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https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/three-arrested-after-armed-police-1399679

It's not often something like that happens less than 5 minutes from where I live.

Malc wrote:

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/three-arrested-after-armed-police-1399679

It's not often something like that happens less than 5 minutes from where I live.

You surprise me. It happens around here all the time. (I live 5 mins from Moss Side.)

The photo of the street sign really adds a bit of gravitas to the report. And the one with the caption saying it’s close to a school doesn’t show the picture of the school, just the house that’s in the next shot a couple of seconds earlier by the look of it.

I think the reporter/photographer just got carried away with the excitement of it all.

I got notified that XMarks is being scrapped in May. It seems odd that there don't seem to be many decent alternatives that offer simple browser bookmark syncing. Everything I've looked at so far seems to complicate the process or offer lots of features I have no need for.

devilman wrote:

It's not that odd; as all the browsers do it natively now there's no real call for third party solutions.

I'm in my late thirties and I'd love to play it again! In fact, I might just do that this evening.

Come on Toy Story (crosses fingers)

Giphy "reach for the sky":
https://media0.giphy.com/media/QmNiQf0V7ixuMY9NAU/giphy-loop.mp4

Advertising bullshit: try to guess the product from this load of old cobblers.

Perspective changes the cityscape at one masterful stroke. Inspired by the purity of modern architecture, its parallel lines go on forever, as limitless as your ideas. Its crisp determination reflects your most focused creative moments. Powerful design creates a sense of presence whenever you use it. Get ready to reach for the sky.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

The answer is here

Warhead wrote:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

The answer is here

I did actually guess that correctly, based on "as limitless as your ideas" and "sense of presence". If you had one, perhaps you could create similar waffle.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

The answer is here

Sorry, I posted that before obviously clickingvor reading further, but I wasn’t far wrong!

Back to work.
A. G. A-I-N.

Sorry to hear you're having a crap time. Having a holiday not be what you wanted is always a downer.

It may suck now, but in time you'll get some good stories out of it to dine out on.

I've just found out that someone from called Nicky Santoro is coming to visit my workplace from US Head Office. I've a feeling I'm going to be beaten up with a phone or stabbed in the neck with a pen if I mess up any more TPAS reports.

Ebay folk use some strange things to pad their boxes. Bubblewrap is handy as I can re-use that for the stuff I send out myself, but the other day, someone had used a tatty kid's jumper and today someone has included an old pillow.

Author:	Bamba [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 16:35 ]
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That Street Fighter box is hideous. The random character placement in the art and the weird tag line blatantly written by someone who's only knowledge of the product was the picture on the front. Urgh.

Author:	TheVision [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 16:37 ]
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Terrible isn't it? I think it was the same artwork that was used for the SNES too but without the tag line. It was definitely the same artwork as the Amiga as I had it and it came with a free poster which I had on my wall.

Author:	Warhead [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 16:39 ]
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DavPaz wrote: Trailblazer I was thinking of Breakout, but that didn’t have a ball bouncing into the screen. I really ought to get my Atari out of the loft to see if it still works. My kids would love to play Buggyboy again, I’m sure, even though they’re in their late thirties.

Author:	TheVision [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 16:47 ]
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I'm in my late thirties and I'd love to play it again! In fact, I might just do that this evening.

Author:	NervousPete [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 17:14 ]
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Thanks for the birthday wishes guys and gals, and more of the same extended to Curio! I have birthday meal and movie tonight; coq au vin with a fine bordeaux. Mmm. Also hopefully True Stories, the David Byrne / John Goodman movie from the eighties if YouTube behaves. Once again thanks for attending my Bristol Birthday Bash on Saturday, Kern!

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Author:	Mimi [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 13:08 ]
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Yesterday I was in a Coffee shop and at an adjacent table was a man of, I guess, 20-25 with two women of about 80. He was like every Internet/comic book store nerd ever written into a film from his looks. He was absolutely burning the ears off these two bemused and yet bored looking women with his case against evolution which, in his entirety, seemed to be: “But you realise it doesn’t make any sense, right? They say we share a load of our DNA with bananas. But you don’t share any features with a banana. Look at a banana. How are you related to a banana? Can you be related to a... berry? Do you share DNA with a berry, too? It doesn’t make any sense. At no point can you say that we are like a banana. Do you think you look like a berry? I looked in the mirror today [this I doubt, I don’t think he’d washed his hair this year] and I’m pretty certain I didn’t look like a berry...” etc. I tuned back out, but as he was leaving he was saying “and anyway, even if there was really another planet that would support life you tell me exactly how we’d get there...” I didn’t hear either of the old ladies speak once. He seemed MIGHTY pleased with himself though, for being a genius and resisting being fed all that fake education.

Author:	Zardoz [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 14:56 ]
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Is it, Malabelm?

Author:	Malc [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 15:11 ]
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https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/p ... ce-1399679 It's not often something like that happens less than 5 minutes from where I live.

Author:	Nemmie [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 15:26 ]
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You've posted at the forum. Now wear the headset https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beexcellent-GM ... B0711LKKGD

Author:	Cras [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 16:21 ]
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Author:	Zardoz [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 16:27 ]
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【Crystal Clarity Sound】Get rid of poor sound performance, hear everything boomed directly from the hairy maw of the internet's famous Dr Richard Gaywood.

Author:	Pundabaya [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 17:14 ]
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Do they come with a DavPaz size headband?

Author:	Warhead [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 18:10 ]
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21% of people who reviewed them think they’re rubbish (at the time of posting). I think I’ll pass.

Author:	Warhead [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 18:14 ]
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Malc wrote: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/three-arrested-after-armed-police-1399679 It's not often something like that happens less than 5 minutes from where I live. You surprise me. It happens around here all the time. (I live 5 mins from Moss Side.) The photo of the street sign really adds a bit of gravitas to the report. And the one with the caption saying it’s close to a school doesn’t show the picture of the school, just the house that’s in the next shot a couple of seconds earlier by the look of it. I think the reporter/photographer just got carried away with the excitement of it all.

Author:	Kern [ Fri Mar 30, 2018 19:56 ]
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Unexpected headline of the day: Guardian: 'Vatican scrambles after pope appears to deny existence of hell' To the Popemobile, Robin!

Author:	Bamba [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 21:23 ]
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At the risk of engulfing everyone's evening, Google Maps has a Where's Wally game built into at the moment that's very v compelling.

Author:	myp [ Sun Apr 01, 2018 16:26 ]
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Sat and Mr Dave kindly bought me 3mo of PS+ so hit me up for gaming at any time yo

Author:	MrChris [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:54 ]
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On the plus side Kern you haven’t wasted three grand on a holiday everyone is all hating. Bali looks nice from the photos but it’s actually really not that great. It’s over developed, dirty, busy, entirely based around separating tourists from their money and doesn’t contain many of he quintessential areas of tranquility you might expect. The hotel in Ubud which looked lovely is insect infested, including some fairly massive cockroaches. The pretty outside bathrooms are just magnets for vast numbers of biting things. (Luwak Villas in Ubud - their tripadvisor score will be going down a bit, despite how lovely their staff are). The bike tour we booked was terrible, all on road on what turned out to be some fairly knackered old bikes, and it turned out sams brakes didn’t work very well. And it was all downhill ... and the last bit was through a busy bit of town traffic wise, and Balinese drivers make singaporean drivers look considerate and safe. So last night was the first night Sam has ever wet the bed due to a nightmare. And to top it all off, it’s making Ruth and Sam less happy about being in Singapore too. Yay. Lesson learned there. We are not by nature the sort of people who’d go on holiday in slightly more rustic South East Asian countries. There have been a couple of good points (the Campuhan Ridge trail was a good couple of kilometres of walk this morning but you have to get past piles of refuse to get to it) but so far this has been the worst holiday we’ve been on ... :-/

Author:	Malc [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 21:20 ]
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Warhead wrote: Malc wrote: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/three-arrested-after-armed-police-1399679 It's not often something like that happens less than 5 minutes from where I live. You surprise me. It happens around here all the time. (I live 5 mins from Moss Side.) The photo of the street sign really adds a bit of gravitas to the report. And the one with the caption saying it’s close to a school doesn’t show the picture of the school, just the house that’s in the next shot a couple of seconds earlier by the look of it. I think the reporter/photographer just got carried away with the excitement of it all. The school is two roads away, maybe a couple of minutes walk. It's really rare that anything like this happens around here, although there was the torture brothell raid a couple of years back, so I'm not that surprised the reporter went to town.

Author:	Cras [ Fri Mar 30, 2018 22:17 ]
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"appears to" He said "there is no hell".

Author:	Kern [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 7:30 ]
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He's clearly never used the M6.

Author:	devilman [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 12:16 ]
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I got notified that XMarks is being scrapped in May. It seems odd that there don't seem to be many decent alternatives that offer simple browser bookmark syncing. Everything I've looked at so far seems to complicate the process or offer lots of features I have no need for.

Author:	Bamba [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 14:08 ]
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devilman wrote: I got notified that XMarks is being scrapped in May. It seems odd that there don't seem to be many decent alternatives that offer simple browser bookmark syncing. Everything I've looked at so far seems to complicate the process or offer lots of features I have no need for. It's not that odd; as all the browsers do it natively now there's no real call for third party solutions.

Author:	devilman [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 14:14 ]
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Bamba wrote: devilman wrote: I got notified that XMarks is being scrapped in May. It seems odd that there don't seem to be many decent alternatives that offer simple browser bookmark syncing. Everything I've looked at so far seems to complicate the process or offer lots of features I have no need for. It's not that odd; as all the browsers do it natively now there's no real call for third party solutions. I should have probably added that it's the cross-browser support that I find useful.

Author:	Warhead [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 15:32 ]
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TheVision wrote: I'm in my late thirties and I'd love to play it again! In fact, I might just do that this evening. Did you? If so, was it as good as you remember?

Author:	Bamba [ Sat Mar 31, 2018 21:24 ]
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The fruit level can get fucked though.

Author:	Warhead [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:58 ]
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Advertising bullshit: try to guess the product from this load of old cobblers. Perspective changes the cityscape at one masterful stroke. Inspired by the purity of modern architecture, its parallel lines go on forever, as limitless as your ideas. Its crisp determination reflects your most focused creative moments. Powerful design creates a sense of presence whenever you use it. Get ready to reach for the sky. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! The answer is here

Author:	Trooper [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:00 ]
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Come on Toy Story (crosses fingers) Giphy "reach for the sky": https://media0.giphy.com/media/3owzWaimtMYIToWhJ6/giphy-loop.mp4

Author:	Warhead [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:05 ]
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Trooper wrote: Come on Toy Story (crosses fingers) Giphy "reach for the sky": https://media0.giphy.com/media/QmNiQf0V7ixuMY9NAU/giphy-loop.mp4 Nope, and it’s not Douglas Bader’s false legs either.

Author:	Findus Fop [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:07 ]
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Warhead wrote: Advertising bullshit: try to guess the product from this load of old cobblers. Perspective changes the cityscape at one masterful stroke. Inspired by the purity of modern architecture, its parallel lines go on forever, as limitless as your ideas. Its crisp determination reflects your most focused creative moments. Powerful design creates a sense of presence whenever you use it. Get ready to reach for the sky. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! The answer is here I did actually guess that correctly, based on "as limitless as your ideas" and "sense of presence". If you had one, perhaps you could create similar waffle.

Author:	Warhead [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:52 ]
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Findus Fop wrote: Warhead wrote: Advertising bullshit: try to guess the product from this load of old cobblers. Perspective changes the cityscape at one masterful stroke. Inspired by the purity of modern architecture, its parallel lines go on forever, as limitless as your ideas. Its crisp determination reflects your most focused creative moments. Powerful design creates a sense of presence whenever you use it. Get ready to reach for the sky. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! The answer is here I did actually guess that correctly, based on "as limitless as your ideas" and "sense of presence". If you had one, perhaps you could create similar waffle. I have one of that make that I’ve had for over 20 years, just not that model, obv. I haven’t used it for years and it’s bladder has rotted through, so I was wondering if it could be repaired. There is a replacement converter, but before I shell out for it I wanted to be sure I could get the old one off. At the moment it’s stuck fast. But that blurb I should still a load of tosh.

Author:	Mimi [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 13:49 ]
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Warhead wrote: Advertising bullshit: try to guess the product from this load of old cobblers. Perspective changes the cityscape at one masterful stroke. Inspired by the purity of modern architecture, its parallel lines go on forever, as limitless as your ideas. Its crisp determination reflects your most focused creative moments. Powerful design creates a sense of presence whenever you use it. Get ready to reach for the sky. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! The answer is here Is it a pencil?

Author:	Mimi [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 13:50 ]
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Sorry, I posted that before obviously clickingvor reading further, but I wasn’t far wrong!

Author:	Warhead [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 14:59 ]
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Mimi wrote: Sorry, I posted that before obviously clickingvor reading further, but I wasn’t far wrong! Exactly. It could be the same blurb for pencil, it’s about as bullshitty.

Author:	Kern [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 22:59 ]
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It's only after I started a working life I realised just how soul-destroying the chorus line in that Blur song is. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Back to work. A. G. A-I-N.

Author:	Kern [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:01 ]
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Sorry to hear you're having a crap time. Having a holiday not be what you wanted is always a downer. It may suck now, but in time you'll get some good stories out of it to dine out on.

Author:	KovacsC [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:21 ]
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Late to the party as always... good to see you back trooper..

Author:	JBR [ Wed Apr 04, 2018 3:02 ]
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That sounds a bit pants, Mr Chris. Maybe Taiwan, or Fiji (hot, though). Taiwan might tick all the boxes, not that I've been. Malaysia, too, for development and whatever you want; beaches etc. With a bit of luck one of those will make them feel they're well located.