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Post by minimatt on Oct 27, 2022 15:15:06 GMT
I had one the other week ago. It was an absolute blinder if I must say... "Hello mum , I dropped my phone in the toilet and I'm messaging you from my mates number and their phone is dying please could you WhatsApp me on..." my mum had a variation on that a while back, was thankfully sharp enough to reply back "of course darling, is this *made up name one* or *made up name two*?" Scammers took the 50/50 chance and picked one but of course neither name is one of her kids, was quite proud of her
edit: unfortunately about the same time the inlaws got a suprise call direct from Microsoft tech support and naturally followed their instructions to the letter
hashtag not all boomers
hashtag some boomers though
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crashV👀d👀
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Oct 27, 2022 15:41:08 GMT
err..
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Post by askew on Oct 27, 2022 16:00:26 GMT
The hackers have him now
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 27, 2022 17:37:49 GMT
Clicking on that link has seemingly made witchking himself blue screen
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Post by H-alphaFox on Oct 27, 2022 17:46:39 GMT
rip
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Post by 😎 on Oct 27, 2022 18:33:22 GMT
Maybe he was trying his own phishing scam out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 18:37:19 GMT
Busy running strafing runs in the Falklands.
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Post by technoish on Oct 27, 2022 18:49:43 GMT
My pixel phone seems very good at filtering out those spam / phishing texts. They arrive but if I click on them to read them they have already been disappeared by the OS.
I am though getting dodgy files shared to my Google drive, basically short messages in a .doc file with a link.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 8:40:41 GMT
quitsking don't be trolled away. People say shit on the internet, it doesn't mean fuck all. They don't know anything, don't let it get to you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 8:43:58 GMT
See you in a month's time.
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Post by minimatt on Oct 28, 2022 8:48:26 GMT
quitsking i'm an RPS exile and haven't the slightest idea of drama but I for one appreciated greatly your Rings of Power posts, it was genuinely heartwarming to see someone who was obviously such a fan of the world be so enamoured for more stories told within it I would miss you if you left
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 8:51:22 GMT
Another one for the mods 'Who have we driven off today?' wallchart.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 28, 2022 8:52:17 GMT
The Rings of Power thread is full of people bitching about it, despite it being not that bad at all, so it was good to have some positive views.
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crashV👀d👀
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Oct 28, 2022 9:01:36 GMT
Was really confused why my old kindle fire (I use it for youtube/netflix/d+ etc in office at home) wasn't working correctly. It had safe mode in the corner and all apps were missing. I decided to reboot it and up popped the bootloader menu. Reboot Bootloader menu. Hmmm ... Power off Bootloader menu. WTF! Reboot again. Bootloader menu. Disconnect from power, reboot. Bootloader menu. Uurgh, wipe cache. Reboot. Bootloader menu. AHH fuck it's borked. Factory wipe. Reboot. Bootloader menu. Noooooo it's fucked ... wait .. what?!? Now, I consider myself daily tech savvy so what I say next actually saddens me a bit but.. the clip for the case had slipped slightly and was holding the volume rocker in. N00b
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 9:08:34 GMT
quitskingDon't leave again man. Maybe don't post / read on the days you don't feel great, but don't leave. Your Rings of power thoughts were valid and very interesting to read. Sadly they won't change my opinion of what I personally thought was an incredibly poor show from a narrative standpoint, but it's so good that others liked it. I wish I did more. Don't let it get to you if others don't agree. Pop into another thread, post about something else. I tried leaving and very quickly it began to eat away at me that I had no outlet, nowhere that I could just post something when I felt shite that would cheer me up or distract me. It's a community here and no, we're not all going to get on, and some will rub others up the wrong way, but don't take it too hard. You've made, and continue to make, incredibly valid and helpful contributions to this place (including getting me enrolled on a course earlier this year), so I would please ask for you to stay. It's a community here and no, we're not all going to get on, and some will rub others up the wrong way, but don't take it too hard. You've made, and continue to make, incredibly valid and helpful contributions to this place (including getting me enrolled on a course earlier this year), so I would please ask for you to stay.
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Post by elstoof on Oct 28, 2022 9:11:53 GMT
I think there are some nice people here, but I think on reflection that this place is not good for my mental health. It tends to be pretty negative in some areas and I don't appreciate being called a liar. No one’s called you a liar, but if you post a wild story you have to expect a wild story to be mentioned from time to time
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 9:11:54 GMT
Get the papers, get the papers.
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crashV👀d👀
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Oct 28, 2022 9:15:13 GMT
Oh and quitsking don't leave or whatever. Just imagine everybody else here is a cunt and don't let them get you down.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 9:15:49 GMT
Fucking hell, that's a wild story? Man, you should read our WhatsApp groups.
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Post by dfunked on Oct 28, 2022 9:15:52 GMT
Imagine?
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Post by Syrette on Oct 28, 2022 9:17:19 GMT
Don't think this is a negative place at all personally - I think we're all a bit too old for internet drama now
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 28, 2022 9:19:15 GMT
I'm certainly a cunt, but I try to not be. Most of the time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 9:20:37 GMT
People seem to take obvious ribbing a bit to personally and it ends up like this. He'll probably reflect on it, realise it was a bit silly and come back.
Just lighten up a little.
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Post by Lukus on Oct 28, 2022 9:27:48 GMT
That's it, I'm quitting too. Fuck you all.
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Post by Zuluhero on Oct 28, 2022 9:31:15 GMT
People here are pretty good cutting through the bullshit, but some people just push it too far. We all say stuff we regret, and sometimes we embellish more than we should.
It's always a shame to see the community shrink.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 9:32:15 GMT
Indeed. Everyone should stay.
I mean, you're all cunts (and so am I), but don't go anywhere, right? Ok, good.
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Post by Zuluhero on Oct 28, 2022 9:34:40 GMT
Plus it's really good to keep all the cunts in the same place.
Just think of the damage if we were released into the wild if this place were to go under...
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Post by mrpon on Oct 28, 2022 9:35:40 GMT
Just lighten up a little. I wonder how mowgli is doing.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Oct 28, 2022 9:36:10 GMT
quitsking Please stay - it's enough of an echo chamber here already without losing another voice.
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 9:37:13 GMT
People seem to take obvious ribbing a bit to personally and it ends up like this. He'll probably reflect on it, realise it was a bit silly and come back. Just lighten up a little. To be fair it's easy to go "oh it's not personal, lighten up" (I said the very same thing myself in my last post) etc. no one knows what another person is going through inside their head at any one time. The dangers of us being connected to the world through our phones etc 24/7 is that we quite often end up reading / responding to things when we are not mentally equipped to deal with it. Therefore the negative mental impact is far greater than what it would be normally. Sure, you can say "well, just don't go online when you feel that way", but it's not that easy to identify when we are going to feel like that sometimes.
Everyone can do with just being a little bit kinder online. This place is actually one of the good, kind places, which is why it's so great, but even then we can't be surprised when a bit of innocuous ribbing affects someone a little more harshly than expected. That's not to say we all need to watch what we say, but perhaps we could be more forgiving when someone needs a bit of time out.
Not a dig at you Rum, just used your post to highlight my point.
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