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Post by Felice Landry on Nov 28, 2018 18:28:16 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Nov 28, 2018 18:32:41 GMT
If you give us some detail I am sure we can give you some sage like advice*
Punch the biggest one in the room Asking them out for a drink might be more successful and less likely to get you beaten up - unless you like that sort of thing ... |
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Post by Shenguin on Nov 28, 2018 18:47:05 GMT
Somebody won a game of chess, a game that almost by definition was only comprehensible to the two best players in the world, who happened to be the ones playing in it. Go chess, yay.
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Post by Faceless on Nov 28, 2018 19:04:15 GMT
I thought that was a metaphor / simile / analogy / thing wot ain't wot it actually is, but it's not is it. Someone beat someone else at chess. It wasn't even strip-chess.
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Post by tenthenemy on Nov 28, 2018 19:24:12 GMT
tenthenemy I heard some guy talking about the Assyrians on World At One today and thought of you. I don't know why he was on, unless we are about to sign a big trade deal with them. Thanks for alerting me to this. That was my friend Martin Worthington, succeeding in sounding like an upper class twit in both English and Babylonian. On the topic of upper class twits and Assyrian trade deals, one of the great scholars in the subject was Oliver Gurney at Oxford. He came from a wealthy family and had always lived with his mother, so when he was appointed after the war he thought it unnecessary to engage in such a common practice as drawing a salary. As a result the remuneration for his post hadn't been adjusted for inflation since 1945 when he retired over 30 years later, and they were only able to advertise for a part time post. Then some time in the 1980s the Foreign Office was complaining to universities that they weren't sending them enough graduates with language skills in lesser known Asian and African languages. The universities were pointing out that funding for academic posts in such exotic languages had consistently decreased and that many posts were discontinued as a result. To remedy the situation a meeting took place to create 'new blood' lectureships in a number of these small languages. The Oxford people who were concerned about the lack of a post in Assyriology were told to wait right until the end of proceedings. Then as it was almost gin o'clock they proposed a lectureship in Akkadian at Oxford to train people to represent Her Majesty at the royal court of Nineveh. Everyone just wanted to move on and the proposal was quickly rubber stamped... |
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Post by scubar on Nov 28, 2018 19:44:25 GMT
New York is nice but very cold
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Post by Destry on Nov 28, 2018 19:59:51 GMT
New York is nice but very cold I could have told you that without you having to travel 3,200 miles |
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Post by Tuffers on Nov 28, 2018 20:19:16 GMT
New York is nice but very cold Put some clothes on? |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 28, 2018 20:42:54 GMT
New York is nice but very cold You there at the weekend? Go to Smorgasburg on Saturday if you are. It's not the big one they do in the summer but a wee one as part of a flea market. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Nov 28, 2018 20:52:41 GMT
Ffs. I clicked on a link that someone posted BTL of Steve Bell's Captain Mayhab cartoon and am now getting Fortnum & Mason ads for 30 g Beluga caviar tins for £225.
Must be rubbish quality at that price.
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Post by Faceless on Nov 28, 2018 20:54:54 GMT
Not only does scubar botch the contract killing of mrtiddles' neighbours, but he then gloats about using the money to go on holiday.
Still, at least he knows mrT won't be giving chase, given his difficulties filling in the passport forms.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 28, 2018 20:57:43 GMT
tenthenemy I heard some guy talking about the Assyrians on World At One today and thought of you. I don't know why he was on, unless we are about to sign a big trade deal with them. Thanks for alerting me to this. That was my friend Martin Worthington, succeeding in sounding like an upper class twit in both English and Babylonian. On the topic of upper class twits and Assyrian trade deals, one of the great scholars in the subject was Oliver Gurney at Oxford. He came from a wealthy family and had always lived with his mother, so when he was appointed after the war he thought it unnecessary to engage in such a common practice as drawing a salary. As a result the remuneration for his post hadn't been adjusted for inflation since 1945 when he retired over 30 years later, and they were only able to advertise for a part time post. Then some time in the 1980s the Foreign Office was complaining to universities that they weren't sending them enough graduates with language skills in lesser known Asian and African languages. The universities were pointing out that funding for academic posts in such exotic languages had consistently decreased and that many posts were discontinued as a result. To remedy the situation a meeting took place to create 'new blood' lectureships in a number of these small languages. The Oxford people who were concerned about the lack of a post in Assyriology were told to wait right until the end of proceedings. Then as it was almost gin o'clock they proposed a lectureship in Akkadian at Oxford to train people to represent Her Majesty at the royal court of Nineveh. Everyone just wanted to move on and the proposal was quickly rubber stamped... Ah, that explains why we were so well prepared for our subsequent adventure in Iraq. |
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Post by amipal on Nov 28, 2018 21:02:03 GMT
When I look out of the window I feel that maybe I should go on a trip to Mars myself. The weather can't be much worse. The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favourite series of books. The first one in particular (Red Mars) does a great job describing how humans would live on an unterraformed Mars. So when it's pissing it down, with great gusts of wind blowing it all in my face, I think "Wouldn't get this on Mars - no water cycle, and a very thin atmosphere." Something to appreciate at least. |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 28, 2018 22:13:50 GMT
The Nintendo e-store has a sale which finishes tomorrow. Mario Odyssey is 33 quid and I wanted to buy it. I can't as my switch hasn't arrived yet and so can't buy it. All this means is I'll buy it 2nd hand and then Nintendo won't get any money. Idiocy.
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Post by tenthenemy on Nov 28, 2018 22:30:36 GMT
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Post by Shenguin on Nov 28, 2018 22:48:36 GMT
You could buy rubbish quality caviar for that price. |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 28, 2018 22:58:05 GMT
But I would get my switch all salty.
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Post by toolio2010 on Nov 29, 2018 3:40:05 GMT
I’m in an airport. I have barely enough coffee. About to embark on an 8 hour flight. Deported? |
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Post by toolio2010 on Nov 29, 2018 5:25:44 GMT
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Post by toolio2010 on Nov 29, 2018 5:35:12 GMT
So tonight is sos casserole night....hmmmmmm
No games but lots of baaad tv. Why is there Xmas stuff on so early?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 7:32:46 GMT
The Nintendo e-store has a sale which finishes tomorrow. Mario Odyssey is 33 quid and I wanted to buy it. I can't as my switch hasn't arrived yet and so can't buy it. All this means is I'll buy it 2nd hand and then Nintendo won't get any money. Idiocy. Can't you set up an account and buy it on their website and download it when your switch arrives? |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 29, 2018 7:58:49 GMT
I have. I tried. It tells you to sign in on your switch and buy it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 8:25:16 GMT
I have. I tried. It tells you to sign in on your switch and buy it. Classic Nintendo. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Nov 29, 2018 8:38:33 GMT
Not only does scubar botch the contract killing of mrtiddles' neighbours, but he then gloats about using the money to go on holiday. Still, at least he knows mrT won't be giving chase, given his difficulties filling in the passport forms. I don't have to give chase. I've handed the matter over to the New York chapter of the fearsome Branch Tiddlians. |
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