Good morrow

[Bradley]

Hey all,

Just wanted to come and say g'day to you all and give a little introduction. This seems like a nice little forum so far. :)

I can't put my finger on exactly when I realised I was an atheist, but I went to church as a youngster thanks to a religious parent (although I can't say I've ever felt uncomfortable in my belief, or felt that I had to hide it at all). Until about a month before the GAC I had the philosophy that I don't care what other people believe, so why should anyone care what I believe, but recently I've felt more and more like an outsider in my own country so I've decided to become a bit more vocal about my beliefs. Specifically, I joined the AFA, Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Pirate Party at around the same time.

Apart from that I've done a bit of work in the music industry and spend most of my time listening to music, watching movies or reading. I also spend far too much fucking time on the internet.

Anyway, look forward to meeting all y'all.

Cheers,
Bradley

[Logic]

Howdy Bradley, look forward to chatting :)

[wolty]

Welcome to the forums, Bradley. I hope you enjoy yourself here.

[Fearless]

Hello and welcome again... we might have got off to a confused start (Hey Dad thread) but I hope you enjoy your time here.

Great avatar by the way... one of my favourite movies... :cool:

...any relation to 'the' Michael Bolton :p

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[Bradley]

Welcome Bradley..

I found some Good Morrow :)

Haha, can't say I have much time for the Chasers' TV shows, although I follow Chas's Twitter and did recently discover the parody of the Barack Obama "Yes, We Can" music video. Good stuff.

Hello and welcome again... we might have got off to a confused start (Hey Dad thread) but I hope you enjoy your time here.

Great avatar by the way... one of my favourite movies... :cool:

...any relation to 'the' Michael Bolton :p

Unfortunately the real version of my avatar didn't upload properly:

http://www.zomgz0rz.com/brad/img/michael-bolton.gif

One of the best movies ever! And hey, I'm not so immature as to be unable to put a misunderstanding in perspective. :)

Thanks for the welcome all.

[Homosapien]

Gooday' Bradley.

Welcome. Hope to have many good chinwags. Hope you enjoy it here.

Cheers. :)

[Bradley]

Thanks for not placing any more automatically-animated stuff on the forums.
On the scale of migraine-inducement I think it rates pretty low. :p

[Bradley]

Excuse me?

[Fearless]

Just say 3!

[wolty]

@ fearless, hehehehehe

Bradley, Mr B has some problems with animated gifs and the such. Others here don't really like them either. So we deign to let Mr B have his way, just to keep him happy and not smite us. (I don't like them either)

[Loki]

Gidday Bradley, this is probably not going to cure an internet addiction.

[atheist_angel]

Welcome Bradley. :)

[Bradley]

If you knew how many fingers I had up, I might suspect you also knew about other things, like what causes migraines in my case.

Clue: Moving things or bright lights at the periphery of my vision while I am looking at text in another area of the screen can and do cause me to develop migraine.
Well that's quite a shame. Have you had that looked at? Insignificantly-sized moving objects causing migraines might be cause for a little concern. How do you handle reading a newspaper with a fly traveling around the room? As a migraine sufferer myself I certainly empathise, but I would have though the internet (and especially an open internet forum) would be the worst possible place to visit if you're susceptible to such easily-triggered migraines. Stay away from online casino websites, whatever you do!

Obviously, I could not possibly have known that a slowly animated graphic of a facial expression would cause you such offense. Though I fail to see where I ever spoke for anyone but myself on all things GIF, I will apologise nonetheless for having the gall to rate Michael Bolton a "low" on the migraine-inducement scale and thank you again for the warm welcome.

(Don't bite the newcomers, indeed.)

[davo]

Bring back the blink tag i say, i so miss it, i am trying hard to work out how to do it on the forum. If i can sneak it past Protium then we can play schrodingers cat! (Spelling is atrocious as i am on my phone without spellcheck ;)