The 'Yay!' thread

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 21, 2017 21:54

Did you get nommed for NOMs?

Well done!

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Mar 21, 2017 22:10

Excellent news!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

I love you guys

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 0:48

Well, if no one else is going to... We love you too.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 34033

TheVision wrote:

Well, if no one else is going to... We love you too.

Giphy "gaaay":
http://media.giphy.com/media/o0D2HOHoyUGKk/giphy-loop.mp4

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:34

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

Excellent! I rather think NOMS isn't what I imagine it is in my head.

I am going through NOMS security checks at the moment!

Are you going to come and sort out computers out? I've given up waiting for Trooper.

Lonewolves · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:10

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

Excellent! I rather think NOMS isn't what I imagine it is in my head.

I am going through NOMS security checks at the moment!

Are you going to come and sort out computers out? I've given up waiting for Trooper.

Nah, I need to access data centres with MoD/MoJ systems in them.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5355

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

I've been given ethical approval from NOMS to carry out my research project.

Awesome! This is the project where you attach electrodes to prisoners and make them run through a deadly, trapped filled maze, right?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:44

Not On My Swatch

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 13:09

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

I've been given ethical approval from NOMS to carry out my research project.

Awesome, yay!

(Although not entirely sure what NOMS is/are when not used in the context of yummy food.)

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

hahaha, the image changes with refresh even on here. Brilliant.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 13:44

MrChris wrote:

hahaha, the image changes with refresh even on here. Brilliant.

You mean you didn't choose the picture with 2men in penisfish costumes running away from a fearsome stick man?

For a hammer.

Malc · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 14:33

MrChris wrote:

Lonewolves · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 14:37

Wow it's like I've fallen into a time portal to the year 2010

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

2010 was Malicool.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 14:51

Mind you that was seven years ago, and things were very different then.

Lonewolves · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 15:05

MrChris wrote:

2010 was Malicool.

Yep!

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 2154

Kern wrote:

Mind you that was seven years ago, and things were very different then.

Blimey. Somehow the fact that 2010 was 7 years ago is far more alarming to me than the fact many of my favourite things are 20 years old now.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 15:09

Yes, makes me feel old too.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 17:05

Lonewolves wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

Excellent! I rather think NOMS isn't what I imagine it is in my head.

I am going through NOMS security checks at the moment!

Are you going to come and sort out computers out? I've given up waiting for Trooper.

Nah, I need to access data centres with MoD/MoJ systems in them.

I need to renew my sc clearance this year.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 18:37

Jem wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

I've been given ethical approval from NOMS to carry out my research project.

Awesome, yay!

(Although not entirely sure what NOMS is/are when not used in the context of yummy food.)

Sorry Jem, it's all acronyms in the Prison Service. It stands for National Offender Management Service. They manage prisons and probation.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

KovacsC wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

Excellent! I rather think NOMS isn't what I imagine it is in my head.

I am going through NOMS security checks at the moment!

Are you going to come and sort out computers out? I've given up waiting for Trooper.

Nah, I need to access data centres with MoD/MoJ systems in them.

I need to renew my sc clearance this year.

Your security clearance clearance?

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 19:39

Warhead wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

Excellent! I rather think NOMS isn't what I imagine it is in my head.

I am going through NOMS security checks at the moment!

Are you going to come and sort out computers out? I've given up waiting for Trooper.

Nah, I need to access data centres with MoD/MoJ systems in them.

I need to renew my sc clearance this year.

Your security clearance clearance?

Roger, Roger

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 19:41

Warhead wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

Excellent! I rather think NOMS isn't what I imagine it is in my head.

I am going through NOMS security checks at the moment!

Are you going to come and sort out computers out? I've given up waiting for Trooper.

Nah, I need to access data centres with MoD/MoJ systems in them.

I need to renew my sc clearance this year.

Your security clearance clearance?

Yes I will get a PIN number. To use my card in an ATM machine.

I was making a reference as you get BS/sc/Dv clearance.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14784

Unexpected £200 back from some energy company we used about 18 months ago!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:39

Nice!

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:41

Drinks on markg!

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2017 17:51

markg wrote:

Unexpected £200 back from some energy company we used about 18 months ago!

That reminds me, not wishing to Elevenerife you, but we just got £897 back from Thames Water. That's a yay, though it is only because we have overpaid them for the last five years by a stupid amount and they only just told us.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:02

MrsA won a SyFy competition! There's a Sing Along screening of Buffy Once More With Feeling and Chosen because of 20th anniversary. It is in Manchester, on a thursday night, though.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:05

Sounds ace!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

When you say "MrsA won"....

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:11

It means she gets to choose the fancy dress.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:11

MrChris wrote:

When you say "MrsA won"....

I entered her

Lonewolves · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:19

MaliA wrote:

MrChris wrote:

When you say "MrsA won"....

I entered her

Poor MrsA

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 46942

Giphy being lame

Although

Quote:

You must be previewing! How dull. Take what giphy gives you! Title.

Lulz.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 3430

MaliA wrote:

MrsA won a SyFy competition! There's a Sing Along screening of Buffy Once More With Feeling and Chosen because of 20th anniversary. It is in Manchester, on a thursday night, though.

Still worth going. That would be awesome.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 20:14

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

MaliA wrote:

MrsA won a SyFy competition! There's a Sing Along screening of Buffy Once More With Feeling and Chosen because of 20th anniversary. It is in Manchester, on a thursday night, though.

Still worth going. That would be awesome.

Yeah. Guess who is 8th reserve...

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

Woo hoo bonus confirmed today, will be paid Friday. 30%! Woot!

Sadly this all goes to Ruth's stash of cash.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2017 15:09

Quadcopters all round!

...oh...

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

I will be stealing some of my own money to buy a desk top extractor spraybooth thing for airbrushing. Also maybe a couple more Xwing models.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 46942

MrChris wrote:

Woo hoo bonus confirmed today, will be paid Friday. 30%! Woot!

Sadly this all goes to Ruth's stash of cash.

Fucking hell, nice one Sir!

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8119

How many murderers are walking our streets to fund that bonus though?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30038

I murdered them so it all evened out.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2017 20:52

Nets benefit all

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2017 22:48

A while back I was asked to prepare a 15 minute talk in defence of one of the cruellest and most notorious Confederate guerrillas, William Quantrill, as part of a lighthearted icebreaker session at an annual ACW conference I attend. A very challenging assignment given how nasty he and his crew were, and indeed how much of an anarchic lawless mess Missouri was during that period, and I spent a long time trying to pull things together.

I gave the talk tonight and it went down really well with the audience. Not the kind of presentation I'd normally give, but great fun to be a bit more one-sided and try to play a character for a change, even one as ghastly as Quantrill.

Jem · **Posted:** Sat Apr 01, 2017 13:19

Top stuff Kern - nice one

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 3430

Is there a recording of it? Sounds interesting.

Kern · **Posted:** Sat Apr 01, 2017 17:39

Thanks. I don't think anyone recorded it. I should probably start doing so myself because it'd be useful to hear my own delivery to identify areas to improve on as well as have a more substantial record of what I said rather than a few bullet points and a selection of scribbled reminders . People have been very complementary about it both last night and today, so I'm pleased.

Conference dinner this evening. Going to wear my somewhat unconvincing 21st century garb for it rather than uniform this year for a change.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:41

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

MaliA wrote:

MrsA won a SyFy competition! There's a Sing Along screening of Buffy Once More With Feeling and Chosen because of 20th anniversary. It is in Manchester, on a thursday night, though.

Still worth going. That would be awesome.

Now, i've won! (Clearly B list)

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