Has it gone? I don't see it anymore. And was/is it used at all?
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Has it gone? I don't see it anymore. And was/is it used at all?
It is gone for now, might come back.
The people who used it seemed to really like it, but not many used it. I guess it depends on when Alex can get around it reanimating it.
Thanks, nothingman.
Sorry to seem retarded, but how does it work? Is it a group thing or just one to one?
You could choose to invite as many individuals as you wanted for a private chat or there was the free-for-all doomroom chatroom. Sometimes there were 6-7 people in there, other times none, it seemed a bit hit and miss but when the conversation did get flowing it was pretty nice.
Be warned though, once you entered it gets tough to say 'got to go now' because people just keep talking at you ;)
It sounds nice. I was always too shy to go and look!
I love the chat feature. It's fun to be able to talk to people and get to know them a little better. Hopefully it comes back. :)
You could always see how many people were in the 'doomroom' before entering, though you couldn't see who they were.
I always liked going in when it was empty and inanely chatting to myself. I feel like I really learned a lot during those philosophical debates.
If it comes back, I'll steel myself and open the door :) Oh the joys of being shy - LOL.
Oh please do RH!
It's actually still there!! http://forums.silentcountry.com/foru...ooms/index.php
Scrap that... it's not working. Bummer.
If it does come back, then for defs I will :)
Why don't people just CALL each other anymore?
There's nothing wrong with calling and it's great for one-on-one communications, it's just that the chat room was a like a virtual meet-up that would normally be impossible otherwise. RH is in England, Nothingman in Canada... you're in Chicago and I'm in Jersey. The chatroom allows everyone to talk to each other at the same time.
Hmmmm...what about an audio chat? That would be fabulous (and I never use that word). Chat is tough for me as I am anal about choosing words carefully and half of what I say is in jest and the other half isn't and even I can't tell the difference most of the time. "we're you joking, John?" "I dunno, lemme look...oh, yeah, I guess I was."
Audio chat would be fun, too. I'll have to admit that I like being able to multitask while I'm chatting. The conversation flows pretty easily. Sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's just chit-chat. Just think of it as what we're doing now on the boards only live.
Audio chat would be interesting, it'd be nice to hear people's voices and accents. My voice makes me cringe when I hear it as it sounds nothing like it does from inside my head. It sounds nasal and posh and silly.
John, your description of your thinking makes you come across rather like an English person. 'half of what I say is in jest and the other half isn't and even I can't tell the difference most of the time' is very familiar :)
Makes sense: I've always thought I was an Englishman stuck in an American's body to a degree. I've always been kind of an Anglophile: the humor, the history, the music, I'm more at home with it than our culture here...except for the warm beer and the bland food.
I think a very impacting previous life was spent there and I'd love to visit before the world goes completely to hell, except that I hate flying and I have my doubts as to whether they'd even let me on a plane.
But, but, but warm beer is good! A warming pint of proper ale is a lovely thing on a winter's night. Chilled beer is meh. The food isn't that bland, the English have a taste for spicy stuff and an Italian woman once grumbled to me that 'the English over-herb their cooking'. I'm not entirely sure what 'English' food is, though, to be honest. There seems to be a bit of everything mixed in. If you're thinking of 'meat and two veg' then, yes, I agree that it is fairly bland but that can be a comfort at times.
Maybe you could travel here by ship instead? I hate flying too - saw a Larson cartoon once that showed a man on a plane and the buttons on the arm rest were labelled 'Wings stay on' and 'Wings fall off'. That about sums it up for me.
What sort of Englishman do you feel you were?
Landed Gentry and an insufferable elitist snob. I have the distinct impression that I may have abused my position and that I have been making up for it in this life.
My earliest memory is being an infant in a hand-carrier. I was at my grandparent's house in rural Michigan and I was listening to my Father complain about his job at Chrysler. I must have made some sort of gurgling baby sound, as my Grandfather came over and started making baby-talk at me. It made me furious and indignant. I distinctly remember thinking "how dare you be condescending to me, you damned peasant?"
I was sort of like (if you get the show over there) baby Stewie on Family Guy.
I still find myself oscillating wildly between Elitism and Populism. It gets really annoying at times...I wish I could just choose one and be done with it.
LOL! I can actually see that! :DQuote:
I was sort of like (if you get the show over there) baby Stewie on Family Guy.
When I first saw that character I blurted out "oh my god...it's me!"Quote:
Originally Posted by DoomNymph
I want the chat back too. Maybe when Alex gets some time...
It should be back. And as an added bonus... the old install would log you out if you didnt refresh the forum at least once every 20 minutes or so.
But if you use the autorefresh in the forums now, it will keep you logged in indefinitely as it is updating a forum page at whatever interval you set it for.
:-)
hopefully most of the mods I did before will be kept. We will see.
:-)
That's really funny about the 'damned peasant'. When I was small I was convinced that my rightful place in the world was The Queen and it came as quite a shock to find that it wasn't to be the case. My father used the idea, with success, to improve my manners by saying 'Now The Queen wouldn't do that, would she?'.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnLudi
I think we do get Family Guy, here but I haven't watched TV for nearly 20 years now. Will look it up.
Thanks, Alex!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex
Come on in RH! The water's fine!
I clicked on 'click here to join' but nothing happened. How does it work???
Be forewarned: it's completely appalling...even I get offended at times, and I am reasonably disgusting in my own right.Quote:
Originally Posted by residualheat
I've heard that it's a bit sweary but I can handle that.
Well, the swearing doesn't bother me at all...it's more the non-stop barrage of beastiality, incest, and animated projectile vomiting that can wear a little thin at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by residualheat
Um, well, maybe I won't look it up after all.
When I was in my teens I loved Monty Python (which was on PBS here) for both the intelligence of the humor and, of course, the "naughtiness" of it...they messed with people's taboos in ways few others did at the time. There were often censorship issues that would come up with the series here in the States, but fortunately not too often in the big cities.Quote:
Originally Posted by residualheat
Fast forward to our current era and they look positively quaint. I'm not sure what prime time TV is like in most spots overseas, but here it's kind of a parade of filth without the redeeming quality of intelligence behind it. You can't go a half hour without at least one gratuitous dismemberment...and that's on the cooking shows. And it seems that the only jobs in this country are Lawyers, Doctors, and Cops...as that is all you see on there.
And then there is "reality" television, which is like ramming an extra-long corkscrew right into one of your nostrils and turning until you perforate your neocortex.
And cable is even worse. It amazes me that people even pay for it. When I have stayed at hotels I turn it on and channel surf and it's like having a massive dose of raw undiluted stupidity injected directly into my skull via a turkey baster.
I can usually find one or two things that interest me on the networks (like Fringe or Lost), but for the most part if I watch TV at all it's documentaries or news shows on PBS...the rest of it makes me want to wash my psyche with rubbing alcohol.
That sounds awful! I'm so glad we gave up watching television when we did.
The only thing we seek out is Doctor Who, which I have always loved. Been watching that for nigh on 45 years...