What about the old forums?

[adc.]

What will have become of our Old Nation? Will it become a desolated place, sinking at infinite fathoms under the many, many living websites?

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Of course, Jeff would not leave it lying around, just about anywhere. Will it be deleted? Or will it remain an ancient destination for years to come?

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-Guido Fawkes

[Mosquito---Slayer]

Of course, Jeff would not leave it lying around, just about anywhere. Will it be deleted? Or will it remain an ancient destination for years to come?

I suspect that it is the second case, It seems that UBB is still much more popular among guests, at the time I posted this, there were like 4 guests in IPB and 111 in UBB.

[keira]

I believe the original plan was to CNAME the spiderwebforums.com domain to point here, however with the links all broken that might be on hold.

[Actaeon]

At least you fixed the link on the Spidweb main page. For a while there, you had to redirect twice to get here. In any case, the old forums are still the top result on Google (at least from my IP).

[BMA]

Edit : Sniped, twice.

 

Hm but I don't suppose there is practically any reason for keeping the old boards though, now that you can't post over there anymore.

[Aran]

I'll probably archive the old forums in the near future, but I don't know of any immediate plans to remove them.

[Callie]

It will age like a fine wine and then we can all become inebriated from its fermented, stale loveliness.

[Dikiyoba]

Hm but I don't suppose there is practically any reason for keeping the old boards though, now that you can't post over there anymore.

There are a couple of reasons to keep them around for a while longer. The big one is that not all the private messages got carried over from the old board to the new, so the old needs to stay so that people can recover them.

 

It will age like a fine wine and then we can all become inebriated from its fermented, stale loveliness.

Alcoholic beverages are weird.

 

Dikiyoba.

[Student of Trinity]

I've read that few wines improve with age, even among very good wines, and very few improve with long aging. If age does help a wine, I think you usually get most of the benefit in the first year or two, and after that it just declines.

 

We got six bottles of Châteauneuf du Pape once, on a magical spur-of-the-moment trip through southern France, and it was unpleasantly woody-tasting in the year we bought it, to the point that we felt we'd been suckered. But it miraculously became yummy after two more years in our kitchen cupboard. The last bottles weren't any better in year three, maybe even not quite as good. That's about it for my experience of good aging in wine, though, and I've also had wine I liked turn bland and watery after sitting too long in the basement. It could just have been that the bottle I kept was different from the one I drank sooner, but I doubt it.

 

I'm basically a screw-top wine drinker. There are plenty of people with much more discriminating palates than mine, but there are also plenty of people who are just playing Emperor's New Clothes. Unless you're sure you know what you're doing, I'd say you should probably just drink up anything you've had for more than a year — and prepare to be disappointed when you do. But if you buy more than one bottle of something and it tastes harsh right away, you might want to give the remaining bottles another year, and not give up hope.

[Alorael at Large]

Does it age differently if it's box wine?

 

—Alorael, who likes having the old forums around for nostalgia, and they'll almost certainly be there for a while yet. On the wine note, he hasn't cultivated a fine palate for wine and doesn't see any compelling reason to do so. He did plot deliciousness versus cost and found that the cheapest wines were often bad, but past the $10 bottle point there are wines he enjoys thoroughly, and past $25 or so a bottle he just can't tell the difference. He now happily drinks cheap wine unless he has pressing need to impress someone of more refined taste.

[Mosquito---Slayer]

It will age like a fine wine and then we can all become inebriated from its fermented, stale loveliness.

That will be pretty bad for this board though, but I suppose we could do a study on what happens when already insane people become inebriated as well .

[Cairo Jim]

Does it age differently if it's box wine?

 

I'm pretty sure the answer is yes. From what I know, aging comes down to what the wine is being kept in, among a few other little discrepincies.

[Balladeer]

Burn it! Burn it to the ground!!

 

>:oK

[saunders]

Does it age differently if it's box wine?

 

—Alorael

Box wine has a high sulphur content to prevent oxidation, as the wine will presumably be consumed over a longer period than an openeed bottle. It also causes nastier hangovers. It definitely will age differently!

[Lilith]

Box wine has a high sulphur content to prevent oxidation, as the wine will presumably be consumed over a longer period than an openeed bottle. It also causes nastier hangovers. It definitely will age differently!

 

if it takes you more than a night to finish a box of wine you're doing it wrong

[Mosquito---Slayer]

if it takes you more than a night to finish a box of wine you're doing it wrong

A box in a night? What are you, drunk ?

[Cairo Jim]

if it takes you more than a night to finish a box of wine you're doing it wrong

 

I did that once when I was 17, although it had to be watered down with orange juice. Although I sorta agree, it wasn't then best thing ever.

[Lilith]

why are you drinking it on your own

[saunders]

if it takes you more than a night to finish a box of wine you're doing it wrong

My sweetie, Australians follow different rules in these things. In few other countries can you go out with your own bottle and get it filled with brandy, or buy drive-through wine.

[Randomizer]

single serving container

[Rowen]

In few other countries can you go out with your own bottle and get it filled with brandy, or buy drive-through wine.

 

That was one of the biggest shocks to me when I lived in Chile. Go you McDonald's for an avocado burger or KFC for an avocado wrap and they ask you if you want a beer to go with it. The beer cup sizes were also huge compared to the soda cup sizes. You could get a litter beer for crying out loud. And down there it seemed that boxed wine was the wine of choice. Everyone I knew seemed to drink that over bottled wine.

[Callie]

I did that once when I was 17, although it had to be watered down with orange juice. Although I sorta agree, it wasn't then best thing ever.

...and I though Jagermeister and orange juice was odd...

[Tyranicus]

I did that once when I was 17, although it had to be watered down with orange juice. Although I sorta agree, it wasn't then best thing ever.

...and I though Jagermeister and orange juice was odd...

You've never heard of a mimosa, I take it?

[Callie]

I've heard of a mimosa; I just didn't know what it was.

[Alorael at Large]

why are you drinking it on your own

Because the other boxes are for the other people, obviously.

 

—Alorael, who doesn't relish the idea of a flat mimosa. He also doesn't relish the idea of a sparkling mimosa, but he doesn't relish it a little bit less.

[saunders]

*wonders if mimosas are known as wattles in australia*

[Trenton.]

Why do we need to have the old forums still there anyways? Why do we need an archive when you can just as easily reach those pages from these new forums?

 

 

http://spiderwebforu...topic/12383-2k/

 

 

See that? That is Tyranicus's old 2K milestone topic. I grabbed that By going to page 22 of general. That was from 2009. We can easily reach the same topics from here than the UBB

Edited October 29, 2012 by I like bananas. Bananas are good.

[keira]

There are a couple of reasons to keep them around for a while longer. The big one is that not all the private messages got carried over from the old board to the new, so the old needs to stay so that people can recover them.

Edited October 29, 2012 by Sylae
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[Actaeon]

As noted above, Trenton, some things are not accessible, including private messages and, I've noticed, some things that are available are not indexed for searching. Besides which, having a backup is far from a bad thing. Eventually, perhaps, it will merge with PPP, but in the mean time it'll do the job as is.

 

Edit: Sniped, and more succinctly at that.

[Tyranicus]

See that? That is Tyranicus's old 2K milestone topic. I grabbed that By going to page 22 of general. That was from 2009.

Heh. I wonder if I can get my 4,000-post milestone topic locked even faster than that one was.

[A less presumptuous name.]

http://spiderwebforu...topic/12383-2k/

 

Heh. I wonder if I can get my 4,000-post milestone topic locked even faster than that one was.

 

I remember that topic. I was confused by you having three accounts. Also, now I miss eph.

[nikki.]

Heh. I wonder if I can get my 4,000-post milestone topic locked even faster than that one was.

 

[Tyranicus]

I remember that topic. I was confused by you having three accounts. Also, now I miss eph.

How naïve. I have more than three accounts.

I miss Eph too.

[The Reverend]

My sweetie, Australians follow different rules in these things. In few other countries can you go out with your own bottle and get it filled with brandy, or buy drive-through wine.

My in-laws are French. When we go visit, my father-in-law and I go to the store where he works (kinda of a hardware and garden store, but they also sell booze and clothes) and fill up a few jugs of wine from their big vats. That usually gets us through lunch ...

[saunders]

France, Spain: wine

Australia: Brandy. By the 5 litre plastic bottle, from the vat. True!

[Cairo Jim]

Brandy isn't that popular here. In fact, I don't know anyone that's been near it.

[Actaeon]

Spiderwebbers, in general, seem more inclined than their contemporaries not to drink. That's a gross generalization, of course. I know of several prominent members who partake frequently and with gusto. I considered doing a poll, but decided it would be hard to make family friendly, considering how many people are underage.

[Lilith]

Australia: Brandy. By the 5 litre plastic bottle, from the vat. True!

 

it's not just a breakfast drink any more

[Cairo Jim]

There's nothing like waking up to a good whiskey.

[Alorael at Large]

A breakfast can still be just a brandy, though.

 

—Alorael, who would be more mocking, but he's consumed enough memetic meals in orange bottles that he doesn't have a leg to stand on. Even if the room weren't spinning enough that standing's out of the question.

[Harehunter]

MD 20-20. or Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. (with a touch of ever-clear). How I survived college only the good lord knows.

[Avadon]

Is there any way to get Google to point to this new forum instead?

[Mosquito---Slayer]

I have no idea why you will really want that but I suppose typing IPB along with the spiderweb software forums should do the trick.

[Jerakeen]

Is there any way to get Google to point to this new forum instead?

 

Keep googling "Spiderweb Software forums" and select this site. It shows up on the first page for me. Eventually it'll be the top hit.

[Callie]

A bookmark does wonders.

[The Almighty Doer of Stuff]

A bookmark does wonders.

 

As a young child, I decided I would go into business as a bookmark salesman. I took several sheets of construction paper of various colors, and cut them into bookmarks of various sizes and shapes, with all sorts of spikes and spirals and deep nooks and the like along the edges. I priced them according to size. The one that cost one hundred dollars was cut from an entire 8.5inx11in sheet of black construction paper. I was dismayed when my mother yelled at me and told me to stop wasting paper and that I wasn't allowed to sell construction paper bookmarks that won't fit in any normal book for $100.

[Callie]

As a young child, I decided I would go into business as a bookmark salesman. I took several sheets of construction paper of various colors, and cut them into bookmarks of various sizes and shapes, with all sorts of spikes and spirals and deep nooks and the like along the edges. I priced them according to size. The one that cost one hundred dollars was cut from an entire 8.5inx11in sheet of black construction paper. I was dismayed when my mother yelled at me and told me to stop wasting paper and that I wasn't allowed to sell construction paper bookmarks that won't fit in any normal book for $100.

You should have claimed the paper was made from recycled Egyptian papyrus from King Tut's tomb and marketed it at a wine-tasting festival.

[The Mystic]

I'll pass on the wine tasting, thanks.

 

I had my fill of wine by the ripe old age of 14, when I was an altar boy at my church. When I was about 12, we got a new pastor, and he wanted wine served with communion. The congregation wasn't used to the idea, so there was usually a lot left over. You can't put it back in the bottle; and you're not supposed to just pour it down the sink; so the only real option was to finish it off. I was volunteered to help on several occasions, and I'm just glad I always had a designated driver, since sometimes I would come out of the sacristy with quite a buzz.

 

There's nothing like waking up to a good whiskey.

A breakfast can still be just a brandy, though.

 

—Alorael

 

[Actaeon]

Oh, come on, do we really need TWO threads about alcoholic beverages? ... Well, actually, it's better than the pundemic.

[nikki.]

the pundemic.

 

Grape, now we have to start punning again.