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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 8, 2021 12:08:34 GMT
Someone from Plymouth. A low class yokel. A more western Wurzel. More correctly, it's a Plymothian born and bred through generations of dung shovelling.
Not, and I repeat, not, someone who's lived here for a few depressing years.
Says the Janner. |
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 8, 2021 12:11:06 GMT
So will it be tier 5, plan B+ or cancelling Christmas again? Doris will start by announcing Plan B. He needs to keep the others in reserve in case further 'dead cats' are required as more embarrassing revelations come out. So Bojjer will be denying everything and kicking the dead cat down the road? Do not click if you're a cat person... |
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Post by tenthenemy on Dec 8, 2021 12:14:02 GMT
If you actually want a laptop set up and branded for gaming (larger screen, graphics card things, etc.) then I'd go on the Currys website, and browse the sub-category of Gaming Laptops, and pick one at a price you want and with the features you want. Laptops at Currys tend to be competitively priced and they're reliable. I don't think there's a whole lot to chose between the major brands of laptop manufacturers at particular price points. Obviously never pay extra for offer to set it up for you or for extending warranties. Since that is what I've been doing this is obviously good advice. See, it's worth asking. Also, thank you, Dr Shenguin. |
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Post by crankcaller on Dec 8, 2021 12:14:51 GMT
Tenthen,
Box.co.uk also have a good selection at reasonable prices
The Ryzen ones with inbuilt graphics are decent if you want to do slightly more graphics intensive stuff - including rendering video or audio.
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Post by stxdpr on Dec 8, 2021 12:21:22 GMT
Is the spec savers cat advert still online somewhere? It’s up there with the iron bru snowman ad.
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Post by tenthenemy on Dec 8, 2021 12:24:04 GMT
The grain has a top 10 books about the Roman Empire, is scam our expert on this? I'm not an expert but I know the author, Greg Woolf. He's a good egg. I go with whatever he recommends. Although one of my ancient history colleagues had a very large chip on his shoulder about Fergus Millar. I'm not taking sides. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Dec 8, 2021 12:27:36 GMT
Is the spec savers cat advert still online somewhere? It’s up there with the iron bru snowman ad. My Pref. Mam. couldn't get enough of this ad. It hits perfectly every time. |
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Post by lazybones on Dec 8, 2021 12:36:12 GMT
I wish there was a gaming laptop with the battery life of a Switch, and with a minimal design. No fluorescent robot skulls on the lid. A brushed aluminium and walnut finish would be nice.
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 8, 2021 12:39:56 GMT
The gravitas of a real wood finish?
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Post by MrTiddles on Dec 8, 2021 12:43:48 GMT
Adrian Flux, the car insurance dudes, have been bombarding me with phonecalls and answerphone messages over the last couple of days. Messages like, "Your car insurance is due for renewal shortly, this year we can offer you a discounted rate".
Two things. One, it's not due until April. Two, just fuck off.
I think that covers* it.
*See what I did there? No? Don't blame you, it was rubbish.
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Post by lazybones on Dec 8, 2021 13:01:00 GMT
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 8, 2021 13:04:51 GMT
The grain has a top 10 books about the Roman Empire, is scam our expert on this? I have read some of those books, mostly as a student in the distant past. Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity was one of my favourite history books to read as a student. Might have been the first one I actively enjoyed. Maybe because it is short, well written, and has pictures. 4 stars. Gibbon is really more for people interested in 18th century literature than Roman history. 4 stars. The Corrupting Sea is fucking long. Iirc so is Fergus Millar. 4 stars each. I'm not sure I'd bother with Herrin if you've got Brown. 4 stars. For a mix of accessible and authoritative you can't really go wrong with the works of M. Beard, G. Woolf and A. The Gaul. 12 stars equally divided. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Dec 8, 2021 13:06:30 GMT
Look at this poster that’s been up around my workplace. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Will getting in the bin save me from a rotten retirement? Well you have a far better pension than most, the cost of which is far larger than your employer ever envisaged. I think members paying higher costs to help fund it properly is sensible, the alternative is they could always just stop it and stick you all in a DC scheme. |
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Post by lazybones on Dec 8, 2021 13:17:41 GMT
Look at this poster that’s been up around my workplace. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Will getting in the bin save me from a rotten retirement? Well you have a far better pension than most, the cost of which is far larger than your employer ever envisaged. I think members paying higher costs to help fund it properly is sensible, the alternative is they could always just stop it and stick you all in a DC scheme. Yeah. I mean the pension scheme is way worse than it used to be. But I wasn't talking about that. I just don't understand the poster. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 8, 2021 13:20:40 GMT
Look at this poster that’s been up around my workplace. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Will getting in the bin save me from a rotten retirement? Well you have a far better pension than most, the cost of which is far larger than your employer ever envisaged. I think members paying higher costs to help fund it properly is sensible, the alternative is they could always just stop it and stick you all in a DC scheme.
You're saying lazybones shouldn't worry about having a shitter pension because other people also have shit pensions?
I can get on board with that.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Dec 8, 2021 13:22:38 GMT
Well I have the shittest pension of all - I get just 4% from my employer. It will be a bleak retirement for Babyfark.
In other news, happy Immaculate Conception Day everyone!
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Post by lazybones on Dec 8, 2021 13:33:16 GMT
I'm not in the pension scheme mentioned in the poster, and I'm not a member of the union that put it up. I just don't get the message:
A rotten retirement?
Get in the bin
Weird.
They have a lot of other strange sloganeering ...
'Against the slow cancellation of our futures'
I mean the essence of life is the cancellation of the future. That's how time works.
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Post by lazybones on Dec 8, 2021 13:37:10 GMT
I was a member of that union but I left. The union rep said I would be expected to answer all emails that came in over the period of a strike (a few years ago). Three days, unpaid, and still doing all the work when you got back. What was the point in that?
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 8, 2021 13:43:09 GMT
Is hoping for the end of the world before it becomes necessary to retire a sensible pension plan?
If so I am sorted.
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Post by lazybones on Dec 8, 2021 13:44:01 GMT
Sweet release
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 8, 2021 13:54:42 GMT
Well I have the shittest pension of all - I get just 4% from my employer. It will be a bleak retirement for Babyfark. In other news, happy Immaculate Conception Day everyone! That's pretty bad. Get organised. Stick it to The Man! |
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 8, 2021 13:58:45 GMT
Before:
Public sector or quasi public sector - lower paid - but good pension (80ths for say teacher, nhs) and mostly OK to retire at 60
Private sector - higher paid - but shit pension (or if it wasn't it will be from about early 2000s)
Now:
Public sector - lower paid - shit pension
Private sector - lower paid - shit pension
MPs pension scheme - 40th/45th/50ths final salary
We're all mugs.
Right, must dash, got double History with old man Bronson!
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 8, 2021 14:19:34 GMT
The grain has a top 10 books about the Roman Empire, is scam our expert on this? I have read some of those books, mostly as a student in the distant past. Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity was one of my favourite history books to read as a student. Might have been the first one I actively enjoyed. Maybe because it is short, well written, and has pictures. 4 stars. Gibbon is really more for people interested in 18th century literature than Roman history. 4 stars. The Corrupting Sea is fucking long. Iirc so is Fergus Millar. 4 stars each. I'm not sure I'd bother with Herrin if you've got Brown. 4 stars. For a mix of accessible and authoritative you can't really go wrong with the works of M. Beard, G. Woolf and A. The Gaul. 12 stars equally divided. I swear by Gibbon; it's a great listen* and, as you say, more an insight into the 18th century as the Roman Empire... whereas this is the definitive Gibbon * PM me if you want to listen through 4.6gb of Rise and Fall, The Crusades** and Gibbon's memoirs. I read Rise in my teens (such a weird choice for a '60s Secondary Modern school library), so I went to sleep with Gibbon - the reader is excellent btw - as I sleep better digesting it. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Dec 8, 2021 15:11:33 GMT
Speaking of dead cats, it seems that this Christmas party at No 10 has now turned into Schrödinger's Christmas party that took place and didn't at the same time.
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Post by amipal on Dec 8, 2021 15:44:28 GMT
Morning all! The wind blew hard overnight, but the house appears to be none the worse for it. The boy has gone back to school today, incredibly overexcited he was. TVblog: Seinfeld. Warhermitblog: finished some Epic-scale miniatures, so have now moved onto everyone’s favourite space-fascists - Space Marines! Started on a quartet of Ultramarines. Pictures! Sweet Content! Sibling Channel! err please Ah, chumbles! I did record something last week. But then something went wrong. I was hoping to record more this week, but alas, ill boy as well as things still broken out paid to that. As for photos… I’ll admit, I’m in a bit of a rut. Nearly two years of being stuck in the local area, other hobbies vying for time, and a lack of positive feedback certainly don’t help! |
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