The 'Nay!' but 'Yay!' Thread

Malc · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:40

Grim... wrote:

Also we could be about to get into a debate about the difference between emoticons and similes.

A simile is like a metaphor, an emoticon is a smiley.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Malc wrote:

A simile is like a metaphor

Good work!

Kris · **Joined:** 5th Jun, 2018 **Posts:** 389

Malc wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Also we could be about to get into a debate about the difference between emoticons and similes.

A simile is like a metaphor, an emoticon is a smiley.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 13:49

Last night my XB1X decided to throw the "Quantum Break corruption" spaz. Basically if you install QB on a 1X it can lead to save game corruption. And it did, too. I had to reset the console (the lite one without losing all your shit). I'm hoping it works now as it's a very enjoyable game.

Any way the yay came when the code for another 3 months Live worked after resetting the console. I already put 3 months on, but then got a decent deal on another 3 months. However for three days it refused to add, saying something about region (which I then spent about two hours setting to UK on two PCs and my console etc).

So now I am all paid up (god, it hurts) until December

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 14:14

They are Dimoji in modern parlance.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 15:53

The smoke alarm on my landing went off last night at around midnight. There wasn't a fire or anything so I'm putting it down to it being really hot at the moment.

I hope it doesn't happen again tonight. It scared the life out of me!

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 16:00

That reminds me, I need to buy smoke alarms.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 17:03

Jem wrote:

That reminds me, I need to buy smoke alarms.

Remember to buy a CO2 sensor for near the kitchen to save it going off all the time when you make toast

myp · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 17:05

DBSnappa wrote:

Jem wrote:

That reminds me, I need to buy smoke alarms.

Remember to buy a CO2 sensor for near the kitchen to save it going off all the time when you make toast

Also if you've got a wood-burning stove.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:11

Lonewolves wrote:

My softball club has two teams now. The first team (that I occasionally play for) plays in East Midlands Softball League Division 1, and the second team (which I captain) plays in Division 3.

The second team finished joint-top of Spring League D3 with the same points and wins as another team but missed out on the championship due to a 0-2 head-to-head record.

The first team finished joint-top of Spring League D1 with the same number of points, wins, head-to-head record (1-1) and runs allowed so the championship will be decided on the toss of a coin!

While gutted to have missed out on promotion I'm really proud of our efforts and think it may have come a bit too soon anyway. Half of our team are either brand new or in their second season, and we would probably struggled. Hopefully we can keep playing well in the Summer League and get promoted in time for spring 2019!

We've also reached five tournament finals and lost them all, but I haven't been involved due to lack of funds.

In incredible scenes it turns out we read the rules incorrectly and it's only runs allowed versus the teams you're tied with that counts. So we won Division 3. :attitude:

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:13

Fuck yes!

Are you famous now?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:14

Lonewolves wrote:

My softball club has two teams now. The first team (that I occasionally play for) plays in East Midlands Softball League Division 1, and the second team (which I captain) plays in Division 3.

The second team finished joint-top of Spring League D3 with the same points and wins as another team but missed out on the championship due to a 0-2 head-to-head record.

The first team finished joint-top of Spring League D1 with the same number of points, wins, head-to-head record (1-1) and runs allowed so the championship will be decided on the toss of a coin!

While gutted to have missed out on promotion I'm really proud of our efforts and think it may have come a bit too soon anyway. Half of our team are either brand new or in their second season, and we would probably struggled. Hopefully we can keep playing well in the Summer League and get promoted in time for spring 2019!

We've also reached five tournament finals and lost them all, but I haven't been involved due to lack of funds.

In incredible scenes it turns out we read the rules incorrectly and it's only runs allowed versus the teams you're tied with that counts. So we won Division 3. :attitude:

Winners!

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:18

Grim... wrote:

Fuck yes!

Are you famous now?

Not even slightly.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:24

Are you going to get fucked up by the division 2 teams next season?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:24

Lonewolves wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Fuck yes!

Are you famous now?

Not even slightly.

I know who you are which is more than about 30% of names in our celebrity deadpool.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 19:24

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Fuck yes!

Are you famous now?

Not even slightly.

I know who you are which is more than about 30% of names in our deadpool.

This sounds slightly threatening.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 20:19

Grim... wrote:

Are you going to get fucked up by the division 2 teams next season?

It's the Division 1 teams I'm worried about, including our first team.

There's actually cross-divisional play so we already played all the Division 2 teams in the spring league, as well as all D3 teams twice. Now we're in D2 ourselves we play everyone in all three divisions.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 20:23

Lonewolves wrote:

There's actually cross-divisional play so we already played all the Division 2 teams in the spring league, as well as all D3 teams twice. Now we're in D2 ourselves we play everyone in all three divisions.

I..I. ..

So, there's 3 divisions or 1 division with echelons?

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 20:37

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

There's actually cross-divisional play so we already played all the Division 2 teams in the spring league, as well as all D3 teams twice. Now we're in D2 ourselves we play everyone in all three divisions.

I..I. ..

So, there's 3 divisions or 1 division with echelons?

It's not much different to the way MLB operates. They have two leagues with three divisions each and everyone plays inter-divisionally (there's even inter-league play now).

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

So... 1 division?

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 21:42

Trooper wrote:

So... 1 division?

Nope, because you're still only rated against the teams in your division according to the standings.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2018 21:43

It makes for amusing tables like our Division 3 this season where the three top teams all lost more games than they won and tied for 1st place.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2018 15:58

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

I like it, i'm not sure I get it though

. Is be about to be impaled by his own writings? I'm not sure how the pencil links to twitter, other than the abstract writing idea.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2018 16:42

Trooper wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

I like it, i'm not sure I get it though

. Is be about to be impaled by his own writings? I'm not sure how the pencil links to twitter, other than the abstract writing idea.

Isn’t the theme of the show Artists against Trump?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2018 16:57

I was unaware Putins dick looked so much like a HB.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

DBSnappa wrote:

Trooper wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

I like it, i'm not sure I get it though

. Is be about to be impaled by his own writings? I'm not sure how the pencil links to twitter, other than the abstract writing idea.

Isn’t the theme of the show Artists against Trump?

Ah, so the pencil is a representation of art or the artist. Hmmm...

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2018 17:42

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

Much as I like Carys's picture, I can't get enough of #12 (the one with the dogs).

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2018 18:09

Mr Dave wrote:

I was unaware Putins dick looked so much like a HB.

Lol. Pencil dick is a legit insult. The novichok is in the post

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2018 18:10

Grim... wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

Much as I like Carys's picture, I can't get enough of #12 (the one with the dogs).

Yeah, I liked that one as well.

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

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

Love her style. I think my favourite one there is the playing card.

miki · **Joined:** 30th Apr, 2011 **Posts:** 1458 **Location:** NL

DBSnappa wrote:

My daughter has some work in an exhibition which is anti-Trump and is running tomorrow night and Saturday to coincide with his visit. I can’t make it as I’m out of town. The big yay is that the Evening Standard have featured the show on their website and Carys’s effort is no 13 in the gallery.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/ar ... 85836.html

I saw it as an election ballot pencil so I took it as he will be killed in the next election
I love how everyone sees something different in art
also, I really like it and it's super cool that her art is being shown!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2018 23:00

Friends and their kids went with us to a Haunted Halowe'en farm.. There was a Haunted Barrel tractor Ride where a tractor pulls a train full of barrels along a route and people jump up in costumes etc and shout "boo!" or whatever. 2 of the 3 kids that went on that ride with MrsA are now unable to sleep due to "the scary clown". "the pig-man" and "the duck man" . Those 2 are not mine so "yay". Bigone seems unaffected and Doone and I went to look at an emu instead of going on ride. Read the small print, kids.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

More of a Nay! but Yay! then Nay! The main TV seemed to be on the path to self-destruction the other day, I noticed a horizontal line of stuck pixels going across the bottom. That Nay! only lasted about five seconds before I started plotting what to get to replace it and excitedly drew up a shortlist of 55" ones that would be a nice upgrade. Then switched it on last night and the fucking thing's fine again.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

markg wrote:

More of a Nay! but Yay! then Nay! The main TV seemed to be on the path to self-destruction the other day, I noticed a horizontal line of stuck pixels going across the bottom. That Nay! only lasted about five seconds before I started plotting what to get to replace it and excitedly drew up a shortlist of 55" ones that would be a nice upgrade. Then switched it on last night and the fucking thing's fine again.

Boo! But also, yay (where the missus can hear you)

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2018 16:26

I'm sure TV's shrink.

Every time we've had a new non CRT telly it's been "WOW! This is massive, it's like being at the cinema!" a few months down the line and you see how much extra wasted space there is around the wall that a bigger TV could occupy

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2018 16:28

Same as fast cars - they only start out fast.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2018 20:33

Grim... wrote:

Same as fast cars - they only start out fast.

Tru Dat.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10078

That stops happening when you get to triple figures.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Haha fucking peasant! I've never even bought a car for less than £100.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:40

Don't gloat, MaliA might be reading.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:40

BikNorton wrote:

That stops happening when you get to triple figures.

BHP? MPH? Um... Number of wheels?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:51

He must mean the amount of car's he's owned, like Hearthley.

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Nov 22, 2018 23:29

Currently have no power because my circuit breaker board thing looks like this:

Attachment:

IMG_20181122_214617.jpg

The yay is that it was caught before it caught fire and burnt down the house!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

I'm no Joans, but that doesn't look right to me.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Nov 23, 2018 1:14

Lucky it didn't do more damage! How old is that Malc? It looks like it could do with updating but I'm only basing that on the fact it looks different to mine which was fitted about... Oh yeah, 10 years ago.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8648

If I was to fit a board, it would probably look like that.

But without the burnt bit, that would come later.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:12

TheVision wrote:

Lucky it didn't do more damage! How old is that Malc? It looks like it could do with updating but I'm only basing that on the fact it looks different to mine which was fitted about... Oh yeah, 10 years ago.

About 11 years old. and yeah it could have been much worse, looking like it might cost the best part of a grand to replace and install, which is perfect timing, I mean there is never a good time for that sort of thing, but a month before christmas has got to be one of the worst times.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Fri Nov 23, 2018 16:13

Malc wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Lucky it didn't do more damage! How old is that Malc? It looks like it could do with updating but I'm only basing that on the fact it looks different to mine which was fitted about... Oh yeah, 10 years ago.

About 11 years old. and yeah it could have been much worse, looking like it might cost the best part of a grand to replace and install, which is perfect timing, I mean there is never a good time for that sort of thing, but a month before christmas has got to be one of the worst times.

Malc, please get some more quotes. I had some electrical work done last month that included a new board, three new sockets, and outside light and full safety certificate for the house. It cost me £500. Although I appreciate yours is more urgent so you might be paying for that.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Nov 23, 2018 16:38

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Malc wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Lucky it didn't do more damage! How old is that Malc? It looks like it could do with updating but I'm only basing that on the fact it looks different to mine which was fitted about... Oh yeah, 10 years ago.

About 11 years old. and yeah it could have been much worse, looking like it might cost the best part of a grand to replace and install, which is perfect timing, I mean there is never a good time for that sort of thing, but a month before christmas has got to be one of the worst times.

Malc, please get some more quotes. I had some electrical work done last month that included a new board, three new sockets, and outside light and full safety certificate for the house. It cost me £500. Although I appreciate yours is more urgent so you might be paying for that.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

I will do, he hasn't given me the quote yet, this was just a verbal rough figure. He thought the new box would be about £500 (with the replacement breakers too) and that it would take about 10 hours at £25 an hour.

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