Walking Amongst Dark Shadows

Poor Eeyore

This is from a chat session on IRC just last week. Myself, PR and Soth attempt to fool poor Eeyore into thinking his IRC client was broken. I think we did a rather good job as he was getting rather annoyed at not being able to decipher what we were on about

[22:47] <eeyore> This is UTF8
[22:48] <PR|PC> "!(*{{@~> 360!! _(
[22:48] <eeyore> oh ffs
[22:48] <Kainz> (&(£))" 360 :/
[22:48] <soth`> ??????????????????????????????????????????
[22:49] <PR|PC> %%^://www.$£"%%&^.co*\p(c.j%$
[22:49] <Kainz> )(*W)$
[22:49] * Parts: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
[22:49] * Joins: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
[22:49] <eeyore> hello?
[22:49] <PR|PC> £$%£$" ^$?
[22:49] <soth`> %$!
[22:49] <eeyore> ARGH!
[22:49] <PR|PC> ¬|?
[22:50] <Kainz> $*))*|¬
[22:50] <PR|PC> ¬¬`!
[22:51] <Kainz> ?
[22:51] <eeyore> you can all sod off
[22:51] <PR|PC> __?
[22:52] * eeyore sighs
[22:52] <Kainz> (*&$£osx?
[22:52] <eeyore> this is pretty amusing for all of you guys?
[22:52] <PR|PC> £&^$ $%$%$ UNIC0D$!
[22:52] <soth`> %)(*&£)(&%macsareshit%(*%
[22:53] <eeyore> I saw that!
[22:53] <PR|PC> "$"r&^0$%f%^^l
[22:53] <Kainz> (£%¬_(9utf*{}osx?!
[22:55] <PR|PC> £>> (Invalid Character)
[22:55] <Kainz> <@}(£janeway?)*£¬
[22:56] <soth`> "!(*$_UNF*$(*%
[22:56] * Parts: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
[22:56] * Joins: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
[22:56] <PR|PC> w£!
[22:56] <Kainz> ??
[22:57] * eeyore sighs again
[22:57] * PR|PC %^%^% eeyore $%$%$ *^^^__+_
[22:58] <Kainz> |98inbalance?$(£_
[22:58] * Quits: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk) (Signed off)
[22:58] * Joins: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
[22:59] <PR|PC> ##!
[22:59] <PR|PC> #### ##### ##!
[22:59] <soth`> ###### ## ####### ### ####?
[22:59] <Kainz> !?
[22:59] <PR|PC> ###! :#
[23:01] <PR|PC> ####://####.###.##.##/#####.####
[23:01] <Kainz> ()£"*@
[23:01] <PR|PC> ### ####!
[23:02] * Kainz )*&$$)"&! PR|PC £*$&_+||{:~:
[23:02] <PR|PC> :~
[23:03] <Kainz> @{@
[23:03] <PR|PC> (.)(.)
[23:03] <eeyore> funny guys
[23:04] <Kainz> ?)%*
[23:04] <PR|PC> ###
[23:04] * Kainz )*&$$)"&! eyore £*$&_+||{:~:
[23:05] <eeyore> hilarious
[23:05] <eeyore> i wasted half an hour of my life trying to fix it
[23:05] <eeyore> now i realise that it is set correctly
[23:06] <Kainz> J9&(")*($)(£%?
[23:06] <PR|PC> #### ### ##?
[23:06] * Quits: shpppie (~shp@cpc2-port4-0-0-cust955.cos2.cable.ntl.com) (Ping timeout)
[23:08] <soth`> Under Siege!
[23:09] <PR|PC> You ruined it!
[23:09] <Kainz> You prat soff!
[23:09] <eeyore> it’s okay i’ve already fiddled with every option i could find, i got bored and gave up
[23:09] <Kainz> lol
[23:10] <Kainz> Gonna blog that tommorow when i get back from work
[23:10] <soth`> what do you mean? i just modified my charset to match eeyore’s
[23:10] <eeyore> you sad man
[23:11] <PR|PC> Surely when you get a problem like that the mac is so reliable it must be the internet that’s broke!
[23:11] <eeyore> or people just have lame sense of humours
[23:11] * eeyore sulks
[23:11] <soth`> lol
[23:11] * eeyore reboots to windows
[23:11] * Quits: eeyore (~mpcooke3@82-71-14-134.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk) (Signed off)
[23:11] * Kainz snickers
[23:11] <soth`> can’t believe you didn’t even get it from <@soth`> %)(*&£)(&%macsareshit%(*%
[23:11] <PR|PC> classic