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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 26, 2018 10:56:25 GMT
According to 5 Live 'conversationalists' are going to be enraged by Japan's resumption of whaling... BBC gave up pronunciation a while back so Mrs Gaskell's "North and South" is now Norfand Saaarf. Now it looks like presenters select words from a homophone dictionary My favourite one was when Rio Ferdinand, asked about his future ambitions, said he didn't want to rest on his mantlepiece. |
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Post by Faceless on Dec 26, 2018 11:00:00 GMT
My house reeks of turkey farts You're supposed to kill the turkey, then cook and eat it. Not feed it Brussels sprouts. Now you tell me |
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Post by Felice Landry on Dec 26, 2018 13:12:44 GMT
Happy Boxing Day!
Only just now feeling almost just back to normal. Ham, egg and left over roast potatoes for dinner
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Dec 26, 2018 15:07:31 GMT
I got a Reddragon mechanical keyboard for Xmas and have started using in Fortnite instead of a controller. It’s not going well. Also drunk already on some 7% fullers peat beer.
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 26, 2018 15:49:11 GMT
I got 2 packets of biscuits and a cheap box of biscuits which I will give to whichever of the Torquemada Totties turns up on New Year's Day turns up to 'treat' me as a mark of my esteem, thus recycling without increasing my already considerable carbon footprints. Divine repurposing. @fark: you're certifiable; soon you'll be certifiable and drunk... then you'll be certifiable and hungover... but one of the three verities is that you'll always be certifiable. ratanvir: feck off you, you fecking robot |
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Post by Lurk McLurkface on Dec 26, 2018 16:07:04 GMT
What number am I thinking of right now? Say goodbye to over-cooked beef misery. For ever. |
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Post by lonewolf on Dec 26, 2018 16:30:43 GMT
Belated Merry Christmas (very busy)
The Guardian has a fun consumer complaint piece regarding a christmas tree. The BTL comments are unsypathetic.....and funny.
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Post by crankcaller on Dec 26, 2018 16:49:58 GMT
More beer and some chilli peanuts purchased. Been to the park for a wander.
The child loving her camera. Pieces to camera about the ducks and other nonsense. Bet all you with mirrorless cameras don't have breakout or a fishing game on them.
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Post by crankcaller on Dec 26, 2018 17:37:46 GMT
Turkey with dauphinoise potatoes.
Amazing stuff.
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Post by Felice Landry on Dec 26, 2018 18:00:41 GMT
What number am I thinking of right now? Say goodbye to over-cooked beef misery. For ever. This only happens at Christmas, probably because some of the people like it medium and I tend to over compensate, it still tasted nice though |
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Post by Destry on Dec 26, 2018 18:04:58 GMT
The Guardian has a fun consumer complaint piece regarding a christmas tree. The BTL comments are unsypathetic.....and funny. You should read THIS ONE. At least the Consumer Champion, as well as those BTL, were low on sympathy. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 26, 2018 19:09:31 GMT
youtu.be/PHK7g3Dmra4This made me laugh - a quality piece of trolling in the edinburgh vernacular, on-topic for the season and a genuine question for the panel at the end.
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cairton
Junior Member
Down with that sort of thing
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Post by cairton on Dec 26, 2018 19:12:14 GMT
That's three days in a row that I've been obliged to be sociable. Bah humbug. But Santa's been rather good to me. I got Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition and a £50 Game gift card with which I'll buy a Steam Wallet top up thing. And a bunch of clothes that actually fit me. Aren't you jealous?
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Post by amipal on Dec 26, 2018 19:47:29 GMT
The child loving her camera. Pieces to camera about the ducks and other nonsense. Bet all you with mirrorless cameras don't have breakout or a fishing game on them. You've got me there. |
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Post by stxdpr on Dec 26, 2018 20:20:29 GMT
Anything good on the steam or PlayStation store sales?
I was thinking civ IV but I don't know if I have that much time to give.
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 26, 2018 21:39:32 GMT
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 26, 2018 21:53:00 GMT
Anything good on the steam or PlayStation store sales? I was thinking civ IV but I don't know if I have that much time to give. It is a time sink - I know I've spent well over 5k hrs. on it and since I got it on release, every PC I've bought has been optimized to play it at its most extreme settings. But if you're into strategy games, then this, paired Fall from Heaven I 1.0g is bloody wonderful! Civ IV from GoG is fully patched so you just need to download and unpack FfH 1 as per the instructions... but it really is quite free form and can feel slow in the early stages... For a close cousin, but quite different with slightly shonky graphics SMAC or Alpha Centauri at £1.79 is also excellent and, as a lighter challenge I still play this too; it is story driven which was revolutionary in those days and I advise taking time to read and listen ... there were points at which I jumped out of my skin playing the first few times... it also allows you to design your own units and altogether it stands comparison with Civ IV The final one available from GoG, which I also play far too much is Age of Wonders 3. £6.79 .. It's different, but shares many of the characteristics of the other two. It has two DLC which I strongly recommend getting; it's highly moddable... If you're prepared to put up with Steam's colossal resource hogging and frequently terrible customer service, then it's got a massive Workshop, but beware: because anyone can learn how to mod it, many do and post the malformed, useless, broken offspring of their diseased minds with minimal, if any, |
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 26, 2018 21:57:32 GMT
Bollocks, an hour bug-hunting that bloody post and it won't behave; highlight it to read the funky framing shit the forum's added. The links work fine
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Post by crankcaller on Dec 26, 2018 22:11:42 GMT
No games. IT support. Plex server stuff. Gin and Elvis juice consumed. Not together.
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2018 22:14:53 GMT
Bollocks, an hour bug-hunting that bloody post and it won't behave; highlight it to read the funky framing shit the forum's added. The links work fine FTFY. The box plays up sometime with some dodgy formatting. |
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 26, 2018 22:27:05 GMT
Bollocks, an hour bug-hunting that bloody post and it won't behave; highlight it to read the funky framing shit the forum's added. The links work fine FTFY. The box plays up sometime with some dodgy formatting. Genius, I genuflect and think nice thoughts about you... |
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2018 22:30:58 GMT
For future reference, if you click on the BBcode tab and delete everything between "[ div ] and [ /div ]" code (no spaces) you should get rid of the shitty formatting.
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Post by Shenguin on Dec 26, 2018 22:35:51 GMT
You advised me to highlight the whole of each post on the BBCode tab and press delete.
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Post by Destry on Dec 26, 2018 22:42:33 GMT
You advised me to highlight the whole of each post on the BBCode tab and press delete. That works for the rest of us. |
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Post by Destry on Dec 26, 2018 23:09:41 GMT
Goodnight all. Catch you in the Christmas/New Year hiatus...
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