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The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Emaighmit on November 11, 2008, 02:57:07 AM

Title: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Emaighmit on November 11, 2008, 02:57:07 AM
Maybe the problem is that I expected it to be easy and learned too late that is extremely challenging. The difficulty of life combined with the disapointment brought by major experience (love, work, friendship) keeps me up or makes me bury my head under the pillow.


Mod:
This is Spam!  The link in the signature goes to a porn site!  Do not feel the need to be nice in your responses.

Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: stePH on November 11, 2008, 03:12:45 AM
I've never heard of this story.  Who's it by?

[EDIT]

The OP was originally in the "Science Fiction Discussion" forum; it's since been moved here to Gallimaufry.  My reply doesn't make sense unless that is known.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 11, 2008, 10:44:12 AM
Well folks,  Since this one is spam (The signature goes straight to a porn site), I was going to delete it.  Instead I thought I'd let all of you take your best swing at it, while I ask Steve to ban the poster.  No need to be nice or even civil.  The moderators won't be watching this one very closely.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Thaurismunths on November 11, 2008, 11:30:49 AM
...except your mom.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 11, 2008, 11:42:27 AM
...except your mom.

Winner in the race to the bottom.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: eytanz on November 11, 2008, 11:45:38 AM
...except your mom.

Winner in the race to the bottom.

What's that about your mom's bottom?
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 11, 2008, 11:50:52 AM
...except your mom.

Winner in the race to the bottom.

What's that about your mom's bottom?

I meant, don't feel any need to be nice to the original poster.  Keep my mother out of it.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: wintermute on November 11, 2008, 12:45:02 PM
Keep my mother out of it.
That's what she said.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: SFEley on November 11, 2008, 01:44:01 PM
Okey doke.  Banned.  Thanks, Russell.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 11, 2008, 04:13:34 PM
makes me bury my head under the pillow.

Only works if someone then dumps 6 feet of earth on the pillow.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: stePH on November 11, 2008, 04:25:45 PM
Well folks,  Since this one is spam (The signature goes straight to a porn site), I was going to delete it.  Instead I thought I'd let all of you take your best swing at it, while I ask Steve to ban the poster.  No need to be nice or even civil.  The moderators won't be watching this one very closely.

Why not break the link and munge the address, so as to completely defeat the spam while still leaving the post up to ridicule?  As it stands, the site is still being advertised here.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 11, 2008, 05:42:59 PM
Well folks,  Since this one is spam (The signature goes straight to a porn site), I was going to delete it.  Instead I thought I'd let all of you take your best swing at it, while I ask Steve to ban the poster.  No need to be nice or even civil.  The moderators won't be watching this one very closely.

Why not break the link and munge the address, so as to completely defeat the spam while still leaving the post up to ridicule?  As it stands, the site is still being advertised here.

Looks like the ban didn't stick.  Hang on.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Bdoomed on November 11, 2008, 06:06:44 PM
wow this guy is a douche bag.
i love how his signature is semi intelligent and then boom, smack dab in the middle its Brittany commando xxx :P
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: wintermute on November 11, 2008, 06:24:57 PM
Is there really that much demand for military special forces porn?

I guess it takes all sorts...
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: wherethewild on November 11, 2008, 07:03:47 PM
This has to be a below minimum wage job... creating profiles - complete with sig lines - just to spam highly niche forums. I wonder if he's also hit the chicken one?

It's almost as good as the friend of a friend (crappy beginning for a trustworthy anecdote, I know) who had the job of photoshopping thongs on hookers arses in the personal ads of a San Fran newspaper.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: SFEley on November 11, 2008, 10:18:34 PM
I deleted the account too.  Thanks again, Russell, for reminding me that a ban doesn't do that; it just prevents future logins.

Really, I'd call it a pretty good track record, if spam is rare enough here that a single spammer causes this sort of fuss and amusement.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Bdoomed on November 11, 2008, 10:37:56 PM
:) this is what... 2nd? 3rd spammer?
tis impressive
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 11, 2008, 11:04:35 PM
:) this is what... 2nd? 3rd spammer?
tis impressive

I think it's closer to five plus the one guy Steve chucked for being an ass.  Makes our job pretty easy.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 11, 2008, 11:27:06 PM
I was chucked?
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Heradel on November 11, 2008, 11:47:21 PM
:) this is what... 2nd? 3rd spammer?
tis impressive

I think it's closer to five plus the one guy Steve chucked for being an ass.  Makes our job pretty easy.

More like six, I deleted a spam thread a few minutes after it was created and IM'd Steve to kill the user, I think I forgot to PM you guys about that one.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 12, 2008, 07:27:48 AM
I was chucked?

No, you deleted yourself.  We had nothing to do with it.  Besides if it had been you, I would have mentioned you by name.  You also wouldn't be able to read this, because Steve IP bans.  That means no one from that IP can get back into the forums, even if they try to make a new ID. 

The OP was kind of prophetic though.  Nothing in life is easy.  We even had trouble banning his spamming ass.  Maybe there was more to him after all.  Oh well
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Bdoomed on November 12, 2008, 01:21:10 PM
ip bans dont necessarily keep out spammers.  its quite easy to fake an ip/change an ip.
but for the average user tis enough :)
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 12, 2008, 01:56:32 PM
I was chucked?

No, you deleted yourself.  We had nothing to do with it.  Besides if it had been you, I would have mentioned you by name.  You also wouldn't be able to read this, because Steve IP bans.  That means no one from that IP can get back into the forums, even if they try to make a new ID. 

The OP was kind of prophetic though.  Nothing in life is easy.  We even had trouble banning his spamming ass.  Maybe there was more to him after all.  Oh well
I was making a joke.  Calling myself an ass in a roundabout way.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: SFEley on November 12, 2008, 01:58:05 PM
ip bans dont necessarily keep out spammers.  its quite easy to fake an ip/change an ip.

Also, a lot of spam comes from "zombie" machines -- PCs owned by ordinary people that got infected with a virus.  So the IP may not have any connection to the person whose fault it is.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 12, 2008, 02:09:04 PM
ip bans dont necessarily keep out spammers.  its quite easy to fake an ip/change an ip.

Also, a lot of spam comes from "zombie" machines -- PCs owned by ordinary people that got infected with a virus.  So the IP may not have any connection to the person whose fault it is.


Then there are people that use a wireless provider that gives a new IP for every connection.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Russell Nash on November 12, 2008, 02:35:58 PM
This is just not the conversation I thought we'd have when I left this thread up.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Bdoomed on November 12, 2008, 02:50:42 PM
poor Nash.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 12, 2008, 03:06:38 PM
If you have nothing better to do than spamming a high class board like this, then perhaps we can start a reality horror podcast featuring you as the victim!

(Better, Nash?)
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: stePH on November 12, 2008, 03:35:14 PM
If you have nothing better to do than spamming a high class board like this, then perhaps we can start a reality horror podcast featuring you as the victim!

Coming soon from Escape Artists, Inc: Snuffpod.  ;D
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 12, 2008, 03:43:17 PM
Coming soon from Escape Artists, Inc: Snuffpod.  ;D

I just snorted coffee, thanks StePh
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: stePH on November 12, 2008, 04:32:52 PM
Coming soon from Escape Artists, Inc: Snuffpod.  ;D

I just snorted coffee, thanks StePh

You use ground coffee beans as snuff?  :D
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: wintermute on November 12, 2008, 04:35:59 PM
Well, it's probably cheaper than cocaine.
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 12, 2008, 04:40:55 PM
Where do you think the coffee from this week's EP went?
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: stePH on November 12, 2008, 07:40:29 PM
Where do you think the coffee from this week's EP went?

 :D Another mystery solved!
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Zathras on November 12, 2008, 09:13:37 PM
... nearly destroy the whole experience for me.  Nothing pulls me out ... faster than a halt-and-repeat.

hmmmm
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: Windup on November 14, 2008, 12:59:27 AM

poor Nash.


Not the first diety to be disappointed.  'tis Their lot, I'm afraid.  Omniscience only goes so far, apparently....
Title: Re: Nothing in Life is Easy
Post by: FemaleDuck on November 26, 2008, 03:00:41 PM
Maybe the problem is that I expected it to be easy and learned too late that is extremely challenging. The difficulty of life combined with the disapointment brought by major experience (love, work, friendship) keeps me up or makes me bury my head under the pillow.


Mod:
This is Spam!  The link in the signature goes to a porn site!  Do not feel the need to be nice in your responses.



If life was easy, everybody would be doing it.