Sorry Farmer, Bandage’s coffin. Corrected the post above.
This is epic shit right here, not sure Bandage can come back from this.
Bandage has been badly exposed here…
He played this so bad it’s almost like he wanted to be caught.
perhaps it’s just a cry for help…
I know the truth and that’s all that matters.
Oh dear that’s awful weak altogether. Was expecting a redoubled effort from Bandage but that’s just a capitulation.
I decided against drafting a detailed riposte as I was shocked to discover posters had rushed to judgement already. This hurt me deeply and I was particularly appalled to see Farmer’s take on matters given your claim that I was on my way to get new hoops to wear to Glasgow on Sunday when we met earlier. Farmer himself is due to come to Croke Park with me on Sunday and I’ve ordered him a ticket and yet he agrees with your lies and innuendo. Very disappointing from both of you to gang up on me like this, especially Farmer after I made the gesture of inviting him to the game despite the cyber-bullying he engages against me regularly on here. Now I know how Ben Shermin felt and I’m off to complain to gmail about this.
Don’t forget to tell the server hosts too Bandage. No use complaining without doing it right!
transcript of bandage’s call to tech support after work
TECH: " computer assistant; May I help you?"
BANDAGE: “Yes, well, I’m having trouble with my PC.”
TECH: “What sort of trouble?”
BANDAGE: “Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away.”
TECH: “Went away?”
BANDAGE: “They disappeared.”
TECH: “Hmmm. So what does your screen look like now?”
BANDAGE: “Nothing.”
TECH: “Nothing?”
BANDAGE: “It’s blank; it won’t accept anything when I type.”
TECH: “Are you still in excel, or did you get out?”
BANDAGE: “How do I tell?”
TECH: “Can you see the “C” prompt on the screen?”
BANDAGE: “What’s a sea-prompt?”
TECH: “Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?”
BANDAGE: “There isn’t any cursor: I told you, it won’t accept anything I type.”
TECH: “Does your monitor have a power indicator?”
BANDAGE: “What’s a monitor?”
TECH: “It’s the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it’s on?”
BANDAGE: “I don’t know.”
TECH: “Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?”
BANDAGE: “…Yes, I think so.”
TECH: “Great! Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it’s plugged into the wall.”
BANDAGE: “…Yes, it is.”
TECH: “When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?”
BANDAGE: “No.”
TECH: “Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable.”
BANDAGE: “…Okay, here it is.”
TECH: “Follow it for me, and tell me if it’s plugged securely into the back of your computer.”
BANDAGE: “I can’t reach.”
TECH: “Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?”
BANDAGE: “No.”
TECH: “Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?”
BANDAGE: “Oh, it’s not because I don’t have the right angle-it’s because it’s dark.”
TECH: “Dark?”
BANDAGE: “Yes-the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window.”
TECH: “Well, turn on the office light then.”
BANDAGE: “I can’t.”
TECH: “No? Why not?”
BANDAGE: “Because there’s a power outage.”
TECH: “A power… a power outage? Aha! Okay, we’ve got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in?”
BANDAGE: “Well, yes, I keep them in the closet.”
TECH: “Good! Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from.”
BANDAGE: “Really? Is it that bad?”
TECH: “Yes, I’m afraid it is.”
BANDAGE: “Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?”
TECH: “Tell them you’re too stupid to own a computer.”
Hmmm, so you obviously worked in IT in the past and took a call from me then Art!
You must be the guy in Stokes Kennedy Crowley who had to change my password after I got locked out of some application before.
Him: ‘I’ll reset your password to Summer2005 if you tell me what your current password is and then you can log back on and change it to whatever you like. Now, it’s very important that you don’t share this new password with anyone or write it down or tell anybody what it is for security reasons.’
Me: ‘Yeah, that’s fine. My password’s Celtic1967 at the moment.’
Him: ‘Ah, the old football passwords. They’re easy to remember, aren’t they? My own one is Liverpool2005.’
Superb security from the IT Help Desk rep.
[quote=“Bandage”]Hmmm, so you obviously worked in IT in the past and took a call from me then Art!
You must be the guy in Stokes Kennedy Crowley who had to change my password after I got locked out of some application before.
Him: ‘I’ll reset your password to Summer2005 if you tell me what your current password is and then you can log back on and change it to whatever you like. Now, it’s very important that you don’t share this new password with anyone or write it down or tell anybody what it is for security reasons.’
Me: ‘Yeah, that’s fine. My password’s Celtic1967 at the moment.’
Him: ‘Ah, the old football passwords. They’re easy to remember, aren’t they? My own one is Liverpool2005.’
Superb security from the IT Help Desk rep.[/quote]
Must have been him I replaced!
Great stuff Art.
I remember when I worked in an old place and I was sending people mails from the IT department through a fake email address* to see how they’d respond. Told one girl that her computer was infected with a virus and she was to send a list of the last 20 websites she was on back to me.
She was sitting just across from me and the panic from her when she got the email. She was discussing it with her friends because she wanted to get some business related websites in there, even though she hadn’t been on one, and she was wondering if the IT dept would know if she was lying.
Anyway she sent back a tame enough list and I replied from the same address still and told her that there must have been something else. So she discussed it again with her friends and even consulted me in my real capacity and I advised her to be more honest. So she sent back the list again and it wasn’t too bad at all, just stupid celeb sites and stuff like that.
Anyway I told her we’d done a few more checks and her laptop was seriously infected. I told her to plug out her laptop and any other laptops that had been near it on the power supply. She was to gather these together and place the laptops in separate boxes and seal them and mark them infected clearly and send them off to the IT department (in a different building a couple of miles away). So she did all this and had the boxes ready to go.
She rang the IT department then to confirm the contact address and started explaining the situation to the guy on the other end of the phone. Meanwhile her boss came out to see what all the fuss was about and there was all this confusion because the IT guy who allegedly sent the emails (and was a director of the company) obviously knew nothing about it and the boss was wondering what was up. I was already in huge trouble for something relatively similar in the past so I had to crawl under the table and unplug the phone line on the sly and just cut off the phone call and it all calmed down again.
Not sure if that even sounds funny now that I re-tell it but it was very funny at the time seeing her making “Infected” stickers and isolating the laptops from eachother in case they’d spread the virus.
- The use of fake email addresses in the past should in no way suggest any involvement in Flanogate on my part.
classic stuff.
This place is getting like Crossroads in the early 80’s.
Apart from the wobbly backdrops.
Rocko, didn’t she fall for something similar about a year later? You emailed her from that fake IT address and told her laptop had a virus and to shut down immediately so she did and lost all her work for that day? Or am I mistaken?
Stop trying to change the subject here Bandage…
This is an utter humiliation on your part…
[quote=“farmerinthecity”]Stop trying to change the subject here Bandage…
This is an utter humiliation on your part…[/quote]
Incredible. Even though we’re scheduled to head to Croke Park on Sunday, you’re choosing to believe Rocko despite his claims in his lies above that I’m going to Glasgow. I’m giving your ticket away to someone more deserving of it.
Ah come on Bandage - just own up…
As a mate it is killing me seeing you squirm like this…
[quote=“farmerinthecity”]Ah come on Bandage - just own up…
As a mate it is killing me seeing you squirm like this…[/quote]
So, you’re accepting Rocko’s word despite his flagrant lies about me attending the Galsgow derby ahead of the Wexford game? If you look at post #9 on this thread I openly wrote about my own mp3 player being broken of late so I wasn’t trying to hide this fact. In fact, it would have been ridiculously stupid of me to mention it if I was lying as it would have brought unncecessary attention on me. Your reasoning is baffling in the extreme.
Poor Bandage