[Ballbag]

28 my a**, balls! You're older than me, baby !!

I can assure you Viv, my stated age is correct. I was born in 78, grew up on a diet of findus crispy pancakes, skips, tinned mandarin segments and evaporated milk, my favourite television programs were Thundercats, Cities of Gold and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I had a Scoot-tech, some Bouers and an etch-a-sketch, I lived through the garbage pail kids and coca-cola Yo-yo crazes. My first ever slow dance with a girl was to "Everything I do I do it for you" by Brian Adams, I first got drunk on two-dogs and hooch in the park, my first club night out saw me dancing to Rhythym is a Dancer, KLF and the Shamen. My first gig was Oasis at Knebworth.

I am most certainly 28 Viv.

[Yudster]

I've kept this one actually! Because it said it was UNLUCKY to delete it, which has annoyed me (being a supertitious person).

Again, this would make me even more inclined to do exactly whatever they said I shouldn't do. Being a totally non-superstitious person.

[Yudster]

......... some Bouers ............

.....What?! Sorry for the double post.

[Console]

Anything I receive that says "send this to five friends, and spread a smile" or similar goes straight in my trash.

I have my spam filter set up to instantly trash any email with a subject that starts 'FW: '. People that actually manage to get that crap sent through to me usually receive an impolite email back to them stating that their intelligence is equal to that of a block of cheese. Why people actually forward that stuff is beyond me; just one of the many things in this world that I don't understand I suppose.

[DemonHorse]

We had 16 player deathmatches in Doom when we were at school (although we weren't actually meant to of course); fun times.

Ah the joy of incompetent network admins/IT Teachers.

[Ballbag]

Apologies for the incorect spelling, I meant "Bauers", a brand of roller skates, very fashionable in my town in the late 80's, early 90's. I used to go to the roller disco every Sunday afternoon, I even progressed to Marshall level towards the end.
They looked something like this, but you wore leg warmers on them to look cooler, and if you were dead trendy... two tone wheels.

[Vivienne]

Anything I receive that says "send this to five friends, and spread a smile" or similar goes straight in my trash.

I have my spam filter set up to instantly trash any email with a subject that starts 'FW: '. People that actually manage to get that crap sent through to me usually receive an impolite email back to them stating that their intelligence is equal to that of a block of cheese. Why people actually forward that stuff is beyond me; just one of the many things in this world that I don't understand I suppose.

yep, there's a lot you don't understand.

[Yudster]

I couldn't do that exactly as I do get a lot of legitimately forwarded work related emails. But thankfully I don't get enough of the stupid ones for it to be an issue, most of my friends feel the same way about this stuff as I do, so I end up with fewer of them than some people anyway.

[Vivienne]

my own "hotmail" inbox is already out-of-control... I feel I don't need a workplace one going the same way, yuds.

[Console]

Your mistake there was getting a 'hotmail' account.

[Vivienne]

And why exactly would that be.

A lot of it is my own fault, because I have been requesting "freebies".... now it's got spectacularly out of hand.

[foot-loose]

We had 16 player deathmatches in Doom when we were at school (although we weren't actually meant to of course); fun times.

Ahh - Doom was immense.

I still don't know what the point of it was, but it was fun!

I've kept this one actually! Because it said it was UNLUCKY to delete it, which has annoyed me (being a supertitious person). Whoever's been in this job before me seems to receive quite a REMARKABLE amount of the most fantastic stuff I have EVER seen in my entire bloody life.

Whats with ALL the random CAPITALS today?

[Vivienne]

stress, foots.... CAPITALS are a result of STRESS.

I like space invaders... I guess these are probably long gone, but I love them!

[catherine]

Are we talking about crisps now? space invaders were ok but only in pickled onion flavor i loved tangy toms.....

[Yudster]

Pickled Onion Monster Munch. And the new Pringles Rice Infusions salt and vinegar are super strong too, nice.

[Vivienne]

Space Invaders was an 80's computer game! zap, zap, zap, zap...

[MK Chris]

Not to sound old, but I can't really imagine being at school with computers and all that jazz. I mean we had PC's, but only about 10, and they were used to just do spreadsheets, write programs and draw pictures in paint. The e-mail, internet thing was just getting off the ground when I left.

Oh how times have changed.

(Yudyuds, feel free to give us your impressions of school in a time when slate, chalk and abacus was still the norm, or is the pulral abacae)

My boss is 48 and there was a computer at his school when he went there. Admittedly it filled a room and was programmed with punch tape.

We had Acorns at middle school, we never actually reached the dizzy heights of Windows till secondary school. No email for us either though.

I've kept this one actually! Because it said it was UNLUCKY to delete it, which has annoyed me (being a supertitious person). Whoever's been in this job before me seems to receive quite a REMARKABLE amount of the most fantastic stuff I have EVER seen in my entire bloody life.

Now Viv, I'm not the best person to be able to understand this because I struggle to understand why a rabbit foot brings good luck and why I shouldn't walk under a ladder, so maybe you could explain: even as a superstitious person, surely receiving an email that says "deleting this email will render you impotent" or similar does not actually mean it's bad luck. Someone has sat there and said "I know, I'll write an email and see how many gullible people follow it." Email is not a mystical or magical medium. If I were to type out an email to you now (assuming I had your address in the first place), saying "do not delete this otherwise it is bad luck", would you keep it? Because that's not bad luck, that's just me seeing if I can fool you.

[Vivienne]

I know it's silly, but I'm just being cautious... besides my "stars" for today are horrendous and it's a 13th...

[MK Chris]

I think I would be stressed if I were you as well.

[Vivienne]

and what's that supposed to mean, tophs

[Console]

Your mistake there was getting a 'hotmail' account.

And why exactly would that be.

It's because Hotmail is notorious for having a poor spam filtering system, and for attracting a lot of spam.

We had 16 player deathmatches in Doom when we were at school (although we weren't actually meant to of course); fun times.

Ahh - Doom was immense.

I still don't know what the point of it was, but it was fun!

Well, the point of the single player mode was to fight you're was through the bases on two of Mars' moons (Phobos and Deimos I think) and kill all of the demons in hell to get back to Earth. The point of the multiplayer mode was simple - to Frag each other.

[Vivienne]

bring back Space Invaders ...

[foot-loose]

I struggle to understand why a rabbit foot brings good luck

So does the rabbit.

Well, the point of the single player mode was to fight you're was through the bases on two of Mars' moons (Phobos and Deimos I think) and kill all of the demons in hell to get back to Earth. The point of the multiplayer mode was simple - to Frag each other.

hah, I was quite happy not understanding it. You wandered about with big guns and killed things and had to jump up on square ledges - thats all I needed to know.

[Console]

bring back Space Invaders ...

Did Space Invaders ever leave? I'm fairly certain that'll be around on the internet somewhere.

[foot-loose]

http://www.neave.com/games/