slothy

Grazie tritina :lol: Provo il mio meglio.....Comunque, forse é meglio che faccio perfetto la mia lingua nativa prima di provando un altra ;) alguri PS la parola gentilezza ha sembrato strana :lol:

First welcome to the forum Ece.... do you think that will still stop some people from trying to join the table? I have found that the same person tries to join more avidly if you DO reject them PS sorry saw 100 posts thought the number was binary sorry......

Have to say that i DO find a lot of your posts worth reading Ben et John ;) (Just in case you thought there was a vicious undertow taking effect here)

ROFL Ben i hope you didnt think you were gonna post that and not be challenged... and the fact you posted immediately suggests that you disgree with what i said.. For once in this forum didnt require that much provocation to write a reply.... May i say your modesty is only outshone by your immediacy to respond to a post ;) :lol: :lol: this has now got to change to 1103 :( On Fred's return fron Reno he may have something to say about this post too :) To continue what i was saying....wish people would sometimes substantiate what they say instead of giving a monosyllabic response...just show perhaps that they have given a bit of thought to what was said and have an opinion themselves instead of piggy-backing on others....

sorry john, couldnt resist the monoiconic response.... But to answer your post.... However, i do think that you seem to underestimate the intelligence of the forum-readers, and i do not mean this offensively... I very much doubt that people make any judgement at all as to how 'good' a poster is by his/her ranking or that the number of posts s/he has made bears any weight as to how lucid or meaningful his/her post is to the overall thread......More likley it is made retrospectively AFTER they have read that person a couple of times... To take this to a preposterous extreme does that make Ben (God Bless His Lycra Socks And He Da Best Moddy ;) ) 1096 times (as of this morning) a better poster than someone who has made 2 posts??? There are some posters, and there a few i like a lot, who are better than others and it takes only a read of a few of their posts to distinguish who they are (and it ranges from beginners to expert - i make a habit of reading their replies regularly as they are quite illuminating/instructive/entertaining) - i judge them meritocratically rather than numerically... As for people making one sentence responses (noise) - i agree ... I came across a forum software where all posts below a certain character length were filtered off and placed in a sand-box at the side...which you could switch on or off...not that i am suggesting this here but i did make easier reading.... i have to say i chuckled - my tongue accidently nestling in the crook of my cheek - when you said that having the visibility of ones poster level was somehow an encouragement for people to post just for the sake of bubbling up the ranks...anybody who makes it his/her life quest to become a poster of higher rank for this sake alone perhaps needs to have a look at themself in the mirror and re-assess their goals and criteria for achievement

Right On ;)

.....well it says.... ummmm it depends...do i have to lead her as Roman or standard? Anyway, Are you two establishing some sort of Mutual Admiration society? And if you are is it restricted to (non-resident) Turkish women?? Alex... Love you both... (In different ways, needless to say) At a snip, i think you are right Jack: tooooo extreme...and i imagine your wife/girlfriend/live-in lover/once-a-weeker (please delete as appropriate - multiple entries remaining may cause some distress to readers [especially if one of them is your wife :)]) may think likewise... I can direct you to another site for help if, in a moment of sheer frustration, you did in fact go through with the consideration..

Dear Marc, for the benefit of us who are simple folk :) , can you please re-submit your previous post in English.... Thank you in advance.... Alex :(

i agree with you Aisha... I in fact, out of generosity, offer my services to co-host this rejects tourney with you... However, it does offer some paradoxical argument as to why it will not take off and i doubt it will become as successful as whats-his-name's tourney..oh yes spwdo... The reason being is this....if somebody wants to join the TOURNEY FOR REJECTS tourney then, by definition, you have to perforce reject them... (and as monocled jack suggested you do not have to explain why as it is self-evident) that means that you will have a tourney with no entrants and it will run very smoothly

Dear 1eyedjack... I never suggested that you had one eye in REAL LIFE please forgive me if that was the impression I gave... and of course no offence to people who do have one eye..they may read this with a different perspective than the rest of us.... i have to say though.... If your avatar is a true picture of you then you have enough to contend with...the color and size of your nose may cause you acute embarrassment, the color of your lips suggests an unfortunate case of labial gangrene and i can give you some Grecian 2000 so that your hair is no longer the same color as the 70 year old women who attend my great-aunts knitting circle..... i can give you another link if this has caused certain problems for you in finding a prospective mate?

yes john have to say a lot of people dont like it when others withdraw prematurely...

Dear 1eyedJack.... i wouldnt take it too personally....sometimes people are waiting for a p and cant be bothered to have the courtesy, as you said, to give an explanation to assuage the paranoic feelings that unfortunate souls like Aisha feel.... However, on reflection, i do think it could be personal..... A lot of people dont like playing with people who aren't symmetrical ( a recent study in China showed that in a tournament setting 95% of people were unwilling to play at a table where the players NS had a thumb sticking out of their right shoulder) .. the fact that you have one eye may make some people feel uncomfortable - never mind having to turn your head 180 degrees when you want to look in the side-mirror of your car? - and would rather play with people who had the blessing to be born with 2 eyes....and to take this argument to its logical conclusion, losing by 34 imps to a monocular bridge player has the same loss of face as losing a 100m sprint to a person who has one leg.... ....or it could be that your name is Jack? There are a lot of people out there whose first name is Jack, mainly male i hasten to add, and a corresponding number of women(ie those who rejected you on the table) whose first boyfriend had your name...and if this man, i dont know lets say, was not a good kisser, had halitosis maybe, wore his quiff on the right-side of his face, they may not feel emotionally strong enough to be reminded of this person by playing a few good hands of bridge against his name-sake (ie YOU) . Yet again, taking this argument to its logical conclusion, as this hypothetical guy called Jack had short relationships because of his misgivings, he thus had more opportunity to have OTHER relationships with other women and THUS the number of women on BBO who suffered the fate of being his ex increases manyfold. I hope this has been helpful to you....if you require further help i can give you the web address for a support group for 1-eyed bridge players which also offers help and support for 3-eared clay-pigeon shooters and 5-armed discus-throwers... Good luck!

yes it is a nice avatar hoggy thx... This in a tourney not so long ago ;) At a table in tourney, general talk then... .... Slothy: seni cok seviyorum ortak Fifi: tskller p bende Opp: Sorry opps it was said at the beginning that this was an English speaking only tourney. OBEY THE RULES pls Slothy: Was just telling my p I adored her in her native tongue… Fifi: : ) Opp: You can tell her in English cant you? Slothy: You are right, Sir, I can. But when I tell her in English she doesn’t believe me… Opp: Cant you keep your personal talk till after the tourney is finished…then you can talk in any language you want.. Other opp: (sent me privy that her p a bit of a stiffy) I hope you two are married (she said it jokingly) Slothy: Yes we are…but not to each other. Fifi: He asked me to marry him but I said no because he proposed in English. Slothy: You see opp! Opp: I talk in English that is all I am saying… Slothy (in grrrr mode) : Perhaps because it is the only language you can speak…ok I promise to keep my personal emotions to myself…they seem to upset you <next few lines edited out hee hee as may cause offence> Slothy: p, frijiderdek peniri kirmizi kaplumbag yiyor… Opp: If you write again in whatever language you are speaking I will call TD Slothy (in provocative mode) : I just told my p that I have 6 hearts and I want a diamond ruff Fifi: lol he didn’t opp. He just said, with a few mistakes, that the cheese in the fridge was eaten by the red frog… Slothy: !!!! oh you not a good teacher then are you p…ufff got to start learning this language all over again!! Opp: One board more thank God!! (we met them 2 rounds later 2 words said in 15 minutes)

Yes nice match well done fred, tina tesoro, el guerrero Inca and tobice.... PS Roland won a coke because of you guys ;)

Had to share this with the forum....A conversation i recently had on-line. Makes one wonder.. Slothy (kibbing) <private> : Good defence <players name> although cant see how declarer could have been so gillible (unintentional mistype) Was responding to an uncanny discard she had made that made dec. misguess <players name>: Sorry Slothy i look in Oxford dictionary and i dont find the word gillible. What it mean please? Slothy: gillible not in dictionary...???? ah if you have 1998 Edition of Oxford English Dictionary it was put between the words GOAL and GOBBLE by mistake.. the publishers never picked up on it.....Please call me Alex.... <players name> : Why? Slothy: Because that is the name of my neighbours milk-man.. <players name> : If you want.... <players name> : I look there, no gillible. But i have 1990 edition? Slothy: I see you are from Denmark, thats a coincidence: Gillible derives from Old Danish word gillöböten, meaning "To hit a penguin over the head with the breast-bone of a dodo before the penguin has time to fly away..." <players name>: Alex!!!!! You are joking me now. We have no penguins in Denmark! Slothy: : ) yes but no penguins in zoos neither? <players name> : Ha ha!!!!! I know you joking. Penguins cannot fly anyway! Slothy: Could you fly if you were hit on the head very very hard with the bone of a dodo?? <10 min silence> (well we were talking about whether the mermaid in Copenhagen Harbour was sculptured from a body of a woman and a rainbow-trout on a plate next to her....) <players name> : Alex!!! what does gillible mean! My English friend not here to ask! Slothy: I mistyped gillible, it should be GULLIBLE. Sorry : ) And why you calling me by my neighbour's milk-man's name? <players name> : Pffffttttt Cant find gullible either...That word doesnt exist <half an hour later> <players name>: FOUND IT!! <10 or so mins later> <players name>: wish i had not

hee hee

Just testing who was actually paying attention Gerardo... Bravo hombre ;)

Uday... as much as it anguishes me, as i was previously telling her she was hallucinating, i have to corroborate Aisha's side-effect of getting disc and relogging in and being met with a bathful of bubbles.. Alex

LOL monocled Jack

.....Or alternatively take Udays advice...... i just thought it was too obvious.... ;)

There is a very simple solution, dear, which i learnt in the war in Crimea..... Get a compass and find North...... East is in the position to the left of where the pointer is pointing .... Alternatively you can just ask the person straight in front of you as you are kibbing if s/he is West...and then work round the table in a clock-wise direction if s/he replies no... Your humble Educator Alex

No problem :D just a humble suggestion :) ummmmm and forgot about disabling lobyy chat ;)

Uday, Just another suggestion along the same lines as gerardo's concerning latent mail messages.... This mainly concerns again those of us who may leave BBO idle..... Under the current scenario, when you return after, 20 mins say, you have to scroll back perhaps many pages (especially when some manic twat has flooded the lobby with 3 pages of rubbish or after a flurry of - justifiable ;) -substitute requests for tourney) to see whether anybody has sent you a private message - along with perhaps making a mental bench-mark of a message you may have last made, received or recognise.... I was thinking if there was perhaps some better mnemonic which may have some other intrinsic value maybe.....like A Little box telling you either how many private messages you have received during the session ie [Private Massages Received:18] so when you come back and it has incremeneted to 20 you know you have one...and if it stays the same you know you have none and no need to scroll back :D Or along the same lines a message like "Uday last sent you privvy at 5:34 pm". Either way you have an "At-a-Glance" method of knowing whether you have unread lobby messages... Alesio

Uday... I have to agree that it would be a useful feature to have..... on more than one occasion i have missed what turned out to be an urgent message because the sender had to leave quickly and could not wait for tourney to finish....I think i am typical of many people in that i may leave BBO on / eg 'idle' and not log out and thus will not get the mail message till much later when it may be of little weight then .... One option could be to have any suspending mail messages flushed to the lobby window maybe in a different color? Cannot see why somebody would not want to read them as they exitted tourney? Or even have the mailee interrogated, as suggested, when he exits tourney with a pop-up saying mails waiting so that person will know that s/he has mail and will not miss it... Alex PS Think this my first serious mail i have directed to you Uday hee hee ;)

i deliberatey highlighted text in the original posting for this thread hoping that people may respond to why i posted this thread in the first place.... Surely, (or whatever your name happens to be) i am not the exception in having some rather funny moments?? ♥ Alex Recapping i want to start a thread for people to recount funny or provoking stories they have had while on BBO - not necessarily funny ...