Bits and Bobs 37

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:51

I next collected my human resources for the complex social engineering I would have to do. I arranged with 23 women and six men to be my operatives. Eight of the women were so accomplished that they ended up living with me. It was amazingly more efficient and they were easily convinced to check up on each other. One was so accomplished that she became a double agent and nearly got me killed.

Wow.

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:38

MaliA wrote:

McAfee wrote:

I next collected my human resources for the complex social engineering I would have to do. I arranged with 23 women and six men to be my operatives. Eight of the women were so accomplished that they ended up living with me. It was amazingly more efficient and they were easily convinced to check up on each other. One was so accomplished that she became a double agent and nearly got me killed.

Wow.

Strange timing. We were just saying at lunch that everything had gone quiet on the Mcafee front and it was no fun anymore...that and how we should all move to Belize as there is no income tax and getting Belize citizenship isn't that hard.

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

I've got an iPhone 4, unlocked and in full working order. It's in shit shape cosmetically - the glass on the front is scratched, the glass on the back is badly cracked near the camera lens and the camera lens is badly scratched and needs replacing. But the home button isn't too bad and definitely has a better than 1-in-10 chance of working when you push it.

Just in case anyone else here has a burning need to rid themselves of £100 of their money?

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

Wow, Newport sucks. I've got 4 hours here whilst my passport is (hopefully, assuming another Kissyfur isn't out there using my identity as a terrorist or something) made up for me.

So I'm in Starbucks drafting a contract. The wifi is better than McDs, but the coffee isn't.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:07

Zio wrote:

I've got an iPhone 4, unlocked and in full working order. It's in shit shape cosmetically - the glass on the front is scratched, the glass on the back is badly cracked near the camera lens and the camera lens is badly scratched and needs replacing. But the home button isn't too bad and definitely has a better than 1-in-10 chance of working when you push it.

Just in case anyone else here has a burning need to rid themselves of £100 of their money?

Probably, yes. I'll revise my offer to £58 once you've sent it though

(seriously, I'll PM you later).

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

Facebook question - is there any way of removing someone's updates from your feed without defriending them? A relative of sorts is spamming the place constantly - by way of example, she's posted circa 100 motivational pictures in the last day!

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:13

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Facebook question - is there any way of removing someone's updates from your feed without defriending them? A relative of sorts is spamming the place constantly - by way of example, she's posted circa 100 motivational pictures in the last day!

Yes. Hover over their update, click the arrow that appears on the right, choose 'hide', click 'Change what updates you get from Mrs Chris'.

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

Heh. Mrs Chris very rarely posts. It's one of the rellies on her side, though.

thanks!

Hugh · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:19

If you go to the person's page click the little cog icon then select report/block. The top option is to unsubscribe which stops their status updates from appearing in your timeline.

I have had to do this several times. The inane drivel some otherwise okay people post is maddening. Baby/child photo posters are the worst.

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

Hugh wrote:

Baby/child photo posters are the worst.

Call them selfish losers who are destroying the planet and then tell them you wish them dead. Tends to stop it. :attitude:

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

It was a more innocent time...

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:30

Hugh wrote:

Baby/child photo posters are the worst.

One the people on my course at uni has just had a kid and posted about 100 pics of it already.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

Morte wrote:

MaliA wrote:

McAfee wrote:

I next collected my human resources for the complex social engineering I would have to do. I arranged with 23 women and six men to be my operatives. Eight of the women were so accomplished that they ended up living with me. It was amazingly more efficient and they were easily convinced to check up on each other. One was so accomplished that she became a double agent and nearly got me killed.

Wow.

Strange timing. We were just saying at lunch that everything had gone quiet on the Mcafee front and it was no fun anymore...that and how we should all move to Belize as there is no income tax and getting Belize citizenship isn't that hard.

http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/water-caye
?? Anyone in?

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:42

Bobbyaro wrote:

Morte wrote:

MaliA wrote:

McAfee wrote:

I next collected my human resources for the complex social engineering I would have to do. I arranged with 23 women and six men to be my operatives. Eight of the women were so accomplished that they ended up living with me. It was amazingly more efficient and they were easily convinced to check up on each other. One was so accomplished that she became a double agent and nearly got me killed.

Wow.

Strange timing. We were just saying at lunch that everything had gone quiet on the Mcafee front and it was no fun anymore...that and how we should all move to Belize as there is no income tax and getting Belize citizenship isn't that hard.

http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/water-caye
?? Anyone in?

Status: Off the market.

This one is cheaper though and on the market: http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/isla-brava

Im sure grim... has several million lying around...

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14417

Just been for a job interview which I thought went rather well.

This worries me greatly.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:43

/moves to new island

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

Damn it! This one's a bit cheaper:
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/isl ... addle-caye

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:44

I like how there is a special promotion on the "Private Islands" magazine...I wouldn't have thought a publication about buying yourself your own island would be price sensitive. This recession is worse than any of us thought.

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

How would you get power and water there? A mini-nuke and a desalinisation plant?

Morte · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:46

Bobbyaro wrote:

Damn it! This one's a bit cheaper:
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/isl ... addle-caye

Pah, that's a poor person's private island...there's not even room for a secret volcano base.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

Morte wrote:

I like how there is a special promotion on the "Private Islands" magazine...I wouldn't have thought a publication about buying yourself your own island would be price sensitive. This recession is worse than any of us thought.

Perhaps it is a multi-part instruction manual with collectors items? "Build your own Caribbean paradise with this 50,000 issue special collectors magazine - just $5*.

*Normal-price-10,000USD-cash-only-bank-details-required."

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

Okay, fine, what is our budget then? I think it unlikely we are going to get a volcano, but maybe that is for the best, they won't be expecting a secret base if there is no volcano.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:52

Saturnalian wrote:

Just been for a job interview which I thought went rather well.

This worries me greatly.

Why?

Does it involve ticks rather than crosses?

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 13:53

Bobbyaro wrote:

Okay, fine, what is our budget then? I think it unlikely we are going to get a volcano, but maybe that is for the best, they won't be expecting a secret base if there is no volcano.

Can't we just have an under the sea base?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:06

I went home and MADE COOKING for dinner later. having Craster's pulled pork. Only I don't own a slow cooker (equipment, that is) so I chucked it in a pan and stuck it in the oven.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:06

nickachu wrote:

Bobbyaro wrote:

Okay, fine, what is our budget then? I think it unlikely we are going to get a volcano, but maybe that is for the best, they won't be expecting a secret base if there is no volcano.

Can't we just have an under the sea base?

Everything is better, 'cos everything wetter, under the sea.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:28

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/08 ... mach_pump/

Astonishing.

Kissyfur: duh, solar power and windmills.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14417

Zardoz wrote:

Saturnalian wrote:

Just been for a job interview which I thought went rather well.

This worries me greatly.

Why?

Does it involve ticks rather than crosses?

Sometimes it's too good to be true.

Mind you, agency guy has just called to say that the company 'likes' me and wants to know if I like them. I might go round to pull their pigtails and run off.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:29

I think I'm a Cylon: Grim.. and Craster saw Evil Mali that time in City; I was on Come Dine with Me; and my cousin has jsut said that she thought the doctor was me.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:34

MaliA wrote:

I think I'm a Cylon: Grim.. and Craster saw Evil Mali that time in City; I was on Come Dine with Me; and my cousin has jsut said that she thought the doctor was me.

We should ca[pture them. And interrogate them.

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

Totally buying this one when I've found 7 million Euros. Perfect for building a particle accelerator under for nefarious purposes, I'd have thought.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:40

Craster wrote:

Totally buying this one when I've found 7 million Euros. Perfect for building a particle accelerator under for nefarious purposes, I'd have thought.

Particle accelertors are, by and large, dull. Like looking at plumbing on a larger scale, in my experience. Make racetrack. For osterichs

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

Can particle accelerators even be oval/egg shaped?

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

MINE FUCKING CAN, OK?

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

Also, the island appears to be creating a forcefield of calm ocean around itself, which presumably indicates there's already some serious physics manipulating equipment installed.

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

Looks like you'd need to employ someone to sit pressing a button for you.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:48

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Looks like you'd need to employ someone to sit pressing a button for you.

"Trusted help". Operatives. Female operatives.

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

I do that now.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 14:49

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Looks like you'd need to employ someone to sit pressing a button for you.

Are you still in Newport?

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

kalmar wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Looks like you'd need to employ someone to sit pressing a button for you.

"Trusted help". Operatives. Female operatives.

Craster wrote:

I do that now.

For clarity, I hire people to sit pressing buttons for me now. I do not have female operatives.

...or do I?

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

Yep. Moved to McDs as I was bored of Starbucks. Sat drafting a veh big contract, as today is technically a working day.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 15:10

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Yep. Moved to McDs as I was bored of Starbucks. Sat drafting a veh big contract, as today is technically a working day.

That's a bit rubbish I suppose. Although you do get McDonalds.

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

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Yep. Moved to McDs as I was bored of Starbucks. Sat drafting a veh big contract, as today is technically a working day.

I was once in a security monitoring centre that looked after branches of McDonalds. One branch had a fault with its back door that kept setting the alarm off. Nobody laughed at my joke about it being the Hamburgler. Bastards.

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

Craster wrote:

Also, the island appears to be creating a forcefield of calm ocean around itself, which presumably indicates there's already some serious physics manipulating equipment installed.

That would be reefs.

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

Pretty sure it's actually photoshop.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 15:37

Craster wrote:

Pretty sure it's actually photoshop.

You can tell, by the pixels.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6612

That's a worryingly straight line to the right of the island.

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

Squirt wrote:

That's a worryingly straight line to the right of the island.

It's some sort of wormhole, from the last idiot who installed a particle accelerator there in an oval.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 15:52

Quote:

my (then) three year old and I had the Fisher Price farmhouse and castle out a while ago (courtesy of the car boot sale and ebay), except it wasn't really a castle and farmhouse, it was a feudal society, with the farm workers subject to the whims of the princess holed up in the castle, and a rampaging beast - played admirable by the dog - on the loose outside the fenced-off lands, which the farmhands had to defend. It was an epic tale of struggle, injustice and hope, set against the backdrop of a rural class war.

I love the gruaniad's comments at times.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

kalmar wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/08/dean_kamen_stomach_pump/

Astonishing.

Kissyfur: duh, solar power and windmills.

The "A-pipe" Would that make the exit and "A-hole"?

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