Bits and Bobs X

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 17:25

Zio wrote:

Not that I wish to bring down the overall joviality of the thread, but I gots some sad news. My remaining pet rat, Noodle, died on Tuesday. She developed a brain tumour (just like her late sister did), but she went downhill with it much faster. The treatment she was given did nothing and in the end we had to put her to sleep.

I have to say, I'm fucking gutted about it. I'm going to have to think long and hard before I buy any more pets.

I'm really very sorry to hear that. It's never easy when a pet dies, but they are worth it. When my cat dies (hopefully in many, many, many years - she's two years old next week) I don't know how I'm going to cope, but I wouldn't give up my time with her now.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Sorry about your rat, Zio. Pets dying is shit, but the years of fun before that really do make up for it. Get another rat for more fun times!

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 17:31

Sorry to hear it Zio.
Poor old rats do seem to get those type of ailments don't they? Cat lifetimes seem short enough..

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 17:32

Mimi wrote:

MaliA wrote:

How much does it cost ...

Why do you do that sometimes, Mali? You know you're saying something insensitive and likely to upset, and most people would let their instinct of taste kick in. Even if the thought crosses your mind, why would you then post it?

I don't think you're a thoughtless kind of guy, but sometimes you act a little like one.

More thoughtlessness than anything else. Sorry for any offence caused, I'll ask my vet friend next time.

Apologies all around.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

GAWD.

I'm not sure if anyone here reads Vice magazine, but it's basically a free magazine that you can pick up in certain shops that stock it. Unfortunately the shop near me has stopped stocking it, so I subscribed for £35. Two months later and I still haven't received a magazine, so I emailed them and was told my issue would be forwarded to the subs department. That was a week ago. SO, I said:

Quote:

Hello,

I still haven't heard anything from the subs department. It has been well over two months now since I gave you guys my money and I'm yet to receive anything, so I'd just rather have the money back to spend on crack or something. How do I go about getting a refund?

Thanks,
Jonny

And now I have £35 in my PayPal account. Yay!

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Extremely well-'shopped upside down celebrities: http://www.freakingnews.com/Celebrities ... --2433.asp

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

MaliA wrote:

More thoughtlessness than anything else.

Don't be without thought, because you are not a thoughtless kind of guy. Pets mean a lot to some people, and even if you're not a sentimental type, sometimes you just have to try and empathise.

:munkeh:

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

An unfortunate stained glass window:

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Mimi wrote:

Pets mean a lot to some people,

They mean more if they win prizes. Right Danny?

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

jonarob wrote:

I'm not sure if anyone here reads Vice magazine, but it's basically a free magazine that you can pick up in certain shops that stock it. Unfortunately the shop near me has stopped stocking it, so I subscribed for £35.

£35? It's just a book of adverts with the occasional interesting feature. They've got a weekly newsletter that links you to all the interesting stuff, it's free.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Tennis star or porn star: the audio game (NSFW)

http://coedmagazine.com/2009/06/16/tenn ... udio-game/

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

WullieOoster wrote:

jonarob wrote:

I'm not sure if anyone here reads Vice magazine, but it's basically a free magazine that you can pick up in certain shops that stock it. Unfortunately the shop near me has stopped stocking it, so I subscribed for £35.

£35? It's just a book of adverts with the occasional interesting feature. They've got a weekly newsletter that links you to all the interesting stuff, it's free.

Yeah, but, have you read the photo issue? That's worth the £35 alone. Every page you could cut out and stick on your wall.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 22:07

Ooh, Happy Birthday mrak. Just noticed.

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

Ah, indeed so. Congratumalations.

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 22:32

Birth, sir! Birth!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 22:38

What-did-you-get-ulations!?

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

jonarob wrote:

Yeah, but, have you read the photo issue? That's worth the £35 alone.

Nah, I just looked at the pictures.

Runcle · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:34

Just had a quick look at the eurogamer review of fight night round 4, well the last few paragraphs and it got a very reasonable 8/10. Although it seems to have been marked down because you have to use the analogues sticks to throw punches, which to me seems pretty harsh, I know the last version had button pressed punches but even that game was more focused on the player using the sticks.

Anyway was just wondering for other examples were certain fixed controls brought down review scores.

Also when the tiger woods games switched to the analogue could you still use the buttons to swing?

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

WullieOoster wrote:

jonarob wrote:

Yeah, but, have you read the photo issue? That's worth the £35 alone.

Nah, I just looked at the pictures.

DIE!

YOG · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:43

Are there any ways to reinstall Windows on a laptop whose disc drive doesn't seem to read discs any more, and whose 'SYSTEM' folder is apparently corrupt? Is it possible to install Windows via USB, or is it time to throw this fuckdamned thing out? Cheers, folks!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

USB CD-ROM drive would be the best, probably. I think installing Windows from USB thumbdrives is awkward.

YOG · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:48

Thanks, mate. Will the laptop check the USB drives automatically on startup, though? I can't get as far as the Windows desktop itself, natch. At the moment, though, when I attempt to install Windows, it says that my disc may be damaged without even really attempting to read it. It's also only asking for a Service Pack 3 disc, whereas I want to reinstall the whole thing.

It's a very weird little laptop. I've had to skip an XP installation screen on every startup for the last few months, presumably because I canceled half way through one a while ago...

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

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/0 ... _job_cuts/

I never knew Dabs were owned by BT.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Yeah, I just saw that too. Weird.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 13:00

Finished Fallout3. Guess I need to get a job now. Didn't make it to level 20.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

markg wrote:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/dabs_bt_job_cuts/

I never knew Dabs were owned by BT.

Another reason to avoid them then.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 13:16

Goth-tastic: A Bloody Mary made with real blood... http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelondon ... real-blood

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 15:01

Righto, I'm off up to Liverpool for drinky funs this weekend, see you all Sunday!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:00

This evening the Family Z (and possibly markg) will be embarking on a quest to an old wrecked lighthouse 1.5 miles out to sea. Happens every year this walk when the tides are right but it will be the first time I've done it.

Pics next week, hopefully.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyre_Light_(Fleetwood)

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Mods! Can I have a capital J on my name if anyone notices this? I don't know why it doesn't have one, but it's annoying me now.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:18

Jonarob wrote:

I don't know why it doesn't have one, but it's annoying me now.

We took it away when you were naughty.

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

It really pisses me off that myp doesn't have one.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:29

Craster wrote:

It really pisses me off that myp doesn't have one.

Give him one, then. Just wait until 9pm and he'll be in bed.

[edit] :hat:

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:37

Grim... wrote:

Craster wrote:

It really pisses me off that myp doesn't have one.

Give him one, then. Just wait until 9pm and he'll be passed out on an airbed in Derbyshire.

[edit] :hat:

Fix.
'myoptika' never had one and you never complained.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Thanks very much!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:44

Hi Jonarob!

I hope your not like that jonarob who used to post here. He was a right twat.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Which one was jonarob? Was he the creepy bald guy who kept feeling everyone up and passed out on the kitchen floor?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:48

No, he was way hotter.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:49

Was he the idiot with the ginger beard that fell down the "Mirror's Edge" climbing section?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 16:49

Was he the tiny bearded guy that sounded like a fog horn with catarrh?

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

myp wrote:

'myoptika' never had one and you never complained.

I know. I never noticed it, weirdly. I don't notice kalmar's lack of capitalisation now, either.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 17:42

Oh man! I had a kalmar dream last night, you just reminded me. It was that weird nasty man out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom during the black magick rite he was doing, but as he advanced on the victim he was saying "kal(i)mar! kal(i)mar!" before ripping out his heart.

metalangel · **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 17:55

I dreamt last night that the scary bearded farmer from Vicar of Dibley was reading to schoolchildren from a book of Victorian ghost stories in a park in Penarth.

The story was something about a group of sheep watching and laughing at a funeral, peeking out at it from behing tombstones.

Malc · **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:38

Why am I awake?

Malc

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:40

Malicious Afterthought should really stop drinking as he ends up talking about marriage. And mistakes Neil Young for The Boss. Feel woozy still.

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

Malabelm · **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 14:50

Ugh, I forgot it was the Chester races. Cue loads of slags in tarty dresses, with makeup like it was applied with a shotgun and Ellesmere Port tans.

What is it about horse races that attracts gormless proles?

At least the busking ison form. There's a couple of guys playing saxophone particularly well today.

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

Wow, longest thunderstorm ever! my flat hasn't stopped shaking for over an hour now!

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

and as I typed that the whole building shook with the loudest bang!!!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 19:30

Nothing like that here (yet). Just uncomfortable, oppressive heat.

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