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Author:  MaliA [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 21:27 ]
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Just going to leave this here, filed under "Why MrsA loves BeeX and, hopefully, why BeeX does extend some form of common courtesy towards her". A text message conversation I ( happened upon - Legal Ed) whilst (Pressing numbers into the phone like the large thumbed buffoon you are - Legal Ed) and I'm ( Very hapy to be here, thank you Cleveland, Goodnight! - Legal Ed)

Author:  sinister agent [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 21:32 ]
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Craster wrote:
It's a temporary lock to let people chill the fuck out for a few minutes.

Also, that thread isn't frisky or adult. It is, in places, downright disgusting.


:this:

It was pretty clear to me, reading it hours later, that tempers were getting frayed and nobody was stepping back and voluntarily going for a walk to cool down. I think it was a good call.

Author:  Pundabaya [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 21:35 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Just going to leave this here, filed under "Why MrsA loves BeeX and, hopefully, why BeeX does extend some form of common courtesy towards her". A text message conversation I ( happened upon - Legal Ed) whilst (Pressing numbers into the phone like the large thumbed buffoon you are - Legal Ed) and I'm ( Very hapy to be here, thank you Cleveland, Goodnight! - Legal Ed)


Shut up, fuckhead!

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 21:43 ]
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I really could have made it in the 80's as a singer in a hair metal band, you know.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 21:46 ]
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The Afterthought's entry to the Halo3 Fancy dress competition was unfairly relegated to last place.

Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 21:50 ]
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MaliA wrote:
The Afterthought's entry to the Halo3 Fancy dress competition was unfairly relegated to last place.


WORST EPISODE OF TERRY AND JUNE EVAH!

Author:  Decca [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 22:00 ]
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my hamster just trolled the shit out of me.

I'm making a brew when I hear sobbing coming closer and closer..
"muuuumeeee the manster's deaaaaaad!!!"
*ah shit thinks I
"Ok I'll have a look at him but remeber he's very old for a hamster"
"I looooove chip and now I don't have a hamster"
"I'll buy you a new hamster"
*go upstairs to find chip in the standerd dead hamster postition
*ah shit thinks I
I go to pick up the cage, hamster wakes up looks at me like "what the fuck are you doing woman" gets up and is all like "what??? what do you want???"

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:03 ]
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Somehow, I managed to miss the train, yet still arrive at work 20 minutes early.

Author:  Malabelm [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:05 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Somehow, I managed to miss the train, yet still arrive at work 20 minutes early.


Look into it, and possibly capitalise on some excellent extra sleep. I managed to save 40 minutes a day doing that.

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:07 ]
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Malabelm wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Somehow, I managed to miss the train, yet still arrive at work 20 minutes early.


Look into it, and possibly capitalise on some excellent extra sleep. I managed to save 40 minutes a day doing that.


I suspect it's to do with the school holidays, so the A34 is comparatively quiet, along with the roads in Oxford. I did have a comparatively late night, last night, though, going to bed jsut past midnight, but slept right through, which was a pleasant change, but I'd imagine that was the booze.

Author:  kalmar [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:50 ]
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Pundabaya wrote:
kalmar wrote:
Pundabaya wrote:
...lap-eared son of a...


By the way - for completely different reasons, you are an Beex Hero today ;)


Eh? *takes milk carton and smashes it against the bar, covering everything in milk, then brandishes the soggy end at the screen*


Just in case it gets overlooked:
viewtopic.php?p=578958#p578958

Author:  Squirt [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:42 ]
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I can't find this already posted, but I'd not be surprised to find it has been. Even so:

Scary Freaky Faces


Warning : This may well creep you the heck out.

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:02 ]
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Suddenly, I feel rough.

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:26 ]
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Squirt wrote:
I can't find this already posted, but I'd not be surprised to find it has been. Even so:

Scary Freaky Faces


Warning : This may well creep you the heck out.

Urge. Fuck you, brain!

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:27 ]
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It is mental isn't it...

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:34 ]
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I wish I were at the cricket. :(

Author:  Warhead [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:36 ]
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Craster wrote:
.......

I'm not concerned about you. I'm concerned about the many excellent posters who might want to contribute to a discussion but aren't, because they're scared they'll get their head bitten off because they hold a particular opinion.


I read it and decided I really didn't have anything useful to add, but I was saddened by the vehemence of some posters. l get the impression that some of these people have had disagreements in the past and are likely to have more in the future. That's life; you can't get on with everyone you meet, IRL or virtually and there will always be flame wars. I suppose the one saving grace is that it doesn't get worse than name calling, at least I hope it doesn't. And the recipients of an attack can always flounce off if they want to.

I find flame wars a terrible waste of time, as you're unlikely to change someone's opinion by flaming them, but it's just too easy to do on the net, just like it's too easy to jump on the band wagon of some ill thought out newspaper campaign to castrate all pediatricians. ;) We'd never have had the same level of involvement in some of these campaigns in the days when you had to put pen to paper and a stamp on an envelope to get your opinion to the media (not that they'd have published a lot of them, there's limited space on the letters pages). I rarely join in flame wars, there's really no point, even if I hold a totally opposing view to something that I feel strongly about.

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:50 ]
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Commentators enjoying the cricket:

Quote:
Febrile atmosphere around the famous old ground, the sun bright, the scene as close to sporting perfection as you could wish for. The three slips wait with hands on knees, Skipper Strauss in a stiff-brimmed sunhat, Swann and Anderson in blue caps. Tremlett angles them across Gambhir and keeps him nervy. If there were some giant control room somewhere where you adjust every tiny nuance of the scenario in front of us here - the sort of giant mixing-desk you'd expect to see George Martin leaning over during a "recording of Sergeant Pepper" retrospective - you wouldn't touch a single button.

Author:  Plissken [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 11:56 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Commentators enjoying the cricket:

Quote:
Febrile atmosphere around the famous old ground, the sun bright, the scene as close to sporting perfection as you could wish for. The three slips wait with hands on knees, Skipper Strauss in a stiff-brimmed sunhat, Swann and Anderson in blue caps. Tremlett angles them across Gambhir and keeps him nervy. If there were some giant control room somewhere where you adjust every tiny nuance of the scenario in front of us here - the sort of giant mixing-desk you'd expect to see George Martin leaning over during a "recording of Sergeant Pepper" retrospective - you wouldn't touch a single button.


This is why being British is sometimes awesome.

Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 14:20 ]
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I now find myself sticking coloured dots onto PSU's thanks to the manufacturer of the HD enclosures I use swapping the pins on the PSU connector around but leaving no way to tell them apart from the old model.

Three times I've now tried to get hold of the old model so I can still use them but even when sites list the old model they now send the new model. Tsk!

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:06 ]
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It's nice to get a message from eBay saying "you didn't win the..."

Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:17 ]
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I have 3 keys on my key ring, one for my car, one for my front door and one that I have absolutely no idea what it's for.

Author:  flis [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:22 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
I have 3 keys on my key ring, one for my car, one for my front door and one that I have absolutely no idea what it's for.


omg, it's the key to your wife's heart, she gave it to you on your first anniversary! You are a shit husband.

Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:23 ]
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I'll try it tonight then.

Author:  flis [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:28 ]
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My Kenwood Titanium Chef has decided that it will only mix on medium/high speed. I can't pulse anything, I can't mix slowly to combine (to stop the stuff in the bowl ending up outside the bowl) or mix fast enough to make butter cream icing completely white.

I have to make 48 cakes this weekend for a Christening...with a machine I can't trust will actually be able to mix anything....FFS.

I'll have to wait until I've done/attempted the cake making before I get in touch with Kenwood, it's barely 6 months old so I'm not foreseeing any problems getting it fixed, the timing is pretty shit though.

Author:  GazChap [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:31 ]
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Hmm... remind me not to eat one of your cakes, flis! I'm pretty sure that titanium isn't edible :|

Author:  flis [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 15:33 ]
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GazChap wrote:
Hmm... remind me not to eat one of your cakes, flis! I'm pretty sure that titanium isn't edible :|


Everything in moderation, Gaz!

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 16:26 ]
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Windows vs Macs, embodied by a McDonald's "how to use our free Wifi" leaflet.

Author:  Joans [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 17:30 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Windows vs Macs, embodied by a McDonald's "how to use our free Wifi" leaflet.


I know I'm going to regret this, but shouldn't the Windows instructions just be:
Click on View Available Wireless Networks
Click on whatever the McDonalds one is called.

Unless you can't set up a Mac to have a static IP, then I don't see why there isn't a huge lecture on how to properly configure your Mac as well (unless it does clever things and automatically gets IPs from DHCP servers, but surely you wouldn't necessarily want it to do that).

Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 17:34 ]
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I know i shouldn't, but why does the doc need guidance from Mcdonalds to find wifi?

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 17:35 ]
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Joans wrote:
I know I'm going to regret this
I have no idea why McDonald's has written these instructions that way. The clear implication is that significant numbers of its customers were annoyed at being unable to get online because they had static IPs on the wireless interface, could see other public Wifi access points that took priority, or they had HTTP proxies configured. This seems unlikely, but on the other hand, it presumably wouldn't be issuing a leaflet as long as that for fun.

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
I know i shouldn't, but why does the doc need guidance from Mcdonalds to find wifi?
It was posted on Twitter.

Author:  Bobbyaro [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 17:57 ]
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am in edinburgh hilton having beer. Am on a conference for the week, first paper of the day; Semi classical quantum chemistry. Nice welcome.

Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:02 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Windows vs Macs, embodied by a McDonald's "how to use our free Wifi" leaflet.


That makes me terribly nostalgic for the old days of computer game instructions where you'd have loading instructions for all formats in front of you.

Like the McDonalds leaflet that was a fairly pointless exercise as well given that if you hadn't mastered loading software then you probably shouldn't be using a computer to begin with.

[presses shift and run/stop]

Author:  Cras [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:05 ]
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Bobbyaro wrote:
Semi classical quantum chemistry


Caecilius est prion. Ubi est Caecilius?

Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:15 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
I have no idea why McDonald's has written these instructions that way. The clear implication is that significant numbers of its customers were annoyed at being unable to get online because they had static IPs on the wireless interface, could see other public Wifi access points that took priority, or they had HTTP proxies configured. This seems unlikely, but on the other hand, it presumably wouldn't be issuing a leaflet as long as that for fun.

Or possibly, the average knowledge base of a Windows customer is lower than a Mac user so they have to play to the lowest common denominator

Author:  Pundabaya [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:27 ]
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Or maybe Mac cultists users are Thicky McThick, so Apple makes their stuff so easy to use that a lobotomised sea turtle could do it, whilst Windows gives extra options for the 'power user'

Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:30 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Windows vs Macs, embodied by a McDonald's "how to use our free Wifi" leaflet.


Well that's not entirely fair really, given that XP is a ten year old operating system.

I'd be interested to see the instructions for Windows 7, as they'd look very similar to the instructions for Mac OS.

Author:  MrChris [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:30 ]
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Eeeep. Interview tomorrow. They're having first and second stage interviews on the same day, as they're in a hurry. Going to be a stressful day.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:40 ]
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AtrocityExhibition wrote:
Well that's not entirely fair really, given that XP is a ten year old operating system.
So is OS X (those instructions are valid all the way back to 10.0).

Quote:
I'd be interested to see the instructions for Windows 7, as they'd look very similar to the instructions for Mac OS.
Not if they cover selecting a dynamic IP and changing the default system proxy settings, they wouldn't be. You've missed the point. The point is: why is McDonald's putting all those steps in the Windows instructions?

Author:  MaliA [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:44 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Eeeep. Interview tomorrow. They're having first and second stage interviews on the same day, as they're in a hurry. Going to be a stressful day.



Good luck, Mr Awesome. You'll nail it.

Author:  sinister agent [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:51 ]
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Craster wrote:
Bobbyaro wrote:
Semi classical quantum chemistry


Caecilius est prion. Ubi est Caecilius?


Those cartoons were the most defacable of all our photocopies.

Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:51 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
The point is: why is McDonald's putting all those steps in the Windows instructions?


Because Windows is more suitable for the technically competent and Apple products are for metrosexuals, women, and flamboyant gay men.

In an ideal world McDonald's wouldn't have given any instructions for Windows on the basis that people who can't work it out should just go and get a Mac instead.

Author:  sinister agent [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 18:52 ]
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Pundabaya wrote:
Or maybe Mac cultists users are Thicky McThick, so Apple makes their stuff so easy to use that a lobotomised sea turtle could do it, whilst Windows gives extra options for the 'power user'


Or maybe Apple slipped Mcdonalds a fiver to make windows look like a bigger pain in the arse than it really is.

Author:  Nemmie [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:16 ]
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AtrocityExhibition wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
The point is: why is McDonald's putting all those steps in the Windows instructions?


Because Windows is more suitable for the technically competent and Apple products are for metrosexuals, women, and flamboyant gay men.



POTW

Author:  MrChris [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:18 ]
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Bit homophobic, though. Some of the casual bigotry around here is disgusting. Then again, if that's your bag, I guess.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:19 ]
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AtrocityExhibition wrote:
Because Windows is more suitable for the technically competent and Apple products are for metrosexuals, women, and flamboyant gay men.
Just to be clear, are you saying that Mac OS X cannot support static IPs or system-wide HTTP proxy configuration, and that this makes it an inferior OS?

Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:24 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Bit homophobic, though. Some of the casual bigotry around here is disgusting. Then again, if that's your bag, I guess.

Poof

Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:26 ]
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Bit homophobic, though. Some of the casual bigotry around here is disgusting. Then again, if that's your bag, I guess.


It's not in the slightest bit homophobic, same as me.

Author:  MrChris [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:27 ]
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"Some of my best friends are gayers", eh?

Author:  Pundabaya [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 19:28 ]
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I'm actually thinking that, like most pointless shite in the world, it came from some pointy-haired fool in head office.

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