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I have lost the ********* plot serious help needed here

#1 User is offline   sceptic 

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Posted 2006-September-22, 06:27

I was playing in the new $0.25 tourney and I said GLP to a robot,

what do you advise I do?
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Posted 2006-September-22, 07:05

Doesn't this show, as a typical Brit, you are naturally polite?

I said thank you to an automatic door the other day.

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Posted 2006-September-22, 07:06

No, you don't need to see your shrink, you're perfectly normal. Most people relate to their computer as to another person.

If you start saying glp to a nutcracker or a can-opener, though, I advise you to call 112 immediately.
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Posted 2006-September-22, 07:57

The way GIB bids sometimes, it can use all the luck you can give it.

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Posted 2006-September-22, 09:52

helene_t, on Sep 22 2006, 01:06 PM, said:

Most people relate to their computer as to another person.

I'm afraid if I related to other people the way I do to my computer, I would have a long criminal record of assault.

Geoff
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Posted 2006-September-22, 10:55

I consider you to have reached the pinnacle of urbane courtesy only if you can say WDP to the gibiot without flinching.

Let me know :)
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Posted 2006-September-22, 11:40

To complete the picture can GIB be programmed to respond courteously with the standard glp, typ - wdo, gtp
Soon we may be able to hold all of our conversations with a GIB, imagine the reduction in complaints to abuse!
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Posted 2006-September-22, 17:30

I only just stopped myself doing the same thing the other day in the same circumstances. I find it mildly amusing to engage GIBs in conversation. At least they always stick the match out and don't make any snide remarks. For that they deserve a TYP now and then. Start worrying if you try to add them to your friends list.

What is JIGO-JITOKU?
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Posted 2006-September-22, 23:24

JIGO-JITOKU…
We host international students and one of these students was following Buddhism. Over the course of their stay I learned quite a lot about Japanese Buddhism and I was given a book of proverbs. This is one of my favorites

JIGO-JITOKU - The fruit of ones own deeds

We currently have a student from Mexico so we are enjoying fresh salsa and tortillas :(
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Posted 2006-September-26, 12:48

"Never anthropomorphise computers. They hate it when you do that."
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Posted 2006-September-26, 14:53

jillybean2, on Sep 23 2006, 12:24 AM, said:

JIGO-JITOKU - The fruit of ones own deeds

is that the same as 'you reap what you sow'?
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