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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 13:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
flis wrote: I need to take some Valium or something before I head out in the mornings... Or something else to relax you  More seriously you really should not let your commute make you angry , and yeah if your late your late - if you overtake where there is not space and get smushed by something coming the other way then you might not be here (or if some idiot then jumps out in front of you and you smush them then thats not a good place to be either) |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 13:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
flis wrote: I need to take some Valium or something before I head out in the mornings... I used to be like that. Then I got an electric car - set off 5 minutes earlier, go with the flow, listen to the radio... Much better for the blood pressure. |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 13:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
The rules of Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock are as follows: Scissors cut paper Paper covers rock Rock crushes lizard Lizard poisons Spock Spock smashes scissors Scissors decapitate lizard Lizard eats paper Paper disproves Spock Spock vaporizes rock Rock crushes scissors |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
kalmar wrote: The rules of Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock are as follows: Have you just watched an episode of The Big Bang theory from about 2 years ago ? |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
In total there are 107 users online :: 16 registered, 2 hidden and 89 guests (based on users active over the past 10 minutes) WTF? 
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
116 now. proabbly as I added another photo of me. To post in the style of maliA: 1) Can you make a snarky one liner? YES, do so, then goto 3, NO go to 2 2) can you say something positive? YES, do so, then goto 3. NO go to 4 3)Is there an opportunity to post a picture of yourself? 4) is there a chance for an unrelated anecdote? YES, do so, goto 3 NO, goto pub |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Mr Kissyfur wrote: In total there are 107 users online :: 16 registered, 2 hidden and 89 guests (based on users active over the past 10 minutes) WTF? There's a really badly written chinese search bot that seems to make up the majority of guest users over the last few months. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Craster wrote: Mr Kissyfur wrote: In total there are 107 users online :: 16 registered, 2 hidden and 89 guests (based on users active over the past 10 minutes) WTF? There's a really badly written chinese search bot that seems to make up the majority of guest users over the last few months. Block by IP? |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
It's not really doing any harm. Also, it's important to keep our South Asian profile up. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Er... Lou Reed has done an album with Metallica? WTF? |
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| Author: | flis [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
zaphod79 wrote: Or something else to relax you More seriously you really should not let your commute make you angry , and yeah if your late your late - if you overtake where there is not space and get smushed by something coming the other way then you might not be here (or if some idiot then jumps out in front of you and you smush them then thats not a good place to be either) I'm very wary of the unknown lurking around bends and of coming traffic, especially here, it could be a bike coming the other way at 100 or a tractor on my side going 20. I've seen the mess that shit makes so I'm not keen to be involved. It was more the fact I was doing it 200m before a 40 limit and half a mile from work so I was gaining absolutely nothing at all, except venting my annoyance, and I think people who do that are generally cocks. |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
flis wrote: I'm very wary of the unknown lurking around bends and of coming traffic, especially here, it could be a bike coming the other way at 100 or a tractor on my side going 20. I've seen the mess that shit makes so I'm not keen to be involved. It was more the fact I was doing it 200m before a 40 limit and half a mile from work so I was gaining absolutely nothing at all, except venting my annoyance, and I think people who do that are generally cocks. Pretty much. You never know what's going to be around that next corner, and if you're driving past your stopping distances, you're going to ruin your (and likely somebody else's) day. Oh, and just get out of bed earlier. It's easy enough. It's not like you're achieving anything during those five minutes… |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Malabelm wrote: You never know what's going to be around that next corner Is it Dimrill? |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:50 ] |
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Malabelm wrote: It's not like you're achieving anything during those five minutes…
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:52 ] |
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:bigstompyboots: |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:54 ] |
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Bobbyaro wrote: :bigstompyboots:
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 14:58 ] |
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 In other news, Switzerland really is a beautiful place! Never been there before. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:09 ] |
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Bobbyaro wrote: :D In other news, Switzerland really is a beautiful place! Never been there before. And now they're armed to the teeth with chemical weapons. Thanks, Bobby. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Bobbyaro wrote: :D In other news, Switzerland really is a beautiful place! Never been there before. I've been to Geneva once. On a French (I know) exchange, when I was 15 or so. |
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| Author: | Malabelm [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Craster wrote: I've been to Geneva once. On a French (I know) exchange, when I was 15 or so. Geneva is fucking beautiful. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Mrs K and I stopped in at Geneva on the way from the South of France to Paris (long route, eh). It was nice enough, if a little empty feeling. The main thing I remember is how hard it was to find an ATM and nearly being run over by a tram. |
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| Author: | ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Malabelm wrote: Geneva is fucking beautiful. Quoted for truth. Been there a couple of times. Those of you with long memories will remember pics of me spazzing around at CERN. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
ElephantBanjoGnome wrote: Malabelm wrote: Geneva is fucking beautiful. Quoted for truth. Been there a couple of times. Those of you with long memories will remember pics of me spazzing around at CERN. At the same time the LHC suddently stopped working - i still think you were somehow involved in encouraging those particles to break the speed of light ....... |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
zaphod79 wrote: ElephantBanjoGnome wrote: Malabelm wrote: Geneva is fucking beautiful. Quoted for truth. Been there a couple of times. Those of you with long memories will remember pics of me spazzing around at CERN. At the same time the HC suddently stopped working - i still think you were somehow involved in encouraging those particles to break the speed of light ....... Oh I remember that! He pimped that positron. |
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| Author: | Mr Dom [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 15:42 ] |
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zaphod79 wrote: ElephantBanjoGnome wrote: Malabelm wrote: Geneva is fucking beautiful. Quoted for truth. Been there a couple of times. Those of you with long memories will remember pics of me spazzing around at CERN. At the same time the HC suddently stopped working - i still think you were somehow involved in encouraging those particles to break the speed of light ....... I just had a vision of him standing in Geneva shouting 'Go faster, you little neutral bastards!' in some entirely unrelated motoring incident... |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 16:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Zardoz wrote: Er... Lou Reed has done an album with Metallica? WTF? I AM THE TABLE! |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 16:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Do you guys remember the advent calendar of awesome I created last year? This weekend construction begins of the sequel... |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 16:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Trooper wrote: Do you guys remember the advent calendar of awesome I created last year? This weekend construction begins of the sequel... The one with the scratchcards in it? |
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| Author: | Decca [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 17:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
| this sickness and diarrhoea bug has got so bad that The Boy's school is closing whole block of classrooms tomorrow and is asking that we don't send them in. The hospital has it as well and is asking people not to go up there if at all possible. The Girl and I had it but The Boy has shown no signs.
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 17:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Mr Dave wrote: Zardoz wrote: Er... Lou Reed has done an album with Metallica? WTF? I AM THE TABLE! Is this your phone being your phone? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 17:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Malabelm wrote: Craster wrote: I've been to Geneva once. On a French (I know) exchange, when I was 15 or so. Geneva is fucking beautiful. I ended up there once on the way down to the south of France. After that, map reading was denied from the woman. |
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| Author: | The Egg [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 17:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Mr Kissyfur wrote: In total there are 107 users online :: 16 registered, 2 hidden and 89 guests (based on users active over the past 10 minutes) WTF? It's the Legion of QS's's's checking up on you. I sounded the Horn of Gohnorrea and they answered my call.  Without dragging all that lot up; 1.) I lurk. Lots. I'm shy. 2.) I'm a QS in charge of many jobs and I'm fucking awesome at it. 3.) JCT is a pain in the chuffer, as is NEC, FIDIC, IChemE and bespoke contracts. One contracts doesn't fit all and that's the bit that idiot clients forget. 4.) @Flis Re: swearing, not true. It's better when you're a client's QS as no one expects you to call someone a shyster cunt across a table but the reaction is great when you do it. Also, £32k by lying? There's the difference between the two sides then I guess. 5.) Now I'm off to lurk more and count down the minutes to Skyrim! |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 17:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/sal ... r-250K.htm Oh god I wish I hadn't found this website. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 17:59 ] |
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Mr Kissyfur wrote: http://www.privateislandsonline.com/sale-price-under-250K.htm Oh god I wish I hadn't found this website. MrsA, the other day: "Why do Americans call Scotland 'Nova Scotia'?" MaliA: ""Because Columbus was a twat" |
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| Author: | kalmar [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 18:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Where I used to work, the office directly across the road infact, the top floor appears to have been turned into an open plan "dance space". At home time, when it's dark, I see silhouetted ballet dancers pirouetting around where the vending machines used to be. It's quite nice. Also in other where-I-work news, two competing carwashes have recently opened up, in the same week, on opposite sides of the road outside The Asdas. They are currently locked in a price-war death-spiral. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 18:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Mr Russell wrote: Trooper wrote: Do you guys remember the advent calendar of awesome I created last year? This weekend construction begins of the sequel... The one with the scratchcards in it? Indeed, this years will top that significantly. I shall post pictures when complete. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 18:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
MaliA wrote: MrsA, the other day: "Why do Americans call Scotland 'Nova Scotia'?" MaliA: ""Because Columbus was a twat" I....what? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 18:51 ] |
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Craster wrote: MaliA wrote: MrsA, the other day: "Why do Americans call Scotland 'Nova Scotia'?" MaliA: ""Because Columbus was a twat" I....what? Trust me, it's easier this way. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 19:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bits & Bobs 31 |
Looks like ios5 has broken "disable data roaming". I was in the states at the weekend and it has used 3G to receive photo messages when I didn't have wifi. Annoyed, but not enough to do anything about it. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 20:38 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Mr Dave wrote: Zardoz wrote: Er... Lou Reed has done an album with Metallica? WTF? I AM THE TABLE! Is this your phone being your phone? Amusingly, no. |
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| Author: | throughsilver [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 22:02 ] |
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Malabelm wrote: Craster wrote: I've been to Geneva once. On a French (I know) exchange, when I was 15 or so. Geneva is fucking beautiful. It's not the most conventional holiday destination, though. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 22:13 ] |
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posting from my new laptop... Malc |
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| Author: | lasermink [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 23:22 ] |
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So your new laptop is called Malc, just like yourself. That is a strange coincidence. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 23:44 ] |
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It's an apple Malc. They all have the same default name. |
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| Author: | throughsilver [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 0:10 ] |
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Malc wrote: posting from my new laptop... Malc Is your new laptop more powerful? Your posts seem to have the same graphics is all. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 0:14 ] |
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throughsilver wrote: Malc wrote: posting from my new laptop... Malc Is your new laptop more powerful? Your posts seem to have the same graphics is all. They do come through faster though, and it definitely takes less time to read them. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 0:14 ] |
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throughsilver wrote: Malc wrote: posting from my new laptop... Malc Is your new laptop more powerful? Your posts seem to have the same graphics is all. Can you not see that the text has 24xFSAA applied. Totally worth the money |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 0:19 ] |
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lasermink wrote: So your new laptop is called Malc, just like yourself. That is a strange coincidence. Windows wanted it to be called Malc, I changed it to be called RF511... Malc |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 0:20 ] |
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throughsilver wrote: Malc wrote: posting from my new laptop... Malc Is your new laptop more powerful? Your posts seem to have the same graphics is all. It allowed me to watch bbc iplayer in hd! Malc |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 0:21 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: throughsilver wrote: Malc wrote: posting from my new laptop... Malc Is your new laptop more powerful? Your posts seem to have the same graphics is all. Can you not see that the text has 24xFSAA applied. Totally worth the money The old one, had no hinges and no wifi, so I needed a new one anyway. Malc |
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