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12 August 2005

I'm male, sex-negative, and a misogynist. Help me deal with my hard drive full of porn.

post by: Cryptical Envelopment at: 05:05 | 20 comments

Get an external hard-drive. Copy naughtiness onto it. Delete naughtiness from internal hard-drive. Hide external hard-drive when mom visits.

Problem solved.

Hint: I recommend Firewire or USB2, otherwise it's going to be like watching over dialup.

posted by veedubya 12 August | 05:17

I need a new computer. Should I get the Timex Sinclair 1000, or the Tandy TRS-80?
I'm really visually attracted to Sir Clive Sinclair's machine, but I'm wondering if I can get a better value with the Radio Shack model...

posted by Smart Dalek 12 August | 05:59

Winning your personal battle against porn addiction is a tough fight.

posted by dodgygeezer 12 August | 06:16

Smartdalek, neither. You would be a fool to consider anything other than the Jupiter Ace. This computational titan can leverage the power of ZX81 (aka Timex Sinclair 1000) peripherals, by the simple expedient of plugging in the 16K RAM-pack upside-down.

posted by veedubya 12 August | 06:16

Keep in mind that: I mean this in a respectful way and I only read through about half of your explanation.

You need to take a deep breath and get over yourself. That's it.

posted by briank 12 August | 08:28

Hee. I knew what the reference was, but didn't come up with a clever way of linking it. Good one, briank!

(not making fun of the original poster, here, though. I can understand her problem.)

posted by taz 12 August | 08:41

Try this novel storage idea: Invest in magazines and videotape porn.

posted by sarah connor 12 August | 09:08

Or you could forget about porn altogther - turn to stalking real women instead.

posted by dg 12 August | 09:36

Hide external hard-drive when mom visits.

I was with veedubya until I read this. Clearly the proper course of action would be to send me the hard drive in exchange for a having a go with my wife. Win/win.

posted by danostuporstar 12 August | 10:40

I'm not sure what "deal with" means in this context. Do you need help organizing the porn?

posted by JanetLand 12 August | 13:03

Organ-ize your porn:

c: cd \pr0n
c:\pron dir *.* /on /b /s /w > jerkoff.m3u

Simple as that ;-)

posted by WolfDaddy 12 August | 13:05

Send it to me. I shall dispose of it properly.

posted by tr33hggr 12 August | 13:16

Get a hobby...like collecting insects such as dragonflies - this will help you take your mind off it.≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by peacay 12 August | 13:25

*is paralyzed by boobies*

posted by Schyler523 12 August | 14:51

You need to take a deep breath and get over yourself. That's it.

Oh dear. I know MeCha is meant to be all light-hearted and all, but it's a bit more complicated than that, briank.

Anyway, I tried to make my feelings known in the thread itself, so I won't repeat myself here, but the poster of the original quesions deserves better than just a dismissive 'get over yourself' (meaning just shut up, I gather?) or to be told she should try therapy, as somebody else mentioned.

*practices deep calming breaths*

posted by jokeefe 12 August | 17:16

Dude, you're cute and all. But I'm so not going to help you rub one out. And no, you can't borrow my astroglide and professional fapping glove.

posted by loquacious 12 August | 19:36

jokeefe, you made a great comment over there.

But the comment (made by someone else) referenced here by briank was removed from the askme thread... Briank wasn't actually making that statement about the real poster.

posted by taz 12 August | 19:42

Wonder why that comment was removed? It may not have been the kindest advice, but it sounded pretty honest to me, which is the best you can expect from free advice.

posted by dg 13 August | 06:08

Thank you, taz. I couldn't come up with a way to explain it to jokeefe that didn't sound like I was picking a fight with her.

posted by briank 13 August | 09:34

Ah..... whoops. My regrets then, briank. No harm no foul, I hope?

posted by jokeefe 13 August | 11:58

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