Posted March 20, 20196 yr Good day Name is Gabriel, great to be on this forum. Have been doing alot of reading on here but still have some questions. Currently have a few batteries and cheap solar charger but nothing installed yet.
March 20, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, plonkster said: @Gabriell, meet @gabriel. Now go and watch this: now that was fun; indeed i have gotten use to a wide variety of permutations of Gabriël; note the umlaut or diaeresis ; two homoglyphic diacritical marks that consist of two dots placed over a letter, usually a vowel..., as per the video I INSIT ON IT BEING CORRECT [hahaha 🤪] - anything from gg, g, gabs, gabe, gabriella... so whats in a name plonkie?
March 20, 20196 yr 37 minutes ago, gabriel said: whats in a name plonkie? I have a name which can be spelled with an s or a z. Mine is spelled with a z. I also insist on it being used correctly. I had to learn to tolerate those people who reply to your email (your name is right there in front of them) and still get it wrong... I guess for some content is more important than presentation. Okay then... 🙂 Edit: As for the nick name... it is modelled more or less after a number of ideas, 1) you plonk yourself down on a chair, 2) it's how one might describe the average "error" sound on most operating systems, 3) it describes wine of a dubious quality, 4) It's a pun on the term Napster, eg one of the characters in the modern remake of the Italian job insists on being called the napster, 5) it's a kind of self-deprecating joke, and 6) it's quite close to plonker, which was a thing in the late 90s, 7) IRC was a thing back then, and being a complete plonker was something I got called at times... so I made it my own. 🙂 Edited March 20, 20196 yr by plonkster
March 20, 20196 yr 33 minutes ago, plonkster said: I guess for some content is more important than presentation i believe there should be a good mix but in the end content counts, 40 years ago it was important for me to wear a silk tie, now i have one polyester tie somewhere which i have not used in 10 years, i even attend church in crocs... it is a heart matter 🙌
March 20, 20196 yr 27 minutes ago, gabriel said: even attend church in crocs I still try to wear a good pair of tackies, at least trousers (though they are generally Denim) and I only switched to a T-shirt this year. But I'm involved with the children's ministry, so I can dress a bit more informally. I tell you, kids are a different matter. First off... I don't know how teachers do it every day. Second, you have that one difficult kid who is bouncing off the walls, and then one day you are discussing Matthew 5:4 and you ask a bunch of 9-year olds what makes them sad... and that same kid says straight to your face: That my mom and dad got divorced. Bloody hell, that was like a ton of bricks. Anyway... sorry about the derailment... 🙂 Edited March 20, 20196 yr by plonkster
March 20, 20196 yr 44 minutes ago, plonkster said: Anyway... sorry about the derailment... 🙂 to that guy the divorce of his parents is worse than all the eskom woes we lament on here... it is worse maybe
March 20, 20196 yr 9 hours ago, plonkster said: I have a name which can be spelled with an s or a z ok plonkster, i fixed my name now, no use getting it half wrong 🤪
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