Private Messages- are they really private?

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 10 Nov 2005, 22:56

Epykat wrote:
Porty wrote:Either way, they would have to be pretty sick and pretty bored.
And if they weren't either when they started they certainly would be by about half way through I've no concerns about who reads my pms - they contain the same amount of twaddle that I say in public

Yep, I can vouch for that...................Is that you that's hiding? or fancy a coffee?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 10 Nov 2005, 22:57

Porty wrote: PoP thinks internet debating is a meaningless waste of time

I think that's debatable. Worth a poll at least.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 10 Nov 2005, 23:00

teddygirl wrote:[...................Is that you that's hiding? or fancy a coffee?

And that was one of my more interesting ones

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 10 Nov 2005, 23:06

Porty wrote:Well at the risk of getting thrown off the forum.....

It was PoP's original thread about his 19 year old son getting beaten up in Newcastle by older boys, it was an attempted robbery. PoP shared his feelings and experience with us and expressed a dilema about revenge or forgiveness. He threw the subject out for discussion. The topic was locked almost immediately (xxxx posted his 2 cents) and then deleted not long after......

Ah. Thank you Porty. I did see it, and thought PoP must have deleted it himself.

Porty wrote:...but then again he thinks internet debating is a meaningless waste of time

How the heck can he think that?! He need only read your Blair's Cajones thread, and see how it developed this afternoon, to see that that's simply not true!!! Tchuh - words fail me...

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 10 Nov 2005, 23:10

Jackson Priest wrote:words fail me

We can only pray that your condition is contagious.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 10 Nov 2005, 23:10

Jackson Priest wrote:Tchuh - words fail me...

Words don't fail anyone in these parts.

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 10 Nov 2005, 23:40

*Hand up*

That was me who mentioned the "hack" that can be used to read PMs.

When I said a hack, its not getting hacked as such. Its an extra that can be downloaded and used my the admin team to read PMs.

phpBB isn't the most secure to use, Vbulletin is far better!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 11 Nov 2005, 01:25

Oof - my PM box was 100% full and I've just done a big cull.

mine concerned :

Hiboz

RBOS

3 full pages of Radio Free Porty chat

my swiftly deleted Dolmio videos thread

the profanity filter

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 11 Nov 2005, 10:51

Wow, D, brave of you to go public with all your pms....thanks for sharing.

BTT, thanks for clarifying what you meant, Robin!. FTR, although I know it's been explained that Marya and I don't have the means to read PMs unless they're ours, I barely have the time to read the forums and my own PMs, not to mention the posts from the ten or so Yahoo groups or other mail lists I'm a member of or run, the emails to do with my course, the emails to do with my placement, the emails to do with my professional development group, the emails to do with news, with equality issues, with meetings, email from friends and my other half, and POL email including group listing mails. The thought of choosing to read even more is enough to make my head explode

...but hopefully I can hold it together a little longer, as I'm off to sunny Dundee again today to exercise my poor overworked brain.

BB

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 11 Nov 2005, 11:35

Bellybabe wrote: I'm off to sunny Dundee again today to exercise my poor overworked brain.

BB

BB, although The Beano is published in Dundee, one doesn't have to go all the way there to get one.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 11 Nov 2005, 11:44

Now you tell me

...

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 11 Nov 2005, 11:48

What were those little war comics that D.C. (Thomson, not Cairns) produced?

Commando? Was it?

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:07

Was it Hotspur or Victory?

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:08

There was one called Warlord.

Achtung! Pigdog!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:09

There was and the cover was enough to put me off.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:20

I thought they were the best thing since things.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:21

It was brilliant. Loads of killing and stuff. And Tommy always came out victorious. Just like in real life.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:29

Jackson Priest wrote:It was brilliant. Loads of killing and stuff. And Tommy always came out victorious. Just like in real life.

Was he ever cold and starving, weaponless with the odds stacked hugely against him?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:29

Jackson Priest wrote:It was brilliant. Loads of killing and stuff. And Tommy always came out victorious. Just like in real life.

#

Look, I didn't know what correctness or politics were when I was 8.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 11 Nov 2005, 12:49

Porty wrote:Was he ever cold and starving, weaponless with the odds stacked hugely against him

Almost always. Yet he'd still give Fritz a good hiding.

Dadaist wrote:Look, I didn't know what correctness or politics were when I was 8.

Me neither. All I knew was that war looked like really good fun.

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 11 Nov 2005, 15:05

I loved reading them. When you threw a hand grenade into a pile of Germans they would shout "Donner un Blitzen". It was only about 25 years later that I found out this meant " Thunder & Lightening", just the sort of thing you would shout when getting blown up!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 11 Nov 2005, 15:07

very, very frightening thing.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 11 Nov 2005, 20:52

Pal of Porty wrote:I loved reading them. When you threw a hand grenade into a pile of Germans they would shout "Donner un Blitzen". It was only about 25 years later that I found out this meant " Thunder & Lightening", just the sort of thing you would shout when getting blown up!

Think 'Donner und Blitzen' and 'Achtung' were the ONLY things old Jerry used to say in those comics. No good at war and a very limited vocabulary, some 3rd Reich that would have been.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 11 Nov 2005, 21:54

Didn't they also say "r'aus, r'aus" or was that on Colditz

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 12 Nov 2005, 10:17

The one I remember was set in a Japanese POW camp, where this plucky Allied prisoner conceived somehow (can't remember now) to challenge the camp commandant to a boxing match and, through winning it, ensure his comrades' freedom.

He couldn't tell his fellow prisoners his plan, though, and had to suffer their taunts and abuse as he dined with the commandant and ate extra rations - but only to build himself up in order to have a chance at the fight.

Of course, after a heroic fight he won and they escaped - "Tojo" was humiliated and our hero was forgiven his noshings.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 12 Nov 2005, 14:35

bearcub wrote:
Think 'Donner und Blitzen' and 'Achtung' were the ONLY things old Jerry used to say in those comics. No good at war and a very limited vocabulary, some 3rd Reich that would have been.

I would have to put my hands up and say i cen remember one other thing they used to say.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 12 Nov 2005, 17:28

Gott in himmel!

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 12 Nov 2005, 18:53

Jackson Priest wrote:Gott in himmel!

Entschuldigung ich glaube das sheisskopf porty meint "Hande Hoch"

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 12 Nov 2005, 19:32

Pal of Porty wrote:I loved reading them. When you threw a hand grenade into a pile of Germans they would shout "Donner un Blitzen". It was only about 25 years later that I found out this meant " Thunder & Lightening", just the sort of thing you would shout when getting blown up!

And there was me thinking that " Donner and Blitzen" were the names of " Santa's" reindeer!!!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 12 Nov 2005, 19:47

"dumbkopf"

or something

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 12 Nov 2005, 20:07

Schweinhund!

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 12 Nov 2005, 20:31

foxy wrote:
Jackson Priest wrote:Gott in himmel!
Entschuldigung ich glaube das sheisskopf porty meint "Hande Hoch"

Profanity filter doesn't work in German then

Gemini · Post by **Gemini** » 13 Nov 2005, 00:08

Porty wrote:Was it Hotspur or Victory?

Hotspur and Victory and Valliant!

My Big Bruv, got them every week, I actualy liked some of the
stuff in them -' Tough o the Track' Seargent ? who was always saying
'mien gotten himell'! (scuse the spelling)

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 13 Nov 2005, 04:41

Alf Tupper was Tough o the Track.

No matter how difficult last weeks run had been (shrapnel sticking out of his shoeless feet) Alf could never quite get himself properly prepared for this weeks race.

And; even if this weeks venue was to be the Gobi Desert, Alf would be able to source a fish supper after beating "black cheater" who had been continually swapping for his look-a-like brothers during the course of the race.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 13 Nov 2005, 09:26

More for Alf Tupper fans.