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[mills]

Does anyone else think robots are gay? Also, they are not really robots, are they guys? Just radio controlled cars with some metal strapped to them. Maybe you should all move out of your mums basements and look for girlfriends. Oh, by the way, shave the beards off first eh? Robots arent cool and neither are you.

[andrewj]

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Hi, and welcome to the FRA

[majinb]

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Hey

[ewan]

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erm... Hi alex (*cough Admin delete im cough*)

[jamesb]

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hey mate, so life so dull you started going to site for things you dont like? man, you must be sad and lonely.

robots gay? never thought of that? at least there are no problems with them making minibots while you are away on holiday

[fluppet]

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Since weve clearly found someone whos from outside the roboteering community...

Martijn: One of the concerns of the fighting robot community at the moment is attracting public interest - and, therefore, overhauling some of the stereotypes. For myself, Ive never felt the need to conform (although I dont have a beard, I do have a fiancee, and my mother - may she rest in peace - never had a basement), but I acknowledge that public relations is not based on the same things as a happy life.

Care to tell us what would need to change for you to consider robots, er, cool? I gather youd be more interested if we put some AI on the bots?

I presume you dont mean gay literally, by the way. I have no idea, but I presume the proportion of gay roboteers is about the same 1 in 10 as the rest of the population? An unusually large number of my fellow tiddlywinks players are gay (although still very much a minority of them), but Im reasonably sure thats a coincidence... As for the robots themselves, well, Im not sure weve got them self-replicating yet.

Ironically, someone decided to fill in the contact me form on my website with some insults, yesterday. Just when I was expecting an interesting discussion... Im still deciding whether to reply to the posting to ask what it was to which they were objecting.

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[fluppet]

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Btw, out of interest, who *does* have the largest (& heaviest) disk? Ignoring for now the issue of kinetic energy, which is harder to quantify.

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[Guest]

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storm vortex









no
dont know

[andrewj]

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Storm Vortex is a Feather though, isnt it?

[typhoon_driver]

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would that be us then?

13kg disc on typhoon thunder?

O and my girlfriend is interested in robots Alex, so much so she was at the filming of series 7

[andrewj]

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Depends if FBS is counted as a disc

[knightrous]

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I have two words for this Alex Miller w****r but unfortunately admin would revoke my posting rights

[jim]

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Ah, thats what this forum has been missing - a good troll! Er, well, its still missing one. Come on Alex, that sort of message might have worked in 1996 but if you want to wind people up today youll have to be a bit more subtle about it.

[fluppet]

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Tsk - wasted opportunity. If we call Alex names were hardly going to get any information out of him, are we? If the public think were dull, Id like to see how we can improve matters. (Not that I care in general, but if we ever want to get a TV series again...) Most people will tell us something polite that they think wed like to hear; it appears that Alex doesnt suffer from this failing.

To clarify: sorry, I meant the largest/heaviest spinner (fbs on no) on a feather. Presumably Vortexs is fast rather than particularly huge (and the same is true of Scorpion Junior). I saw Dizzy Tilly (FBS) at Debenham, but the shell looked quite thin.

Martijn - sorry to have directed any of my previous posting at you; it was supposed to be at Alex, I just missed when scanning the poster names!

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[andrewj]

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For a start, do we call you Alex Miller or Andy Coates?