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(Deactived B l a h e r) - Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:21 pm
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I am forced to use AOL Dial, because I have tried to get DSL and cable and they disconnect me after a week and say I am too far away. I have tried to switch over to earthlink and other lower price dial up services, but once I uinstall all of my anti-malware tools that AOL supplies, I seem to get 5 viruses a day that are unseen intill my computer crashes (even though I use the other services firewall, spyware, and anti-virus tool). I am in despret need to get somthing that is faster then a 9k download stream, but keeps me safe. When I had SBC DSL Yahoo for a week it found so much spyware that AOL didn't catch and I loved it. I've been trying to get SBC to push 200 yards of cable to be able to reach me, but no matter what I do they don't care. Dose any body have any suggestions that I could do, please help me. I am tired of this outraguos price and slow stream when I could get DSL for half the price if I moved (No, I'm not moving).

newb - Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:23 pm
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I think you should get rid of the internet altogether.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:27 pm
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newb wrote:

I think you should get rid of the internet altogether.

Why would I want to do that? Internet is a open source of unmessured knowledge (Like I ever use it anyways). But maybe if I had somthing faster newb I could learn alot faster, and wouldn't be so annoying and such a idiot to you.
-With my regards, blah-er.

i88gerbils - Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:48 pm
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Then why does it give you "5 viruses a day"?

newb - Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:23 pm
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5 viruses a day... boy, you really are an idiot blah-er. And you were talking to me about getting the correct antivirus and spyware removers...

Purge - Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:29 pm
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Get satellite if you're that desparate.

Noirenex - Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:39 pm
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blah-er, firstly, you should stop surfing porn sites, they have spyware downloads on them without your explicit consent

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If you're after a free anti-virus (That is better than some commercial ones!) then i vote for AVG Anti-virus, it is my personal favourite, is updated regularly, and i have found it will detect viruses that are designed to avoid detection by commercial software, another popular one is Avast! anti-virus, but the interface is a little confusing. Spyware, you should try Spybot S & D, not only is this free, it contains many other tools to perform analysis of your PC, such as a process scanner and start-up scanner as well as a utility to monitor potentially harmful changes to vital areas of your system, though i don't use this feature (tea-timer) as it keeps telling me about what it's doing all the time, which can be frustrating, Spybot S & D can also Immunize your system to prevent future infections. Lastly, you could get an adware scanner, though i rarely use mine, there is a free one called Ad-Aware PE which is one of the best. On another note, there are other useful free tools and programs at this page.

As far as your actual ISP is concerned, try an ISP comparison site, perhaps do a search for providers in your area.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:08 pm
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It's not really the virus problem that made me stop using earthlink's services. It's always on the fritz and it always disconnecting me when I was with Earthlink (and they never do anything about it). I have a pretty good anti virus now though. I was thinking about getting sat., but it's around $80/m for direct tv (the others need you to have their TV service to join (I'm with Direct TV HD)), and I don't really think I want to pay that much for somthing that unstable.

Confess - Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:31 pm
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The only idiot posting on this forum, newb, is the one calling blah-er an idiot. Newb, you're 14? Go out, get a life. Im sure you have some friends that you can go out and watch a movie with, do that. Get a girlfriend (we all know how much time that'll take away from ya

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He simply asked a question and for some support, you dont need to start a "flame" post. Stfu.

k thnx.
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blah-er, if you can still get another dial up, my suggestion is to reformat, and get one. AOL is EVIL. Never trust them.
Cant you also just use the AOL software..and another dial up provider?

Purge - Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:37 pm
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How is it unstable? The upload speed may be slow but it's better than dial-up. Plus, you said you're out of options for cable/DSL, so why not?

If you want to stick with dial-up, try this.

Confess - Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:40 pm
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I thought PeoplePC was dial-up..?

Purge - Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:41 pm
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Confess wrote:

I thought PeoplePC was dial-up..?

It is. I guess my grammar on my previous post was a bit odd.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:52 pm
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Confess wrote:

Cant you also just use the AOL software..and another dial up provider?

They charge even more for it.

Like I said I don't want to pay even more for internet, but at the same time I want somthing faster then Dail up. PPC is a good idea (I'de like to know how the acelerator works), but Once you have somthing faster then Dail up it's hard to go back, and since they force me back I wish I could get it some how. I went on SBCglobal.com, and it said I could get it, they keep sending me add saying I can get it, but when I call to ask for it they say "no". I ask them to stop sending ads, but then they think I can get it then, and when I call, they say that order was cancled. I think this is faulse advertising. Dose any boyd have connection to SBC that I can get them to push some cable out?

baseball43v3r - Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:38 pm
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u might want to try direcway. its pretty fast for a web service and my moms got it out in the middle of the desert so you can get it anywhere no matter what.

Solid_Fire - Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:58 am
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baseball43v3r wrote:

u might want to try direcway. its pretty fast for a web service and my moms got it out in the middle of the desert so you can get it anywhere no matter what.

I wonder how she got electricity...isnt the desert full of nothing but..dirt and reptiles?

Muskrat - Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:47 am
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And armadillos and prarie dogs and rocks and mesquite and coyote and buzzard and philosophical park rangers and rattlesnakes.

Cerium - Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:23 am
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Ok, since most of you havent had to deal with the same nonsense that I have as far as broadband goes, you probably dont know the issues with all of your suggestions:

1) Earthlink does not suck
Sure, its $19.99/mo, but they dont require some shit proprietary software, nor do they have any subtexts to their 'unlimited' plan. The only irritating part is their system only allows a constant connection for 12 hours, before requiring a reconnect -- regardless of current line usage.
Access4Less, on the other hand, only allows you to use x number of hours per month on the unlimited plan before your account is put on hold for abuse.
PeoplePC requires you use their craptastic software, which is an utter pain in the ass when it comes to connection sharing and other features that make the internet convenient; though for blah-er, this is probably a good thing.

2) Satellite sucks.
Sure, the speed is comparable to broadband, but the ping time is god awful. I had 2-way satellite through direcway for approx 2 weeks. Not only did the 2000ms ping make any realtime gaming impossible, but the downtime caused by weather conditions both locally and remotely at some relay station was frustrating beyond words.
Also, you get a new dish which may or may not handle both internet and tv (we were told we needed two completely seperate dishes), and direct tv does not (or perhaps did not) come with any package deal to get a discount. We ended up paying full price for both 2-way sat and tv.

3) AOL Software Sucks
Need I say more? Nothing like adding bloat to the internet. If blah-er really wants to (aka needs to) stay with AOL, he can shell out $4.95/mo to keep his AOL account with a seperate provider.

Thats about it, I guess. Ill read through this thread again after blah-er posts more inane excuses and super-retardo babble-chat.

CypherJF - Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:30 am
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I feel for you. I live in an area owned by Verizon and so they don't need to put in any high speed internet access unless they want to. Sucks! BellSouth, or someone, who provides telephone services a mile away is offering DSL to residents. But, it's only because of Verizon we aren't able to get anything more than dialup. However, they guess it'll be 2010-2012 before they get their fiber op system in place. ... then that'll be available to us.

newb - Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:58 pm
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Confess wrote:

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He simply asked a question and for some support, you dont need to start a "flame" post. Stfu.

k thnx.

Ah, the age insults. Very cute.

You do relise you basically made a flame post? Dipshit.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:40 pm
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any way I can force some company (or at least someone know a company that will help me), that can push some cable out to me and about 7 other people that live around me?

Cerium, no I don't want to stay with AOL, I hate it and I don't even want a shell, because they suck (even though AOL is a time warner company, and they own road runner, I think ). Also I don't want to go with Directway, because:
1. It is always disconnecting when the weather is bad.
2. I don't feel like paying $80, when I can pay for brodband for around $50 in my area (brodband in my choice is better, making this deal worse the AOL dial up).
3. I have direct TV, and when I went to get support because we had two "55" channels for local, they kept switching back and forth while we were watching one, and it was quite annoying. We were charged for the support call, but the problem was never fixed.

BTW Newb, he's not flaming if he asked you nicely to stop doing somthing. On the other hand you just messaged a replay that was considered a flame. Please don't trash talk to people if they are being nice (Even though this is "Trash Talk").

newb - Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:43 pm
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blah-er wrote:

BTW Newb, he's not flaming if he asked you nicely to stop doing somthing. On the other hand you just messaged a replay that was considered a flame. Please don't trash talk to people if they are being nice (Even though this is "Trash Talk").

What an idiot.

Confess - Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:33 pm
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Why dont you loose your bad attitude, newb? Its pissing me off, and im sure its pissing others off. You think you're something "special", yet, i see you doing NOTHING to help this community out. When was the last time you started going about giving people help? Hosting zones? You've done nothing beneficial towards the Subspace Community. The only thing ive seen you do is say crap like "You're an idiot.", Newb, the only Idiot in this forum, is YOU.

The first post was "just quit the internet all together", who made it? Newb. He instantly started the post on bad terms. Instead of him trying to help, what does he do? He starts saying shit like "just quit, fuck off, you're an idiot". Cant you use other words then that, newb? You're apperently sooo smart, act it. Its not your age that counts, newb. Its your maturity.
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blah-er,
Satelite might be your only option if you cant get a cable company or dsl company to stretch a line out for you.
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On a side note, just incase you didnt know, AOL is one big spyware program. On an old computer, (yes, even older then this one) I installed AOL, and it fucked it up hardcore. My suggestion is to uninstall AOL right now, and find another way around it.

Cant you also just use the standard dialer that comes with windows? You dont NEED the AOL software. Back when I had MSN, i could just dial up on a different computer without having to install the software.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:05 pm
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Confess wrote:

Cant you also just use the standard dialer that comes with windows? You dont NEED the AOL software. Back when I had MSN, i could just dial up on a different computer without having to install the software.

How do you use that, and dose it cost anything?

Confess - Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:10 pm
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Get a dialing number that you can use, go to Network and Dial-up Connections and click on Make New Connection, then add it.

Cyan~Fire - Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:19 pm
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Confess. If you're going to moderate any area of this board, you need to be a bit more level-headed. Newb was pointing out a true statement (although rather harshly) and you counter with personal insults. Who has the "bad attitude"?

Purge - Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:51 pm
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Actually, newb does help out the community with awesome maps/bases.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:05 am
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

You know what, shut the hell up. You don't know wha tyour talking about. I might act like a idiot alot of the time on the forums, but that dosn't mean I'm actually a idiot. If you want to make faulse opinions, then why don't you do some research first. All I did was ask newb nicely "Please don't trash talk to people if they are being nice", and he answer with a smart ass comment "You're a idiot". As far as I am see, Newb needs to grow up, stop acting like a smart ass and start helping out more, and if he dosn't have anything nice to say then shut the fuck up and don't say it.

Sure I like acting like a idiot alot, but maybe you havn't thought of I like to do it because it cools me down at the end of the day from people making fun of me, and all the work I do at school (and if you say high school is eaisy, then you must think that taking full day test 3 striaght weeks in a row to practice for our grad. test is easy.).

When Newb talks like that, I swear he's parinoid, and has to get his non-related opinion in rather to reach his goal of so many posts, likes to spam, or he has no life and tries to get confdence by making fun of other people.

From now on I will stop acting like a idiot, if you stop calling me one. If you still like to put in your flaming opinion, that has nothing to do with the topic, or if newb still continues to do this, I will personally come to your house (you have no idea how easily I can find anybody), beat the living shit out of you, Pay some homo hobo to rape you, and then blow your fucking brains out by shoving M80's up your nose intill I'm able to reach your brain.

Dr Brain - Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:26 am
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Doesn't work like that. Stop acting like an idiot first. Then we stop calling you one.

Oh, and learn how to write properly.

D1st0rt - Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:30 pm
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You aren't allowed to say high school is difficult until you take multiple IB HL classes.

newb - Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:01 pm
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Confess:

I've got the bad attitude? Yes, I say some things harshly, but why should you parade around topics and then suddenly use the good ol' age insults? Just because you've got the rank of "Chief Newbie" in Zone Junk, it doesn't mean you have to retort to what I say to other people.
Furthermore, this is Trash Talk. Nearly everything goes, and if you don't like it, then tough luck. Go to a different forum if you can't handle the heat over here.

I can piss off whoever I want, and you can't change that at all. So don't try and feed me some ridiculous bullshit that I have never helped, and that I seem to think highly of myself. It doesn't work.
I have given help out before, and I have offered to help in zones. If I don't show it here, it doesn't mean you can assume that I don't help at all. Consider how many active people here help others. Not many are there? Why don't you start to flame them with your shitty age insults, and then perhaps you'll relise how much you are hated in the SS Community.

My first post was advice with some sarcasm. Again, if you don't like it, you didn't have to retort did you? You are the one who started to flame, not me. Get that through your ignorant fat head.
When did I ever say I was smart? Who even suggested it? No one. Shut up.
I never even said my age counts. No one mentioned anything about people's ages apart from you.
And yet, here you are, ending your flame with the word, "maturity"

blah-er:

Ah, here we are, the dumbass himself!
From the first paragraph, you already embarrased yourself, "Please don't trash talk to people if they are being nice". You are allowed to Trash Talk. Haven't you got the idea yet? While it may remain stupid, you can still do it. Again, with your poorly written posts, you can't change that, so stop typing about it.

Who ever suggested I am like this in real life? You can act whichever way you want on the internet. Alot of your posts suggest that you are an pulsating shithead who doesn't know anything about computers.
My comment could of been nice when I first posted here, you could of taken the sentence anyway you want; who is stopping you from doing that? Why battle it out with me when you could of just said nothing, or just ignored me? Think!

I see where you get your arrogance from! School. You say people make fun out of you? So, let me get this straight - You are a retard in school, but like to act stupid on the internet to calm yourself down? You cause stress to others... so that's how you wind down? Shit dude, I should try that some day!

Haha, I'm paranoid? What idiocy! I'm not going to decipher that, since you don't even know what "paranoid" means.

Yeah, good luck with finding me. I live in England, when you can afford to move away from your stupid dial-up shanty, come find me.
Of course, if you don't get beaten up by the bullies on the way to the airport. Loser.

Purge+: I like to map.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:24 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

Oh, and learn how to write properly.

You have no fucking idea how hard it is for me to write and read.
1. I was born dyslexic, but I forced my self to read, and write. Now time to time I still read, and write alot of words backwards.

2. I am tougue tied, in both physical and mental ways. What this means is ever since I was born the tip of my tougue was fused to the bottem of my mouth, and I couldn't even stil my tougue out farther then my lips without feeling pain. I went through painful sergary last year to cut off my gums, along with to cut that skin off. I have very few use of my toungue since I'm not used to using it much. How this all ties in with my spelling is, that I was taught to spell words by sounding them off, and what idiot teacher tried to teach me this found it never worked, and I also have problems trying to spell the differnce with allusion and illusion unless I know the def., and as you can see I don't know a lot of def.'s, and have trouble finding the right word to use.

3. English has never worked out for, and I have a hard time with grammer, because our school sucks and in one grade they say some rule about it, and the next grade it's completely different.

If you having any fucking problems with my english, why don't you call the fucking grammer police on me, to come beat me up like a drunk. As far as I care, I don't.

This is a complete waste of my time trying to get help from such a unorginized, harrassing, and fucking retarded comunity that never thinks befor they say somthing. I'm tired of this shit.

BTW Newb, I AM getting rid of the internet, and since I was going for a education of Computer Science and Networking, I think I'll just destroy my life, by droping school, and become a filthy bum.
-thank you for all the useful help you gave me, newb.

newb - Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:09 pm
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No problem.

Cerium - Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:43 pm
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Wow. You should print out all of your posts so you can come back and read them in a few years and see what an ass you are.
In the meantime, you should count how many times you blame other people for your own actions/issues. Though, I suppose at your age, thats to be expected.

newb - Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:07 pm
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Are you talking to me?
If so, yes I am an ass.

And yes, I do blame people, but sometimes not if it's my actions and issues.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:00 pm
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Lol. I wasn't even talking to you, blah-er. Settle down.

D1st0rt - Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:36 pm
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blah-er wrote:

What this means is ever since I was born the tip of my tougue was fused to the bottem of my mouth, and I couldn't even stil my tougue out farther then my lips without feeling pain. I went through painful sergary last year to cut off my gums, along with to cut that skin off.

Are we supposed to take you seriously any more?

Anonymous - Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:02 am
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D1st0rt wrote:

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Are we supposed to take you seriously any more?

If you don't belive me, I'll go get the picture after the sergery from the petrodontist. I had my inflaming gums cut down, and the skin that attaches your tougue to your mouth, cut to where it's supposed to be. Alot of people have the togue problem, but mine was never tooken care of intill now. The gum inflamation was from my braces, so they had to cut that off so it wouldn't mess with the wire.

newb - Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:22 am
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Like anyone would believe you; even if you had pictures, no one would.

Dr Brain - Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:44 am
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So you can't type because you have a lisp. Makes sense to me.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:13 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

So you can't type because you have a lisp. Makes sense to me.

I have a hard time sounding out the words, if your being sarcastic that's why.

Dr Brain - Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:37 pm
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My God, you're such an idiot.

If you KNOW you have a problem, then proofread your posts before you submit them.

newb - Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:32 pm
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blah-er wrote:

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I have a hard time sounding out the words, if your being sarcastic that's why.

Dickweed.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:37 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

If you KNOW you have a problem, then proofread your posts before you submit them.

I'm just too lazy to use spell checking. For now on I'll use word spell check before posting. Also Newb, what dose that have anything to do with what I said.

That was so nice and mature of you.

Muskrat - Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:21 pm
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blah-er wrote:

For now on I'll use word spell check before posting. Also Newb, what dose...

Effective immediately after this post, right?

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:51 pm
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Muskrat wrote:

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Effective immediately after this post, right?

I already did it for the one above (This one too

CypherJF - Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:09 pm
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gg ignored.

Cerium - Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:20 pm
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Lying is fun, it seems.

(Deactived B l a h e r) - Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:39 pm
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What I used MS Word to check my grammar, and spelling with it. Is there “I’m a loser, and I’m lying about every thing even that my alias is blah-er” written on my head? What’s wrong with me, why is every body being mean to me, when I’m trying to fix my self?

newb - Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:04 pm
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It's just that you're a constant bullshitting asswipe.