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

Mimi wrote:

:DD

It's worse even than that! I misquoted; turns out that "studies have found that about 5 percent of Caucasians in North America have factor V Leiden".

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 16:54

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I'm getting a 3.4 GHz quad-core i7, with a Radeon 6970M, 27" 2560x1440 screen, 1 TB HDD, 4 GB RAM. I already have a 240 GB SSD to fit alongside the hard drive and I'll order an extra 8 GB RAM to upgrade that too.

Keep talking, woah keep talking!
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Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 16:59

You can tell when Gaywood's played too much Unreal Tournament III when he has big-head mode on in real life.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 17:16

The cynic in me (yes, that's most of me) wonders if these men thought they could steal a holiday.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6541

Quote:

The group then jumped into a car and escaped. A short distance from the scene of the crime the men attempted to swap cars in Avery Road. However this vehicle failed to start, and they continued their escape on foot attempting to hide in gardens to avoid capture before being arrested by police officers.

Rookie error lads! ALWAYS check your backup getaway car before your armed robbery. Ideally, just hire Jason Statham.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 17:20

Dimrill wrote:

The cynic in me (yes, that's most of me) wonders if these men thought they could steal a holiday.

I wonder if Kristian Judge will be as pouty once he's serving his sentence.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 17:20

Which end?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 17:24

The pout will have gone from his arse after a week. He'd need stitches to gather his gash back.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11845

flis wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I'm getting a 3.4 GHz quad-core i7, with a Radeon 6970M, 27" 2560x1440 screen, 1 TB HDD, 4 GB RAM. I already have a 240 GB SSD to fit alongside the hard drive and I'll order an extra 8 GB RAM to upgrade that too.

I feel DavPaz in the car thread...

Is this the confessions thread?

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

Bobbyaro wrote:

flis wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I'm getting a 3.4 GHz quad-core i7, with a Radeon 6970M, 27" 2560x1440 screen, 1 TB HDD, 4 GB RAM. I already have a 240 GB SSD to fit alongside the hard drive and I'll order an extra 8 GB RAM to upgrade that too.

I feel DavPaz in the car thread...

Is this the confessions thread?

Fuck!

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10099

Apparently, iOS 5.0.1 fixes iPhone batteries. I'm posting it in here instead of the Apple thread because Donald Kuntzman.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 19:36

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Mimi wrote:

:DD

It's worse even than that! I misquoted; turns out that "studies have found that about 5 percent of Caucasians in North America have factor V Leiden".

New Pantene, now with Factor V Leiden!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 20:20

Skittles Blenders are amazing. Get some and play Skyrim.

krazywookie · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 20:26

Dimrill wrote:

Skittles Blenders are amazing. Get some and play Forza Motorsport 4.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 20:30

Or that! The important thing is to buy the Skittles Blenders. They're amazing. Like the stars in Skyrim.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 21:31

I need to learn the abbreviations for US states.
Just been looking at the tour dates for one of my favourite bands, punk country group Lucero, and saw a town followed by an abbreviation. Ah, I think, I might be in Arkansas around then, wonder how far it is from where I'm going? So I bash the name into Google Maps and add the battlefield I plan to visit so I can see how for out of my way I'd be going.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

About 4,000 miles. Apparently, 'AK' is not short for 'Arkansas' :facepalm:

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

Nope, that would be AR. AK is Alaska, isn't it?

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 22:57

Craster wrote:

Nope, that would be AR. AK is Alaska, isn't it?

I know that now

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 22:57

Happy Birthday DB!

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 23:00

I was told not to put something on Facebook in case it offends MrsA's family. So I defriended them all, and totally didn't mention Buxton Conservative Club and how women. Can't be members and how I won't be going there again. Ever. The mysogynist dinosaurs.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 23:02

Ah, I did wonder what your tweet was about.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 23:08

Dimrill wrote:

Skittles Blenders are amazing. Get some and play Skyrim.

Aren't the UK "Crazy Centres" (or something) the same?

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 23:18

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Ah, I did wonder what your tweet was about.

I wrote it in a highly clever code.

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

Yes, happy birthday Mr Snappa!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38504

TOP TIP!

When watching a crazy program about crazy mothers, it's not a good idea to suggest that being a coal miner is a harder job than being a full time mother.

Oh god no.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 0:07

Grim... wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Skittles Blenders are amazing. Get some and play Skyrim.

Aren't the UK "Crazy Centres" (or something) the same?

Nah, Crazy Cores are different. They're called that Stateside too. Blenders. Skyrim.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 0:40

TINY FORG!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25704

HELLO TINY FORG! :luv:

I got DavPaz to take some pictures for some similarly teeny hopplets at the zoo. They were blue.

Happy Birthday, DB. You will always be in my head as devilishly handsome and suave. And drunk.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 0:52

My mom and dad have loads of those tiny frogs in their garden... Possibly not THAT small though!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 0:53

Smallest forg ever discovered, says BBC.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 0:58

Next time I see one at me mums.. I'll take a picture of it on a... what is that (squints) a dime.. Oh... Never mind. ?:|

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25704

It is on a sundial, so it isn't that small.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:14

That's its forg winky.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I've been doing sex all day in Macclesfield. Boy, am I tired.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:37

You should alternate hands regularly.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38504

Also - lube.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10099

We had a forg in our garden. It's gone away somewhere, possibly it got sick of me nearly kicking and standing on it in the dark. Shame. I liked forg. It ate the slugs.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:19

Grr, had to cut up my debit card, someone's been buying multiple phones from O2 with it overnight

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:25

When discussing the use of 'management speak' in the workplace (or anywhere), I tend to defend it for the most part. Different trades and situations require different use of language.

But, Lordy, they're getting ever-so-wanky at my company at the moment.

An old database is going to be binned. But are we canning it? Shutting it down? Changing it?

No, we're 'sunsetting' it. Cripes.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:26

Shite. Hope you get your cash back quickly, Kalmar.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11845

Ooooh, I am going to use that one!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:27

Curiosity wrote:

An old database is going to be binned. But are we canning it? Shutting it down? Changing it?

No, we're 'sunsetting' it. Cripes.

That's the way I want to go. Beautiful. :'(

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:28

Ah, you must be in the endgame stages of a cradle-to-grave initiative, there.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:30

Zardoz wrote:

Shite. Hope you get your cash back quickly, Kalmar.

Cheers. Halifax were really good about it, refunding it today (3 x 129.99 - probably blackberry phones :spew:

) so no harm done but it's a bit of a nuisance

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:30

Curiosity wrote:

When discussing the use of 'management speak' in the workplace (or anywhere), I tend to defend it for the most part. Different trades and situations require different use of language.

But, Lordy, they're getting ever-so-wanky at my company at the moment.

An old database is going to be binned. But are we canning it? Shutting it down? Changing it?

No, we're 'sunsetting' it. Cripes.

That is aweful

My gripe, is do you have the bandwidth!

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:33

KovacsC wrote:

My gripe, is do you have the bandwidth!

Tell them you're a fibre-optic layin' motherfucker, motherfucker.

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

Curiosity wrote:

An old database is going to be binned. But are we canning it? Shutting it down? Changing it?

No, we're 'sunsetting' it. Cripes.

Sunsetting is recognised industry terminology. But they've used it wrong.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:49

Craster wrote:

Sunsetting is recognised industry terminology.

It's also the term I'm going to use when pulling my keks back up.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:57

Craster wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

An old database is going to be binned. But are we canning it? Shutting it down? Changing it?

No, we're 'sunsetting' it. Cripes.

Sunsetting is recognised industry terminology. But they've used it wrong.

There are a lot of industry wide terms that management butcher...

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25704

I had a surprise when making my coffee this morning:

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