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Cheap a$$ brother

December 16, 2002 6:29:43 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
i do a lot of my work on my G4 Mac and I got an iPod and it is the coolest device I have ever seen. It holds tons of mp3s and I also can use it as a FireWire HD to transfer files between Macs.

I liked it so much that I got a Windows version to transfer files between my PCs and the one at work. It makes life so much easier.

Anyway, I decided to splurge and buy my 10 year old niece a Windows iPod (20G) and I called my brother about it. He said that he doesn't have a FireWire card and isn't about to go out and buy one just for that.

I'm not a rich man and it's a big hit on my bank account to spend $500+
on a Christmas present. But if I can do that, is it too much to ask for him to spend $69.99 or whatever to make it work?

Now I'm pissed. Anyway, I just needed to vent.....
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Reply #1 December 16, 2002 6:58:51 PM
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Being a parent myself, I can say that sometimes that extra $70 can be too much. Most people have to budget for X-Mas and are pretty much out of funds by the time that they are done buying gifts.

Did you ask him about this before you bought it for her? That's a pretty expensive gift to give without talking to the parent before doing it.

By the way, please don't use $$ for SS and refrain from swearing. We try to keep this site clean
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Reply #2 December 16, 2002 7:59:40 PM
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Firewire cards are <$30.

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Reply #3 December 16, 2002 8:13:36 PM
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Now that's cheap
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Reply #4 December 16, 2002 10:13:42 PM
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By the way, please don't use $$ for SS and refrain from swearing. We try to keep this site clean

thanks for mentioning that already. I was just about ready to delete this post because of that.
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Reply #5 December 16, 2002 11:05:37 PM
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$ may only be used as an S when referring to Microsoft, or Micro$oft.

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Reply #6 December 17, 2002 5:19:48 PM
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I never thought "ass" was swearing. What a bunch of prudes.....
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Reply #7 December 17, 2002 5:39:14 PM
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No...not 'prudes'...but we kinda like to keep things vaguely personable.
Generally Thread topics 'need' to show a higher standard of decorum, as they are visible to all, whether clicked-on, or not...
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Reply #8 December 18, 2002 12:10:53 AM
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But you weren't swearing, you were saying your brother was a that animal that looks like a small horse, right?
That's not swearing.

No, I am serious. In French, we have the same expression when somebody is an idiot, we say he asn ass ("âne"), the animal. Nothing to do with the body part.

Lets not start being too PC either. Because a word has another meaning in another context doesn't mean we should ban that word even when it's a clean word.
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Reply #9 December 18, 2002 12:39:54 AM
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Ah...to use the Queen's English, and not that butchered American version...you are either an 'ass' or an 'arse'...and the meaning is quite distinct...
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Reply #10 December 18, 2002 12:59:09 AM
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Oxymoron of The Day ..... "American English".

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Reply #11 December 18, 2002 1:00:59 AM
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Hmmm...T-Man has been busy....the threads in the standard Explorer are looking a tad different...
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Reply #12 December 18, 2002 1:02:28 AM
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Ah...the only constant is change...
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Reply #13 December 18, 2002 1:02:47 AM
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Yup. Working Hard! How's it working so far?
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Reply #14 December 18, 2002 1:54:07 AM
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Looks OK...I don't use the Browser...but I guess this is similar to it...
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Reply #15 December 18, 2002 5:43:20 PM
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Wombat - When i was a kid the great but woefully undereducated baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean did TV color commentary on games. The elementary school teachers across America were so horrified at his diction and grammar, that they launched a nationwide teacher protest and eventually got him ousted from TV. By today's standards of what passes for English on American TV, "Ol' Diz" would have seemed like a polished gentleman!!
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Reply #16 December 18, 2002 5:45:31 PM
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hmmmm using the word Hell in another thread I guess was not considered swearing?
I feel it's swearing because of the manner in the way it was used....... but again I did not see this thread here in the manner that this person used the word (ass) donkey
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