Chatterbox Thursday

It's not just you. I could be wrong about this, but I think it had more to do with the Grauniad's redesign that coincided(?) with Keef's departure. I used to be able to go straight to the Games section page and get the latest articles (and the current Chatterbox, of course). Now the policy seems to be to post to the main page first, however briefly, and then a day or two later (sometimes more) someone gets round to slotting the item onto the Games page. It's weird, because the articles are already filed under "Games", and they show up in the "Most viewed" table, but not in the main body of the page.

Because games articles were now always showing up on the Guardian home page there was first a significance increase in "hurr durr video games are a waste of time/too violent/warping reality/only for children and the feeble minded" comments. My impression is that over the last months the content has been somehow tailored to this new audience and games reviews have been drastically dialled back.

First the Buffy re-boot now this...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/26/frasier-tvreboot-kelsey-grammer

Masturbation jokes are the new lunch chatter, it seems.

(Teriyaki chicken with noodles, btw)

One day a guy complained to his friend that his elbow really hurt. His friend suggested that he try using the Health-O-Meter at the drug store that can diagnose anything quicker and cheaper than a doctor. ''Simply put in a sample of your urine and the Health-O-Meter will diagnose your problem and tell you what you can do about it. It only costs $10." He filled a jar with a urine sample and went to the drug store. Finding the machine, he poured in the sample and deposited the $10. The Health-O-Meter started making some noise and various lights started flashing. After a brief pause out popped a small slip of paper on which was printed: "You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water. Avoid heavy lifting. It will be better in two weeks."

Later that evening while thinking how amazing this new technology was and how it would change medical science forever, he began to wonder if this machine could be fooled. He mixed together some tap water, a stool sample from his dog and urine samples from his wife and daughter. To top it off, he masturbated into the concoction. He went back to the drug store, located the machine, poured in the sample and deposited the $10. The computer again made the usual noise and printed out the following message:

"Your tap water is too hard. Get a water softener. Your dog has worms. Get him vitamins. Your daughter is using cocaine. Put her in a rehabilitation clinic. Your wife is pregnant with twin girls. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer. And if you don't stop jerking off, your tennis elbow will never get better."


Bread and a selection of hams and cheeses were enjoyed for lunch.

U ok, hun?

I had mine earlier. Must be the season.
One 1, mostly 2's, two 3's.
It goes from 1 to 4. You can decide yourselves what's better.

"Super Tennis is a game" was a Chatterbox trope to indicate a poster who was in pre-mod and therefore not able to post anything more contentious past the Guardian mods. It also served the purpose of flagging to other Chatterboxers that the user was indeed in pre-mod.

Alas, even that innocuous post appears to be too much for the mods these days. 

I wish there was a way to get new users in so I could recount the horrors of the great FRANKing like a 'nam veteran.

Worryingly one of my personal action plan actions is "roll out 3d printing training to key staff."

Classic MrTiddles getting it wrong.

Still, no defence on the 'pain in the plums' ?

Ah, good catch, I hadn't seen the comment you are responding to. The Farming Simulator article, but of course...

Shouldn't FRANK be happy to see all the miscreants leaving?