Bad News I Am Affraid

[Fulvio]

I gave you all my money so I don't have any left sorry

That's OK, I tipped you some more when I woke up and saw your posts. You made three comments, BTW. They're all visible on your profile and in the thread, along with my replies.

I totally agree about FB. It used to be awesome, in the early days. Then they decided to stuff about with it and screwed it up to the point of unusability, IMO. I only use it for the chat function now, for people who refuse to use Skype.

Like any site, including this one, Reddit has its peculiarities. You need to remember that its sort of like a mega-forum, containing thousands and thousands of forums, just like ACF, each with its own moderators, rules, and appearance. You could put both ACF and CCF there, side by side, and have them look and feel different. You could even make one public and the other private, if you wished.

There are really only five site-wide Reddit rules, such as no child porn, no asking for upvotes, that kind of thing, which are clearly stated and pretty much no-brainers. But each and every set of mods has its own ideas of how to do things. One sub will be total anarchy, the next bolted down so tight you can hardly breathe. You just need to read the rules and abide by them, same as here.

Sounds like you ran into the spam lockout timer. That's annoying, as it defaults to 7-minutes site-wide I believe. All the Doge subs have it set to about 5 seconds, but that may be for 'aged' posters. Things work differently for the first week, with stuff like the captcha for example, and the restrictions go away once Reddit knows you're not trying to attack it.

Think of these things as tools, mate. The bad tradesman carries only a hammer, and everything looks like a nail to him. The craftsman has a whole big box of specialist tools, and uses them as needed to turn out works of art. So Facebook, Google+, Reddit, any number of forums, etc etc, are all just different ways to communicate. The target group, and the features and functions of each determines their suitability for a given task. There are lots of ways of doing things.. look at the options we have for posting pics here for example. Lots of ways we can do it, each with advantages and disadvantages, and we pick one or more as we see fit.

Anyway, I'm glad you made the effort to pop over and wish Kim well. That entire thread is amazing, and the reaction was much better than I ever hoped for.

[ausjack]

:friends: all good mate, I like K.I.S.S now as the brain gets muddled very quickly and very easily and before I know it I'm out of my tree :winkextra: Yeah I'm a bit like you and if I can help a friend I will..even if it annoys the b-jeebus out of me

And what's wrong with just a hammer, works for me..in the field we call it a tap'ometer and yes it gets most things to fit all :laugh2:

[Fulvio]

And what's wrong with just a hammer, works for me..in the field we call it a tap'ometer and yes it gets most things to fit all :laugh2:

Back in the day, my phone tech mates all reckoned a Telecom Micro-Adjustor was the only tool you needed:

[Pedro]

Everything would be micro once you hit it with that!

Pedro

[ausjack]

nah Pedro that's just the baby tap'ometer, wait till ya get a 10 or 12lb'da You just have to remember to keep saying, as you tap that is "gentle, just tap it in, that's it just tap it in, gentle, gentle" snap bam boom "oh crap" whala JOB DONE, lets go

[Fulvio]

nah Pedro that's just the baby tap'ometer

Yeah, leave those 12 pounders to the hacks... Orthopedic surgeons, Windscreen installers, Watchmakers... people who don't possess the fine motor skills required to handle such delicate precision instruments as the microadjuster.

[ausjack]

:laugh2: yeah I think they used one on me for my op, and don't forget the Makita..wish I could have seen my op

[Fulvio]

:laugh2: yeah I think they used one on me for my op, and don't forget the Makita..wish I could have seen my op

No... you don't, trust me.

Check out a TV show called Saving Hope. Its drama, but the medical stuff is pretty spot on. And gory.

Also check out an NZTV docco, that I can't recall the exact name of, which follows some people who donated their bodies to the medical school. They got sliced and diced over two years, and the donors, families, students and teachers interviews are mixed in with the dissections over the full two years.

Pretty powerful stuff, and it really brings to light what we're all made of, physically and emotionally. The students reactions to seeing the donor interviews were especially moving, and made them better doctors, as they came to realise they weren't just working on slabs of meat, but real people worthy of their respect.

[ausjack]

Yeah true but I still wanna see :laugh2: I watch all those shows on SBS and ABC on autopsies and full on op's and I really would like to see it..not much worries in that way but if it's someone I care about I worry, funny how things work
How's our Kim?? I might ring again in a few days, don't want to wear out my welcome.

[Fulvio]

don't want to wear out my welcome.

Me neither. I'll cruise over tomorrow or Friday I guess. Depends on the weather.

[ausjack]

I might ring Friday night..maybe.

[Fulvio]

I might ring Friday night..maybe.

You should get Skype. Then we could call you when I visit.

[ausjack]

I had Skype when I first started but like you've previously said, not many people use it so it went by the wayside. I'll see if I can find the little vid thingy, bloody things here somewhere or should be, don't think I've thrown it out but who knows with me

[ausjack]

:cray: I thought it was a worry that my little mate hasn't turned up for a few days and I think I might know why, there's a big old silky oat out the back that they have been cutting down the last few days so I'm thinking it must have been where his nest was, poor little bloke :cray: :cray: :cray: and I even went out the bush the other day and found him a nice big log that I was going to make as a nest box but I suppose there's no point now

[Fulvio]

I had Skype when I first started but like you've previously said, not many people use it so it went by the wayside. I'll see if I can find the little vid thingy, bloody things here somewhere or should be, don't think I've thrown it out but who knows with me

You know you don't need a cam, right? With the rare exception when I need to do voice calls, all my groups are text-only. And video's just for kids I reckon. Nobody wants to look at us old farts.