Be Excellent To Each Other

Or I could take out the knife.

I know what to do.

She bought a new cable and is now happier with the picture quality. I’ve been working In Scotland again all week, so didn’t see the difference when she swapped over, but at least we won’t have to go back to the shop to argue about getting a refund.

The only remaining problem is that the new tv can’t be mounted on the old wall bracket. The holes are in the right place, but the new tv requires wider diameter bolts.

Can't you drill them out?

She’s considering leaving it on it’s stand on the cabinet it’s currently sitting on, but if not, we’ll try drilling.

Erm, I dunno. I expect it's possible. The 360 can definitely do your media, but you'd have to ask a Psvr owner the other stuff

In an ideal world, you'd want something like the Hololens that lets the real world in too. A nice big virtual screen hanging over the chick flick!

Work got me a shiny £150 DAS 4 keyboard. It's lovely.

My home keyboard now feels like a minging fucking sponge.

It's a shame that work keyboard got damaged and had to be thrown away....

Had a look at that, but in the end, went back to Corsair. After the last one blew up I've waited a bit and the K95 Platinum arrived today.

Lovely piece of kit, but in some ways the software is outdated. This one comes with 6 keys you can assign shortcuts or start programs etc

If I want to have one of these keys open a folder on my NAS I have to have to use a cmd file and have the action run that.

Not the end of the world the Alienware Keyboard I had years ago just let you browse

Also discovered that once you assign things to these keys, they need to be added again each time you change the colour profile.

When I shut down my laptop at work before I go home, sometimes the connected displays (a thunderbolt display and a Dell 27") show a purple screen with fuzzy dots for a few moments.

It really doesn't matter but it annoys me before I go home.

Jesus, okay, gotta delurk again in cheese related outrage. Cathedral cheddar is pleasant but essentially mediocre. For full flavour cheddar supermarket crunch Morrisons special Davidstow cheddar was the way to go. However I think that stopped mid 2000''s. Or maybe I just don't have a Morrisons near me anymore.

If you're not rating your cheeses by deli standards you're doing it wrong!

Welsh Black Bomber cheddar is currently cheddar of choice, flavour wise, albeit tricky to extract in satisfying slices from the wax coated wheel.

Bousin (for men) soft cheese is the cracker based comfort eating cheese of supermarket champions.

Port Salut for me is the ultimate cracker based cheese, although be aware a cheese has to be genuinely pretty nice before smoking, smoking awful gagh cheese does nothing but add a new definition of awful to an existing shonky cheese. I sadly include Dairylea in that.

Baked camembert cheese with crusty cheese and wine is divine, as is deep fried brie & cranberry sauce.

Don't be cheap with your cheeses! In this dark, bleak new world they matter, more than ever!

For anyone interested, a comment like this is by far the fastest way to get banned from Beex.

Hey, I would not scorn a baguette with pickle and cathedral but c'mon, are there no delicatessens in the midlands, have you forgotten how beautiful cheeses can be? Maybe you need an education next BeexBQ!

All the best cheeses are from the Midlands.

THEN THERE CAN BE NO EXCUSE.

I don't live in the Midlands.

There is that.

Below M62, above M4 is midlands

A few years ago I discovered the delights of Derbyshire cheese and then suddenly our supermarket of choice stopped stocking it. Now, whenever we see cheese on sale, we look to see if they have it. They never do.

Nowhere near. Above Banbury, below the Peaks.

I am pretty much 80% cheese. I'm eating cheese most of the time. I've eaten the finest of cheeses from all over the world. Cathedral City is the best cheddar.

Is this just your way of saying that cheddar is the worst cheese in the world, or something?

I'm not a massive cheese loving person, I might have the odd bit off the block every now and again or a random craving for a cheese toastie, but Cathedral City never really tastes that cheesy to me.

The Davidstow cheddars produced for m&s are my current favourites.

She has now decided to leave it on the stand. This is good news, if only because I won’t have to faff about drilling holes and finding the correct bolts for the wall bracket.

As a child, I would not, and could not eat cheese. The very idea made me heave.

Then, one day when I was about 16, I came home late one night after visiting some friends and having a couple of beers and I was a bit peckish.

I searched around for something to snack on, and in the fridge was a slab of Red Leicester cheese. I just liked the look of it and on impulse, cut a slice and ate it. Epiphany!!

I’ve spent rest of my life (so far) trying to catch up with all the cheese I didn’t eat in those previous years.

My wife is furious. She ordered loads of bottles of wine from Virgin wine and they haven't turned up. She's had a text to say that they've been delivered so there's something amiss. She called the Virgin wine call centre but the person she spoke to clearly didn't give a shit which has annoyed her even more.

She now faces the prospect of going shopping tomorrow morning to get wine for Christmas which has thrown our plans into disarray!

We always end up with something we’ve forgotten despite efforts to prepare for everything.

This year it’s silverskin onions and cocktail sticks, although I’m pretty sure we have enough cocktail sticks for today’s Bithday Buffet.

HOLY SHIT WHAT DO I EVEN DO FOR A LIVING?!

I've no idea what I was working on before Christmas.

I have tons of emails... had to dig my suit out.

You have a special suit for reading emails?

You don't?

This is clearly something I need to rectify.

I was in last Thursday so I vaguely remember what to do.

I remember what to do, but there's no fucker else here for me to do it to.

...title?

Two of my staff have not renewed their contracts, so 2 staff down. I hope i get his job on Friday

I know what I do, but no one's asked me to do it today, and I can't do it unless someone asks me. I know that this is because there was no one in the office yesterday to accept requests for me to do any things today, so I'm doing other things instead, like finally getting around to weeding my mailbox and some of them useless on-line courses that they want us all to do, but that we're usually too busy doing our proper tasks to be able to find time to do them.

That sentence got a bit messy towards the end, but I can't be bovvered to apply the 5 Cs to it.

C C C C C There you go mate. Happy New Year.

Thanks. The year's off to a good start.

My phone has started acting weird when it's on WiFi. It's almost like it's being throttled somewhere as it takes ages to connect to Web pages and download images on Twitter.

I've reset my router a couple of times and turned my phone off and on too. It's really quite annoying as the 4G signal in my house is pretty patchy too.

It's the Russians. They started faffing around with my TiVo a couple of days ago. We were watching McMafia on the Beeb and suddenly it swapped to a Netflix splash page and I when I tried to swap back to channel 101 it just swapped back again, and again, and again. I could only fix it by doing a hard reset.

I worked on and off over Christmas but the kids were back today and so a 2hr meeting this AM really kicked things off. Got to make 2018 my best year yet.

I ate a load of seafood and got sick so had to miss a day of work, I still got paid though, and didn't die, so I guess that is first-worldy.

FTFY.

Do you have to wear a black suit to a funeral? It's my next door neighbour's tomorrow (cremation, and double check that apostrophe placement) and although I think my attire is the least of her concerns, could I get away with dark clothes and a jumper?

I don't always. I wear a black tie and blue suit, or black suit and coloured tie.

A suit's the easiest way to look suitably dark and sombre.

I was once at a funeral where some idiot in-law rocked up in a black top with "FCUK" across the front in rhinestones. Don't wear something like that, it *really* doesn't go down well.