Bits and Bobs 20 - The important thing is...

Mr Burrrrt · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 13:14

I joined a new band last week, The Taser Puppets. They are a bit silly.

http://www.myspace.com/taser0

I hope to be introducing them to decent graphic design and good quality recording.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

Did anyone see the IT crowd on Friday night?

Mrs Chinny's mate was in that. Haven't seen it properly but walked into the room and saw her on the show.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 13:21

Mr Burrrrt wrote:

I joined a new band last week, The Taser Puppets. They are a bit silly.

http://www.myspace.com/taser0

I hope to be introducing them to decent graphic design and good quality recording.

Awesome name. Can't listen here at work though.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 13:22

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Did anyone see the IT crowd on Friday night?

Mrs Chinny's mate was in that. Haven't seen it properly but walked into the room and saw her on the show.

Oooh! The woman who was jogging/swimming etc in the meetings?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Zardoz wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Did anyone see the IT crowd on Friday night?

Mrs Chinny's mate was in that. Haven't seen it properly but walked into the room and saw her on the show.

Oooh! The woman who was jogging/swimming etc in the meetings?

No idea, not seen it properly yet. When I walked in she was talking to Roy across a table.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16611

Mr Burrrrt wrote:

I joined a new band last week, The Taser Puppets. They are a bit silly.

http://www.myspace.com/taser0

I hope to be introducing them to decent graphic design and good quality recording.

That sounds grand, not sure it goes as well with your hairdo, though.

Also:

Influences: WE LIKE -Mighty Boosh
:facepalm:

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

I know that a 'Natural' food product implies a certain amount of randomness of content, but Pret 'Super Natural' orange juice always has too much, or very few juicy bits in it. A little balance would make my life a happier place.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 13:27

markg wrote:

Influences: WE LIKE -Mighty Boosh
:facepalm:

Sweet Jesus. You haven't signed anything yet have you Burrrrt?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16611

Possibly the second most bizarre thing I've yet seen for sale on Deal Extreme:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/s ... r.99999999

It's a goat hair cock ring because "Goat hair can let HER feel more excited"

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 13:37

What were you actually searching for?

Something for the Tinkers Rucksack meet?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16611

I have an RSS feed of the latest items, I like the daily parade of tat.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Which of you has been submitting photos of yourself to the stock photo services?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 15:17

Dimrill and Gaywoods Hellspawn by the looks of it.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12329

You'd think there'd be a site selling all the shirts that Roy wears in The IT Crowd, even knock off ones. But not that I can find.

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

Joans wrote:

s this some sort of custom came-with-the-case psu, or am I just mis-remembering the kind of plugs you get on psus (it's a flat plug like an IDE power connector, but with only 3 holes)?

To me, that sounds like a floppy drive power connector. I'd have thought that even nowadays most PSUs would come with at least some kind of adapter for that.

markh · **Joined:** 13th Oct, 2008 **Posts:** 903

Mr Russell wrote:

You'd think there'd be a site selling all the shirts that Roy wears in The IT Crowd, even knock off ones. But not that I can find.

http://store.dieselsweeties.com/

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 15:40

Zio wrote:

Joans wrote:

s this some sort of custom came-with-the-case psu, or am I just mis-remembering the kind of plugs you get on psus (it's a flat plug like an IDE power connector, but with only 3 holes)?

To me, that sounds like a floppy drive power connector. I'd have thought that even nowadays most PSUs would come with at least some kind of adapter for that.

Floppy has 4 pins, surely.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38606

Floppy driver power connector

SATA power connector

Very different

3 pin fan connector - sometimes brown

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12329

markh wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

You'd think there'd be a site selling all the shirts that Roy wears in The IT Crowd, even knock off ones. But not that I can find.

http://store.dieselsweeties.com/

Some but not all. Good find though.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:02

retrogt.com? I haven't looked myself.

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

Mr Russell wrote:

markh wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

You'd think there'd be a site selling all the shirts that Roy wears in The IT Crowd, even knock off ones. But not that I can find.

http://store.dieselsweeties.com/

Some but not all. Good find though.

http://hideyourarms.com/2010/07/12/crowd-tshirts-season-4-episode-3-happened/

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:10

The flat (or at least, the kitchen, if not everywhere else) is infested with spider mites.

Marvellous.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:13

GazChap wrote:

The flat (or at least, the kitchen, if not everywhere else) is infested with spider mites.

Marvellous.

That does not sound fun...

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:21

Rentokil are quoting us £260+VAT to bugbomb the whole flat, which would mean that us, the three cats, the hamster and the spiders would have to be out of the flat while it's being done. How the hell we transport that many things somewhere else while the bugbomb is working, I don't know.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:23

Ouch. If they're only/mostly in the kitchen can't you try to get rid of them yourself first?

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:24

Joans wrote:

GJ's pc has died. When you press the power button everything starts up for about a second, then dies, then it won't do anything unless you unplug it and leave it for a bit (at which point it will power on for a second or so, then die). Motherboard light is green and case display still works (I tried disconnecting it, but it had no effect).
Should I even bother looking beyond the PSU (which is so ancient it's got an extra socket to plug in a monitor

)?

Perhaps I should have just checked first. :facepalm:

I've taken the psu from another pc and that seems to work fine, but the case has some kind of display on it (time, temps, that sort of stuff), which is actually built into the case and is powered by a 3 pin plug coming off the psu, which I'm fairly sure is the first time I've ever seen a plug like it on a psu. Is this some sort of custom came-with-the-case psu, or am I just mis-remembering the kind of plugs you get on psus (it's a flat plug like an IDE power connector, but with only 3 holes)?

The problem is summed up by the first word of your post.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:26

Is Gears of War 3 out yet?

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:28

Zardoz wrote:

Is Gears of War 3 out yet?

I should probably give the first two a go at some point considering I've had them for months. Instead, I tried out Stoked at the weekend, a snowboarding game, and gave up during the tutorials when the camera shifted to the side view and refused to reset.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Zardoz wrote:

Is Gears of War 3 out yet?

No

But we've not finished GoW2 yet anyway! I still need a co-op run through of the deleted scene. Preferably in the Kill the Bastards version of events so I can get two birds stoned or something.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:32

Oh yeah! I forgot that little nugget is left.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:35

Zardoz wrote:

Ouch. If they're only/mostly in the kitchen can't you try to get rid of them yourself first?

Tried that on Sunday, spent 11am to 9pm cleaning and they came back in force this morning.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:37

Bugger.

I see there are other bugs that like to chow down on them according to Wiki.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:42

Zardoz wrote:

I see there are other bugs that like to chow down on them according to Wiki.

But if you follow that chain to its logical conclusion, you'll end up with an animal you can only deal with by having Craster eat it. And nobody wants Craster in their home.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 16:58

No no. The beauty of this is that the gorillas will die from the cold in the winter.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 17:01

You can stop way before then by letting Mr Chris set fire to the foxes.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 17:02

Malabar Front wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

I see there are other bugs that like to chow down on them according to Wiki.

But if you follow that chain to its logical conclusion, you'll end up with an animal you can only deal with by having Craster eat it. And nobody wants Craster in their home.

Craster: Top of the food chain.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 17:03

And you're the bottom feeder.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38606

Just had the wonderful experience of listening to a guy at least my age trying to crack onto a couple of girls who were 15 at the most. It was utterly painful to hear.

Ah, bus travel!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Were you desperate to show him how it's done, Davpaz?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38606

I have epic repelling skills. It is my superpower

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

Let me get something straight: as a board, we hate The Mighty Boosh, but like The IT Crowd?

The IT Crowd is worse. Shame on you.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 17:59

I hate the Boosh, and have never seen the IT crowd.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38606

I have never seen the IT Crowd. It's a bit close to home

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 18:03

throughsilver wrote:

The IT Crowd is worse. Shame on you.

BLARGH!..... ACK... BLARRGHGHGGHGH! The... wrongness... is overpowering.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 18:06

I will never, ever wipe the image of Jen's mangled toes from my memory.

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

Dimrill wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

The IT Crowd is worse. Shame on you.

BLARGH!..... ACK... BLARRGHGHGGHGH! The... wrongness... is overpowering.

We're boys, Dimmers, but man I can't believe anyone likes the IT Crowd. The trails were decent (Poison song on them), but it just looked like Linehan wanted to see how bad a show he could write and still get it on telly.

It may have improved since the early days, but I've admittedly not been watching. Boosh isn't great, but at least episodes like The Ballad of Milky Joe were excellent.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

I hated the IT Crowd at first as well. It seemed like a lazy rehash of Black Books (though admittedly Black Books went sharply downhill after the brilliant first series, and I hope it doesn't come back without Linehan again) without the jokes (or with the same jokes at times).

But, and I don't know how, I suddenly 'got' it after giving it another chance once. I think the problem is that a lot of the 'jokes' really aren't funny, but most episodes spend every scene building up to one or two terrific moments right near the end that make it worthwhile.

sdg · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 19:15

throughsilver wrote:

episodes like The Ballad of Milky Joe were excellent.

sinister agent wrote:

though admittedly Black Books went sharply downhill after the brilliant first series.

Black Books was always great.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

superdupergill wrote:

sinister agent wrote:

though admittedly Black Books went sharply downhill after the brilliant first series.

Black Books was always great.

Don't get me wrong, it was still good by the end of the third series, but up until then it had been great, and before that, it was utterly brilliant - The Grapes of Wrath is one of the best pieces of comedy I've ever seen. The quality trailed after Linehan left, basically. The writing lost a lot of its subtlety, and the whole thing started getting too wacky and "random", rather than just being gently, naturally mad.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11864

I saw the first series of IT crowd, it was humorous enough. I saw an episode of Boosh the other night. I didn't find it funny, it just seemed silly, but I get the feeling I ws missing a lot of running gags.

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