markh wrote:
Can't this be split into a pedantic arguments thread or sub-forum? On the moon.
For the first time ever, I've just skipped a load of B&B.
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:55 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: Oh my Dawkins I'm bored today. I, for one, can't tell. |
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| Author: | markh [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:15 ] |
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Can't this be split into a pedantic arguments thread or sub-forum? On the moon. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:23 ] |
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markh wrote: Can't this be split into a pedantic arguments thread or sub-forum? On the moon. For the first time ever, I've just skipped a load of B&B. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:30 ] |
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devilman wrote: I can honestly say that I did each and every single one of those things when I was little. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:38 ] |
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devilman wrote: 41 things to do before you reach 10
The list.... 34. Walk in on your parents when they're doing it. 35. Look up a girl's skirt. 36. Touch a girl's front bottom. 37. Look at the underwear pages in a mail order catalogue 38. Break a neighbour's window 39. Eat bogeys. 40. Wee down a grid in a side street in a city centre. 41. Play doctors and nurses |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:45 ] |
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Bobbyaro wrote: Mr Kissyfur wrote: Oh my Dawkins I'm bored today. I, for one, can't tell. I wave my private parts at you, you filthy son of a horse. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:47 ] |
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Splitting... |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 13:53 ] |
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Sorry Peter, I forgot to mention that on top of everything else, I'm also a boring bastard, in the emo hangups thread. 
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| Author: | sdg [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 14:36 ] |
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devilman wrote: 33 things to do before you reach 10 The list.... 7. Make a papier-mache mask 15. Make some bread 17. Create a clay sculpture 22. Pick some strawberries There's a fair of that I've not done by now, never mind before I was 10. These are the only ones I haven't done. I've made papier-mache stuff before, just not masks because I'm scared of them. Like, phobia scared. |
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| Author: | Mr Burrrrt [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:16 ] |
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I've just installed Cubase Studio 4. It looks awesome after manky old Cubase SL I had before. The LED on my dongle is pulsating. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:38 ] |
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Today is going sooooo slooooowly. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:39 ] |
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I've only just woke up.  After going to bed at 11 last night. I hate my meds sometimes.
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| Author: | Squirt [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:39 ] |
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Yes. Yes it is. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:49 ] |
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I'm waiting until someone on the other side of the atrium* notices the commentary on my employer in my desk area. Attachment: IMG00043-20100923-1536.jpg Yes, I'm really, really bored. * our offices are around a big internal atrium, annoyingly, so if you're on the "internal" side you're stared at by loads of other people sat in their glass offices. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:55 ] |
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE GAYS GONE? Has anyone noticed any brightly coloured vans around, perhaps enticing people inside with the promise of high quality tailoring? |
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| Author: | WTB [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:58 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: I'm waiting until someone on the other side of the atrium* notices the commentary on my employer in my desk area. Attachment: IMG00043-20100923-1536.jpg Yes, I'm really, really bored. * our offices are around a big internal atrium, annoyingly, so if you're on the "internal" side you're stared at by loads of other people sat in their glass offices. Is that green-spined book MacKenzie and Phillips? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 15:59 ] |
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Those fibre tipped pens from your mob are a bit shit, though, Mr K, Covington's Parerk pens are somewhat superior. Sort this. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:00 ] |
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Wogan'sTrouserBulge wrote: Is that green-spined book MacKenzie and Phillips? Ha! Yes. Left behind by my old room mate and stolen by me. All my books are at home in the library. Mali - our pens are fucking awesome, you pleb. Especially the new, sleek black version. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:03 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: Wogan'sTrouserBulge wrote: Is that green-spined book MacKenzie and Phillips? Ha! Yes. Left behind by my old room mate and stolen by me. All my books are at home in the library. Has M&K got MrsA's name in it? She worked on it ages back, and a friend probably has more recently. Aside from Blackstone's, my law books are boxed and in the loft. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:04 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: Wogan'sTrouserBulge wrote: Is that green-spined book MacKenzie and Phillips? Ha! Yes. Left behind by my old room mate and stolen by me. All my books are at home in the library. Mali - our pens are fucking awesome, you pleb. Especially the new, sleek black version. I have the most recent yellow version. I was going to ner you, but seeing as it's not actually yours, I'll let it slide.
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| Author: | WTB [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:05 ] |
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God we're lame. |
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| Author: | Dimrill [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:05 ] |
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Wogan'sTrouserBulge wrote: God we're lame. No, that's just you hopalong. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:06 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: Mali - our pens are fucking awesome, you pleb. Especially the new, sleek black version. The cloth bag is OK, though. Earned me lots of clubcard points, has that. I approve of that. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:07 ] |
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Dimrill wrote: Wogan'sTrouserBulge wrote: God we're lame. No, that's just you hopalong. Pot off tomorrow!  Oh yeah, I very nearly "rescued" some Gippies yesterday from Pets at Home. I would've had to buy the full kit, though, and I'm skint. I'm sure they'll find a nice home soon. Anecdote would've been more interesting had I taken photos. I knew I should've taken photos. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 16:07 ] |
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Dimrill wrote: Wogan'sTrouserBulge wrote: God we're lame. No, that's just you hopalong.
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 22:00 ] |
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Facebook borked? |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 22:02 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: Facebook borked? Yup. It was giving me DNS errors initially. Now my main page loads but the apps don't. Maybe not a bad thing. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 22:03 ] |
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Been playing Railroad Tycoon 3. It's still awesome. But I fucked myself by doing a emrger with another company, without looking at the balance sheet. Which is quite stupid of me, as I know about shit like that... Anyway, everyone should buy it as it is acebest. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 22:31 ] |
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I spent all afternoon today glazing the two replacement sashes I've built for our bedroom windows at the front of the house. I hasten to add I've not completely rebuilt the windows — that would have been a far bigger job, something I could do but wouldn't feel comfortable doing without a proper workshop. I've just made replacements for the two bottom panels/sashes as they were rotten beyond repair. Still, making windows is a long and drawn out experience with the amount of treatment and painting you have to do. Putty can fuck right off — it's such a tedious thing to apply with anything approaching a decent finish. Anyway, the sashes are pretty much good to go — took a couple of days to make them, a day to sand and seal them, four days to paint them with various primers, undercoats and gloss finishes and now there's two weeks before I can overpaint the putty on the glass. I've replaced the sill on one of the windows entirely and will repair and rebuild the other window sill. Just have to get the multimaster on the boxes and upper sashes, apply treatments and filler and then paint them. I think it's going to take another 2-3 weeks before they're both done properly. Why am I doing this? Because I can, because I know I'll do a better job than the three companies I approached to repair and rebuild them (who quoted me an average of £2k to do the job!). It's still fucking boring though, so I felt I should share it with you lot 
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 22:57 ] |
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Wow, making windows, even bits of them, is no small undertaking at all, much respect. Personally I'd skip all the gloss paint, but I suppose you needed to make it match the rest of the frame... Pics? |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:07 ] |
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Making windows is just silly. The cool people make OSXs these days. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:11 ] |
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Mummy and Old Man Afterthought are coming to visit today. My throat has got loads worse and I'm pumping out mucus like there's no tomorrow. It's going to be a fun few days, then. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:07 ] |
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Proving the point nicely Quote: “At roundabout 11.30pm he said the words ‘you’re my favourite chav, you are’. “Mr Hillier’s reply was ‘I’m not a chav’ and he punched him once to the face.” A master of wit and repartee. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:42 ] |
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MI6 experimented with using semen as an invisible ink during the First World War. Gotta love that the Chief of MI6 at the time was called Mansfield Cumming, eh? |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:43 ] |
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If attacked by a bear dont forget your courgette http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11401167 |
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| Author: | markh [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:44 ] |
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Just received this, thought Zardoz might be interested: 
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| Author: | GazChap [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:09 ] |
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Jedward? Fucking SOLD. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:09 ] |
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Can't see it but I'm assuming it's £12 or Dead Space. Also: I've just been offered a 4 day trip to Dubai with work all expenses paid staying at the Kempinski and taking in a dessert safari and other stuff. I bit their fucking hand off!!! 
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| Author: | Cras [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:11 ] |
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Nice! |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:11 ] |
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Excellent. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:16 ] |
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Take USD to make smaller problems go away, or GTFO on next lane if it all goes tits up. This time of year it should be on the "OK" side of fucking hot, and ensure you drink a pint of isotonic drink in the morning and in the afternoon. Have a lovely time. |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:18 ] |
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Don't take any crack or have sex in public. They don't like that. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:18 ] |
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Livingstone gets the nod |
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| Author: | flis [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:19 ] |
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Bastard. How the hell did you swing that one, Zarzipan? All i get offered at work is the occassional sausage bap *MR TOP-HAT FACE* Ramsea has and will be spending 9 out of 12 weeks in Zurich, he assures me it is rubbish d Swiss birds are mingers. Not that he's been looking, obviously. Oh, how I do love him so....... |
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:20 ] |
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MaliA wrote: True story - in a restaurant in the House of Commons, Ken once cut my steak for me as it was too tough. I was about 10 at the time. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:20 ] |
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kalmar wrote: Wow, making windows, even bits of them, is no small undertaking at all, much respect. Personally I'd skip all the gloss paint, but I suppose you needed to make it match the rest of the frame... Pics? Here's a pic of one of the sashes recently built — obviously this is just assembled and if you look closely at the top you can see the biscuits used to joint it — anybody interested in making things like this or jointing any wood I thoroughly recommend biscuit joints as a quick and incredibly sturdy means of jointing and you can buy biscuit jointers for about £50 nowadays. The gaps at the bottom of the architraving, moulding near the wide part at the bottom of the frame were cut out to allow the use of the biscuit jointer — this is the first time I've made sashes, but I think in light of the fact that the architraving supports the glass I still think I'd cut this in the original uprights rather than add them on later for reasons of structural integrity. I simply glued and filled the fillets I'd cut out back in before finishing. With regard to the gloss I was simply using paint I already had. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:31 ] |
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I used to have a biscuit jointer  Not bad at all! They look rebated for single glass panes, are you re-using the old bits? My comment about the paint was that modern gloss paint isn't vapour permeable. Window frames in particular are subject to very high vapour pressure, liquid water and thermal stresses. This will crack the paint in short order, then water gets in and can't get out again, and rot the wood. 9 times out of 10 this is what has killed sashes and frames which have otherwise been fine for the last hundred years. Originally they would have been painted with white lead paint, which is both flexible and breathable. Obviously you can't use that these days, but you can get similar "natural" paints with a boiled linseed base, which are breathable. Anyway sorry, a nerdy detail. If you keep the paint maintained on the outside it will be OK for a long time. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:43 ] |
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Squirt wrote: Don't take any crack or have sex in public. They don't like that. *cancels* |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:47 ] |
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kalmar wrote: I used to have a biscuit jointer Not bad at all! They look rebated for single glass panes, are you re-using the old bits? My comment about the paint was that modern gloss paint isn't vapour permeable. Window frames in particular are subject to very high vapour pressure, liquid water and thermal stresses. This will crack the paint in short order, then water gets in and can't get out again, and rot the wood. 9 times out of 10 this is what has killed sashes and frames which have otherwise been fine for the last hundred years. Originally they would have been painted with white lead paint, which is both flexible and breathable. Obviously you can't use that these days, but you can get similar "natural" paints with a boiled linseed base, which are breathable. Anyway sorry, a nerdy detail. If you keep the paint maintained on the outside it will be OK for a long time. I didn't know that about paint. Interesting stuff that. I didn't reuse the glass as I can't take the existing sashes out until I'm ready to fit the new ones due to the weather being shit at the moment. I did think about it but wasn't prepared to leave the windows "open" for 24 hours with the rain we have at the moment. That and this is the first time I've done this so didn't want to take any chances of fucking things up. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:50 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Also: I've just been offered a 4 day trip to Dubai with work all expenses paid staying at the Kempinski and taking in a dessert safari and other stuff. I went on dessert safari once, I bagged a cheesecake and three eclairs.
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