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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2020 21:26:27 GMT
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Post by Lurk McLurkface on Sept 19, 2020 4:25:36 GMT
Morning Glampers!
Top o' the pops:
Major D Malpas
On a walk in the countryside recently, Mrs Malpas asked me "what's the basic difference between a dog and a fox?"
Apparently, about eight pints of beer is not the correct answer.
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Post by Shenguin on Sept 19, 2020 7:28:23 GMT
Morning Ex-smokers!
Jesus's cunt, I could smoke the fucking shit out of a fucking Marlboro red right now. I miss them worse than Southgate misses penalties.
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 19, 2020 8:25:36 GMT
Shenguin got some new curtains put in |
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Post by amipal on Sept 19, 2020 8:41:16 GMT
I am in flavour country.
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 19, 2020 9:18:45 GMT
Drains blocked again?
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 19, 2020 9:49:16 GMT
What's yah flava? Tell me what's your flava? |
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Post by Tuffers on Sept 19, 2020 10:21:49 GMT
Howdy smokers*
Games:
Tried to take on a horde for the first time in Days Gone last night. BIG mistake. They tore me to pieces in seconds. Several times. I'm only level 5 so maybe I'll try again in a few months..
PS5 chat. On the assumption that my order comes good, I was looking at the trailer (again) for Demon's Souls. 70 sheets must mean it is the best game, right? I previously confessed that I never played it before and was sent to a correctional facility by Sheep2. I then got thinking about Bloodborne, which I have played, and was thoroughly enjoying until I met the Cleric Beast. I could get to him easily by now, but he just thrashed me, so I gave up. I still have my save file though. Dark Souls 3 I did better, got passed Ludex Gundyr and Vordt of the Boreal Valley. Then picked up something new and haven't played it since March, again I still have my save file so maybe I'll go back.
I'm not really sure what I'm saying here. Maybe it's that I shouldn't spend £70 on a game when I already have two versions of something similar waiting.
OTTM, I'm wondering if now is the time to start panic buying/stock piling again, or am I too late.
*I'm an ex smoker, still miss it.
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Post by wee jock mcplop on Sept 19, 2020 10:49:19 GMT
Smoking? Tabs?
Why?
When you can smoke a delicious marijuana cigarette; a joint, or a 'reefer' if you will instead.
Much better and you get to laugh at the walls instead whilst eating ice cream from the tub.
Downside - you may fall for the 5G theories espoused by fellow 'stoners' on YouTube.
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 19, 2020 10:52:23 GMT
He's got a point, apart from the drugs bit.
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Post by amipal on Sept 19, 2020 10:55:17 GMT
Morning all.
This may surprise some, but I've never smoked. I worked out at an early age that I'd never need a cancer-stick to look cool - it just happens naturally, you know?
Gamesblog: none of that new-stuff.
TVblog: Chef and My Fridge. And a bit of Black Books.
Amigablog: I somehow completely missed testing my E and I directories. So went through quite a few E-starting games.
So cool.
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 19, 2020 11:04:46 GMT
What's yah flava? Tell me what's your flava? Not goddamned Marlboro ... The filth and shit Philip Morris put into it makes it far more dangerous than cannabis. My advice to you is to look at the ingredients; I've still got a functional nose and my nasal cavity hasn't collapsed despite smoking 50 hand-rolled Gauloises a day for decades. Despite being asthmatic. When it was owned by the French state 94% of it was tobacco - it's not good for you, but at least it's not the tobacco washed cellulose infused with added crap so that it continues to burn, even when you're not smoking it. The tobacco industry's continued manipulation of the product and the public now extends into e-cigarettes or 'vaping'. What's worse is that the cytotoxins* that these produce make the nasal cavity (the main entry point for colds, covid and flu) much more vulnerable to viruses. And that includes covid-19. And that's ignoring the consequential build-up of fluid in the lower lobes of the lungs. *Ref: Cytotoxic effects of heated tobacco products (HTP) on human bronchial epithelial cellsAnd bear in mind that secondary smoking 'works' through this mechanism. Once, when I came back from America I bought some Marlboro Lights. I lit up at home and had my first full blown asthma attack in a decade. By all means smoke if that's your choice, but don't kid yourself about the consequences, or to those around you if you light up in the same space. |
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 19, 2020 11:17:25 GMT
He's got a point, apart from the drugs bit. Laughing at the walls eating ice cream *without* drugs tends to get you taken away to a nice comfy room. Where, ironically they pump you full of drugs. |
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Post by amipal on Sept 19, 2020 11:26:48 GMT
There used to be a chap at my local who had a special pair of glasses that included a prosthetic nose. He was always smoking, but I have no idea what brand.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Sept 19, 2020 11:33:44 GMT
He's got a point, apart from the drugs bit. Laughing at the walls eating ice cream *without* drugs tends to get you taken away to a nice comfy room. Where, ironically they pump you full of drugs. Been there done that, except for the ice cream. OTTM: my Note 10+ 5G is working nicely thank you, and radiation does save time on cooking food, which is nice. |
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Post by scubar on Sept 19, 2020 11:52:41 GMT
Hello, went to the murder/sex dungeon house. Most of the house was really nice, but the garden was tiny, so not nice enough to change our minds on the house we’ve offered on.
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Post by Faceless on Sept 19, 2020 12:25:53 GMT
Surely if you had a murder dungeon you wouldn't need so much space in the garden.
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Post by Faceless on Sept 19, 2020 12:27:51 GMT
Morning,
Smoking chat: I have not smoked a cigarette since 2001.
Ottm: I watched an episode of Rick and Morty last night. It did absolutely nothing for me.
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Post by scubar on Sept 19, 2020 12:45:44 GMT
Morning, Smoking chat: I have not smoked a cigarette since 2001. Ottm: I watched an episode of Rick and Morty last night. It did absolutely nothing for me. How’s the train station? |
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Post by Faceless on Sept 19, 2020 13:00:40 GMT
Morning, Smoking chat: I have not smoked a cigarette since 2001. Ottm: I watched an episode of Rick and Morty last night. It did absolutely nothing for me. How’s the train station? It's starting to feel like home. Intermittent WiFi, slightly unpleasant smell, people getting on my nerves. |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 19, 2020 13:13:36 GMT
Morning, Smoking chat: I have not smoked a cigarette since 2001. Ottm: I watched an episode of Rick and Morty last night. It did absolutely nothing for me. Me... 2006. And this week's TV, watching Bones; again (You'd love that Tids), Lucifer (again), The Expanse and House (for the umpteenth time), occasionally, finished Chuck (occasionally funny, but a lot less grim than my normal fare), Britannia S2, but I am finding it very grim. Queued up: GoT (I have long since read the books), Vikings, The Boys and far too many films; I'm listening to the Bear and the Nightingale the debut novel by Katherine Arden which is bloody brilliant. And a hellacious amount of music. |
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Post by amipal on Sept 19, 2020 13:23:39 GMT
Oh yes, I watched the most recent episode of The Boys last night.
Very gruesome, and C-bombs dropped all over. 4*
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Post by amipal on Sept 19, 2020 14:07:26 GMT
This morning, the boy and I visited the local playground. And we were the only people there - bliss.
Amigablog: my A1200T has a habit of getting in a reboot-loop. I reckon it is hardware related, possibly due to dirty contacts. So this afternoon, I decided to take a few components out and scrub the contacts with an IPA-laden toothbrush.
Hopefully that should do the job. Otherwise I'll need to take it right back to basic and give everything a bath in the stuff.
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Post by stxdpr on Sept 19, 2020 14:19:13 GMT
Anyone got anything good to say about by broadband? They had one job and seem to have failed that last week so now it's a week wait for an engineer but you can't book an appointment when asked to.
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 19, 2020 15:25:55 GMT
Anyone got anything good to say about by broadband? They had one job and seem to have failed that last week so now it's a week wait for an engineer but you can't book an appointment when asked to. Nope; assuming you mean BT; they are crooks, liars and incompetence personified. Their customer service is a very bad joke - a bunch of monkeys trained to read from a script that has paths that mainly lead to reading out web addresses. And that they still have honest technical staff that you're going to have to be very hard put to get to. Only call centre managers can refer you to them? Did you know that their routers and servers have dns redirects that lead current customers to their standard tariffs so you never find their discounted new customer stuff? And that their sales staff outright lie? Not only failing to add VAT to their own prices "Yes, Mr Chumbles, we will give you our latest hub, the same speed as Virgin and we won't put up your price during the contract." Every.single.clause but one in that sentence was a complete fucking lie. They quote a price without VAT, the local telephone network is capped out at 65mbps - Virgin runs over its own cable and is currently capped at 380mbps, and the local amplifier has just been upgraded to 540mbps*. And finally BT will hike your prices mid-contract edit: *correction: the amplifier has been upped to 1gbps, along with others in preparation for the Gig1fibre rollout - my mate's the engineer who has just done this work |
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