They're officially on my list

[The Legendary Shark]

Absolutely - Open Office is the only office software you'll ever need and all I ever use.

[TordelBack]

Yup, OpenOffice is good stuff - although I personally prefer its offshoot LibreOffice, which I find a tad more stable.  But it's much of muchness. To MS Office I say: never again!

[Professor Bear]

Microsoft Word is a pox.  Especially if you like to draw comics and get sent scripts only in the Word format and always - always - open the .doc file for the first time to find the script bookended with hundreds of lines of gibberish body copy.

I bought a new pc and out of curiosity installed the completely-and-utterly-free Ubuntu in the old (Vista) one.  The 8 year old pc now runs faster than the new one (Windows 7), and comes with LibreOffice as part of the more recent install packages.  If you only use it for writing and internetting and want your pc to be more stable, less likely to be virused (very handy if your internetting includes visiting donkey porn hubs), can handle the little "x" button for closing windows being on the left instead of the right, and the toolbar being on the left of the screen instead of the bottom, Ubuntu might be worth checking out.

[Mattofthespurs]

(very handy if your internetting includes visiting donkey porn hubs)

Doesn't everyone's?

Thanks for the tips fellows. I shall be following them all up.

[von Boom]

(very handy if your internetting includes visiting donkey porn hubs)

Doesn't everyone's?

Isn't that how most people find this forum?

[shaolin_monkey]

Those women who go out on the lash in a big pack and fill the pub/nightclub with sounds of braying laughter, whoops, and other other intensely irritating baboon-like sounds.  I watch them and am reminded how, for all  our veneer of civilisation, we're all still just primates, and bloody over-excited ones at that.

[Mikey]

Those women who go out on the lash in a big pack and fill the pub/nightclub with sounds of braying laughter, whoops, and other other intensely irritating baboon-like sounds.  I watch them and am reminded how, for all  our veneer of civilisation, we're all still just primates, and bloody over-excited ones at that.

He heard the sound echoing through the concrete caverns of the city. It drew him like a magnet...the one sound which could stir feeling in that cold, dead heart. The sound of laughter...of life...that hated sound!

I mentally repeat the above quote when I find myself in similar situations - which is as likely with a bunch of lads as weemin. The real fear with the aforementioned pack of womans is that they might notice you and try to 'have fun' either at your expense, or...gulp...try to get you to join them in conversation.

It's happened to me. Be careful out there geeks!

M.

[shaolin_monkey]

 

Yeah... on re-read it does make me sound like some old geezer in a corner raising my eyebrows at the troublesome noises spoiling my enjoyment of my glass of chateau de neuf and copy of the Guardian.

I guess I just find such packs (I don't notice the men so much - not as piercing?) vulgar and annoying.  I'm very much a pub and a chat kind of guy, as opposed to a nightclub full of noise drowning out any means of social interaction. 

[Proudhuff]

so had another Knockback SM? 

my recent lakes Con found Dode C and myself in the middle of a maturish henparty, loud, funny and female and due back in Chorley by midnight, what's not to like?

Stag do's on the other hand, especially in edinbra are my idea of hell. 

[shaolin_monkey]

so had another Knockback SM? 

Every day mate. Every bloody day.

[Mikey]

Just to be clear Shaolin - I'm on your side here! Definitely on the pint and a natter/book side of things meself.

M.

[Professor Bear]

Smokers who insist that they don't smell of it, fair enough.  The ones who then get really pissy about it like the whole room is pulling some sort of trick on them?
They go on the list.

[Emp]

whiners

[Hawkmumbler]

Frank Miller

[Jim_Campbell]

Frank Miller