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  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.

 #15679  by Gentz
 Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:37 pm
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I don't follow links that require me to use the right mouse button. I have to conserve the energy in my middle finger for flipping off jerks like you.</div>

 #15680  by Tessian
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:28 am
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>my excuse is simpler-- if he's too lazy to include HTML tags, I'm too lazy to copy and paste</div>

 #15684  by SineSwiper
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:25 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That reminds me...I should just go ahead and put in the auto-link thingy.</div>

 #15685  by Gentz
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:22 am
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah, that's better. Also, I realized that I use my ringfinger to hit the right mouse button anyway</div>

 #15688  by Kupek
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:12 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>How does that work? Did you not realize there's a perfecly good finger between your pointer and ring finger? That seems absurdly awkward.</div>

 #15689  by Gentz
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:35 am
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Ah, but grasshopper, you forget the roller-wheel betwixt the two buttons that occupies the middle finger!</div>

 #15690  by Kupek
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:21 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I use my pointer for that. I never need to roll and click the left button at the same time.</div>

 #15691  by Flip
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:53 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Sometimes you do. For normal scrolling i use my pointer, too, but when i want to highlight stuff longer than a page i find i hold the left button down with my pointer while i scroll with my middle.</div>

 #15692  by Kupek
 Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:43 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You're right, I do that too. And here's something I realized the other day: I touch type, but I only use nine fingers. My left thumb is unused.</div>

 #15693  by Gentz
 Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:02 am
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I use the roller to scroll almost exclusively - and I would think a scroll-click motion would be pretty constantly used for anyone who frequents a message board.</div>

 #15694  by SineSwiper
 Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:06 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I pattern type, but I only use my thumb for the space bar. Your thumb is too offcenter from the rest of the hand to be any more useful than that.</div>

 #15695  by Gentz
 Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:15 am
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah, there's not really any keys that your thumbs would be useful in reaching.</div>

 #15696  by Kupek
 Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:50 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Nope. The only time I scroll-click is to highlight something that's longer than a page.</div>

 #15708  by Zeus
 Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:11 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Wow, people actually replied to a post of mine. Mind you, it actually had nothing to do with the subject matter, but beggars can't be choosers, I guess</div>