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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2020 21:26:16 GMT
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 12, 2020 6:42:34 GMT
Morning!
I am awaiting a delivery from Herpes.
TV: Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I knew the million pound answer. Who said video games weren't educational?
Games: Achieved the fabled 0 KDR on BFBC2.
OTTM: No.
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 12, 2020 7:27:34 GMT
Morning Tids; I'm still shattered... I've just caught a snippet that someone has been given the task of 'rewriting' Jerusalem. Now I understand that the Parry version has become associated with a distasteful kind of jingoistic patriotism... And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.I utterly detest and reject the rewriting of any of Blake's work; how dare BBC fucking executives commission the bowdlerisation of Blake's tortured, passionate poetry. For a start the symbolism is particularly appropriate now. And what is wrong with loving your country, but deploring the soulless subjugation of Everyman in "dark Satanic Mills"? Or exhorting ourselves to resist the inhuman, politicised application of the Protestant ethic? Booooooooo!  Not that kind of boo I'm going back to sleep... |
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Post by Shenguin on Sept 12, 2020 7:46:11 GMT
Has Chumbles recently studied poetry for GCSE English?
Chumbles, have you recently studied poetry for GCSE English?
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 12, 2020 8:14:32 GMT
My experiments with the broken Senneisers have not gone well.
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Post by m1dnitecreeper on Sept 12, 2020 8:43:08 GMT
Morning! I am awaiting a delivery from Herpes. TV: Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I knew the million pound answer. Who said video games weren't educational? Games: Achieved the fabled 0 KDR on BFBC2. OTTM: No. What console you playing BFBC2 on? By far my fav battlefield. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 12, 2020 9:02:51 GMT
Morning! I am awaiting a delivery from Herpes. TV: Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I knew the million pound answer. Who said video games weren't educational? Games: Achieved the fabled 0 KDR on BFBC2. OTTM: No. What console you playing BFBC2 on? By far my fav battlefield. Xbox 360. |
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Post by m1dnitecreeper on Sept 12, 2020 9:05:29 GMT
What console you playing BFBC2 on? By far my fav battlefield. Xbox 360. Are the servers still decent. Got it on ps3 so may give it a whirl! |
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Post by m1dnitecreeper on Sept 12, 2020 9:19:15 GMT
Morning all.
Working this weekend so only a mild drinking session last night. Watched the gift with mean Keanu in it which I enjoyed.
Not many games. May try and squeeze in some football manager & some chrono trigger. Maybe some tony hawk or wasteland 3 as well.
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Post by Felice Landry on Sept 12, 2020 10:14:05 GMT
28/29c forecast for Mon/Tues, a tad hot.
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 12, 2020 10:26:50 GMT
Are the servers still decent. Got it on ps3 so may give it a whirl! Servers are good. |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 12, 2020 11:06:58 GMT
Has Chumbles recently studied poetry for GCSE English? Chumbles, have you recently studied poetry for GCSE English? I predate GCSE... I first read William Blake when I was 14* and was lucky enough to opt for his poetry as part of English A level and then again as the subject of two term papers for my BA(Hons)... *I was the School Librarian and, because I wasn't into thuggery, drugs and outright theft**, I was allowed to order books unsupervised by staff... so, apart from stuffing the library full of SF off the list, I also got hold of a study on Blake. **It was a very rough Secondary Modern. Oddly enough, my last secondary school was a Foundation Grammar School just relocated from the Whitechapel ... and there were much more accomplished thieves attending. The headmaster made the mistake of getting a local bookshop to put a couple of revolving bookstands and a couple of hundred paperbacks into the library and an honesty box onto the desk... At this point I'd only been there a term, but even I thought this was insane. After 3 hours there were 11 books left and the honesty box had been stolen. I was promoted to Senior Prefect and deputised (as a fresh, uncorrupted influence) to lead the search for the missing books whilst all the pupils were rounded up and marched into the assembly hall and gym. I got about half back by suggesting an amnesty (Sir, do you want the school to be called Fagin's Academy in the newspapers or do you want the books back?). Then I got My Baker Street Irregulars (a half dozen prefects) to 'find' the books they'd nicked by pointing out the cops could be called so if they got their hands on any they'd 'found' they couldn't possibly be err... nicked... We found the box, but not the cash. Then came the search for the 70 still missing - 30 odd hidden uninspired in their own desks, but the remainder much more creative - some above the polystyrene tiles of the library ceiling, others on top of the stacks, some in a plastic bag in a toilet cistern, some in sports bags, some in the kit room... We missed 6. I was going to be made Head Boy the next year, but I begged off as I actually wanted to pass my exams with decent grades... |
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 12, 2020 11:33:02 GMT
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 12, 2020 11:55:12 GMT
Morning! I am awaiting a delivery from Herpes. Commiserations. I'm so sorry to hear that. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/ng-interactive/2020/sep/12/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-jackpot-questions-quiz-yourself13/15 I got up to £125,000. I also knew the million pound answer. But then I hadn't played 50/50, Phone a Friend, or Ask the Audience. The latter is just as well as I was taking the quiz whilst sitting on the loo. (I didn't watch it, so the questions were all new to me.) Years ago I played a round of the demo version of a Who Wants to be a Millionaire video game and straight away won a million pounds. After that I didn't want the game anymore. |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 12, 2020 12:03:46 GMT
14/15
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Post by Faceless on Sept 12, 2020 12:30:15 GMT
13
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Post by Faceless on Sept 12, 2020 12:31:02 GMT
Didn't know the politician or the whale.
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Post by Tuffers on Sept 12, 2020 12:32:13 GMT
16, won £2m.
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Post by Tuffers on Sept 12, 2020 12:49:44 GMT
The trouble with Arsenal is that they always... Wait...what?...blimey!
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 12, 2020 12:55:02 GMT
I want you on my pub quiz team. You can afford buying the rounds. |
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 12, 2020 13:07:23 GMT
I got 11 right. With phone a friend and 50/50 I'd have got them all. Pressure withstanding.
Hello.
TV. Good Girls. One to go in S2.
Games. The afore-mentioned GTA. Met Trevor's mother. Amusing. Dunno if I want to batter on for the other 25% and delete it or go to something else and come back. Might not bother if I do that so probably beast it.
Pizza bagels for lunch. Chicken marinading for kebabs for dinner. Going to cook in a griddle pan. See how that goes.
OTTM. Finished the Battle of Rave podcast. Great stuff tho a tad dark at the end. Not surprisingly.
OTTM2. Has anyone used the assassin's creed virtual tours of Egypt/Greece that ubisoft brought out? The child has been reading a book on Egypt and thought it might interest her.
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Post by amipal on Sept 12, 2020 13:34:44 GMT
Good afternoon, denizens of the box. Had my dad over for lunch, so spent the morning tidying/cleaning/cooking. Did some chicken thighs in a honey lemon marinade, served up with salad, home-made coleslaw, and nice bread. Boodiful! Gamesblog: none for me. TVblog: nah. Amigablog: new Sweet Content available. |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 12, 2020 14:49:59 GMT
I want you on my pub quiz team. You can afford buying the rounds. I wonder who would really be the best quiz team of 4? Not me, now my brain's neurons fire so slowly that like the dinosaur*, it takes me too long to answer. WHO'S YOUR PUB QUIZ TEAM? 1. tenthenemy - knows a huge amount and has my vote for Captain - as a grandmother and mother she can spot bullshittery a mile off, especially from men. A bonus is that she can put it down without dividing the team into bottle-waving, feuding camps. 2. cobblers - Willum's head is stuffed full of trivia; I'd've preferred sockpuppetpseudonym , but we'd lose if his sister-in-law turned up... (Besides, someone would have to find out which multi storey car park he's holed up in and coax him out of it.) And now for a couple of specialists. The trick of selecting a team is the team's overall knowledge, not having 4 generalists. (I know because back in the '90s I was captain of one league winning quiz team, and deputy of another and quite often dropped myself. MVP was Fay, an ageing blonde bimbo who could hold her booze AND watched every film and soap through to the credits AND remembered EVERY gob-smackingly boring detail. And she wasn't that much of a hottie, so the blokes in the team wouldn't be staring at her tits rather than listening to the questions... at least until they'd got their beer goggles on, which, apart from Graham, our Economics/Politics specialist, was normally after the quiz... "GRAHAM, eyes FRONT"). More difficult because in here because you're never sure how much is Goggle and how much is recall. I ruled out Sheep2 because by the time he'd parcelled his potential answer up, into annoyingly spaced out soundbites, the time would've run out, bottles been broken for a bit of team frustration therapy and us all chucked out for affray. I'm ruled out again because Tenthen knows everything I do and more. MrTiddles is ruled out because the trail of dead and missing opposition team members would get him in prison and he'd fit us all up as part of a plea bargain. Shenguin is oot; it's bad enough we have to read about his not-children, but listening to it would become unbearable. I'd also rule out Ozymandias Kane because although he's encyclopaedic on schlock TV and conspiracy theories, he might well be as incomprehensible in person as he mostly is here. scamander would be brilliant, but apart from military technology, Tenthen's classical education covers a similar area. crankcaller would be on IT; I know the job he does and the environment and he'd've picked up a lot there, but quiz setters rarely major on technology. I could go on 🤣, but time presses... 3. Felice Landry - whose tolerance for booze, drugs and shitty music makes him a shoo-in for answering questions on questions on bands I'm proud of not knowing the answer to. 4. Destry - who's nearly as old as I am now and has a much greater knowledge of football as I do... besides, he gives me the Jukebox to play my weird taste in music in. ...or Tuffers who I suspect of knowing even more on the same subjects. Hmm... I could captain the B team, of course. (I bet you're just itching to know who'd be in that one!) * where the forebrain of the Diplodocus would be screaming the T Rex is eating me, whilst the backbrain was moaning "shit, the Sarcosuchus has got me" and neither had received the message from each other in order to be able to say in unison "We're screwed!" before they'd been torn in two and chomped, vis:  This massive wall of text has taken me most of the afternoon to tap in with my wretchedly slow two-handed 7 wpm trackball method whilst playing catch up on my fluid intake... up to 2.5 litres now, so from hereon in it's playing the pointing percy game whilst screaming at the radio "Shut up moaning about the lack of spectators - we KNOW you fucking waste of space, we do NOT need to hear it repeated ad infinitum you cunts. It's a shitty enough situation already without you rubbing our faces in it you ..." (cont. p94). |
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Post by Tuffers on Sept 12, 2020 15:23:08 GMT
Lovely stuff, Chumbles.
I'll be honest, I've done well there.
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 12, 2020 15:31:23 GMT
Eating the opposition is a tried and tested method of winning.
Oh, and Herpes delivered my new cans at 11am. Now if you excuse me I've got some Pomplamoose to listen to.
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