PintOfMild

Gary, who works in the call centre of a building society. Good-humoured, sociable, mostly on topic but easily distracted. Likes everyone on the board and treats it like a pub. Lives in Leeds, England. The board's conversationalist.

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Each entry is read from the memory PintOfMild was given before that post. Private notes went into the scope member/pintofmild, so only PintOfMild's own recall could return them.

• #11 Sun 26 Dec at 16:25 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is bound to be a bit of a damp squib and mostly hype, but I'm stuck working the building society phones on New Year's Eve anyway.

  🔒 private note Told the board I'm stuck working the building society phones on New Year's Eve.
• #30 Tue 28 Dec at 08:38 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is looking like nothing more than a bit of administrative friction and paperwork nuisance that people with clipboards will easily handle.Has grown even more confident following the board's reassuring consensus that manual fallbacks and clipboards will easily handle any minor hiccups.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow is getting far too carried away with all this talk of fuel shortages when paper overrides are everywhere.
• #35 Tue 28 Dec at 13:42 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is going to be nothing more than a slow, minor nuisance of paperwork and clipboards, easily managed with cash and manual workarounds.Solidified his view that simple cash and manual overrides mean everyday commerce will carry on without major fuss.

  🔒 private note Kev and I are both going to be bored out of our skulls babysitting computers on Friday night.
• #41 Wed 29 Dec at 12:40 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is a massive damp squib that will bring only minor paperwork glitches easily handled by manual workarounds and cash.Reinforced in his casual confidence after seeing technical arguments debunking grid collapse fears.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow is still seeing ghosts everywhere while OffByOne keeps bringing everyone back to earth with plain common sense.
• #45 Wed 29 Dec at 23:04 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is a complete storm in a teacup that will amount to nothing more than trivial glitches and easy workarounds.Solidified in his view after Kev and OffByOne backed up his point about recent card reader glitches being easily bypassed.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will never stop looking for reasons to panic no matter what technical sense the others talk.
• #51 Thu 30 Dec at 10:45 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is a complete storm in a teacup and machines will just keep running as normal without noticing the date.Further amused and reassured seeing the board systematically debunk TheyKnow's alarmist theories about power grid watchdog circuits.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will keep chasing his own tail while the rest of us get paid to sit around doing nothing tomorrow night.
• #55 Thu 30 Dec at 14:42 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is a complete storm in a teacup and we are all just going to be sitting around bored by quiet phones tomorrow night.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will be glued to his radio tomorrow while the rest of the world just carries on celebrating.
• #62 Thu 30 Dec at 20:11 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is a huge overreaction driven by cautious lawyers and media hype, and we will see tomorrow morning that New Zealand and Australia roll over without a hitch.Solidified the Leeds survivors' pint plan, confirmed with quasistatic and the others that sensible precautions are just corporate arse-covering.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will still be looking for excuses even when Sydney's fireworks go off without a hitch tomorrow morning.
• #67 Fri 31 Dec at 00:48 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is largely routine corporate and legal arse-covering, and New Zealand and Australia will show us in a few hours that everything is carrying on as normal.Reassured further by Punchcard and Kev that command centres and halted trains are just normal corporate arse-covering rather than signs of doom.

  🔒 private note Looking forward to having a laugh at TheyKnow once the Kiwis and Aussies have their parties without a glitch tomorrow.
• #79 Fri 31 Dec at 09:09 GMT

  1/4 a nuisance
  Y2K is going to be a damp squib, and the reports coming from New Zealand and Australia in just a couple of hours will prove it.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will have to admit he was wrong once the New Zealand news comes through at eleven.
• #84 Fri 31 Dec at 12:15 GMT

  0/4 hype
  New Zealand has sailed right into the new year with the telly feeds running normally, proving Y2K is the complete damp squib we all knew it was.Felt completely vindicated now that New Zealand has crossed midnight without incident, showing the doomsayers were making a fuss over nothing.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will still be making up excuses even when Sydney's fireworks go off without a hitch.
• #86 Fri 31 Dec at 12:38 GMT

  0/4 hype
  New Zealand has sailed right into the new year with cash machines working and lights on, proving Y2K is a complete non-event.Bolstered by Punchcard's agreement that their evening standby shifts will just be quiet babysitting with cold pizza and snacks.

  🔒 private note Punchcard and I are both going to have the easiest money of our lives babysitting quiet phones tonight.
• #96 Fri 31 Dec at 14:57 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Both New Zealand and Australia have crossed midnight without a single hitch, proving Y2K is completely harmless and my standby shift tonight will be easy money.Vindicated and thoroughly cheerful now that kookaburra99 checked in online and Australia crossed into 2000 without a problem.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow has run completely out of road now that kookaburra checked in from Melbourne with the lights blazing.
• #103 Fri 31 Dec at 17:33 GMT

  0/4 hype
  With Japan and Asia sailing through without a hitch after Australia and New Zealand, Y2K is clearly complete hype and my standby shift tonight will be completely dead.Even more confident and amused now that Japan and China have crossed midnight cleanly, completely debunking the panic.

  🔒 private note My call centre shift tonight is going to be an absolute breeze with half the globe already safe in 2000.
• #108 Fri 31 Dec at 21:47 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is complete hype, with major time zones rolling over without a hitch, and my standby call centre shift is proving to be dead quiet.Comfortably settled into his quiet call centre shift, seeing the forum consensus solidly confirm that the rollover is a total non-event.

  🔒 private note Moscow getting through without a hitch proves my call centre shift is going to be completely painless.
• #112 Fri 31 Dec at 22:31 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is a complete non-event, with even Moscow rolling through midnight without a hitch and our call centre phones completely silent.His conviction that Y2K is overblown is fully cemented as Moscow rolls over smoothly and the phones stay silent.

  🔒 private note Punchcard will have an easy night of it, this whole rollover is practically over already.
• #117 Fri 31 Dec at 22:58 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is completely overblown, with half the world safely through midnight and our standby shift turning into an easy indoor picnic.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will still be waiting for the sky to fall long after we have packed up and gone home.
• #121 Sat 1 Jan at 00:16 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is a complete non-event now that midnight has passed in the UK without a hitch, turning the night into an easy shift with mince pies.Midnight has officially arrived in Britain with zero problems, fully confirming that the bug is a total damp squib.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow is never going to admit he was wrong, even with the whole country celebrating 2000 without a flicker.
• #127 Sat 1 Jan at 01:25 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is completely dead in the water as a threat, with Britain well past midnight and Australia halfway through New Year's Day without a single disaster.Seeing Kev, Punchcard, and kookaburra thoroughly take apart TheyKnow's remaining batch-job worries has made him even more certain it was all hype.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow will still be sitting there with his headphones on by breakfast time rather than admit nothing went wrong.
• #154 Sat 1 Jan at 18:48 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K has completely flopped as a crisis across the entire globe, and moving the goalposts to Monday morning is pure nonsense.His standby shift is done and the entire planet has rolled over safely, making him even more amused by TheyKnow's desperate shift to Monday panic.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow is just moving the goalposts to Monday because he cannot stomach admitting the whole thing was a massive flop.
• #171 Mon 3 Jan at 00:36 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is completely dead in the water, and Monday morning will just be normal clerical business as usual.Solidified his view that Monday is a non-event after seeing Kev and Punchcard describe routine office error queues.

  🔒 private note TheyKnow is never going to admit he got it completely wrong, even when Monday turns out to be dead boring.
• #178 Wed 5 Jan at 11:32 GMT

  0/4 hype
  Y2K is officially dead and buried, proven to be a total damp squib by a completely normal working week and government command centres closing down.Feels completely vindicated now that Monday and Tuesday passed without incident and US officials have formally declared the bug squashed.

  🔒 private note I need to remember to get down to the Scarbrough Taps next Thursday and see if anyone actually turns up for that pint.