Bits & Bobs 39

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 15:18

We've just had a pretty intense but brief hail shower in London. Hail the size of 20p pieces lashing down for about 3 minutes

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

Why do EE want me to shout my password out loud instead of, more securely, asking for the first, second and fifth characters or something?

Can everybody hear me say my password? Do we think that's secure?

Fuckers.

:attitude:

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

DBSnappa wrote:

We've just had a pretty intense but brief hail shower in London. Hail the size of 20p pieces lashing down for about 3 minutes

It's due to the side effects of the smug self satisfied dick field generated by Richard Bacon interviewing Ricky Gervais.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 15:50

chinnyhill10 wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

We've just had a pretty intense but brief hail shower in London. Hail the size of 20p pieces lashing down for about 3 minutes

It's due to the side effects of the smug self satisfied dick field generated by Richard Bacon interviewing Ricky Gervais.

Yup, Bacon is a smug git, no argument there. Not particularly bright either, if his daily bacon podcasts are anything to go by.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25628

DBSnappa wrote:

We've just had a pretty intense but brief hail shower in London. Hail the size of 20p pieces lashing down for about 3 minutes

We had that here this morning. Russell is in that London today. He must think it is the end of days (except he is in a boring computer conference and so won't have any awareness if the land outside).

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

Mimi wrote:

he is in a boring computer conference

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 16:11

Is that the jQuery UK conference? I was at that!

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 19:41

You know how Will I Am has a website at will.i.am... Well, he does.

I've enquired today about buying Ross.co.

Just $25,000 dollars to me apparently. Wow... I'm going to offer them $100 and see what they come back with.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14364

We've had the IT genius' round today. A change in the security policy means we've all got to change our passwords each and every month. Thing is, you can't do it individually at your desktop (for some unexplained reason) so IT now have to around to each and everyone in the firm, write down your new desired password on a scrap of paper (bearing in mind theres over 100 people working at my place) and then they go back and input it for you on their central Skynet BBC Micro.

Guess what. I can't log in.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 19:49

TheVision wrote:

You know how Will I Am has a website at will.i.am... Well, he does.

That's pretty cool, actually.

But the website sucks.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 20:15

Grim... wrote:

TheVision wrote:

You know how Will I Am has a website at will.i.am... Well, he does.

That's pretty cool, actually.

But the website sucks.

Ross.co would have been better...

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu May 23, 2013 20:30

Woman in shop said I look like George Osbourne. Woman no longer getting my custom.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16570

Ha ha, brutal.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22285

MaliA wrote:

Woman in shop said I look like George Osbourne. Woman no longer getting my custom.

Dude at work here looks like David Cameron but isn't a tory, when he was working in Whitehall nobody would talk to him.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Someone once told me I looked like Louis Walsh. I didn't know who that was at the time.

Apropos nothing in particular, last week I worked on Peterborough on Monday, Sheffield and Hull on Tuesday, Northallerton on Wendesday, Bishop Auckland on Thursday and Glasgow on Friday. I'm toying with writing a travelogue about all the Travelodges I've stayed in since starting this job.

OK, I'm off again now. Be seeing you.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 6:48

Scouting for boys news now!

Well, this is a step in the right direction for the Boy Scouts of America, but until they drop the bar on adult leadership they'll be out of step with the rest of us and looking bigotted (just slightly less than before). Course, much of it is probably down to the heavy involvement of certain religious groups in the organisation over there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22650143

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11844

Warhead wrote:

Someone once told me I looked like Louis Walsh. I didn't know who that was at the time.

Apropos nothing in particular, last week I worked on Peterborough on Monday, Sheffield and Hull on Tuesday, Northallerton on Wendesday, Bishop Auckland on Thursday and Glasgow on Friday. I'm toying with writing a travelogue about all the Travelodges I've stayed in since starting this job.

Shit, Chinny? Are you okay?

I think Chinny might be in trouble folks.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14495

This cant be real can it ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22652083#TWEET766689

Quote:

High Court: Sally Bercow's Lord McAlpine tweet was libel

A tweet by Sally Bercow about Lord McAlpine has been ruled libellous by the High Court.

Mrs Bercow, the wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow, published a tweet two days after a BBC Newsnight programme had wrongly implicated a "leading Conservative politician" in sex abuse.

Amid widespread speculation about his identity, she wrote: "Why is Lord McAlpine trending. *innocent face*."

Mrs Bercow said she was "surprised and disappointed" by the ruling.

A subsequent High Court hearing will determine the damages she must pay.
'Nightmare'

Last November, Newsnight implicated a Thatcher-era politician in allegations of sexually abusing boys in the care of a children's home in Wales in the 1970s and 1980s, but it did not name Lord McAlpine.

The former Conservative Party treasurer was then wrongly identified on the internet.

The BBC apologised unreservedly to Lord McAlpine and settled his defamation claim for £185,000.

After publishing her comment about Lord McAlpine, Mrs Bercow apologised in four subsequent tweets but denied that her original tweet had been defamatory.

The judge ruled that the tweet meant that the Conservative peer was a "paedophile who was guilty of sexually abusing boys living in care".

In a statement, Mrs Bercow responded: "I will accept the ruling as the end of the matter. I remain sorry for the distress I have caused Lord McAlpine and I repeat my apologies.

"I did not tweet this with malice, and I did not intend to libel Lord McAlpine. I was being conversational and mischievous, as was so often my style on Twitter.

"I very much regret my tweet, and I promptly apologised publicly and privately to Lord McAlpine for the distress I caused him. I also made two offers of compensation. Lord McAlpine issued proceedings and the last few months have been a nightmare. I am sure he has found it as stressful as I have. Litigation is not a pleasant experience for anyone.

"Today's ruling should be seen as a warning to all social media users. Things can be held to be seriously defamatory, even when you do not intend them to be defamatory and do not make any express accusation. On this, I have learned my own lesson the hard way."

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 11:58

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Stupid bitch.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 12:12

I don't get why it's libellous?

She asked a question, knowing, but not sharing the answer.

People could then click on the trends and see what was being said about him.

If she'd had tweeted without the "innocent face" bit, would it still have been libel?

Malc

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16570

I think they were spot on, it was obviously a mealy-mouthed accusation, she wasn't being half as clever as she thought and paid the price.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14364

I hope she appeals. This ruling is ridiculous, absurd and sets the standard for defamation far, far too low.

EDIT: Ah, she ain't appealing. Stupid.

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 13:26

Quote:

The judge ruled that the tweet meant that the Conservative peer was a "paedophile who was guilty of sexually abusing boys living in care".

So, given that this ruling means that people are probably talking quite a lot about Lord McAlpine on twitter at the moment, if one now tweeted exactly the same tweet about "why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*" would that then be considered libel?

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 14:25

Bobbyaro wrote:

Warhead wrote:

Someone once told me I looked like Louis Walsh. I didn't know who that was at the time.

Apropos nothing in particular, last week I worked on Peterborough on Monday, Sheffield and Hull on Tuesday, Northallerton on Wendesday, Bishop Auckland on Thursday and Glasgow on Friday. I'm toying with writing a travelogue about all the Travelodges I've stayed in since starting this job.

Shit, Chinny? Are you okay?

I think Chinny might be in trouble folks.

That wasn't Chinny.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11844

Grim... wrote:

Bobbyaro wrote:

Warhead wrote:

Someone once told me I looked like Louis Walsh. I didn't know who that was at the time.

Apropos nothing in particular, last week I worked on Peterborough on Monday, Sheffield and Hull on Tuesday, Northallerton on Wendesday, Bishop Auckland on Thursday and Glasgow on Friday. I'm toying with writing a travelogue about all the Travelodges I've stayed in since starting this job.

Shit, Chinny? Are you okay?

I think Chinny might be in trouble folks.

That wasn't Chinny.

Yeah, it was a reference to the fact that over 12 hours have now passed without Chinny posting a photo of Alan Partridge in a travelodge.
RIP Chinny.

sdg · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 14:38

Yeah I just saw that on the news and was uncomfortable about it. So are all the people who named him or retweeted people naming him going to be charged as well?
I'm also pretty shocked the BBC had to pay so much in damages and they didn't even name him

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 14:41

Wow.. I didn't even know Chinny had taken people to court! I'd best be careful.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 15:16

NSFW!
There was a penis doctor on Embaressing Bodies Live this week who sounded just like Patridge. Good old YouTube has the whole thing:
NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEwhyIRfxI&t=34m10s NSFW

You only need to listen to it, not watch. I couldn't stop laughing at Alan Partridge giving advice on swollen testicles

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Does anyone know of PC world have 128gb surface pros in store? Played with one at john lewis on the way home and I must have one immediately. However they only have 64gb in stock.

PC worls Website lists coming soon only, John Lewis online is out of stock and Microsoft store is apparently unreliable on processing orders promptly.

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

Bobbyaro wrote:

I think Chinny might be in trouble folks.

You have reached the answering service for Chinnyhill10. Chinny is unavailable at the moment so here's a picture of Mickey Quinn.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 19:48

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Does anyone know of PC world have 128gb surface pros in store? Played with one at john lewis on the way home and I must have one immediately.

They're bloody lovely, aren't they?

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Grim... wrote:

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Does anyone know of PC world have 128gb surface pros in store? Played with one at john lewis on the way home and I must have one immediately.

They're bloody lovely, aren't they?

All the reviews have said 'heavy'. Like fucking fuck they are. Feels lovely in the hand even when tethered to a counter.

John Lewis have them back in. Credit card is in kitchen, I'm in the boys bedroom.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

WHY ISN'T IT 2PM ON SUNDAY YET?

Also, I'm at a barbeque at 2pm on Sunday. Arse.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Jesus, that ordering process was hard. Credit card got blocked for security reasons. Not unreasonable I thought, but also turns out that they autoblock signifcant John Lewis online purchases as they don't ask for the CCV number. WTF - why don't they ask for that?

Then, incredibly, the bank had no fraud team available for 2 hours to unblock it so that I could push it through. I've always liked that tesco bank have always been very tight on potential fraud, but I'm not happy about the fact that they could block my card for 'risk reasons' and not have anyone available to deal with it quickly.

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri May 24, 2013 23:04

Apologies to those on Facebook who have already seen this picture of me, but I find it so funny I have to share it.

Someone at work commented that it looked like I'd turned up to the photoshoot in a wheelchair, and had been carefully lifted into position and propped up against the wall like a mannequin.

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

You look like a cat with worms trying to relieve its itchy arse by having a good old scratch on the wall. Nice photo.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6521

It's more like you were delivered unassembled, they rushed trying to build you and got half of your joints cross-threaded and so couldn't get them lined up and properly seated, tried to force it and then just gave up and just leaned you against the wall.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat May 25, 2013 10:53

Your foot is almost as long as your leg, you bloody freak!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22285

And what's with the hideous mask?

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

GazChap · **Posted:** Sat May 25, 2013 11:40

Trooper wrote:

And what's with the hideous mask?

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Next week I shall be going to Liverpool, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancaster, Morecambe, Burnley, Skipton, Blackburn and Rawtensall. Regrettably, no Travelodges will be involved in my peregrinations.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10091

You're a falconer now? Cool!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sat May 25, 2013 20:56

He's a total Mr Falcon.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22285

My PS3 has corrupted itself again. Not sure I can be arsed with it anymore, I can't see me playing it enough to be worth buying a new one.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

I'm concerned about my PS3 kicking the bucket, as it's an ancient launch machine. I couldn't justify the cost of a new PS3 console with the PS4 round the corner (the PS3 is still expensive for something so old), yet wouldn't want to lose access to all my PS3 disc and PSN games. Yet I don't really play on my PS3 that often any more apart from using it as a Blu-ray Disc player...

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22285

I've left mine repairing, it looks like it will take a couple of days to restore, assuming it actually finishes. If it does resurrect itself, then i'll play through the games I have installed from PS+ and turn off the autoupdate, autodownload business, as i'm pretty sure it is the downloading that fucks it up each time.
I don't think i'll bother buying a new one if it is totally dead.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14364

I've got a big fat 'un that I've never had any problems with all these years, plus I've never played it so much recently thanks to PS+, some interesting exclusives and installing movies and junk on it. I haven't turned ony Xbox in ages. Mind you, I've never done anything more exciting than turn it on and off again.

Kern · **Posted:** Sun May 26, 2013 22:30

I've been avoiding the Third Programme this week as they've been very Wagner-heavy, but have just found out that there's a documentary that might be worth catching: A Cultural History of Syphilis. I'll give this a listen tomorrow and let you know if it's any good.

Their ACW documentaries, available on the download link, are excellent, so hope this one lives up to the promise.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun May 26, 2013 23:16

Where's my Dimrill?

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