Bits & Bobs 40

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Sep 07, 2013 14:13

I love the trampoline in the sea.

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

Maaaan. I've booked a week off in October but we haven't found a holiday yet. I'm all up for Cuba, but apparently that's silly for a week.

Either way, wherever we go, I'll be checking Tripadvisor for a trampoline in the sea reco.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:10

How about Derby?

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:42

Grim... wrote:

How about Derby?

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:59

Got back from Ireland last night and drove the 230-odd miles home listening to the Last Night of the Proms. I'm very glad I did, as it had a far better selection of music than in recent years, including, appropriately enough, a superb rendition of 'Danny Boy'. Hard to really appreciate Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending' when you're speeding down the motorway, but from what I heard over the engine the playing was spot on.

And as the last strains of the standard finale played out, I felt sad that that's summer almost over then.

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

Kern wrote:

Got back from Ireland last night and drove the 230-odd miles home listening to the Last Night of the Proms. I'm very glad I did, as it had a far better selection of music than in recent years, including, appropriately enough, a superb rendition of 'Danny Boy'. Hard to really appreciate Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending' when you're speeding down the motorway, but from what I heard over the engine the playing was spot on.

And as the last strains of the standard finale played out, I felt sad that that's summer almost over then.

Was good. Watched every last night since 2005 and they're always bittersweet, being a combination of end of summer but also 2 months til bonfire night. Never feels the same without the sea shantys though.

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 13:35

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Never feels the same without the sea shantys though.

Agreed.

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

Grim... wrote:

How about Derby?

If it's the weekend of the 26 October then there's no possible chance of me coming. I've saved up my last bits of annual leave for a week away overseas that week. That's not a conversation I could even start with Mrs K - "Do you mind if I sack you lot off and prevent you having a holiday so I can drink booze with some loonies off the internet?"

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

Susannah Reid is on Strictly! YES.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 14:14

It isn't that weekend.

Happy birthday, Gaz!

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

I'm not reading one thread, etc.

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 14:15

Happy G-day!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25653

Happy birthday Gax xx

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 16:28

Happy Birthday Gaz

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25653

Happy birthday Gaz xx

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 16:41

Happy Birthday Gaz

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

Happy birthday Gaz xx

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38487

Chappy Birthday!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25653

throughsilver wrote:

Happy birthday Gaz xx

Literal LOL. Eyes watering.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14368

Happy Gazchap Day.

nickachu · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 18:29

Just got back from my first ice hockey game. Was pretty fun. Think I might go to some more!
Lots of penalties, couple of fights, one guy doing a chicken impression to another guy for not fighting back

TheVision · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 18:49

I have a new browser on my phone and if there's a picture attached to this post, then I'm quite happy with it.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

30th! Happy Birthday, GC!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25653

TheVision wrote:

I have a new browser on my phone and if there's a picture attached to this post, then I'm quite happy with it.

There is.

It isn't displayed inline, but it is attached.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 19:14

Excellent! Job done then. Thanks!

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

Mimi wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

Happy birthday Gaz xx

Literal LOL. Eyes watering.

Yay! I go to great lengths for my art.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 21:28

You're talking to yourself.

Drunk?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 21:29

Ah no, DOUBLE AVATAR USAGE

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 0:01

Zardoz wrote:

Ah no, DOUBLE AVATAR USAGE

Got to be careful doing that - I did it once for a joke and the wind changed and I got stuck with a weird pink avatar FOREVER.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 0:05

Happy Burthday Gaz.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:24

Hope you had a great birthday Gaz.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:15

Cheers guys, t'was a nice birthday (although MissChap couldn't think of anything to get me, so bought me a load of gardening stuff even though I hate gardening.)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Amazing!

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:49

Maybe she's trying to hint that you need to sort the fucking garden out.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:52

That's her job

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

In that case it sounds like a management reshuffle.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:53

She also bought me a little purple tray that you put on a worktop and then put a salt and pepper shaker on.

Just what I always wanted.

Oh, and a mechanical kitchen timer - because my phone just isn't good enough

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22288

Throw it all back in here face and tell her to buck her ideas up and do better next time, or she is out of here.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22288

Throw it all back in here face and tell her to buck her ideas up and do better next time, or she is out of here.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38487

Then do it again

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:40

DavPaz wrote:

Then do it again

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:20

My next door neighbours bought me a trackday voucher though, 6 laps of Curborough in either a BMW M3 or a Nissan GT-R, with the possibility of upgrading to get some laps in an Ariel Atom too.

I'm torn. The Atom is a must, but both the GT-R and the M3 will be far too competent for a short, tight circuit like Curborough. The M3 probably has more potential for slidey-slidey, but then I've already got it's bigger brother, so the GT-R would be more of a change.

(should this be in the 1st world problems thread?)

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:23

And I just bought myself a new PC. No idea whether it's any good, don't follow PC specs much these days, but it's a 3.2GHz Intel Core i5, with 12GB of RAM, 2TB HDD, with an AMD XFX HD 7870 2GB graphics card, which should be a massive upgrade over my 6-year old jobber.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:31

That PC sounds rubbish.. Give it to me and I'll dispose of it for you.

Also... I've just been looking on Google Maps and my new job is 1.9 miles away from home. I could walk that?

I won't... but I could!

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6533

You're going to run it instead?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:41

GazChap wrote:

And I just bought myself a new PC. No idea whether it's any good, don't follow PC specs much these days, but it's a 3.2GHz Intel Core i5, with 12GB of RAM, 2TB HDD, with an AMD XFX HD 7870 2GB graphics card, which should be a massive upgrade over my 6-year old jobber.

Where'd you buy from? I'm getting ready to be in the market for a new PC for Elite, y'see.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:42

Bought it from eBuyer - Zoostorm PC, with no OS installed (I have a (legit, incredibly!) copy of Windows 8 I can stick on it) with the graphics card separate, and a 750W PSU too.

Probably would have been cheaper to buy all the bits separately, but fuck all that - I can't be arsed building shit these days.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:44

Same here. It's like bingo if the numbers all work together properly. Hmm. eBuyer have a free postage thing on too.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22288

TheVision wrote:

That PC sounds rubbish.. Give it to me and I'll dispose of it for you.

Also... I've just been looking on Google Maps and my new job is 1.9 miles away from home. I could walk that?

I won't... but I could!

I hope you aren't planning to drive it, think of the planet!

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:52

2 miles is about a half hour walk (at my pace) possibly 45 minutes if you walk slower. Or it's a nice short cycle, and depending on what the traffic is like, may even be quicker than driving.

Malc

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