Be Excellent To Each Other

I doubt my work will be upgrading before Windows 7 support ends. Heck, we're still forced to use IE 9.

You're always going to have idiots like that, Grim... I mean, that person is clearly a (I'm going to guess at racist and xenophobic) prat, and to a lesser degree there are many people that rally against the cruel treatment of animals above cruelty to other humans in what they see as a cause that they can feel outrage at. Perhaps this is because they see man's dominance over animals on an unfair playing field (where we can employ guns and other weapons, capture or breed to test on our animal counterparts) as a greater injustice than humans fighting and treating each other wrongly, or perhaps it is because they feel that they have little voice over many of the actions that govern human treatment of each other, I don't know.

I think everyone here is of the same (to us obvious) belief that human suffering is awful and something that strikes us as terrible and outrageous. But I also don't think it is wrong to feel that this man has gone out and done something terrible.

The witch hunt will not do much more for this one case (I am sure he feels very regretful, if not for the animal's life he has taken then for the amount of grief he is getting now) but what may be the more prevalent and lasting effect is that fewer American dentist types think that this might be a worthwhile holiday activity, now knowing the possible repercussions.

Busy thread today

Clearly Windows 10 has got everyone excited.

Do you have to operate it with a nose laser and commands in ancient Hebrew? Just remembering the last time I tried a new Windows OS and wanted to hurt people.

It made me cry. Genuinely made me cry. So we got a new Mac.

I have a G4 case* I need to stick a hard drive and psu into. I assume I will need to do something else to make it work.

*Meaty Anglesey gived it me before he went to Practice France.

20 years on, I still can't hear the Rolling Stones' 'Start me up' without thinking of Windows 95 and joining in with the chorus of 'you make a grown man cry'.

Ha! Me, too!

I'm (relatively) excited for Windows 10 in the same way I was for Windows 7. Which I also was for XP. It's bizarre how rigorously MS stick to their apparent 'every second OS sucks ass' release model.

Strangely enough, you'd think that today's Bing image would be something to do with Windows 10?

It's a lovely picture no doubt, but I'd have thought they'd be promoting Windows everywhere!

POTW



POTW close 2nd place.

Put a stain proof cover over it first, you filthy beast.

Heh, hadn't noticed that.

I'm only upgrading now because Bing desktop broke on Win8 and I couldn't fix it even after several reinstalls.

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Move because of one night's noise months ago? Would seem a bit extreme and costly for the sake of that occasion, especially due to as being noted above their place is now up for sale.

And I very much doubt your OCD theory could be the case, as otherwise there would likely be similar behaviour in numerous occasions, or patterns of like behaviour. The reason that this stood out was because it was so out of the ordinary.

Did anyone hear David Davies on R4 this morning talking about the problems in Calais? He said "We should round them up and send them back into camps on the North African coast", then realising what he said tried to make it better with "Good camps, though, not <pause> bad ones". Idiot.

I saw a woodpecker in my garden this morning. Don't think I've seen one there before but then I only recently put out peanuts. And after working from home yesterday and looking out at the garden I now realise why I've been getting through so much birdfeed lately. Loads of birds were active at the feeder for the whole day. They were even lining up on the branches waiting for their turn and occasionaly jostling for position.

Oh dear.

Well, yes, quite.

He also talked about making Britain less attractive. Given that the first view most migrants probably get is the town of Dover then I think we are doing our best.

Was he gigantic? Maybe there is a spate of GIANT WOODPECKERS.

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This, with the return of the Clangers does not auger well.

Have you seen the new Clangers?

It is delightful, and charming. It is still stop motion, hand-knitted. Quite lovely

HELL SPAWN MOON CREATURES

Cavey! Was one of these guys you?

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What's with you people measuring food stuff in "cups"??

I just want to make an earl grey iced tea, why do i have to wade through middle age recipes?

1783.

Americans and Australians use cups, because they're really quite daft. It's never been a British thing.

Ok, i beg your pardon for my cultural insensitivity.

MY RACE IS OFFENDED!

Nah, not me bud, I've got a spike on my helmet obv.

Take two Ibuprofen and see me in the morning.

I don't know that making a cup of tea in a cup is that weird?

I beg to differ. The Standard British Way of introducing yourself when you're a new neighbour is to go next door on the day you move in and ask to borrow a cup of sugar.

I use a mug. I'm refined, me.

All sounds odd. Can we see a copy of this 'recipe?'

Me too. I lie there, watching the telly, and ask her to make me cuppa and she always does.

Bloody is not. The standard British way is to move out five years later having never met your neighbours.

Absolutely . My most recent neighbour tried to invite himself into my flat on a couple of occasions and I was totally freaked out by it.

I don't know know if it's any different from here.

In the 7 years i've been living in Lisbon (in two different flats), i only met two neighbours. One because i dropped a sock in her yard, and the other came apologizing for the awful racket his newborn twins made. And gave me a bag of oranges to compensate.

That's so... Iberian.

And yet a great idea.

I've spoken to loads of our neighbours today, which is odd as I would have been out of the house for maybe 60 seconds if I wasn't stopped every six steps. I'm sure they all wait by the front doors and pounce when I leave my flat.

I know my neighbours on both sides. In fact (and stop me if I've told you this before) but we've removed the fence panel between us and the other half of our semi, so we can move freely between gardens on summer evenings or whenever, laden with booze and food, should we choose to socialise.

Which is nice.

I think you have said that before, and it actually sounds quite wonderful. My grandparents used to have a communal garden between the 12 flats, and back in the days when they were all slightly older folk living there, they would often have gatherings and everyone would spontaneously bring out sun loungers and cakes, lemonade and shandy. It was lovely.

How many bloody windows 10 threads does the forum need?

At least one more. Quick, get it in while there's still space.

I think it gives the forum a nice "tiled Windows" look, when you open 'em all at once. Given the subject matter at hand, quite appropriate I feel.