Rationalskepiticism,lol.

[Fallible]

[rainbow]

[tattuchu]

Long time ago. Last time was Ireland in the 80s. Before that it was Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Scotland in the 70s. I won a free round trip flight to anywhere in the world from United in the first "scratch game" ever held. I sent in 150 postcards, got 150 tickets, and won with one of them.

That's cool. I won a truck once from that GM On-Star Hot Button promotion. Or whatever it was called. Only it wasn't a 4WD so it was useless here in New England. So I sold it back to the dealer for what ended up being half the sticker price. Then I had to pay taxes on the full value of the truck. So I didn't end up with much at the end. But still it was cool that I won a truck.

[pErvinalia]

The family of a mate of mine in the space of two weeks got 3rd place in a major lottery, and won the 1st and 2nd place prizes at a major function. Those prizes were a new car and a family trip to Thailand. Cunts.

[tattuchu]

The family of a mate of mine in the space of two weeks got 3rd place in a major lottery, and won the 1st and 2nd place prizes at a major function. Those prizes were a new car and a family trip to Thailand. Cunts.

People like that...well, they should not be people like that

[Fallible]

[Paula1]

The family of a mate of mine in the space of two weeks got 3rd place in a major lottery, and won the 1st and 2nd place prizes at a major function. Those prizes were a new car and a family trip to Thailand. Cunts.

Most I ever win is a tenner or less on the lottery.

[Seth]

Ha. Well I just visited ratskep to see if Seth's sock was still active, but he was banned a couple of weeks ago.

Sock? Who's sock? I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Mr.Samsa]

A cowardly little bird has told me that I've been coordinating my trolling of the ratskep mods from here.

I assume I've been using super secret code words that even I can't decipher since I wasn't aware of any trolling or coordinated attacks.

Who have I been working with, anybody know?

[Seth]

Long time ago. Last time was Ireland in the 80s. Before that it was Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Scotland in the 70s. I won a free round trip flight to anywhere in the world from United in the first "scratch game" ever held. I sent in 150 postcards, got 150 tickets, and won with one of them.

That's cool. I won a truck once from that GM On-Star Hot Button promotion. Or whatever it was called. Only it wasn't a 4WD so it was useless here in New England. So I sold it back to the dealer for what ended up being half the sticker price. Then I had to pay taxes on the full value of the truck. So I didn't end up with much at the end. But still it was cool that I won a truck.

Yah, taxes is a bitch on prizes. Cocksucking government...

It was my first use of computer technology. My dad had bought a "Redactron" to write his novel on, so I used it to produce the cards. A Redactron was an IBM Selectric typewriter attached to a computer the size of a filing cabinet with a tape drive on it. You could record keystrokes into the processor where they were saved to the tape, and you could create fields into which you could put variable data from a mailing list. It was used by legal firms and suchlike to print out nice-looking form letters.

The contest did not require that the card be handwritten, just that it have your name and address on it, so I programmed my name and address and the mailing address for the contest and spent a couple of hours sticking index cards into the Selectric.

I suspect I may be one of the reasons that you have to fill out such entries by hand now, so as to make it a pain in the ass to send more than a few entries.

I laughed all the way to Austria, where I got to sit in on a training session at the Spanish Riding School in Vennia...all by myself in the gallery, for five hours. I'd hoped to see a performance but the doorkeeper told me they weren't performing that week, and he had pity on me when I explained I'd come to Vienna specifically to visit the School and see the horses, and he took me to the gallery where I spent five hours in heaven watching those fabulous horses go through their paces. Much better than a performance, by far.

Then I went to Switzerland, to Grindelwald, to see the Eiger North Face, having read "The White Spider" and "Eiger, Wall of Death" as a boy. I arrived in the rain, but in the morning the sky was clear as a bell and I spent five days looking at the wall from various places in the valley. Those who might have seen Clint Eastwood in "The Eiger Sanction" will understand what I'm talking about.

Turns out it was the first time all spring/summer when the wall was visible. It had been cloudy and nasty for months before I got there. I'll try to find a photo, I know I scanned one.

Two things off my bucket list.

[pErvinalia]

Ha. Well I just visited ratskep to see if Seth's sock was still active, but he was banned a couple of weeks ago.

Sock? Who's sock? I have no idea what you're talking about.

[pErvinalia]

A cowardly little bird has told me that I've been coordinating my trolling of the ratskep mods from here.

I assume I've been using super secret code words that even I can't decipher since I wasn't aware of any trolling or coordinated attacks.

Who have I been working with, anybody know?

It's me! I am the evil mastermind!! Muahahahahah!

[Mr.Samsa]

Are you the one who caused Theropod to go crazy and for Weaver to become a big baby who can only insult people through PM's?

[pErvinalia]

I'm pretty sure Weaver has no problem insulting people directly on the forum. He doesn't get sanctioned for it either. Theropod sounds like me, been living in the wilderness too long.

[Mr.Samsa]

Quite possibly true, he's currently spamming the forum demanding that people suck his cock. Poor guy, must be desperate after only having dead animals to fuck for so many years