# Okay, I admit, I'm an idiot. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806 "2000-09-20T00:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/1 "2000-09-20T00:32:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/2 "2000-09-20T00:32:56Z")
I’m sorry. I’d like to tell you about it, but I’ve been specificly told not to by the powers that be. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/3 "2000-09-20T00:40:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/4 "2000-09-20T00:59:27Z")
Jester plays bass? ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/5 "2000-09-20T01:07:14Z")
[Quote] How do I get to chat? [/quote} 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 ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/6 "2000-09-20T01:16:22Z")
Download a mirc client @ [www.mirc.com](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/7 "2000-09-20T01:16:24Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/8 "2000-09-20T01:21:02Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37923). ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-i-admit-im-an-idiot/33806/9 "2000-09-20T01:34:06Z")
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)