Wooyay!

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LEET!!! WOOT!!!

Woo wooo!

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Wow what a sensible thread,

I think you may have got confused with the 30th of may, your birthdays not till the end of the month TPH

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4u90, 1 \/\/@5 a b1t c0nfu53d by ur r35p0n53. [email protected] 2 [email protected]?

(Man, that was tough!)

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4u90, 1 \/\/@5 a b1t c0nfu53d by ur r35p0n53. [email protected] 2 [email protected]?

(Man, that was tough!)

Don't be a Planck!

(can anyone join in or do you have to be a certified nutter?)

You don't have to be but it certainly helps!

Wow, that's profound. :twisted:

(talking on phone)

"... no really, not everyone who works in web design is a geek. It's not like they sit around all day talking about physics using code... oh hang on a minute..."

Very good David, took a moment to understand to what you were applying the principle, I was just observing from another plane.
and may well be doing so again :?

Hugo.

Yeah, Hugo, you really gotta have exactly the right background to scope that one out.

And 'head - congratulations - that is an amazing number of posts in less than a year. Regardless of post count, you'll always be 1337 in our books.

DE

Look, I'm ill with this flu-type thing, I'm still fuming from being called an ass whilst trying to help someone, and I just can't be doing with all this tomfoolery. Life is for being serious. It's too short to whittle away with manic attempts to confuse people like me. I bet you lot stay up after 9pm and play your stereos over half-volume. Why I bet some of you are the sort that try to overtake me when I'm doing 70mph in the fast lane of the motorway. Bloody hooligans, the lot of you!

Bar F***ing Humbug. I'm going back downstairs to watch Coronation Street and polish my driving gloves.

Parp, fartttttttz-phut-phut-phut.

From the Wikipedia encyclopedia...

"However, leetspeak is not popular amongst all hackers, and nowadays is most commonly used in an ironic manner to represent immaturity. Many consider it a pointless affectation, and as it has become widely used it is less useful as a way of showing membership of an "elite" group."

Parp !

In your Rover, with your hat on...

I am proud to say that I do not have the correct background to have grasped the point and a bloody good thing too as absolutely anything in reference to script kiddies, leet speak (notice I will not stoop to using said vile language) puts my ire into hyperdrive, can't abide any reference to crackers or kiddies on the internet, extreme bah humbug, rant rant
Can we please refrain from this sort of jocularity on the forum it's a serious place for serious discussion and not a playground.

and look how you've upset Roy, we grumpy slightly older men get easily confused, so can we refrain from any more coded posting, thankyou very much .

Humpf!

Anyone who does not share in this light-hearted tomfoolery and such is "off-topic". This is, after all, the Geek News and Humour forum - any attempts to be serious or otherwise lay a downer on the carryings on here could lead to censure, or at least fifty lashes with a wet lasagna noodle.

BTW - for those who may be interested, here is a Haxor translator

DE

...and now you've dragged me away from seeing Ena Sharples having a good ol' slagging match with Seth Armstrong

Anyway; what I want to know is, which one of you young scallywags ever suggested having a Humour section in this fine forum anyway?

I take exception to your previous statement. At age 50, I consider myself to be a mature scallywag at the very least! Now go put a tot of rum in your tea, curl up under your comforter in front of the telly, and stop bringing your big fat raincloud over this forum. (Better still - go check out the weather in Nashville )

DE

b0lL0X to the weather in Nashville, even if he did get it working by floating the ad block and tidying up the other div dimensions ( funny that :roll: ).

Fifty eh - why you're even older than Hugo and I. That makes me feel all young and spritely again Why, I'm going to take my bike out for a burn up the M2 at 165mph, and then I'm going to eye up the totty on the beach at the end of my road, then I'm going to hang out with the guys at the kart circuit Yo Dude :twisted:

...parp :oops:

Couldn't agree more.

I stay up after 9pm playing CS with the 1773 kiddies

In fact, one of my favourite servers is the {1337} server.

No, I don't use leet speak. It's teh lame (omg! it;s happening!)

In all seriousness for a moment (yes, it is possible), I hadn't a clue what your post was all about and I'd never heard of leetspeak before I googled '1337'. I know my way around a server but I obviously don't mix with the right (or wrong) crowd! ...parp!

Who needs 1337 speak - Aussie & Brit speak is hard enough to understand.

Every community develops its own 'in' phraseology. Programmers are worse than most because they will often use syntactical conventions from their languages - (although, Roy, I think you were using <bitingtongue> with the wrong DTD) Gamers use slang that warps ordinary English and blends in IM conventions as well. "LMAO, I rlly pwned u 4 sure" (*sigh* I see that all too often in UT). Or how about those personal ads: "37 yo BIMM N/S DDF SOH ISO W/E DOM TgF for BDSM"

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Kubrick captured the idea of a defining language subculture in Clockwork Orange.

OK, enough philosophizing from the professor. ò¿ó

... and what the heck does parp mean?

DE

God's Truth, in a nutshell.

cheers,

gary

It's what old men (and women) do...

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Answers.com > Tell me about > Intestinal Gas > Linguistics

"Due to its social sensitivity, many euphemisms for flatulence have come into use, including: aflac (due to the duck sound a fart makes), blow off, bottom burp, break wind, bum growl, fluff, guff, let wind, Mario jump, pass gas, pass wind, parp, poot, poppy, toot and trump."

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The Art of the Fart (ISBN: 1861057741) By: Bryant, Stephen

"Fart ... a word for which the English language has produced many alternatives, ie; to break wind, parp, let off, blow off, drop one, boof, trump, let one rip, or emit a trouser cough."

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http://pewari.may.be/archives/000666.html

Really, the only people that use leet-speak in online games are lamers who think using leetspeak is cool.

Words that are leet/abbreviations/strange that are used include

Pwned (originally a misspelling of Owned)
Owned (see above)
Gj (Good Job)
Ul (unlucky)
Hs (headshot)

They are usually abbreviated because:

Nearing the end of a CS round, there is usually only one man left on each team. If the CT has nearly defused the bomb, but gets killed, there is about 2 seconds before the round restarts - no time to write "Unlucky mate!" but loads of time to write "Ul".

Similarly, in a firefight, it is ok to hold back for a second, type "Gj", then go back into the action.

Leetspeak, as said above, is really only used ironically, taking the mick out of 12 year old AOLers.

I can see that this thread is becoming a bit of a palaver (1) and is in danger of disappearing down the pan(2) in fact to a large extent it is becoming full of pap(3) and as for the meaning of the word Parp:
Parp: Noun. 1. To break wind, to fart. 2. Nonsense, rubbish.

1. palaver: Noun. A tedious fuss or discussion. E.g."What's all this palaver about you and my mum having an argument?" {Informal}

2. Pan: Noun. The toilet (the room and the bowl itself). E.g."I'll get her to ring you back, she's just in the pan."

3. Pap: Noun. 1. Nonsense, rubbish. 2. Faeces. Verb. To defecate. E.g."He was so scared he papped his pants."

Don't you do kph? Hmm...that'd be about 42 mph. That seems about right for you old codgers.

Love and peach and applesause! Really.

In a word: no! We're m.p.h. all the way and darned proud of it ...where do you think you got your mph from?

I suppose the reason for teaching French in public school is so the upper crust might share a common language

cheers,

gary

Thanks? :-k

We taught our ruling super elite class french as a sop to the fact that the french claimed it as the language of diplomacy, naturally as the elite imperialistic super power ruling most of the world as was our natural right we wished to demonstrate that we were prepared to make concessions unto those countries that envied our supreme position and it was in fact a subtle way of appeasing their jealousy.
The said elite ruling class actually conversed in a dialect known as 'Hooray Henry' a dialect reserved especially for those inbred twerps..oops I mean social ruling class elite intellectuals that drove our fine imperialistic policies forward and made our country what it is today
8-[

Hugo.

Our ruling Elite (and everybody else's) was taught French so they could understand "Nous nous rendons!" when they heard it.

This thread is certainly twisting in the wind. English is such a polyglot language to begin with but after the Norman Conquest, there was a huge infusion of French. But it is interesting how some of the french words became incorporated.

For example:

Animal                         Product
sheep (from Germanic sceap)    Mutton (mouton is french for sheep)
cow (old english cu)           Beef (bouef in french)
calf (norse kalfr)             Veal (veau in french)

The peasantry kept their names for the animals they tended but the conquering elite gave to the language what they consumed. If you look, there are many more examples of this.

In France they have a bureau (a french word, of course) devoted to keeping the language pure. In England, they just say, "Bring it on . . ."

As for me, I have come across a number of possible origins for my name ranging from the Hebrew Elias to a derivative of a Norse name to an old English word that had something to do with battle. And then there are all the different spellings:

The double L and single T
Descent from Minto and Wolflee,
The double T and single L
Mark the old race in Stobs that dwell.
The single L and single T
The Eliots of St Germains be,
But double T and double L,
Who they are nobody can tell.

Since I am in the "who they are" category I have finally found the source of my lack of identity.

*sigh*

DE

Great, another one of my threads hijacked

Hugo: Aha! Yes, indeed. There are a certain people whose jealousy toward their betters, and that's almost everyone, makes it nasty to deal with them.

Hellsbells: It's heard often enough that no formal education is required for understanding.

David: What an interesting observation. As to the purity of the beautiful French language (I think it sounds nasal and slurred), I recall when I lived there that my local acquaintances refused to use my first name as it wasn't French. They would address me by my middle name after frenchifying it to "Michel". I retaliated with Pete and Jack. We did not get along after that.

TPH: It was self-defense on our parts. Lo siento, I'm sorry.

cheers,

gary

Cor blimey, this thread still running ( a little bit of English vernacular there, our North American cousins may recognize it from Marry poppins as expertly used by *beep* Van Dyke)

Of course much of the English language is also rooted in Latin and Greek as well as plundering from that fine sophisticated French language and I also take this opportunity to heartily thank the French for the extremely sensible direction they took this Sunday, you are to be commended ! ( oops now I've taken the thread into the political arena)

TPH: Dispénsenos mi amigo, yo debía culpar.

I don't know why we have taken to talking in Spanish though ?

Hugo.

Oh honestly.....

TONY TONY we need to do something about the naughty word filter All I tried to write was an actors name, I know I'll try:

Penis Van Lesbian, nope no good, how about, Male member van Sapphist then, ah ok that will have to do re: censored text above read;
"as expertly used by Male member Van Sapphist" actually Willy Van Sapphist sounds better no it doesn't lets keep things in a spanish vein

Dique de Camioneta de Dicke. Oh I give up!

Were you trying to write Dick van Dyke?

What's the problem?

DE

Dick van Dyke

:? :-k Who's got Admin privileges then

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Hmm, I hate to prick your Guru bubble, but it looks like everyone but you.

Dick van Dyke and his brother Jerry van Dyke are both funny.

cheers,

gary

Dick van Dyke ...Hmmmmm :?

Well at least I'm in good company, were you as puzzled as me then Roy ? now that I have been initiated into the inner circle of arcane mysteries (thankyou David) I see that it's obvious trickery. #-o

Gary nothing deflates my guruness not even abject displays of neophytness, for to be a true guru the teacher must learn from the pupil as well.. My bubble remains solid and inflated.

Hugo.

Hugo - either the word censors are bu66ered or David and Gary have thought of a cunning way to bi-pass them with some special character or other. Either way, I agree with you that the censor has way too many normal words in it's library for it's own good.

I saw do away with all online censors!! - I find them most annoying

That's not to say I like to swear like a trooper from day to day but I have yet to find one that does not exclude perfectly good words cauing much irritation.

This is wonderful - this thread has been split twice and still keeps going and going. Evey forum neads a Threadzilla once in a while.

Thats right, Roy, I do have a certain low cunning at times. And as you saw earlier, I also have a certain talent with languages. I guess that makes me a "cunning linguist."

Put that in your word censor and smoke it.

DE

I think you guys are just are just doing this:

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Tony - please take my postcount down to zero as I couldn't give a s*** what it is, nether do I understand why anyone else would care :?

I do hope you speak in jest sir, for to speak otherwise will likely incur much hurt.

I have noticed with some despair that many clearly have a desire to increase their post count as though it conferred some special status I note the fury that some answer every post available even though they tend to repeat what has already been said and I also take note of those that split their replys across two posts when it could have been said within the original (that has tailed of slightly ) I hasten to add that neither of those situations is applicable to your good self in any way shape or form !

You now have the opportunity to reply and increase your post count, but beware you may just be guilty of padding your count.

Hugo.