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peaceniks unite...TONITE!

 
  

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autopilot disengaged
11:12 / 23.09.01
uh: first off - apologies for starting a new thread and further hogging bandwidth - but it won't let me into the 'peacenik INVASION' thread, and this is the alternative.

just to see if anyone's still interested in the virtual peace mission, 2300 GMT tonite.

last night, having blown all my weekend cash flow friday getting down & dirty to the mighty, mighty Mad Professor, i drunkenly attempted a one man mission - just to see what would happen. read on, gentle reader...

so i started with ChristianChatUK. i decided the best way to begin would be meeting them halfway - so i was saying obviously emotive look-at-me things like: 'i'm scared. i'm scared there's gonna be a war.' it took them ages to bite 'cause they were all either in denial or frankly, disinterested.

in case you're interested, the hot topic over at ChristianChat UK is mobile phone ringtones. i tried to appeal to their spirituality by saying 'we shouldn't bomb civilians, even if they do have a different faith from us...' someone called PEACE joined in, so that was reassuring.

then i got into an argument with someone called sleazeechick547 or something. her dad was in the army. i got kicked out.

tried assorted other 'social' sites. got into argument with obviously fascist moderators - kicked out of college-type room by wannabe pondscum pseuds.

there were a couple of people out there i found common ground with. some slightly worrying character called 'loves'. it was just the two of us in the room, and every sentence coming from hir would have 'love' in it somewhere. made me scared after a bit. worried they were masturbating. made excuses, left.

cool girl in some other undifferentiated room - called morphinegirl, actually from NY, and smart, good attitude. which led to me inviting her to join barbelith, and now she has. so if you see 'emily' about - be nice to her.

aaaanyway - what i'm saying is: most social sites are useless, pointless, time-consuming, and we shouldn't hit them. HabboHotel, i think is still a goer. something about the nature of the interface...

and current affairs/news bulletin boards and chat places. i'll try and locate some where the natives are looking for a rumble.

ok: once again: HabboHotel, 2300 GMT. my character's name is 'grrski'. anyone wanna climb on board the love train?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:16 / 23.09.01
2300 GMT's 2200 British summertime, yeah?
Trying to download Shockwave so I can use HabboHotel- (having probs with my browser).
All being well, I'll see you there!
 
 
The Knowledge +1
12:20 / 23.09.01
sounds like mucho funno
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:27 / 23.09.01
Still having problems getting Shockwave to install- shit. May have to go on a solo mission. Anyone got any suggestions (I know it doesn't have the same impact, but I gotta do SOMETHING while you guys are having all the fun.) I'll keep trying, though.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
13:16 / 23.09.01
ooh...summertime...hadn't factored that into my plans. uh: howz about 2300 BST, then? uh. y'know. 11 o'clock. in the UK.

and stoatie: keep trying! i'm gonna need covering fire out there...

i'll try and find news chat places as a back-up.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
16:19 / 23.09.01
grooo...

have spent a couple of hours on the NBC board. realising there were posters present who'd actually lost friends, family, i kept very closely to the 'justice, not revenge', 'no more innocents dead', 'support the UN/international law' angle - didn't even get into the reasons for the attack.

it was pretty useless. i found i was either blanked or flamed - though the arguments used were hardly difficult to overcome. there was no real reasoning. whenever i made a point, overturned or questioned some soundbite, rumour - they just didn't respond.

there's some incredible views circulating out there. i had someone defend the bombing of Afghanistan by claiming children as young as three (i shit you not) were trained with guns.

...and now i'm completely fucking depressed.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
16:20 / 23.09.01
still: i'm up for trying again, tonite. anyone?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:02 / 23.09.01
Got it working finally. I'm there. Couple questions first- why this place in particular, how do you use this place (looks weird, but kind of fun) and what strategy are we following?
BTW- I'm "LutherBlissett"
 
 
agapanthus
17:44 / 23.09.01
I'd be there with bells on, but being Antipodean must away to slave labour situation (its Monday 24.9 - 5.41am over here). But go get 'em. Spread love, reason and dialogue. I'll check on the results tonight (Aust time). What is the URL for this invasion?
 
 
Naked Flame
18:08 / 23.09.01
also up for it. Point me at 'em, I'll melt their brains with crazy love mojo-power.
 
 
Ganesh
18:41 / 23.09.01
If I can persuade (the painfully slow) HabboHotel to work for me, I'll be there. Whereabouts in Habbo, exactly?
 
 
Naked Flame
19:02 / 23.09.01
I'm trying to get in now...

Named JackHorus. Corny I know.

Where to meet?
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
19:10 / 23.09.01
yeah, i've signed up as inflatablepete. i suppose we could do a search for the aforementioned...or can we? not used habbo before... i might not say much though, i doubt i'd be as eloquent as some (ie most) of you.
 
 
Naked Flame
19:10 / 23.09.01
I'm in Skylight....
 
 
autopilot disengaged
19:17 / 23.09.01
exxxcellent.

ok: my HabboID is 'grrski'.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
19:27 / 23.09.01
need to eat, but i'm in - habburgers at the moment. may wake the room up with a rousing chorus of HABBOS 4 PEACE! HABBOS 4 PEACE!
 
 
autopilot disengaged
19:28 / 23.09.01
need to eat, but i'm in - habburgers at the moment. may wake the room up with a rousing chorus of HABBOS 4 PEACE! HABBOS 4 PEACE!

forgot how fucking unwieldy the place is.
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
19:29 / 23.09.01
It's kinda slow, isn't it? I'm trying to get to skylight as we speak...Oh, and NF, if it doesn't acknowledge your friendship request, it's not me being snidey, I clicked on 'accept' and then it didn't do much...still trying to get my head around it's slo-mo interface.
would 'Ganesh' (on the other users list) by any chance be 'Ganesh' or is it some other elephant headed hindu deity?
 
 
autopilot disengaged
19:35 / 23.09.01
it's sooo slow. and it's just kicked me out. and it won't let you say more than one sentence at a time. grrrr.....
 
 
Ganesh
19:36 / 23.09.01
AAAAARGH!!

<chews own fingers off in frustration>

Yes, that was me but it's so bloody slow I abandoned it after a minute or two. Just having it active makes everything else on my PC like wading through treacle. Maybe I'll try again in a while.
 
 
Naked Flame
19:37 / 23.09.01
Time for a change of plan, mayhap?
 
 
Ganesh
19:40 / 23.09.01
Mmm. Name your venue.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:44 / 23.09.01
Yeah, I checked it out earlier but put down the slowness to my computer being crap. Someone find a more straightforward venue and I'll try to still be LutherBlissett.
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
19:48 / 23.09.01
yeah, I agree with all the above, a new, slighty less cumbersome venue.
And 'nesh- you wanna put a plaster or something on that? Your bodily fluids are squirting all over the place- and not in a good way.
 
 
Naked Flame
19:50 / 23.09.01
getting my hands dirty in Yahoo chat, name is BenTheHippy
 
 
autopilot disengaged
19:56 / 23.09.01
me + honeytrap - aka morphinegirl aka emily are still at habbo. i've been shouting slogans, but...

flame: whereabouts in Yahoo are you?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:24 / 23.09.01
Lutherblissettuk's in yahoo, looking for Ben The Hippy.
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
20:29 / 23.09.01
so too is inflatablepete... <sigh> why does any seemingly simple plan involving the phrase 'lets meet up in a chatroom' inevitably go horribly pear shaped...
 
 
Naked Flame
20:35 / 23.09.01
I've just spent 30mins in Yahoo arguing... mostly peace peeps, one or two hardcore types.
 
 
Ganesh
20:38 / 23.09.01
At least you actually got into Yahoo Chat. I kept getting 'Applet Initialised' (or whatever), the screen would load halfway, then crash. Seems I have a determinedly antisocial PC.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:04 / 24.09.01
Mine was doing that for ages- now it's just locked up... I found benthehippy and autopilot (doveaction) though... trying to get back in now. A guy called infinitejustice911 left the room in disgust. It was getting quite hectic- lots of peacenik comment. So far a partial success.
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
09:04 / 24.09.01
yeah, having similar problems. I don't think yahoo chat likes me. i just got a PM from someone called lolita_nation though- asking where I was- presumably one of you guys? mind if I ask who?
 
 
lolita nation
09:24 / 24.09.01
oh hey, sorry, that's me. i can never find anyone....
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
09:30 / 24.09.01
hi, nice to meet you, things have finally got going, we're in the breaking news-tragedy section...
for those of you having trouble with yahoo chat, i sorted my problems by installing their audio chat s/ware, even though I'm not using it... hope that helps...
 
 
Naked Flame
09:30 / 24.09.01
I'm knackered.

That's gotta be the most tiring thing I've ever done on the Net.

Seemed to be 50% peace, 15% violent, 35% lurker. Is that hopeful?

sleep now. g'night.
 
  

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