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Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:19 ]
Post subject:  Sept 29th
:'( Just had a message from Xbox Live that it'll be offline for up to 24 hours on the 29th. New dash probably, but :'(
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 ]
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I thought the new (fuck ugly) dash was early next year?
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 ]
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Oh, that's the day my free month runs out I think.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:23 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I thought the new (fuck ugly) dash was early next year?
No. Fall Update.
Author:  Mr Dave [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:24 ]
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It's basically putting stuff in for the autumn update.
Author:  Dudley [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:30 ]
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To clarify, nothing will change visibly with this update.
Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:34 ]
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Yes it will. Everyone's streak will reset on 360Voice. HA! Take that you 600 dayers!
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:37 ]
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Thankfully I can still enjoy murdering goblers in Oblivion with being on LIVE.

I must get my new code for my years Live, mine runs out on 27th I think.
Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:41 ]
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richardgaywood wrote:
Grim... wrote:
I thought the new (fuck ugly) dash was early next year?
No. Fall Update.


AUTUMN! AUTUMN! There is no "fall". How do you describe the trees and weather during September and October? Fallumnal? NO! Autumnal! THERE IS NO FALL!
Author:  Runcle [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:46 ]
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man 24hours?! thats like 20p or something, we better get a free game again. duke nukem please.
Author:  Trousers [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:46 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
richardgaywood wrote:
Grim... wrote:
I thought the new (fuck ugly) dash was early next year?
No. Fall Update.


AUTUMN! AUTUMN! There is no "fall". How do you describe the trees and weather during September and October? Fallumnal? NO! Autumnal! THERE IS NO FALL!


Yeah do the math.

OOPS.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:47 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
richardgaywood wrote:
Grim... wrote:
I thought the new (fuck ugly) dash was early next year?
No. Fall Update.


AUTUMN! AUTUMN! There is no "fall". How do you describe the trees and weather during September and October? Fallumnal? NO! Autumnal! THERE IS NO FALL!
I am considering two possible responses to this.

Firstly, dry and technical: "Note the capitalised "U" on Update. I am using it as a conjoined proper noun "Fall Update", which is how Microsoft refer to it, because they are American. I am adopting their nomenclature as that is the clearest communication method under the circumstances. I personally do not use the word fall as a season."

Or rude and hostile: "You'll be heading for a fall in a minute Dimmers."

Vote now! Press your red button or text the word TWAT or SHITHEAD to 73347.
Author:  devilman [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:47 ]
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I bet it rains on the 29th too.
Author:  myp [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:48 ]
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The only way I remember how the clocks go is "spring forward; fall back". I don't use the word 'fall' in any other sense, though.
Author:  Dimrill [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:48 ]
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richardgaywood wrote:
I personally do not use the word fall as a season."


I bet you do. I bet you sit there in your Welsh wonderland using all manner of freaky words and phrases.
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:54 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
THERE IS NO FALL!


You fucking what aaaa?
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Author:  The Rev Owen [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:55 ]
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I use fall and autumn interchangeably, along with many other American and British words.

I have an excuse, though.
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:59 ]
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Aloominum.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:00 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
Aloominum.
"Aluminum" was actually the original spelling of course, the Brits changed it to "Aluminium" and the Yankees didn't. Same as all the "-ize" endings.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:01 ]
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myoptika wrote:
I don't use the word 'fall' in any other sense, though.

Fucking liar.
Author:  Mimi [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:03 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
richardgaywood wrote:
Grim... wrote:
I thought the new (fuck ugly) dash was early next year?
No. Fall Update.


AUTUMN! AUTUMN! There is no "fall". How do you describe the trees and weather during September and October? Fallumnal? NO! Autumnal! THERE IS NO FALL!


Yea for Dimrill! :kiss:
Author:  Mr Dave [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:04 ]
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Runcle wrote:
man 24hours?! thats like 20p or something, we better get a free game again. duke nukem please.


Psh, We'd get Luxor2 if we get anything.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:06 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Yea for Dimrill! :kiss:
This is always true though.
Author:  myp [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:09 ]
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Grim... wrote:
myoptika wrote:
I don't use the word 'fall' in any other sense, though.

Fucking liar.


You just did a search for my name and the word 'fall', didn't you?
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:10 ]
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I KNOW ALL
Author:  devilman [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:17 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
Runcle wrote:
man 24hours?! thats like 20p or something, we better get a free game again. duke nukem please.


Psh, We'd get Luxor2 if we get anything.


Maybe we'd get a double whammy of Aegis Wing and Yaris?
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Sept 29th
Dimrill wrote:
AUTUMN! AUTUMN! There is no "fall". How do you describe the trees and weather during September and October? Fallumnal? NO! Autumnal! THERE IS NO FALL!

I find it hard to take advice on language from a man who, on average, only has a 33% chance of using a word that's actually in the dictionary every time he talks (and 33% of the time that word is 'fair') :)
Author:  Mimi [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:20 ]
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richardgaywood wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Aloominum.
"Aluminum" was actually the original spelling of course, the Brits changed it to "Aluminium" and the Yankees didn't. Same as all the "-ize" endings.


Not true.

'Alumium' was actually the original spelling. For reasons that seem to be lost in time, it was later changed to 'Aluminum' which the Americans adopted and kept, but it upset the 'ium' ending to all the like elements, so we added a letter to keep it in line with the rest, so we adopted the spelling 'Aluminium'.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:21 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
How do you describe the trees and weather during September and October? Fallumnal?
Fallesque. Or perhaps fallique. And in late August and early November, sometimes, it's fallish.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:24 ]
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Mimi wrote:
but it upset the 'ium' ending to all the like elements, so we added a letter to keep it in line with the rest

Platinum wants a word (or maybe just a letter) with you.
Author:  Mimi [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:28 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Mimi wrote:
but it upset the 'ium' ending to all the like elements, so we added a letter to keep it in line with the rest

Platinum wants a word (or maybe just a letter) with you.


It wasn't me that set teh rules, I'm just telling you how it happened.

I don't know if platinum is in the same group of elements as aluminium, my knowledge of chemistry is close to zero, but I happened to read about the history of the naming of aluminium in a book last night, by coincidence (a book on etymology and language development).
Author:  JamesOff [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:29 ]
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Platinium is my favourite metal of all.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 13:31 ]
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Mimi wrote:
'Alumium' was actually the original spelling. For reasons that seem to be lost in time, it was later changed to 'Aluminum' which the Americans adopted and kept, but it upset the 'ium' ending to all the like elements, so we added a letter to keep it in line with the rest, so we adopted the spelling 'Aluminium'.
The mighty Wiki.
Author:  Rodafowa [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 14:37 ]
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richardgaywood wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Aloominum.
"Aluminum" was actually the original spelling of course, the Brits changed it to "Aluminium" and the Yankees didn't. Same as all the "-ize" endings.

According to Bill Bryson, that's true of the Fall/Autumn thing, too. A lot of words we think of as "Americanised" (or Americanized, if you like) are the original Ye Olde English versions which the colonials hung onto in a "more English than the English" kinda way even after the mother tongue moved on in the motherland.

I don't know what totally mental reason they've got for writing their dates down wrong, though.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 14:39 ]
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Rodafowa wrote:
I don't know what totally mental reason they've got for writing their dates down wrong, though.
Does anyone know the history of that? Like most programmers I find date formats hateful. Also: timezones. When you work on travel software, timezone bugs mean you send people to the airport 24 hours late. That's fun for everyone.
Author:  myp [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 14:44 ]
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richardgaywood wrote:
Rodafowa wrote:
I don't know what totally mental reason they've got for writing their dates down wrong, though.
Does anyone know the history of that? Like most programmers I find date formats hateful. Also: timezones. When you work on travel software, timezone bugs mean you send people to the airport 24 hours late. That's fun for everyone.


It's because Americans would say "April fifth" rather than "fifth of April", like we do. Hence they write it down in the same manner. They just don't like using superfluous conjunctions, it seems (see also "Two-thousand eight" rather than "Two thousand and eight").
Author:  Dudley [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 15:02 ]
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I know this one.

We say 23rd of January 2008 so we write 23/01/2008

They say January 23rd, so write 1/23.

WHY they say it differently I can't tell you.

EDIT : FUCK YOU MYP! :kiss:
Author:  metalangel [ Wed Sep 24, 2008 16:01 ]
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Zardoz wrote:

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Mr Dave forgets to brush his teeth, yesterday.
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