Bits and Bobs 32

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 15:07

I've just had lunch in Oxford, and managed to use the credit card machine to leave a five pence tip.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 16:22

Grim... wrote:

I've just had lunch in Oxford, and managed to use the credit card machine to leave a five pence tip.

Better than the other way around, adding one too many zeroes…

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 17:17

The huge supermarket in Bradford is an incredibly depressing place to be in. Good delicatessen, though.

Where did you go for lunch?

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 17:47

The Trout Inn in Wolvercote.
http://www.thetroutoxford.co.uk/

They made the best custard I've ever tasted.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 17:54

I quite like the Trout. Not been for a long while, mind.

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

NervousPete wrote:

Check out the big New Yorker compendium of 'em. They're lovely illustrations, and pleasantly sick.)

Is that the Evilution, or is there an online equivalent?

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 19:18

MaliA wrote:

I quite like the Trout. Not been for a long while, mind.

It's always been just the right distance from the centre of town for an pint after a pleasant afternoon's stroll across Port Meadow. The other pubs in Wolvercote are pretty good too.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10138

I used to go to the Red Lion in Wolvercote, it was great for having a proper ranty landlord, and for darts after 10 pints.

Didn't get that in the Trout.

We went to the Isis Tavern a couple of weeks before Christmas, that was lovely. Which reminds me, I really need to book a hotel for next weekend.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

I like the video, I am sure GY is the chap in the middle.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:19

Award winning author what I know has a website now! It has him singing and a blog and stuff like that on it.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:51

Hmm... job available that's much closer to home, better hours, pension and holidays but less money.

Think I'll apply anyway, can't hurt to find out more.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6584

If you save on commuting costs, it might be that you actually are better off at the end of the day. Worth doing all the maths on, certainly. If you save a grand on travel, then a 1,500 pay cut would leave you about even, depending on tax and NI and stuff.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11862

Also, they may up their offer for the right person/you might be able to negotiate more out of your current employer if you have another job offer on the table.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:07

It could very well work out to be the same take home pay.

One big plus is that this role could lead to something better in the Design / Web team. Because it's at a college they also offer free courses / training AND they want someone into photography...

I think I'm going to go for it.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:08

Bobbyaro wrote:

Also, they may up their offer for the right person/you might be able to negotiate more out of your current employer if you have another job offer on the table.

Thought about that too.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:09

Zardoz wrote:

It could very well work out to be the same take home pay.

One big plus is that this role could lead to something better in the Design / Web team. Because it's at a college they also offer free courses / training AND they want someone into photography...

I think I'm going to go for it.

That sounds very good. Please accept my encouragement.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11862

Yeah, go for it Z!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:13

Sounds like it is written for you...

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:14

Hurrah!

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11862

KovacsC wrote:

Sounds like it is written for you...

Drawn, Shirley?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11862

One for Malabar:

http://comicsansproject.tumblr.com/
WE ARE THE COMIC SANS DEFENDERS. WE FEAR NO FONTS AND WE WILL MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD COMIC SANS.
BECAUSE HELVETICA IS SOOO 2011

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:22

Obligatory Comic Sans post follow-up: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-c ... ns-asshole

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:23

Bobbyaro wrote:

One for Malabar:

http://comicsansproject.tumblr.com/
WE ARE THE COMIC SANS DEFENDERS. WE FEAR NO FONTS AND WE WILL MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD COMIC SANS.
BECAUSE HELVETICA IS SOOO 2011

They use Georgia, Times New Roman and some Goudy typeface. If they're trying to make the whole world Comic Sans you think they'd start with their own website

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:24

http://danlesac.tumblr.com/post/1535986 ... ans-incest

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:27

I'll need to talk to them about their internet policy.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:27

kalmar wrote:

http://danlesac.tumblr.com/post/15359861968/eric-gill-creator-of-gill-sans-incest

Ranged right...

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:32

Zardoz wrote:

I'll need to talk to them about their internet policy.

Yes. You may never leave us.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11862

Watch your favorite operating systems reboot at http://www.therestartpage.com/#

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 14:23

WTF http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... hoplifting

Quote:

Antony Worrall Thompson says sorry for Tesco shoplifting

The TV chef and restaurateur, who was arrested for stealing cheese and wine from supermarket, pledges to seek treatment

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 14:26

That takes the biscuits.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

Humphrey Lyttelton: wrote:

Today, everything on TV is celebrity-driven, of course. I even notice on my pack of breakfast sausages, there's a picture of Antony Worrall Thompson. Underneath it says "prick with a fork".

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 15:17

He shouldn't wine about it though...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Heh.

Quote:

ANTONY WORRALL THOMPSON. Can't decide between red tomatoes and green peppers? Go for the one nearest the exit. (via @GlennyRodge)

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10138

Jesus Christ. I've had some pineappe chunks today; not from a tin, a proper "sweet" pineapple chopped up.

I knew some of it was a bit tart but it's burnt holes in my fucking lips. Bleeding and everything.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 19:07

Pineapple farmers lose their fingerprints from harvesting them.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22363

They should probably stick to harvesting pineapples then.

shoesonwrong · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 20:37

I finally had the idea to get my parent's TV provider account information so I can mooch HBO GO off them. I downloaded the channel for Roku and have The Wire, The Sopranos, and Deadwood all queued up. Now all I have to do is lay down on the couch and wait for my limbs to atrophy.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 22:26

Thierry Henry!

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 22:29

The beer Kern bought me from Belgium is awesome. I played Roulette and got the 10.5% one. It has made 17 Again enjoyable.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10138

Trappiste Rochefort?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 23:49

Piraat
Gulden Draak

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

Curiosity wrote:

Thierry Henry!

It was a nice shot, I must admit.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 0:54

MaliA wrote:

Piraat
Gulden Draak

Is that Klingon?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11862

Romulan.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:29

Klaatu Barada
Nikto

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22363

Shaka when the walls fell

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:04

New Gmail! Do Not Want!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38596

kalmar wrote:

New Gmail! Do Not Want!

What's changed? Have you seen the density settings in the top right? Change that to compact and it looks the same as before.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:49

Trooper wrote:

Shaka when the walls fell

Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:22

MrsA is finding more and more places to move to. Given she wants to move sooner, rather than later, I've to work out how much of a fight I'm going to have on my hands over a month's rent, and whether the Landlord is going to hold us to it (I suspect he will), or just write off the money into 'cost of moving' and absorb it into the price of this merry adventure.. Landlord came over yesterday and grumbled about the cost of treating the house for fleas, and gave me a cheque for £25.

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