Be Excellent To Each Other

More importantly (to me, anyway), it's also pay day.

Not 'arf. I have little patience for stupid rules and even less for ones expressed like that.

This person should, by rights, be kara-oke-ing on their own.

Best to turn up in trainers with the biggest Nike swoosh you can find, jeans torn to shreds, and a football strip.

I went to Hurgarda a couple of years ago, I would highly recommend that too, it's just a little further south than Sharm.

To be fair - everything is cheaper in Egypt! I did my try dive in this country a few years ago and that was £15, then I did an assisted dive (before qualification) and I think that was about £40ish, I dread to think what they might be now. That was in Cornawall, and thinking back, I really enjoyed the dive, I think my experiences in this country have been somewhat clouded by diving at Stoney Cove, I'm just not a bit fan of the venue, I always seem to get crappy visability. Not something to worry about in the Red Sea for sure!

I've got a Canon Digital Ixus 750, I bought it for my uni photography module really, the fact that I could get a waterproof housing for it was a bonus. I think I paid about £175 for my camera and the housing was about £85, but I had some Amazon vouchers off my dad so it only ended up cosing me about £25.

If you find your nearest dive centre, they often have some good deals in. I was really hoping to do my photography speciality while out there this time, unfortunately events have conspired that I don't have the funds.

Oh, while I remember, there's a dive show on at the NEC in November, I couldn't go last year due to being in the US, but I went the year before and there were some real bargains to be had - well worth saving up for.

(Mods feel free to split these posts out into a diving thread. )

I can lend you some Nike bowling shoes

After half a morning of extensive sit testing I have concluded that I chose well. So much nicer than my old one:

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/ca ... edcode=WW+

That looks really nice. £80? Hmmm,

I actually paid £88, I bought it from a store because I wanted to try them all out. If I'd have known it was that much cheaper and with free delivery then I'd have just gone home and ordered it

See, I'd pay £88 in-store to avoid having to wait in for a courier (or have enormous boxes delivered to work and then struggle to carry them to my car).

The same as mine except I paid 20 quid more to get the version with the White piping that makes it look like a cast off from the Scorpio flight deck. That is a good thing.


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Well here I am back in the shop window. Ho hum.

Will you be discounting yourself if you've not been bought by the end of the week?

Is Warminister known for having a huge number of disabled people? Seems to be loads.

Aren't they just goading you?

What needs to be transported in a large insulated container with a pipe leading to an industrial looking gas bottle, on the back of a speeding pickup truck?

A bad genie.

A bee canon.

I was hoping for alien corpses.

To be honest, since I said I was here I just imagined it was some of you lot coming to gawp at me.

The shop isn't own yet people keep on coming in despite it looking like chaos and a closed sign on the door.

Does the first person to put up a photo of you in situ win a mystery prize?

Chinny have you opened a shop? Does it have Amstrad computers displayed in the window?

There's a shop in Perth which is purportedly a printer cartridge refilling place. The windows are full of empty toner boxes, dust and dead bees, and they never seem to have any cartridges on the shelves. The guy behind the counter looks a bit annoyed if you go in because he's busy editing videos on his macbook pro, but you can win him over with talk of firewire and glossy screens and suchlike. It won't get you an ink cartridge mind you.

Yes. It is an Amstrad Computer Centre. We have the full range if GX4000 games which I am sure will sell like hot cakes.

Do you have in-store Geniuses too?

Ah - the Spod Squad?

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The Sugar Help Gang

Yes. But ours are called "Know All's" and will be bearded. On all occasions they must be gruff and everything is the customers fault.

That makes them the same as all other British customer service staff. Is the beard meant to be the unique selling point?

Actually Ive changed my mind. They will be called "Amstrad Smart Arses".

I only just found out that BBC iPlayer lets you download programmes in WMV format so they can be played through a 360. I assume everyone else already knew this but none of you told me, twats.

What? Does it?
So iplayer-dl is dead, effectively?

Go to a programme page and look for the "more downloads" link at bottom right (doesn't appear in Chrome for some reason). You can then download a WMV that you need to play once in Media Player to acquire some sort of licence and then it will stream to any extender device such as a 360.

Hmm, I wonder if that license bit works on the Mac...
Will the files then expire after a certain time?

Any Extender Device?

Probably. DRM innit.

Think I'll stick with iplayer-dl for now then.

*sits back and watches Eastenders on penis pump*

We knew what you meant. We just ignored you.

Shhh!

Grants just popped up.

My mistake.

To test this I just downloaded the first programme that I saw which happened to be Dragon's Den. It all works but has anyone seen the new opening credits to Dragon's Den? They have them all stood in front of an abandoned warehouse with a really curious heat haze video effect behind each one of them that makes them look exactly as though they are all constantly gushing out enormous farts at hundreds of degrees centigrade.

Don't be ridiculously childish. In Deborah Merkin's case it's obviously a queef.

I can't think of Dragons Den without picturing the Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse sketch.

I can't think of it without thinking of Time Trumpet. "Cake Shield"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIgdGTg5mSw

That's fine, but why are you posting pictures of your mother.

I still can't get over the fact one of them phoned me when I was in the post office queue.

Am in the Little Chef again. Ah the life of a travelling minstrel. Full of kids tonight and have a shut table. The waitress remembered me though.

You even dine in the 1980s.

Instead of faffing around downloading iplayer stuff onto a 360, you could just watch it streamed on a Wii.

Assuming you don't mind watching things in low frame rate ultra-low res, of course. It's fine for QI and that, though.