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November 5, 2008 at 12:42 pm #2160931
Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
Lockedby older mycroft · about 15 years, 5 months ago
I could do with a friendly voice – I’ve just had some bad news, and my new regime of drugs will inhibit my use of a keyboard.
Please… 😀
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November 5, 2008 at 12:57 pm #2794691
That’s terrible!!!
by cmiller5400 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
I don’t have Skype, but I’m here if you want to rant/rave, blow off steam.
My thoughts and prayers are with you for what ever the bad news may be.
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November 5, 2008 at 1:06 pm #2794685
You matter.
by santeewelding · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
You matter greatly.
I don’t want to lose you. I will pre-empt everyone here and say, nobody wants to lose you.
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November 5, 2008 at 1:08 pm #2794684
However, it wouldnt matter
by the scummy one · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You matter.
if he were lost in the Church of Scum, would it? 😀
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November 5, 2008 at 1:10 pm #2794682
I agree with santee…
by boxfiddler · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You matter.
I’ll add that I wish I had Skype. I’d be on the horn 3 minutes ago.
Love you Old Mycroft – and I’m thinking of you.
😡
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November 5, 2008 at 1:09 pm #2794683
Sorry OM, I dont do Skype
by the scummy one · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
but as others have mentioned, you can post here, or, you can even peer me and I can respond.
Sorry to hear of a misfortune.
Edit: And since you are no longer riff-raff I will actually respond to a peer 😀
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November 5, 2008 at 1:20 pm #2794676
A question scummy if you please
by jamesrl · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Sorry OM, I dont do Skype
When did you stop being riff-raff?
James
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November 5, 2008 at 3:24 pm #2794631
Me??
by the scummy one · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to A question scummy if you please
I am always Riff-Raff — just toned it down recently for several reasons.
As for OM — you must not have followed the thread he started. It was about getting TR Swag, therefore he isnt Riff-Raff anymore :^0 — it went on for some time too (in questions forum).
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November 5, 2008 at 6:35 pm #2794585
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November 5, 2008 at 1:13 pm #2794680
I’m a former Skype user but for you
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
I’ll get it again. Please send me your Skype user details and I’ll talk your ass off. Listen too.
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November 5, 2008 at 1:30 pm #2794673
I just sent you my Skype ID
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I’m a former Skype user but for you
Anytime.
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November 5, 2008 at 1:39 pm #2794667
I found you, it rang but no answer.
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I’m a former Skype user but for you
😉 I’ve got my headset volume cranked right up and sitting next to me so if you call I should hear it.
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November 5, 2008 at 11:36 pm #2794535
Well I’m still an expert on the Great Circle, so …
by older mycroft · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I found you, it rang but no answer.
I’ll wait until it’s a reasonable local time before I make your headset come alive.
Thanks for the offer – I will be in touch, soon. 😉
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November 6, 2008 at 6:05 am #2794474
He will, too, OM.
by boxfiddler · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I’m a former Skype user but for you
Do both. 😀
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November 5, 2008 at 1:18 pm #2794677
Sorry no skype
by jamesrl · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
If you find you can keyboard, please email me.
James
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November 5, 2008 at 2:22 pm #2794655
I rang ya… no answer…
by captbilly1eye · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I’ll look forward to talking to you, friend.
I’m terribly sorry to hear things aren’t going well!
chin up, Chum, we’re all here for ya!
– Billy
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November 5, 2008 at 2:23 pm #2794654
OM – I’m here.
by gadgetgirl · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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Will peer you again with details.
No probs, sweetz
GG
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November 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm #2794650
Is there any way that I can help?
by tig2 · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
I don’t have Skype running anymore but I believe that GG does. I use SightSpeed.
I understand that you can’t type what is happening just now. We need to get you Via Voice or other speech recognition software that will at least allow you to communicate when things get bad.
Grab Dear Velcro. Let her purr at you until someone can get on Skype with you. I will go hunt for the download now.
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November 6, 2008 at 6:07 am #2794472
[i]Grab Dear Velcro. Let her purr at you…[/i]
by boxfiddler · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Is there any way that I can help?
Excellent advice there. Nothing quite like a lapful of purr.
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November 5, 2008 at 2:57 pm #2794641
I peered you my info…
by jmgarvin · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
Are you on?
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November 5, 2008 at 4:13 pm #2794620
My body rejects SKYPE i think
by oz_media · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
Having been on the business end of telecom, I just can’t SKYPE or VOIP with anything but a NEAX it seems. My body rejects VoIP for tha masses and I can’t stand signing up for aything online.
But whatever is up, I promise you taht you have an immensely large group of dedicated Old Mycrofy fans on TR who will always stand by and support you. This place is great that way!
Not that you care to, but should you ever need to PM a peer, click my link anytime. I am always more than happy to listen and love gettign peer mail, from most of you lot anyway.
I will always accept charges or pass on my 800# if you want to give me a bell or PM.
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November 5, 2008 at 10:45 pm #2794541
Each peer has been emailed or peermailed, so for the rest …
by older mycroft · about 15 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Anyone that knows me on SKYPE – give me a call, please!!
Well folks, it now offishul
Yesterday morning I got 7 (yeah that’s right – SEVEN) insipid brown envelopes in the post. All from the same originating address. Now, that is odd in anyone’s book. Opening them wasn’t much help either, because they told me a story but first of all I had to figure out which order they had been composed in, so that they made any sense at all.
Basically I was being informed that I was now the recipient of a stunningly large sum of Disability Benefits. Not only was it an increase in what they would pay me but it was backdated to October 2006 – at which point they told me I could whistle in the wind because they didn’t ‘believe’ my claim form.
However, being a bloke with a reasonable interest in the internet, and GET THIS – my computer id is STILL valid for the GTN (Government Telephone Network) although I left MAFF in 1988. I’ve never used GTN to make free phone calls, but it does give me access to the inner sanctum of the internet. From where I found out some years ago, that if a benefits recipient is suddenly allocated the maximum amount, it is bcause the issuing body have been informed that the recipient is shortly for the OFF, therefore it’ll look good at the post-mortem that the stiff was in receipt of maximum benefits, even although historically s/he had been fighting with said Government Department for years! So, you could say that my internal alarm bells began to ring.
I phoned for a taxi cab and went straight to my GPs surgery, using the vociferous side of my vocabulary to get in to see my doctor. He greeted me with the immortal line of…
“I think you know what I might have been about to tell you?”
…and a discourse ensued, mainly that I didn’t appreciate getting 7 brown envelopes and having to work out for myself that something was afoot, THEN my legs gave way and I found the carpet rising to meet me. My Ataxia had come back with a vengeance and the next thing I knew was a rather sharp pain in my neck from whatever hypodermic he had just administered. For those of you that don’t know: ATAXIA is the uncontrollability of the body’s extremities, they tend to have a life of their own. Your body’s extremities include your arms (with your fingers included), you legs (with – yep you guessed it, your toes included), and your EARS ~ which above all else are intuitive in your ability to stand up without falling over. Ask a mountain climber, he’ll tell you – in fact don’t bother (I’ve got memories of standing on top of some of the highest mountains in Europe) – I’m telling you.
When I had regained the use of my faculties, the GP told me that my latest CAT Scan showed increasing shrinkage in ‘bits’ of my brain, and this information would have been made available to any Government Agency as a matter of course. He assured me that I had been informed before they had, but ~in my present condition~ I couldn’t really argue. Hell, maybe I got the sodding letter, maybe I even read it, I just don’t remember having done it.
His prognosis was one of “Well, no-one really knows for sure…” but I reckon that was just his way of placating me.
So – there you have it. When I posted the Skype notice, the injection in my neck still had my fingers all a-wobble although my legs (balance) did feel much better, and basically I was feeling rather sorry for myself. Most unlike the grumpy old man I try to be.
I will forthwith make it my (… I was going to say “my life’s work”) but I’ll try to reign in my emotions slightly more than I have done of late.
As my dear old Gran used to say – “There’s nothing worse than a Moaning Minnie.”
Brian
ps Thanks for the posts and if you ever fancy a chat, I’m yer man.
[u]As an adjunct and an aside:[/u]
[b]Everyone got the same email/peermail but one thing is for sure – no-one is [i]SPECIAL[/i] but everyone is [i][u]TechRepublic !![/i][/u] 😉
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November 5, 2008 at 11:28 pm #2794537
Your phone is going to be
by rob miners · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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running hot old Mate. I don’t know about you not being special. News to me. 😉
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November 6, 2008 at 6:07 am #2794471
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November 6, 2008 at 8:30 am #2965152
Whoa, that’s heavy
by tink! · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I am at a loss for words. I don’t know you as well as the other regulars here, but anyone with their heart in the right place would be moved by your story.
I’m sorry to learn of your situation. You know TR is always here for words of support when you need it.
Tink
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November 6, 2008 at 8:44 am #2965147
Here is one of my grumpy pills
by ic-it · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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it will help get you in balance. OM we all care about you and hope things will stabilize. Hang in there.
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November 6, 2008 at 9:21 am #2965136
Wow
by the scummy one · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I read this in the BC (before caffeine) this morning in my mailbox and was kinda shocked. I decided to wait until I had an adequate amount of caffeine to reply.
Re-reading it, and still in a WOW state. 7 mails that had to be pieced together? What a cr@ppy system!
Sorry to hear about the issues at hand, however you can easily take some ‘Grumpy pills’ that have been offered previous to this post 😀I will respond in a little bit to the peer mail
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November 6, 2008 at 9:29 am #2965132
:(
by jellimonsta · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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Sorry to hear that OM.
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November 6, 2008 at 9:53 am #2965127
I’m special in the short bus kind of way…
by jmgarvin · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I’m glad to hear everything is better and you
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November 6, 2008 at 12:41 pm #2965058
You have all my sympathy and prayers
by dadspad · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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I have always enjoyed and respected your posts and opinions. My respect for you has just gone higher. Keep your spirits up.
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November 6, 2008 at 1:22 pm #2965037
OM
by shasca · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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Through it all I hope you don’t stop posting your great satire on the Questions side. TR would not be the same. But do look out for number 1 first.
I can’t believe how yours and my comedic minds hit on the same/similar punchlines within minutes of reading some of the sillier posts there.
And you always beat me to it!!!!!
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