/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\Soooo confusing. Thanks for the advice. Welcome along to the ten millionth talk we have done on here. The line up for today (AS IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW!!!): Dan (meeee), on an A3000T, got her set back up because my CD³² is busy doing other things. Hey, they have to earn their keep! :) Nicky boy on his beaten, battered, a resusserected A1200, which died and came back. Plus the fact that it doens't have any screws in it! I'll have to give him a screw or two. (Matron!). He probably ate them anyway (hee hee) Debbie on my old A500 at my parents place, and suprisingly enough, Natalie was there again. Arnie on his sexy A4000/060T which he uses in his video place where he actually always does the conference from. On Monday evenings it's quite quiet so he can do as he pleases. I just hope his boss sees these! :) Sleazy Steve on a 1200 up there in Northumberland, and he's doing his thing up there. Ok, enough of such crap, on with the real crap! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAN: Hello welcome along to the conference again. Time to start *******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\*******Ok then say hello you lot. STEVE: hello every one ARNIE: is there anybody there... DAN: Yep, and apologies to readers because of the crappy text delay build up not working again!!!! :( (arrghh!!) NICK: DAN: Haahaa! She was... uurghh. NICK: i bet. hello sorry for the private message to dan but something very funny happened on saturday DAN: Which you are NOT saying on here NICK: DAN: Hahahaha!! :) You need locking up! DEB: hi DAN: Hello Debbie. Is /she\ there? DEB: wait there DAN: Take that as a yes NATALIE: DAN!!!!!! DAN: Hello Natalie NATALIE: Hi sexy DAN: My head.... the desk....*BANG* ARNIE: good news about Gateway 2000 now the Amiga can take others like Sinclair and PC on and stuff. DAN: Yeah. SINCLAIR?! Are you on drugs? ARNIE: Sorry I went blank DAN: I can tell :) STEVE: GIRL POWER!! DAN: Eh? STEVE: Its the new thing DAN: Girl power confuses me, what the hell is it? NATALIE: its when girls arent weaker any more DAN: Were they ever? NATALIE: of course! In the olden days when women had to stay in the kitchen and that, now we want to be treated equaly DAN: But you already are, you have been since the 60s, this girl power thing is just a Spice girls promotional thing. I reckon its sexist actually, women these days get it much better than men. Why is it on all the TV ads men are portrayed as being stupid while the woman is the wise one and she looks after the dumb little man, that does my head in. Steve! STEVE: What DAN: BOY POWER!! STEVE: Right on. NATALIE: you know i chat you up sometimes DAN: Erm, I can't say I've ever noticed :) (haha). NATALIE: thats girl power so boys can do it, why cant girls DAN: But you can, it's a human right, it's something that comes naturally what ever your gender, no need to give it a name when females do it. Like it never happened before the spice girls were formed? NATALIE: it did but it helps girls who darent say what they want. DAN: Well if that's girl power then I don't like it because I was out with my dog earlier today. There were 2 girls, must have been about 13 years old, they were near the field, and a man and his dog walked past and they just came out and said "Your dogs a dickhead, I'll kick it's head in", and they had been carrying on, screaming and everything. So the man turned around and said "get lost" no swear words or anything just "get lost". Then I was over the field with the dog and I walked back along the road, and crossed the road to avoid them, as you do. And they shouted about 5 times over the road "Hi love!", you know the type of thing a 40 year old woman, or one of my aunties would say to me, not some one 6/7 years younger than me, cheeky little sods. NATALIE: thats the bad side of girl power DAN: It has nothing to do with girl power, it's just kids being a pain in the arse like some kids are. NATALIE: probably fancied you DAN: I hope not, just being cheeky gits. NATALIE: no you seem to be getting better with age DAN: Like an old red wine. :) What do you mean with age? I'm only just out of my teens a few months ago NATALIE: but gp means girls get the bottle to ask a boy out. DAN: Well what about me? I'm shy I daren't go up to a girl and start chatting her up. I wish I had the courage, wheres the help for me? NATALIE: your lucky then. Girl power means that we can chat you up so you dont have to DAN: Hmmn, so it can be an advantage? NATALIE: yes, you gorgeous thing DAN: Ok then. I think in a way Girl Power is an attempt at embarrassing men, trying to make them nervous and that. NATALIE: sometimes but that makes you cuter DAN: No. You make a boy scared of you there's no chance he'll go out with you. NATALIE: sorry i wont scare you any more DAN: Right.... please don't..... s-s-s-sorry.. arghh! NATALIE: dan some one you know really fancies you as well DAN: Right. NATALIE: Want to know who it is? DAN: Tell me privately then NATALIE: DAN: Does she? Are you sure? NATALIE: yes she told me and deb DAN: She told you?! NATALIE: yes she said you were really sweet DAN: Yeah but she could have just meant it in a friendly way NATALIE: not when she said you were really gorgeous and she darent ask you out DAN: Ok. Does she know you told me? NATALIE: no DAN: NATALIE: no do you want me to DAN: No, just let it go. I like her a lot, she's great but I don't like her in that way. NATALIE: your to picky shes really pretty DAN: Yeah she is NICK: She has lovely brown eyes, long brown hair and nice legs, what more?! DAN: Yeah, but is the long brown hair on her legs? :) NICK: DAN: Haha, sure. NATALIE: she is nice looking DAN: I know but looks aren't everything and the sooner people learn that the better. Don't get me wrong, she is a great girl, she has helped me out lots in the past and I really like her, but not in that way. What can I do. I hope she doesn't ask me out NATALIE: i think she might DAN: Err... I don't know what to do here. Normally I have answers to most things, but when dealing with something like this directly linked to me it gets difficult. I don't know if it would be easier if you told her that you don't think I would, and it might stop her from asking me, or for me to wait and see if she does, but then I'm going to look like a real git because it will take her a LOT of courage to come out and ask me and for me to knock her back. This is wierd, who do I go to for advice?! :) NATALIE: you have never been worried about me! DAN: I know, but thats all in a jokey type of way (even if you maybe would if you got the chance) NATALIE: i would DAN: Right, but you're too young for me, and miss.x (original eh?) I am a close friend of hers I've known her for a while and I would class her as one of my best friends, I don't want to ruin that. NATALIE: dont know dan DAN: What would you do? NATALIE: if i was her DAN: Yep NATALIE: I would ask you out DAN: Ok. I don't want to hurt her ARNIE: DAN: No ARNIE: Who then? DAN: ARINE: Oh right, i get you now. DAN: Enough of these private messages though, it will be frustrating the readers. ARNIE: Should throw you a big part DAN: Haha, a big part?! ARINE: Oh god, I meant big partY :-) DAN: Hahahahahahahaha!!!! You smutty old git. ARNIE: Dont call me old, im only 23 DAN: You are old compared to the rest of us ARNIE: Well you're just a baby though, not a big mature MAN like me :-) DAN: Sure, what ever. NATALIE: Dan do you reckon when old men whistle at girls its sick? DAN: What do you mean old men? NATALIE: like when older men whistle at school girls DAN: Yeah, dirty old gits. NATALIE: i know when boys at school do it they are just thinking there clever with their mates but its sick when old men do it DAN: Yep. ARNIE: Should just say to them "in your dreams" or some thing DAN: I don't mind it actually, I just laugh it off. NATALIE: i dont really but older men do bother me DAN: Yeah well if an older woman wolf whistled at me I'd probably tell her to sod off as well. NATALIE: okay DAN: But when you get it at school, how old are you? NATALIE: 16 DAN: Right, well 16 year old boys just 'think they're hard' and are probably looking for you to react by telling them to get lost, so just ignore it. DEB: she does it though DAN: Oh well! She can't really complain then! NATALIE: not to middle age men though DAN: I know, how a middle aged man could find a school girl attractive must be a bit sick in the head any way. NATALIE: i know DAN: Righteo then. Why do you do it to boys though? NATALIE: girl power isnt it DAN: Oh, don't start on that again! NATALIE: i wont i whistle at you though dont i DAN: Yeah you have, I'm older than you! NATALIE: not much DAN: I know NATALIE: and your gorgeous so its okay DAN: Right. NATALIE: great DAN: Cool. That it? NATALIE: yes DAN: Good. :) NATALIE: thats why your nick name is sexy! DAN: By you it is yeah, even though people are now taking the mick out of me and calling me it. ARNIE: I've got a new knick name DAN: Knick (as in knickers?) ARNIE: Elephant stomach DAN: Haha, OH! Because of the TWO LITRES OF WHISKY you drank in an hour!!! ARNIE: That killed me almost, I couldn't stand up. DAN: Haha, you idiot. ARNIE: You only drink those girlie, leisure drinks like Hooch and that Castaway stuff DAN: I admit it, I do, Sorry. Is it a problem? ARNIE: no, but when you grow up you'll be a dude like me and drink man drinks. DAN: Oh right, sorry dad! Sod off. ARNIE: I've told you before I'm taller and older so you should show some respect! :-) DAN: I couldn't care less, you're only 23, hardly an old man. ARNIE: Havent you changed you tune? DAN: Haha. :) Woooo. ARNIE: Yeh DAN: Debbie, good carrer move for you, go into modelling, apparently blue eyed, blonde haired girls are more likely to get jobs than any other appearance. DEB: are they? DAN: Probably not, but that's what it says here. Apparently Naomi Cambell is upset because they used a blonde blue eyed woman to replace her on a magazine cover. Probably only a one off, like she did it cheaper or something, I mean no one has hardly heard of the blonde girl, I take no interst in the modelling industry at all, but I know why Naomi is, so she has got the publicity, and she's a big star. STEVE: deb would make a good model DEB: No thanks i dont fancy the job DAN: Can't blame you at all. Quite easy, you walk down a stage for a few seconds and that's it, but you have to watch what you eat all the time, have agents breathing down your neck 24 hours a day, always in the public eye, I couldn't be doing with that. ARNIE: Male models are not as widely recognised as female ones are they DAN: Not as such, no. NI V*******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* DAN: Ok, don't say her name, Why can't you believe I split up with my last girl friend? NICK: She is one helluva good looking girl DAN: I know ARNIE: Didnt work out dan says DAN: We're still best of friends, but the relationship wasn't working, so rather than ruin a friendship, best to end it early on when we see it isn't going to work out rather than get really hurt, and can't stand each other later. NICK: Im free DAN: I know you are! :) ARNIE: I thought you didnt go for blonds dan NICK: Yes good point he did say that DAN: Ok, I prefer brunettes in the looks department, but I don't have anything against blondes DEB: then what are all the jokes for!! DAN: That's what they are... JOKES! :) ARNIE: you like the new one on Neighbours? NICK: Shes nice STEVE: I know what a chick DAN: Haven't seen her. ARNIE: You want to watch, shes a brunette, Catherine's sister, Sarah DAN: I don't know, I haven't watched it for ages, and my last girl friend was called Sarah as well, as you know. ARNIE: Check her out DAN: Ok, I'll have a look tommorow (sad or what :) STEVE: Wouldnt mind been Luke, gets the house to himself with her DAN: Heee, it's not real you know! STEVE: I know but if it was NICK: You wouldnt know what to do any way! STEVE: I could quickly learn NICK: I dont think a 17 year old ginger freckled lad would be high on her lists STEVE: Sadly your probably right. I must admit im not any thing special to look at. NATALIE: so is a talk on here not the place for seduction DAN: Not really, no. It doesn't really work. NATALIE: okay then sweetie DAN: Cool. (sweetie ?) NATALIE: dont you like sweetie? DAN: Sweetie!! NATALIE: cos your sweet DAN: Well I suppose it's better than babe. NATALIE: whats wrong with babe? DAN: Makes me sound like a pig! ARNIE: You are a pig! Haaaaa DAN: Funny :( NATALIE: Your a babe but not a pig DAN: That's very nice to know. NICK: Add it to your c.v DAN: Oh, I will :) ARNIE: U know your dillema? DAN: I ARNIE: You what? DAN: Nothing, I said "I" because you said "U". Ok? ARNIE: Your dillema. A friend of mine had a problem similiar, he split up with his girl friend and she was bugging him all of the time so he just called her up and said F**K OFF! Down the phone and she never bothered him again. DAN: Mine's different I really do like Ms. X she's cool, and she hasn't even asked me yet, hardly obsessive. NICK: Unlike some... :-) DAN: Haha. NATALIE: me? DAN: Nooo, would we say that? NICK: Never! NATALIE: your so cool its hard not to be DAN: Wehey! Haha, and they call ME the natural flirt, I think not!! ARNIE: Sorry dan we take it all back. NATALIE: horns could come in handy DAN: I'm not even going to as *******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* DAN: Hahah, I took that out. NATALIE: Why? DAN: Not in good taste. N*******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* DAN: And that!! Stop it will ya!!!!!!! NATALIE: sorry NICK: She's no worse than any Carry on movie DAN: She is! Steve remember what you were saying last conference? If I didn't know who Natalie was, and how innocent she LOOKS then I would swear she was some dirty old 40 year old bloke. NATALIE: thats not very nice dan DAN: Haha, oh sorry I forgot you were there. NATALIE: i hope you dont talk about me behind my back DAN: No, I woul DAN: Look! WILL YOU QUIT IT WITH THE INUENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NATALIE: how do i do one of those smiling things ;_) DAN: Nearly. Eeeh. *******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* NATALIE: DAN: I'm going to print out this, UNCENSORED and post it to your mother NATALIE: dont ill do ANYTHING DAN: Haha, I'm going to cut you off in a sec. NATALIE: great DAN: And I mean it as well. STEVE: Dont shes very sweet NATALIE: thanks DAN: I'm not going to come in and out of this machine again. NA*******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* DAN: Right bye! +++ATH STEVE: Are they still there? DAN: Nope. I suppose if I read what I actually typed I set myself up for that one. STEVE: Yes you did. NICK: just the guys now eh? DAN: Yes, nice and relaxing intelligent talk now. STEVE: Oww. DAN: Give them a few minutes and I'll get them back. STEVE: good ARNIE: See certain political parties are circulating window stickers and video tapes. DAN: Yeah I know. Careful what you say though, not past May 1st yet, have to be VERY careful. ARNIE: Im not going to say anything bad, just a few parties are doing it. My next door neighbour has a big one in her window showing preference to a party telling people to VOTE FOR THEM. I got a video sent to me but my vcr is knackered so i cant watch it DAN: We haven't had any around here. We had a few J Witnesses the other day. ARNIE: Did you? WICKED I have a file all about ways to get rid of them. Nick I'll give it to you for the next issue. DAN: Or this one as it will be to the readers. NICK: I will shove it in there DAN: Don't you start :) NICK: I dont think i will with you lot, no. DAN: Good point. NICK: Thanks for noticing DAN: haha, don't use my lines! :) STEVE: Are you getting the girlies back now? DAN: Not yet. ARNIE: Give her a few minutes to calm down. DAN: My F'ing keyboards knackered, or something isBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB see?! Where does that come from, happened twice to me when my Output was off a second ago. to me when my Ou Hmmn, most perculiar why it does bbbbs all along my screen. ARNIE: There was a hedgehog in my garden this morning so I ran it over with a lawn mower, DAN: Right. ARNIE: I know what they mean now in that film "the colour of blood". DAN: There is a film called "The Colour Of Money", but not the colour of blood as far as I'm aware. ARNIE: Well it made a good link. DAN: Yep, well... no it didn't it was crap. STEVE: and here was me thinking you were becoming less obnoxious DAN: I'm not! ARNIE: You are! DAN: I suppose, maybe sometimes I can be NICK: like 99% of the time you grumpy arse DAN: Thanks. STEVE: still gets the girls though NICK: Girls being the right word, not women DAN: You cheeky porker. I'll slap your chins off. You've got more chins than the Chinese phone book! NICK: I know STEVE: Get the lasses back DAN: I'm not going to now, I'm insulted :) STEVE: O h go on! DAN: Alright. Wait a second STEVE: Alright NICK: ARNIE: No i dont, you do NICK: I dont wooly mammoths are not my type DAN: Right, should be back soon I just have to telephone Deb and tell her to load her computer back up. NICK: Right, can we go and relieve ourselves then? DAN: Yeah, you go and have a dribble. STEVE: Back soon DAN: Right, I'll pause this saving then. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAN: Ok are we all ready again? STEVE: Yes NICK: Yes ARNIE: yeh DAN: Right. *******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* Got the girls back now. Hello Debbie DEB: hi dan DAN: Right, has Natalie calmed down now? DEB: she has DAN: Good. NATALIE: i have i will tone it down DAN: Good (and no gags about toning it down either :) NATALIE i wont ARNIE: dan ever been body building? DAN: No wouldn't want to. ARNIE: You need some muscles! DAN: You're not exactly Mr Universe NATALIE: i dont like muscly boys DAN: Me neither, not in the same way as you meant obviously, but muscly people don't look very nice. ARNIE: so why wouldnt you? DAN: Because I'm very happy with the way I look right now. ARNIE: But sometimes a few muscles make you look better. DAN: No they don't. Not wanting to offend older people, but it is true that you are in your best looking years in between about 17-25 (most people) that is most people's prime, so if it makes you look worse (which it does) then why ruin my best years? ARNIE: I reckon it makes you look harder, I like looking hard. DAN: Haha, I know, but there are types of guys who are the type who is the 'hard' boys who supposedly are the fast livers and hang around gymns and stuff, that's you, I have always been a different type, I always get called the 'cute' type so it wouldn't suit me. ARNIE: maybe your right there. NATALIE: there are handsome guys and pretty guys, dans pretty ARNIE: see in the paper it said that BT say that people that have Yorkshire or Newcastle accents, that people that talk to them are more likely to trust them because of that accent. DAN: Lot of 'that's in there :) You have a Yorkshire accent, I don't trust you :) ARNIE: Yeh very good NICK: Hate liverpool accents though DAN: It's a bit ear grinding if it's strong. The only voice style I cannot stand is people who have a slow droaning voice. I HATE that. ARNIE: what of attitudes towards boys and girls? DAN: What of them? ARNIE: Do you think girls should get more respect? DAN: No. Why? ARNIE: It just has seemed to be an attitude hasnt it in the past where parents are much more protective of their daughters than their sons, and they are more likely to worry about their 16 year old daughter coming home late than their son, and them sleeping with people and who they go out with. DAN: No I wouldn't say that. Not from experience or any one I know, it does seem to be an image from the past, that is maybe used to be like that, but things have moved on massivly since then and my parents had two boys and a girl, Deb's still 15, Mitch is 18 and I'm just a bit older but there isn't any difference between the ways boys and girls think. There is differences in stereo types from the past that still are slightly around in the back of people's minds the way they are 'supposed' to act, but most just get on with the way they want to. Providing it breaks no laws and it's not going to get them in trouble, fine. ARNIE: so let me check this out. Debbie what time do you have to be in? DEB: Depends ARNIE: Usually? DEB: in summer usually about 10 if I am with friends ARNIE: Ok, what about you dan? DAN: What time do I have to be in :) I don't I live by myself! :) ARNIE: Dont be daft, you know what I meant, when you lived at home. DAN: I didn't have set times. ARNIE: Ah, and why do you think that is? DAN: Because I rarely went out at nights when I was about 15/16. ARNIE: What about Mitch DAN: He's in Newcastle for a few months but he still lives at home most of the time. When's he due back Deb? DEB: about 2 weeks DAN: Right and then he'll be back living there. DEB: yes DAN: Yep. But because he's 18 now he can come and go as he pleases as long, if he comes in at 2 AM he has to be quiet and has to call home first to tell them he's going to be out late. ARNIE: What about when he was 16 DEB: it was ten oclock DAN: See, all the same. ARNIE: Good, glad I was proved wrong. DAN: And you were. NICK: I moved out of my parents place last November, I was still 17 then, but I needed somewhere of my own. DAN: I didn't leave until I was 19 (which was last year incidently) but I know some people, 22 years old still live at home. I would have been allowed to stay there but I had the cash to be able to move out, so I did. NICK: Did your mum ever make you pay board? DAN: No. :) NICK: I had to! £75 every two weeks!! DAN: Haha, I must have been lucky, the thought never crossed their mind. DEB: It did they just never decided to DAN: How do you know? DEB: they tell me things DAN: Mammy and daddy's little girl eh? DEB: no DAN: That's what you seem like to them, but I know what you're really like. DEB: i dont know what you mean DAN: Jeckyl and hyde that one. ARNIE: Who and Hyde? DAN: I don't know, close a spelling I could get!! :) ARNIE: Or a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing DAN: Indeed DEB: i dont look like a sheep DAN: Haha, good point. I can't really see the resemblence between you and a sheep. DEB: no me neither DAN: Luckily, wouldn't want a sheep as a sister DEB: no DAN: No, then again, I don't particularly want you as a sister either but I'm stuck with you. :) (Joke!! :) DEB: thanks a lot DAN: You're welcome. NICK: Such a warm loving family there DAN: Haha. ARNIE: Cool new line DAN: What is? ARNIE: Is that a tic-tac in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? DAN: Haha. Very good. NICK: Nice one. STEVE: I'm a good lad though so I hardly ever go out at night DAN: Right. STEVE: The other week I was out until 8PM and my mother got really worried and started to telephone my friends to see if I was there! DAN: Really, at 16 years old? 8PM STEVE: On a Friday as well, I was at college on the net at the time DAN: Haha. Well if you don't usually stay out at night then I suppose it would be a bit worrying for her :) STEVE: That pisses me off, Debbie is 15, still at school, I'm nearly 17, at college and she can stay out until 10pm and my mother gets worried if I'm out until 8!! DAN: Ah well, one of lifes little quirks. I got home at 6 AM this morning, that's LATE! :) STEVE: Whats the latest you have stayed out DAN: Er, 3 days. :) STEVE: I was at a car boot sale on sunday DAN: Were you, how interesting. STEVE: nothing else to do on Sundays DAN: No, Sundays are quite crap as far as days go I suppose. ARNIE: My longest time out is 3 weeks DAN: Really? ARNIE: I was on holiday DAN: Oh well if you count them it was a month for me when I was in the Canaries. ARNIE: Just going out and coming home would be about 2 days for me DAN: Yeah. STEVE: Debbie, do your parents get in a mood if your late back? DEB: im not usually late and if Im going to be i always telephone because I have a charge card and I tell them where i am and who im with and that i will be back very soon. STEVE: Right. I'm not allowed a charge card, say I'd end up losing it. DAN: Yeah, I wasn't allowed one, mam said I would end up calling all my friends and people all over the place with it and run our phone bill up massively. Which I did do a few times when I was at home, my highest phone bill I got them was £300! Oh oh. DEB: i remember that DAN: Yeah, boy did I get bollocked! DEB: you did DAN: I know. "THREE HUNDRED QUID!!! COME HERE YOU LITTLE !!!!!", then I made a swift exit! STEVE: How old were you? DAN: Don't know, still at school. Probably about 14 I think. STEVE: 300 pounds, too bad. DAN: I know. ARNIE: Ever called an 0891 number? DAN: How do you think they got the £300 bill?! :) I did a couple of times but I didn't realise it was going to come to £300. DEB: was that how it happened? DAN: Yes, you and Mitch were there with me when I called but I got the blame DEB: your the oldest though DAN: So I have to be the responsible one. We called some numbers out of a magazine I remember ARNIE: I bet you did you dirty gits! DAN: Not that type you smutty sod, it was a crap joke line that kept repeating all the time, and a chat line which was a right waste of money about 200 people all talking at once, sounded dreadull! ARNIE: Sheva, let there be love, whens it out? DAN: No release date as yet. ARNIE: Can I 'borrow' it? DAN: Haha, yeah. ARNIE: Of ocurse I wouldn't ask you to make me a CD of it of course. DAN: No, you want it discing? ARNIE: If you would? DAN: Ahem, ahem, Ok,, AHEM!! ARNIE: Cough cough cough cheers cough!~!!!! ARNIE: Fat n funky, lets groove, whens it out? DAN: Dunno as yet. ARNIE: Disc it DAN: Are you gonna pay me for these? ARNIE: No. DAN: Why should I? ARNIE: As a mate DAN: Hmmnn. ARNIE: Cool song "It's over for me, its over for me, darling I love you but can't you see, it's over for me!". DAN: Yeah, pretty good song, had that a few months. Some very good scratch work in it. ARNIE: Keeping with a similar subject, have you seen DIGITISER on C4 TText? DAN: Not for a few years why? ARNIE: What do you reckon of it? DAN: Not bad considering it's free, a bit against the Amiga, but you can't punish people for being narrow minded and stupid, of you would have been in prison all of your life! :) ARNIE: Fnaarr. No but, what they are doing is finding out if girls actually play computer games because it used to only be a boys thing, but they did find that these days a lot of girls own computers and stuff, and not just the geeky ones either. DAN: Yeah. Well it used to traditionally be a male thing, but now that bias is gone and there are roughly as many females play computer games as males. I don't know any one who has never played a computer game, especially young people. DEB: i have a few but I dont very often DAN: And that's only because I give you it all for free. STEVE: So how did Deb get an Amiga then? DAN: Well, my A500 has always been at my parents place in the spare room (and it still is), but she used to use it now and then, so I said she could have it. DEB: I really have only used it for this DAN: I know, it's got a modem and a few BBS subscriptions, her and her mates use it like a telephone, just to talk to people which is probably one of the best things about comms DEB: it is quite funny on there sometimes DAN: Yeah. Especially when you have a room full of about 20 people like you do, and every one takes turns at the A500 (poor machine). STEVE: Lucky machine DAN: I very rarely play computer games any more, I did a few years ago, but not very often now. The odd game of Gloom and Scorched Tanks, sometimes but nothing else really. I remember my brother had a play station which be lent to Deb, but she didn't ever get the hang of it. DEB: i only used it twice STEVE: I play loads DAN: Ok. But Debbie is more the type of girl who would rather be with her friends, and thats why she has a few of them around there sometimes and talk to people on the computer. How often do you do it? DEB: Not that many, usually go out, but some times when friends can sleep over we might go in to the next room in the night and talk to people on the computer for an hour or two because it can be funny. but in the day i would rather go out, but other times like maybe a rainy day and im bored i might go on there. DAN: Ok. ARNIE: a kind of link, shyness DAN: Pain in the arse it is ARNIE: Do you reckon every one has it DAN: I would say everyone has probably, at one time or another suffered from shyness. Some more than others. People find it hard to believe, but I am a shy person myself ARNIE: I know you are DAN: Yep, and I HATE it. That's why I darent chat women up, can't bring myself to do it, to afraid they'll tell me to sod off and I'll look like a prat, I'm constantly afraid of making a fool of myself. ARNIE: Im not shy I can chat a lass up, she tells me to bugger off, then fine, roll on the next one DAN: I'm a very different person to you though NATALIE: your very sweet DAN: Thank you. STEVE: I am VERY shy myself DAN: I always though you were STEVE: Deb are you? DEB: a bit, not as much as dan is, most of the time i am okay. ARNIE: Do you often worry about how you are looking? DAN: All the time yeah. DEB: me to ARNIE: So do you walk down the street checking windows and stuff? DAN: Er, I suppose I do. Not as much as her though! DEB: i dont DAN: You do!! EVERY mirror or window DEB: so? DAN: Haha. See! But I spend a while in the morning's making sure my hair is alright, and my clothes are nice, I've had a shave, and a wash, and if I forget to do something such as brush my hair (I've gone out and done that before), I worry about it all day. Especially when I used to get spots when I was at school. I didn't get many, no more than the average teenager, but when I did I felt like every one was looking, and that used to do my head in. DEB: im very lucky i never get spots DAN: I know your lucky there. STEVE: I have one in my ear DAN: Urgh. NATALIE: but you look gorgeous all the time dan why worry DAN: I'm going to be straight here ARNIE: As opposed to bent? DAN: Yep. Some people can fall out of bed in the morning, and walk down stairs and be gorgeous already. No boasting here or anything, I'm not full of myself or anything, but I admit I don't suppose I'm bad looking, but I have to make the effort I can't just get up with out making the effort, I look a right mess with out spending a good 20 mins in the bathroom. ARNIE: Haaaa 20 mins in the bath room eh? DAN: Yes, combing my hair, and stuff ARNIE: Sure NATALIE: i think that if you just got out of bed dan you would still look a babe DAN: That wasn't smutty was it, I'm just checking it on the smut-o-meter NATALIE: no it wasnt DAN: Ok. I don't think I would, I have to spend ages every day. NICK: I'm an ugly arse any way so I dont care ARNIE: No argument from me. I aint bad looking but I have to try as well. NATALIE: your not as nice as Dan though are you? ARNIE: Never seen me have you? NATALIE: no ARNIE: I'm GORGEOUS DAN: Nothing like a bit of modesty NATALIE: really, you are to old for me though 23 is much to old ARNIE: And 16 is too young for me, so get lost NATALIE: thanks, are you really as nice as dan ARNIE: I'm not gay i can't tell you NATALIE: yes you can, it doesnt mean your gay ARNIE: I suppose i arent no. DAN: Nothing like gramatically correct sentences either. Cheers Arn' I'll have to save that. :) ARNIE: Get fu*******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\*******e DAN: Haha, I waited for that to just get into the top of the delay so people could tell what you said to me. But that means I took your last 10 words out, so say that again. ARNIE: I said did you hear that the Americans were overwhelmed with the Spice girls beauty? DAN: Haha, I heard about that. Are you sure they were looking at the correct performers? ARNIE: No I'm not! DAN: Hello? ARNIE: Nice awkward silence there DAN: I know :) ARNIE: also said on TText that males are becoming more feminate these days. Robbie Williams wears nail vanish! DAN: Well I suppose they are. A few years ago, guys wearing ear rings and neck 'chains' (necklaces) would be laughed at for being girlie, but now they can, so things do change. Like now it's very common, all girls wear trousers from time to time, some all of the time, so we are becoming more alike. NICK: So can you see boys in miniskirts in 10 years time DAN: Er, unlikely in 10 years. Might happen someday. DEB: i think a boy in a miniskirt would look alright DAN: Well, you think you look nice in one? DEB: yes DAN: Ok. Well have you ever seen a man in a skirt? DEB: no DAN: Then how do you know? DEB: I just imagine it DAN: Haha, really? Hmmn, suspect Debs. DEB: i mean only now i am thinking of what it would look like not that i think about it a lot DAN: Only sometimes eh? :) (hee hee) DEB: no DAN: Oh, not only sometimes, so often? DEB: never have before DAN: Ok, but you will from now on? DEB: NO! DAN: Ok, ok. Well to show you I'm sending Nick round in his white tights, his blue miniskirt, and his doc martins shoes. NICK: Sod off DAN: Haha, NOT a pretty thought. DEB: no it isnt STEVE: So what have you got on now Deb? DEB: white trousers, red sweater STEVE: right DAN: I've got my blue jeans and a white T-shirt on, and no socks. STEVE: Nice :-) DAN: Haha. Good job I don't have stinky feet. STEVE: I have my boxer shorts on DAN: Ok, interesting. Boxer shorts? STEVE: Yes DAN: Right, well... happy dangling, I suppose. STEVE: Cheers, your a y-fronts guy DAN: No, briefs, no Y-fronts! Not much difference really apart from a fashion statement. ARNIE: I told you that Y-fronts will be all the range for the summer didn't I DAN: Did you? ARNIE: A few weeks ago, the new type are made of Lycra, and have a horisontal opening DAN: Oh yeah I remember. And I'll wish them good luck again. ARNIE: Good you mad turd DAN: Thanks :) ARNIE: Quickly getting serious another story of rape today. In yorkshire a man who knew a girl called her house to make sure that she was alone and that her parents were out and then the 15 year old girl says he came around and raped her. DAN: I heard, that is appauling how any one could do that. Noticed again, the man denied the charges (but don't they all?) and his name has been released. There is always a chance that he didn't do it until it has been proven or otherwise, so his name shouldn't be released yet. But if this girl is telling the truth, then I feel very sorry for her, and the arse who did it to her deserves his appendages to drop off. ARNIE: i know, rapists really are the scum of the earth, especially a paedophile who could do it to a 15 year old. DAN: Yes, well I don't think any one will disagree with that. It is very sad when things like that go on, and to a child as well makes it even more heart breaking. The people involved in that type of crime all need help. ARNIE: I suppose the person who does it has to be sick don't they, in the head DAN: Maybe, but some times there are just evil. And they do need help though and especially the victims. Because that would be a horrific ordeal to go through, I can't think of anything more terrifying. And I applaud that girl for telling someone, because she obviosuly was really scared and it takes a LOT of courage to tell some one, so she is an extremely brave person. Well done. Same as the 13 year old who was raped by a taxi driver!! How disgraceful can you get, I used to get worried when I was younger getting into taxis, but you learn to put an awful lot of trust in taxi drivers, and this girl will probably never feel safe in a taxi again, with some child pervert raping her. Outrageous. ARNIE: Like Child line, apparently I have heard of people who have tried to get through to it for 3 weeks and it is always engaged. DAN: There are actually local number often because national Child Line is sadly very busy. And they are understaffed. STEVE: It is always engaged DAN: How do you know STEVE: Me and a few friends have tried calling it before just to see what theys say DAN: Well if you don't have a problem, DO NOT EVER do that again, and any one out there. Don't give them prank calls, it's busy enough and think of all the people out there who really need help, and you are stopping them from getting through. Imagine a situation where a young boy lives at home and his dad gets drunk and beats the son up and his mother doesn't care, the house is always messy, he has a little brother and they neglect the baby and the son is left to look after it. These cases are quite common in the neglect cases (although the amount of them is rare), and maybe he only has 5 minutes to call Child Line for help, and some one is winding them up and he can't get through and he has to give up and live with it, thanks to you. Don't do it unless you need help. Sadly there will more than likely be some one out there who is reading this eventually when it gets onto the AFCD or even through the normal distribution channels, some one that is currently going through this. You have GOT to tell some one, be it your parents, a good friends parents, a teacher, or a telephone service, some one you know you can trust. Even a doctor if there isn't any one else you feel confident with. And if you have been through an ordeal, go to your local doctors and ask if they have the facilities for you to see a trained tehrapist because these people are trained to help people who have gone through cases like this. They can help you, and let you live the rest of your life properly. ARNIE: Like in Middlesbrough that woman who got charged for having sex with an underage boy who was her neices son! DAN: Underage sex charges happen all the time, sadly and you'll find it doesn't hardly make the news any more. But she didn't rape him, they both agreed to it. In the U.S she would have been charged with rape though. NICK: How under age? ARNIE: 14/15 I think DAN: I know, I don't understand that at all, why on Earth would any one want to have intercourse with an underage person? Must be very warped in the mind. STEVE: Unless they are the same age DAN: Yeah OK. But they wouldn't have any charges brought against them. STEVE: So even though a 14 year old boy and girl could sleep with each other and break the law they wouldnt get charged? DAN: No, I suppose it would be technically possible, but both of them would get charged and this rarely would happen. Now time for one of these... HEY DEB! DEB: What? DAN: Why did the blonde fill her bra with orange juice? DEB: i dont know DAN: Because it said "cups" hahahaha!! :) DEB: yes how funny DAN: Alright, no need to be sarcastic! DEB: there is DAN: How can you tell a blonde has been using a computer? DAN: Hello? DEB: tell me then DAN: There's white out on the screen! Haha. DEB: there isnt any white out on this screen DAN: Or, How can you tell another blonde has been using the computer? There is pen over the white out. :) NICK: Dan do you think that people see others differently than some people? DAN: Eh? NICK: Like I could think you were a right arse, and some one else could think that you were great DAN: Yeah, with out a doubt. I have had it all, I've been called obnoxious, arrogant, nice, caring, boring, funny, lively, a prat, wise, helpful, unhelpful, cute, nasty, people perceive different people in different ways, usually depending on what type of person they are themselves. NICK: yes. ARN*******/\/\/\/\PAGE/\/\/\/\******* DAN: 'A' grammar school yes. ARNIE: Right, well they call it a grammar school but its really a 6th form because there arent any grammar schools these days. They still only allow boys in. DAN: There are still very few sepearated schools. I think you'll find there will be a school for girls only around that area. ARNIE: Why seperate them? DAN: Haven't a clue. It is very strange why they seperate them, remember in the old days of convents and stuff, and all boy, all girl schools. When they left school they didn't have a clue how to communicate with members of the opposite sex. That is a massive disadgantage, because unless you live in a box all of your life you find that most people have friends who are girls and boys. I know when I was at school I used to hang around with girls more than boys sometimes, and then there was a few of us, 4 boys 3 girls and we used to hang around with each other all the time. ARNIE: Yeh I can see why you hung around with girls, you wuss DAN: Sod off, I'm not a wuss. NATALIE: because your gorgeous thats why DAN: Ok. I didn't really hang around with girls MORE than boys, about even, I said sometimes I did only with girls, and other times only with boys and usually both that's all I'm saying. But often I'll go out somewhere with a couple of female friends of mine and it's no different from going out with the lads, think of it no differently, so people have to learn that people are people and gender has nothing to do with it. Any way gotta leave it there, end of the conferece. ARNIE: Alright bye DAN:See ya mate. Every one say good bye! DEB: bye NICK: See ya! STEVE: Bye deb DAN: Thank you all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----PAGE