE RAIDERS ARE FUCKING 15P

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:36, archived)
!

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:37, archived)
I KNOW RIGHT

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:39, archived)

15P MY BUM
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:38, archived)
Aw, sounds like someone needs to listen to Schnuffel Bunny's Snuggle Song

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:35, archived)
I'm bored
woman thing has gone rowing and I have run out of milk
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:36, archived)
I could lactate you a pint if you like?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:37, archived)
Cool

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:39, archived)
NOO FRED!
I've come to talk to you all today about sleep.

Or rather lack of it.

Having gone the last three nights with an absolute maximum of four hours sleep, I'm rather knackered. What do you propose I do about this?

If you're a cunt and have no advice, then how do you sleep? Terrible, LOL

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:26, archived)
I use cyclic sleep patterns
They're awesome.
The idea is that everyone has patterns to which they can sleep and wake refreshed. I'm sure most people have slept for AGES then woken up still groggy - it's that principal.
Mine are 3 / 6 / 9 hours. Wake me up at 4 hours and I'll feel like crap, but 3 will be just fine.

Also, sleep naked. It's great.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:28, archived)
I read that multiples of 20 minutes were good for power naps

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:30, archived)
Yep, same principle! :)
Fantastic when you get the hang of it. Leaves you full of energy.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:30, archived)
I'm so tired, that every time I look at the word "sleep" I see "sheep" and smile.
I have heard of these rhythms, and yes, I have woken up after a good 11 hours and felt like utter utter shit.

Sadly, I am, medically speaking, a "Lazy Cunt", and adore my usual nine hours of kip every night, I don't think I could put in the research to find my pattern.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:31, archived)
Pfft!
If I aim for 9 hours, I just can't get to sleep in time. I'm a very light sleeper.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:32, archived)
*strokes your hair*
Poor kitten. I always forget I have the luxury of never having to get up early in the morning.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:33, archived)
My hair is EVER SO FLUFFLY. :)
I'm 7am on weekdays and 9am on weekends, and I usually aim to sleep at about 1am.

Science!
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:35, archived)
EAT SCIENCE MOTHERFUCKER!
Yay fluffly hair, :)!
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:38, archived)
I found out from experimenting that I have a cyclic pattern of 4 hours.
So 4, 8, 12 hours sleep and im awesome. I tend to get about 6 or 7 thought which leave me feeling awful
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 11:58, archived)
Live next to my neighbours
I am a bad sleeper, unless I've had a drink, I probably got three hours last night and four on Friday night, that's usual
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:28, archived)
What's wrong with your neighbours?
I feel bad that you don't get to enjoy the beautiful embrace of restful sleep on a regular basis.

Have a slightly chilly hug.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:32, archived)
Noisy
They are. I tend to fit my sleep in around them
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:33, archived)
I have made my upstairs neighbours stop playing their Pan Pipes cd so loudly.
They actually didn't realise how noisy they were until I politely explained that I was going slowly mad.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:35, archived)
I often have paranoid thoughts that the neighbours hate us for being noisy.
Probably didn't help that at four thirty this morning we were drunkenly barking with laughter at SuperTroopers.

Ah well.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:43, archived)
Burn their house to the ground...
...unless you live in a semi.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:35, archived)
I am suffering the same problem, due to impossible deadlines
last two weeks 3 - 5 hours a night tops
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:28, archived)
Is it the stress keeping you awake, or working late into the night?

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:32, archived)
too much work
I fall asleep in my chair I am so tired
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:38, archived)
:(:(:(
*huggles and much forehead stroking*
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:40, archived)
You can have some of my sleep. I have loaaaaaaads.
Bundled free with this is zero energy and inability to walk very far, it's a bit of a bugger when you have to cancel your nights out, though.
/grumpy as couldn't go out last night blog
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:33, archived)
:(
That's not the happy, cleansing, warm embrace of sleep that I mean, but I'll probably be quite willing to trade in a couple of hours when the future mother in law comes round to take us seal watching.

I want to watch seals, but not huddled up, blurry eyed and yawny, :(.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:37, archived)
I'm trying to make myself get dressed and waddle to Sainsbury
but I don't think I can. I shall have to send daughter on my behalf.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:38, archived)
But you'll miss the crisp mid-morning air :(

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:40, archived)
I can't manage the stairs.
*deaded*
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:42, archived)
:( *sympathy huggles*
I'M ALL HUGGLY AND MY BLOKE IS ASLEEP I HAVE NO ONE TO HUG :( :(
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:45, archived)
That Virgin travel advert is bloody annoying
I love this one though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2aRDacKANs

Are you off to Church this morning?

edit: what the fuck do diamonds smell of? There's a washing liquid that smells of diamond and lotus flower. What the fuck?
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 9:26, archived)
Yes.
Yes.
No.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 9:27, archived)
look at meeeeee!!!
b3ta.com/board/8379826

you fat cunt
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 9:36, archived)
Hurrah!

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
hahahahahahaha
that;s SO Gilgamesh
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
I like that.

(, Sun 18 May 2008, 9:59, archived)