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myp · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 0:12

Can't be Titler, way too short a post.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Everything I've said has been massively down voted which is amusing me no end. I did go in swinging somewhat, but the entire set of comments is predictably full of people going on about how the removal of bouncing boobs from a game aimed at kids is either a pathetic climb down in the face of SJW outrage (which they've completely invented just so they can be outraged in turn) or somehow emblematic of how utterly ruined modern society is. Or both. Idiots the lot of them.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:11

I stopped reading EG comments about three years ago and have never looked back.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Not reading comments on anything is probably the best way to live your life but I can seem to help myself. I did have a Firefox plugin that hid the comments section on various sites but it also had some weird effects on other stuff so I got rid of it.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Morrisons has a Christmas sweets aisle already

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 20:05

Trooper wrote:

Morrisons has a Christmas sweets aisle already

They've been out since last weekend. Chloe found these in the shop just and of course her and Joans came up with too many reasons to list, to eat them now. :-|

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 20:41

We’re watching The Nightmare Before Christmas

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:20

We’re on a mini break in Herefordshire. Yesterday we went to Brockhampton House, and we saw this...

TheVision · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:24

I have a similar approach to playing on my Xbox.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

DBSnappa wrote:

We’re on a mini break in Herefordshire. Yesterday we went to Brockhampton House, and we saw this...

If you read that with sew/sewing mentally replaced by wank/wanking it becomes incredible advice.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

My manual 5-10 years later! Significant progress

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Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Sep 30, 2018 14:04

Bamba wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

We’re on a mini break in Herefordshire. Yesterday we went to Brockhampton House, and we saw this...

If you read that with sew/sewing mentally replaced by wank/wanking it becomes incredible advice.

Switch out French chalk with lube, too.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14487

Another long read

The story of the sale of London Bridge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/id ... d_an_ocean

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

DBSnappa wrote:

We’re on a mini break in Herefordshire. Yesterday we went to Brockhampton House, and we saw this...

Until the last paragraph it's genuinely good, evergreen advice about preparing to do anything creative. But the end is nuts.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2018 15:04

zaphod79 wrote:

Another long read

The story of the sale of London Bridge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/id ... d_an_ocean

I have visited that in Lake Havasu City. It’s funny to see it there with the City of London dragons still on it.

It was absurdly hot when we were there, so we didn’t get to see it for long. Not much to do in Lake Havasu City when it isn’t Spring Break.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 13:53

Xmas sandwiches already in Boots. WTAF?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 14:02

They want you to advertise for them.

It worked!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 14:24

Grim... wrote:

They want you to advertise for them.

It worked!

Those wily old rascals.

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 16:08

There's some fucking delicious looking buttercream mince pies in the co-op and the only thing that's stopping me from buying some is the fact that's IT'S FUCKING OCTOBER.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 16:22

Just scribble on the pack "Butter Scream" then you're all set for October.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 16:33

Jem wrote:

IT'S FUCKING OCTOBER.

Sounds more fun than the 'sober October' campaign currently being publicised at work.

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 16:42

Kern wrote:

Jem wrote:

IT'S FUCKING OCTOBER.

Sounds more fun than the 'sober October' campaign currently being publicised at work.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Zardoz wrote:

Just scribble on the pack "Butter Scream" then you're all set for October.

Excellent. :DD

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Oct 02, 2018 20:27

Zardoz wrote:

Just scribble on the pack "Butter Scream" then you're all set for October.

Missed this earlier ... brilliant. Totally doing this :DD

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6507

Findus Fop wrote:

Squirt wrote:

We're doing some "Host Family" thing for international students for the local fancy-pants boarding school, and we have our first assignment this weekend. Two 16 year old girls from China. I'm cacking myself! What do young people like? Will they just sit in their rooms playing Minecraft or will I have to speak to them? What if they ask me to help with their homework or to give them advice on boys!? ARRRRHHSGDGHASDcv .xzxcvh.....!!!@4one!!

ooh, let us know how it goes. We've been idly sizing up the idea in Brighton where there seem to be millions of international students from China.

But I suspect they won't be wanting to spending any more time in your company than you feel comfortable in theirs. They probably just want a room to chill out and do teenage things in.

So, learnings from the experience:
* Our students were basically happy to lounge about and watch Chinese Netflix. They quite happy to come shopping with us and chat and so forth, but basically didn't want to do much else
* They chuffing *LOVE* pizza.
* There was some miscommunication between the hosting org and the school - taxis came a bit late and so on. Not a big deal, but might be a pain if you had other stuff going on.
* Two 16 year old girls, who probably weigh less than I do combined, can eat an unholy quantity of food.

It all seemed to go ok and we're probably doing it again soon!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:26

When do they take you to China to eat pizza and watch Netflix?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:23

Jem wrote:

There's some fucking delicious looking buttercream mince pies in the co-op and the only thing that's stopping me from buying some is the fact that's IT'S FUCKING OCTOBER.

I might to pop in after training

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:45

Whoever lobbed that in should be easy to find.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Squirt wrote:

Findus Fop wrote:

Squirt wrote:

We're doing some "Host Family" thing for international students for the local fancy-pants boarding school, and we have our first assignment this weekend. Two 16 year old girls from China. I'm cacking myself! What do young people like? Will they just sit in their rooms playing Minecraft or will I have to speak to them? What if they ask me to help with their homework or to give them advice on boys!? ARRRRHHSGDGHASDcv .xzxcvh.....!!!@4one!!

ooh, let us know how it goes. We've been idly sizing up the idea in Brighton where there seem to be millions of international students from China.

But I suspect they won't be wanting to spending any more time in your company than you feel comfortable in theirs. They probably just want a room to chill out and do teenage things in.

So, learnings from the experience:
* Our students were basically happy to lounge about and watch Chinese Netflix. They quite happy to come shopping with us and chat and so forth, but basically didn't want to do much else
* They chuffing *LOVE* pizza.
* There was some miscommunication between the hosting org and the school - taxis came a bit late and so on. Not a big deal, but might be a pain if you had other stuff going on.
* Two 16 year old girls, who probably weigh less than I do combined, can eat an unholy quantity of food.

It all seemed to go ok and we're probably doing it again soon!

glad to hear it worked out. Did they each have their own room or could you put them in the same room?

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6507

We had one large room, but our students were roomies at boarding school so they were ok. I think normally the organisation prefers you to have one student per room.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2018 15:18

I have started (attempting) to learn Korean.

It is the first time I have even tried to understand anything that isn't written with a Latin/Roman alphabet.

It is taking some getting used to.

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

GazChap wrote:

I have started (attempting) to learn Korean.

It is the first time I have even tried to understand anything that isn't written with a Latin/Roman alphabet.

It is taking some getting used to.

Hangul is one of the easiest writing methods in the world to learn, though!
http://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadk ... 15minutes/

I went to Korea for work last year and I really loved the place. I will go back for a proper stay one day.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2018 15:47

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Hangul is one of the easiest writing methods in the world to learn, though!

Once I've got all of the various glyphs in my head I'm sure it'll all fall into place, it does seem quite straightforward so far!

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

http://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/

That does distill it down far better than the other resources I've seen, cheers.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

GazChap wrote:

I have started (attempting) to learn Korean.

It is the first time I have even tried to understand anything that isn't written with a Latin/Roman alphabet.

It is taking some getting used to.

I learned some Russian a few years back, and it definitely takes some recalibration of the brain to use a different alphabet, even one that has some overlap.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6507

I'm attempting ( failing ) to learn old English, and just the fact that it has a couple of extra letters and some different pronunciations is making my brain hurt.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 0:29

Guten abend, Beexers.

I have spent the weekend of my 40th birthday in Cologne in Germany, which is one of my very favourite cities.

I have imbibed much Kölsch (which is a specific lager they make in Cologne and is brilliant) and had a great time.

Riles has issues about how the Allied bombing parties could have missed the (frankly incredible) cathedral here.

This is a little off base, because I'm in my Air B&B and not on a train, but...

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Forty. Forty.

What the fuck.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 0:53

Happy 40th Grim...! Sounds (and looks) like you've had an awesome time!

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

IOS 12 installed a Stocks app on my iPad. That can fuck right off. Deleted. What’s next, a Bitcoin trading app.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Happy birthday only 40 Grim. Xx

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:18

Happy Birthday Grim...!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:49

Happy 40th...

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:34

You're only 40 in numbers though, you're as young as the rest of us in your head.

Hope you've had an amazing time, can't wait to hear all about it on Friday! :luv:

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 23:14

Happy 40th, Grim...! x

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2018 23:15

Ooooh is that fancy patterned toilet roll?

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

There was nothing fancy about that place.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:43

Happy Birthday Mali!

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:22

Happy Birthday Mali

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:47

Happy Birthday, Mali!

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Mali Happy Returns

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:56

You couldn't have just held off to celebrate it at the Cottage? Never mind.. Happy Birthday Mali!

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