stop posting and feeding him material. it just gives him stuff to feed his delusional (spelling ?) mind with. And for the record I am very liberal but I had no trouble getting my blog.

Yeah, give him a break, Jafo. The best solution would be to lock this puppy, let it drift out of sight on Stardock's boards, but remain for this twit's legacy. Me, I'd have exiled him with the "average joe" statements, but admittedly Brad is more tolerant of idiots than I am.

stop posting and feeding him material.

But we're not feeding Him, AT. This thread has become much, much bigger than the individual...in fact, that individual has become unimportatant, irrelevant to its existence. What we have now is a thread with a persona of its own, and if the originator never posts here again, it would happily survive and nobody would miss him.

And for the record I am very liberal but I had no trouble getting my blog.

Ah, but that would've been before the 'filters' were effectively put in place...you obviously fell through the cracks, and remain because your tin foil hat has that extra propellor with an EMP device to interrupt the signals transmitted back to Stardock. Not a bad idea, that!

the commie-pinko-tree-huggin-fag-lovin-god-and-america-hating-liberal has exposed himself and we'll have to kill him now.

I'm not an advocate of violence, killing! Better to ostracise and carry on regardless!

Nice trick with Google. Yeah, I noticed.

Does this refer to the fact that when you google "theguyPC" it the second hit is this thread?

http://www.googleityoumoron.com/?go=theguypc

Because . . Brad controls Google?

Dr Guy, haven't you heard the old saying: "It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings."? Well guess what! I got her gagged in a closet....so never fear, the soprano has been silenced.

Thank you for that!   

I am making it my personal mission to keep this thread going as long as possible. I think it would end up being highly ironic considering the topic if this article found its way to the "top of the charts", so to speak. Please, guys, who's with me? We can make it a points whore marathon for theGuyPC, and maybe the proceeds can help him get treatment for his paranoia and persecution complex!

Please, guys, who's with me?

Count me in, but if there's any proceeds to be had, I've got first dibs on 'em...besides, it's unlikely we'd ever raise enough for the treatment required

besides, it's unlikely we'd ever raise enough for the treatment required

I dunno...a whiffle ball bat and a fifth of Jack are wonderful therapy.

(the Jack's for me...this dude's remarkably more tolerable when I'm blitzed!)

(the Jack's for me...this dude's remarkably more tolerable when I'm blitzed!)

Not for me anymore...I gave it up about 4 years ago now. The strongest brew for me these days is a cup of Tetleys (tea). Besides, tolerance is no longer required, since this thread progressed beyond the dude and is a living breathing organism with a purpose of its own...taking the mickey out of its originator. Sad that, he spawned the beast and it became his Judas, having betrayed him for another master. Next it'll be doing a Peter by denying 3 times that it even knows him. Hah, that'll teach him to conceive a contentious, rebellious child and not teach by example that self-restraint and discipline are virtues by which to live.

Please, guys, who's with me?

I'll stick with you as well. Keep the Jack and the Tetley. I'll have a beer.  

I'll stick with you as well. Keep the Jack and the Tetley. I'll have a beer.

Yeah, but U.S. beers are generally not as strong as the Oz stuff (4.8 alcoholic vol), so if I were you and still drinking, I'd be going through 4 or 5 cartons (Carton = 24 x 375ml cans/stubbies) to get appropriately "blitzed", not that it'd help make some whiny arsed individuals tolerable....

In fact, some are so insipid, I'd have to just to get me through the day.

Oh well, it takes all kinds to make up a world, and without ridiculous we'd seriously be lacking in the entertainment department.

Yeah, but U.S. beers are generally not as strong as the Oz stuff (4.8 alcoholic vol)

I cut my teeth on German Beer! You guys still dont hold a candle! 

4.8? The beer I drink is 6.0. Dunno what it is in Oz

I cut my teeth on German Beer! You guys still dont hold a candle!

Ah, but the 4.8 stuff isn't our strongest, it's just the preferred strength for sale in pubs....we have others around 6.5% alcoholic volume, with some boutique beers weighing in around 8 to 9%. I used to brew my own around that, tho on occasion it would come closer to 10 - 11%....which would make anyone legless after a couple of long-necks, seasoned drinkers included.

4.8? The beer I drink is 6.0. Dunno what it is in Oz

Yeah, but are we talking 6% proof, used to measure the strength of spirits, or 6% alcoholic volume, used to measure beers and wines? There is a difference, and Oz has among the strongest 'pub' beers in the world. We get beers imported from all over the world here, and a friend of mine used to drink New Zealand or American beers cos he reckoned he could drink far more of it than he could of Oz beer and still not get pissed....which seemed to bear out as he'd get totally legless if he drank VB or Fosters.

Anyway, it was nice talking with you about beer, but my drinking days are over and it's not addressing this conspiracy thing. I mean, what if TheGuyPC is a plant from someone like the StyleXP people, sent to try bring Stardock down from the inside by casting aspersions on management, etc? Did anyone stop to think about that? No, of course not, it was assumed, taken for granted, even, that he's a whiny assed "commie-pinko-tree-huggin-fag-lovin-god-and-america-hating-liberal", when in actual fact he could very well be quite intelligent and something far more sinister. It would not appear to be that way, with such comments as "my bung hole tastes like chocolate!", but was that just an act to dupe and have us drop our guards? >

Personally, I think Brad should get to the bottom of this ASAP with his filtering/Liberal detection gear...and while he's at it, maybe he could use the software that turns PC speakers into transmitters as well as receivers to check if all those complaining about slow page loads on Stardock sites are genuine, rather than competitor plants, sent to incite dissatisfaction/dissent. Those heard to be cussing and using expletives could be considered to be genuine, and those not cussing could be considered suspects.

Please check back tomorrow, same time same channel, for another gripping episode of "Brad the Stardockian Meets the Masters of Deceit & Espionage Head On"

Yeah, but are we talking 6% proof, used to measure the strength of spirits, or 6% alcoholic volume, used to measure beers and wines?

starkers... legislation requires that all beers available for sale in Oz are labelled with alc/vol...whether local or imported.

My 'usual' is 5.8 [Coopers Sparkling] ...though the 'best' [fave] is the Vintage...at around 7.0 [but it's a vintage so not available year-round].

I did get sick as a dog when I was 16 on home brew reportedly over 11 ....people were amazed I survived 3 glasses [but then I 'didn't']....

As for that fine-tasting Pommie beer...I think cat's piss possibly also has more alcohol...

Ah, but the 4.8 stuff isn't our strongest, it's just the preferred strength for sale in pubs....we have others around 6.5% alcoholic volume, with some boutique beers weighing in around 8 to 9%. I used to brew my own around that, tho on occasion it would come closer to 10 - 11%....which would make anyone legless after a couple of long-necks, seasoned drinkers included.

Pshaw! A good German Bock beer still cant be beat (yeast dies at the 12% level that is why you cant get higher Alcohol content in your beer).

But in the effort of fairness, should I ever get an occassion to visit Oz, I will look you up so my palate can compare your homebrew with those it remembers from Frankfurt am Main.  

182 COMMENTS!!! This has gotta stop!!

It never ceases to amaze me how Australians to a man are familiar with the taste of cat's piss. Must be that unique Australian culture...

This has gotta stop!!

NOT bloody likely!! This thread has become an independent entity of its originator, has become a cultural and comedic past-time that transcends political conspiracies and international borders, has a lifeforce much greater than any individual and is too darned BIG to be stopped...even the armies of the world (perhaps even the universe)are poweless against it now.

starkers... legislation requires that all beers available for sale in Oz are labelled with alc/vol...whether local or imported.

Yes, I knew that...but my question related to how the beer alcohol content was being measured, as some mistakenly do so by the 'percentage/proof' method and others by alcoholic volume, which is correct and totally different strength-wise. Alcohol volume equates to the entire amount of alcohol content per brew, whereas alcohol percentage or 'proof' is the quantity of alcohol per mil or ounce, whatever....if beer weighed in at 33 to 45 proof, it'd rot shoe leather and pickle yer socks as well as your liver. Actually, my grandfather used to drink a viscious drop of cider (Cider Royale) that came in around 120 proof and was supposed to be drunk only in nips....now a 'pint' of 'that' would pickle the floorboards you're standing on as well.

I did get sick as a dog when I was 16 on home brew reportedly over 11 ..

So why d'ya wait so long? My first time legless was around 12 or 13 when some mates and I found a carton of 4 x 8 pint cans of scrumpy (cider, for the uneducated outside of England's South) and we got well 'n truly stuck into it....and yes, it actually fell off the back of a truck The next 4 or 5 days afterwards were much of a blur and I was ill, I mean really ill, which my parents thought punishment enough....not that I agreed, having to have 4 days off school to recover.

Pshaw! A good German Bock beer still cant be beat (yeast dies at the 12% level that is why you cant get higher Alcohol content in your beer).

Maybe they can't be beaten, but they'd have some serious competition in some of the potently nasty boutique stuff I sampled over the years. Geez, looking back on it, I'm glad I no longer partake....so sorry about that, Dr Guy, no palate pleasers here, as I brew my own no more.

It never ceases to amaze me how Australians to a man are familiar with the taste of cat's piss. Must be that unique Australian culture...

Well we wouldn't be familiar (with cat's piss) if Pommie brewers didn't export it here, and then for us to have ex-patriates serve it up when it's their 'shout' at the pub is unforgivable. Hence, the unique Aussie culture has become that Pommies are 'sent to coventry' while at the pub, unless of course they learn the error of their ways and actually drink/shout 'real' beer.


Actually, when I lived over there, I quite enjoyed a pint or 6 of Whitbread Tankard, Newcastle Brown, John Bull Best Bitter, etc, etc, etc...but oh, this rivalry between we Aussies and the Brits, wouldn't be without it.

Wow, this post sure got a lot more attention than it deserved....but that's nothing new in the blog-o-sphere I suppose. Just thought I'd say hi to all of JU. I'm not "back" perse', just droppin' in to say hello and see if anyone has ransacked the place. I guess I'll know who to go after if I'm looking to boost my blog ten of thousands of points.

Latah,
suspeckted

Actually, when I lived over there, I quite enjoyed a pint or 6 of Whitbread Tankard, Newcastle Brown, John Bull Best Bitter, etc, etc, etc...but oh, this rivalry between we Aussies and the Brits, wouldn't be without it

yea, but your Tee-Totaling deprived me of some home brew!  And I will never forgive you for that.......At least for the next 24 minutes.

yea, but your Tee-Totaling deprived me of some home brew! And I will never forgive you for that.......

No worries, I'll survive! But we can still have fun without the grog, poking fun at politicians and conspiracy theorists, etc. And if we were to ask Brad nicely enough if we could use his Liberal detector and other surveilance equipment, maybe we could weed out a few more to hold up for public ridicule...I mean, not all of 'em are silly enough to volunteer us the opportunity, are they!!

just droppin' in to say hello and see if anyone has ransacked the place.

Ah, so you missed the wild party, then! The one that almost turned orgiastic and saw the place in dire need of redecorating....the police taking away unruly gatecrashers who convinced the Stardock Cheerleaders to participate in a wet T-shirt comp, and kept yelling: "Take it all off!".

As you can see, they've managed to clean up the forum, but the consequences of the food fight are proving more difficult....

Where did this conversation turn into homebrewing? Start a new thread boys!

Where did this conversation turn into homebrewing? Start a new thread boys!

Ah!  But this one is so much fun.