Bits and Bobs 33

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 15:12

Trooper wrote:

Can't you just turn up in a General uniform?

If I did, I could be really authentic and spend the weekend in a pleasant whiskey-induced coma.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

Kern wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Can't you just turn up in a General uniform?

If I did, I could be really authentic and spend the weekend in a pleasant whiskey-induced coma.

Sounds better than digging trenches!

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 15:15

throughsilver wrote:

MaliA wrote:

The bar by the msuic hall is nice. With the piano in the middle.

Music hall... Brown's? Next to the Radisson?

No, the city varities music hall, down an alley near the top of the road leading onto the headrow. Might be called The Black Swan or something

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

MaliA wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

MaliA wrote:

The bar by the msuic hall is nice. With the piano in the middle.

Music hall... Brown's? Next to the Radisson?

No, the city varities music hall, down an alley near the top of the road leading onto the headrow. Might be called The Black Swan or something

Oh the Swan. Yeah, I loved it there. Then they closed it for years. Have to return, now it's open again. It won't have the barmaid who looks like Gina Gershon, but I imagine it'll still be nice.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 15:24

Is that part of the Brown's chain? If so, order a high-proof Mojito.

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 19:51

Grim... wrote:

Is that part of the Brown's chain? If so, order a high-proof Mojito.

Was Brown's the place you took us all to in Canary Wharf just to have us all try the mojito, only to find out they only had enough ingredients for one mojito, which you then drank? :DD

YOG · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 20:50

Here's a tornado on the sun that's five times the size of Earth and has winds that go up to 186,000 mph.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

So Mini Eggs, then. Does anyone else eat a bag of Mini Eggs like a bag of crisps?

I'll be glad when they stop selling them again. This can't be good for my health.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Got told off for eating all of the Mini Eggs.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11897

YOG wrote:

Here's a tornado on the sun that's five times the size of Earth and has winds that go up to 186,000 mph.

holy moly.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 21:19

WTB wrote:

So Mini Eggs, then. Does anyone else eat a bag of Mini Eggs like a bag of crisps?

I'll be glad when they stop selling them again. This can't be good for my health.

Open one end, insert hand, pick one up, put in mouth, repeat? Yes.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

There's just something so satisfying about them. The crispy crunchy shell and the chocolate inside. A real delight.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

The resealable bags are hugely optimistic, I find.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

That sticky tab is just extra landfill!

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 22:09

Gilly wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Is that part of the Brown's chain? If so, order a high-proof Mojito.

Was Brown's the place you took us all to in Canary Wharf just to have us all try the mojito, only to find out they only had enough ingredients for one mojito, which you then shared with everybody? :DD

FTFY. And yes. Wasn't it because the dude dropped the box of mint or something?

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

I wasn't there, but this wouldn't surprise me. The bar staff there are shit and slow. However, the lady ones are invariably hot.

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 22:16

Grim... wrote:

Gilly wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Is that part of the Brown's chain? If so, order a high-proof Mojito.

Was Brown's the place you took us all to in Canary Wharf just to have us all try the mojito, only to find out they only had enough ingredients for one mojito, which you then shared with everybody? :DD

FTFY. And yes. Wasn't it because the dude dropped the box of mint or something?

I was pretty drunk by then, I don't think I should be relied upon for details.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

I especially like the tortured faces in that solar storm. Brings to mind the aphex twin.

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

Malabelm wrote:

WTB wrote:

So Mini Eggs, then. Does anyone else eat a bag of Mini Eggs like a bag of crisps?

I'll be glad when they stop selling them again. This can't be good for my health.

Open one end, insert hand, pick one up, put in mouth, repeat? Yes.

This is how I eat all bagged confectionery. Is this wrong? I always eat until they are all gone. And then open a second bag.

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

Genuine conversation at work this morning:

Electrician: Your face looks different.
Me: *reluctantly* Different how...?
Site manager: Tell her her tits look bigger too.
Electrician: Younger. Botox?
Me: Will you pair piss off.
Site manager: Maybe you've just got fatter and filled out her bra and wrinkles.
Me: Right, get out of my office, you cunts.

Amazing.

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:12

flis wrote:

Genuine conversation at work this morning:

Electrician: Your face looks different.
Me: *reluctantly* Different how...?
Site manager: Tell her her tits look bigger too.
Electrician: Younger. Botox?
Me: Will you pair piss off.
Site manager: Maybe you've just got fatter and filled out her bra and wrinkles.
Me: Right, get out of my office, you cunts.

Amazing.

And in contrast, I heard of a story yesterday of one of our client's staff apparently getting the sack for asking a woman what colour underwear she was wearing.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:14

Pork pie breakfast. :metul:

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:16

I heard a conversation the other day where my racist boss said to an Asian lady who doesn't like dogs "How can you not like dogs? Your lot eat them don't they?"

Mind blowing.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:17

Weather's turned.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

flis wrote:

Genuine conversation at work this morning:

Electrician: Your face looks different.
Me: *reluctantly* Different how...?
Site manager: Tell her her tits look bigger too.
Electrician: Younger. Botox?
Me: Will you pair piss off.
Site manager: Maybe you've just got fatter and filled out her bra and wrinkles.
Me: Right, get out of my office, you cunts.

Amazing.

Must be week for personal insults. I was in B&Q yesterday and all the self service tills were clogged up with nimnos who couldn't work them, so staff finally opened a couple of ordinary tills to clear the queues. The gobby tart who served the bloke in front of me spent all her time yelling to another member of staff about some rubbish or other, and after she's finally served me she deigned to address me thus: "Sorry about your weight."

Cheeky cow.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:28

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26064

TheVision wrote:

I heard a conversation the other day where my racist boss said to an Asian lady who doesn't like dogs "How can you not like dogs? Your lot eat them don't they?"

Mind blowing.

whaaaat? Was the woman a member if staff or public? Either way, how the heck does he/she still have a job?!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:33

I ignored the wisdom of Beex and got an espresso machine for my birthday.

It is amaze balls.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:34

WELL I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW :attitude:

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

DOOM WILL COME.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

What was the Beex wisdom in the end? IIRC it was 200 apples...

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

Not that i'm looking for a job at the moment, but the agencies still have my CV from the last time.

Quote:

Dear Neil,

I have an immediate requirement for an Estimator to work on a 4-6 month contract based in Teeside.

You will need a strong mechanical background and will ideally have experience of working in the oil and gas industry. You will be working with hydraulics/pumps/flanges etc and will need experience of working with metrics.

If you are interested please get in contact asap, I am looking to forward a short list to the client by tomorrow evening.

I look forward to hearing from you.

My CV and profile is all software testing. Do these people even read them?

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:49

Short answer. No.

I remember years ago, an agency asking me what I didn't want to do. I said work in a call centre and work unsocialable hours. They came back with a job in a call centre that worked unsocialable hours.

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:53

TheVision wrote:

Short answer. No.

I remember years ago, an agency asking me what I didn't want to do. I said work in a call centre and work unsocialable hours. They came back with a job in a call centre that worked unsocialable hours.

Last time I dealt with an agency, they phoned me up to tell me that they'd found a possible vacancy for me. It was for for less money, working further away and in a more junior role. I passed.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:57

An agency put my CV in for a role on my team... oh how my boss and I laughed!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

I did actually use to have a very good agent (hark at me, Mr Big Shot!

) who dealt with me as a person and we worked together on getting me the best job with the best deal. Whenever I wanted to change I would call him up and go from there, but he left recruitment to go do something else.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38651

They spelled Teesside wrong

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

DavPaz wrote:

They spelled Teesside wrong

I didn't even notice, but then who cares

Now, if they had spelt Tyneside wrong, on the other hand...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Thing I've learned today. CAPTCHA stands (badly) for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart.

Plissken · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:58

Apparently BT Broadband is suffering a significant outage. Zen and Plusnet affected.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14517

If this was posted in a few days time no-one would actually believe it (and i've not tried it yet but will have a look tonight) - apparently Goldeneye for the N64 made by Rare included a spectrum emulator and 10 Ultimate games

http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48139

Quote:

GoldenEye Spectrum Emulation Unlocked

Little benownst to the world all this time, GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. By feeding it a proper Spectrum monitor program and calling menu 25 to load a snapshot, any Spectrum 48x program can be run.

The emulator started life as a side project to see if Spectrum emulation was possible on N64 and was hooked into GE, the current game in development. It was supposed to be removed before release but was only made inaccessible and inoperable. All the registers, dependancies, and script required to run the emulator still reside in retail GoldenEye carts.

The original list of games were previous Rare titles, then known as Ultimate Play the Game. The embedded filelist is, in order:
Code:

Code:

em/data/sabre.seg.rz      Sabre Wulf
em/data/atic.seg.rz      Atic Atac
em/data/jetpac.seg.rz   Jetpac
em/data/jetman.seg.rz   Lunar Jetman
em/data/alien8.seg.rz   Alien 8
em/data/gunfright.seg.rz   Gun Fright
em/data/under.seg.rz      Underwurlde
em/data/knightlore.seg.rz   Knight Lore
em/data/pssst.seg.rz      Pssst
em/data/cookie.seg.rz   Cookie
em/data/spec_rom.seg.rz   Spectrum 16k monitor program

Yes i realise this still might just be a joke - however i'll believe it for now :-)

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 14:07

It's early for April 1st, but it could be a joke. How would this have stayed hidden for all these years especially since those file names are quite obvious?

Still... Excellent if it's true!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14517

TheVision wrote:

It's early for April 1st, but it could be a joke. How would this have stayed hidden for all these years especially since those file names are quite obvious?

Still... Excellent if it's true!

Some of the discussion around it has pointed out that Rare's next game was DK64 and it included the spectrum version of Jetpack as an unlockable extra so this could just have been their test code which was left on the cart by mistake.

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 14:14

Zardoz's usual moan about Beex Week being late this week is late this week.

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

devilman wrote:

Zardoz's usual moan about Beex Week being late this week is late this week.

how is it late? The magic time is 14.37 isnt it?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

Slightly Green wrote:

devilman wrote:

Zardoz's usual moan about Beex Week being late this week is late this week.

how is it late? The magic time is 14.37 isnt it?

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

Trooper wrote:

Slightly Green wrote:

devilman wrote:

Zardoz's usual moan about Beex Week being late this week is late this week.

how is it late? The magic time is 14.37 isnt it?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22391

13.37 dude! Leet!

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

Trooper wrote:

13.37 dude! Leet!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14517

Slightly Green wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Slightly Green wrote:

devilman wrote:

Zardoz's usual moan about Beex Week being late this week is late this week.

how is it late? The magic time is 14.37 isnt it?

At the risk of :boots:

the idea was that it was posted at leet o'clock (so 13:37) - and although the clocks changed last weekend I think peoples expectations would be that it would be posted at 13:37BST

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