Okay, I admit, I'm an idiot.

But I just can’t TAKE IT ANYMORE!! After a bit over a month of reading posts about chat and hearing reactions to chat and having waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much free time on my hands for chatting and chat this, chat that, I’ve decided to come out of the moron closet and ask.

How do I get to chat?

I have AOL, if it matters, and I need to know, well, everything. Times, special dates/days, and most of all how to get into it. So, have at me with your accusations of idiocy, and feel free to tell me just how blatantly obvious the answer is and how it’s been right in front of my nose forever and ever, I don’t care. I wanna chat, dammit.

I’m sorry. I’d like to tell you about it, but I’ve been specificly told not to by the powers that be.

Having just had wonderful instructions from Silver Fire, if you email me I’ll add you to my Buddy List and guide you on through a relatively simple set up.

Jester plays bass?

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Well first you get a friend and two lawn chairs…then a couple of heinekens…

or you could just download MIRC then look up #straightdope

Download a mirc client @ www.mirc.com

Set up mirc

While you’re online go into mirc and in the options menu select IRC_server: Undernet

Choose a specific Undernet server and connect

Then in the channels folder type #straightdope, click the join button and there you are.

Alrighty, thanks to the divine, god-worthy, and eternally patient intervention of sandyr, I gots it goin on in the chat department.

Orion, nothing’s too off the subject for me. Bass, well, it’s all in how you look at it. I have an electric bass guitar, to clear up confusion, but I mainly just keep it up in my room to mess around on when I don’t feel like doing work. I’m planning on taking lessons one o these days, if I ever get the time. Harmonica is mainly the same way, but piano I’m actually fairly decent at, after 10 years. I’m just venturing away fromt the classical and into jazz, looking forward to new experiences and whatnot.

Sorry for such a long explanation, but I am curious, why did you ask? I’m honored that someone actually read my profile! Oh, yes, and thank you for diverting attention from the whole “me being an idiot” thing. :slight_smile:

I asked this recently myself, while I don’t access it through AOL, some of the links within the thread may help.

Find the thread here.

Well because I play bass too and there aren’t too many of them out there… mostly drummers and guitarists. It’s cool to find another one ANYWHERE. What type of music do you like to play?

(And to the others, sorry for straying from the topic but :D)