you aren’t allowed to talk about it.

And yet here we all are, talking about it.

Uhhh, the browser extension offers to download from pretty much any youtube video, but not always all. If there’s one that won’t download, it’s worth trying again after the next realplayer update.

The videos end up in my real player videos folder, from whence I can watch them uninterrupted.

I think in British English buggered literally means to have received anal intercourse and figuratively means for everything to have gone wrong for you. Synonym for shafted.

I’ve never heard it used in reference to sexual crimes against animals, so I don’t think “usually” is right.

I don’t think the animal bit is right.

What?! Dad didn’t mention animals, just “some men”.

Uhhh, if there’s a video that you don’t want to be held hostage to intrusive ads or buffering during a bad internet connection, realplayer can help with that.

We used to play Space Invaders after Karate while we were waiting for various parents to pick us up.

If you got one of the high scores, you used the left/right joystick to scroll through the alphabet and the fire button to select.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that they called it the Java Development Kit because JDK, who held nine of the ten high scores, ended up working for Sun. We never knew who JDK was, but when Michael moved to our school, he wiped the floor with JDK.

Once, he made the high score table say
YOU
ARE
ALL
LZS
but we threatened to put him permanently in defence for lunchtime footy if he didn’t make it say you are all NOT losers. He changed it to
YOU
ARE
NOT
ALL
LZS
which we thought was fair because by his own admission, Colin was a bit of a nerd.

Joke’s on us now, though, because Colin the nerd was a late bloomer, dated an ultra pretty goth girl at university who he’s still married to, (she’s not goth any more) and having weathered the dot com bubble, the credit crunch and the rest and stayed on top, is seriously considering early retirement because he can, and doesn’t like the look of what AI is doing to the tech industry. He still makes fun of himself today and winds up his teenage daughters with how badly he uses trendy phrases he ever hears from them or their friends. Great guy.

Average amount. My friend had donkey Kong on his Commodore 64, and it was so cool, but we had jet set willy on our spectrum 48k, and a bunch of pokes from computer magazines to give you infinite lives or make you immune to monsters or make them disappear. Happy days.

Our colour chart for JSW was getting dogeared, so one day Dad took it to be colour photocopied and laminated. Legend.

RealPlayer still exists and I use it.

I remember when Netscape Navigator came out and it was brilliant, better than mosaic, but slow to load by comparison and we all called it bloatware.

We had internet at work (you could rlogin to different servers and some of them were fast and had internet access), but at home it was pay per minute dial up - check no one is using the phone, dial in, download email via pop3, disconnect.

I wasted hours of my life on irc but nowadays I waste hours of my life on lemmy instead.

May apologise on behalf of my people. I shall endeavour to only call it rectal intercourse from now on.

When I was still in junior school, our team lost badly at football. I went home and told my parents we were well and truly buggered. (That’s what Jamie had said and I thought it sounded appropriately drastic.) Mum gasped and sternly said my name, and Dad firmly said that I shouldn’t use that word. I asked why not. Very patiently, he explained to me what it meant. I was a little taken aback and did indeed stop using that word.

The youngster’s precocious, certainly.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Don’t tell me you wouldn’t, Mickey, we all know you would.

You can’t argue with horny using logic.

I thought that statistically gay men have more frequent sex with a much broader range of partners and so stds spread much more quickly in unvaccinated sexually active gay men.

This is a silly point to make. Right wingers always make this point because they hate for rich people to ever have to contribute to society.

A well designed taxation system takes from people in rough proportion to ability to pay and then distributes to people in rough proportion of need.

So yeah, it cost someone somewhere something, but the fact that you can rock up at the maternity unit, std clinic or cancer specialist without your credit card in civilised countries is called free healthcare, and whingeing about how much some higher rate taxpayer could have spent on a supercar or yacht or second home if we didn’t use that money to save someone’s life is silly.

Yeah, ok, so everything in healthcare costs something to somebody but now the word free has no meaning in relation to goods and services, so we can’t use ever it?! Nope nope nope. Free has a meaning that’s very clear in this context, this is free healthcare and it’s good.

I’m sick of “won’t anybody think of the poor higher rate taxpayers?”. No. They’re not poor. Literally. Fix the tax system so that global corporations, multimillionaires and billionaires pay at a rate that approaches regular income tax, and everyone except the grotesquely wealthy will have a more reasonable tax bill and we can all have nice things.

Respected them as a military force, I mean, not for the decisions their lunatic presidents made about deployment. World’s most powerful military, that sort of thing. Now they look weak and ineffective.

Yeah for the diesel/petrol/gasoline ones they’ve excluded energy wastage at the extraction point (eg if they have a flare), moving the oil to the oil refinery (from wherever in the world it came from), during the refining process (definitely a lot of energy used there), transporting the end product to wherever the filling station is, and finally pumping it into the vehicle.

But they included all the comparable costs for electricity. They wanted fossil fuels to look as good as possible. I’m extremely skeptical about data that suggests air travel is efficient when people have been talking for years about how wasteful and environmentally damaging it is.

YOU are the embarrassment, trump.

A year ago people respected the US military. Now you have copied Putin’s self-humiliating needless petulant war strategy.

Edit: I DON’T mean respected the purposes to which it was deployed or the decisions of its stupid presidents, I mean that people believed it was the strongest and most advanced military. Now they look weak and ineffective.