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_Maxxx_27-Apr-15 16:40

_Maxxx_

27-Apr-15 16:40

OriginalGriff wrote:

i) You don't understand what the young peasants are talking about.
ii) You struggle to read Chaucer in weak candlelight.
iii) You hate rowdy taverns
iv) You constantly worry that you might have The Black Death.
v) You neither know nor care who Blondel is sleeping with.
vi) Crusaders seem younger every year.
vii) You struggle with new technology, such as the Heavy Plough, and the Longbow.
viii) You find Gothic architecture too modern.
ix) You keep forgetting who the King is.
x) You dream of buying a second hovel in Anglo-Burgundian Paris.

FTFY - & explained why there is no 0)

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grralph128-Apr-15 0:00

grralph1

28-Apr-15 0:00

I am doofus. I read this as middle aged like in mid life crisis.
As I read your list I thought that you were referring to old age.
1) You don't understand what the young peasants are talking about.
2) You struggle to read Chaucer in weak candlelight.
3) You hate rowdy taverns can't hear anyone in there...

Then
4) You constantly worry that you might have The Black Death.
WTE....
and then
6) Crusaders seem younger every year.
7) You struggle with new technology, such as the Heavy Plough, and the Longbow.
8) You find Gothic architecture too modern.
9) You keep forgetting who the King is.
WTE WTE....

I thought OK he has been drinking or something.

I was just about to reply with references to affairs with sheep and convertible sports cars that attract younger sheep, then it dawned on me.
He is not talking about old age or mid life but middle-age.

I always enjoy your posts.

Just wish you would tell all those people with the sheep jokes to Elephant Off.

... and that is exactly what I will do now as I have already committed that crime.

Thanks Orig

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

MikeD 228-Apr-15 2:14

MikeD 2

28-Apr-15 2:14

unfortunately, I just have to look in the mirror Cry | :((

oh and who the heck is Blondel?

kordaff28-Apr-15 6:37

kordaff

28-Apr-15 6:37

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondel_de_Nesle[^]

ie: he's the guy that did all the singing in Monty Python's the Holy Grail (but in a northern french dialect)

MikeD 228-Apr-15 6:43

MikeD 2

28-Apr-15 6:43

ok, that confirms it (not that it needed confirming) seriously middle-aged here

SeattleC++28-Apr-15 5:17

SeattleC++

28-Apr-15 5:17

You just get bored when your younger friends start arguing about, in a battle between Charlemagne and Beowulf, who would kick the others' ass.

KP Lee28-Apr-15 18:47

KP Lee

28-Apr-15 18:47

SeattleC++ wrote:
who would kick the others' ass.

Sounds like time to warm up the stockade for animal abusers. Smile | :)

There's life in the old dog yet

Dan Sutton28-Apr-15 6:16

Dan Sutton

28-Apr-15 6:16

I actually know exactly how you can tell you're middle aged, and I know because it happened to me, and then a week later to a friend of mine, two days after he laughed at me for telling him my experience.

It's when you see a whole crowd of 18-to-20-year-old girls, and you realize that (a) ALL of them look good to you, not just some of them - i.e. you no longer notice minutiae, and that (b) you can't have ANY of them.

My only consolation was that when this happened to me and to my friend, my friend was two years younger than me (well, actually, he still is)...

Sascha Lefèvre27-Apr-15 2:21

27-Apr-15 2:21

For your soppy moments, if your C64 died or you never had one, or if you're lamenting the C65 never saw the light of day — here comes the MEGA65:

http://mega65.org/[^]

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

GuyThiebaut27-Apr-15 2:34

GuyThiebaut

27-Apr-15 2:34

What the commodore takes a huge keyboard to accomplish, the spectrum can accomplish and better with 9 keys[^]. Also, the spectrum graphics are better Poke tongue | ;-P

Let the battle between Commodore and Spectrum begin...

P.S. a virtual packet of sunflower seeds is on its way to the hamsters for fixing things.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

modified 27-Apr-15 8:59am.

Sascha Lefèvre27-Apr-15 3:03

27-Apr-15 3:03

GuyThiebaut wrote:
with 9 keys

Well, good luck playing Elite on that lunchbox! Poke tongue | ;-P

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

OriginalGriff27-Apr-15 3:13

OriginalGriff

27-Apr-15 3:13

Docking computer! I wanna docking computer!
Anna Fer-de-lance, anna ...

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter27-Apr-15 2:37

27-Apr-15 2:37

It's not even looks like C64 - a bit resembles Amiga 500, but not identical...
And why should you build a 8 bit computer for a few hundred dollars if you can buy a 32 bit for 30 and put an emulator on it...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Sascha Lefèvre27-Apr-15 2:44

27-Apr-15 2:44

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
It's not even looks like C64

It's supposed to resemble a C65[^]

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
And why should you build a 8 bit computer for a few hundred dollars if you can buy a 32 bit for 30 and put an emulator on it...

An emulator is just not the same..

Of course a C65 designed in 2015 also isn't the same, but it's closer Wink | ;)

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter27-Apr-15 2:46

27-Apr-15 2:46

Sascha Lefévre wrote:
An emulator is just not the same..

Why not? Put your 32 bit, single board, card-sized computer into a C64 box, connect it to a TV and you are ready to go...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Sascha Lefèvre27-Apr-15 2:56

27-Apr-15 2:56

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
Put your 32 bit, single board, card-sized computer into a C64 box, connect it to a TV

Now we're getting closer! But it has to be a CRT TV of course Big Grin | :-D

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter27-Apr-15 2:59

27-Apr-15 2:59

BW only...(except once a week when I got 2 hours to play on the color TV)

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Sascha Lefèvre27-Apr-15 3:13

27-Apr-15 3:13

And only if you kept your room tidy and took out the garbage Laugh | :laugh:

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

Oh my God

HobbyProggy27-Apr-15 0:54

HobbyProggy

27-Apr-15 0:54

WTE is happening today, first no reply functionality, now the forum looks completely broke with this XY postet at XX time below the Posts.

Is this intended? I think the Hamsters are drunk t'day

if(this.signature != "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter27-Apr-15 0:58

27-Apr-15 0:58

Are you using some mobile (small screen) device?
On large screen it looks OK, but on my phone it messed up for a few days already...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

HobbyProggy27-Apr-15 1:00

HobbyProggy

27-Apr-15 1:00

Nohpe, im using my pc at work, and it looks terrible. Maybe its a new design they wanted to implement though

if(this.signature != "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

Chris Maunder27-Apr-15 2:24

Chris Maunder

27-Apr-15 2:24

How wide is your screen?

This[^] will tell you the viewport size.

cheers

Chris Maunder

HobbyProggy27-Apr-15 2:40

HobbyProggy

27-Apr-15 2:40

Display Info
Viewport    1600 x 789 px
Resolution  96dpi
Pixel ratio 1
Orientation portrait

Well the problem was gone, several minutes after my post, it was just confusing Smile | :)

At the moment everything looks quite normal. ~~Although the stipmenu (hover over my username to get to settings) seems to be displayed on a lower level sometimes. It disappears behind the ad or other elements.~~

Edit: Seems fixed too Smile | :)

BTW: using Firefox

if(this.signature != "")
{
    MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
    MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

Chris Maunder27-Apr-15 3:22

Chris Maunder

27-Apr-15 3:22

OK, great.

Sorry for the confusion.

Trivia of the day: "desktop" has a "k" in it, and it's really important. Especially if you decide, after hours of testing, to make One Last Quick Trivial Change™.

cheers

Chris Maunder