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[AHPP]

I do. My dog is colour coded blue. I'm yellow.

 

Guess how many times in my life I've bought new curtains btw.

[Mick Dempsey]

I mean look at this screen shot of récent postings. 
Nary an avatar to be seen!

[tree-fancier123]

10 minutes ago, AHPP said:

My dog is colour coded blue. I'm yellow.

yes, but my point, if I even have one, is not the answer to the first why but all the underlying whys

why is coded blue yellow?

why you chose to code at all?

[GarethM]

10 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I mean look at this screen shot of récent postings. 
Nary an avatar to be seen!

Think your confusing arbtalk for a dating website.

 

Especially with your other active web tab, are we allowed to call them that these days ?, but respect for not even incognito mode.

Edited 10 hours ago by GarethM

[Peter 1955]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

I remember meeting a lad who used to be on here at one of Jonesie’s shows years ago.

He stuck his hand out and introduced himself as ‘Tractor262’.

Understandable. In another life, I've met people whose real names meant nothing to me, but once I matched up their Forum name to them, I knew all about them. 

[sime42]

I'm clean. Though I don't have a dog in my avatar. As I don't have a dog. 

[AHPP]

23 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

yes, but my point, if I even have one, is not the answer to the first why but all the underlying whys

why is coded blue yellow?

why you chose to code at all?

 

Oh why anything? It's a bit of fun. I have a few different watchstraps. I'm wearing the firm colours today because I'm on the phone with my web bloke. When I work on the winch, I wear pink. When I do a job or need to be hard nosed about something financial, I wear yellow, the broadly accepted colour of capitalism. The garden keys are green because plants are green. The shed keys are blue because the shed keys growing up were 'the blue keys.' Little visual things make life that little bit easier, like Mick said.

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, Peter 1955 said:

Understandable. In another life, I've met people whose real names meant nothing to me, but once I matched up their Forum name to them, I knew all about them. 

 

Funny isn't it. You get to feel like you know people from their online persona. And why wouldn't you. They're still a person; just a person talking to you on a forum rather than in the queue at a petrol station. I've seen a band whose members' videos I've watched on youtube and meeting them afterwards and saying sick set bro was a funny little hero meeting experience. I'm just old enough to remember the days before the internet so can appreciate it from a zoomed out view so to speak. Not sure how kids now perceive the whole thing. The internet might not be the internet to them. It might just be life, seamlessly integrated with the rest of life.

[Stubby]

I used to like Pat Ferrets one . The little tubby geezer in the super hero cape . 🙂

[AHPP]

And his lovely little Suzuki. Come back, Pat.