Bits & Bobs 44

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:48

Snowy commute through Bradford this morning. Roads were fine but lots of queues for some reason.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/p ... lJmNzX6Xoe

PC gone mad, who wouldn't want to commute via trampoline?

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

Quote:

it was never an appropriate use of hundreds of thousands of pounds in transport funding.”

Nobody has been more wrong about anything ever.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Cras wrote:

Quote:

it was never an appropriate use of hundreds of thousands of pounds in transport funding.”

Nobody has been more wrong about anything ever.

Looking at the other 9 on the list, it was actually the most sensible...

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/travel-informati ... his-page-0

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

And the only one that wasn't completely fucking boring. Stop making my city more boring!

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:23

Stop snowing!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Start snowing! But just enough that I can still get home, but also just enough that I need to leave early.

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:31

Trooper wrote:

Start snowing! But just enough that I can still get home, but also just enough that I need to leave early.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:40

No fucking snow here at all since about 10 minutes of it fell yesterday afternoon.

PAIN. IN. THE. ARSE.

I want to take the M3 to a deserted snow-covered car park and give it some welly.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:41

Trooper wrote:

Start snowing! But just enough that I can still get home, but also just enough that I need to leave early.

Southerners. Tsk.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:46

GazChap wrote:

I want to take the M3 to a deserted snow-covered car park and give it some welly.

The temperature of the roads mean that I don't really need snow to lob the damned Jag about.

What I do need is a warning to come up when I turn off the traction control that says "HAHA WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SON DO YOU WANT TO FUCKING DIE?!".

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:46

GazChap wrote:

I want to turn the M3 into a deserted snow-covered car park and give it some welly.

How I initially read that.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 15:54

MaliA wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Start snowing! But just enough that I can still get home, but also just enough that I need to leave early.

Southerners. Tsk.

In fairness, I did wear hiking boots today and have to push 2 inches of snow from the car. MrsA struggled to remove the snow from the roof of big car, her being 5 feet tall and the roof being almost 6 feet up.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Vrooom! Subaru snow power!

nickachu · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 16:40

MaliA wrote:

have to push 2 inches of snow from the car.

2 whole inches?!

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

You sound like my ex wife.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 17:03

Cras wrote:

You sound like my ex wife.

Like she had to count that high.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 20:12

The road disappears!

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5157

Nothing so good in Bromsgrove. We got a little bit yesterday, then rain today.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 21:45

MaliA wrote:

The road disappears!

Select 4wd, Mali. You've had the training.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 21:51

Grim... wrote:

MaliA wrote:

The road disappears!

Select 4wd, Mali. You've had the training.

Heh. I saw a fair few lifted discoveries with massive tyres on today. I expect they were helping people as the 4x4 rescue club is near work. The man over the road was clearing his drive at 5 am this morning, and at 4pm. I parked on the bigger road and walked for 45 seconds.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 22:02

Mr Dave wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Saturnalian wrote:

Yes, it does feature a vagina in the pictures. Not a real one, mind; not that I've seen one in a while. Tough out there on the dating scene init. Well, when you look like Darkman without his bandages. What? Yeah, that thing...

Come to my party. You're only about 30 mins away.

And bring a foot.

But only the ones attached to the end of your legs.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 22:59

Just heard that my favourite pub in Oxford, the Far from the Madding Crowd, is to close on Saturday.
Been drinking there for 13 years.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 23:12

Kern wrote:

Just heard that my favourite pub in Oxford, the Far from the Madding Crowd, is to close on Saturday.
Been drinking there for 13 years.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 23:38

MaliA wrote:

Kern wrote:

Just heard that my favourite pub in Oxford, the Far from the Madding Crowd, is to close on Saturday.
Been drinking there for 13 years.

Mustn't get too sentimental, but I have a lot of great memories connected to that place, and I think it'll take me a while before I find somewhere else that feels like 'home'.

Perhaps it's a sign? Maybe I should start thinking about leaving Oxford. Or perhaps I just need to cut my drinking.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:16

Kern wrote:

Been drinking there for 13 years.

That's impressive - I can barely drink for six hours these days.

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

you can barely drink for 6 minutes, if you count falling asleep as a break.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Found a lovely house. It's in a village with 1mbit "broadband" and no prospects of anything more in the foreseeable future

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:58

Trooper wrote:

Found a lovely house. It's in a village with 1mbit "broadband" and no prospects of anything more in the foreseeable future

Just club together with the rest of the village and do it yourself. It's been done before.

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

the rest of the village have never heard of broadband, they think it is a new fangled type of music.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Bobbyaro wrote:

the rest of the village have never heard of broadband, they think it is a new fangled type of music.

It's not a simple thing to do, and by no means a certainty.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:32

Trooper wrote:

It's not a simple thing to do, and by no means a certainty.

Yeah, I guess if you want fast internet in this country, don't live in a rural area. It's up to you what is most important.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Trooper, 2015

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Future Warrior wrote:

Trooper wrote:

It's not a simple thing to do, and by no means a certainty.

Yeah, I guess if you want fast internet in this country, don't live in a rural area. It's up to you what is most important.

It's hardly a rural area, it's a village 2 miles outside bedford

However, the vendor has said he got 6mbit when was living there, and infinity has just been installed, which is very different to what all the online checks are saying. I'm going to try and get the phone number so I can confirm myself.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:50

Clapham? Oakley, maybe?

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5157

If they have gone to infinity that's a vast improvement.

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

Grim... wrote:

Clapham?

Yeah, do that!

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

I would have thought Clapahm and Oakley would have colour TV by now.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Grim... wrote:

Clapham? Oakley, maybe?

Willington

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

How much do you use? I'm guessing there's no point trying to go mobile.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

If they have gone to infinity that's a vast improvement.

Sure, but my flat postcode is in an infinity area, but my actual flat isn't. The only way to be sure is with the phone number.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

Cras wrote:

How much do you use? I'm guessing there's no point trying to go mobile.

Hah! No...

Average about 300gb a month

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

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:45

So, The Sun had a "mammery lapse" and Page 3 is back.

There's a big picture of a (very) pretty lady showing off her boobs, and the text says "Further to recent reports in all other media outlets, we would like to clarify that this is Page 3 and this is a picture of Nicole, 22, from Bournemouth. We would like to apologise on behalf of the print and broadcast journalists who have spent the last two days talking and writing about us."

I bet they're loving it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30928544

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

It was slightly amusing seeing them having to report this on the BBC, almost literally through gritted teeth.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:51

Interesting. Rumours are that they tried to let it die quietly, but when such a fuss was made about it (and what the 'next' steps were), they just thought fuck it and brought it back. Top trolling.

It's pretty awful, but it's not the worst thing about the Sun. If they were just going to replace bare breasts with covered breasts it was hardly a feminist win anyway. Unless you're some kind of puritan.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:51

*resumes boycott*

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Do male feminists watch porn?

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5157

We had a big customer event at work today, with lots of guests so much of my day was spent running a "customer in a reasonably priced car" competition on the Top Gear test track in Gran Turismo 5 with a nice racing seat and logitech G25.

There are worse ways to earn a living.

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