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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:34 am

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spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:13 pm

Thanks, mum.

harbourseal · Post by **harbourseal** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:10 pm

Just how many spiderwomen are there?

a nonny mouse · Post by **a nonny mouse** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:18 pm

Dunno. As long as they keep away from me. Shudder.

ANM

Tim Bowles · Post by **Tim Bowles** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:28 pm

Don't panic, folks, we have an extremely effective anti-spam bot which regularly inspects the memberships and deletes the sad, joyless pond-life whose joy it is to bring a little bit of misery into as many lives as possible.

It's called me, and I am reasonably on top of the job at the moment. Any real people who get deleted should re-register with a somewhat more real-sounding monicker.

harbourseal · Post by **harbourseal** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:35 pm

Where is Seventh Seil (Our man in Stavanger) ?

Haven't heard much from him lately?

Has he been deleted as "sad, joyless pond-life" too?

Tim Bowles · Post by **Tim Bowles** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:20 pm

Not sure about the sad joyless pond life bit, but 7th is most certainly not a deleted entity. The ones who do get deleted are those with names created by allowing undirected fingers to wander aimlessly about the keyboard, or who have decidedly dodgy web addresses in their profiles. They are an utter buttockular pain, but it is the work of but moments to consign them to oblivion.

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:44 pm

What happened to my mum, Spiderwoman5016? She's left and transformed to anonymous...........boo hoo

Has she reincarnated as "a nonny mouse" or am I now an orphan? If I just had a mobile phone signal, I could call her.......

a nonny mouse · Post by **a nonny mouse** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:51 pm

Moi? Spiderwoman? Take that back you - you spiderman you. Zappp

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:59 pm

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murdering pattle.
I'm truly sorry spiderman's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union..........

harbourseal · Post by **harbourseal** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:09 pm

Like the new Avatar Spidee.....................is that a new gimp mask?

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:23 pm

Hello, wee harbie. What's this "gimp" word you keep usin'? Something you use in your fishing? Here's the choices from the dictionary:

"Gimp" may be or refer to:

The GIMP, an image editor
GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Gimp (band), a punk band from New Jersey, United States
Gimp (thread), a type of thread used to make lanyards
A politically incorrect or pejorative term for a paraplegic person, anyone with a limp, or physical disability in the legs.
Gimp (computer role-playing games), a weak RPG character or ability, or the process of making a once powerful character or ability weaker.
Gimp (sadomasochism), a type of sexual submissive in BDSM
The Gimp - a character in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction, see above
Gutenprint, a collection of printer drivers that were originally called Gimp-Print
Gimp room, a slang architecture term"

Anyway, the truth is that, way back in time in New York, the radioactive spider bit me on the effin' napper..........

harbourseal · Post by **harbourseal** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:35 pm

Hello my half man - half chelicerate pal - the term when conjoined with the word "mask" should give you a clue

However - I do appreciate the trouble you went to researching the subject. Careful though - you wouldn't want to be accused of being an "internet blog geek"
...................or perhaps the spider doth protest to much?

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:53 pm

Sorry mate, I'm the guy that likes internet and mobile phone - so what's for me to protest about? You're the guy that likes one but not the other....

You're givin' me grief! - I suspect that you're either the Green Goblin or his minion on Seil.....

harbourseal · Post by **harbourseal** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:45 am

Sorry Spidee - don't want to give you too much grief as you are obviously a man (apart from the spidery bits) who enjoys a stimulating, intellectual debate about all manner of important (and not so important) issues affecting this fair isle and its good folk....and we would all miss that if you got your silky spider knickers in a twist and went off in the huff..

I'm definitely not a green goblin (which I though that was an old fire engine before being enlightened by the comic book literati).

Nothing wrong with mobile phones (though the buttons are a bit small for my flippers) per se....

My point is this, and really only this, we shouldn't be absolved of our individual responsibities to think and act safely viz a viz safety at sea and on the hills by becoming too reliant on this technology ..
Yes - great they do save lives. agreed - but by placing an increasing reliance on them we potentially put ourselves in situations of greater risk...and certainly the lives of the good people, a lot of whom are volunteers, who are dragged out in some fairly appallling conditions in the most challenging environments to come and get us.

You may not agree with me my spandex clad friend - but surely you are spiderman enough to admit I have a point

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:23 am

Yep, Harbie, I'm a bit worried that we're about to agree! Mobile phones are open to all kinds of abuse and can be quite maddening (maybe even dangerous, as you say) but, like many other things, it's how you use them that matters not what they are. Our problem is that we currently don't have an option to use them, i.e. no signal, and hence, as a community, we can't access their benefits (while shunning their drawbacks). Having superhuman powers, this really doesn't matter to me personally - it's just that I'm concerned for the normal Seil humans and our wee Seil seals....

Keshet · Post by **Keshet** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:40 am

I do believe Spidee and Harbie are in love

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