Bits & Bobs 45

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14358

Some of those American personal injury adverts are just amazing. Ludicrous, and damaging to the reputation of lawyers (well, over here if it got to those levels, the states seemingly haven't given a toss about reputation all damage to the profession for quite some time), but still awesome. There's some guy who did a Super Bowl advert that goes on for two minutes and involves the lawyer smashing a gravestone with a burning sledgehammer to the tune of some delightful rock music.

EDIT: ("Casinos Way" - I think the video is called. It's crackers)

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

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

How many bloody windows 10 threads does the forum need?

I think myp started his because he doesn't realise there is another one due to super ignore.

Nah, I can see threads started by people on my ignore list. He did it because he's a tit.

I can't. It depends on your forum theme.

Is there a way of finding out if you have any foes listed? I don't think I do but genuinely cannot remember so am not sure if I have any posts I can't see.

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

Mimi wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

How many bloody windows 10 threads does the forum need?

I think myp started his because he doesn't realise there is another one due to super ignore.

Nah, I can see threads started by people on my ignore list. He did it because he's a tit.

I can't. It depends on your forum theme.

Is there a way of finding out if you have any foes listed? I don't think I do but genuinely cannot remember so am not sure if I have any posts I can't see.

User Control Panel > Friends and Foes

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Saturnalian wrote:

Some of those American personal injury adverts are just amazing. Ludicrous, and damaging to the reputation of lawyers (well, over here if it got to those levels, the states seemingly haven't given a toss about reputation all damage to the profession for quite some time), but still awesome. There's some guy who did a Super Bowl advert that goes on for two minutes and involves the lawyer smashing a gravestone with a burning sledgehammer to the tune of some delightful rock music.

EDIT: ("Casinos Way" - I think the video is called. It's crackers)

I love that ad. The burning sledgehammer is genius. Unfortunately his follow-up ad was too knowing and much less inspired.

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

DavPaz wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

How many bloody windows 10 threads does the forum need?

I think myp started his because he doesn't realise there is another one due to super ignore.

Nah, I can see threads started by people on my ignore list. He did it because he's a tit.

I can't. It depends on your forum theme.

Is there a way of finding out if you have any foes listed? I don't think I do but genuinely cannot remember so am not sure if I have any posts I can't see.

User Control Panel > Friends and Foes

Ooh, ta. What does 'friends' do?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

They'll be there for you when the rain starts to pour.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:58

Like they've been there before.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:00

And just stare at you

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:39

Finally saved up for a PS4, but want to buy this instead

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00M ... ROKL5A1OLE

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

If you get that you can't play PS4 games but if you get a PS4 you can still go running.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:52

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 14:19

I find it strange how I can get a train direct from Shipley to Kings Cross, but have to change coming back.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 16:45

Did someone mention Ebola? Go check out the front page of the Lancet. Or if you can't be bothered, they've got a highly efficacious vaccine.

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

Grim... wrote:

Like they've been there before.

Hehe, you pair of big wallies.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Mimi wrote:

I think today's theme should be 'Frogs, and the joy they bring to the village pond of our lives'.

We should have a daily generated theme. Ooh, then we could have cross-board related pubs. And pun points (measured in bananas, hobviously).

The frog in my bog, a few weeks ago.

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

Whoa!! That's awesome!

Do you think he just found his way to your bathroom through your door or window, or do you think he came up through the piping like in so many horror stories?

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Soil pipe, I'd guess. We see plenty in the garden, but I don't think we've ever had them anywhere in the house before.

And before you ask, I didn't flush it, I managed to catch it and carry it down to the back garden.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33649129

A slight lack of proof reading, here.

Today, after in-house training, Mr Mapplebeck is a reception team leader. He is now also directly responsible for recruiting and supervising 10 Premier Inn staff. Coffee Machine

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

Warhead wrote:

Soil pipe, I'd guess. We see plenty in the garden, but I don't think we've ever had them anywhere in the house before.

And before you ask, I didn't flush it, I managed to catch it and carry it down to the back garden.

I wasn't going to ask that - I'd assume that nobody here would flush a l'eel froggy down the toilet

GazChap · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2015 21:17

Despite not yet having an air date for our episode of Eggheads, our team feature at 1:17 in this little clip of highlights from series 16... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sp96k

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2015 21:26

Made me chuckle.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Fuck sake. I've just started playing the Duck Tales remake on my phone and, although there are inter-level save points, it just chucks your progress when you restart the game so basically if you don't complete a full level each time you play it then you're wasting your time. That's a cardinal sin in mobile game design and pretty much renders it useless to me.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:32

That is a really bad design.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Bamba wrote:

Fuck sake. I've just started playing the Duck Tales remake on my phone and, although there are inter-level save points, it just chucks your progress when you restart the game so basically if you don't complete a full level each time you play it then you're wasting your time. That's a cardinal sin in mobile game design and pretty much renders it useless to me.

Hello Telltale Games!

Morte · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 13:16

R4's You and Yours requested twitter pitches for novels that would be presented to a literary agent on today's show.

Needless to say, there are no serious pitches...but they are funny:

https://twitter.com/BBCRadio4/status/628152664203902976

Have you got an idea for a novel? Send us your one-line Twitter pitch now! From 1215 we put them to a literary agent live #youandyours
— BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) August 3, 2015

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 13:20

Morte wrote:

R4's You and Yours requested twitter pitches for novels that would be presented to a literary agent on today's show.

Needless to say, there are no serious pitches...but they are funny:

https://twitter.com/BBCRadio4/status/628152664203902976

Have you got an idea for a novel? Send us your one-line Twitter pitch now! From 1215 we put them to a literary agent live #youandyours
— BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) August 3, 2015

I submitted loads! Or 5.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 14:19

I've just booked in for a vasectomy. The lady on the phone took the booking like I was booking in to get my hair cut.

I'm not sure what to think of it all... I'm booked in for Wednesday the 12th.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Ouch, all the best.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

No wait, I forgot to make a pun about it being like a haircut!

Enjoy your snip!

Little off the top, sir?

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 14:37

Make sure she doesn't take the whole head off.

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

short back and sides?

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

Number 2 all over?

Only if you go in backwards.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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

Undercut?

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Wow, I just got 51p of Google Play credit for answering a single survey. That's a shitload more than you usually get.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 21:30

Did you say yes to owning or doing something that you might consider rare?

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

Did you say yes to owning or doing something that you might consider rare?

It was about buying comics so I was able to give quite a few answers, though nothing I said was at all unusual.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 22:13

Except that you (presumably) buy comics, which would be what set it off, I suspect.

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

Sounds about right. Most of my Google surveys are one question along the lines of "have you ever been to a polo match?". I answer no, end of survey, 12p.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 22:44

I totally went to a polo match the other month! Sucks that I missed that one.

I recently had "Do you own an all-electric sports car?"

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

Except that you (presumably) buy comics, which would be what set it off, I suspect.

Possibly, I still don't see how that makes it a rare activity though?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 23:37

Comic buyers aren't the most common of people. Basically, that makes you what's known in the trade as "low incidence", and the lower the incidence, the more people will pay for your information. Scarcity == cash.

Other things have bearings on the money too - Airline pilots, for instance, are low incidence and earn lots of money, so surveys for them are around £30 each just to get them interested. Those are ten-minute, 200 response surveys though, so it's a bit more understandable.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Surely paying more for more info like this is just encouraging people to lie? Certainly if I ever get asked about a polo match or some shit I'm now going to absolutely claim to be a polo aficionado just to get more sweet survey cash.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

I just finished the penultimate episode of season 1 of The Walking Dead game last night so with only one episode, plus the DLC, left to do my over-riding takeaway is:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

Goddammit, Doug Kenny is such an obnoxious fucking asshole. He's an aggressive, moaning, self-centred, cowardly cunt and the only reason I've kept the relationship with him sweet is because he's really the only original character left and I might need him. At almost every turn I've gone along with his plans and often been the one solving our problems to make sure we survive only to get, at best, slight temporary reductions in bullshit hostility from him. So the one time I need him to help me look for Clem and all I get is him casting up the few occasions I remained on the fence rather than backing his bullshit to the hilt. Not only that but he hysterically over-exaggerated it as if I'd somehow massively betrayed him multiple times in the past when really that's nothing like what happened. Given that I'm soon to be dead anyway it was satisfying as hell to chew him out in front of everyone else and I'm actually glad he fucked off in the huff. Hopefully I'll get a chance later on to make sure he gets fucking eaten by a zombie, the prick. It's a compliment to Teltalle's writing that I've managed to build up such resentment for a fictional character, though I think they have often over-egged his behaviour the point where it seemed unlikely he'd actually be such a dick if he was a real person.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14358

I chose Carly because, well, she's a yummy lady.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:31

Bamba wrote:

Surely paying more for more info like this is just encouraging people to lie? Certainly if I ever get asked about a polo match or some shit I'm now going to absolutely claim to be a polo aficionado just to get more sweet survey cash.

Fuck yes, it's a massive problem.

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

Is there no bullshitter algorithm going on? So say if someone happens to be an airline pilot who reads comics and recently attended a polo match they're quite probably full of shit.

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

Also what are these surveys you are talking about, are they through Facebook or something?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

markg wrote:

Also what are these surveys you are talking about, are they through Facebook or something?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... asks&hl=en

App for Android - if you take an occasional survey they credit your account with a few pennies (normally 12p or so) - which you can spend for Android stuff.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:45

I do surveys through quidco.. get a few pence or pounds each time.

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