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The Critic?

that's the one. A guy at my work looks just like him.

Crumbs, I haven't been here for ages ( snarky boss not liking web surfing during the day ). What have I missed?

Jay Sherman?



Made to look like Jon Lovitz I reckon

Nothing really.

Apart from Dimrill is Jim Davidson.

Holy crap.

So the council will be able to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to recover assets in lieue of unpaid council tax, and then the poor hapless students who had their exemption form lost by the council will have to, what? Apply to get their shit back?

Fuxache.

When will they learn that local authorities should have criminal/terrorism powers TAKEN AWAY not added to?

I always suspected as much, to be honest.

Jesus Christ. How are things still allowed to be 'pushed through parliament'?

Yep. And if TfL catch you fare-dodging and you don't have any cash to pay the fine? They can demand your trousers on the spot. Maybe.

Couldn't we give them another poster instead? MYP seems like a fair bet since he's in prison Vegas.

Google Electricity Meter. Er...

Which nobody has. Nice idea though.

You can buy one for "only" £70 (+ £3 a month).
I need some sort of personal consumer testing monkey.

Oh, Doc? Look! New technology!

Sorry, I can't help you with all your problems, I'm too busy buying this new electricity meter.

Are you buying it using the Tablet PC I no longer want?

That would suggest the Tablet PC has a purpose, which as of yet, it does not.

I reckon you could make one yourself with a big magnet, an ammeter, some wires and a serial connection to your PC. Or maybe just rig up a webcam that watches the wheel in your meter go around, and somehow works stuff out based on that.

I love this idea.

All digital meters have an open collector output for the 1000 impulse / kWh signal.

How I read that.

campus broken. On public transport. So far heard black eye peas, n-dubz and tweedy. Urge to kill rising

Sadly, I think mine is still an old analogue one. I will check though.

It should be possible, I'm sure. You'd only need one of those dirt cheap little crappy webcams, set it to take pics a few times a second and detect the change in the position of the black mark on the wheel. To the invent-o-mobile!

Dredging up an abandoned topic, I studied 'Far From The Cunting Crowd', which was hateful gobshite, however for my Eng. Lit. A-Level we did quite a bit on 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood, which made up for the GCSE by being awesome.

I can remember being told at the start of that A-Level that I would hate all literature by the end of it. They weren't joking: I've read maybe 5-6 books since, and that was 12 years ago.

I really should read Dune though at some point. I've got a feeling I'd love it. Also I've just dicovered that 'And Another Thing' by Eoin Colfer has just been released and even though I know I will hate it, I'm going to have to read the bastard thing.

Yes, do. It's one of the best things I've ever read, and remains so every time I go back to it (the last time was about three years ago, after an interval of nearly

Bother with the sequels (up to Chapter House, ie: the last one written by the actual author, not by some twatwicks) if you really want to, but they're not necessary, and not as good. The first can be read as a lone novel, and a bloody good one at that.

Where's the API FFS? I'm not paying £70 quid to replace a bit of bellwire going from the meter to a USB serial port plugged into the mac, which is what I have already.

I had "Great Expectations" ruined for me at school, hated it... and yet now I find myself thinking it was probably quite good, and wishing I hadn't torn my copy up in a huff after my GCSE exam

Sure it wasn't Dr Katz? They both look pretty similar though.

I read Of Mice and Men at school, and thought it was crap.
When I read it again a few years ago, I still thought it was crap.
So I wouldn't worry.

I had One Hundreds Years of Solitude ruined for me at school. But I'm fairly certain it's self ruining anyway, what a pile of shit.

Here comes Mimi to tell me I'm Wrongy McWrongenstein.

Only because you got shot at the end.

I want to MURDER that SMUG BITCH in the Windows 7 advert in the taxi. She enthuses about the amazing new feature of Windows 7 that puts all your open apps in a bar along the bottom.

Just like the Dock that's been in OS X for eight fucking years, you BITCH? And other OSes too, you SLAG? That's not a revolutionary feature all, you WHORE?

And then she giggles with glee about how she invented Windows and she's a PC, all because of the not-Dock.

I want to tear her face off and feed it to her.

Heh. I read Great Expectations last year in a bid to not hate Dickens anymore. It kind of worked - I'm now mostly indifferent to him. I think I like his pushing of reform and critical views of prevailing Victorian social attitudes, but his books bore my tits off. They're just too dry and prosaic, and everyone's just a little too restrained. Didn't help that the protagonist was arguably the weakest character in the book, either.

I might give Bleak House or something a go, but it's a long way down the list.

That treacherous short bastard

What the fuck is an 'n-dubz'? Some sort of bacterium?

Is £60 really the going rate for an Xbox 360 wireless dooberry? If I buy one from the local Currys on my way home tonight, I'm not going to end up all pissed off that I could've saved £30 by ordering online am I?

And yes, I know I could get a wireless bridge but, you know, I can't be arsed with all the faff.

Seems so.

Mr Chinny has forbidden me from buying an XBOX 4000. She says if I'm lucky Father Christmas might bring me one.

Dayum, y'all just ain't krunk enough. N-dubz is mates with Flow Rider and Ogg Lock!

FeeX

Time to come out of that closet I reckon, Chinny.

A) "The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's best work."

Discuss.


B) "The Grapes of Wrath was a bit rubbish"

Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.

I don't care that Microsoft ripped off OS X's Dock; it's not like Apple are slow to steal ideas. What makes me angry is the fact they took eight years to do it, during which I've used Windows every single day with a UI that could have been better if they'd put the redesigned taskbar into XP where it should have been.

The official adaptor is quite a lot of faff.

Especially when it fails to work for weeks at a time then breaks because it's shit.

And, of course:

RISC OS makes me feel warm and fuzzy. On the inside.

Of my pants.

Yup but they did not have too, now they want too so all ok..

I just got a nice feeling of school/sixth form nostalgia when googling for pics of it.

Out of interest how does one find a good soliciter in my area?...