Bits & Bobs 40

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 12:44

throughsilver wrote:

MaliA! Burger on Wed Aug 21?

Possibly. If mrsa can manage to get a cab from the airport, or her flight lands before 7pm, then yes .

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

I went to three lectures in total in my final year of uni. I had 14 a week for 30 weeks.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

I've had a tupperware box filled with chinese from Yaghotze (or whatever it's called) in Darbs, Westfields.

I have opened the top button on my trousers.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 13:25

Saturnalian wrote:

I've had a tupperware box filled with chinese from Yaghotze (or whatever it's called)

Yaygoatse?

Quote:

I have opened the top button on my trousers.

Beginning to get worried.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

Now waiting outside the judges chambers for a disclosure application.Top button of trousers still undone. Only thing keeping my trousers up is a belt.

...which I've had to drop down two holes.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 14:54

Saturnalian wrote:

I've had a tupperware box filled with chinese from Yaghotze

Do you smuggle in from other Asian regions?

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Trousers wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

MaliA Burger on Wed Aug 21?

Only if he consents. Medium rare for me.

Punctuation is my friend.

Curiosity wrote:

Squirt wrote:

Yay! Do you get a prize? Or, at the very least, an awkwardly posed picture of you shaking hands with your boss pinned up on a notice board?

I get 250 quid (gross)

If it disgusts you that much, you can give me the 250 quid.

MaliA wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

MaliA! Burger on Wed Aug 21?

Possibly. If mrsa can manage to get a cab from the airport, or her flight lands before 7pm, then yes .

Was thinking lunch, if that makes things easier?

YOG · **Posted:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 21:01

Was involved in my first real "incident" as a support worker, yesterday. 18-year-old, mostly non-verbal autistic lad trying to leather everybody. Hair-pulling, biting, scratching, punching, etc. Cracked a toilet cistern, too, so we were avoiding all this whilst slipping in a good few cm of water. My boss Natalie had to go to hospital after a hefty kick to her knee. I was very careful in writing the report about it, because we had to physically tear him away from people at various points, and going "hands-on" is a big no-no. (Dunno what the fuck else they expect us to do).

The only real trigger anyone can think of is that he was getting excited and antsy as he waited for his dinner. He'd had a great day up to that point.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 21:27

Amusing article about the British library web filters banning Hamlet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23680689

Quote:

Prof Ross Anderson, a security expert at Cambridge University, told the BBC that internet filters were "pointless" and that it was "completely inappropriate" to have one in the British Library.

He added: "Everything that is legal should be available over the library's wi-fi network. The only things they should block are the few dozen books against which there are court judgements in the UK.

"One of the functions of deposit libraries is to keep everything, including smut."

The British Library defended its position, saying that it wanted to protect children visiting the building from content "such as pornography and gambling websites".

From my long experience in working in a library, there are people out there who would not balk at accessing porn in the middle of crowded room, could they get to such on a computer. Hell, it's happened before with Robot-Talking-Chinese-Guy; a bespectacled chap with a barkingly-loud robot-voice who kept trying to access (and remarkably succeeding) soft-core fetish Wermacht-girl sites and would then proceed to do print outs of said images, walking up to the desk waving the sheaf of them and crying out repeatedly in his blurting statacco voice, "ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE!"

"No, you see you can't do that. You're not allowed to..."

"ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE!"

If porn became available in the library, there would be people there ready to use it with no shame whatsoever.

...

Then again, we do need the money, now that our budget is being slashed. Er, library-porn pay per view? :shrug:

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Aug 13, 2013 21:29

I'm sure that Mr Cameron will be pleased that his beloved smut filters are so effective.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

NervousPete wrote:

"ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE!"

"No, you see you can't do that. You're not allowed to..."

"ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE!"

Just-ah one pwwnd![/myp]

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

NervousPete wrote:

"ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE! ONE POUND PLEASE!"[/b][/i]

Are you sure you didn't mishear that? :attitude:

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:19

Kern wrote:

I'm sure that Mr Cameron will be pleased that his beloved smurf filters are so effective.

How I read it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:30

"I will take the train this morning as I have a half eight meeting and do not want risk a puncture".

Which was a great idea until the trains all got cancelled. Should have cycled.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:08

My Apple & Cherry porridge smells like Rekorderlig.

Yum!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:10

NervousPete wrote:

Then again, we do need the money, now that our budget is being slashed. Er, library-porn pay per view? :shrug:

Why not suggest he borrow a book of works by the great masters? The overdue fines he'll rack up should keep lights on for years.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

MaliA wrote:

"I will take the train this morning as I have a half eight meeting and do not want risk a puncture".

Which was a great idea until the trains all got cancelled. Should have cycled.

Well you could have had a trip like mine - the M27 was closed this morning due to a fatality so all the side roads were chaos - which more than doubled my normal 'long' commute :-(

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

zaphod79 wrote:

MaliA wrote:

"I will take the train this morning as I have a half eight meeting and do not want risk a puncture".

Which was a great idea until the trains all got cancelled. Should have cycled.

Well you could have had a trip like mine - the M27 was closed this morning due to a fatality so all the side roads were chaos - which more than doubled my normal 'long' commute :-(

Stroke of luck I chose to make that journey yesterday!

Courier just rocked up for the people upstairs and said it's taken 2 and a quarter hours to get here from his Whitely depot. That's normally about 15/20 minutes.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Courier just rocked up for the people upstairs and said it's taken 2 and a quarter hours to get here from his Whitely depot. That's normally about 15/20 minutes.

And its still closed

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/traffi ... -1-5384106

Latest is that it is now expected to re-open at 1

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

Wagamamas new Tom Yum. Apparently created by someone who's never had Tom Yum, nor has any real idea of what goes into it. Basically lemongrass flavoured chicken soup. Utterly wrong in every way. My day is ruined.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:52

I watched a presentation in which two Furbys constantly interrupted the speaker with their own conversation whilst a robot crab fired missiles at a radio controlled flying fairy. I then ate some scampi provided by a supplier for free. And i got a stick of rock.Day is looking up.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

I think the scampi may have been off.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:55

Bobbyaro wrote:

I think the scampi may have been off.

Tasted lovely. It was from whitby which is where you go to sexydance goth chicks

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

MaliA wrote:

Bobbyaro wrote:

I think the scampi may have been off.

Tasted lovely. It was from whitby which is where you go to sexydance goth chicks

My parents went on honeymoon to Whitby. EEE I'm working class me.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 13:25

Cras wrote:

Wagamamas new Tom Yum. Apparently created by someone who's never had Tom Yum, nor has any real idea of what goes into it. Basically lemongrass flavoured chicken soup. Utterly wrong in every way. My day is ruined.

I've never really thought overly much of the food in there. And the name somewhat bemuses me.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 14:33

Trousers wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Bobbyaro wrote:

I think the scampi may have been off.

Tasted lovely. It was from whitby which is where you go to sexydance goth chicks

My parents went on honeymoon to Whitby. EEE I'm working class me.

Or a Romanian aristocrat.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

http://www.newstatesman.com/alex-andreo ... ot-illegal

Short version - old lady dies and leaves her cash to 'whichever government is in charge' to do with 'as they see fit' , and they decided that the best option was to use the money for their own publicity machine .....

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

zaphod79 wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Courier just rocked up for the people upstairs and said it's taken 2 and a quarter hours to get here from his Whitely depot. That's normally about 15/20 minutes.

And its still closed

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/traffi ... -1-5384106

Latest is that it is now expected to re-open at 1

Garage rang me up and said it'd taken him 4 and a half hours to get to Fareham and back for a meeting and could he keep my wing mirror overnight as he hadn't started working on it yet!

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

zaphod79 wrote:

http://www.newstatesman.com/alex-andreou/2013/08/tale-joan-edwardss-bequest-shows-worst-sleaze-immoral-not-illegal

Short version - old lady dies and leaves her cash to 'whichever government is in charge' to do with 'as they see fit' , and they decided that the best option was to use the money for their own publicity machine .....

As I understand, the executors of the will said it was a donation to whatever party was in power. So the blame lies with them.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

I just did a keyword search for a certain keyword. Around 6000 results for that word when searching on this forum.
Over 1000 are by one author.

Kind of makes you wish for keyword muting a la Tweetbot.

TheFireFaerie · **Joined:** 1st Jul, 2012 **Posts:** 1609

What be the word?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

TheFireFaerie wrote:

What be the word?

I don't really want to say, as it could be construed as me singling someone out.

(But it's not PC related)

TheFireFaerie · **Joined:** 1st Jul, 2012 **Posts:** 1609

Fairy nuff!

TheFireFaerie · **Joined:** 1st Jul, 2012 **Posts:** 1609

So. I took a Hailo can yesterday. I got this email today...

Attachment:

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GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 21:24

What's a hailo can?

TheFireFaerie · **Joined:** 1st Jul, 2012 **Posts:** 1609

A really old falling apart taxi tin-can style?

Alternatively. I meant cab!

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 22:07

Ah, I see. Because you hail a cab. Got it.

Is that what they're rebranded hackney carriages as, or something?

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 22:16

Brilliantly, the Sainsbury's 'price match' machine spat out a voucher for the princely sum of 6p today. I'm cheap enough to actually put this in my wallet ready for my next shop.

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

Ahahahahaha! Everyone go and play the Rayman demo that's just gone up on the PlayStation store and go straight to the Castle Rock level then laugh a lot. Also, while you're there, notice how incredibly pretty it is.

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

Mr Russell wrote:

I just did a keyword search for a certain keyword. Around 6000 results for that word when searching on this forum.
Over 1000 are by one author.

Kind of makes you wish for keyword muting a la Tweetbot.

Quote:

Search found 770 matches
Search term used: amstrad

Phew.

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

GazChap wrote:

Ah, I see. Because you hail a cab. Got it.

Is that what they're rebranded hackney carriages as, or something?

It's a third party service that will get you any black cab that's signed up the the service, and you use an app to say 'come pick me up here', it finds the nearest one and sends them to you. Other neat features like driver ratings, auto card payment, and shizzle. Works pretty well.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 22:33

Cras wrote:

GazChap wrote:

Ah, I see. Because you hail a cab. Got it.

Is that what they're rebranded hackney carriages as, or something?

It's a third party service that will get you any black cab that's signed up the the service, and you use an app to say 'come pick me up here', it finds the nearest one and sends them to you. Other neat features like driver ratings, auto card payment, and shizzle. Works pretty well.

Though less so at 2am in Kidbrooke

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

Heh, yeah. Your house is something of a hailo blackspot.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14359

Bamba wrote:

Ahahahahaha! Everyone go and play the Rayman demo that's just gone up on the PlayStation store and go straight to the Castle Rock level then laugh a lot. Also, while you're there, notice how incredibly pretty it is.

Ooh, I'll do that tomorrow. Rayman Origins on Vita (and probably everything else) is utterly ace, by the way.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Cras wrote:

Heh, yeah. Your house is something of a hailo blackspot.

Yeah, he doesn't play any games anymore.

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:02

Mr Russell wrote:

TheFireFaerie wrote:

What be the word?

I don't really want to say, as it could be construed as me singling someone out.

(But it's not PC related)

It's me and G**gle, isn't it?

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:05

Cras wrote:

Heh, yeah. Your house is something of a hailo blackspot.

So you can't get a cab when you're at my house, or at Curio's, but we don't have any problems when you're not there.

Hmmmm.

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

Stupid taxis.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:14

SilentElk wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

TheFireFaerie wrote:

What be the word?

I don't really want to say, as it could be construed as me singling someone out.

(But it's not PC related)

It's me and G**gle, isn't it?

I was going with me and "brilliant" or "fantastic"

myp · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:30

TheVision wrote:

I was going with me and "brilliant" or "fantastic"

You are the 9th and 10th Doctors AICMFP.

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