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Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Cathy wrote:

A little while after I finished secondary school, my mother bumped into my Physics teacher, who asked what I was studying in college. She informed her that I was doing an astrology course.

It's astrophysics, Mum.

That happens to me all the time.

The last time I was in a bar with an extremely drunk girl going round and round in circles.

Urgh.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Squirt wrote:

I've often thought it would be an interesting project to make a program that automatically generated horoscopes. Feed in a few years worth from the papers, press the big read button and watch perfect horoscopes come splurging out, ready to be sold to the papers for 50k a week. It would also then be interesting to see which were rated as being more accurate.

Remember those type in "Biorhythm" things you used to get in computer mags in the early/mid eighties? They would calculate your mood etc just from your birthdate.

Utter bollocks of course and the output often seemed almost random. I wonder how the calculated it in a few lines of code.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Lave wrote:

The last time I was in a bar with an extremely drunk girl going round and round in circles.

Urgh.

Was it Heather Mills after you'd hidden her wooden leg?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 17:51

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Heather Mills

Wood.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6515

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Remember those type in "Biorhythm" things you used to get in computer mags in the early/mid eighties? They would calculate your mood etc just from your birthdate.

Utter bollocks of course and the output often seemed almost random. I wonder how the calculated it in a few lines of code.

Have you ever seen those "Love Calculators" they advertise on crappy cable music channels? £2 a text and we'll give you a numerical value on how much you love your boyfriend!! Not based purely on some mashup of the ascii values of your names, honest!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Squirt wrote:

Have you ever seen those "Love Calculators" they advertise on crappy cable music channels? £2 a text and we'll give you a numerical value on how much you love your boyfriend!! Not based purely on some mashup of the ascii values of your names, honest!

£2? Why that could buy you someones love for a whole month.

[runs]

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 19:49

chinnyhill10 wrote:

£2? Why that could buy you someones begrudging holding of their tongue for a whole month.

[runs]

FTFY

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 19:49

Mr Chris wrote:

I meant the risk management job...

Ah yes, that makes a lot more sense, really...

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2008 20:12

Squirt wrote:

Have you ever seen those "Love Calculators" they advertise on crappy cable music channels? £2 a text and we'll give you a numerical value on how much you love your boyfriend!! Not based purely on some mashup of the ascii values of your names, honest!

Best one I've seen is "Kama Sutra" on TMF. Where, for the princely sum of £1, you text in the name of your partner and your name alongside it, and it calculates which position in the Kama Sutra best suits your relationship.

Why the hell would you spend money on something like that? There's a never-ending stream of idiots doing it (unless the ones on the TV are made up ones to try and get people to text in) and I just can't imagine spending money on something like that.

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