Be Excellent To Each Other

Happy Birthday Warhead!

And Happy Birthday Dr Dre!

Yes, but better than that, I've had a free swimming pool pass since I turned 60.

Happy Birthday, young Warhead.

Got an infusion teapot for my birthday so I can cut down on teabags and ease my environmental conscience. Before I go and buy a box of Assam, what's a loose-leaf tea I should try?

I don't like Earl Grey or other smelly stuff.

I forgot about Dre.

Happy Zaphod79day

Zappy Haphod Day!

Happy Birfdah Zaphod!

HBZ!

update http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018- ... next-month

Happy Birthday Zaphod!

Giphy "zaphod":
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I'm watching Game of Thrones... I know there's a thread for it but I can't be bothered to find it.

I'm currently on season 3 and I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's not very good so far. I think it's been over cooked by people raving about it.

£35? I'll probably pass.

You shut your mouth!

Not sure how much sense a HD remaster of Burnout Paradise makes, considering it was 720p@60FPS even on the 360.

On the PC the 'Ultimate Box' or whatever it's called has been available for ages, and for less than a fiver at that, although I note they are adding in Big Surf Island for the first time on PC. (So not that 'ultimate'.)

I might grab it on Origin when it's a tenner in a sale.

TBH I think HD remasters of the earlier Burnouts would make more sense, the ones that were on PS2/XBox.

It's just dripping with Bezzie night nostalgia that game though.

*Pours a little real ale on the sidewalk for, Dimrill/Perkies*

Yup, had a lot of fun online with you peeps. As you say, "wait for the drop". It should be £20 by June and £10 at Christmas.

I was never a fan of Burnout Paradise. I don't know why but I never got on with the open world nature of it.

Anything Microsoft: incredible!
Game of Thrones: shit.

Can we take this as your official application to be the new Nirejhenge? Currently Mr Chris is running unopposed but with this bombshell I think you're in with a shot.

That's strike two, man! I'm warning you!

I'm shattered this morning because my good samaritan instincts last night ended with two incredibly drunk women stumbling around my flat being twats until about half one this morning before I could get rid of them. Fuck sake.

Well, this sounded quite sinister.

Were they sexy ladies?

You are William Gladstone and I claim my five pounds.

Please continue, Bamba.

Grim...! Trace his call posts!

Were you trying to listen to the new Robert Palmer tape?

The last time I had two drunk women in my house, one of them was sick on my dog.

Totally, but both had boyfriends and the one who did keep trying to clamber onto me was so stupidly wasted that she would've been incapable of even spelling the word 'consent', never mind actually engaging with the concept. And considering that she bit me far too hard a couple of times even while fully dressed I'm not sure I'd actually have survived any kind of sexy times unscathed.

She also managed to break my cats scratching post thing by falling directly onto it with her face, this should give some kind of idea of the state she was in.

SPOTW!

I do not need alcohol for this to happen to me.

I’m feeling very poorly today. Just woke up this morning and it’s like BAM poorly city: Headache, shakes, cold chills, I can’t get warm, dizziness and ears ringing. I’m 50% thinking I should drive up to my folks right now cause I’m feeling a bit scared on my own and if something happens no one would know about it. My dog would probably end up eating my corpse. I should probably leave some food out in case...

There's something about. I've been off work today and yesterday with The Poorlies. Get your folks to come down, instead.

Gooch would definitely eat your corpse. He's a monster.

From what I've read, he'd fuck it first.

Started writing a Whatsapp message beginning with 'Shame about the', and the autopredict decided I wanted to say 'American Civil War'. Oh dear.

I've said it before, and I'm saying it again. Windows 10 is a pile of festering shite.

I personally love it. Shame they couldn't have just kept windows 7 current though. That was the best

I've had no problems with Windows 10, but I had no problems with Windows ME either, so I must be the easiest person in the world to please.

(Unless it's a Mac...)

Windows ME was just inherently unstable. My dad installed it on three PCs for some reason. It destroyed them all and Windows needed reinstalling regularly. As soon as we upgraded them to XP they were fine.

Nope

I wish it would stop overriding my settings every Windows Update when I tell it not to automatically update drivers, but apart from that it's ok.

I didn't have a problem with Win ME either, but as I recall it was released around the time of every man and his dog buying really cheap and nasty components or systems from computer fairs. I suspect a lot of the reported problems were tied in with crappy hardware and less than ideal driver support for obscure parts.

XP was a far superior product though and it's had an amazing lifespan.

The one I was glad to see the back of was Vista. It looked nice at first, but I found it slow and prone to problems on the PCs we were using at work so we killed it off quite quickly in favour of upgrades to 7 or downgrades to XP.

From my experience Vista > ME.

We tend to skip windows versions at work. We've gone 98>XP>7>10

I had all kinds of problems with the Creators Update for Windows 10 on both my desktop and laptop. The laptop was blue screening most days with a different error each time. It was driving me nuts till I found it was faulty RAM. The desktop hasn't been as bad, just a few quirks here and there.

Still a fan of Windows 10, but not of the new feature where a lot of the applications and browser tabs are restored after a shutdown. It's a bit like hibernation, I suppose. I'm used to just shutting the PC down with stuff still open and letting the OS close everything.

That's because they're the good ones.

We can agree to disagree. Unfortunately, my sis-in-law had some probs with her Win 10 laptop again and as usual, I couldn’t find a fucking thing that I wanted on it for ages. And the mail client does look like a kid’s toy version of email. Bizarrely, Edge now seems to be working, but then a lot of auto-updates have installed since I last had cause to curse it, so perhaps that’s why it doesn’t crash as soon as you try to use it.