General Chat

Hi Pat. <3 :-D

Hi Belle. <3 :-D

How is Mr B? <3

Belle, two want coffee, one wants tea and the other brought his own refillable coffee beaker which, of course I am refilling for him. When I coffee, they coffee! :-D

Pat, we were wondering whether there were any packages left like those we had for the World Cup but I fear we're too late. :-(

Dang! I just missed you Belle. Good arftermorning :-D :-D :-D

Always look after the workers and you'll get a good job done I always say ;-)

Shame, it'll just mean lots of time in front of the TV ;-)

We'll be watching

:-D :-D :-D

Bye Belle :-D :-D <3 <3

Just completed reading back.

Island - how did Dermot upset you?

Pat, temperature-controlled rooms for computers takes me back about 35 years ago when we got computers where I worked. Not only in a room but then behind a glass wall - right temperature and defo no specks of dust allowed inside. :-D

I'll clarify - twas the mainframe behind glass wall, Pat.

Even now I keep ours away from direct sun - habit. :-D

My husband worked for many years until 2004 in rooms at about 16 C because of the computer he worked on, same for all it's peripherals

It was about 1984 for us Pat.

Progress has been fantastic since then.

The one he worked on was very big. Military. :-0

I don't know how big ours was but it enabled connections to similar bodies more than a thousand miles away.

When did the military bring them in? I expect theirs was, if not worldwide connections, at least European-Middle East?

Ours was government, by the way, Pat.

This one connected to radars covered Faroes to Europe

Joy, Dermot didn't 'upset' me. I don't know him so how could he?

Hi and Bye Belle :-D <3

Afternoon Joy :-D <3

I go for a wander around the estate and see you have not been behaving :-0 :-0 :-0

3 RR's on the first page
:-S :-S :-S

Only just seen the other 2 now you've mentioned it Fly :-0 :-0 :-0 What on earth did Emma say?:-0

Afternoon Fly :-D :-D <3 <3

Hi Fly. <3 :-D

3 !!! That went clear over my head - I only saw one. :-S

I'll rephrase that, Island.

Why did you dob Dermot in?

Well, blow me down. Three!

I'll be next now I've written a word with at least three connotations. :-D :-D :-D

It'll be Dermot being petulant :-\

Joy, as I'm sure you've noticed, Dermot never has the good manners to type Hi or Hello etc. in the good spirit of the daily threads. Instead he posts nonsense at best or at worse he's stirring for effect.
Not on my watch! :-|

At least I said it was me who reported Dermot - unlike the coward who RR'd me.....for posting that it was me who RR'd Dermot. Dear lord, you couldn't make it up :-\ :-\

Someone used your name Island? It sounds like you never found out who it was.

If I ever RRd anyone I'd tell them and tell them why too.