Be Excellent To Each Other

I feel so privileged.

...as I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor.

TWAT.

My bloody phone has gone faulty again...

What? I earned the RIGHT!

Yeah! Let's do that! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm not posting in here, HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I was around for the last one of these. I just didn't really care. Oh yes.

To answer Grim...'s question at the end of the last thread the first person to post on page 100 has started Bits n Bobs since number 4 (started by Mimi)

Links to older bits 'n bobs threads :

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02 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1191
03 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1662
04 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2135
05 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2483
06 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2893
07 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3182
08 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3544
09 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3876
10 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4206
11 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4458
12 viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4650

Wow, as far back as that?

That's definitely a Tradition now.

Whatever happened to Whomper eh?

I may have failed to mention that I was away all last week in Tenerife, NOT THAT ANY OF YOU BASTARDS NOTICED!!!

Or maybe you did, I dunno, I haven't checked.

Anyway, I have had for my entire life a phobia of certain types of creepy crawly. Not a fear, a phobia. A frozen-to-the-spot-can't-move, "ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!" type phobia, but only with certain creepy crawlies. I'm fine with spiders, for instance. Ants, bees, wasps, woodlice, all fine. Centepedes, arrrggghhhhhh! Beetles, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Guess my position on cockroaches. Guess which popular holiday destination I have no intention of visiting again.

Blackpool?

Hey, where's Zio?

Man, when Zio gets back we'll have so much to catch up on.

I have family that own a hotel in Blackpool.

Just another reason why I will never go there ever.

Seriously, I know the Canaries have cockroaches. I've been to Lanzarote before and saw a couple there. But I was not entirely prepared for how many of the bastards are in Tenerife, nor did I realise that the local population of them would be using our hotel bedroom as some sort of communal hall.

Lady Zio even discovered one in her coat, attempting to hitch a ride back to blighty.

And don't even get me started on the fucking airline! We were meant to be back on Tuesday night, but the plane had a leaking bog and couldn't take off. They finally fixed it 19 hours after we were meant to take off by simply shutting off the water supply to it and sealing it up as far as I could tell, but this still involved flying home with the smell of human faeces wafting around the cabin. That was nice. 2 and a half hours into the flight, one of the other loos started leaking too. Clearly someone had warned the airlines staff at Gatwick of the overall mood of the passengers on the flight, since no one dared come out and speak to us when we landed.

So yeah. Holidays eh? Still better than work.

I noticed. Mainly because I was feeling guilty about making several zio / pregnancy jokes. Sorry, and welcome back!

It should be a LAW that people that start new THREADS put in the list of previous BITS and bobs TOPICS at the start.

And there should be a picture of Mickey Quinn on the first page.

I've had less than three hours' sleep. I'm so awake.

I've just realised that I'm still wearing shorts to work.
It's October.
I should probably change that.

Bugger I thought it was the 31st Septemeber.... time to wind watch on..

Nah, only when you start getting cold. I'm still wearing shorts to work.

We are not allowed to wear shorts

Jeans yes, shorts no..

Neither are we.

I can, but I don't.

Dude, it's *never* the 31st of September... ever!

Count your knuckles, yo!

I know, but I had not moved my watch on... you know analogue watches that have the date on, need winding on, when you don't have a 31 in a month

Mine doesn't; it made a big song and dance about that in the instructions. Even though it doesn't display the month, it knows what it is. I find this slightly creepy.

That is cool... well happy 31st September!!

can anyone tell me why my downloads always stall when I download something through the browser, sites like rapidshare adn that.

I might charge my phone up today for the first time in six months.

/puts phone on charge
Good one, Dimmers!

Rapidshare and the like are very picky about multiple downloads from the same IP address. Are you behind a router?

Rapidshare love to stall your download. I think it's because they're trying to flog that professional package that's so horrendously expensive I can't think of a single person who'd consider it.

Oh, Hi DavPaz!

Yo.

Well, 'training' is done. Passed both modules, we were done before lunch but stayed for it anyway because it's free, and then I was on the train home before 1pm. Having arrived at quarter to ten. Huzzah!

My uncle is the master of false economy. Seriously, he's an idiot.

He likes a 'bargain' - which means he'll buy anything, no matter how inappropriate, if it is cheap.

He also has a Makro card, and these two things combined spell trouble.

A few days ago he apparently turned up at my nan's house with some sherbet fountains, which were a 'bargain'. So much of a bargain that he bought her four boxes. Four boxes of 48. So now my nan, who doesn't like sherbet, has 192 sherbet fountains which need eating by yesterday. Also 96 Tunnocks teacakes which similarly needed eating by yesterday. She has so far 'eaten one of the teacakes but didn't like it' and 'ate the piece of liquorice from one of the fountains, but it had gone too hard to finish'.

He once bought four 3ft long catering pork pies. They were, for whatever reason, made with boiled eggs inside them. ( ) This meant that they couldn't be frozen. He was attending his son's engagement party the next day, and so my nan asked him if he was taking then there. "Bugger off' I bought these for me!" true, they were cut down to a stupid 50p each, but he spent £2 on 12ft of pork pie and boiled egg which he solely intended to finish in 24 hours.

Disclaimer: I do not get on with my uncle, he treats me very badly, so I may not paint him in the nicest light. This aside, I'd still think that these examples of 'economy' he displays are stupid.

I'll have one of those pork and egg pies if they're still going.

£2 for 12ft of pork pie....

*off to Makro*

Hehe - the Pork Pie incident must be over a year ago - they may well still have the sherbet fountains, though. Actually, no, they're out of date now - I don't think they'd be able to sell them.

Has anyone noticed the most recent version of iTunes (9.0.1 (9)) is really, really slow when scrolling through your library? As in, appallingly, barely usably slow? If I click on the scroll bar to move it up a page, there is a two second pause before it does it. Likewise, if I grab the bar and drag it up a long way, there's an even longer pause.

Gah.

(using OS X Tig0r)

That much sugar would prob kill me...

Tiger eh? It's no Leopard.

I heard a lot of whining about 9.0 crashing (though mine was fine) and have heard no whining about 9.0.1 (mine is still fine).

My £8 Snow Leopard finally came on Tuesday.

Since I'm off today and have done my list, I'm having a can of Bombadier and an eclair and sitting down to some xbox. Finished Fable 2 last niht but still have cheevos to get.

*stretches*

Oh, and I've got over my strop now. Just keep that prat away from me would you? Ta.