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Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

MaliA wrote:

Kern wrote:

I was convinced this morning that I had emailed a friend yesterday inviting them to lunch today. Was going to cancel it, then discovered that no such email had ever been sent. Must have dreamt it.

You should email them now and have lunch.

Email them now to invite them to lunch, then email them to cancel.

Problem solved.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

TheVision wrote:

I'm having my driveway block paved this week. It was supposed to be finished by last Thursday... Yeah, that's how quickly it's going.

Lesson learned, go for herringbone rather than tetris next time.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:52

Trooper wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Kern wrote:

I was convinced this morning that I had emailed a friend yesterday inviting them to lunch today. Was going to cancel it, then discovered that no such email had ever been sent. Must have dreamt it.

You should email them now and have lunch.

Email them now to invite them to lunch, then email them to cancel.

Problem solved.

If only all dreams could so easily be aligned with reality.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:49

Trooper wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Kern wrote:

I was convinced this morning that I had emailed a friend yesterday inviting them to lunch today. Was going to cancel it, then discovered that no such email had ever been sent. Must have dreamt it.

You should email them now and have lunch.

Email them now to invite them to lunch, then email them to cancel.

Problem solved.

Amusingly, I have just done this. Message was stuck in my phone's outbox from last night. Minute I got a wi-fi connection, off it went. Oops.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

Trooper wrote:

Has anyone else tried Hello Fresh?

http://www.hellofresh.co.uk

Mrs T and I signed up to it last week and got the first box through today, I shall report back.
If you like the look of it and want to give it a go, if you use my code "ZJAV7L" you get £20 off the first box and I get £12 off my next box

2nd week of this now, still very impressed. Last week was lovely, this week not quite so lovely so far, but mainly as one of the dishes was prawn based, and i'm not a fan.
I make a right mess of the kitchen when i'm cooking though, good job we got a new dishwasher!

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 14:33

What do they do about allergies?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

You can swap some recipes if you are on the 3 meal deal, but other than, just try not to die too much.

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

Trooper wrote:

got a new dishwasher!

What was your new wife's name again?

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2014 7:21

People on this train seem to have an air og "going on holiday" about them. I have the sniffles. Seems to average out the mood nicely. Still, Birmingham is not far away and I like seeing the people there.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:07

I'm working from home this morning which, roughly translated means that I'm going to be playing Gone Home.

I've heard that it's only a couple of hours long so hopefully I should see it off before I go into the office this afternoon.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

I did The Stanley Parable the other day, it was... Interesting...

Will probably tackle Gone Home this weekend i imagine.

Pod · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2568

Trooper wrote:

I did The Stanley Parable the other day, it was... Interesting...

Will probably tackle Gone Home this weekend i imagine.

How many times did you go through TSP? (It has about a thousand endings). I've only played the demo, and I think even that had multiple endings. Once was enough though.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

I played for about 90 minutes and did the loop a fair number of times. I know I missed a few endings.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2014 17:06

Am in london on 22nd july. Meeting in Holborn should finish just past three if anyone is about.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

MaliA wrote:

Am in london on 22nd july. Meeting in Holborn should finish just past three if anyone is about.

Quite possibly, will know closer to the time

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

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

Two developments

1) There's probably a whale in the thames
2) I've just been directed to the Cards against Humanity online game. Bye bye, promising career

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Can anyone access any microsoft websites? I can't seem to, and can't log into live either. Other websites seem okay.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

Bobbyaro wrote:

Can anyone access any microsoft websites? I can't seem to, and can't log into live either. Other websites seem okay.

I can get into Xbox.com and MSDN.com without any problems

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

Fine here.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

weird.

GazChap · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:51

Saw YoungTrooper at a restaurant last night...

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25597

Haha, AMAZE!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

Bobby, BT are having DNS issues at the moment, if you use them as your ISP.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2014 10:24

Would using the Google DNS help?
8.8.8.8

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

Microsoft did a full TOS update across all web services yesterday so you may need to accept first.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10080

This happened going into the yay thread just now

Quote:

General Error

Unable to remove files within ./cache/. Please check directory permissions.

fine on a refresh though.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Jun 29, 2014 16:52

Dolly Parton is amazing.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:25

Can I develop asthma at the age of 28? My chest feels really tight, and has done for the past two days.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:29

MaliA wrote:

Can I develop asthma at the age of 28? My chest feels really tight, and has done for the past two days.

yes...

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38472

I developed it at 15, so yeah, why not.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5172

MaliA wrote:

Can I develop asthma at the age of 28? My chest feels really tight, and has done for the past two days.

If I could develop hayfever in my mid 30s, yep.
Oddly it got progressively worse then seems to have gone again.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:46

MaliA wrote:

Can I develop asthma at the age of 28?

Yes. I fail to see how this is relevant to you, though. Are you asking for a friend?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 14:11

Curiosity wrote:

Dolly Parton is amazing.

Did you think she was miming?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 14:22

Grim... wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

Dolly Parton is amazing.

Did you think she was miming?

Haven't a clue, really. She was definitely doing all the talking bits, and seemed to be playing the instruments, and she can sing live, so I don't see why she wouldn't, but you never know.

She was awesome anyway. Playing Bon Jovi with Richie Sambora was ace best.

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

Curiosity wrote:

She was awesome anyway. Playing Bon Jovi with Richie Sambora was ace best.

Not quite as awesome as spitroasting the lead singer of Pretty Reckless with Richie Sambora and accidentally jizzing on him.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 14:34

Cras wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

She was awesome anyway. Playing Bon Jovi with Richie Sambora was ace best.

Not quite as awesome as spitroasting the lead singer of Pretty Reckless with Richie Sambora and accidentally jizzing on him.

What you get up to in your own time is your business.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 14:46

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 18:43

Just received a CV at work from a school leaver who says they "achieved" a grade U in GCSE science.

Yet on the same CV, they say they completed a work placement in October 2014.

How can you invent time travel and get a grade U at GCSE science?! Boggles the mind.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 18:56

GazChap wrote:

Just received a CV at work from a school leaver who says they "achieved" a grade U in GCSE science.

Yet on the same CV, they say they completed a work placement in October 2014.

How can you invent time travel and get a grade U at GCSE science?! Boggles the mind.

Maybe they borrowed the time machine from the guy that applied for a job here that was born in 19824.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

Saw a house today, it's not the perfect house but it is pretty close, and the deal they are doing on it is good so we could probably move without needing to save any more, depending on the equity in the flat.
However, we don't actually "need" the extra space, as nice as it would be, and it does have a couple of compromises in the house. The main issue is that it will double our mortgage, and almost certainly mean no Vegas trips for a while!

Decisions, decisions...

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

You really don't want me to weigh in right now.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 20:35

Or me.

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

You definitely don't want my input.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

House>Flat

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jun 30, 2014 21:32

You probably want to go to Vegas instead.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12244

I'm sure I remember Kate saying something about preferring Vegas to a house.

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

GazChap wrote:

Just received a CV at work from a school leaver who says they "achieved" a grade U in GCSE science.

Yet on the same CV, they say they completed a work placement in October 2014.

How can you invent time travel and get a grade U at GCSE science?! Boggles the mind.

Didn't you know, deliberately breaking the laws of physics is an automatic fail. Science teachers are spiteful like that.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:54

I heard this on the wireless this morning, but it's amused me so sharing it here. In the Commons yesterday, the Speaker slapped down an MP in his usual style:

Quote:

Mr Speaker: Order. Mr Ellis, calm yourself, man. Only this morning a teacher said to me in Speaker’s house: “How can I tell a little boy in my class to behave when parliamentarians don’t?” Be a good boy; get the message.

(Somewhere here. I read Hansard for fun).

EDIT Heh, and I've just seen this, further down:

Quote:

Mr Speaker: Order. The role of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Private Secretary is to fetch and carry notes and to nod and shake his head in the right places. Mr Williamson, be quiet and if you cannot be quiet, get out, man!

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