Stop Microsoft
Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: cahult on 30 May 2002, 21:26
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Jeff Adkins writes columns for Lowendmac.com and this is one of his best yet. His reasons for using a Mac are, for the most part, also mine. Are you ready?
http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/02/0530.html (http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/02/0530.html)
[ May 30, 2002: Message edited by: cahult ]
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it sounds to me like Linux would be perfect for him.
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Actually Windows XP would suit his needs best, if he could get past all the lies and propaganda spread against Microsoft by the Linux and Mac trolling teams.
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Posted by the personification of ignorance, windoze XPee user 00000000:
Actually Windows XP would suit his needs best, if he could get past all the lies and propaganda spread against Microsoft by the Linux and Mac trolling teams.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D :D :D . This guy's so funny that I suggest you let him keep posting just to have a good laugh once in a while. God bless you man. You're really hillarious :D .
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Actually Windows XP would suit his needs best, if he could get past all the lies and propaganda spread against Microsoft by the Linux and Mac trolling teams.
Yes i do too, lets hand over our money and our soul to bill.
Ever thought of a job in comedy?
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Actually Windows XP would suit his needs best, if he could get past all the lies and propaganda spread against Microsoft by the Linux and Mac trolling teams.
the only person that windows XP would suit perfectly would be somebody with no arms, no legs and most importantly, no brain. In fact so long as they have no brain, the arms and legs are just an added bonus. sound like anybody we know around here? ;)
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Actually Windows XP would suit his needs best, if he could get past all the lies and propaganda spread against Microsoft by the Linux and Mac trolling teams.
LMAO!! :D WEll xPimp I'm convinced that next time you surely will suggest that xp will find cure for cancer, aids, osteoporosis and baldness. It will heal the world and stop all wars to come.
People will love each other because of xp and our saviour's second coming is due to xp!!
You must know somehow that xp servicepack2 gets humankind in touch with aliens and whole universe will become as one happy loving xp community.
Finally xp opens up a dimension gate in space and god him/her/itself will come to live with mankind and to use xp because it is so good for everything.. Surely god will use xp to create more worlds.. or what do you think xPimp?
I almost feel sorry for ranting to you because you're so funny. :D
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I think we should grab him in the parking lot as he goes to his '73 Hyundai Pony, tie him up and force him to make more funny posts like that. (http://smile.gif)
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i vote for grabbing him and tying him up anyway, not sure about letting him post here again though!
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two words: 50-foot-razor-blade big-bucket-of-alcohol
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THOSE ARENT REASONS YOU SHIT SLINGING MAC USERS MAKE ME SICK WHY CANT YOU SEE THAT WINDOWS IS BEST BECAUSE IT IS AND YOU CANT PROVE IT ISNT BUT I CAN PROVE 99.9 PERCENT OF MAC USERS LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE ITS A GAY COMMUNITY AND THEY SHOVE PICKLES WITH VASELINE UP EACH OTEHR ALL DAY WHILE PISTONING ON THEIR IPODS
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Originally posted by Mac Hater:
THOSE ARENT REASONS YOU SHIT SLINGING MAC USERS MAKE ME SICK WHY CANT YOU SEE THAT WINDOWS IS BEST BECAUSE IT IS AND YOU CANT PROVE IT ISNT BUT I CAN PROVE 99.9 PERCENT OF MAC USERS LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE ITS A GAY COMMUNITY AND THEY SHOVE PICKLES WITH VASELINE UP EACH OTEHR ALL DAY WHILE PISTONING ON THEIR IPODS
we should slide you down a 50-foot razor blade into a pool of alcohol
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Mac Hater: As much as I loathe responding to such overtly incoherent posts/rants, it is my duty to drop some education on neophytes such as yourself.
First off, your comment about Mac users being gay...completely baseless, utterly ignorant, and abusive. I'm sorry if you're a bigot or a homophobe (that's your problem to deal with), but such comments are completely irrelevant to the topic. BTW what was your point?
Secondly, you obviously need to attend some entry level English courses. Your grammar is attrocious, your rant is comprised of one very long run-on sentance (if it could be called that) which is completely devoid of punctuation, and your attempt at describing sexual action is pathetic at best. You wouldn't make it far in the romance novel biz...a word of advice: don't quit your day job if you're lucky enough to land one.
And thirdly, the thought of being even remotely associated with someone who suffers such a profound lack of intellect and tact makes me ill. Therefore, in order to avoid having even the faintest connection to you and your ilk, I'll stick with my Mac until you and yours are able to prove that using Windows can cure you of your obvious shortcomings.
This concludes our lesson for today.
[ June 04, 2002: Message edited by: IvoryTower ]
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Originally posted by Mac Hater:
THOSE ARENT REASONS YOU SHIT SLINGING MAC USERS MAKE ME SICK WHY CANT YOU SEE THAT WINDOWS IS BEST BECAUSE IT IS AND YOU CANT PROVE IT ISNT BUT I CAN PROVE 99.9 PERCENT OF MAC USERS LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE ITS A GAY COMMUNITY AND THEY SHOVE PICKLES WITH VASELINE UP EACH OTEHR ALL DAY WHILE PISTONING ON THEIR IPODS
I hate this asshole... he sounds like he has a little homophobia problem himself. Maybe he was screwed by his dad at an early age...
:rolleyes:
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YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING PISSES ME OFF??? PEOPLE THAT TYPE IN FUCKING CAPSLOCKS ALL THE TIME!!!
The big diffrence between *nix and Mac flamers:
Most people flaming *nix and Mac are doing it in a childish and insulting way.
Microsoft flamers use arguments.
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YOU TWISTED MAC USERS WONT GET ME DOWN AND YOU IVORYDILDO ARE LIVING PROOF THAT MAC USERS ARE GAY BESIDES THE SLOGAN IS THINK DIFFERENT IT IS A SUBLIMIMINAL MESSAGE TO EMBRACE THE ALTERNATE LIFESTILE OF GAYNESS AND JEFF GOLDBLOOM IS A HOT QUEER AND HE DOES THE MAC COMMERCIALS AND BILL GATES IS STRAIGHT BECAUSE PCS ARENT ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW LIKE FRUITTY TUTTI IMACS ARE YOU KNOBBED DICKED MEN TRY TO HOBBLE ME BUTIT WONT WORK BECAUSE I CAN SEE THROUGH YOUR PANTYHOSE YOU ARE FLUENT IN GEEK BUT THAT ONLY BETRAYS YOU FOR THE GAY MEN TAHT YOU ARE HOW COME ON ART SITES ALL THE IMAGES CREATED BY MAC USERS ARE GAY OR HAVE GAY PORN EMBEDDED IN THE WATERMARK YOU ARE ALL WORKING FOR STEVE JOBS TO ASSIMILATE EVERYONE INTO HIS WORLDWIDE HAREM BUT I AM VIGILANT AGAINST YOU FAGS
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Originally posted by Mac Hater:
YOU TWISTED MAC USERS WONT GET ME DOWN AND YOU IVORYDILDO ARE LIVING PROOF THAT MAC USERS ARE GAY BESIDES THE SLOGAN IS THINK DIFFERENT IT IS A SUBLIMIMINAL MESSAGE TO EMBRACE THE ALTERNATE LIFESTILE OF GAYNESS AND JEFF GOLDBLOOM IS A HOT QUEER AND HE DOES THE MAC COMMERCIALS AND BILL GATES IS STRAIGHT BECAUSE PCS ARENT ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW LIKE FRUITTY TUTTI IMACS ARE YOU KNOBBED DICKED MEN TRY TO HOBBLE ME BUTIT WONT WORK BECAUSE I CAN SEE THROUGH YOUR PANTYHOSE YOU ARE FLUENT IN GEEK BUT THAT ONLY BETRAYS YOU FOR THE GAY MEN TAHT YOU ARE HOW COME ON ART SITES ALL THE IMAGES CREATED BY MAC USERS ARE GAY OR HAVE GAY PORN EMBEDDED IN THE WATERMARK YOU ARE ALL WORKING FOR STEVE JOBS TO ASSIMILATE EVERYONE INTO HIS WORLDWIDE HAREM BUT I AM VIGILANT AGAINST YOU FAGS
This IS NOT a pro-apple site!
This is a ANTI-MICROSOFT site!
BIG difference. Many of us here run a *nix variant other than OS X. Many of us do not even own a mac.
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Well, I have a feeling that he'll get sick of posting here after awhile. You can only go on for so long like that.
MacOSX is simply a flavor of BSD Unix. So calling it gay is also calling Free/Open/NetBSd gay.
Why am I even trying to make a logical arguement, whn all he is going to reply with is bullshit?
[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Heru ]
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Originally posted by Heru:
MacOSX is simply a flavor of BSD Unix. So calling it gay is also calling Free/Open/NetBSd gay.
Why am I even trying to make a logical arguement, whn all he is going to reply with is bullshit?
[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Heru ]
Do you think Mac Hater even knows what unix is?
[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: cloudstrife ]
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Originally posted by cloudstrife:
Do you think Mac Hater even knows what unix is?
[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: cloudstrife ]
Now that you mention it, probably not.
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Hey Mac Hater:
Go here. (http://)
Hopefully that will take out that immature retard (unless he's 'upgraded' to winxp by sticking on Kazaa long enough to download the disk image), and if not, we can continue sticking it out and bearing his prejudiced, simple-minded homophobic views until I can build a case strong enough to send it to Webmaster and ask the ideal question: Ban him or call his ISP?
Of course, if he does start posting again, I might start editing his posts just for a bit of fun.
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[I pulled the contact information for Mac Hater's IP and ISP phone number. I don't want anyone going rogue on it and ending us up in a lot of legal trouble. I think we should look back on this and laugh, laugh at the AOL-using, Dell-worshipping lamer that managed to bring us so much rage in his all-caps, homophobic posts which would probably get him convicted of hate crimes in at least three states... california included.]
[ June 03, 2002: Message edited by: Ravuya ]
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Mac Hater
You do realize that men (and women) who use Macs have more heterosexual sex than users of any other platforms :cool: . It was released by a respected British research firm.
Sorry guys for stooping to his level, but I think that this little tid-bit of info was worth sharing just to kill his entire argument.
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it's hardly stooping to his level, what sort of motivation do you think made someone research this?
do you think somebody was fed up of a lot of windoids saying 'Macs are gay, U R all fagz' and so on, whilst dribbling on their shoes, and trying to breath and stand at the same time?
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I think they were just real tired of a bunch of little homophobic shits trying to be the next Eminem who go skateboarding then sit in their house in front of their "mother"'s Dell posting hate screeds to Usenet and whatever forum-of-the-day they see, and listen to punk rock while they watch the flames come in...
the guy who invented IP addresses and whois was probably thinking of these same teenytrolls too.
I think he's either gotten pissed off and left or he's been arrested by local police for hate crimes.
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I wouldn't doubt it Rav! I wouldn't doubt it.
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Ahhh! Home for the summer, away from my comp for a few days while it was shipping?
How you all been?
As usual I come back to find the mac forum full of trolls and flames. I apologiz, since if I had been here earlyer some of these would have surely been deleted.
I like punk rock too ya know (http://tongue.gif) !
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Hmmm..... I must say that in my experience as a secondary teacher, a number of my students have resorted to uneducated homophobic rants to justify their purchases of wintel machines. However, when we really get down to why they bought them it is either 1) because they are "faster" and "cheaper" 2) because they actually enjoy stuffing around with the system or 3) - and most commonly - they want an expensive toy to play games on.
Oh.... and the discussions go like this:
whats that you're using? ...... A G3 laptop
thats a mac isnt it?....... yes
macs suck......... oh yes
and the OS is gay.........oh yes
you cant play games on a mac...... I dont play games
so what do you use it for...... for work and study
I just use mine for games....... oh yes
did you know that mac stole the windows idea from microsoft? ....... oh did they?
yes.. windows 3.2 was the first GUI....... my mac plus had a gui
mac plus? how long ago was that?....... oh about 15 years ago.
<silence>
anyway macs do suck - there arent enough games for them..........
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throw in a liberal helping of offensive language, and that's the gist of quite a few of the threads in this forum! :D
welcome onboard timrob!
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Originally posted by timrob:
whats that you're using? ...... A G3 laptop
thats a mac isnt it?....... yes
macs suck......... oh yes
and the OS is gay.........oh yes
you cant play games on a mac...... I dont play games
so what do you use it for...... for work and study
I just use mine for games....... oh yes
did you know that mac stole the windows idea from microsoft? ....... oh did they?
yes.. windows 3.2 was the first GUI....... my mac plus had a gui
mac plus? how long ago was that?....... oh about 15 years ago.
<silence>
anyway macs do suck - there arent enough games for them..........
*applause*
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Lets see, the first GUI was actually made by Xerox around 1980.
Mac's GUI was around in 1983.
MS's GUI(Windows 1.2) was around in 1985.
Ms was promptly sued by Apple because Windows looked too much like MacOS, Apple also sued a company that made GEM(an alternative to Windows; it was a DOS GUI, like Windows, but looked almost exactly like the MacOS GUI)
Anyhow, if a wintel drone is so obsessed with games tell him that many Windows games do work on the mac, some natively(like Starcraft, Warcraft2, Diablo 1 and 2), and others with VirtualPC. I even own a few of them.
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timrob: I enjoyed reading your post. I wish I had been a fly on your wall that day (http://smile.gif)
BTW How often are you approached like that? I hope it's not a frequent occurance. It would be interesting to know where all of this FUD originated and how/why it is spreading to our youth.
I have to say it...I find it laughable to think that a computer sucks because there is a limited number of games available for it. I'd like to find out if these 'hard-core' gamers think that Sun or SGI machines (to name VERY few) suck becuase "all they do is provide the backbone for global e-commerce" or "continuously render terabytes of special effects for movies". What ever happened to the notion of a computer being a tool vs. a toy? (heh, and geeks have said that the Mac OS is a toy...the tables have turned)
Cheers
[ June 04, 2002: Message edited by: IvoryTower ]
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Are you kidding? As far as those kids know, Sun is for tanning and Silicon Graphics is what makes Britney Spear's boobs so large.
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Originally posted by VoidMain:
Are you kidding? As far as those kids know, Sun is for tanning and Silicon Graphics is what makes Britney Spear's boobs so large.
Ya got that right - at my school, me and my friend are the only two people that know that "macos" and "windows" DO NOT mean "mac" and "pc". Nevermind our school's tech "professionals", their motto seems to be "plug the cord where it fits and hope it works!"
Most of the time when i am working in solaris and one of the "h4x0rs" comes up it goes like this:
h4x0r: whoa! what version of DOS is that?
me: ummm... it's solaris
h4x0r: huh? what does that program do?
me: it's an operating system
h4x0r: you mean like windows? can i play counter-strike on it?
me: no... but you can run for over a day without rebooting ten times.
h4x0r: man you are dumb, why use an operating system thats so useless? there's not even a mouse pointer!! I'm gonna go download sub7 and crash another losers windows xp machine.
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Originally posted by cloudstrife:
Ya got that right - at my school, me and my friend are the only two people that know that "macos" and "windows" DO NOT mean "mac" and "pc". Nevermind our school's tech "professionals", their motto seems to be "plug the cord where it fits and hope it works!"
Most of the time when i am working in solaris and one of the "h4x0rs" comes up it goes like this:
h4x0r: whoa! what version of DOS is that?
me: ummm... it's solaris
h4x0r: huh? what does that program do?
me: it's an operating system
h4x0r: you mean like windows? can i play counter-strike on it?
me: no... but you can run for over a day without rebooting ten times.
h4x0r: man you are dumb, why use an operating system thats so useless? there's not even a mouse pointer!! I'm gonna go download sub7 and crash another losers windows xp machine.
Ya, at my high school the tech people are about that smart. There is a PC repair class, and one of the things they make sure you know how to do is how to install Windows 95. They don't even mention Linux or Unix at all. They teach you about Windows, and that all, while leading you to believe that it'll get you far in the IT industry. I brought up Linux once and a few students said: "What's that? Some sort of game? Does it work in Windows 2000?" Laughable really.
When I explained that it was an OS, they said: "Who cares if I don't have to reboot it, can I play Ultima Online in it?"
And as for the teacher, he knew what Linux was, but he didn't think it was necessary to teach us anything about it.
And one time I had brought my Hal91 Linux floppy, and used it, interesting reactions I got from people for that one.
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VoidMan:
Good point :D
Seriously though, I think that puts the impetus on those who do know the difference to teach those who don't...if only one at a time. You can't let their ignorance deter you from making a good impression upon them.
BTW I'm not just talking about computers either...as you well know, education goes far beyond the binary world.
[ June 04, 2002: Message edited by: IvoryTower ]
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Well, my uncle is a high school teacher, and also happens to be the shool's computer guru "on the side". Last time I went home and saw him he was wearing a "Microsoft" polo shirt. I told him he was a sorry excuse for a human being (joking, I really like the guy). I have tried and tried and tried to get him interested in Linux and to use it at his school where he can. I told him the M$ police were going to come down on him like the other schools sooner or later and that he should stop wasting my tax payer dollars and do the right thing.
For some reason he's a tough nut to crack. He won't even try it (he says he will and I keep giving him the latest distro CDs but it never happens). I almost feel like taking a year off work and doing some charity work to get their school on the right foot. At least use a Mac. It might not save them a lot of money, but at least they won't be caught up in "License 6.0".
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i know plenty peopl elike him. Scared shitless on the inside they are, it's a basic human instinct.
That's what marketing is all about, ensnaring basic instincts without the advertisee knowing what's going on. And who's got the biggest and most effective marketing machine in computing today?
(and no, it's not Apple)
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Is it wrong to feel elitist because you use an operating system where at least 70% of the users are capable of carrying on a coherent stream of thought without using homophobic slurs?
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maybe not elitist, but priveleged.
By contrast it seems to me that within the unix faction, the people who use it tend not to be derisive or elitist towards Microsoft users in the main, but instead dismiss them as hopeless cases, much like that thing about people's brains being badly trained for programming if they had had any experience of BASIC programming already.
The whole Microsoft versus unix thing has only been brought to the fore with the upsurge of desktop GNU/Linux boxes, while the "PC vs Mac" thing has been raging for a lot longer, so it's bound to have some stronger feelings behind it.
As you say though, the hate and puerility seem to originate almost exclusively from the Microsoft using side of the fence, and tends to be directed at anybody who is in some way "different". Maybe they have a base insecurity that they are loath to deal with.
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A base insecurity? Maybe it's that every home version of Windows, XP or not, is essentially based off of the old clunky DOS-Shell concept... makes for security issues too (truncated file names like IMPORT~1, etc cause holes in IIS that let you access files that you shouldn't) that really can't be patched properly without a complete overhaul.
I think they're just a bit more scared of trying something new and getting labelled by the other bigots and flamers out there (Linux==Geek, Mac==Nongamer, etc), or even worse, not being able to play Counter-Strike, which seems to be the rotten game that most Windows lamers I've met spend their time on.
The reason why all of us users of non-microsoft platforms are so elitist when it comes to this kind of thing is that their users are so ignorant and so biased against other platforms, despite never trying them in the first place - or even worse, assuming that nothing other than Windows has games and coming here and dropping homophobic slurs and flames.
With an enemy like that, how can you not want to attack their users directly? Maybe this is what is at the root of all trolls..
I think we should all take a step back and take a look at how much flaming and trolling we've been doing lately. Or we could increase the bigotry and ignorance and maybe, hell, we could start a holy war against the users of Windows.
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going back a couple of posts - I'm currently going to senior high and almost all the people who actually know anything about computers have or want a unix/linux/macos system including our sys admin.
Alot of my friends want to get the X86 darwin and run that on a box (http://smile.gif)
Just recently all the teachers laptops have been (forcibly) upgraded to windows XP over our sys admins objections. It took them over a week to get them all to connect to the server (windows 2000) and have been having trouble with them ever since.
My school also has a Linux server (don't know what make - probably redhat ?.?) windows refuses constantly to even see this server - it is used for one piece of software WebCT its used to put up information about courses students are doing.
This school is new (opened last year) and it has system wide crashes at least 1 every 2 weeks - the linux server is always up (http://smile.gif) - and there are 2-3 machines that do not work everyday (different machines!)
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Machater lists his interests as "fucking Macs."
i think you's the one with the screwed up sex life, buddy
:uh-huh:
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Machater's d**k is small enough to put it in the FireWire input (http://www.yourmovies.nl/smilies/s3.gif)
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why stick it in the firewire port. that would be a waste of a perfectly good firewire port. y not were rubber gloves and cut off the stump that left behind since his mother bit it off