Bits & Bobs 39

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12309

Today I got told I raise my eyebrow like the guy in Castle Wolfenstein.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2013 22:08

Zio wrote:

The job in question is field-based, so still a lot of travelling.

Mobile scarecrow?

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

For those of you regularly bothered by pesky alien abductions, the following site should be useful: http://www.stopabductions.com

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

lasermink wrote:

For those of you regularly bothered by pesky alien abductions, the following site should be useful: http://www.stopabductions.com

You remember that Doctor Who story where an evil petrochemical company injected it's waste into a disused coal mine and bad things happend (The Green Death). Fantasy surely?

Well it turns out that if you are an evil petrochemical company and you inject bad things into the earths crust bad things happen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21952428

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2013 23:48

How MaliA makes work for himself:

Quote:

Actually, if we had an imperial set of spanners, it would be reasonably simple to strip down the tandem, sand off the paint, remove the rust and spray it up. The only real issue would be the time it takes. I think about a day to strip the paint off with sand paper, an evening or two to apply priming coats, two evenings for painting, one for applying decals and two to laquer it up. I'm not sure about how to remove the brakes and chainsets yet, but to be honest, nobody will look that closely. If I mask it up carefully enough, it should be OK. We can convert the shed into a painting arena as that isn't on the inventory list for this house and we have burnt most of it already.

Thank fuck I have an Pod and about 4 months of MerkinPBS to listen to,and a (very artistic streak -Ed).

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Just watched episode 11 of House of Cards. Crikey, it's good. Consistently good, too, in a weird sort of "if the West Wing was done as a history of Machiavelli" sort of way.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2013 23:56

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Just watched episode 11 of House of Cards. Crikey, it's good. Consistently good, too, in a weird sort of "if the West Wing was done as a history of Machiavelli" sort of way.

The spacey one? It is excellent.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Yes, that's the one.

In other news, I'm still reading the Guardian. This story is amazingly bizarre, and frightening.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -education

There are 60 of these schools in the UK.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:19

Happy Birthday Curio & NervousPete

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Happy birthday, birthday people!

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:37

Have a great day Curio and Pete!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Yes, that's the one.

In other news, I'm still reading the Guardian. This story is amazingly bizarre, and frightening.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -education

There are 60 of these schools in the UK.

I got the exam question wrong even though the answer was printed underneath.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:12

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Yes, that's the one.

In other news, I'm still reading the Guardian. This story is amazingly bizarre, and frightening.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -education

There are 60 of these schools in the UK.

That's... Surely not allowed.

Scary.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16580

It sounds like it isn't but that OFSTED doesn't have the resources to thoroughly check everything which is being taught.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

One of them has been ofsted inspected and came up "satisfactory", which is terrifying.

EDIT - jinx! From the sounds of it a cursory check woudl show the bonkersitude going on.

This sort of shit's only going to get worse with the increase in academies - every school will have to become an academy within the next few years. The main reason being that the local authority will no longer be able to supply the bought-in services to schools as fewer and fewer of them buy them (with the more that turn academy), so the schools will have to become academies in order to buy them themselves. The kids' school I'm governor at is having to consider this. The problem then is potentially being taken over by companies like that one run by the bloke who owns Carpetright, and then being turned into either a profit making exercise for buying services from the owners' other companies, or getting the curricululm hijacked by nutters.

The other driver is that schools can be forced into becoming academies if they don't meet certain arbitrary and ever changing threshholds for Ofsted inspections.

It's also a stealthy way of getting rid of any collective pay agreements for teachers.

Gove is a monstrous idiot.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

The kids' school I'm governor at is having to consider this.

I want to go to a school run by Mr Chris. Compulsory Calvin and Hobbs and, if I can influence him, all PC's replaced with Xbox's BBC Micros and Archies.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Heh. I'm already stamping my AUTHORITAH on the place, as it happens. The C&H is a briliant idea, though.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:17

I approve of ChinnyHill's plan.

I also say that there should be 'Excellent' lessons, dedicated to teach children about excellent people and the excellent things they did, thus promoting excellence in the field of excellence.

Ta for the birthday wishes guys! Am now 33, which means I have to survive notorious Jesus/Hicks deadly age - secondly only to the Club 27 deadly age incorporating Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. Still, survived that one, although possibly not being a wayward genius musician with a penchant for excessive drug taking helped there.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:19

Happy Birthday Curio and Pete

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:34

Happy birthday Pete!

You have an excellent date of birth.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25727

I have had two glasses of wine at kubch. Back at work now. For those you you have seen me drink wine: lol.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 15:20

isolated Bradford fmailies are running out of food

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 15:51

Happy birthday curio and Pete!

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2013 16:07

Going to view a potential wedding venue tomorrow in Glasgow that I'm pretty sure we'll both fall in love with, can't wait!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

Hullo! I've moved the potentially ill-advised paedo speculation thread from earlier on into the mod forum while we take a look through it and use the massive amount of legal powah and skillz the mod team have between us to work out if any of it is dangerous. Ta!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Cras wrote:

he massive amount of legal powah and skillz the mod team have between us

It's Mr Chris dressed as a wizard isn't it?

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14385

It's definately ill advised and I doubt anyone will miss it.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Shamefacedly, I'll admit I had to look up what the Andy Bear Dick Move actually was in chess.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

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throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Curi Pete day!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Mar 30, 2013 0:41

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Shamefacedly, I'll admit I had to look up what the Andy Bear Dick Move actually was in chess.

Facebook cross-post ahoy!

YOG · **Posted:** Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:26

A.C. Grayling in the FT: 'Yet perhaps "austerity" actually means "the opportunity to live more richly".'

No. Fuck off and die.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Argie game insult to our war dead - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21948000

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14385

Is it easy to convert a DivX file into an MP3? Most of the bloody suggestions on google involve downloading some shit that doesn't work.

YOG · **Posted:** Sun Mar 31, 2013 1:01

Happy Easter!

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Mar 31, 2013 20:40

Oxford won the Boat Race!

I celebrated in the usual fashion:

HUZZAH!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Mar 31, 2013 21:21

Speaking of which, I had to get Mrsa to open the sunday afternoon cava today because i somehow managed to trap my thumb in the corkscrew opening a rioja yesterday afternoon. Terrible state of affairs, she held the sabre all wrong.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Saw a great twitter update from Mal Reynolds (he has a real name I'm sure) about cutting a bush with a samurai sword.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Mar 31, 2013 22:45

Grauniad outraged at podium girl allegedly being goosed by second placed cyclist. I am amused, yet saddened as i missed it on tv. By seconds.

http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri ... 3FmYGAQBnQ

I will do translation tomorrow of what the man says as i am about to run out of battery.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 0:10

So PJ and Duncan are at number one.

Um... Okay.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

Grim... wrote:

So PJ and Duncan are at number one.

Um... Okay.

Another sure sign that we are now living in a dark, twisted dystopian world.

nickachu · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:51

Anonymous X wrote:

Grim... wrote:

So PJ and Duncan are at number one.

Um... Okay.

Another sure sign that we are now living in a dark, twisted dystopian world.

And he didn't even post it after midnight!!!

YOG · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:44

Something up with Google today? I can't get onto it or check my Gmail account...

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

YOG wrote:

Something up with Google today? I can't get onto it or check my Gmail account...

Fine for me but that's from the iPhone mail app rather than any google site

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:47

Grim... wrote:

So PJ and Duncan are at number one.

Um... Okay.

So Grim... takes an interest in the popular music charts.

Um... Okay.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 14:47

A cacophony of twats tweeting about Google's easter logo.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Someone was clearing out a filing cabinet at Amstrad and has found some plans for an unreleased Spectrum:

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 16:44

April Fools? Shirley.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 18:14

Minor tandem update!
Bar tape! Chirality! Poor color choice! Trying again!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

HDMI?!

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