Be Excellent To Each Other

'Sense' would be a help.

As long as they're laughing, I'm happy!

I always forget just how many corking songs REM wrote and recorded. I thought I'd scribble down a quick top ten or something, and hit 26 that I couldn't leave out on my first pass (and that stopped at 'New Adventures in Hi-Fi too, though admittedly I'd probably only have one or two included from all the albums post-then).

Until the news broke I was under the impression that they'd split up years earlier.

they had one good song, two okay songs and the rest are dull.

You need a hobby, you should try playing video games or something.

I fainted in the curry house when I heard about REM breaking up.

That's me in the korma...



(shamelessly stolen from @richjm, who stole it from his brother @DavidMoynihan, who may well have heard it elsewhere).

The following songs, in a vague chronological order, disagree with you:

Perfect Circle
Radio Free Europe
Driver 8
These Days
Fall On Me
Superman
FInest Worksong
The One I Love
It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
Stand
Pop Song 89
Turn You Inside Out
Losing My Religion
Near Wild Heaven
Half a World Away
Me In Honey
Country Feedback
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Ignoreland
Man on the Moon
Nightswimming
Find The River
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Star 69
Bang & Blame
Circus Envy
Leave
Be Mine
Electrolite
Imitation of Life
The Great Beyond.


That's my 30 favourites off the top of my head.

REM were acebest.

Yeah they were and even though I can see it's time they stood down it still makes me a little sad to hear the news.

yawn, snore, okay, yawn, I slept through the rest.

Start saving for the 2022 reunion tour now!

That's what I said about your mum.

I bet they still haven't fixed the controls.

Amatuer Operatic people were very nice. £16 for the year, and they do two shows a year. Pantomime in March (Babes in the Wood, Kalmar). Pretty much the same lot as the theatre, all very nice, friendly and helpful. I can feel my life changing around me at present, as I found myself humming show tunes in the shower this morning. Helpfully, they warned us of the winters around here. "Don't expect to leave" they said, somewhat ominiously. Still no broadband nor phone line at home, but this morning was the first morning where I haven't seen a flea. Which is a great relief.

you forgot Orange Crush

Ace!

I'll bring you my 'Best of Gilbert and Sullivan' CDs so you can sing along whenever they start up a chorus of '3 Little Girls from School are we...'

...and "Don't Go Back to Rockville".

And "Love Shack".

My brother just booked in for lunch at Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester (3 michelin stars).

Again.

I am jealous.

Though it is quite astonishingly good value. Three courses of incredible food, with two glasses of wine, mineral water and tea/coffee for 45 quid.

That's probably only 10 quid more than eating (asme # of courses and drinks) at Pizza Express... Madness.

Was he holding an ice cream cone?

So. Many. Students

I was going to say that. Also:

World Leader Pretend
E-Bow the Letter
Daysleeper (Their last great song)

I am surprised with how much I agree with Mr Bear, here.

"Hello, we're Origin! We're just like Steam, but by EA!"

That's nice and not at all terrifying. *Cough* Anyway, time to play some Bad Company 2, wot I got on disc.

"There's a new patch!"

Sweet. Okay, I'll update.

"Despite working fine, your installed game is wrongo and the updater doesn't like it. Why not download it through Origin?!"

Maybe there's a manual patch somewhere.

"NO. Download through Origin."

Hnngh. Okay.

"You must register the game with Origin."

Okay.

"Game uninstalled. Download?"

But it's installed! Hnngh! Okay, if I uninstall that and then download the game, I'll at least get it patched that way. Now to spend half an hour negotiating their torturous sign-in/register malarky.

"Downloading. For ages."

Hurrah!

"Installing."

Hurrah!

"This is an old version of Bad Company 2. Do you want to install the 2.6gb patch?"

Only picture I could get without looking like a weirdo.

Gawd damn, it's early!

Yup.

Early flight for me.

Baby?

I think you'll find it's actually quite late.

Upside! Cold beer at 5am!

Good news - No, she's still sleeping
Bad news - I am pooping through the eye of a needle.

Try pooing in a toilet then!

WTF!

There was this one episode of House where they rig up a brain scanner to *SEE* what the patient was dreaming, and thus figure out their childhood trauma and solve the case.
I mocked this greatly.

http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

Is today April the 1st and no-one has told me - I've read Kalmars link above then saw this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... tists.html

CERN have moved things *FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT*

yeah, I was going to start a thread on that, if it is true, then that opens up a whole can of whoopass.

Interesting one that. What's really annoying is that this has reached the press before any kind of scientific review or announcement. As a result you've got the press going on about how CERN have broken the light speed barrier, and quotes from the science team saying things like "Yeah, we've got no fucking idea what happened".

Reading some of the other stories - they actually did it 6 months ago and have spent the last 6 months trying to work out where they went wrong but cant find it out so have 'announced it' but asked for other scientist to check

yeah, they have repeated the experiment 15000* times.

*according to R3 news, at least.

That's properly amazing. I wonder if it really could record dreams, though. I mean do images in dreams pass through the same bit of the brain as actual images being processed. i.e. why couldn't they tell people to picture an object and then record that as an image?

Yeah, you'd assume they'd have tried that by now!

I heard the speed of light thing on the news this morning too. Equally WTF.

Also DIMBLESAT-5 is coming back some time today.

I had a cholesterol test at work yesterday - as part of a medical; it was just a finger prick one. The result was 3.98, which the nurse said, "was good." However, she said the government ideal is 4.7.
Now I am confused, I thought it was just a scale and lower was better, am I wrong? Also, is 3.98 good? 3.98 what?

Well, if the comments on news websites are correct, and I see no reason why they aren't, this faster-than-light thing proves that all scientists are wrong, and that their hubris and arrogance is coming home to roost, but too late to save the world they've destroyed in their faithless quest to overturn society.

Say the journalists communicating to us through science-machines.

Also, I thought Freddie Mercury had broken the light barrier already.

Oh yeah, and RE: Everybit of science news today - HOLY SHIT!

I for one welcome our new faster than light overlords, and will tell them as such in 3 million years.

I though the line was "I'm travelling at the speed of light" , so he was merely claiming to match (not exceed the light barrier) , and this would of course not have been in lab conditions so it’s more anecdotal

Isn't the next line something like "My mass is infinite, I'm having a ball..."
This would tend to verify the claim posited in A).

Fucking Hell!

There's a guy at my work who looks like you as well, but I've never taken a picture because I can't take my phone into production areas. He is a pretty incredible likeness though and i was highly amused when new PPE rules came into force this week and I responded to a tannoy to find him sitting uselessly next a broken machine on a wee chair wearing a hi vis vest so small it couldn't fit across his chest and barely reached his bellybutton, a huge pair of safety specs and a blue baseball cap style bump cap. He looked ridiculous

I forgot the first world probelms of moving house...

A while ago:

"I'm moving house, can you transfer all the broadband and phone over, it's already got a dish."
"Sure, what's the new address?"
"I'll be living here"
"OK, expect it 10-14 days after you move, we've to turn one off, then the other on, due to science"
"Okay"

Last night:
"Hello, I've moved house, could you tell me when the phone and broadband will appear?"
"Wait, you've done what?"
"<sighs>"
"We'll send you a letter, it'll be 10-14 days, or written on the letter. We'll need to send someone to the exchange"
"Can I have a wifi dongle that was emntioned when I called up the first time?"
"Yes, you can expect that to arrive in 5-10 days"