Digdilem

A specific and yet generalised claim.

I had a good phone, a clamshell samsung. I sat on it and broke the screen. Still worked, but I couldn't see who I was calling and couldn't see to add contacts.

So I ordered a new one, and until that arrived I put my sim in an old Nokia 3310. It's crap but it works.

Today I was fixing a leaky urinal when I hear it calling. I answer to hear a woman saying "This is the emergency services, do you have an emergency".

... Is a question I see often on IRC, and it's a good question - not just because all genuine questions are good, but because it tells a lot about the people who reply and what they say.

People do seem to be told to get a bouncer by their mates without fully understand what one is or even why they want one, and then tell /their/ mates they should have one because it's cool... :)

I have three, but then I'm very cool indeed.

So what, exactly, *is* a bouncer?

Okay, here goes. I need to explain roughly what IRC is first though.

Before Web 2.0 was ever mentioned, I'd closed guestbooks, disabled comments, blocked shoutwalls and with one or two specific exceptions, stopped people writing things on my websites.

There were two reasons;

1. Spambots.

2. Idiots.

Just a phrase that popped into my head. I'm not going anywhere with it, but according to Google nobody else has ever said it before, so I'm blogging it to be first...