Ok if you’re old enough to know what I’m asking, let me know. I see a lot of you on here often and I’m just curious. You can be as vague as you want for the L. Thanks!!
@mbersiam Since he was 10 weeks old-had to feed him with a syringe the first month we had him.
I’m sitting here doing tax returns and will look for any excuse to deviate to something more interesting like going to meh. Besides-waiting for my IRK to arrive which should happen any time now.
@mbersiam See mine in the IRK-reveal better than I could have expected given that they knew it was me since everything including the IRK bag was bubble wrapped-who says IRK doesn’t have a sense of humor.
@mbersiam Yeh-but this can’t last forever. Have two more IRKs yet to be shipping and I’ll bet one of them will be the worse IRK ever sent out just to prove a point. And BTW-what kind of demented indiv wraps an IRK bag?
@mbersiam a little faster to the regret! I’m just waiting for the March 25 IRK. Although being in close proximity to the warehouse (about 20 miles), doesn’t let me be able to snag an IRK each time.
@mbersiam Although, it does bring up an idea to Meh. Offer curbside pickup for those that live close enough to the warehouse and want faster regrets. Wonder how much in shipping they would save?
@DoctorOW Yes but just think. In 40 years you can tell all the newbies on meh (or whatever it will be called when sold again), “back in the day when I was a young goat… blah blah blah” and there will be no old fogies to contradict you.
@chienfou You are all set. My mom said to me, “I can’t believe I am old enough to have a daughter that old. I’m not that old.” I reminded her of her age and asked her, “So how old is old?”. She thought for a minute and said, “Oh about 104”.
So I have on good authority that, fortunately for you, you will only be marginally old at 106. However you will still qualify as an old fogie and can thus contradict @DoctorOW when she stretches the truth about walking up hill both ways, wearing 3 masks, a space suit and carrying a backpack full of toilet paper, wipes and bleach, thinking she won’t be challenged.
@mbersiam
2 times through for me. First one back on … damn, can’t remember where a couple of friends and I ran a popular channel (#California) - on Undernet (thank you wikipedia). and some fileserver stuff on Dalnet.
Much later in my Cybernations days, on Coldfront, where all the gamers hung out before discord
@Cerridwyn I didn’t do IRC but was on Houston Chat Channel BBS for several years when I lived in Houston. Met a lot of great people there. Some are still friends.
I hardly ever got asked this back in the day because I was either chatting with someone I knew irl or the rooms I frequented were more concerned with whether you supported Trek vs Wars and your favorite doctor.
44/F/KS. Heh i looked at that and thought fuck Kansas, fitting.
The younger kids do seem to know what it means though. I know my 22 year old daughter does. I’ll have to ask her if she knows what IRC is.
@remo28 yeah I showed this thread to my daughter because I was laughing at some of the comments and she (14) knew what it was. I was a bit surprised tbh
@smigit2002 a little ironic. I’m partially deaf and have wanted to learn ASL for a bit, but if I really needed it, I could get hearing aids. I’ve been putting it off since 2009 though because they’re expensive and I can generally make it through life without them.
@mbersiam@smigit2002 You can get by without them but how about those around you? A friend’s spouse got hearing aids and she was so happy to have conversations at a normal volume and that he didn’t blast the TV but he stopped wearing them.
@callow@mbersiam@smigit2002 Yeah the guy down the hall is pretty deaf and I get tired of his TV at top volume that I can hear it in my apartment 2 apartments away. I am really glad I don’t live closer. Or above or below him.
@callow@Kidsandliz@mbersiam@smigit2002
There are cheap BT transmitters that work great with these cheap bluetooth speakers here on Meh. Like under $25 on the 'zon. Avantree, Taotronics, and a few others are git’r’done value brands.
Or BT headsets. At least the BT speakers can be placed next to them (lamp stand, reading table, etc) and they dont need to blast the TV to hear across the room.
And they would only need the BT speakers when watching TV, if they’re not ready to commit to hearing aids.
@callow@smigit2002 My hearing loss is on the rarer side. It’s called reverse-slope. I can’t hear low tones. So people can whisper and I can hear them but I can’t hear bass in music (i do love feeling it though). So volume doesn’t change my ability to hear, but enunciation does. I actually need things quieter - like no running water in the background, in order to hear properly.
The only time it really affected my work life was with one particular co-worker about ten years ago. He spoke at such a tone that I could see his lips moving but could not hear the words. It was the strangest thing.
I also used closed captions on everything. I grew up with a mostly deaf father who blasted the TV and I hated it. So I am very conscious of how my inability to hear and my refusal to get hearing aids may affect those around me.
The biggest laugh we get is sometimes my kids will mumble something and I repeat back what I hear which is never even close to what they’re saying “purple bunny shoes?” No, mom! I said “I want cereal”
The biggest laugh we get is sometimes my kids will mumble something and I repeat back what I hear which is never even close to what they’re saying…
While I realize this is different than your situation, my kid would mumble, often grumbling or saying mean things thinking I couldn’t hear her. I’d then say, “Thank you for volunteering to clean the cat dirt box” or the toilet, or any number of things she hated to do. She’d then scream, “I didn’t say that”. I’d say, “Well that is what I heard. Next time speak louder”. I’d then hand her whatever it was she ‘volunteered’ to do. Cut way back on that kind of behavior.
@callow@Kidsandliz@smigit2002 that’s a good way to cut back on it for sure when mine are older and if they try that i will definitely have to use that tactic!
@ErikRL@f00l I think Texas is awesome regardless of all those ppl from Cali…you aren’t a texan just cause you live there you know…code says you have to be born into it…
@Felton10 I think I’ll go for a slow drive in the left lane with a turn signal on the entire way. How far, you ask? Who can tell this far in advance. I’m sure I’ll eventually run into something, though…
@Felton10 Why would you assume that? I feel more comfortable knowing that people around here drive the way they do because they can’t see over the steering wheel. The alternative is that they drive that way as a conscious choice, and that concept would be horrifying…
@Felton10 It’s actually not a traditional sinkhole. The bastard that built our house decided it would be a good idea to bury the trees he removed from the lot under the house’s foundation. Trees rot over time, and 40 years on, a hole is opening up under the house. Joy.
41/M/NW Buckeyeland @chienfou
now that I think about it…
It’s been longer SINCE I last had relations, than it was BEFORE I FIRST did…(aged 18)
…that’s a fun fact…
Thanks!!
Me-74/M/FL Walter-25/M/FL
@Felton10 Although as you have may figured out by now and my wife tells me all the time, I don’t act my age.
Hope its just that I haven’t grown up and not dementia setting in.
@Felton10 This is so interesting! thanks for being the first to comment. Have you had Walter since he was a hatchling?
@Felton10 My dad is your age and doesn’t act like it either. How does one act 70ish anyway?
@mbersiam Not like me evidently.
@mbersiam Since he was 10 weeks old-had to feed him with a syringe the first month we had him.
I’m sitting here doing tax returns and will look for any excuse to deviate to something more interesting like going to meh. Besides-waiting for my IRK to arrive which should happen any time now.
@Felton10 mine is scheduled for delivery today too. but I’m sitting at work so I can’t check for its arrival.
@mbersiam See mine in the IRK-reveal better than I could have expected given that they knew it was me since everything including the IRK bag was bubble wrapped-who says IRK doesn’t have a sense of humor.
@Felton10 i saw that and it’s hilarious
I love that meh employees have fun at their jobs and must know a bit about the customers too
@mbersiam Yeh-but this can’t last forever. Have two more IRKs yet to be shipping and I’ll bet one of them will be the worse IRK ever sent out just to prove a point. And BTW-what kind of demented indiv wraps an IRK bag?
@Felton10 the type of demented individual who takes perfectly fine dolls and “monsterfies” them
@mbersiam That is true
58/F/DFW-TX
@ironcheftoni Texas? you must get your IRKs extra quick
@mbersiam a little faster to the regret! I’m just waiting for the March 25 IRK. Although being in close proximity to the warehouse (about 20 miles), doesn’t let me be able to snag an IRK each time.
@mbersiam Although, it does bring up an idea to Meh. Offer curbside pickup for those that live close enough to the warehouse and want faster regrets. Wonder how much in shipping they would save?
Baby boomer.
Birth cert says F.
Texas and everywhere else I have an excuse, time, and $ for traveling to.
Xennial. F. South SF Bay/Central Valley
22/F/USA (I rarely got more specific than that)
@DoctorOW
probably the youngest goat yet…
@chienfou Yeah I definitely felt out of place when I did my age survey.
@DoctorOW Yes but just think. In 40 years you can tell all the newbies on meh (or whatever it will be called when sold again), “back in the day when I was a young goat… blah blah blah” and there will be no old fogies to contradict you.
@chienfou @DoctorOW you break the demographics. Like i break Hot Topic’s demographics by shopping there. And not buying stuff for others. For me!
@DoctorOW @Kidsandliz
Hey now… I’m only turning 66 this summer… let’s see 66 plus 40 that’s … um, six, carry the one… uhhh 106. Yeah, I can do that!
you’re an all-star
@chienfou You are all set. My mom said to me, “I can’t believe I am old enough to have a daughter that old. I’m not that old.” I reminded her of her age and asked her, “So how old is old?”. She thought for a minute and said, “Oh about 104”.
So I have on good authority that, fortunately for you, you will only be marginally old at 106. However you will still qualify as an old fogie and can thus contradict @DoctorOW when she stretches the truth about walking up hill both ways, wearing 3 masks, a space suit and carrying a backpack full of toilet paper, wipes and bleach, thinking she won’t be challenged.
60/M/53005
Brings me back to my ancient IRC days (back when there were only 3 ‘networks’ - or even maybe back to AOL chat.
My answer was always
Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway (not so true anymore, 25 years later)
Yes
Third rock from the Sun
@Cerridwyn yes, i hung out in IRC rooms a lot as a youngin’
@mbersiam
2 times through for me. First one back on … damn, can’t remember where a couple of friends and I ran a popular channel (#California) - on Undernet (thank you wikipedia). and some fileserver stuff on Dalnet.
Much later in my Cybernations days, on Coldfront, where all the gamers hung out before discord
@Cerridwyn I didn’t do IRC but was on Houston Chat Channel BBS for several years when I lived in Houston. Met a lot of great people there. Some are still friends.
@Cerridwyn
/image pepperidge farm remembers
58/M/GA I haven’t thought about asking someone ASL in a loooong time. Thanks!
@opivp99 yes, the fond memories of the asl question
51/M/MI. I think last time I answered that question, I was 28
@densa i grew up in the thumb!
36/F/greater Sacramento, CA area
I hardly ever got asked this back in the day because I was either chatting with someone I knew irl or the rooms I frequented were more concerned with whether you supported Trek vs Wars and your favorite doctor.
35/M/Neb. I can’t say NE because entitled small minded people think I’m a dirty Marylander who roots for the Pats.
@show_the_maw you wish (last year not withstanding)
/giphy New England Patriots
@show_the_maw That guy was really quiet around the playoffs, wasn’t he.
Nice try, identify thieves.
44/F/KS. Heh i looked at that and thought fuck Kansas, fitting.
The younger kids do seem to know what it means though. I know my 22 year old daughter does. I’ll have to ask her if she knows what IRC is.
@remo28 yeah I showed this thread to my daughter because I was laughing at some of the comments and she (14) knew what it was. I was a bit surprised tbh
33/M/Greater Baltimore, MD
I mean, uh, why’re we talking about American Sign Language? How inclusive of this forum!
@smigit2002 a little ironic. I’m partially deaf and have wanted to learn ASL for a bit, but if I really needed it, I could get hearing aids. I’ve been putting it off since 2009 though because they’re expensive and I can generally make it through life without them.
@mbersiam @smigit2002 You can get by without them but how about those around you? A friend’s spouse got hearing aids and she was so happy to have conversations at a normal volume and that he didn’t blast the TV but he stopped wearing them.
@callow @mbersiam @smigit2002 Yeah the guy down the hall is pretty deaf and I get tired of his TV at top volume that I can hear it in my apartment 2 apartments away. I am really glad I don’t live closer. Or above or below him.
@callow @Kidsandliz @mbersiam @smigit2002
There are cheap BT transmitters that work great with these cheap bluetooth speakers here on Meh. Like under $25 on the 'zon. Avantree, Taotronics, and a few others are git’r’done value brands.
Or BT headsets. At least the BT speakers can be placed next to them (lamp stand, reading table, etc) and they dont need to blast the TV to hear across the room.
And they would only need the BT speakers when watching TV, if they’re not ready to commit to hearing aids.
@callow @smigit2002 My hearing loss is on the rarer side. It’s called reverse-slope. I can’t hear low tones. So people can whisper and I can hear them but I can’t hear bass in music (i do love feeling it though). So volume doesn’t change my ability to hear, but enunciation does. I actually need things quieter - like no running water in the background, in order to hear properly.
The only time it really affected my work life was with one particular co-worker about ten years ago. He spoke at such a tone that I could see his lips moving but could not hear the words. It was the strangest thing.
I also used closed captions on everything. I grew up with a mostly deaf father who blasted the TV and I hated it. So I am very conscious of how my inability to hear and my refusal to get hearing aids may affect those around me.
The biggest laugh we get is sometimes my kids will mumble something and I repeat back what I hear which is never even close to what they’re saying “purple bunny shoes?” No, mom!
I said “I want cereal”
@callow @mbersiam @smigit2002
While I realize this is different than your situation, my kid would mumble, often grumbling or saying mean things thinking I couldn’t hear her. I’d then say, “Thank you for volunteering to clean the cat dirt box” or the toilet, or any number of things she hated to do. She’d then scream, “I didn’t say that”. I’d say, “Well that is what I heard. Next time speak louder”. I’d then hand her whatever it was she ‘volunteered’ to do. Cut way back on that kind of behavior.
@callow @Kidsandliz @smigit2002 that’s a good way to cut back on it for sure
when mine are older and if they try that i will definitely have to use that tactic!
0x34/XY/Jawja. The swampy part where Yoda lives and nothing wrong anyone sees with how talks he.
County seat is a literal one-stoplight town. You turn right and you’re at the courthouse. I think Woodbury in TWD was based on this town.
@PocketBrain Ha, that doesn’t fool an old programmer like me. 3 x 16 + 4 = 52
@cengland0 Not foolin; it’s an inside reference. Welcome to the inside.
@cengland0 @PocketBrain
Is that 0x34 in Earth years or Dagobah years?
34 EY = 37 DY, and 34 DY = 30 EY.
btw, “0x” prefixes are for chumps still counting on fingers.
@mike808
I Believe.
@mike808
saw that one when i was looking for an image, i laughed.
@mike808 this is probably the most accurate response yet. Star earned and deserved.
Gen X/F/NM (I moved)
40/m/nm
@ErikRL A new friend in my new state! (just go with it)
@amehzinggrace yup… I’m in Rio Rancho…
@ErikRL I’m closer to the Texas border…I have withdrawals issues
@amehzinggrace im sure with time, and hard work thats a mental disorder you will overcome and outgrow.
Texas would be awesome if it wasnt full of texans.
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
@amehzinggrace @ErikRL
Aw shucks.
@ErikRL @f00l I think Texas is awesome regardless of all those ppl from Cali…you aren’t a texan just cause you live there you know…code says you have to be born into it…
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
.GE. 50/NOE/Tejas
@PhoenyxWolfe Finally someone else like me here.
@DoctorOW
Wow… you’re from SE MO too??
@chienfou Just excited to SEe MO’ people in their twenties.
@DoctorOW
Mid-Boomer/M/NW OR
Never did IRC, but was really into Usenet newsgroups from about 1980-on. (Still check in once in a while.)
38/F/MI
@Star2236 I grew up in the thumb
I just went back to visit for spring break
@mbersiam
I saw that in the post, go mi
Old/rarely/AL
@sarahsandroid
sorry to hear that… have you tried Tinder?
(my goal is to keep having sex as long and as often as possible…)
47 going on 92/M/FL
@shahnm Since you live in FL like me being or acting like you are 92, you live in the right place.
@Felton10 I think I’ll go for a slow drive in the left lane with a turn signal on the entire way. How far, you ask? Who can tell this far in advance. I’m sure I’ll eventually run into something, though…
@shahnm Assuming you can see over the steering wheel that is.
@Felton10 Why would you assume that? I feel more comfortable knowing that people around here drive the way they do because they can’t see over the steering wheel. The alternative is that they drive that way as a conscious choice, and that concept would be horrifying…
32/male/central Florida
@PooltoyWolf You live in FL and you don’t have a pool for Fenris et al. Shame on you.
@Felton10 That’s what happens when the house is settling in such a way that would crack a pool…
@PooltoyWolf You can always fill the sink hole with water to create one.
@Felton10 It’s actually not a traditional sinkhole. The bastard that built our house decided it would be a good idea to bury the trees he removed from the lot under the house’s foundation. Trees rot over time, and 40 years on, a hole is opening up under the house. Joy.
58/M/Ohio and I spent way too much time on IRC
59/F/Near Philly. Still on IRC
@callow honestly I didn’t even know it was a thing still. I have no idea how to even connect anymore.
41/M/NW Buckeyeland
@chienfou
now that I think about it…
It’s been longer SINCE I last had relations, than it was BEFORE I FIRST did…(aged 18)
…that’s a fun fact…
@earlyre I’m sorry.
@earlyre
No… I’d be inclined to call that a funless fact…
my condolences.
@chienfou at this point I just think of myself as a virgin again…
@earlyre
…ooohhhh, how exciting!!
37 until tomorrow/F/east coast FL
@RiotDemon
/giphy happy birthday
@RiotDemon
/giphy happy birthday
Happy Birthday @RiotDemon
@RiotDemon
/giphy Happy Birthday
@RiotDemon
@RiotDemon
@RiotDemon And here is an extra birthday cake to take to work
@RiotDemon
Happy birthday!
Was that age once. Was mostly insane.
Bet you aren’t
Well only a little.
@RiotDemon
@RiotDemon
/giphy happy birthday
@RiotDemon
congrats… you share a b-day with my SIL.
Feliz cumpleaños anyway!
28/M/NY
I remember this all the time in Yahoo chat rooms, used to play Yahoo Pool. I rarely answered and so glad its not a thing anymore.
@lilsrm123 I miss Yahoo games because of the easy chat feature and the games without ads.
3 score and 5/plug/yellowhammer state