by
TwistedPsycho
@ 01/04/2006 - 10:34:19
This morning I am just in a ranting mood, I got a phone call from my parents to say that my grandmother was around their place in tears.
Apparently someone playe a prank call to the police last night telling them that there was a disturbance at her house and they turned up in a car with lights blazing, wearing full body armour and nightstick in hand.
Bearing in mind we cremated my grandfather a fortnight ago, she was not best pleased anyway, and has had a nervous breakdown. Cheers pranksters!
Anyway my rants today are a little more sedate, starting with OAP bus passes.
Now I am all for helping the retired and elderly. This and the next generation of retire-ees have done a lot for this country, such as the World Wars, the industrial age and women getting into work, and of course the plight of the younger generations turning out to be thugs, chavs and Tony Blair.
Some local councils however are taking the "michael". All of Hampshire have given our senior citizens a bus pass to travel throughout the county for absolutly nothing. Brilliant idea, and well deserved, except in Fareham.
Fareham have decided that their OAPs can only travel for free in FAREHAM. Did the residents of Fareham not give as much during the hard times? Is it that they do not ever travel outside of the town boundaries?
Consider this, the local hospital for Fareham is Queen Alexandra (Portsmouth), your local areas of beauty for walks and stuff are Boarhunt Forest (Wickham - just outside the town boundries), the Queen Elizabeth Country Park (Petersfield) and the Meon Valley, all welcoming to those who live anywhere but Fareham for free!
Maybe Fareham Council should take a leaf out of everyone elses book!
Moving swiftly on, it also gets my goat when people who are invited onto chat programs and in this case IRC chat channels start to spam (repeating the same tripe over and over)
For example, in the space of a minute, this happens:
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo probes matty viciously with a large double decker bus
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo bashes matty repeatedly with a giant left testical
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo smacks matty repeatedly with a fork
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo impales matty in the nuts with a tiny vacuum cleaner
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo impales matty in the face with a small fork
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo beats matty in the face with a huge vacuum cleaner
matty22 lol
matty22 hi all
[DumB]TP !slap matty22 STFU
* nvinfo smashes matty22 STFU to death with a left testical
matty22 lol
matty22 !slap matty
* nvinfo smacks matty to death with a giant double decker bus
First of all, why would you want to ask a computer to impale you in the nuts with a tiny vacuum cleaner (actually its because we usually aim it at other people in there), but also why do it so many times within the space of a minute.
In DumBclan we use the IRC channel not only for general chat, but to discuss issues and for players to report cheaters for us to investigate, spamming is sometimes fun but theres a boundry.
AND FINALLY: and this is not a rant.
I went buying my misses' birthday present last night. I got two seats to see the new musical "Footloose" at the Novello Theatre in London, for April 22nd. Its two weks into its new run so by then they shold all be settled into their roles at the theatre. I will report back on what is billed to be an excellent look at the 80's and has a lot of 80's music in it.
Well I am off to watch Smackdown on download! Catch you all later!