Be Excellent To Each Other

Actually, you'd get to know lots of older people with the same initial as you.

I think xkcd is wrong about something

I get about one a month.

Yeah, I've posted about these before. My most recent one was a swim-meet tracker invitation where people could sign up to monitor certain races at swim meets.

I signed up for as many as I could and then requested to swap a load of them with real people who had otherwise already signed up.

Why has the Guardian recently become full of comment pieces and stories about Australia? I could sort of understand it in the run up to the election, but it's become a fixture now.

Because they have an Australian site and editorial team now.

http://www.theguardian.com/au

I'm guessing they publish some Australian articles on the UK and US sites too.

Ooooh, I see.

A significant number of the comment pieces on the UK site are Aus-based. I really can't see that there's the demand in the UK to hear about another country's dreary politics.

US SHUTDOWN A GO GO!!!!

Also: why don't you just read another newspaper? You do nothing but complain about the Guardian.

That actually might have had a fairly catastrophic effect on the world economy. Australia, for all its charms, doesn't really matter as much.

As for why I read the Guardian if I complain about it so much, you've sort of answered your own question there.

Anyway, as the alternative is the Indy, which is utterly ridiculous shite, or the Times, which is utterly horrible tory shite, or the Torygraph, which is just utterly shite, I need somewhere to get news from.

So you're saying the Guardian is the best newspaper? Just checking I'm getting that right.

I find that if you read the Guardian and the Telegraph and go for something in the middle you generally get The News.

Have you got a link to that? It sounds great.

It's supremely irritating that the options are pinko lefty ridiculous crap like the Guardian or Indy or hateful right wing crap like the Telegraph or Times. Of the two sides, though, one should always pick the lesser of two weevils, hence me reading the Guardian.

The Mail exists in an entirely separate category.

The Guardian is a terrible newspaper, but a brilliant website. <cough>

I agree

Whenever I pick up a copy it seems to always be articles I've already read on the website a day earlier.

Tried the Herald?

'Fiction', presumably.

Jaynestown never, ever stops being funny.

Happy Vision day!

Happy day vision!

happy birthday TheVision!

Happy birthday TheVision!

Who?

Happy Birthday our Mod overlord.

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone.. I've had a Dreamcast bag which is all kinds of awesome!

the hanging install on my HP ProLiant N40L microserver is down to the Atheros gigabit network chip - something goes wrong in the compatibility checker and it picks a generic driver that doesn't work with the quirked HP implementation, even though windows 8 works out of the box. It affects Server 2012 R2 as well, and both HP and MS have known about it since the Preview but apparently MS didn't care enough to fix the checker or, you know, not have hang bugs in their OS installer.

So if you've got one of those don't update to Windows 8.1 - unless you apply the current 'fix' which is to disable the onboard chip and add a pcie card.

Which in my case means also getting a dvi-VGA adapter so I can remove the low-profile VGA backing plate that is blocking the 1x slot.

Or wait for MS to fix it or not upgrade at all, but I want for the search and modern/start improvements.

My other machine and my work laptop both upgraded fine.

Had a 1955 burger from McD's yesterday. God, that was disgusting.
I don't remember them being that bad last time they did them.

Interesting. Both Zardoz and Kern I believe have raved about them.

To be fair, it's understandable that beef from 1955 tastes progressively worse over time.

It's possible it was just poorly "cooked" and put together, i'm sure they were much nicer last time.
I'm sticking with my Big Mac in future.

It was the sauce that really made the burger for me.

What is a 1955 burger?

I find it karmically ironic that the guys idiotic enough to think doing this was a good idea, or fun, or whatever they thought appropriate, are also idiotic enough to post a video of themselves on facebook!

It's a special burger from McDonald's.

"The beef burger will be served on a gourmet bun with lettuce, grilled onion, tomato, bacon, ketchup and smoky barbecue sauce. It is intended to be reminiscent of the old-style burgers sold in the restaurant 55-years ago."

No cheese = no sale.

It's one of these

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/promotions/1955.html

What's the story, for those of us without YouTube access at work?

Sooo... a burger then? Seems a bit pointless, especially without any cheese. Seriously, no cheese?

Idiot pushes a man dressed as a predator over and runs away.

Guy attacks entertainer by shoving him off his plinth from behind, with a fairly hefty shove! Dude goes flying and lands on a kid.
The shover was egged on by his mate who was videoing him, who then posted the video on facebook it seems. Doh! The youtube video is a "do you know this person, contact police" video, and it seems from the comments that a lot of people do know them...

Would have been funnier if the predator dude had got up and then shot the guy through the back with a spear gun.

Or if the dude that did the pushing was dressed as an alien. Or Arnie.

Proper gangster shoving a defenseless alien from behind and then running away. He won't be laughing when the revenge invasion begins.

There does seem to be a type of blind spot common to a certain breed of fucking moron wherein they don't realise that the stuff they post on the internet to be seen by everyone can actually be seen by everyone.

The other two finalists are both also women, right?

Women be bitches to other women, yo. 'Speshially when woman be pretty, innit.

Yep. That article is amazingly ... well I was going to come up with a fancy, pretentious put down, but we'll just go with "stupid".

Also, her comment that "most jobs don't require any skill, they just require you to turn up" is both (a) wrong and (b) simultaneously neatly demonstrated by the author.

Ah, but Davpaz, women are only mean to her because men make them be mean. I think a darkened room in the Patriarchy Club has a special button or something.

I like the other two. One has a lovely smile & mad skills. The other loves making mad stuff Ruby's too moany for me to be arsed with.