Bits and Bobs 49

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Jem wrote:

Pundabaya wrote:

Jem wrote:

Just had a client ask if they can "play with the colours" on their new site at their end.

*quietly weeps*

The customer is always right!

In that case they can make their own website

They probably think they can.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:15

I have always want to say.. 'I would agree with you, but the we would both be wrong!'

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:33

https://www.chargrilled.co.uk/t-shirts/ ... -t-shirt.m

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:55

Grim... wrote:

https://www.chargrilled.co.uk/t-shirts/If-I-Agreed-With-You-We-Would-Both-Be-Wrong-t-shirt.m

I need that...

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2018 17:32

interesting article..

http://www.theflitecast.com/posts/2016/ ... wayforever

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

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... -happening

I wonder if I've got time to play the originals first.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Sun Apr 15, 2018 12:20

Joans wrote:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-14-shenmue-remasters-are-finally-happening

I wonder if I've got time to play the originals first.

Just go to your nearest docks, steal a forklift and ask around for sailors. There, just saved you 20 hours of tedium. HTH HAND

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:04

This two would have lost their shit if they'd tried to by pies from TheVision.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... l-14533827

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

Grim... wrote:

This two would have lost their shit if they'd tried to by pies from TheVision.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... l-14533827

That Morrisons is less than a mile from my parent's house

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4300

The journalist was having fun with that story

Quote:

Husband Tony, who eats fish and chips three days a week and rarely touches pastry, branded the decision “stupid”.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:58

It was half baked at best.

Pretty crumby.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:03

Those two are always in their local paper complaining about various things.

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

Amazing!

"But Tony suggested a more sinister explanation.
“There’s more to this,” he said. “Morrisons have got their own agenda."

They are under the thrall of big pie, for sure.

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

GazChap wrote:

Those two are always in their local paper complaining about various things.

It's nice for retired people to have a hobby.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:17

The talk of pies is making me queasy.. I was up all night throwing up for some reason. Feel like crap today but the kids don't care do they? Business as usual for them.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:24

"My problems just got...smaller"

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:25

Are you going to a fancy dress party as a budget Thor?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:26

I am making an impact

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:32

GazChap wrote:

Are you going to a fancy dress party as a budget Thor?

Timmy Mallet

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

TheVision wrote:

The talk of pies is making me queasy.. I was up all night throwing up for some reason. Feel like crap today but the kids don't care do they? Business as usual for them.

I’ve been sick today, too. Was feeling ill all yesterday.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Zardoz wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Are you going to a fancy dress party as a budget Thor?

Timmy Mallet

There’s no way Mali can dress as sharp as Timmy Mallet.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 12:04

Mimi wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Are you going to a fancy dress party as a budget Thor?

Timmy Mallet

There’s no way Mali can dress as sharp as Timmy Mallet.

True. Kovacs nailed it with his footwear though.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Findus Fop wrote:

The journalist was having fun with that story

Quote:

Husband Tony, who eats fish and chips three days a week and rarely touches pastry, branded the decision “stupid”.

Based on some of the other stories, I think the whole site is a very subtle wind up of the readers who wont get it.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... s-14140811

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

The gazette is a very real and quite old local newspaper. I wouldn't be surprised if they're cherry picking pissed off local stories just to take the piss though.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

If anyone can bear to watch the theme tune to this (on mute)... can you see any facial resemblance of the woman singing to Frank Skinner? Every time I comes on all I can see is Frank Skinner.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Edit: I should put a link!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09zh8b5

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

I realise I didn’t actually edit that now.

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

I can see a bit of Frank.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Around the mouth, right? And the teeth. And that weird smirk like a great-aunt.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4300

Trooper wrote:

I can see a bit of Frank.

You know it is, it really is.

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

I can't personally see Frank, but that facial structure makes her look like a Muppet.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:38

I think I need a bigger hammer.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2018 14:46

Only because you planted the idea, Mimi.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Can't wait for S1:E69 - Feeling Horny.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Cliff Richard privacy case: I acted fairly, says BBC reporter

I don't think spying through Cliff's windows from a drone or helicopter, while the fuzz were rummaging through his stuff, was professional reporting. Not quite as bad as their appalling coverage of Raoul Moat, but still OTT.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2018 22:42

Appalling coverage of Raoul Moat in what way?

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

On the day when the police had him surrounded, the Beeb reporter (I think it was Jon Sopel) was on the street, cornering anyone who'd talk to him, engaging in pointless and repetitive questioning about what people thought about having a murderer cornered in a field, with a gun to his head. He was just filling the time with gibberish because he was stuck trying to do a live report when nothing was actually happening. He then interviewed a distraught lady whose mum was locked in her house, very close to where the siege was taking place, and then commandeered the woman's phone when she managed to get through to her mum and then asked HER a load of questions that she was incapable of answering, when she was also obviously very worried about her own safety. Cheap, nasty TV journalism that is not worthy of the Beeb. But I'm sure he'd been told to keep going as they MUST try to beat Sky's viewing figures.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2018 0:00

Ah, that's terrible. I don't really remember that.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I remember it at the time and Charlie Brooker covered it a Newswipe as well. (Or a Yearly Wipe, one of the two.)

The whole things was very distasteful and a classic example of how something that doesn't really matter very much can totally dominate the shitty 24/7 news agenda for days at a time.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:38

I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

MaliA wrote:

I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting

Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.

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

And now I've just reminded myself about the Cumbrian Taxi Driver spree shooter. That was a crazy fucking summer...

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Hearthly wrote:

MaliA wrote:

I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting

Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.

It was (maybe remains to this day?) British police’s biggest ever manhunt. It was much hyped and over-sensationalised (they got the survival guy... not the Bear chap... the cuddly one who likes to carve spoons...) involved at some point. There’s no doubt the news stories and reporting style was ridiculous at points, but the scale of the operation that was put in place to track and apprehend this guy was newsworthy. Not of interest to me, or you by the sounds of it, but it would have been perhaps stranger if Britain’s biggest ever manhunt wasn’t a sizeable news story.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Oh gosh, just remembered the Gazza bit.

I’m surprised they didn’t get URI Gella planting crystals in the corners of the Moat field.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:42

To do:

Nail skirting board to wall and stuff the void with filler
Sort out dsiplay boards for my art stuff next month
Drive to Buxton tonight
In morning go to Wirral for house hunting expedition (maybe lunch anyone?) lmk.
Saturday more houses, then more houses then another overnight and Sunday home.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:45

Mimi wrote:

Hearthly wrote:

MaliA wrote:

I think someone that went on a rampage and ended up holed up in a field is pretty newsworthy, but I see the points regarding the Damien Day style of news reporting

Not really, it's just one wingnut who didn't deserve even a tiny amount of the attention he got. Makes for easy, sensational 'news'.

It was (maybe remains to this day?) British police’s biggest ever manhunt. It was much hyped and over-sensationalised (they got the survival guy... not the Bear chap... the cuddly one who likes to carve spoons...) involved at some point. There’s no doubt the news stories and reporting style was ridiculous at points, but the scale of the operation that was put in place to track and apprehend this guy was newsworthy. Not of interest to me, or you by the sounds of it, but it would have been perhaps stranger if Britain’s biggest ever manhunt wasn’t a sizeable news story.

I think my hatchet is endorsed by Bear. Anyway, yeah, I agree. It was big news and a developing story and I think that if journalist didn't make those calls, hey would be asked why? There's a lot of dead (ho ho ) air to fill a lot of the time.

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

I'm not in Wirral tomorrow (work) but I am over the weekend if you would like to pop by

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

I bought a laser printer for £50 t'other day, as my inkjet printer had dried up ink...again...after printing about 2 pages a month or so ago... It was £25 for more ink, that would dry up again through low use. Didn't want to get on that merry go round again, so looked for other option.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Xpress ... B00YU62KR6

Cost me £50 from ebuyer, ink lasts for 1000 pages (against 200 for an inkjet), ink doesn't dry out, replacement ink costs £10, it's tiny, it's quiet, super easy to setup, wifi enabled, spits out a page every couple of seconds, it's bloody brilliant.
Only downside is that it is black and white only, but other than that I can heartily recommend it, should have bought one years ago.

I give it 9.2 troopoints

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Oh, that’s interesting! How come tge I k doesn’t dry up? That’s always been my issue with printers, too.

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

Laser printers don't actually use ink, they use toner, which is a dry powder to start with, so can't get any drier!

They use heat to melt the toner onto the paper I think, or magic, one of the two.

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