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Title: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 02:32:01 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 11 June, 2012, 02:45:38 PM
A spaceship controlled by boiled eggs & a flute!
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Post by: SmallBlueThing on 11 June, 2012, 02:58:37 PM
Big mahoosive tits!

SBT
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Post by: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2012, 03:17:52 PM
Have you tried Wensleydale?
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Post by: Spaceghost on 11 June, 2012, 03:19:28 PM
Zen and the art of Steam Powered Wanking Gauntlet maintenance.
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 11 June, 2012, 03:22:41 PM
This is everything that is wrong with comics today!
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 03:25:51 PM
Stop talking amongst yourselves and listen to my tale of work/unemployment/family related angst. 
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Post by: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 03:37:35 PM
I knew you were gonna say that
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Post by: mygrimmbrother on 11 June, 2012, 03:39:18 PM
Stop talking about American things and let's watch the greatest film ever made.
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Post by: Noisybast on 11 June, 2012, 03:44:12 PM
I still say his helmet's too small.
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 03:45:28 PM
Quote from: Noisybast on 11 June, 2012, 03:44:12 PM
I still say his helmet's too small.

F*ck off Scott.
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Post by: Trout on 11 June, 2012, 03:50:37 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 03:45:28 PM
Quote from: Noisybast on 11 June, 2012, 03:44:12 PM
I still say his helmet's too small.

F*ck off Scott.

Reported.
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2012, 04:04:33 PM
When are we going to see a trailer???? Pull your finger out, Rebellion!
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Post by: radiator on 11 June, 2012, 04:33:47 PM
Just popped in to say this thread should be so exciting, but it's awful and you're all so stupid and boring.

I love saying nasty things, me. I'm just so very grumpy - you'll never know what I'll say next!

I'm leaving the board forever now BYE!
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 04:36:44 PM
Right, that's it.  You might think you got in ahead of me, Radiator, but you're obviously just doing it to annoy me so I don't care. 

I remember when this board was just wall-to-wall witty treatises on 2000AD, not so deep as to be termed pseudo-intellectual twaddle mind, but insightful and entertaining.  Now it's either wankers making attacks on creators or wankers getting upset about attacks on creators.  The Life Spugs thread is nothing but whining and moaning and the Political Thread is full of nothing but politics, and to be honest I have no idea how any of Off-Topic section relates to the purpose of this forum.

And don't get me started on the Ignore function, I'm too busy reading these gobshites' five-million posts a day to work out how to use it.

I've had it.  I'm off to Facebook to complain about this board and pretend I don't read it anymore, but when I do I'm shocked.

Goodbye. 

For ever.

I mean it.

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Post by: LARF on 11 June, 2012, 04:37:08 PM
I'm back!!!!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 04:52:49 PM
lol, <3 WOW oMG! <<< <3   xxx chill old fellas
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Post by: radiator on 11 June, 2012, 04:57:09 PM
Did someone tangentially mention Aliens? I hate Aliens. I know, I know - everyone loves that movie, but I hate it! I think it's the worst film ever made. Crazy, right?
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Post by: Spaceghost on 11 June, 2012, 05:22:37 PM
If you fucking like Doctor fucking Who or in fact have any opinion other than the right one (mine), you're a fucking worthless twat who's probably never even done sex up a lady so fucking get out of my site you fucking worm.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 11 June, 2012, 05:43:26 PM
Buy Dogbreath.
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 05:46:45 PM
I wish people wouldn't come on here just to sell their rubbish.  What makes you think the sort of people who come here to discuss comics would be interested in your comic?  If it's good enough it should sell itself.  Did Siegel and Schuster need to spam us endlessly to make their millions?  I don't think so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jon on 11 June, 2012, 05:55:34 PM
Look at my pitcher!

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25024/ShitDredd.jpg)

I should be in the prog!
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Post by: LARF on 11 June, 2012, 05:59:09 PM
Quote from: Jon on 11 June, 2012, 05:55:34 PM
Look at my pitcher!

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25024/ShitDredd.jpg)

I should be in the prog!

Not enough links in the chain.
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Post by: Buttonman on 11 June, 2012, 06:04:12 PM
Long walk for me.
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 06:06:00 PM
And when oh when are we getting Halo Jones Book IV, eh? 

Let's face it, if DC can be really creative and progressive in flogging a 25-year old story to death against the wishes of its creator instead of using its best talent to come up with something new and maybe better, why the hell doesn't Tharg follow suit?  Doesn't he like getting big green column inches into Bleeding Cool?  Moore clearly gave implicit permission for Gibson to do all the Pirate Queen stuff when he allowed Davis and Baikie to fuck up do more DR & Quinch and Skizz, and anyway he's worse than Hitler for ripping off OC & Stiggs and ET and being a child pornographer in the first place, the doped up hypocrite.  Anyway, Gibson better draw it exactly the same way as he did back then, none of this mcMahon 'his style has evolved' shiteology.  His recent RoboHunter stuff was rubbish.

So tell me Rebellion, when is my all-time favourite strip coming back? 
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2012, 06:43:09 PM
What about them there Jews, eh?
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Post by: Spikes on 11 June, 2012, 06:56:17 PM
Wonder how Cyberleader is getting on with that lass? Any updates?
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 June, 2012, 07:03:13 PM
I disagree with you and generally I find your whole schtick annoying. YOU MUST BE SC*J*

Why haven't the mods banned you yet? This sort of thing wouldn't happen if Roger was a mod.

And here comes TLS to explain how this is all the fault of Private-Money and the Banking system
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Post by: SmallBlueThing on 11 June, 2012, 07:04:39 PM
Will NO ONE think of the tits?!!?

SBT
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 07:25:36 PM
I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner

I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee

And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue

He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in

"It is always
Nice to see you"
Says the man
Behind the counter

To the woman
Who has come in
She is shaking
Her umbrella

And I look
The other way
As they are kissing
Their hellos

I'm pretending
Not to see them
And Instead
I pour the milk

I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor

Who had died
While he was drinking
He was no one
I had heard of

And I'm turning
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies

When I'm feeling
Someone watching me
And so
I raise my head

There's a woman
On the outside
Looking inside
Does she see me?

No she does not
Really see me
Cause she sees
Her own reflection

And I'm trying
Not to notice
That she's hitching
Up her skirt

And while she's
Straightening her stockings
Her hair
Is getting wet

Oh, this rain
It will continue
Through the morning
As I'm listening

To the bells
Of the cathedral
I am thinking
Of your voice...

And of the midnight picnic
Once upon a time
Before the rain began...

I finish up my coffee
It's time to catch the train
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 June, 2012, 08:05:32 PM
Amazing digital comic sale on Comixology today.

And...

An Oirish 'accent' for me posts from now is de only way ta go. Dis is de best Brit-baitin loada troipe I can tink of. Feck it sure lads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 08:20:15 PM
I remember a comic I read in the 70s mighta been the 80s think it was a Judge Dredd comic but maybe not been in the Judge Dredd story but there was this one bit where this guy hit another guy, mighta been a robot or an alien I forget and there was a sound effect like you used to get in those things.  Anyway I traced that for my art project and got a B.  Can anyone send me a scan of the picture?  You could send me the whole issue if you have it. 
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 08:20:24 PM
Anyone?
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 08:21:34 PM
Come on, I'm in a hurry here.  I thought you nerds knew everything.  Screw this, I can get every issue on comic on Pirate Bay anyway.  Thanks for nothing losers.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 June, 2012, 08:34:10 PM
Does anyone know what the capital of Andorra is?

I could have asked google and got an answer instantly, but I thought it would be easier and more convenient to log on to this forum, find the appropriate thread to post this on (or mayhaps start an entirely new thread) and then wait for an indefinite amount of time to see if anyone knows.

Now, while I'm waiting for my answer, I think I'll do some dodgy photoshopping of the Dredd movie's promotional material. WHY ISN'T THERE A TRAILER? COME SEPTEMBER I WON'T ENJOY THE MOVIE BECAUSE THE TRAILER'S NOT OUT YET
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2012, 08:39:16 PM
Hi!

I've just found a load of old comics in my loft, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how much they're worth?
I've got an old copy of 2001AD - issue 1785. I'll let it go for £300.
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Post by: vzzbux on 11 June, 2012, 09:15:08 PM
She needs a good fucking.




V
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 09:44:43 PM
My lawyers shall be in touch.


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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 June, 2012, 09:52:14 PM
*bump*
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Post by: Minkyboy on 11 June, 2012, 09:53:48 PM
Should be fine if you can just wiggle a bit of cheese in there, tight as you can.
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 09:54:56 PM
American comics are so dumb and stupid. Apart from the Walking Dead. You never know which two dimensional cipher is going to die next in that comic. I also like Preacher because that had swearung and violence in it but it also had some incredibly cloying sentimentality in it and some rote characterization so it gave the illusion of not being for dummies. Also I like The Boys because they say that superheroes are dumb and I hate superheroes because they are so dumb. I hate it when they bring characters back from the dead or retcon deaths so they were alive the whole time. Give me Nikolai Dante any day.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 June, 2012, 10:04:14 PM
I can quote venerated historical figures, so clearly I am right and you are wrong
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 10:09:31 PM
Pat Mills is the greatest comic writer of all time and he is better than Alan Moore or John Wagner. He is so iconoclastic because he did a comic where the villain was a racist and also he said that superheroes were dumb and an adolescent power fantasy. David Bishop and Andy Diggle should pay for their crimes against Pat Mils.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 June, 2012, 10:11:12 PM
Have you even met the internet?
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Post by: vzzbux on 11 June, 2012, 10:12:20 PM
I love star wars me. Any others out there share my interest.





V
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 10:17:39 PM
I've had sex loads of times.  I don't like to talk about it. 

But feel free to ask.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 June, 2012, 10:33:15 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 11 June, 2012, 10:12:20 PM
I love star wars me. Any others out there share my interest.


GEORGE LUCAS IS HITLER YOU IDIOT
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Post by: Spaceghost on 11 June, 2012, 10:40:36 PM
I also loved Star Wars as a child to the point where, when I saw The Phantom Menace, my brain effectively refused to process the information that it was the worst film ever made and a travesty of all Star Wars stood for. I will now happily spend hours of my precious, dwindling time on Earth, typing out long, long paragraphs explaining why The Phantom Menace CAN'T be a very, very, terribly shit film because Star Wars made me so happy as a child. Now I must lie to myself and never admit it...

Never...

Still six years old... Still six years old...
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 10:52:05 PM
Having a comedy name hasn't made me bitter at all.
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 10:59:38 PM
Totalhack now has 13337 posts so he's so leet he has an extra "e".
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2012, 11:07:42 PM
namedrop, namedrop, namedrop - hey! Look at me LOOK AT ME- I've got tits and everything! ME ME MEEEEEEEE!!!!
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 11:12:49 PM
trolololololol stop bullying me just because i am a woman. i was trolling all of you but i was doing it in a way that isn't really trolling because I just wanted to stimulate discussion. i did one term at university but i had to drop out because i didn't hand any assignments in because my mum got sick or whatever so now i am exempt from criticism.
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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 June, 2012, 11:18:56 PM
What's that song that goes "la - la la la - la"? It's got "love" in one of the verses.
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Post by: vzzbux on 11 June, 2012, 11:21:47 PM
I hav sean sum fiqures sold in japon and wont sumwon to by them four me. any tackars.




V
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Post by: Spaceghost on 11 June, 2012, 11:28:05 PM
I... I just want to know that you all love me...
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Post by: Minkyboy on 11 June, 2012, 11:30:38 PM
Hi long time listener, first time caller here.

I used to read 2000ad then gave up in the 90's.

WHY CAN'T I POST IN THE NEW MOVIE THREAD YOU ELITIST FACISTS?!

No I haven't read the account approval forum rules or stickies, why?
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 11:42:09 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 June, 2012, 11:18:56 PM
What's that song that goes "la - la la la - la"? It's got "love" in one of the verses.

For the last time, IT'S PRONOUNCED SLAWN-YEH.
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 11:43:17 PM
You should all stop being mean to that person.
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 11:44:09 PM
Roger Godpleton may be the most gifted poster I've ever read; gifted not just because of his imagination, his energy, his originality, but because he has access to the unutterable, because he can look inside a person and discover the unique essence of their humanity. To read him is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence; it is to be turned back, as if after a long absence, into a human being.
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Post by: I, Cosh on 11 June, 2012, 11:45:15 PM
When do you think Thryllseeker will get let out again?
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 June, 2012, 11:46:25 PM
IMPEACH THRYLLSEEKYR
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 12:08:43 AM
Have I ever told you about my kids? Children are the greatest thing a man can do. I feel such a sense of achievement that I was too much of a dumbass to pull out that one time as now I have smaller versions of myself that I can vicariously fulfill my pathetic ambitions with.
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 12:29:19 AM
Everything modern is so terrible and young people these days are all idiots.

Everything in the world was so much better in the 1980s, which coincidentally was when I myself was young.
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 12:35:48 AM
Everyone who works in the public sector is a freeloader. I heard that public sector workers are given chairs that aren't the most spartan and utilitarian models in the chair catalogue. I think they should all be fired for no other reason than that I am squeamish about the existence of a public sector.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 June, 2012, 12:45:00 AM
This whole thread has gotten out of hand and reading it's just making me despair. Frankly, I have better things to do than show all you pathetic virgins the error of your ways, because my awesome life is way way better than yours. This will be my last word on the subject. Losers
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Post by: Spaceghost on 12 June, 2012, 08:01:08 AM
That's it. I'm leaving this forum FOR EVER.

I am now going to stand in the rain wearing a big leather cowboy hat and clench my fists while looking moody and sulking...

Goodbye inferior organisms.
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Post by: skurvy on 12 June, 2012, 08:45:06 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
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Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 09:44:39 AM
We already did a thread like this, nine years ago:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,6430.msg82498#msg82498 (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,6430.msg82498#msg82498)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2012, 11:11:17 AM
SOME people know the thread for everything but the value of nothing, what is the value of nothing?
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 11:49:37 AM
WHY CAN'T ALL COMIC ART BE REALISTIC AND DETAILED AND FREE OF IMAGINATION!?!!?!

I only like realistic comic art like Simon Bisley, and I can't stand cartoony, childish comic art like Mick McMahon or Darwyn Cooke.

If I liked all that cartoony stuff I wouldn't be reading comics!

CARTOONY comic art makes me fucking sick!
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 11:53:55 AM
Hi guys I found this amazing brand new picture from the new Judge Dredd film and as obviously none of you will have ever seen it before I am going to start a brand new thread about it

(http://www.shadowlocked.com/images/stories/news/010_November_2010/23/karl_urban_as_dredd.jpg)
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 12:10:00 PM
I love metal, me. Here are some of the metal bands I have been listening to lately. Slayer are better than the Beatles.

Killblood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOW8ZuLG2o

Trogsmorg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRxzLYElZi4

Sire of Trogsmorg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

Vengeance of the Bilvardorg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJL1APHzyCw

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Post by: Spaceghost on 12 June, 2012, 12:32:33 PM
Quote from: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 11:53:55 AM
Hi guys I found this amazing brand new picture from the new Judge Dredd film and as obviously none of you will have ever seen it before I am going to start a brand new thread about it

(http://www.shadowlocked.com/images/stories/news/010_November_2010/23/karl_urban_as_dredd.jpg)

His helmet's too big and his chin's too small and his shoulder pad's too small and his badge looks too much like the badge from the Stallone film and that corridor doesn't look futuristic enough and where are the fatties and uglies and aliens and robots and face-change machines and cyborgs and ape gangsters and mutants and Judge Death and Walter the wobot and Max Normal and flying cars and spaceships and dimension jump technology and time machines and if they don't adress EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY PETTY QUIBBLES AND MAKE THE EXACT JUDGE DREDD FILM I WANT THEN IT WILL BE RUBBISH AND A TOTAL FAILURE AND where is the trailer? Is there a trailer yet? If there isn't a trailer yet that is PROOF THAT THIS FILM WILL BE RUBBISH. If I was in charge of marketing this film I would havve released 20 trailers the day after the project was announced and then released a further 20 trailers EVERY DAY until the films release and loads of pictures and everything as well.
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Post by: SmallBlueThing on 12 June, 2012, 12:46:26 PM
The mere fact that you on this forum are fans, buy the comic every week and support to the best of your ability everything connected to the comic within reason- and are more likely than most to support wider british comics and creators- is exactly the reason your opinions should never be listened to. Everyone here is shit, their opinions are baseless shit. Everyone else in the world- those who dont buy the comic, probably will never buy the comic, and dont even really like comics- they are the ones to be listened to. And anything you may think or say about films is also baseless shit simply because you are on this forum. Do not question your masters. They create, you consume. Know your place.

SBT
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 June, 2012, 12:50:30 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 12:10:00 PM
I love metal, me. Here are some of the metal bands I have been listening to lately. Slayer are better than the Beatles.

Killblood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOW8ZuLG2o

Trogsmorg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRxzLYElZi4

Sire of Trogsmorg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

Vengeance of the Bilvardorg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJL1APHzyCw

Damn beat me too it... but I'll say it anyway to get my post count up.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 12 June, 2012, 12:51:44 PM
      You are ignoring this user. Show me the post (http://haha%20suckers!)
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 June, 2012, 01:02:11 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 12 June, 2012, 12:51:44 PM
      You are ignoring this user. Show me the post (http://haha%20suckers!)

Who said that?
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 01:04:38 PM
Did I mention that I have a hot wife?
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 01:22:38 PM
I'm afraid that I don't find that sort of thing funny, as being a parent means I no longer have a working sense of humour about such things.
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 01:25:01 PM
Everyone who buys an Apple product or who even thinks about buying an Apple product is a total arsehole.

I HATE POPULAR THINGS!!!!!!!
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 01:27:28 PM
Of course, I can appreciate this a lot more that you can, because I read the original comic is was based on and saw the anime years ago.
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 01:34:31 PM
Please sign my petition to ban money and crops that are grown with money. Others may say that my knowledge of macroeconomics and agriculture could be generously be described as rudimentary, but it is clear that those people are under the employ of George Soros/ Rothschilds/ Rockerfellers/ Monsanto/ the Jews (highlight as applicable) and I can just imply that this is the case whenever anyone disagrees with me. In the covering letter I have used all caps on certain words as that will help the recipient understand the thrust of my argument a lot quicker.
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 01:45:05 PM
FFS! I clicked on this thread discussing this specific film/TV show/comic book/etc in good faith and I DID NOT expect to see SPOILERS for said film/TV show/comic book.

Shame on you all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 01:53:42 PM
Somebody famous had died. :-(
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Post by: radiator on 12 June, 2012, 02:04:57 PM
Seeing as we're all like-minded fans of sci-fi and comics, I thought I'd start a thread for discussion of the trailer for some forthcoming wretched teen comedy movie drivel.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2012, 02:05:14 PM
Does anyone want to look at wimmins underware?
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Post by: Minkyboy on 12 June, 2012, 02:22:36 PM
Your mother is extremely promiscuous and we have all had carnal knowledge of her.
(Except Cyber and Batson)
(But they watched)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 02:23:47 PM
Look at all the pictures of my toy dolls!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2012, 02:26:16 PM
How do I post piktures here?
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Post by: Spaceghost on 12 June, 2012, 02:29:10 PM
Yay!!! I bagged the new prog thread!!!

I haven't actually read it yet and, for all you know, I haven't even seen it yet either!!!

I'll post an in depth review later after my mum has helped me with the big words!!!
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 June, 2012, 02:35:30 PM
I've got a rilly impotent thang to say and my spellin' well not in eny way got into the wey o myself saying my pont. What is gud.
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Post by: Noisybast on 12 June, 2012, 02:36:46 PM
Here's an important plot point from the new episode of that show you've been following. Y'know - the one you were planning to watch tonight? Well I watched it this afternoon, so I thought I'd casually toss it into a completely unrelated thread for a laugh. I'm so very clever it may just kill me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2012, 02:41:54 PM
you're clever?

look who I compare the Dark Judges to:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/The_Three_Stooges.jpg/250px-The_Three_Stooges.jpg)

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 02:47:01 PM
BWWWAAAAARRRRRRR
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 12 June, 2012, 02:54:32 PM
OK, here's my review!!!

Cover - Cool!!!

Dredd - Cool!!!

Strontium Dog - Oooh! Cool!!!

Zaucer of Zilk - Don't know what's happening but - Cool!!!

Future Shock - Wow!!! My brain hurts!!! Cool!!!

Zombo - Ha!!! Cool!!!

Overall - COOL!!!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2012, 02:55:34 PM
well I think the exact opposite (contd)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 June, 2012, 02:55:45 PM
I'm better than you because I type in colour
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 03:00:04 PM
Don't forget to add xx

xx
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 03:17:21 PM
Look, when I said I wanted your opinions on my art/Writing, I meant *nice* opinions!
If you try any constructive criticism I shall take it as a personal insult and flounce off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 03:18:17 PM
That reminds me of the time I was going down on a girl and she squirted and it landed on my Star Wars poster so it looked like she squirted on Han Solo. This thing totally happened. I have such an interesting life. Did I mention I have a hot wife?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 03:51:25 PM
Now I will say something provocative about the mods, just to see what I can get away with.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 June, 2012, 04:27:35 PM
Ill tell you whats really provocative, closing the forum down for 3 days - thats provocative. Seriously what were you guys smoking thinking?
Tharg if your reading this, id be an excellant mod. And to prove it ill get this thread back on track....

Quote from: pops1983 on 11 June, 2012, 08:34:10 PM
Does anyone know what the capital of Andorra is?

Its Andorra la Vella, pops.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 12 June, 2012, 04:39:15 PM
and then simply serve, perhaps add a little chopped parsley as a garnish.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 12 June, 2012, 05:10:57 PM
Now I will say something provocative about the mods, just to see what I can get away with now.

Yes, indeed why should I bother reading any posts before I post this, just in case someone else has posted virtually the same sentence!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Buttonman on 12 June, 2012, 06:18:09 PM
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/Kylie-Minogue-118-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 06:50:15 PM
Watson wins again!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 06:59:27 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 12 June, 2012, 06:18:09 PM
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/Kylie-Minogue-118-1.jpg)

^ this
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 12 June, 2012, 07:13:15 PM
Wow! I'd riot foam her :-)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 12 June, 2012, 07:17:24 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sAgO15986lo/TOlCVDsJPMI/AAAAAAAABYY/SUhAAMNBPrU/s1600/1290117195221.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 June, 2012, 07:23:10 PM
(http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/funny-gifs-talk-about-intelligent-design.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 12 June, 2012, 07:32:02 PM
Its my birthday!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 12 June, 2012, 07:35:23 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 12 June, 2012, 07:23:10 PM
(http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/funny-gifs-talk-about-intelligent-design.gif)

DEFINITELY SHOULD BE DREDD...

I mean he may be 80 odd, but he'd def. not take off the helmet
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 08:11:54 PM
Stop threadjacking the threadjacking thread!

We're supposed to sarcastically post in the style of response we find most annoying. See my next post for an illustration.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 08:12:30 PM
^ this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 June, 2012, 08:46:09 PM
^that
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Buttonman on 12 June, 2012, 08:53:21 PM
This was covered in my previous thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 June, 2012, 09:04:39 PM
Even though your incisive post proved me a fool, I shall restate me original argument in a slightly different form, appended with insults on your character.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 09:14:33 PM
We have decided to hate our own customer base, because that's not commercial suicide.

You people are on thin ice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 09:17:25 PM
Hey ... people, can't we all just agree that everyone's opinions are equally valid? And that the prog is the best it's EVER been?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 09:24:20 PM
Shit in a box.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Pete Wells on 12 June, 2012, 09:27:48 PM
There's a new cover on my blog!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 09:38:46 PM
^ this
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 June, 2012, 09:40:20 PM
Here's some more garishly coloured clip-art. You can't say anything bad about me because at least I am trying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 09:50:14 PM
Read my shitty small press book!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 09:57:28 PM
I may have been baying like a wolf for the new product that is now available, but I have decided to hate it because it is very slightly different from what I wanted.

No, I didn't tell anyone what I wanted.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 12 June, 2012, 10:03:34 PM
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/reptileking_/tankcat.jpg)

(from the Image comics Caturday section)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: locustsofdeath! on 12 June, 2012, 10:03:55 PM
Americans suck, 'cos they just do. Bloody Yanks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 10:08:02 PM
tl;dr
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 June, 2012, 10:09:25 PM
^this
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 June, 2012, 10:10:48 PM
Who said that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 12 June, 2012, 10:32:06 PM
I used to really enjoy eating Tesco's vegetarian chicken keivs, in fact I ate the very first vegetarian chicken kiev ever made, beacuse the guy that invented them stole the idea from me, but the other day I went to my local Tesco only to find they'd changed the colour of the box. How could they do this? Why? I LIKED the box that colour. This made me so incredibly incredibly ANGRY that I went out and punched a cyclist in the frote which was entirely his fault completely for cycling near me when I was REALLY ANGRY & everyone knows that you shouldn't make me angry because I'm an expert in all martial arts. Anyway, I'm never ever going in another Tescos as long as I live. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? They're probably communists. But thy're only pretending to be communists. They don't even know what that even means! I wrote the communist manifesto!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 12 June, 2012, 10:38:40 PM
Stinking bishop
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 10:42:27 PM
WHY IS BURGER KING CLOSED!???!!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 12 June, 2012, 10:45:09 PM
Hey, I hope I didn't offend you then. I was just trying to say that I think you're an utter cretin and you're completely wrong about everything.

No offence, yeah?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 June, 2012, 10:45:36 PM
Quote from: Somebody=topic=36237.msg682689#msg682689 date=13395354477
(http://i.imgur.com/PxWNt.jpg)
Look at Anderson's tits!

^Pathetic, just pathetic. Its stuff like this that brings 2000ad down to the level of those other comics.
Please remove this image.














now that ive saved it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2012, 10:46:53 PM
Quote from: LARF on 12 June, 2012, 10:38:40 PM
Stinking bishop

David Bishop was responsible for turning the prog around from the dark days of the Nineties to its present glory. That's not my opinion, that's a quote from some guy called David Bishop- talking about himself in the third person- in Thrillpower Overload.

Thank heavens he did, because the prog is the best its EVER been!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 June, 2012, 10:48:01 PM
Anyone who objects to that image is a humourless scold. It is just intended to be fun. FUN. If women don't like it they should make better dinners.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 12 June, 2012, 10:51:51 PM
I'm currently reading "Animal Farm", a book you've probably never heard of by George Orwell who's a guy who wrote books far too clever for you.

Anyway, I'm sure you have no idea what it's about because you never heard of it before I just mentioned it, so here's a synopsis I cut & pasted from wikipedia -

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before the Second World War. Orwell, a democratic socialist,[1] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD and the Spanish Civil War.[2] In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin".[3]

Also you'll notice by the frequency of my posts in this thread, that I read about 15 novels a week, all of which you've never heard of by obscure novelists such as Franz Kafka & Herman Hesse.

They're not books that I read ten pages of when I was 16 then gave up on. They're what I'm reading NOW.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 12 June, 2012, 11:29:54 PM
Its my birthday. ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME.

Have I told you I like Star Wars?




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 12 June, 2012, 11:38:43 PM
Quote from: AN Other on 16 October, 2001, 07:19:56 PM
Fucking Labour Shagging up the country. aint never voting for them again. Bunch of arses.

God Fucking Tories shagging up the ruined country I mean I would have expected them to have sorted it out within the first few years of their term. aint vever voting for them again. Bunch of arses




AN Other.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 June, 2012, 01:03:02 AM
^THAT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 13 June, 2012, 01:06:39 AM
^<>\/ everything
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 June, 2012, 01:24:14 AM
*bump*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 13 June, 2012, 04:37:28 AM
Mate, don't encourage him.  He's obviously [spoiler]ARSOM![/spoiler].
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 June, 2012, 06:50:06 AM
That's exactly the kind of thing [spoiler]Scojo[/spoiler] would say ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2012, 07:48:33 AM
Stop persecuting that poor man.  He's not doing any harm, just expressing an opinion.  If anyone is mentally ill, it's you people. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 June, 2012, 08:28:01 AM
What do you mean the marketing droid is aiming events, competitions and products at new readers, NEW READERS????!!!! They might want different things than me. Why isn't everything aimed at the literally 10s of middle aged men who have been reading since it started and always will do?

All 2000ad celebrations should be in my lounge and all competitions run by Tharg coming around to my house and asking me some questions.

Its not fair!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 June, 2012, 09:08:59 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 13 June, 2012, 08:28:01 AM
What do you mean the marketing droid is aiming events, competitions and products at new readers, NEW READERS????!!!! They might want different things than me. Why isn't everything aimed at the literally 10s of middle aged men who have been reading since it started and always will do?

All 2000ad celebrations should be in my lounge and all competitions run by Tharg coming around to my house and asking me some questions.

Its not fair!

I agree. Also, PR is EASY. Anyone can do it. We must all review the progress of the PR bot in the cruellest way possible, while exaggerating his perceived failings and repeating the same, inaccurate anecdote again and again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:32:57 AM
I fucking love Finnegan's Wake, me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 June, 2012, 09:39:53 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:32:57 AM
I fucking hate sexism but my name is forever attached to the women's underware thread.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 13 June, 2012, 09:40:07 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:32:57 AM
I fucking hate Ted Hughes, me.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:42:37 AM
Cunts
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 June, 2012, 09:49:18 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:42:37 AM
I resign, but my last act as a mod is to promote Roger to modhood.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 13 June, 2012, 09:52:53 AM
I've told you before, it's HoU who I want ice-picked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2012, 10:18:46 AM
This thread is now completely off topic.  Either lock it or merge it with one of the I'm New Here threads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Buttonman on 13 June, 2012, 10:24:31 AM
Check out this laughably awful piece of reader art.

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/mcdreddProg427.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 13 June, 2012, 10:25:15 AM
You just got to whip it! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdAUN51dEVg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 10:40:09 AM
My t-shirt doesn't fit me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 13 June, 2012, 11:47:32 AM
I like fat people
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2012, 12:20:04 PM
Asinine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 June, 2012, 12:28:52 PM
Quote from: Trout on 13 June, 2012, 09:39:53 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:32:57 AM
I fucking hate sexism but my name is forever attached to the women's underware thread.




Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 09:42:37 AM
Cunts

THAT's why he's a better writer that Pat Mills
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 13 June, 2012, 12:42:16 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 13 June, 2012, 10:24:31 AM
Check out this laughably awful piece of reader art.
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/mcdreddProg427.jpg)

Not as good as the old one. I could've designed that in five minutes in Photochump!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CraveNoir on 13 June, 2012, 12:48:22 PM
Standby for an AWESOME KICK-ASS announcement, Earthtwits!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 13 June, 2012, 12:57:32 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 13 June, 2012, 10:24:31 AM
Check out this laughably awful piece of reader art.

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/mcdreddProg427.jpg)

How's he ever going to make "Middenface McDredd" work with a budget of only £10? It's going to be rubbish!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2012, 01:28:06 PM
Now, I'm not a racist, but...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 13 June, 2012, 01:33:21 PM
Blakee pentax!!! Me rikey velly much!!! Ha haaa! They don't half talk funny don't they?

It's just a bit of fun...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 June, 2012, 03:01:33 PM


Guys guys...

(http://freeimagesarchive.com/data/media/21/9_kittens.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 13 June, 2012, 03:10:50 PM
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/524734_3290669580377_455369895_n.jpg

No something more deeply motivating.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 13 June, 2012, 03:26:56 PM
Was the inclusion of Walter the Wobot really necessary in that story I read at some point? He doesn't fit with the more realistic tone Dredd has taken in recent years. I also think the inclusion of The Dark Judges trivialise the events depicted and should be dispatched with permanently.

Also... aliens, Boing TM, simps, people with impossible mutations, silly block names that relate to the events of the story, fatties, odd crazes, Psi judges and anything else that's too interesting or shows too much imagination. Get rid of it. It just makes the comic I've been reading since I was 10 look childish.

I'm a grown up now. I want my comics to contain nothing but socio-political commentary in a bland urban setting. We need to ensure the big boys don't make fun of me the public at large take the themes raised seriously.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 June, 2012, 04:20:48 PM
I need some medical/techie/romance/legal help can you guys sort it out for me?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 June, 2012, 04:22:15 PM
I will espouse an extremely unlikely political opinion, based entirely on some paranoid shite I read on the internet, and I am convinced that it will make me interesting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 13 June, 2012, 04:43:10 PM
You won't be that flippant when you stand before GOD awaiting his judgement!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 June, 2012, 05:39:20 PM
No, McMahon is  the definative Dredd artist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 13 June, 2012, 06:45:01 PM
+ + + BREAKING NEWS! + + + (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeyjKrjoDTM&feature=relmfu)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 June, 2012, 06:49:30 PM
I've been reading 2000ad since day one and have every single issue. I've even got that first Judge Dredd Mega Special (with the Brian Bolland broken glass cover and rubbish, disintegrating paper) that you saw in the newsagents, but didn't have the cash for at the time; and then, when you got paid for your paper round, you discovered that the last copy had gone; and you always looked for it among back issues, but it never turned up; and it's not even on ebay, and most of the stories will probably turn up in The Restricted Files, but I bet one won't- and that'll always  fucking rankle, won't it(?)- almost as much as the fact that Paul Chalmers had a copy and he'd let you read it back and forward and he was an alright guy, but you know he loved the fact he had it and you didn't- even more than the fact that he was reading the comic before you and convinced you to switch from The Beano, so he always had a slightly condescending attitude about your opinions on stories- because he was there first- as if that makes any difference; but the most important fact is that you'll never actually own the original, and I do!. I don't even read the fucking thing, it's mylar-bagged and stored in my loft conversion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 13 June, 2012, 08:08:13 PM
This has to be the new golden age of 2000ad. But still not as good as the original golden age.... waffle waffle whinge moan back in our day etc....





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2012, 09:44:15 PM
They should just transplant Dredd's brain into Rico's body, or make him Chief Judge.  I mean who wants to see some old guy staggering about croaking 'Hi-Ex'.  I mean what is he now, 80?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 13 June, 2012, 10:26:48 PM
I ran a company where I dug stuff up for money but then I dug all the stuff up and there wasn't stuff to dig up anymore and I had to do another thing now :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 June, 2012, 10:27:49 PM
When's Dan Dare coming back?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dudley on 14 June, 2012, 01:22:29 AM
Necro-post!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 14 June, 2012, 03:46:52 AM
Necro-poster!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 June, 2012, 07:12:40 AM
What does everyone think of Mark Millar?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 14 June, 2012, 08:04:10 AM
I think that he is.
But I did hear that he failed as an artist.  Also, that he likes dogs and only has one bollock.  Something about the Albert Hall comes to mind, actually.  Mind you, I was pissed and I may have mixed him up with Grant Morrison.  Or some Austrian dwarf or other.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 14 June, 2012, 08:07:57 AM
Have I mentioned I have a Japanese wife?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 14 June, 2012, 08:15:38 AM
I'm sorry to hear that.  Have you tried wiggling it around?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 14 June, 2012, 08:45:59 AM
This thread is eating itself.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 14 June, 2012, 09:28:38 AM
Thread jacking? More like SHIT jacking.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 June, 2012, 10:52:25 AM
yer ma
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 11:28:13 AM
Do you remember Marathons?  Now there was a chocolate bar.  What ever happened to them?  And don't try to tell me they became Snickers, because that is an entirely different thing, smaller and with fewer nuts and sickly caramel.  People who think that probably think Jaffa Cakes are a cake and actually like the Magic Roundabout movie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 14 June, 2012, 12:42:31 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 11:28:13 AM
Do you remember Marathons?  Now there was a chocolate bar.  What ever happened to them?  And don't try to tell me they became Snickers, because that is an entirely different thing, smaller and with fewer nuts and sickly caramel.  People who think that probably think Jaffa Cakes are a cake and actually like the Magic Roundabout movie.

Nevermind Marathons, what happened to the TOPIC BAR ? A superior nutty delight in every way and contrary to popular belief did not have squirrel sh*t in every bite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 June, 2012, 02:12:12 PM
yes, but the MP40 used to eject to the right whilst pulling to the right and down, of course the magazine at the bottom, not the side, meant it was difficult to fire lying down, and you never see them using the butt in the movie, noe indeed firing from the shoulder. sigh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 14 June, 2012, 02:19:16 PM
This thread used to be great but now it's full of wankers. Mods, please lock it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 14 June, 2012, 02:47:30 PM
Easy fix on the MP40. I used the tape a Texan bar to the left hand side of the stock, that was a chocolate bar, now I have to use a double decker it's not the same.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 June, 2012, 02:58:41 PM
This has to be the new golden age of chewy nougat choccie bars? But still not as good as the Texan bar golden age.... waffle waffle whinge moan back in our day etc....

(This might be proof positive that this thread has run it course?!?)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 14 June, 2012, 03:45:10 PM
I only look at this thread once a week to find out if there's a trailer yet, and I find this shit!
Get a life losers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 03:53:07 PM
What are they going to call the 2000th prog?  I vote for Prog 3000.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 14 June, 2012, 04:13:22 PM
This is my last post on this forum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 June, 2012, 04:49:45 PM
spines? WTF is that about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 14 June, 2012, 05:59:53 PM
Why is it still called 2000ad?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 14 June, 2012, 06:06:44 PM
If there's any new Slaine news, could somebody PM me?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 June, 2012, 06:08:07 PM
What age is Judge Dredd?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 14 June, 2012, 06:09:51 PM
THEY ARE HERE


oh, no...wait...they've gone again...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 14 June, 2012, 06:12:08 PM
No they are over here...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 June, 2012, 06:19:48 PM
I as a comics reader and fan can't perceive of any storyline that can usefully add to 'Story X' as it stands at the moment. Its therefore surely impossible that some professional, whose job it is to write stories and explore and understand what is a good idea for a story could do so.

...even if it is their job...

... that they get paid for and everything

IMPOSSIBLE I tells ya 'cos I can't think of one.

So the work they are doing with 'Story X' is redundant and of no value, that stuff they are professionally getting paid by some schmo to write... I might as well call them a hack while I'm at it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 14 June, 2012, 06:21:52 PM
I'm really a slightly deranged female comic reader, I shall now post some bad poetry, make inane comments but it makes no difference as I have breasts and you shall all fawn over me in attempts to impress me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 June, 2012, 06:25:44 PM
Powned!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 07:02:01 PM
I always thought it must be great to have boobs, and thus wield a special kind of power over a significant proportion of humanity.  Now I have a nascent set of my own I'm less impressed, and the only power they seem to have is engender pity and/or amusement.  Peversely my interest in them when on ladies hasn't abated.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 14 June, 2012, 07:11:22 PM
Tom Clancy (Mr Krabs) to play Judge Dredd in the up and coming movie. Who would be your ideal choice?







V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 14 June, 2012, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: W. R. Logan on 14 June, 2012, 06:21:52 PM
I'm really a slightly deranged female comic reader, I shall now post some bad poetry, make inane comments but it makes no difference as I have breasts and you shall all fawn over me in attempts to impress me.

HA HA HA HAAAA! You're really funny and clever and interesting and kooky and deep!!!

Any chance of a you posting a picture of your tits?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 June, 2012, 07:34:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 07:02:01 PM
I always thought it must be great to have boobs, and thus wield a special kind of power over a significant proportion of humanity.  Now I have a nascent set of my own I'm less impressed, and the only power they seem to have is engender pity and/or amusement.  Peversely my interest in them when on ladies hasn't abated.

Yeah? So, erm ... if you're going to the Glasgow Convention, do you fancy hooking up? Woot Woot!



P.S. Why does that particular attention seeking forum member get the goat of so many here? Other than the fact she has secondary female sexual characteristics?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 08:11:32 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 14 June, 2012, 07:34:06 PMP.S. Why does that particular attention seeking forum member get the goat of so many here?

I think it's because he knows John Wagner.  And could blind you with his thumbs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 June, 2012, 08:35:38 PM
LOL!  :D, Can't agree more about the genius of Ron Smith!!! I now feel we're on the same wavelength; maybe you'd be interested in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAmegwUdJdA), which I found answered a lot of questions for me. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIeYfuviq8) sums up how I think we both feel, mate!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 14 June, 2012, 08:48:20 PM
Let's not make this personal, dickheads. ;)

Anyway this thread used to be so much better back in the day but has gone downhill since then and is now officially shit. I might split this into chunks and randomly merge it with other threads to help improve everything.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: locustsofdeath! on 14 June, 2012, 09:30:41 PM
I need an artist for my four-page script!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 14 June, 2012, 09:42:25 PM
I am so GREAT I think US comics are STUPID I would love to come on your trip, it will be GREAT.

Oh wait I can't actually afford to come on the trip and I'm pooing myself. Please don't say mean things about me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 14 June, 2012, 09:53:56 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 14 June, 2012, 08:48:20 PM
Let's not make this personal, dickheads. ;)

Anyway this thread used to be so much better back in the day but has gone downhill since then and is now officially shit. I might split this into chunks and randomly merge it with other threads to help improve everything.


Yep, it's gotten really weird but not in an arsom way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 09:55:05 PM
Friendliest place on the web, everyone!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 14 June, 2012, 09:59:50 PM
If my poster is creased, I will hold Molcher personally responsible and I shall kill him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 14 June, 2012, 10:01:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 09:55:05 PM
Friendliest place on the web, me hole!

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 June, 2012, 10:22:56 PM
FTFY (2011) is the last film I watched. This is easily the best low budget Sri Lankan vampire versus zombie/cyborg martial arts film I've seen. The Lee Horsley cameo was particularly moving.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 14 June, 2012, 10:31:54 PM
Anybody know what David said to that Engineer?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 14 June, 2012, 10:35:46 PM
Today one of the mindless plebians that I deign to try and educate misspelt "galactophagist" as "galactaphagist". One despairs at the level of ignorance and idiocy that the modern world opts to pummel me with. It is all the fault of the feminists who forced me out of the academic pantheon after I dared to question their failed narrative. Now I shall retire to change the wallpaper for the fourteenth time this month and to ignore the gigantic pile of reported posts in my inbox.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 15 June, 2012, 04:06:31 AM
I have a cat.

Moo moo moo.

Goodbye forever!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 June, 2012, 06:42:00 AM
Has anyone else seen this picture of Rihanna licking honey off Scarlett Johannson?

(http://www.fakephoto.tv)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 June, 2012, 07:58:34 AM
Quote from: Emperor on 14 June, 2012, 10:01:18 PMFriendliest place on the web? Me hole!

I had heard that, but charging a fiver a go doesn't seem that friendly to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 15 June, 2012, 08:22:20 AM
Anyone noticed how you never get fivers from a cash machine these days, [tut]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 15 June, 2012, 08:34:30 AM
Honestly, its becoming like Millarworld in here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2012, 09:41:14 AM
Quote from: Temponaut on 15 June, 2012, 08:34:30 AM
Honestly, its becoming like Bizarro Millarworld in here.

FTFY

(I've never used that type of 'word' before FTFY, quite proud, Daddy is catching up)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 June, 2012, 03:31:50 PM
I've been mostly listening to Thor and other metal bands YOU types won't like, I love going Into FP as the music they play really really rocks
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 15 June, 2012, 05:22:27 PM
I have a massive crush on the letterer for Kingdom, based solely on this skill. She works at travelling man in Manchester. Can you guys help me bat above my average?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 15 June, 2012, 05:58:31 PM
Rebellion should make a Dredd GTA open world game or a Dredd MMO zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 June, 2012, 06:37:46 PM
I've tattooed my six year old daughter with a pix of Judge Death for Father's day, she's a Goth too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 15 June, 2012, 06:47:24 PM
Quote
I think it's because he knows John Wagner.  And could blind you with his thumbs.

It's been a long time but something on the board actually made me laugh out loud so Mrs Logan MKII had to ask what I'd founded funny.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
Having been away for 24 hours I feel compelled to de-lurk to say this forum has gone to pot since I was around and was posting every five minutes!!!

Can't the 2000AD PR department get their act together and use an intern or some illegal immigrant to sort it out in their spare time?!! A fan with passion would do a much better job than a trained, paid professional and they would get a great portfolio project to boot! Everybody wins!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 June, 2012, 07:41:08 PM
I've got two grand burning a hole in my pocket- anyone know where I can get a Judge Dredd fancy dress outfit?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 June, 2012, 07:51:58 PM
I find you a laughable embarrassment to our species. Now I shall dissect and repost your original post because you're probably too stupid to remember what you wrote not 5 minutes ago, and also it bulks out my post and makes it look longer, and, like, I'm the only person that even thinks before typing

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
Having been away for 24 hours


24 hours? 24 HOURS???? Why can't you just say 'a day' like a normal, functioning member of society?

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
I feel

We don't want to hear about your feelings, you big girl. You think this is some sort of support group?

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
compelled to de-lurk

De-lurk? Is that even a word? Buy a dictionary you lackwit, or better yet, you can use this wonderful new invention called the internet. Have you heard of it? Have you heard of it in your little cave in the fourteenth century under a rock on the moon?

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
to say this forum has gone to pot since I was around and was posting every five minutes!!!

YEAH? Well we don't want your type around here anyways. SO THERE

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
Can't the 2000AD PR department get their act together and use an intern or some illegal immigrant to sort it out in their spare time?!! A fan with passion would do a much better job than a trained, paid professional and they would get a great portfolio project to boot! Everybody wins!!!

Actually this is a fair point.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to spam up the movie thread with my banal opinions so it will be more difficult for other users to dig through all the posts to actually see the promotional material.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2012, 08:03:48 PM
This ^^
:crazy:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 June, 2012, 08:19:39 PM
Why are they named after an Italian Socialist anyway?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 June, 2012, 08:43:36 PM
The old version of the logo was better than the new one. No, I won't specify which logo or which version- the old version is always better. It is older.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 15 June, 2012, 08:48:59 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 June, 2012, 08:19:39 PM
Why are they named after an Italian Socialist anyway?

French/Spanish royal house, surely?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 15 June, 2012, 09:49:43 PM
POST-STRUCTURALIST EIDOLON
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 June, 2012, 01:53:51 AM
You would say that, you marxist nazi
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 02:05:45 AM
it's called National SOCIALISM for a reason
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 16 June, 2012, 03:22:10 AM
Something about God. The next sentence is so right-wing and unchristian that it shocks several people into arguing with me, to my utter delight.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 16 June, 2012, 08:48:27 AM
you've completely undermined your own premises and contradicted yourself. and you're not on topic
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 09:40:02 AM
I gave my child a copy of 2000 AD to read and they said that they loved it and that they wanted me to buy them their own Prog instead of giving them pocket money every week. This is totally of their own volition and not because of paternal pressure whatsoever. I am such a great parent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 16 June, 2012, 10:03:09 AM
My argument is morally offensive.  It may even offend you personally, and it would be downright dangerous to express it in public. The perceived anonimity of this internet forum allows people like me to offend minority groups of whom I have little or no understanding.  I will, however, address you in a friendly manner in an attempt to sound like a reasonable guy and not an utter lunatic with only a fleeting grasp of reality.

Chum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 10:07:11 AM
NEW DREDD TRAILER POSTED ONLINE!!!  :o !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCv-GZiH3QA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCv-GZiH3QA)

Dark, gritty and it really brings out the fascist overtones of Dredd's world.  :thumbsup: >:D The guy who posted it works for DNA, but I'll respect his confidentiality, as I feel sure he's 100% genuine. Trust me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2012, 10:11:41 AM
Self-abuse with tingly shower gel varieties: as good as it gets?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 10:32:11 AM
As a favour for a friend I was sent with a bag full of cash to buy some chemotherapy bags but on the way I happened to walk past a Toys R' Us Superstore and I saw that they had new figures of ridiculously obscure Extended Universe characters. One thing lead to another and I insisted that I drive the home delivery lorry myself so that I could pretend that I was Han Solo smuggling £ 9000 worth of Star Wars branded tat. In retrospect I probably should have driven the lorry through the cancer ward and killed my friend's child so that those chemo bags would have been moot anyway. I convened all my 2-1B figures for an emergency conference on how to fix kneecapping but we didn't get anywhere.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 June, 2012, 12:03:04 PM
The girl with the Dragon Tattoo. What a load of rubbish, it was a film billed as being a mystery concerning a dead person, but the person [spoiler]wasnt dead, merely Australian.[/spoiler] , and for a long film it contained, literally, only a handful of words in English - wtf?!?
And in a pathetic attempt to woo the American audiences, they made Elizabeth Shaw dress like that bird off NCIS, still, you do get to see her bum, so not all bad.
2/10.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 02:06:53 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 June, 2012, 12:03:04 PM
The girl with the Dragon Tattoo. What a load of rubbish, it was a film billed as being a mystery concerning a dead person, but the person [spoiler]wasnt dead, merely Australian.[/spoiler] , and for a long film it contained, literally, only a handful of words in English - wtf?!?
And in a pathetic attempt to woo the American audiences, they made Elizabeth Shaw dress like that bird off NCIS, still, you do get to see her bum, so not all bad.
2/10.

Retard! That's Rooney Mara from The Social Network!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Van Dom on 16 June, 2012, 02:20:22 PM
Has there been any news yet about that thing that news of which would be all over the place if there had been any news yet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 16 June, 2012, 02:21:24 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 15 June, 2012, 09:49:43 PM
POST-STRUCTURALIST EIDOLON
Is this the place for that kind of discussion? Aren't there enough football (soccer) forums out there for macho balding 40-something blokes to talk about 22 men kicking a pigs bladder around a park for 90mins? This is a 2000AD / sci-fi related nerdlingers forum you know.

Sigh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 02:53:26 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 16 June, 2012, 02:21:24 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 15 June, 2012, 09:49:43 PM
POST-STRUCTURALIST EIDOLON
Is this the place for that kind of discussion? Aren't there enough football (soccer) forums out there for macho balding 40-something blokes to talk about 22 men kicking a pigs bladder around a park for 90mins? This is a 2000AD / sci-fi related nerdlingers forum you know. Sigh.

Alfred Noble, Björn Ulvaeus, Gustavus Adolphus ... your boys took one hell of a beating!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2012, 03:23:18 PM
I can't make it out from those picture but fingers-crossed we get a rockin' sex scene as 'I am the Law' blasts from the Lawmaster's stereo.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 16 June, 2012, 04:00:44 PM
Amen to that, bro.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 04:15:07 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2012, 03:23:18 PM
I can't make it out from those picture but fingers-crossed we get a rockin' sex scene as 'I am the Law' blasts from the Lawmaster's stereo.

Fuck YEAH! Banish the memories of that faggot Stallone. I hope Lena Headey gets her A$$ raped to fuck- because I like girls!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2012, 04:27:10 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 16 June, 2012, 04:15:07 PM
I hope Lena Headey gets her A$$ raped to fuck- because I like girls!

Alan Moore delurk alert!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 05:11:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 June, 2012, 04:27:10 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 16 June, 2012, 04:15:07 PM
I hope Lena Headey gets her A$$ raped to fuck- because I like girls!
Alan Moore delurk alert!

Congratulations on the MBE, Baldy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 16 June, 2012, 07:11:00 PM
It was wrong of me to tell everyone that this site has a secret section.


« Last Edit: Today at 17:10:45 AM by some prick who's a mod »
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 16 June, 2012, 07:12:36 PM
Its only the hair on a gooseberry that stops it from being a grape.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 June, 2012, 08:11:25 PM
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
Because Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
Because I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 08:14:24 PM
Does anyone know where can I get some stuff in this game I'm playing?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 08:24:06 PM
If the limbs don't move, they're not toys. They're statuettes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2012, 08:36:48 PM
Quote from: Trout on 16 June, 2012, 07:11:00 PM
It was wrong of me to tell everyone that this site has a secret section.


« Last Edit: Today at 17:10:45 AM by some prick who's a mod »

Deep Trout.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2012, 08:37:23 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 16 June, 2012, 08:24:06 PM
If the limbs don't move, they're not toys. They're wives.

FTFY.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 09:02:54 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 June, 2012, 08:37:23 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 16 June, 2012, 08:24:06 PM
If the limbs don't move, they're not toys. They're wives.

FTFY.

The ladies have a secret section too, Tordel. It animates their limbs, eyes and realistic kung fu grip. Trout'll show you where it is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 16 June, 2012, 09:12:41 PM
Inexplicable use of bold for people's names is in no way pointless.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 09:13:47 PM
I am not turning down the money, I am turning down you. I want nothing to do with you. Ever since I met you everything I've ever cared about is gone. Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great bikini kill. I have never been more alone, I have nothing. No one, alright? It's all gone. Get it? No. No, no. Why? Why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want? Right? You don't give a shit about me. You said I was no good. I'm nothing. Why would you want me, huh? You said my snark was inferior, right? Hey, you said FTFY's were garbage. Hey, screw you, man. Screw you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 09:42:16 PM
Hey, Fifty Fifty? Partners?



Alright.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 June, 2012, 10:07:31 PM
Aung San Suu Kyi finally gave that speech, brilliant!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 10:10:36 PM
The Burmese junta took a half measure, when they should have gone all the way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 June, 2012, 10:45:58 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2012, 09:55:05 PM
Friendliest place on the web, everyone!
Incidentally, I am so rich your whole house would fit inside my servant's steam room.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2012, 10:49:56 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 09:13:47 PM
I am not turning down the money, I am turning down you. I want nothing to do with you. Ever since I met you everything I've ever cared about is gone. Ruined, turned to shit, dead, ever since I hooked up with the great bikini kill. I have never been more alone, I have nothing. No one, alright? It's all gone. Get it? No. No, no. Why? Why would you get it? What do you even care, as long as you get what you want? Right? You don't give a shit about me. You said I was no good. I'm nothing. Why would you want me, huh? You said my snark was inferior, right? Hey, you said FTFY's were garbage. Hey, screw you, man. Screw you.

You paraphrase shows denied to me by council telly merely to taunt me, Godlepton!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 10:58:48 PM
I will ignore your're wife.

I will ignore your're son.

I will ignore your're infant daughter
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 16 June, 2012, 11:11:04 PM
Shut up, cunt. You louse. You got some fuckin' neck ain't you. Retired? Fuck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a fucking suitcase out of you. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like fucking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk? What you think this is the wheel of fortune? You think you can make your dough and fuck off? Leave the table? Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce. All right, I'll make it easy for you. God knows you're fucking trying. Are you gonna do the job? It's not a difficult question, are you gonna do the job, yes or no?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 16 June, 2012, 11:16:18 PM
This thread never happened.

It will shock you, how much it never happened.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 17 June, 2012, 12:02:25 AM
Quote from: Trout on 16 June, 2012, 11:11:04 PM
Shut up, cunt. You louse. You got some fuckin' neck ain't you. Retired? Fuck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a fucking suitcase out of you. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like fucking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk? What you think this is the wheel of fortune? You think you can make your dough and fuck off? Leave the table? Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce. All right, I'll make it easy for you. God knows you're fucking trying. Are you gonna do the job? It's not a difficult question, are you gonna do the job, yes or no?
What a film!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 17 June, 2012, 01:31:21 AM
That film/book/comic/way-of-life that you all really like? I don't like that at all. Even though the whole world & his wife (but not MY wife. MY wife isn't like YOUR wife.) agrees that it's rad, I don't.
I have 25 long-boxes full of jizz-soaked copies of "Dr Shock's Mofo Theatre" (& also another 85 copies in mylar bags) - which I read nightly to my extraordinairly gifted, genius children, who totally prefer Citizen Kane to Men in Black 3, while TS Eliot & Ezra Pound beat each other senseless as a french girl cycles by in a cast iron turban whistling the tune of "This Land is Your Land" but I don't really like music.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 17 June, 2012, 01:40:07 AM
Pretty sure that Citizen Kane doesn't have a scene where a young woman is eaten by wolvedogs that were sewn together ... BY SATAN.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 17 June, 2012, 02:32:11 AM
I don't watch any films that have unsympathetic characters, So I wouldn't know.

Have they done a zombie-version of Kane. I'll watch that!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 17 June, 2012, 09:07:59 AM
So, what was the black stuff, then?  And that guy, the one with the hair, how come his face grew back after being burned off with acid?  How did they find the jockey mummified in his seat when he doesn't stay there? Why don't they find the other ships in the later films? Who is Jacob, anyway?  How come you can leave the island if you go in one direction?  Where did the big swirly thing that Jack stops with blood come from in the first place? What are the numbers?  Why did the kid speak to Bruce Willis when he was avoiding all the other dead people?  How long does it take to build a deathstar, exactly?  The one at the end that kills the guy with the camera is smaller than the one we see earlier, so where did it come from?  Why is there a xenomorph on the wall when they haven't evolved yet?  Why did they make us, then why did they decide to kill us, then why did they change there mind?  Why is Magneto's accent different in every scene?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 June, 2012, 09:10:43 AM
Whatever is evolving in my wetsuit boots, bleach doesn't kill it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 17 June, 2012, 09:29:27 AM
AlphaRed is just a red herring, JohnPrec is clearly the OTP Wagner has been planning from the start.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 17 June, 2012, 03:47:43 PM
Apart from being much better than PCs, what's the big deal about Apple Macs?

Apple cultists GET A LIFE!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2012, 07:00:41 PM
There is a conspiracy to destroy Rangers Football Club- the team supported by almost every Judge, Lawyer, Policeman, government official, Referee and establishment figure in Scotland.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 17 June, 2012, 07:03:21 PM
I liked the bit when the tennis guy kicked the old man.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 June, 2012, 07:05:49 PM
You started a new prog/meg thread with an incomplete/short review? What the hell do you think you're doing? Don't you know that ALL prog/meg reviews MUST be 1000 words long? Not 999 words, ONE THOUSAND DAMN YOU. Presented with a title and abstract in double-spacing and fully referenced.
Can't the Mods do something about this?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 17 June, 2012, 09:28:04 PM
Does anyone want to see pictures of men in their underware?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2012, 09:53:20 PM
They forgot to put any aliens in the new Alien film!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 June, 2012, 10:01:26 PM
Yayyy, I've just reached my 5493'rd post.
What do the stars mean?






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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 17 June, 2012, 11:57:11 PM
The field of the cloth of gold, now that's what I call a party!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 09:59:01 AM
How can you be so obtuse?  Is it deliberate?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 18 June, 2012, 10:19:32 AM
Is it true that the number of posts you make on this site directly affects the amount of respect you feel you should receive from other boarders? And the more posts you make, the bigger your penis gets?

If nobody answers me I will kill myself.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 11:09:31 AM
RESPECT MAH AUTHOR-ITY!

That sort of thing?

Damnit, in posting this have I inadvertently become a cringeworthy The Fray song lyric?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 11:15:14 AM
LISA NEEDS BRACES



DENTAL PLAN
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2012, 11:24:32 AM
I've just eaten my sister's crisps that she kept under her pillow, but I think they may have been scabs she's picked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 12:04:52 PM
We must not be content with arguing. We must have an argument about the argument!

Internet over-achievers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 18 June, 2012, 12:07:53 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 12:04:52 PM
We must not be content with arguing. We must have an argument about the argument!

Internet over-achievers.

You're not seeing the bigger picture, shit-for-brains.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2012, 12:10:16 PM
1. Dr No.

2. Pearl Harbour.

3. Shaun of the Dead.

4. Sniper

5. Alien.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 12:26:37 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 18 June, 2012, 12:07:53 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 12:04:52 PM
We must not be content with arguing. We must have an argument about the argument!

Internet over-achievers.

You're not seeing the bigger picture, shit-for-brains.

You are misrepresenting my views.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2012, 12:56:05 PM
When I've completed a massive shit, here's the order in which I perform my ablutions:
1)Wipe upwards away from ball sac while standing and peering down toilet to see what I've done
2) Pick nose with left index finger
3) Wipe on butt cheek
4) Pick ear wax out with right index finger
5) wipe on butt cheek
6) give final wipe to whole arse area
7) Flush
8) Wash hands

How do you do yours?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2012, 01:04:18 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 12:26:37 PM
You are misrepresenting my views.

No, you are CONFLATING things.

Here is a short review of teh letters in this week's prog. That is actually longer than all of the letters ever published stuck together. And not as funny,.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 June, 2012, 01:11:42 PM
You all need sex,






or orgy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 02:24:11 PM
Not mutually exclusive, in my oh-so extensive experience.  Why I remember once I was in two FFM threesomes at once and they merged and then it was a single FFMFF fivesome, and I sent them all away happy, but I don't like to brag.  Beating them off with a rolled up prog, I was, not like you lot, just beating off over one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 02:33:52 PM
21 Pages in a thread. Is that a record?
Come on you ANALists work it out.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 18 June, 2012, 02:40:20 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 02:33:52 PM
ANALists

Come on lads, we've all tried it. Right? Right?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2012, 02:59:33 PM
your drawings are fine, but the perspective is off and your people all look like 'you' photoshopped, never draw Dredd with THAT in his hand, Rebellion don't like it.

Also try going out more, once you master that, take a sketch book and draw real people not just super humans and women in their underwear from the internet.

ps if women were shaped like that they would fall over, wee feet, top heavy and no lung space, apart from that I like it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2012, 03:10:44 PM
HIVEMIND: Do you know which prog that completely inconsequential event occurred, can't remember which character, it was in the last few decades when the prog was black and white or perhaps full colour or was it the Meg, I think it might've been reprinted in Best of 2000AD or Case Files or in one of other TGNs? Please help.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 03:46:54 PM
[spoiler]Comics creators watching this board then sneering about it on Facebook.[/spoiler]

This post did not happen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 June, 2012, 04:19:12 PM
(http://meanasspenguin.org/images/hypnotoad.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2012, 04:34:57 PM
"To all my TRUE friends, you know who you are, thanks for all of your support and help through this difficult time where I was totally wrongly tried and convicted of kicking an old man during a tennis game.

To all my SHAM friends, and you know who you are, I'm so over you and don't value your opinion but I'll just bang on about it everytime I do a status update for the next five years."


Oh hang on, this is about the 2000AD forum, not Facebook.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 18 June, 2012, 05:39:04 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2012, 12:56:05 PM
When I've completed a massive shit, here's the order in which I perform my ablutions:
1)Wipe upwards away from ball sac while standing and peering down toilet to see what I've done
2) Pick nose with left index finger
3) Wipe on butt cheek
4) Pick ear wax out with right index finger
5) wipe on butt cheek
6) give final wipe to whole arse area
7) Flush
8) Wash hands

How do you do yours?
I just grab a passing slug and use that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 07:03:02 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 June, 2012, 05:39:04 PM
I just grab a passing slug and use that.

I think you mean 'round'.  'Slug' refers solely to the lead projectile, and not the case, powder and primer.  'Cartridge' would be acceptable, but never, ever,  'bullet'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 07:24:15 PM
I was in the army and that means I get to tell people they're wrong.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2012, 07:30:26 PM
Guys, time out! We are all here for our common love of all things 2000AD.

Can't we just get along here – or at least try and keep things civil?

Beggars belief.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 07:37:40 PM
Speak for yourself.  I haven't read the thing in years, the last thing I really liked was Big Dave, or whatever that thing that Bellardinelli drew with the pretty space pirates.  I'm more into Clint now.  Or those feverishly masturbating monochrome Canadians.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 18 June, 2012, 07:41:39 PM
Woohoo! I'm unaccountably overexcited because I have obtained tickets to see a band who were moderately successful (if you read the NME) sometime in the 1980s!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 18 June, 2012, 07:52:08 PM
Thatcher is to blame for everything, even before she was born and The Labour Party have never done anything to mess up this country you Tory (insert expletive).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 08:33:38 PM
Dredd trailer this Thursday! What? Am I late?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 08:40:59 PM
Anyone know when the Dredd trailer will be out?  What are they hiding, eh?   ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 June, 2012, 08:43:50 PM
Not those oversized helmets, thats for sure.  >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 08:50:59 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 18 June, 2012, 08:43:50 PM
Not those oversized helmets, thats for sure.  >:(

Stop jacking the thread!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 08:52:23 PM
I have this ace script for a Dredd film does anyone want to read it.


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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 08:53:07 PM
It will make a great film




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 08:53:31 PM
Woe betide anyone who thinks its shit.





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2012, 08:55:06 PM
Hey Everyone, you'll never guess what?

I was on a forum that is different to this one and I was talking about the Dredd movie AND I THINK SCOJO WAS THERE TOO
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2012, 09:04:43 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 08:52:23 PM
I have this ace script for a Dredd film does anyone want to read it.


V

YOUR JOHN WAGNER
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 18 June, 2012, 09:08:49 PM
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 09:11:20 PM
Powned!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 09:11:34 PM
THIN ICE.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 09:15:24 PM
All your base are belong to us!  :lol: :thumbsup: :wave: :cool:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 09:21:06 PM
Today I saw a lollipop lady waiting outside the school just before the kids were let out and she was drinking out of a thermos. I was so enraged by this that I snatched it out of her hands and asked if she had paid for this herself but I could see in her eyes that she was going to say "yes" so I told her that actually I had paid for it because I pay taxes and I'm not paying for her to stand around drinking coffee all day. By this point the kids were out so I got back in my car. I had grilled all the other parents to see who were employed in the public sector and I ran over one of their children so now hopefully the lollipop lady will get the sack.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 18 June, 2012, 10:04:45 PM
I like comics and sci-fi and shit so I hate sport of any form and it really upsets me that other people seem to like it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 10:06:16 PM
Sometimes I don't know what to say to people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2012, 10:09:45 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 18 June, 2012, 10:06:16 PM
Sometimes I don't know what to say to people.

Me too, but it doesn't stop me from saying something anyways
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:10:55 PM
I hate comics, they suck the big one, I long for
the day when marvel is long gone, Comics are for
pre-pubescent moronic slime Who've got nothing
better to do with their time, The one I most hate
is Superman, An underpant wearing flying phallic
gland, On Krypton he collects his strength and
girth, I wish he'd been aborted at birth, I hate
Dan Dare and the Mekon with no hair, They live in
space, I wish they'd stay up there, stupid comics
full of space ships, I'd rather read a magazine
full of gardening tips, Batman and Robin help
people out a tight spot, Batman and Robin so
fucking what, They live in Gotham, what do they
want, a clap? If they lived in Bradford they'd
still be crap, Swamp thing I really do despair,
Looks like a marshmallow with seaweed of hair,
What kind of hero is that supposed to be, A
walking giant sea anemone, Come and join me in the
human race, Where there's no super heroes in
cartoon space



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 June, 2012, 10:13:31 PM
Sometimes I am glad to be Deaf!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2012, 10:20:13 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:10:55 PM
I hate comics, they suck the big one, I long for
the day when marvel is long gone, Comics are for
pre-pubescent moronic slime Who've got nothing
better to do with their time,

Uh-huh

Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:10:55 PM
The one I most hate
is Superman, An underpant wearing flying phallic
gland, On Krypton he collects his strength and
girth, I wish he'd been aborted at birth,

One time

Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:10:55 PM
I hate

Dan Dare and the Mekon with no hair, They live in
space, I wish they'd stay up there, stupid comics
full of space ships, I'd rather read a magazine
full of gardening tips, Batman and Robin help
people out a tight spot, Batman and Robin so
fucking what, They live in Gotham, what do they
want, a clap?

Clap clap y'all

Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:10:55 PM
If they lived in Bradford they'd
still be crap, Swamp thing I really do despair,
Looks like a marshmallow with seaweed of hair,

Yeeaaaaahhh

Quote from: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:10:55 PM
What kind of hero is that supposed to be, A
walking giant sea anemone, Come and join me in the
human race, Where there's no super heroes in
cartoon space

MC VIZZAY IN THE HIZZAY





I'm down wit the Homeowners
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 10:42:57 PM
RACIST
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 18 June, 2012, 10:48:03 PM
This is a supposedly tongue-in-cheek post I think is a sly dig at other posters' opinions/personality traits/foibles, but which actually demonstrates my own shortcomings and prejudices to just as great an extent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 June, 2012, 10:57:21 PM
Actually they are lyrics to a song by Lawnmower Deth "Lawnmowers For Heroes, Comics For Zeros".





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 11:03:13 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 18 June, 2012, 10:48:03 PM
This is a supposedly tongue-in-cheek post I think is a sly dig at other posters' opinions/personality traits/foibles, but which actually demonstrates my own shortcomings and prejudices to just as great an extent.

Layers upon layers upon layers...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 11:03:29 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 10:42:57 PM
RACIST

Probably a serial killer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 11:04:23 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 June, 2012, 10:04:45 PM
I like comics and sci-fi and shit so I hate sport of any form and it really upsets me that other people seem to like it.

I'm much more enlightened.  I only like the very few sports that I like, and simply can't understand what anyone sees in any others. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2012, 11:04:50 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 07:37:40 PM
Speak for yourself.  I haven't read the thing in years...
As far as I am aware, the last thing 2000AD wants is you, of all people reading it.

Anyway, it's not 'comics'. It's 'sequential art'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2012, 11:08:49 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2012, 11:04:50 PM
Anyway, it's not 'comics'. It's 'sequential art'.

You mean 'sequart'.  Get out of your horseless carriage and get with the times, true believer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 11:12:02 PM
The sanctity of Wikipedia must be preserved. This is why I murdered PVS.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 11:17:52 PM
Did issue three of Big Numbers ever come out?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 11:23:10 PM
So many boarders have vanished. Who is killing them?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 18 June, 2012, 11:29:45 PM
Mike Gloady.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2012, 11:39:40 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 11:23:10 PM
So many boarders have vanished. Who is killing them?

That's exactly what I would say if I were feeling guilty about something
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2012, 11:39:51 PM
I don't give a damn what they say on the John Byrne forum – Bolland/Leach are THE definitive Aaron A. Aardvark artists.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2012, 11:53:22 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 11:23:10 PM
So many boarders have vanished. Who is killing them?

They went off-message.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 19 June, 2012, 01:19:16 AM
When will they bring out phone calls on Android?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 June, 2012, 06:44:14 AM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2012, 11:39:51 PM
I don't give a damn what they say on the John Byrne forum – Bolland/Leach are THE definitive Aaron A. Aardvark artists.

Mr Aardvark's back-story...now that might be interesting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 07:43:43 AM
It's called the WHITE House for a reason.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 19 June, 2012, 07:59:57 AM
something about his socialist agenda
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 19 June, 2012, 09:01:29 AM
I'm still waiting for a 24 movie in the year 2012. I can't wait for all those scenes of naturalised immigrants being exposed as frothing lunatics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 June, 2012, 09:06:45 AM
Shopping cart woes? Never have the correct change? Interestingly enough, plastic washers that fit shopping cart slots can now be purchased from most hardware stores. Saves on excess pocket coinage every time! ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 June, 2012, 10:02:00 AM
Quote from: Trout on 18 June, 2012, 03:46:54 PM
[spoiler]Comics creators watching this board then sneering about it on Facebook.[/spoiler]

This post did not happen.

Link please
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 June, 2012, 10:20:38 AM
(http://missiongeek.com/storage/post-images/2011/03/Zelda%20-%20Links.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1300411430507)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 June, 2012, 10:46:07 AM
yeah? prove it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 19 June, 2012, 10:52:27 AM
Hey, why not visit my blog where I use my rudimentary understanding of cinema, coupled with my pedestrian, questionable taste to very poorly 'review' films what I done seen?

I'll be using my frankly inadequate vocabulary to let you know if a film is 'crap' or 'good', how many tits are in it and if you see anyone's head come off.

I am supremely under-qualified to offer any kind of valuable insight and I am also too unintelligent to even have an interesting opinion, but because I've managed to work out how to start a fucking blog, I now imagine myself to be Mark fucking bastarding Kermode for fuck's sake.

Here's the link - dullwittedcuntwithacomputer.blogtwat.com

Come and wallow in the shit!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 19 June, 2012, 01:07:23 PM
So if 2000AD is not aimed at the die hard fan or the lapsed, casual, or prospective reader – then JUST WHO is it aimed at?

Personally, I approach the prog with the insight of a long-term reader and with the sensibilities of a lapsed reader so it's fair to say it should be written and drawn just how I like it.

But do Americans 'get' 2000AD?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 June, 2012, 04:32:05 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff link=topic=36237.msg684708#msg684708 date=1340096520

Link please
/quote]

Yeah?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 19 June, 2012, 06:08:25 PM
Tharg hates us all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 06:30:56 PM
A week ago I thought Roy Hodgson a poor substitute for Harry Redknapp, and England's fortunes at their lowest ebb; now I believe 'Our Boys' can go all the way!

Dropping the Rooney-bomb can only further ensure Ukraine's humiliation- that emotionally incontinent and unpredictable mini-Hulk is just what Hodgson's organised and consistent squad of journeyman need!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 19 June, 2012, 07:23:59 PM
A poor substitute for Redknapp, a manager that in 40 years has managed to win one cup? & has just been sacked from the lowliest club on Earth?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 19 June, 2012, 08:10:38 PM
Fuck off out of here with your stupid, boring football prattle.

THIS IS THE THREAD WITH THE FUNNY WORDS.

I have to put up with with enough dull, inarticulate 'blokes' talking about mind numbing fucking football at work.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 08:13:47 PM
I bloody hate sexism me. But I find females to be *really* sexy... It's a strange old world, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 19 June, 2012, 08:30:46 PM
I look at these overpaid players and each has the same attitude and mannerisms of all the bad matey mates who jeered at me and chose me last at team pick time.  24 years ago!! And all the homo-erotic jokes can't hide the fact I'm still bitter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 08:46:14 PM
Quote from: George Dread on 19 June, 2012, 08:30:46 PM
I look at these overpaid players and each has the same attitude and mannerisms of all the bad matey mates who jeered at me and chose me last at team pick time.  24 years ago!! And all the homo-erotic jokes can't hide the fact I'm still bitter.
Wayne?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 08:48:26 PM
Quote from: George Dread on 19 June, 2012, 08:30:46 PM
I look at these overpaid players and each has the same attitude and mannerisms of all the bad matey mates who jeered at me and chose me last at team pick time.  24 years ago!! And all the homo-erotic jokes can't hide the fact I'm still bitter.

I was usually picked second last. The stinky fat kid always got picked last.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 08:56:56 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 19 June, 2012, 08:48:26 PM
Quote from: George Dread on 19 June, 2012, 08:30:46 PM
I look at these overpaid players and each has the same attitude and mannerisms of all the bad matey mates who jeered at me and chose me last at team pick time.  24 years ago!! And all the homo-erotic jokes can't hide the fact I'm still bitter.

I was usually picked second last. The stinky fat kid always got picked last.
no I fucking wasn't!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 19 June, 2012, 09:00:08 PM
No way were you ever fat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 June, 2012, 09:10:27 PM
I hate popular people
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 09:13:15 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 19 June, 2012, 09:10:27 PM
I hate popular people

Which is why you fit in here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 19 June, 2012, 09:36:25 PM
Quote from: Trout on 19 June, 2012, 06:08:25 PM
Tharg hates us all.

Is that Tharg or Pat Mills?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 09:48:55 PM
Biggie was clearly taken out in revenge for the death of Tupac. As Chuck D pointed out, Vegas is a mob town- nothing goes down there without the consent of someone in a very senior position.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 10:02:34 PM
Prince Phillip definitely murdered Diana. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 10:08:03 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 10:02:34 PM
Prince Phillip definitely murdered Diana.

Without a doubt; but was he actually driving the Punto, or was that the Queen's cousin? You know; the monstrously deformed one they usually keep walled up in the secret room in Glamis Castle (see The Invisibles Book One), that we know exists because there's more windows than doors.

Explain that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 10:10:41 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 19 June, 2012, 10:08:03 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 19 June, 2012, 10:02:34 PM
Prince Phillip definitely murdered Diana.

Without a doubt; but was he actually driving the Punto, or was that the Queen's cousin? You know; the monstrously deformed one they usually keep walled up in the secret room in Glamis Castle (see The Invisibles Book One), that we know exists because there's more windows than doors.

Explain that!

It's probably something to do with immigrants.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 19 June, 2012, 10:11:40 PM
The only thing he murdered was that sweet pussy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 19 June, 2012, 10:14:38 PM
Yo, I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Shot grabbed the mic and try to say, " Yes y'all!"
They tried to take it, and say that I'm too small
Cool, 'Cause I don't get upset
I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet
Back to the lab ...without a mic to grab
So then I add all the rhymes I had
One after the another one, then I make another one
To dis the opposite then ask if the brother's done
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?
I'm raging, ripping up the stage and
Don't it sound amazing 'cause every rhyme is made and
Thought of, Cuz it's sort of...an addiction,
Magnatized by the mixing

E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.
E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.

But back to the problem, I gotta habit,
You can't solve it, you silly rabbit
The prescription is a hypertone that's thorough when
I fiend for a microphone like heroin
Soon as the bass kicks, I need a fix
Gimme a stage and a mic and a mix
And I'll put you in a mood or is it a state of
unawareness? Beware, it's the reanamator!
A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon
An assasinator, if the people ain't stepping
You see a part of me that you never seen
When I'm fiending for a microphone.
Cause I take it to the maximum, I can't relax see, I'm
Hype as a hyperchrondriac 'cause the rap be one
Hell of a antidote, something you can't smoke
More than dope, you're trying to move away but you can't, you're broke
More than cracked up, you should have backed up
For those who act up need to be more than smacked up

E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly.

A smooth operator operating correctly.
A smooth operator operating correctly.
A smooth operator operating correctly.
A smooth operator operating correctly.

Uh!

Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated ...originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated ...complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated ...originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated ...complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated ...originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated ...complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated ...originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated ...complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated

'Cause I'm an E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly
An E-F-F-E-C-T
A smooth operator operating correctly

A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
A smooth operator operating correctly
'Cause I'm an E-F-F-E-C-T
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 19 June, 2012, 10:16:09 PM
^THIS^
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 June, 2012, 10:17:23 PM
"Four legs good, two legs better!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 10:18:29 PM
Why did they spend so long 'in the lab' in the Nineties? Were they checking Eazy E's t-cell count?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 19 June, 2012, 10:26:14 PM
Straight to video..
Fucking yawn.
Don't you lot look stupid now.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 19 June, 2012, 10:27:19 PM
Step right up, step right up, step right up,
Everyone's a winner, bargains galore
That's right, you too can be the proud owner
Of the quality goes in before the name goes on
One-tenth of a dollar, one-tenth of a dollar, we got service after sales
You need perfume? we got perfume, how 'bout an engagement ring?
Something for the little lady, something for the little lady,
Something for the little lady, hmm
Three for a dollar
We got a year-end clearance, we got a white sale
And a smoke-damaged furniture, you can drive it away today
Act now, act now, and receive as our gift, our gift to you
They come in all colors, one size fits all
No muss, no fuss, no spills, you're tired of kitchen drudgery
Everything must go, going out of business, going out of business
Going out of business sale
Fifty percent off original retail price, skip the middle man
Don't settle for less
How do we do it? how do we do it? volume, volume, turn up the volume
Now you've heard it advertised, don't hesitate
Don't be caught with your drawers down,
Don't be caught with your drawers down
You can step right up, step right up
That's right, it filets, it chops, it dices, slices,
Never stops, lasts a lifetime, mows your lawn
And it mows your lawn and it picks up the kids from school
It gets rid of unwanted facial hair, it gets rid of embarrassing age spots,
It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens
And it finds that slipper that's been at large
under the chaise lounge for several weeks
And it plays a mean Rhythm Master,
It makes excuses for unwanted lipstick on your collar
And it's only a dollar, step right up, it's only a dollar, step right up
'Cause it forges your signature
If not completely satisfied, mail back unused portion of product
For complete refund of price of purchase
Step right up
Please allow thirty days for delivery, don't be fooled by cheap imitations
You can live in it, live in it, laugh in it, love in it
Swim in it, sleep in it,
Live in it, swim in it, laugh in it, love in it
Removes embarrassing stains from contour sheets, that's right
And it entertains visiting relatives, it turns a sandwich into a banquet
Tired of being the life of the party?
Change your shorts, change your life, change your life
Change into a nine-year-old Hindu boy, get rid of your wife,
And it walks your dog, and it doubles on sax
Doubles on sax, you can jump back Jack, see you later alligator
See you later alligator
And it steals your car
It gets rid of your gambling debts, it quits smoking
It's a friend, and it's a companion,
And it's the only product you will ever need
Follow these easy assembly instructions it never needs ironing
Well it takes weights off hips, bust, thighs, chin, midriff,
Gives you dandruff, and it finds you a job, it is a job
And it strips the phone company free take ten for five exchange,
And it gives you denture breath
And you know it's a friend, and it's a companion
And it gets rid of your traveler's checks
It's new, it's improved, it's old-fashioned
Well it takes care of business, never needs winding,
Never needs winding, never needs winding
Gets rid of blackheads, the heartbreak of psoriasis,
Christ, you don't know the meaning of heartbreak, buddy,
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
'Cause it's effective, it's defective, it creates household odors,
It disinfects, it sanitizes for your protection
It gives you an erection, it wins the election
Why put up with painful corns any longer?
It's a redeemable coupon, no obligation, no salesman will visit your home
We got a jackpot, jackpot, jackpot, prizes, prizes, prizes, all work guaranteed
How do we do it, how do we do it, how do we do it, how do we do it
We need your business, we're going out of business
We'll give you the business
Get on the business end of our going-out-of-business sale
Receive our free brochure, free brochure
Read the easy-to-follow assembly instructions, batteries not included
Send before midnight tomorrow, terms available,
Step right up, step right up, step right up
You got it buddy: the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
Step right up, you can step right up, you can step right up
C'mon step right up
(Get away from me kid, you bother me...)
Step right up, step right up, step right up, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon
Step right up, you can step right up, c'mon and step right up,
C'mon and step right up
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 19 June, 2012, 10:33:45 PM
Class.

Send by pre-paid mail a photo of yourself, two dead creeping charlies, and a self addressed stamped envelope to:
the Tropicana Motor Hotel, Hollywood, California, c/o Young Tom Waits
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 June, 2012, 10:42:10 PM
Never needs ironing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 June, 2012, 10:42:45 PM
Thing of beauty, that song, brilliant for driving to - and I've never seen the lyrics written down before.  "It gives you an erection, it wins the election / Why put up with painful corns any longer?".  The man is a fucking genius.  Many thanks, Trouty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 June, 2012, 10:45:12 PM
Quote from: Trout on 19 June, 2012, 10:27:19 PM
the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
One of my all time favourite songs...and I could on my hand the number of people I know who know it. Thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 June, 2012, 10:46:13 PM
Roger's Mom says you're all hypocrites.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 20 June, 2012, 01:49:44 AM
The film poster is so obviously a coded nod to all the diehard Dredd fans. I'm not just talking about the hidden face. The golden shoulder pad is the real give away. Why would it be golden? Surely that would give away a Judge's position in a stake out or a shoot out. No two ways about it, they are saying to us: look guys we hear you, we acknowledge you, this film depends on you, you're still hurting since 95 (we get that). Fellas, we're with you all the way – thanks for keeping the flag burning through thick and thin – THIS ONE IS FOR YOU, GUYS 

...you bunch of tossers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 20 June, 2012, 08:57:06 AM
Quote from: exilewood on 19 June, 2012, 10:33:45 PM
Class.

Send by pre-paid mail a photo of yourself, two dead creeping charlies, and a self addressed stamped envelope to:
the Tropicana Motor Hotel, Hollywood, California, c/o Young Tom Waits

Quote from: BOODA on 19 June, 2012, 10:45:12 PM
Quote from: Trout on 19 June, 2012, 10:27:19 PM
the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
One of my all time favourite songs...and I could on my hand the number of people I know who know it. Thanks for posting.

Quote from: BOODA on 19 June, 2012, 10:42:10 PM
Never needs ironing.

All credit to Albion, who mentioned it on Facebook. Love that song.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 June, 2012, 09:19:33 AM
I love the scent of freshly cut grass.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2012, 11:08:16 AM
I hate moaners/critics over any small stuff like in Dredd movie threads!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2012, 11:40:02 AM
Now I got You-Know-Who abusive with me!

"Goaty - he is proof that deaf people can be just as annoying as people with no disabilities. Not paying you anymore attention, deaf git."

I never feelings so powerful, haha!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 20 June, 2012, 12:13:24 PM
Nobody is denying that a FEZ is indeed a hat.

Our argument is that pictures of a Monkey wearing a Fez are quite commonplace and to qualify, it has to be a monkey in a different kind of hat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 June, 2012, 12:27:39 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 20 June, 2012, 12:13:24 PM
Nobody is denying that a FEZ is indeed a hat.

Our argument is that pictures of a Monkey wearing a Fez are quite commonplace and to qualify, it has to be a monkey in a different kind of hat.

Oh Lord... how many times have I met this response in my career as an organ-grinder!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Large48 on 20 June, 2012, 02:57:43 PM
Is it me or does the Dredd Trailor makes it seem that the 'future' is happening in a couple of weeks?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 20 June, 2012, 03:15:09 PM
Quote from: Large48 on 20 June, 2012, 02:57:43 PM
Is it me or does the Dredd Trailor makes it seem that the 'future' is happening in a couple of weeks?
well... It is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 20 June, 2012, 07:02:22 PM
Are you all Fkn stoned? Cos you type like you are!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 June, 2012, 07:15:08 PM
Of course the word 'Assassin' has a curious origin, but that's another story.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 June, 2012, 09:05:09 PM
Anyone else watch man vs food? A 18 foot wide pizza, how cool is that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 20 June, 2012, 09:43:02 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 20 June, 2012, 09:05:09 PM
Anyone else watch man vs food? A 18 foot wide pizza, how cool is that!
'MAN V. FOOD' – not 'man vs food'. Jesus Christ, can't people get the simplest thing right?

Any idea when the DVD box set is out by the way?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 21 June, 2012, 06:16:56 AM
After watching the new Dredd trailer, I've come to realise that Scojo isnt a nutter but a prophet.
How could we have doubted you!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 21 June, 2012, 06:26:23 AM
There is a disconnect between the designer who wishes to create reliable cranial protection for 22 century law enforcement ...and the designer who must keep the scale of said protection small enough to satisfy a 21 century film fanatics sensibilities.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Large48 on 21 June, 2012, 10:48:07 AM
I'm going to buy a white van and sell it to CF as being an actual film used prop........
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 June, 2012, 12:42:13 PM
Quote from: Large48 on 21 June, 2012, 10:48:07 AM
I'm going to buy a white van and sell it to CF as being an actual film used prop........

And I am going to paint it yellow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 21 June, 2012, 12:44:29 PM
I hope this film is good, but it will never be as good as the comic.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 21 June, 2012, 12:53:55 PM
well, I've said my piece and I was only being civil, so that is my very last word on the subject I'm not saying any more and I've said all that I have to say and that's that
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 21 June, 2012, 12:55:58 PM
Quote from: Trout on 21 June, 2012, 12:44:29 PM
I hope this film is good, but it will never be as good as the comic.

Whoops, don't go looking at the thread I've just started...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Large48 on 21 June, 2012, 02:35:41 PM
I never did get to see the tits on that bird on here that whinged a lot and upset everyone.....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 21 June, 2012, 03:01:47 PM
Quote from: Large48 on 21 June, 2012, 02:35:41 PM
I never did get to see the tits on that bird on here that whinged a lot and upset everyone.....

Apparently there's a rumour that there are one or two sites on the internet where you can see pictures of topless ladies.

It seems implausible to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 June, 2012, 03:34:19 PM
Yeah tits looks nice

(http://www.favonius.com/furzefield/birds/tits.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 21 June, 2012, 07:23:35 PM
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Bob Holness was the first Dredd. :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 June, 2012, 10:28:01 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 21 June, 2012, 07:23:35 PM
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Bob Holness was the first Dredd. :(

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 June, 2012, 04:08:35 PM
It's Friday so here is an example of a man on an epic quest for beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XeVs4wqdE&sns=em
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 June, 2012, 04:35:27 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 22 June, 2012, 04:08:35 PM
It's Friday so here is an example of a man on an epic quest for beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XeVs4wqdE&sns=em

I liked the bit where the guy fell over!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 June, 2012, 04:59:48 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 22 June, 2012, 04:35:27 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 22 June, 2012, 04:08:35 PM
It's Friday so here is an example of a man on an epic quest for beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XeVs4wqdE&sns=em

I liked the bit where the guy fell over!
Me too, But I liked the bit where he achieves six pack better!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 June, 2012, 07:06:19 PM
Thinks a bottle of wine too much for Friday
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 June, 2012, 07:14:35 PM
Think my avatar winks freak me out on my iPad!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 June, 2012, 07:28:35 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 22 June, 2012, 07:14:35 PM
Think my avatar winks freak me out on my iPad!
They are unsettling.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 June, 2012, 07:30:26 PM
Alright, been holding this back WAY too long, ANDERSON COOPER, 2 last names, ok, fine, what are his 2 first names???
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 June, 2012, 01:33:55 AM
I love Mr Soap!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 June, 2012, 08:25:10 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 June, 2012, 01:33:55 AM
I love Mr Soap!

Call yourself a comics fan!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 June, 2012, 12:18:56 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 June, 2012, 08:25:10 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 June, 2012, 01:33:55 AM
I love Mr Soap!

Call yourself a comics fan!

Well I am learning...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 24 June, 2012, 07:20:17 AM
all of this relates to what I did in university
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 24 June, 2012, 07:20:09 PM
Garret Dillahunt played Jesus once. Huh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 June, 2012, 08:00:45 PM
Youtube hits are love.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Misanthrope on 25 June, 2012, 04:50:25 AM
Falkirk!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 26 June, 2012, 08:56:01 PM
Beat you to it. I posted it earlier than you so ner ner na ner nerrrrr.
:P (I put a silly smiley face to dampen the sarcasm but really mean 'Fuck you, you slow twat')




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 26 June, 2012, 08:59:25 PM
A SERVICE WHICH IS FREE AND WHICH I AM IN NO WAY OBLIGED TO USE HAS FAILED TO MEET MY NEEDS OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 26 June, 2012, 09:02:32 PM
Stands side on to camera.
Takes off sunglasses.
Looks towards camera.
makes bon mot.
YYYYYYEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 26 June, 2012, 09:07:35 PM
I AM COMPLETELY FINE WITH MORDECAI AND RIGBY'S LAZY ATTITUDES.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 26 June, 2012, 09:52:39 PM
First!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 26 June, 2012, 10:24:24 PM
The key is Frank!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 26 June, 2012, 10:42:30 PM
And I dig making double-posts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2012, 02:12:10 AM
I can't gets no sleep.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 27 June, 2012, 09:16:40 AM
dogs have owners, cats have staff

Meow!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 June, 2012, 10:40:14 AM
First!....aw shit, beat myself too it. Next time Me!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 27 June, 2012, 11:01:52 AM
All the kids shows have suicide now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 June, 2012, 11:11:05 AM
A pus-like goo just at my lower back, he said it was normal  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 27 June, 2012, 02:54:17 PM
So my 3D rendition of Van Gogh's Starry Night got picked for 'best of the week' on the 3DS Colors Gallery.  Which was nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 27 June, 2012, 08:41:58 PM
I just saw a jewish kid whose yamaka was too big for him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 27 June, 2012, 09:36:54 PM
Look, if you say you don't like it, that is obviously because you simply do not understand it.
Me, I'd dead clever, and I DO, understand it, so if you don't mind, I'll write a patronising (and it has to be said, slightly passive aggressive) post about it. Of course, it may seem at times that I contradict myself in what I'm saying, but that is just your imagination.
I'm dead clever, remember?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 June, 2012, 10:02:57 PM
There's a sinister story doing the rounds, you might call it a conspiracy theory. At night you'll see these trucks on the highways, heading to secret landfills. It's where they dump 'Polo Mint Interior Waste'...y'know, the bits that are left over once they punch the holes? know what I'm saying?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 27 June, 2012, 10:05:39 PM
I'm going to get the first post on every page of this thread.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 27 June, 2012, 10:10:04 PM
I guessed that would happen/recognised that character straight away but never piped up when the question was asked until it was pointed out by someone else then staked my claim afterwards...(cough bullshit waffle full of shite)...





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 27 June, 2012, 10:36:54 PM
Heavy Metal! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wZLN-P8AI&feature=related)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 June, 2012, 08:17:56 AM
I'm serial kidder
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 June, 2012, 09:27:47 AM
運行的是一個大國如烹小鮮。  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Large48 on 28 June, 2012, 09:36:35 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 27 June, 2012, 11:11:05 AM
A pus-like goo just at my lower back, he said it was normal  :(

Was he doing his zipper up when he said that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 June, 2012, 10:04:54 PM
The inappropriate conduct at Barclays was limited to a few individuals.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 28 June, 2012, 10:33:20 PM
Statistically, most crimes are limited to a small number of individual.  I say we shoot a few of them, make an example.

Cameron helpfully says that "serious questions" must be answered.  Hopefully, by "serious questions" he meant "criminal charges relating to massive fraud".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 28 June, 2012, 10:52:57 PM
We're all in this together.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 28 June, 2012, 11:06:10 PM
Had some pretty heavy thunder storms today. What's the weather like in your neck of the woods.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 June, 2012, 11:11:02 PM
I hope you're sitting down for this, because I'm about to tell you something that will shock you.

It was raining. RAINING I SAY!!

IN IRELAND OF ALL PLACES!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 June, 2012, 11:12:56 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 28 June, 2012, 11:11:02 PM
I hope you're sitting down for this, because I'm about to tell you something that will shock you.

It was raining. RAINING I SAY!!

IN IRELAND OF ALL PLACES!!!

Number two item on the national news.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 28 June, 2012, 11:22:16 PM
Big Pink TITS







(http://www.andysnapephotography.com/images/_M4G7775_Long_Tailed_Tits_-_Copy.jpg)



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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 June, 2012, 11:25:55 PM
Eugh, they're fake, they're all uneven, one's clearly bigger than the other
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 29 June, 2012, 02:03:38 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 28 June, 2012, 11:06:10 PM
Had some pretty heavy thunder storms today. What's the weather like in your neck of the woods.

It threw down, then the clouds cleared and it was really hot and humid.

Lucky global warming is a conspiracy by anti-business communists or I'd think something was messing with our weather. I mean Sun, in the UK, in Summer? Me arse.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 June, 2012, 07:18:37 AM
LOL
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 29 June, 2012, 12:19:02 PM
What this thread lacks are some fan written Dredd film scripts 8-?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 29 June, 2012, 07:34:33 PM
Leave bankers alone, bumholes!! It is far more complicated than people giving you money, you lending it out, the loan being repaid with interest, the banks taking a cut from that and passing the rest on to the saver. It is vastly more complex than that and we mere mortals couldn't hope to understand what they get up to or question their bonuses. So back off - sharky has gone quiet recently...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 June, 2012, 08:20:07 PM
He's been undercover at the Brussels summit, working to accelerate the dismantling of the architecture of pseudo-capitalism, and in his spare time giggling at the statue of the little boy having a wee.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 29 June, 2012, 08:22:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 June, 2012, 08:20:07 PM
He's been undercover at the Brussels summit, working to accelerate the dismantling of the architecture of pseudo-capitalism, and in his spare time giggling at the statue of the little boy having a wee.

Close but you it the wrong way round -in his spare time he is working to accelerate the dismantling of the architecture of pseudo-capitalism.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 29 June, 2012, 08:27:40 PM
What did you get for Christmas?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 June, 2012, 08:55:24 PM
I f*ckin hate Marvel Comics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 June, 2012, 08:56:12 PM
I LOVE Marvel!
Duuuuuuuuuddddeeee.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 29 June, 2012, 09:05:11 PM
Comics are shit these days and only fit for children in head injury wards.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 June, 2012, 09:17:25 PM
2000AD is the new bible!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emperor on 29 June, 2012, 09:26:09 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 29 June, 2012, 09:17:25 PM
2000AD is the new bogroll!

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 29 June, 2012, 09:45:42 PM
I put your're mom in the head injury ward. The good kind.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 30 June, 2012, 12:00:45 AM
Why can't we go back to the good old days when real men used to create comics, you know the ones who had hairy chests, drank real ale, farted at the urinal whilst pissing a barrel, smoked pipes, wanted their dinner ready when they got home, wore slippers in the shed, grew tomatoes in a greenhouse made from old windows rescued from a bombed out house from the blitz, wore brill cream, thought stubble was only there to light your match because the only matches are only swan vestas and shirt tails are for wiping your arse because bog paper is too rough down the club and Andrex too expensive & your finger goes through, men who only eat liver on tuesdays, have gravy on their pancakes, write between the hours of 10 and 5 wear high trousers and tank tops?

It's about time they made a comeback because it was civilised, manly and brave!

Men who didn't have iPhones and large thumbs and had to keep editing threads because of fricking typos because iPhones were the future you'd write about, but in your future the iPhone was really an alien that absorbed human brain cells and fed them to its young! Because back then men ha DiMaggio action, creativity and old spice!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 30 June, 2012, 12:05:28 AM
I sharted in public! This totally happened, seriously!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 30 June, 2012, 12:12:01 AM
Squirrel!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 30 June, 2012, 12:18:00 AM
You would have thought so, wouldn't you, but it appeared to be a green homunculus in a jar, which she found in her kitchen cupboard.  Hell of a racket it was making!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 June, 2012, 12:20:59 AM
Tralfamador, never had the pleasure, been to Dresden many times.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 30 June, 2012, 09:24:17 AM
So it goes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 June, 2012, 04:39:39 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 30 June, 2012, 09:24:17 AM
So it goes.

*

I know, diff'rnt book, but hilarious no less.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 June, 2012, 08:26:13 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/403797_10150892262896636_919774260_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 30 June, 2012, 10:26:48 PM
A Hairy Bush



(http://www.thegardensofeden.org/img/s1/v22/p1010268731-3.jpg)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 June, 2012, 10:36:14 PM
YOUR BUMHOLE


(http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/images/Uranus.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 01 July, 2012, 08:37:28 AM
Who thinks the EDF Zingy looks shit.

(http://www.hortal.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Gas-and-electricity-for-your-home-and-business-supplied-by-EDF-Energy-165754-e1333469002972.png)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 July, 2012, 08:49:09 AM
Quote from: Temponaut on 30 June, 2012, 09:24:17 AM
So it goes.

With my earlier * I was referring to the picture at this link....a much better asterix
http://www.readvonnegut.com/2011/01/new-domain-readvonnegutcom.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 01 July, 2012, 12:01:25 PM
Nom nom nom
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 July, 2012, 12:06:05 PM
They've only released one trailer so far. Clearly the producers have no faith in this movie. WHERE'STHE SECOND TRAILER?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 12:23:12 PM
What do you think the plot for Dredd 4 should be?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 01 July, 2012, 12:49:54 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 12:23:12 PM
What do you think the plot for Dredd 4 should be?

Dredd takes on vehicle designers of the future for suppressing the technology for flying cars.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 July, 2012, 12:51:30 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 12:23:12 PM
What do you think the plot for Dredd 4 should be?

Hey, I live in Jo'burg, was an extra on the film,  Alex Garland is my uncle, and I have seen the film at a preview screening. Just thought I'd pop into this forum to give you all my insider opinion on this movie:

I thought Dredd took me to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. As I see it, Judge Dredd was the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary.

My favourite bit was when the endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis brought DREDD to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returned the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

I especially liked all the bits that anyone with an internet connection can see in the two minute fucking trailer. Don't forget to check out the review on my blog too. www.lonelyfantasist.org (http://www.lonelyfantasist.org)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 July, 2012, 05:40:47 PM
Well, as were talking about the new Dredd film, im really enjoying Dog the Bounty Hunter at the minute on Pick TV.

(http://i.imgur.com/Dy185.jpg)

As im new to the show, i thought id google Mr Dog, and i find out he's a Barnsley lad born and bred! Who'd a thunk it, huh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 July, 2012, 05:41:55 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 01 July, 2012, 05:40:47 PM
Well, as were talking about the new Dredd film, im really enjoying Dog the Bounty Hunter at the minute on Pick TV.

(http://i.imgur.com/Dy185.jpg)

As im new to the show, i thought id google Mr Dog, and i find out he's a Barnsley lad born and bred! Who'd a thunk it, huh?

with heavy beard, Wulf?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:01:00 PM
I hate superheroes SO MUCH. I commissioned a bunch of artists to draw Dredd and Alpha and Slaine MURDERING all the STUPID CAPED LOSERS in order to show HOW MUCH I LOVE 2000 AD. No one who reads 2000 AD should EVER SULLY THEIR SHELVES with SUPERHERO GARBAGE. 2000 AD is the most sophisticated comic of all time. NO OTHER COMIC has ever dealt with complex issues in the same way. RACISM in Nemesis, HOW BUSINESSMEN ARE BAD in Button Man and WOMEN in Shakara Book 3 are proof that 2000 AD is not fit for STUPID AMERICANS. It is your duty to go on to other comic forums and inform other people that they are STUPID FOR LIKING COMICS THAT AREN'T 2000 AD.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 July, 2012, 08:02:29 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:01:00 PM
I hate superheroes SO MUCH. I commissioned a bunch of artists to draw Dredd and Alpha and Slaine MURDERING all the STUPID CAPED LOSERS in order to show HOW MUCH I LOVE 2000 AD. No one who reads 2000 AD should EVER SULLY THEIR SHELVES with SUPERHERO GARBAGE. 2000 AD is the most sophisticated comic of all time. NO OTHER COMIC has ever dealt with complex issues in the same way. RACISM in Nemesis, HOW BUSINESSMEN ARE BAD in Button Man and WOMEN in Shakara Book 3 are proof that 2000 AD is not fit for STUPID AMERICANS. It is your duty to go on to other comic forums and inform other people that they are STUPID FOR LIKING COMICS THAT AREN'T 2000 AD.

^ This
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 July, 2012, 08:13:40 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:01:00 PM
I hate superheroes SO MUCH. I commissioned a bunch of artists to draw Dredd and Alpha and Slaine MURDERING all the STUPID CAPED LOSERS in order to show HOW MUCH I LOVE 2000 AD. No one who reads 2000 AD should EVER SULLY THEIR SHELVES with SUPERHERO GARBAGE. 2000 AD is the most sophisticated comic of all time. NO OTHER COMIC has ever dealt with complex issues in the same way. RACISM in Nemesis, HOW BUSINESSMEN ARE BAD in Button Man and WOMEN in Shakara Book 3 are proof that 2000 AD is not fit for STUPID AMERICANS. It is your duty to go on to other comic forums and inform other people that they are STUPID FOR LIKING COMICS THAT AREN'T 2000 AD.

Thought Dredd did that to "superheros" team in last Meg?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 July, 2012, 08:50:24 PM
Hush now.

Football is happening
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:57:34 PM
I'm happening on your're mom's face.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 01 July, 2012, 09:01:47 PM
*your
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 01 July, 2012, 09:10:32 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:57:34 PM
I'm happening on your're mom's face.

S'funny I was just talking to her on the phone, thought she was a bit Pre-occupied
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 July, 2012, 10:05:38 PM
Julius Caesar, Nero, Caligula, Galileo, Da Vinci, Mussolini, Burlusconi, your boys took a hell of a beating!

Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:57:34 PM
Your're mom took a hell of a beating
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 July, 2012, 10:29:27 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 01 July, 2012, 10:05:38 PM
Julius Caesar, Nero, Caligula, Galileo, Da Vinci, Mussolini, Burlusconi, your boys took a hell of a beating!

La burro rifa!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 10:29:50 PM
ROMNEY/SANTORUM 2012
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 02 July, 2012, 10:44:15 AM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 01 July, 2012, 08:01:00 PM
I hate superheroes SO MUCH. I commissioned a bunch of artists to draw Dredd and Alpha and Slaine MURDERING all the STUPID CAPED LOSERS in order to show HOW MUCH I LOVE 2000 AD. No one who reads 2000 AD should EVER SULLY THEIR SHELVES with SUPERHERO GARBAGE. 2000 AD is the most sophisticated comic of all time. NO OTHER COMIC has ever dealt with complex issues in the same way. RACISM in Nemesis, HOW BUSINESSMEN ARE BAD in Button Man and WOMEN in Shakara Book 3 are proof that 2000 AD is not fit for STUPID AMERICANS. It is your duty to go on to other comic forums and inform other people that they are STUPID FOR LIKING COMICS THAT AREN'T 2000 AD.

:D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 July, 2012, 10:47:09 AM
BOOTKNIFE!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 July, 2012, 11:12:14 AM
Bit of an oxymoron but...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 July, 2012, 04:28:17 PM
Anyone want ot read my scripts? they are really deep and have lots of guns
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 02 July, 2012, 07:36:32 PM
It was the chicken btw
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 July, 2012, 07:45:59 PM
If that cover was made into a poster I'd buy it.






(Poster made, No sales!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 July, 2012, 08:15:45 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 July, 2012, 07:45:59 PM
If that cover was made into a poster I'd buy it.






(Poster made, one sale!)

Fixed that for ya CF.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 July, 2012, 08:35:01 PM
The main problem with this 50 Shades of Gray book is that it encourages the womenfolk to read.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 03 July, 2012, 12:38:20 AM
EVERYONE SHOULD STOP RIPPING OFF DREDD. That means you, Robocop. That means you, Batman. That means you The Raid. I'LL SHOW YOU ALL.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 03 July, 2012, 12:50:50 AM
Yeah, well I've been reading 2000AD since prog 1.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 03 July, 2012, 12:58:56 AM
I've been reading comics since the Bayeux tapestry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 03 July, 2012, 01:01:19 AM
In 'The Naked Ape' Desmond Morris theorises the reason we have evolved less hair than other primates is to aid tactile sensation during sexual congress. His book zoologically describes the means by which humans become aroused through skin to skin contact in some detail. Remind me not to read it in work again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 July, 2012, 11:43:18 AM
The strongest evidence yet, of the existence of the 'God particle', has been discovered.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/higgs-boson-evidence-god-particle-reported-fermilab-physicists/t/story?id=16695742
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 03 July, 2012, 12:55:22 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 03 July, 2012, 11:43:18 AM
The strongest evidence yet, of the existence of the 'God particle', has been discovered.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/higgs-boson-evidence-god-particle-reported-fermilab-physicists/t/story?id=16695742
Needs to be in the Science is so drokkin...etc thread
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 July, 2012, 07:45:59 PM
If that cover was made into a poster I'd buy it.






(Poster made, No sales!)

Needs to be in the covers etc thread.

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 03 July, 2012, 12:50:50 AM
Yeah, well I've been reading 2000AD since prog 1.


Needs to be in the how do you read your ...etc thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 03 July, 2012, 01:50:38 PM
Something about Nazis, with a personal attack on people who disagree with me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 03 July, 2012, 01:53:42 PM
Sorry about the double post.

(I'm not sorry about the double post.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Large48 on 03 July, 2012, 02:52:52 PM
I know where there is a car full of helmets.......
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 03 July, 2012, 03:15:42 PM
In China they are called the Yeren, in Vietnam Rock Apes, in Australia the Yowie and in America the Sasquatch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 July, 2012, 04:08:39 PM
Quote from: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 03 July, 2012, 03:15:42 PM
In China they are called the Yeren, in Vietnam Rock Apes, in Australia the Yowie and in America the Sasquatch.

Among native Americans they have many names...many, make no mistake, they are out there...even Jane Goodall thinks it possible. In Europe they were known as the 'woodwose' and I am the last of their number.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 July, 2012, 05:06:53 PM
Quote from: George Dread on 03 July, 2012, 12:55:22 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 03 July, 2012, 11:43:18 AM
The strongest evidence yet, of the existence of the 'God particle', has been discovered.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/higgs-boson-evidence-god-particle-reported-fermilab-physicists/t/story?id=16695742
Needs to be in the Science is so drokkin...etc thread
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 July, 2012, 07:45:59 PM
If that cover was made into a poster I'd buy it.






(Poster made, No sales!)

Needs to be in the covers etc thread.

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 03 July, 2012, 12:50:50 AM
Yeah, well I've been reading 2000AD since prog 1.


Needs to be in the how do you read your ...etc thread.

This needs to be in the pedants' thread
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 July, 2012, 05:12:42 PM
If anyone's interested here's some footage of me on my summer hols weeee! (driving along the coast)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKpzp358F4&sns=em
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 July, 2012, 05:14:14 PM
Later emperors would use the name as a title, not a surname, although none of them were of the Caesar family, and - strictly speaking - only Augustus could even claim to be a true-blood Julian, and, even then, that was on his mother's side.

Historically, when we now talk about 'Caesar', we mean Gaius Julius Caesar, although, at the time, the name would have been taken to mean the emperor of the day.

i.e. "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's". Which, at the time Jesus was supposed to have said this, would have been the Emperor Tiberius.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 03 July, 2012, 05:36:30 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 03 July, 2012, 05:12:42 PM
If anyone's interested here's some footage of me on my summer hols weeee! (driving along the coast)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKpzp358F4&sns=em

You can't pull the wool over our eyes so easily, Mister. Can't be your summer hols. The shadows go the wrong way. Think we're stupid here? Don't try and mug us off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 03 July, 2012, 05:51:42 PM
I've just had an amazing poo!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 July, 2012, 06:06:09 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 03 July, 2012, 05:36:30 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 03 July, 2012, 05:12:42 PM
If anyone's interested here's some footage of me on my summer hols weeee! (driving along the coast)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKpzp358F4&sns=em

You can't pull the wool over our eyes so easily, Mister. Can't be your summer hols. The shadows go the wrong way. Think we're stupid here? Don't try and mug us off.
Honest, it was me, honest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 July, 2012, 06:09:35 PM
36 pages and I still don't know what this is about  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 03 July, 2012, 06:19:10 PM
Moistened bints with scimitars.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 03 July, 2012, 06:31:04 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 03 July, 2012, 06:19:10 PM
Moistened bints with scimitars.

Yep!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 July, 2012, 06:53:09 PM


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7259/7419823454_fc84d5983e_m.jpg)

This is the kind of thing, LOOK at that  :o, I ask you
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 03 July, 2012, 07:00:04 PM
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2011/02/3960223930cb3b17cb07-1297108102.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 03 July, 2012, 10:29:00 PM
Do you even know what a rhetorical question is?-no! of course you don't!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 03 July, 2012, 11:50:45 PM
BOOM! 37.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 04 July, 2012, 12:41:23 AM
Ta mee cummal ayns Northcote, agh ta mee gobbraghey ayns Springvale as Melbourne.  S'mie lhiam gobbragey ayns Melbourne agh cha mie lhiam goll gys Springvale.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 04 July, 2012, 12:41:51 AM
My brother had hungry-hippos,
My sisters had Monopoly and Scrabble,
My Dad had a deck of cards,
and I had this game where you turned dials on wheels to deposit counters in a tray while imagining you were a safe-cracker:

This was my downfall.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 July, 2012, 08:12:52 AM
Quote from: darnmarr on 04 July, 2012, 12:41:51 AMThis was my downfall.

Auteur! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 July, 2012, 08:29:34 AM
Women's new bible!

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/313930_10150899090761636_1406307195_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 July, 2012, 10:44:44 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 03 July, 2012, 06:09:35 PM
36 pages and I still don't know what this is about  :o
That really should go in the 'What Things are About' thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 04 July, 2012, 11:47:01 AM
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 04 July, 2012, 01:40:59 PM
I could really use some quantative easing right now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 04 July, 2012, 02:44:48 PM
The Juews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 July, 2012, 03:18:49 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 04 July, 2012, 02:44:48 PM
The Juews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing.

This should be on the Euro 2012 Football thread
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Large48 on 04 July, 2012, 04:48:46 PM
Mountain Hippies?


And not in a good way..........
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 04 July, 2012, 05:41:34 PM
Its all about the notorious supporter of gay marriage and self-confessed player of the pink oboe, Jimmy Carter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 04 July, 2012, 06:35:49 PM
There was an angry cry of: "Well Jenkins, you could easily kill a man without leaving a trace, perhaps with an ice-pick, in the back-passage,  you easliy might you cad.. -but that is no reason to rule out my 'spot-the-ball coupon!' " and immediately after this surprising ejaculation, the Deacon fell back into his fitful, and feverish semi-coma. 

"Curioser and Curioser " said Admiral Bull-Qualities, to no-one in particular, as he helped himself to yet another medicinal port; The Admiral was secretly internally mystified over which servant to blame it on this time;  certainly not another footman . His moustache bristled with irritation; why always such fuss at Michelmas?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 04 July, 2012, 09:40:37 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 04 July, 2012, 08:29:34 AM
Women's new bible!

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/313930_10150899090761636_1406307195_n.jpg)
PAH
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d5J3T8qCf_g/T5-uBX6DdBI/AAAAAAAAAp4/EniQww7DC2U/s1600/A+man+with+a+maid.jpg)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 July, 2012, 10:44:27 PM
All pedestrians should be shot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 04 July, 2012, 10:50:11 PM
Tordelback peaked at post #9736.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 July, 2012, 11:00:37 PM
Damnit man, the 11,000s were some of my best work, so full of dynamism and experiment.  Just because you internet nerds can't let go of some idealised static vision of my output based on how it was during your own impressionable years.  I'm an artist, I need to grow.  Posterity will conclude my best was yet to come.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 04 July, 2012, 11:21:35 PM
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 04 July, 2012, 11:52:05 PM
In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 July, 2012, 11:57:04 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 04 July, 2012, 02:44:48 PM
The Juews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing.
Belongs in the Ripper thread...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 July, 2012, 12:04:03 AM
Of all the animals to clone, a bloody sheep, they all look the bloody same!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 July, 2012, 04:30:15 PM
This is not Nam. This is the internet. There are rules.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 09:20:11 PM
(http://cdn.jodu.com/images/socialpinboard/3/3b/3bbadb9ae7e64b6381c8b489771c7102_4ff72aadf3286_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 06 July, 2012, 09:48:32 PM
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 July, 2012, 10:14:21 PM
I watched Attack of the Clones again tonight.  Holy shit is that one crap movie. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 July, 2012, 10:22:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 July, 2012, 09:48:32 PM
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available


Magnet and Steel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkm-epzhGA) have been assigned! Bloody love that programme.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 10:53:10 PM
I experienced an Event the other day and I need to tell you all about it because none of my RL friends will understand and mostly because I feel it important that I should teach you about what I learned from this Event even though (you claim) you have experienced a similar event it simply cannot be of the same high order of magnitude as the Event I experienced that quite laterally changed my life (yes, I said laterally on purpose to demonstrate that my whole perspective on life has changed thanks to this Event) and I'm now Chosen of God to tell you what the Event means and how it changed my outlook for the better and will also change yours and it's so simple the Lesson is that you just have to blah blah blah blah happiness blah blah positive energies blah blah waffle piffle blah Great Spirit wiffle blah blah cast into Hell for the rest of time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 06 July, 2012, 10:54:46 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 06 July, 2012, 10:22:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 July, 2012, 09:48:32 PM
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available


Magnet and Steel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkm-epzhGA) have been assigned! Bloody love that programme.



Magnet and Steel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DAHi_Cks8)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 10:57:56 PM


















That \/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 06 July, 2012, 11:04:03 PM
They all grew up in the same orphanage together but the lady from the future made them forget.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 11:07:59 PM
Pfft. They did that in 'The Not-Too-Brightly-Lit-At-All Zone' in 1732. Somebody should sue somebody and I should be respected and revered for my wide-ranging and comprehensive knowledge of all sorts of pointless obscura.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 July, 2012, 11:09:12 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 July, 2012, 10:14:21 PM
I watched Attack of the Clones again tonight.  Holy shit is that one crap movie.

How dare you! You probably just haven't watched films in the correct order.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 06 July, 2012, 11:14:22 PM
Whenever sang my songs
On the stage, on my own
Whenever said my words
Wishing they would be heard
I saw you smiling at me
Was it real or just my fantasy
You'd always be there in the corner
Of this tiny little bar

My last night here for you
Same old songs, just once more
My last night here with you?
Maybe yes, maybe no
I kind of liked it your way
How you shyly placed your eyes on me

Oh, did you ever know?
That I had mine on you

Darling, so there you are
With that look on your face
As if you're never hurt
As if you're never down
Shall I be the one for you
Who pinches you softly but sure
If frown is shown then
I will know that you are no dreamer

So let me come to you
Close as I wanted to be
Close enough for me
To feel your heart beating fast
And stay there as I whisper

How I loved your peaceful eyes on me
did you ever know
That I had mine on you

Darling, so share with me
Your love if you have enough
Your tears if your're holding back
Or pain if that's what it is
How can I let you know
I'm more than the dress and the voice
Just reach me out then
You will know that you're not dreaming

Darling, so there you are
With that look on your face
As if you're never hurt
As if you're never down
Shall I be the one for you
Who pinches you softly but sure
If frown is shown then
I will know that you are no dreamer
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 11:16:46 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 July, 2012, 10:14:21 PM
I endured Attack of the Clones again, tonight; holy shit! It is a "crap" film.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 11:23:39 PM
(Sung to the "Eton Boating Song")

The sexual life of the camel,
Is stranger than anyone thinks,
At the height of the mating season,
It tries to bugger the Sphinx.
But the Sphinx's posterior orifice,
Is blocked by the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel,
And Sphinx's inscrutable smile.


Chorus*
Singing: bum-titty-titty, bum-titty-titty, titty-bum.
Singing: bum-titty-titty, bum-titty-titty, aye.
Singing: bum-titty-titty, bum-titty-titty, titty-bum.
Singing: bum-titty-titty, bum-titty-titty, aye.


The sexual life of the ostrich, is hard to understand,
At the height of the mating season,
It buries its head in the sand.
And if another ostrich finds it,
Standing there with its ass in the air,
Does it have the urge to grind,
Or doesn't it bloody-well care?


Chorus*


In the process of civilization,
From anthropoid ape down to man,
It is generally held that the navy,
Has buggered whatever it can.
Yet recent extensive researches,
By Darwin and Huxley and Hall,
Have conclusively proved that the hedgehog,
Cannot be buggered at all.


Chorus*


We therefore believe our conclusion,
Is incontrovertibly shown,
That comparative safety on shipboard,
Is enjoyed by the hedgehog alone,
Why haven't they done it at Spithead,
As they have at Harvard and Yale,
And also at Oxford and Cambridge,
By shaving the spines off the tail?




Chorus then vomit into a bucket.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 July, 2012, 11:30:23 PM
(http://mykidentity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hug-post1.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 11:33:02 PM
Sorry for the multiple-posts but I'm an intensely boring bastard with too much time on my hands and a burning desire to annoy people I've never met with a torrent of bullshit because anything that seems important to me must by definition also be important to you.

So listen up:

Grace Jones should play Judge Hershey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 11:55:21 PM
2000AD and the Megazine should be on sale in cinemas while DR£DD is showing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 July, 2012, 12:05:22 AM
Die Babylon toolbar, die! You thought you were so fucking clever, but I got all 'about: config' on you and you turned tail like the fucking bitch you are.

Clean yourself up! (spits)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 07 July, 2012, 12:20:05 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 10:57:56 PM


















That \/




Wot?





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 July, 2012, 03:35:40 AM
This ^
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 07 July, 2012, 01:27:42 PM
The creative team for Lost Girls 2, has just been unveiled.

(http://i.imgur.com/vBVrq.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 07 July, 2012, 11:45:55 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 07 July, 2012, 01:27:42 PM
The creative team for Lost Girls 2, has just been unveiled.

(http://i.imgur.com/vBVrq.jpg)
GTF! That is the funniest collection of humanoids I've ever ---- scene!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Misanthrope on 08 July, 2012, 03:22:42 AM


(http://ppooddd.webs.com/random%5B1%5D.gif)



It is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 July, 2012, 07:18:29 PM
I AM FURIOUS THAT THE NEW ICE AGE MOVIE IS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE LIKE THE FLINTSTONES WAS
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 08 July, 2012, 07:24:38 PM
That's the type of thing your're namesake on Regular Show would get upset about.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 July, 2012, 09:04:07 PM
This is, indeed, a tragedy for the whole of Britain Scotland.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 July, 2012, 09:13:25 PM
In his heyday, various news outlets referred to David Beckham as a brand.

Apparently only brands that are sponsoring the Olympics are allowed in the various Olympic stadia.

David Beckham is not allowed to play in the Olympics.

Just sayin
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 July, 2012, 09:18:28 PM
What about Russel Brand?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 July, 2012, 09:25:39 PM
I don't think mincing is a real Olympic sport. I think it was in that Monty Python sketch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmyz_f8Sx14) (which like most of their ideas, the stole from Spike Milligan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmJSrVNKnr0))
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 09 July, 2012, 01:54:51 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 06 July, 2012, 11:55:21 PM
2000AD and the Megazine should be on sale in cinemas while DR£DD is showing.

Funny you should say that. A comic shop had set up a stall selling Spider-Man comics in the cinema foyer when I went to see Spider-Man yesterday. Nobody was paying any attention to them.

On the other hand, I've shagged all your sisters.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 July, 2012, 02:18:58 PM
So have I.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 July, 2012, 11:36:27 PM
He thinks he's Ethel Mermen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 10 July, 2012, 02:00:31 AM
Internet hardman. You wouldn't say that to me in real life.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 10 July, 2012, 06:46:43 AM
I apologise unreservedly. But if Ethel's father was a Mermen surely that makes her a mermaid?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 10 July, 2012, 07:26:24 AM
we all want that, but we have to be realistic.  And relevant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 10 July, 2012, 07:47:10 AM
Judges found evidence of Chowder Powder when Citizen Sienna Fiche reported mermaids at Daryl Hannah Pier, winning her cube time and rehab
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 10 July, 2012, 10:56:14 AM
Mel Gibson totally isn't an anti-semite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 July, 2012, 11:00:03 AM
Baaa!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 10 July, 2012, 11:06:05 AM
Ethel Merman changed her name from Zimmerman. Bob Dylan was also once Bob Zimmerman, but he changed his name to Dylan.

Maybe they were trying to cover up their Jewish roots? Probable anti-semites. Add 'em to the list Dano!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 10 July, 2012, 06:44:53 PM
Quote from: exilewood on 10 July, 2012, 11:06:05 AM
Ethel Merman changed her name from Zimmerman. Bob Dylan was also once Bob Zimmerman, but he changed his name to Dylan.

Maybe they were trying to cover up their Jewish roots? Probable anti-semites. Add 'em to the list Dano!

Kenny Powers is a Mermen and is certainly an anti-Semite, so you may have something there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9280fC5ujU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 July, 2012, 06:50:39 PM
My boomerang won't come back.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 July, 2012, 07:27:52 PM
Boo is aborigine for 'returning'

Because if you throw a normal meringue...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 10 July, 2012, 08:29:24 PM
Rob schneider is a cunt. Discuss.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 10 July, 2012, 08:46:00 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 10 July, 2012, 08:29:24 PM
Rob schneider is a cunt. Discuss.




V
More antisemitism.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 July, 2012, 08:53:06 PM
There should be entirely different levels of this sort of thing. It's unacceptable, I say. Unacceptable and slightly fungible.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 10 July, 2012, 09:50:47 PM
The credits in a fish called Wanda are too blue.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2012, 05:35:23 PM
Pearoast!

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p147/the_legendary_shark/2000ADonline%20Images/Stallone_Dredd_2.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 11 July, 2012, 09:56:40 PM
My kids like the same things I like! What a blessing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 July, 2012, 10:01:03 PM
I have no children but I do know that all you parents are wrong.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 July, 2012, 10:25:08 PM
"Mr Garland, I wanted to ask why you felt the need to change the costume..."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 July, 2012, 10:56:12 AM
Dredd is going to be sleeper hit!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 12 July, 2012, 01:43:44 PM
My kids like what I force them to like. They wanted to watch Toy Story 3 but I forced them to watch Irreversible because I think it's good. It's an 18 but my kids can cope.

My 8 year old loved the scene where a man has his face beaten with a fire extinguisher until it caves in, and you should have seen the look on my 5 year old's face during the protracted rape sequence. Priceless!

Tonight it's Faces of Death! Can't wait!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 July, 2012, 02:03:13 PM
The Dredd reviews are too big.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 July, 2012, 02:04:37 PM
Say what you like, Stallone looked exactly like the character. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Misanthrope on 12 July, 2012, 02:18:54 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 July, 2012, 02:04:37 PM
Say what you like, Stallone looked exactly like the character.

Yeah, Nimrod.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 July, 2012, 03:11:47 PM
Quote from: Misanthrope on 12 July, 2012, 02:18:54 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 July, 2012, 02:04:37 PM
Say what you like, Stallone looked exactly like the character.

Yeah, Nimrod.

He looked like the midget Dredd that Cal auditioned.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 July, 2012, 05:32:20 PM
My avatar is smiling... on way to nutter hospital!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 July, 2012, 05:33:56 PM
Dredd is not played by Woody Allen= Alex Garland is an anti-Semite. If you object to this fact, you too are antisemitic.
Oh I'd love to construct a clever and logically viable post to back up my post, but if I do, you'll just accuse me of being a right wing nutter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 July, 2012, 07:15:50 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 12 July, 2012, 05:33:56 PM
Dredd is not played by Woody Allen= Alex Garland is an anti-Semite. If you object to this fact, you too are antisemitic.
Oh I'd love to construct a clever and logically viable post to back up my post, but if I do, you'll just accuse me of being a right wing nutter.

You could easily avoid such accusatiins by quoting someone like Martin Luther King Jr.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 July, 2012, 07:21:07 PM
That's just what Hitler would have said.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 July, 2012, 07:29:18 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 July, 2012, 07:21:07 PM
That's just what Hitler would have said.
Aye but Johnny Alpha sorted that norm scum out!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 July, 2012, 07:44:21 PM
***j*, ***j*, ***j*, ***j*, can you hear me, ***j*?  Your boys took one hell of a beating.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 12 July, 2012, 08:22:06 PM
I saw some futuristic film about a cop called Dread last night and it was absolute bollocks - lots of people falling in slow motion and some dude in a stupid helmet.  YAWN.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 July, 2012, 08:35:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 July, 2012, 07:44:21 PM
***j*, ***j*, ***j*, ***j*, can you hear me, ***j*?  Your boys took one hell of a beating.

This makes me smile. A lot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 12 July, 2012, 09:15:54 PM
Andrew Currie draw good boobs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 July, 2012, 09:22:34 PM
Quote from: Roger Godpleton on 12 July, 2012, 09:15:54 PM
Andrew Currie draw good boobs.

This makes me smile. A lot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 12 July, 2012, 09:36:41 PM
I fell in love with Marjorie Liu after googling and seeing only one pic of her.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 July, 2012, 11:09:13 AM
I've just realised I've made more than a thousand posts, AND NONE OF YOU BASTARDS GOT ME A CAKE
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 13 July, 2012, 12:14:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 July, 2012, 09:36:41 PM
I fell in love with Marjorie Liu after googling and seeing only one pic of her.
Was it this one?

(http://knittingiceland.is/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_4938-340x340.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 July, 2012, 12:23:26 PM
I don't know who that person is, but I feel a strong attraction towards her.

EDIT:  One quick google later:  ooh, she's all creative and geeky too.  Yum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 July, 2012, 01:50:49 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 July, 2012, 12:14:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 July, 2012, 09:36:41 PM
I fell in love with Marjorie Liu after googling and seeing only one pic of her.
Was it this one?

(http://knittingiceland.is/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_4938-340x340.jpg)

I'm gonna photo-shop my pasty Irish self into that pic, replacing the (sock-covered?) tree.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 July, 2012, 02:34:59 PM
Is that a sock-covered tree or is she just very supple and big boned?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 July, 2012, 02:56:57 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 July, 2012, 12:14:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 July, 2012, 09:36:41 PM
I fell in love with Marjorie Liu after googling and seeing only one pic of her.
Was it this one?

(http://knittingiceland.is/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_4938-340x340.jpg)
Was this photo taken at the Basingstoke bi-annual-urban-giraffe leg-warmer-fettle?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ming on 13 July, 2012, 03:21:14 PM
Do they even still make Caramac?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jared Katooie on 13 July, 2012, 11:26:27 PM
Yes. I have confirmed it.

It is not as good as you remember though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 13 July, 2012, 11:30:56 PM
FUCK CARAMAC
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 July, 2012, 11:39:27 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 July, 2012, 12:23:26 PM
I don't know who that person is, but I feel a strong attraction towards her.

EDIT:  One quick google later:  ooh, she's all creative and geeky too.  Yum.


Stop it, you need a sensible woman to tame your wild heart.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 13 July, 2012, 11:56:42 PM
Ice Age 4: Starring Drake.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 14 July, 2012, 01:53:33 AM
Open the Yap Shop - I've ingested more drugs than Spooky John Smith. Pussy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 July, 2012, 09:38:58 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 13 July, 2012, 01:50:49 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 July, 2012, 12:14:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 July, 2012, 09:36:41 PM
I fell in love with Marjorie Liu after googling and seeing only one pic of her.
Was it this one?

(http://knittingiceland.is/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_4938-340x340.jpg)

I'm gonna photo-shop my pasty Irish self into that pic, replacing the (sock-covered?) tree.
Not a tree, the leg of a cold giraffe.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 14 July, 2012, 08:54:03 PM
Now, Andrew Currie's art style may have its knockers....

(http://i.imgur.com/mxgEi.jpg)

but, never let it be said that he doesnt draw Judges true to life.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 July, 2012, 04:44:47 AM
That guy totally got punched in the face
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:34:25 AM
I
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:34:49 AM
Can't
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:35:10 AM
Wait
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:35:45 AM
To
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:36:08 AM
Get
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:36:48 AM
To
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 July, 2012, 10:37:20 AM
400 posts!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 15 July, 2012, 01:47:58 PM
Now that he's such a hot property, many disparate nations have tried to claim ownership of Michael Fassbender. But, seeing as he's a curious blend of the Teuton and the Celt, doesnt that make him, in essence, English? Or, at the very least, Proto-English?

I suspect its only a matter of time before we see photos of him drinking a cup of tea, and being polite to people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 July, 2012, 02:29:32 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 15 July, 2012, 01:47:58 PM
I suspect its only a matter of time before we see photos of him rioting after losing at the footie and telling people he knows best how they should be governed.

You may have a point.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 July, 2012, 02:41:18 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 15 July, 2012, 01:47:58 PM
Now that he's such a hot property, many disparate nations have tried to claim ownership of Michael Fassbender. But, seeing as he's a curious blend of the Teuton and the Celt, doesnt that make him, in essence, English? Or, at the very least, Proto-English?

I suspect its only a matter of time before we see photos of him drinking a cup of tea, and being polite to people.

He'd need some Norman in there before the modern English could claim his genetic inheritance as their own. If you include the Romans and the Vikings, I'm afraid poor Mrs Fassbender would have to be fucked all ways by all comers before the English Defence League could adopt him as their poster boy.

This proud island; never invaded.
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Post by: CraveNoir on 15 July, 2012, 02:51:20 PM
They're making a new Batman movie? Why did nobody tell me?
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Post by: SuperSurfer on 15 July, 2012, 03:31:33 PM
The Guardian v Daily Mail. Discuss.




NO DON'T!
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 July, 2012, 03:46:41 PM
Resistance is vital.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 July, 2012, 03:53:05 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 15 July, 2012, 02:41:18 PM
....I'm afraid poor Mrs Fassbender would have to be fucked all ways by all comers before the English Defence League could adopt him as their poster boy.

Or at least win wimbledon
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Post by: Goaty on 15 July, 2012, 07:08:47 PM
LOOK AT SIZE OF THAT CODPIECE!

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Mad-Magazine-338-Judge-Dredd-Frazetta-Cover-Grace-Under-Fire-MTV-Generation-/00/$(KGrHqZ,!jQE2IcVvDWuBNj3jg26w!~~_3.JPG)
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Post by: Frank on 15 July, 2012, 07:22:18 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 15 July, 2012, 03:53:05 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 15 July, 2012, 02:41:18 PM
....I'm afraid poor Mrs Fassbender would have to be fucked all ways by all comers before the English Defence League could adopt him as their poster boy.

Or at least win wimbledon

Arf! Or greet because he didnae win Wimbeldon.
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Post by: Jared Katooie on 15 July, 2012, 07:41:23 PM
I realise your awkward phrasing and eccentric behaviour are due to your neurological disorder, but I still feel entitled to insult you because I find you annoying.
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Post by: exilewood on 15 July, 2012, 09:19:06 PM

You live it up & it brings you down
Tripping traps in your hometown
Blowing holes in eveything you see.
You carve a rose in her memory

Another glass, you're looking through
The bottom drops from under you
The past is set & the future isn't clear
Another round for anyone still here

  CHORUS:
  No one rides for free
  You've got to pay for it
  With love or blood or everything that you have got
  But no one rides for free.


You're a Gun Street girl with dirty knees
Pull your coat tight against the freeze
The factory boys, the dealers & the whores
I don't come down there anymore

You conjured up a rare white dove
That held the card I was thinking of
Then with sleight of hand you made it disappear
Please don't ever lose your demon dear

CHORUS


You fit like a circle in a square
Against an ace you drew a pair
When the show is done there's no encore
A lifetime's all you get & nothing more

You sleep it off, you wake it up
Your head is like an old tin cup,
An old tin cup with a wrecking ball inside
Let's go & blow this whole town open wide

CHORUS

I'm tired of all these valentines
Pretending to be friends of mine
Let's do something that we can't pretend
Isn't going to kill us in the end

I've done it all, it wasn't so tough
Too much is never enough
The more you give, the more you leave behind
The more you take, the less there is to find

CHORUS.

No one rides for free
You've got to pay for it
With love or blood or everything that you have got
But no one rides for free.





















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Post by: Richmond Clements on 15 July, 2012, 10:31:40 PM
I'm watching Resident Evil: Extinction on one of the satellite channels at the moment, and I have literally no clue as to what's happening from scene to scene.
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Post by: Large48 on 15 July, 2012, 10:52:20 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 15 July, 2012, 10:31:40 PM
I'm watching Resident Evil: Extinction on one of the satellite channels at the moment, and I have literally no clue as to what's happening from scene to scene.

From CF, was that on Sky?
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 15 July, 2012, 10:54:01 PM
On Sony, I think..?
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Post by: Proudhuff on 18 July, 2012, 05:09:03 PM
small Hands and smell of cabbage?
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Post by: Spikes on 18 July, 2012, 08:11:41 PM
What became of Fonky?
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Post by: CraveNoir on 18 July, 2012, 08:20:36 PM
They're making a new Spider-Man film? Why did nobody tell me!
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Post by: Link Prime on 18 July, 2012, 09:02:42 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 18 July, 2012, 08:11:41 PM
Brendan1- What became of Fonky's body?

FTFY
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Post by: Hoagy on 19 July, 2012, 07:21:04 AM
These are writers. Yes. And take a great many pains to being so.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 July, 2012, 10:07:23 AM
Picture it, on horseback, taking note of cloud patterns, then the strangest wave flows right under his feat, a moving impression along the body of the canal. It seems to pass undisturbed through objects and other waves...he gives chase. I picture it as a cantor, long before Muybridge, flickering along the canal, a wave of light following a wave of water. Nothing stops it, mile after mile. It neither grows or shrinks, its consistency seemingly aloof to matter.
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Post by: Spaceghost on 19 July, 2012, 11:26:07 AM
There's too much of everything these days. And it's all crap.
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Post by: Hoagy on 19 July, 2012, 12:19:44 PM
My response to your post was sadly lost in the whingeing ether.
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Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 19 July, 2012, 12:36:06 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_m0U4cNOA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_m0U4cNOA)

Confirms on high brow ridge, long lip and conical head.
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Post by: darnmarr on 19 July, 2012, 04:26:21 PM

Oh.
Terrible about the Do-Do, though,
For even though,
there was loads,
the people and the cats and the rats,
They chopped them up,
and ate their eggs
ample
example
ample eggs there was, though,
Now no Do-do though.
As Homer Simpson might say:

"The historically cavalier approach by humans
to the disruction of species and by extension
delicate ecosystems hardly bodes well for a
sustainable future for mankind on this planet.
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Post by: shaolin_monkey on 20 July, 2012, 07:09:08 PM
My brain does not do

Puzzle, anagram, wordsearch

Or bloody haiku
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 July, 2012, 07:28:51 PM
1 and 1 is 2 unless your bloody Kurt Gödel.
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Post by: Frank on 20 July, 2012, 08:58:19 PM
My thoughts are with the small number of Americans who died in a manner that caught the attention of media outlets, rather than the hundreds of civilians who have been and will continue to be needlessly slaughtered every day in Syria, Mexico or Sudan.

All are tragedies, but only one of them will still be making the front pages of the papers this Sunday.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 21 July, 2012, 01:23:37 PM
Correction, that should read...'1 and 1 is 2 unless you are bloody Kurt Gödel.' One glass of wine and my spelling goes out the window. :-[
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Post by: Frank on 21 July, 2012, 05:47:47 PM
Heading out the door this morning and seeing it was looking a bit overcast, I impulsively dug out an army jacket I haven't worn for ages to go with my blue/black jeans and knackered converse. Something bugged me about that decision all day, until I finally remembered this from a few weeks ago:

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/487288_10150945876318461_909793180_n.jpg)


Apparently, I'm a suggestible little prick. Tomorrow, I'm thinking of wearing my leather trousers, kneepads and kevlar vest.

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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 21 July, 2012, 07:14:52 PM
In the 1st episode of The Cursed Earth the strato-pilot Red mentions the great germ war "that followed the atomic war". Does anyone know if (a) this has been explained in the progs? And (B) who will condemn me for posting this in the wrong thread?
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 July, 2012, 08:43:09 PM
I just witnessed an ad for Salad that used Spike Milligan and the Goons as its soundtrack. Using dead people to shill your products is just pure evil. This is proof (if any were needed) that vegetarians are pure evil.
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Post by: vzzbux on 22 July, 2012, 11:30:41 PM
Anyone else seen that fucking arsom advert on TV at the moment. What are your thoughts?



V
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 July, 2012, 11:54:56 PM
The car ad? The wheels are too small
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Post by: TordelBack on 23 July, 2012, 12:08:15 PM
Anyone for the last few choc ices now?
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Post by: Trout on 23 July, 2012, 12:53:45 PM
Part of the difficulty with a free press is that people can criticise it freely, and with no need to justify their inaccurate and mean-spirited complaints.

Those people apparently have no sense of irony.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 23 July, 2012, 07:35:54 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 July, 2012, 12:08:15 PM
Anyone for the last few choc ices now?

Must you bring Irish politics into everything?
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Post by: Dandontdare on 23 July, 2012, 07:38:41 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 July, 2012, 07:35:54 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 July, 2012, 12:08:15 PM
Anyone for the last few choc ices now?

Must you bring Irish politics into everything?

(all together now...)  "oooooooh, Lisdoonvarna...."
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 July, 2012, 07:59:35 PM
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/002/135/sw50sw8sw578.gif)
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Post by: I, Cosh on 23 July, 2012, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 21 July, 2012, 08:43:09 PM
I just witnessed an ad for Salad that used Spike Milligan and the Goons as its soundtrack. Using dead people to shill your products is just pure evil. This is proof (if any were needed) that vegetarians are pure evil.
Unless it's Soylent Green (spoiler.)
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 July, 2012, 08:58:35 AM
19°C / Clear / Wind: E at 21 km/h / Humidity: 60% ....Just a lovely day in Prague...I think I'll go to the beer garden.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 24 July, 2012, 11:21:39 AM
Sissors/running. swans/broken arms? Bloody Nanny state!!
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 July, 2012, 11:48:07 AM
My bloodstained nanny is also in a state of confusion due to a running swan with broken scissors. Small world, huh?
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Post by: Frank on 24 July, 2012, 06:16:17 PM
According to newspaper reports, that guy in the Colorado shootings died his hair orange/red 'to look like The Joker'. This suggests he's either not really a fan of the comics/films, or that he's red/green colour blind (http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp).

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Post by: darnmarr on 24 July, 2012, 10:47:16 PM
Eleven short-stories submitted and only six voters?
That's like... that's like...
I don't know what that's like.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 July, 2012, 02:31:01 AM
There's never any action on this forum at 2.30am.  What's the problem chaps and chapesses, sleepy?  No fade man, NO FADE.
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Post by: darnmarr on 25 July, 2012, 02:38:02 AM
Must. Log. Off.
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 25 July, 2012, 04:11:38 AM
I never sleep, except for when I'm not awake!
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Post by: SuperSurfer on 25 July, 2012, 12:11:54 PM
KOOM SSKRREE!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 25 July, 2012, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 25 July, 2012, 12:11:54 PM
KOOM SSKRREE!

bring it back NOW!
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 July, 2012, 02:29:58 PM
I have a nagging feeling the prediction was largely correct, the Psi was only a little wide of the 'mark'. Worse, I think I know who they were really looking for. :-X
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 26 July, 2012, 01:27:19 AM
Here's my list of everything that was wrong with PROMETHEUS when I went to see it the first time.

..



..

And here's the list of the other thing I thought were crap about it when I saw it the fourth time. It really is dreadful isn't it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 July, 2012, 07:40:38 AM
Ma-Ma Lena Headey files for divorce from her husband!
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Post by: Goaty on 26 July, 2012, 08:00:31 AM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/600093_10150940957476636_1440990230_n.jpg)
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Post by: Goaty on 27 July, 2012, 09:11:28 AM
me-orning!

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292405_10150943468681636_1983679074_n.jpg)
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Post by: Jared Katooie on 27 July, 2012, 07:49:29 PM
BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK!
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Post by: shaolin_monkey on 28 July, 2012, 06:51:29 AM
Thanks for waking me up at 5am kids.  Just what I needed.

On the plus side, Rastamouse is on.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 28 July, 2012, 01:10:51 PM
what kind of person puts cheese in a computer to fix it?
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Post by: Satanist on 28 July, 2012, 03:26:27 PM
I make one joke about killing the homeless and suddenly I'm the bad guy?
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Post by: Proudhuff on 30 July, 2012, 05:05:53 PM
Glasgow? Really? how about outside the FP around midnight?
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 July, 2012, 08:00:20 PM
Those red shorts were 20 years ago :o
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Post by: TordelBack on 30 July, 2012, 08:17:37 PM

There are certain acts to which the Statute of Limitations simply does not apply.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 July, 2012, 10:04:33 PM
If we exist in a multiverse containing universes of all kinds might we be in a universe that is within a multiverse that contains just one universe?
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 July, 2012, 11:45:46 PM
Then technically you couldn't call it a multiverse.

Does a set which contains all sets contain itself?
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Post by: shaolin_monkey on 31 July, 2012, 12:00:55 AM
You say that, but I truly did not understand the term 'running with the pack' until I learned how to control a VT during multiplayer games on Steel Battalion.  Man, those were the days!
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 31 July, 2012, 04:22:31 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 30 July, 2012, 10:04:33 PM
If we exist in a multiverse containing universes of all kinds might we be in a universe that is within a multiverse that contains just one universe?

Quote from: pops1983 on 30 July, 2012, 11:45:46 PM
Then technically you couldn't call it a multiverse.

Does a set which contains all sets contain itself?

I like the way that was put. I'm just trying to think of a way to phrase it. You are right, it wouldn't be a multiverse if it was just the one universe. But I'm trying to think of a way to put forward the idea that the rules radiate in both directions and counter to one and other. That while it may be a multiverse if viewed from the multiverse it may also only be a universe if seen from that universe.

A two-way mirrorverse? In a two-way mirrorverse observers from outside observe us while we can't see them. But the reason we can't see them is not because of light being unable to pass through the mirror - but time, time cannot pass through the mirror from our side. So they are not there, there is no one there from our perspective. While they observe we exist, while we observe they do not.

So/ Q-Does a set which contains all sets contain itself?

A-Yes but never at the same time. When the set contains itself it contains nothing else and when the set contains all other sets it does not contain itself.
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Post by: Spaceghost on 31 July, 2012, 10:12:37 AM
Sausages or bacon. YOU DECIDE.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 31 July, 2012, 11:01:48 AM
Glenryck Pacific Pilchards in Tomato Sauce!  Cheaper, tastier, more filling, and better for you than a packet of crisps.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 31 July, 2012, 03:39:29 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 31 July, 2012, 10:12:37 AM
Sausages or bacon. YOU DECIDE.
Sausages *wrapped* in bacon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 July, 2012, 06:24:45 PM
Ven diagram of sets/meat products please
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 August, 2012, 10:32:17 PM
As far as i can tell, Harry Knowles is still married.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 August, 2012, 11:42:40 AM
Why not S***co?? if there are seven Dredd films
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 August, 2012, 11:56:31 AM
"We put up our tent on a dark
green knoll, outside of town by
the train tracks and a seagull dump
Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel
and her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin'"
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 August, 2012, 12:07:50 PM
And One Eyed Myra, the queen of
the galley who trained the
ostrich and the camels
She looked at me squinty with her
one good eye in a Roy Orbison
T-shirt as she bottle fed
an orangutan named Tripod
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Post by: Spaceghost on 02 August, 2012, 12:27:52 PM
Wearing two different Evangelion t-shirts in a week? OK, I guess I am an anime geek.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 August, 2012, 04:37:38 PM
 Pigs In Satin? Hmmmmmm :angel:
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Post by: Goaty on 03 August, 2012, 06:29:58 PM
I love hiding
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 August, 2012, 07:42:27 PM
My cat just puked up a mouse all inside out and that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2012, 08:34:23 PM
Yap? Room's open.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 August, 2012, 08:36:56 PM
But we'll boot you out  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: >:D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2012, 08:40:04 PM
Then you'll never know The Secret...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 August, 2012, 09:35:49 PM
Good job, Shark. Now EVERYBODY knows there's a secret. The best secrets are the secrets that nobody suspects even exist.[spoiler]*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED*CENSORED[/spoiler] :-X
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Post by: Jared Katooie on 03 August, 2012, 09:53:09 PM
Tony Curtis.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 August, 2012, 10:10:16 PM
Bernard Schwartz. Cary Grant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 August, 2012, 09:33:06 AM
Mega-city signage 'Minimum Speed 250KPH'...So just when did Justice Department switch to metric?...and why wasn't that important development covered in Origins? WHY?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 04 August, 2012, 06:48:03 PM
August Strindberg - Lördagskväll.

Vinden vilar, viken ligger som en spegel,
kvarnen somnar, seglarn tar ner segel.
Oxarne bli släppta ut i gröna hagen,
allting rustar sig till vilodagen.

Morkullsträcket drager över skogen,
drängen spelar dragklavér vid logen,
förstukvisten sopas, gården krattas,
trädgårdssängar vattnas och syrener skattas.

På rabatten ligga barnens dockor
under brokiga tulpaners klockor.
Bolln i gräset lagt sig i skym unnan,
och trumpeten drunknat uti vattentunnan.

Gröna luckor äro redan slutna,
låsen stängda, reglar skjutna,
frun går själv och släcker sista ljuset,
snart i drömmar sover hela huset.

Ljumma juninatten slumrar stilla,
still står gårdens nötta vädervilla,
men i stranden ännu havet gormar;
det är bara dyningar från veckans stormar.
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Post by: Link Prime on 04 August, 2012, 09:27:22 PM
Anyone who speaks German can't be evil.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 August, 2012, 10:42:51 PM
"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
Charles De Gaulle, "Les Mots du General", 1962
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 August, 2012, 10:46:27 PM
I guess you'd have to be crackers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 August, 2012, 03:46:28 PM
fifty pages? WTF!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 August, 2012, 08:34:24 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 August, 2012, 03:46:28 PM
fifty pages? FTW!

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 August, 2012, 10:03:25 PM
Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder. Nobel obtained patents for his invention: in England on May 7, 1867 and in Sweden on October 19, 1867
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jared Katooie on 06 August, 2012, 12:49:24 PM
It's going to be rubbish! RUBBISH!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 August, 2012, 01:29:46 PM
Have YOU counted the number of links in that chain?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 August, 2012, 05:53:44 PM
Fifty Pages of Grey

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 06 August, 2012, 05:59:58 PM
I have wrote a comics which I would be pleased you could read on my blog.  Os took me all afternoon and need a artist to draw it for free seventy 5 pages.  Di you think is good? My thank.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 06 August, 2012, 10:47:39 PM
Reported.




V
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 August, 2012, 11:03:05 PM
Lagos, Nigeria.
Attention: The President/CEO

Dear Sir,

Confidential Business Proposal

Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank.

We are now ready to transfer the fund overseas and that is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as civil servants, we are forbidden to operate a foreign account; that is why we require your assistance. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% for us, 25% for you and 5% for local and international expenses incidental to the transfer.

The transfer is risk free on both sides. I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:

(a) your banker's name, telephone, account and fax numbers.

(b) your private telephone and fax numbers —for confidentiality and easy communication.

(c) your letter-headed paper stamped and signed.

Alternatively we will furnish you with the text of what to type into your letter-headed paper, along with a breakdown explaining, comprehensively what we require of you. The business will take us thirty (30) working days to accomplish.

Please reply urgently.

Best regards
Abdhul Yabhidahbidu Mohammed

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 07 August, 2012, 12:55:44 AM
It wasn't right:the way it looked,
It wasn't right:the way it felt,
It's wrong- the way they got me hooked,
It's wrong: the hand that I've been dealt.
If you dig deep and see what's what-
We're all the just what, we all just got.
or have been given, 'relse we took,
an' after that,- who give's a

monkeys.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 07 August, 2012, 02:25:54 AM
Quote from: pops1983 on 06 August, 2012, 11:03:05 PM
Lagos, Nigeria.
Attention: The President/CEO

Dear Sir,

Confidential Business Proposal

Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank.

We are now ready to transfer the fund overseas and that is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as civil servants, we are forbidden to operate a foreign account; that is why we require your assistance. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% for us, 25% for you and 5% for local and international expenses incidental to the transfer.

The transfer is risk free on both sides. I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:

(a) your banker's name, telephone, account and fax numbers.

(b) your private telephone and fax numbers —for confidentiality and easy communication.

(c) your letter-headed paper stamped and signed.

Alternatively we will furnish you with the text of what to type into your letter-headed paper, along with a breakdown explaining, comprehensively what we require of you. The business will take us thirty (30) working days to accomplish.

Please reply urgently.

Best regards
Abdhul Yabhidahbidu Mohammed

(http://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300/f/facejacker_3.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 07 August, 2012, 11:35:55 AM
Curiously, this thread has slightly more literary merit that fifty shades, and roughly the same level of sadomasochism. Holy Moses!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 August, 2012, 02:33:41 PM
Nerds is geeks! - Fact!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 07 August, 2012, 07:09:03 PM
Oh Morrissey...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 07 August, 2012, 07:14:11 PM
Oh Carolina
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 07 August, 2012, 07:15:48 PM
Oh meh Goad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 07 August, 2012, 07:32:01 PM
Oklahoma.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 07 August, 2012, 08:14:00 PM
OFFS




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 August, 2012, 08:14:40 PM
Oh Canada, our proud and native land
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 07 August, 2012, 08:53:15 PM
OT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 August, 2012, 09:40:47 PM
...you are lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 August, 2012, 09:58:23 PM
Cycling isn't a real sport, though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 07 August, 2012, 10:03:58 PM
Darts should be in the Olympics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 August, 2012, 10:07:56 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 07 August, 2012, 10:03:58 PM
Darts should be in the Olympics.

Let everyone competing in the javelin have a pint in-between throws and you're halfway there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 08 August, 2012, 10:32:45 AM
I'd love for someone to come over and [spoiler]clean[/spoiler] my [spoiler]house[/spoiler]. It's quite big and needs a lot of attention.

You could get on all fours and [spoiler]scrub[/spoiler] my [spoiler]floor[/spoiler], then you could empty my bulging [spoiler]binbags[/spoiler] all over your [spoiler]weekend[/spoiler].

The thought of you rubbing the shaft of my big dirty [spoiler]lamp[/spoiler] is already making me feel really [spoiler]clean[/spoiler].

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 August, 2012, 01:33:19 PM
racist!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 08 August, 2012, 01:34:22 PM
Bigamist!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 August, 2012, 01:44:10 PM
sizeist
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 08 August, 2012, 01:52:06 PM
Cleanist!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 August, 2012, 04:09:28 PM
Fontist
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 August, 2012, 04:18:52 PM
*signing something*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 August, 2012, 06:25:17 PM
Bumyoung Lee (http://www.london2012.com/athlete/lee-bumyoung-1084229/events)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 August, 2012, 06:38:18 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 August, 2012, 04:09:28 PM
Fontist

Who, me?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 08 August, 2012, 08:58:59 PM
Philanthropist.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 08 August, 2012, 09:12:22 PM
mist
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 August, 2012, 09:19:20 PM
Dentist
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 August, 2012, 08:49:58 PM
The Olympics cost 15 Billion? You could have sent SIX robots to Mars. Then alongside Curiosity, there would be SEVEN ROBOTS ON MARS LIKE IN THE COMICS
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 14 August, 2012, 12:33:33 PM
That's some really dodgy photoshopping in that poster. The layers are all over the place and just look what they did with the filters.  And the original artist has his apexes all wrong.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2012, 01:44:48 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 13 August, 2012, 08:49:58 PM
The Olympics cost 15 Billion? You could have sent SIX robots to Mars. Then alongside Curiosity, there would be SEVEN ROBOTS ON MARS LIKE IN THE COMICS

Vogist
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 August, 2012, 02:20:12 PM
Wo bist...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2012, 04:50:14 PM
sorry, Volgist  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 14 August, 2012, 09:16:32 PM
Christ... :angel:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 August, 2012, 10:27:05 PM
Why is it always fat bastards who win the fucking Euro millions?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 14 August, 2012, 11:12:07 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 14 August, 2012, 12:33:33 PM
That's some really dodgy photoshopping in that poster. The layers are all over the place and just look what they did with the filters.  And the original artist has his apexes all wrong.
apices
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 August, 2012, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 14 August, 2012, 11:12:07 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 14 August, 2012, 12:33:33 PM
That's some really dodgy photoshopping in that poster. The layers are all over the place and just look what they did with the filters.  And the original artist has his apexes all wrong.
apices

Apiarist. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 14 August, 2012, 11:35:57 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 August, 2012, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 14 August, 2012, 11:12:07 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 14 August, 2012, 12:33:33 PM
That's some really dodgy photoshopping in that poster. The layers are all over the place and just look what they did with the filters.  And the original artist has his apexes all wrong.
apices
Apiarist.
Be pure. Be vigilant. Bee hive.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2012, 10:29:40 AM
I never believed that about Sherlock Holmes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 August, 2012, 10:32:55 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2012, 10:29:40 AM
I never beelieved that about Sherlock Holmes.

FTFY

(Momentarily serious: if you haven't, you should read The Final Solution, Michael Chabon's brilliant novella of Holmes' really-really-we-mean-it-this-time last case.  And bee-keeping.).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2012, 10:37:11 AM
buzz off
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 August, 2012, 11:29:53 AM
Don't bee like that, honey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2012, 12:39:26 PM
The Final Solution, does that have a sting in the tail?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 August, 2012, 07:25:08 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2012, 12:39:26 PM
The Final Solution, does that have a sting in the tail?

The Jews suffer a catastrophic colony collapse.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 August, 2012, 08:27:00 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2012, 12:39:26 PM
The Final Solution, does that have a sting in the tail?

Turns out Johnny was [spoiler]just hibernating.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 August, 2012, 09:26:11 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 August, 2012, 08:27:00 PM
Turns out Johnny was [spoiler]just hibernating.[/spoiler]

Only bumble bees hibernate. That explains the symbolism of Johnny wearing that stripey top.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: James Stacey on 15 August, 2012, 10:03:16 PM
I'm pretty sure tortoises hibernate too. Blue Peter taught me that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 16 August, 2012, 08:58:16 PM
Where are all the giant pussycats? Eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 16 August, 2012, 09:58:05 PM
MUTANT BUTTERFLIES!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 16 August, 2012, 10:37:48 PM
your dishwasher looks hot!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 August, 2012, 08:47:37 AM
That's no dishwasher, that's my wife.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 August, 2012, 10:43:54 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 August, 2012, 08:47:37 AM
That's no dishwasher, that's my wife.

Tautology.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 August, 2012, 10:58:28 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 August, 2012, 10:43:54 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 August, 2012, 08:47:37 AM
That's no dishwasher, that's my wife.

Tautology.

*googles definition of tautology...........*

Yes, that was my point.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 August, 2012, 03:55:06 PM
What the hell is A Clockwork Orange about??
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 August, 2012, 03:58:13 PM
It's about 137 minutes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 August, 2012, 04:18:26 PM
Damn, beat me to the obvious gag!

To answer your question, my droog, it's about a banda of lewdies and their horrorshow antics in search of ultraviolence and golly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 August, 2012, 08:15:52 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 August, 2012, 04:18:26 PM
To answer your question, my droog, it's about a banda of lewdies and their horrorshow antics in search of ultraviolence and golly.

That makes it sound like Chateau Thulin-Hopper on a schoolnight.  "Lovely lovely Small Blue T".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 17 August, 2012, 09:20:20 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 August, 2012, 10:58:28 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 August, 2012, 10:43:54 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 August, 2012, 08:47:37 AM
That's no dishwasher, that's my wife.

Tautology.

*googles definition of tautology...........*

Yes, that was my point.

*googles definition of google...........*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 18 August, 2012, 02:45:06 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 August, 2012, 03:58:13 PM
It's about 137 minutes.

Oh you drooog you  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 August, 2012, 09:51:34 AM
I was told I had been stung by a 'Medusa' jelly-fish...only later I recalled, while inebriated, I burned my leg on a lightbulb over the harbour wall.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 August, 2012, 11:24:40 AM

Quote from: BOODA on 18 August, 2012, 09:51:34 AM
I was told I had been stung by a 'Medusa' jelly-fish...only later I recalled, while inebriated, I burned my leg on a lightbulb over the harbour wall.


(http://www.schamper.ugent.be/files/imagecache/regulier/images/Rowley%20Birkin%20QC.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 August, 2012, 06:23:12 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 18 August, 2012, 11:24:40 AM

Quote from: BOODA on 18 August, 2012, 09:51:34 AM
I was told I had been stung by a 'Medusa' jelly-fish...only later I recalled, while inebriated, I burned my leg on a lightbulb over the harbour wall.


(http://www.schamper.ugent.be/files/imagecache/regulier/images/Rowley%20Birkin%20QC.jpg)

Fayy, ah, saway...you see, I was very, very drunk!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 August, 2012, 10:24:47 AM
"What we have in common is impudence, politically loaded lyrics, the importance of feminist discourse and a non-standard female image."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=CZUhkWiiv7M&NR=1
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 August, 2012, 01:08:01 PM

(http://www.backstreet-merch.com/images/products/bands/clothing/psyrt/bsi_psyrt02.gif)

http://www.backstreet-merch.com/stores/nme/product.asp?item=PSYRT02 (http://www.backstreet-merch.com/stores/nme/product.asp?item=PSYRT02)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 August, 2012, 08:36:52 AM
Save The Threadjacking – Sign our Petitions
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Threadjacks are Disappearing from the Mekong River.


Consider leaving a legacy to Save The Threadjack by making them a beneficiary of your pension plan, annuity, IRA, will, or insurance policy. You will help our efforts to educate the public with our outreach programs, teaching adults and children about the dangers facing Threadjacks and Threadjackings and how they can help.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 23 August, 2012, 10:10:33 AM
This thread has hit an all time low, I am looking at you.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 August, 2012, 11:54:14 AM
It seemed so right at the time...I'll get my coach.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 August, 2012, 12:58:11 PM
As to whether it's legitimate threadjacking, well threads have ways to, y'know, shut these things down.


(Ugh, I can't even make a weak joke about that man without feeling physically ill). 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 August, 2012, 01:23:05 PM
Jerry Sadowitz is a CIA spy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 August, 2012, 02:26:29 PM
BIG DECISION TO DO! MMmmmmmm  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 23 August, 2012, 02:30:47 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 August, 2012, 02:26:29 PM
BIG DECISION TO DO! MMmmmmmm  :-\
Yes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 August, 2012, 03:47:00 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 23 August, 2012, 02:30:47 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 August, 2012, 02:26:29 PM
BIG DECISION TO DO! MMmmmmmm  :-\
Yes.

Yep, very still stuck on it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 23 August, 2012, 05:55:24 PM
I had a nice day out today, that is all :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 August, 2012, 08:10:37 PM
One fly meets another fly buzzing around some dog shit. The first fly says to the second fly:

'Haven't seen you in a while. Where have you been?'

Second fly answers:

'I've been on the sick'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 August, 2012, 08:58:04 PM
I live in Scotland; if I really wanted to see a pished ginger cunt naked, I could just hit the local clubs and start buying rounds. Why do the photo editors of every major newspaper think such a sight holds any interest for me?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 August, 2012, 08:58:38 PM
John Wagner knew called me Goaty on Facebook, he knew me!

And Alex Garland likes me!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 August, 2012, 10:48:05 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 23 August, 2012, 08:10:37 PM
One fly meets another fly buzzing around some dog shit. The first fly says to the second fly:

'Haven't seen you in a while. Where have you been?'

Second fly answers:

'I've been on the sick'

Good old boy welcomes a city ambassador, they walk, they talk and as they do they pass a mound of rabbit droppings. City ambassador (aka city-slicker) says 'Now what might they be?' to which good old boy (aka Hill-Billy aka Jay) says 'Why thems SMART-PILLS'. So city slicker grabs a handful of SMART-PILLS and swallows them down. With a sour expression he exclaims 'They taste like shit!' to which hill-billy (aka Jay aka Bumpkin) responds 'Now, you see ...You're getting SMARTER already'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 August, 2012, 11:00:22 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 23 August, 2012, 08:58:04 PM
I live in Scotland; if I really wanted to see a pished ginger cunt naked, I could just hit the local clubs and start buying rounds. Why do the photo editors of every major newspaper think such a sight holds any interest for me?
:D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 August, 2012, 07:48:29 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 August, 2012, 12:58:11 PM
As to whether it's legitimate threadjacking, well threads have ways to, y'know, shut these things down.


(Ugh, I can't even make a weak joke about that man without feeling physically ill).

I know...awful. Just think, this is his public voice, what does he say behind closed doors? Politicians like that always make me think of this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmTp9up26w
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 August, 2012, 05:19:57 PM
On train to London, but in First Class! :-)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 August, 2012, 05:21:31 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 24 August, 2012, 05:19:57 PM
On train to London, but in First Class! :-)

Fame has changed you, Goaty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 August, 2012, 07:42:07 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 24 August, 2012, 05:21:31 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 24 August, 2012, 05:19:57 PM
On train to London, but in First Class! :-)

Fame has changed you, Goaty.

It's Lord Goaty!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 August, 2012, 10:27:17 PM
HAIL THE GOAT

(http://www.nectuk.org/USERIMAGES/billy-goat.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: exilewood on 24 August, 2012, 10:54:29 PM
Now would be a time to do a "Hail the Goatse" - but there lies Godpleton-like oblivion.

FREE THE GODPLETON!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 August, 2012, 11:03:34 PM
Quote from: exilewood on 24 August, 2012, 10:54:29 PM
FREE THE GODPLETON!

We are all Roger Godpleton.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DrRocka on 24 August, 2012, 11:09:21 PM
Quote from: exilewood on 24 August, 2012, 10:54:29 PM

FREE THE GODPLETON!

....Don't start all that sh1t again. I'm STILL waiting for the Free Chopper to arrive that was promised on the cover of Prog 545.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 August, 2012, 12:12:16 AM
Quote from: pops1983 on 24 August, 2012, 10:27:17 PM
HAIL THE GOAT

(http://www.nectuk.org/USERIMAGES/billy-goat.jpg)

Now you must tell me where you found photo of me on my relaxing day!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 August, 2012, 05:40:34 PM
When was the last time you can remember more than a few hours passing here when COMMANDO FORCES wasn't baiting Pete Wells or JOE SOAP wasn't telling someone they were talking shite? Molch-R was frantically trying to contact radiator yesterday, and Goaty posted last night that he was travelling first class to London.

Lucky, lucky, lucky bastards.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 25 August, 2012, 05:44:15 PM
Careful.  That's Lord Goaty and Senior Street Judge Burdis now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 August, 2012, 06:14:35 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 25 August, 2012, 05:40:34 PM
When was the last time you can remember more than a few hours passing here when COMMANDO FORCES wasn't baiting Pete Wells or JOE SOAP wasn't telling someone they were talking shite? Molch-R was frantically trying to contact radiator yesterday, and Goaty posted last night that he was travelling first class to London.

Lucky, lucky, lucky bastards.

Don't know what you means? Trip to London this weekend was months plans cos of my friend's baby christening.

And it's Lord Goaty!



P.s it was £20 extra in first class advancing!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 25 August, 2012, 07:19:01 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 25 August, 2012, 06:14:35 PM
Don't know what you means? Trip to London this weekend was months plans cos of my friend's baby christening.
P.s it was £20 extra in first class advancing!
Great alibi! I will hang around to photograph the lot of you mincing up the red carpet.
:P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 August, 2012, 07:22:44 PM
Quote from: WhitBloke on 25 August, 2012, 05:44:15 PM
Careful.  That's Lord Goaty and Senior Street Judge Burdis now.

I suppose Lord Goaty can just change his forum name himself, but Senior Street Judge Burdis will have to fork out for a new badge from Planet Replicas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 25 August, 2012, 10:07:02 PM
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 26 August, 2012, 09:59:37 AM
Pleased to see Dredd and Death had a cameo (possibly repeat appearances) on The It Crowd.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 26 August, 2012, 02:18:34 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 26 August, 2012, 09:59:37 AM
Pleased to see Dredd and Death had a cameo (possibly repeat appearances) on The It Crowd.

There is a thread for this kind of spot somewhere (I think).




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 August, 2012, 02:36:43 PM
I watched the second half of a film on the net last and it was okay. I forget it's name!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DrRocka on 26 August, 2012, 02:59:10 PM
Do this look like it's cooked properly to you?

I'd best give it ten more minutes just to be sure...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 August, 2012, 03:40:04 PM
Quote from: DrRocka on 26 August, 2012, 02:59:10 PM
Do this look like it's cooked properly to you? I'd best give it ten more minutes just to be sure...

If juices are beginning to flow from the anus, I think you're ready, Doc. You don't want what you've already packed in there to become hard and dry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 August, 2012, 06:05:45 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 August, 2012, 02:36:43 PM
I watched the second half of a film on the net last and it was okay. I forget it's name!
I saw that too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 August, 2012, 03:22:29 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 27 August, 2012, 06:05:45 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 August, 2012, 02:36:43 PM
I watched the second half of a film on the net last and it was okay. I forget it's name!
I saw that too.

i missed the second half but saw the first, what happened to the guy?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 27 August, 2012, 03:45:30 PM
Is that the thing with him out if that other film in it? You know - him that's married to that woman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 August, 2012, 03:56:59 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 27 August, 2012, 03:22:29 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 27 August, 2012, 06:05:45 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 August, 2012, 02:36:43 PM
I watched the second half of a film on the net last and it was okay. I forget it's name!
I saw that too.

i missed the second half but saw the first, what happened to the guy?

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 27 August, 2012, 03:45:30 PM
Is that the thing with him out if that other film in it? You know - him that's married to that woman.

What happened? Well, in the end, it was just a sledge or something.

...And yes, that's the man, but I think you are thinking of a different woman, they've never been married.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 August, 2012, 04:40:33 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 27 August, 2012, 03:56:59 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 27 August, 2012, 03:22:29 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 27 August, 2012, 06:05:45 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 August, 2012, 02:36:43 PM
I watched the second half of a film on the net last and it was okay. I forget it's name!
I saw that too.

i missed the second half but saw the first, what happened to the guy?

Quote from: Richmond Clements on 27 August, 2012, 03:45:30 PM
Is that the thing with him out if that other film in it? You know - him that's married to that woman.

What happened? Well, in the end, it was just a sledge or something.

...And yes, that's the man, but I think you are thinking of a different woman, they've never been married.

they went out, she was just a beard!!  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 August, 2012, 10:57:53 PM
This is taking the pish. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19390785 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19390785)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 August, 2012, 11:07:50 PM
LIES AND BULLSHIT

Men have been peeing standing up since before living memory. Evolution has not given us the right sort of plumbing to pee sitting down.

Same goes for shitting, we evolved to hunker down to take a shit, not sit upright. Our colons aren't aligned rightways for sitting and shitting, these sitting down toilets are fairly new fangled having only been in wide use for about a century.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 August, 2012, 11:22:07 AM
47p, can you believe that?  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 August, 2012, 11:39:19 AM
I got boner.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 28 August, 2012, 11:57:20 AM
No, no, no, no, no, NO, No, no, no, no, no, No-no-no-no-no, No.... No.  No.  No.  No, no. No. No.  NO!  NO!  NO!  No.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 28 August, 2012, 01:42:26 PM
I done wrote this for y'all:
Well...Once you were tender
but you soon got tough
right then I knew
we wuz through
You chewed up ma chitlins
Spat'em  out on the floor
left me nothing
but cleaning to do


See, you're over easy
But I'm sunny-side down
since you left me
to cool overnight
I been battered and blackened
And here I am found.
at the edge
Of the steely cold light.

Losing your love
is like scraping
the dirty black grits
from an old frying pan

Losing your love
oh losing your love

Losing your Love
Is like breaking
A piece of black toast
Into bits with your hands.

Losing your lo-ove
oh, losing your love

I called you 'my honey'
called you 'my sweet',
'the apple that
gladdened my eye'
But your love was rotten
and just for a treat
you served me up
burned humble pie

I gave all I could
and it took all I got
just to keep up with
your appetites
Now I'm broken and empty
you've left me alone
- in ma tears -
For to soak overnight.

Losing your love
is like scraping
the dirty black bits
from an old frying pan

Losing your love
oh losing your love

Losin' your love,
  is like grating,
a piece of black coal,
on a burnt Cherry-Flan.

Losing your love
oh losing your love

Oh it may sound abrasive,
But you scraped me right through,
Like the side of some
   Ol' Billy-can.

you fought stubborn with caustic
until you gone done
  wore a hole
in the heart of this man.

Losing your love
is like scraping
the dirty black grits
from an old frying pan

Losing your love
oh losing your love

Losing your Love
Is like breaking
A piece of black toast
Into bits with your hands.

Losing your lo-ove
oh, losing your love.

Losin' your love,
  is like grating,
a piece of black coal,
on a burnt Cherry-Flan.

Losing your lo-ove
oh, losing your love...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 28 August, 2012, 06:17:05 PM
I'm going to the Dredd screening in London on Thursday! But, what if the other boarders don't like me? What if they won't talk to me?

I'd better dress like a total slut to ensure I get their attention.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2012, 06:30:57 PM
I always dress like a total slut
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 August, 2012, 07:49:23 PM
 :D No way! Seems there's a new Dredd movie coming out!  :lol: I hope it's better than the la...

I can't go through with it, I just can't do it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 August, 2012, 07:50:39 PM
Is something happening this Thursday?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 30 August, 2012, 12:29:03 PM
Why haven't we got a retcon button?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2012, 12:39:22 PM
I'm on the train
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 30 August, 2012, 12:45:00 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2012, 12:39:22 PM
I'm on the train
That's great, mate. Mind if I retweet that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 30 August, 2012, 12:51:04 PM
I'm at work.  There's a power cut. You'd think it was the end of days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 August, 2012, 01:05:32 PM
I've got nothing to say, just thought I should say.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 30 August, 2012, 01:38:16 PM
I disagree.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 01:57:28 PM
Is it too early for bottle of wine on train?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 03:39:21 PM
Should I go met people and watch the screening?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2012, 03:58:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 03:39:21 PM
Should I go met people and watch the screening?

You're the reason they are there! You have been touched by the hand of Alex and will be sacrificed Wickerman-like in a gaint Judge Giant outside the cinema, you have to go, but of your own accord...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 04:15:28 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2012, 03:58:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 03:39:21 PM
Should I go met people and watch the screening?

You're the reason they are there! You have been touched by the hand of Alex and will be sacrificed Wickerman-like in a gaint Judge Giant outside the cinema, you have to go, but of your own accord...

Should I get Judge as bodyguard?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2012, 04:18:13 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 04:15:28 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2012, 03:58:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 30 August, 2012, 03:39:21 PM
Should I go met people and watch the screening?

You're the reason they are there! You have been touched by the hand of Alex and will be sacrificed Wickerman-like in a gaint Judge Giant outside the cinema, you have to go, but of your own accord...

Should I get Judge as bodyguard?

That Judge Burdis is in on it watch 'im  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 August, 2012, 05:07:17 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 30 August, 2012, 01:38:16 PM
I disagree.
You're wrong, I really don't, honest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 31 August, 2012, 11:23:58 PM
More tea vicar?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 31 August, 2012, 11:35:51 PM
If the internet offers you something for free, you're the product not the customer.

(I'm looking at you, facebook people!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 01 September, 2012, 12:38:37 AM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 31 August, 2012, 11:23:58 PM
More tea vicar?
No thanks it makes me fart, but i'll have that fuck off cream bun.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 01 September, 2012, 12:55:07 AM
I've seen DREDD  3D.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 01 September, 2012, 03:16:59 AM
I've been to paradise!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DrRocka on 01 September, 2012, 03:23:39 AM
Is it supposed to do this? Or should I just stop scratching it, pop it in my wallet, and hope the congregation don't notice?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 September, 2012, 10:25:07 AM
Zay belong here, Mozambique.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 September, 2012, 10:55:57 AM
I dreamt about this thread last night.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 September, 2012, 11:34:50 AM
I know what you're thinking, you're thinking: Pops you handsome genius, trolls are a scourge upon the internet, how do we deal with them?

'Well,' I might reply, 'we don't.'

'I was too busy drowning in your dreamy eyes,' you might respond, 'did I hear you right?'

'Well the thing about trolls is,' I might say 'they're not interested in dialogue or debate, merely winding people and getting a response. It's like a game to them. The only way to win, is to not play.'

'You're so wise,' you might concede, 'your logic is as solid as your jawline. But sometimes these trolls get me so wound up I just HAVE to give them a good telling off'

'The thing is,' I might continue, 'It doesn't matter how witty, incisive, clever or devasting any response to a troll might be; the minute you click post, the second your well wrought response is sent down the magical tubes to internet land, you've lost.'

'But what if I said-'

'Nope you've lost'

'Even if I-'

'LOST'

'But I could-'

'LOSER'

And at this point I would realise I'm being too hard on you, it's difficult to think straight in the presence of a fine specimen such as my self so I would continue:
'The thing to remember is: they're trying to bait you.' I would ululate, 'Sometime's trollings a art'

And then you might swoon and offer to bake me a cake
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 September, 2012, 11:44:08 AM
First!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 September, 2012, 11:49:32 AM
Quote from: pops1983 on 01 September, 2012, 11:34:50 AM
Pops you handsome genius



I was too busy drowning in your dreamy eyes,' you might respond



Your logic is as solid as your jawline




it's difficult to think straight in the presence of a fine specimen such as my self


And then you might swoon

And yet, going by your photo, your quite ugly looking. As ugly looking as that new Dredd film, and thats saying summat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 September, 2012, 12:28:51 PM
Dang, he didnt respond. He's good at this, int he.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 01 September, 2012, 02:27:24 PM
CAPSLOCK EMPHASISES MY IMPORTANCE.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 September, 2012, 03:53:25 AM
I think somebody's been drinkin'.....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 02 September, 2012, 10:37:14 AM
I'm entitled to my own opinion. Provided its just to encourage the persecution of minorities.  If its on movies I haven't seen, that makes me a prick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 September, 2012, 10:39:54 AM
Quote from: Temponaut on 02 September, 2012, 10:37:14 AM
I'm entitled to my own opinion. Provided its just to encourage the persecution of minorities.  If its on movies I haven't seen, that makes me a prick.

Temponaut the Smighty? (as in to 'smote')
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 02 September, 2012, 11:24:33 AM
co-incidentally, same first name, but I actually enjoy heroes and CGI.

Although, I may have t-shirts made: Temponaut the Smighty (as in to smote)!










Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 September, 2012, 12:35:59 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 02 September, 2012, 11:24:33 AM
co-incidentally, same first name, but I actually enjoy heroes and CGI.

Although, I may have t-shirts made: Temponaut the Smighty (as in to smote)!
Well I want all of that, the CGI, the heroes - and I'll buy the T-shirt!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 02 September, 2012, 04:59:52 PM
Temponaut- I don't believe you. Yeah, I'm callin' you out, sucka! IF your name is really "Gavin", that would make THREE GAVINS hereabouts- he of the block, he of the shite, and you. And there cannot possibly be three Gavins, as I have never met a single Gavin in real life. Oh, wait, yes I have, he was mad and carried a sword and looked like Jimi hendrix. But other than him in 42 YEARS I have met NO GAVINS. Therefore, the odds against THREE GAVINS being here on this tiny board are extreme. So yes, there you go.

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 September, 2012, 05:40:22 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 02 September, 2012, 04:59:52 PM
Temponaut- I don't believe you. Yeah, I'm callin' you out, sucka! IF your name is really "Gavin", that would make THREE GAVINS hereabouts- he of the block, he of the shite, and you. And there cannot possibly be three Gavins, as I have never met a single Gavin in real life. Oh, wait, yes I have, he was mad and carried a sword and looked like Jimi hendrix. But other than him in 42 YEARS I have met NO GAVINS. Therefore, the odds against THREE GAVINS being here on this tiny board are extreme. So yes, there you go.

SBT

HERE BE GAVINS
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 September, 2012, 06:29:42 PM
This forum isn't as good as it was in the 80s. Nobody argued on the internet back in them days
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 02 September, 2012, 10:08:01 PM
I've just seen a trailer of a film and I think it is totally shit, nothing has gone into the production, the CGI may be full on and shit, the rating is well off even though I don't know what it is. Fuck all you who think otherwise and don't call me a troll.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 September, 2012, 07:56:57 AM
This forum isn't as good as it was in Pompeii in the 80s BCE...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIpkNVL1JNQ&feature=related
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 03 September, 2012, 08:07:55 PM
According to US census data, Gavin was the 36th most common male name in the states in 2011, accounting for 0.45% of births.  This is up from being 452nd of the overall population. We are growing in number and will eventually take over the world.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 September, 2012, 02:53:57 PM
What is Dredd 2D about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 04 September, 2012, 03:12:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 04 September, 2012, 02:53:57 PM
What is Dredd 2D about?

It's the prequel to Dredd 3D.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 September, 2012, 04:58:06 PM
AICN trolls need to be headbutted by Dredd!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 04 September, 2012, 05:31:03 PM
Ha!Ha!--they're gonna look stoopid soon :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 September, 2012, 07:58:51 AM
The case of the 'Luminous Woman of Pirano' is covered in The Lancet. (Progs passim)
http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(00)43351-9/fulltext
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 September, 2012, 11:28:52 AM
very small hands and smelly of cabage...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 September, 2012, 11:34:11 AM
Why there is lots of sex in Emmerdale?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 September, 2012, 01:15:36 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 05 September, 2012, 11:34:11 AM
Why there is lots of sex in Emmerdale?

nay nay Mr Wilks
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 September, 2012, 01:20:19 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 05 September, 2012, 11:34:11 AM
Why there is lots of sex in Emmerdale?

Farmers would call it 'Animal Husbandry'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 September, 2012, 01:21:44 PM
It was Emerdale farm last time I checked.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 05 September, 2012, 01:26:53 PM
They discuss this in an episode of 'Bottom', concluding that, as it takes less time to read, 'they can fit more story in'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 September, 2012, 01:56:44 PM
Thing I've always wondered about Emmerdale Farm - Which one is Snowball?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 September, 2012, 09:40:19 PM
Too on topic here. My fault.

Did you see the size of those jugs the other day. Wonderful.
















(http://www.hand-made.co.za/sites/hand-made.co.za/files/images/handmade-ceramic-jugs.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 September, 2012, 09:48:57 PM
Hey, nice jugs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 September, 2012, 09:49:23 PM
That's a really nice set of jugs.

Look at this this great pair

(http://whatscookingmexico.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/pear.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 05 September, 2012, 09:55:35 PM
Not bad , but look at the arse in this pic  :o






(http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af68/strontium71/3r3.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 06 September, 2012, 01:19:31 PM
I'm shocked at such jugism, fruitism and ar_ism on these boards. Now iBm off to read the daily sport with hot stories and hooter ladies.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 September, 2012, 01:28:06 PM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6EvQZSKo9SE/UCBwbjZ8qNI/AAAAAAAABGw/yazUgLFf3Yg/s1600/LenaHeadey(DoubleFinger).jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 September, 2012, 03:16:10 PM
I love Jock!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 September, 2012, 03:16:34 PM
OH NO!!!!

THERE'S A NEW ADAM SANDLER MOVIE OUT!!!!

DREDD DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST IT!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 September, 2012, 08:34:03 PM
Wrong. Adam Sandler IS the new Dredd. The Urban clips and posters were a red herring.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 September, 2012, 08:45:46 PM
It wasn't always this way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ldVj34Sfo
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 06 September, 2012, 10:39:30 PM
When I eat jam with pips in it, sometimes a pip will fit neatly into a pip-shaped tooth cavity I've developed. It's difficult to extricate said pip, when this occurs. Feels weird. Can't focus. One chance ... tooth-pick!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 September, 2012, 08:58:48 AM
What? there is a film about Judge Dredd out today?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: atp on 07 September, 2012, 03:33:17 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 07 September, 2012, 08:58:48 AM
What? there is a film about Judge Dredd out today?
Bollocks, gotta wait till end Oct to see that thar Dredd mooovie. where's my drokking Lawgiver, gonna shoot the pigging munt that said moving (temporarily) to aus would be a good funting idea.  ' GRUD for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
ENJOY,ENJOY,ENJOY. The movie.
By the way, I thought threadjacking was nicking the cotton from my Mum's singer, to stop her sowing up me Tesco bombers, again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 September, 2012, 04:58:45 PM
You know the problem with this forum? There just aren't enough separate threads about the Dredd movie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 September, 2012, 05:34:29 PM
The Sweeny reboot? big but not clever
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 07 September, 2012, 05:40:34 PM
Oh, no.  That's it.  I'm getting pissed and falling asleep in front of the original series.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 September, 2012, 06:41:59 PM
On train to Nottingham, on laptop, paid £2.50 for two hours wifi, bottle of wine,

AND NO FUCKING DREDD 3D DVD to watch! Gotta to wait till 2013!  >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 September, 2012, 12:31:04 PM
My Name is Judge 100 Years, some people call me Judge Dread...RudeBoy - Prince Buster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4F7mYFw24
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 08 September, 2012, 03:22:44 PM
HUSH OP!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 09 September, 2012, 11:38:04 AM
Where's Modpleton?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: GordyM on 09 September, 2012, 11:40:18 AM
My bum's itchy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 09 September, 2012, 12:18:36 PM
I'm just not scratching.
Title: Re: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Martin Jameson on 10 September, 2012, 11:01:12 AM
So, what time's dinner?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 September, 2012, 11:53:20 AM
Wotcha mean Oi!Oi!Oi!? I said silence in court! One hundred Years!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 10 September, 2012, 12:17:52 PM
Will you lot stop fidgeting!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 10 September, 2012, 12:19:26 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 09 September, 2012, 11:38:04 AM
Where's Modpleton?

He's behind you!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 September, 2012, 03:57:24 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 10 September, 2012, 12:19:26 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 09 September, 2012, 11:38:04 AM
Where's Modpleton?

He's behind your're mother!

Ftfy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 10 September, 2012, 05:47:27 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 10 September, 2012, 03:57:24 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 10 September, 2012, 12:19:26 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 09 September, 2012, 11:38:04 AM
Where's Modpleton?

He's behind your're mother!

Ftfy


Oh no he isn't. Has he been banned?
Again. :-*

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 10 September, 2012, 07:17:02 PM
Anyone seeking knowledge of the field of the cloth of gold should click here with urgency, now! go NOW!...http://www.alectouk.com/The%20Field%20of%20the%20Cloth%20of%20Gold%20(2).htm
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 September, 2012, 10:20:01 PM
Found a tenner today. Nice, that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 September, 2012, 11:53:07 PM
Lost ten quid, damn. If anyone sees it, geez a shout. BTW There's a ten pound reward for the finder.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 September, 2012, 12:14:46 AM
The one i found was all wet, but it dried out nicely. That sound like yours?
If so, thanks for the reward,  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 September, 2012, 07:39:32 AM
Your welcome, I'm just so relieved it's been found.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 September, 2012, 01:15:26 PM
shoulder or Tote? you decide
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 September, 2012, 02:15:52 PM
Death, indeed, Lives!...my (circa 1982/3) candle has turned up in a cupboard in mint condition!...truly one cannot kill what does not live...even if it's wax.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 September, 2012, 04:27:33 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 13 September, 2012, 01:15:26 PM
shoulder or Tote? you decide

No contest. Sherpa all the way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 September, 2012, 04:28:04 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 13 September, 2012, 07:39:32 AM
Your welcome, I'm just so relieved it's been found.

..and, now spent. On Prog 1800, and twenty fags. Blimey, the rising cost of living, eh!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 13 September, 2012, 05:22:43 PM
"If you lot think it's so easy then why don't you go and start your own religion?!"

- JC
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 September, 2012, 05:49:56 PM
Ok damn it I will and no walking on water for me, I'll captain a boat!
LRH
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 September, 2012, 07:44:06 PM
Why are freaking huge belt-fed rotary machine guns called mini-guns? MONSTER guns more like.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 September, 2012, 07:54:42 PM
Why people still think BFG is Big Friendly Giant!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 September, 2012, 07:56:53 PM
Maybe because Roald Dahl is awesome
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 14 September, 2012, 12:12:19 AM
A crystal clear night sky again. Hello, Big Dipper.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 September, 2012, 12:40:57 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 13 September, 2012, 04:28:04 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 13 September, 2012, 07:39:32 AM
Your welcome, I'm just so relieved it's been found.

..and, now spent. On Prog 1800, and twenty fags. Blimey, the rising cost of living, eh!

Roll them yourself and save money, forget Rizla, smoke the prog!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 September, 2012, 07:21:34 PM
COCK!



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 September, 2012, 07:49:37 PM
Prohibition is back.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: nicklarr on 15 September, 2012, 08:11:52 PM
preposterous!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 September, 2012, 01:26:03 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 14 September, 2012, 12:40:57 PM
Roll them yourself and save money, forget Rizla, smoke the prog!

Mmm, is that wise? The collector in me would baulk at that.
I also suspect ingesting/inhaling thrill power in such a manner, would have an effect on the person similar to that as suffered by Toht at the end of Raiders of the lost Ark. But hey, ill try owt once...

To any passing Mods : Are we allowed to smoke the prog?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 September, 2012, 05:23:23 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 September, 2012, 01:26:03 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 14 September, 2012, 12:40:57 PM
Roll them yourself and save money, forget Rizla, smoke the prog!

Mmm, is that wise? The collector in me would baulk at that.
I also suspect ingesting/inhaling thrill power in such a manner, would have an effect on the person similar to that as suffered by Toht at the end of Raiders of the lost Ark. But hey, ill try owt once...

To any passing Mods : Are we allowed to smoke the prog?

Point taken: I withdraw that suggestion, smoking progs is not only wasteful but probably dangerous....noy unlike ciggies, I guess.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 September, 2012, 06:18:48 PM

Am I the only person in the UK who hasn't googled the topless photographs of The Duchess of Cambridge? Even the small effort required would still be hugely disproportionate to my enjoyment of the results.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mardroid on 16 September, 2012, 08:25:27 PM
Quote from: bikini kill on 16 September, 2012, 06:18:48 PM

Am I the only person in the UK who hasn't googled the topless photographs of The Duchess of Cambridge?

Nope. I haven't either.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: James Stacey on 17 September, 2012, 01:51:04 PM
I got some very nice spanish blue cheese on a visit to Abergavenny food festival yesterday. It's like a taste explosion in the mouth. Hasn't done my Ipod any good though
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 September, 2012, 11:04:53 AM
Did we all get our debut 'thrill-mail' today, from Tharg?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 September, 2012, 11:14:45 AM
No, just you cos you are popular, Jack!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 19 September, 2012, 01:41:37 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 19 September, 2012, 11:04:53 AM
Did we all get our debut 'thrill-mail' today, from Tharg?

Yeah! A great idea. Quite handy to have all the updates in one place so I won't forget.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: GordyM on 19 September, 2012, 02:04:30 PM
Mine's came in and now I'm really tempted to get the Death plushie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2012, 04:42:04 PM
StarTrek? does that count? I think not!!!except that you know... :-X
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 September, 2012, 09:05:37 AM
Women are dangerous leech!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 September, 2012, 08:10:13 PM
Halifax are the serial killers of songs
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 September, 2012, 08:22:06 PM
There was this tiny part in a sci-fi book that I read over 30 years ago that I sometimes think of because it was so weird. In fact I wonder if I imagined the whole thing!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 20 September, 2012, 08:55:02 PM
At night I dream of many things
Some of which I plan and save for
Some of which I achieve
When I was young I wanted to see Africa
To run away
And so I travelled
But never left
My dream changed, I
Became us
Became a family
And while dazzling things dazzle me still
My values hold dear other dreams
My home
My daughter's freedom to be
To achieve
My life with the man I still love
Simple dreams I dream
At night
During the day
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 20 September, 2012, 09:06:22 PM
For five Centuries I have now been waiting, but it has still yet to surface.



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 20 September, 2012, 11:29:00 PM
Now, I'm not a racist, but...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 September, 2012, 11:33:12 PM
It's like I said to a former England and Man UTD midfielder when he accused me of racism; 'I'm not racist, Butt.'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 20 September, 2012, 11:35:39 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 20 September, 2012, 11:33:12 PM
It's like I said to a former England and Man UTD midfielder when he accused me of racism; 'I'm not racist, Butt.'

If that is, as I guess it is, a play on words predicated on knowing the names of kickyball players, then it has fallen on stony ground here...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 September, 2012, 07:31:02 AM
Shame on you, Richmond.  Some of my best friends are kickyball players.  Although I understand they prefer the term 'delicate athletes'. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 21 September, 2012, 08:06:37 AM
Proof Earth is no more than 6000 yrs old (if it were needed!!!)...
http://io9.com/5944910/finally-a-geological-timescale-that-only-a-creationist-could-love?popular=true
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Squidbot on 21 September, 2012, 01:40:51 PM
Did someone say de-railed?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/linvuiet/Animated/train.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 September, 2012, 07:18:02 PM
I wish my dad stopping playing about!

(http://i.imgur.com/ntF2u.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 September, 2012, 07:26:54 PM
Your dad is a funny looking goat :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 September, 2012, 07:38:58 PM
HA, that pony has hair like Ozzy in the eighties
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 September, 2012, 09:07:42 PM
What the hell am I doing? I means, in 24 hours, on ferry to Amsterdam for few nights then flight to Barcelona! I only plans it few weeks ago! Am I nut? sounds like it's culture shock!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 September, 2012, 10:13:31 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 September, 2012, 09:07:42 PMAm I nut? sounds like it's culture shock!

You're nut.  Sounds absolutely magic, enjoy!  Never been to Amsterdam, but Barcelona is truly fantastic.  Never seen so many gorgeous women in one place.  Oh, err, yeah, Gaudi, all that too.

(Go see Casa de La Pierda, the roof is simply unreal).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 September, 2012, 01:34:29 PM
2 down:

Have cheese outside, and chocolate cake.

7 letters, 2nd letter is R
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 September, 2012, 02:38:16 PM
Brownie
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 September, 2012, 02:44:27 PM
OF COURSE! Cheers mate, if I win the £20 prize I'll be sure to send you a few quid ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 September, 2012, 05:35:18 PM
Interesting, perhaps, but without the tiny 'pyramida' cap they are technically not pyramids. Just wanted to clear that up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pyramids
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 September, 2012, 05:55:19 PM
BOOBIES!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 September, 2012, 06:55:11 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 September, 2012, 05:55:19 PM
BOOBIES FOR HIRE!

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 September, 2012, 08:03:55 PM
Judge Dredd's on Channel 5 in a minute.

I don't know whether to be happy, sad or indifferent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 September, 2012, 08:14:56 PM
...The continuity announcer called it "a classic", bless her.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 24 September, 2012, 11:20:17 AM
Bloke down the pub told me they've started filming the sequal!!! He's been working on set thanks to his mate's contacts in the film industry, the jammy sod! He just managed to sneak off for a quick pint to tell us the great news. I'll keep you up to date on latest developments but don't want to get him in trouble so mum's the word. Keep this between you, me and the internet!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 24 September, 2012, 01:22:41 PM
My mate down the pub says the skies are falling down. True fact.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 September, 2012, 01:26:06 PM
Fer fuck sake, last time that happened it took me ages to get all the bits of sky out of me hair
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 September, 2012, 02:58:11 PM
Oh why couldn't they have made a Dredd movie for the general public, not just the fanboys.  The one they made is fine, but it has a faceless protagonist, ultra violence, black humour, and let's face it, a limited budget... couldn't they have cast a really big action star and given him some quality face time, a romantic interest, some broad humour via a sidekick character, a massive budget, classic villains like the Angel Gang or Rico...  That thing would have done gangbusters.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 24 September, 2012, 03:37:10 PM
Goaty has gone quiet lately. Is he away on holiday or something?








(Jokin', fella)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 September, 2012, 10:59:18 PM
Did anyone else hear that? It sounded like something being blown off the roof. I'm going to have to sweep a fucking chimney off the path before work tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 September, 2012, 11:12:13 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 September, 2012, 10:13:31 PM
... Barcelona is truly fantastic.  Never seen so many gorgeous women in one place.  ...
Krakow. Blimey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 24 September, 2012, 11:16:20 PM
Latest update: he's going to drop off an advance copy of the DVD special edition metal case box set!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 24 September, 2012, 11:16:42 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 September, 2012, 11:12:13 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 September, 2012, 10:13:31 PM
... Barcelona is truly fantastic.  Never seen so many gorgeous women in one place.  ...
Krakow. Blimey.

Is that the place or a sound effect?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: adogg4629 on 25 September, 2012, 02:08:47 AM
Goaty was kind enough to bump his "don't feed the trolls" thread on IMDB today.  BTW-thank you for that Goaty.  I'm sure anybody can relate to the massive facepalm I did when jumping onto IMDB today (after a two week absence) to join in the discussions about the film after having seen it over the weekend only to discover the amount of trollery (made up that word) going on.

Aaron
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 September, 2012, 02:42:28 AM
I once grew a wart on my thing which had to be burned off by a doctor who looked like Eddie the Eagle using a miniature arc welder.

Does anyone else have an amusing story about their thing?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 September, 2012, 04:07:56 PM
Drokkin' plebs, get oughta my way!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 25 September, 2012, 04:11:47 PM
It's raining at the moment and we have a leaky roof :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 September, 2012, 05:24:56 PM
My bucket also has a hole in it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 25 September, 2012, 08:47:01 PM
My hole has a bucket in it.



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 September, 2012, 08:53:58 PM
My whole bucket is in it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 September, 2012, 08:59:39 PM
Classifying clothes by number of holes:

1:Socks
2:Sweat bands/boob tubes/Skirts
3:Underwear/Trousers
4:T-shirts/Jumpers
5+:Things with buttons/lace-up garments/mutie-clothes

If anybody spots any errors and/or omissions, it's vital you point them out. This is very important stuff
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 September, 2012, 09:00:14 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 25 September, 2012, 04:07:56 PM

(http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/cal1.jpg)

Drokkin' plebs, get oughta my way!!!!



FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 26 September, 2012, 12:56:01 PM
Whenever I go into the newsagents near work to buy the prog the chap there always calls out "MR 2000AD".

You don't get that kind of recognition via a sub!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 September, 2012, 01:35:08 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 26 September, 2012, 12:56:01 PM
Whenever I go into the newsagents near work to buy the prog the chap there always calls out "MR 2000AD".

You don't get that kind of recognition via a sub!

I used to get something similar, 'ah Mr P, its here somewhere, Doris, Doris Find Mr P's comic' the were a loverly pair of old gents.

Mind you now i get to read the Prog in bed without leaving it (that's what well trained sprogs are for)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 September, 2012, 09:17:03 PM
I was once driving my Lada through the countryside at night when one of the back wheels came off and rolled into a field of celery. A policeman appeared as I was retreiving my errant wheel because some local farmer had reported me for celery rustling.

Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about their Lada?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 26 September, 2012, 09:26:34 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 September, 2012, 09:17:03 PM
I was once driving my Lada through the countryside at night when one of the back wheels came off and rolled into a field of celery. A policeman appeared as I was retreiving my errant wheel because some local farmer had reported me for celery rustling.

Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about their Lada?

I don't have much to add there, but I enjoyed the story.  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 September, 2012, 09:28:03 PM
Yes I ... oh about a Lada?

Dammit, I thought you were asking for celery-rustling anecdotes. Ah well.

Shame too, it would've knocked your socks off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 September, 2012, 11:01:35 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 26 September, 2012, 12:56:01 PM
Whenever I go into the newsagents near work to buy the prog the chap there always calls out "MR 2000AD".

Good job you don't have an order for Razzle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 September, 2012, 12:48:28 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 September, 2012, 09:17:03 PM
I was once driving my Lada through the countryside at night when one of the back wheels came off and rolled into a field of celery. A policeman appeared as I was retreiving my errant wheel because some local farmer had reported me for celery rustling.

Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about their Lada?

The field after Sharkie had 'retrieved his wheel officer':

(http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cropcircle.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 September, 2012, 02:09:02 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 September, 2012, 09:17:03 PM
I was once driving my Lada through the countryside at night when one of the back wheels came off and rolled into a field of celery. A policeman appeared as I was retreiving my errant wheel because some local farmer had reported me for celery rustling.

Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about their Lada?

I love Soviet engineering. I've never owned a lada, but I do know an interesting fact about Soviet engineering that relates to wheels. Apparently, the railway lines in Poland and Belarus have different gauges and spacings. When you're crossing the border by train, you don't just get on a different train, oh no, that's what a decadent capitalist swine would do. Instead the train goes into a darkened shed, with the passengers still on board, and they change the trucks and wheels. It's a hang over from the paranoid cold war era, a method of trapping would-be spies trying to cross the border by train, and discouraging their own citizens from travelling. It's still in operation, 24/7, to this day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 September, 2012, 06:59:11 AM
I'm pretty sure I mentioned a few weeks back (on this thread) a conversation I had with someone that lasted (thanks to an untimely interruption) over a year. Well, I kid you not, I was being told, by one who would know, about the good qualities of the four-wheel-drive Lada...a thing I'd never heard of.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 28 September, 2012, 01:56:05 PM
I've got a luvverly bunch of coconuts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 September, 2012, 02:18:34 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 28 September, 2012, 01:56:05 PM
I've got a luvverly bunch of coconuts.

A mild shudder at the thought you're in post-breast augmentation op euphoria.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 September, 2012, 02:20:05 PM
Neep!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 September, 2012, 04:00:31 PM
That bloke was definitely cheating on pop master yesterday.
Ken Bruce soon got the measure of him though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 September, 2012, 04:19:37 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 28 September, 2012, 02:20:05 PM
Neep!

Tattie!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 September, 2012, 04:21:44 PM
Bogal
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 30 September, 2012, 10:07:08 AM
I'm sorry it doesn't have big stompy robots in it. I'll fix it for next time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 30 September, 2012, 10:16:21 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 28 September, 2012, 04:00:31 PM
That bloke was definitely cheating on pop master yesterday.
Ken Bruce soon got the measure of him though.

Yeah? What happened?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 30 September, 2012, 01:28:35 PM
Oh, Ken played it very cool - the sign of a true professional.
It was what he didnt say, plus he hurried him along - which let the bloke know he was on to him.
As he didnt win, it all worked out nicely in the end  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 30 September, 2012, 02:22:23 PM
Ah, Googling the answers, was he? Bad form.

I love that quiz although I rarely do well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 September, 2012, 02:27:35 PM
My brother brought me some fancy-schmancy black tea back from a work-trip to Sri Lanka.  Whee-doggie.  Why have I been drinking the bitter synthi-piss that I was told was tea up to this point?  The Fountains of Paradise indeed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 30 September, 2012, 02:56:46 PM
GRRRRRRR. ARRRRRGH.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 30 September, 2012, 03:24:42 PM
Quote from: Trout on 30 September, 2012, 02:22:23 PM
Ah, Googling the answers, was he? Bad form.

I love that quiz although I rarely do well.

Yep. Googling, and in the most obvious manner possible.
Got turned onto the quiz by a work mate. He doesnt let jobs get in the way of pop master, believe me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 September, 2012, 08:32:12 PM
Jean-Luc Picard is awesome because even though he's short, he talks down to everyone. Even god-like beings.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 September, 2012, 10:50:29 PM
BMW !!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 01 October, 2012, 12:36:56 AM
I'm dying for a pee but I'm enjoying a recorded programme on TV.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 01 October, 2012, 12:44:06 AM
If she says it's okay, it's okay?  Come on.  You know it's not okay so why bother asking?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 01 October, 2012, 12:44:54 AM
If you're alone use an empty beer can.
What?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 01 October, 2012, 12:48:19 AM
A gottle o' geer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 03 October, 2012, 07:13:54 PM
A bird shat on my head today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mygrimmbrother on 03 October, 2012, 07:36:59 PM
JERK ALERT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 October, 2012, 07:38:25 PM
Pervert!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 October, 2012, 09:31:03 PM
I've got nothing interesting to say.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 03 October, 2012, 09:32:37 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 03 October, 2012, 09:31:03 PM
I've got nothing interesting to say.

Well don't post it here man.
Start a whole new thread about it for God's sake!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 03 October, 2012, 10:00:01 PM
Children in need around again.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 October, 2012, 10:09:38 PM
Dear God, that means another night of shit TV dominated by Gerry Anderson* and Big Fat Angry Steve Nolan, doesn't it? In Northern Ireland Anyways.

What terrible local celebs present Children In Need in your BBC region?



*Although his radio show is spectacular**

**For all the wrong reasons
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 03 October, 2012, 10:21:52 PM
I can't take all the hyperboil.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 October, 2012, 10:25:30 PM
Monster crop of Shaggy Ink Caps in the park today, caught 'em just right - large but not open.  They were brill breadcrumbed and filled with cheese for my tea, and looking forward to baking the rest with eggs for my brekkie, along with some fried dulse.  Would have all gone into a nice freezable soup (Winter is coming), but we've neither stock nor cream in, and from bitter experience they just don't keep past a day uncooked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 03 October, 2012, 10:47:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2012, 10:25:30 PMlooking forward to baking the rest with eggs for my brekkie, along with some fried dulse.

Splendid! It's so rare that I learn a new word that I've never come across before!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 03 October, 2012, 11:47:27 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 03 October, 2012, 10:47:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2012, 10:25:30 PMlooking forward to baking the rest with eggs for my brekkie, along with some fried dulse.

Splendid! It's so rare that I learn a new word that I've never come across before!

by which I mean one that has existed longer than I have. If you include technobabble, youth-twattery,  management-speak and hipsterbollocks, there's too many to count.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 04 October, 2012, 12:01:13 AM
A few minutes ago I was feeling peckish, so I ate 3 home made biscuits!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mygrimmbrother on 04 October, 2012, 12:15:22 AM
These pretzels are making. Me. Thirsty!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 04 October, 2012, 12:17:28 AM
I'm hungry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 October, 2012, 10:47:20 AM
De-de-destruction
Ni-ni-ni 19, 19, ni19 19
19, 19, 19, 19
Ni-ni-ni 19, 19, ni-19 19
19, 19, 19, 19

In Vietnam he was 19
In-in-in Vietnam he was 19
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 04 October, 2012, 11:04:32 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2012, 10:25:30 PM
along with some fried dulse. 

Or dullis as it's pronounced by some Norns. Also: you're a buckin freak for a)eating it  b)frying it and c) for breakfast?! Why the fuck would you eat seaweed when there's a)sausages, b)sausages and c)sausages.

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 October, 2012, 11:16:42 AM
Quote from: Mikey on 04 October, 2012, 11:04:32 AMWhy the fuck would you eat seaweed when there's a)sausages, b)sausages and c)sausages.

Lot harder to find sossies just lying about on the rocks for free, and they just don't sun-dry very well either. Gone feral, I have (and judging from my waistline, it's the Wagner and Ezquerra version).  Four different edible seaweeds in the larder at the mo, as well as rock samphire (sea asparagus), three types of edible mushroom, blackberries galore and the last of the wild strawberries.  Apples are shite this year, mind.

Fried dulse (Dullis? Isn't that where movie airliners are always going when they run out of fuel?) is actually a bit like bacon when you have it in a BLT, or in this case fried and chopped up as bacony seasoning in my rammikin of baked ink caps and eggs.  It was divine. 

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 October, 2012, 11:51:21 AM
1) Nosedrip

2) Stickleback

3) Beau-rearguard
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 04 October, 2012, 12:39:00 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 04 October, 2012, 11:16:42 AM
Lot harder to find sossies just lying about on the rocks for free, and they just don't sun-dry very well either.

You mean those brown, sausage shaped things near the outflow *gulp* aren't sausages?! Anyway, you make it sound delicious and nothing like the salty, leathery tongue coating evil sold in sea side newsagents and sweet shops.

M.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JTurner on 04 October, 2012, 04:04:01 PM
How do I politely tell my boss that she should be happy that I can troubleshoot all the IT and handle all the design work very well indeed and that my having a cluttered desk is a very small price to pay?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 October, 2012, 04:12:31 PM
Quote from: JTurner on 04 October, 2012, 04:04:01 PM
How do I politely tell my boss that she should be happy that I can troubleshoot all the IT and handle all the design work very well indeed and that my having a cluttered desk is a very small price to pay?

Boxed set of the IT crowd?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 October, 2012, 04:27:57 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 04 October, 2012, 04:12:31 PM
Boxed set of the IT crowd?

PURE  WIN.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JTurner on 04 October, 2012, 10:29:20 PM
ROFLCOPTER
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 05 October, 2012, 11:29:51 AM
To the tune of The Addams Family theme...

Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week
*clap,clap*

Its Monday and its Tuesday
Its Wednesday and its Thursday
Its Friday and its Saturday
And Sunday is the week

Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 05 October, 2012, 11:55:21 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 05 October, 2012, 11:29:51 AM
To the tune of The Addams Family theme...

Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week
*clap,clap*

Its Monday and its Tuesday
Its Wednesday and its Thursday
Its Friday and its Saturday
And Sunday is the week

Days of the week
*clap,clap*

For reasons I don't completely understand I find this absolutely hilarious and can't stop laughing at it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 October, 2012, 12:10:41 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 05 October, 2012, 11:55:21 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 05 October, 2012, 11:29:51 AM
To the tune of The Addams Family theme...

Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Days of the week
*clap,clap*
Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week
*clap,clap*

Its Monday and its Tuesday
Its Wednesday and its Thursday
Its Friday and its Saturday
And Sunday is the week

Days of the week
*clap,clap*

For reasons I don't completely understand I find this absolutely hilarious and can't stop laughing at it.

A funny, a kind of strange hypnotic and threatening funny.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 05 October, 2012, 04:28:52 PM
Wednesday gets to be in both versions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 October, 2012, 04:35:15 PM
Is it coarse, fine or regular? Local or just domestic?  Who knows?  not me
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 October, 2012, 04:56:48 PM
Oh I hadn't post my review of Prometheus as the thread locked! My worst day ever!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 October, 2012, 05:00:22 PM
I was just about to watch Prometheus this weekend too. Now you'll never get to read my deep and insightful review that in no way rehashed what everyone has already said. Oh well
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 05:40:44 PM
I was just about to watch Prometheus this weekend too. Now you'll never get to read my deep and insightful review that in no way rehashed what everyone has already said. Oh well
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 05:43:36 PM


(http://www.2000adonline.com/application/media/news/full/187.jpg)


Why has the E-Wing droid been half-shorn? Tell us Tharg, WHY?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 October, 2012, 06:00:50 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 05:43:36 PM
(http://www.2000adonline.com/application/media/news/full/187.jpg)

Someone more comfortable with photoshoppery could re-arrange those fine looking men into a 6 Ages of Beardiness progression.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 06:08:39 PM
before and after 35 years of TPO


(http://www.sterlingtimes.org/five_boys2.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/application/media/news/full/187.jpg)

its uncanny!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 October, 2012, 07:19:17 PM
When I was a child I fell off a rickety fence that was standing in for an imaginary hovercycle and broke my elbow. Does anyone else have an amusing story about a fence?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 07:24:14 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 October, 2012, 07:19:17 PM
When I was a child I fell off a rickety fence that was standing in for an imaginary hovercycle and broke my elbow. Does anyone else have an amusing story about a fence?

I once took some stolen watches to  a fe.... oh, not that kind.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 05 October, 2012, 07:27:36 PM
72 pages.  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 October, 2012, 08:05:49 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 06:08:39 PM
before and after 35 years of TPO


(http://www.sterlingtimes.org/five_boys2.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/application/media/news/full/187.jpg)

its uncanny!!

Spitting image!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 October, 2012, 10:30:02 PM
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/8/13/1281699497825/spitting-image-thatcher-006.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 October, 2012, 10:59:58 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 October, 2012, 05:43:36 PM


(http://www.2000adonline.com/application/media/news/full/187.jpg)


Why has the E-Wing droid been half-shorn? Tell us Tharg, WHY?

Oh no... Who my dad???
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 06 October, 2012, 02:19:00 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 October, 2012, 07:19:17 PM
When I was a child I fell off a rickety fence that was standing in for an imaginary hovercycle and broke my elbow. Does anyone else have an amusing story about a fence?

I do!  Once, I was drunk and bought some leather trousers.  They weren't fake but they were a bit on the thin side.  Then, I drank some more and left the pub, quickly getting lost because I was so drunk even my auto-pilot had passed out in its own vomit. 
Perhaps it had something to do with the leather trousers I'd bought earlier that day.  I wasn't used to them, maybe, but they were bugger all use and I should have spent the money on another Julian Cope concert.  It was a phase, donchaknow?  Anyway, those sodding trousers were certainly of no use whatsoever when I caught them climbing some barbed fence or other in the middle of nowhere.  Ripping the shit out of them, and doing my leg few favours in the process.  Does anybody else have a story about me bleeding with my trousers around my ankles in a roofless shack in a field that hasn't been there for almost twenty years now?

Okay.  They were fake.  I was drunk.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 October, 2012, 06:04:34 PM
I'm planning to totally jack this thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 October, 2012, 11:53:10 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 05 October, 2012, 10:59:58 PM
(http://www.2000adonline.com/application/media/news/full/187.jpg)


They say dogs and their owners start to resemble each other over time.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 07 October, 2012, 02:16:27 PM
I'm a bit concerned I might actually be Frazer Irving.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 08 October, 2012, 03:19:48 PM
Are those the odds for the next droid to visit MEK-QUAKE above each droid?




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 October, 2012, 03:25:08 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 08 October, 2012, 03:19:48 PM
Are those the odds for the next droid to visit MEK-QUAKE above each droid?
V

mental age?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 08 October, 2012, 03:27:28 PM
Why is Simon Spurrier in the seventies?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 October, 2012, 03:45:56 PM
uncanny...

(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1263543.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Britain's+most+wanted+tax+dodgers)

but the amounts differ!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 October, 2012, 04:19:53 PM
Questions will be answered...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 October, 2012, 04:56:44 PM
Sheesh, if a guy owing just £328k is in your Top 20 tax-dodgers you're just not trying hard enough, broken Britain.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 October, 2012, 04:59:50 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 08 October, 2012, 03:27:28 PM
Why is Simon Spurrier in the seventies?

More importantly does Tharg know he leads a double life as Greg Saunier the drummer of Deerhoof?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 October, 2012, 05:17:10 PM
I can hear it, somewhere in this room my cat is licking something, it's very loud...I don't want to look round.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 October, 2012, 05:22:15 PM
Health and Safety gone mad...  :-\

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4rtrYbCUAAn3vF.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 08 October, 2012, 07:45:41 PM
I hear horses hooves.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 08 October, 2012, 08:30:55 PM
My first crush was Circuit Breaker from Transformers Weekly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 October, 2012, 08:48:09 PM
The end is nigh, sorta.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 09 October, 2012, 12:52:50 PM
He's dead Dave, everybody's dead, everybody is dead Dave.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 09 October, 2012, 01:02:55 PM
I remember once, when me and a mate went................................................ and it still makes me laugh today!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 October, 2012, 01:32:32 PM
Goaty wants some loves from you all...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 October, 2012, 01:41:46 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 09 October, 2012, 01:32:32 PM
Goaty wants some loves from you all...

Any time, mate.  £75 per hour or part thereof.  Kinky is extra.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 October, 2012, 01:43:08 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 October, 2012, 01:41:46 PM
Any time, mate.  £75 per hour or part thereof.  Kinky is extra.

That is bargain!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2012, 01:44:13 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 October, 2012, 01:41:46 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 09 October, 2012, 01:32:32 PM
Goaty wants some loves from you all...

Any time, mate.  £75 per hour or part thereof.  Kinky is extra.

and no wiping it on the curtains
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 October, 2012, 09:08:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCh4syrA2Sw
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 10 October, 2012, 02:28:05 PM
Why did that idiot have to ruin the Prometheus thread? I loved that thread!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 10 October, 2012, 04:17:55 PM
Thread may refer to:

Thread (yarn), a kind of thin yarn used for sewing
Thread (computing), a sequence of instructions that may execute in parallel with each other
Thread (Pern), a spore in the science fiction novels Dragonriders of Pern
Thread (unit of measurement), a cotton yarn measure
Thread (album), a 1999 album by Wideawake
Thread, a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
Screw thread, a spiral ridge on a cylinder
Threaded discussion, a group of messages or postings to a newsgroup, mailing list or Internet forum on a single topic
Threads, a 1984 BBC television post nuclear attack movie
Threads (Temposhark album)
Threads (Battlefield Band album), 1995
"Threads" (song), a song by This Will Destroy You from their self-titled album, This Will Destroy You
"Threads" (Stargate SG-1), a 2005 season 8 Stargate SG-1 episode

Jacking or Jackin',

The term by which the form is more commonly known, is a dance technique and music form that first became popular in the late 1980s as one of the myriad music forms which arose from the last days of disco. Though there continues to be some dispute as to a single absolute stylistic origin, "Jacking" music and dance most likely came from the multicultural roots in the early underground Chicago house and London music scenes. Both concepts of Jacking have their origins in various African and types of Latino and Hispanic dance culture, with a fair amount of influence from early European and American disco culture.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 October, 2012, 04:41:59 PM
of course you haven't considered the Bull shark.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 October, 2012, 06:16:07 PM
Quote from: radiator on 10 October, 2012, 02:28:05 PM
Why did that idiot have to ruin the Prometheus thread? I loved that thread!

What happened to Roger Godpleton? He posted one (utterly revolting) pornographic picture on the Dark Knight Returns thread, and he's never been seen or heard from since. Now the moderators have been exposed as a bunch of evil, lying hypocrites, who persecute reasonable posters who are just trying to put their point across (see the Politics thread), surely we can have a review of Roger's sentence.

I demand the mother of all inquiries into what became of this forum's most valued member. The fineness of the tooth comb employed by Saville, Chilcot and Leveson will be as nothing compared to the detailed and exhaustive forensic analysis of the circumstances in which the voice of the little boy who pointed out that the Emperor (not that one) was wearing no clothes came to be silenced.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 October, 2012, 06:28:03 PM
Has Roger been banished? And talking of Emperor (yes, that one) Just where has he got to, as well?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 October, 2012, 07:20:23 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 10 October, 2012, 06:16:07 PM
I demand the mother of all inquiries into what became of this forum's most valued member.

Border of the Year for 2011, no less.  While it's nice to see that a Goatse (it was a Goatse, right?) can still be the ne plus ultra of shock, for all that it's been around so long it's practically vintage pop art, it alone should never come between such an artist and his canvas.

Roger's comedy stylings should be in effect on the Chat later tonight.  I dropped by last week and after bleaching my eyeballs and dunking my liver in scotch it felt like old times.  I love that 'man', truly I do. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 October, 2012, 07:23:05 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 09 October, 2012, 01:43:08 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 October, 2012, 01:41:46 PM
Any time, mate.  £75 per hour or part thereof.  Kinky is extra.

That is bargain!

Good to see your Amsterdam trip has given you a keen appreciation of my competitive pricing.  As long as that's all it's given you.  (Penicillin is extra too).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 October, 2012, 07:41:01 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 October, 2012, 07:20:23 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 10 October, 2012, 06:16:07 PM
I demand the mother of all inquiries into what became of this forum's most valued member.

Border of the Year for 2011, no less.  While it's nice to see that a Goatse (it was a Goatse, right?) can still be the ne plus ultra of shock, for all that it's been around so long it's practically vintage pop art

Well done, Tordelback; you've expanded my vocabulary and my consciousness like the anus of the cheeky fella in that image.

I've only enjoyed the benefits of having piping hot internet plumbed directly into my front room since earlier this year, so terms such as Goatse and tl;dr are as baffling and unfamiliar to me as Plan A + CAP EX is to everyone but Robert Peston. Until I googled Goatse, I imagined the ringpiece in the controversial image must be that of this forum's own satyr-like friend of Alex Garland. That would explain how he managed to get his name in the film, I suppose.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 October, 2012, 08:28:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 October, 2012, 07:23:05 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 09 October, 2012, 01:43:08 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 October, 2012, 01:41:46 PM
Any time, mate.  £75 per hour or part thereof.  Kinky is extra.

That is bargain!

Good to see your Amsterdam trip has given you a keen appreciation of my competitive pricing.  As long as that's all it's given you.  (Penicillin is extra too).

No, you can do one with two drinks and shooter at Bigg Markets here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 October, 2012, 08:55:03 AM
It's Anderson!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 11 October, 2012, 01:56:56 PM
Hands up, who likes me!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2012, 02:18:09 PM
Quis custodiet ipsos Clements?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 October, 2012, 02:37:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 October, 2012, 02:18:09 PM
Quis custodiet ipsos Clements?

Oh thanks! Now I'm literally holding my nose so I don't LOL in the office!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2012, 02:57:30 PM

Quis custodiet ipsos Clement's snotfingers?

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RfxxdzJ7g-I/TTsReghq05I/AAAAAAAAD1o/FNp1JdcWrAk/s1600/BrianLeben.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 October, 2012, 03:16:48 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/46293_10151122929292851_2019472603_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2012, 04:01:34 PM
There too much violence on this thread
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 October, 2012, 09:33:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2012, 04:01:34 PM
There too much violence on this thread

Not enough sex.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2012, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 11 October, 2012, 09:33:06 PM
Not enough sex.

That's what the Political thread is for.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2012, 09:43:47 PM
Sax      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkUeb6zQFA
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2012, 09:44:32 PM
Violins     http://www.infovisual.info/04/033_en.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 11 October, 2012, 09:46:14 PM
Transcosmic horror. There's not enough of it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 October, 2012, 12:04:18 AM
(http://www.mychoicefreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/violins2.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 October, 2012, 12:09:06 AM
Are all these your guitars?  God, this place is bigger than our whole apartment.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 12 October, 2012, 08:15:01 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 11 October, 2012, 01:56:56 PM
Hands up, who likes me!
Quote from: Everybody on the forum on 12 October, 2012, 12:09:06 AM
............

You utter bastards...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 October, 2012, 01:38:09 PM
During the revolution Egyptians referenced "V for Vendetta" more frequently than any other work of art. Protestors held up signs that read "Remember, remember the 25 of January." On the internet, Photoshop was used to alter Pharaoh Tout Ankh Amoun's face into a Fawkes smile.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 12 October, 2012, 02:00:38 PM
Christmas is coming :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 October, 2012, 02:19:54 PM
Did you see that fit bird that just walked by?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 12 October, 2012, 02:30:45 PM
There were rumors he was into field hockey players.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 October, 2012, 07:42:35 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 12 October, 2012, 02:30:45 PM
There were rumors he was into field hockey players.

You are the son of incestuous union.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 October, 2012, 08:07:06 PM
Algol is my three favourite stars.  A 10-hour partial eclipse every 69 hours.  I empathise strongly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 October, 2012, 12:18:12 AM
Goaty is evil...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 October, 2012, 12:22:23 AM
My sig is bigger than anything I say
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 13 October, 2012, 01:08:21 AM
Stay on target!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 13 October, 2012, 09:03:46 AM
Oranges are not the only fruit. There are also lesbians. Juicy, nutricious lesbians.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2012, 10:04:38 AM
Jacked thread is best thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 October, 2012, 10:51:11 AM
Mind the oranges Matron!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 October, 2012, 11:34:38 AM

I'm certain the internal inquiries now being launched into Jimmy Savile and Andrew Mitchell's behaviour, by the BBC and HM government respectively, will get to the bottom of those matters quickly and cost-effectively. I foresee no need for an expensive series of further enquiries over the next quarter of a century, before the institutions involved admit what everyone basically knew anyway - as happened with the Hillsborough disaster.

Fifteen years till Blair is officially declared a liar, by that reckoning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 October, 2012, 12:28:42 PM
Tha fat twat. He wants bleedin' milkin'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2012, 12:48:35 PM

(http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20121007.gif) (http://"http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2757")
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2012, 06:06:02 PM
Didn't we have a Jack O'Lantern thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 13 October, 2012, 09:15:05 PM
Sorry, wrong thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 13 October, 2012, 09:17:45 PM
Apologies for the double post but the previous post was in the wrong thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2012, 09:24:50 PM
All will make merry.

On pain of death.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 October, 2012, 10:11:09 PM
I don't think Jimmy Savile could have done all the rapes and the touching and that, because he did a lot for charity.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 13 October, 2012, 10:57:36 PM
Best Beef Essence.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 13 October, 2012, 11:02:11 PM
gee whiz, it's like it's 1986 again!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 13 October, 2012, 11:03:00 PM
Best Bent Wire.



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 October, 2012, 11:05:58 PM
Quote from: judgefloyd on 13 October, 2012, 11:02:11 PM
1986

Funnily enough, thats also the number of threads started by Goaty this week.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 October, 2012, 09:09:57 AM
Equilateral, Isosceles, Scalene - Types of triangle commonly found in the average bag of tortilla chips. You'll not hear that anywhere else.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 14 October, 2012, 02:10:42 PM
"its not like I chased him down the street, or anything like that." Tony Martin,  BBC News report on the right to self defence against burglars.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 14 October, 2012, 03:10:03 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 13 October, 2012, 11:05:58 PM
Quote from: judgefloyd on 13 October, 2012, 11:02:11 PM
1986

Funnily enough, thats also the number of threads started by Goaty this week.

YOU WIN!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 October, 2012, 11:27:32 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 13 October, 2012, 09:15:05 PM
Sorry, wrong thread.

me too, why no edit/like button?
Title: Re: Treadhacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 14 October, 2012, 11:38:46 PM
A million Dollars or the thread gets it.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 14 October, 2012, 11:58:20 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 October, 2012, 11:27:32 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 13 October, 2012, 09:15:05 PM
Sorry, wrong thread.
me too, why no edit/like button?
Clumsy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 October, 2012, 09:05:55 PM
The front page of today's Daily Mail was a picture of an attractive, demurely dressed woman in her late forties/early fifties, accompanied by a caption reading "I Was Fondled By Dave Lee Travis". I don't want to make light of what I'm sure was an unpleasant experience for the woman or excuse the repulsive DLT's behaviour, but can anyone imagine that this would have been front page news if the tabloids weren't trying to prevent the momentum of the Jimmy Savile story from dissipating?

Is it a revelation to anyone over Thirty that women in the workplace had to endure some truly appalling behaviour from their male co-workers?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 15 October, 2012, 09:09:00 PM
Oh, we'll just let Hitler be in charge then, shall we?  Is that what you want?  Well?  Is it?

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Post by: TordelBack on 15 October, 2012, 09:21:12 PM
Victoria Coren.  That is all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 15 October, 2012, 09:28:21 PM
I think I got away with it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 October, 2012, 11:13:22 AM
Dorrito's, the bags anyway, looked different in the 70's. But make no mistake, they still had that great taste. They're great.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: zombemybabynow on 16 October, 2012, 12:14:08 PM
He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 October, 2012, 12:52:36 PM
Why can't the commentators on online news sites, so eager to list the failings of others, spell?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 16 October, 2012, 01:57:33 PM
Mods: Switch the titles of the Threadjacking and Politics threads and hey presto - two on topic threads instead of none!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 October, 2012, 03:48:44 PM
Whenever you point out small errors in other people's spelling and grammar, the most important thing to remember is; everyone hates you.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 October, 2012, 03:59:33 PM
I LOVE BRICK!

(http://www.riazali.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/brick.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 October, 2012, 04:04:17 PM
So that's where the British Empire is.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 October, 2012, 04:06:40 PM
Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 October, 2012, 04:11:09 PM
I'm in a pickle!

Should I listen to a CD or the radio when I drive to work tonight :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 October, 2012, 04:41:28 PM
I'm too big to fit into a pickle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 October, 2012, 05:20:32 PM
Here are some innocent phrases:

I don't like basketball.
I'm not all that fond of curry.
It's very difficult to find a job these days.
I don't like using public transit.
I won't be going abroad any time soon.
I don't feel safe in the city centre at night.

Now here's a cool trick; put the words 'I'm not racist but..' in front of them and HEY PRESTO! BIGOTRY!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 16 October, 2012, 05:35:37 PM
I fully support Frankie Boyle's campaign against racism.  I'm less keen on his campaign to get people laughing at mentally disabled children.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 16 October, 2012, 07:55:09 PM
I am a man of very few words.



V
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 October, 2012, 10:56:05 PM
Might I refer you to the comment made on page three of this thread?...Case closed!

Quote from: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 08:20:24 PM
Anyone?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 October, 2012, 11:12:11 PM
I can confirm that I am not being held hostage by Somali pirates!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 October, 2012, 02:06:01 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 16 October, 2012, 10:56:05 PM
Might I refer you to the comment made on page three of this thread?...Case closed!

Quote from: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 08:20:24 PM
Anyone?

I don't think you should be posting that sort of thing here. There's a seperate thread set-up if you want to discuss that sort of thing, in fact it was set up to specically stop these sort of discussions from taking over threads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 17 October, 2012, 09:28:15 AM
Quote from: pops1983 on 17 October, 2012, 02:06:01 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 16 October, 2012, 10:56:05 PM
Might I refer you to the comment made on page three of this thread?...Case closed!

Quote from: TordelBack on 11 June, 2012, 08:20:24 PM
Anyone?

I don't think you should be posting that sort of thing here. There's a seperate thread set-up if you want to discuss that sort of thing, in fact it was set up to specically stop these sort of discussions from taking over threads.

Et tu, Pops1983?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 17 October, 2012, 04:51:54 PM
Time for some lasagne :thumbsup:



Bugger, I forgot I'm making tea this evening :thumbsdown:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 October, 2012, 11:51:28 AM
I'm heading to the castle tonight, anyone go a spare pitchfork? I have two flaming torches, so we could swap, meet in from of the Doctors house about 11.30? sounds like there should be quite a crowd of us.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 October, 2012, 12:29:33 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 18 October, 2012, 11:51:28 AM
I'm heading to the castle tonight, anyone go a spare pitchfork? I have two flaming torches, so we could swap, meet in from of the Doctors house about 11.30? sounds like there should be quite a crowd of us.

I have a re-animated corpse (kinda cobbled together from various bits I had around the lab) if you need something to persecute.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 18 October, 2012, 03:55:20 PM
[spoiler]DO NOT LOOK HERE![/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 October, 2012, 11:10:30 PM
]An eyewitness to President Lincoln's assassination appeared on television in 1956 (http://io9.com/5952966/an-eyewitness-to-president-lincolns-assassination-appeared-on-television-in-1956?fb_action_ids=499216713435782&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%22499216713435782%22%3A209039945896582%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22499216713435782%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=[)

SHENANIGANS
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 October, 2012, 09:40:35 AM
Quote from: pops1983 on 18 October, 2012, 11:10:30 PM
]An eyewitness to President Lincoln's assassination appeared on television in 1956 (http://io9.com/5952966/an-eyewitness-to-president-lincolns-assassination-appeared-on-television-in-1956?fb_action_ids=499216713435782&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%22499216713435782%22%3A209039945896582%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22499216713435782%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=[)

SHENANIGANS

Incredible...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 October, 2012, 12:07:43 PM
well that went well  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 October, 2012, 03:49:48 PM
Ive had Déjà vu twice this week. Whats all that about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 19 October, 2012, 03:54:19 PM
THE GAME
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Post by: Proudhuff on 19 October, 2012, 05:36:37 PM
£4.80 a pint!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 October, 2012, 06:07:37 PM
Goaty loves wine!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 October, 2012, 06:30:36 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 18 October, 2012, 11:10:30 PM
]An eyewitness to President Lincoln's assassination appeared on television in 1956 (http://io9.com/5952966/an-eyewitness-to-president-lincolns-assassination-appeared-on-television-in-1956?fb_action_ids=499216713435782&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%22499216713435782%22%3A209039945896582%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22499216713435782%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=[)


The Human Wormhole is a great concept. One of the articles linked-to in that item drops the bomb that three American Civil War widows were still collecting their husbands' pensions into the early 21st century. Mind duly blown. Cheers, pops.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 October, 2012, 07:12:01 PM
Post-contact American history is so incredibly compressed. Similarly Back to the Future III always amazes me.  The contrast in Hill Valley between 1885 and 1955 - just 70 years, one lifetime!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 October, 2012, 07:20:51 PM
Time-travelling is shit! You can travel when but not where!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 October, 2012, 07:23:20 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 19 October, 2012, 07:20:51 PM
Time-travelling is shit! You can travel when but not where!

You just aren't setting your time-bombs properly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 October, 2012, 08:03:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 October, 2012, 07:12:01 PM
Post-contact American history is so incredibly compressed. Similarly Back to the Future III always amazes me.  The contrast in Hill Valley between 1885 and 1955 - just 70 years, one lifetime!

Ditto the bits in The Wild Bunch and Young Guns 2 which feature cars. Even Paul Newman's bike in Butch Cassidy seems as anachronous as Burt Bacharach and Hal David on the soundtrack, but history does not easily separate into dicrete eras. I remember being confused watching an American High School film where some of the kids were wearing flares and some were rocking skinny jeans, and my Dad having to explain that not everyone ditched their bell bottoms on the evening of the 31st of December 1979.

Consequently, I have an acutely detailed mental map of the trouser-based fashion developments of my own time, since I realised that this kind of specificity was where the true history of a time could be found, rather than the dry records of the succession of Kings and Queens. I would devote a paragraph to the journey from dark blue skintights, to straight-leg stone/snow-wash, to the 'baggy' (gathered in ankles with a fastening strap and stud), to the Flinstone jean, to 'vintage' 501's (with or without a designer tear in the knee) - but I don't want to derail the thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 October, 2012, 08:07:16 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 19 October, 2012, 08:03:05 PM
Consequently, I have an acutely detailed mental map of the trouser-based fashion developments of my own time, since I realised that this kind of specificity was where the true history of a time could be found, rather than the dry records of the succession of Kings and Queens. I would devote a paragraph to the journey from dark blue skintights, to straight-leg stone/snow-wash, to the 'baggy' (gathered in ankles with a fastening strap and stud), to the Flinstone jean, to 'vintage' 501's (with or without a designer tear in the knee)...

You are Eddie Campbell and I claim my signed copy of Bacchus #0.

I was watching the (fab) Wartime Farm the other week, and was momentarily shaken by the idea that black and white GIs billeted around English villages would never attend the same dances.  Even being aware of military segregation, somehow visualising it the 1940s English countryside (where the same program had previously highlighted the story of black land-girls), seemed a staggering anachronism.  Land of the free, baby, let's fight the Nazi menace.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 October, 2012, 08:28:15 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 October, 2012, 08:07:16 PM
You are Eddie Campbell and I claim my signed copy of Bacchus #0.

I was watching the (fab) Wartime Farm the other week, and was momentarily shaken by the idea that black and white GIs billeted around English villages would never attend the same dances.  Even being aware of military segregation, somehow visualising it the 1940s English countryside (where the same program had previously highlighted the story of black land-girls), seemed a staggering anachronism.  Land of the free, baby, let's fight the Nazi menace.

I'll knock you up a quick sketch of a dead prostitute later. There are enough mixed race pensioners in otherwise white bread Central Scotland to testify that the local girls didn't respect the military's fear of miscegenation in the same way as their buffalo soldiers. There's a guy who works in a motor factors in Larbert with the unique combination of African physiognomy/Afro hairdo and peely wally Scottish pigmentation/ginger hair. It's actually cooler than it sounds.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 19 October, 2012, 08:54:30 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 19 October, 2012, 06:30:36 PM
The Human Wormhole is a great concept. One of the articles linked-to in that item drops the bomb that three American Civil War widows were still collecting their husbands' pensions into the early 21st century. Mind duly blown. Cheers, pops.

Ye gods... Just how many 20 year olds were marrying octogenarians back then?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 October, 2012, 10:26:41 PM
Has anybody else created a new folder especially to save all those Thrillmails were being sent?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2012, 11:02:52 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 19 October, 2012, 10:26:41 PM
Has anybody else created a new folder especially to save all those Thrillmails were being sent?
no - and would I be a bad Squaax if I put Tharg in my spam filter?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 October, 2012, 11:04:11 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2012, 11:02:52 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 19 October, 2012, 10:26:41 PM
Has anybody else created a new folder especially to save all those Thrillmails were being sent?
no - and would I be a bad Squaax if I put Tharg in my spam filter?

I think you got Goaty in it... ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 October, 2012, 02:03:34 AM
This deserves its own thread
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 October, 2012, 10:30:01 AM
Lies, lies!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 20 October, 2012, 11:02:07 AM
Bring back Modpleton!



:o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 October, 2012, 11:43:45 AM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 20 October, 2012, 11:02:07 AM
Bring back Modpleton!

He never really went away, he's been right here all along.  In our hearts.



Fondling our ventricles suggestively and reciting the lyrics of Hungarian anti-war raps over and over again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 October, 2012, 11:44:35 AM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 20 October, 2012, 11:02:07 AM
Bring back Modpleton!



:o

That would be the forum's very own Day of Chaos.


So yeah, bring him back,  ;)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 20 October, 2012, 11:49:38 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 October, 2012, 11:43:45 AM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 20 October, 2012, 11:02:07 AM
Bring back Modpleton!

He never really went away, he's been right here all along.  In our hearts.



Fondling our ventricles suggestively and reciting the lyrics of Hungarian anti-war raps over and over again.

He has gone to sit at the right hand of Karne, forever and ever.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 October, 2012, 12:17:31 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 20 October, 2012, 11:02:07 AM
Bring back Modpleton!

Be careful what you wish for. I once had a friend who wished that his penis was long enough to touch the floor and both his legs fell off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gonk on 20 October, 2012, 04:41:41 PM

...wasn't he later arrested by the police for arse-ing around?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 October, 2012, 05:42:20 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 October, 2012, 11:43:45 AM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 20 October, 2012, 11:02:07 AM
Bring back Modpleton!

He never really went away, he's been right here all along.  In our hearts.


Pah! We don't mean we want him back in your crappy, metaphysical, transubstantiation way. That might work for Jesus and E.T, but we want Roger to be able to reach out to each and every one of us ... and tell us that our taste in comics, music, films and telly is crap, and that we're old men wasting our lives pursuing an interest in a dwindling sub-culture. That's what we want.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 October, 2012, 07:59:07 PM
Without 2000AD my life would just have been...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyIA26sFi_g
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 October, 2012, 10:22:19 AM
"Each Diplodocus dotes on you
Each Stegosaur adores
None be finer
Captain Dinosaur"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FMj0sJPlB48#!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 22 October, 2012, 12:41:09 PM
Is Diplodocus Dip-plod-oh-cus or Dip-low-dow-cus?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 22 October, 2012, 01:09:24 PM
Tor-toyz.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2012, 02:34:54 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 19 October, 2012, 08:03:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 October, 2012, 07:12:01 PM
Post-contact American history is so incredibly compressed. Similarly Back to the Future III always amazes me.  The contrast in Hill Valley between 1885 and 1955 - just 70 years, one lifetime!

Ditto the bits in The Wild Bunch and Young Guns 2 which feature cars. Even Paul Newman's bike in Butch Cassidy seems as anachronous as Burt Bacharach and Hal David on the soundtrack, but history does not easily separate into dicrete eras. I remember being confused watching an American High School film where some of the kids were wearing flares and some were rocking skinny jeans, and my Dad having to explain that not everyone ditched their bell bottoms on the evening of the 31st of December 1979.

Consequently, I have an acutely detailed mental map of the trouser-based fashion developments of my own time, since I realised that this kind of specificity was where the true history of a time could be found, rather than the dry records of the succession of Kings and Queens. I would devote a paragraph to the journey from dark blue skintights, to straight-leg stone/snow-wash, to the 'baggy' (gathered in ankles with a fastening strap and stud), to the Flinstone jean, to 'vintage' 501's (with or without a designer tear in the knee) - but I don't want to derail the thread.

Pah! I can remember being openly laugh at in the street for wearing striaght leg levi's in the 70s( pre-punk), you had to go to a specific shop, wait until the older woman was serving then ask her for levi striaght legs, I also remeber being chased down the street and narrowing avioding a kicking for wearing homemade bondage troosers ( white skinners taken in to tightasfeck with white pallet straps sewn on... now you ask)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 October, 2012, 03:11:34 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2012, 02:34:54 PM
I also remeber being chased down the street and narrowing avioding a kicking for wearing homemade bondage troosers ( white skinners taken in to tightasfeck with white pallet straps sewn on... now you ask)

Hands up who wants photos of Punky Proudhuff?  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2012, 04:28:42 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 22 October, 2012, 03:11:34 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2012, 02:34:54 PM
I also remeber being chased down the street and narrowing avioding a kicking for wearing homemade bondage troosers ( white skinners taken in to tightasfeck with white pallet straps sewn on... now you ask)

Hands up who wants photos of Punky Proudhuff?  :thumbsup:

(http://www.doodlecat.com/images/photographer.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 23 October, 2012, 04:17:10 PM
Has anyone noticed how the Dredd in the Dredd vs Zombies advert in the banner above resembles the leader of the Ant Hill Mob?

(http://www.boomerangtv.co.uk/sites/www.boomerangtv.co.uk/files/imagecache/character_thumbnail/wacky-ant-hill-mob.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 23 October, 2012, 10:39:32 PM
I'm sure you're right and all but I'm just not seeing it... but I do see this...

(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa44/whitbloke/NotSeeingIt.jpg)

(So I've hopes for a new Harlem Heroes strip when Visible Man keels over.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 23 October, 2012, 10:57:04 PM
Quote"Is Diplodocus Dip-plod-oh-cus or Dip-low-dow-cus?"
I say "Tip-low-doh-cus".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 October, 2012, 08:05:45 AM
I have nothing to add.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 October, 2012, 05:18:49 PM
I wonder who wears the white gloves...?  :-\

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/66385_10151076637061636_133099216_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 October, 2012, 07:33:25 PM
Eye of the Tiger, man.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 26 October, 2012, 11:19:16 AM
Best advice I've ever been given:

when you're having difficulty understanding what people are telling you, hang the dressing gown on the hook, place the towel by the panel, put the mail on the towel, then press the button.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2012, 05:06:31 PM
As a portly teen, I was once charged by my boss to go and change a lightbulb for his grandmother. The grandmother's house was abig old Victorian thing with high ceilings and needlessly ornate plaster roses around the light fittings. Of course, the old dear didn't have any ladders and gave me a chair to stand on. The chair, predictably, collapsed while I was at full-stretch and, due to instinctive grasping, I landed amidst the splintery ruin of the chair still clutching the light fitting whilst the remains of the now not quite so ornate plaster rose fell all about.

The old girl, her face a picture of bemused restraint, looked down at me with a mug of tea in one hand and a plate of macaroons in the other and said, 'well... I think I could probably have done that.'

Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about macaroons?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 October, 2012, 05:13:38 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 26 October, 2012, 11:19:16 AM
Best advice I've ever been given:

when you're having difficulty understanding what people are telling you, hang the dressing gown on the hook, place the towel by the panel, put the mail on the towel, then press the button.

Now that is quality advice.  15-year-old me would have killed someone for that advice, instead of just screaming incoherently at the computer for hour after frustrating hour.

As to macaroons, for some reason they evoke no memories whatsoever.   

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 October, 2012, 06:00:04 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2012, 05:06:31 PM
As a portly teen, I was once charged by my boss to go and change a lightbulb for his grandmother. The grandmother's house was abig old Victorian thing with high ceilings and needlessly ornate plaster roses around the light fittings. Of course, the old dear didn't have any ladders and gave me a chair to stand on. The chair, predictably, collapsed while I was at full-stretch and, due to instinctive grasping, I landed amidst the splintery ruin of the chair still clutching the light fitting whilst the remains of the now not quite so ornate plaster rose fell all about.

The old girl, her face a picture of bemused restraint, looked down at me with a mug of tea in one hand and a plate of macaroons in the other and said, 'well... I think I could probably have done that.'

Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about macaroons?

I remember they were in the world cup once but my knowledge of the cross over between sweets andthings sporty is limited.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 October, 2012, 07:45:13 PM
I only remember the Macaroons because of that hip-y little dance Roger Milla Jovovich did every time she scored a goal.

LES  LIONS  INDOMPTABLES (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAq2LcbKPY)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 October, 2012, 07:54:03 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 26 October, 2012, 07:45:13 PM
I only remember the Macaroons because of that hip-y little dance Roger Milla Jovovich did every time she scored a goal

You know a link isn't for you when you go in expecting a clip from Resident Evil and still come away disappointed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 October, 2012, 08:19:36 PM
I think Karl Urban is sexy man alive!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 October, 2012, 08:30:57 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 26 October, 2012, 08:19:36 PM
I think Karl Urban is sexy man alive!

That much was clear from the pictures of you clutching him and Garland like trophies. Don't tell me that bulge in your jeans was just your house keys.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 October, 2012, 08:32:42 PM
I think you're jealous, sauchie.

so tell me you don't think Karl looks sexy as below;

(http://i.imgur.com/n2XVN.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 October, 2012, 08:36:17 PM
He's changed colour :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 October, 2012, 08:42:11 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 26 October, 2012, 08:32:42 PM
I think you're jealous, sauchie.

Of course I'm jealous, Lord Goaty. I'd be more jealous if it was Thirlby you'd had a wee cuddle with, though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 October, 2012, 08:49:57 PM
Sci-fi makes perfect sense, but girls remain a mystery? Love being a Geek, but hate being single?
Then you need SiliconeSigourney (http://www.buzzfeed.com/sculptorsteve/siliconesigourney-sculptorsteve-7cmo)

(http://i.imgur.com/ZWMxX.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 October, 2012, 08:51:37 PM
So now we know what Roger has been up to :-X
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 October, 2012, 10:38:46 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 October, 2012, 07:54:03 PM
You know a link isn't for you when you go in expecting a clip from Resident Evil and still come away disappointed.

Console yourself with discussion of whether The Portman's had some surgical lifting and separating (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/movies/natalie-portman-sparks-boob-job-speculation-at-football-game/story-e6frexli-1226502916249) done.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 October, 2012, 07:25:20 AM
Attention Farmers:  Electric light is now widely available in western Europe.  On this basis please stop encouraging my children to wake up at a time your political puppets deem to be 05:30.   
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 October, 2012, 07:47:25 AM
My gate is frozen shut.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 28 October, 2012, 01:13:30 PM
The weather has turned.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 October, 2012, 05:02:03 PM
Just got a new high score at the Coinstar game in Tesco. GET IN
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 October, 2012, 05:35:04 PM
I get those things to pay out all the time, pops; I'll PM you the details of my system. There's bound to be an issue of Lion or Valiant somewhere in here:

I THOUGHT BHS WAS 'THE SHOP THAT TIME FORGOT' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7664661.stm)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 October, 2012, 07:24:28 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 28 October, 2012, 05:35:04 PM
I get those things to pay out all the time, pops; I'll PM you the details of my system. There's bound to be an issue of Lion or Valiant somewhere in here:

I THOUGHT BHS WAS 'THE SHOP THAT TIME FORGOT' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7664661.stm)

That shop's still cutting edge in Accrington.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 October, 2012, 07:27:13 PM
Now all we got to do is find one that was boarded up in February 1977.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 October, 2012, 08:57:24 PM
My feet are cold but my belly's full. Swings and roundabouts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 October, 2012, 08:59:40 PM
Well, eating swings and roundabouts can cause cold feet. Well known fact that. Does anyone else have an amusing anecdote about eating strange food? Other than Buttonman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 October, 2012, 11:07:11 PM
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/183e58bgjob7djpg/original.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 October, 2012, 04:42:04 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 26 October, 2012, 10:38:46 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 October, 2012, 07:54:03 PM
You know a link isn't for you when you go in expecting a clip from Resident Evil and still come away disappointed.

Console yourself with discussion of whether The Portman's had some surgical lifting and separating (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/movies/natalie-portman-sparks-boob-job-speculation-at-football-game/story-e6frexli-1226502916249) done.

'We're for Sydney', what the Feck does that mean?? is there a plotical party out there against him?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 October, 2012, 07:00:29 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 October, 2012, 04:42:04 PM
'We're for Sydney', what the Feck does that mean?? is there a plotical party out there against him?

Pro-lifers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 29 October, 2012, 07:56:30 PM
Those who feel 2000ad has let them down by showing an image of Dredd kissing a man and won't be buying it again:

Good fucking riddance!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 29 October, 2012, 09:03:27 PM
It's all a conspiracy against me.  I'm that important.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 October, 2012, 09:32:25 PM
The Fateful Eggs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 29 October, 2012, 09:44:23 PM
Obama... Osama... Come on people! It's right there!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 29 October, 2012, 11:12:00 PM
That prog thread is already 6 pages deep. Summats going on, i can feel it in me water.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 29 October, 2012, 11:20:57 PM
Select:

A Hammer time
B Chico time
C Judgement time
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 October, 2012, 11:51:07 PM
How can the US authorities expect anyone to be terrified of an extreme weather event called Sandy?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 30 October, 2012, 08:42:08 AM
Just you wait til is friend 'julian' 'swings the other way' and 'bears down upon you'... bona!

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 30 October, 2012, 09:03:50 AM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 29 October, 2012, 11:20:57 PM
Select:

A Hammer time
B Chico time
C Judgement time

Definitely Hammer Time. A truly world class statement backed up by comedy baggy trousers; Mc Hammer/legend/noise polluter.

Cheers  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 October, 2012, 03:27:00 PM
I say that too...when I'm hammered.

Quote from: NapalmKev on 30 October, 2012, 09:03:50 AM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 29 October, 2012, 11:20:57 PM
Select:

A Hammer time
B Chico time
C Judgement time

Definitely Hammer Time. A truly world class statement backed up by comedy baggy trousers; Mc Hammer/legend/noise polluter.

Cheers  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 October, 2012, 06:14:56 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 30 October, 2012, 08:42:08 AM
Just you wait til is friend 'julian' 'swings the other way' and 'bears down upon you'... bona!

SBT

(http://www.51allout.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Kenneth-Williams.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 30 October, 2012, 06:31:06 PM
Why are those Comic-con Dredd badges so expensive?  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 October, 2012, 07:28:58 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 30 October, 2012, 06:31:06 PM
Why are those Comic-con Dredd badges so expensive?  :(

Because they know exactly how much you want them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 30 October, 2012, 07:38:44 PM
Turns out that the Political and 'What's everyone listening to' threads are about the same thing as this one, but its only just become apparent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 30 October, 2012, 10:14:13 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 30 October, 2012, 07:28:58 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 30 October, 2012, 06:31:06 PM
Why are those Comic-con Dredd badges so expensive?  :(

Because they know exactly how much you want them.

The swines!!

And talking, as we are, about those badges - just nosey curious, but did anybody win the one on E-bay that came with the sellers promise of sending the winner a PDF file loaded with Dredd goodies?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 October, 2012, 10:37:04 PM
the 2000AD forum confused me by changes some boards.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2012, 11:50:57 PM
Some days I can't decide which of the Top Gear lads I hate the most.








Just kidding: it's Clarkson.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2012, 11:58:06 PM
Clarkson does make me laugh.







Then again, so does watching drunk people falling off things.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 October, 2012, 12:01:45 AM
Clarkson's only 52 you know.
If ever there was a human portrait to turn your kids off alcohol, tobacco and smug-bastardness there is he.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 31 October, 2012, 12:50:11 AM
TREK ME!! Willy Shatner's on HARDTALK baring it like a trekkin' man! There's iplayers off the starboard bow Jim!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 31 October, 2012, 09:22:47 AM
Who Misters the Mister Men?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 October, 2012, 11:16:57 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 31 October, 2012, 09:22:47 AM
Who Misters the Mister Men?

One J Savile OBE.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 31 October, 2012, 01:09:21 PM
My Dad had a book about David Niven (actor) called 'The moon is a balloon'.

Amazing stuff!!!

Cheers  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 31 October, 2012, 01:14:47 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 31 October, 2012, 01:09:21 PM
My Dad had a book about David Niven (actor) called 'The moon is a balloon'.

Amazing stuff!!!

Cheers  ;)

It is indeed a brilliant book - as is the follow-up 'Bring on the Empty Horses'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 October, 2012, 01:25:26 PM
Speaking of empty horses, my son has stolen borrowed all my ska cds  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 31 October, 2012, 02:05:24 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 31 October, 2012, 11:16:57 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 31 October, 2012, 09:22:47 AM
Who Misters the Mister Men?

One J Savile OBE.

Savile...so near 'so vile'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 November, 2012, 09:36:40 AM
If twin females marry twin males, and they both have a child, will both the children look the exact same?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 November, 2012, 11:01:59 AM
No more so than any two non-identical siblings.  Sexual reproduction is pick'n'mix, not cut'n'paste.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 05 November, 2012, 11:11:56 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 November, 2012, 11:01:59 AM
Sexual reproduction is pick'n'mix, not cut'n'paste.

Its also quite sweaty but in a good way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 November, 2012, 11:27:15 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 05 November, 2012, 11:11:56 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 November, 2012, 11:01:59 AM
Sexual reproduction is pick'n'mix, not cut'n'paste.

Its also quite sweaty but in a good way.

I said pick'n'mix, not Bombay Mix.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 05 November, 2012, 04:25:31 PM
...with some chopped onions, then add a small drizzle of...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 November, 2012, 04:27:54 PM
Bombay Mix? unwashed hands, men!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 November, 2012, 07:16:33 PM
Apparently, the senior Thatcher-era Tory who was fucking wee boys from the Bryn Estyn care home was (cont)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 November, 2012, 08:28:03 PM
Its bomby night?!? How did that happen? Wasnt it, like, April a couple a weeks ago?
Blimey, itll soon be Christmas at this rate...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 November, 2012, 08:30:02 PM
As a kid, I knew everything. The older I get, the less I know. This is why the generation gap exists. Kids do think they know everything and only age can bring the wisdom that you don't know xxxx all. They're both right.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 November, 2012, 10:08:15 PM
Jay-Z just introduced Obama with a chorus of "if you're having world problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk) but a Mitt ain't one"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 November, 2012, 10:23:39 PM
QuoteI guessed/knew that was going to happen in the prog.
If you did then why didn't you put your musings in [spoiler]spoiler tags [/spoiler] in one of the previous prog threads when you had your eureka moment.
Know all's that know nothing.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 November, 2012, 10:32:23 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 05 November, 2012, 10:23:39 PM
QuoteI guessed/knew that was going to happen in the prog.
If you did then why didn't you put your musings in [spoiler]spoiler tags [/spoiler] in one of the previous prog threads when you had your eureka moment.
Know all's that know nothing.





V

I NOO YOOD SAY DAT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 05 November, 2012, 10:52:31 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 05 November, 2012, 10:23:39 PM
QuoteI guessed/knew that was going to happen in the prog.
If you did then why didn't you put your musings in [spoiler]spoiler tags [/spoiler] in one of the previous prog threads when you had your eureka moment.

...and [spoiler]spoil it for everyone else?[/spoiler] Pshaw!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 November, 2012, 10:55:31 PM
[spoiler]If you are only guessing then why would it be spoiling it for people[/spoiler], [spoiler]it would be your own fault for curiosity getting the better of you anyway[/spoiler].




[spoiler]V[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 05 November, 2012, 11:36:13 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 05 November, 2012, 10:55:31 PM
[spoiler]If you are only guessing then why would it be spoiling it for people[/spoiler]

There's a difference between [spoiler]guessing[/spoiler], and [spoiler]realising[/spoiler].

I did say to [spoiler]my brother[/spoiler], though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 06 November, 2012, 12:03:38 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 05 November, 2012, 10:08:15 PM
Jay-Z just introduced Obama with a chorus of "if you're having world problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk) but a Mitt ain't one"

I thought this was an amusing joke Sauchie.
Sweet Jesus, it really happened...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 November, 2012, 01:38:48 AM
I wonder will I ever get through Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun without shedding a tear.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 06 November, 2012, 07:30:43 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 November, 2012, 01:38:48 AM
I wonder will I ever get through Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun without shedding a tear.
Me too. But i do hope I never get to the point where it fails to move me to tears.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 06 November, 2012, 09:11:28 AM
When I say transverse I mean at 90 degrees to direction.

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 November, 2012, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Mikey on 06 November, 2012, 09:11:28 AM
When I say transverse I mean at 90 degrees to direction.

Your fault.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2012, 11:43:09 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 November, 2012, 01:38:48 AM
I wonder will I ever get through Terry Jack'sSeasons in the Sun without shedding a tear.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 06 November, 2012, 01:27:16 PM
Peter Sutcliff (man about town, and friend of the stars) is quoted on the front page of 'The Sun' (shit paper, I only read the front page) saying - "my GOOD friend Jimmy Saville is innocent!!"

Methinks Mr Sutcliff is falling deeper into lunacy (if such a thing is possible).

Anyway; case closed!
;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 November, 2012, 01:54:06 PM
I only read certain posts if there's a

REALLY UNNECESSARY GIANT LINK (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ptujwrPnjwM/S-QUg8bpZ9I/AAAAAAAABGQ/pRtP1utAw6g/s1600/daily-mail-fake-headline.jpg)

in it
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 06 November, 2012, 02:31:29 PM
I'd just like to confirm that I wasn't abused by Jimmy Saville.
It seems easier to list those of us that weren't than those that were.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 06 November, 2012, 02:38:48 PM
I LOVE GIANT LINKS (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OWd-TodeGR4/S9rosVFXQMI/AAAAAAAABxA/2vAYqSccK-8/s1600/chain.jpg)



M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 November, 2012, 04:34:33 PM
small ones are more juicy (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Armour_Accessories/SMALL-LINK-CHAIN.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 06 November, 2012, 04:46:53 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 November, 2012, 01:54:06 PM
I only read certain posts if there's a

REALLY UNNECESSARY GIANT LINK (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ptujwrPnjwM/S-QUg8bpZ9I/AAAAAAAABGQ/pRtP1utAw6g/s1600/daily-mail-fake-headline.jpg)

in it

I'm only 5'6"....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 November, 2012, 05:00:48 PM
HELLO!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 November, 2012, 05:09:44 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 November, 2012, 01:54:06 PM
I only read certain posts if there's a

REALLY UNNECESSARY GIANT LINK (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ptujwrPnjwM/S-QUg8bpZ9I/AAAAAAAABGQ/pRtP1utAw6g/s1600/daily-mail-fake-headline.jpg)

in it

I used to order SQUARE with KETCHUP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkPWwTJTSw) myself, but I've been veggie for years now so that's largely academic.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 06 November, 2012, 07:52:35 PM
Shut your pie hole!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 November, 2012, 08:04:06 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OWd-TodeGR4/S9rosVFXQMI/AAAAAAAABxA/2vAYqSccK-8/s1600/chain.jpg)

Roger's Mom's chastity belt fastening, which was eventually recovered from a secret compartment under Roger's bed yesterday.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 November, 2012, 06:01:49 PM
8006 POSTS!!  read em and weep, really what a waste of a life...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 November, 2012, 06:11:42 PM
Proudhuff said BOOB! ^


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 07 November, 2012, 06:28:33 PM
I wish Jimmy Savile were alive so someone could kill him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 November, 2012, 06:32:00 PM
I did like the idea of melting down all the Jim'll Fix It badges badges to form a giant spike which could be driven through his grave.

I expect the Pope might object, though. And bishops.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 07 November, 2012, 07:33:21 PM
I'm not sure what they were made of...could they even be melted down or were they as plastic as he was?...but I like the idea of a collective fix-it stake.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 November, 2012, 10:31:48 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 07 November, 2012, 06:32:00 PM
I did like the idea of melting down all the Jim'll Fix It badges badges to form a giant spike which could be driven through his grave.


My only concern would be that it would somehow resurrect him with a lightning bolt, Friday the 13th Part IV style.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 November, 2012, 10:43:51 PM
Savile was entombed in reinforced concrete (to stop graverobbers digging up his jewellery, jewellery), so he'd awaken in a 6 x 2 prison.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 07 November, 2012, 10:46:05 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 07 November, 2012, 10:43:51 PM
Savile was entombed in reinforced concrete (to stop him rising from the dead and continuing his evil), so he'd awaken in a 6 x 2 prison.
FTFY




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 07 November, 2012, 10:57:28 PM
This coming Saturday, the date will be 10/11/12.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 08 November, 2012, 12:30:40 AM
I may set my alarm for 08:09.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 November, 2012, 01:36:32 AM
I bet the Mayans never saw that coming.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 November, 2012, 08:49:17 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 08 November, 2012, 01:36:32 AM
I bet the Mayans never saw that coming.

The Mayans are Americans, so it would read 11/10/12 on their digital clocks, idiot! Why don't you visit Maya and learn something about other countries and their cultures?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 November, 2012, 10:02:48 AM
Romans never had digital watches!! I wish that GReenie droid would do his reseach.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 November, 2012, 10:04:50 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 08 November, 2012, 08:49:17 AM
Why don't you visit Maya and learn something about other countries and their cultures?

Yeah, especially Australia, where the Queen is elected President, women are men, atheists are godfearing and the socialised healthcare is only for the rich.  Land of the formerly indentured, baby!


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 November, 2012, 10:07:13 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 November, 2012, 10:02:48 AM
Romans never had digital watches!! I wish that GReenie droid would do his reseach.

It's that kind of obsessive attention to detail that kills drama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QG_0fM2oSE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QG_0fM2oSE)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 08 November, 2012, 12:04:28 PM
I was asleep but a parcel delivery has woken me.
This has been brought to you by G-Shock watches  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 November, 2012, 02:18:39 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 07 November, 2012, 10:57:28 PM
This coming Saturday, the date will be 10/11/12.

Please, please keep this up, so very helpful.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mygrimmbrother on 08 November, 2012, 03:03:37 PM
Just had my second Tunnocks caramel wafer of the day. More than 5,000,000 of these bisciuts are made and sold every week. Just doing my part.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 November, 2012, 04:05:08 PM
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 08 November, 2012, 03:03:37 PM
More than 5,000,000 of these bisciuts are made and sold every week.

That's rather a lot, isnt it. Still, they are nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 November, 2012, 05:55:13 PM
GET YOUR OWN THREAD
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 November, 2012, 05:59:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 November, 2012, 05:55:13 PM
GET YOUR OWN THREAD

People who come to your thread should respect your culture and beliefs, and learn to speak your language.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 08 November, 2012, 06:51:25 PM
I managed to grab another 4 1/2 hours sleep after that earlier incident  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 08 November, 2012, 07:01:00 PM
Half a cup of raisins.

A quarter of an orange.

Four digestive biscuits.

A 100g bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk.

Now let's make tiffin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 November, 2012, 09:12:09 PM
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 08 November, 2012, 03:03:37 PM
Just had my second Tunnocks caramel wafer of the day. More than 5,000,000 of these bisciuts are made and sold every week. Just doing my part.

That's a lot of chocolate... you'd think that they'd be up for, say, sponsoring a Scottish comic event with that sort of money.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 November, 2012, 08:26:19 AM
'89...huh...one hell of a number.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 November, 2012, 09:03:13 AM
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
We're gonna ride ride r-i-i-i-i-de
The Dinosaur Train.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 November, 2012, 09:10:57 AM
X – Xenotarsosaurus
Y – Yangchuanosaurus
Z – Zigongosaurus
Zigongosaurus
Gets us to the chorus
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 November, 2012, 12:57:31 PM
The Conservatives: They put the 'N' in Cuts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 November, 2012, 01:29:51 PM
Political parties: They put the ir in relevant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 November, 2012, 01:34:29 PM
Greggs. They put the meat in pasties
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 November, 2012, 02:17:39 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 08 November, 2012, 09:12:09 PM
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 08 November, 2012, 03:03:37 PM
Just had my second Tunnocks caramel wafer of the day. More than 5,000,000 of these bisciuts are made and sold every week. Just doing my part.

That's a lot of chocolate... you'd think that they'd be up for, say, sponsoring a Scottish comic event with that sort of money.

Now yer talking!! and get Irn Bru on board as well
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 November, 2012, 02:19:21 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 09 November, 2012, 01:34:29 PM
Greggs. They put the meat in Dandontdare

FTFY


oooh, double post get her!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 November, 2012, 02:23:39 PM
 :lol: you've seen my t-shirt picture haven't you? it shrank I tells ya!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 November, 2012, 04:46:59 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 November, 2012, 02:19:21 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 09 November, 2012, 01:34:29 PM
Greggs. They put the meat-substitute in Dandontdare

FTFY


FTFY2
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 November, 2012, 08:01:43 PM
When did having some class go out of fashion?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 November, 2012, 09:23:07 PM
Lord McAlpine! I would have put money on it being Bernard Ingham; imagine that (http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Portrait+Lady+Thatcher+Installed+Downing+Street+D8fqMvmOUaFl.jpg) bearing down on you. Terrifying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 November, 2012, 12:55:21 AM
That's all very well, but has anyone considered the effects on the knicker-elastic market?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 November, 2012, 08:16:01 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 09 November, 2012, 09:23:07 PM
[spoiler]Lord McAlpine[/spoiler]! I would have put money on it being Bernard Ingham; imagine that (http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Portrait+Lady+Thatcher+Installed+Downing+Street+D8fqMvmOUaFl.jpg) bearing down on you. Terrifying.

Yesterday, I broadcast allegations concerning the identity of a Tory peer involved in abuse at a Welsh care home. I'd like to take this opportunity to withdraw those allegations, which have proven unfounded, and apologise unreservedly for the distress they must have caused and for the fact that my report fell far short of the standards expected of BBC journalism. Please don't sue me and make me scrap Newsnight, my flagship current events programme. Do what you like to Phil Schofield, though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 10 November, 2012, 09:49:58 AM
"DONT START A WITCH HUNT AGAINST GAY PEOPLE!" say Dave in a desperate attempt to get good morning viewers to start hunting gay people, rather than the Tories who should actually be taking responsibility.

"PM AMBUSHED ON GOOD MORNING!". In the old days, the used to call it interviewing.

"BBC IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING!"  bloody BBC.  Like that time they started the Iraq war by misquoting a secret source in a report broadcast at 5 in the morning that nobody was listening to.  Which is much worse than number 10 revealing the identity of said source to tabloid journalists and driving a man to suicide.  Bloody BBC.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 05:01:37 PM
I feel the need to inform Link Prime that Jimmy Savile was resurrected by lightning bolt to the iron fence post in Friday The 13th PART SIX, not part four as he so very wrongly stated.

These things are important.

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 November, 2012, 05:12:54 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 05:01:37 PM
I feel the need to inform Link Prime that Jimmy Savile was resurrected by lightning bolt to the iron fence post in Friday The 13th PART SIX, not part four as he so very wrongly stated.

These things are important.

SBT

Ahh...and I almost got away with it too.
For days I've been sweating the fact that my attempts to modify my erroneous oblique horror movie reference came but seconds too late.
But really, would anyone else have been as sad to actually watch 'Friday the 13th part VI' I asked myself?
"Surely not" my smug inner monologue replied.

Well played sir, well played.

But one must ask....will you also be retracting your 'wrong statement' that Jimmy Saville was resurrected in said cinematic masterpiece, and not horror icon Jason Voorhees?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 November, 2012, 05:33:37 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 07 November, 2012, 10:57:28 PM
This coming Saturday, the date will be 10/11/12.


Well, were a good way through the Mayan 10/11/12 end-of-the-world warm up; how's everybody bearing up?
Has anybody been lost?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 November, 2012, 05:41:55 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 10 November, 2012, 05:33:37 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 07 November, 2012, 10:57:28 PM
This coming Saturday, the date will be 10/11/12.


Well, were a good way through the Mayan 10/11/12 end-of-the-world warm up; how's everybody bearing up?
Has anybody been lost?

I don't think this is a laughing matter. Just last week Celtic beat Barca*.

*For those unfamiliar with soccer-ball, this is a definite sign of the apocalypse
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 November, 2012, 06:23:41 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 10 November, 2012, 05:41:55 PM
Just last week Celtic beat Barcelona. For those unfamiliar with soccer-ball, this is a definite sign of the apocalypse

Neil Lennon slots in fine between War and Famine; closing down attacks, fighting for every ball, making space in the opposition's half, and firing shots into the box for Death to get on the end of.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 November, 2012, 06:26:21 PM
Was there ever a Jimmy Savile Block in MC1? If so, could somebody please nuke it and then organize an in-depth inquiry as to why it wasn't nuked earlier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 10 November, 2012, 06:28:27 PM





CF
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 06:31:26 PM
Sorry, mr prime, i was too amused at the thought of it being jimmy behind the mask, and i couldnt resist a comedy slip-up just for the sake of it. I feel suitably ashamed.

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 November, 2012, 06:36:28 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 10 November, 2012, 06:26:21 PM
Was there ever a Jimmy Savile Block in MC1? If so, could somebody please nuke it and then organize an in-depth inquiry as to why it wasn't nuked earlier.

Jimmy Savile Block was at the rear of Bonnie Langford, facing Gary Glitter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 November, 2012, 07:07:12 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 06:31:26 PM
Sorry, mr prime, i was too amused at the thought of it being jimmy behind the mask, and i couldnt resist a comedy slip-up just for the sake of it. I feel suitably ashamed.

SBT

Not at all SBT- if anyone was to catch me out, I'm glad it was you!  ;)

Sickeningly, it seems Jimmy was wearing a mask in real life anyway, and what was underneath was far more horrific than an overweight Kane Hodder.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 November, 2012, 07:19:31 PM
In other news, all the forests are dying due to a disease which was sent by God as a punishment on gay trees. Filthy things they are - spreading their horrid seed in the wind...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 07:40:04 PM
"Kane Hodder"?! Oh dearie me, it gets worse! C J Graham, i think you'll find!
:-D

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 November, 2012, 07:50:36 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 07:40:04 PM
"Kane Hodder"?! Oh dearie me, it gets worse! C J Graham, i think you'll find!
:-D

SBT

<Moe Syzlack impersonation, eyes flitting right to left>
Yeahh...well done...you ah spotted my ah deliberate mistake dere!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 14 November, 2012, 04:44:14 PM
GEOCACHE!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 November, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
早安, 爸爸
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 14 November, 2012, 06:38:22 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 14 November, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
早安, 爸爸

早上好兒子
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 November, 2012, 07:26:51 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 14 November, 2012, 06:38:22 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 14 November, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
早安, 爸爸

早上好兒子

Would you like egg fried rice with that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 14 November, 2012, 08:23:03 PM
Fucking foreigners taking all our messages and stealing all our threads.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 November, 2012, 10:04:57 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 November, 2012, 07:26:51 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 14 November, 2012, 06:38:22 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 14 November, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
早安, 爸爸

早上好兒子

Would you like egg fried rice with that?

这是非常有趣的
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 November, 2012, 10:07:13 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 14 November, 2012, 06:38:22 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 14 November, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
早安, 爸爸

早上好兒子
我累了,晚安
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 November, 2012, 10:08:46 PM
哦,等一下,也许这应该是中国翻译线程就坏了吗?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 November, 2012, 10:27:34 PM
هذا هو الحصول على مملة إلى حد ما.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 November, 2012, 10:36:43 PM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 11:19:38 AM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 11:22:45 AM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 15 November, 2012, 11:34:02 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 15 November, 2012, 11:22:45 AM
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FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: James Stacey on 15 November, 2012, 11:40:19 AM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 11:58:46 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 15 November, 2012, 11:40:19 AM
.--. .- -.-. -.- / --- / - .-- .- - ...

.-.. --- .-..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 12:09:25 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 15 November, 2012, 11:34:02 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 15 November, 2012, 11:22:45 AM
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FTFY

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chl=Thanks&chs=100x100&cht=qr&chld=H%7C0
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 15 November, 2012, 12:26:18 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b9JdmyMQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 12:38:01 PM
DIXIA CHENG: Beijing is even more like a Mega-city to me now that I know it has a 85 Squ KM under city
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City_(Beijing)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 November, 2012, 01:09:56 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 15 November, 2012, 12:26:18 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b9JdmyMQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

What the...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 November, 2012, 05:29:33 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 15 November, 2012, 12:38:01 PM
DIXIA CHENG: Beijing is even more like a Mega-city to me now that I know it has a 85 Squ KM under city http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City_(Beijing)

"While the complex has never been used for its intended purpose, it has been maintained by city officials; water conservancy authorities check it every year during rainy seasons, and it is included in anti-vermin sweeps"

You've got to keep on top of the regular werewolf infestations.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 07:00:37 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 15 November, 2012, 11:40:19 AM
.--. .- -.-. -.- / --- / - .-- .- - ...
Now try tapping that on any surface.

Can you see how all these film are a load of bollox when someone is supposedly sending more code on pipes.
All you would hear is a series of dot's. How the fuck can you do a dash on a pipe. Fuck you Hollywood.

Pack O Twats


V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 07:05:24 PM
Using pipes to send Morse Code - the code isn't in the taps, but in the spaces between the taps.




Possibly.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 07:10:42 PM
But then you will have to identify a gap between letters or words as well as a dash.
As a qualified morse code operator I wouldn't be able to work it out.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 07:47:52 PM
Practice, Vzz - practice!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 08:02:40 PM
Numbers Stations are the new HOLLYWOOD ladies and gents. Look for E10 transmissions....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpdJI9N4hsk
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 08:17:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJ3NSPpv9U&feature=related



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 November, 2012, 08:24:33 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 08:17:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJ3NSPpv9U&feature=related
V

Not sure why...this just seems appropriate now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs&feature=related
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 November, 2012, 09:42:38 PM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 November, 2012, 09:49:02 PM
(http://www.repmanblog.com/photos/uncategorized/gary_coleman1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 November, 2012, 09:58:23 PM
(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/semanim.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 10:05:43 PM
(http://dailywicca.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tealeafreading111.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 10:37:19 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 November, 2012, 09:58:23 PM
(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/semanim.gif)
Semaphore. Another dying form of communication (like morse code) which will be vital when that super solar flare impacts the earth frying all forms of modern tech.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 10:40:38 PM
Have no fear - the government is already developing a post-Apocalyptic communications network...

(http://s.eeweb.com/members/steve_lawson/answers/1326386619-tin_can.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 November, 2012, 10:54:18 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 10:37:19 PM
Semaphore. Another dying form of communication (like morse code) which will be vital when that super solar flare impacts the earth frying all forms of modern tech.

At least 6000 years of being assured that the apocalypse is just round the corner makes some folk sceptical about these kind of predictions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 11:05:41 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 November, 2012, 10:54:18 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 15 November, 2012, 10:37:19 PM
Semaphore. Another dying form of communication (like morse code) which will be vital when that super solar flare impacts the earth frying all forms of modern tech.

At least 6000 years of being assured that the apocalypse is just round the corner makes some folk sceptical about these kind of predictions.

It only takes one of them to be right...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 November, 2012, 11:12:44 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 11:05:41 PM
QuoteAt least 6000 years of being assured that the apocalypse is just round the corner makes some folk sceptical about these kind of predictions.

It only takes one of them to be right...

None so far, and I'd put money on none of us being around to see the day when they are ... except there's no way I would ever be able to collect my winnings.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2012, 11:20:03 PM
The world ends every second for some poor soul - but for others it also begins.

That's wisdom, that is. It must be, I read it on a matchbox.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 November, 2012, 11:09:04 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 November, 2012, 10:54:18 PM
At least 6000 years of being assured that the apocalypse is just round the corner makes some folk sceptical about these kind of predictions.

But youve got to admit this one is the most frightening to date,

Mayan end of the world ETA - December 21st 2012

Dredd DVD/Blu-ray ETA - January 14th 2013
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 16 November, 2012, 12:59:50 PM
Simples   ::) heh. that never gets old
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 November, 2012, 02:31:34 PM
Whitehouse Petition to institute new US legal system comprising motorcycle riding JUDGES who are Judge, ju...you know the rest...https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/establish-new-legal-system-motorcycle-riding-judges-who-serve-police-judge-jury-and-executioner-all/QS9sBWBc
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 November, 2012, 03:19:35 PM
Why has Batman appeared out of nowhere?
Is Tharg in trouble?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 November, 2012, 07:56:01 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 November, 2012, 11:09:04 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 November, 2012, 10:54:18 PM
At least 6000 years of being assured that the apocalypse is just round the corner makes some folk sceptical about these kind of predictions.

But youve got to admit this one is the most frightening to date,

Mayan end of the world ETA - December 21st 2012

Dredd DVD/Blu-ray ETA - January 14th 2013
Dredd didn't show in my country...so I can't let this happen. I won't.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 16 November, 2012, 07:58:40 PM
My next station is Rickmansworth. What are you gonna do about it eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 November, 2012, 08:54:23 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 16 November, 2012, 07:58:40 PM
My next station is Rickmansworth. What are you gonna do about it eh?

Mornington Crescent.

I win
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 16 November, 2012, 11:27:40 PM
The Mayan's haven't predicted the end of the world it's just that they died out before they could update their calender.
Conspirisists and doomsayers. I shit em.



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 November, 2012, 12:54:04 AM
Yes, they died out due to calendaric radiation - that's why digging it back up now is so dangerous. It's doom. Doom, I say. Doom.



Why am I covered in shit?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 November, 2012, 08:28:57 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 16 November, 2012, 11:27:40 PM
The Mayans ... died out...

I'm sure they'd be surprised to hear this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 November, 2012, 06:12:35 PM
Has anyone tried Windows 8?

(http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/5/8/8/154588_v1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 November, 2012, 06:59:28 PM
Archaelogists have discovered that the Mesolithic inhabitants of the East of Scotland lived in crudely constructed dwellings, which they periodically abandoned because of the Scottish weather, and ate a highly restricted diet, high in red meat and fat ... and you can all see where this one's headed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-20376243 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-20376243)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 November, 2012, 09:36:00 PM
It's not coming here in English, not coming here at all....Opening night, last night, I see it on the cinema monitor...but in German only...tempted...I'm taunted on the train (as I cross the border) when I open The Economist and find 'Bagehot - Judge Dread' as a heading.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 November, 2012, 08:57:36 AM
A message from Joe Soap

(http://zombie-popcorn.com/wp-content/gallery/blog-post-photos/we-are-doomed.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 19 November, 2012, 11:11:47 AM
I'll vote for him. He's just telling it like it is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: W. R. Logan on 19 November, 2012, 11:44:34 AM
So do people buying planet replica costumes really think they are street judge material?
What they need to start producing isn't lawgivers and day sticks but rad cloaks for the West Wall Judges and Clip Boards for the Admin Judges.
If you order a uniform over a certain size then you should get the price list for the you're really not cut out for Street Judging but here's a list of Admin roles that you can order stuff for 8-)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 19 November, 2012, 12:51:59 PM
Quote from: W. R. Logan on 19 November, 2012, 11:44:34 AM
So do people buying planet replica costumes really think they are street judge material?
What they need to start producing isn't lawgivers and day sticks but rad cloaks for the West Wall Judges and Clip Boards for the Admin Judges.
If you order a uniform over a certain size then you should get the price list for the you're really not cut out for Street Judging but here's a list of Admin roles that you can order stuff for 8-)

If probably be one of those Judges that sits on a hotline taking vidcalls from Citizens complaining about judicial brutality.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 November, 2012, 05:42:37 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 19 November, 2012, 12:51:59 PM
If probably be one of those Judges that sits on a hotline taking vidcalls from Citizens complaining about judicial brutality.

Not unless you learn to stand a bit closer to the razor in the morning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 19 November, 2012, 06:42:07 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 19 November, 2012, 05:42:37 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 19 November, 2012, 12:51:59 PM
If probably be one of those Judges that sits on a hotline taking vidcalls from Citizens complaining about judicial brutality.

Not unless you learn to stand a bit closer to the razor in the morning.

Don't go all Lopez on me!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 November, 2012, 12:40:29 PM
Whenever i drive down this road i always think to my self - 'Ah, Durham Red.

(http://i.imgur.com/WvH98.jpg)

Does anybody else have a place near them that reminds them of summat from the Prog?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 November, 2012, 01:49:02 PM
Lisa needs Braces

DENTAL PLAN

Lisa needs Braces

DENTAL PLAN

Lisa needs Braces

DENTAL PLAN

Lisa needs Braces

DENTAL PLAN

Lisa needs Braces

DENTAL PLAN
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 November, 2012, 01:50:26 PM
NOW I remember where I saw your avatar pops. The Big Book of British Teeth.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 November, 2012, 02:01:04 PM
(http://comedycentral-co-uk.mtvnimages.com/news/countdown-minge.jpg?height=211&quality=0.91)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 November, 2012, 07:56:30 PM
Bear or Bigfoot? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDkWrouHfoQ&feature=BFa&list=PL6v2bOzB5qjh87DEpaCPg67kNbAQ_pfb2
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 November, 2012, 08:12:12 PM
Will forum i-spy be making an appearance again this christmas?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 November, 2012, 02:35:58 PM
Change is anathema to the human condition.
Why are so many forum users changing their names / avatars??????
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 November, 2012, 04:23:05 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2012, 02:35:58 PM
Change is anathema to the human condition.
Why are so many forum users changing their names / avatars??????

If you discount all the aliases, i think there's only about seven or eight people, in total, on this forum!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 November, 2012, 04:35:14 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 26 November, 2012, 04:23:05 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2012, 02:35:58 PM
Change is anathema to the human condition.
Why are so many forum users changing their names / avatars??????

If you discount all the aliases, i think there's only about seven or eight people, in total, on this forum!

Fo all we know, its just you n' me Iain...
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Post by: Frank on 26 November, 2012, 07:09:00 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2012, 02:35:58 PM
Change is anathema to the human condition.
Why are so many forum users changing their names / avatars??????

sauchie was my slave name, it was given to me by the white man, and I will wear this new name in protest until the prisons of Babylon disgorge our brothers. Actually, I'll get bored of it by the weekend. I blame Supermarine Troutfire; he's a trend setter and a maven, like Alexa Chung or Kate Moss, and we're all condemned to follow his lead no matter how ridiculous it makes us look or whether we can walk in our heels without falling over and showing our knickers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 November, 2012, 07:12:17 PM
All of you are banned!

By order of the fascist overlords :lol:
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Post by: Goaty on 26 November, 2012, 07:26:01 PM
CAN'T BELIEVE THEY CANCELLED MERLIN!!! MY LIFE IS ENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 November, 2012, 07:32:18 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2012, 04:35:14 PM
Fo all we know, its just you n' me Iain...

Actually, i think we may all be just a figment of CF's fevered imagination.
(Would make a good Tharg's future shock, that).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 26 November, 2012, 08:21:01 PM
Ive only just sussed 'supermarine troutfire' to be honest- d'oh! All this other change is doing my head in im afraid and i no longer know who im talking to at any given moment.

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 November, 2012, 08:26:45 PM
You are all figments of my mind. I have hundreds of accounts and spend all day and night trying to keep up with complimenting myself, slagging myself off, banning myself and now I've decided to make a fan film under a new account. I'm drokkin' exhausted :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 November, 2012, 08:40:45 PM
And I am CF's master!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 26 November, 2012, 08:56:40 PM
CF this is Dr Edgemar. None of this is real. You are still living the memory implanted fantasy of being a Judge  on a internet bulletin board of the insane.Take this pill and reality will return.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 26 November, 2012, 09:24:06 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 26 November, 2012, 08:56:40 PM
CF this is Dr Edgemar. None of this is real. You are still living the memory implanted fantasy of being a Judge  on a internet bulletin board of the insane.Take this pill and reality will return.

Don't listen to him CF.

You are not you, you're me. NOW GET YOUR ASS TO MAHZ
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 November, 2012, 09:33:10 PM
If I take the pill you will all vanish and the forum will be no more :crazy:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 November, 2012, 09:35:53 PM
(http://thatreallyawesomeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pills.jpeg)
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Post by: Modern Panther on 28 November, 2012, 09:54:48 PM
those are huge.  are we sure they're intended to be taken orally?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 November, 2012, 10:03:01 PM
No. Aurally.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 November, 2012, 10:40:56 PM
Brass sun is huge and should be taken orrery.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 November, 2012, 11:31:59 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 28 November, 2012, 10:40:56 PM
Brass sun is huge and should be taken orrery.

The smartest joke you'll ever make, and there's no-one else around to hear it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 29 November, 2012, 09:57:27 AM
Quote from: we are all roger godpleton on 28 November, 2012, 11:31:59 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 28 November, 2012, 10:40:56 PM
Brass sun is huge and should be taken orrery.

The smartest joke you'll ever make, and there's no-one else around to hear it.
If you tell a joke and there is nobody around to laugh, is it still funny?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 29 November, 2012, 11:05:50 AM
If you are telling jokes to yourself then its funny oddball not funny haha.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 November, 2012, 04:30:53 PM
2000AD is fucking great in 2012!
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 29 November, 2012, 04:38:22 PM
My dentist loved DREDD3D and he can't wait for the disc in January :D
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Post by: Proudhuff on 29 November, 2012, 04:45:25 PM
Square sausages?
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 November, 2012, 05:18:05 PM
The Universe is Boing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRUqprbizXQ
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 29 November, 2012, 08:59:33 PM
No just square sausage...a piece oan square sausage, wi barr's irn bru.  Breakfast o'champions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 30 November, 2012, 01:51:04 AM
Why does the mildly irritating pain of a daytime sore throat become excruciating when it's past midnight and/or you're trying to sleep?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 November, 2012, 08:31:00 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 30 November, 2012, 01:51:04 AM
Why does the mildly irritating pain of a daytime sore throat become excruciating when it's past midnight and/or you're trying to sleep?

Lack of external distraction coupled with tiredness and thirst, it becomes the only thing you focus on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 November, 2012, 08:33:01 AM
Quote from: Temponaut on 29 November, 2012, 08:59:33 PM
No just square sausage...a piece oan square sausage, wi barr's irn bru.  Breakfast o'champions.

I believe the first P-Celtic translation breakthrough was 'Mammy/gonny/throw/us/doon/a/piece/N/jam'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 November, 2012, 12:30:26 PM
GROK!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 30 November, 2012, 03:30:44 PM
Well actually, I *did* think it too many.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 01 December, 2012, 10:58:53 AM
You don't get much lower down the journalistic pecking order than "food critic". 

"Well done, Tarquin, on your double first from Oxford in Art History and English.  What do you intend to do with your life now?  Politics, perhaps?  Or you could teach?"

"Actually, mummy, I've decided to go into journalism"

"Oh, splendid!  Uncle Henry can give you a job at that little newspaper of his.  What sort of field were you thinking about?  Politics?  Not...not foreign correspondent, surely?  Those foreigners, Tarquin, they can be awfully dangerous"

"No, mummy, nothing so horrid.  I thought I might just taste things and tell people what they taste like."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 December, 2012, 12:43:42 PM
Its December?!? How did that happen?

And why isnt it Wednesday yet? (I guess this bit should really be in the 'life sucks..' thread).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 01 December, 2012, 04:04:39 PM
(http://max.moderntoss.com/images/124.jpg)
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Post by: Frank on 01 December, 2012, 05:48:56 PM
Prog 1812 was incredible; who would have guessed that this issue would be the one where the soon to be defunct Dandy was folded into 2000ad? It is in fact Desperate Dan who comes to the aid of MC1 in its darkest hour, by bending over all the lamp posts so Black Ops can't see where they're shooting, and spitting out water melon pips like they're bullets until Bachmann and her number lie as lifeless as Korky the Cat.

The final panel, where Dan, Hershey and a bed-bound Dredd all tuck into Aunt Aggie's cow pie, makes The Cold Deck an instant collector's item.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 December, 2012, 07:23:01 PM
Move over Movember...roll on Beardtober.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 01 December, 2012, 07:34:54 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 01 December, 2012, 10:58:53 AM
You don't get much lower down the journalistic pecking order than "food critic".

Actually, it's a sought-after job, because you get free stuff.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 December, 2012, 07:57:29 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 01 December, 2012, 07:34:54 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 01 December, 2012, 10:58:53 AM
You don't get much lower down the journalistic pecking order than "food critic".

Actually, it's a sought-after job, because you get free stuff.

I would have said astrologists were the lowest form of life. Buncha flim-flams, that's what they are.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 01 December, 2012, 08:48:38 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 01 December, 2012, 07:34:54 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 01 December, 2012, 10:58:53 AM
You don't get much lower down the journalistic pecking order than "food critic".

Actually, it's a sought-after job, because you get free stuff.

Isn't that why *anybody* write reviews..?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 December, 2012, 08:53:28 PM
Quote from: Pops on 01 December, 2012, 07:57:29 PM
I would have said astrologists were the lowest form of life. Buncha flim-flams, that's what they are.

Stop traducing Wagner and Grant. I'd pay good money to read the horoscopes they wrote for DCT publications, where they tried to freak out their readers by coming up with more sinister and insinuating readings than the week before.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 01 December, 2012, 10:40:57 PM
Sod Movember and Beardtober, roll on Fannuary, i say!

But nothing matters because Charlie Wossname won Im A Celebrity 2012- so yay!

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 December, 2012, 12:07:02 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 25 November, 2012, 12:40:29 PM
Does anybody else have a place near them that reminds them of summat from the Prog?

(http://i.imgur.com/ZFwSJ.jpg)

Its everywhere!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 December, 2012, 11:59:39 AM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 01 December, 2012, 10:40:57 PM
Sod Movember and Beardtober, roll on Fannuary, i say!

But nothing matters because Charlie Wossname won Im A Celebrity 2012- so yay!

SBT

I don't usually do this, I tend to laugh internally. I will, for example, hear a laugh in my head although on the outside I am unlikely to even display a derisory smirk. On this occasion, however, I did what youngsters might refer to as a 'LOL'. In fact I LOL'd twice. indeed, roll on Fannuary.

* I suppressed my 3rd LOL when I immediately extrapolated on your suggestion to arrive at 'Mufftember'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 02 December, 2012, 07:09:38 PM
That's better than what i got to: Quimtober.

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 December, 2012, 07:26:05 PM
I thought of a festive one, involving boughs of Holly. Deckedmember. Careful now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 02 December, 2012, 07:26:46 PM
Cocktober?

SBT
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 December, 2012, 07:33:15 PM
We have the makings of a wonderful new calendar here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 December, 2012, 07:46:36 PM
THE ORIGINAL BATMOBILE IS GOING UP FOR AUCTION (http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=5037&aid=466)

Just in time for Christmas, HINT HINT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 December, 2012, 08:37:13 PM
Nana nana nanan nanan nanan nanan nat got the readies.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 02 December, 2012, 08:46:28 PM
If it's brown, flush it down but if it's yellow let it mellow.  Or, you know, just flush every time.  It's your house, do what you like.  Just saying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 December, 2012, 10:07:33 PM
It's all wrong! Stormtroopers as women????

(http://i.imgur.com/UhGtn.jpg)
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Post by: vzzbux on 03 December, 2012, 12:43:07 AM
Jes gistang of Joker squad.

(http://www.bbcw.com/images/P/GG008483.jpg)

(http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/sw-joker-squad-af-01.jpg)

(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4/48064/900816-jes_gistang.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 December, 2012, 01:11:08 PM
Don't care what Angus Young says. Tchaikovsky never said 'Let there be rock'. He may have thought it, but that's a whole different bag of kittens.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 December, 2012, 02:47:07 PM
Fried cabbage? peas in a frying pan? why not.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 December, 2012, 02:58:10 PM
Pope join Twitter? So Tweetings is more effective than praying?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 03 December, 2012, 03:33:41 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 03 December, 2012, 02:58:10 PM
Pope join Twitter? So Tweetings is more effective than praying?
Well I've certainly had more answers to tweets than I've had to prayers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 December, 2012, 03:49:04 PM
Hallowed be thy tweet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 03 December, 2012, 04:24:34 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 December, 2012, 10:07:33 PM
Stormtroopers as women????

Hell yes!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 December, 2012, 04:28:45 PM
Do they all have to have that exact breast size to be a stormtrooper?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 December, 2012, 05:01:34 PM
That's f**k up!

(http://i.imgur.com/HSmU2.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 December, 2012, 06:12:57 PM
Kate Middleton's up the fucking stick. Seven long months of photos of the bump getting bigger, baby pictures, the first steps, first day of school, questions about when they're having another ... I hope the papers' hyperbole is correct, and that Leveson means the Windsors can gag them and stop them printing anything except the official portrait, taken when the inbred wee mutant finally pops out. Sky news currently has some idiot speculating on when and where the successful fuck took place!

Looking on the bright side, I'm sure that if News Corp titles were still allowed to hack phones we would have known for weeks already. Small mercies.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 03 December, 2012, 07:08:22 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 December, 2012, 04:28:45 PM
Do they all have to have that exact breast size to be a stormtrooper?

Some Girls are bigger than others, as Morrissey once sang..

(http://i.imgur.com/Wmwtq.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 December, 2012, 07:20:28 PM
Call forth the HEAVY armour!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 December, 2012, 07:39:54 PM
Channel Four's Turner Prize results show (i) just featured a woman called Spartacus, dressed like a Vic Reeves character, who describes herself as a Marxist and puts on puppet shows.

(i) Ant and Dec have just opened the lines for voting
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:12:50 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 03 December, 2012, 07:08:22 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 03 December, 2012, 04:28:45 PM
Do they all have to have that exact breast size to be a stormtrooper?

Some Girls are bigger than others, as Morrissey once sang..

(http://i.imgur.com/Wmwtq.jpg)

This bloody thread has just added a female Stormtrooper fetish to my growing list of nerd perversions!
Oh, it's gonna happen- if it's on the list, it's gonna happen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 December, 2012, 08:26:58 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:12:50 PM
This bloody thread has just added a female Stormtrooper fetish to my growing list of nerd perversions!
Oh, it's gonna happen- if it's on the list, it's gonna happen.

Does this help?

(http://i.imgur.com/WTZwm.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:28:38 PM
Yer a sick man, Goaty, a sick man.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 December, 2012, 08:31:47 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:28:38 PM
Yer a sick man, Goaty, a sick man.

Oh Sorry!!! Not your type, would this help for you?

(http://i.imgur.com/ciKum.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:35:38 PM
He does have a certain Oliver Reed charm, but even my perversions won't plumb those depths!  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 03 December, 2012, 08:37:37 PM
Anderson babes are old hat compared to Hot chicks with Stormtroopers (http://www.hotchickswithstormtroopers.com/2010/09/femtrooper-friday-91710.html)

(http://i.imgur.com/ReXAK.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:45:11 PM
I can't believe this is real JJ...
A whole sub-sub fetish world that that I (plain wrongly) find myself compelled to enter!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 December, 2012, 08:52:26 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 03 December, 2012, 08:37:37 PM
Anderson babes are old hat compared to Hot chicks with Stormtroopers (http://www.hotchickswithstormtroopers.com/2010/09/femtrooper-friday-91710.html)

Are the white stripper heels the reason they keep hitting their heads off door frames?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 03 December, 2012, 08:56:01 PM
This is getting far too on topic.

(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac273/vzzbuxvzzbux/Dredd%20stuff/JudgeDredd2000ADcopy.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 03 December, 2012, 09:11:52 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 December, 2012, 08:45:11 PM
I can't believe this is real JJ...

Star Wars fans have had to endure so much heartache over the years, but finally the gods have smiled upon them.
Or as Darth Vader himself so succinctly put it "Today will be a day long remembered, the circle is now complete!" So dive in Link Prime dive in, and if you see Tordelback and vzzbux, be sure to tell them the good news,  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 03 December, 2012, 09:46:06 PM
Thanks to Keith for submitting this pic of his wife. I hope she knows.

what a fab introduction line  to the hotchicks with stormtroopers site. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 December, 2012, 08:46:41 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 03 December, 2012, 08:56:01 PM
This is getting far too on topic.

(http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac273/vzzbuxvzzbux/Dredd%20stuff/JudgeDredd2000ADcopy.jpg)




V
Consider this picture jacked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 December, 2012, 09:17:02 AM
It's CatMan!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/03/article-0-1654B7BE000005DC-853_634x478.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 December, 2012, 10:04:20 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 02:32:01 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

a hunDredd pages and still no answer?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 December, 2012, 11:03:41 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 04 December, 2012, 10:04:20 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 02:32:01 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

a hunDredd pages and still no answer?
(http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/08/no-idea-feature.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 04 December, 2012, 03:56:38 PM
At the time of his birth in the peaceful and plague free days of 2013, few could have imagined how the reign of the man who would become known as King Ethelwulf the Cruel would finally be brought to an end...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 December, 2012, 04:03:08 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 04 December, 2012, 03:56:38 PM
At the time of his birth in the peaceful and plague free days of 2013, few could have imagined how the reign of the man who would become known as King Ethelwulf the Cruel would finally be brought to an end...

Someone's already started a petition to have the kid named after Diana, which could fuck the wee bugger up in interesting ways if it turns out to be male (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQKtl3MGCE).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 04 December, 2012, 04:11:36 PM
Royalty have had sissy Norman names for too long.  'Charles', 'William', 'George', pah!  Its made them soft and this country a laughing stock.  We need a return to proper, Saxon names.  A name fitting a king who wears dead animals and carries an axe.  A name to strike fear into the hearts of our enemies!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 December, 2012, 04:22:18 PM
Kull. By this axe I rule.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 04 December, 2012, 04:23:48 PM
Other names for consideration...

If it's a boy :

Clarkie
Conan
Creole
Diamond
Kong
Ralph
Rollo

If it's a girl:

Latifah
Leia
Mononoke
Mushroom (Peach)
Ofthestoneage
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 December, 2012, 04:40:59 PM
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own' Genesis chapter 1.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 December, 2012, 05:18:39 PM
Its too cold for snow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 December, 2012, 06:26:40 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 04 December, 2012, 04:40:59 PM
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own' Genesis chapter 1.
I could quote this play until the cow's come home. Sadly we have 17 day's left to live. Hooohoop.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 December, 2012, 07:21:29 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 04 December, 2012, 04:23:48 PM
Other names for consideration...

If it's a boy :

Clarkie
Conan
Creole
Diamond
Kong
Ralph
Rollo

If it's a girl:

Latifah
Leia
Mononoke
Mushroom (Peach)
Ofthestoneage

READER'S VOICE: chortle!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 December, 2012, 08:01:06 AM
Fibbers beware, the Pinnochio effect will betray you - noses warm up when lies are told. I propose olfactory gauges to replace polygraphs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: auxlen on 05 December, 2012, 09:47:26 AM
when i was a kid i thought the voices of the troughten era cybermen were stupid and thought the saward/davison cybermen were brilliant. however as i am now older i realise how utterly creepy those early cybermen were and how poo the emotional modern ones are. so there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 05 December, 2012, 09:52:03 AM
Is this our Richmond Clements?

Quote
Richmond Clements, a writer and co-organiser of Inverness's Hi-Ex comic book convention, suggested that for some people zombies mirror personal concerns.

He said: "There is an obsession that runs through fiction, particularly, I would say, through horror and sci-fi, and that is the fear of a loss of identity.

"And this is what zombies represent. It's the fear that you as an individual are not a person but just one of a shambling, faceless crowd, no different than those around you. Of course, the real horror is that for most people this is true.

"The popularity of the zombie walk, where hundreds of people turn up in costume and go on a parade, almost lifts this into another level of irony."

But Clements also believes the zombie tale beloved of the film and TV industries is actually approaching the end of its life.

He said: "Zombies are a small part of a general malaise in the horror genre itself, where ideas, plot and character have been abandoned in favour of shock, gore, sexual violence and tiresome sequels and remakes.

"The genre needs to find some new life and new ideas, or end up (un)dead itself."

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20310825

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 05 December, 2012, 09:54:52 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 05 December, 2012, 09:52:03 AM
Is this our Richmond Clements?

QuoteEverybody's shuffling: Rise of zombies in modern life
By Steven McKenzie
BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter
8 hours ago

.....
Writer Richmond Clements suggests zombies reflect some people's concerns about their lives
Another US academic - James Powell, a mathematical ecologist at Utah State University - uses the idea of a zombie apocalypse to help him explain how real-life viruses such as H1N1 swine flu spread.

In February, he held a public workshop called Mathematics and the Life-Impaired: How the Theory of Disease Predicts the Zombie Apocalypse.

Prof Powell said: "I like using zombie examples because it grabs the students.

"They have an intuitive sense of the disease dynamics, i.e. you get bitten, you turn into a zombie, you bite somebody else...

"They don't get paralysed with too much biological detail, and of course there is a lot of natural zombie humour and participation that we can all do.

"If I talk about polio or cholera I don't feel good about being humorous about how the disease progresses - it's all too tragic and real.

"But with zombies you can be as silly as you like and nobody is going to feel offended."

Prof Powell's fascination with zombies started when he was just five, or six. His mother, thinking young James was asleep in the back of the car, had gone to a drive-in theatre to watch Night of the Living Dead.

"Didn't sleep for a month, which set the pattern for me as a kid watching horror movies," said Prof Powell.

In the UK, zombies have been moaning and groaning across the political landscape.

Lincolnshire County Council revealed in August that it been asked in a freedom of information request about its preparedness for zombies.

And last month, the National Collective, an artists' collaboration that is pro-Scottish independence, published a spoof news story about "fears" that Scotland would be more vulnerable to an invasion if independent.

It comes as no surprise to Edinburgh-based film-maker David Hutchison that the living dead are so popular.

One of his first short films was Zombie Lick about a zombie that craved chocolate not flesh. He is now working on a new script about a Scottish crofting family unearthing a zombie while cutting peats.


One US mathematician describes zombie attacks to explain the spread of real viruses
Hutchison said: "The best zombie films cast a reflection of the times.

"Take the wonderful Juan de los Muertos. How would a film-maker comment on modern Cuba, and get past the sensors? By shrouding it as a zombie movie, of course.

"The UK film Harold's Going Stiff, a moving yet funny film, could be seen as a comment on euthanasia, the ageing population and the strain on the NHS.

"Got a mine in Wales? Don't want to pay for a workforce? Use zombies. The Plague of the Zombies from 1966."

Richmond Clements, a writer and co-organiser of Inverness's Hi-Ex comic book convention, suggested that for some people zombies mirror personal concerns.

He said: "There is an obsession that runs through fiction, particularly, I would say, through horror and sci-fi, and that is the fear of a loss of identity.

"And this is what zombies represent. It's the fear that you as an individual are not a person but just one of a shambling, faceless crowd, no different than those around you. Of course, the real horror is that for most people this is true.

"The popularity of the zombie walk, where hundreds of people turn up in costume and go on a parade, almost lifts this into another level of irony."

But Clements also believes the zombie tale beloved of the film and TV industries is actually approaching the end of its life.

He said: "Zombies are a small part of a general malaise in the horror genre itself, where ideas, plot and character have been abandoned in favour of shock, gore, sexual violence and tiresome sequels and remakes.

"The genre needs to find some new life and new ideas, or end up (un)dead itself."

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20310825

Yup.
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Post by: shaolin_monkey on 05 December, 2012, 09:57:38 AM
Cool.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 05 December, 2012, 10:08:46 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 05 December, 2012, 09:57:38 AM
Cool.
Cheers - I'm nothing if not a quote whore.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 December, 2012, 10:38:42 AM
'George Romero's Dawn of the Dead is often said to be a comment on consumerism'

Having spent a couple o hours in IKEA I can confirm this, why the feck go there if your not there to buy something? just wander very slowing aimlessly round, groaning slighty and occasionally rushing pointlessly into groups, while following the herd...?


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 05 December, 2012, 10:43:48 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 December, 2012, 10:38:42 AM
'George Romero's Dawn of the Dead is often said to be a comment on consumerism'

Having spent a couple o hours in IKEA I can confirm this, why the feck go there if your not there to buy something? just wander very slowing aimlessly round, groaning slighty and occasionally rushing pointlessly into groups, while following the herd...?
Indeed. As I said in an unused quote, just pop into a supermarket any Sunday morning and you'll see it isn't actually satire...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jared Katooie on 05 December, 2012, 07:52:21 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 December, 2012, 10:38:42 AM
Having spent a couple o hours in IKEA I can confirm this, why the feck go there if your not there to buy something?

The food is tasty - and cheap!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 December, 2012, 08:01:15 PM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 December, 2012, 04:25:52 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 04 December, 2012, 05:18:39 PM
Its too cold for snow.


Not today it wasnt.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 December, 2012, 04:39:45 PM
Has this been discussed elsewhere? Sorry if I've just missed it: DAY OF CHAOS: fourth faction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Day-Chaos-Faction/dp/1781081085/ref=pd_ys_qtk_general_recs_4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 December, 2012, 01:30:43 PM
so what kind of biscuits were they?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 10 December, 2012, 06:55:08 PM
It snow cold at all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 10 December, 2012, 06:57:37 PM
(http://www.nikkimcwilliams.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CustardCream_2012_Three_WEB.jpg)



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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 10 December, 2012, 07:04:20 PM
You can never get custard cream out of a pillow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 December, 2012, 10:25:11 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 10 December, 2012, 01:30:43 PM
so what kind of biscuits were they?

When trying to overthrow the status quo always go for Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CvBKpKbn8)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 December, 2012, 11:22:18 AM
Dreeeeams? Dreeeeams
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 December, 2012, 01:33:13 PM
We are not alone.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 11 December, 2012, 07:51:45 PM
I am.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 December, 2012, 09:07:30 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 11 December, 2012, 07:51:45 PM
I am.

Yes, but we, whoever we might be, are not.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 11 December, 2012, 09:21:00 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/l3258.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2012, 09:52:21 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 11 December, 2012, 09:21:00 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/l3258.jpg)

Shirely that should be in the cosplay thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2012, 01:47:22 PM
so sorry double  post
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2012, 01:54:25 PM
not really. This just in from Cosh:
Almost every morning at work I have a **** before breakfast with lashings of butter around an inch thick. If theres none left, I will sometimes make do with a plain **** but I'd never entertain a fruit one. My pal agrees with my **** choice, but her husband (who's a jaffa, so what does he know, eh?) thinks we're mad and that his wife shouldn't  lend a pal a hand even with jam on it.

Now, in truth, I'm not at all keen on sweetbread tickling. Brio? No thanks. Pain au erse? I've already beaten. I mean, if your auntie had got them out special I'd beat one off, but I certainly wouldn't buy one.

Just wondered what the general consensus was on this crucial issue?
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Post by: von Boom on 12 December, 2012, 02:18:58 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2012, 01:54:25 PM
not really. This just in from Cosh:
Almost every morning at work I have a **** before breakfast with lashings of butter around an inch thick. If theres none left, I will sometimes make do with a plain **** but I'd never entertain a fruit one. My pal agrees with my **** choice, but her husband (who's a jaffa, so what does he know, eh?) thinks we're mad and that his wife shouldn't  lend a pal a hand even with jam on it.

Now, in truth, I'm not at all keen on sweetbread tickling. Brio? No thanks. Pain au erse? I've already beaten. I mean, if your auntie had got them out special I'd beat one off, but I certainly wouldn't buy one.

Just wondered what the general consensus was on this crucial issue?


Questions like this are the reason we need a world parliament.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 12 December, 2012, 02:38:34 PM
My kids nursery play this year is called "Hump the Camel". Who should I complain to about such filth?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 December, 2012, 05:36:25 PM
Just exactly how many fifth Beatles was there?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2012, 05:37:26 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 12 December, 2012, 05:36:25 PM
Just exactly how many fifth Beatles was there?

Five
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 12 December, 2012, 06:46:55 PM
I'm in bed trying to grab 2 hours sleep. This is the life :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 December, 2012, 08:23:19 PM
We got Sand eyes!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/12/article-2246888-1679CB3D000005DC-995_964x1176.jpg)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 December, 2012, 08:52:44 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 12 December, 2012, 08:23:19 PM
We got Sand eyes!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/12/article-2246888-1679CB3D000005DC-995_964x1176.jpg)
That's really creepy. Where did you find it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 December, 2012, 08:59:42 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2246888/The-eyes-The-iris-pictured-remarkable-incredible-close-shots.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2246888/The-eyes-The-iris-pictured-remarkable-incredible-close-shots.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 December, 2012, 09:03:10 PM
That's absolutely beautiful - I can feel an experiment with a magnifying glass and a mirror coming on...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 December, 2012, 11:06:23 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2012, 09:52:21 AM
Shirely that should be in the cosplay thread?

Dunno, but i reckon this should be. A clearer case of a Smiley/biscuit inspired cosplay will be hard to find. He's even wearing a T-shirt with Dredd on it..

(http://i.imgur.com/WdPvR.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 December, 2012, 04:47:44 PM
marzipan jobbies? marketing genius or business suicide, you decide!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 December, 2012, 08:02:21 PM
Buggrit, burnt my thumb making leek pasties and the bases were a bit soggy 'cos I was too lazy to clean the baking tray and just put tinfoil over yesterday's garlic chicken leavings.  I'm a walking H&S violation. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 December, 2012, 09:02:10 PM
Quote from: Big Barry PengeBack on 18 December, 2012, 08:02:21 PM
Buggrit, burnt my thumb making leek pasties and the bases were a bit soggy 'cos I was too lazy to clean the baking tray and just put tinfoil over yesterday's garlic chicken leavings.  I'm a walking H&S violation.

Are you trying to get a job managing a Greggs? Sounds like you'd be hired in a second.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 December, 2012, 10:57:34 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 18 December, 2012, 09:02:10 PM
Are you trying to get a job managing a Greggs?

Well it has always been my dream to meet a KTT winner.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 December, 2012, 08:19:12 PM
The sand eye thing on the previous page is creepy as hell. It disturbs me more than any horror film I've ever seen.

Cthullu watch - literally!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 December, 2012, 08:56:12 PM
I shaved.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 December, 2012, 09:01:30 PM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 December, 2012, 10:52:07 PM
Today I bought a Country Christmas CD, I am now about to listen to it at work.
I may not return!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 December, 2012, 10:58:03 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 December, 2012, 10:52:07 PM
Today I bought a Country Christmas CD, I am now about to listen to it at work.
I may not return!

I would rather jam sharpened pencils through both eardrums.

Do you know what you get if you play a country record backwards?
You get your woman back, you get your job back, your get your car back...

keep on truckin' good buddy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 19 December, 2012, 11:10:42 PM
Laid in bed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 December, 2012, 11:39:53 PM
I went in to Barnes and Noble and asked to purchase a catalogue of all catalogues that don't include themselves.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 December, 2012, 01:04:33 PM
I just had 24 Cadbury's Heroes for lunch.
I didnt think it too many.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 December, 2012, 01:19:46 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 19 December, 2012, 11:39:53 PM
I went in to Barnes and Noble and asked to purchase a catalogue of all catalogues that don't include themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8fsr (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8fsr) (18m 47s)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 December, 2012, 03:51:51 PM
Spread this about. These sicko's have to be taken down, NOW!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/71701_450781334969550_652274712_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 December, 2012, 04:00:24 PM
These people are seriously vile, no doubt, but sending 'questionable' mail to them would only feed their insanity.

Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that some people are beyond redemption and move on. If no one pays any attention to them then all their antics are worthless.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 December, 2012, 04:26:23 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 20 December, 2012, 04:00:24 PM
Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that some people are beyond redemption and move on. If no one pays any attention to them then all their antics are worthless.

That's the reason I cringe every time Louis Theroux et al give them any airtime.
Without a media profile they'd be a footnote in humanity's repulsiveness by now.

Ignore the c*nts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 20 December, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 20 December, 2012, 04:26:23 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 20 December, 2012, 04:00:24 PM
Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that some people are beyond redemption and move on. If no one pays any attention to them then all their antics are worthless.

That's the reason I cringe every time Louis Theroux et al give them any airtime.
Without a media profile they'd be a footnote in humanity's repulsiveness by now.

Ignore the c*nts.


Have to disagree. Ignoring these fools is dangerous to say the least. They need to be exposed for the bigoted morons they are, and people should actively campaign against them and their bullshit 'Philosophy'.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 December, 2012, 05:34:58 PM
Want to see Tiger close up?

Here the amazing photograph!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/20/article-0-1697C46D000005DC-424_964x642.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 December, 2012, 06:22:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 December, 2012, 05:34:58 PM
Want to see Tiger close up?

That's Francis Dollarhyde's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc57K9MP4SU) chat-up line.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 December, 2012, 07:51:11 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 20 December, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 20 December, 2012, 04:26:23 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 20 December, 2012, 04:00:24 PM
Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that some people are beyond redemption and move on. If no one pays any attention to them then all their antics are worthless.

That's the reason I cringe every time Louis Theroux et al give them any airtime.
Without a media profile they'd be a footnote in humanity's repulsiveness by now.

Ignore the c*nts.


Have to disagree. Ignoring these fools is dangerous to say the least. They need to be exposed for the bigoted morons they are, and people should actively campaign against them and their bullshit 'Philosophy'.

Cheers

Did you see that Keith Allen doc where he uncovers and confronts them with the little known hypocrisy at the heart of the Phelps family?...One thing's for sure, that lot would thrive in the Cursed Earth.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 December, 2012, 10:52:40 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 20 December, 2012, 07:51:11 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 20 December, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 20 December, 2012, 04:26:23 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 20 December, 2012, 04:00:24 PM
Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that some people are beyond redemption and move on. If no one pays any attention to them then all their antics are worthless.

That's the reason I cringe every time Louis Theroux et al give them any airtime.
Without a media profile they'd be a footnote in humanity's repulsiveness by now.

Ignore the c*nts.


Have to disagree. Ignoring these fools is dangerous to say the least. They need to be exposed for the bigoted morons they are, and people should actively campaign against them and their bullshit 'Philosophy'.

Cheers

Did you see that Keith Allen doc where he uncovers and confronts them with the little known hypocrisy at the heart of the Phelps family?...One thing's for sure, that lot would thrive in the Cursed Earth.
Get it done! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 December, 2012, 11:42:54 AM
Anyone else doin f-ck all in work today?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 December, 2012, 11:50:54 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 21 December, 2012, 11:42:54 AM
Anyone else doin f-ck all in work today?

You just described my week.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 December, 2012, 12:46:52 PM
I was in college for litteraly 2 hours, we got told to bugger off at 11. Waist of sodding time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 December, 2012, 02:58:28 AM
Have you ever had something nagging at the back of your mind, like you're sure there's something you should be doing, but ye can't for the life of ye, figure out what it is?

Well I'm just after remembering that I was supposed to destroy the planet.

Scundered.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 22 December, 2012, 01:18:24 PM
Quote from: Pops on 22 December, 2012, 02:58:28 AM
Have you ever had something nagging at the back of your mind, like you're sure there's something you should be doing, but ye can't for the life of ye, figure out what it is?
Well I'm just after remembering that I was supposed to destroy the planet.
Scundered.

It's Christmas so we forgive you. As for those Alien Overlords locked inside some French Mountain well they won't be happy...so just don't go to France.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 22 December, 2012, 02:27:33 PM
I don't care what the professionals say, you can't beat a cotton bud in the ear ;)

Yes folks, Bodies and Doyle can go Drokk themselves!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 December, 2012, 06:46:51 PM
Never put anything larger than a pirate in your ear
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 22 December, 2012, 07:09:01 PM
On first dates, never put anything in a girl that isn't a hot dinner.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 December, 2012, 10:34:36 PM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 22 December, 2012, 07:09:01 PM
On first dates, never put anything in a girl that isn't a hot dinner.
You could giver her...the sausage.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-obLUh0QRLY0/T5Cc2IznFJI/AAAAAAAAAMY/5aMbcKFP08w/s1600/horatio460.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 22 December, 2012, 10:39:06 PM
(http://img.ohkpop.com/2012/04/10/TG47sw35.jpg)





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 December, 2012, 01:50:33 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 December, 2012, 10:34:36 PM
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-obLUh0QRLY0/T5Cc2IznFJI/AAAAAAAAAMY/5aMbcKFP08w/s1600/horatio460.jpg)

Jim Carrey did it better;

http://youtu.be/xvyMM1ZUVwE (http://youtu.be/xvyMM1ZUVwE)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 December, 2012, 09:40:59 AM
The kids are avidly watching Swan Lake on the telly this morning.  What the hell?  And no, it's not the one with the bear in the little car.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 December, 2012, 06:44:59 PM
My mother just exclaimed 'That's a lot of goaling!' when she saw the football scores. Where many would mock her lack of football parlance knowledge, I think it's a splendid turn of phrase, much better than the banal drivel you normally get from the likes of Mark Lawrenson.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 December, 2012, 08:42:42 PM
Just read issue 7 of Nostalgia Magazine, it was OK but i thought issue 6 was better.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 December, 2012, 03:03:09 AM
It's Christmas Eve, not that you lot care, as you are all asleep. I was too, until I woke up a few drokkin' minutes ago. May have to pop down stairs and watch some telly now!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 24 December, 2012, 05:48:29 AM
I've been awake since 3am too. No idea why - just woke up. I might as well get up and have some breakfast.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 24 December, 2012, 08:38:06 AM
Some of us are working- unlike you shower of lazy shites. "ooh, i hath awoken and must flounce downstairs to see if santa hath brung me any early gifts for my conservatory of dredd. But first, where art mine fluffy slippers and silken gown? I couldnt possibly go to work on today of all days, it may mess up my beard and i might miss the postie, delivering yet more last-minute tat." That's you, that is Burdis.

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 December, 2012, 08:47:26 AM
All correct except for one detail, as you jolly well know! If I ain't in my uniform, I flounce around the house naked. Yes I have seen you sat down the bottom of the garden watching me and that's why I always drop something on the floor ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 24 December, 2012, 09:38:12 AM
Oh, that reminds me- still have to make TINY COCKTAIL SAUSAGES.

And a fucking massive wobbly pink blancmange (your knob and your arse, do you see?)

SBT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 24 December, 2012, 09:59:27 AM
Dark knight Tattoo.
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/TheTattooPage
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/156293_10151314282703856_223099397_n.jpg)






V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 December, 2012, 11:39:02 AM
Christmas on Facebook

(http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/6/9/4/157694.jpg?v=1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 25 December, 2012, 03:33:49 PM
Today I rang SBT from the attic while fixing a leak, then I rang S71 from the bedroom while relaxing!
Who is next on the list of calls from areas of my house????
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 25 December, 2012, 03:44:21 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 25 December, 2012, 03:33:49 PM
...then I rang S71 from the bedroom while relaxing!


I really hope you weren't relaxing too much when you phoned... ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 December, 2012, 05:18:51 PM
Its Christmas Day and im watching repeats of Man V Food.  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: WhitBloke on 25 December, 2012, 05:26:53 PM
I refuse to believe Michael Caine is dead.  It's Christmas, for eff's sake!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 December, 2012, 11:13:43 PM
"The Inbetweeners USA"; om, it's like, om, execrable.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 December, 2012, 09:30:06 PM
Bartender says 'We don't serve time-travellers here'. A time-traveller goes in to a bar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 27 December, 2012, 09:43:28 PM
I'm enjoying the film I'm watching but the begining was a bit unbelievable!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 December, 2012, 05:17:27 PM
We not playing i-spy this year?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 December, 2012, 05:27:01 PM
I'm trying out a new chippie at this very moment. A new one has been built closer to the cellar, so I thought "Why not!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 December, 2012, 05:57:30 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 28 December, 2012, 05:17:27 PM
We not playing i-spy this year?

well, sort of.. still waiting fro Emp's next clue! http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=37624.0 (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=37624.0)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DoomBot on 28 December, 2012, 11:20:44 PM
Needs a reboot
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emp on 28 December, 2012, 11:42:56 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 December, 2012, 05:57:30 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 28 December, 2012, 05:17:27 PM
We not playing i-spy this year?

well, sort of.. still waiting fro Emp's next clue! http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=37624.0 (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=37624.0)

ireally need to change my name  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 December, 2012, 12:08:22 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 December, 2012, 05:27:01 PM
I'm trying out a new chippie at this very moment.

Hmmm.

Quotechippie
   
Cheap, common, sexually promiscuous girl, wearing way too much makeup and shiny cheap jewelry, usually underage or close to it.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chippie

Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 25 December, 2012, 03:33:49 PM

Who is next on the list of calls from areas of my house????

H-m-m-m-m.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 29 December, 2012, 02:41:11 PM
Battered sausage, anyone?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 December, 2012, 07:46:26 AM
This is what it looks like. All Hell Breaking loose...that is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQdW6yS5o4&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 30 December, 2012, 11:14:22 AM
Ah, it reminds me of when I went through a Red Light during my Driving Test. Glory days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 December, 2012, 03:50:24 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 30 December, 2012, 11:14:22 AM
Ah, it reminds me of when I went through a Red Light during my Driving Test. Glory days.

...oh dear.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 30 December, 2012, 04:16:09 PM
Let's have another thread about Zenith, Luke Kirby and intellectual property.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 December, 2012, 02:16:15 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 December, 2012, 05:27:01 PM
I'm trying out a new chippie at this very moment. A new one has been built closer to the cellar, so I thought "Why not!"

How was he? are you trying out all types of tradesmen or just the bits o rough near rthe cellar?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 31 December, 2012, 06:46:16 PM
Delicious :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 December, 2012, 10:10:43 PM
 I know Ornella Muti steals the show, but tonight I've fallen heavily for Mariangela Melato.  She has that whole Jacqueline Pearce thing but with a sexier accent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 31 December, 2012, 10:19:02 PM


(http://medias.unifrance.org/medias/116/85/21876/format_page/ornella-muti.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 January, 2013, 09:33:34 AM
Oh my...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/01/article-0-16B7F0CB000005DC-779_306x423.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 02 January, 2013, 10:28:34 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 January, 2013, 09:33:34 AM
Oh my...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/01/article-0-16B7F0CB000005DC-779_306x423.jpg)

So that's what Dredd looks like under the helmet!  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 January, 2013, 12:23:19 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/rvLVb.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 02 January, 2013, 01:14:28 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 02 January, 2013, 12:23:19 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/rvLVb.jpg)

A rookie error not using SandTroopers JJ!  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 January, 2013, 04:15:16 PM
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was premiered 20 years ago today! I feelings old  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 January, 2013, 04:28:30 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 02 January, 2013, 10:28:34 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 January, 2013, 09:33:34 AM
Oh my...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/01/article-0-16B7F0CB000005DC-779_306x423.jpg)

So that's what Dredd looks like under the helmet!  :o

He has the dazed and unkempt look of a man who's spent far too much time in a darkened cellar if you ask me,  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 January, 2013, 09:52:03 PM
Ooh, Make a film or comic out of it!!!

(http://i.imgur.com/6rAD8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 January, 2013, 09:55:50 PM
You could make the lead Stormtrooper a hot chick.
Cinema gold.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 03 January, 2013, 10:00:03 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 January, 2013, 09:55:50 PM
You could make the lead Stormtrooper a hot chick.
Cinema gold.

This.

And I could be in it in full Bill Paxton mode. Before my inevitable doom.

(some strong language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTifdoKXoxM
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 04 January, 2013, 09:36:52 AM
Jay-Z? WTF?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 04 January, 2013, 10:15:07 AM
Kano had only one problem. If he could get round it then his life would have been much better.



He couldn't think outside the box.





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 04 January, 2013, 10:30:39 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 04 January, 2013, 10:15:07 AM
Kano had only one problem. If he could get round it then his life would have been much better.

He couldn't think outside the box.

V

Brilliant!  a cracking joke only 2000AD fans would get!  There must be more...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 January, 2013, 04:51:11 PM
I always chuckle to mesen, whenever somebody mentions Sauerkraut.
Anybody else find certain foodstuffs slightly amusing?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 04 January, 2013, 05:10:09 PM
A mate of mine said her only allergy was "rape" - obviously referring to rapeseed - but I misunderstood and my response was what could charitably be called inappropriate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 January, 2013, 05:10:12 PM
I long for a return to the early cutting edge Threadjacking!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 04 January, 2013, 11:04:04 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 04 January, 2013, 05:10:12 PM
I long for a return to the early cutting edge Threadjacking!
Your penis.





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emp on 04 January, 2013, 11:05:37 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 04 January, 2013, 05:10:12 PM
I long for a return to the early cutting edge Threadjacking!

Are you saying standards have fallen....for shame :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 05 January, 2013, 10:31:50 AM
Lion Dung! that's the answer mahhn.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 January, 2013, 04:50:57 PM
No, it's all good...I just really like their early stuff.

Quote from: Emp on 04 January, 2013, 11:05:37 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 04 January, 2013, 05:10:12 PM
I long for a return to the early cutting edge Threadjacking!

Are you saying standards have fallen....for shame :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 January, 2013, 09:34:14 PM
I love to pose!

(http://i.imgur.com/XDUyj.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 05 January, 2013, 09:40:42 PM
Straighten that ribbon out!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 January, 2013, 10:00:28 PM
Was that a silver medal for 'smuggest look of self satisfaction' Goaty? ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 January, 2013, 10:01:29 PM
It was for ugly runner of the event!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 January, 2013, 10:04:41 PM
you have seen the 'What do you look like' thread I assume?
You're probably the 4th most handsome comic book reader on the planet!:)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 January, 2013, 10:06:10 PM
I feelings proud! Where the hell that thread is?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 January, 2013, 10:33:43 PM
Was it a 'Give Alex Garland a twenty minute head start and we'll see who can catch him' race?  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 January, 2013, 09:32:55 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/zHkp7.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 07 January, 2013, 10:41:05 AM
Dredd pre-order & a case of wine...I yum the law.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 January, 2013, 01:23:04 PM
The workings of rechargeable batteries are a mystery to me - my multimeter shows a different voltage for each and every one, despite my using them in sets in the same device and charger.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 January, 2013, 03:49:15 PM
pirates vs polis? why no youtube of that  eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 January, 2013, 08:22:47 PM
Channel Four News has a correspondent called Fatima Maji (http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/c4-news-names-new-reporters/5036372.article), which if you hear it wrong when you're concentrating on something else, sounds a bit like Fatima Mansions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 January, 2013, 05:58:06 PM
I enjoyed Universal Studios. They should put rollercoasters in every shopping mall
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 January, 2013, 11:00:13 PM
Anybody wanna buy some HMV vouchers?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 09 January, 2013, 12:24:14 AM
I never thought it could be topped but I feel it may!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 09 January, 2013, 06:05:07 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 08 January, 2013, 11:00:13 PM
Anybody wanna buy some HMV vouchers?

Too late. Ive spent 'em.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 09 January, 2013, 06:10:37 PM
What about some Jessops vouchers!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 January, 2013, 09:44:18 AM
Play vouchers as well!  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 January, 2013, 09:44:44 AM
100 eps of the Clone Wars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S3f_dGPdY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06S3f_dGPdY)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 January, 2013, 12:02:45 PM
Propaganda of WWII. Oh hi bigotry!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 January, 2013, 05:16:56 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 08 January, 2013, 11:00:13 PM
Anybody wanna buy some HMV vouchers?

How did you know????
I really have to get out this weekand and spend any I have.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 10 January, 2013, 09:22:33 PM
Never understood the need for vouchers when cold hard cash can be spent in any shop.





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 January, 2013, 12:04:22 AM
Horses for courses

I've just checked the burgers in the fridge... and they're off!

A Supermarket Burger walks into a bar and says "Pint Please"
The barman says "I can't hear you, what was that?"
The burger says "Sorry, I'm a little bit horse today.."

My Lovely Horse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg)

These burgers won't stay on the shelves furlong.

And so forth...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 January, 2013, 12:27:10 AM
I love horses from Ireland and Yorkshire but I couldn't eat a whole one!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 January, 2013, 08:06:46 AM
Quote from: Pops on 16 January, 2013, 12:04:22 AM

These burgers won't stay on the shelves furlong.


I canter imagine a worse burger.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 January, 2013, 05:26:38 PM
Horse sausages are good value for money. Very filling...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 16 January, 2013, 06:51:28 PM
I don't know how truthful these reports about the burgers are.  I doubt we'll ever know the foal story.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 January, 2013, 07:31:38 PM
Anyone else have annoying 'Eye floaters' when using their laptop / iPad????
Is Link past his Prime at the ripe ol age of 35...?
Jeez.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 January, 2013, 07:32:49 PM
What's an eye floater?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 January, 2013, 07:39:11 PM
Quote from: Pops on 16 January, 2013, 07:32:49 PM
What's an eye floater?

Don't try lookin for em Pops- once discovered, never forgotten...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 16 January, 2013, 07:40:39 PM
Quote from: Pops on 16 January, 2013, 07:32:49 PM
What's an eye floater?

It's a part of the fluid in your eye that has become more viscous than the rest.  This affects your vision in the form of 'floaters' - little opaque tadpole-like things that float in and out of your field of vision.  I have several. They're bloody annoying!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 January, 2013, 07:41:45 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 16 January, 2013, 07:40:39 PM
Quote from: Pops on 16 January, 2013, 07:32:49 PM
What's an eye floater?

It's a part of the fluid in your eye that has become more viscous than the rest.  This affects your vision in the form of 'floaters' - little opaque tadpole-like things that float in and out of your field of vision.  I have several. They're bloody annoying!

Misery loves company Shaolin!  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 16 January, 2013, 08:37:22 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 16 January, 2013, 07:40:39 PM
Quote from: Pops on 16 January, 2013, 07:32:49 PM
What's an eye floater?

It's a part of the fluid in your eye that has become more viscous than the rest.  This affects your vision in the form of 'floaters' - little opaque tadpole-like things that float in and out of your field of vision.  I have several. They're bloody annoying!
No they are ghosts just outside of your peripheral vision. God don't you know anything.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 January, 2013, 10:12:27 PM
Went into a chipper and ordered a burger.

Woman behind the counter asked me did I want anything on it?

Fiver each way I said.

ZING!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 January, 2013, 10:14:51 PM
Priceless.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 January, 2013, 10:17:29 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/lWs9Q.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 January, 2013, 10:36:17 PM
All you lottery players get set for a slight increase on your ticket cost, 100% rise. It's coming this year!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 January, 2013, 01:06:19 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 January, 2013, 10:36:17 PM
All you lottery players get set for a slight increase on your ticket cost, 100% rise. It's coming this year!

BAH! The whole thing's just a tax on hope.

Anyway back to horse burgers. A horse is a big muscular animal and looks delicious, but my problem with eating one (and definitely not a whole one), is that they wear shoes. It's an animal that wears clothes. I have no problem with eating any kind of animal, but a cartoon animal? You'd have to be some sort of monster.

Unless it's roadrunner. That cocky wee streak of shite has it coming.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 January, 2013, 04:34:51 AM
Vox pop in Tesco regarding horsemeat scandal. (http://youtu.be/cDGlN6mluGA)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 January, 2013, 09:49:49 AM
Mods: please merge with Unicorn Thread
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 January, 2013, 05:47:38 PM
Pfffttt. I stay away from the site for a couple of months and return to find that not only did nobody even notice I was gone, but also everyone's being really polite and well mannered in Threadjacking.

Luckily I've returned just in time to stumble in, call Proudhuff a wanker, kick shaolin_monkey in the bollocks, be sick on CF's shoes and then run off, weeing my trousers.

That's better.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 January, 2013, 05:48:39 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 January, 2013, 05:47:38 PM
Pfffttt. I stay away from the site for a couple of months and return to find that not only did nobody even notice I was gone, but also everyone's being really polite and well mannered in Threadjacking.

Luckily I've returned just in time to stumble in, call Proudhuff a wanker, kick shaolin_monkey in the bollocks, be sick on CF's shoes and then run off, weeing my trousers.

That's better.

Welcome back you b@stard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 January, 2013, 05:52:23 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 January, 2013, 05:47:38 PM
Pfffttt. I stay away from the site for a couple of months and return to find that not only did nobody even notice I was gone, but also everyone's being really polite and well mannered in Threadjacking.

Luckily I've returned just in time to stumble in, call Proudhuff a wanker, kick shaolin_monkey in the bollocks, be sick on CF's shoes and then run off, weeing my trousers.

That's better.

Have you be looking in my window again?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 January, 2013, 06:06:45 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 17 January, 2013, 05:52:23 PM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 17 January, 2013, 05:47:38 PM
Pfffttt. I stay away from the site for a couple of months and return to find that not only did nobody even notice I was gone, but also everyone's being really polite and well mannered in Threadjacking.

Luckily I've returned just in time to stumble in, call Proudhuff a wanker, kick shaolin_monkey in the bollocks, be sick on CF's shoes and then run off, weeing my trousers.

That's better.

Have you be looking in my window again?

On this occasion you were performing the act whilst going through the bins outside my house.

The authorities have been handed the 3 hour video recording I made as evidence.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 17 January, 2013, 06:08:08 PM
I wondered where that mess came from :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 17 January, 2013, 06:10:45 PM
I noticed you were missing due to the lack of someone whining they coudn't afford to see Dredd more than once.   ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 January, 2013, 09:58:10 PM
That fucking smells back again.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 January, 2013, 11:04:36 PM
Is it just me, or are there 200% more TV ads for the Dredd DVD than the cinema release?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emp on 17 January, 2013, 11:39:36 PM
it's not you
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 January, 2013, 11:06:08 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 17 January, 2013, 09:58:10 PM
That fucking smells back again.
V

Give it five minutes
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 18 January, 2013, 06:03:57 PM
The apocalypse level of any weather event is directly proportional to its distance from London.  Oh no, its snowing a bit! Evacuate the cities! Southern fearties.

A few weeks ago, most of Wick blew away, and nobody cared.  Except both the people who live in Wick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 January, 2013, 08:04:16 PM
If it wasn't for Facebook I might not have even noticed it was snowing.

Or that my friends are a buncha snow scared sissies.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 January, 2013, 11:50:18 PM
Dat French chick off American Horror Story is SUPER hot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 January, 2013, 12:49:42 AM
Went into the papershop after work this morning to buy the Kent Messenger. Anyway a bloke from a builder's van was in front of me and asked the woman on the till if they sold cans of beer at this time of the morning, she said no and off he went.
The worst is yet to come. Now if I walked into a pub I wouldn't be able to smell drugs, if they were in there but this bloke absolutely STUNK of pot. It really was that overpowering that even I could smell it.
What you make of that I shall let you decide!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emp on 19 January, 2013, 12:54:27 AM
Don't be hiring him
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 January, 2013, 08:11:03 PM
I was once working near a playarea and i caught a hellish blast of dope. Turning round to see where it was coming from, the only people about was a bloke and his two very young kids playing on the swings.
Now, im no prude...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 19 January, 2013, 08:31:04 PM
It's disheartening when I go into a house to install VM and the smell of skunk knocks you for six, and there are young children in there as well. I am talking 3 years old and younger. This is the kind of future our nation has. This is not a rare occurance either. Also when a child of 3 comes up to you with a lego policeman and is saying 'Filth' while the parents are arguing about whether to spend the last £10 on food or weed what can you do?




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 January, 2013, 04:13:27 PM
Caught this Carpenters tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrSVOOK610) on the radio today. Not heard it in years, and id forgotten just how supremely bonkers/fuckin awful it was.
What was they thinking?






Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 January, 2013, 04:52:14 PM
Have you lot heard the news! Dredd's GAY :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2013, 05:03:21 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 January, 2013, 04:52:14 PM
Have you lot heard the news! Dredd's GAY :o
'Gasp' Get the spit and stones lad's! We got a poof on the board!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 28 January, 2013, 05:55:24 PM
I'm appalled by the idea that Dredd might be a heterosexual.  Don't get me wrong, I don't have any problem with straight people, if that's they way they are, that's just fine.  Some of my best friends are heterosexuals. what they get upto in the privacy if their own "homes" with their "partners" is entirely their own business, but a comic isn't the place to address such serious issues.

Suggesting Dredd might be a heterosexual is clearly just a publicity stunt by the pinko leftist scum who write for 2000ad.  You might be interested in vaginas, mr writer, but leave Dredd out of it!

Dredd clearly doesn't bat for that side- he's butch, macho, and wears leather and chains.  He has strong feelings about personal grooming.  He has no interest in women: just look how dismissive he is of the Chief Judge, compared to the care and friendship shown to Giant.

He's gay! As gay as gay can be! An out and proud, beautiful gay man! An inspiration to gay men everywhere, and this suggestion he might not be...it makes me sick.  Don't they realise the risk of losing readers with the suggestion that he might be attracted to the female form!  Homosexual bigots up and down the country will be burning issues in disgust!  I'll call my MP, I tell you!

I don't mind if some other judge is written to be straight-I don't have any issues with heterosexual characters.  I'm sure they appeal to a certain audience of boob obsessed perverts.  But leave Dredd alone.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 28 January, 2013, 06:41:41 PM
Monuments!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 28 January, 2013, 07:06:12 PM
Bloody twitter >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 January, 2013, 07:11:12 PM
The Queen Abdicates on 30 April!

http://nos.nl/video/467380-koningin-beatrix-maakt-aftreden-bekend.html (http://nos.nl/video/467380-koningin-beatrix-maakt-aftreden-bekend.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2013, 07:12:47 PM
Quote from: Judge von Boom on 28 January, 2013, 07:11:12 PM
The Queen Abdicates on 30 April!

http://nos.nl/video/467380-koningin-beatrix-maakt-aftreden-bekend.html (http://nos.nl/video/467380-koningin-beatrix-maakt-aftreden-bekend.html)
Oh you tease! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 28 January, 2013, 08:58:54 PM
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/14/14/anigif_enhanced-buzz-14064-1352922965-6.gif)






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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 January, 2013, 09:14:06 PM
Just sayin'.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Thaddeus_Stevens_-_Brady-Handy-crop.jpg
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 28 January, 2013, 09:39:54 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 28 January, 2013, 08:58:54 PM
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/14/14/anigif_enhanced-buzz-14064-1352922965-6.gif)






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I'm sorry and I know I really shouldn't laugh , but that made me choke on my milk  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 28 January, 2013, 09:56:03 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 28 January, 2013, 09:39:54 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 28 January, 2013, 08:58:54 PM
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/14/14/anigif_enhanced-buzz-14064-1352922965-6.gif)






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I'm sorry and I know I really shouldn't laugh , but that made me choke on my milk  :lol:

I don't laugh out loud a lot. But that made me laugh out loud. A lot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 28 January, 2013, 09:57:47 PM
I can honestly say , it's the funniest thing I've seen on these here parts since...ooh I dunno!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 January, 2013, 10:54:02 PM
Laughter will turn to bemusement. Then anger. Then hatred.*
(If you watch the full clip on the 'tube and see her get up from her cartoonish fall and walk down the friggin escalator!)


* used for dramatic effect- I don't have the ability to actually hate any person  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 February, 2013, 10:46:52 AM
We can no longer talk about "phone book" collections of our favourtite thrills - I've just had my new BT phone book delivered and it's pathetic! about 8" wide and thinner than a Mills & Boon
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 February, 2013, 10:55:22 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 February, 2013, 10:46:52 AM
We can no longer talk about "phone book" collections of our favourtite thrills - I've just had my new BT phone book delivered and it's pathetic! about 8" wide and thinner than a Mills & Boon

Why are people like you always bashing Pat Mills?






and the bishop
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 04 February, 2013, 02:41:46 AM
I don't really care for this sport, but I've seen The Wire, and I reckon those Baltimore people are due a break
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Third Estate Ned on 06 February, 2013, 08:55:49 PM
Since I hardly contribute, here's a list of my favourite five boarders who often do (in no particular order):

1) sauchie: always informed, always entertaining, always articulate.
2) Colin_YNWA: bags of info, insight and advice about comics, readily given to the uninitiated.
3) Tordelback: a frequent voice of wisdom, insight and balance.
4) SBT: unafraid to be the voice of dissent without being nasty about it.
5) Dark Jimbo: master of lists. Destroyer of wallets.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 06 February, 2013, 09:11:16 PM
ARRRRGH! ARRRRRRRRGH! ARRRRRRRRRRGH





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 February, 2013, 09:15:08 PM
Shh!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 February, 2013, 10:29:23 PM
Deja Vu?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 06 February, 2013, 10:32:46 PM
Ouija board?




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 February, 2013, 10:44:00 PM
This weeks Dredd features sexy boobies!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 07 February, 2013, 01:28:03 PM
Mark "I wrote kickass, y'know" Millar has claimed the planned JLA movie will flop, since the characters are so old.  Who wants to watch some movie featuring classic characters who have been best sellers for sixty odd years, when you can have sweary underage girls instead.  In other news, he's working on something with brand new cutting edge characters who'll be called the "xmen", or something.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 07 February, 2013, 03:11:42 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 07 February, 2013, 01:28:03 PM
Mark "I wrote kickass, y'know" Millar has claimed the planned JLA movie will flop, since the characters are so old.  Who wants to watch some movie featuring classic characters who have been best sellers for sixty odd years, when you can have sweary underage girls instead.  In other news, he's working on something with brand new cutting edge characters who'll be called the "xmen", or something.
I really don't like Mark Miller. Just want to put that out there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: MercZ on 07 February, 2013, 07:28:47 PM
This is my 100th post.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 February, 2013, 07:37:05 PM
Congratulations on becoming a page numbering droid!

and by a bizarre coincidence this is my 6000th! (i need to get a life... :D)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 February, 2013, 09:08:49 AM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/531793_300138276776118_626249781_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 February, 2013, 10:27:58 AM
FACT: Geek is an anagram of COOL
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 February, 2013, 04:12:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 February, 2013, 10:27:58 AM
FACT: Geek is an anagram of COOL

On that note, what's virgin?  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 February, 2013, 04:25:06 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 08 February, 2013, 04:12:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 February, 2013, 10:27:58 AM
FACT: Geek is an anagram of COOL

On that note, what's virgin?  ;)
Cucumber.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 February, 2013, 08:24:07 PM
Olive Oil: the product that invented degrees of virginity.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 08 February, 2013, 08:28:23 PM
I had a 1/2lb Cheeseburger for tea and it was delicious :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 08 February, 2013, 08:33:42 PM
My cracked heel's are really giving me gyp. How can you limp when each heel hurts like fook. Glad I have my Schol cream to sooth it.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 09 February, 2013, 08:49:09 AM
I know we live in an age of photoshop, but - by 'eck, Helen Mirren (67!!) looks incredibily do-able on the cover of this weeks Radio Times
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 09 February, 2013, 09:16:25 AM
The group dynamics of three sisters is fascinating.  They're all vying for alpha/apex but each outdoes the other in a specialist area, namely brains, brawn, and the ability to scream the loudest.  As such, an uneasy balance of power is appearing.

It's like Game of Thrones in my living room.  Or Monkey World.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 February, 2013, 10:37:49 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 08 February, 2013, 08:28:23 PM
I had a 1/2lb Cheeseburger for tea and it was delicious :D

I think 'hands' are the correct unit of measurement in this context. Which part of the horse Findus and Teso get the cheese from is open to conjecture.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 09 February, 2013, 11:03:17 AM
Its Fromunda cheese, isnt it?
Those weird foreigners will eat owt, and now their trying to turn us. Time to send the B.E.F across the channel again, methinks. Give 'em a taste of British spunk - lets see how they like that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 February, 2013, 01:51:07 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 09 February, 2013, 11:03:17 AMGive 'em a taste of British spunk...

It always comes back to Greggs with you people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 February, 2013, 02:46:35 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 09 February, 2013, 11:03:17 AM
Its Fromunda cheese, isnt it?

Thanks for making me google that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 February, 2013, 03:12:52 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 February, 2013, 01:51:07 PM
It always comes back to Greggs with you people.

As if you never considered moving to London just to be near one!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 09 February, 2013, 03:19:08 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 February, 2013, 03:12:52 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 February, 2013, 01:51:07 PM
It always comes back to Greggs with you people.

As if you never considered moving to London just to be near one!

Pah. I'm moving to Canada just to be near a Tim Horton's!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 February, 2013, 03:21:57 PM
Would you believe that I've seen some petrol stations in Dublin selling Tim Hortons goodies?
Probably not the same as the Canuck stuff though...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 09 February, 2013, 03:24:21 PM
Yes, they had a go at starting in parts of Scotland, too. You're right, though - it's not quite the same.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 February, 2013, 05:29:56 PM
Anyone else afraid to EVER post in 'The Political Thread'...? :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 09 February, 2013, 05:31:36 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 February, 2013, 05:29:56 PM
Anyone else afraid to EVER post in 'The Political Thread'...? :-\

That place is a meatgrinder...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 February, 2013, 09:20:13 PM
Quote from: judda fett on 09 February, 2013, 05:31:36 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 February, 2013, 05:29:56 PM
Anyone else afraid to EVER post in 'The Political Thread'...? :-\

That place is a meatgrinder...
"And next. Sweet meats" What strip was this from everyone?!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 February, 2013, 07:01:23 PM
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65764000/gif/_65764361_beef_consumption_464.gif)


Other (6,700 tonnes) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y_PZPpWTRTU#t=10s)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 10 February, 2013, 07:05:23 PM
Mystery meat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 February, 2013, 09:44:43 PM
The doctor said ive got to make more of an effort to watch what i eat, so ive just booked a ticket for this years Grand National.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 February, 2013, 01:53:50 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 10 February, 2013, 09:44:43 PM
The doctor said ive got to make more of an effort to watch what i eat, so ive just booked a ticket for this years Grand National.

:lol:

Hot coffee sinus flush. Hurts so good.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2013, 05:37:52 PM
Pope Ratzinger isn't actually retiring. He's just moving himself to a different diocese, where no-one knows what he got up to at his previous posting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 February, 2013, 07:40:13 PM

Goaty gone Walter White!

(http://i.imgur.com/VS6aSZD.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 February, 2013, 07:57:03 PM
The forum was crying out for a token baldie!  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 February, 2013, 08:03:14 PM
Hmm...Now that they know how it all went down - where's the initiative in MC1 to fire up another Proteus device and go back and eliminate the Chaos bug at source?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Lenny_Zero on 11 February, 2013, 09:15:48 PM
Took my dog Kuma out for a walk.  Every day I don't bring a poop bag is always the day she shats a sextuple-linker in my neighbor's driveway. *ducks*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 11 February, 2013, 10:11:07 PM
Why is it that no matter what you do it is never enough for a woman.
After a hard weeks work (heavier than normal) I get my usual 2 days off (the weekend to you and me). Bear in mind the wife doesn't work, she took the kids to Barnsley to visit her sister. On her return the first thing she said was oh I see the guinea pigs haven't been cleaned out so what have you done?.
I had hoovered top to bottom, cleaned the bathroom thoroughly, got the basics from the local shop, done a dark wash load and tidied my computer desk (which was an absolute shit pit).
She still had a grump on. It's as if she begrudges me having any free time.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 February, 2013, 12:02:58 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 11 February, 2013, 10:11:07 PM
Why is it that no matter what you do it is never enough for a woman.
After a hard weeks work (heavier than normal) I get my usual 2 days off (the weekend to you and me). Bear in mind the wife doesn't work, she took the kids to Barnsley to visit her sister. On her return the first thing she said was oh I see the guinea pigs haven't been cleaned out so what have you done?.
I had hoovered top to bottom, cleaned the bathroom thoroughly, got the basics from the local shop, done a dark wash load and tidied my computer desk (which was an absolute shit pit).
She still had a grump on. It's as if she begrudges me having any free time.
Plus, speeking from experience, Guinea Pig hutches can be a pain in the arse to clean and I don't blame you for putting that as lower priority, even if it is a tad unfair on the little things. Ah well, they live in their own shit in the wild so hi ho.


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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 February, 2013, 12:26:39 AM
Last time I did a dark wash load, I swear I saw the burning eye of Sauron looking back at me through that spinning vortex of DAZ . I'm very cautious about dark wash loads now.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 February, 2013, 12:29:07 PM
I wonder if ex-Pope will get reference from God at any interviews...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 February, 2013, 02:57:20 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 12 February, 2013, 12:26:39 AM
Last time I did a dark wash load, I swear I saw the burning eye of Sauron looking back at me through that spinning vortex of DAZ . I'm very cautious about dark wash loads now.
I shouldn't worry. Blind bastard can't even see a pair of Hobbits on his own damn lawn.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 February, 2013, 10:07:30 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 12 February, 2013, 02:57:20 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 12 February, 2013, 12:26:39 AM
Last time I did a dark wash load, I swear I saw the burning eye of Sauron looking back at me through that spinning vortex of DAZ . I'm very cautious about dark wash loads now.
I shouldn't worry. Blind bastard can't even see a pair of Hobbits on his own damn lawn.
That's all the encouragement I need to stare right back, unblinking.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 February, 2013, 12:53:46 AM
The 'Bad Pun of the Day' award goes to the Irish Daily Mail, with:

EX BENEDICT
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 February, 2013, 01:11:10 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 13 February, 2013, 12:53:46 AM
The 'Bad Pun of the Day' award goes to the Irish Daily Mail, with:

EX BENEDICT

Nothing beats "For Huhne The Bell Tolls" on the Huffington Post.  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 February, 2013, 07:09:55 AM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 01:11:10 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 13 February, 2013, 12:53:46 AM
The 'Bad Pun of the Day' award goes to the Irish Daily Mail, with:

EX BENEDICT

Nothing beats "For Huhne The Bell Tolls" on the Huffington Post.  :D

That's a beauty...but how about a headline some years ago on a lack of council funding for library books 'BOOK LACK IN ONGAR'?

Some very funny ones here, not sure of the facts on these...
http://t4w.blogs.com/spinningaround/2008/04/book-lack-in-on.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 February, 2013, 10:35:32 AM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

They don't like strangers up there... but who does  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 February, 2013, 02:28:06 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

Nobody can top the staggering headline of the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the day it announced the sinking of the Titanic - 'ABERDEEN MAN DROWNS'...I shit you not.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 February, 2013, 02:33:42 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 13 February, 2013, 02:28:06 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

Nobody can top the staggering headline of the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the day it announced the sinking of the Titanic - 'ABERDEEN MAN DROWNS'...I shit you not.

I have to explain this to people a lot, but that's just a story. It never happened.

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scottish-daily-nails-titanic-myth-as-it-goes-tabloid/ (http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scottish-daily-nails-titanic-myth-as-it-goes-tabloid/)

Sorry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 February, 2013, 03:14:25 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 02:33:42 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 13 February, 2013, 02:28:06 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

Nobody can top the staggering headline of the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the day it announced the sinking of the Titanic - 'ABERDEEN MAN DROWNS'...I shit you not.

I have to explain this to people a lot, but that's just a story. It never happened.

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scottish-daily-nails-titanic-myth-as-it-goes-tabloid/ (http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scottish-daily-nails-titanic-myth-as-it-goes-tabloid/)

Sorry.

No, thank you!
I hate getting caught by hoaxes and myths. A few years ago I even checked out the story and was convinced it was true. So it goes...(burning sensation on face)...I'll get my rad-cloak.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2013, 04:43:50 PM
Heh, I was also told this same story years ago by my tutor when I did a journalism course - but he attributed it to some rag called the Dundee Courier - now who'd work for a shower like that? Trouty put me right when we chatted about this at a con last year.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 13 February, 2013, 04:47:08 PM
I'm going into the attic in a moment, exciting or what!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 February, 2013, 04:48:26 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 13 February, 2013, 04:47:08 PM
I'm going into the attic in a moment, exciting or what!

is that like coming out the closet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 13 February, 2013, 04:52:07 PM
I'm back and yes it is ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 February, 2013, 05:02:40 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2013, 04:43:50 PM
Heh, I was also told this same story years ago by my tutor when I did a journalism course - but he attributed it to some rag called the Dundee Courier - now who'd work for a shower like that? Trouty put me right when we chatted about this at a con last year.

These things can be remarkably resistant to truth...now, about that angel of Mons...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 February, 2013, 05:39:39 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

A recent front page of the Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser (est 1841) bore the headline Sauchie Riots: man arrested. The apparent small scale of the riots explains how I managed to be completely unaware they had taken place.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 February, 2013, 06:08:52 PM
Bloody hell! I just received an notice from ebay that I DIDN'T win the Judge Lex costume. >:(

<shakes fist into sky>

DAMN YOU UNIVERSE!

</shakes fist into sky>

Or perhaps CF ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 February, 2013, 09:11:45 AM


Where is my card, you drokking bastards!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 February, 2013, 06:17:59 PM
I've thought of loads of jokes about Oscar Pistorious today, but someone died and I'd sound like a prick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 February, 2013, 06:41:26 PM
Valentines Day? Knife to your wallet season more like.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 14 February, 2013, 08:16:47 PM
there's only one good valentine and that's My Bloody Valentine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrZsR8hapk
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Lenny_Zero on 14 February, 2013, 11:39:03 PM
Been outside chopping wood. About to fire up the chainsaw. I'm the manliest nerd in the neighborhood.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 February, 2013, 02:48:54 AM
You should try chopping firewood with a big ass lumber axe. I've never used a chainsaw, but swinging a big oul axe makes ye feel manly as fuck.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 15 February, 2013, 03:01:36 AM
Lazy drokkin' drokkers >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Lenny_Zero on 15 February, 2013, 04:22:03 AM
Oh I've been swinging the axe like a badass. Using the wedges and my 20 lb sledge too.  I've worked my way through 3/4 of a cord.  I still have several tons of oak rounds here though. I also happen to have 2 downed trees, so the chainsaw is being used to make rounds for next years chopping.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 15 February, 2013, 07:53:57 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 February, 2013, 06:17:59 PM
I've thought of loads of jokes about Oscar Pistorious today, but someone died and I'd sound like a prick.

Best not go there. You wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 February, 2013, 05:43:52 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 15 February, 2013, 07:53:57 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 February, 2013, 06:17:59 PM
I've thought of loads of jokes about Oscar Pistorious today, but someone died and I'd sound like a prick.

Best not go there. You wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

I see what you did there, Doc. I'm enjoying the efforts of the UK tabloids to find and quote every instance of Pistorious making reference to guns or using vocabulary associated with firearms and/or violence. This Nike ad  (http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2013/02/14/021413-OLY-Pistorius-Nike-PI-AM-_20130214120141912_660_320.JPG) is obviously an swaggering act of bravado, in which the scheming paralympian chillingly reveals his intentions years ahead of the commission of the act - before he'd even met his beautiful victim, in fact.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 February, 2013, 06:03:45 PM
Oh dear god.
http://kotaku.com/5984422/grown-man-turns-living-room-into-enormous-incredible-battle-of-hoth-diorama?utm_source=gizmodo.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 February, 2013, 07:52:23 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 15 February, 2013, 06:03:45 PM
Oh dear god.
http://kotaku.com/5984422/grown-man-turns-living-room-into-enormous-incredible-battle-of-hoth-diorama?utm_source=gizmodo.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation

Restores my faith in humanity, that does.  Particularly the seamless integration of original 80's and post-'95 figures.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 February, 2013, 08:26:15 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 February, 2013, 05:43:52 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 15 February, 2013, 07:53:57 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 February, 2013, 06:17:59 PM
I've thought of loads of jokes about Oscar Pistorious today, but someone died and I'd sound like a prick.

Best not go there. You wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

I see what you did there, Doc. I'm enjoying the efforts of the UK tabloids to find and quote every instance of Pistorious making reference to guns or using vocabulary associated with firearms and/or violence. This Nike ad  (http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2013/02/14/021413-OLY-Pistorius-Nike-PI-AM-_20130214120141912_660_320.JPG) is obviously an swaggering act of bravado, in which the scheming paralympian chillingly reveals his intentions years ahead of the commission of the act - before he'd even met his beautiful victim, in fact.

Oh dear god 2...Why hold back, Sauchie, with John Cleese leading the way ( with this tweet)? "Oscar's defence will be that he was absolutely legless at the time." @JohnCleese
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 February, 2013, 08:27:34 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 February, 2013, 07:52:23 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 15 February, 2013, 06:03:45 PM
Oh dear god.
http://kotaku.com/5984422/grown-man-turns-living-room-into-enormous-incredible-battle-of-hoth-diorama?utm_source=gizmodo.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation

Restores my faith in humanity, that does.  Particularly the seamless integration of original 80's and post-'95 figures.
...must say I'm only ever for the originals!!! ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 February, 2013, 09:03:05 PM
The news that Orson Scott Card is going to write for Superman is a hoax!






The truth is that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is retiring to take over the writing duties of Superman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 15 February, 2013, 09:04:38 PM
There was a very fine pair on show on Eggheads today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 15 February, 2013, 09:07:30 PM
Conservatory repaired :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 February, 2013, 09:17:22 PM
Meteorite my arse. The Ruskies are testing new weapons.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279020/Russian-meteor-shower-Sonic-boom-caused-meteorite-hurtling-Chebarkul-injures-1-000-people.html?ITO=google_news_rss_feed&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=google_news_rss_feed



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 February, 2013, 11:20:53 PM
How do I reach theesse keeeeeeds.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Emp on 15 February, 2013, 11:25:39 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 February, 2013, 11:20:53 PM
How do I reach theesse keeeeeeds.


Sounds like a spanish Jimmy Saville
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 February, 2013, 11:33:45 AM
Edinburgh brought to (more than usual) standstill by Krispy Kreme  :lol: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh)

I wonder if they offer deep fried doughhnuts?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 February, 2013, 12:02:47 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 16 February, 2013, 11:33:45 AM
Edinburgh brought to (more than usual) standstill by Krispy Kreme  :lol: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh) I wonder if they offer deep fried doughhnuts?

I was going to do the "is that a donut or a meringue/or am I wrang?" (http://www.eurogamer.net/forum/thread/102514) gag, but that works better for weegies and their mangled vowels than it does for the fur coat and nae knickers brigade of our nation's capital.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 February, 2013, 03:07:30 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 16 February, 2013, 12:02:47 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 16 February, 2013, 11:33:45 AM
Edinburgh brought to (more than usual) standstill by Krispy Kreme  :lol: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh) I wonder if they offer deep fried doughhnuts?

I was going to do the "is that a donut or a meringue/or am I wrang?" (http://www.eurogamer.net/forum/thread/102514) gag, but that works better for weegies and their mangled vowels than it does for the fur coat and nae knickers brigade of our nation's capital.


As i was brought up in a Anglo-Scottish household, it only took a little bit of pondering to work out some of those...

Some braw (is that right?) gags's there though; What did the Siamese twins from Glasgow call their autobiography? Oor
Wullie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 February, 2013, 03:53:20 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 February, 2013, 03:07:30 PM
As i was brought up in a Anglo-Scottish household, it only took a little bit of pondering to work out some of those ... Some braw (is that right?) gags's there though; What did the Siamese twins from Glasgow call their autobiography? Oor Wullie.

There's only a little over five million of us, Jack, so we'll claim you as one of our own anyway. I don't suppose you can play football, because we'll take absolutely anybody. Kris Commons is as Scottish as an Eccles cake.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 February, 2013, 04:03:28 PM
My blood, in part, takes me back to the Buckie-Portessie conurb.
But as to footie - two left feet, im afraid. So am i in?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 February, 2013, 06:49:25 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 February, 2013, 04:03:28 PM
My blood, in part, takes me back to the Buckie-Portessie conurb. But as to footie - two left feet, im afraid. So am i in?

You're over-qualified, chief. Lack of talent, age or infirmity; none of these are any barrier to wearing the dark blue jersey. Darren Fletcher is one of the few folk in the country who would actually meet the ludicrously strict criteria by which ATOS determine eligibility for incapacity benefit, and he still gets a game. Davie Weir never scored with his head because his doodlebug training taught him to take cover in an underground station whenever he sensed objects descending rapidly from above.

Buckie makes Sauchie look like Vegas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 February, 2013, 07:40:57 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 16 February, 2013, 06:49:25 PM
Buckie makes Sauchie look like Vegas.

I always thought it was the collapse of the Scot's Herring market that was the reason why they ALL buggered off...


Id always known about the greater Buckie area, though ive not made the pilgrimage - as yet, but i thought nobody else would have heard of the place.
In my current place of work, it turns out that seven of us - at least, are descended from Buckie stock.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 February, 2013, 10:33:32 PM
Hey ladies, one pound fish.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 February, 2013, 11:11:22 PM
Turns out i'm putting weight on for the first time in my life. Oh joy. :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 February, 2013, 01:55:48 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 16 February, 2013, 11:33:45 AM
Edinburgh brought to (more than usual) standstill by Krispy Kreme  :lol: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/15/krispy-kremes-cause-chaos-edinburgh)

That's the 'M8 Bingo Wing' of the League of Fatties rioting again, this just after The Sauchie Chipshop riot too, wherever next?  :-\

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 February, 2013, 02:24:23 PM
Neil McKenna, award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, will be reading from his sensational new book, 'Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England' - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and the invention of camp.

had me with the title...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 18 February, 2013, 06:26:07 PM
Let's hear it for lycanthropy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 18 February, 2013, 06:41:42 PM
CD Comics - The Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQQ4MLasgs)

*Shudder*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 February, 2013, 06:55:21 PM
58008

Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 February, 2013, 07:16:56 PM
Candy, in Django, eats Umpty. It's Umpty!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 February, 2013, 07:33:47 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 18 February, 2013, 06:41:42 PM
CD Comics - The Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQQ4MLasgs)

I genuinely believe this is the future. We'll all be making our own Dredd films/Fight Club sequels in a little over a decade.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 February, 2013, 09:39:08 AM
Caught Mythbusters for the first time in ages.
Who's this Kari Byron? Dont remember her from before. One for the 'Would you' and 'Underware' threads - if her google images are owt to go by.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 February, 2013, 11:40:17 AM
Your comic creator crush?

A) Sara Pichelli
B) Marjorie Liu
C) Emmanuela Lappachino
D) Rob Liefeld
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 February, 2013, 11:53:09 AM
So I offer to set up a business website for my father-in-law, involving all sorts of brain-stretching on my part (Do you know how much web design has changed since the first (and only) website I produced as recently as 1991?  I didn't), and it decides to stop raining for the first time this year, leaving me mournfully staring out the window at blue skies while I jump up and down on the CSS manual for exercise. 

Anyone planning an outdoor wedding, let me know and I'll get right back into developing photographs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 February, 2013, 12:52:03 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 February, 2013, 11:40:17 AM
Your comic creator crush?

A) Sara Pichelli
B) Marjorie Liu
C) Emmanuela Lappachino
D) Rob Liefeld

I assumed Simone Bianchi was a woman for years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 February, 2013, 03:21:09 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 February, 2013, 11:53:09 AM
Anyone planning an outdoor wedding, let me know and I'll get right back into developing photographs.
Incidently it's my cousins stag do this week end. Hope the wether keep's up. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 February, 2013, 09:06:29 AM


He's not the Wookie, he's a very naughty boy!

(http://i.imgur.com/1o0wj0N.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mogzilla on 20 February, 2013, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 February, 2013, 09:06:29 AM


He's not the Wookie, he's a very naughty boy!

(http://i.imgur.com/1o0wj0N.jpg)



CAPTION COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 February, 2013, 10:10:06 AM
Quote from: mogzilla on 20 February, 2013, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 February, 2013, 09:06:29 AM


He's not the Wookie, he's a very naughty boy!

(http://i.imgur.com/1o0wj0N.jpg)


CAPTION COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"What do you have to say for yourself, young man?!"
"WHAAAAAHHH!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 20 February, 2013, 10:47:22 AM
Quote from: mogzilla on 20 February, 2013, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 February, 2013, 09:06:29 AM


He's not the Wookie, he's a very naughty boy!

(http://i.imgur.com/1o0wj0N.jpg)

'You're not getting a planet of Wookies, you're getting a planet of teddy bears - deal with it!!'


CAPTION COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 February, 2013, 01:41:34 PM
"You didn't get a medal in the last one, you don't get a snog in this one, but you're still not getting a shave in the next one!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 February, 2013, 01:47:00 PM
I told you, Butt crack and sack, now DO IT!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 February, 2013, 06:01:13 PM
Popped in at the local shop at dinner, on the off chance they stocked the prog - they didnt.
So i had a quick flick through some of the Lads Mags, before buying me Monster Munch.
Ive never come across Rebecca Crow before now. Very nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 February, 2013, 06:54:51 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 20 February, 2013, 06:01:13 PM
Ive never come across Rebecca Crow before now. Very nice.

You're a dirty old man.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 February, 2013, 09:31:31 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 20 February, 2013, 06:01:13 PM
Popped in at the local shop at dinner, on the off chance they stocked the prog - they didnt. So i had a quick flick through some of the Lads Mags, before buying me Monster Munch. Ive never come across Rebecca Crow before now. Very nice.

I like the fucked-up hair colours, but she's got all writing on her (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rebecca+crow&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=RTI&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Gj4lUez3EMXP0QXNw4CYDw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1142&bih=600#imgrc=_) and that. I wouldn't mind giving her a monster munch, etc, etc ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 February, 2013, 09:48:48 PM
For all you hungry gits out there

(http://www.gitsfood.com/images/displayimages/aluchanachat.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 20 February, 2013, 09:59:07 PM
looks great von Boom but alas is missing that "Buttonman style" that makes every meal a banquet.

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,37151.0.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 February, 2013, 10:02:32 PM
No one can compare to Buttoman's style when it comes to food.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 February, 2013, 10:14:00 PM
How can it claim to be "100% Vegetarian" when it contains chat (http://www.distinctivelyfrench.com/ekmps/shops/ven48bis/images/-size-large-30cm-x-40cm-size--278-p.jpg)? It's horses all over again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 February, 2013, 10:39:38 PM
I now have 'Lorem Ipsum' burnt into my visual cortex.  But on the upside I do now have a Block Name for my Kickstarter Citi-Def.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 February, 2013, 03:13:09 AM
Jason Kingsley was just on the radio talking about the PS4.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 February, 2013, 11:59:57 AM
(http://epguides.com/JasonKing/cast.jpg)???
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 21 February, 2013, 12:07:01 PM
When this thread started I thought I had a grip on what it was about.

Now it just confuses me. Is this because

1. I'm old and don't understand what you (ahem) young folk get up to anymore.

2. Its a secret and if I don't know I'm not in on it.

3. It really is just a random series of stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else and I'm looking for meaning a little too much.

HELP ME!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 21 February, 2013, 12:17:08 PM
3

but 1 is probably also true, and we're not telling you about 2.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 February, 2013, 05:51:37 PM
My bank.....
Grrrrr!  >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 21 February, 2013, 05:59:53 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 February, 2013, 12:07:01 PM


3. It really is just a random series of stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else and I'm looking for meaning a little too much.

HELP ME!

The thread was original an observation/complaint about other threads going completely off topic.  As a result, everyone has since humourously posted random stuff that has nothing to do with thread jacking. 

Talking off which, Heinz Big Soup Minted Lamb Hotpot is lush!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 21 February, 2013, 08:32:32 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 21 February, 2013, 05:59:53 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 February, 2013, 12:07:01 PM


3. It really is just a random series of stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else and I'm looking for meaning a little too much.

HELP ME!

The thread was original an observation/complaint about other threads going completely off topic.  As a result, everyone has since humourously posted random stuff that has nothing to do with thread jacking. 

Talking off which, Heinz Big Soup Minted Lamb Hotpot is lush!
The pea and ham...fae a chicken?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 February, 2013, 08:26:39 AM
I just stubbed my toe. Fecking sink, how long has that been there?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 February, 2013, 09:03:33 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 February, 2013, 08:26:39 AM
I just stubbed my toe. Fecking sink, how long has that been there?

I did that. Yesterday I walked in to the studio with a coffee and slammed my toe off a table leg. I am determined to emit no sound in these situations and allow only an agonising silence.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 February, 2013, 09:11:46 AM
Thanks a bunch, Colin - you've completely derailed a perfectly good thread. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 22 February, 2013, 09:13:00 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 February, 2013, 09:11:46 AM
Thanks a bunch, Colin - you've completely derailed a perfectly good thread.

Wayhey so I've brought it back on topic then!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 February, 2013, 09:25:36 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 22 February, 2013, 09:13:00 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 February, 2013, 09:11:46 AM
Thanks a bunch, Colin - you've completely derailed a perfectly good thread.

Wayhey so I've brought it back on topic then!

And that is why you fail.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 22 February, 2013, 09:26:52 AM
Oh yeah...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 February, 2013, 10:17:00 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 February, 2013, 10:22:09 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/A77UMOj.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 February, 2013, 12:21:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 22 February, 2013, 10:17:00 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

And again!!!....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksxdrMPUAwk
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 22 February, 2013, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 21 February, 2013, 08:32:32 PM

The pea and ham...fae a chicken?
Noo that's clever!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 February, 2013, 08:26:04 PM
People don't know what the different between artists (song) and real artists(illustrations)!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 22 February, 2013, 08:31:58 PM
If this thread goes off topic again, I'm locking it. Thin ice, people, thin ice...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 22 February, 2013, 09:30:13 PM
Castles. Pretty black castles.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 February, 2013, 03:40:44 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 22 February, 2013, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 21 February, 2013, 08:32:32 PM

The pea and ham...fae a chicken?
Noo that's clever!

I could have sworn the eye of your avatar moved...there it goes again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 February, 2013, 03:41:42 PM
Question is, will Threadjacking get a sequel?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 February, 2013, 06:26:02 PM
Only if more American boarders post in here.

Anyway the mighty Mariners are off to Wembley, which means im off to that there London soon. 
(Shame it wasnt this weekend though, could have popped in to see Mr Wagner and that, at the LSCC)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 February, 2013, 07:31:39 PM
Has Shark been about lately? I fear something sinister may have happened to him, possibly involving unmarked black helicopters.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 23 February, 2013, 10:58:43 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 23 February, 2013, 03:40:44 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 22 February, 2013, 08:22:37 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 21 February, 2013, 08:32:32 PM

The pea and ham...fae a chicken?
Noo that's clever!

I could have sworn the eye of your avatar moved...there it goes again.


I have been waiting so very very long for anyone to notice that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 February, 2013, 08:54:49 AM
"Yes!" still sleepy. Nadet Nadechworld (wiki not moat nadet pastry) from FB: DONT Magazine. (Translated by Bing)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 February, 2013, 09:00:01 AM
Got a spot on my ear lobe. I must share my pain.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 February, 2013, 09:31:50 AM
It's such a gorgeous morning, it'd be a criminal waste to go to the gym.

See also: "It's such a foul morning..", "it's such a gorgeous evening...", "it's such a clear night..." etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 February, 2013, 10:02:58 AM
If a horse with a toothy anus face was chasing me, I'd be running too, Tweak, believe me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 February, 2013, 12:41:05 PM
I disagree with your opininon.

But I don't think you'll pay attention unless I personally insult you or describe the thing you like as terrible rubbish.

The word "terrible" may be replaced by a stronger, more offensive adjective or intensifier.
The word "rubbish" may be replaced by a more offensive noun.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 February, 2013, 12:42:32 PM
And I may make some more passive/aggresive posts shortly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 February, 2013, 02:01:50 PM
I know who you are  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 February, 2013, 03:33:06 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 25 February, 2013, 12:42:32 PM
And I may make some more passive/aggresive posts shortly.

Well I sincerely hope you have fun with that
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 February, 2013, 04:25:20 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 25 February, 2013, 03:33:06 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 25 February, 2013, 12:42:32 PM
And I may make some more passive/aggresive posts shortly.

Well I sincerely hope you have fun with that
yeah you and whose army?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 February, 2013, 05:14:02 PM
What do you mean, 'what's wrong'?  Nothing's wrong.  Why would anything be wrong?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 February, 2013, 05:30:49 PM
Never like Morecambe and Wise, really. Thought they were pants.
The Two Ronnies, on the other hand, were brilliant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 February, 2013, 08:06:15 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 25 February, 2013, 05:30:49 PM
Never like Morecambe and Wise, really. Thought they were pants.
The Two Ronnies, on the other hand, were brilliant.
Love them both equaly, but The Two Ronnies have always had the greater impact on me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 February, 2013, 08:17:47 PM
Ah, Threadjacking, we meet again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 25 February, 2013, 08:18:35 PM
That was fun :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 February, 2013, 09:07:22 PM
According to today's Daily Record, otter penises are getting smaller. The report states that this will have dire consequences for the sex life of all Scots.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 February, 2013, 09:18:58 PM
This raises many questions.

First off, since when have Scots been stereotyped as having a sex life involving otter cocks?

Secondly, what were they trying to learn when they embarked on a long term record of the length of otter cocks? Or did they just decide to measure every bit on the otters over several generations to see what sort of interesting graphs they could cobble together?

Thirdly, why should this be so? Is there an advantage to having a small cock (if you're an otter) that is favoured by national selection?

Finally, could the otter's penis disappear completely in the future?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 February, 2013, 09:21:49 PM
Is it often cold in Scotland?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 February, 2013, 09:41:53 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 25 February, 2013, 09:18:58 PM
This raises many questions. First off, since when have Scots been stereotyped as having a sex life involving otter cocks?

Secondly, what were they trying to learn when they embarked on a long term record of the length of otter cocks? Or did they just decide to measure every bit on the otters over several generations to see what sort of interesting graphs they could cobble together?

Thirdly, why should this be so? Is there an advantage to having a small cock (if you're an otter) that is favoured by national selection? Finally, could the otter's penis disappear completely in the future?

I think they might just have interviewed the girlfriends of otters. This anecdotal approach is fraught with difficulty, since I find that girls' estimation of the size and satisfactoriness of one's cock varies quite markedly according to whether one is still going out with them or not.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 February, 2013, 09:48:07 PM
"We Saw Your Boobs" song is very catchy...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 26 February, 2013, 08:26:41 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 February, 2013, 09:07:22 PM
According to today's Daily Record, otter penises are getting smaller. The report states that this will have dire consequences for the sex life of all Scots.

That's a typo, Sauchie, they mean 'other penises', so nothing to worry about.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 26 February, 2013, 01:03:26 PM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtArdiGu7xE/TTZeWnsATFI/AAAAAAAAAmU/eUH1gmUWFNM/s400/livesofoders.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 26 February, 2013, 01:14:40 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 26 February, 2013, 01:03:26 PM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dtArdiGu7xE/TTZeWnsATFI/AAAAAAAAAmU/eUH1gmUWFNM/s400/livesofoders.jpg)
It's a dam lie and I can prove it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 26 February, 2013, 10:23:14 PM
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff200/vzzbuxblx/GayDredd_zpsf024b7b8.jpg)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 27 February, 2013, 07:40:48 PM
Bring back the Natural purple carrot instead of the genetically modified orange trash we are used to.
(http://nutiva.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/purple-carrots.jpg)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 27 February, 2013, 07:45:08 PM
I went to a trade show years ago when I was a landscape gardener and there was a stand there with a group of people from the Netherlands selling seeds and seedlings of loads of different old world strains of carrots in all sorts of colours, most of which had been extinct in Britain for centuries. They said they could hardly keep up with the orders from smallholders and garden centres, I guess the big super markets were too scared to invest in something so "weird".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 27 February, 2013, 07:47:25 PM

A Cockatoo & Caribou,
both knew their bills were overdue,
The gas, the 'lectric, broadband too,
and as they owed a bob or two,
and knew the inland revenue,
would take what wealth they might accrue.

They cried into the night "Fcuk You!"
And caring not, who might pursue,
They bid the world they knew 'adieu'
and headed for a rendevous,
They'd made with Dave, a kangaroo,
who met them on the Avenue,
and who; ( were you to ask him to,)
Could get you 'stuff'; pre-owned or new,
like shoes, or trews, a used Kazoo
with none of your hulabaloo.
(For Dave respected no taboo,
and he had 'contacts' at the Zoo)

Dave brought them to a fine canoe,
he'd made with bamboo shoots and glue.
"This boat, I think, should do for you,
-It's brand-new and it fits just two"
said Dave, ... "Thank's Dave: Merci Boucoup"
They both replied, and then set-to,

and so without further ado...

The Caribou and Cockatoo,
sailed out upon the ocean blue,
they rowed and rowed and rowed anew
in search of their own Xanadu.

With much to eat, but naught to do.
The Caribou just grew and grew,
Soon Caribu wore a Mumuu.
and even that, he soon outgrew.
(The Menu WAS chocolate fondue).

Their plans were, soon to go, askew,
For who should come upon them, who?
But pirates! Yes! a scrurvy crew!
A Captain and his retinue,
This was indeed some "how d'ye do"

"Avast ye swabs!" said Pirate Hugh
the Captain who has hitherto,
remained un-named (but that's now through,
his name was Hugh, it's true: who knew?)
" I know what we shall do with you!
We'll chop your muscle and sinew
and make a tasty Barbecue!
and when there's nothing left to chew,
We'll keep the bones and residue
& make a stock , to imbue Stew,
with flavour," "Sir, I must poo-poo
suggestions of this nature, who,
would contemplate such action, who?"
said Caribou, but Captain Hugh,
proved not so easy to subdue:

"I'll hear none of that guff from you!-
I'll boil you down into a goo,
and sell you as a cure for flu'
or as a new type of Shampoo!"

"What both of us?" cried Caribou.
"Why no!" said Hugh "I mean just you!
I made a deal with Cockatoo."

It's shocking to relate but true

and at that moment off she flew,
with all the money they'd withdrew.

So just in case you misconstrue,
The moral of this brief revue,

I'll spell it out right here for you:

A bird might hang around when the money's gone, but I wouldn't rely on it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 27 February, 2013, 08:40:13 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 26 February, 2013, 10:23:14 PM
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff200/vzzbuxblx/GayDredd_zpsf024b7b8.jpg)




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Cross-bar 'I' = fail.

Wait here, and Mr J Campbell will be along shortly to berate you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 February, 2013, 09:00:50 PM
I finally figured it out...that kiss at the end, between Stallone and 'Hershey'...it's actually the film Cal was casting about Dredd....that explains everything.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 February, 2013, 09:35:52 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 27 February, 2013, 07:40:48 PM
Bring back the Natural purple carrot instead of the genetically modified orange trash we are used to.

It was the Dutch who interbred the carrot to emphasise the orange pigment, for religious and political reasons. Following the reformation, Protestants have made much of the weirder aspects of the behaviour and beliefs encouraged by the Catholic church. As far as I know though, the Pope has never attempted to use root vegetables as an instrument of propaganda.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 27 February, 2013, 09:40:02 PM
I shudder to think what the Catholic hierarchy might use a root vegetable as an instrument for...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 27 February, 2013, 09:57:06 PM
Sorry Rich. I only have compupic to do my speech bubbles and comic sans is all they have font wise.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 February, 2013, 10:35:39 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 27 February, 2013, 08:40:13 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 26 February, 2013, 10:23:14 PM
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff200/vzzbuxblx/GayDredd_zpsf024b7b8.jpg)




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Cross-bar 'I' = fail.

Wait here, and Mr J Campbell will be along shortly to berate you.

You have not been paying attention, Richmond - the crossbar 'I' is upper case, and comics lettering is presented in upper case when shouting or raising voices as seen in the photo - leaving aside context-specific exemptions like the font Todd Klein uses for the character Morpheus in Sandman, only Ultimate Marvel do lower case as standard as a deliberate stylistic choice.

Jim will likely shout at someone anyway, though - tell him Sisters of Mercy were rubbish or something, that'll get his blood up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 February, 2013, 07:44:11 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 27 February, 2013, 08:40:13 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 26 February, 2013, 10:23:14 PM
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff200/vzzbuxblx/GayDredd_zpsf024b7b8.jpg)




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Cross-bar 'I' = fail.

Wait here, and Mr J Campbell will be along shortly to berate you.


Very handy wee specular light reference...that photy, oh yes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 28 February, 2013, 07:19:18 PM
Bloke I sit next to at works fave Bond film is Moonraker. WTF!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 February, 2013, 07:48:52 PM
I like Moonraker. Good fun.
Ive never really liked The Beatles. (Music nazis would have you believe that people only say that to shock..  ::) )
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 March, 2013, 08:22:39 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 28 February, 2013, 07:48:52 PM
Music nazis would have you believe that people only say that to shock..  ::)

Especially if no one asked you what you think of the Beatles in the first place
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 01 March, 2013, 08:36:23 AM
Pneumatic drills!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 March, 2013, 09:01:39 AM
Disney Princess Stories.  I swear to Christ, if I hear the phrase 'inner beauty' once more...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 01 March, 2013, 09:13:13 AM
When 914 posts you reach, look this good you will not.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 March, 2013, 09:13:48 AM
...But wait!  Unable to handle any more, I forced a change of channel, and got to hear Tom Waits singing a duet with Tom Kenny on Spongebob.  Heaven.  And all thanks to the utter vileness of Princess Stories...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 March, 2013, 09:46:40 AM
Quote from: judda fett on 01 March, 2013, 09:13:13 AM
When 914 posts you reach, look this good you will not.

Oil of Yoday, I mean Yoda, I mean Ulay?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 March, 2013, 04:19:10 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 01 March, 2013, 08:22:39 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 28 February, 2013, 07:48:52 PM
Music nazis would have you believe that people only say that to shock..  ::)

Especially if no one asked you what you think of the Beatles in the first place

John Lennon was murdered on my birthday. True that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 01 March, 2013, 06:04:19 PM
Tom Kenny. The man of a thousand voices.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 March, 2013, 10:51:16 PM
It may be the smallest post office in Britain, and regional library, but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSAn0HAvYc
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 March, 2013, 10:58:25 PM
The library where I more-or-less lived as a nipper has reopened after a complete rebuild taking a year or so, which had involved total demolition and its holdings dispersed across the rest of the county.  I visited it shortly after the re-opening, and was greeted by an incredible sight: complete runs of books.  As no-one had had a chance to take anything out, or to bugger-up the shelving order, you literally had complete series, with matching spines, on every side.  Complete runs of 20th Century Boys, of Oldboy, CJ Sansom's Shardlake, Stephen Baxter's many series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Banks' Culture, on and on and on, things I have spent years reserving and poaching and inter-library-loaning to get in order, all laid out like some platonic book buffet.  They even had computer manuals for programs that people still use.

And I only had 10 slots on my card.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 March, 2013, 11:45:55 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 March, 2013, 10:58:25 PM
The library where I more-or-less lived as a nipper has reopened after a complete rebuild taking a year or so, which had involved total demolition and its holdings dispersed across the rest of the county.  I visited it shortly after the re-opening, and was greeted by an incredible sight: complete runs of books.  As no-one had had a chance to take anything out, or to bugger-up the shelving order, you literally had complete series, with matching spines, on every side.  Complete runs of 20th Century Boys, of Oldboy, CJ Sansom's Shardlake, Stephen Baxter's many series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Banks' Culture, on and on and on, things I have spent years reserving and poaching and inter-library-loaning to get in order, all laid out like some platonic book buffet.  They even had computer manuals for programs that people still use.

And I only had 10 slots on my card.

I love libraries...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 04 March, 2013, 09:19:05 PM
I just watched this illuminati symbol heavy rap video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysVzAnR9MY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Then I looked up at the time and it was 9:11pm, and then I glanced at the tv which was on mute and saw an arrow hit a piece of fruit which exploded. What does this mean?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 March, 2013, 09:29:03 PM
Quote from: judda fett on 04 March, 2013, 09:19:05 PM
I just watched this illuminati symbol heavy rap video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysVzAnR9MY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Then I looked up at the time and it was 9:11pm, and then I glanced at the tv which was on mute and saw an arrow hit a piece of fruit which exploded. What does this mean?

You've discovered a subtext to A$AP ROCKY! Great tunes, but I'm surprised they operate on even one level, never mind two.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 04 March, 2013, 09:39:47 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 04 March, 2013, 09:29:03 PM
Quote from: judda fett on 04 March, 2013, 09:19:05 PM
I just watched this illuminati symbol heavy rap video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysVzAnR9MY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Then I looked up at the time and it was 9:11pm, and then I glanced at the tv which was on mute and saw an arrow hit a piece of fruit which exploded. What does this mean?

You've discovered a subtext to A$AP ROCKY! Great tunes, but I'm surprised they operate on even one level, never mind two.

Yeah it certainly caught me off guard. They seem to like the colour purple and now the masons. Can't stop listening to it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 March, 2013, 08:37:41 AM
How does one floss those, A$AP?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 March, 2013, 04:28:43 PM
Its been proper foggy today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PM
HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE WITH SMALL FEET DON'T FALL OVER? HMMM?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 March, 2013, 04:47:20 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PM
HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE WITH SMALL FEET DON'T FALL OVER? HMMM?
(http://static3.fjcdn.com/comments/Because+Science+dumbass+_2ee2b98c320d43ad1b570c60edc86a20.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 05 March, 2013, 05:13:04 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PM
HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE WITH SMALL FEET DON'T FALL OVER? HMMM?
It can only be that their heads are filled entirely with Helium, and this is what keeps them upright.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 March, 2013, 09:14:02 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 05 March, 2013, 05:13:04 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PM
HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE WITH SMALL FEET DON'T FALL OVER? HMMM?
It can only be that their heads are filled entirely with Helium, and this is what keeps them upright.

That's ridiculous, the balance is in the ears, as long as they are the same size, otherwise you fall on the side of the heavier or more bulbous ear.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 March, 2013, 09:29:16 PM
One of my knackers is bigger than the other but that doesn't effect my balance. Maybe it's my third knacker that couter balances it.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 March, 2013, 09:32:09 PM
Aye, Newtons cradle, they call it that on the ward...or so I'm told
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 March, 2013, 09:32:58 PM
So what about big boobies - do they have an effect?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 March, 2013, 10:03:41 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 March, 2013, 09:32:58 PM
So what about big boobies - do they have an effect?

On me, yes.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 March, 2013, 10:32:42 PM
Moaning Man United fans. Your out deal with it. If the incident with the red card went the other way and the ref didn't give it you would all be crying Red Card.





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 March, 2013, 11:17:34 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 05 March, 2013, 10:03:41 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 March, 2013, 09:32:58 PM
So what about big boobies - do they have an effect?

On me, yes.
I didn't think funny was allowed on this thread. I'm writing a letter of complaint and will speak to the vicar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 March, 2013, 01:06:51 AM
Now that same-sex marriage is legal, is there etiquette concerning who proposes to whom? In straight marriage it's traditionally the man who buys the ring and proposes to the woman, but how does it work when the couple is comprised of either two men or two women?

Forgive me if that sounds fierce ignorant, but I only ask to try and remedy my ignorance.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 02:55:28 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 06 March, 2013, 01:06:51 AM
Now that same-sex marriage is legal, is there etiquette concerning who proposes to whom? In straight marriage it's traditionally the man who buys the ring and proposes to the woman, but how does it work when the couple is comprised of either two men or two women?

Forgive me if that sounds fierce ignorant, but I only ask to try and remedy my ignorance.

That is indeed tradition; but not one I'm crazy about, to be honest; it comes from the-chaps-calling-all-the-shots' days; I spose it's quaint in its own way, but me own notion is that it's probably better (even if it seems less rose-mantic) to properly talk about this stuff together like grown-ups.

As for all gender combinations being equal under the law, the new folks at the table will probably just work out their own traditions, one couple at a time. For male gayers it will be a man doin' the askin'; for the lezzer-beanz, it'll be a woman. Apologies if that sounds facetious... I'm coming from a place of ignorance meself, but I watched 'Albert Nobbs'* last night and suddenly this whole issue seemed very straightforward to me.
*Informative, (on this issue)- but not actually a very  good film in its own right.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 March, 2013, 10:54:00 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 05 March, 2013, 09:14:02 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 05 March, 2013, 05:13:04 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PM
HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE WITH SMALL FEET DON'T FALL OVER? HMMM?
It can only be that their heads are filled entirely with Helium, and this is what keeps them upright.

That's ridiculous, the balance is in the ears, as long as they are the same size, otherwise you fall on the side of the heavier or more bulbous ear.

yeah? explain this:

(http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Galleries/Kirk%20Douglas/kirk-douglas-10-sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 March, 2013, 11:04:03 AM
Quote from: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?

okay you got me there, how about this then?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Bloemencorso_zundert_helptelkander_2008.jpg/800px-Bloemencorso_zundert_helptelkander_2008.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 March, 2013, 01:12:17 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?
Exactly, the hat was lead lined, arty types all know this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 March, 2013, 01:13:54 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 March, 2013, 11:04:03 AM
Quote from: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?

okay you got me there, how about this then?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Bloemencorso_zundert_helptelkander_2008.jpg/800px-Bloemencorso_zundert_helptelkander_2008.jpg)

One hell of a town.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 March, 2013, 06:13:10 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 06 March, 2013, 01:12:17 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?
Exactly, the hat was lead lined, arty types all know this.

But it was the lead that sent him barmy.
Heck of a price to pay, just to remain upright.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 March, 2013, 06:27:25 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 06 March, 2013, 06:13:10 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 06 March, 2013, 01:12:17 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?

Exactly, the hat was lead lined, arty types all know this.

But it was the lead that sent him barmy. Heck of a price to pay, just to remain upright.

The price of a mad man's hat is 10s/6d (http://www.kafejo.com/holidays/img/hatter.gif).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 March, 2013, 08:03:26 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 06 March, 2013, 06:27:25 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 06 March, 2013, 06:13:10 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 06 March, 2013, 01:12:17 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 06 March, 2013, 10:59:51 AM
Ummm.... there's tiny weights in the brim of that hat?

Exactly, the hat was lead lined, arty types all know this.

But it was the lead that sent him barmy. Heck of a price to pay, just to remain upright.

The price of a mad man's hat is 10s/6d (http://www.kafejo.com/holidays/img/hatter.gif).
The evidence is there in the picture, Kirk Douglas was most famously portrayed by that great lead actor Van Goatie Beard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 06 March, 2013, 08:07:44 PM
(http://images.cryhavok.org/d/13557-1/Threadjack.jpg)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 March, 2013, 08:44:35 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 06 March, 2013, 08:07:44 PM
(http://images.cryhavok.org/d/13557-1/Threadjack.jpg)
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I've been waiting for this to happen. This board never disappoints.

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 07 March, 2013, 09:44:40 PM
I want one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 March, 2013, 09:46:47 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 07 March, 2013, 09:44:40 PM
I want one.

You are one!  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 March, 2013, 06:46:51 AM
I am!...how liberating!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 08:13:31 AM
Happy international womens day! I hope feminists world over realise how hypocritical and sexist the existence of such an event is in light of there liberal and whole condisending views. ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 08 March, 2013, 09:32:11 AM
Some people just don't get the point, do they?

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 10:00:38 AM
Goodness, how dare half the population claim a single day to reflect on the particulars of their slice of humanity.  Sure that only leaves the rest of us the other 364 to treat them like slaves, ornaments or figures of fun.

Ev'ry day's an 'oliday wiv testicles!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 March, 2013, 10:17:52 AM


What are you all talking about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 March, 2013, 10:52:21 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:

True, 'celebations' only.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 10:54:45 AM
Quote from: BOODA on 08 March, 2013, 10:52:21 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:

True, 'celebations' only.
Edit button, where has thou gone?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 11:05:10 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:

And when gender equality is achieved, and women at a global level have escaped their sub-human status, you'll be absolutely right and I'll join you in laughing at the stupidity of it all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 March, 2013, 11:50:37 AM
LOOK, LISTEN AND TAKE HEED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SjxY9rZwNGU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 12:14:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 11:05:10 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:

And when gender equality is achieved, and women at a global level have escaped their sub-human status, you'll be absolutely right and I'll join you in laughing at the stupidity of it all.
Utter loud of bull! Look at wester society, women ARE treated as equal, it's only in the overly religious societys of Asia that women are still treated as second class citizens, focus on changing the attitude of the government, society and gender role in nations like China and South Korea should be the focus and not waving female pride in our faces with some trivial banner such as 'International Womens Day'. When are all the poor, down trodden men of the world going to get a day stand up and be counted?
'Rant over'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 12:28:52 PM
I think we'll have to agree to partly disagree here, Hawkmonger.  I agree that these sorts of 'days' are essentially trivial fluff in the scheme of things, but I don't agree that making a point of highlighting women's life experiences at a global level is unimportant. Even in the wealthy west there is still a long way to go, but as you say particularly in the rest of (and the vast majority of) the world the extent of inequality is dire.

Yes, the plight of the artificially-impoverished majority of humanity irrespective of gender is the big issue, but within that huge mass the even-worse plight of women is well worth noting. 

In the meantime squirrel.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 12:33:08 PM
It's all grain to the mill as far as i'm concerned, I do my part and treat all women with equality and fair does, one might argue my film collection leaves alot to be desired (New York Ripper anyone?) but for the most part I'm obnly capable of spreading equality through my own hands. Glad we can both agree that something needs to be done as far as certain nations are concerned.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 March, 2013, 12:33:17 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 12:14:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 11:05:10 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:

And when gender equality is achieved, and women at a global level have escaped their sub-human status, you'll be absolutely right and I'll join you in laughing at the stupidity of it all.
Utter loud of bull! Look at wester society, women ARE treated as equal, it's only in the overly religious societys of Asia that women are still treated as second class citizens, focus on changing the attitude of the government, society and gender role in nations like China and South Korea should be the focus and not waving female pride in our faces with some trivial banner such as 'International Womens Day'. When are all the poor, down trodden men of the world going to get a day stand up and be counted?
'Rant over'

That's some quality head in the sand, uninformed bullshit right there.
You honestly think that women are treated equally in the West? Have equal pay? Job opportunities? Access to education?
Like fuck they have.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 12:35:23 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 08 March, 2013, 12:33:17 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 12:14:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 11:05:10 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 10:48:44 AM
I just find the existence of gender specific celibrations defeats the point of gender equality. It's utter hypocrisy.  :lol:

And when gender equality is achieved, and women at a global level have escaped their sub-human status, you'll be absolutely right and I'll join you in laughing at the stupidity of it all.
Utter loud of bull! Look at wester society, women ARE treated as equal, it's only in the overly religious societys of Asia that women are still treated as second class citizens, focus on changing the attitude of the government, society and gender role in nations like China and South Korea should be the focus and not waving female pride in our faces with some trivial banner such as 'International Womens Day'. When are all the poor, down trodden men of the world going to get a day stand up and be counted?
'Rant over'

That's some quality head in the sand, uninformed bullshit right there.
You honestly think that women are treated equally in the West? Have equal pay? Job opportunities? Access to education?
Like fuck they have.
As specified above, for the most part they do. If individuals are being denied this right then I have yet to meet any, as far as I can tell from my relativly informed research gender equality is prity much fulfiled here in the UK. Anything that the feminists hurl as evidence (porn, for example) is generaly through the womens own choice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 08 March, 2013, 12:40:01 PM
"Anything that the feminists hurl as evidence (porn, for example) is generaly through the womens own choice."

I disagree with this statement so completely and utterly that I'm going to have to read through the "Underware" thread (sic) to make sure I have a clear and consistent view on things.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 12:41:22 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 08 March, 2013, 12:40:01 PM
"Anything that the feminists hurl as evidence (porn, for example) is generaly through the womens own choice."

I disagree with this statement so completely and utterly that I'm going to have to read through the "Underware" thread (sic) to make sure I have a clear and consistent view on things.
Fine, you disagree. Thats surely all there is to it. I can only work off my own experience's and interactions so frogive me if we don't come to the same conclusion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 12:49:51 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 08 March, 2013, 12:40:01 PM... to make sure I have a clear and consistent view on thongs.

FTFY.

Incidentally, 19th November.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 08 March, 2013, 01:22:34 PM
There are lots of injustices and inequalities that I don't see in my personal experience, but I don't deny they exist. My day-to-day life is blissfully free of racism and antisemitism, and, of course, I try to relate to everyone I encounter without prejudice arising from their skin colour or religion.

Does this mean that racism and antisemitism don't exist? Of course it doesn't mean that, and to claim otherwise is brain-meltingly ignorant. Same thing, Hawkmonger.

Bah.

Jim
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 01:28:30 PM
I'm not claiming they don't exist, all i'm saying is that instaling fluff such as 'International Women Day' is only going to blow the whole situation out of proprotion. I just get a tad tired of women forcing masogynistc counter arguments down my throat, look ladys, i'm not masogynistic or sexist in anyway. Go and convince people who are rather than believing all men are evil. I do my bit to be as good a person I can be and I hope people haven't got the wrong idea, but frankley having events centerd around gender specific rights issues just seem's incredibly 'unequal' to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 March, 2013, 01:29:47 PM
Jeez, it's not like you have to buy a card or anything.

Now I have that dischordant jingle stuck in my head. MOOOOOOOOONPIG DOT COM
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 08 March, 2013, 01:40:21 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 01:28:30 PM
but frankley having events centerd around gender specific rights issues just seem's incredibly 'unequal' to me.

Did your granny have a hammer? Oh, and you missed World Spelling Day again this year.

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 March, 2013, 01:52:16 PM
Quote from: Mikey on 08 March, 2013, 01:40:21 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 01:28:30 PM
but frankley having events centerd around gender specific rights issues just seem's incredibly 'unequal' to me.

Did your granny have a hammer? Oh, and you missed World Spelling Day again this year.

M.

You missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day too. A disgraceful event that focuses only on one specific group of pirates who had west country accents.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 08 March, 2013, 01:53:54 PM
Yeah where the fuck is sneak like a ninja day eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 08 March, 2013, 01:56:05 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 08 March, 2013, 01:52:16 PM
You missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day too. A disgraceful event that focuses only on one specific group of pirates who had west country accents.

Yeah, well, forgeiners can mark it but there's no need to do it here.

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 08 March, 2013, 01:58:26 PM
When's Judge 'em like a JIMP day?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 02:03:04 PM
I've been stuck indoors with two supposedly ill skivers kids (is beating shite out of each actually other a recognised illness now?) making Mother's Day cards all morning and my house is now a glitter-infested gluey ruin. WHERE'S MY PARADE.  International Layabouts Day, that's what's called for here.  A day to celebrate the cultural struggles of shiftless bastards like me who get pointlessly aggravated by the normal happy activities of their own mercifully-healthy-bar-a-slight-fever children. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 08 March, 2013, 02:14:58 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 08 March, 2013, 01:53:54 PM
Yeah where the fuck is sneak like a ninja day eh?
You mean you didn't notice it? Another successful year.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 02:19:18 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 08 March, 2013, 02:14:58 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 08 March, 2013, 01:53:54 PM
Yeah where the fuck is sneak like a ninja day eh?
You mean you didn't notice it? Another successful year.

You two should get your own series on BBC3.  Just decide which of you is the fat one, 'cos grud knows we can't. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 March, 2013, 03:04:36 PM
And as for holocaust Memorial Day... Jeez, it was years ago! And I personally have never seen any evidence of another, so what's the fuss about, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 March, 2013, 03:21:16 PM
sofa-risation...

They've done that to our local cinema.

Cosh the Satanist, my favourite TV show

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 04:02:39 PM
You guys clearly don't agree with me...so there we go. That's all there is to it.
Oh and Mikey, there IS a reason for my poor grammer, not that its an exucse mind just be careful, taking the piss out of an autistic guy make's you look a bit like a bully. ;)


:P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 March, 2013, 04:32:02 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/HSpdm2D.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 04:47:54 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 March, 2013, 04:02:39 PM...taking the piss out of an autistic guy make's you look a bit like a bully. ;)

Half the folk here have some shade of autism, and the others are depressives or just plain barmy - much like the rest of the human race, in fact.  If we didn't take the piss out of each other we'd never have any fun! 

But irrespective of all that we did rather dogpile on you on this one Hawkmonger, so for that I am sorry.  To use a cliche, it's an emotive issue - I find myself looking at the world and looking at my daughter and not being enthused by my fellow man.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 04:56:06 PM
Sure sure, I was as much to blame by bringing the topic up, just thought I should get my two pence in before anyone else which in retrospect is probably why no one want's to talk about this stuff at time's.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 08 March, 2013, 05:14:39 PM
(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/redhotchillis/6f12d8d1-8095-4025-baf3-858485b8fa2a_zps996c0a3a.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 March, 2013, 06:28:59 PM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 08 March, 2013, 05:14:39 PM
(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/redhotchillis/6f12d8d1-8095-4025-baf3-858485b8fa2a_zps996c0a3a.jpg)

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 March, 2013, 07:29:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 04:47:54 PM
I find myself looking at the world and looking at my daughter and not being enthused by my fellow man.

An elderly gentleman I worked with explained to me the tsuris involved in fathering a wee girl: "when ye huv a laddie, ye've only goat the wan cock tae worry aboot - when ye huv a lassie, ye've goat tae worry aboot every cock in toon". Obviously he loved his daughters, and his comment was sympathetic in its own way, but that's about as enlightened as Scottish culture allows those of us with a Y chromosome to be in our public pronouncements.

I'm going to give the teenage Hawkmonger the benefit of the doubt and assume he's a prisoner of the rhetorical trap which means most Scottish men must dismiss any conceptual thought which requires imaginative sympathy as nonsense; can only discuss economic, social and political issues in terms of how they affect their daily lives (i); and tend to frame any activity without direct bearing on themselves as a personal affront.

Your comment about everyone on this board being autistic to some degree probably applies to every male North of Berwick, but some of us are funny buggers too - as Cosh and Satanist ably demonstrate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 07:52:29 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 08 March, 2013, 07:29:03 PM
An elderly gentleman I worked with explained to me the tsuris involved in fathering a wee girl: "when ye huv a laddie, ye've only goat the wan cock tae worry aboot - when ye huv a lassie, ye've goat tae worry aboot every cock in toon".

Excellent material for an embarrassing speech there - now, whether to use it at her 16th or save it for her wedding (assuming that's the correct order).  Incidentally, my 'autistic' remark was a statement of slightly exaggerated fact, rather than intended as anything remotely derogatory - some of the funniest, sharpest buggers I know are autistic to some degree. The spectrum is broad, and as I've droned on about here too often before, I suspect autism to be an integral and essential part of humanity's diverse adaptive toolkit. Of course at the extremes it makes life difficult, especially for loved ones, but so do so many things. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 March, 2013, 12:27:44 PM
Was anyone else shocked by the recent News stories about Justin Bieber? He actually has a personality. Granted, it's not a very good one, but he does have one. And there I was thinking he was just a haircut.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 March, 2013, 03:24:58 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 09 March, 2013, 12:27:44 PM
Was anyone else shocked by the recent News stories about Justin Bieber? He actually has a personality. Granted, it's not a very good one, but he does have one. And there I was thinking he was just a haircut.

A haircut and a nasty coke/ecstasy habit, judging by the breathing problems which recently forced him to stop a show in London village.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 March, 2013, 05:08:53 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 09 March, 2013, 03:24:58 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 09 March, 2013, 12:27:44 PM
Was anyone else shocked by the recent News stories about Justin Bieber? He actually has a personality. Granted, it's not a very good one, but he does have one. And there I was thinking he was just a haircut.

A haircut and a nasty coke/ecstasy habit, judging by the breathing problems which recently forced him to stop a show in London village.
He's a bloody pussy anyway, Freddy Mercury had aids and died rocking out, yet Bieber cancels a concert because of a soar throat? Kid's these days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 09 March, 2013, 06:37:50 PM
Not that i could even name/whistle one of his songs, but ive never got the hate for Beiber.
Is he that bad?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 March, 2013, 07:12:07 PM
These comments crack me up....you all know who you are!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 March, 2013, 11:52:38 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 07:52:29 PM
Incidentally, my 'autistic' remark was a statement of slightly exaggerated fact, rather than intended as anything remotely derogatory - Of course at the extremes it makes life difficult, especially for loved ones, but so do so many things.

Have been at the Spines thread again?

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34474.0.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34474.0.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 March, 2013, 11:57:47 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 08 March, 2013, 07:29:03 PM
I'm going to give the teenage Hawkmonger the benefit of the doubt and assume he's a prisoner of the rhetorical trap which means most Scottish men must dismiss any conceptual thought which requires imaginative sympathy as nonsense; can only discuss economic, social and political issues in terms of how they affect their daily lives (i); and tend to frame any activity without direct bearing on themselves as a personal affront.
Erm...thanks?  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 March, 2013, 12:09:27 PM
I've had enough with 'Booda'...it's time for some 'Bubba'...not sure what the forum etiquette is re name changing...I expect to be sent to Coventry over this. But then, in the distant past I did visit Coventry, and I must say I thought it a splendid place and a place, to which, I'd be happily sent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 March, 2013, 01:44:26 PM
You're more than welcome to change it whenever you see fit... and I suppose 'Bubba' doesn't sound that prison-rapey  ;)

sorry
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 March, 2013, 01:58:58 PM
Only Henry Winkler still a coolest! 

(http://i.imgur.com/RYb64.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 March, 2013, 02:25:56 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 March, 2013, 01:44:26 PM
You're more than welcome to change it whenever you see fit... and I suppose 'Bubba' doesn't sound that prison-rapey  ;)

sorry
SOL (Snort Out Loud) :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 11 March, 2013, 06:07:47 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208596_10200898288363820_797034967_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 March, 2013, 07:57:23 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 March, 2013, 01:44:26 PM
You're more than welcome to change it whenever you see fit... and I suppose 'Bubba' doesn't sound that prison-rapey  ;)

I'm not sure it will take. Previous experience shows all that's necessary to remove all trace of the name 'Bubba' is sharing a shower with Durham Red.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 March, 2013, 08:02:38 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 11 March, 2013, 07:57:23 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 March, 2013, 01:44:26 PM
You're more than welcome to change it whenever you see fit... and I suppose 'Bubba' doesn't sound that prison-rapey  ;)

I'm not sure it will take. Previous experience shows all that's necessary to remove all trace of the name 'Bubba' is sharing a shower with Durham Red.
...ugh....I guess that's a risk I'll just have to take.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 11 March, 2013, 08:34:00 PM
Cobbled this together to show my support towards the referendum.
Piss off Argies.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/199182_10151324374406024_340661176_n.jpg)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 March, 2013, 09:51:01 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 11 March, 2013, 07:57:23 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 March, 2013, 01:44:26 PM
You're more than welcome to change it whenever you see fit... and I suppose 'Bubba' doesn't sound that prison-rapey  ;)

I'm not sure it will take. Previous experience shows all that's necessary to remove all trace of the name 'Bubba' is sharing a shower with Durham Red.

Terrible missed opportunity there in Life and Death of...  Johnny could have noted the tat' was still there, even after his resurrection.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 11 March, 2013, 09:56:00 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 11 March, 2013, 06:07:47 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208596_10200898288363820_797034967_n.jpg)
Vader has let himself go abit. Just look at that podge. One too many portions of Sith and Chips.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 March, 2013, 09:09:46 AM
Vader's turning white.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 12 March, 2013, 10:25:30 PM
Isn't it about time someone mentioned egg banjos again?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 13 March, 2013, 06:01:17 PM
I say we gift the Falklands to the North Koreans, just to see what happens.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 March, 2013, 06:55:22 PM
Probably nothing. I doubt North Korea could cover the cost of getting there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 March, 2013, 08:26:24 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 13 March, 2013, 06:55:22 PM
Probably nothing. I doubt North Korea could cover the cost of getting there.

And UK plc could? We've scrapped our air and naval fleets and freed Burdis, Vzzbuxx and their mates to find employment with the kind of privately owned corporations who would be running any kind of sequel to the Falklands War. The venture to restore property values in Goose Green in 2013 would involve a task force of fourth sector volunteers and welfare-to-work conscripts being transported to Las Malvinas by Virgin logistics, the catering would be subcontracted out to Tesco's Everday Value, and the whole thing would be project managed by G4S with the same acumen they displayed in operating the Olympic security contract.

The whole thing would be funded through PPI, and our children would all still be struggling to meet the spiralling payments on the compound interest long after the combined banks of Ireland/Iceland/The Royal Bank of Scotland foreclosed on the second mortgage we'd taken out on the Palace of Westminster.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 March, 2013, 09:00:41 PM
Plus the Argies are in favour with God right now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 March, 2013, 10:22:17 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 March, 2013, 09:00:41 PM
Plus the Argies are in favour with God right now.

Looking at the assassination attempts, Parkinsons disease and the financial and sexual scandals which bedeviled his predecessors, it's diffcult to figure them or The Pope's latest regeneration as enjoying The Almighty's favour. Pope Francis does appear to be enjoying Terry Wogan's Blankety Blank microphone, though:

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66378000/jpg/_66378080_pope2.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2013, 10:24:43 PM


And there's Rupert Murdoch to Papa's left.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 March, 2013, 10:31:12 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2013, 10:24:43 PM
And there's Rupert Murdoch to Papa's left.

Christ, you're right! Although, like babies, all octogenarians look the same.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2013, 10:36:00 PM

There's some serious wanking going on in the Holy See, or a great Specsavers deal.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 March, 2013, 10:39:43 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2013, 10:24:43 PM


And there's Rupert Murdoch to Papa's left.

I was just about to say the same.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 March, 2013, 10:41:46 PM
...and is that Cardinal Dick Cheney on his other side?...an axis of medieval.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 March, 2013, 10:43:55 PM
Everytime I look at these hate-fueled charlies in their palaces of gold and their ruby slippers I find myself hoping that Jesus really was the Son of God.  'Cos boy would those lads ever be in trouble.

Move out to an office block on the Via Prenestina, buy some mid-price suits, liquidate your uncountable trillions and use them to elevate the lives of your flock, subscribe to some basic tenets of human law and morality and clean your organisation of known criminals.  Then maybe I'll pay your internal politicking and 'modernising reforms' some attention.  In the meantime, you all look like immoral bigots in tasteless dresses to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 March, 2013, 10:50:10 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2013, 10:36:00 PM
There's some serious wanking going on in the Holy See, or a great Specsavers deal.

The glasses make him look like Milhouse, or possibly Kirk Van Houten. TordelBack: Gavin Estler's currently telling me what a simple life of self-denial and austerity Black Francis leads - he takes the bus! I'm sure he's turning over tables in the Vatican Bank and returning Nazi art as we speak.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 March, 2013, 10:53:05 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 13 March, 2013, 10:50:10 PM

The glasses make him look like Milhouse, or possibly Kirk Van Houten.

He'll be serenading some poor alter boy with "Can I borrow a feeling" within 2 days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 March, 2013, 10:53:19 PM
"...Put your hand in my glove of l-o-o-ve".

The feckin' Jesuits have it all sewn up Ted.  It's a long way from Loyola he was rared.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 March, 2013, 10:56:57 PM


Quote from: sauchie on 13 March, 2013, 10:50:10 PM
I'm sure he's turning over tables in the Vatican Bank and returning Nazi art as we speak.



Benny's dorm is full as it is.



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 March, 2013, 11:15:12 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 13 March, 2013, 10:22:17 PM
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66378000/jpg/_66378080_pope2.jpg)

Where the Groundhog? So is Spring coming or still winter...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 13 March, 2013, 11:51:52 PM
I gift to the forum an undeniable fact:

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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 14 March, 2013, 07:43:49 PM
Melvyn Bragg if you're on this forum come out with your hands up.

How rich is the Church of the poor again? Now that they've elected a new capo?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 March, 2013, 07:45:59 PM
I hope no one finds out that I'm secretly Lloyd Grossman
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 March, 2013, 04:46:22 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 13 March, 2013, 10:22:17 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 March, 2013, 09:00:41 PM
Plus the Argies are in favour with God right now.

Looking at the assassination attempts, Parkinsons disease and the financial and sexual scandals which bedeviled his predecessors, it's diffcult to figure them or The Pope's latest regeneration as enjoying The Almighty's favour. Pope Francis does appear to be enjoying Terry Wogan's Blankety Blank microphone, though:

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66378000/jpg/_66378080_pope2.jpg)


Then this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tAI2VX9cB0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tAI2VX9cB0)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 15 March, 2013, 09:06:17 PM
I spotted boobage on The Good Life.

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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 March, 2013, 10:59:16 PM
Thats it, we've run out of thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 16 March, 2013, 12:25:18 AM
Watching this here comic relief show and there's a horrible film of a baby dying.
That's not funny at all...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 March, 2013, 02:34:56 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 16 March, 2013, 12:25:18 AM
Watching this here comic relief show and there's a horrible film of a baby dying.
That's not funny at all...

That's because it wasn't presented by Ricky Gervais and David Walliams
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 March, 2013, 07:20:42 AM
A technical marvel. When I wear them I have 20/20 shrimp vision and as most shrimp are poorly sighted it gives me a vital competitive edge. (cue maniacal laughter)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 March, 2013, 01:18:48 AM
I feel a bit drunk. It feels........good.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 March, 2013, 06:42:29 AM
I am bored of the internet.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 March, 2013, 08:50:13 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 16 March, 2013, 02:34:56 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 16 March, 2013, 12:25:18 AM
Watching this here comic relief show and there's a horrible film of a baby dying. That's not funny at all...

That's because it wasn't presented by Ricky Gervais and David Walliams

It's good that Ricky Gervais always laughs hysterically during his TV and radio shows, so you know which bits are funny. I think that's where they went wrong with Derek.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 March, 2013, 01:41:56 PM
Him and Peter Kay.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 17 March, 2013, 06:19:41 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 17 March, 2013, 08:50:13 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 16 March, 2013, 02:34:56 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 16 March, 2013, 12:25:18 AM
Watching this here comic relief show and there's a horrible film of a baby dying. That's not funny at all...

That's because it wasn't presented by Ricky Gervais and David Walliams

It's good that Ricky Gervais always laughs hysterically during his TV and radio shows, so you know which bits are funny. I think that's where they went wrong with Derek.

I always assumed he laughed hysterically to signify when to call him a fucking annoying twat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 17 March, 2013, 07:41:45 PM
I'd just like to thank 2000ad for giving me the tag-phrase of the chorus to a new song excercise I've just written. From the the back cover of prog 1810, the one with the brilliant Langely 'Robusters!' front. I do this occasionally. A prog has been lying around and it's taglines imprint themselves into what eventually turn out to be songs. Is this infringement? Because I cherry picked a line from The Animal's guitar favourite "House of the Rising Sun" .
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 March, 2013, 07:45:15 PM
What animal?  You have 3333 posts, though. 'GET' I believe is the parlance used for such a phenomenon
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 17 March, 2013, 08:18:25 PM
Arse. I see what I did there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 March, 2013, 09:35:41 PM
I had an on the toilet moment earlier.
The chicken and the egg question.
It was the egg.
The animal that layed the egg was an off shoot of the chicken and the mutation happened in the batch of eggs giving us the chicken we know and love today thus giving us the answer of EGG.

I am sure some smart alecy twat will try and debunk this with bullshit and bollox using big words.


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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 March, 2013, 09:46:33 PM
Oh it's definitely the egg. From an evolutionary standpoint, it's definitely the egg. Animals were laying eggs long before God invented chickens. It's evolution.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 17 March, 2013, 09:52:20 PM
Evolution's being going on since even before God invented it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 March, 2013, 10:03:08 PM
Evolution invented God to make people doubt it's own existence. Evolution works in mysterious ways.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 17 March, 2013, 10:07:54 PM
Sex+Time=Evolution.  There were no poddles on the Ark
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 17 March, 2013, 10:10:14 PM
Darwin is God now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 March, 2013, 10:20:27 PM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 17 March, 2013, 10:10:14 PM
Darwin is God now.
Evolution is god, the almighty being that drives our existance to achieve perfection, and ironic goal as perfection if indicative of one's environment. No, that would make Darwin Jesus.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 17 March, 2013, 10:27:05 PM
I have just eaten a full packet of Monster Jelly Beanz and I'm still hungry :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 March, 2013, 10:36:10 PM
You sound like a man in need of Pringles
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 17 March, 2013, 10:41:38 PM
So I watched half and hour of that zombie thing on BBC3, then realised I was not being made to sit through it so switched it off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 17 March, 2013, 10:41:46 PM
I have crisps and a Beef Pot Noodle on standby, plus the capability of making some sarnies :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 March, 2013, 10:25:38 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 17 March, 2013, 10:41:38 PM
So I watched half and hour of that zombie thing on BBC3, then realised I was not being made to sit through it so switched it off.

Spooky, me too,
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 18 March, 2013, 11:53:07 AM
(http://www.vlib.us/medical/gaswar/Pigeon2.JPG)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 18 March, 2013, 01:06:35 PM
Speckled Jim :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 18 March, 2013, 01:14:23 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 17 March, 2013, 10:41:38 PM
So I watched half and hour of that zombie thing on BBC3, then realised I was not being made to sit through it so switched it off.

My rule of thumb has always been that if the BBC have finally jumped on a bandwagon, that shit is over.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 18 March, 2013, 01:15:30 PM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 18 March, 2013, 01:14:23 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 17 March, 2013, 10:41:38 PM
So I watched half and hour of that zombie thing on BBC3, then realised I was not being made to sit through it so switched it off.

My rule of thumb has always been that if the BBC have finally jumped on a bandwagon, that shit is over.

The zombie genre has been over for a loooong time, IMO.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 18 March, 2013, 01:19:52 PM
I hear that, but now the BBC have finally got around to hacking out some half-baked shit we're supposed to lap up and be grateful for because we've paid for it, it's official.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 March, 2013, 01:24:54 PM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 18 March, 2013, 01:19:52 PM
I hear that, but now the BBC have finally got around to hacking out some half-baked shit we're supposed to lap up and be grateful for because we've paid for it, it's official.

Still though...new Jonathan Creek in two weeks. God bless Auntie Beeb.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 18 March, 2013, 01:57:50 PM
BBC seem to be showing a lot of TombRaider too at the moment. Now tell that's not coincidental product placement. And they're not Core's shill?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 18 March, 2013, 02:32:12 PM
More likely that Tomb Raider is just a very cheap film to licence for broadcast and they repeat it as often as they can to get their money's worth out of it.

Tomb Raider 2 was the first film I ever walked out of.  I was so bored when that person skydived onto a moving jeep I just wanted a beer, so by reckoning that first pint cost me about a tenner.  No regrets.

edit to add: Do CORE even own Tomb Raider?  Wasn't it sold ten years ago to Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 March, 2013, 02:35:07 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 18 March, 2013, 01:57:50 PM
BBC seem to be showing a lot of TombRaider too at the moment. Now tell that's not coincidental product placement. And they're not Core's shill?

Nah, they been show new films on BBC3 on Sunday, then repeat it on next Saturday, then next new film on Sunday etc...

few weeks ago it was National Treasure 1, then National Treasure 2 etc...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 March, 2013, 12:40:59 PM
Two words; Camberwick Green
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 March, 2013, 03:25:54 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 19 March, 2013, 12:40:59 PM
Two words; Camberwick Green
Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today?

:D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 19 March, 2013, 08:10:32 PM
is the answer Josef Stalin? :-*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 March, 2013, 09:06:07 PM
Well it's not Hugo Chavez.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 March, 2013, 11:03:00 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/yhjZKIj.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 March, 2013, 11:06:31 PM
I'd like that pocket TV even more if it wasn't showing the Val Doonican Christmas Special.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 19 March, 2013, 11:37:55 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 March, 2013, 11:06:31 PM
I'd like that pocket TV even more if it wasn't showing the Val Doonican Christmas Special.
But he's just about to be hit in the head with a giant Christmas pud!!
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LYXw3hEbDjQ/UUj2EoUXj4I/AAAAAAAACEg/UY4SLdu5b7o/s320/ann.JPG)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 March, 2013, 05:51:34 AM
Quote from: Zarjazzer on 19 March, 2013, 08:10:32 PM
is the answer Josef Stalin? :-*

The Camberwick Archipelago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 09:28:31 AM
Does anyone know how to begin civilization?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 March, 2013, 09:37:44 AM
Quote from: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 09:28:31 AM
Does anyone know how to begin civilization?

You need a man and woman...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 March, 2013, 10:01:20 AM
Quote from: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 09:28:31 AM
Does anyone know how to begin civilization?
Massacre the Dinosaurs by highering aliens the pilot a meteor into the Indian Ocean.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 March, 2013, 10:30:43 AM
Quote from: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 09:28:31 AM
Does anyone know how to begin civilization?

The Genesis Device & an Alan Moore script.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 March, 2013, 11:29:08 AM
HERE (http://www.civilization5.com/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 March, 2013, 11:56:34 AM
Just remembered this: 10-Year Civilization II Game Results in Nuke-Blasted Hellhole (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405924,00.asp)

Quote...dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands

That's crying out for a Hall of Justice patch
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 March, 2013, 12:04:25 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 09:28:31 AM
Does anyone know how to begin civilization?

Build a city.  Live in it.  Bingo.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 20 March, 2013, 12:09:43 PM
Well you usually start by introducing slavery and agriculture.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 March, 2013, 01:26:02 PM
Civilisation... It starts with a circle but from there on in it's all straight lines.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 March, 2013, 03:31:10 PM
NICE THINGS :o

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFz17feCcAAj3o6.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 March, 2013, 03:32:07 PM
Dammit, that's the heaven, John!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 March, 2013, 06:14:34 PM
Looks like Skullmo snagged himself some cover art, then.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 06:48:47 PM
You were close on Civilization V El Pops but it's Civilization I, I just cannot begin on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 March, 2013, 10:41:16 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 March, 2013, 12:04:25 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 20 March, 2013, 09:28:31 AM
Does anyone know how to begin civilization?

Build a city.  Live in it.  Bingo.

Bingo?  :-\

I guess it can be fun, and a friend of mine once won 5K at Bingo, but i can quite grasp how it fits into being a vital ingredient for kickstarting civilization.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 March, 2013, 10:50:06 PM

Noticed how many threads have been about sex and sexuality lately? You know what they say about those who talk about it most ...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 March, 2013, 10:55:48 PM
Spinderella Cut It up One Time 0o0o0o ohh Uhuhh 0ooo0 Comon ..

Yo, I don't think we should talk about this
Come on, why not?
People might misunderstand what we're tryin' to say, you know?
No, but that's a part of life]


Come on

CHORUS

Let's talk about sex, baby
Let's talk about you and me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sex
Let's talk about sex
Let's talk about sex
Let's talk about sex

Let's talk about sex for now to the people at home or in the crowd
It keeps coming up anyhow
Don't decoy, avoid, or make void the topic
Cuz that ain't gonna stop it
Now we talk about sex on the radio and video shows
Many will know anything goes
Let's tell it how it is, and how it could be
How it was, and of course, how it should be
Those who think it's dirty have a choice
Pick up the needle, press pause, or turn the radio off
Will that stop us, Pep? I doubt it
All right then, come on, Spin

CHORUS

Hot to trot, make any man's eyes pop
She use what she got to get whatever she don't got
Fellas drool like fools, but then again they're only human
The chick was a hit because her body was boomin'
Gold, pearls, rubies, crazy diamonds
Nothin' she ever wore was ever common
Her dates heads of state, men of taste
Lawyers, doctors, no one was too great for her to get with
Or even mess with, the Prez she says was next on her list
And believe me, you, it's as good as true
There ain't a man alive that she couldn't get next to
She had it all in the bag so she should have been glad
But she was mad and sad and feelin' bad
Thinkin' about the things that she never had
No love, just sex, followed next with a check and a note
That last night was dope

Let's talk about sex, baby (sing it)
Let's talk about you and me (sing it, sing it)
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sex (come on)
Let's talk about sex (do it)
Let's talk about sex (uh-huh)
Let's talk about sex

Ladies, all the ladies, louder now, help me out
Come on, all the ladies - let's talk about sex, all right
(repeat)

[Yo, Pep, I don't think they're gonna play this on the radio
And why not? Everybody has sex
I mean, everybody should be makin' love
Come on, how many guys you know make love?]

CHORUS


See this is why I miss Godpleton. He wouldn't just copy and paste the lyrics from another website, he would type the whole damned thing out. IN FULL CAPS
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 21 March, 2013, 01:27:46 PM

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin

That's what I said

The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand

Or so I have read


My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo

I like to sink her with my pink torpedo


Big bottom, big bottom

Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em

Big bottom, drive me out of my mind

How could I leave this behind?


I met her on Monday, it was my lucky fun day

You know what I mean

I love her each weekday, each velvety cheekday

You know what I mean


My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights

Big game is waiting there inside her tights


Big bottom, big bottom

Talk about mudflaps, my girl's got 'em

Big bottom, drive me out of my mind

How could I leave this behind?


My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo

I like to sink her with my pink torpedo


Big bottom, big bottom

Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em

Big bottom, drive me out of my mind

How could I leave this behind?



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 March, 2013, 01:43:46 PM
Aaaand Spinal Tap for the win.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 01:48:38 PM
So what I miss this morning...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 March, 2013, 02:14:01 PM
Probably just Phil and Holly listening to some eejit bletherin' on about someone getting perved on by ghosties or being interfered with by aliens or some such. Y'know, the standard stuff.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 March, 2013, 02:22:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 01:48:38 PM
So what I miss this morning...?

A heated debate on nude comic character(s).
Anyone with a pinch of sense avoided it like the plague.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 02:26:42 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 21 March, 2013, 02:22:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 01:48:38 PM
So what I miss this morning...?

A heated debate on nude comic character(s).
Anyone with a pinch of sense avoided it like the plague.

And some tweets from artists and Simon Pegg online...  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 March, 2013, 02:33:10 PM


In the sprit of brotherlyness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbXXu6P76w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbXXu6P76w)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 March, 2013, 03:19:03 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 21 March, 2013, 02:22:42 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 01:48:38 PM
So what I miss this morning...?

A heated debate on nude comic character(s).
Anyone with a pinch of sense avoided it like the plague.
Yo...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 March, 2013, 04:28:27 PM
Fatty Arbuckle was innocent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 04:52:34 PM

How strange this image stopping the geek world...?

(http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/s/star-trek-into-darkness-reveals-a-new-poster-130705-a-1363882502-1000-100.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 March, 2013, 05:05:11 PM
You are obviously trying to whip up a storm of trouble Goaty ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 05:08:33 PM
Trouble is my cousin's son's friend's teacher's wife's vicar's dentist's brother's landlord's middle name.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 March, 2013, 05:34:23 PM
Is that Nurse Chapel? I'm assuming it is, on account of her wearing science/medical colours.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 March, 2013, 05:41:45 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 21 March, 2013, 05:34:23 PM
Is that Nurse Chapel?

Chapel hat pegs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chapel%20Hat), maybe.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 March, 2013, 05:42:17 PM
Anyone got any images from Moore's Lost Girls for posting? Ive heard a lot about it, and its got me curious..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 05:44:56 PM
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/09/moore-simpsons-lost-girls.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 21 March, 2013, 05:45:50 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S4oBAwzII58/UUtG_7jgSGI/AAAAAAAACFI/ZLATkxlBtZw/s1600/boober.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 March, 2013, 06:14:02 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 March, 2013, 06:17:34 PM
I hate hazelnuts!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 21 March, 2013, 06:27:34 PM
That's neat,
that's neat,
that's neat,
that's neat,
I really love your tiger feet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 March, 2013, 07:33:38 PM
Stubbed my toe, how long has that sink been there again?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 21 March, 2013, 07:38:38 PM
(http://cdn.veggieboards.com/5/56/566cfac7_FAT_UNICORN_by_sprinklexeater_some_awesome_unicorn_pics-s580x490-75414-580.jpeg)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 March, 2013, 08:23:25 PM
This J.J Abrams fella doesn't get Star Trek at all. If you want to make Star Trek fans feel funny in their tummies, show them this:

(http://img2.joyreactor.cc/pics/post/%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%BE-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82-%D0%B2-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B5-%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82-530922.jpeg)

I will understand if the mods want to ban me. That is absolute filth.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2013, 08:25:12 PM

Here for you, dirty Stargate perverts!

(http://gatecast.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Stargate-Ships-B.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 March, 2013, 08:34:52 PM
For all the fans of the killer pepper pots.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6124/6010875847_6c97c5e535_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 21 March, 2013, 08:36:34 PM
Don't feed the trolls (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/21/halo-jones-topless-row-ian-gibson)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 21 March, 2013, 08:39:42 PM
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/064/b/3/starwars_and_wh40k_ships_2_by_dirkloechel-d39j5n5.jpg)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 March, 2013, 11:31:30 PM
I wish they'd put that 'solar system' price list back onto the prog's cover.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 22 March, 2013, 12:44:08 AM
Should've never taken it off: but since they have, there's no going back :(
In other news, KAUTO LIVES!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/208954_155602371269486_1707922875_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 March, 2013, 11:17:52 AM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 21 March, 2013, 08:36:34 PM
Don't feed the trolls (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/21/halo-jones-topless-row-ian-gibson)

Wow  :o I stayed well out of the argument here (now locked) but a workmate just told me that he thought of me last night because this was trending on twitter (after Simon Pegg threw in his two penn'orth)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 March, 2013, 01:25:26 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 22 March, 2013, 11:17:52 AM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 21 March, 2013, 08:36:34 PM
Don't feed the trolls (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/21/halo-jones-topless-row-ian-gibson)

Wow  :o I stayed well out of the argument here (now locked) but a workmate just told me that he thought of me last night because this was trending on twitter (after Simon Pegg threw in his two penn'orth)
Don't mean to flog a dead horse but what did The Pegg have to say?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 22 March, 2013, 01:47:11 PM
He was upset. But delighted she were trending ont' twitter fangled thing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 March, 2013, 03:01:00 PM
er, does anyone know where the naughty step is?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 March, 2013, 03:04:42 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 22 March, 2013, 03:01:00 PM
er, does anyone know where the naughty step is?

Under yer arse.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 22 March, 2013, 04:00:08 PM
Half the internet goes like this...

I can't believe people are making such a fuss about <insert subject here>! Some people need to get a life and let <insert subject here> go! Aren't there more important things in life to worry about than <insert subject here>? I don't understand why they can't just shut up about <insert subject here>! Haven't they anything better to do than moan about <insert subject here>? Of all the things to have a problem with, they choose <insert subject here>? You don't see me complaining about <insert superficially similar but quite different subject here>, so why do they have an issue with <insert subject here>?

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Disclaimer : does not relate to any one specific subject
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 March, 2013, 04:04:01 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 22 March, 2013, 04:00:08 PM
Half the internet goes like this...

I can't believe people are making such a fuss about <insert subject here>! Some people need to get a life and let <insert subject here> go! Aren't there more important things in life to worry about than <insert subject here>? I don't understand why they can't just shut up about <insert subject here>! Haven't they anything better to do than moan about <insert subject here>? Of all the things to have a problem with, they choose <insert subject here>? You don't see me complaining about <insert superficially similar but quite different subject here>, so why do they have an issue with <insert subject here>?

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Disclaimer : does not relate to any one specific subject


TLWR
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 22 March, 2013, 04:39:58 PM
I read online debate to express my opinions- not read other peoples!
Plus side of all this chatter and blather is that more people might read the actual stories wondering about all the broo-haw is about: a good, good thing surely?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 March, 2013, 05:03:03 PM
HOW DARE YOU! If I want to insert something, I don't need people like you telling me where!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 22 March, 2013, 05:04:21 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 March, 2013, 06:07:45 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 March, 2013, 01:25:26 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 22 March, 2013, 11:17:52 AM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 21 March, 2013, 08:36:34 PM
Don't feed the trolls (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/21/halo-jones-topless-row-ian-gibson)

Wow  :o I stayed well out of the argument here (now locked) but a workmate just told me that he thought of me last night because this was trending on twitter (after Simon Pegg threw in his two penn'orth)

Don't mean to flog a dead horse but what did The Pegg have to say?

Careful, lads - you'll get this thread locked too. If that happened, where would everyone post their nerd porn and annoying memes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF30uFNFr-0)?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 March, 2013, 09:06:07 PM
This'll cheer ye up (http://vimeo.com/6971656)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 March, 2013, 09:20:38 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 22 March, 2013, 09:06:07 PM
This'll cheer ye up (http://vimeo.com/6971656)

That's incredible, but the guy from The Towering Inferno is just ripping off the black and white original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6-tYS9k1U).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 22 March, 2013, 09:30:51 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 22 March, 2013, 09:06:07 PM
This'll cheer ye up (http://vimeo.com/6971656)
Or how about Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse from 'singing in the rain'? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWBOfsXsDA)
... just to keep it raunchy?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 22 March, 2013, 10:29:31 PM
30/0 K/D FFA COD BLOPS2 XBOX360. ZOMG!!! :o :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 24 March, 2013, 08:55:42 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 22 March, 2013, 09:06:07 PM
This'll cheer ye up (http://vimeo.com/6971656)


Fake



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 24 March, 2013, 08:16:21 PM
Apparantly 'Drat' has it's origin in the phrase 'May God Rot'

strong stuff...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 March, 2013, 08:54:17 PM

You know in Ghostbusters, when Bill Murray's reeling off a list of signs that precede the apocalypse which ends on "dogs and cats living together ..." ? This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=71hb8hBEj0Q#t=24s) seems even more unlikely and twice as silly.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 March, 2013, 11:00:37 PM
Some pish poor football from Eire & England this evening.
I feel dejected.  :-*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 27 March, 2013, 09:25:33 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 March, 2013, 11:00:37 PM
Some pish poor football from Eire & England this evening.
I feel dejected.  :-*

I didnt even bother with the England match. Ive had my fill of lacklustre footie this week,  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 March, 2013, 07:21:51 PM
So is it just that nose-picks like to travel...or is it that travel somehow makes people rampant nose-picks?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 March, 2013, 07:31:00 PM

Due to industrial action by BBC employees, they've been trawling the depths for the kind of wretched creature who're prepared to cross a picket line to present the news bulletins. I last saw the guy who presented the six o'clock news on BBC1 tonight on Newsround in the late nineties, and it looks like he hasn't enjoyed a full night's sleep in the intervening years.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 March, 2013, 08:04:27 PM
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2013/3/27/1364378810648/Matthew-Hayes-Eggstermina-004.jpg)

Eggsterminate. That's great.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 28 March, 2013, 08:22:39 PM
Genius von Boom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 March, 2013, 08:25:01 PM
That is EGGcellent! Cracking stuff.







::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 March, 2013, 08:41:05 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 28 March, 2013, 08:25:01 PM
That is EGGcellent! Cracking stuff.







::)
One pun per post only! What a rotten sport you are.



;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 28 March, 2013, 08:50:11 PM
My brain is fried, so I may need to poach one of those puns in a scramble to nab them before the joke gets over boiled.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 March, 2013, 08:55:04 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 March, 2013, 08:41:05 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 28 March, 2013, 08:25:01 PM
That is EGGcellent! Cracking stuff.







::)
One pun per post only! What a rotten sport you are.



;)

Sorry, please EGGScuse me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 March, 2013, 09:02:00 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 28 March, 2013, 08:55:04 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 March, 2013, 08:41:05 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 28 March, 2013, 08:25:01 PM
That is EGGcellent! Cracking stuff.







::)
One pun per post only! What a rotten sport you are.



;)

Sorry, please EGGScuse me.
Kids these days, think everythings a YOKE.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 28 March, 2013, 10:13:31 PM
I think it's time to declare this sudden and unfortunate out-break of  egg-punnery officially
ova*.


*Pardon my french, but an oeuf is an oeuf!

/coat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 28 March, 2013, 11:08:44 PM
Happy Easter.
Doing the rounds on facefuck at the moment.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/544211_10152672112985427_1991587114_n.png)






V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 29 March, 2013, 12:31:21 PM
Brilliantly demented.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 29 March, 2013, 07:23:55 PM
Happy Zombie Jesus Weekend everyone!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 March, 2013, 07:51:08 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 March, 2013, 07:23:55 PM
Happy Zombie Jesus Weekend everyone!
It was my brothers 'Happy ejection from the uterus day' today. Some enter life, some return to it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 March, 2013, 09:42:38 PM
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18izk6g4ljm8ogif/original.gif#.UVYGz1mKaN4.facebook)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 March, 2013, 11:39:17 PM
Anyone else having a crappy misnomer Friday....?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 March, 2013, 02:03:07 AM
WTF North Korea ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 30 March, 2013, 01:56:30 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 March, 2013, 02:03:07 AM
WTF North Korea ::)

^^This.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 March, 2013, 02:29:14 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 30 March, 2013, 01:56:30 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 March, 2013, 02:03:07 AM
WTF North Korea ::)

^^This.

Ornery AND ronery.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 March, 2013, 02:51:11 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 30 March, 2013, 02:29:14 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 30 March, 2013, 01:56:30 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 March, 2013, 02:03:07 AM
WTF North Korea ::)

^^This.

Ornery AND ronery.
Not the first time they've done it though, is it? You gotta pity the poor citizens there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: smilersaltash on 30 March, 2013, 10:48:24 PM
Why not send Tony Blair out to sort out. He did such a great job as Middle East Peace Envoy, maybe he could work his magic out there.

This makes perfect sense to me at the moment, as I am fairly heavily pissed, but will claim to have no recollection if asked tomorrow.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2013, 07:46:52 PM
I just fell asleep and dreamed I had a boss called Goldie Sellotawin (Italics added to denote syllable stress). He sounds cool.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 March, 2013, 07:54:25 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2013, 07:46:52 PM
I just fell asleep and dreamed I had a boss called Goldie Sellotawin (Italics added to denote syllable stress). He sounds cool.

You were warned about the side-effects from those mushrooms!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 01 April, 2013, 03:50:59 AM
For all the extremis we have witnessed (modified to add; nay enjoyed) indicative within a Frank Millar script, should we really be surprised nay anticlastic to the passage his eventual diatribes took?

(modified to add; "Motherfucker?")
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 01 April, 2013, 10:11:02 AM
Ann Nocenti is the geek MILF version of Nigella Lawson.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 April, 2013, 06:12:24 PM

The BBC made an unfortunate choice of image to illustrate Paolo Di Canio's protestations that he isn't a fascist:

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66695000/jpg/_66695657_121672863.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 April, 2013, 06:23:01 PM
He's giving the thumb's up. That means Sunderland's defence gets to live.

This photo would have been worse.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Paolo_Di_Canio_Upton_Park_11_September_2010.jpg/250px-Paolo_Di_Canio_Upton_Park_11_September_2010.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 April, 2013, 07:09:51 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 April, 2013, 06:23:01 PM
This photo would have been worse.

It's not the most insulting hand gesture he's ever made:

(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROo_KuqI-NIMnBOY-4I774LJ2sjNPsajXHutGHkBDLj0VcI3WgMA)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 April, 2013, 07:12:28 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 01 April, 2013, 07:09:51 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 April, 2013, 06:23:01 PM
This photo would have been worse.

It's not the most insulting hand gesture he's ever made:

(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROo_KuqI-NIMnBOY-4I774LJ2sjNPsajXHutGHkBDLj0VcI3WgMA)

Having a weed?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 April, 2013, 07:45:24 PM

Well he's not describing his own tackle:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZ3DjRg8IE/TUau9SfV6MI/AAAAAAAA6AE/79466yO1A1I/s1600/di%2Bcanio3.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 April, 2013, 07:47:39 PM
Pft, German sausage much?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 April, 2013, 09:15:53 PM
They was playing some Elvis on the radio today. Which reminded me; Was anyone else called Elvis before Elvis?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 01 April, 2013, 10:24:40 PM
Apparantly, there's a Saint Elvis* of Munster and there is a 'Sir George Elvis' in an 18th century play and there was a U.S. administrator born in 1916 called Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr (junior so I presume his Papa might have been Elvis too).
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-30CDxQTuRPE/UVn6p-5xWDI/AAAAAAAACGI/zBHpL9fun4c/s320/de.gif)
*Although because it was 5th Century Ireland, there seems to be a lot of varied spellings of the name.
Th'interweb is great!
(//)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 April, 2013, 10:54:14 PM

Arf, darnmarr. That has the impish charm and sense of fun which were missing from Headey's otherwise fine performance.

On a separate and unrelated note, are all the new folk who seem to have joined the forum over the weekend supposed to compensate for the (hopefully only temporary) loss of board Colossus TordelBack - sort of like replacing King Kong with a thousand rhesus monkeys?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 April, 2013, 11:12:57 PM
Where has Tordleback gone off to? :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 April, 2013, 11:29:54 PM
He's gone off to a nice big farm in the country. He's happy there. Lots of trolls for him to chase.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 April, 2013, 05:11:02 AM
Isn't it time we named the moon?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 April, 2013, 05:05:50 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 02 April, 2013, 05:11:02 AM
Isn't it time we named the moon?

We also need to give our own rock a sexy new name, as well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 April, 2013, 05:21:12 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 02 April, 2013, 05:11:02 AM
Isn't it time we named the moon?

My vote would go to Ban Ki (http://www.un.org/sg/biography.shtml)- or The Reverend (http://www.unification.org/rev_mrs_moon.html).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 April, 2013, 08:35:36 PM
Nah, Keith
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 April, 2013, 08:40:52 PM
Harvey
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 April, 2013, 08:41:40 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 April, 2013, 08:40:52 PM
Harvey
IM BATMAN!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 April, 2013, 08:44:14 PM
Algebra.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 April, 2013, 09:44:01 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 April, 2013, 08:41:40 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 02 April, 2013, 08:40:52 PM
Harvey
IM BATMAN!

Not quite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PJzeqkNwyk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PJzeqkNwyk)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 April, 2013, 03:25:48 PM
Excellent suggestions. I was thinking something very simple and easily remembered like - Noom
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 April, 2013, 03:35:18 PM
Got to be Henry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 April, 2013, 03:58:38 PM
We should just ask Techno Viking, he'll know what to call it...but I have a feeling Henry would be a winner...think of the tunes "Fly me to the Henry". http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwrel&v=d84z_TFkeNU
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 03 April, 2013, 07:30:58 PM
Women cheer when Zarjazzer appears!

:o

Oh wait did I say cheer? I meant jeer but they're similiar sounding.

Yes, it's jeer. Definitely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 April, 2013, 07:52:20 PM
Chicken drumsticks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 April, 2013, 04:17:14 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/NZXjylE.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 04 April, 2013, 04:38:13 PM
Last thing you expect to see: a legless octopus.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 April, 2013, 06:19:39 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 04 April, 2013, 04:38:13 PM
Last thing you expect to see: a legless octopus.

Well Kenneth Williams for one finds the whole thing utterly shocking.

(http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/acce66041f5e11e1a87612313804ec91_7.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 04 April, 2013, 07:01:16 PM
Kenneth's reaction took this house completely by surprise:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RnQJ2r-Hl4A/UV2_fsZqdrI/AAAAAAAACGY/QpjQmYRu-7c/s1600/house+scream.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 April, 2013, 01:20:05 PM
We already know how this will probably play out:

"Regardless of her politics, she was still a human being"

"Don't care, she was a horrible, milk stealing cunt and she ruined this country!"

And so forth, ad nauseum.

Should we run a sweepstake on how long it takes for the RIP thread to get locked?

It's on days like these I hate the internet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 08 April, 2013, 01:31:16 PM
What about some gentlemanly agreement not to speak ill of the dead no matter what you thought of 'em?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 08 April, 2013, 01:33:48 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 08 April, 2013, 01:20:05 PM
We already know how this will probably play out:

"Regardless of her politics, she was still a human being"

"Don't care, she was a horrible, milk stealing cunt and she ruined this country!"

And so forth, ad nauseum.

Should we run a sweepstake on how long it takes for the RIP thread to get locked?

It's on days like these I hate the internet.

I'm sure she's warmer now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 April, 2013, 04:54:02 PM

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BHVrICXCAAEc2lS.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 April, 2013, 09:30:01 PM
In a few months' time, Wham, Spandau Ballet, The Smiths and The Pet Shop Boys are going to be wondering why their PRS cheques are made out for about three or four times their usual amounts. The BBC video library must have experienced an unusual surge in requests for clips from Only Fools and Horses too.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 03:53:28 PM
Would you all please note:

It is impossible for anything other than a person to be "incredulous". It is a state of mind.

You can be incredulous about something. But a thing cannot be incredulous without something to have the relevant belief. An event cannot be incredulous on its own.

The word you are looking for is incredible.

i.e. it is incredulous that they will charge this much should be it is incredible that they will charge this much

or

I am incredulous that they will charge this much

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 09 April, 2013, 05:19:30 PM
Problem is, 'incredible' sounds like a good thing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 April, 2013, 07:56:52 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 09 April, 2013, 05:19:30 PM
Problem is, 'incredible' sounds like a good thing.

Your avatar is incredulous.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 April, 2013, 08:04:20 PM
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2464648/victor-meldrew-o.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 April, 2013, 08:22:22 PM
"Get your bloody nose of of that bread bin!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 April, 2013, 08:24:12 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 09 April, 2013, 08:04:20 PM
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2464648/victor-meldrew-o.gif)

Well that was amusing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 08:52:54 PM
I am incredulous that you posted it.

I am incredulous that anyone watched One Foot in the Grave.

One Foot in the Grave is not, however, incredulous.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 April, 2013, 08:56:25 PM
I don't belie ... ah, I see what you did there, Pops.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 April, 2013, 09:44:37 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 08:52:54 PM
One Foot in the Grave is not, however, incredulous.
I've uhmed and ahed about this, and i'm sorry, i'm incredulous to wether this makes any sense.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 10:10:21 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 09 April, 2013, 09:44:37 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 08:52:54 PM
One Foot in the Grave is not, however, incredulous.
I've uhmed and ahed about this, and i'm sorry, i'm incredulous to wether this makes any sense.

Don't get me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 April, 2013, 10:16:35 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 10:10:21 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 09 April, 2013, 09:44:37 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 09 April, 2013, 08:52:54 PM
One Foot in the Grave is not, however, incredulous.
I've uhmed and ahed about this, and i'm sorry, i'm incredulous to wether this makes any sense.

Don't get me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.
:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 09 April, 2013, 10:28:42 PM
Good heavens, just look at the time!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 April, 2013, 10:36:51 PM
Irregardless of the time, I find the whole thing incredulous.  Yes, irregardless.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 09 April, 2013, 11:51:16 PM
 I knew I'd fall fowl of you but I'm not at your beckon call for all intensive purposes...

what are you trying to infer?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: maryanddavid on 10 April, 2013, 12:15:56 AM
I never said that, to be honest I think you're O.K.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 10 April, 2013, 08:50:45 AM
"Aquaculture has been around since at least 6000 BC when the indigenous Gunditjmara people living near what's now Victoria, Australia began raising eels in a 39 square mile patch of volcanic floodplains controlled by channels and dams."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 April, 2013, 09:18:40 AM
Quote from: darnmarr on 09 April, 2013, 11:51:16 PM
I knew I'd fall fowl of you but I'm not at your beckon call for all intensive purposes...

what are you trying to infer?

Nobody's incinerating anything inflammable about you, nor casting asparagus on your caricature.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 April, 2013, 10:07:40 AM
Don't you people no how two use a spell chequer?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 10 April, 2013, 10:28:31 AM
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/firefly-hat-triggers-corporate-crackdown

Infringement dichotomy? Or natural selection?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 10 April, 2013, 08:39:27 PM
Saga is banned from my iPad too. Because it's shite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 10 April, 2013, 08:52:34 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 10 April, 2013, 10:28:31 AM
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/firefly-hat-triggers-corporate-crackdown

Infringement dichotomy? Or natural selection?

they nuked the show so the crocs in human form probably couldn't stand some poor "peasants" as they see anyone but themselves making a buck.

Some corp apologist will be probably be along in a min to tell us all how "right" it all is.Or just be smug cos they know there's little can be done. If you have power you must excercise it so the people know their place.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 April, 2013, 09:46:44 PM
Browncoats. So they have a name! I learned something new today. The wardrobe in that show was very good to be fair.

We should start calling ourselves Tightboots or somesuch. Big Helmets?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 April, 2013, 09:48:24 PM
Quote from: radiator on 10 April, 2013, 08:39:27 PM
Saga is banned from my iPad too. Because it's shite.

Oh no he didn't...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 April, 2013, 09:51:30 PM
Well it's now officialy signed and approved. I'm emigrating.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 10 April, 2013, 11:25:45 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 10 April, 2013, 09:46:44 PM
We should start calling ourselves Tightboots or somesuch. Big Helmets?
Um... Meg-Heads?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 10 April, 2013, 11:29:25 PM
A bunch of Dredd-cases?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 10 April, 2013, 11:31:58 PM
Rowdy Yates Citi-Def? (who are you fightin' with?)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 10 April, 2013, 11:33:33 PM
your mum





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 10 April, 2013, 11:36:41 PM
If you were fightin' with my mater, you would have my pity: Woman know'd  how to be violent lemmee tellya
.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 April, 2013, 08:04:24 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 10 April, 2013, 09:46:44 PM
Browncoats. So they have a name!

Haven't heard that name for a while - Browncoats, the enemies of the legendary Mad Max-style freedom fighter Mike Jones, of the alternative post-apocalyptic 80s.  Who can forget how he gathered an army together to wage war against the Browncoats, minions of the evil Professor Straker?

You could be forgiven if you haven't heard of him, owing to the fact that he only existed inside my head back in primary school, and hasn't really done much in the last 25 years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 11 April, 2013, 09:32:27 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lijtyhtBAy1qgnocbo1_400.jpg)





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 11 April, 2013, 10:34:42 PM
That's a fake...



You'd never get a woman to hold her mouth still long enough to do all that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 12 April, 2013, 04:19:35 AM
it is wrong to chuckle, and yet I must.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgefloyd on 12 April, 2013, 04:35:14 AM
So I'm trying to install Opera in Ubuntu 8.04/Hardy Heron....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 12 April, 2013, 07:50:58 AM
Aldi's Benefit cereal is like chewing granite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 12 April, 2013, 08:26:46 AM
Quote from: Tombo on 11 April, 2013, 10:34:42 PM
That's a fake...



You'd never get a woman to hold her mouth still long enough to do all that.

Your Mom held her mouth open longer than that for me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 April, 2013, 01:34:57 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 12 April, 2013, 08:26:46 AM
Quote from: Tombo on 11 April, 2013, 10:34:42 PM
That's a fake...



You'd never get a woman to hold her mouth still long enough to do all that.

Your Mom held her mouth open longer than that for me.
Does Mrs. Tips know about this?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 12 April, 2013, 02:11:59 PM
Quote from: judgefloyd on 12 April, 2013, 04:35:14 AM
So I'm trying to install Opera in Ubuntu 8.04/Hardy Heron....

Ummmm... Quarter past seven.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 April, 2013, 04:10:07 PM
Having discussed it recently with a friend, I would like to see a new, politer type of porn, where people say things like 'Eff me, big boy, eff me in the behind with your you-know-what'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 April, 2013, 04:13:25 PM
Late period Carry on film's, or the On the Buses trilogy, then.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 April, 2013, 04:14:38 PM
Oh my...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 12 April, 2013, 04:24:42 PM
Algae power http://phys.org/news/2013-04-algae-powered-hamburg.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 April, 2013, 05:08:40 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 12 April, 2013, 04:13:25 PM
Late period Carry on film's, or the On the Buses trilogy, then.

Are you sure?  I was more thinking of this kind of thing (N particularly SFW):

http://imgur.com/B7HJ7 (http://imgur.com/B7HJ7)

P.S. I want an algae house.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 April, 2013, 10:24:00 PM
Chris Morris is very influential. Do you think someone in Boston rented Four Lions recently?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 April, 2013, 11:38:45 PM
Giant robots are cool. Just saying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 April, 2013, 08:13:30 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 April, 2013, 05:08:40 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 12 April, 2013, 04:13:25 PM
Late period Carry on film's, or the On the Buses trilogy, then.

Are you sure?  I was more thinking of this kind of thing (N particularly SFW):

http://imgur.com/B7HJ7 (http://imgur.com/B7HJ7)

P.S. I want an algae house.

Algae my back teeth for a house like that....I'll get my jet-pack.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 17 April, 2013, 08:29:37 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 15 April, 2013, 11:38:45 PM
Giant robots are cool. Just saying.

Sing it with me!

Quote
Living here in Jersey
Fighting villains from afar,
You gotta find first gear
In your giant robot car!

You dig giant robots!
I dig giant robots!
We dig giant robots!
Chicks dig giant robots!

Nice!

Living here in Jersey
Fighting villains from afar,
You gotta find first gear
In your giant robot car!

You dig giant robots!
I dig giant robots!
We dig giant robots!
Chicks dig giant robots!

Nice!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 April, 2013, 04:42:39 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 April, 2013, 10:24:00 PM
Chris Morris is very influential. Do you think someone in Boston rented Four Lions recently?

You're a bad man, Sauchie.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 April, 2013, 10:31:33 PM
Sh-sh-sh, Jayzuz; I think I got away with it. The FBI have confirmed this is one of the guys they're looking for:

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/the-fbi-has-confirmed-an-image-is-of-a-suspect-for-one-of-the-boston-marathon-explosions/story-fndir2ev-1226623977978 (http://www.news.com.au/world-news/the-fbi-has-confirmed-an-image-is-of-a-suspect-for-one-of-the-boston-marathon-explosions/story-fndir2ev-1226623977978)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 April, 2013, 10:38:20 PM
Video of the suspects: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/18/boston-bombing-fbi-images-suspects-live

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 April, 2013, 12:55:27 PM
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/4/18/1366316734866/Christine-Lagarde-010.jpg)

Obviously being head of the IMF is taking it out of her. Old boots.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 April, 2013, 10:09:09 PM
so the Boston bombers were originally from Chechnya ... that's got to be enough to justify the invasion of Venezuela surely?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 April, 2013, 11:38:18 PM
Was at the Premier League Darts in the O2 last night.
It say Dublin's crime rate dropped to 0.71% for the three hour duration.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 20 April, 2013, 12:03:06 AM
We live in a world of stupidity

http://www.mzv.cz/washington/en/czech_u_s_relations/news/statement_of_the_ambassador_of_the_czech.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 April, 2013, 01:33:54 AM
That is quite stupid, but on the bright side, it's nice to be reminded that hateful, prejudiced bigots are fuckin' morons
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 April, 2013, 02:09:59 AM
Go about your normal business, one man has been caught. Nothing to see, the earth still turns!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 April, 2013, 08:22:58 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 April, 2013, 02:09:59 AM
Go about your normal business, one man has been caught. Nothing to see, the earth still turns!

You're wrong, John. The Internet located and identified the culprits days ago, via a 'crowd-sourced investigation' on social media (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22214511) - the Tsarnaev brothers must be patsies.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 April, 2013, 09:02:09 AM
Damn!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 20 April, 2013, 11:17:31 AM
On a lighter note, Harrison Ford bends his wookie:

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/04/19/harrison-ford-wont-answer-star-wars-questions/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 April, 2013, 08:50:47 PM
Rocky IV is on Channel V right now. Now here's a series crying out for a remake. Except this time Rocky and Apollo Creed have an openly gay relationship. They're not fighting for money or glory, they're fighting for acceptance! And there's a moustache twirling boxing commissioner as the homophobic villain of the piece, who takes ridiculously over the top steps to ensure they never box again.

They should call it ROCKY: THE RAINBOW WARRIOR
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 20 April, 2013, 09:59:39 PM
I'm sure a properly homophobic villain would eschew any, questionably dandyish, affectation like a moustache, or certainly a moustache of 'twirlable' extremities... in favour of a geometric flat-top haircut you could set your watch by and clean bald chin.

Still, it's a wonderful idea, let's also have him tie Apollo to the train tracks at some point!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 April, 2013, 10:02:38 PM
Yeah, you're right about the moustache. Give him a cigar instead. He could quote Freud and everything. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 April, 2013, 09:58:36 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/kf92w2l.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 April, 2013, 01:25:16 PM

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/36586_10151348122091636_351145637_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 April, 2013, 04:29:36 PM
Sooner a Ring Wraith than some upper middle class ponce who's entire existence has been funded by Daddy's KPMG salary, trying to guilt me into donating 7 Euro a month to a money hungry charity with a grossly overpaid staff & management.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 22 April, 2013, 05:14:29 PM
The new neighbourhood watch vehicles patrolling the streets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22231365
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 April, 2013, 07:19:05 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 22 April, 2013, 05:14:29 PM
The new neighbourhood watch vehicles patrolling the streets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22231365

Oh yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUihR7UX1hs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUihR7UX1hs)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 April, 2013, 07:42:44 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 22 April, 2013, 05:14:29 PM
The new neighbourhood watch vehicles patrolling the streets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22231365
We are now six steps closer to Gundam. We should all be very proud.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 April, 2013, 09:20:41 PM
Branislav Ivanovic shouldn't keep jammy dodgers in his pockets during play.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 23 April, 2013, 01:05:13 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 21 April, 2013, 09:58:36 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/kf92w2l.jpg)

Oh my god, that is brilliant!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 April, 2013, 09:56:45 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 20 April, 2013, 11:17:31 AM
On a lighter note, Harrison Ford bends his wookie:

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/04/19/harrison-ford-wont-answer-star-wars-questions/

Can I just say that is wonderful. Has Vbox saw this?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 April, 2013, 12:42:22 PM
Its warm today.
Took yer time this year, Spring.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 April, 2013, 04:12:25 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 23 April, 2013, 12:42:22 PM
Its warm today.
Took yer time this year, Spring.

No shit.
The last few days have been spot on. But Wintery weather returning by the end of the week, apparently...  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 April, 2013, 10:28:18 PM



NASA draws penis on Mars with rover

(http://i.imgur.com/bHyVt9u.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 April, 2013, 10:38:37 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 April, 2013, 10:28:18 PM
NASA draws penis on Mars with rover

In the age of Photoshop, im often weary of stuff like this. But i so hope that's real,  :lol:
I guess if it is, then the work experience lad - who kept pestering to have a go at controlling the rover, has just been told to report to the bosses office..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 April, 2013, 10:39:35 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 23 April, 2013, 10:28:18 PM



NASA draws penis on Mars with rover

(http://i.imgur.com/bHyVt9u.jpg)
This elicitated a snicker.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 April, 2013, 06:01:44 PM
Hyundai. What's that saying about bad publicity?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 26 April, 2013, 07:36:08 PM
Do you know what I like about Barn Dances?

Absolutely nothing.

Dire evening ahead.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 April, 2013, 08:34:49 PM
Quote from: Minkyboy on 26 April, 2013, 07:36:08 PM
Do you know what I like about Barn Dances?

Absolutely nothing.

Dire evening ahead.

Ah Minky, you should try them round our way- legendary!

(My missus is a farmers daughter- they're a quare but lively bunch round there)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2013, 09:43:40 PM
Minky - in this situation, alcohol is your friend. Drink enough, throw yourself into it, and the worst barn dance or ceilidh can be a good laugh!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 April, 2013, 11:00:41 AM
This is a Stub Gun demonstration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ddmeErhUao
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 April, 2013, 09:06:19 PM
QuoteIf you can see the mountains, then it's gonna rain. If you can't see the mountains, it's raining.

Dave Allen sums up Irish weather
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 29 April, 2013, 10:37:02 PM
I spent 4 days in Ireland the other year, and it only rained one time.

That one time lasted 4 days....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 April, 2013, 10:57:17 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 29 April, 2013, 10:37:02 PM
I spent 4 days in Ireland the other year, and it only rained one time.

That one time lasted 4 days....

Still though, could be worse- imagine not actuallybeing from Ireland?
Would be like rain on yer soul I imagine. ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 02:57:47 PM
Hong Kong not re-touched. http://gizmodo.com/these-surreal-photos-of-hong-kongs-aging-towers-arent-483852763
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Stan on 30 April, 2013, 03:06:14 PM
Kinda horribly beautiful.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 03:27:52 PM
Quote from: Stan on 30 April, 2013, 03:06:14 PM
Kinda horribly beautiful.
It is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 April, 2013, 04:13:28 PM
Surreal isn't a suitable description. It's damn scary.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 05:15:48 PM
It is.
So is this...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20130429.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 April, 2013, 05:17:52 PM
Fascinating. :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 05:34:18 PM
The outer perimeter is a hexagonal shape which defys logic...or our knowledge. There are films about it that explain its discovery. Mind bending...I've posted it here before.
https://www.google.cz/search?q=hexagon+on+mars&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&redir_esc=&ei=sfF_UYHjJYrEtAbbiIDIAw#hl=en&gs_rn=11&gs_ri=tablet-gws-psy&pq=hexagon%20on%20mars&cp=13&gs_id=k&xhr=t&q=hexagon+on+saturn&es_nrs=true&pf=p&sclient=tablet-gws&client=safari&oq=hexagon+on+sa&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.45921128,d.Yms&fp=85abe9fbec81495c&biw=768&bih=928
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 April, 2013, 08:16:44 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 02:57:47 PM
Hong Kong not re-touched. http://gizmodo.com/these-surreal-photos-of-hong-kongs-aging-towers-arent-483852763

Story related by absolutely everyone who's ever had a stopover in the tiny and densely populated city of Hong Kong: "so I opened the curtains of my hotel room, and there's a fucking 747 going past the window at eye level - you could see folk sitting in the plane with their earphones on"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UyU9OLqQ8XA#t=14s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UyU9OLqQ8XA#t=14s)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 April, 2013, 08:21:49 PM
Where is GOATY?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 11:24:04 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 30 April, 2013, 08:16:44 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 30 April, 2013, 02:57:47 PM
Hong Kong not re-touched. http://gizmodo.com/these-surreal-photos-of-hong-kongs-aging-towers-arent-483852763

Story related by absolutely everyone who's ever had a stopover in the tiny and densely populated city of Hong Kong: "so I opened the curtains of my hotel room, and there's a fucking 747 going past the window at eye level - you could see folk sitting in the plane with their earphones on"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UyU9OLqQ8XA#t=14s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UyU9OLqQ8XA#t=14s)

At least with the high humidity one need never worry about ironing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 May, 2013, 08:24:05 AM
It never needs ironing. It takes weights off hips, bust, thighs, chin, midriff, gives you dandruff, and it finds you a job.  It is a job.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 01 May, 2013, 08:26:07 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 May, 2013, 08:24:05 AM
It never needs ironing. It takes weights off hips, bust, thighs, chin, midriff, gives you dandruff, and it finds you a job.  It is a job.

Absolutely beautiful... The small print taketh away.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mabs on 01 May, 2013, 08:58:46 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 April, 2013, 08:21:49 PM
Where is GOATY?

You can check out the thread i started, for clues;

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38464.msg759497.html#new

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 May, 2013, 09:58:25 PM
I wonder if Bill Roache and Michael Le Vell will share the same prison cell?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 02 May, 2013, 01:18:45 AM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 01 May, 2013, 08:26:07 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 May, 2013, 08:24:05 AM
It never needs ironing. It takes weights off hips, bust, thighs, chin, midriff, gives you dandruff, and it finds you a job.  It is a job.

Absolutely beautiful... The small print taketh away.

Get away from me, kid. You bother me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 May, 2013, 05:43:54 AM
...It was just about that time that the sun
came crawlin' yellow out of a manhole
at the foot of 23rd Street
and a dracula moon in a black disguise
was making its way back to its
pre-paid room at the St. Moritz Hotel...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 May, 2013, 06:34:18 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 May, 2013, 09:58:25 PM
I wonder if Bill Roache and Michael Le Vell will share the same prison cell?
innocent until proven guillty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 May, 2013, 12:30:01 PM
Anyone got a working PSU for a 17" G4 iMac they'd like to send me?  Will swap comics.

Gah!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 May, 2013, 04:43:14 PM
Iron Man, his mouth was always a longish rectangle...a slot, a letterbox, not today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 May, 2013, 05:08:25 PM
In prison 'Its a Knock-out' is played literally.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 May, 2013, 05:20:03 PM
I wonder how long it is now before they start going after rock/pop stars from the 60s/70s
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Recrewt on 02 May, 2013, 05:23:39 PM
My cat's breath smells of cat meat!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 May, 2013, 05:34:18 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 02 May, 2013, 05:08:25 PM
In prison 'Its a Knock-out' is played literally.

I don't think he'll be laughing now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L2bTwSfWtsE#t=21s)

Listening to the news on the radio today has been a profoundly depressing experience. When characters like Hall, Roache, Starr, Harris and Clifford were arrested I tried to bear in mind that phrases as vague as indecent assault could mean a thirty-five year old getting a hand job from a willing fifteen year old he met in a pub, and that attitudes to sex in The Summer of Love were different to our own.  None of that applies to someone who touches up a nine year old.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 May, 2013, 07:35:52 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 02 May, 2013, 05:34:18 PMNone of that applies to someone who touches up a nine year old.

Mirroring my own thought processes there.  Just when you think you've become as disillusioned and cynical about people as you're likely to get, you read another sickening list of crimes by someone who used to define your family evenings in front of the telly and realise that you're still a babe in the woods in the scheme of things. I mean fucking hell, man.

My Mum was a terrific royalist as a kid (we actually went over during the Queen's Jubilee, watching the fleet review from a carpark is one of my strongest childhood memories), as many Irish people were, and I remember how heartbroken she was when all the shite around Charles and Diana's marriage was pouring relentlessly out and the Royal Family had become like an extended episode of Kilroy: "it used to be something special, now it's all ruined", she used to say.  Unsympathetic republican that I was/am, I used to marvel at this: they're only people, what the hell did she expect? 

Well, now I get it.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 May, 2013, 08:41:16 PM
Despite how hard Prague tries...you can never hold back Spring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgeZEdbv_m8&list=RD02knII3S0MZtY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 May, 2013, 10:52:10 PM
That's as may be, but ive now got two copies of Judge Dredd: Year One # 2. Not totally sure how that's happened...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 03 May, 2013, 05:00:59 PM
Tu Pac's aunt becomes first woman to be placed on FBI Most Wanted list.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 May, 2013, 05:34:44 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 03 May, 2013, 05:00:59 PM
Tu Pac's aunt becomes first woman to be placed on FBI Most Wanted list.

Joanne Chesimard/Assata Shakur is the first female to be added to the Feds' Most Wanted Terrorist list (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists), but trustifarian turned bank robber Patty Hearst and Black Panther affiliate Angela Davis both made the regular list in the Seventies, along with countless XX bad asses I've never heard of. Commit a federal offence and you make the list.

(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3Yq29M11NIvS_nNMPY4Kh69oRaswZsjsBn9T3Q812a7RgMuIb) (https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIMXvYrV-2MOOflT5t72EKwVS3kgPNVmnVt0la3QoRi5taW3L9)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 03 May, 2013, 05:43:37 PM
I got it from glancing at the link to this
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/fbi-%E2%80%98most-wanted-terrorist%E2%80%99-rapper-tupac%E2%80%99s-shakur-aunt-209182
On clicking the link to bring the above up, I immediately noticed a section stating 'reports Daily Mail' and cursed myself.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 May, 2013, 05:53:50 PM
I should really head over there and see what spin The Mail is putting on today's election results. My guess is they'll be licking their lips at the prospect of the calls for a lurch to the right which UKIP's gains will provoke among the party faithful.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 04 May, 2013, 03:51:08 PM
I now understand why call for a "devolved" English parliament weren't taken up by any mainstream party.  The whole country would be a xenophobic dictatorship by now. 

Luckily, you have your left leaning Scotch and Welsh brothers to stop you all from tipping over the edge.

...maybe you should have been nicer to us...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 May, 2013, 10:00:02 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7412601344/h2B78BBB8/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jared Katooie on 07 May, 2013, 10:28:55 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2013, 06:34:18 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 May, 2013, 09:58:25 PM
I wonder if Bill Roache and Michael Le Vell will share the same prison cell?
innocent until proven guillty.


"Under the basic principles of English law, every man is innocent until speculated guilty" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUkt59vY1Q)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 May, 2013, 11:12:14 PM
It's Friday night, and I'm checking bits of broken pot against an error-filled spreadsheet, for free, in a windowless room across the road from a strip club.  Only 6,000 to go in this pile, tra la lee, carpe diem! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 May, 2013, 08:01:58 AM
First Thatcher, then Fergie ... somewhere out there is a scouser with one wish left.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 May, 2013, 08:27:50 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 May, 2013, 08:01:58 AM
First Thatcher, then Fergie ... somewhere out there is a scouser with one wish left.

Nah, me new trackies and trainers arrived in the post this morning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 May, 2013, 09:18:22 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 11 May, 2013, 08:27:50 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 May, 2013, 08:01:58 AM
First Thatcher, then Fergie ... somewhere out there is a scouser with one wish left.

Nah, me new trackies and trainers arrived in the post this morning.

That'll be a relief for Kelvin McKenzie, he was shitting himself!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 May, 2013, 10:44:21 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 April, 2013, 08:21:49 PM
Where is GOATY?

Love you too.


And Goaty's back!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Stan on 13 May, 2013, 10:54:24 AM
What's the tweet droid talking about here? It doesn't sound familiar..

"If you think your Monday is bad remember the poor inhabitants of Epsilon Zeta 3, where Monday lasts 32.7 years. Weekends last 7.6 minutes."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 13 May, 2013, 12:28:42 PM
I'm loving my new avatar :) Anybody else loving it???
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 13 May, 2013, 12:44:38 PM
It's Monday. Huzzah!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 May, 2013, 01:11:56 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 13 May, 2013, 12:28:42 PM
I'm loving my new avatar :) Anybody else loving it???

it's very dark and hard to make out, but nice choice - maybe some tweaking of the image?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 13 May, 2013, 02:13:11 PM
I am just rying out my shiny new bluetooth keyboard.  it's not as good as i hoped but still better than the onscreen one.

i am surviving by revelling in ZX Spectrum keyboard nostalgia,
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Stan on 13 May, 2013, 02:23:01 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 13 May, 2013, 12:28:42 PM
I'm loving my new avatar :) Anybody else loving it???

I can't really tell what it is but it did make me mistake you for Goaty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 May, 2013, 04:57:10 PM
Quote from: Stan on 13 May, 2013, 02:23:01 PM
Quote from: Hoagy on 13 May, 2013, 12:28:42 PM
I'm loving my new avatar :) Anybody else loving it???

I can't really tell what it is but it did make me mistake you for Goaty.

(http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2013/05/shining.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 13 May, 2013, 07:09:13 PM
^ Brilliant....'knock, knock'...." little pig, little pig, let me come in" .......
and the 'mad eyes'...great stuff.. :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 13 May, 2013, 11:01:25 PM
How do you like it now?  Look! Look at iiiittt!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 May, 2013, 08:22:35 AM
Toast and Hot Chocolate. The breakfast of the middle class.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 May, 2013, 08:29:18 AM

(http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2013/05/bigball.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 May, 2013, 12:53:55 PM
Armoured Bulldozer of rage...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZh9-NQEyI&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 May, 2013, 11:46:24 PM
If the radius of your pizza = z and the thickness = a, what is the volume of your pizza?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 14 May, 2013, 11:53:38 PM
Google says Pi z^2 a.

I dunno.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 14 May, 2013, 11:56:38 PM
Sounds good. One fifteen inch pizza is bigger than two ten inch pizzas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 May, 2013, 12:23:50 AM
Quote from: Trout on 14 May, 2013, 11:53:38 PM
Google says Pi z^2 a.

I dunno.  ;)

Bastard!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 May, 2013, 01:28:43 PM

Wait a minute. How the fuck did a garbage monster get on the Death Star?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 15 May, 2013, 01:31:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 15 May, 2013, 01:28:43 PM

Wait a minute. How the fuck did a garbage monster get on the Death Star?

The waste disposal engineers put it there.  They use it to process organic waste.  It's good for the environment!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 May, 2013, 02:16:51 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 15 May, 2013, 01:31:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 15 May, 2013, 01:28:43 PM

Wait a minute. How the fuck did a garbage monster get on the Death Star?

The waste disposal engineers put it there.  They use it to process organic waste.  It's good for the environment!

And after it dies they serve it to the troops.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 May, 2013, 02:47:42 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 May, 2013, 02:16:51 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 15 May, 2013, 01:31:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 15 May, 2013, 01:28:43 PM

Wait a minute. How the fuck did a garbage monster get on the Death Star?

The waste disposal engineers put it there.  They use it to process organic waste.  It's good for the environment!

And after it dies they serve it to the troops.

Personally I always considered it some kind of tapeworm that had passed in to the waste system from the gut of something or someone using the latrines. Parasites would be a nightmare in that kind of universe.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 May, 2013, 03:34:24 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 15 May, 2013, 02:47:42 PM
Parasites would be a nightmare in that kind of universe.
(http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/08/ChestBurster.gif.CROP.original-original.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 May, 2013, 03:59:31 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 15 May, 2013, 03:34:24 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 15 May, 2013, 02:47:42 PM
Parasites would be a nightmare in that kind of universe.
(http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/08/ChestBurster.gif.CROP.original-original.gif)

ugh...Alka-Seltzer, please
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 May, 2013, 05:26:33 PM
Anything is better than a chestburster...well maybe the birth scene in Xtro is but not by much!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 May, 2013, 05:56:40 PM
They be feudin' folk down Norwich way. Lightsabres vs Sonic screwdrivers!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/norwich-star-wars-club--doctor-who-fans-trouble-star-wars-fans-police-called-160210697.html#IIDrwQ2 (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/norwich-star-wars-club--doctor-who-fans-trouble-star-wars-fans-police-called-160210697.html#IIDrwQ2)

Pity there were no judges in attendance.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 May, 2013, 09:43:48 PM

I can't remember seeing this anywhere else here, but I'm sure it's already been posted (probably on this thread). George Takei's hilarious response to an odd campaign against gay marriage in the US:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/george-takei-responds-to-traditional-marriage-fans

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mabs on 17 May, 2013, 09:57:51 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 17 May, 2013, 09:43:48 PM

I can't remember seeing this anywhere else here, but I'm sure it's already been posted (probably on this thread). George Takei's hilarious response to an odd campaign against gay marriage in the US:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/george-takei-responds-to-traditional-marriage-fans

Ha ha! "where did you find this Vulcan?"  :lol:

George is the ultimate definition of a legend.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 May, 2013, 10:02:18 PM
That is the best thing i've seen all May. Honestly, someone knight Takei already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 18 May, 2013, 09:19:18 AM
Just to be clear, shouting "go back to your own country" at someone in the street - not okay.

Having it as an actual policy of your political party - that's fine.  And if you call it racist, you're a fascist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 May, 2013, 02:37:15 PM
Quote from: Temponaut on 18 May, 2013, 09:19:18 AM
Just to be clear, shouting "go back to your own country" at someone in the street - not okay. Having it as an actual policy of your political party - that's fine.  And if you call it racist, you're a fascist.

Aye, that was genius bit of inversion; I'm not sure Nigel understood the irony.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 May, 2013, 02:45:59 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 18 May, 2013, 12:53:12 AM
The (Dredd) sequel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpumkZa0gA) is here :

I'm replying here because I don't want to feed or derail the [spoiler]Dredd[/spoiler] film thread. I can see what you mean; biker in black leathers displays reckless disregard for social niceties (especially the placement of furniture) and an unnecessarily harsh attitude to minor traffic violations - that's the start of the 2012 film. He even tracks down one of his victims to an eaterie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HRGrh-7Xf9U#t=107s).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 May, 2013, 04:42:34 PM
But ROTOR is AWFUL! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 18 May, 2013, 06:09:54 PM
Now the thread nuking has begun, let's kill the Political Thread!

Then the big one: the Dredd film thread must dieeeeeee!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 May, 2013, 06:19:20 PM
So sick today I can hardly draw breath...but I'm drawing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 May, 2013, 06:38:53 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 May, 2013, 06:09:54 PM
Then the big one: the Dredd film thread must dieeeeeee!  :lol:

Its already been pencilled in for when Goaty has another week's break from the forum.
This wont affect the forthcoming Dredd sequel. That film will, obviously, get its own thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 May, 2013, 10:51:15 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 May, 2013, 06:09:54 PM
Then the big one: the Dredd film thread must dieeeeeee!  :lol:
Following the closure of the womens underwear thread, I feel the whole forum must die.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 18 May, 2013, 11:17:39 PM
Has died: damn the puritans to the seventh circle of hell. Utterly depressing.

EDIT: Bubba Zebill, sick-but-drawing: uplifting. Go Bubba!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 May, 2013, 11:41:04 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 18 May, 2013, 02:45:59 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 18 May, 2013, 12:53:12 AM
The (Dredd) sequel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpumkZa0gA) is here :

I'm replying here because I don't want to feed or derail the [spoiler]Dredd[/spoiler] film thread. I can see what you mean; biker in black leathers displays reckless disregard for social niceties (especially the placement of furniture) and an unnecessarily harsh attitude to minor traffic violations - that's the start of the 2012 film. He even tracks down one of his victims to an eaterie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HRGrh-7Xf9U#t=107s).

His commission is even printed on his bike in case he forgets:

(http://www.jabootu.com/images/rtrmotto.jpg)

The break-dancing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx0-9hX9xEw&t=5m35s) prototype is the best.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 May, 2013, 05:21:20 PM
grumpy killjoy Mr Negative just wanted his name taken off his GREATEST creation eva! Its just like when he wrote that first Dredd film all over again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 May, 2013, 06:23:05 PM
Quote from: Trout on 18 May, 2013, 06:09:54 PM
Now the thread nuking has begun, let's kill the Political Thread!

:(

The Political Thread can't die.  Its role is to act as a sort of ideological concentration camp, containing people's more obnoxious, offensive and downright different-from-mine opinions, to stop them sullying other perfectly good threads.  You know, a nice sort of concentration camp.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 20 May, 2013, 07:45:24 PM
I dont like censorship.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 May, 2013, 08:09:07 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 20 May, 2013, 07:45:24 PM
I dont like censorship.
^This.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 May, 2013, 08:18:48 PM
With all the talk of Gregg's the Bakers on this forum - isn't it about time somebody produced a GREGGS Judge badge as a avatar? It had to be said.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 20 May, 2013, 08:23:27 PM
If I'd started a thread in jest where we all posted pictures from the media of a particular ethnic minority where they are depicted stealing things and it was still going a decade later only without the initial ironic context and everyone took it as proof that I was a racist toolbox, I'd not be pleased either.  We make sexist comments all the time here on the forum and get away with it, it's hardly censorship to decide they don't need or deserve their own thread.

Having said that, it went for ten years and got hundreds of posts, yet the new one is shut down within the hour after I suggested it be used to host pictures of fit men.  CLEARLY WE KNOW WHAT THAT'S ALL ABOUT.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 20 May, 2013, 08:35:37 PM
Yeah, calm down. It's only the internet.

Half the reason we kept posting on it was to embarrass poor old Rich. The joke's kind of worn off now so I don't see why we can't let it go.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 21 May, 2013, 12:36:57 AM
Yeah, it was MY thread really and I am happy to let it lie.

It should be stickied though. You know, so it's always there as an example of how not to behave.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 21 May, 2013, 02:15:06 AM
What the problem is part 1. (http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/WhatTheProblemIs1_zpsf29910ab.jpg)
What the problem is part 2. (http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/WhatTheProblemIs2_zps4148173b.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 May, 2013, 02:33:20 AM
This is a web comic:

(http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/2011-12-02-sexy.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 May, 2013, 07:25:43 AM

Tornado in Oklahoma, complete tragedy, sympathies to everyone concerned. Look at the name of the good looking young black guy in this report, though:

HE HAS A BROTHER CALLED CHEWIE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gjQyXIU7Fc&feature=player_detailpage#t=49s)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 May, 2013, 08:25:09 AM
Quote from: El Pops on 21 May, 2013, 02:33:20 AM
This is a web comic:

(http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/2011-12-02-sexy.png)
I call bullshit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 May, 2013, 09:21:10 AM
Quote from: darnmarr on 20 May, 2013, 07:45:24 PM
I dont like censorship.
You are a fan of hyperbole though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 May, 2013, 09:24:11 AM


(http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2013/05/pulpfiction.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 21 May, 2013, 09:31:48 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 21 May, 2013, 02:15:06 AM
What the problem is part 1. (http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/WhatTheProblemIs1_zpsf29910ab.jpg)
What the problem is part 2. (http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/WhatTheProblemIs2_zps4148173b.jpg)

Arsom M.I.K.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 21 May, 2013, 12:01:40 PM
 El Pops and M.I.K. : both those web-comics explain the mods possible reasons* for locking the original 'ware' thread, but what has me all bum-hurt is that these were not the reasons given in the subsequent 'ware' thread, and the subsequent 'ware' thread was locked; not immediately because of it's name, not subsequently because of the unwanted imagery on it, but only when I questioned the stated explanation, for removing that imagery.

Look, perhaps it is hyperbole to describe that sort (or any sort) of 'mod'eration as censorship, and perhaps the second thread was locked for other reasons than my unanswered question popping up at the end (still felt the bum-hurt mind you).

For the record, I'm not a fan of 'cheesecake' in my comics either, but I just don't think blanket-bans and imagery suppression are the best way of helping people see what's wrong with it. I've never run an internet forum, so I guess that those who do it here are choosing what is, for them, the best way of stamping out this attitude and aesthetic they don't agree with.

I wish 'em luck with it.






Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 May, 2013, 12:46:05 PM
Jaffa cakes vs Bourbons? why not both together?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 21 May, 2013, 01:04:50 PM
To those who've been complaining:

The original 'ware' thread was an embarrassment on a forum that, remember, is NOT on a fan site but THE PUBLISHER'S own website. It was started as an off-hand joke, but just ended up being a thread that effectively said "you are not welcome" to a large number of people. It was closed because it was deemed entirely inappropriate for the forum.

The second thread was locked because people with a bug up their arse immediately—and despite repeated warnings—decided to troll. There have subsequently been several other threads and a number of posts that are nothing more than intentionally trying to piss off the team behind this site. Such things are childish, unnecessary and a waste of everyone's time.

If anyone here is desperate to see scantily clad women, there are countless places elsewhere for that online. We don't need nor want a thread like that here. Also, describing this as censorship is hyperbole. This is a publisher's forum primarily designed for discussion about a publisher's comics. That this forum has as much off-topic stuff as it does shows how hugely flexible Rebellion has been over the years. I've moderated forums since the late 1990s for many publications/publishers and this is by far the most open of them. That people get pissed off because there are some rules rather than none is just astonishing and really quite depressing.

Should people decide they can no longer post here, because it's not an entirely open free-for-all, that's their choice. There have in recent months been repeated warnings peppered throughout this forum regarding topics and conduct, and it's hardly surprising that the moderation team's now taking a firmer stance, given that people continually poke and poke and poke when decisions have been made.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 May, 2013, 01:08:09 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 21 May, 2013, 01:04:50 PM
To those who've been complaining:

The original 'ware' thread was an embarrassment on a forum that, remember, is NOT on a fan site but THE PUBLISHER'S own website. It was started as an off-hand joke, but just ended up being a thread that effectively said "you are not welcome" to a large number of people. It was closed because it was deemed entirely inappropriate for the forum.

The second thread was locked because people with a bug up their arse immediately—and despite repeated warnings—decided to troll. There have subsequently been several other threads and a number of posts that are nothing more than intentionally trying to piss off the team behind this site. Such things are childish, unnecessary and a waste of everyone's time.

If anyone here is desperate to see scantily clad women, there are countless places elsewhere for that online. We don't need nor want a thread like that here. Also, describing this as censorship is hyperbole. This is a publisher's forum primarily designed for discussion about a publisher's comics. That this forum has as much off-topic stuff as it does shows how hugely flexible Rebellion has been over the years. I've moderated forums since the late 1990s for many publications/publishers and this is by far the most open of them. That people get pissed off because there are some rules rather than none is just astonishing and really quite depressing.

Should people decide they can no longer post here, because it's not an entirely open free-for-all, that's their choice. There have in recent months been repeated warnings peppered throughout this forum regarding topics and conduct, and it's hardly surprising that the moderation team's now taking a firmer stance, given that people continually poke and poke and poke when decisions have been made.

So that's one for Bourbons, next Jammy dodgers Vs lemon creams
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 May, 2013, 01:09:05 PM

Jammy Dodgers win every time!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 21 May, 2013, 02:52:46 PM
Hob-nobs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 May, 2013, 03:01:26 PM
Anything been happening lately?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 May, 2013, 03:19:00 PM
No love for the Custard Cream?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 21 May, 2013, 03:20:24 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 May, 2013, 03:01:26 PM
Anything been happening lately?

watching the game, havin a bud
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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 May, 2013, 03:55:51 PM
not watching game buds...







thanks to Mr killjoy
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Post by: Spikes on 21 May, 2013, 05:10:36 PM
Women says - "I had to stand up to Trump" (http://www.independent.ie/world-news/woman-i-had-to-stand-up-to-trump-29281421.html)
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Post by: Frank on 21 May, 2013, 06:38:13 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 21 May, 2013, 05:10:36 PM
Women says - "I had to stand up to Trump" (http://www.independent.ie/world-news/woman-i-had-to-stand-up-to-trump-29281421.html)

It's easier to squeeze one out silently that way than when seated.

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Post by: Tiplodocus on 22 May, 2013, 12:48:26 PM
I feel chastened.

(and rightly so).
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Post by: von Boom on 22 May, 2013, 08:41:54 PM
Colour film of London in 1927. Pretty amazing really.

http://vimeo.com/7638752# (http://vimeo.com/7638752#)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 May, 2013, 09:00:23 PM
Beautiful.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 23 May, 2013, 03:00:21 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 02:32:01 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 23 May, 2013, 03:02:42 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 May, 2013, 03:00:21 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 02:32:01 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9A5ryNbUU
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Post by: Goaty on 23 May, 2013, 03:04:37 PM


Some people moans about this scene, don't see anything wrong with it?

(http://www.rawlaraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/c9afd__alice-eve-bra-star-trek-into-darkness-600x450.jpg)
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Post by: Trout on 23 May, 2013, 03:06:45 PM
Ware did you get that from?

:lol:
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Post by: Goaty on 23 May, 2013, 03:09:15 PM
Quote from: Trout on 23 May, 2013, 03:06:45 PM
Ware did you get that from?

:lol:

What, this?

(http://www.rawlaraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/c9afd__alice-eve-bra-star-trek-into-darkness-600x450.jpg)
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Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 23 May, 2013, 03:14:19 PM
Which the producers have described as intentionally gratuitous (http://io9.com/damon-lindelof-admits-the-star-trek-nudity-was-gratuit-508967420) ...and yet they cut this one.

(http://cdn04.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2013/05/benedict-shower.gif)
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Post by: Goaty on 23 May, 2013, 03:16:16 PM
Of course, there no water shower, only sonic shower in Star Trek, silly.
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Post by: Trout on 23 May, 2013, 03:17:40 PM
They're right that it's gratuitous. It's such a surprise in the film that I found it downright bizarre. I think it was a mistake to include it, even though it was perhaps balanced by my wife's "phwoar" noises every time "Ben Cum" appeared on screen.
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 23 May, 2013, 03:18:22 PM
Ahem.
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Post by: Trout on 23 May, 2013, 03:19:56 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 23 May, 2013, 03:18:22 PM
Ahem.

Tunes help you breathe more easily.

However, I would interpret Mr Clements' post as a warning about posting such images, even if they're relevant to a genre film. Let's behave, gents.
:lol:
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Post by: Goaty on 23 May, 2013, 03:25:05 PM
"Ben Cum" ??

Brilliant!  :lol:
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 May, 2013, 03:28:47 PM
Ben Cum? I'm pretty sure that's Cromer.
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 23 May, 2013, 03:30:25 PM
Indeed, My King.

I understand there will be a certain amount of testing and kicking the fence... but please don't. It'll make it easier for everyone.
As Mr Sulu said, "Test me and you will fail."
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Post by: TordelBack on 23 May, 2013, 03:38:14 PM
Quote from: Trout on 23 May, 2013, 03:17:40 PM
They're right that it's gratuitous. It's such a surprise in the film that I found it downright bizarre

There is solid TrekMovie precedent for inexplicable skin.  Unfortunately here it's Uhuru's toe-curling fan-dance in STV:TFF, rather than Ilia's fetching tunic in STI:TMP.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 May, 2013, 03:45:53 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 23 May, 2013, 03:30:25 PM
Indeed, My King.

I understand there will be a certain amount of testing and kicking the fence...

Is it an electric fence? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DugqPsSdc8E)
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Post by: Trout on 23 May, 2013, 03:55:24 PM
I reckon it's more of a problem that this discussion is taking place in the wrong thread. There is one about Star Trek: Into Darkness.

That image is from the trailer, so shouldn't spoil anything, but might have annoyed me if I was avoiding discussion of the film.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 23 May, 2013, 03:58:40 PM
This isn't the Political Correctness thread you know, now where's that signpost?
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Post by: TordelBack on 23 May, 2013, 05:09:08 PM
Feck's sake, I've got real fat real fast.
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Post by: Frank on 23 May, 2013, 05:14:08 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 May, 2013, 05:09:08 PM
Feck's sake, I've got real fat real fast.

I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the chubby Tordelback got ogling poor Carol Marcus in here scants. Sic 'im, Richmond!

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Post by: TordelBack on 23 May, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
What a man's warp manifold does in the privacy of his own holodeck is between him and his bald captain.
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Post by: Frank on 23 May, 2013, 05:28:02 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 May, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
his bald captain.

Best euphemism ever.

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 May, 2013, 06:08:24 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 23 May, 2013, 05:28:02 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 May, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
his bald captain.

Best euphemism ever.
But how do we make a joke from here to Wesley Crusher?...
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 23 May, 2013, 06:24:09 PM
It's coming!
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Post by: Goaty on 23 May, 2013, 10:37:55 PM

Another sci-fi porn for you saddest people!

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-No5qwL9zFSU/UTdyod6tt-I/AAAAAAAAAx0/zyGiqdS-jAo/w1678-h944-no/Stargate_wallpaper.jpg)
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Post by: Goaty on 24 May, 2013, 03:36:03 PM


Nice showdown...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v69RuwsGv_I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v69RuwsGv_I)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 24 May, 2013, 04:36:31 PM
A sausage on a roll, doesn't make it a sausage roll.
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Post by: TordelBack on 24 May, 2013, 05:20:38 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 24 May, 2013, 04:36:31 PM
A sausage on a roll, doesn't make it a sausage roll.

This is a matter of endless debate down our way:  'Would you like a sausage roll our kid?'.  'Yes'.  'Excuse me?'.  'I said yes'.  'I know you did'.  '-audible sigh- yes please father dear, I would like a sausage roll'.  'Better.  There you go'  'Daaaad, this is a sausage roll  I didn't want a sausage roll, I wanted a sausage roll!'.  'I know what you want you little fecker', and so on.

I may have dissembled slightly when I said 'debate'.
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Post by: Frank on 24 May, 2013, 05:22:35 PM
Quote from: Michael Adebolajo on 22 May, 2013, 03:42:56 PM
this is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

There's a certain irony in a Muslim fanatic quoting Hebrew scripture to justify his actions, but it's not the funny kind of irony.

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Post by: I, Cosh on 24 May, 2013, 06:45:19 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 24 May, 2013, 04:36:31 PM
A sausage on a roll, doesn't make it a sausage roll.
No, it's a roll on sausage.

<stands back to await unavoidable Central Scottish semantic debate>
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 May, 2013, 07:00:23 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 May, 2013, 06:45:19 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 24 May, 2013, 04:36:31 PM
A sausage on a roll, doesn't make it a sausage roll.
No, it's a roll on sausage.

<stands back to await unavoidable Central Scottish semantic debate>

In Derry we are known to have Sausage Rolls in a bap. Usually with lashings of butter and some sauce*. It's a Derry delicacy.

*although Brown Sauce vs. Red Sauce is another debate altogether. Some attribute preferences to one side of the sectarian divide or other, but this is a demonstrable fallacy.
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Post by: Frank on 24 May, 2013, 08:41:14 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 May, 2013, 06:45:19 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 24 May, 2013, 04:36:31 PM
A sausage on a roll, doesn't make it a sausage roll.
No, it's a roll on sausage.

<stands back to await unavoidable Central Scottish semantic debate>

Even though the delicacy in question clearly consists of some (square) sausage on (or, more accurately, in-between) two halves of a bread roll, asking for square sausage on a roll just sounds awkward and wrong. I went veggie just to avoid this whole linguistic quagmire, but now they've pulled me back in (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU).

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Post by: Goaty on 24 May, 2013, 09:09:54 PM



This is rabbit;

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLDmiTgCEAAyapX.jpg:large)
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Post by: Link Prime on 24 May, 2013, 10:27:42 PM
Ye'd get a hearty stew outta that thing!
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Post by: Link Prime on 24 May, 2013, 10:28:23 PM
I meant the Rabbit, Hannibal fans.
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 24 May, 2013, 11:30:16 PM
That cannot possibly be a rabbit ....Can it ???  :o

FFS whats'  she done to it ??......Blown it up with a pump or what ???

Bob#totallycantbelievehiseyes.com.... or .....Bob#easilyfooled.com.....
I was told about Intelligent Falling on another thread and believed it...so not convinced that's real..
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Post by: M.I.K. on 25 May, 2013, 01:37:30 AM
This one's genuine. It's an angora rabbit and that's mostly fur.  Does look like a particularly fuzzy one, though.
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Post by: Charlie boy on 26 May, 2013, 10:15:08 AM
Instantly improve any Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKkXya8jDoQ
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Post by: SuperSurfer on 26 May, 2013, 07:57:44 PM
(http://www.2000ad.org/images/character/bonjo.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on 26 May, 2013, 08:22:35 PM
The latest TV crap im addicted to is American Digger.

(http://i.imgur.com/IqvnCSd.jpg)

Its a bit like our Time Team, but with more shouting, more wrestlers, more Bulldozer's knocking shit down, and more blowing artifacts out of the ground with Dynamite. Boom Baby!
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Post by: Goaty on 26 May, 2013, 09:19:07 PM

Anyone got Lawgiver Mark I?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLN5v0PCMAA-ABU.jpg:large)
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Post by: TordelBack on 27 May, 2013, 12:07:27 AM
Hurrah, now I'm a Twit as well as a twat!  And already bathed in that sweet, long-forgotten Peter Wolf musk.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 27 May, 2013, 09:55:16 AM
as a veggie the only meat-ish thing I miss is a lorne* sausage on a roll, from a van, red sauce.







*There is a street in North Berwick called Lorne Square, food fact Fanfeckers!
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 May, 2013, 10:27:57 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause for 'THE WATER BEAR'.
http://www.sott.net/article/165824-Tiny-water-bears-become-first-creatures-to-survive-in-space
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Post by: von Boom on 27 May, 2013, 06:17:25 PM
(http://wellntruly.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-lovely-war-horse.jpg?w=500)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 May, 2013, 06:30:52 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 26 May, 2013, 08:22:35 PM
The latest TV crap im addicted to is American Digger.

(http://i.imgur.com/IqvnCSd.jpg)

Its a bit like our Time Team, but with more shouting, more wrestlers, more Bulldozer's knocking shit down, and more blowing artifacts out of the ground with Dynamite. Boom Baby!
My spet father is also. It's so unspeakably awful it's quite enthralling.
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Post by: shaolin_monkey on 28 May, 2013, 02:35:17 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 27 May, 2013, 06:17:25 PM
(http://wellntruly.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/my-lovely-war-horse.jpg?w=500)

Haaa!!!! That made me spray a mouthful of tinned pilchards over my monitor at work.  Nice one!
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Post by: Wake on 28 May, 2013, 03:15:40 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 26 May, 2013, 09:19:07 PM

Anyone got Lawgiver Mark I?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLN5v0PCMAA-ABU.jpg)

Apparently you can only use your feet, and only $500 is real (though presumably you would get the rest if you broke it without breaking their rules).

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 May, 2013, 04:04:24 PM
That reminds me of a story (which may very well just be an urban legend) about a company that made security devices for cars. They held a competition (in South Africa, I think) offering a free car if anyone could break into it. Several people tried and failed, trying to pick the locks and whatnot, until one smart arse cracked it with ease. He knew all the locks and security systems had a fail-safe. If the car was in a crash, all the locks would unlock/disable themselves to make it easier for the emergency services to rescue the driver/passengers. One hefty kick to the front bumper, et voila!

As I said, this may well be just an Urban Legend, but I never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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Post by: Frank on 28 May, 2013, 06:32:48 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 28 May, 2013, 04:04:24 PM
He knew all the locks and security systems had a fail-safe. If the car was in a crash, all the locks would unlock/disable themselves to make it easier for the emergency services to rescue the driver/passengers. One hefty kick to the front bumper, et voila!

I've tried to set car airbags off with a kick before, but never had any luck. Roberto Carlos and Chris Hoy could hammer away at both ends for an hour without any success, but I like the Arthur/Alexander vibe of your story.

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 May, 2013, 01:23:52 PM
The thing about the couch gags is that they started off as just little throwaway jokes, that could be stretched out a little if they needed to fill the run time. Then they became their own thing, they got people like Banksy in to make them and they started getting overly bloated. Overworked couch gags are the hallmark of the later, poorer episodes.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 01:35:48 PM
That old new wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2i0skatDaE
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 May, 2013, 05:11:36 PM
Aaaaagh the PC Has turned itself off to defend itself against me...
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Post by: Frank on 29 May, 2013, 05:21:34 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 01:35:48 PM
That old new wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2i0skatDaE

Never heard that before. Thank you very much, Bubba; as I'm sure Elvis must have said at some time in his life.

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Post by: Spikes on 29 May, 2013, 06:32:41 PM
How many Zenith threads?!?
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Post by: Frank on 29 May, 2013, 06:47:50 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 29 May, 2013, 06:32:41 PM
How many Zenith threads?!?

We've all got our own; they were attached to the cover of this week's progs. If you phone Denise she'll sort you out.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 07:07:40 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 29 May, 2013, 05:21:34 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 01:35:48 PM
That old new wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2i0skatDaE

Never heard that before. Thank you very much, Bubba; as I'm sure Elvis must have said at some time in his life.

Why, my pleasure...ah, the King, thank you for mentioning the King.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 07:17:56 PM
All too often we celebrate the good things that happen...tonight I'd encourage you all to celebrate a bad thing that didn't happen...or won't. In a few days an asteroid the size of an ocean-liner is going to pass this wee world, and damned close. If it were to hit us there would likely be no tomorrow. So here's to ye! You made it...or most likely will.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/28/asteroid-1998-qe2-flyby-earth-may-31_n_3347001.html?ir=Science
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Post by: Goaty on 29 May, 2013, 08:15:33 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 29 May, 2013, 06:32:41 PM
How many Zenith threads?!?

It's my day off.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 May, 2013, 09:07:23 PM


Think I am only one that not read any single strip of Zenith! only single page of celebrate in 25 years of 2000AD.
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Post by: Frank on 29 May, 2013, 09:44:59 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 29 May, 2013, 09:07:23 PM
Think I am only one that not read any single strip of Zenith! only single page of celebrate in 25 years of 2000AD.

There were some bad guys, and it looked like the bad guys had won, but then it turned out they hadn't. Have you ever seen the episode of Friends where a burglar tricks Joey into locking himself inside a cupboard so he can rob the apartment?

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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 10:10:50 PM
Hitchhikers Guide to Daleks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aWn_1yOFpfU#at=126
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 May, 2013, 10:12:54 PM
"Stay away. They are horrible. Avoid at all costs."  :lol:
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 29 May, 2013, 10:49:29 PM



Werner Herzog's Public Information Film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVZqeAGY-A)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 29 May, 2013, 11:32:10 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 29 May, 2013, 10:49:29 PM



Werner Herzog's Public Information Film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVZqeAGY-A)

Dont fuck about with Bears was his other one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 May, 2013, 11:40:52 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 29 May, 2013, 10:49:29 PM

Werner Herzog's Public Information Film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVZqeAGY-A)

I don't know another film maker as brilliant as Herzog. Thanks for posting...
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Post by: Frank on 30 May, 2013, 07:07:31 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 29 May, 2013, 10:49:29 PM
Werner Herzog's Public Information Film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVZqeAGY-A)

Poor bugger, but how did the driver not see that kid? I feel sorry for the car.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 May, 2013, 07:33:31 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 30 May, 2013, 07:07:31 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 29 May, 2013, 10:49:29 PM
Werner Herzog's Public Information Film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVZqeAGY-A)

Poor bugger, but how did the driver not see that kid? I feel sorry for the car.
Too soon.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 30 May, 2013, 02:52:58 PM
wonder when/if  that Zenith will ever get reprinted?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 May, 2013, 03:50:38 PM
"It's not a significant bullet."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w
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Post by: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 06:20:33 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 May, 2013, 02:52:58 PM
wonder when/if  that Zenith will ever get reprinted?


I was wondering the same thing about Baberace2000
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Post by: Goaty on 30 May, 2013, 07:06:16 PM


Best Wedding Photo ever...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/30/article-2333334-1A0E8CE7000005DC-261_964x616.jpg)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 May, 2013, 07:45:36 PM
 :D
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 30 May, 2013, 08:08:53 PM
Really like that as an idea for an 'unusual' wedding photo and a good laugh...

If I was being 'picky' I'd say it wasn't particularly well done though, as the T-Rex image hasn't been blended in too well...and looks a bit fuzzy around the edges....Suppose with a bit more time and effort it could be improved though....
Other than that it's a great photo and a fab idea... :lol:
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Post by: von Boom on 30 May, 2013, 08:18:58 PM
I wonder if that's her mother or his.  :)
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 30 May, 2013, 08:22:33 PM
Think it's neither !!.

Not sure,  but it looks like an enormous 'dong' between it's legs... :D....
Might be wrong and it's just a 'trick of the light' though, or just a big bit of skin, but don't think so...
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Post by: von Boom on 30 May, 2013, 08:36:33 PM
You're right, it does. Just wait 'til bride notices that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 May, 2013, 08:47:33 PM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 30 May, 2013, 08:22:33 PM
Think it's neither !!.

Not sure,  but it looks like an enormous 'dong' between it's legs... :D....
Might be wrong and it's just a 'trick of the light' though, or just a big bit of skin, but don't think so...
That's how many Therpod Dinosaurs genital and bowel anatomy was placed, added to a large Ichium this gave them a large pack than our Dante.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 30 May, 2013, 09:09:55 PM
I like J-Lo's bum. Its nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
Does anyone know why my cat whispers at sparrows?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 30 May, 2013, 09:15:47 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
Does anyone know why my cat whispers at sparrows?

So that you can't here what it's saying, obviously.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 May, 2013, 09:16:54 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
Does anyone know why my cat whispers at sparrows?

Ours do that too....baffling because the sparrows are not listening.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 May, 2013, 09:17:32 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 30 May, 2013, 09:15:47 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
Does anyone know why my cat whispers at sparrows?

So that you can't here what it's saying, obviously.

:o I think you have it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:21:40 PM
I have fooled it though by getting a hearing aid.


Now I just need to learn cat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 May, 2013, 10:06:31 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:21:40 PM
I have fooled it though by getting a hearing aid.


Now I just need to learn cat.

Is your cats name Charley by any chance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBbarR0PKE
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Post by: TordelBack on 30 May, 2013, 11:28:43 PM
It was the sunniest day of the year so far, and I had a pleasant time shamefully objectifying women in the park, and trying to decide if my proposed acronym MWPACOFGIFAP (Mothers Whose Physicality and Choice of Floaty Garments I Find Aesthetically Pleasing) will ever catch on.  Oh the the curse of having the superficial veneer of a 21st C mind glued sloppily onto a functioning endocrine system.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 30 May, 2013, 11:30:18 PM
It is 32 degrees here in southern Ontario and we are all MELTING.

Because we're Scottish.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 30 May, 2013, 11:33:54 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 30 May, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
Does anyone know why my cat whispers at sparrows?

Perhaps your cat is the host of the feline edition of Springwatch/Come Dine With Me.
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Post by: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 12:38:27 AM
How come Lovejoy got cancelled?
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 31 May, 2013, 12:43:41 AM
For those mature readers here......Wasn't Adam Adamant just brilliant ??? !!!

No,  not the f*****g pop star !!.... :D
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 31 May, 2013, 12:48:17 AM
Want to see a Dinosaurs' knob ??
C'mon you know you really want to !!
Check out Goatys' photo link below...

Quote from: Goaty on 30 May, 2013, 07:06:16 PM


Best Wedding Photo ever...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/30/article-2333334-1A0E8CE7000005DC-261_964x616.jpg)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 31 May, 2013, 10:15:52 AM
Quote from: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 12:38:27 AM
How come Lovejoy got cancelled?

Didn't it just morph into Deadwood?
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Post by: TordelBack on 31 May, 2013, 10:45:04 AM
In life, you have to distress a lot of furniture you don't fucking want to do.  Many times that's what the fuck life is: one vile fucking auction after another.  But don't get aggravated: then Lady Jane has you by the Tinkers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 10:51:54 AM
And what happened to that orange man from Bargainhunt?

Was he phase 2 Lovejoy?
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 31 May, 2013, 10:56:39 AM
Quote from: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 10:51:54 AM
And what happened to that orange man from Bargainhunt?

Was he phase 2 Lovejoy?

Didn't they feed him to the pigs in Deadwood?
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Post by: Dandontdare on 31 May, 2013, 01:16:19 PM
he's advertising dodgy loan sharks respectable payday credit companies now
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Post by: Proudhuff on 31 May, 2013, 01:41:10 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 31 May, 2013, 01:16:19 PM
he's advertising dodgy loan sharks respectable payday credit companies now

CHEAP AS CHIPS!  v's i'LL BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 31 May, 2013, 01:56:11 PM
and explain this:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3156/3005497712_7ac9ebd2f9.jpg)
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Post by: Dandontdare on 31 May, 2013, 01:58:36 PM
I would if I could see it (I'm skiving at work)

And on another note....

Quote from: TordelBack on 30 May, 2013, 11:28:43 PM
It was the sunniest day of the year so far, and I had a pleasant time shamefully objectifying women in the park, and trying to decide if my proposed acronym MWPACOFGIFAP (Mothers Whose Physicality and Choice of Floaty Garments I Find Aesthetically Pleasing) will ever catch on.  Oh the the curse of having the superficial veneer of a 21st C mind glued sloppily onto a functioning endocrine system.

I recently realised that my favourite cities, Paris and Amsterdam, tend to be ones with a higher than average percentage of H.Y.W.O.B.s (hot young women on bicycles)
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Post by: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 02:02:21 PM
My favourite Y.W.O.Bs are H.Y.W.O.Bs
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Post by: TordelBack on 31 May, 2013, 05:37:22 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 31 May, 2013, 10:56:39 AM
Didn't they feed him to the pigs in Deadwood?

Come now, they're pigs, not Hazardous Waste incinerators.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 May, 2013, 05:45:20 PM

The Hoff snorts heroin (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2333727/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-checked-detox-snorting-heroin.html).

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Post by: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 05:52:05 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 31 May, 2013, 05:45:20 PM

The Hoff snorts heroin (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2333727/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-checked-detox-snorting-heroin.html).

'The heavyweight actor '

Oh the hilarity of jouralists!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 31 May, 2013, 06:05:50 PM
THAT'S AN 'O' NOT A 'U'
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 31 May, 2013, 06:30:13 PM
Just saw an article about Felicity Kendall talking about the late Richard Briers...

Crikey....she still looks an absolute MILF....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 May, 2013, 07:34:53 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 31 May, 2013, 06:05:50 PM
THAT'S AN 'O' NOT A 'U'

Actur?
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 May, 2013, 07:39:48 PM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 31 May, 2013, 06:30:13 PM
Just saw an article about Felicity Kendall talking about the late Richard Briers...

Crikey....she still looks an absolute MILF....
Wash your mouth out young man!
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 31 May, 2013, 07:45:52 PM
42
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Post by: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 08:07:13 PM
Did anyone buy Zenith yet?

A mate of my mate said he's got 2 copies already, we are going down the park to look at them.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 31 May, 2013, 09:43:06 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 31 May, 2013, 07:45:52 PM
42

And it is, you know. After HHGTTG the Hubble Constant was calculated and the answer, astonishingly, is 42.
Wise was Mr Adams.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1041805
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 May, 2013, 09:46:56 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 08:07:13 PM
Did anyone buy Zenith yet?

A mate of my mate said he's got 2 copies already, we are going down the park to look at them.

You make them sound like some tattered jazz mags you found under a hedge.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 31 May, 2013, 11:52:13 PM


Starstuck as at holy land of Rhys Ifans!

(http://i.imgur.com/niBwBGc.jpg)
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Post by: Skullmo on 31 May, 2013, 11:55:52 PM
Anyone got the time?
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 June, 2013, 01:25:02 AM
This is how they make hair look all glamourous on them shampoo ads:

(http://hugelolcdn.com/i700/124414.jpg)

Some people will tell you it's done with fans, but that's exactly what the Green Ninja wants you to think.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 June, 2013, 06:55:45 AM
Well at least we know why ninjas in fictional work have become so pants. Too much time working in Pantene, not enough time working with shuriken.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 June, 2013, 09:03:43 AM
Another one for Viz's Up the Arse Corner there.
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Post by: Frank on 01 June, 2013, 10:35:12 AM

TEENAGE GIRL SUES AIRLINE OVER MASTURBATING MALE PASSENGER (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-united-airlines-masturbation-20130531,0,1069352.story)

The US news network's outrage over the idea that women in the public arena should be considered free game for the sexual entertainment of male masturbators is undermined by the fact that the video in that link is presented by a female news anchor who looks like Stripper Barbie and is dressed like a cocktail waitress.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 June, 2013, 11:39:36 AM
Even Stripper Barbie would have the right not to be sexually assaulted or exploited.   Plus, as I understand it, she only works here to pay her tuition. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 01 June, 2013, 12:15:14 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 01 June, 2013, 10:35:12 AM

TEENAGE GIRL SUES AIRLINE OVER MASTURBATING MALE PASSENGER (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-united-airlines-masturbation-20130531,0,1069352.story)

The US news network's outrage over the idea that women in the public arena should be considered free game for the sexual entertainment of male masturbators is undermined by the fact that the video in that link is presented by a female news anchor who looks like Stripper Barbie and is dressed like a cocktail waitress.

What a wanker!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 June, 2013, 07:12:57 PM
AAAaaggghhhh my drama is bloody terrible..


Help me! I'm trapped in a god awful play
..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 June, 2013, 07:39:44 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 June, 2013, 07:12:57 PM
AAAaaggghhhh my drama is bloody terrible .. Help me! I'm trapped in a god awful play ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Mates_%28play%29

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 June, 2013, 03:00:24 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 31 May, 2013, 11:52:13 PM


Starstuck as at holy land of Rhys Ifans!

(http://i.imgur.com/DugiMZO.jpg)

Mr Goaty, i hope thats your finger, and not Mr Ifans getting carried away with all the excitement...
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 June, 2013, 08:15:07 PM
 :lol:
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Post by: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 08:21:16 PM


What finger?

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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 June, 2013, 08:34:53 PM
 >:( HULK SMASH...and grab. http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/local/man-in-hulk-mask-robs-hamburg-bankWIVB
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 08:38:35 PM
ahh that's nothing, as there worse, LADY HULK SMASH!

http://news.sky.com/story/1087895/york-assault-police-hunt-incredible-hulk (http://news.sky.com/story/1087895/york-assault-police-hunt-incredible-hulk)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UNK5WKXWkPg/UYmiPnRmIJI/AAAAAAABKxw/wWNYIpy1rqM/s400/Incredible+Hulk+lady.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 June, 2013, 08:46:26 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 08:38:35 PM
ahh that's nothing, as there worse, LADY HULK SMASH!

http://news.sky.com/story/1087895/york-assault-police-hunt-incredible-hulk (http://news.sky.com/story/1087895/york-assault-police-hunt-incredible-hulk)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UNK5WKXWkPg/UYmiPnRmIJI/AAAAAAABKxw/wWNYIpy1rqM/s400/Incredible+Hulk+lady.jpg)
:o
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Post by: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 09:16:19 PM

World War Z is the most bloodless Zombie film ever.





:-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 June, 2013, 10:06:54 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 09:16:19 PM

World War Z is the most bloodless Zombie film ever.





:-\
Less blood than Shock Waves, Zombie Lake or Oasis of Zombies? :-\
It looked shite anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 03 June, 2013, 07:59:05 AM
Zombie Lake was too busy trying to find its ground somewhere between horror and soft-core porn to put much blood in, Hawkmonger. It was nice of the locals to tile the inside of the lake, not to mention their including markers and lighting equipment to let people know once they were in the deep end tho.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 June, 2013, 11:32:29 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 09:16:19 PM

World War Z is the most bloodless Zombie film ever.
:-\

I thought as much.
Hollywood's voice: 'Walking Dead, eh?  Money, eh? I think I'll make a shit version of that.'

Bad Hollywood.  No more zombies for you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 June, 2013, 11:56:46 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 June, 2013, 10:06:54 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 June, 2013, 09:16:19 PM

World War Z is the most bloodless Zombie film ever.





:-\
Less blood than Shock Waves, Zombie Lake or Oasis of Zombies? :-\
It looked shite anyway.

I couldn't even muster the willpower to execute a shoulder shrug after seeing the ad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 June, 2013, 05:27:36 PM
Somebody give me Chocolate...
I need Chocolate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 June, 2013, 05:28:24 PM
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3rHd_Hsp8RCsS02M9ZEdXEL1fgHKQ472XjS8mq9dO3e2YQ8ym)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 03 June, 2013, 05:39:00 PM
So, did Paul Hogan sort out that tax issue?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 June, 2013, 07:49:32 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 03 June, 2013, 05:28:24 PM
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3rHd_Hsp8RCsS02M9ZEdXEL1fgHKQ472XjS8mq9dO3e2YQ8ym)

Mmmm... Chomp gobble slurp....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Minkyboy on 03 June, 2013, 08:12:19 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 June, 2013, 07:49:32 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 03 June, 2013, 05:28:24 PM
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3rHd_Hsp8RCsS02M9ZEdXEL1fgHKQ472XjS8mq9dO3e2YQ8ym)

Mmmm... Chomp gobble slurp....

Said the Actress to the Bishop. (Sorry Doc)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 June, 2013, 10:19:45 AM
So, exactly how much 'potential future work' offsets the enormous pleasure of telling a 'potential future employer' exactly what variety of patronising supercilious prick they are?

Also, is it possible to actual feel your stomach ulcerating in real time as you set you phisiog on 'meekly attentive'?

And finally, is it possible that Seasonal Affective Disorder can equally be caused by a fine bright Summer's day that one can barely glimpse through the window in the next room?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 June, 2013, 04:05:52 PM
Hmm.
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s462/opipop/8e56fdbf-49fb-4d88-8c22-daa83af259ce.jpg) (http://s1053.photobucket.com/user/opipop/media/8e56fdbf-49fb-4d88-8c22-daa83af259ce.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 June, 2013, 04:13:40 PM
The English Defence League : The Movie. (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skint/4od)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 June, 2013, 04:26:34 PM
How about this for some stone cold Threadjacking...drawing you to a whole different thread I started about my work on Judge Dredd : The Dark - the new game book from Tin Man Games written by Nick Robinson and illustrated by yours truly. Info at link below.

Judge Dredd : The Dark
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38692.0.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 June, 2013, 03:08:12 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/4GdR2UO.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 June, 2013, 05:12:08 PM
Agh!
some rottten fellow cast member has stuck photos of me in our last performance up on facebook & tagged it.

I look... awful
like a fat, drunken Danny La Rue...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 June, 2013, 08:28:24 PM
Buzz Aldrin is no Magnus Pyke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRgY9GXLO0&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRgY9GXLO0&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 05 June, 2013, 08:35:54 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 05 June, 2013, 08:28:24 PM
Buzz Aldrin is no Magnus Pyke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRgY9GXLO0&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRgY9GXLO0&feature=player_embedded)

No, but he isBuzz frickin' Aldrin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 June, 2013, 08:36:42 PM




Who is Buzz Aldrin?




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 June, 2013, 09:08:40 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 05 June, 2013, 08:28:24 PM
Buzz Aldrin is no Magnus Pyke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRgY9GXLO0&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRgY9GXLO0&feature=player_embedded)

For myself I can't work out if Aldrin sounds like Shatner, or Shatner sounds like Aldrin.  The topsy-turvey sequence of Apollo and Trek is always insanely confusing.  They both have fine right hooks anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 June, 2013, 10:08:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 05 June, 2013, 08:36:42 PM




Who is Buzz Aldrin?
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbs73glwfe1rx06nvo2_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 05 June, 2013, 10:17:29 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 05 June, 2013, 08:36:42 PM




Who is Buzz Aldrin?

...

...

...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 05 June, 2013, 10:28:23 PM

Quote from: Goaty on 05 June, 2013, 08:36:42 PM
Who is Buzz Aldrin?


That's refreshing; it's usually, 'who's Mick Collins?'.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 June, 2013, 11:00:58 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 05 June, 2013, 10:28:23 PM
That's refreshing; it's usually, 'who's Mick Collins?'.

THE GREATEST JEDI STATESMAN THIS REPUBLIC NEVER HAD!!!!!

Oh, you mean the other one.

I recently read a review of a book on the wives of the Mercury and Apollo guys, and even in that context the reviewer felt it necessary to clarify that Collins was 'an astronaut'.  No love for the designated driver.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 June, 2013, 11:12:33 PM
Double-jack.

Holee crepe, following Peter Wolf on Twitter is an educational experience.  I'd been missing the hairy scavenger's screeds of late, and it's good to know he's still fighting the good some sort of fight, but blimey he does re-tweet the most insane things.
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 05 June, 2013, 11:57:07 PM


He definitely has principles...he never came back.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 June, 2013, 01:13:05 AM
Lots and lots and lots and lots of derelict aircraft (http://io9.com/the-worlds-most-bizarre-aircraft-graveyards-511526945)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 06 June, 2013, 01:16:00 AM

Quote from: El Pops on 06 June, 2013, 01:13:05 AM
Lots and lots and lots and lots of derelict aircraft (http://io9.com/the-worlds-most-bizarre-aircraft-graveyards-511526945)



Cue the next Pixar Planes sequel storyline...

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 June, 2013, 10:10:43 AM
I blame to aristocrats.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 June, 2013, 03:40:00 PM


That damned cat!

(http://i.imgur.com/aLkWVYC.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 06 June, 2013, 07:16:26 PM
sic 'em puss!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 09 June, 2013, 08:57:23 PM
They should have made the film about the cat
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 June, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
Has anyone seen the Judges to Population ratio?
  :o :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 June, 2013, 05:50:23 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 10 June, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
Has anyone seen the Judges to Population ratio?

42,000 (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/crime-justice/justice/the-judiciary) for a population of 63 million seems about right to me. I'm sure one man in an unconvincing wig and silk gown is perfectly capable of servicing one and half thousand people - maybe someone could contact David Walliams to find out for certain.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 11 June, 2013, 04:37:20 PM
I don't understand why my cat will eat a moth whenever the chance arises. I say this because
1. The look on her face as she does this makes it clear to see they don't taste good and
2. I've squashed a lot of moths over the years (little fu**ers eat my shirts and creep me out a little) and on looking at their remains, I have reached the conclusion that moths are made of nothing more than a silver dust.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 11 June, 2013, 08:15:30 PM
Little known fact : moths are of the same genus as fairies and pixies. That's pixie dust. It's what cats derive their magical powers from.

Tch... You people don't know anything.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 June, 2013, 08:20:07 PM


Enter The Dragon Kitty!

I know a bit Kung-Fu-meow!

(http://i.imgur.com/9JR1TCr.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 June, 2013, 08:29:43 PM
Cats are great. Especially in egg rolls.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 June, 2013, 01:51:58 AM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 11 June, 2013, 04:37:20 PM
I don't understand why my cat will eat a moth whenever the chance arises. I say this because
1. The look on her face as she does this makes it clear to see they don't taste good and
2. I've squashed a lot of moths over the years (little fu**ers eat my shirts and creep me out a little) and on looking at their remains, I have reached the conclusion that moths are made of nothing more than a silver dust.

MOTHS do NOT eat cloths.

The lava of Moths eat cloths.

if it is a serious problem thy Moth balls....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 June, 2013, 01:57:43 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 June, 2013, 01:51:58 AM
The lava of Moths eat cloths.

Ogden Nash lives!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 12 June, 2013, 04:29:22 AM
Moth lava is, in actual fact, the droppings of the moth. Its fabric-burning properties arise due to the diet of the moth consisting mainly of naked flames, such as can be found atop candles. Unfortunately, moths love the taste of fire so much that it is not uncommon for them to eat to excess. It is this terrible habit, and not the flame itself, which frequently results in the moth's death.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 12 June, 2013, 09:47:24 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 June, 2013, 01:51:58 AM

MOTHS do NOT eat cloths.

The lava of Moths eat cloths.

if it is a serious problem thy Moth balls....
Eeew how quickly do moths produce their young after getting amorous? I imagine they only have a short life and I don't like the idea of them getting kinky on my clothes... I looked for moth balls a while back, saw they were all a good few quid and walked away as if with my head held high thinking "I don't like my clothes that much!" Although I remember reading somewhere if you see a moth in your home, it's too late and it would have done something to them already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 12 June, 2013, 09:53:57 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 12 June, 2013, 04:29:22 AM
moths love the taste of fire so much that it is not uncommon for them to eat to excess. It is this terrible habit, and not the flame itself, which frequently results in the moth's death.
I can believe this. I can believe moths are products of the burning Hell religions can warn us about and they like the fire here because it reminds them of home... Really can't stand them! If a wasp comes into the home, I roll up a newspaper or magazine to kill it before the same cat foolishly goes for it (so much for the colours of a wasp being to deter such attacks). If there's a moth in the home, I tend to get the cat; especially if the moth does that graceless dive into the air they do that looks so horrible to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 June, 2013, 10:32:01 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PeV5Fgv9e7A/Sk2R6YM4eqI/AAAAAAAAFNI/HXFdLn7VjCg/s400/snoot.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 12 June, 2013, 02:20:06 PM
Nope, not freaked out by Moths at all...although I do really like the idea that they eat fire though !!...and that they are made from silver 'dust'.. :lol:

While having a healthy 'respect' for heights.....I get that weird feeling in the pit of my stomach when looking over the edge...what really freaks me out is ...

Clowns.....   Ever since I was a kid,  and not helped by reading It by Stephen King when I was younger....Anyone else have a 'favourite'  freak out thing ??
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2013, 02:29:26 PM
The Church of Simptology has clowns and look what happened to them...

what did happen to them post that big shark landing in the Black Adlantic?

Come to think of it what happened to that cityiszed shark now its landed in the Black adlantic?

Come to think of it what happened to Dirty Frank, The simping Detective post DoC?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 June, 2013, 04:39:14 PM
Answers to all these questions -and more! will be revealed, Earthlet, in next week's super soaraway 2000ad..
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Post by: Goaty on 12 June, 2013, 09:30:24 PM


Will there be Judges at the Glastonbury?

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Post by: Spikes on 13 June, 2013, 05:46:03 PM
Dear Grud no! Status Quo have made a movie....
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 June, 2013, 07:15:48 PM
I'm just gonna leave this here.  :lol:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-22887138?SThisFB
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Post by: von Boom on 13 June, 2013, 09:03:44 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 13 June, 2013, 07:15:48 PM
I'm just gonna leave this here.  :lol:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-22887138?SThisFB

Isn't that one of the plots from Thin Blue Line?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 14 June, 2013, 01:36:57 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 13 June, 2013, 07:15:48 PM
I'm just gonna leave this here.  :lol:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-22887138?SThisFB

why can't the police be more understanding!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 15 June, 2013, 02:05:23 AM
Why is it ok to murder, dismember, cook and eat an animal but as soon as you try and make love to one people go nuts?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 15 June, 2013, 04:37:28 AM
It spoils the taste?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 June, 2013, 06:45:47 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 15 June, 2013, 02:05:23 AM
Why is it ok to murder, dismember, cook and eat an animal but as soon as you try and make love to one people go nuts?
Because thats not how evolution works. And anything npt described by Darwin or vagiely described is the work of Beelzebub!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 15 June, 2013, 11:26:31 AM
Why does the heat setting dial on my toaster go up to 10.........When if you put ordinary bread in at 4,  it turns into charcoal..... and if you put frozen bread in at 6,  it also comes out as charcoal....
WTF do you need a setting range up to 10 for  ??!!... >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 15 June, 2013, 03:34:12 PM
Yeah, EVERYBODY KNOWS... it should go up to eleven... :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 07:22:39 PM
In order to disguise the fact that we have been drinking the same giant batch of not-terribly-good homemade White for what seems like an eternity, my wife has taken to decanting it into a range of commercial empties, so that she can say things like: "Which do you want tonight, the 2011 Penfold Reserve, or the Graffigna Pinot Grigio?". It feels a bit like a scene of not inconsiderable pathos from a post-apocalyptic novel where the survivors eat mud while pretending its chocolate mousse, but brother, it almost works.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 June, 2013, 08:31:53 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 07:22:39 PM
In order to disguise the fact that we have been drinking the same giant batch of not-terribly-good homemade White for what seems like an eternity, my wife has taken to decanting it into a range of commercial empties

I've done the same with value brand washing-up liquid. I didn't drink it, obviously.

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Post by: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 09:46:00 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 June, 2013, 08:31:53 PMI didn't drink it, obviously.

You're from Scotland. There's no 'obviously' about it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 15 June, 2013, 11:39:16 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 09:46:00 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 June, 2013, 08:31:53 PMI didn't drink it, obviously.

You're from Scotland. There's no 'obviously' about it.

I drank a bottle of BRUT for a bet once, it tasted better than it smelled.
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 12:12:07 AM

Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 07:22:39 PM
In order to disguise the fact that we have been drinking the same giant batch of not-terribly-good homemade White for what seems like an eternity, my wife has taken to decanting it into a range of commercial empties, so that she can say things like: "Which do you want tonight, the 2011 Penfold Reserve, or the Graffigna Pinot Grigio?". It feels a bit like a scene of not inconsiderable pathos from a post-apocalyptic novel where the survivors eat mud while pretending its chocolate mousse, but brother, it almost works.


I imagine you as Richard Briers making a cameo in Survivors (1975).


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Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2013, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 12:12:07 AM
I imagine you as Richard Briers making a cameo in Survivors (1975).

Imagine my wife as Felicity Kendall cameoing in Zardoz (1974) and I'm right there with you. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 01:31:02 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 June, 2013, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 12:12:07 AM
I imagine you as Richard Briers making a cameo in Survivors (1975).

Imagine my wife as Felicity Kendall cameoing in Zardoz (1974) and I'm right there with you.


You're not too far from Wicklow and neither is Boorman. I'll arrange a kickstarter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2013, 01:46:29 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 01:31:02 AM
You're not too far from Wicklow and neither is Boorman. I'll arrange a kickstarter.

Arsom.  I'll see if we can borrow CF's pants.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 02:02:51 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 June, 2013, 01:46:29 AM
Arsom.  I'll see if we can borrow CF's pants.


In the spirit of the thread, time for a reboot:

https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=37241.0

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 June, 2013, 02:08:59 AM
My red shorts picture has been removed. Who on earth complained to photobucket, I looked awesome in them  :'(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2013, 02:16:35 AM


Google images still loves you:



(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQAHSvXDaKxdWgKycrxpBBITnO5gzJEO27930_8k09C7MbObk_YQ)
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Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 June, 2013, 02:17:40 AM
HUZZAH!
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Post by: Goaty on 16 June, 2013, 07:56:35 AM

Scare off all the sheep, John?
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Post by: Spikes on 16 June, 2013, 12:59:03 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 16 June, 2013, 07:56:35 AM

Scare off all the sheep, John?


I think were witnessing the 'after' photo. CF certainly looks contented, anyway  ;)
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Post by: Goaty on 16 June, 2013, 05:53:10 PM


Happy Father's Day from the Governor!

(http://i.imgur.com/mU5YW4u.jpg)
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 June, 2013, 06:00:17 PM
Apparently the producers and directors all thought although Christopher Reeve was perfect for the part, he was just a wee bit skinny and lanky, so they brought in a personal trainer to help bulk him up, a fella by the name of David Prowse.

So it turns out that Darth Vader was once Superman's personal trainer. That's my factoid of the day.
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Post by: Goaty on 16 June, 2013, 06:57:58 PM


Gotta to say, the Phantom Menace looks really pointless!
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Post by: Daveycandlish on 16 June, 2013, 07:31:12 PM
Natalie Portman has the most monotone voice in existance - she annoys me more than JarJar Binks.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 June, 2013, 08:32:53 PM
(http://www.the-isb.com/images/Tarot53e.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on 16 June, 2013, 08:42:36 PM
Here's summat else that's haunted. (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Judge-Anderson-Dredd-Death-ACEO-Card-Flintworks-2000ad-/271220507615)

(http://i.imgur.com/IDzX24t.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 17 June, 2013, 09:58:22 AM
That Anderson card gives me chills.

What do people think of the new Black Sabbath album? It's very Black Sabbath.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 17 June, 2013, 12:02:38 PM
I've been visiting places named after Boarder's this weekend.

Castle Campbell. Sauchie Tower.  And I even passed through the village of Dunlop (though I don't think he frequents these days).
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Post by: M.I.K. on 17 June, 2013, 03:00:38 PM
Visited any kirks?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2013, 05:26:02 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 17 June, 2013, 12:02:38 PM
I've been visiting places named after Boarder's this weekend. Castle Campbell. Sauchie Tower.

Sauchie Tower's a bit of a disappointment and smaller than you'd expect, while visitors to Castle Campbell often find it a bit nippy. Godpleton Manor used to be popular, but it's sadly derelict now.

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Post by: Spikes on 17 June, 2013, 05:31:28 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 17 June, 2013, 05:26:02 PM
Godpleton Manor used to be popular, but it's sadly derelict now.

Just like his Mom,  :'(
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 17 June, 2013, 05:32:07 PM
And Castle Campbell used to be called Castle Gloom! (Gloume)
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Post by: I, Cosh on 17 June, 2013, 05:32:25 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 17 June, 2013, 12:02:38 PM
I've been visiting places named after Boarder's this weekend.
Have you been to Pete's Bog?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 17 June, 2013, 06:21:37 PM
15 months? "Playful tiff"? Fuck off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 June, 2013, 06:34:35 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 17 June, 2013, 06:21:37 PM
15 months? "Playful tiff"? Fuck off.

No, not humanity's finest day.  Still, at least the message is consistent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 17 June, 2013, 06:44:20 PM

Can't believe the defence basically boils down to he may be a kiddie-fiddler 13 times over but he's not Jimmy Savile.






Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2013, 07:26:20 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 17 June, 2013, 06:44:20 PM
Can't believe the defence basically boils down to he may be a kiddie-fiddler 13 times over but he's not Jimmy Savile.

There's a disproportionate emphasis on penetration and the use of force in the UK justice system's thinking on criminal sexuality, and Hall avoided both. Next time I'm submitting someone to an ordeal that will scar them for life mentally and emotionally I'll be sure not to come inside them, so I can be out of nick in time for Christmas.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 June, 2013, 08:15:03 PM
I dare you to search Patrick O'Brian in google images.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 17 June, 2013, 08:21:05 PM
Thats not Sauchie Tower  :o
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 June, 2013, 08:54:48 PM
You can't talk about social minorities on here, this is a comic book forum!
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Post by: Goaty on 17 June, 2013, 08:56:11 PM


Where did I left my soap box?

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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 17 June, 2013, 11:53:29 PM
What the F*** are we coming to....Watching the News tonight...

Can't believe the 'lenient' sentencing of sexual abuser Stuart Hall......What a shame that he might die in prison if the sentence was longer .......Hope it's at least doubled after the review,  then he should be inside for at least a year or so.....Absolutely no pity for him, only for his victims ..........Arrogant, 'Pervy' Bastard....

And someone please tell me why any 'man' thinks it's ok,  to grab any woman round the throat,  like Satchie did to Nigella Lawson, and then try to pass it off as a 'tiff' and a family argument......Complete F*****g Bastard....


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Post by: SuperSurfer on 18 June, 2013, 01:59:34 AM
My instinct is not to comment on forums about such news items Bob, but: how horrendous for anyone to endure that – and for no one to help. And the arrogance of someone to do that in public. Perhaps crass to make such a comment but I like to think the women and girls we train at karate would have ways of dealing with that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 18 June, 2013, 03:46:14 AM
I would tend to agree with you on that Supersurfer.....and I usually don't comment on these things.....
BUT....
after watching the News tonight, I honestly got so annoyed / frustrated at these not 'untypical' examples of the depths some people 'sink' to, ( with no apparent conscience or remorse )  that I just felt I had to get it off my chest.....

It just gets to the stage where I think.....WTF is going on ??.....Is it me, or is society really going to 'hell in a handbasket' , when this type of incident / behaviour seems to be happening on an amazingly 'regular' basis.??.. ... My daughter is a Policewoman and she repeatedly tells me ' You have no idea just how bad some of it is'...... :o
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 June, 2013, 07:54:11 AM
Damn right!

Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 17 June, 2013, 11:53:29 PM
What the F*** are we coming to....Watching the News tonight...

Can't believe the 'lenient' sentencing of sexual abuser Stuart Hall......What a shame that he might die in prison if the sentence was longer .......Hope it's at least doubled after the review,  then he should be inside for at least a year or so.....Absolutely no pity for him, only for his victims ..........Arrogant, 'Pervy' Bastard....

And someone please tell me why any 'man' thinks it's ok,  to grab any woman round the throat,  like Satchie did to Nigella Lawson, and then try to pass it off as a 'tiff' and a family argument......Complete F*****g Bastard....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 09:05:49 AM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 18 June, 2013, 03:46:14 AM...Is it me, or is society really going to 'hell in a handbasket'...

Unfortunately those halcyon days when grown men didn't fuck children or abuse women with seeming impunity and sickening frequency never actually existed - just try to think of any specific decade in history when just as much horror didn't occur.  That said, things need to get a damn sight better soon, and that would be our job.

But maybe this is a bit heavy to tackle directly in Threadjacking, perhaps over in Political or Life Spugs?

So to jack this thing all up in your face: the nice ladies in my daughter's occasional daycare keep trying to send her to actual school in September (she'd still be 3).  It's not going to happen, but do they do this because they alone recognise that she is a precocious super-genius (with impeccable pedigree), or do they hold the more common view that she is an impossible monster that they can't wait to see the back of (with impeccable pedigree)?  You decide.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 June, 2013, 11:40:26 AM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 17 June, 2013, 11:53:29 PM
What the F*** are we coming to....Watching the News tonight...

Can't believe the 'lenient' sentencing of sexual abuser Stuart Hall......What a shame that he might die in prison if the sentence was longer .......Hope it's at least doubled after the review,  then he should be inside for at least a year or so.....Absolutely no pity for him, only for his victims ..........Arrogant, 'Pervy' Bastard....

And someone please tell me why any 'man' thinks it's ok,  to grab any woman round the throat,  like Satchie did to Nigella Lawson, and then try to pass it off as a 'tiff' and a family argument......Complete F*****g Bastard....

As I said in a tweet of mine... if you see a man grab a woman by the throat... PUT THE CAMERA DOWN and help her...

Me, I'd of punched / kicked him hard in the .... wedding tackle.

And one I'd got home home where I keep my "live " sword....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2013, 12:02:46 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 17 June, 2013, 08:15:03 PM
I dare you to search Patrick O'Brian in google images.

Underware thread anyone (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnmxtcBshq1qgucp7o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 12:03:54 PM
That waistband elastic has obviously had it. 

OR

I thought Langley was finished on Slaine?

OR

No wonder everyone thought he had first-hand experience of sailors.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 June, 2013, 12:09:18 PM
Vomit smillie vomit smillie

WE SERIOUSLY NEED A VOMIT SMILLIE....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 June, 2013, 12:11:11 PM


Now we're suckin' diesel...







Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 12:13:30 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 June, 2013, 12:09:18 PM
Vomit smillie vomit smillie

WE SERIOUSLY NEED A VOMIT SMILLIE....

The lady doth protest too much.  Let's face it, if that was in marble in the Bargello or the Louvre every Art classroom'd have the poster on the wall, and we'd be complaining about the clumsily added 19thC boxers to boot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2013, 12:14:29 PM

But look at the toll the seroids and charlie have taken:

Patrick O'Brian now:

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39961000/jpg/_39961614_pob203.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 12:15:39 PM
It's worse than that, he's dead Jim Tom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 June, 2013, 12:27:53 PM


Ridley Scott might not direct Prometheus 2

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2013, 12:37:26 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 12:15:39 PM
It's worse than that, he's dead Jim Tom.

let that be a warning to us all!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2013, 12:55:09 PM
double posting is the ultimate social nono
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 June, 2013, 12:55:51 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 June, 2013, 12:27:53 PM
Ridley Scott might not direct Prometheus 2


By the time it comes around and after he's done his next 2 or 3 films, (inclusive of a few years spent on the Blade Runner sequel) he'll be in his 80's, so it's not too likely he'll direct another Prometheus if he can do something else instead. I suspect Blade Runner II will be his last film.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2013, 12:56:26 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 17 June, 2013, 08:21:05 PM
Thats not Sauchie Tower  :o

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sauchie_Tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_85404.jpg/220px-Sauchie_Tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_85404.jpg)

Looks like a good spot for the Zombie apoco' it hasa water supply and everything
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 June, 2013, 01:11:23 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 12:13:30 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 June, 2013, 12:09:18 PM
Vomit smillie vomit smillie

WE SERIOUSLY NEED A VOMIT SMILLIE....

The lady doth protest too much.  Let's face it, if that was in marble in the Bargello or the Louvre every Art classroom'd have the poster on the wall, and we'd be complaining about the clumsily added 19thC boxers to boot.

I DO NOT protest to much.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2013, 01:29:31 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 June, 2013, 01:11:23 PM
I DO NOT protest to much.

There you go again! 

;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 18 June, 2013, 01:38:11 PM
I'd guess that your friend has a reference set to the Microsoft Scripting Runtime library while you don't. In the VBE, have a look in TOOLS>REFERENCES... and check if this is the case.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 June, 2013, 05:02:00 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 16 June, 2013, 06:00:17 PM
That's my factoid of the day.

I like factoids. Here's mine.
The end song in Donnie Darko was going to be U2's MLK. Which would have been brilliant - but they couldnt afford to licence it.
Instead we got that dreadful Mad World cover,  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 June, 2013, 05:04:02 PM
isn't it a fact that factoids are untrue?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2013, 05:21:53 PM
I think Comic Sans should be used as the internationally accepted sarcasm font
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 June, 2013, 05:33:24 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 18 June, 2013, 05:02:00 PM
The end song in Donnie Darko was going to be U2's MLK. Which would have been brilliant - but they couldnt afford to licence it.
Instead we got that dreadful Mad World cover,  :(


I find Richard Kelly's first preferences not as good as what he had to settle for, initially. I think it's an indicator of how his mind and the scene was changed with the song when he didn't choose to swap Mad World for MLK in his director's cut even when he got the extra money and switched some of the other tracks.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 June, 2013, 05:42:56 PM

I see Kelly Brook's on holiday somewhere with a beach (source: every tabloid newspaper in the UK).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 18 June, 2013, 05:51:14 PM
Helping my son with his school project I have discovered that vikings did quite a bit more than shag and bevvy. I feel a bit sad now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 June, 2013, 05:54:06 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 18 June, 2013, 05:33:24 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 18 June, 2013, 05:02:00 PM
The end song in Donnie Darko was going to be U2's MLK. Which would have been brilliant - but they couldnt afford to licence it.
Instead we got that dreadful Mad World cover,  :(


I find Richard Kelly's first preferences not as good as what he had to settle for, initially. I think it's an indicator of how his mind and the scene was changed with the song when he didn't choose to swap Mad World for MLK in his director's cut even when he got the extra money and switched some of the other tracks.

Was it ever an option to have the tune in the DC, or did licensing issues still apply?

It could be argued that MLK would have fitted too perfectly for the closing of DD, but what the heck.
(Ive nowt really against the Mad World cover, just that when i think it could have been MLK...).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 18 June, 2013, 06:24:28 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 18 June, 2013, 05:42:56 PM
I see Kelly Brook's on holiday somewhere with a beach (source: every tabloid newspaper in the UK).
And people complain about fatties in the seat next to them on the plane? Imagine all that sand in your shoes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 June, 2013, 08:14:14 PM
Quote from: El Pops on 18 June, 2013, 05:21:53 PM
I think Comic Sans should be used as the internationally accepted sarcasm font

but then Jim Campbell would never be able to be sarcastic - and he's so good at it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 June, 2013, 08:27:19 PM


And it never easy to read word in colour like red blue green yellow pink purple brown orange
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 June, 2013, 10:46:02 PM
Apparently Nick 'Ron Fucking Swanson' Offerman is to be the voice of Axe Cop in the upcoming cartoon. (http://www.tvguide.com/News/Nick-Offerman-Axe-Cop-1066814.aspx)

That's excellent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 June, 2013, 04:29:21 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 June, 2013, 08:27:19 PM


And it never easy to read word in colour like red blue green yellow pink purple brown orange

Very true that, Goaty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 June, 2013, 05:25:15 PM
http://xkcd.com/1227/ (http://xkcd.com/1227/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2013, 12:50:55 PM



Billion pixel panoramic views of Mars from Curiosity Rover

http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/inte.../billionpixel/ (http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/inte.../billionpixel/)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 June, 2013, 03:12:10 PM


(http://i.imgur.com/iSamimJ.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 June, 2013, 11:24:35 PM
I think I may have an allergy but I have no idea as to what...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 22 June, 2013, 11:29:10 PM
Turns out my building has a massive mouse infestation for the second time in four or so years. Like the first time, I'm only aware of this due to speaking with my neighbours because my pet cats are clearly keeping the rodents at bay. I now feel guilty for describing my cats (well, cats in general) as being parasites to others.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 June, 2013, 03:24:16 PM

The "spirt" in this house keeps turning the music centre on...

And four days ago... it threw a steak pie at me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 June, 2013, 03:32:15 PM
I think i'm in love. With a vegan sausage alternative.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 June, 2013, 03:45:36 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 23 June, 2013, 03:32:15 PM
I think i'm in love. With a vegan sausage alternative.

They're all vegan if you don't swallow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 June, 2013, 03:46:30 PM
I find that hard to swallow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 June, 2013, 03:58:45 PM
Your an oxymoron...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 June, 2013, 05:39:30 PM
Thats not what your mum said last night. :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 June, 2013, 05:57:29 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 June, 2013, 03:58:45 PM
Your an oxymoron...

What about my airless moron?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 23 June, 2013, 09:28:36 PM
I didn't have half of the problems I now have when it comes to watching television before the switch over to digital occurred. I actually do miss analogue.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 June, 2013, 01:48:24 AM
Since the last digital update last April I have had NO TV signal at all in my room....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 24 June, 2013, 02:31:45 AM
Anyone remember 2000ad Review! I loved that site. Who used to run it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 June, 2013, 03:27:39 AM
I know a person called Gavin Hanly!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 24 June, 2013, 10:30:31 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 June, 2013, 01:48:24 AM
Since the last digital update last April I have had NO TV signal at all in my room....
You might- like me- be old enough to remember the good old days when an appliance playing up could be fixed simply by smacking the top of it. I recently received a to the homeowner letter of sorts warning me 4G technology could start messing with my TV but to be fair, most of my channels have been far removed from a decent setting for some weeks and now they've almost gone entirely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 24 June, 2013, 11:05:04 AM
yes, we got something saying that freeview may have problems when the 4G network kicks in - call the helpline 0808 13 13 800 or see the website https://at800.tv/ (https://at800.tv/) - although apparently most of the anticipated problesm haven't materialised.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 24 June, 2013, 12:00:02 PM
Thanks for that, Dan. My TV appears to be working again this morning- though I haven't tried E4, a channel I avoid these days because it pauses that much. I don't know if the problems I had last night/ early this morning were down to the weather or just another example why (for me) this whole digital technology isn't all it's made out to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 June, 2013, 05:58:26 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 24 June, 2013, 02:31:27 PM
[Anti-Sauchie missiles primed] Did someone say sequel?

Am I the resident film non-lover now SBT's gone? I'm only not bothered about a sequel because sequels are mostly pish. In the case of Dredd, obviously a sequel would be a very good thing for everyone involved, from a financial point of view. Wagner was talking about keeping bees, and we need more bees (http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/07/19/crops-that-would-disappear-without-bees/) ... buy the film on bluray for the sake of the bees.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 24 June, 2013, 06:03:50 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 June, 2013, 03:27:39 AM
I know a person called Gavin Hanly!

That's it. My mind went blank.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 24 June, 2013, 06:50:51 PM
No images on my television once again. To get beyond this frustration, tomorrow I may just-
1. Walk to the nearest Waterstones and purchase Charles Bronson's Solitary Fitness
or
2. Take to living beneath a tree, keeping a journal of my thoughts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 June, 2013, 07:08:37 PM
I'd like some chips.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 24 June, 2013, 07:57:55 PM
Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0esAgO-zE)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 June, 2013, 08:09:46 PM
Isn't life wonderful :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 24 June, 2013, 08:13:30 PM
what a great turn out of boarders for that Con in Glasgow, pity there's no Souther Contingent making it passed the Milton Keynes ghetto.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 June, 2013, 08:15:40 PM
20th wedding anniversary that week and after missing a few big family events due to Judge Minty filming my luck is all used up  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 June, 2013, 08:54:58 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 24 June, 2013, 07:57:55 PM
Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0esAgO-zE)

Can I have some more salt please?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 June, 2013, 09:08:58 PM
Best use of Lego ever!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2013/jun/23/lions-australia-brick-by-brick-video (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2013/jun/23/lions-australia-brick-by-brick-video)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 June, 2013, 09:09:30 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 24 June, 2013, 08:54:58 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 24 June, 2013, 07:57:55 PM
Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0esAgO-zE)
Can I have some more salt please?
No vinegar? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 24 June, 2013, 09:54:29 PM
Imagine finding one in your laundry basket!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 June, 2013, 10:04:53 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 June, 2013, 09:09:30 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 24 June, 2013, 08:54:58 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 24 June, 2013, 07:57:55 PM
Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0esAgO-zE)
Can I have some more salt please?
No vinegar? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU)
Patience...:)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2013, 09:36:08 AM
Let's say two lads with form were recorded discussing how to do over a certain Post Office branch. And then that PO branch was robbed in exactly that manner by two men matching their descriptions. How long would it be before they were sitting in the local station?

Now change 'PO' for 'Anglo Irish Bank', and 'in the local station' for 'by the pool on a fat pension'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2013, 09:51:48 AM
'Anglo Irish Bank' should of course read 'the Irish people unto the third generation'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 June, 2013, 11:32:04 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 June, 2013, 09:09:30 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 24 June, 2013, 08:54:58 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 24 June, 2013, 07:57:55 PM
Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0esAgO-zE)
Can I have some more salt please?
No vinegar? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU)

Correct nae vinegar just broon sauce
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 June, 2013, 11:40:15 AM
(http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/inlineimage/2012-02-21/Chips-map.jpg)

HP? make yer own!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 25 June, 2013, 12:02:19 PM
That mayonnaise figure just accounts for the content of one Pret sandwich
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 June, 2013, 12:08:30 PM
That chart is making me hungry, I want a black pudding and chips....no black pudding?...haggis then.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2013, 12:27:41 PM
McDonalds have stopped giving out mayonnaise as a choice with their Happy Meals.  I understand that this is the normal state of affairs in other jurisdictions, but man alive we're suffering here.

In other news, my shed lights flicker when my neighbour switches their strimmer on and off. What the hell is that about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 June, 2013, 02:04:22 PM
Damn this board. All I can think about now is curry chips.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 June, 2013, 03:17:26 PM
I like Custard Creams.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 June, 2013, 03:19:18 PM



Oh what I put on my toast?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 June, 2013, 12:37:59 AM
Culinary success achieved tonight (i.e. kids' plates completely clean without excessive threats of violence and/or loss of liberty).  Gnocchi and beef ragu with a rocket-based side salad.  Secret ingredient: fennel in the ragu.  Who knew?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 03:16:03 AM
Are you sure that was Fennel?

Only reminded of a story told to me by a friend about two competing Chinese restaurants.
He swears it was a legitimate news story reported in a local paper.
I however am convinced it is an urban myth
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 June, 2013, 08:41:55 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 03:16:03 AM
Are you sure that was Fennel?

It was definitely fennel when I chopped it up and chucked it in! (Also: celery, carrot, onion, garlic, rosemary, but I usually use those, and meet with more limited success)

Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 03:16:03 AM
Only reminded of a story told to me by a friend about two competing Chinese restaurants.

Do perpetuate!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 June, 2013, 05:14:53 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 June, 2013, 08:41:55 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 03:16:03 AM
Are you sure that was Fennel?

It was definitely fennel when I chopped it up and chucked it in! (Also: celery, carrot, onion, garlic, rosemary, but I usually use those, and meet with more limited success)

Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 03:16:03 AM
Only reminded of a story told to me by a friend about two competing Chinese restaurants.

Do perpetuate!

there was a mention in the paper the other day about an (unverified) story of restaurants passing off sliced pig rectum as calamari. The journalist couldn't find any actual evidence that this happened, so tried it himself and apparently they taste just the same!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 June, 2013, 06:06:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 June, 2013, 12:37:59 AM
Culinary success achieved tonight (i.e. kids' plates completely clean without excessive threats of violence and/or loss of liberty). 

As an adult, I'll basically eat anything that doesn't move faster than my fork. When I think of the hassle I caused my poor Mum as a kid - refusing to eat certain things, moaning that the things I did like weren't exactly the way I liked them - I feel rotten.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 08:55:28 PM

Very well TordelBack  as you have asked nicely...

Story goes like this...
there were two Chinese restaurants in the same high street.
both were doing quite good custom when... well suddenly one became a LOT more popular than the other.
To the extent that there were queues forming on the most popular nights out side.
This went on for months...
To the extent that the less popular restaurant was facing the prospect of going out of business.

Then one evening the popular place was raided by the police and the sudden increase in popularity explained.

They had been adding cocaine to the food.




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 June, 2013, 09:21:01 PM

(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18k1soz1lyq42jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 26 June, 2013, 10:05:01 PM
I've just wasted fifteen minutes trying to find a scan of that Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip where the other two send Fat Freddy to the shop and, of course, he gets burned yet again.

"Fat Freddy, this sugar is almost 100% cocaine."
- "It doesn't even make the coffee sweet!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 June, 2013, 10:23:53 PM
There's a 1960's TV Comic Dalek strip in the DWM Dalek Special. It's jizz worthy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2013, 01:04:32 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 08:55:28 PM
They had been adding cocaine to the food.

Good story. don't mind Sauchie and his 'facts', he obviously doesn't understand the importance of cashflow in the catering sector.  However, I would never under any circumstances give my kids cocaine.  I can't get the little bastards to stop talking (and/or sniffling) as it is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 27 June, 2013, 10:56:59 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2013, 08:55:28 PM
They had been adding cocaine to the food.
Bloody hell, what kind of restaurant would do that?
[spoiler]ONLY THE BEST DAMN RESTAURANT IN TOWN![/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 June, 2013, 12:30:24 PM
In the spirit of Man of Steel, I reckon the next children's character to get a dark and gritty reboot should be Popeye.

THE SAILOR MAN

A troubled old sea dog tries to come to terms with his steroid and alcohol addiction and checks himself into rehab. There he meets and falls in love with an ex-crack whore called Olive* (that's why she's so skinny). Olive helps him overcome his craving for drugs and alcohol by replacing it with spinach, and he feels like a new man. He repays her by murdering her old pimp, a cocaine baron that goes by the street-name of Bluto.

*And she is never called Olive Oil, because this is a serious movie for grown-ups
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 June, 2013, 03:23:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 June, 2013, 12:30:24 PM
In the spirit of Man of Steel, I reckon the next children's character to get a dark and gritty reboot should be Popeye.

THE SAILOR MAN

A troubled old sea dog tries to come to terms with his steroid and alcohol addiction and checks himself into rehab. There he meets and falls in love with an ex-crack whore called Olive* (that's why she's so skinny). Olive helps him overcome his craving for drugs and alcohol by replacing it with spinach, and he feels like a new man. He repays her by murdering her old pimp, a cocaine baron that goes by the street-name of Bluto.

*And she is never called Olive Oil, because this is a serious movie for grown-ups

add some zombies...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2013, 03:33:33 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 June, 2013, 12:30:24 PM
THE SAILOR MAN

You forgot to mention that Popeye's descent into addiction was a direct result of the actions of international banking magnate Mr. Wimpy, whose gladly-pay-you-Tuesday ponzi scheme led to foreclosure on the local trawler fleet, subsequently bought up for a song by one C. Hag to equip her Blackwater mercs to pose as Somali pirates and perpetrate false-flag atrocities.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 June, 2013, 03:37:14 PM
Don't go to sleep (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348727/Wladyslaw-Haniszewski-deported-Immigrant-fell-coma-New-Jersey-wakes-POLAND-hospital-deports-him.html) in the U.S.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2013, 04:07:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 27 June, 2013, 03:37:14 PM
Don't go to sleep (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348727/Wladyslaw-Haniszewski-deported-Immigrant-fell-coma-New-Jersey-wakes-POLAND-hospital-deports-him.html) in the U.S.

Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em
That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

Seems appropriate place to note my happiness that Lou Reed is recovering well from last month's liver transplant.  One of the greats.  And only still with us because he's rich.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2013, 05:11:39 PM
Ah Jeebus H. Feck, I've just discovered I'm the same age as Bernard Cribbens' character in The Railway Childen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 June, 2013, 07:21:03 AM
A line in The Judge Child about 'Mum, Dad and Dum'...may be prescient after all.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 June, 2013, 11:54:55 AM
Not even bloody SPAMMERS visit my site anymore.


What am I doing wrong?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 30 June, 2013, 03:14:42 PM
'WAR, We're going to War!' expendable cannon fodder in Starship Troopers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23117197

1970's artist Roger Dean has unleashed his cosmic potency against Hollywood Film  Director James Cameron claiming a lot of Avatar's environment, flying rocks etc was pilfered from his fantastical back catalogue of artwork. Dust off those YES! album covers and prepare for a battle of the giants.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 July, 2013, 01:43:27 AM
I don't mean to create a fuss but my chips are getting cold, how long will my fish be?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 July, 2013, 01:54:31 AM
OK, who is gonna make/ buy me this cocktail?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pj3_r7deVk
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 01 July, 2013, 02:20:03 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 01 July, 2013, 01:43:27 AM
I don't mean to create a fuss but my chips are getting cold, how long will my fish be?

Just under a foot.

It's a sole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvIhn2acVU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvIhn2acVU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 July, 2013, 07:54:45 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 01 July, 2013, 02:20:03 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 01 July, 2013, 01:43:27 AM
I don't mean to create a fuss but my chips are getting cold, how long will my fish be?

Just under a foot.

It's a sole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvIhn2acVU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvIhn2acVU)

I'm practicing this incase we meet in the chipper one night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdBvuALfI1k
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 01 July, 2013, 01:56:31 PM



Smell of piss at Glastonbury blamed on Rolling Stones (http://newsthump.com/2013/07/01/smell-of-piss-at-glastonbury-blamed-on-rolling-stones/)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: LARF on 01 July, 2013, 01:59:06 PM
Semen contains more vitamin C than an orange.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 July, 2013, 05:17:23 PM
Quote from: LARF on 01 July, 2013, 01:59:06 PM
Semen contains more vitamin C than an orange.

Tired of pointing this out, especially in flu season.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 July, 2013, 05:42:49 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 01 July, 2013, 01:56:31 PM
Smell of piss at Glastonbury blamed on Rolling Stones (http://newsthump.com/2013/07/01/smell-of-piss-at-glastonbury-blamed-on-rolling-stones/)

The front page of the Mail was a couple of very unforgiving close-ups of the ruined faces of Jagger and Richards above the headline NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - which I thought was a bit cheeky, given the average age of their print readership. The rest of the media couldn't think of their own gags, and resorted to copying and pasting clever things other folk had said on twitter (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/glastonbury/10151179/TV-viewers-mock-Rolling-Stones-performance.html).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 July, 2013, 05:50:32 PM
Some funny enough quips on there. This one made me chuckle;
Clifton Wiens said: "A lot of millenials at #Glastonbury to hear the Rolling Stones. Imagine 20-somethings in 1965 waiting to hear a band that was big in 1917."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 July, 2013, 10:46:35 PM
What's Canada day all aboot?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 July, 2013, 07:45:13 PM
"There were 30,000 fewer people aged in their 90s than previously believed," he says - 429,000 instead of 457,000.

"That was about 15% fewer men; 5% fewer females. There were also fewer centenarians than previously believed - the number of female centenarians was [out] by about 10%."


Does that mean i can now retire before I'm 90?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 02 July, 2013, 08:39:25 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 01 July, 2013, 05:42:49 PM

The front page of the Mail was a couple of very unforgiving close-ups of the ruined faces of Jagger and Richards above the headline NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD


They'd be apt candidates to play the Dark Judges.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 July, 2013, 09:05:49 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 02 July, 2013, 08:39:25 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 01 July, 2013, 05:42:49 PM
The front page of the Mail was a couple of very unforgiving close-ups of the ruined faces of Jagger and Richards above the headline NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

They'd be apt candidates to play the Dark Judges.

Burdis's news regarding the recent confirmation of the design of the villains in his new cartoon makes sense now. He's obviously spent the weekend tracing pictures from the papers.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 July, 2013, 07:06:46 AM
Boing! http://www.wimp.com/bubblesports/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 July, 2013, 01:48:19 PM


  and I thought I read too much Beano when I was young:

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68527000/jpg/_68527953_p-05668-b.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 July, 2013, 04:24:36 PM
By, its been hot today. Almost too hot.
In the middle of the Winter just gone, i couldnt even remember what a warm day felt like, now im wishing it was Winter again.....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 04 July, 2013, 07:41:39 PM
What the hell is Gatland playing at? Leaving out O'Driscoll? Saunter on big lad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 July, 2013, 08:15:51 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 04 July, 2013, 07:41:39 PM
What the hell is Gatland playing at? Leaving out O'Driscoll? Saunter on big lad.

O'Driscoll was dropped for having an obviously fake Irish surname.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 July, 2013, 09:38:45 PM
Canadian Imperialism. (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/02/turks-and-caicos-canadian-province-goldring_n_3536143.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 July, 2013, 07:28:11 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 04 July, 2013, 09:38:45 PM
Canadian Imperialism. (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/02/turks-and-caicos-canadian-province-goldring_n_3536143.html)

Mental! If you're going to build an empire you might a well start somewhere with nicer weather than your own. Makes the Falklands look a bit shite.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 July, 2013, 08:38:49 AM
Wish Canada would annexe this dump, ehh?  Wait, would that mean Trout would become our monarch in real life? >shudder<
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 July, 2013, 12:00:53 PM
Its like 1812 all over again, bagsie burn Washington! 

There's another red flag at GCHQ  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 July, 2013, 02:07:53 PM
Why do problems always happen at the last fecking moment of Friday?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 July, 2013, 04:41:07 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 July, 2013, 12:00:53 PM
There's another red flag at GCHQ

It's all outsourced and processed centrally through Prism (http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inner-workings-of-a-top-secret-spy-program/282/) nowadays, chief. Death to the West.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 July, 2013, 02:00:06 PM

I've got the same haircut as Lena Headey.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 07 July, 2013, 02:55:02 PM
Nice that its an all Scottish final...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 07 July, 2013, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 07 July, 2013, 02:55:02 PM
Nice that its an all Scottish final...

Took me a second, but excellent work there, sir!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 July, 2013, 07:35:22 PM
is there an optimum amount to be whelmed?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 July, 2013, 07:58:17 PM
The British Sporting Press are unbearable at the best of times.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 08 July, 2013, 04:49:35 PM
Had to walk for over an hour today to reach the place where I was handing in an application form. If they're looking to hire beardy men dripping with sweat, I'm a bloody shoe-in.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 11 July, 2013, 07:29:23 PM
Just doing a bit of last minute packing, when my mate rings to ask 'Whats the name of that Hotel (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5005862/Lost-dazed-and-slumped-at-a-hotel-legend-Gazza-pleads-for-another-drink.html) were staying at?'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Vestibule on 12 July, 2013, 12:47:03 PM
Aww man, that's just sad...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 July, 2013, 05:41:17 PM

Aye, that's tragic. On a sort of related (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_uoMvJqP4) note, one of the girls at work had shown me her new Union Flag phone cover, a delivery driver had arrived with pipe band music blaring out the window, and I'd walked past an awful lot of red white and blue bunting strung between houses before it occurred to me what today's date was. Central Scotland; where the passing of 323 years is but the blink of an eye.

Phone cover girl has put a line on at William Hill, anticipating that the new royal baby (son of a future King Billy) will be born before the end of the day.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 July, 2013, 11:16:15 PM
Has anyone read that theory about how all Pixar movies are interconnected? (http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/)

It straddles that fine line between insanity and genius.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2013, 09:21:57 AM

That's Pops and Pro Bear both checked in, safe and well. It's reasonable to assume that The Prodigal and the rest of the NI crew are out throwing stones at the coppers who've been ferried over from the mainland to keep a lid on the protests.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 14 July, 2013, 12:07:53 PM
Heard on the radio yesterday, that there is going to be an extra 600 Police ferried over to assist....
An extra 600 !!....FFS !...
Didn't realise there was still that many Police in the country, coz apart from the Motorway Police, I've never seen one for ages !!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 July, 2013, 02:08:56 PM
So it turns out in Florida, a grown man can shoot an unarmed teenager and get away with it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2013, 03:01:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 14 July, 2013, 02:08:56 PM
So it turns out in Florida, a grown man can shoot an unarmed teenager and get away with it.

If you visit any US politics board you'll find plenty of folks who will earnestly explain to you that Trayvon Martin was a monstrously powerful, drug crazed, adult criminal who ruthlessly stalked his prey before repeatedly smashing Zimmerman's head on the ground in an attempt to break it open, as a gorilla would a coconut. George Zimmerman was a helpless innocent in fear for his life and acting in self defence.

I can't remember the exact quote now, but in 1984 O'Brien explains to Winston that real power is not just the ability to make folk say that a chair is a table, but for folk to look at a chair and believe it really is a table.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 03:55:19 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 July, 2013, 03:01:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 14 July, 2013, 02:08:56 PM
So it turns out in Florida, a grown man can shoot an unarmed teenager and get away with it.

If you visit any US politics board you'll find plenty of folks who will earnestly explain to you that Trayvon Martin was a monstrously powerful, drug crazed, adult criminal who ruthlessly stalked his prey before repeatedly smashing Zimmerman's head on the ground in an attempt to break it open, as a gorilla would a coconut. George Zimmerman was a helpless innocent in fear for his life and acting in self defence.

I can't remember the exact quote now, but in 1984 O'Brien explains to Winston that real power is not just the ability to make folk say that a chair is a table, but for folk to look at a chair and believe it really is a table.

What US politics board are you reading? Haven't read anything like that at all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2013, 04:49:27 PM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 03:55:19 PM
What US politics board are you reading? Haven't read anything like that at all.

It might be putting too fine a point on it to describe this (http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000082/threads/) as an example of political debate, rather than just outright monomaniacal insanity. The more reasonable discussion I've seen in the US mainstream media seems to acknowledge that it's a more complex and nuanced case - my own opinion was always that Zimmerman's actions were foolhardy and disproportionate, but that there was no way of establishing the malice in either his actions or his motives which would meet the criteria of reasonable doubt necessary for a conviction.

This slim and reasonable fellow leads an entirely unbiased debate (http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#http://video.foxnews.com/v/2542651467001/zimmerman-trial-actuality-versus-perception/?playlist_id=86924) of the trial on the single most influential news source on US telly.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 05:31:53 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 July, 2013, 04:49:27 PM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 03:55:19 PM
What US politics board are you reading? Haven't read anything like that at all.

It might be putting too fine a point on it to describe this (http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000082/threads/) as an example of political debate, rather than just outright monomaniacal insanity. The more reasonable discussion I've seen in the US mainstream media seems to acknowledge that it's a more complex and nuanced case - my own opinion was always that Zimmerman's actions were foolhardy and disproportionate, but that there was no way of establishing the malice in either his actions or his motives which would meet the criteria of reasonable doubt necessary for a conviction.

This slim and reasonable fellow leads an entirely unbiased debate (http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#http://video.foxnews.com/v/2542651467001/zimmerman-trial-actuality-versus-perception/?playlist_id=86924) of the trial on the single most influential news source on US telly.

IMDB is not a political board and either is Sean Hannity. So, your original statement of 'visit any US politics board you'll find plenty of folks who will earnestly explain to you that Trayvon Martin was a monstrously powerful, drug crazed, adult criminal who ruthlessly stalked his prey before repeatedly smashing Zimmerman's head on the ground in an attempt to break it open, as a gorilla would a coconut. George Zimmerman was a helpless innocent in fear for his life and acting in self defence.'

...is a huge exaggeration. But you are correct about your more reasonable discussion. The jurors couldn't find him guilty laid out by the guidelines given. Which was the right decision legally...but something should be done. There has to be a consequence for his actions. Maybe the feds will get involved.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2013, 07:06:15 PM

Hmmm. The IMDB politics board is certainly a politics board, flint, and it was the most extreme example I could think of which would make my point.

That point wasn't that US nationals who construe the trial as that of a responsible white citizen set upon by a violent black criminal represent the majority or that they characterise the tone of the debate in general, only that they're plentiful and vociferous. I linked to Hannity because there seems to be a direct connection between the talking points promoted by Fox - and the terms in which they frame this or any other debate - and what you see emanating from the keyboards of their Myrmidons (which applies as much to the Left as to the Right).

If you think that's more a point about the tribal and adversarial nature of US media and political culture than the general population, then you'd be correct (see my original post).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:08:57 PM
And yet...they're wrong. He's not white...he's Hispanic and I really don't think race played any part in it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:09:37 PM
Also...linking to Fox News is an automatic fail!  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2013, 07:22:16 PM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:08:57 PM
And yet...they're wrong. He's not white...he's Hispanic and I really don't think race played any part in it.

Probably not; Trayvon was wearing a hoodie. Race certainly had a bearing on the positions adopted by those discussing the case on the bottom half of the internet though - and it played a huge part in the way the US political and media tribes lined up on the case. "If I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon" ... (http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/07/14/obama-steve-king-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman/2515693/)

QuoteAlso...linking to Fox News is an automatic fail!  ;)

Sir, yes Sir!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:36:20 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 14 July, 2013, 07:22:16 PM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:08:57 PM
And yet...they're wrong. He's not white...he's Hispanic and I really don't think race played any part in it.

Probably not; Trayvon was wearing a hoodie. Race certainly had a bearing on the positions adopted by those discussing the case on the bottom half of the internet though - and it played a huge part in the way the US political and media tribes lined up on the case. "If I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon" ... (http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/07/14/obama-steve-king-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman/2515693/)

QuoteAlso...linking to Fox News is an automatic fail!  ;)

Sir, yes Sir!

Which is totally irresponsible for the President to say and for those politicians too wear hoodies. I think it's too easy to say it was racially motivated. It was a gated community and the kid according to Zimmerman looked suspicious. Where I live, and it's not gated, if I saw someone in the neighborhood that I had never seen before and looked suspicious...regardless of race...I'd be a bit concerned. Zimmerman was a moron.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 July, 2013, 07:40:26 PM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:36:20 PM
Zimmerman was a moron.

No, Zimmerman is a moron. The angry mob haven't got him yet
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2013, 08:44:03 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 14 July, 2013, 07:40:26 PM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 14 July, 2013, 07:36:20 PM
Zimmerman was a moron.

No, Zimmerman is a moron. The angry mob haven't got him yet

You're one to talk about angry mobs, neebs. Are the yahoos who've sworn undying loyalty to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland still pelting the legal representatives of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with bricks? Those must count as the most ironic street protests since the Paris Situationists rioted in '68.

Are you stuck inside watching the chaos from your window? Can you still get out to the Spar shop for milk? My Mum gave me a big bag of dried dates when I was up seeing her yesterday; I was going to eat them while I was watching Season of the Witch tonight, but if I can help stop my countrymen from starving I'll gladly send them registered post tomorrow - with instructions to the postie to dress casual and not look too much like a representative of the authorities when he's delivering them.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 July, 2013, 09:00:31 PM
My favourite part is when they interview the politicians. It's like there's been a fight in the schoolyard and they're all trying to act as if they weren't standing around chanting "FIGHT!FIGHT!FIGHT!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 15 July, 2013, 04:16:31 PM
Has this thread been jacked into the Politics thread? In that case....


Not that we need proof of the EDL's stupidity, but here it is - anyway (http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/manic-street-preachers-vs-english-defence-league/) 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 July, 2013, 04:36:39 PM

A Bet shop with Free Cash, only in Newcastle!

(http://i.imgur.com/8wrumOr.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 July, 2013, 05:49:55 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 15 July, 2013, 04:16:31 PM
Not that we need proof of the EDL's stupidity, but here it is - anyway (http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/manic-street-preachers-vs-english-defence-league/)

You'd have thought the line about shooting fascists would have tipped off the EDL that the song wasn't on their side.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 July, 2013, 09:15:41 PM
You can't do simple maths under pressure (http://toys.usvsth3m.com/maths/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 16 July, 2013, 12:54:44 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 July, 2013, 09:15:41 PM
You can't do simple maths under pressure (http://toys.usvsth3m.com/maths/)

Good one!  It took a few tries, but it turns out I can do maths under pressure - level 10 achieved!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 July, 2013, 03:39:15 PM
Zot Alous Mon Amies... can this be true?

http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/789
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 July, 2013, 04:34:11 PM
n'est pas
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 July, 2013, 06:18:56 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 July, 2013, 03:39:15 PM
http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/789

"A French company has developed an analytics tool that claims to be able to identify sarcastic comments posted online"

That sounds really useful.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 July, 2013, 01:13:25 AM
Do I detect... sarcasum?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 02:24:23 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 July, 2013, 01:13:25 AM
Do I detect... sarcasum?

Je ne sais pas
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 July, 2013, 08:58:10 PM
WTF? Dredd still has no sequel announced, but Sharknado (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/17/sharknado-sequel-greenlit) 2 is approved?!  >:(

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 17 July, 2013, 08:59:12 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 July, 2013, 01:13:25 AM
Do I detect... sarcasum?

Pfft. On here? Hardly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 July, 2013, 09:01:38 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 17 July, 2013, 08:58:10 PM
WTF? Dredd still has no sequel announced, but Sharknado (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/17/sharknado-sequel-greenlit) 2 is approved?!  >:(
Sharknado cost roughly the content of five 10 year old boys lunch money for a month. And the sequel was funded on the change.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I've been dog-sitting my friends' chocolate labrador while they've been off on their honeymoon. It may interest some of you to know that its shite is white. I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 July, 2013, 09:36:19 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I've been dog-sitting my friends' chocolate labrador while they've been off on their honeymoon. It may interest some of you to know that its shite is white. I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.

Put the cap back on the bleach.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 18 July, 2013, 12:13:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I've been dog-sitting my friends' chocolate labrador while they've been off on their honeymoon. It may interest some of you to know that its shite is white. I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.
Have you been giving the dog bones? I always put the disappearance of white mess down to people no longer giving dogs bones because you're advised against doing that nowadays.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 July, 2013, 12:52:08 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 18 July, 2013, 12:13:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I've been dog-sitting my friends' chocolate labrador while they've been off on their honeymoon. It may interest some of you to know that its shite is white. I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.
Have you been giving the dog bones? I always put the disappearance of white mess down to people no longer giving dogs bones because you're advised against doing that nowadays.

Aye, she's been enjoying a big oul bone. Who advises against giving dogs bones? I was alway told it was fine by this old man. He played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 July, 2013, 03:35:28 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 July, 2013, 12:52:08 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 18 July, 2013, 12:13:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I've been dog-sitting my friends' chocolate labrador while they've been off on their honeymoon. It may interest some of you to know that its shite is white. I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.
Have you been giving the dog bones? I always put the disappearance of white mess down to people no longer giving dogs bones because you're advised against doing that nowadays.

Aye, she's been enjoying a big oul bone. Who advises against giving dogs bones? I was alway told it was fine by this old man. He played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb.

Shake up at the disco
And I think I've got a pull
I ask her lots of questions
And she hangs on to the wall
I kiss her for the first time
And then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee
And I give the dog a bone
She likes to go to discos
But she's never on her own
I said I'll see you later
And I give her some old chat
But it's not like that on the TV
When it's cool for cats
It's cool for cats
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 July, 2013, 03:44:55 PM
This forum need more song lyric quotes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 18 July, 2013, 04:21:06 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 July, 2013, 12:52:08 PM
Who advises against giving dogs bones? I was alway told it was fine by this old man. He played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb.
Somebody told me a few years back you're not supposed to do it even though we used to give the family dog bones from the butcher. Just Googled to for you, turns out the safety depends on what kind of bone it is and apparently they shouldn't have been in the oven.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2010/05/19/caution-bones-can-kill-your-dog-find-out-which-ones-are-safe.aspx
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 July, 2013, 04:27:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.

White dog poo? Now that takes me back. I dont think ive seen any white dog poo since the 70's.

Bang it on E-bay, Pops, im sure the Retro crowd will snap it up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 July, 2013, 04:34:32 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 18 July, 2013, 04:27:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 July, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.

White dog poo? Now that takes me back. I dont think ive seen any white dog poo since the 70's.

Bang it on E-bay, Pops, im sure the Retro crowd will snap it up.

I'm pretty sure e-bay banned the sale of waste products after some guy made a fucking fortune selling clean urine to junkies
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 July, 2013, 04:58:57 PM
It wasnt this fella (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b300/spacemonkey_fg/Blog%20Pictures/With15.jpg), was it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 July, 2013, 05:10:26 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 July, 2013, 04:34:32 PM
I'm pretty sure e-bay banned the sale of waste products after some guy made a fucking fortune selling clean urine to junkies

That's taking the piss.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 18 July, 2013, 05:16:57 PM
HUZZAH!

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/1017520_10201716346214755_1839657697_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 July, 2013, 05:45:05 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 18 July, 2013, 04:21:06 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 July, 2013, 12:52:08 PM
Who advises against giving dogs bones? I was alway told it was fine by this old man. He played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb.
Somebody told me a few years back you're not supposed to do it even though we used to give the family dog bones from the butcher. Just Googled to for you, turns out the safety depends on what kind of bone it is and apparently they shouldn't have been in the oven.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2010/05/19/caution-bones-can-kill-your-dog-find-out-which-ones-are-safe.aspx

yes never put a dog in the oven, bad form apparently.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 July, 2013, 07:27:21 PM
My favourite Archimedes quote:

"Give me a long enough lever and a fulcrum on which to place it or i will kill one hostage every hour"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 July, 2013, 08:16:04 PM

THAT  WAS  BIG  WHEN  I  WAS  LITTLE
BIG  WHEN  I  WAS  LITTLE
JUST  LIKE  MALCOLM  IN  THE  MIDDLE
THAT  WAS  BIG  WHEN  I  WAS  LITTLE



Eliza Fucking Doolittle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGx1lfyb6s). The combination of daytime radio playlist rotation, sunny weather, and an Island of Lost Souls brass line, mean that's buzzing around my head like Death trapped in Boing. Hopefully exposing you to it's served as some kind of exorcism
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 July, 2013, 10:02:07 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/mtAEfxL.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 July, 2013, 11:00:10 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 15 July, 2013, 04:16:31 PM
Not that we need proof of the EDL's stupidity, but here it is - anyway (http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/manic-street-preachers-vs-english-defence-league/)

That's the stupidest and at the same time the funniest thing I've read all week. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 19 July, 2013, 11:57:28 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 18 July, 2013, 05:16:57 PM
HUZZAH!

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/1017520_10201716346214755_1839657697_n.jpg)
How much are 2000AD paying Phil Collins to promote their material then?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 July, 2013, 08:18:46 AM
Happy 75th birthday to The Beano (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/20/beano-75-year-anniversary)

Doesn't the editor look like Frank Skinner?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 July, 2013, 11:04:26 AM
Why isnt there a 'Its too bloody hot!' thread on here?*
A lot cooler today, thank Grud. We even had a slight touch of rain/drizzle earlier. Normal service looks set to resume,  :thumbsup:






*or maybe there is, but im too heat tired to look...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 July, 2013, 11:15:41 AM

Because it's not too bloody hot - it is too bloody hot to do physical work during the day, though. If we weren't hidebound to the concept of 9-5, five days a week, 48 weeks of the year for everyone - irrespective of whether they're doing an office job or shovelling shit for a living - then we'd all be fine. I've had to peel my sweat-drenched work shirt off when I get home most nights for the last fortnight.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 July, 2013, 11:25:01 AM
Quote from: link=topic=36237.msg774319#msg774319 date=1374315341
Because it's not too bloody hot

Oh, yes it is! Or rather, was.... ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 July, 2013, 12:47:33 PM

The vocal characterisation of the xenomorph in Alien (1979) was provided by seventies teatime telly bird impersonator Percy Edwards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IMjrB6Vow1w#t=23s).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 July, 2013, 01:38:46 PM
Pfft. Already seen that on redditor.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 July, 2013, 01:49:48 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 20 July, 2013, 11:15:41 AM

Because it's not too bloody hot - it is too bloody hot to do physical work during the day, though. If we weren't hidebound to the concept of 9-5, five days a week, 48 weeks of the year for everyone - irrespective of whether they're doing an office job or shovelling shit for a living - then we'd all be fine. I've had to peel my sweat-drenched work shirt off when I get home most nights for the last fortnight.


People have been asked not to demonstrate that you can fry an egg on the road though Death Valley (USA) because it causes damage to the environment...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 22 July, 2013, 04:13:23 AM
Nights rule :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 22 July, 2013, 01:52:50 PM
If you don't care about the inbound royal sprog here's an original thought - don't go on about it. Don't go on about how little you care about it, because you could show that by just not mentioning it. My Facebook feed is full of people saying variations of "WHO CARES" and it's like "CLEARLY YOU DO OTHERWISE YOU'D BE TALKING ABOUT MUTTON OR THE HYPOTHALAMUS"

and I was about to post this on there when I realised that by saying that I'm ALSO talking about it and the cycle goes on and on on and on and on and on and MY BRAIN
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 22 July, 2013, 01:58:26 PM
^That.^
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 22 July, 2013, 02:04:12 PM
Well no. My main complaint is that it is unavoidable. It is going to be all over the news at the expense of things like the reporting of the Tories attempts to control internet access in the UK, which is slightly more important than a rich woman having a baby.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 22 July, 2013, 03:01:29 PM
Well arguably that hasn't slipped anyone by - David Cameron is one of the top trends on twitter because of it. Until I clicked on it and saw this story about internet control I thought it was because he'd said "everyone in the UK is excited about this royal baby". EVERYONE IS.

EVEN PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY'RE IN A COMA.

But yes, the thing worth shouting about is not another royal but the government cutting off people's internet without warning or restricting it for their own means.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 July, 2013, 05:25:19 PM
they had a sweep today at work to guess the sex and weight of the baby - I initially refused but after much peer pressure to say that I HAVE to join in, I insisted on putting down "3 tonne hermaphrodite".

Fingers crossed!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 July, 2013, 05:37:46 PM
Channel 4 are expected announce a new show:

One born Very Minted
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 22 July, 2013, 05:56:39 PM
Bah.it's too hot and i have failed to see any pusscats today.misery is me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 July, 2013, 06:16:48 PM
So, the Underware thread was just the tip of the iceberg...  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 July, 2013, 07:12:21 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 22 July, 2013, 02:04:12 PM
Well no. My main complaint is that it is unavoidable. It is going to be all over the news at the expense of things like the reporting of the Tories attempts to control internet access in the UK, which is slightly more important than a rich woman having a baby.

Isn't the real story that Cameron's not actually doing anything to stop someone who wants to watch videos of babies being raped at all, but has created a non-story bit of legislative fluff to appeal to folk who think the idea of babies being raped is a bad thing but don't want to look too closely into the technicalities of the proposal? As far as I can see, all that's going to happen is everyone will be asked to make a one-off decision on whether to click a box that says yes, I want to see porn on my computer, or not.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 22 July, 2013, 07:27:05 PM
I'm sort of interested in the royal baby in that I want to know what it will be called as it's obviously a political decision to some extent.
I would expect that if it's a girl then Diana should probably be in there somewhere but that may cause a little too much debate about what the grandparents think.
If it's a boy I was thinking James may be fairly likely but as many people believe that's the name of Harry's dad they may not want to go there!
I reckon Elton if it's a boy and Liz if it's a girl (after the Queen Mum).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 July, 2013, 07:32:24 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 22 July, 2013, 07:27:05 PM
I'm sort of interested in the royal baby in that I want to know what it will be called as it's obviously a political decision to some extent.

KONG would be cool, for a girl or a boy.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 July, 2013, 07:38:01 PM
We've got royal heirs stacking up like incoming flights at Heathrow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 July, 2013, 08:44:57 PM
Its a boy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 22 July, 2013, 09:03:23 PM
It's a Wicker Man!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 July, 2013, 09:06:19 PM
Which reminds me....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 July, 2013, 09:20:31 PM
This (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/22/world-longest-riverdance-line-record-dublin-video) has to be the top news story of the day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 22 July, 2013, 09:42:20 PM
...ach...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 July, 2013, 09:50:35 PM


(http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/images/uk.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0PwxeO8Pk)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 July, 2013, 11:18:05 PM
EDL scum! ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 July, 2013, 11:45:42 PM

Most coolest photo at Comic Con?

(http://i.imgur.com/pAX53MU.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 July, 2013, 09:48:53 AM
How many kilos of DRUGS did Norman Reedus take that weekend?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 July, 2013, 12:23:37 PM

Satanists are socally responcible... apparently.
http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/798/Highway-hell-53-Satanists-want-adopt-New-York-highway
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 24 July, 2013, 10:01:57 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 23 July, 2013, 09:48:53 AM
How many kilos of DRUGS did Norman Reedus take that weekend?

I can't answer your question directly, but I was gutted for all those people who paid to have their pics taken with him.  He was barely recogniseable in his sunglasses and baseball cap. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 01:24:59 PM
My better half has a meeting with Jerry Bruckheimer this week.  Any suggestions on how best to get the ricin into his soy latte? #pollos #don'tmentiontheDreddsequel
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 July, 2013, 01:46:08 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 01:24:59 PM
My better half has a meeting with Jerry Bruckheimer this week.  Any suggestions on how best to get the ricin into his soy latte? #pollos #don'tmentiontheDreddsequel

If she invites you along for a power couples lunch (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2374868/The-Lone-Ranger-star-Armie-Hammer-Jerry-Bruckheimer-enjoy-double-date-wives.html) with the Bruckheimers, don't mention The Lone Ranger's box office (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-lone-ranger-bomb-box-office-2013-7). Best not to draw attention to the fact that Mr and Mrs Bruckheimer get their hair colour (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/23/article-2374868-1AF26E66000005DC-871_634x717.jpg) out of exactly the same bottle either.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 02:52:05 PM
Aye, as the missus herself put it, how to beg for Johnny Depp's phone number without Mentioning The War?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 July, 2013, 03:29:25 PM

Oh, tell Jerry to blow up some more cars for John.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 24 July, 2013, 03:38:14 PM
(http://i.eho.st/pgcvyk5f.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 24 July, 2013, 03:58:51 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 24 July, 2013, 03:38:14 PM
(http://i.eho.st/pgcvyk5f.gif)

Brilliant...always was.

...and the first TV series (I think) in the US to showcase the genius of Bruce Lee...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13IuxNixyig
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 24 July, 2013, 04:03:57 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 01:24:59 PM
My better half has a meeting with Jerry Bruckheimer this week.  Any suggestions on how best to get the ricin into his soy latte? #pollos #don'tmentiontheDreddsequel

Mention that I've got a really great comic with giant robots fighting in it if he wants to buy the rights...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 04:18:02 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 24 July, 2013, 04:03:57 PM
Mention that I've got a really great comic with giant robots fighting in it if he wants to buy the rights...

Somewhere Alan Moore is shaking his head very slowly and making broken sounds deep in his chest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 24 July, 2013, 04:20:33 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 04:18:02 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 24 July, 2013, 04:03:57 PM
Mention that I've got a really great comic with giant robots fighting in it if he wants to buy the rights...

Somewhere Alan Moore is shaking his head very slowly and making broken sounds deep in his chest.

When I'm a millionaire, I'll do that too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 July, 2013, 08:46:34 PM
Another George.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 July, 2013, 08:54:12 PM


10,000 people want sequel!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 08:57:33 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 24 July, 2013, 08:54:12 PM
10,000 people want sequel!

That's more than saw the first one! >ducks<
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 27 July, 2013, 03:08:56 PM
In a strange kinda way, i hope this is real, and not summat photoshopped...

(http://i.imgur.com/acZH5Yr.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 27 July, 2013, 04:42:18 PM
^^^^^

Really like this !!!... :lol:
If it's real, he would have been so pleased !!
Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 July, 2013, 04:57:26 PM

Mounting a thick pole, large triangular sign and motorised camera directly in front of a window would be an odd decision on the part of any homeowner.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 27 July, 2013, 05:17:20 PM
Alas, its a fake (http://daviddunnico.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/f-for-fake/), but there is 32 real one's nearby.... (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/george-orwell-big-brother-is-watching-your-house-7086271.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 August, 2013, 01:30:11 AM
Salvaging filing cabinets from a basement, squeezing them into my Fiesta one at a time, driving, unloading and doing it again.  Those things are heavy, and it's a long time since my abortive career in furniture removals.  Cider now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 August, 2013, 07:20:44 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23516966

http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-to/uy/cheap-flights-to-uruguay.html

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 August, 2013, 07:50:00 AM
Yes that reminds me. I grew up in a country that had these peculiar, indigenous, fruits. They were very round, could easily be held in one hand and could be sliced into as many as 8 sections. Of a bright orange colour they were most often to be scene handed out by locals at half-time during football matches. No idea what they were called.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 August, 2013, 08:59:40 PM
Manowar Are Recording With Brian Blessed. YES! (http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/manowar-are-recording-with-brian-blessed-yes/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 August, 2013, 09:04:01 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 01 August, 2013, 08:59:40 PM
Manowar Are Recording With Brian Blessed. YES! (http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/manowar-are-recording-with-brian-blessed-yes/)
What...what can I even say to this?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 August, 2013, 09:40:47 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 01 August, 2013, 08:59:40 PM
Manowar Are Recording With Brian Blessed. YES! (http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/manowar-are-recording-with-brian-blessed-yes/)

That rawks!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 02 August, 2013, 12:39:31 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 01 August, 2013, 08:59:40 PM
Manowar Are Recording With Brian Blessed. YES! (http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/manowar-are-recording-with-brian-blessed-yes/)



I wonder will Brian sign the contract with his won blood.

(http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6500/blood001vj4.jpg)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 August, 2013, 10:06:29 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 02 August, 2013, 12:39:31 AM
(http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6500/blood001vj4.jpg)

Presumably they'll add the wings in Post.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 August, 2013, 09:37:44 AM
(http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/files/2013/07/John-Conway-Hypsilophodon-350-px-tiny-July-2013.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 August, 2013, 07:08:30 PM

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/bc08f34c247f9375381c142d19c78f3a/tumblr_mnktqx8T9y1rwbm11o1_250.gif)(http://25.media.tumblr.com/856c34a7f2f3de20f7ee8ba7e1f61d90/tumblr_mnktqx8T9y1rwbm11o2_250.gif)

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/5ad0bcf252494bd82a02bf1e4bb3de4a/tumblr_mnktqx8T9y1rwbm11o3_250.gif)(http://25.media.tumblr.com/abb1f5798bbc3c3b9aa421b3591fbd3b/tumblr_mnktqx8T9y1rwbm11o4_250.gif)



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 August, 2013, 09:11:21 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 06 August, 2013, 07:15:57 PM
Hahaha!!  Amazing! Master of the performing chin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 06 August, 2013, 07:23:30 PM
Sauchie - Do you know what show that clip is from?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 August, 2013, 04:07:40 PM
A mini-heatwave is forcast for next week,  :(
When will this weather end?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 08 August, 2013, 06:35:16 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 08 August, 2013, 04:07:40 PM
A mini-heatwave is forcast for next week,  :(
When will this weather end?

A mini-heatwave is forcast for next week,  :)
When will this weather end!! So I can book a holiday after :-D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 August, 2013, 07:16:08 PM

Nobody died, so it's okay to enjoy this on a purely aesthetic level:

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND ...
AT A 90° ANGLE TO THE GROUND  
 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChWjlawbFM)

The bit where everyone gets up and walks out along the side windows messes with my head.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 08 August, 2013, 08:18:40 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 08 August, 2013, 07:16:08 PM

Nobody died, so it's okay to enjoy this on a purely aesthetic level:


"The bus missed the exit so the driver tried to reverse the bus to get out of the highway when the tail hit the truck behind. The truck driver was killed instantly."

So, like, one person died. Hilarious otherwise.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 08 August, 2013, 08:38:43 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 08 August, 2013, 08:18:40 PM
So, like, one person died. Hilarious otherwise.

Yeah, I'm with CFM. No videos of fatal accidents, please.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 August, 2013, 08:50:28 PM

I saw it on Channel Four News, where they said no-one died. Sorry.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 August, 2013, 10:00:09 PM
Movie t-shirts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtHjndFXboY&feature=player_embedded). Collect them all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 August, 2013, 07:38:37 PM

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/12/article-2389974-1B428DF7000005DC-565_964x567.jpg)


Residents near this 26 storey apartment building in Beijing's Renji Mountain area  suffered through construction noises for six years, as well as leaks and cracks in their walls due to the construction of what they thought was a visitor attraction on the roof. Little did they realise this massive construction, which took over six years, was completely illegal. A Professor Zhang reportedly bought the penthouse of Building B, clearing the over 1,000 square metre area to build a two storey villa, complete with rock garden and trees.

Inspectors from the local urban management unit said "This is definitely an illegal construction, we have issued notice to Professor Zhang, but do not know how to go forward in this case." Demolition of Zhang's rooftop palace will ironically have to go through examination and approval procedures before it goes ahead, the exact formalities that the professor avoided during construction.

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/08/12/beijing_professor_builds_mountaintop_villa_on_roof_of_apartment_building.php

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2013, 01:06:25 PM
TARDIS found:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 14 August, 2013, 01:29:13 PM

Cats :they only car about their noms after all.  Poor women.

http://americanlivewire.com/recluse-cat-lady-eaten-by-her-cats/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 August, 2013, 01:32:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2013, 01:06:25 PM
TARDIS found:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/)

I just visited the Doctor the other day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2013, 01:40:34 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 13 August, 2013, 07:38:37 PM

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/12/article-2389974-1B428DF7000005DC-565_964x567.jpg)



Shirley that should be a Bond baddies secret lair?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 August, 2013, 01:53:35 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2013, 01:40:34 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 13 August, 2013, 07:38:37 PM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBu8zWu8Lgoe1bv7pPdV47HAdQQN5aHOloGk0bzyryjVNs0LVA5A)

Shirley that should be a Bond baddies secret lair?

Professor Zhang sounds like a baddie's name too. Obviously his female sidekick would have to be called M'Assive Phanét, or something.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 14 August, 2013, 03:38:11 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 14 August, 2013, 01:32:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2013, 01:06:25 PM
TARDIS found:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/)

I just visited the Doctor the other day.

I don't remember your visit. Which incarnation was it? And who pinched my TARDIS? (Can't leave anything on this planet....)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 August, 2013, 04:44:04 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 14 August, 2013, 03:38:11 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 14 August, 2013, 01:32:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2013, 01:06:25 PM
TARDIS found:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/google-maps-doctor-who-tardis-easter-egg/)

I just visited the Doctor the other day.
I met with number 12...the year was 1625, I believe. He's a very good doctor who won't break any cardinal rules.

I don't remember your visit. Which incarnation was it? And who pinched my TARDIS? (Can't leave anything on this planet....)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 August, 2013, 04:45:03 PM
I met with number 12...the year was 1625, I believe. He's a very good doctor who won't break any cardinal rules.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 August, 2013, 09:01:00 PM
Everyone stop what you're doing, google the word "Literally" and look at the second definition from the google dictionary.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 14 August, 2013, 09:16:10 PM
It isn't just more grammar nazis pissed about the fact that language is ever-evolving and they might have to remember something new, is it?  I find that kind of thought-oppression far more tiresome than someone trying to express themselves.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 August, 2013, 09:27:36 PM
Nope, google are literally saying that the word literally, literally doesn't mean literally. No doubt this will piss off the grammar nazis who think dictionaries should be prescriptive not descriptive.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 August, 2013, 09:48:26 PM

Those sound like reasonable points, but all we're really arguing about is time and distance. Of course, if enough people use a word in a certain way then that's just what it fucking means and there's no point shouting about it. The question is how many people have to use it in that way and for how long before you stop being someone who's trying to help them not make themselves look stupid, and start being an entrenched pedant and left brain word fetishist.

Kids at my work say pacifically when they mean specifically on a regular basis. At the moment, picking them up on it seems like doing them a favour (they're definitely unaware of what they're doing), but I don't know how long it might take for that to go from being the kind of thing which could trip them up in a job interview to the equivalent of when you incredulously ask someone if they're serious, and they reply No, it's true - as if you've asked them are you kidding?

That one's so common I've given up and accepted it.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 14 August, 2013, 10:10:05 PM
I don't get all the tabloid excitement over Cara Delevingne. Every time I see a picture of her, I find myself being reminded of young Axl Rose.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 August, 2013, 10:11:18 PM
(http://i1.cdnds.net/13/08/618x914/cara_delevingne_8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 14 August, 2013, 10:14:37 PM
At first I thought you'd replied without writing a single word. Then that picture of her jumped up on my computer and gave me quite a shock indeed. Well played, sir Goaty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 14 August, 2013, 11:02:04 PM
Those eyebrows..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 14 August, 2013, 11:38:29 PM
I don't really keep track of celebrities these days and thus I do not know who that person is so I shall phrase this as delicately and diplomatically as I can: were they always a women or is that a recent development?

Quote from: sauchie on 14 August, 2013, 09:48:26 PMKids at my work say pacifically when they mean specifically on a regular basis. At the moment, picking them up on it seems like doing them a favour

It is at the moment, and while language is ever-evolving to the point that words will move around and mean different things at different times - "gay" being an example - so that at some point in the future "pacifically" may become widespread through initially-ironic usage in much the same way "pwn" has, if I was personally taking an interview with someone I would expect basic literacy and clear communication ability.  Teach these skills and you are definately doing anyone a favour.
I am no grammar nazi, but I still find an adult using txt on a form deeply troubling.  It automatically makes me think of the post-apocalyptic generations that appear towards the end of Threads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 August, 2013, 02:22:14 AM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 14 August, 2013, 11:38:29 PM
if I was personally taking an interview with someone I would expect basic literacy and clear communication ability. 

Yes, in a professional environment people should be able to communicate clearly, and yet you get business types banging on about Blue Sky Thinking Outside the Box. There are so many examples of what could be considered bad language that have nothing to do with fuckin' swear words.

Take football commentary for instance (http://angleofpostandbar.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/dya-know-what-i-mean.html), even if you don't watch the sport, you're likely at least vaguely aware of the awkward metaphors sports broadcasters come out with*.

Statistically, roughly 50% of people have below average communication skills. That's how averages work, they're in the middle, and yet the majority of people would probably claim to be above average. ME, for example.


*If any Grammar Nazis are keeping score, this sentence used a preposition to finish with.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 August, 2013, 07:25:58 AM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 14 August, 2013, 11:38:29 PM
I am no grammar nazi, but I still find an adult using txt on a form deeply troubling.  It automatically makes me think of the post-apocalyptic generations that appear towards the end of Threads.

We're all Ruth's babies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_MCbTvoNrAg&t=6343).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 04:34:21 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 August, 2013, 02:22:14 AM
Take football commentary for instance (http://angleofpostandbar.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/dya-know-what-i-mean.html), even if you don't watch the sport, you're likely at least vaguely aware of the awkward metaphors sports broadcasters come out with*.

I immediately thought of sport commentaries when it came to shit similes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 August, 2013, 05:31:00 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 04:34:21 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 August, 2013, 02:22:14 AM
Take football commentary for instance (http://angleofpostandbar.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/dya-know-what-i-mean.html), even if you don't watch the sport, you're likely at least vaguely aware of the awkward metaphors sports broadcasters come out with*.

I immediately thought of sport commentaries when it came to shit similes.

There was a nice lady on Radio Scotland today, explaining why Jamie Redknapp commenting that "Wayne Rooney is literally on fire" is perfectly fine, because you can infer that it's being used for emphasis from the context in which it's being used. The host asked her what word Jamie Redknapp should use to communicate that Wayne Rooney was literally, literally being consumed by flames, now that literally doesn't mean literally anymore.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 15 August, 2013, 05:42:05 PM
That would be "Wayne Rooney is for reals on fire."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 05:50:01 PM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 15 August, 2013, 05:42:05 PM
That would be "Wayne Rooney is for reals on fire."

Totes on fire perhaps.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 August, 2013, 05:54:20 PM
There's only one sensible thing to do; we set Wayne Rooney on fire and listen out for the comments people make.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 August, 2013, 05:59:03 PM
Quote from: Professor James T Bear on 15 August, 2013, 05:42:05 PM
That would be "Wayne Rooney is for reals on fire."

Totes. The same nice lady explained the use of a word whose meaning is antithetical to that of the thought being expressed by insisting that it would sound really odd if folk went around saying "Wayne Rooney is figuratively on fire", but - if you're only using the word for the purposes of emphasis, rather than its actual meaning - what does it matter which word you use?

I think it sounds figuratively brilliant.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 August, 2013, 06:07:41 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 August, 2013, 05:54:20 PM
There's only one sensible thing to do; we set Wayne Rooney on fire and listen out for the comments people make.

As always, science shows us the way. Every experiment needs to demonstrate its results are reproducible, though; we'd need to set Luis Suarez and Carlos Tevez on fire too, just to be certain.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 15 August, 2013, 09:00:30 PM
I reckon 'Israeli is going to go down in history as one of the most amazing 21st century comic book artists. Especially based on his black and white works. Revolutionary is a hard term to place over any modern comic book artist in historical terms, but 'Israeli should become known for just that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 09:03:25 PM
Why the fuck did these hill-billies cut the head off the snake in the first place? And where is the banjo music?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video (http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 15 August, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 09:03:25 PM
Why the fuck did these hill-billies cut the head off the snake in the first place? And where is the banjo music?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video (http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video)

And why does the Guardian think it constitutes news?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 August, 2013, 07:32:41 AM

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69301000/jpg/_69301692_mastiff.jpg)


CHINESE ZOO PASSES OFF DOG AS LION

According to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896), the fraud came to light when a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made. But when they got to the cage marked "African lion" - which had a sign describing the range and characteristics of the animal - they were shocked to hear the creature bark.

The chief of the park's animal department, Liu Suya, said that the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre, and the Tibetan mastiff temporarily placed in its cage because of safety concerns. Other species were also apparently mislabelled; there was a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 August, 2013, 10:04:23 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 15 August, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 09:03:25 PM
Why the fuck did these hill-billies cut the head off the snake in the first place? And where is the banjo music?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video (http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video)

And why does the Guardian think it constitutes news?

Indeed. A strange, and slightly sick video to be found newsworthy by them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 August, 2013, 11:11:32 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 16 August, 2013, 07:32:41 AM

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69301000/jpg/_69301692_mastiff.jpg)


CHINESE ZOO PASSES OFF DOG AS LION

According to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896), the fraud came to light when a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made. But when they got to the cage marked "African lion" - which had a sign describing the range and characteristics of the animal - they were shocked to hear the creature bark.

The chief of the park's animal department, Liu Suya, said that the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre, and the Tibetan mastiff temporarily placed in its cage because of safety concerns. Other species were also apparently mislabelled; there was a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf.
That, is a classic. I LOVE stories like this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 August, 2013, 01:17:31 PM
Starting at a dojo near you - Kirk-fu.

http://io9.com/learn-to-fight-the-shatner-way-with-captain-kirks-top-1125250781 (http://io9.com/learn-to-fight-the-shatner-way-with-captain-kirks-top-1125250781)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 August, 2013, 01:28:40 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 August, 2013, 11:11:32 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 16 August, 2013, 07:32:41 AM

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69301000/jpg/_69301692_mastiff.jpg)


CHINESE ZOO PASSES OFF DOG AS LION

According to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896), the fraud came to light when a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made. But when they got to the cage marked "African lion" - which had a sign describing the range and characteristics of the animal - they were shocked to hear the creature bark.

The chief of the park's animal department, Liu Suya, said that the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre, and the Tibetan mastiff temporarily placed in its cage because of safety concerns. Other species were also apparently mislabelled; there was a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf.
That, is a classic. I LOVE stories like this.

The dog wasn't lion. They was lion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 August, 2013, 02:08:55 PM

That not lion, this is lion!

(http://www.templeofcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lion-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 August, 2013, 02:11:43 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 16 August, 2013, 02:08:55 PM

That not lion, this is lion!

(http://www.templeofcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lion-cat.jpg)

That cat not lion, Goaty is lion!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 August, 2013, 06:05:20 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 15 August, 2013, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 August, 2013, 09:03:25 PM
Why the fuck did these hill-billies cut the head off the snake in the first place? And where is the banjo music?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video (http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/aug/15/decapitated-copperhead-snake-bites-itself-video)

And why does the Guardian think it constitutes news?


Because The Daily Mail Online has become the most popular newspaper site in the entire world (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16746785) by hawking pictures of pretty girls with their bits showing. Chasing the Animals Do The Craziest Things and Ewww - gross audience seems classy by comparison. Apparently, the print version of The Guardian loses around a million quid every single week, so I suppose they have to do something to make their online edition more attractive to advertisers here, and in the US particularly:

QuoteThe Guardian lies second among British newspaper sites (behind the Mail, which cheerfully chases hits by aiming lower than its print sister) and in the top five in the world, rubbing shoulders with the New York Times. The Guardian's total traffic, around 67m unique browsers a month, was still rising by 60-70% a year.

A third of those readers are in America, which is an extraordinary achievement for a left-leaning British newspaper with its roots in Manchester. If, 15 years ago, anyone in British newspapers had predicted that the Guardian would soon find an audience of 20m in America, they would have been laughed out of the pub.

In terms of reach and impact, the Guardian is doing better than ever before. But its success may contain the seeds of its demise. Its print circulation is tumbling ... on a typical weekday, only 178,000 people buy the Guardian, while millions graze on it for nothing on their screens ... for three years running, the Guardian has been losing £100,000 a day.

http://moreintelligentlife.co.uk/content/ideas/tim-de-lisle/can-guardian-survive?page=full
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 August, 2013, 11:18:50 PM
http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/293/Man-nicked-over-squid-sex-pic
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 16 August, 2013, 11:32:15 PM
Late and only vaguely relevant:

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/redhotchillis/img517_zpsfee2a800.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 16 August, 2013, 11:35:38 PM
That was proper like, totes wicked !!......
Just got to love Roger Mellie....
Great stuff, Prof....
Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 August, 2013, 05:25:31 PM
Here are two timelines showing all the various slang terms for the penis (http://timeglider.com/timeline/194b572e19fd461b) and the vagina (http://timeglider.com/timeline/07f47d6b843da763).

An invaluable resource, I think you'll agree.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 August, 2013, 06:22:13 PM

Cheers, Pops. I could play with those for hours.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 August, 2013, 06:37:06 PM
I'll be slipping in bobble-whackers and whipping out doodle-dashers for weeks to come.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 August, 2013, 07:23:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 August, 2013, 06:37:06 PM
I'll be slipping in bobble-whackers and whipping out doodle-dashers for weeks to come.

Cheeky muuna.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 19 August, 2013, 10:56:49 AM
So some friends of mine went paintballing, or ballpainting whatever you want to call it. There's this picture of all them sitting in a bunker and I notice, fairly quickly, that one of them is in full Nazi soldier gear.

...just him. No one else is dressed as anything, let alone Nazis.

No one's commented on the picture, no one's liked it and I wonder if they went the whole day just ignoring him. And then I wonder if they even knew him - if he was just there already dressed as a Nazi.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 19 August, 2013, 12:37:07 PM
Maybe it's just a ghost of a Nazi that only shows up on photos.

Or could it be like Alexi Sayle's CANDID CARDINAL?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 August, 2013, 01:04:45 PM
I have a question.  In the new video by the rather lovely Eliza Doolittle, there are various scenes of young people in different getup.  As the song is a not-unpleasant nostalgia fest, am I to understand that these kids are clad in typical clothing of the singers youth?  Because I honestly can't tell.  Have I reached a point of cultural blindness where all fashions of the last 20 years blur into one seamless melange of tracksuits?

So very, very old.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 August, 2013, 05:30:46 PM

It's all Post Modern nowadays, TordelBack; the imaginary past and the anachronistic future are happening all at once and forever, like in The Blazing World (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qe6uZHjn1rsr1pzo1_1280.jpg). There's someone wearing a shell suit, and Doolittle's platforms and the colour scheme of her micro skirt and shirt do a rough approximation of the Spice World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b7T0MbWjjYA&t=20) era she's singing about, but if they were going for historical accuracy most of the girls would be wearing ugly All Saints combat trousers.

What really rams home the subjective and cruelly linear nature of time is the line "like Nirvana and Lauryn Hill, they were big when I was little (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XqGx1lfyb6s&t=199)". 

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 August, 2013, 07:22:28 PM
Ahem...


80.5% Hindus (839 million)
13.10% Muslims (143 million)
2.31% Christians (25 million)
2.00% Sikhs (21 million)
1.94% Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and others (20 million)


I think that answers your question
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 19 August, 2013, 09:13:14 PM
There are a number of these plaques between Caister and Yarmouth.
According to EON Cardboard Milk/Juice containers are bad for the environment and wind turbines help reduce the damage.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1097974_10151582182711024_795941542_n.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 19 August, 2013, 09:14:09 PM
I'll send you to Belize...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 August, 2013, 09:17:38 PM
Cheers Sauchie, I knew you'd be down with the kids.  So to speak.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 August, 2013, 09:48:50 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 August, 2013, 09:17:38 PM
Cheers Sauchie, I knew you'd be down with the kids.  So to speak.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/aug/31/news.politicsandthemedia

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 19 August, 2013, 10:06:35 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 19 August, 2013, 09:13:14 PM
There are a number of these plaques between Caister and Yarmouth.
According to EON Cardboard Milk/Juice containers are bad for the environment and wind turbines help reduce the damage.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1097974_10151582182711024_795941542_n.jpg)




V


Doh! Carton Dioxide :lol:

Do you live near Yarmouth then Vzzbux? That's where I'm from.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 19 August, 2013, 10:10:05 PM
No, went on holiday there.
You would have thought they had spell check or even a proof reader.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 August, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Will someone please find a solution to being pestered by charity collectors who don;t understand the simple English phrase "We don't HAVE any money to donate!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 August, 2013, 11:37:20 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 August, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Will someone please find a solution to being pestered by charity collectors who don;t understand the simple English phrase "We don't HAVE any money to donate!"

Try a shorter anglo-saxon version
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 20 August, 2013, 12:14:50 PM
So my squad and I took down a Nibblesnarf last night.  Which was nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 August, 2013, 12:19:36 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 19 August, 2013, 09:48:50 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/aug/31/news.politicsandthemedia

No no, you're quite okay, you weren't libelling me.  I really am so old that I had to be reminded of All Saint's combat trousers.  Even the ones simply hanging off that Melanie Blatt. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 August, 2013, 03:13:51 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 19 August, 2013, 10:56:49 AM
So some friends of mine went paintballing, or ballpainting whatever you want to call it. There's this picture of all them sitting in a bunker and I notice, fairly quickly, that one of them is in full Nazi soldier gear.

...just him. No one else is dressed as anything, let alone Nazis.

No one's commented on the picture, no one's liked it and I wonder if they went the whole day just ignoring him. And then I wonder if they even knew him - if he was just there already dressed as a Nazi.

Time travelling shenanigans I'll warrant. Probably best not to ask too many questions, what with the universe ending paradoxes and whatnot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 August, 2013, 04:46:10 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 20 August, 2013, 03:13:51 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 19 August, 2013, 10:56:49 AM
So some friends of mine went paintballing, or ballpainting whatever you want to call it. There's this picture of all them sitting in a bunker and I notice, fairly quickly, that one of them is in full Nazi soldier gear.

...just him. No one else is dressed as anything, let alone Nazis.

No one's commented on the picture, no one's liked it and I wonder if they went the whole day just ignoring him. And then I wonder if they even knew him - if he was just there already dressed as a Nazi.

Time travelling shenanigans I'll warrant. Probably best not to ask too many questions, what with the universe ending paradoxes and whatnot.

might have been a zombie or a vampire, travelling in one of the Nazi UFos, saw that on the History channel.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 August, 2013, 07:54:21 PM
Some fantastic Dune artwork over at Omni Reboot.

http://omnireboot.com/archives/dune/ (http://omnireboot.com/archives/dune/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 August, 2013, 08:31:40 PM
I met someone today and punched her lights out :lol:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1098137_10201957833291781_1561326239_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 August, 2013, 08:56:32 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 August, 2013, 08:31:40 PM
I met someone today and punched her lights out :lol:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1098137_10201957833291781_1561326239_n.jpg)

In town to get close to One Direction I see. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 August, 2013, 08:58:41 PM

Only in London...

(http://i.imgur.com/r5PFnCl.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 August, 2013, 09:02:52 PM
Best watch your step then.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 August, 2013, 11:36:09 PM
Turns out the new spreaders were too long and swept too far forward, plus our rake was way too little, combining to kill pointing and upwind speed.  Who knew.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 August, 2013, 12:46:39 AM
Oh great. I addition to my feet swelling, now a small bulge has appeared just below my left knee #shouldibeworriedbythis?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 21 August, 2013, 12:50:12 AM
Parody is Not Dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLdd6CxtNQo
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 August, 2013, 01:38:44 AM

Council stops OAP from blowing his money... http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/832
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 August, 2013, 11:23:41 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3LVrVtbrPk
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 21 August, 2013, 04:40:35 PM
^^
Hi Doc,
That was the 'least impressive' display of 'black belt' martial arts I think I've seen.....
And as for the 'supposedly choreographed' kata that was performed.....sorry !!.... :(
In kata, all moves are to be performed precisely ' in time' ( everyone should be doing the same thing, at the same time ) and these guys were all over the place....
Be interested in what Shaolin Monkey has to say !!

I'm not knocking anyone who actually studies Martial arts as in my youth I studied Tae Kwon Do for about 3 years and achieved Brown belt status....but if all those guys were black belts....pfft !!

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 August, 2013, 08:50:15 PM

I wonder why we hadn't see The Dark Knight and Iron Man 2 on Terrestrial TV yet...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 August, 2013, 09:18:19 PM
Those (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/21/pizza-revolution-authentic-neapolitan-italian) are some good looking pizzas.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 August, 2013, 10:44:30 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 August, 2013, 08:50:15 PM

I wonder why we hadn't see The Dark Knight and Iron Man 2 on Terrestrial TV yet...?

Never mind those, why hasnt the remake of True Grit popped up yet?!?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 August, 2013, 11:37:34 PM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 21 August, 2013, 04:40:35 PM
^^
Hi Doc,
That was the 'least impressive' display of 'black belt' martial arts I think I've seen.....
And as for the 'supposedly choreographed' kata that was performed.....sorry !!.... :(
In kata, all moves are to be performed precisely ' in time' ( everyone should be doing the same thing, at the same time ) and these guys were all over the place....
Be interested in what Shaolin Monkey has to say !!

I'm not knocking anyone who actually studies Martial arts as in my youth I studied Tae Kwon Do for about 3 years and achieved Brown belt status....but if all those guys were black belts....pfft !!

Cheers
Yep that is why I posted it.They were..appalling.
I get the impression that they set up their own little dojo with out any teaching from a genuinely qualified master.That they were coping their moves from an instructional DVD,

Here is some martial art we can all appreciate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3sG-J3AuhM
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 August, 2013, 03:38:41 AM
So THIS is why Cheese is important,...

https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/8/20/KQrojL-KTkSGZtnPh9X3IQ2.png
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 August, 2013, 10:03:38 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 August, 2013, 03:38:41 AM
So THIS is why Cheese is important,...

https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/12/8/20/KQrojL-KTkSGZtnPh9X3IQ2.png

That explains the 'insert cheese here' on my Idock
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 August, 2013, 05:26:08 PM
The first ever Gerry Anderson convention announced. AnderCon 2014. I only wish Catherine Schell was gong to be there.

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/08/22/new-official-gerry-anderson-event-announced/ (http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/08/22/new-official-gerry-anderson-event-announced/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 23 August, 2013, 12:48:33 AM
I need a piss.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 23 August, 2013, 12:56:04 AM
Hurry up then!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 August, 2013, 01:06:40 AM
http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag150/thedoctoralt8/St%20Marks%20Stuff/DSC00572_zpsc1bde962.jpg
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 August, 2013, 10:17:54 AM
For every 10 minutes I ignore my children to get some actual work done, I seem to have to spend 20 minutes to repair the resulting damage.

This, and my daughter is presently watching Jedward explain Romano-British archaeology while I doss online.  My whole domestic situation is a clusterfeck.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 23 August, 2013, 10:19:10 AM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 21 August, 2013, 04:40:35 PM
^^
Hi Doc,
That was the 'least impressive' display of 'black belt' martial arts I think I've seen.....
And as for the 'supposedly choreographed' kata that was performed.....sorry !!.... :(
In kata, all moves are to be performed precisely ' in time' ( everyone should be doing the same thing, at the same time ) and these guys were all over the place....
Be interested in what Shaolin Monkey has to say !!

I'm not knocking anyone who actually studies Martial arts as in my youth I studied Tae Kwon Do for about 3 years and achieved Brown belt status....but if all those guys were black belts....pfft !!

Cheers

The sparring reminded me of when I used to play The Way of the Exploding Fist.  ;)

Yeah, the kata drill wasn't very tight was it, though that could have been because the lead instructor/sensei went like the clappers, and some found it hard to follow.  I guess it's like being a good conductor - you have to flow with the strengths/weaknesses of your musicians, or the tune is going to be a discordant mess.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 23 August, 2013, 12:19:51 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 23 August, 2013, 10:19:10 AM
The sparring reminded me of when I used to play The Way of the Exploding Fist.  ;)

Yeah, the kata drill wasn't very tight was it, though that could have been because the lead instructor/sensei went like the clappers, and some found it hard to follow.  I guess it's like being a good conductor - you have to flow with the strengths/weaknesses of your musicians, or the tune is going to be a discordant mess.

Yes, it was very poor, but the fact that they are all supposedly 'black belts' doesn't really 'explain' the mess that resulted here ....I know when I used to go,  we had 3 black belts in our class and they were really 'tight' and 'together' especially during katas....
Even the standard of the 'matches' was pretty poor with very low ( and slow ) kicks in most instances....
and I think only about one instance of ( a poor ) 'roundhouse kick ( mawashi geri ?) I'm putting it down as a 'wind up'.... :D
Cheers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 23 August, 2013, 02:54:40 PM
Martial arts can be like Chinese whispers. Someone starts up their own club or classes. They are no longer trained by someone of a higher grade. Standards slip. New sensei then trains others who start up their own club etc etc. You also get breakaway clubs due to squabbling or clash of egos and such clubs can really go astray.

I thought the sparring and katas were crap. No focus whatsoever in those strikes. Seems like they were merely raising their legs rather than kicking. I see it so often in sparring when people are supposedly fighting but stay miles apart.

Clubs should only put stuff online if it is excellent otherwise the style is open to ridicule. We have one guy who used to be in our association who puts the most embarrassingly rubbish stuff online of himself and his students online. Needless to say people are furious with him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 August, 2013, 03:10:40 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 23 August, 2013, 02:54:40 PM
Martial arts can be like Chinese whispers. Someone starts up their own club or classes. They are no longer trained by someone of a higher grade. Standards slip. New sensei then trains others who start up their own club etc etc. You also get breakaway clubs due to squabbling or clash of egos and such clubs can really go astray.

I thought the sparring and katas were crap. No focus whatsoever in those strikes. Seems like they were merely raising their legs rather than kicking. I see it so often in sparring when people are supposedly fighting but stay miles apart.

Clubs should only put stuff online if it is excellent otherwise the style is open to ridicule. We have one guy who used to be in our association who puts the most embarrassingly rubbish stuff online of himself and his students online. Needless to say people are furious with him.

There was a brilliant documentary on radio 4 earlier in the year about the 70s kung-fu boom, with hilarious tales of virtually untrained people setting up schools all over the shop and regular 'turf wars' between different teachers. Apparently it was common if someone set up a new school, for them to receive a visit and a good kicking from others in the area.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 24 August, 2013, 10:23:23 PM
One of my most played games.
Thanks Mr Monkey for reminding me of this game.
Der Derrrr, Der Derrr, Der Derrrr, Der Derrrr, Derrrrrrrrrr
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Exploding_Fist.gif)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 24 August, 2013, 10:45:53 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 24 August, 2013, 10:23:23 PM
One of my most played games.
Thanks Mr Monkey for reminding me of this game.
Der Derrrr, Der Derrr, Der Derrrr, Der Derrrr, Derrrrrrrrrr
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Exploding_Fist.gif)




V

I had a Commodore 64.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 August, 2013, 12:49:20 AM
Why are the mountains MAGENTA?   :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 August, 2013, 08:24:25 AM
Vroom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qucf0fipo8
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 August, 2013, 08:56:22 AM

JUDGE FANCY MAN, by Earthlet Scott Nestel, 42, from London

(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/tvn9n.jpg)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 25 August, 2013, 09:07:59 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 August, 2013, 12:49:20 AM
Why are the mountains MAGENTA?   :lol:

Probably because the Speccy had an incredibly limited palette.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 August, 2013, 02:43:18 PM
I hope this man gets the treatment he so richly deserved....

http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/854
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 August, 2013, 09:54:17 PM
Your iPhone microscope.
http://io9.com/crowdfund-a-lens-that-turns-your-phones-camera-into-a-1197648602
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2013, 10:35:23 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 August, 2013, 10:17:54 AM

my daughter is presently watching Jedward explain Romano-British archaeology

Now that i would like to see
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 August, 2013, 10:44:58 AM
I assure you you wouldn't
But I will say one thing for those boys...


They are certainly making the most of what they have....
It just a pity...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 27 August, 2013, 11:03:32 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 25 August, 2013, 09:07:59 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 August, 2013, 12:49:20 AM
Why are the mountains MAGENTA?   :lol:

Probably because the Speccy had an incredibly limited palette.

Or it could be a reference to the purple mountains of Japan.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 August, 2013, 11:07:34 AM
That ghastly Miley Cyrus VMA tongue/outfit thing reminds me of Tyranny Rex, but not in a good thing.  Home cloning Billy Ray is killing music.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 27 August, 2013, 11:36:46 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 August, 2013, 11:07:34 AM
That ghastly Miley Cyrus VMA tongue/outfit thing reminds me of Tyranny Rex, but not in a good thing.  Home cloning Billy Ray is killing music.

She obviously thought she was being 'cool and edgy' but she just looked like she had covered herself in glue and walked through her wardrobe,  and wore whatever stuck.....or got dressed in the dark.......
You can take the girl out of Hillbilly town,  but can't take ....etc....

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 August, 2013, 11:42:16 AM
Show don't tell!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 August, 2013, 03:09:05 PM
Bored at the dentist this morning, there was a calculator in front of me so I wrote 80085
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steve Green on 27 August, 2013, 03:21:21 PM
Not as bored as Julian Assange is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2rTVRGIAc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2rTVRGIAc)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 August, 2013, 04:02:33 PM
Quote from: Steve Green on 27 August, 2013, 03:21:21 PM
Not as bored as Julian Assange is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2rTVRGIAc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2rTVRGIAc)

Nowhere near that bored Steve!  :o ...not yet anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 August, 2013, 06:26:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 August, 2013, 11:07:34 AM
That ghastly Miley Cyrus VMA tongue/outfit thing reminds me of Tyranny Rex, but not in a good thing.  Home cloning Billy Ray is killing music.

she does seem to do that tongue thing a lot, if a google image search is anything to go by. She should keep it in her mouth. Or mine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 August, 2013, 07:50:39 PM
Deliberately watching MTV and then complaining about the ghastly people is like deliberately sticking your head in a sewer a complaining about the smell. The media reporting on this nonsense is basically like they're throwing buckets of sewage in yer face.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 August, 2013, 08:22:16 PM


JUST IN CASE ANYONE'S WONDERING WHAT THE HELL WE'RE TALKING ABOUT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_eeFb8skrV0#t=107)

The American half of the internet is going insane over this storm in an A-cup; suggesting she should either be sectioned or stoned to death for grinding her arse in Beetlejuice's crotch and giving herself a D & C with a foam finger. My favourite comment from the Plymouth Brethren (West) was that Cyrus appears to be suffering from the same condition which means Hank Hill needs a belt to keep his jeans up.

Maybe we've just been exposed more and for much longer to the fake outrage of something which used to be for kids being re-tooled for pervs on this side of the drink. Remember The Sun celebrating when Billy Piper turned 16? The best bit of that video is an unusually demure Rihanna sitting at the side of the stage and watching her schtick being ruined by being done badly, and realising she's going to have to find a new angle for her next album launch.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 27 August, 2013, 09:12:09 PM
Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus' VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cyrus-vma-performance-was,33632/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default&recirc=back-to-school
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 August, 2013, 09:48:58 PM

I think it was Alexis de Tocqueville, in the second volume of Democracy In America, who said "America loves nothing better than white jailbait ass".

No ... wait a minute ... that was Family Guy. I get those two mixed up.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 August, 2013, 12:14:38 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 27 August, 2013, 08:22:16 PM
The American half of the internet is going insane over this storm in an A-cup...

It is quite funny to imagine a direct line running from Elvis' pelvis through Madonna's bra to Miley Cyrus' whatever-you're-having-yourself, but there it is.  With all the latter day attempts at notoriety what really amazes is how badly executed they are, while still being successful in their aims. 

At least Rihanna is bloody gorgeous.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2013, 02:01:28 AM
The Onion predicted this in 2008... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgj2etJs3Y)

...and so did South Park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4EAmF1bZo)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 August, 2013, 09:37:23 AM


Don't even blink...

(http://imgur.com/BWycj.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 August, 2013, 10:04:27 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 August, 2013, 02:01:28 AM
The Onion predicted this in 2008... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgj2etJs3Y)

That's brilliant. Cheers for milking my The Day Today gland, Pops.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 28 August, 2013, 11:20:16 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 28 August, 2013, 10:04:27 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 August, 2013, 02:01:28 AM
The Onion predicted this in 2008... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgj2etJs3Y)

That's brilliant. Cheers for milking my The Day Today gland, Pops.

Great stuff !!.....
Really enjoyed that, Pops ........And the News Flash.....America phases out Words.....Brilliant.....

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 August, 2013, 02:15:06 PM
Well, everything is possible in Mega-Ciry 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJjN3J0MVwE
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 August, 2013, 04:01:18 PM

(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg)

all it takes is a scrunchie, instant tutu!!!

Anyone want to try this with Dredd/Death?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 August, 2013, 04:18:27 PM
Curious...
http://boyslife.org/games/online-games/32465/dredd-speed-and-the-robot-rebellion/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 August, 2013, 04:58:14 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 August, 2013, 04:01:18 PM
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg (http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg)

Why would a grown man own either of those things, Proudhuff?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 August, 2013, 05:09:54 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 29 August, 2013, 04:58:14 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 August, 2013, 04:01:18 PM
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg (http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg)

Why would a grown man own either of those things, Proudhuff?

or a red-plastic chair for that matter!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 August, 2013, 08:25:35 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 29 August, 2013, 04:58:14 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 August, 2013, 04:01:18 PM
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg (http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSpvBdcCQAArc1h.jpg)

Why would a grown man own either of those things, Proudhuff?
He's called Julian and his best friend is Sandy?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 August, 2013, 10:32:56 PM

Colin MacNeil referred to him as BIG Tom Proudhuff, and he lives a half hour drive from my house, so I'm beginning to feel nervous about starting this entertainingly homophobic round of abuse. You can have my lunch money, Proudhuff, just ... just don't hurt my face.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 August, 2013, 10:43:49 AM
But its such a pretty face
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 August, 2013, 10:52:33 AM
Are sure it's a scrunchie?... looks like Bat-Shark-Repellent to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 August, 2013, 10:58:22 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 30 August, 2013, 10:52:33 AM
Are sure it's a scrunchie?... looks like Bat-Shark-Repellent to me.
Crotch mounted?  :|
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 30 August, 2013, 12:13:35 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 30 August, 2013, 10:58:22 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 30 August, 2013, 10:52:33 AM
Are sure it's a scrunchie?... looks like Bat-Shark-Repellent to me.
Crotch mounted?  :|

Of course. I can't think of an area of my body that I would like to be certain that sharks can't get near.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 August, 2013, 12:21:04 PM
"Where gonna need a bigger condom"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 30 August, 2013, 01:34:18 PM
I can think of one design that eliminates the need for Bat-Shark-repellent then...

Open at your own risk...(no, not a virus or anything, just a depressing image)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azsmfijFuo8/R1OzGGiQRzI/AAAAAAAAAFU/c0w0M7pCbt0/s1600-R/dreddss.jpg
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 August, 2013, 04:37:53 PM
Wikiquote's getting it tight from the Derry wans today. There's a proliferation of people posting poetry they've never read before. This town loves a bandwagon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 August, 2013, 05:10:51 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 30 August, 2013, 04:37:53 PM
Wikiquote's getting it tight from the Derry wans today. There's a proliferation of people posting poetry they've never read before. This town loves a bandwagon.

Heaney wrote a lot about bog men. There must be something in those poems about people unnaturally preserved in the same sorry state they've been in for centuries that spoke to the town with two names.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 August, 2013, 11:59:28 PM
Must admit.
Always had my suspicions about Batman....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 August, 2013, 11:19:48 AM
I filmed a live hedgehog last night.

Not easy when I had to stop the two dogs I was walking from trying to play with it... and had to hold a torch to get enough light.
But I did it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 August, 2013, 03:44:35 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 August, 2013, 11:19:48 AM
I filmed a live hedgehog last night. Not easy when I had to stop the two dogs I was walking from trying to play with it... and had to hold a torch to get enough light. But I did it.

Are you using the word hedgehog in some kind of euphemistic sense here, Doc?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 August, 2013, 10:12:40 PM
No. Not at all. A genuine cute prickly hedgehog.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 August, 2013, 11:06:32 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 August, 2013, 10:12:40 PM
No. Not at all. A genuine cute prickly hedgehog.

Round, pink, quivering nose; closes up small and tight when it sees something which frightens it. I see where you're coming from, Doc.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 September, 2013, 11:51:26 AM
Soon be Christmas...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 September, 2013, 01:52:25 PM

(http://thatswhatsupnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/dunkin-donot.jpg)

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/dunkin-donuts-apologizes-racist-thai-campaign-article-1.1442463 (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/dunkin-donuts-apologizes-racist-thai-campaign-article-1.1442463)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 September, 2013, 02:12:57 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 31 August, 2013, 11:06:32 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 August, 2013, 10:12:40 PM
No. Not at all. A genuine cute prickly hedgehog.

Round, pink, quivering nose; closes up small and tight when it sees something which frightens it. I see where you're coming from, Doc.

A Hedgehog is not a bloody euphemism....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 September, 2013, 02:15:39 PM

(http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/sites/default/files/EricTerry.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 September, 2013, 06:50:47 PM
How much do we need a Dredd sequel to come along to give us summat to talk about? Just pop over to the off-topic section, and youll find out....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 September, 2013, 10:03:32 PM
With an iPad, duct tape and the appropriate cos...one could gaze in to the face of fear this halloween.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0gs6KQ8jw&feature=player_embedded#t=197
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 September, 2013, 12:56:30 PM
Judge Souster, whatever happened to him?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 02 September, 2013, 06:33:40 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 02 September, 2013, 12:56:30 PM
Judge Souster, whatever happened to him?

He was the judge that saw only one way to split the roadways in The Apocalypse War (to slow the Sov advance)

He leaps and 'Stub's' the roads one by one as he falls shouting something like...

'For freedom.'

'For justice.'

'For mega city one.'

Splatt.

...one of my favourite scenes from anything in Judge Dredd. It was 'all the deep end' for him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 September, 2013, 01:39:27 PM
Prof Americans are insane...

http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/904
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 September, 2013, 02:01:07 PM
Insanity is Chicken McNugget relative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0IhyAasWw&feature=player_embedded#t=0
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 September, 2013, 02:51:24 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 September, 2013, 01:39:27 PM
Prof Americans are insane...

http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/904

The White House's response to the Death Star request was quite funny:

This Isn't the Response You're Looking For* (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking)

*The grammar nazi in me is still annoyed that that's a sentence that uses a preposition to finish with. Lucas was a hack.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 September, 2013, 03:44:49 PM

Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness got steelcase... where the Dredd you drokking!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 04 September, 2013, 10:34:24 PM
Just noticed today that typing '2000' into the Google.ie search engine gives 2000AD as the first hit option.
Definitely updated from previously.

Word is getting out on the Emerald Isle I fear- there better be a Prog left for me in Easons tomorrow, or it'll be Spudgun to chips !
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 September, 2013, 10:16:34 PM

This is in such incredibly poor taste I thought twice about posting it. It's an interesting example of creepy coincidence, though, and the second link is an example of the batshit level of insanity which is the stock in trade of The Internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whu4R6k4_Zs

http://revelationnow.net/2013/02/06/wife-of-deceased-batman-map-maker-speaks/

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 September, 2013, 10:22:20 PM
Well...thats "odd".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 September, 2013, 10:37:28 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 September, 2013, 10:22:20 PM
Well...thats "odd".

Odd, like a fox! From the same site, there's definitely something scary and evil about this video which claims Beyoncé was the subject of demonic possession during her Super Bowl performance:

http://revelationnow.net/2013/02/23/beyoncedemon-possessed-at-super-bowl/

(http://revelationnow.net/wp-content/gallery/cache/392__500x316_beyonce_rihanna_throat_match.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 05 September, 2013, 11:29:22 PM
Where's the posting drunk thread when you need it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 06 September, 2013, 02:26:28 AM
I would have just preferred his total obedience but hay... http://themuseumofincompetance.yuku.com/topic/935
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 September, 2013, 10:01:15 AM
Most insane game?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmsRcsl_xA
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 07 September, 2013, 04:22:44 PM
Me diving in Guernsey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 September, 2013, 05:14:51 PM
DC are holding a competition to see who can want draw naked  Harley Quinn commiting suicide! (http://www.dccomics.com/node/305151)

Quote
PANEL 4
Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are watching the moment before the inevitable death. Her expression is one of "oh well, guess that's it for me" and she has resigned herself to the moment that is going to happen.

At this stage, is DC acting like complete fucktards still shocking?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 September, 2013, 07:42:00 PM

Maybe they just hate women, wish they'd kill themselves, and enjoy seeing that scenario depicted in art. In other news, bookies stop taking bets on the outcome of the 2013 Darwin Awards:

DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CddMD3QqTFs)

 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 September, 2013, 11:05:33 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 September, 2013, 10:01:15 AM
Most insane game?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmsRcsl_xA

haha that's brilliant. best without the inane commentary though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 September, 2013, 11:37:34 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 07 September, 2013, 04:22:44 PM
Me diving in Guernsey.
OOOOOKKKKAYYYYY.... ME jealous!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 September, 2013, 11:45:55 AM
Congratulations to the people of Tokyo for securing the 2020 Olympics.

I'm calling it now; there'll be at least one giant robot during the opening ceremony.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 September, 2013, 07:41:14 PM
Ive just re-read the whole of the DoC.
Phew.....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2013, 08:30:57 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 September, 2013, 11:37:34 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 07 September, 2013, 04:22:44 PM
Me diving in Guernsey.
OOOOOKKKKAYYYYY.... ME jealous!
Pity we didn't have it on the third day, we encountered an Ocean Sunfish (one of a few I'd spotted from the surface basking around the island) and it was a magnificent sight.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 September, 2013, 06:17:08 PM

http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html

1 Singapore 108
2 South Korea 106
3 Japan 105
4 Italy 102
5 Iceland 101
5 Mongolia 101
6 Switzerland 101
7 Austria 100
7 China 100
7 Luxembourg 100
7 Netherlands 100
7 Norway 100
7 United Kingdom 100
8 Belgium 99
8 Canada 99
8 Estonia 99
8 Finland 99
8 Germany 99
8 New Zealand 99
8 Poland 99
8 Sweden 99
9 Andorra 98
9 Australia 98
9 Czech Republic 98
9 Denmark 98
9 France 98
9 Hungary 98
9 Latvia 98
9 Spain 98
9 United States 98
10 Belarus 97
10 Malta 97
10 Russia 97
10 Ukraine 97
11 Moldova 96
11 Slovakia 96
11 Slovenia 96
11 Uruguay 96
12 Israel 95
12 Portugal 95
13 Armenia 94
13 Georgia 94
13 Kazakhstan 94
13 Romania 94
13 Vietnam 94
14 Argentina 93
14 Bulgaria 93
15 Greece 92
15 Ireland 92
15 Malaysia 92
16 Brunei 91
16 Cambodia 91
16 Cyprus 91
16 FYROM 91
16 Lithuania 91
16 Sierra Leone 91
16 Thailand 91
17 Albania 90
17 Bosnia and Herzegovina 90
17 Chile 90
17 Croatia 90
17 Kyrgyzstan 90
17 Turkey 90
18 Cook Islands 89
18 Costa Rica 89
18 Laos 89
18 Mauritius 89
18 Serbia 89
18 Suriname 89
19 Ecuador 88
19 Mexico 88
19 Samoa 88
20 Azerbaijan 87
20 Bolivia 87
20 Brazil 87
20 Guyana 87
20 Indonesia 87
20 Iraq 87
20 Myanmar (Burma) 87
20 Tajikistan 87
20 Turkmenistan 87
20 Uzbekistan 87
21 Kuwait 86
21 Philippines 86
21 Seychelles 86
21 Tonga 86
22 Cuba 85
22 Eritrea 85
22 Fiji 85
22 Kiribati 85
22 Peru 85
22 Trinidad and Tobago 85
22 Yemen 85
23 Afghanistan 84
23 Bahamas, The 84
23 Belize 84
23 Colombia 84
23 Iran 84
23 Jordan 84
23 Marshall Islands 84
23 Micronesia, Federated States of 84
23 Morocco 84
23 Nigeria 84
23 Pakistan 84
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23 Paraguay 84
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23 Solomon Islands 84
23 Uganda 84
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23 Vanuatu 84
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24 Algeria 83
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26 Honduras 81
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27 Barbados 80
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27 Kenya 80
28 Guatemala 79
28 Sri Lanka 79
28 Zambia 79
29 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 78
29 Nepal 78
29 Qatar 78
30 Comoros 77
30 South Africa 77
31 Cape Verde 76
31 Congo, Republic of the 76
31 Mauritania 76
31 Senegal 76
32 Mali 74
32 Namibia 74
33 Ghana 73
34 Tanzania 72
35 Central African Republic 71
35 Grenada 71
35 Jamaica 71
35 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71
35 Sudan 71
36 Antigua and Barbuda 70
36 Benin 70
36 Botswana 70
36 Rwanda 70
36 Togo 70
37 Burundi 69
37 Cote d'Ivoire 69
37 Ethiopia 69
37 Malawi 69
37 Niger 69
38 Angola 68
38 Burkina Faso 68
38 Chad 68
38 Djibouti 68
38 Somalia 68
38 Swaziland 68
39 Dominica 67
39 Guinea 67
39 Guinea-Bissau 67
39 Haiti 67
39 Lesotho 67
39 Liberia 67
39 Saint Kitts and Nevis 67
39 Sao Tome and Principe 67
40 Gambia, The 66
41 Cameroon 64
41 Gabon 64
41 Mozambique 64
42 Saint Lucia 62
43 Equatorial Guinea 59
North Korea N/A

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 September, 2013, 06:23:09 PM
interesting list, but i think most people nowadays accept that IQ scores are pretty meaningless.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 September, 2013, 06:51:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 09 September, 2013, 06:23:09 PM
interesting list, but i think most people nowadays accept that IQ scores are pretty meaningless.

Definitely! According to that list, most of the developing world is populated by adults who can't tie their own shoe laces or cross the road without help. I've taken a few of those online IQ tests, and the results varied an awful lot each time. I did pretty well, but all that proves is what I already know from school - that I'm pretty good at taking tests. Everyday life provides copious evidence that I am not a genius.

It's no coincidence that the states which rank highest on that list are (generally *) those with the best developed school systems and quality of life, even though IQ testing claims to be able to compensate for such factors and measure innate ability. I'm not sure the average Italian is really so much smarter than the average German - maybe there were a lot of Latin questions in the test used by that study.

* Mongolia!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 09 September, 2013, 07:42:40 PM
North Korea - N/A

Terrifying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 September, 2013, 08:30:30 PM
'Run, Snawy, ye wee timorous beastie...'

New Tintin translation - Scots.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/09/09/tintn-translated-into-a-new-language-scots/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 September, 2013, 10:19:29 PM






I miss Nikolai Dante!




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 September, 2013, 09:09:05 PM

A combination of one of my favourite things and one of my least favourite things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyTx3lBku8

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 September, 2013, 09:08:42 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 10 September, 2013, 09:09:05 PM

A combination of one of my favourite things and one of my least favourite things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyTx3lBku8

Bloody hell. Cognitive dissonance howareya.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 11 September, 2013, 12:12:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBDxowwli1Q

An 8-bit version of the Pink Floyd album the wall.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 September, 2013, 07:38:46 PM
and that's why the private school system will be the death of us all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 12 September, 2013, 08:40:33 PM
NASA photobombed by Frog. (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/frog-photobombs-nasa-rocket-launch-161920587.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 September, 2013, 08:58:45 PM

I think I've got my head around the Monty Hall problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlc7peGlGg), but I'm not sure I'll be able to explain how it works in the morning. Marcus du Sautoy does his best here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24045598).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 September, 2013, 10:20:07 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 12 September, 2013, 08:58:45 PM

I think I've got my head around the Monty Hall problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlc7peGlGg)...

In my day the term 'Monty Hall problem' was co-opted to describe a particularly dull form of Dungeons & Dragons.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 12 September, 2013, 10:20:44 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 12 September, 2013, 08:58:45 PM

I think I've got my head around the Monty Hall problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlc7peGlGg), but I'm not sure I'll be able to explain how it works in the morning. Marcus du Sautoy does his best here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24045598).

But surely if one of the three choices is revealed and you can no longer choose it, then that automatically takes it out of the equation and you're only left with two choices, meaning that it is a 50% chance of choosing the right one?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 September, 2013, 10:24:39 PM
Only if you consider the two stages to be separate games, which they aren't, because the host always picks a goat door after you have picked your door.  There was a 66% chance you picked a goat, and there still is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 September, 2013, 10:32:43 PM


I get picked a lot, so I must be popular!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 September, 2013, 10:37:10 PM
It's like deal or no deal, it's just random chance. It's a game that is so well designed, it can't be gamed. It's the illusion of choice, and just like the theme of the plots of The Matrix sequels, it's meaningless.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 12 September, 2013, 11:02:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 September, 2013, 10:24:39 PM
Only if you consider the two stages to be separate games, which they aren't, because the host always picks a goat door after you have picked your door.  There was a 66% chance you picked a goat, and there still is.

Yeah, I think I've got it, but now I can't shift the niggling idea the universe might just be really badly programmed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 September, 2013, 11:09:00 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 12 September, 2013, 11:02:18 PM... I can't shift the niggling idea the universe might just be really badly programmed.

Too right.  I'm reading Brian "he's so dreamy" Cox and Jeff Forshaw's Quantum universe: everything that can happen does happen at the moment, and after I've banged my head off the maths for a bit my chapter-by-chapter conclusion is that the whole bloody mess is completely insane.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 13 September, 2013, 10:03:00 AM
Whatever happened to augmented reality, eh? I want more, lots more, and in 3D please.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 13 September, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
Aaargh! probability and Staistics

http://xkcd.com/1132/ (http://xkcd.com/1132/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 September, 2013, 12:47:30 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 13 September, 2013, 10:03:00 AM
Whatever happened to augmented reality, eh? I want more, lots more, and in 3D please.
Oculus Rift. Nuff' said.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 September, 2013, 01:28:13 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 13 September, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
Aaargh! probability and Statistics

http://xkcd.com/1132/ (http://xkcd.com/1132/)

I love that strip - thanks for reminding me to catch up on it. Some of the computer-geek stuff goes over my head, but this one really made me laugh: http://xkcd.com/1016/ (http://xkcd.com/1016/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 September, 2013, 03:46:44 PM
Limmy's twitter feed (@DaftLimmy) is frequently hilarious, but he seems to attract almost as many point-missing morons as Dawkins.  Almost.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 14 September, 2013, 12:11:55 AM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 12 September, 2013, 08:40:33 PM
NASA photobombed by Frog. (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/frog-photobombs-nasa-rocket-launch-161920587.html)

Someone will claim that it is proof of aliens...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 September, 2013, 09:34:12 AM
My dream date Mary Beard has interesting things to say about Twitter:  http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2013/09/why-tweet.html

I'm a Twitter noob, and I don't really tweet myself, but I have read more interesting articles courtesy of the feeds of folk like Mary than I have at any time since I first used a VT100 terminal to a college VAX machine back in 1990 to get the heads-up on upcoming 3rd Season episodes of Next Generation from STREK-L.  It's been a genuinely educational tool for me, with the side benefit of a stream of very funny people trotting out epigrams in between the insights.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 14 September, 2013, 09:37:29 AM
QuoteMy dream date Mary Beard

Get in line, buster!
If you think you love her now, then listen to this: http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/episode_19_mary_beard/
She's all kinds of awesome.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 September, 2013, 09:48:59 AM
Magic, thanks RAC!  I'd learn Latin just to spend time with that woman, she's an absolute gem, David Attenborough with a dirty laugh. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 September, 2013, 02:06:45 PM
200 pages of this tripe, Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2013, 02:51:20 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5plr9OpzO1rwcc6bo1_250.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 September, 2013, 05:05:41 PM

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/07a17ef432af61093f8423f4e4ad98b7/tumblr_ml6md4STHV1qcxcjfo1_500.gif)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 September, 2013, 07:54:54 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 September, 2013, 02:06:45 PM
200 pages of this tripe, Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

I've actually had the pleasure to dine on 'Trippa alla Romana' and I must say it was one of the finest things I've ever eaten....and I've eaten almost every day of my life. Highly recommended, it is a speciality of the city of Rome and shows that with care and skill any dish is better in the hands of an Italian, even tripe.

Let me know if you plan to travel to Rome and I will furnish you with the necessary details so that you too, young Proudhuff, can experience this gastronomic wonder.

Now...could someone please direct me to the drunk thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 16 September, 2013, 11:13:43 PM
Want to see jewel-encrusted 400 year old marty skeletons? (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lightbox/catacombs-saints-400-year-old-skeletons-decorated-in-jewels-unearthed-1379326976-slideshow/400-year-old-remains-are-adorned-with-dozens-of-jewels-gems-and-a-gold-leaf-crown-in-the-hollows-of-photo-1379326224331.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 September, 2013, 11:54:08 PM
Our pantomime script is bloody awful...  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 17 September, 2013, 09:35:02 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 September, 2013, 11:54:08 PM
Our pantomime script is bloody awful...  :(

I've got to admire your fortitude Doc........... :D
I take it this is another 'script penned by a cast member who thinks it's wonderful, but it's not !!'.....

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 September, 2013, 10:30:48 AM
Yayyy!  200 posts!  Hang on, I've ruined it now.

EDIT:  Wait, that's 200 pages, isn't it?  As has been pointed out before.  Do I win a prize for the rubbishest post of the day?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 17 September, 2013, 12:33:49 PM
2994 posts on this thread and no one has said anything that we didn't already know.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 September, 2013, 12:55:48 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 17 September, 2013, 12:33:49 PM
2994 posts on this thread and no one has said anything that we didn't already know.

Really? I didn't know that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 17 September, 2013, 01:09:33 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 September, 2013, 12:55:48 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 17 September, 2013, 12:33:49 PM
2994 posts on this thread and no one has said anything that we didn't already know.
Really? I didn't know that.
See what I mean?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 September, 2013, 01:13:50 PM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 17 September, 2013, 09:35:02 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 September, 2013, 11:54:08 PM
Our pantomime script is bloody awful...  :(

I've got to admire your fortitude Doc........... :D
I take it this is another 'script penned by a cast member who thinks it's wonderful, but it's not !!'.....

Cheers

Exactly... In fact I might post up part of the script so you guys can see what I have to cope with....

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 17 September, 2013, 02:07:52 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 September, 2013, 01:13:50 PM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 17 September, 2013, 09:35:02 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 September, 2013, 11:54:08 PM
Our pantomime script is bloody awful...  :(

I've got to admire your fortitude Doc........... :D
I take it this is another 'script penned by a cast member who thinks it's wonderful, but it's not !!'.....

Cheers

I might post up part of the script so you guys can see what I have to cope with....

Oh no you won't!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 September, 2013, 02:45:54 PM
Oh come ON...

I can't resist a feed line like that can I?

Oh yes I will....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 September, 2013, 03:37:09 PM
And the horror start a new...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 September, 2013, 03:41:18 PM


200 pages and what the hell are you all on about???

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 17 September, 2013, 03:46:14 PM
As long as it has subheadings and bullet points.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 September, 2013, 08:51:09 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fd7E70OiRsw/UIVXzGibp5I/AAAAAAAADgU/ATtPXqPcMpA/s1600/judge_dredd_cartoon.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 17 September, 2013, 08:54:36 PM
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/mystery-clown-stalking-northampton-becomes-talk-of-the-town
A surprisingly disturbing photo to accompany this 'news'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 September, 2013, 09:08:05 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 17 September, 2013, 08:54:36 PM
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/mystery-clown-stalking-northampton-becomes-talk-of-the-town
A surprisingly disturbing photo to accompany this 'news'.

There's officially something scarier than Alan Moore in Northampton. You're right, Charlie - that's bloody terrifying.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 17 September, 2013, 09:08:48 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 17 September, 2013, 08:54:36 PM
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/mystery-clown-stalking-northampton-becomes-talk-of-the-town
A surprisingly disturbing photo to accompany this 'news'.
...

Now that's beyond a joke...........
I like a laugh as much as the next person, BUT.........F****** Clowns FREAK me the F*** Out !!!
Whoever is doing this should @*%$**% in the worst possible way......

(http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r800/robert_mcgregor1/Clown_zps2ea64ec6.jpg) (http://s1367.photobucket.com/user/robert_mcgregor1/media/Clown_zps2ea64ec6.jpg.html)

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 September, 2013, 09:09:24 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 17 September, 2013, 08:54:36 PM
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/mystery-clown-stalking-northampton-becomes-talk-of-the-town
A surprisingly disturbing photo to accompany this 'news'.
Was working in Northampton (The home of Coventry City football club) all last week and saw loads of clowns on the road but none dressed appropiately with baloons.



V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 September, 2013, 09:25:37 PM


Tell me if there anything more scared than this???

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRNQ8373OGfvu5g_Y6oQUgvMlhm8ecAq4a_QnjBYdf5bcW4e86)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 September, 2013, 09:33:49 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 17 September, 2013, 09:25:37 PM
Tell me if there anything more scared than this???

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRNQ8373OGfvu5g_Y6oQUgvMlhm8ecAq4a_QnjBYdf5bcW4e86)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsRResZ2YnE

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 September, 2013, 09:54:34 PM
When I was in Thailand, I had a drink with an ageing, stoner magician clown.  In full make-up, he told me about his suicide attempt on a cocktail of drugs, and how he went out and 'got a whore' every couple of weeks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 September, 2013, 10:22:51 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 September, 2013, 09:54:34 PM
When I was in Thailand, I had a drink with an ageing, stoner magician clown.  In full make-up, he told me about his suicide attempt on a cocktail of drugs, and how he went out and 'got a whore' every couple of weeks.

:o  You actually met the genuine archetype, the ur-clown to whom all other clowns are mere shadows of balloon animals on the walls of children's parties!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 September, 2013, 10:37:36 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 17 September, 2013, 09:25:37 PM


Tell me if there anything more scared than this???

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRNQ8373OGfvu5g_Y6oQUgvMlhm8ecAq4a_QnjBYdf5bcW4e86)
Beep, beep Richie.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8RIe5t23ZKM/TxnKNL3z1BI/AAAAAAAAAK8/FeubgejAxM8/s320/Dr-Frankenfurter-Shoes1.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 17 September, 2013, 10:48:24 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 17 September, 2013, 09:08:05 PM
There's officially something scarier than Alan Moore in Northampton. You're right, Charlie - that's bloody terrifying.
I found the info that he knocked at somebody's door to ask if they wanted their windowsills painted just as bad as the picture because I got to thinking how I'd react in that situation. Having just done a Google image search of Northampton clown and saw pictures of the same clown standing on the streets at night, I'm fairly sure I won't be sleeping easy anytime soon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 17 September, 2013, 10:59:22 PM
I know that without a doubt, if somebody knocked on my door late at night ( when it's dark outside ),  and I answered it to a Clown in full 'make up',  holding a couple of coloured balloons I'd do one of two things....
1...Shit myself...
or
2. Scream like a little girl while frantically trying to close the door....

No,  that's not true,  I'd do both of these things...... :-[
Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 18 September, 2013, 05:55:46 PM
Quote from: Sideshow Bob on 17 September, 2013, 10:59:22 PM
I know that without a doubt, if somebody knocked on my door late at night ( when it's dark outside ),  and I answered it to a Clown in full 'make up',  holding a couple of coloured balloons I'd do one of two things....
1...Shit myself...
or
2. Scream like a little girl while frantically trying to close the door....
I honestly think I would start crying in fear.
Somebody told me that the Northampton Clown has made it onto the Daily Mail site, and people are threatening acts of violence against him if they spot him. Apparently, a man in a Superman outfit is out on the streets looking for the clown in question to bring him in. Again, this is from the Daily Mail website so I don't know if this is simply LAWLESS BRITAIN REPORT! scaremongering or not.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 September, 2013, 06:13:00 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 18 September, 2013, 05:55:46 PM
Apparently, a man in a Superman outfit is out on the streets looking for the clown in question to bring him in.

If he's after a clown who is terrorising a city, shouldn't the vigilante in question be wearing a Batman outfit?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2013, 06:36:35 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 September, 2013, 10:22:51 PM
:o  You actually met the genuine archetype, the ur-clown to whom all other clowns are mere shadows of balloon animals on the walls of children's parties!

You haven't lived till a man with a red nose and stripey cheeks tells you over dinner how he recently got a 'full erection' from looking at topless girls on the beach. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 18 September, 2013, 06:48:54 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2013, 06:36:35 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 September, 2013, 10:22:51 PM
:o  You actually met the genuine archetype, the ur-clown to whom all other clowns are mere shadows of balloon animals on the walls of children's parties!

You haven't lived till a man with a red nose and stripey cheeks tells you over dinner how he recently got a 'full erection' from looking at topless girls on the beach.

Glad to be of service!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 18 September, 2013, 07:09:04 PM
Stop all this clowning around.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 September, 2013, 10:13:45 PM
Has anybody here ever seen the film"Killer Klowns (yes it IS spelt that way) From Outer Space....?

Just wondering....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 September, 2013, 10:16:13 PM
But of course, it's a classic
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2013, 10:47:35 AM
speaking of films has anyone seen that Dredd movie?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 19 September, 2013, 12:23:31 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2013, 10:47:35 AM
speaking of films has anyone seen that Dredd movie?
I think you are getting your facts mixed-up. Do you mean the reggae and ska musician? Don't think he made a film. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 September, 2013, 01:19:57 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2013, 10:47:35 AM
speaking of films has anyone seen that Dredd movie?

No, but I hear there's a scene with them Rude Boys...bought the soundtrack by Prince Buster....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4F7mYFw24
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 19 September, 2013, 01:28:46 PM
They should make this thread into a film.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 19 September, 2013, 01:35:40 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 19 September, 2013, 01:28:46 PM
They should make this thread into a film.

This thread would be an awe inspiring film...like that Hammer film with all the men in the train carriage, each  tells their story...but the Threadjacking train film would be ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rOknQlZ3w
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 September, 2013, 02:04:37 PM
PA Playlist in the shops today - consecutively:  Everybody Hurts (REM); Mad World (Adam Lambert);  How to Save a Life (The Fray).  Is someone trying to tell me something?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 19 September, 2013, 02:55:04 PM
Whoever it is, they're telling you to get out of that episode of a T4 programme from five years ago whose soundtrack you seem to have wandered into.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2013, 04:18:50 PM
why do they ALWAYS play shit music in FP? is it a rule or just so spotty u-ffs feel like they're back in their bedrooms?
Where's the Gilbert and Sullivan
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 September, 2013, 06:50:07 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2013, 04:18:50 PM
why do they ALWAYS play shit music in FP?

And so loud. Fair loosens the dentures.

Quote from: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2013, 04:18:50 PM
Where's the Gilbert and Sullivan

A good friend of mine once harboured affections for a young lass, and contrived to escape the friend zone (naive fool!) by accompanying her on a group holiday in cramped quarters.  Apparently she sang G&S non-stop the entire time, starting at sunrise, and he returned a broken man.  You only have to quietly hum 'I am the very model of modern major general'  to watch him twitch horribly.

 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 19 September, 2013, 07:32:26 PM
Mentioning Gilbert & Sullivan reminded me of my Music Teacher at Stirling High School many, many moons ago......
He used to 'sing' along when we in his class,  and I still remember him booming out  " He polished up those handles so care-full- eeee, That now he is the ruler of the Queens' na-veeeeee"......
Absolutely f****** dreadful stuff  ...... I can appreciate it a bit more now, but when I was 16 - 17.....Pfft !!

Sorry to derail the thread slightly ( but it is called Threadjacking ).....Now when I hear any Gilbert & Sullivan, it always reminds me of him and the terrible 'wig' he wore...... Now I don't suppose wig technology ( wiggery ??) was particularly great in the late 60's / early 70's,  but this 'thing' was an abomination,  and looked as if it had been made by a blind carpet fitter !!

Very realistic, and an absolute 'perfect' match / compliment,(  ::)), to his grey sideburns was this Very Dark brown / black  'monstrosity' that was perched upon his head........ And of course,  unless you were classified as 'Legally blind' you couldn't tell it was a 'wig'..... :o

Now,  I no longer am blessed with the full compliment of hair that I once had.... :'(, but WTF,  that's what getting older does to you....Now I go for a Bruce Willis type haircut.............but resort to a hairpiece ?? !! ..........
Some kind person will now ( hopefully ) post a couple of pics of " No, you can't tell it's not my own hair "...

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 September, 2013, 12:13:51 PM
And if anyone here has any distressed abandoned hairpiece's I will happy give them a new home. I collect them. Seriously.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 20 September, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Collecting family *hair*looms Doc?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 September, 2013, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 September, 2013, 12:13:51 PM
And if anyone here has any distressed abandoned hairpiece's I will happy give them a new home. I collect them. Seriously.

Close the thread please, we're done here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 20 September, 2013, 03:39:13 PM
Is it possible to have a synopsis of this thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 September, 2013, 04:13:41 PM
IO7 format sucks. Cant tell what anything is anymore. >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 September, 2013, 05:37:28 PM
This is a part of the script.
You see I do not lie about quality.
Characters


Male   Female   Either
Selma Lina (Dame)   Snow White   Bangers
Ivor Thorn   Prince Charming   Mash
Robb U Blind   Queen   Jerry Fright
Sporty   Hark Lent   Billy
   Starry   Toffee (Pink Ladies)
   Scardy   Crumble (Pink Ladies)
   Seamstress (Granny Smith)   Pie (Pink Ladies)
    Sulky   Stuffy
       Smiley
       Stingy
       Butcher
       Baker
       Candlestick Maker
       Florist
       Cider Maker
       Mayor
       Animal 1
       Animal 2
       Animal 3
       Animal 4
       Animal 5
       Animal 6
       Animal 7
       
















Songs

Act 1

Belle (Beauty and the beast)          Hark Chorus

True Loves kiss (Enchanted)          Snow White, animals

True loves Kiss reprise (Enchanted)       Snow White, Prince Charming

Out There (Barnum)            Robb U Blind

I wanna live each night (Spectacular)      Queen/Bangers/Mash

Last Christmas (George Michael)      Robb U Blind

Teamwork (Chitty Chitty)      Snow/Animals/Selma/Ivor/Bangers/ Mash/Chorus

Over at the Frankenstein Place (RHS)   Snow/Animals/Toffee/Crumble/Pie

Consider Yourselves (Oliver)   Dwarves

No wonder taxes are so high (Aladdin)   Queen/ Bangers and Mash/ Robb?/Chorus

Act 2

Bad to the bone (George Thorogood)   Robb U Blind

Heigh Ho   Snow White and Dwarves

A little bit of this   Selma

I want to break free   Hark, Billy, Jerry, Animals

Poor unfortunate souls   Queen

Celebration   Cast


Prologue

In front of main curtains
Enter Toffee, Crumble and Pie

Toffee       Hi boys and girls,
      Mums and dads
      I bet your all extremely glad
      To be right here to see our show
      It's the best round here don't you know
         
      My name is Toffee

Crumble   I'm Crumble

Pie      I'm Pie

Toffee      We're glad you have all come by
      To see our story of love and woe
      Sitting comfortably? Then here we go!

Crumble   Welcome to Appletonia a land that's ruled
      By the evil Queen who can't be fooled
      She takes all their money
      Their bread and their honey
      And leaves them incredibly sad

Pie      But growing up fast is the Princess Snow White
      Who could become Queen and set all to right
      But right now her evil Stepmother is Queen
      And to destroy the Princess she is awfully keen

Toffee      We must help get rid of the Queen we despise
      And to do that we must dress in disguise
As the 'Pink Ladies' a rock and roll band
So we are around to give them a hand
      So let's join them now as they prepare
      For Royal Gala day in the village square


ACT ONE

Scene 1– Woodland Village

Open Curtains. Onstage at start-Hark

SONG-BELLE (Beauty and the Beast)-Hark and Chorus

Baker      Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Tenth tax rise since Christmas!

Candlestick   Who's hot, who's not!

Butcher   Crystal Palace to win Premiership!

Bak/Can   What?

Butcher    Oh Crystal Palace to wimper at ship-they are being shipped out for eating oranges at half time instead of apples

Bak/Can   Ohhh!

Hark   Come on Billy, there must be some exciting stories round here somewhere and I won't rest till I find them.

Billy   But Hark, we do have a story...Bert the Baker has a new type of pie with 10 different types of apple. Hmmm (rub tummy)

Hark   While the baker's new pie is simply delicious it's not really a career changing story is it? No what I need is a headline with real reader pulling power.

Billy   (shocked, noticing audience) What about 'local population expands shocker?'

Hark   What are you talking about? (Billy points to audience) Oh hello there! What a nice surprise to see you all. I'm Hark Lent, top reporter for the local paper 'The Magic Mirror'.

Billy      'For all your local news and gossip buy the Magic Mirror moppet!'

Hark   I know-it's terrible. The paper ran a slogan competition and the village idiot won. Anyway...I'm the top reporter in these parts and I know everything there is to know about Appletonia. So if you have any questions please don't hestitate to ask!

Billy   Hark! I have a question. What's going on around here? Is it somebody's birthday? Is it my birthday?

Hark   No Billy. Everyone is getting ready for the Royal Gala celebrations. Here in Appletonia we just love apples. Everyone finds them so apeeling we eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner and celebrate their juiciness year after year after year.

Billy   Oh yeah! I remember! Quick lets take some photos of the apple bobbing-somebody might fall in again! (Billy drags Hark off)

(Enter Mayor and Band)

Mayor   Our festival begins right here in a weeks time and I would like you to open our celebrations. Tell me-do you know 'There ain't nothing like an apple' (to tune to you aint nothing but a hounddog')

Toffeee   Yes but...

Mayor      What about 'Apple, Apple, Apple'?

Toffee      Yes of course but we have a slight problem...

Mayor   Your fees? As we discussed and if you get an encore we will even through in some of our famous apple cider. Now I must be off. See you at the festival!

Toffee   but...what are we going to do now? We've got no singer and we have a gig in 7 days!

Crumble   Don't worry I'm sure we will find someone

Toffee      In 7 days?

Pie   Calm down. I'm sure we'll find a pretty young thing with the moves, the looks and the voice. We just need to keep looking

   (from off stage-Selma singing)

Crumble   What on earth is that?

Pie      I don't know but my eardrums are about to burst-lets get out of here!
   
(exit band, enter Selma)

Selma      Yoohoo!

All       Yoohoo Selma!

Selma   That wasn't very good. When I say 'Yoohoo!' you say ' yoohoo Selma!' Got that? Let's give it another try. 'Yoohoo!'

Audience   Yoohoo Selma!

Selma   That's much better! My name's Selma, Selma Lina and I'm the palace cook. I'd really like to know your names but there are so many of you...I know. I'm going to count to 3 and then I want you all to shout out your name. Ready? 1..2..3

Audience   Shout names

Selma   Ah how lovely! I've always wanted to have a friend called gobbledegook! Now that we're all friends I can tell you all about our little village. Appletonia is such a lovely place to live-or it would be if it wasn't for the evil Queen. She's such a greedy Queen. She takes all the kingdoms money and keeps it all to herself. She never shares it with anyone, not even with her stepdaughter Princess Snow White. Poor Snow White! All the other Princesses spend all their time buying dresses and jewels  but not our Princess Snow White-she has to clean and mend and wear rags but she never complains and is always smiling

Candlestick   Snow White has the most lovely smile..

Butcher   That old Queen is just jealous

Bert      Snow White is far more beautiful than her

Florist      Oh look, here she is now

   Enter Snow White and Animals

Snow      Good morning everyone!

All      Good morning Snow White

Snow      Good morning Selma

Selma      Good morning your Highness

Snow      Oh Selma. You don't need to call me that. I hardly look like a princess.

Candlestick   You will always be a princess to us no matter what you wear.

Snow   Thank you so much but please call me Snow White. After all we are practically family

Selma   If you insist Your Highness I mean Snow White. Now what brings you to the village this morning?

Snow   I need to see Granny Smith the seamstress about the Queens dress for Gala day.

Selma      I hope that stepmother of yours is buying you a new dress too.

Snow      No of course not

Selma      Why that wicked woman! I'd like to tell her what I really think of her.

Snow   And what would that achieve? The Queen would lock you away and I would never see you again. Besides what would I need a fancy dress for when I have friends like you?

Selma      Your right as always Princess. How do you stay so cheerful?

SONG: TRUE LOVES KISS- SNOW WHITE AND ANIMALS

Granny   There you are Snow White. Please tell the Queen that her dress will be ready for the final fitting tomorrow. Oh and these ribbons are for you.

Snow       They really are beautiful...but I don't have any money

Granny   They are a gift-everyone in the village has paid for them. Besides everyone deserves something pretty.

Snow      Oh thank you everyone! (puts on ribbons) I'll wear them everyday!

   Everyone freezes. Stage lights go down. Queen enters SL in green spotlight   

Queen      Brand new ribbons
      Colourful and bright
      Pull around Snow White tight
      Take her breath, take her sigh
      Do your worst and make her die!
      Hahahahahahahaha!

   Queen exits-lights up Snow White starts to get uncomfortable. Prince enters

Granny      Are you ok Snow White? You've gone really pale.
   
   Snow White shakes head-somone pulls out a chair

Selma      Oh no! Snow Whites in trouble! Somebody help!

Crumble   Noble Prince let me help you see
      The way to set Snow White free

Prince      Let me through, let me through! I have a knife!

   Prince cuts her ribbons

Prince      Are you ok?

Snow       Yes thank you-I must have pulled my ribbons too tight

      Prince and Snow look into each others eyes

Both      Wow!

SONG:TRUE LOVES KISS Reprise-PRINCE AND SNOW

Snow      Thank you kind Sir for your help

Prince      I wonder...I'm new in town and I don't know my way around-could you give me a tour?

Snow      I would love to...but...I'm very sorry...I have to go...

Prince      but...

Snow      I'm so sorry...truly I am...

   Exit Snow White and Animals

Prince      but I don't even know your name

      Exit Prince. Enter Ivor Thorn

Ivor      Selma! Selma! Where is that stupid woman? Selma!

Selma      Yoohoo Ivor!

Ivor      Yoohoo Selma! Where have you been? It's 11am and the Queen will be expecting her lunch soon.

Selma      Stop fussing Ivor. My apple stew has been cooking for hours

Ivor       I wondered what that burning smell was

Selma      Burning? Oh cripes! Toodles!

All      Toodles Selma!
   
   Exit Selma

Ivor      That woman is a disaster area

   Enter Robb U Blind

Carpenter   Oh no! Its Robb U Blind!

Cider      Lets get out of here!

   Chorus exit rapidly

Robb      I would have thought you'd have better things to do than hang around here.

Ivor      I don't think that's any of your business do you

Robb      Listen Ivor Thorn

Ivor      It's a silent T

Robb      Whatever. I don't appreciate your tone. This is my town and you will do as I say

Ivor      Ohh don't get your knickers in a twist.

Robb      How dare you! The Queen will hear of your rudeness!

Ivor      I'm so scared-not! You may do the Queens bidding but you don't run this town yet. Besides no one prunes her roses like me so you can tell her all you want!

   Exit Ivor Lights go down. Spotlight on Robb

Robb      I may not run this town yet but I will do soon and then I will destroy you, I'll destroy you all! HAHAHA

SONG-OUT THERE (ROBB U BLIND)
   Lights out. Close ¾ curtains


SCENE 2 IF ¾

Bring on sign saying 'Magic Mirror' and table/chairs

Enter Jerry and Band

Toffee      So our advert for a new singer will definitely be in tomorrows paper?

Jerry   That's what I said isn't it (band nod). Jerry Fright, that's me, always keeps his word-on that you can depend.

Exit band enter Hark and Billy

Jerry   There you are Hark! What exciting news do you have for tomorrows edition?

Billy   Bert the baker has a new pie!

Jerry   (genuinely) Fantastic! That's front page news! Well done guys! Pats Billy on back Billy walks away happily  Seriously Hark-there must be something more exciting going on around here?

Hark   I would love to say yes...but no

Jerry    Where has all the scandal gone?

Hark   It appears all the popstars  are trying to make it big in Pearton and all the sports stars are too busy trying to win back their wives. Everyone else is too busy getting ready for the Royal Gala to cause any trouble.
Jerry   What about the who's hot and who's not list?

Hark   er..well..its complete but its going to need some serious editing. You see the Queen isn't going to like it

Jerry   Why not? She's still hot isn't she?

Hark   No I'm afraid she's not

Jerry   taking list What! So who's hot?

Hark   Snow White

Jerry   Oh no! We can't print that! The Queen will core and quarter us!

Hark   I know, I know....Hey what about we just change the 'hot' and 'not' columns? No one ever needs to know

Jerry   Brilliant Hark! This is why you're the 'Magic Mirror's' top reporter! But you will have to hurry-Robb U Blind will be here for the Queen's advance copy any minute!

Hark   I know! We can get our new friends to help us. Can you do that? Can you warn us when Robb U Blind shows up? You can? Brilliant. When you see Robb U Blind can you shout 'he's behind you'? You sure? Right lets practice Billy you pretend you're Robb U Blind so we can practice (they do) Fantastic! We are going to need you to help all our friends so can you keep a look out for him? Thanks guys!

Enter Prince Hark puts list on desk and gets distracted by Billy

Prince   Good morning. May I speak to the editor please?

Jerry   Jerry Fright at your service. How can I help you?

Prince   I desperately need to find a lady

Jerry   Really? Well there are several places I can recommend

Prince   I think you misunderstood me. I'm looking for a particular lady-one I met in the village today. She is as beautiful as the sun and I just have to meet her again

Jerry   The first buds of new love-how wonderful. Billy! Please take this young man's details for me

Billy   Yes Boss. Name

Prince   I don't know

Billy   You don't know your name? Everyone knows their name! Are you stupid or something?

Prince   No! I know my name. Its Prince Charming of Pearton Jerry and Hark look up shocked I just don't know her name

Jerry   Your highness! A thousand apologies for I did not recognise you in this humble office

Prince   There is honestly no need. I just need to find this lady.

Jerry   Of course Sire. Let me present Hark Kent the 'Magic Mirror's' top reporter. Can I get you anything? Apple tea? Apple juice?

Prince   No thank you enter Robb U Blind

Audience   He's behind you

Hark   Thanks kids

Robb   Fright! The Queens paper! And be quick about it! I don't have all day!

Jerry   Yes Mr Blind

Jerry exits Robb wonders round eavesdropping and picks up list and puts in pocket

Hark   So Your Highness, can you describe this mysterious woman for me?

Prince   She is an angel from heaven

Hark   Yes but what colour is her hair?

Prince   Her hair? Oh her hair is as black as ebony, her skin-as white as snow and her lips..oh her lips are as red as..as a rose

Billy   I know her-it's Snow White!

Prince   Snow White? What a lovely name! Where can I find her?

Billy   She lives at the Palace cos she's a Princess

Prince   A princess? How perfect! Thank you so much! I'll hail a horse and cart and make my way straight there!

Robb   There is no need for that Sire. My name is Robb U Blind and I'm a personal friend of the Queen's. In fact I'm heading up there shortly-may I give you a lift?

Prince   That would be very much appreciated. Thank you

Robb   to Jerry. The Queen's paper? Jerry gives paper-swap evil looks Your Highness

Prince and Robb exit

Jerry   Hark! Billy! I can feel a whopper of a story coming on! Follow them and make sure you get the exclusive! Hark and Billy start to leave And make sure you look out for Snow White-she's going to need all the help she can get

Hark/Billy   Yes Boss

Hark and Billy exit after Robb Jerry exits opposite way


SCENE 3 Queens Lair

Open ¾
Onstage Queen bangers mash and villagers

Butcher   So what we are trying to say is...

Baker   What with it being the Royal Gala..

Candlestick   And our expenses going up...

Florist   is whether you could possibly find it in your heart...

Carpenter   to give us an extra week or two..

Cider   to pay the rent..

Queen   No I think not. You have had a year to prepare for this. If you can't organise your finances that's your problem.

Mayor   But your majesty...

Queen   Enough! You will pay your rent on time or you will be finding somewhere else to live. Understood?

Chorus   Yes your Majesty

Queen   Now get out of my sight-you're making me nauseous.

Chorus exit escorted by Bangers and Mash
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 September, 2013, 05:38:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 September, 2013, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 September, 2013, 12:13:51 PM
And if anyone here has any distressed abandoned hairpiece's I will happy give them a new home. I collect them. Seriously.

Close the thread please, we're done here.

Offical confirmation that I am a Thread killer at last
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2013, 11:49:45 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 September, 2013, 05:37:28 PM
This is a part of the script.
You see I do not lie about quality.
Characters


Male   Female   Either
Selma Lina (Dame)   Snow White   Bangers
Ivor Thorn   Prince Charming   Mash
Robb U Blind   Queen   Jerry Fright
Sporty   Hark Lent   Billy
   Starry   Toffee (Pink Ladies)
   Scardy   Crumble (Pink Ladies)
   Seamstress (Granny Smith)   Pie (Pink Ladies)
    Sulky   Stuffy
       Smiley
       Stingy
       Butcher
       Baker
       Candlestick Maker
       Florist
       Cider Maker
       Mayor
       Animal 1
       Animal 2
       Animal 3
       Animal 4
       Animal 5
       Animal 6
       Animal 7
       
















Songs

Act 1

Belle (Beauty and the beast)          Hark Chorus

True Loves kiss (Enchanted)          Snow White, animals

True loves Kiss reprise (Enchanted)       Snow White, Prince Charming

Out There (Barnum)            Robb U Blind

I wanna live each night (Spectacular)      Queen/Bangers/Mash

Last Christmas (George Michael)      Robb U Blind

Teamwork (Chitty Chitty)      Snow/Animals/Selma/Ivor/Bangers/ Mash/Chorus

Over at the Frankenstein Place (RHS)   Snow/Animals/Toffee/Crumble/Pie

Consider Yourselves (Oliver)   Dwarves

No wonder taxes are so high (Aladdin)   Queen/ Bangers and Mash/ Robb?/Chorus

Act 2

Bad to the bone (George Thorogood)   Robb U Blind

Heigh Ho   Snow White and Dwarves

A little bit of this   Selma

I want to break free   Hark, Billy, Jerry, Animals

Poor unfortunate souls   Queen

Celebration   Cast


Prologue

In front of main curtains
Enter Toffee, Crumble and Pie

Toffee       Hi boys and girls,
      Mums and dads
      I bet your all extremely glad
      To be right here to see our show
      It's the best round here don't you know
         
      My name is Toffee

Crumble   I'm Crumble

Pie      I'm Pie

Toffee      We're glad you have all come by
      To see our story of love and woe
      Sitting comfortably? Then here we go!

Crumble   Welcome to Appletonia a land that's ruled
      By the evil Queen who can't be fooled
      She takes all their money
      Their bread and their honey
      And leaves them incredibly sad

Pie      But growing up fast is the Princess Snow White
      Who could become Queen and set all to right
      But right now her evil Stepmother is Queen
      And to destroy the Princess she is awfully keen

Toffee      We must help get rid of the Queen we despise
      And to do that we must dress in disguise
As the 'Pink Ladies' a rock and roll band
So we are around to give them a hand
      So let's join them now as they prepare
      For Royal Gala day in the village square


ACT ONE

Scene 1– Woodland Village

Open Curtains. Onstage at start-Hark

SONG-BELLE (Beauty and the Beast)-Hark and Chorus

Baker      Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Tenth tax rise since Christmas!

Candlestick   Who's hot, who's not!

Butcher   Crystal Palace to win Premiership!

Bak/Can   What?

Butcher    Oh Crystal Palace to wimper at ship-they are being shipped out for eating oranges at half time instead of apples

Bak/Can   Ohhh!

Hark   Come on Billy, there must be some exciting stories round here somewhere and I won't rest till I find them.

Billy   But Hark, we do have a story...Bert the Baker has a new type of pie with 10 different types of apple. Hmmm (rub tummy)

Hark   While the baker's new pie is simply delicious it's not really a career changing story is it? No what I need is a headline with real reader pulling power.

Billy   (shocked, noticing audience) What about 'local population expands shocker?'

Hark   What are you talking about? (Billy points to audience) Oh hello there! What a nice surprise to see you all. I'm Hark Lent, top reporter for the local paper 'The Magic Mirror'.

Billy      'For all your local news and gossip buy the Magic Mirror moppet!'

Hark   I know-it's terrible. The paper ran a slogan competition and the village idiot won. Anyway...I'm the top reporter in these parts and I know everything there is to know about Appletonia. So if you have any questions please don't hestitate to ask!

Billy   Hark! I have a question. What's going on around here? Is it somebody's birthday? Is it my birthday?

Hark   No Billy. Everyone is getting ready for the Royal Gala celebrations. Here in Appletonia we just love apples. Everyone finds them so apeeling we eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner and celebrate their juiciness year after year after year.

Billy   Oh yeah! I remember! Quick lets take some photos of the apple bobbing-somebody might fall in again! (Billy drags Hark off)

(Enter Mayor and Band)

Mayor   Our festival begins right here in a weeks time and I would like you to open our celebrations. Tell me-do you know 'There ain't nothing like an apple' (to tune to you aint nothing but a hounddog')

Toffeee   Yes but...

Mayor      What about 'Apple, Apple, Apple'?

Toffee      Yes of course but we have a slight problem...

Mayor   Your fees? As we discussed and if you get an encore we will even through in some of our famous apple cider. Now I must be off. See you at the festival!

Toffee   but...what are we going to do now? We've got no singer and we have a gig in 7 days!

Crumble   Don't worry I'm sure we will find someone

Toffee      In 7 days?

Pie   Calm down. I'm sure we'll find a pretty young thing with the moves, the looks and the voice. We just need to keep looking

   (from off stage-Selma singing)

Crumble   What on earth is that?

Pie      I don't know but my eardrums are about to burst-lets get out of here!
   
(exit band, enter Selma)

Selma      Yoohoo!

All       Yoohoo Selma!

Selma   That wasn't very good. When I say 'Yoohoo!' you say ' yoohoo Selma!' Got that? Let's give it another try. 'Yoohoo!'

Audience   Yoohoo Selma!

Selma   That's much better! My name's Selma, Selma Lina and I'm the palace cook. I'd really like to know your names but there are so many of you...I know. I'm going to count to 3 and then I want you all to shout out your name. Ready? 1..2..3

Audience   Shout names

Selma   Ah how lovely! I've always wanted to have a friend called gobbledegook! Now that we're all friends I can tell you all about our little village. Appletonia is such a lovely place to live-or it would be if it wasn't for the evil Queen. She's such a greedy Queen. She takes all the kingdoms money and keeps it all to herself. She never shares it with anyone, not even with her stepdaughter Princess Snow White. Poor Snow White! All the other Princesses spend all their time buying dresses and jewels  but not our Princess Snow White-she has to clean and mend and wear rags but she never complains and is always smiling

Candlestick   Snow White has the most lovely smile..

Butcher   That old Queen is just jealous

Bert      Snow White is far more beautiful than her

Florist      Oh look, here she is now

   Enter Snow White and Animals

Snow      Good morning everyone!

All      Good morning Snow White

Snow      Good morning Selma

Selma      Good morning your Highness

Snow      Oh Selma. You don't need to call me that. I hardly look like a princess.

Candlestick   You will always be a princess to us no matter what you wear.

Snow   Thank you so much but please call me Snow White. After all we are practically family

Selma   If you insist Your Highness I mean Snow White. Now what brings you to the village this morning?

Snow   I need to see Granny Smith the seamstress about the Queens dress for Gala day.

Selma      I hope that stepmother of yours is buying you a new dress too.

Snow      No of course not

Selma      Why that wicked woman! I'd like to tell her what I really think of her.

Snow   And what would that achieve? The Queen would lock you away and I would never see you again. Besides what would I need a fancy dress for when I have friends like you?

Selma      Your right as always Princess. How do you stay so cheerful?

SONG: TRUE LOVES KISS- SNOW WHITE AND ANIMALS

Granny   There you are Snow White. Please tell the Queen that her dress will be ready for the final fitting tomorrow. Oh and these ribbons are for you.

Snow       They really are beautiful...but I don't have any money

Granny   They are a gift-everyone in the village has paid for them. Besides everyone deserves something pretty.

Snow      Oh thank you everyone! (puts on ribbons) I'll wear them everyday!

   Everyone freezes. Stage lights go down. Queen enters SL in green spotlight   

Queen      Brand new ribbons
      Colourful and bright
      Pull around Snow White tight
      Take her breath, take her sigh
      Do your worst and make her die!
      Hahahahahahahaha!

   Queen exits-lights up Snow White starts to get uncomfortable. Prince enters

Granny      Are you ok Snow White? You've gone really pale.
   
   Snow White shakes head-somone pulls out a chair

Selma      Oh no! Snow Whites in trouble! Somebody help!

Crumble   Noble Prince let me help you see
      The way to set Snow White free

Prince      Let me through, let me through! I have a knife!

   Prince cuts her ribbons

Prince      Are you ok?

Snow       Yes thank you-I must have pulled my ribbons too tight

      Prince and Snow look into each others eyes

Both      Wow!

SONG:TRUE LOVES KISS Reprise-PRINCE AND SNOW

Snow      Thank you kind Sir for your help

Prince      I wonder...I'm new in town and I don't know my way around-could you give me a tour?

Snow      I would love to...but...I'm very sorry...I have to go...

Prince      but...

Snow      I'm so sorry...truly I am...

   Exit Snow White and Animals

Prince      but I don't even know your name

      Exit Prince. Enter Ivor Thorn

Ivor      Selma! Selma! Where is that stupid woman? Selma!

Selma      Yoohoo Ivor!

Ivor      Yoohoo Selma! Where have you been? It's 11am and the Queen will be expecting her lunch soon.

Selma      Stop fussing Ivor. My apple stew has been cooking for hours

Ivor       I wondered what that burning smell was

Selma      Burning? Oh cripes! Toodles!

All      Toodles Selma!
   
   Exit Selma

Ivor      That woman is a disaster area

   Enter Robb U Blind

Carpenter   Oh no! Its Robb U Blind!

Cider      Lets get out of here!

   Chorus exit rapidly

Robb      I would have thought you'd have better things to do than hang around here.

Ivor      I don't think that's any of your business do you

Robb      Listen Ivor Thorn

Ivor      It's a silent T

Robb      Whatever. I don't appreciate your tone. This is my town and you will do as I say

Ivor      Ohh don't get your knickers in a twist.

Robb      How dare you! The Queen will hear of your rudeness!

Ivor      I'm so scared-not! You may do the Queens bidding but you don't run this town yet. Besides no one prunes her roses like me so you can tell her all you want!

   Exit Ivor Lights go down. Spotlight on Robb

Robb      I may not run this town yet but I will do soon and then I will destroy you, I'll destroy you all! HAHAHA

SONG-OUT THERE (ROBB U BLIND)
   Lights out. Close ¾ curtains


SCENE 2 IF ¾

Bring on sign saying 'Magic Mirror' and table/chairs

Enter Jerry and Band

Toffee      So our advert for a new singer will definitely be in tomorrows paper?

Jerry   That's what I said isn't it (band nod). Jerry Fright, that's me, always keeps his word-on that you can depend.

Exit band enter Hark and Billy

Jerry   There you are Hark! What exciting news do you have for tomorrows edition?

Billy   Bert the baker has a new pie!

Jerry   (genuinely) Fantastic! That's front page news! Well done guys! Pats Billy on back Billy walks away happily  Seriously Hark-there must be something more exciting going on around here?

Hark   I would love to say yes...but no

Jerry    Where has all the scandal gone?

Hark   It appears all the popstars  are trying to make it big in Pearton and all the sports stars are too busy trying to win back their wives. Everyone else is too busy getting ready for the Royal Gala to cause any trouble.
Jerry   What about the who's hot and who's not list?

Hark   er..well..its complete but its going to need some serious editing. You see the Queen isn't going to like it

Jerry   Why not? She's still hot isn't she?

Hark   No I'm afraid she's not

Jerry   taking list What! So who's hot?

Hark   Snow White

Jerry   Oh no! We can't print that! The Queen will core and quarter us!

Hark   I know, I know....Hey what about we just change the 'hot' and 'not' columns? No one ever needs to know

Jerry   Brilliant Hark! This is why you're the 'Magic Mirror's' top reporter! But you will have to hurry-Robb U Blind will be here for the Queen's advance copy any minute!

Hark   I know! We can get our new friends to help us. Can you do that? Can you warn us when Robb U Blind shows up? You can? Brilliant. When you see Robb U Blind can you shout 'he's behind you'? You sure? Right lets practice Billy you pretend you're Robb U Blind so we can practice (they do) Fantastic! We are going to need you to help all our friends so can you keep a look out for him? Thanks guys!

Enter Prince Hark puts list on desk and gets distracted by Billy

Prince   Good morning. May I speak to the editor please?

Jerry   Jerry Fright at your service. How can I help you?

Prince   I desperately need to find a lady

Jerry   Really? Well there are several places I can recommend

Prince   I think you misunderstood me. I'm looking for a particular lady-one I met in the village today. She is as beautiful as the sun and I just have to meet her again

Jerry   The first buds of new love-how wonderful. Billy! Please take this young man's details for me

Billy   Yes Boss. Name

Prince   I don't know

Billy   You don't know your name? Everyone knows their name! Are you stupid or something?

Prince   No! I know my name. Its Prince Charming of Pearton Jerry and Hark look up shocked I just don't know her name

Jerry   Your highness! A thousand apologies for I did not recognise you in this humble office

Prince   There is honestly no need. I just need to find this lady.

Jerry   Of course Sire. Let me present Hark Kent the 'Magic Mirror's' top reporter. Can I get you anything? Apple tea? Apple juice?

Prince   No thank you enter Robb U Blind

Audience   He's behind you

Hark   Thanks kids

Robb   Fright! The Queens paper! And be quick about it! I don't have all day!

Jerry   Yes Mr Blind

Jerry exits Robb wonders round eavesdropping and picks up list and puts in pocket

Hark   So Your Highness, can you describe this mysterious woman for me?

Prince   She is an angel from heaven

Hark   Yes but what colour is her hair?

Prince   Her hair? Oh her hair is as black as ebony, her skin-as white as snow and her lips..oh her lips are as red as..as a rose

Billy   I know her-it's Snow White!

Prince   Snow White? What a lovely name! Where can I find her?

Billy   She lives at the Palace cos she's a Princess

Prince   A princess? How perfect! Thank you so much! I'll hail a horse and cart and make my way straight there!

Robb   There is no need for that Sire. My name is Robb U Blind and I'm a personal friend of the Queen's. In fact I'm heading up there shortly-may I give you a lift?

Prince   That would be very much appreciated. Thank you

Robb   to Jerry. The Queen's paper? Jerry gives paper-swap evil looks Your Highness

Prince and Robb exit

Jerry   Hark! Billy! I can feel a whopper of a story coming on! Follow them and make sure you get the exclusive! Hark and Billy start to leave And make sure you look out for Snow White-she's going to need all the help she can get

Hark/Billy   Yes Boss

Hark and Billy exit after Robb Jerry exits opposite way


SCENE 3 Queens Lair

Open ¾
Onstage Queen bangers mash and villagers

Butcher   So what we are trying to say is...

Baker   What with it being the Royal Gala..

Candlestick   And our expenses going up...

Florist   is whether you could possibly find it in your heart...

Carpenter   to give us an extra week or two..

Cider   to pay the rent..

Queen   No I think not. You have had a year to prepare for this. If you can't organise your finances that's your problem.

Mayor   But your majesty...

Queen   Enough! You will pay your rent on time or you will be finding somewhere else to live. Understood?

Chorus   Yes your Majesty

Queen   Now get out of my sight-you're making me nauseous.

Chorus exit escorted by Bangers and Mash


Have you thought of a team up with our Mayor and doing a play about Werewolves?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 September, 2013, 05:25:30 PM

If you've got a journalist as one of your main characters I hope you're going to work in some jokes about phone hacking and the Leveson inquiry, Doc. I'm not sure how you'd incorporate any of the production's running gags about fruit into that scenario, though - maybe if the pie Rupert Murdoch took to the face had been an apple crumble?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 September, 2013, 02:53:10 PM

If I had written it I would have done.

but no... Something like that is far to... Intellectual for my lot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 23 September, 2013, 12:15:48 AM
North Carolina nearly nuked. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24183879)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 September, 2013, 11:15:04 AM
There's a bird outside my window that is making the exact noise a laptop HDD makes just before it dies.  I may need counselling by the end of the day.  Or a shotgun.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 September, 2013, 08:43:26 PM
Proof proof! We demand proof.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 September, 2013, 08:50:56 PM

Earthquake in Pakistan (http://tribune.com.pk/story/608602/earthquake-strikes-pakistan/), many dead, horrible tragedy. The quake has led to the creation of an entirely new island off the coast of Gwadar, which is all a bit too Superman Returns for my liking:


(http://i1.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/608602-newislandscreenshot-1380032586-186-640x480.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 September, 2013, 08:14:58 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 24 September, 2013, 08:50:56 PM...all a bit too Superman Returns for my liking:

Nah, the angles are wrong.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 September, 2013, 09:17:19 AM

It just keeps getting more odd. The island looks like the surface of the Moon; is dotted with hot pools of bubbling white mud that look like The Stuff; and has apparently emerged from the ocean before, only to retreat back beneath the waves.

Here's video of some enterprising fishermen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwYKTW5F04) who are about to get into an argument over whether to call Pakistan's newest territorial conquest Daveland, Stevakia, or The Democratic Republic of Colin.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 September, 2013, 09:58:19 AM
Kerriste, the comments on those videos...

But look, I think you're missing the big news: Javid Miandad has been appointed BATTING CONSULTANT of the Cricket Team.  I'd have thought hiring a decent, nay, superhuman groundsman would be their first priority. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 September, 2013, 02:01:58 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 September, 2013, 09:58:19 AM
Kerriste, the comments on those videos...

But look, I think you're missing the big news: Javid Miandad has been appointed BATTING CONSULTANT of the Cricket Team.  I'd have thought hiring a decent, nay, superhuman groundsman would be their first priority.

Finally, a voice of reason.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 September, 2013, 02:18:21 PM

I bet (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/pakistan/10208513/Pakistan-v-West-Indies-one-day-series-match-fixing-allegations-are-outrageous-says-PCBs-Najam-Sethi.html) the Pakistan cricket team have already decided which games they'll win and lose.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 September, 2013, 07:10:23 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 September, 2013, 02:18:21 PM

I bet (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/pakistan/10208513/Pakistan-v-West-Indies-one-day-series-match-fixing-allegations-are-outrageous-says-PCBs-Najam-Sethi.html) the Pakistan cricket team have already decided which games they'll win and lose.

As long as they agree to lose some ODIs against Ireland, I'm okay with the whole thing. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 September, 2013, 04:00:03 AM
Uh oh.... I think I hear a mouse...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 September, 2013, 04:01:29 AM
What did it say?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 September, 2013, 05:13:20 AM

" I have come to take over the world!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 September, 2013, 05:30:09 AM
That old chestnut! I'd ignore the little liar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 September, 2013, 06:49:17 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 September, 2013, 05:13:20 AM
" I have come to take over the world!"

Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinkie?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 27 September, 2013, 05:30:41 PM

" I don't know Brain, what are you thinking?"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 27 September, 2013, 06:57:53 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 September, 2013, 04:00:03 AM
Uh oh.... I think I hear a mouse...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg7w49UnGA

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 September, 2013, 07:45:55 PM
Has anyone got a screen big enough to use this as their backround?

(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/269/a/b/size_comparison___science_fiction_spaceships_by_dirkloechel-d6lfgdf.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 September, 2013, 07:48:03 PM
I just did a "special wee". Thats some geek porn right there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 September, 2013, 07:53:20 PM
Freud would have a field day with that
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 September, 2013, 04:44:10 AM

Oh my god. THAT is Dr Sheldon Coopers wallpaper...  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 September, 2013, 09:03:48 AM
I've seen many versions of that chart, but that's the most comprehensive yet (although some strange omissions persist).  Alas, there are so many ghastly Star Wars EU, Eve, Independence Day and Warhammer 40K abominations present front and centre that I could never embrace it.  All it does is highlight the Russell Davis approach to SF at its worst.  1.5km long Federation Dreadnaughts in the 23rd C, puh-leeze. 


;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 September, 2013, 05:15:23 PM
Did anyone catch that live adaptation of Archer on Channel 4 last night? They completely ruined the characters, it was more like Buffy the Secret Agent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 28 September, 2013, 11:28:59 PM
On the subject of Dr Sheldon. If he is so anal why (in some episodes) is the dart board on the piss. The 20 goes at the top Sheldon.





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 September, 2013, 02:38:32 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 September, 2013, 05:15:23 PM
Did anyone catch that live adaptation of Archer on Channel 4 last night? They completely ruined the characters, it was more like Buffy the Secret Agent.

They have done WHAT????
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 September, 2013, 05:21:37 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 September, 2013, 02:38:32 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 September, 2013, 05:15:23 PM
Did anyone catch that live adaptation of Archer on Channel 4 last night? They completely ruined the characters, it was more like Buffy the Secret Agent.

They have done WHAT????

Pops, twisted genius that he is, was making humorous reference to the generic and uninspired nature of the new Marvel TV show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T3T-evQZiQo#t=25). No-one has made a live action adaptation of Archer, Doc.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 September, 2013, 06:46:38 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 30 September, 2013, 05:21:37 PMNo-one has made a live action adaptation of Archer, Doc.

Not even just the tip?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 September, 2013, 06:50:35 PM
Exclusive FIFA14 Mega-City One ;)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1382013_10202291753199570_1177037232_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 30 September, 2013, 07:22:44 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 30 September, 2013, 05:21:37 PMNo-one has made a live action adaptation of Archer, Doc.

The closest they got so far was the Archer Live! Tour (http://screencrush.com/archer-season-4-archer-live-tour/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 October, 2013, 03:01:27 AM

Please.. Don't scare me like that...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 01 October, 2013, 07:29:20 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 30 September, 2013, 06:50:35 PM
Exclusive FIFA14 Mega-City One ;)

:lol: Nice work Commando Forces
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 October, 2013, 08:06:32 PM

Widespread disorder in Dublin's Little Italy district as residents clamour to get their hands on the TOMTATO (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24281192).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 October, 2013, 12:55:25 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/aqfZaTp.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 October, 2013, 02:43:13 PM

Must be only one that have not still download Digital copy of 2000AD Progs of this week and last week and current Meg!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 October, 2013, 05:18:49 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 02 October, 2013, 12:55:25 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/aqfZaTp.gif)

So this is what you have to do to get a TomTato in Dublin, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 October, 2013, 05:43:11 PM

Hallowe'en has become so commercialised that people have forgotten the true meaning of the holiday. It's about simple pleasures, such as the look of wonder in a child's eyes as they're confronted with the majesty of Satan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JmJuM-Fastk#t=529) and the irresistible corrupting power of evil, not pumpkins and kid sized Jack Sparrow costumes on sale in Asda since April.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 October, 2013, 10:00:05 PM


How HOT is this?

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/7ffbfde00a5794361e38b72407d36750/tumblr_mfnyep5xGs1racrjeo1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 02 October, 2013, 10:49:13 PM
37 degrees Celsius.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 October, 2013, 07:56:40 AM
Aye, 37°2 le matin.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 03 October, 2013, 08:18:00 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 02 October, 2013, 05:43:11 PM

Hallowe'en has become so commercialised that people have forgotten the true meaning of the holiday. It's about simple pleasures, such as the look of wonder in a child's eyes as they're confronted with the majesty of Satan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JmJuM-Fastk#t=529) and the irresistible corrupting power of evil, not pumpkins and kid sized Jack Sparrow costumes on sale in Asda since April.

To me it's all about whether I can get together two cadet uniforms in time for the 31st.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 October, 2013, 08:33:12 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 02 October, 2013, 05:43:11 PM

Hallowe'en has become so commercialised that people have forgotten the true meaning of the holiday. It's about simple pleasures, such as the look of wonder in a child's eyes as they're confronted with the majesty of Satan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JmJuM-Fastk#t=529) and the irresistible corrupting power of evil, not pumpkins and kid sized Jack Sparrow costumes on sale in Asda since April.
Nowhere  near as bad as valentines day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 October, 2013, 08:37:54 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 03 October, 2013, 08:18:00 AM
To me it's all about whether I can get together two cadet uniforms in time for the 31st.

I've got a whole Thorin-Oakenshield-or-Gimli (actual size) costume to run up, and my daughter is being aggressively lobbied by her brother to change her traditional Fairy Princess to Legolas (which shouldn't be too much work, in fairness).  I, apparently, am going as Gandalf the Appropriately Gray.

Any of you hardened cosplayers know what materials work best for kids' fake beards?  I have memories of being an itchy Jacob in Technicolour Dream Coat at age 10 and it gives me a rash even thinking about it - and I've had an actual beard for 20 years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 October, 2013, 04:45:33 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 02 October, 2013, 05:43:11 PM

Hallowe'en has become so commercialised that people have forgotten the true meaning of the holiday.

You sound like Conal Cochran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIFOPB31NSI
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 October, 2013, 04:47:34 PM


Ma-Ma's 40th today. Happy birthday Lena!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 October, 2013, 04:49:07 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 03 October, 2013, 04:47:34 PM


Ma-Ma's 40th today. Happy birthday Lena!

Jeez, she looks great for her age.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 October, 2013, 05:00:19 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2013, 08:37:54 AM
my daughter (wants) to change her traditional Fairy Princess to Legolas (which shouldn't be too much work, in fairness)

Saucer of milk for Gandalf! Despite appearances, Orlando Bloom has a girlfriend (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1dbaQSfJg6k/UWscfBrcSZI/AAAAAAAABgo/dBSjydSnkgQ/s1600/mirandakerr2.jpg).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 October, 2013, 05:09:45 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 October, 2013, 04:49:07 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 03 October, 2013, 04:47:34 PM


Ma-Ma's 40th today. Happy birthday Lena!

Jeez, she looks great.

FTFY.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 October, 2013, 05:11:40 PM
Only 52 hours left to get in on the Gerry Anderson Gemini 1 kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717674777/gerry-andersons-gemini-force-one (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717674777/gerry-andersons-gemini-force-one)

Can anyone loan be £4,000 so I can become a main character? :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 October, 2013, 05:17:20 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEg4SEch27w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 03 October, 2013, 06:01:09 PM
Just thought I'd post on this thread. Not because I have anything to contribute but just to remind you that I am watching and you have my blessing to carry on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 October, 2013, 06:20:40 PM
7 Games You Can Play With a Brick (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/7-games-you-can-play-with-brick.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 October, 2013, 06:45:23 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 October, 2013, 07:56:40 AM
Aye, 37°2 le matin.

Don't be so Blue, Betty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4l3NG2NqyaY#t=45). Please note, this is an adaptation of the punch line of an anecdote (involving Peter Purvis) Alan Partridge relates in order to disprove the criticism that his autobiography doesn't contain any real anecdotes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 October, 2013, 06:49:06 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 03 October, 2013, 06:20:40 PM
7 Games You Can Play With a Brick (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/7-games-you-can-play-with-brick.html)

They forgot volleybrick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 October, 2013, 08:07:27 PM

If only there was some easy way (http://uspsstampsblogs.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sinatra.jpg) of telling whether Mia Farrow's claim that Frank Sinatra is the father of the son she originally said was conceived with Woody Allen is true.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/03/article-2442225-1878304000000578-443_308x425.jpg) (http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/files/2013/09/woodyyoung.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 October, 2013, 08:36:09 PM
Exhibit B, m'lud

(http://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ronan-farrow-bio.jpeg?w=350)

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/10/14/1350233063274/Photo-of-Frank-SINATRA-010.jpg)

It's a headscratcher alright
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 October, 2013, 09:11:53 AM

Brilliant Treehouse of Horror XXIV Couch Gag by Guillermo del Toro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgYY7dhTyE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgYY7dhTyE)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 04 October, 2013, 11:58:48 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 04 October, 2013, 09:11:53 AM

Brilliant Treehouse of Horror XXIV Couch Gag by Guillermo del Toro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgYY7dhTyE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgYY7dhTyE)

I enjoyed it more than his films but even this was overlong!
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Post by: TordelBack on 04 October, 2013, 02:14:03 PM
Well this one wins my vote for Most Inappropriate KIds' TV Ad Of All Time: Gaston, the Ladybird Who Mounts The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueppA9BMRFk).

It is however also completely brilliant.
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 04 October, 2013, 02:52:47 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 03 October, 2013, 08:07:27 PM
If only there was some easy way (http://uspsstampsblogs.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sinatra.jpg) of telling whether Mia Farrow's claim that Frank Sinatra is the father of the son she originally said was conceived with Woody Allen is true.

Yeah, but apparently the lad in question has a killer schtick in self-deprecating humour.
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 04 October, 2013, 05:29:07 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 03 October, 2013, 05:11:40 PM
Only 52 hours left to get in on the Gerry Anderson Gemini 1 kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717674777/gerry-andersons-gemini-force-one (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1717674777/gerry-andersons-gemini-force-one)

Can anyone loan be £4,000 so I can become a main character? :)


Me too... at least I have acting experience....
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Post by: Frank on 04 October, 2013, 05:54:31 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 04 October, 2013, 02:52:47 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 03 October, 2013, 08:07:27 PM
If only there was some easy way (http://uspsstampsblogs.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/sinatra.jpg) of telling whether Mia Farrow's claim that Frank Sinatra is the father of the son she originally said was conceived with Woody Allen is true.

Yeah, but apparently the lad in question has a killer schtick in self-deprecating humour.

Since the kneecaps of the guy who cheated on his Mom with his big sister are still intact, it's safe to say that Ronan Farrow didn't inherit Sinatra's temperament.

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Post by: TordelBack on 10 October, 2013, 01:22:06 PM
This is the best year for mushrooms since I started picking them.  Currently replete after a giant lunchtime bellyful of a strange sand-dune variant of agaricus campestrus, and looking forward to getting hold of some shaggy inkcaps this afternoon from one of my regular hunting grounds - assuming I got this mornings identification correct and I live that long. 
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Post by: Dandontdare on 10 October, 2013, 09:07:58 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 October, 2013, 01:22:06 PM
This is the best year for mushrooms since I started picking them.  Currently replete after a giant lunchtime bellyful of a strange sand-dune variant of agaricus campestrus, and looking forward to getting hold of some shaggy inkcaps this afternoon from one of my regular hunting grounds - assuming I got this mornings identification correct and I live that long.

I went on one of those wild foraging walks once - fun but bloody useless. The guy kept finding tasty and nutritious stuff, but every story seemed to end with "but be careful because there's a plant called blah-di-blah that looks just like it and is poisonous", so I've never trusted any of the stuff he showed us.

and the last time I went mushroom hunting it was something else entirely.
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Post by: TordelBack on 10 October, 2013, 10:33:33 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 October, 2013, 09:07:58 PMThe guy kept finding tasty and nutritious stuff, but every story seemed to end with "but be careful because there's a plant called blah-di-blah that looks just like it and is poisonous", so I've never trusted any of the stuff he showed us.

I've been having loads of fun with foraging over the past few years (mushrooms, fruit, edible plants, seaweeds, shellfish, abandoned camping gear), mainly because it's an excuse to go wandering about parks, fields, woods and beaches with a sense of purpose but at a pace that the kids can maintain.  Uncoincidentally most of my best mushrooming spots are within 200 yards of a playground or beach. 

The trick vis-a-vis not dying is to never, ever, eat anything you are not absolutely sure of.  With mushrooms this can often mean hauling a pile of samples of various ages home, taking spore prints and checking colour changes, and testing them against loads of reference books, and if you're not absolutely convinced you have your man, chucking them in the bin. 

The best tip I had was to work on identifying 1 type of edible mushroom at a time and no more than 3 in any one year, but get them right.

I'm up to 10 now, that I can confidently identify enough to scoff, but I still go through the whole testing rigmarole if I find familiar species but in a new spot, or there's an apparent variant characteristic.  That said, I now know where and more-or-less exactly when to get a good few types that I've now tried and trusted, and there's a pleasing ritual to it: Last week in September/first week in October, the park near the N7 produces ordinary field mushrooms in massive abundance, first/second week in October two spots near playgrounds produce inkcaps, third/fourth week in October the sand-dunes produce parasols, last week in October/first week in November the GAA ground beside my wife's work produces huge wood blewits etc. etc.

It's all a bit silly, but aside from the pleasure of learning new stuff, feeling like you're exploring when you're actually just taking the kids for a walk, and tasting new things, I have a freezer full of berries and mushrooms, jars of dried shrooms and nuts, various berry and flower wines and a couple of half-decent tents to show for my trouble. 

And my eye on a nicely maturing mussel bed that's exposed at the spring tide.
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Post by: Ancient Otter on 10 October, 2013, 11:32:59 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 October, 2013, 10:33:33 PM
The trick vis-a-vis not dying is to never, ever, eat anything you are not absolutely sure of.

See that bit of advice? The author of "The Horse Whisperer" didn't follow that and...

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/13/filmadaptations (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/13/filmadaptations)

and a follow up story years later:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/ways-with-words/8641405/Horse-Whisperer-author-poisoned-by-mushrooms-given-daughters-kidney.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/ways-with-words/8641405/Horse-Whisperer-author-poisoned-by-mushrooms-given-daughters-kidney.html)
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2013, 12:47:51 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 10 October, 2013, 11:32:59 PM
See that bit of advice? The author of "The Horse Whisperer" didn't follow that and...

Mmmm, kidneys... 
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Post by: Sideshow Bob on 11 October, 2013, 03:41:40 PM
A pretty horrendous tale of eating the 'wrong type' of mushrooms which has had serious implications for all concerned, both health wise and relationship wise.....A very cautionary tale, so very wise words from TordelBack...

To be honest, I've got the greatest admiration for those who follow the 'foraging route', but living in a small town there is not much opportunity to go foraging........I couldn't tell the difference between a Toadstool and a Mushroom anyway, so the good point for me is that my local supermarket doesn't sell Toadstools..... :D

Cheers
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Post by: Skullmo on 11 October, 2013, 04:25:00 PM
That's nonsese, I live in London and there is loads to forage. For example I foraged an almost full box of KFC from a bin last night! Delicious free fun and getting back to nature to boot.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 October, 2013, 04:34:35 PM
Sounds like a Bolton delicacy. :lol:
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2013, 04:47:10 PM
Scientists have discovered a planet that exists in perpetual darkness...it is alone, it has no parent star.

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Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2013, 06:38:44 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2013, 04:47:10 PM
Scientists have discovered a planet that exists in perpetual darkness...it is alone, it has no parent star.

As long as it doesn't have a Shakaran World Engine at the back or the giant face of Walt Disney Hank Epsilon on the front we should be fine.  But if it's drawn by Henry Flint at all we're in trouble.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 11 October, 2013, 06:43:44 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2013, 04:47:10 PM
Scientists have discovered a planet that exists in perpetual darkness...it is alone, it has no parent star.

Those scientists dont live on Alderaan, do they?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 October, 2013, 07:31:49 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 11 October, 2013, 06:43:44 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2013, 04:47:10 PM
Scientists have discovered a planet that exists in perpetual darkness...it is alone, it has no parent star.

Those scientists dont live on Alderaan, do they?

Planet Melancholia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2kP-vuOy8cU#t=127), I think. It's a dull, airless world in the Von Trier system.

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 October, 2013, 07:56:49 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 11 October, 2013, 07:31:49 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 11 October, 2013, 06:43:44 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 11 October, 2013, 04:47:10 PM
Scientists have discovered a planet that exists in perpetual darkness...it is alone, it has no parent star.

Those scientists dont live on Alderaan, do they?

Planet Melancholia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2kP-vuOy8cU#t=127), I think. It's a dull, airless world in the Von Trier system.
I hope this planet doesn't send me into a fit of depression where I fuck my groom/ brides best man/ bridesmaid in a golf course sand box. Because that would be just silly.
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Post by: Frank on 13 October, 2013, 09:50:19 AM

Important news for all patriots and pedants. According to The Flag Institute, it's called the Union Jack (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c709m) (6m 25s), even if it's not being hoisted by a sailor.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Union_Jack.gif)

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Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2013, 10:27:32 AM
It's cold and dull out there now.  I'm not sure I like this, can we go back to July?
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Post by: Spikes on 13 October, 2013, 11:04:04 AM
The Wicker Man Blu-Ray is out tomorrow!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 October, 2013, 11:09:03 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 13 October, 2013, 11:04:04 AM
The Wicker Man Blu-Ray is out tomorrow!  :thumbsup:
Id be careful, a several friends of mine already have it and apparently the transfer is sht he pieces. Some kind of encryption error, there might have to be a recall as added to this, the three missing scenes are not included.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 October, 2013, 11:16:02 AM
Have they got the Zavvi steelbook edition? As that seems to have shipped early for some reason.
Apparently this steelbook also has a cock up regarding the actual discs themselves - should have been (was advertised thus) two Blu-Rays - featuring all cuts of the film, but it came with one Blu-Ray, and one DVD, and only has the 'final cut' version on offer.

But thanks for the heads up regarding possible encryption error's.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 October, 2013, 11:18:07 AM
One mate I know  certainly ordered from Zavvi. I thought it was only supposed to have a BD and a DVD anyway so I took no notice of this. Ah hell, I'm glad I held off it until reviews. I knew this as to good a release to be true.
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Post by: Spikes on 13 October, 2013, 11:46:14 AM
The Zavvi steelbook was listed, as was the actual content for that particular release, ages ago.
Now that its landing, there seems to be a bit of a stink online as to the discrepancy to what was advertised, and what actually turned up.
Was never gonna go for the steelbook version, so didnt take that much notice of its contents, either.

Hopefully the other BR release is as it should be...
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 October, 2013, 12:06:21 PM
Its certainly a title worthy of the Criterion or MoC label. Sadly Studio Canal seem to want to hold onto the rights.
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Post by: Charlie boy on 15 October, 2013, 11:27:10 AM
I have quite a big plant pot in the kitchen (it's one that should be outside, but I don't have a garden) with a few plants in it. I recently put a new plant in the pot because there was enough space and since then I have these tiny little flies (I thought the 1st I spotted was a flea they're that small) appearing all over the place. They're so small even my youngest cat doesn't show an interest in them. Anyway, I noticed a load in the compost and a friend said I could kill them by putting more bagged compost on top of them but it didn't work. I've killed loads with my hands and the hoover. I've tried leaving the window open to try and kill the annoying things with the cold air but nothing seems to work. Any ideas? And no, I don't mean ideas for new and creative ways to kill them, I mean to get rid of them all together if possible.
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Post by: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 11:49:40 AM
Plant a Venus Flytrap in the pot too.

You will have to find a really greedy one though.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 15 October, 2013, 12:09:51 PM
They're annoying little buggers aren't they? Get yourself a carnivorous plant and stick it next to the offending pot - I found sundew (droseris) best for these tiny flies (http://www.growsundews.com/ (http://www.growsundews.com/)), the flies stick to the leaves, which then curl around to digest them. A venus fly trap or pitcher plant would work too.

If you get the growing conditions right (gritty compost, stand the pot in a shallow tray of rainwater - tapwater will kill them stone dead - do not feed) then you'll soon see baby plants appearing which can be pricked out and transplanted.

they're also good for putting next to kitchen bins and compost receptacles.

EDIT - Skullmo beat me to it - but NOT in the same pot!
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Post by: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 12:12:52 PM
Feed me Seymour!
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Post by: Dudley on 15 October, 2013, 12:26:45 PM
Is Katy Perry correct to assert in her latest single "Roar" that a tiger can roar "Louder, louder than a lion"?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 October, 2013, 12:36:31 PM
Days get coldest and dark.
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Post by: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 12:57:02 PM
I'd agree with anything Katy Perry said
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Post by: Link Prime on 15 October, 2013, 01:12:34 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 12:57:02 PM
I'd agree with anything Katy Perry said

Really?
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Post by: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 01:18:30 PM
HOT!
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Post by: Dudley on 15 October, 2013, 02:16:30 PM
It's ... disturbing ... that Link Prime "just happens" to have a picture of a clearly distressed and disturbed Katy Perry to hand. 
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Post by: Proudhuff on 15 October, 2013, 02:19:25 PM


(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/ROLF-HARRIS-ORIGINALLY-SIGNED-FIRST-DAY-COVER-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/v~EAAOxygLxSVCAJ/$(KGrHqVHJEgFI-j1wJ,eBSVC!JHg-Q~~60_35.JPG)

only £1.05 on ebay...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 October, 2013, 07:00:01 PM

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/american-culture-and-behavior.html  (http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/american-culture-and-behavior.html)

Diversity

The United States is the most diverse country in the world. People from all over the world have immigrated to the United States. Therefore, it is very difficult to define a typical American, as there is no such thing. However, a majority of the current Americans are of European descent; therefore, the description below is primarily with that in mind.


United States Is the World

As the United States is a large country and it is geographically disconnected from most of the world (except for Canada above and Mexico below), to most Americans, the United States is the world. If something/someone is biggest, best, largest, or richest in the United States, they generally use the phrases like "biggest in the world" or "best in the world."

Most Americans are fans of various sports. In fact, the most popular sports in the U.S. are played within its borders. For example, an Atlanta team plays a New York team. A U.S. team doesn't typically play an Australian team. They still call it a "world championship" for domestic sports.

Most Americans take pride in their country and consider themselves patriots. Therefore, never make fun of the U.S., speak lightly about it, or make derogatory remarks about the country or their social/cultural background.


Social/Cultural

It is generally easy to adjust to American society and its people. However, don't try to be too friendly or personal with them too soon. Americans value their privacy a lot. Don't just show up at someone's house without first calling and making an appointment. Even if someone says "come over at any time," don't take it literally. You still have to follow etiquette. If a person wants you to visit their home, they will call you first and specify the date and time.

Most Americans are impatient yet disciplined. No one likes to wait in line and they are easily frustrated. Yet most Americans wait in line patiently without pushing people or trying to jump ahead.

In conversation, you should give continuous feedback to the other person, or at least nod continuously. In absence of that, the other person might think you aren't really interested or you're confused.

Most people who are just passing by will smile at you and/or say hello. This is formality, and shouldn't be taken seriously. Smiling is simply a goodwill gesture and does not mean anything beyond that.

Never make any racial comments about anyone, e.g., blacks are called "African Americans" in politically correct language.

Life in the U.S. is generally fast-paced and busy. It is all about making money. People don't want to waste time on anything, even eating food. That is why the U.S. invented fast food and is the largest consumer of fast food.


Legal Status

Most Americans think that there are primarily three types of people in the U.S.: American citizens, tourists, and illegals. They don't know much about the middle spectrum, such as temporary workers. If they ask about it, give a polite, brief explanation. They will often be very friendly and help you feel less like a foreigner. Other people may have the inappropriate view that any ethnic person with brown skin is an immigrant taking away their jobs. They may treat all ethnic people the same, whether they arrived yesterday or have been here for three generations. Try to be more diplomatic in handling situations with these types of people.


Dress

Most people wear casual dress. They are not fond of an overabundance of jewelry, and gold jewelry is rarely seen. No one really cares what others are wearing.


Impression of Other Countries

As the United States is the "world" in their eyes, most people may not have an accurate impression of other countries. Most people are not aware of the happenings outside the U.S., unless the U.S. is directly involved. For example, now most people know about the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because of the poor, inaccurate, and inadequate media coverage, they may not understand the social and political climates of countries even as big as India.

If at all, television shows images of India with cows on the street or poor children crying in villages. Most Americans think of India as a poor country full of beggars, snake charmers, and, more recently, call centers. Therefore, some people may be genuinely curious about your country. You may even be asked questions that seem very silly to you. If you are asked questions like whether there is TV in India, or whether there are cars in India, try to explain very respectfully.

You should also try to explain that India has intelligent people and an advanced culture. India does not just represent elephants and snake charmers. You can even tell them that snake charming is currently illegal in India.

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Post by: Proudhuff on 16 October, 2013, 02:38:55 PM
one for CF:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/army-to-hold-pistols-sideways-2013011155723 (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/army-to-hold-pistols-sideways-2013011155723)
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Post by: Spikes on 16 October, 2013, 04:19:50 PM
So we getting variant thrill-mails now?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Molch-R on 16 October, 2013, 04:26:49 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 October, 2013, 04:19:50 PM
So we getting variant thrill-mails now?

Yup.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 October, 2013, 08:01:20 PM

KIDS IN AMERICA BETTER EDUCATED THAN BRITS (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-educated-countries-world-102232490.html)

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Post by: vzzbux on 16 October, 2013, 11:07:58 PM
American football pah. You play the sport with your hands.
And whats with the touchdown. All you have to do is cross the goal line end zone ::), no need for the ball to 'touchdown' on the ground.
Don't get me started on the padding. Pansies.




V
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 October, 2013, 11:28:17 PM
John Cleese said something like that once.....
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 October, 2013, 12:18:04 AM
I've heard a couple of explanations for why septics think it's sensible to call their sport Football.

One was it's because the ball is a foot long, which seems fair enough, but the other was because it isn't played on horseback.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 October, 2013, 10:57:20 PM

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Optokinetic_nystagmus.gif)
Nystagmus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 18 October, 2013, 11:39:07 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 16 October, 2013, 11:07:58 PMDon't get me started on the padding. Pansies.

The average American Football player eats the equivalent of an elephant each week and does not consider himself a man if he can't bench-press his car - I can't speak for others but I want a solid foot of padding between me and that fucker if he so much as sits in the same room as me, never mind runs towards me at 45 miles an hour screaming about how he's going to pull my head off with his ass cheeks and then rape my mother's corpse with it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 October, 2013, 11:43:34 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 18 October, 2013, 10:57:20 PM

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Optokinetic_nystagmus.gif)
Nystagmus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus)

aaaaaargh!

Don't do that. I have a horror of eyeballs (inherited from my mum)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 19 October, 2013, 03:14:50 PM
You inherited your eyeballs from your mum?

Is she related to the Adams family?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 19 October, 2013, 03:51:03 PM
(http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad84/ronniecraven/Eyes_zps5550ef7b.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on 19 October, 2013, 07:21:35 PM
You scared the Jam out of him!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 October, 2013, 09:27:23 PM

Update of an old Spitting Image concept (http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/toryatlasoftheworld2.jpg):


(http://thedoghousediaries.com/large/5414.png)

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Post by: Skullmo on 19 October, 2013, 09:31:09 PM
I just realised I have no idea what most of those places are without their names :-(
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Post by: Spikes on 19 October, 2013, 10:23:04 PM
'Being double landlocked'.  :lol:
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Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2013, 07:46:36 PM


   (https://lebowskifest.com/shop/uploads/images/large/a91afbc010bd13ccda6db0224a86e645.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 October, 2013, 09:52:36 PM
FaceBook says 'beheading' video's are OK  - and one has just popped up on my news feed.....


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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2013, 10:00:57 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 22 October, 2013, 09:52:36 PM
FaceBook says 'beheading' video's are OK  - and one has just popped up on my news feed.....
Those two Islamic extremists still knocked up (and alive) will be happy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 October, 2013, 04:28:55 PM
Facebook says beheading videos are OK IF you show it to condemn the action...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 October, 2013, 04:35:58 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 October, 2013, 04:28:55 PM
Facebook says beheading videos are OK IF you show it to condemn the action...

How do you condemn something on Facebook? With a Like button? That's seriously eff'd up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 October, 2013, 04:57:05 PM
I didn't make the policy. Only reporting what the BBC said last night about it....



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Post by: Frank on 23 October, 2013, 05:01:10 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 October, 2013, 04:28:55 PM
Facebook says beheading videos are OK IF you show it to condemn the action...

FUR-Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=B7f-OEvCQWg#t=167)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 October, 2013, 04:51:37 PM
But on a lighter note....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CayMeza487M
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 October, 2013, 08:44:20 PM
Countdown to Skynet.

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/10/22.aspx (http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/10/22.aspx)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 09:54:59 AM
I don't care how rare it is - some folk have more money than sense: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-24660920 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-24660920)
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Post by: Charlie boy on 25 October, 2013, 10:10:12 AM
Has anybody encountered a False Widow spider yet?
I'm curious because one tabloid newspaper has put them on the front page pretty much without fail for the last few weeks with headlines like SPIDER GOING TO KILL YOU! Until now I'd ignored it, feeling safe because the spiders only seem to be bothering people who buy this particular paper, but I saw them being discussed on the news recently. When asked what to do if you find one of these spiders in your home, the expert basically said "Trap it under a glass and throw it outside." It was far from "Trap it and call the authorities/ run for your life!" I was part expecting.
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Post by: judda fett on 25 October, 2013, 10:40:02 AM
Yeah we have loads in Cardiff by my house and my mums. My mums house backs onto a green area with a shed load of spiders that I'm sure are crossbreeding. There are several different types of false widow in this country. I first became aware of them when I saw a spider that looked like a black widow in a web a lot like a black widow uses. As for them biting you there ate about a dozen or so spiders in the UK that are on record for biting humans such as woodlouse spiders (those red legged/ grey or cream bodied ones), a few of the variant false widows amongst others (not sure the big Tenegria gigantus house spiders are on record as biters though). No one is known to have died from a UK spider bite but I guess its only a matter of time before someone with a severe allergy to spider venom suffers a fatal bite or takes on the proportionate strength and speed of a spider.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 October, 2013, 10:50:04 AM
None here in Bolton. I work on Lancashire Wildlife Trusts Seven acre scheme here and it's ideal for spiders with plenty of damp wood and bark. Nothing. Common house spiders and Opilions, but no False Widows.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:56 PM
I've started noticing gaps in my memory. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 October, 2013, 03:08:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:56 PM
I've started noticing gaps in my memory. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.

Maybe its just you?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:18:05 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 25 October, 2013, 03:08:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:56 PM
I've started noticing gaps in my memory. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.

Maybe its just you?

It could be aye.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 25 October, 2013, 03:22:46 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:18:05 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 25 October, 2013, 03:08:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:56 PM
I've started noticing gaps in my memory. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.

Maybe its just you?

It could be aye.

Why can't you see?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 25 October, 2013, 03:33:26 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 25 October, 2013, 03:22:46 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:18:05 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 25 October, 2013, 03:08:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:56 PM
I've started noticing gaps in my memory. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.

Maybe its just you?

It could be aye.

Why can't you see?

Are you feeling ill?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 03:40:39 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 25 October, 2013, 03:08:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:56 PM
I've started noticing gaps in my memory. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.

Maybe its just you?

we'll all be in the same boat come Christmas - the season of Noel
Title: Re: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 25 October, 2013, 03:42:54 PM
I'm tempted to start issuing bans here... You're all taking the P.
Title: Re: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 25 October, 2013, 04:07:49 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 25 October, 2013, 03:42:54 PM
I'm tempted to start issuing bans here... You're all taking the P.

Oh, leave them be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 October, 2013, 04:09:01 PM
AGGGGHHHH it's too early for Christmas cracker jokes!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 October, 2013, 04:11:06 PM
How many ears does Captain Kirk have?


.......


3. A right ear, a left ear, and a final frontier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 October, 2013, 04:11:49 PM
One... It's the final front ear....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 October, 2013, 04:47:20 PM
Quote from: judda fett on 25 October, 2013, 10:40:02 AM
Yeah we have loads in Cardiff by my house and my mums. My mums house backs onto a green area with a shed load of spiders that I'm sure are crossbreeding. There are several different types of false widow in this country. I first became aware of them when I saw a spider that looked like a black widow in a web a lot like a black widow uses. As for them biting you there ate about a dozen or so spiders in the UK that are on record for biting humans such as woodlouse spiders (those red legged/ grey or cream bodied ones), a few of the variant false widows amongst others (not sure the big Tenegria gigantus house spiders are on record as biters though). No one is known to have died from a UK spider bite but I guess its only a matter of time before someone with a severe allergy to spider venom suffers a fatal bite or takes on the proportionate strength and speed of a spider.

THIS IS THE SPIDER I AM SCARED OF...

http://data1.whicdn.com/images/34792389/650_large.gif

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 October, 2013, 05:32:59 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pU_0G-qc8
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 October, 2013, 06:30:27 PM
Did you know there's an annual naked rugby match between Australia and New Zealand? This year's match included a streaker, and in the spirit of the event, he was fully clothed. True story.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 26 October, 2013, 12:55:56 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 25 October, 2013, 04:11:06 PM
How many ears does Captain Kirk have?


.......


3. A right ear, a left ear, and a final frontier.

four.  yOU FORGOT sCOTTY THE eNGIN-EAR.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 26 October, 2013, 04:02:56 AM
I served a cool buncha yankee nerds at work tonight. We fell into a conversation about comics and such (don't worry lads, I preached the word of Tharg, one of them even ordered the new Buttonman on my recommendation,) it eventually came around to Wonderwoman. Why haven't they made a Wonderwoman movie yet?

Well.


Wait till ye hear.

If you say "powerful female protagonist" and "Greco-Roman Mythology" to people from my generation, the first thing we'll probably think of is "Xena: Warrior Princess
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 October, 2013, 06:59:27 AM
Blasted daughter, 6.00am on Saturday is the middle of the night.  The number of sleeps 'til Halloween is unaffected, despite your efforts.  And it'll be 5am tomorrow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 26 October, 2013, 07:12:49 AM
World Cup starts today, England Vs Australia  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 26 October, 2013, 09:27:24 AM
Woke up not too long ago with a not-too-bad hangover which made me glad I didn't stay out too long last nite. Sat down at the computer thinking I'd look at a few things while getting around to waking up properly and one of the cats decided she'd like to sit on my shoulder like she sometimes does.
Said cat got the angle/distance of the jump completely wrong and ended up hanging off my back, claws stuck in one of my shoulders. As you can probably imagine, that really hurts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 October, 2013, 02:15:37 AM
Does anyone know how much Whedon spent on CGI and mo-cap when realizing The Hulk  in Avengers assemble?

All he really needed was The Rock, a wig and a tin of green paint.

(http://www.ringsidenews.com/file/pic/photo/e68a4131edb955eea8128387a6969065_500.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 October, 2013, 12:41:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 October, 2013, 06:59:27 AM
Blasted daughter, 6.00am on Saturday is the middle of the night.  The number of sleeps 'til Halloween is unaffected, despite your efforts.  And it'll be 5am tomorrow.

And THIS is why the Victorians had legal access to laudanum....( and lots of other drugs to)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 October, 2013, 04:15:47 PM
Not much in the way of wind, but plenty of rain.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 October, 2013, 05:01:00 PM
Apparently three people have died in accidents related to the storm. :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 28 October, 2013, 05:09:45 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 October, 2013, 05:01:00 PM
Apparently three people have died in accidents related to the storm. :-\

The BBC reporting of it is appalling.  Here's a quote from a news item today:

Quote...the biggest damage was to his model train set - derailed, like so many lives last night.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 October, 2013, 05:12:07 PM
That's sort of brilliant.   :-[

Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 October, 2013, 05:01:00 PM
Apparently three people have died in accidents related to the storm. :-\

While any accidental death is tragic, one would imagine that many people die in weather-related accidents every day (wet road, falling branch, hypothermia, heat exhaustion etc.), there just isn't an army of journos ringing A&E and the copshop every 30 seconds demanding fatality figures.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 October, 2013, 05:24:11 PM
Didn't want to specify the source as i don't tune or actually listen to the radio at work. Asking my boss it turns out to be XFM. So typical hyperbole. ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 October, 2013, 05:28:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 26 October, 2013, 04:02:56 AMIf you say "powerful female protagonist" and "Greco-Roman Mythology" to people from my generation, the first thing we'll probably think of is "Xena: Warrior Princess

The Greco-Roman mythology is an early addition to the WW mythos, but then so was copious amounts of bondage and S&M, but adaptations of the work from the tv series to the various cartoons have ditched all of that - Greco-Roman influence and kink - to successful effect because they aren't intrinsic to the character as she's essentially a swords-and-sorcery with sci-fi trappings character and that can and has been done many times over the years from Mighty Isis to the 1970s WW tv show to She-Ra to Sailor Moon to Xena to Buffy to Totally Spies to Kim Possible and so on.
The truth as to why we've never had a WW tv series or movie is much more straightforward and quite well-documented: the various corporate bodies that own her rights insist on a hands-on approach to any adaptations but can't agree on a direction and tone and so have been bickering amongst themselves for years, occasionally letting the character surface here and there (animated movies and unaired tv pilots) to stop their parent company licensing the rights elsewhere, as has been tried several times already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 October, 2013, 09:44:43 PM
Scrolldowntoriker.com

That is all
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 28 October, 2013, 10:10:34 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 October, 2013, 09:44:43 PM
Scrolldowntoriker.com

That is all

Brilliant. I genuinely laughed out loud.

Tl; dr: lol
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 28 October, 2013, 11:00:38 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 October, 2013, 09:44:43 PM
Scrolldowntoriker.com

That is all

Superb!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 October, 2013, 11:16:32 PM

I hate Bitstrips on Facebook, so I create this;

(http://i.imgur.com/FV8Ljnw.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 29 October, 2013, 07:55:15 PM
Penis Church

The congregation is in Dixon, Illinois, and its slogan is "Rising Up"

(http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ku-bigpic1.jpg)

You can't make this stuff up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 October, 2013, 05:05:04 PM
http://cheezburger.com/55665153
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 30 October, 2013, 08:14:08 PM
I was watching A Touch of Cloth the other night, doesnt John Hannah look like he was drawn by Ezquerra?

(http://i.imgur.com/Nu9oGGx.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 October, 2013, 08:33:33 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Rfac1gv.jpg)

Genius
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 30 October, 2013, 08:47:23 PM
a master-class in pumpkin carving:

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/pumpkin_zpsf9f80db7.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 October, 2013, 08:48:28 PM

Someone create this little video...

http://youtu.be/m3gN9RhLFGo (http://youtu.be/m3gN9RhLFGo)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 October, 2013, 10:54:20 PM
Richard Branson wants to make a glass bottomed plane, the crazy bastard (http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/virgin-launches-glass-bottomed-plane)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 October, 2013, 01:07:25 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 30 October, 2013, 10:54:20 PM
Richard Branson wants to make a glass bottomed plane, the crazy bastard (http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/virgin-launches-glass-bottomed-plane)

Better bring a mop and pail for all the sick on that flight.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 31 October, 2013, 04:24:48 PM
Found £11.00 today. Nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 31 October, 2013, 04:29:52 PM

Lost £11.00 today, anyone see it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 October, 2013, 04:54:01 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 30 October, 2013, 08:47:23 PM
a master-class in pumpkin carving:

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/pumpkin_zpsf9f80db7.jpg)

DAmn it... looks like my relatives coming home from the pub!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 November, 2013, 12:28:36 PM
Father Jedi (http://www.b3ta.com/board/11024799)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 November, 2013, 05:27:57 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 November, 2013, 12:28:36 PM
Father Jedi (http://www.b3ta.com/board/11024799)

Some of the comments are hilarious:

""I'll call Father Larry Duff, he's always tremendous fun!"
*screams*
"Boring conversation anyway."


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 03 November, 2013, 10:42:34 AM
I hate Enders Game.  It's badly written nonsense and I'm sick of militaristic, rightwing nutjobs telling me how great it is.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 03 November, 2013, 11:44:51 AM
For those like Temponaut that loathe cinemas blood and thunder Militarism here's some cheery news. Don't know if it's being made but he got the money for it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexcoxfilms/alex-cox-directs-bill-the-galactic-hero
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 November, 2013, 12:23:53 PM
FREE THE BELFAST SIX! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-24679048)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 03 November, 2013, 12:29:48 PM
I'm looking forward to the film of Speaker for the Dead myself.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 November, 2013, 04:42:55 PM
http://cheezburger.com/7874518528

KILL THEM
KILL THEM WITH FIRE
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 November, 2013, 05:19:35 PM
Who do I complain to when a banana won't peel?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 November, 2013, 05:24:59 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 05 November, 2013, 05:19:35 PM
Who do I complain to when a banana won't peel?
The double entendre is to obvious for me to not make it....."warm it up in your hand a while, old palone".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 05 November, 2013, 06:04:37 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 05 November, 2013, 05:19:35 PM
Who do I complain to when a banana won't peel?

The court of a-peel....


...tumbleweeds roll past, in the distance a crow caws mournfully....


...Sorry, I'll get my coat
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 05 November, 2013, 06:43:13 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 05 November, 2013, 06:04:37 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 05 November, 2013, 05:19:35 PM
Who do I complain to when a banana won't peel?

The court of a-peel....


...tumbleweeds roll past, in the distance a crow caws mournfully....


...Sorry, I'll get my coat

:lol:

Bloody good joke I reckon! Made me laugh anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 05 November, 2013, 08:08:00 PM
You know, this reminds me of the time I nearly puked on Henry Rollins.

I went to one of his talking shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, at a really cramped and crowded venue.  He was bloody good, talking of his travels around the world, and the things that made him who he is.

Unfortunately, with only 5 mins until the end of the show, several pints, a bad burger, and the incredibly packed and sweaty auditorium made me start to heave violently.  I struggled to my feet, and squeezed out of the row.  The only way to the exit was to stagger to the front, and squeeze between the seated audience, and Rollins himself.

'Don't go man' he said. 'I'm almost done!'

'Sorry mate' I replied, 'but I'm not feeling too good.'

I then heaved up a mouthful of sick, which I had to swallow down as hard as I could.  Both Henry and the front row I was leaning over saw the urgency of the situation, and he let me go, using my rapid exit as further means to make the audience laugh.

I made it out, had a wee puke, and then felt a hell of a lot better.  However, I felt really bad that I had spoiled the climax of Rollins's show.

Wracked with guilt, when I got home I dug out his homepage, and threw him a quick email:

'Dude, I'm the guy that staggered out at the last moment.  I am so sorry for interrupting the end of your show.  I just felt really ill and had to get out of there.  I'm gutted I missed the last few minutes, and hope I didn't fuck it up for you.  If you ever hit Cardiff, drop me an email so I can come check out the whole gig.'

His reply was straight to the point:

'Hey, no worries man. You missed a great ending though.  The ceiling opened, £50 notes came down, and we all got laid.'

What a guy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 November, 2013, 08:10:17 PM
That fucking reply. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 November, 2013, 08:20:22 PM
So in other words, a typical night for Rollins. ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 05 November, 2013, 08:43:44 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 05 November, 2013, 08:08:00 PM
You know, this reminds me of the time I nearly puked on Henry Rollins.

I went to one of his talking shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, at a really cramped and crowded venue.  He was bloody good, talking of his travels around the world, and the things that made him who he is.

Unfortunately, with only 5 mins until the end of the show, several pints, a bad burger, and the incredibly packed and sweaty auditorium made me start to heave violently.  I struggled to my feet, and squeezed out of the row.  The only way to the exit was to stagger to the front, and squeeze between the seated audience, and Rollins himself.

'Don't go man' he said. 'I'm almost done!'

'Sorry mate' I replied, 'but I'm not feeling too good.'

I then heaved up a mouthful of sick, which I had to swallow down as hard as I could.  Both Henry and the front row I was leaning over saw the urgency of the situation, and he let me go, using my rapid exit as further means to make the audience laugh.

I made it out, had a wee puke, and then felt a hell of a lot better.  However, I felt really bad that I had spoiled the climax of Rollins's show.

Wracked with guilt, when I got home I dug out his homepage, and threw him a quick email:

'Dude, I'm the guy that staggered out at the last moment.  I am so sorry for interrupting the end of your show.  I just felt really ill and had to get out of there.  I'm gutted I missed the last few minutes, and hope I didn't fuck it up for you.  If you ever hit Cardiff, drop me an email so I can come check out the whole gig.'

His reply was straight to the point:

'Hey, no worries man. You missed a great ending though.  The ceiling opened, £50 notes came down, and we all got laid.'

What a guy.

Okay, we can close the internet now. You win.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 November, 2013, 08:57:27 PM
 Who is Henry Rollins?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 November, 2013, 09:42:55 PM
Puking on Henry Rollins, licking Wendy James... if I were Karl Urban I'd carry a pack of wet wipes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 November, 2013, 10:39:41 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 November, 2013, 08:57:27 PM
Who is Henry Rollins?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28dyt7w3As





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 November, 2013, 10:40:15 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 November, 2013, 08:57:27 PM
Who is Henry Rollins?

Dat guy who got whacked by Samcro in a toilet.

Great story by the way Shaolin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 November, 2013, 10:44:29 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 05 November, 2013, 08:08:00 PM
You know, this reminds me of the time I nearly puked on Henry Rollins ...

1,500 posts, and it's only tonight you choose to share that priceless anecdote? The day they close this forum, your last post will make passing reference to the time you gave a hitcher called Richey a lift to the Severn Bridge. Cheers for that, Monkey

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 05 November, 2013, 10:49:01 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 November, 2013, 08:57:27 PM
Who is Henry Rollins?

A quite nice person if you ever get the chance to meet him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 05 November, 2013, 10:52:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 05 November, 2013, 10:40:15 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 November, 2013, 08:57:27 PM
Who is Henry Rollins?

Dat guy who got whacked by Samcro in a toilet.
That soft-spoken guy (who was ruthless but always appeared relatively calm) who got whacked. What an original move by Sutter going for that instead of shouty-ex-military-guy or similar like most others would have done.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 November, 2013, 05:06:42 PM
Hey everyone, guess what? They're making a sequel to everyone's favourite movie, THE RAID!

Sequels are usually disappointing affairs, though you probably don't need me to tell you that.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mef6vx2XCR1ribnwko1_400.gif)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 November, 2013, 05:38:54 PM
I have started something terrible
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 November, 2013, 05:40:28 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 November, 2013, 05:38:54 PM
I have started something terrible

Did you take a job at the Mail?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 November, 2013, 05:48:41 PM
I believe using words with added pictures has a place on a comics forum
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 November, 2013, 06:20:16 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 06 November, 2013, 05:48:41 PM
I believe using words with added pictures has a place on a comics forum

Clearly you don't remember the Emoticon Schism that tore this forum apart back in '07. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 November, 2013, 06:36:15 PM
That was before my time, although I can imagine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 06 November, 2013, 06:52:18 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 06 November, 2013, 06:36:15 PM
That was before my time, although I can imagine.

:-(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 November, 2013, 06:55:05 PM
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljq77svYwA1qavmeoo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 09 November, 2013, 03:44:05 PM
Why roleplaying might be a BAD idea ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblbpLwC_XA

THIS will happen more & more...



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November 8, 2013



A man sued his ex-wife over having ugly kids and he won. His ex-wife was ordered by court to pay him $120,000 in this bizarre case. This story started out with the man suing his wife because she gave birth to an ugly baby girl, but once DNA tests proved that the child was his, he sued her for having ugly children. He did this on the grounds of 'false pretenses' after finding out his ex-wife's beauty was due to plastic surgery before they met, according to "Fox and Friends First" on Friday, Nov. 8.

The Chicago Now radio station reports that Jian Feng, a Chinese man, sued his wife when she gave birth to an ugly daughter. He accused her of having an affair because the child did not look like him or his wife. When the DNA tests came back naming Feng the father of the girl, the wife came clean.

Apparently the kids look like his wife, but before she had $100,000 worth of plastic surgery in South Korea before the couple ever met. It is obvious that looks are important to the couple, who look like the Chinese version of a Barbie and Ken doll. The wife spent a small fortune to look like she does today.

The husband took his now ex-wife back to court to sue her for giving him three ugly kids. He sued her on the grounds of false-pretenses and won. The judge ruled that the wife never told Feng about the procedures "duping him into thinking she was beautiful." The judge order the ex-wife to pay Feng $120,000.

No matter how you try, there's no way to sugar coat this horrible thing this man said about his kids. He explained in his own words how his superficial lawsuit came to be:

"
"I married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began having marital issues," Feng told the Irish Times. "Our daughter was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me.""

It was last year when this man made the news by first suing his wife over their daughter being so ugly that he just knew the wife had an affair. When the DNA came back he lost that case. This new case, where he sued his now ex-wife on the grounds of marrying his wife "under false pretenses" was just recently won in court.

Some confusion around this story have some people calling it a "hoax" today because the first story came out about a year ago with the man suing his ex-wife over the paternity of his daughter. This is the second time this man dragged his wife into court to sue over their kid's appearances. While he won money because she lied to him, he started the lawsuit because the kids were "ugly."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 November, 2013, 09:41:58 AM
QuoteSome confusion around this story have some people calling it a "hoax" today because the first story came out about a year ago with the man suing his ex-wife over the paternity of his daughter. This is the second time this man dragged his wife into court to sue over their kid's appearances. While he won money because she lied to him, he started the lawsuit because the kids were "ugly."

Although I wouldn't be too surprised if it was a hoax (or at least heavily embellished), it also wouldn't surprise me hugely.  I remember reading through a kids' textbook in a school i worked for in Beijing, which cheerfully illustrated the adjectives 'fat' and 'ugly' with corresponding children. 

Anyway, I had a dream last night in which I was Huckleberry Finn.  I travelled around Ireland's waterways in a Mississippi steamer using Heisenberg-like schemes to kill authority figures and rival kids dressed as pirates en masse, somehow still retaining my reputation as loveable little scamp. 

The dream also featured Francis Begbie, whom I used as part of a masterplan to annihilate the political status quo and replace it with anarchy.  I sho' was one pow'ful naughty chile.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 November, 2013, 11:49:05 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 November, 2013, 09:41:58 AM
Anyway, I had a dream last night in which I was Huckleberry Finn.  I travelled around Ireland's waterways in a Mississippi steamer using Heisenberg-like schemes to kill authority figures and rival kids dressed as pirates en masse, somehow still retaining my reputation as loveable little scamp. 

The dream also featured Francis Begbie, whom I used as part of a masterplan to annihilate the political status quo and replace it with anarchy.  I sho' was one pow'ful naughty chile.

That's awesome!  There must have been something in the air last night, because I too had a long very vivid (but less inventive) dream where I was working to overthrow a mafia-like dynasty in a non-specific central european city (Budapest crossed with Salzburg, if you can imagine that) with the assistance of a little old lady who ran a 1-Hour Photo stall in the massive square in front of the gangsters' palace...  What fascinates me was the detailed cast of individual made men, who took it in turns to either try to enlist, ensnare or intimidate me,  the full range from adolescent scrote in high-collared suit up to swaggering don. 

It should be noted that I am re-reading Dante and had just re-watched The Untouchables.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 November, 2013, 11:55:53 AM
top tip for detailed and vivid dreaming - Nicotine patches. When I'm on a periodic  attempt to quit smoking, the patches give me the most complicated, detailed narrative dreams I've ever had. Two friends have reported similar - one said they gave her 'crazy and disturbing dreams' and the other said she had the best sex-dreams ever and awoke feeling, literally, shagged out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 November, 2013, 02:59:50 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 November, 2013, 11:49:05 AM

It should be noted that I am re-reading Dante and had just re-watched The Untouchables.

Quotetop tip for detailed and vivid dreaming - Nicotine patches

It was coming off medication, in my case.  Sometimes it's fun to be a loo-la


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 November, 2013, 03:34:30 PM
Ah, Threadjacking, where have you been?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 November, 2013, 04:31:49 PM
I think i'm paranoid about my teeth. The gum line on te bottom set looks much to low down. :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 November, 2013, 04:33:51 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7869926912/h48FACFDF/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 November, 2013, 09:18:04 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 11 November, 2013, 04:31:49 PM
I think i'm paranoid about my teeth. The gum line on te bottom set looks much to low down. :-\

Yep, there's something seriously wrong there.  I'm only going by your profile pic, mind you
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 12 November, 2013, 12:17:21 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 11 November, 2013, 04:31:49 PM
I think i'm paranoid about my teeth. The gum line on te bottom set looks much to low down. :-\

I had the same problem with receding gums.  My dentist told me to get a softer bristle brush, and not be too vigourous when using it.  He also recommended sensodyne for it's gum protection properties.

They've been fine ever since!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 November, 2013, 01:23:51 PM
Once more Judge Dredd predicts the future - Synthehol (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-11-2013-9-59-20) is here!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 November, 2013, 12:16:25 PM

Better Batman than Ben Affeck?

(http://i.imgur.com/PgIjAGh.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 November, 2013, 02:09:40 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 13 November, 2013, 12:16:25 PM

Better Batman than Ben Affeck?

(http://i.imgur.com/PgIjAGh.jpg)

Definitely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 13 November, 2013, 05:13:35 PM
Now now... stop whinnying.


It could be this guy... Ryan Reynolds
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 November, 2013, 05:57:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 13 November, 2013, 12:16:25 PM

Better Batman than Ben Affeck?


Well, since I haven't actually seen a single second's footage of Ben Affleck's Batman, it is quite impossible for me to say.
Title: Re: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 13 November, 2013, 06:38:41 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 13 November, 2013, 05:57:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 13 November, 2013, 12:16:25 PM

Better Batman than Ben Affeck?


Well, since I haven't actually seen a single second's footage of Ben Affleck's Batman, it is quite impossible for me to say.

Wtf? Are you new to the Internet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 13 November, 2013, 07:34:19 PM
This is my first day on the internet.  I went into the PC shop and asked if it was something I might like, as my major interests are racism, hating women, and pictures of cats.
Title: Re: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 November, 2013, 08:19:19 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 November, 2013, 06:38:41 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 13 November, 2013, 05:57:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 13 November, 2013, 12:16:25 PM

Better Batman than Ben Affeck?


Well, since I haven't actually seen a single second's footage of Ben Affleck's Batman, it is quite impossible for me to say.

Wtf? Are you new to the Internet?

I'm being facetious again, aren't I. Just can't seem to help it.

I'll try again.


I think it's good that they're going with an established actor. Who wants to see some no account nobody playing such an IMPORTANT literary figure? I mean, if they just used some unknown actor, it would smack of desperation.

Better?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 15 November, 2013, 06:17:51 PM
The GREATIST super hero ever...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJfwRxozmQ&list=PLC709C6AA54CC01B7
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 November, 2013, 03:54:32 PM
(http://data3.whicdn.com/images/77456378/original.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 November, 2013, 07:04:07 PM
Where's the Umpty, Humpty?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugduname (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugduname)

Oh yeah, and those big dinosteaks in Flesh don't taste like beef.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastes_like_chicken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastes_like_chicken)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 November, 2013, 08:41:38 AM
The clues have been there.
(http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/x190/356557_2.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 November, 2013, 02:19:10 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 17 November, 2013, 08:41:38 AM
The clues have been there.
(http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/x190/356557_2.jpg)

Tell me that's not real.  What a monstrous piece of shit that man was.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 November, 2013, 02:49:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 November, 2013, 02:19:10 PM
What a monstrous piece of shit that man was.


Unfortunately, thats not the half of it (http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Jimmy-Savile-book-children.jpeg)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 November, 2013, 03:01:49 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 17 November, 2013, 02:49:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 November, 2013, 02:19:10 PM
What a monstrous piece of shit that man was.


Unfortunately, thats not the half of it (http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Jimmy-Savile-book-children.jpeg)

I can't even bear to go chasing up whether those are excellent 'shop jobs, or, fucking hell, real.  The whole thing just makes me want to vomit. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 November, 2013, 10:37:58 PM
Tis true I am afraid Tord. A mate of mine spotted it at a car boot the other day.




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 November, 2013, 10:42:07 PM
http://youtu.be/xh3Wveg4DMk
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 18 November, 2013, 07:36:29 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 June, 2012, 02:32:01 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

Because we're all mental!


Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 November, 2013, 09:04:22 PM
This stadium makes me feel awkward...

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/18/1384790064345/Al-Wakrah-stadium-011.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 November, 2013, 09:15:17 PM

It's A Wonderful Life getting a sequel in 2015...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 November, 2013, 11:21:52 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 November, 2013, 09:15:17 PM

It's A Wonderful Life getting a sequel in 2015...

But DREDD isn't? There's no rucking justice in this world etc. Etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 November, 2013, 11:30:32 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 November, 2013, 09:15:17 PM

It's A Wonderful Life getting a sequel in 2015...
At first I thought you where taking the piss. What with 2015 being the year  Nothing of Value everything is being released or rebooted. Then I googled it. Sweet Pacific Rim Job who thought this was a good idea?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 November, 2013, 03:53:47 AM
WHO SAID THAT?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 19 November, 2013, 10:10:18 AM
Can Nicholas Cage please be in it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 November, 2013, 10:49:02 AM
Quote from: Skullmo on 19 November, 2013, 10:10:18 AM
Can Nicholas Cage please be in it!

It may disturb you to know that that was exactly what I was thinking too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 November, 2013, 10:52:17 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 November, 2013, 10:49:02 AM
Quote from: Skullmo on 19 November, 2013, 10:10:18 AM
Can Nicholas Cage please be in it!

It may disturb you to know that that was exactly what I was thinking too.

Let call it Family Man! ... oh wait..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 19 November, 2013, 12:27:45 PM
Buy your own Diplodicus skeleton!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24642470

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 19 November, 2013, 12:36:32 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 19 November, 2013, 12:27:45 PM
Buy your own Diplodicus skeleton!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24642470

Cheers

If you lot loved me, you'd buy this for me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 19 November, 2013, 01:36:01 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 19 November, 2013, 12:36:32 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 19 November, 2013, 12:27:45 PM
Buy your own Diplodicus skeleton!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24642470

Cheers

If you lot loved me, you'd buy this for me.


Let's get a kickstarter going. I've got a fiver, only another £599,995 to go.


Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 November, 2013, 01:46:00 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/PavdDoc.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 November, 2013, 01:49:51 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 19 November, 2013, 01:46:00 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/PavdDoc.png)

THEY MUST BE MINE.

And the perfect present for my sprout-hating diabetic father.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 November, 2013, 06:48:34 PM
(http://www.hyperactive-stage.co.uk/sausage-time.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 November, 2013, 10:09:30 PM
Baby stops crying to Star Wars theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JgyaHXqs0w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JgyaHXqs0w)

I only wish it was the Imperial March.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNv5sPu0C1E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNv5sPu0C1E)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 21 November, 2013, 01:07:25 AM
Thought I'd share this with you.

I was just going through my old photos, and found this pic of my skateboard from 1989!

I painted this deck, a copy of a classic cover by Brian Bolland. I remember using enamel - it took bloody ages to dry, but no amount of wear and tear on the streets of Ponty could chip it. In fact, the wood gave way long before the painting did!

(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x32/scowling_monkey/judgeskateboard_1989despeckled_zps79975073.jpg) (http://s186.photobucket.com/user/scowling_monkey/media/judgeskateboard_1989despeckled_zps79975073.jpg.html)


Ah, happy days...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 November, 2013, 02:47:08 AM
That's a fucking sweet plank dude.

I remember my teenage dalliance with skateboarding.

Once I perfected the 360 backflip faceplant, I realised my career had peaked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 November, 2013, 02:36:22 PM

Christmas is cancelled!

Elf will not be shown on Channel 4 this Christmas as Sky Movies have acquired the rights to the film.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 November, 2013, 09:04:52 PM
If the label is true then perhaps we shouldn't have a Christmas.

(http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BZIaiM6CIAAf7-E.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 November, 2013, 11:44:04 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 21 November, 2013, 09:04:52 PM
If the label is true then perhaps we shouldn't have a Christmas.

Christmas isn't in there in the first place: not one mention of sprouts, socks, Santa or the Two Ronnies, and the Flight Into Egypt doesn't have as many motorbikes as The Great Escape.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 22 November, 2013, 04:00:35 PM
So after the best part of a year and a half and numerous interviews (being told in two I had been successful but would have to wait for the hours to become available before employment could begin...), I finally have a job- induction Monday, starting Tuesday. The 'problem' on my mind at the minute is I obviously won't be paid until nearing the end of December (luckily, all the xmas presents I had to buy have been purchased) so I'm no doubt going to have to ask family and the odd friend for loans until payday. The good timing however is I won't have to go the job centre for the interview with my adviser next week. Result!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 November, 2013, 04:27:05 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 22 November, 2013, 04:00:35 PMThe good timing however is I won't have to go the job centre for the interview with my adviser next week. Result!

Nice one, Charlie!  I live for that day myself.  Which should be soon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 22 November, 2013, 04:36:07 PM
Great news Charlie-boy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 November, 2013, 04:52:12 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9aZNKWLAWw
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 November, 2013, 05:25:37 PM
Spot on Charlie! Nice one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zarjazzer on 22 November, 2013, 05:28:57 PM
Congrats Charlie boy all the best in your new career.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 November, 2013, 06:09:11 PM
I dont like it when the presenters on Radio 2 have time off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 23 November, 2013, 01:08:45 PM
Thank you for your kind words TordelBack, Bolt, Hawk' and Zarjazzer.
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 November, 2013, 04:27:05 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 22 November, 2013, 04:00:35 PMThe good timing however is I won't have to go the job centre for the interview with my adviser next week. Result!

Nice one, Charlie!  I live for that day myself.  Which should be soon.
TordelBack, if you're currently unfortunate enough to be claiming, I hope you do get off it soon. It's well grim and it's made worse by newspapers/folk on TV saying how people claiming benefits are doing so because they're lazy and now filthy rich thanks to the state. Then there are the Job Centre approved courses you go to after being told you'll definitely get a job if you attend such course but at some point during your first day you think "This is such a scam. I wonder how much money they're getting for doing this?" and unsurprisingly, nothing comes of it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 November, 2013, 03:56:43 PM
You're singing my song there Charlie Boy.  Although I'm in a different jurisdiction it's much the same story.  Still, my lavish lifestyle of scrounging in the bins behind the veg shop* will hopefully soon be at an end. 



*With proprietor's permission, I hasten to add.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 November, 2013, 05:12:11 PM
I am a 42-year old man hiding from his feral children and counting the minutes until their mother gets home.  This cannot be a normal state of affairs.

And I'm a double-poster too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 November, 2013, 05:19:19 PM
Fig Rolls ARE the answer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 26 November, 2013, 06:49:00 PM
Went the Job Centre today to sign off tell them I've now started work. As far as the job centre is concerned, it's mission accomplished on their end (I didn't even apply for the job via their site, but anyway...); not even an offer of a temporary bus pass which I find odd because every waste-of-time-course they try and sell to you/push you onto or they'll sanction you comes with the offer of Free bus pass until the course finishes to make sure you can get there!
As I'm not getting my first full pay packet until January, they did give me a number (some department of the local city council going by the look of it) to ring however to request financial help. I imagine I'll have been sitting without electricity etc for a good few weeks before a decision is made by them.
Mildly humorous internet cat search, don't fall me now...!
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/13/batman-cat-funny-picture_n_4266876.html


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 27 November, 2013, 12:03:01 AM
Lets start exhaustively quoting Python sketches here as well.

HELLO I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A FISH LICENSE.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 27 November, 2013, 12:06:14 AM
I can eat cheese thins again!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 November, 2013, 01:59:58 AM
QuoteTHEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 27 November, 2013, 08:56:53 PM

Friday the 13th film get reboot, again!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 November, 2013, 04:29:20 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 27 November, 2013, 08:56:53 PM

Friday the 13th film get reboot, again!

as long as Nick Cage is in it
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 November, 2013, 05:25:37 PM
Beware the clowns of Norfolk!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-25140358 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-25140358)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 November, 2013, 03:08:13 PM

Martin Freeman the top man! http://youtu.be/05fvbkwzEJo (http://youtu.be/05fvbkwzEJo)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 November, 2013, 04:44:57 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7923753216/hF59F7462/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 November, 2013, 06:20:27 PM
you can send rabbits through the post , but you must leave the ears outside the parcel, who made that rule up?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 November, 2013, 04:34:56 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/dF00m.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 November, 2013, 03:52:00 PM

I am looking for some glamorous buttons for my red coat on E bay.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 December, 2013, 06:58:19 PM
Missed delivery

(http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BaeD3juIMAAF4Ek3.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 December, 2013, 09:19:48 PM

Oh dear...

(http://i.imgur.com/ifg6GJf.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 December, 2013, 11:14:41 PM
At least it's not Dredd. If Dredd was following ye, ye'd be rightly fucked
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 December, 2013, 07:05:14 PM
That's no moon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi7KPDi_yQI#t=19 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi7KPDi_yQI#t=19)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 06 December, 2013, 05:32:42 PM
I've not looked at this thread in ages - what did I miss?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 December, 2013, 06:20:38 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 06 December, 2013, 05:32:42 PM
I've not looked at this thread in ages - what did I miss?

Hard to say, no-one seems to stay on topic for long.  More to the point, the TV version of Monsters vs Aliens is crippled by the absence of the Hugh Laurie character.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 December, 2013, 06:48:56 PM

Only the Daily Record describes Mark Millar as a "Coatbridge author". In this interview he describes his plan to turn Scotland into the production base of choice for superhero movies, and it's topped by a particularly annoying picture of him wearing a shit-eating grin, which will appeal to anyone who relishes hating the man:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity-interviews/comic-book-genius-mark-millar-2896530

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 December, 2013, 08:51:29 PM
Quote from: Robin Island on 06 December, 2013, 06:48:56 PM
Only the Daily Record describes Mark Millar as a "Coatbridge author".

I think the great Colin Smith has been known to do likewise, but without any real suggestion of compliment to either party.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 08 December, 2013, 11:56:54 AM
It's Johnny Alpha all over again.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/06/back-from-the-dead-is-family-guys-brian-griffin-set-to-return-from-beyond-the-grave-4221309/






V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 08 December, 2013, 02:06:20 PM
I searched Twitter for it after the episode and I wasn't the only one to notice that the car that hit Brian was Brian's car. So that'll come back.

Right, blackmocco? RIGHT?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 December, 2013, 03:12:14 PM
My Film Aficionado page has taken over my cataloguing desires. Managed to jot down a few of the not worthy editions in my collection plus orders.

http://hawkmonger.filmaf.com/owned
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 08 December, 2013, 05:05:28 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 December, 2013, 03:12:14 PM
My Film Aficionado page has taken over my cataloguing desires. Managed to jot down a few of the not worthy editions in my collection plus orders.

http://hawkmonger.filmaf.com/owned

Thank you for cataloging your collection so I know who to steal borrow from.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 December, 2013, 10:25:33 PM
Anyone seen any good movies lately?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 08 December, 2013, 10:43:20 PM
I hope Millar makes lots of lovely films. I don't seem to watch films.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 09 December, 2013, 09:20:57 AM
It has finally happened. It was inevitable really after Star Wars.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/s403x403/1476319_10153615026920427_153077602_n.jpg)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 December, 2013, 10:39:14 AM
We've had an Indiana Mickey* soft toy in the car for 5 or 6 years now, I feel vaguely surprised to learn Disney didn't own the movie rights already. 







*Sounds like a  candidate for the Profanisaurus if ever there was one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 December, 2013, 01:16:42 PM
Judge Lex in The Bible on Channel 5 last Saturday... Oh I means David!

(http://www.moviestillsdb.com/media/pictures/m/de/ded996e6999e8edfe7b2ccba0bed7bc7.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 09 December, 2013, 01:31:53 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 December, 2013, 10:39:14 AM
We've had an Indiana Mickey* soft toy in the car for 5 or 6 years now, I feel vaguely surprised to learn Disney didn't own the movie rights already. 







*Sounds like a  candidate for the Profanisaurus if ever there was one.

Yep, I'd assumed they'd taken rights to all of the Lucasfilm movies including Indianna Jones and Willow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 09 December, 2013, 09:59:24 PM
Would you really want Willow?
But saying that with taking on the SW franchise they have those lovely Ewok films.
Oh god no, that means they could remake those.


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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 December, 2013, 10:36:03 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/hKibUb8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 December, 2013, 04:42:26 PM
How to make an electric guitar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE&feature=share)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 December, 2013, 05:18:21 PM
Tomorrow is 11/12/13. 
Those pesky Mayan's will no doubt try something. Again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 December, 2013, 05:46:42 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 10 December, 2013, 05:18:21 PM
Tomorrow is 11/12/13. 
Those pesky Mayan's will no doubt try something. Again.
Not if the WBC have anything to say about it they wont!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 December, 2013, 02:03:29 PM
After watching far too much of it, the wife and I have started communicating in Masterchef-speak. 

'My sorbet hasn't set yet'
'It's more of a starter-portion than a main course'.
'The skin is lovely and crisp, but what's underneath is rubbery and just not very appealing'.
'You can try, but I don't think sticking it in the blast-chiller is helping'
'The ballotine wasn't wrapped tightly enough when it went in and now it's sagging'.
'30 seconds, ouais chef!"
'Oh dear, still a few minutes under'.

And of course.

'It doesn't get any harder than this'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 December, 2013, 04:56:32 PM
Cool way to get your Christmas tree...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 December, 2013, 08:19:33 PM

Naked Gun will be reboot with that unfunny Ed Helms of Hangovers...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Chris Tresson on 14 December, 2013, 09:41:18 PM
Say it ain't so, Goaty!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 December, 2013, 02:41:48 PM
Dear Grud no. No, no, NO! Helms isn't a patch on Neilsen, he'd never be able to pull it off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 December, 2013, 02:44:40 PM
Shirley, you can't be serious
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 December, 2013, 03:45:17 PM
I am. And don't call me Shirley.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 December, 2013, 07:13:04 PM
I've been trying to work out what the Spaceman's 'message for mankind to hear' actually was.  It's a bit short on content, but at least his ship seems to work on the same principles as the Millennium Falcon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 December, 2013, 09:32:48 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 December, 2013, 07:13:04 PM
I've been trying to work out what the Spaceman's 'message for mankind to hear' actually was.

It'll be "Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!".

Well, something along those lines, anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 December, 2013, 06:58:35 PM
8 Kinds of Tolkien fans

(http://cdn.nerdapproved.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/tolkien-fans.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 December, 2013, 11:51:18 AM
There must be a Dredd version of that
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 December, 2013, 02:14:23 PM
If there ain't there ought to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 December, 2013, 02:16:08 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 18 December, 2013, 02:14:23 PM
If there ain't there ought to be.

I could put names to em!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 December, 2013, 02:51:42 PM
Just been at my son's school's 2.5 hour long version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  I counted 120 oompa-loompas.  There can't be a brown polo-neck or tub of orange facepaint left in the city.

Quite a clever mix of the book with elements of both Wilder and Depp versions, but appreciably longer than either.  The ambitious schemes of new school principals...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 December, 2013, 04:44:57 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YmS_VDvMY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 December, 2013, 05:35:23 PM
Does anyone know how Ghost MacRoth really feels about Coronation Street?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 25 December, 2013, 12:17:29 AM
THREE THINGS I WANT FOR THE FUTURE OF 2000AD

A) FILMS
B) COMPUTER GAMES
C) MERCHANDISE


...or... I dunno a comic, anyone? 2000ad is a comic, right? Yeah. No. It just exists to be adapted into other forms. Comics are shite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 December, 2013, 01:08:25 AM
Validate meeeee! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 02 January, 2014, 04:41:30 PM
Damn you Croydon Libraries...


Not only dose the booking computer lose my previously made reservations (And claim that I can't be found)

They have now blocked access to Facebook, Twitter, my paranoid friends site, YouTube Cheezeburger...

Some idiot in their technical dept. has been fiddling with their filtering system again.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 02 January, 2014, 04:46:57 PM
cached pages is your friend
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 January, 2014, 12:17:29 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/g9tXw1J.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 January, 2014, 02:32:01 PM
With great power comes high amylose content.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 January, 2014, 04:00:00 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7980572160/h208B0337/ (https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7980572160/h208B0337/)
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7980588544/h10A53826/ (https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7980588544/h10A53826/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 January, 2014, 05:46:40 PM
If you have the opportunity Karl will be appearing at Destination Star Trek in Frankfurt 21 - 23 February.

http://www.destinationstartrek.com/latest-news/231-third-guest-announcement (http://www.destinationstartrek.com/latest-news/231-third-guest-announcement)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 January, 2014, 06:32:11 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 January, 2014, 05:46:40 PM
Karl will be appearing at Destination Star Trek...

Splitter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 January, 2014, 05:59:37 PM
A roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says "Five beers please"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 January, 2014, 10:10:33 PM

Death by Wedgie  :-\

http://news.sky.com/story/1192894/atomic-wedgie-death-man-on-murder-charge (http://news.sky.com/story/1192894/atomic-wedgie-death-man-on-murder-charge)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Chris Tresson on 11 January, 2014, 11:01:05 AM
Yes, Goaty. That's quality. Only in America!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 January, 2014, 03:26:14 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7978947840/h2E9973E8/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 January, 2014, 08:41:37 PM


               

              Man with seven-week-long erection treated at Dublin hospital (http://www.thejournal.ie/seven-week-erection-1262736-Jan2014/?utm_source=facebook_short)




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 January, 2014, 10:43:27 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 January, 2014, 08:41:37 PM
Man with seven-week-long erection treated at Dublin hospital (http://www.thejournal.ie/seven-week-erection-1262736-Jan2014/?utm_source=facebook_short)

I've been making the mistake of measuring mine in inches.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Chris Tresson on 13 January, 2014, 10:48:26 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 13 January, 2014, 10:43:27 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 January, 2014, 08:41:37 PM
Man with seven-week-long erection treated at Dublin hospital (http://www.thejournal.ie/seven-week-erection-1262736-Jan2014/?utm_source=facebook_short)

I've been making the mistake of measuring mine in inches.

Haha!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 January, 2014, 07:46:49 PM
Guysguysguysguys just guys, we all need to stop and watch this, right now.

http://youtu.be/FPI_Udzr3VM
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 January, 2014, 05:55:20 PM

Is your nickname Aero? Do you live in Huddersfield? Is your best friend, Matthew, helping you to convert your outbuilding into a museum for your collection of 2000ads and associated memorabilia? If so, you got a mention on 6 Music last Friday afternoon (1hr 20m):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03npf3b

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 January, 2014, 06:43:46 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 16 January, 2014, 05:55:20 PM

Is your nickname Aero? Do you live in Huddersfield? Is your best friend, Matthew, helping you to convert your outbuilding into a museum for your collection of 2000ads and associated memorabilia? If so, you got a mention on 6 Music last Friday afternoon (1hr 20m):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03npf3b

Could it be this Aero (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?action=profile;u=30712) I wonder? he did some fantastic cover-montage videos on youtube.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 16 January, 2014, 09:04:15 PM
How was this even possible?

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100120225242/batman/images/1/10/Scooby_Doo_Meets_Batman.png)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 January, 2014, 09:40:40 PM
I'm not sure you're meant to reply to stuff here (I don't visit this thread often and when I done it amuses and hurts my noggin in equal measure) BUT I own that DVD... well to be precise my daughter does. She's a big Scooby Doo fan and so I thought this would be fun to watch with here.

I was wrong. Its 70s era Scooby and the animation is typically terrible as is the story and just about everything else in it. My daughter of course loves it (though bizarrely the least scary Joker in the world ever scares her a bit? Go figure the minds of 4 1/2 girls. She's rubbish at pub quizzes too).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 January, 2014, 10:06:37 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 January, 2014, 09:40:40 PMIts 70s era Scooby and the animation is typically terrible as is the story and just about everything else in it.

My son bought this when he was 6 with the entire contents of his piggybank after being smitten in Tescos by its promised delights, as he loves Scooby Doo and the various modern Batman cartoons.  He watched it once in total silence, put it back in the case, and AFAIK it hasn't left the shelf since.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 January, 2014, 03:07:04 AM
I know someone who is a total Batman fan. I could do with a copy of that as punishment....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2014, 07:07:09 AM

They actually mocked this in the final episode of The Brave and the Bold. And yes it is utter bilge.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 17 January, 2014, 09:07:53 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 16 January, 2014, 09:04:15 PM
How was this even possible?

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100120225242/batman/images/1/10/Scooby_Doo_Meets_Batman.png)

Cannon Batfans.




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 January, 2014, 05:42:41 PM
Im guessing (Well, not really guessing...) that those with a subscription have your copy of Prog 1865 now?

I was going to say im now avoiding the forum 'til Wednesday [spoiler](Who's back? Dunno, is it a dead Rico?, or maybe Death?, or Halo Jones??)[/spoiler], but I reckon im safe on here. Damn sight safer than sneaking a quick glance at my FB feed would be...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 21 January, 2014, 06:15:33 PM
Anyone want to look at womens underwear??


Tut tut ;) - Molch-R
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 January, 2014, 06:50:09 PM

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Uicpu16kvIA/TIWZZNSeWxI/AAAAAAAABbk/Ouev1_JyJ5Y/s1600/PantyStyles.png)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 January, 2014, 08:26:53 PM

Now you can finally shoot cartoon characters with Smith & Wesson's new revolver!

So where is cartoon western bullets???

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/21/article-2543240-1AD97EE200000578-657_634x343.jpg)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/21/article-2543240-1AD97FDA00000578-20_634x382.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 January, 2014, 06:19:29 PM

(http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/www.thehollywoodgossip.com/images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/t_slideshow/v1390494806/xjustin-bieber-mug-shot.jpg.pagespeed.ic.BH9v6iQTe0.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 23 January, 2014, 06:33:35 PM
 :sick: Looks like the lesbian brother of Jedward!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 January, 2014, 06:37:04 PM
Why sauchie? Why?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 January, 2014, 07:17:35 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 23 January, 2014, 06:37:04 PM
Why sauchie? Why?

He looks so happy in his prison oranges. Some lucky jailbird (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qka6JrKUM5U&feature=player_detailpage#t=87)'s gonnae think all his Christmases have come at once when they see who they've got for a new cell mate.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 January, 2014, 07:29:35 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 23 January, 2014, 07:17:35 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 23 January, 2014, 06:37:04 PM
Why sauchie? Why?

He looks so happy in his prison oranges. Some lucky jailbird (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qka6JrKUM5U&feature=player_detailpage#t=87)'s gonnae think all his Christmases have come at once when they see who they've got for a new cell mate.
This made my day and im not even sorry! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 January, 2014, 10:49:34 PM
I honestly thought that was Miley Cyrus without her makeup.  I had to check the image tag to identify Bieber.  There is presumably a specific term for revelling in and publicising this kind of ignorance.

In other news, my 4-yr old daughter continues to be a source of paternal worry-slash-pride. 

On being upset to learn that she couldn't accompany her big brother to a laser-tag birthday party, her mother consoled her by saying that while the party was on the two of them could go to a cafe, eat cakes and read magazines together. 

"Will there be pictures of boys in them?", my daughter asked. 

"Errr, probably?", my wife replied.

"Good.  We can draw willies on them".

I expect each knock at the door to be Social Services.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 January, 2014, 07:04:19 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 January, 2014, 10:49:34 PM
I honestly thought that was Miley Cyrus without her makeup ...

"Will there be pictures of boys in them?", my daughter asked. 

"Errr, probably?", my wife replied.

"Good.  We can draw willies on them".


There's a reason looking at a picture of Bieber brought to mind an anecdote about the need for cosmetic penis enhancement:


(http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Eoin-McLove1.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 24 January, 2014, 08:28:15 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 January, 2014, 10:49:34 PM
I honestly thought that was Miley Cyrus without her makeup.  I had to check the image tag to identify Bieber.  There is presumably a specific term for revelling in and publicising this kind of ignorance.

In other news, my 4-yr old daughter continues to be a source of paternal worry-slash-pride. 

On being upset to learn that she couldn't accompany her big brother to a laser-tag birthday party, her mother consoled her by saying that while the party was on the two of them could go to a cafe, eat cakes and read magazines together. 

"Will there be pictures of boys in them?", my daughter asked. 

"Errr, probably?", my wife replied.

"Good.  We can draw willies on them".

I expect each knock at the door to be Social Services.

Ha ha!

We have a local oddball who was banned from our library for drawing willies in all the books on aerobics and yoga.
When he was allowed back he enquired if there were any books available on dental anaesthesia, and if so, could he rent them all out!
He always wears a balaclava and often a leather cat suit and woman's handbag. Once he wore a dress that was like a big tube and didn't have any armholes so he looked like a big caterpillar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 January, 2014, 08:01:32 AM

Tom Hiddleston's Audition To Play Thor...

(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr02/28/15/anigif_enhanced-5956-1390939968-4.gif)
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr06/28/15/anigif_enhanced-29321-1390939755-7.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 January, 2014, 11:10:44 AM
Mice, for/against?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 29 January, 2014, 11:19:36 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 January, 2014, 11:10:44 AM
Mice, for/against?

I would say 'For'.

Lovely, cuddle little things. But a single dead one manages to smell like a fucking slaughter house if left to rot!


Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 January, 2014, 11:41:28 AM
on toast or skewered?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 29 January, 2014, 12:08:08 PM
On toast - with Mint jelly and a wedge of Brie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 29 January, 2014, 12:53:48 PM
Mice are only good for one thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nGyPz9uT0
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 January, 2014, 02:11:28 PM
A poster that should be...

(http://i.imgur.com/4A1DNZV.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 January, 2014, 02:25:41 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 29 January, 2014, 02:11:28 PM
A poster that should be...

(http://i.imgur.com/4A1DNZV.png)

Where's the mice in that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 29 January, 2014, 02:26:44 PM
Under the masks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 January, 2014, 04:22:02 PM
Quote

Ha ha!

We have a local oddball who was banned from our library for drawing willies in all the books on aerobics and yoga.
When he was allowed back he enquired if there were any books available on dental anaesthesia, and if so, could he rent them all out!
He always wears a balaclava and often a leather cat suit and woman's handbag. Once he wore a dress that was like a big tube and didn't have any armholes so he looked like a big caterpillar.

Perhaps he was trying to enter the Turner prize....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 January, 2014, 09:29:13 PM
Shark Dundee

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/doctor-fights-shark-stitches-up-leg (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/doctor-fights-shark-stitches-up-leg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 January, 2014, 12:22:46 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 30 January, 2014, 09:29:13 PM
Shark Dundee


Am I the only one disappointed that this wasn't a youtube link showing The Legendary Shark take on some Men in Black with a large hunting knife?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 January, 2014, 04:11:28 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8026609152/h1F7C78CA/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 February, 2014, 10:45:26 PM
The wife is unsubtly angling for a spell of conjugal activity this evening, but I have work I really need to get sorted.  What should I do, late 70's boys' comic fans?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 February, 2014, 11:00:11 PM
well stop farting about here and do one or the other!  :D

Anyway, a 5 minute break won't disrupt your work too much will it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 01 February, 2014, 11:01:10 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 February, 2014, 11:00:11 PM
Anyway, a 5 minute break won't disrupt your work too much will it?


He's not doing it twice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 February, 2014, 11:03:28 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 01 February, 2014, 11:01:10 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 February, 2014, 11:00:11 PM
Anyway, a 5 minute break won't disrupt your work too much will it?

He's not doing it twice.

Hey, I have to factor in taking off my trackie.  That pushes it up to at least 4 minutes.  Right, screw you guys, I'm taking one for the team.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 02 February, 2014, 03:23:51 AM
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSajFnkUxQY

When was the last time a pop song had a fucking plot twist?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 February, 2014, 09:02:11 AM
Quote from: JamesC on 02 February, 2014, 03:23:51 AM
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSajFnkUxQY

When was the last time a pop song had a fucking plot twist?!

The twist is that no hairspray was used in the making of this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAfxs0IDeMs); those women are just very surprised.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 February, 2014, 08:20:00 PM

CHUCKLE BROTHERS
TESTIFY IN TRIAL
OF DAVE LEE TRAVIS (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dave-lee-travis-trial-chuckle-brother-surprised-by-claims-dj-assaulted-a-crew-member-9104966.html)


I heard they enjoyed a three way:


To me, Barry.

To you, Paul.

To me, Barry.

To you, Paul.

To me, Barry.

To you, Paul.


(and then a sound like someone putting their foot in a bucket of paint)




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 03 February, 2014, 08:39:17 PM
Surely you're thinking of the Krankies Sauchie?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 03 February, 2014, 08:40:26 PM
Krankies for the threeway that is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 February, 2014, 09:15:40 PM

I've managed to live quite happily without ever thinking about The Krankies in a three way, and I'm not about to start now.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 05 February, 2014, 05:39:20 PM
I have seen the light.  I have discovered Last Thursdayism.

www.last-thursday.org (http://www.last-thursday.org)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 February, 2014, 05:46:46 PM

In other news, Kelly Brook is on holiday somewhere warm and wet. In the interests of maintaining board harmony, I will refrain from producing photographic evidence to support my argument.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 February, 2014, 06:39:32 PM
BREAKING NEWS

'Murica has declared war on Cocacola-land. The nukes will be flying shortly...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 05 February, 2014, 07:43:20 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 February, 2014, 06:39:32 PM
BREAKING NEWS

'Murica has declared war on Cocacola-land. The nukes will be flying shortly...

I don't understand?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 February, 2014, 08:19:13 PM
Basically a loud of idiot took offence to CocaCola producing an advert for the Super Bowl the features America being sung in a number of languages by ethnically diverse people. Essentially everything white trash hates.

http://youtu.be/rfm6S6BwS90
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 February, 2014, 10:29:17 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 February, 2014, 08:19:13 PM
Basically a loud of idiot took offence to CocaCola producing an advert for the Super Bowl the features America being sung in a number of languages by ethnically diverse people. Essentially everything white trash hates. http://youtu.be/443Vy3I0gJs

They don't frame it as their hating [spoiler]niggers, spics, chinks and Muslims[/spoiler] - as they obviously do - though. It's the fact those US citizens refuse to learn to speak English which bothers them. Of course it is. Even though each representative of a different US ethnicity seen in that ad is accompanied by lines of America The Beautiful alternating between English and a variety of languages. It's the multi-lingual who pose the real threat to American freedom today.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 February, 2014, 10:52:33 PM
@Hawkmonger, I know you meant 'load' but that typo is perfect.


A 'loud' of idiot(s) - if that's not the official collective term, then it should be.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 February, 2014, 11:08:49 PM
I was aiming for a bit o' regional dialect. But it could appear I got me 'a's and me' 'o's mixed up. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 February, 2014, 07:46:45 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 February, 2014, 10:52:33 PM
A 'loud' of idiot(s) - if that's not the official collective term, then it should be.

I endorse this product and/or service.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 February, 2014, 10:58:45 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 February, 2014, 07:46:45 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 February, 2014, 10:52:33 PM
A 'loud' of idiot(s) - if that's not the official collective term, then it should be.

I endorse this product and/or service.

Capitalist pig.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 February, 2014, 11:58:33 AM
Monkeys in Hats? Listen...

You, you're such a big star to me
You're everything I wanna be
But you're stuck in a hole
And I want you to get out

I don't know what there is to see
But I know it's time for you to leave
We're all just pushing along
Trying to figure it out, out, out

All your anticipation pulls you down
When you can have it all
You can have it all, all, all

So come on, come on, get it on
I don't know what you're waiting for
Your time is coming don't be late, hey hey
So come on, see the light on your face
Let it shine, just let it shine, let it shine

Stop being so hard on yourself
It's not good for your health
I know that you can change
So clear your head and come 'round

You only have to open your eyes
You might just get a big surprise
And it may feel good
And you might want to smile, smile, smile

Oh don't you let your demons pull you down
'Cause you can have it all
You can have it all, all, all

So come on, come on, get it on
I don't know what you're waiting for
Your time is coming don't be late, hey hey
So come on, see the light on your face
Let it shine, just let it shine, let it shine

Hey! Let me know you
You're all that matters to me
Hey! Let me show you
You're all that matters to me

So come on, come on, get it on
I don't know what you're waiting for
Your time is coming don't be late, hey hey
So come on, see the light on your face
Let it shine, just let it shine, let it shine



Read more: Take That - Shine Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 06 February, 2014, 12:15:38 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 February, 2014, 11:58:33 AM
Monkeys in Hats? Listen...


Read more: Take That - Shine Lyrics | MetroLyrics

While we haven't reached 'infinity' yet that does lend credence to the argument that if you put a million monkeys on a million typewriters ultimately you won't accidentally get teh works of Shakespeare at all, but meaningless drivel.  I would add that my own post further supports the 'drivel' argument.

Quote
It's the multi-lingual who pose the real threat to American freedom today.

If you can't understand what they're saying, how will you know when they're about to steal your jobs/shag your daughters/fly planes into things?  QED innit.   ::) ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 February, 2014, 03:54:29 PM
Superbowl?

The man's got a point, right at the top of his white hood
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 08 February, 2014, 03:24:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sUeGC-8dyk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sUeGC-8dyk)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 February, 2014, 10:41:08 AM

You'd have to be fucking nuts to do some of the stunts those snowboarders put together at incredible speed and at vertiginous heights.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 February, 2014, 08:08:56 PM
Watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall last night in Denmark, I thought what a lovely bunch of folks those Danes are.....

Then this morning, I find out they've butchered a perfectly good Giraffe, and fed it to the Lions - whilst children watched  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 February, 2014, 08:09:43 PM
See my rant in the Politics thread Jack and you'll soon see the light.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 February, 2014, 08:18:36 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 10 February, 2014, 08:09:43 PM
See my rant in the Politics thread Jack and you'll soon see the light.

Is it safe to go to that thread? I've heard tales....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 February, 2014, 09:32:57 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 10 February, 2014, 08:08:56 PM
Watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall last night in Denmark, I thought what a lovely bunch of folks those Danes are.....Then this morning, I find out they've butchered a perfectly good Giraffe, and fed it to the Lions - whilst children watched  :-\

It's all well and good for liberals like you to criticise the Danes from your comfy armchair, Jack, but have you ever paused to consider how the families of the executed giraffe's victims feel?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 10 February, 2014, 09:58:21 PM
That's it. No more Danish bacon for me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 February, 2014, 10:06:21 PM

Samuel L Jackson destroys news anchor for mild racism. It's as simultaneously painful and hilarious to watch as Partridge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Yi4oiapWc

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 10 February, 2014, 10:28:06 PM
Where's David?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 10 February, 2014, 10:33:45 PM
Quote from: sauchie olympics on 10 February, 2014, 10:06:21 PM

Samuel L Jackson destroys news anchor for mild racism. It's as simultaneously painful and hilarious to watch as Partridge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Yi4oiapWc


He knows how to handle idiots:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYYBJ8XRdh4
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 11 February, 2014, 06:27:02 AM
Just finished my second cup of coffee. My bath is ready.
And I've just noticed I'm in work at 3pm today, not 8am like I had thought.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 February, 2014, 08:02:41 AM
It would appear I have been shamed by Hayao Miyazaki...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/interest/2014-01-30/miyazaki/the-problem-with-the-anime-industry-is-it-full-of-otaku
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 February, 2014, 04:31:52 PM
Oh bollards!

just accidently bid on something on E bay that isn't what I thought it was....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 February, 2014, 06:56:21 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 February, 2014, 04:31:52 PM
Oh bollards!

just accidently bid on something on E bay that isn't what I thought it was....

What colour was the Space Spinner?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 February, 2014, 03:07:49 PM
I'm a Tapir now. Tapirs are cool.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 February, 2014, 04:15:00 PM
 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVaITA7eBZE&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 February, 2014, 11:23:40 PM
Curling is really boring, especially when you compare it to all the other high-speed, high-risk-of-icy-death sports the BBC could be covering.

And Claire Balding needs to stop saying "hashtag".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 February, 2014, 08:15:32 AM
Coffee. 
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Post by: judda fett on 13 February, 2014, 08:25:47 AM
and cigarettes. Must get round to watching that again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 February, 2014, 11:26:35 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 12 February, 2014, 11:23:40 PM
Curling is really boring, especially when you compare it to all the other high-speed, high-risk-of-icy-death sports the BBC could be covering.


I don't know, you can get some pretty nasty burns from those tongs if you forget to switch em off
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 February, 2014, 06:59:44 PM

(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/c3127f02-4cb1-4b29-8217-f0f46150ef8c.jpg?t=1392488387)

Has there ever been a single less accurate statement in the history of the comic? The ramifications of The Apocalypse War have echoed throughout the years (including Dredd's trial in Doomsday), the previous prisoner revolt got a namecheck in Titan recently, and even old Lopez gets a mention now and then. I'm struggling to think of a single reference being made to that time when all the judges ran away because robots were in charge and anarchy reigned on the streets of MC1.

With Mechanismo units and other robot auxiliaries on the streets of the city as part of the long tail of Chaos Day, you'd think it would have brought back bad memories, made cits and judges a little nervous, or struck someone as ironic.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 February, 2014, 11:23:20 AM
Don't forget that the Angel Gang are still alive. And Christianity is illegal, and the Justice Dept killed a huge percentage of MC1's children with a missile.  And the devil is in prison in MC1, even though another one came and visited the city and Anderson talked to it and that was it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 February, 2014, 12:26:02 PM
Also Nero was a weebo.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 16 February, 2014, 01:57:32 PM
When did they kill the kiddies?

I dimly recall Nero being mentioned in Trifecta, I think. Or at least in one of the Brit Cit crossovers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 February, 2014, 11:32:37 AM
He's recently opened some cafes, which is nice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 February, 2014, 01:57:17 PM
I've just noticed that someone comments on the BBC's news pages under the name WULF STERNHAMMER'S HAPPYSTICK - wonder if it's anyone around here?

I rarely dip into this cesspoool of middle-England whinging myself, but when I do it's under the name HaloJones.  The majority of contributors seem to be very pro-UKIP and anti-immigration, and , bizarrely considering how much time they spend there, anti BBC.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 February, 2014, 04:42:16 PM
A lot of Pigeon poo on my (recently cleaned) car today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 February, 2014, 04:44:46 PM
you need to do this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y82mrO3pSzc

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 February, 2014, 05:00:09 PM
And you should do this to...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7FXqeiHRIes

www.nuttybiblequotes.com/backers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 February, 2014, 05:07:18 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 16 February, 2014, 12:26:02 PM
Also Nero was a weebo.

I had to look up that term, but aye. Probably one of the most incongruous bits of Dredd character design I can think of, and one of the most bland villains too. In terms of the epics, Nero Narcos registers one rung below Grice on the lazy-script-droidometer. At Inferno's bad guy had the so-dumb-it's-funny motivation of really hating Dredd for taking over the city - Narcos instigated his Bond villain plan to take over the world (bwah-ha-ha) just because he was bored.

I spent most of the time wondering whether the two girls who were screwing him were humans or robots, and whether becoming a robot yourself would mean you fancied other robots, whether your libido was fixed with regard to species, and whether having sex with humans now gave Narcos the same kinky thrill as folk who indulge in bestiality. I'm a dirty Philip K Dick, me.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 February, 2014, 08:22:05 AM
Mildly amusing, in a 'look how mainstream geeky things have become' sort of way:  http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/feb/18/ellen-page-has-super-powers-but-why-is-this-newsworthy?CMP=twt_fd
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 18 February, 2014, 08:35:41 AM
Quote from: sauchie olympics on 17 February, 2014, 05:07:18 PMProbably one of the most incongruous bits of Dredd character design I can think of, and one of the most bland villains too. In terms of the epics, Nero Narcos registers one rung below Grice on the lazy-script-droidometer.
Particularly frustrating as the build up to Doomsday was so well done, being spread across Prog and Meg for the four years or so from the start of The Pit and running through all the procedural stuff Wagner got into over that period.

Should read well in the next five Case Files
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 February, 2014, 05:16:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 February, 2014, 08:22:05 AM
Mildly amusing, in a 'look how mainstream geeky things have become' sort of way:  http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/feb/18/ellen-page-has-super-powers-but-why-is-this-newsworthy?CMP=twt_fd

"For example, a few responses to Page's confession questioned whether she will be able to play non-mutants, despite the fact that she had to publicly admit to being a mutant before people realised she was one. Some wonder whether it would be "fair" for her to play something she's not, seemingly forgetting that this is the whole point of acting"

I see what the author did there. Singer only made the homosexual nature of the X-Men a metaphor for mutant powers because he's one himself.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 February, 2014, 05:52:27 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 February, 2014, 08:35:41 AM
(T)he build up to Doomsday was so well done, being spread across Prog and Meg for the four years or so from the start of The Pit and running through all the procedural stuff Wagner got into over that period. Should read well in the next five Case Files

My weekend re-read was the first time I've returned to those stories since they were originally published. I remembered being deeply underwhelmed by Doomsday at the time, so I was surprised to find the early John Burns and Cam Kennedy illustrated episodes quite enjoyable. I barely registered the Megazine episodes originally, but the Philip Marlowe burlesque was more entertaining without a few weeks in-between instalments.

It's only really when the story gets bogged down in the uninvolving and moribund trial sequence that it begins to drag, and the inconsequential destruction of the robots by Dredd's team of undifferentiated characters is notable only for it being the kind of thing Wagner normally does so well, done pretty badly. It doesn't help that the art goes to hell at the same time, and so many different artists doing an episode or two then buggering off does nothing to smooth over any deficiencies in the narrative.

Recent Dredd epics have utilised a varied roster of art talent, but editorial do a good job of assigning certain artists (or artists with sympathetic styles) specific parts of the story - Colin MacNeil seemed to handle a lot of the Cursed Earth sequences of Tour Of Duty, for example, so when the story switched back to MC1 the change to another artist felt much less jarring. I think if Doomsday could have been shared between Burns doing the human drama sequences and Kennedy/Wilson handling the action/battle elements, it would have read much better.

As you say though, it's less of a full stop than a comma delineating the point at which the Team Dredd era begun by The Pit is joined by the Family Dredd sequence of stories which Wagner would shortly embark upon.  Put those storytelling styles and thematic concerns together, and you have modern Dredd.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 19 February, 2014, 03:43:47 AM
Quote from: sauchie olympics on 18 February, 2014, 05:52:27 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 February, 2014, 08:35:41 AM
(T)he build up to Doomsday was so well done, being spread across Prog and Meg for the four years or so from the start of The Pit and running through all the procedural stuff Wagner got into over that period. Should read well in the next five Case Files

My weekend re-read was the first time I've returned to those stories since they were originally published. I remembered being deeply underwhelmed by Doomsday at the time, so I was surprised to find the early John Burns and Cam Kennedy illustrated episodes quite enjoyable. I barely registered the Megazine episodes originally, but the Philip Marlowe burlesque was more entertaining without a few weeks in-between instalments.

It's only really when the story gets bogged down in the uninvolving and moribund trial sequence that it begins to drag, and the inconsequential destruction of the robots by Dredd's team of undifferentiated characters is notable only for it being the kind of thing Wagner normally does so well, done pretty badly. It doesn't help that the art goes to hell at the same time, and so many different artists doing an episode or two then buggering off does nothing to smooth over any deficiencies in the narrative.

Recent Dredd epics have utilised a varied roster of art talent, but editorial do a good job of assigning certain artists (or artists with sympathetic styles) specific parts of the story - Colin MacNeil seemed to handle a lot of the Cursed Earth sequences of Tour Of Duty, for example, so when the story switched back to MC1 the change to another artist felt much less jarring. I think if Doomsday could have been shared between Burns doing the human drama sequences and Kennedy/Wilson handling the action/battle elements, it would have read much better.

As you say though, it's less of a full stop than a comma delineating the point at which the Team Dredd era begun by The Pit is joined by the Family Dredd sequence of stories which Wagner would shortly embark upon.  Put those storytelling styles and thematic concerns together, and you have modern Dredd.

I once got drunk in Alva, then fell over during a walk to Menstrie and woke up covered in blood.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 20 February, 2014, 12:50:53 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/2UfkXZm.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 February, 2014, 01:58:45 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 20 February, 2014, 12:50:53 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/2UfkXZm.jpg)

I don't even know where to begin with this one...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 20 February, 2014, 08:07:18 PM
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bPS2leOiAq8/TsPg7Af3mSI/AAAAAAAACSQ/2sY6A33HyTQ/earthworm-jim-earthworm-jim-877244_226_460.jpg)





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 February, 2014, 08:17:12 PM
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/b1f68aec10433c8817988307b33fd9d1/tumblr_my6huuyBvX1r3smugo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 February, 2014, 09:39:04 PM
Aw .. Good old Earth Worm Jim.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 February, 2014, 10:29:32 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/QMqbhNr.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 February, 2014, 02:21:58 AM
That could be Akward if you just happen to be doing brain surgery!  :lol: ( Or defusing a bomb)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 21 February, 2014, 02:36:23 AM
What if you were already over-acting? What if you were impersonating Shatner, and someone yelled "Shatner"? Would you explode?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 February, 2014, 03:17:47 AM

No dear... You would IMPLODE... From the anus!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 February, 2014, 07:09:44 AM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 21 February, 2014, 02:36:23 AM
What if you were already over-acting? What if you were impersonating Shatner, and someone yelled "Shatner"?

You turn into Russell Crowe.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 February, 2014, 08:08:29 AM
Surely Nic Cage is the next logical step?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 February, 2014, 02:15:07 PM
Nicholas Cage could never be described as the next logical step
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 February, 2014, 03:28:39 PM

Wonder if Deaf people can do lie detector on Jeremy Kyle Show? If they fail, blame the interpreter!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 22 February, 2014, 12:25:11 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 February, 2014, 03:28:39 PM

Wonder if Deaf people can do lie detector on Jeremy Kyle Show? If they fail, blame the interpreter!

Ironically, the effectiveness of a lie detector is itself a lie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 February, 2014, 03:11:11 AM
But they never mention that on Jeremy Kyle.... Do they?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 22 February, 2014, 10:16:16 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 February, 2014, 03:11:11 AM
But they never mention that on Jeremy Kyle.... Do they?

Yep, a little notice runs across the bottom of the screen during those parts where they reveal the results.


I should point out I only know this because my Dad watches the show and he sometimes leaves it on when I'm in the room, honest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 February, 2014, 12:43:59 PM
If I was ever on that show... ( And I would have to be tricked, drugged and have my brain removed first)

I would simply stand up and say " If lie detector tests are so accurate... How come they are not admissible in any court of law?"

But it would be edited out.

puts on Stephen Fry voice: " Interesting fact, the inventor of the lie detector test was also the creator of Wonder Woman. Who in the initial comics lost all her powers if she was ever tied up.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 February, 2014, 10:45:28 PM
Went to visit The Monument of Great Fire Of London 1666, no mentions of zombies :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 February, 2014, 01:03:38 AM
Quote from: sauchie olympics on 21 February, 2014, 07:09:44 AM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 21 February, 2014, 02:36:23 AM
What if you were already over-acting? What if you were impersonating Shatner, and someone yelled "Shatner"?

You turn into Russell Crowe.

Or Daniel Day Lewis ('There will be Blood' is currently on the goggle box).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 23 February, 2014, 01:55:01 AM
Drinking beer while doing refresher training at work, top stuff!






Root Beer that is ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 February, 2014, 08:58:54 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 23 February, 2014, 01:03:38 AM
Quote from: sauchie olympics on 21 February, 2014, 07:09:44 AM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 21 February, 2014, 02:36:23 AM
What if you were already over-acting? What if you were impersonating Shatner, and someone yelled "Shatner"?

You turn into Russell Crowe.

Or Daniel Day Lewis ('There will be Blood' is currently on the goggle box).

Pretty much every performance or actor ever to attract critical plaudits teeters on the brink of hilarious self parody. If you compare what De Niro was doing when he was the darling of awards juries everywhere and what he's doing in Rocky and Bullwinkle, there ain't much difference.

I'm not a fan of the style of acting favoured by The Academy, but I can't blame the likes of Day Lewis and Christian Bale for going all out to please them. I just wish they'd recognise that the mannered and misjudged performances the latter delivers in The Fighter and American Hustle are no different to the silly voices and overly earnest delivery which had them laughing up their sleeves when he was pretending to be Batman and John Connor.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 February, 2014, 09:17:33 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 22 February, 2014, 10:45:28 PM
Went to visit The Monument of Great Fire Of London 1666, no mentions of zombies :(

It's in the City - that's monument enough to soulless cannibalism.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 23 February, 2014, 09:18:31 AM
It's f#(%!/g distracting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRF9mfKgknY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 February, 2014, 08:01:41 PM

WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU? (http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/what-european-country-do-you-actually-belong-in)

Apparently, I'm Hungary: "You're very artistic, but also clever and sporty. You often find yourself getting very passionate about things you believe in, and you can be a little sensitive when things don't go your way". Hungary?! - this stinks!! This is total BS!!! I demand the right to take this fake and erroneous test again.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 February, 2014, 09:37:10 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 February, 2014, 08:01:41 PM

WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU? (http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/what-european-country-do-you-actually-belong-in)

Apparently, I'm Hungary: "You're very artistic, but also clever and sporty. You often find yourself getting very passionate about things you believe in, and you can be a little sensitive when things don't go your way". Hungary?! - this stinks!! This is total BS!!! I demand the right to take this fake and erroneous test again.

yup, I'm Hungary too. I really had no answer to the twitter feed question, but they didn't give me a "fuck twitter" option.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 25 February, 2014, 10:00:51 PM
I got: Latvia.
"You rarely smile, but that doesn't mean you're miserable. In fact, you're one of the easiest people to get along with and everyone instantly feels at ease around you. You're a great party host."

So true.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 February, 2014, 10:15:35 PM
My stomach is making some terrible rumbling sounds...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 25 February, 2014, 10:37:26 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 February, 2014, 10:15:35 PM
My stomach is making some terrible rumbling sounds...

Too much grub or not enough?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 February, 2014, 01:40:44 AM
No idea... Its stopped now... :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 February, 2014, 08:22:40 AM
Boba Fettish (http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-VINTAGE-SLAVE-1-ships-boba-fett-vintage-figures-44-44-LOT-KENNER1980-/111268213225?roken=iTgJxC)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 February, 2014, 09:05:26 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 23 February, 2014, 01:55:01 AM
Drinking beer while doing refresher training at work, top stuff!






Root Beer that is ;)

I used to drink beer at work. I was working on the Audi production line in Germany for two summers, and beer was available from the vending machines.  If it was someone's birthday (and mine isn't in summer), they'd have to buy everyone else on the line a beer.  I spent a couple of days pie-eyed at work.  I doubt if beer is available in the factory any more, and rightly so
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 February, 2014, 10:13:10 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 February, 2014, 09:05:26 AM

I used to drink beer at work. I was working on the Audi production line in Germany for two summers, and beer was available from the vending machines.  If it was someone's birthday (and mine isn't in summer), they'd have to buy everyone else on the line a beer.  I spent a couple of days pie-eyed at work.  I doubt if beer is available in the factory any more, and rightly so

I work for a large German company, and spent plenty of time over there too.
I was first there in 1998, and amazed by the beer stocked vending machines.
But true to form, the Germans themselves never took advantage- I never noticed anyone have more than one at lunchtime.

I've been over to the same place almost annually since, and as far as I recall, the booze was removed from the vending machines in 2004. Probably some EU edict.
Funnily enough, they still have a cigarette vending machine in the lobby.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 February, 2014, 10:14:33 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 26 February, 2014, 08:22:40 AM
Boba Fettish (http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-VINTAGE-SLAVE-1-ships-boba-fett-vintage-figures-44-44-LOT-KENNER1980-/111268213225?roken=iTgJxC)

So...not a buxom wench in Mandalorian armor, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 February, 2014, 10:34:34 AM

Wonder which thread to post on here to wish 2000AD 37th birthday, you old fart!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 26 February, 2014, 10:38:12 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 26 February, 2014, 10:34:34 AM

Wonder which thread to post on here to wish 2000AD 37th birthday, you old fart!

This thread will do nicely.

Happy Birthday 2000AD, and to me also.  36 today!

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 26 February, 2014, 12:20:06 PM
Back in the early nineties who was the brunette girl that modelled the big white 2000 AD t-shirt? They were selling t-shirts, prog binders , mugs etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 February, 2014, 12:23:34 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 26 February, 2014, 12:20:06 PM
Back in the early nineties who was the brunette girl that modelled the big white 2000 AD t-shirt? They were selling t-shirts, prog binders , mugs etc.

Odds are it was Alan McKenzie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 26 February, 2014, 12:27:38 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 February, 2014, 12:23:34 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 26 February, 2014, 12:20:06 PM
Back in the early nineties who was the brunette girl that modelled the big white 2000 AD t-shirt? They were selling t-shirts, prog binders , mugs etc.

Odds are it was Alan McKenzie.

Lush.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 February, 2014, 01:06:26 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 February, 2014, 12:23:34 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 26 February, 2014, 12:20:06 PM
Back in the early nineties who was the brunette girl that modelled the big white 2000 AD t-shirt? They were selling t-shirts, prog binders , mugs etc.

Odds are it was Alan McKenzie.
You owe me a new key board! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 February, 2014, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 February, 2014, 10:14:33 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 26 February, 2014, 08:22:40 AM
Boba Fettish (http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-VINTAGE-SLAVE-1-ships-boba-fett-vintage-figures-44-44-LOT-KENNER1980-/111268213225?roken=iTgJxC)

So...not a buxom wench in Mandalorian armor, eh?

you mean like this? (http://majorspoilers.com/2010/12/08/sexy-boba-fett-cosplay-is-sexy/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 February, 2014, 02:18:59 PM
Happy 37th Birthday 2000AD! You look great and thanks for the digital presents.  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 February, 2014, 04:22:48 PM
Happy birthday 2000ad and Napalm Kev! Jesus, 7 years since that 50 years on the streets episode of Dredd.  I've wasted my life
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 February, 2014, 04:36:25 PM
Whoops. Missed that. Happy Birthday to N. Kev too.  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 26 February, 2014, 04:46:36 PM
Happy 37th birthday to the tooth. Sod it. Happy birthday everybody!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 February, 2014, 04:47:14 PM
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/p280x280/1958318_619559638114252_678582913_n.jpg
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 February, 2014, 05:17:54 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 26 February, 2014, 12:20:06 PM
Back in the early nineties who was the brunette girl that modelled the big white 2000 AD t-shirt? They were selling t-shirts, prog binders , mugs etc.

Although I'm tickled by TordelBack's suggestion that the lovely in question could have been another example of Alan Mackenzie catfishing, I'm pretty sure that was Cyb-Aud - the nineties version of today's Denise from the subscriptions department.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 February, 2014, 06:05:16 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 February, 2014, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 February, 2014, 10:14:33 AM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 26 February, 2014, 08:22:40 AM
Boba Fettish (http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-WARS-VINTAGE-SLAVE-1-ships-boba-fett-vintage-figures-44-44-LOT-KENNER1980-/111268213225?roken=iTgJxC)

So...not a buxom wench in Mandalorian armor, eh?

you mean like this? (http://majorspoilers.com/2010/12/08/sexy-boba-fett-cosplay-is-sexy/)

Objectifying? Dan...Dont Dare.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 February, 2014, 06:38:29 PM
37 years since the mighty green bonce engraciated us the sensation of pure Thrills. Zarjaz indeed, I think all my fellow Squaxx can agree.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 26 February, 2014, 07:18:27 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 26 February, 2014, 05:17:54 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 26 February, 2014, 12:20:06 PM
Back in the early nineties who was the brunette girl that modelled the big white 2000 AD t-shirt? They were selling t-shirts, prog binders , mugs etc.

Although I'm tickled by TordelBack's suggestion that the lovely in question could have been another example of Alan Mackenzie catfishing, I'm pretty sure that was Cyb-Aud - the nineties version of today's Denise from the subscriptions department.

Cyb-Aud! Of course. The droid with boobs. How could I forget.  ;) Ta very much Sauchie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 26 February, 2014, 08:06:34 PM
Cheers Jayzus and von Boom.

Just finished work, heavy night ahead and day off tomorrow!

Party On!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 27 February, 2014, 11:21:14 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BheangyIEAAb-P2.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 February, 2014, 03:43:43 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/p280x280/1958318_619559638114252_678582913_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 February, 2014, 03:49:59 PM
Yeah and where all all the Tyranosaurus now? Several hundred feet under is where. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 February, 2014, 03:52:35 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/BjNYo.jpg)
(http://www.tshirtvortex.net/wp-content/uploads/Wishful-Thinking.jpg)
(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/a-funny-T-Rex-toilet-paper-picture.jpg)
(http://gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12-1-4.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 February, 2014, 03:57:34 PM
I blame Eotyranus. That little shit didn't invest in his ancestors future.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 February, 2014, 05:15:50 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 February, 2014, 03:43:43 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/p280x280/1958318_619559638114252_678582913_n.jpg)

Doesn't stop Dolphins, and they don't even have hands.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 February, 2014, 10:21:57 PM
Or ducks....
the only animal other than humans to have been caught engaging in an act of homoerotic necrophilia...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 February, 2014, 10:27:37 PM
May I point you in the direction of the humble Donkey. Well renowned for its virillity and its lack of fucks in regards to sticking its slonge into anything and everything.

Also, Emperor penguins are whores.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 March, 2014, 04:23:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iLQVNKF_GA4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iLQVNKF_GA4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 01 March, 2014, 05:24:25 PM
Where was I?...oh, right, Russian Attack Helicopters enter Ukraine...
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/russian-attack-helicopters-entering-ukrainian-air-space-1533649929
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 March, 2014, 11:41:49 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 01 March, 2014, 05:24:25 PM
Where was I?...oh, right, Russian Attack Helicopters enter Ukraine...
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/russian-attack-helicopters-entering-ukrainian-air-space-1533649929

Let's hope this isn't a prelude  to something far worse. After all a hundred years ago in Sarajevo a shot was fired that echoed around the world.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 02 March, 2014, 01:29:26 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 March, 2014, 11:41:49 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 01 March, 2014, 05:24:25 PM
Where was I?...oh, right, Russian Attack Helicopters enter Ukraine...
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/russian-attack-helicopters-entering-ukrainian-air-space-1533649929

Let's hope this isn't a prelude  to something far worse. After all a hundred years ago in Sarajevo a shot was fired that echoed around the world.

Eurovision Song Contest will be a laugh this year so?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 March, 2014, 01:40:52 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 02 March, 2014, 01:29:26 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 March, 2014, 11:41:49 AM
Let's hope (Ukraine) isn't a prelude  to something far worse.

Eurovision Song Contest will be a laugh this year so?

I think Vlad has both situations well in hand. He has the money, the influence, and the ruthless streak necessary to impose his will on everyone involved, and - let's face it - none of us have the cash or the motivation to challenge him in either Eurovision or Sevastopol.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 March, 2014, 09:17:14 AM


(http://i.imgur.com/UuVn6os.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 March, 2014, 12:10:21 PM
Meanwhile in the Ukraine...
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s462/opipop/Wheres-Vlad.jpg) (http://s1053.photobucket.com/user/opipop/media/Wheres-Vlad.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 03 March, 2014, 03:16:59 PM
(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g174/daveycandlish/photobombing_zpsfe61a6c6.jpg)

Benedict Cumberbatch photobombs U2 at the Oscars
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 March, 2014, 04:57:41 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0qnQvg3JheY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0qnQvg3JheY)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 March, 2014, 04:59:59 PM

Like any other sane person, I watched the first ten minutes of Legend Of The Overfiend and decided that another hour of tentacle rape just wasn't for me. I remember wondering what the hell made someone imagine anyone else would be interested in seeing that, and it turns out the creator of the original manga was responding to the Japanese phenomenon of Unwanted Man Syndrome (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03w18fn).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 March, 2014, 05:20:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yJ2AdNH4_So (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yJ2AdNH4_So)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 March, 2014, 08:13:15 PM
megacity1 Traffic:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-must-be-the-coolest-city-model-ever-made-1534416651 (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-must-be-the-coolest-city-model-ever-made-1534416651)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 04 March, 2014, 08:57:12 AM
Pancake day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teaft0Kg-Ok&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 04 March, 2014, 11:22:48 AM
Quote from: judda fett on 04 March, 2014, 08:57:12 AM
Pancake day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teaft0Kg-Ok&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It sure is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WERMGYQBXwc
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 March, 2014, 07:13:14 PM
Too bad the tea is terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_LJVfKN2iI#t=71 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_LJVfKN2iI#t=71)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 04 March, 2014, 07:27:00 PM
I'm so glad somebody put that Maid Marian song up :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 March, 2014, 07:45:24 PM
I'm so conflicted about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY#t=31 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY#t=31)

Maiden Japan it ain't.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 04 March, 2014, 08:56:47 PM
I'm pretty sure that's what the inside of my head sounds like.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 04 March, 2014, 09:47:50 PM
Bullet wound sealant...
http://io9.com/this-sponge-filled-syringe-can-plug-a-gunshot-wound-in-1518442756
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 04 March, 2014, 10:58:01 PM
Carly Baker.
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/s403x403/1969327_10151951251531024_381265404_n.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 05 March, 2014, 03:32:30 AM
I took a picture of some sausages and the boss said it was "Too phallic."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2014, 07:50:19 AM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 05 March, 2014, 03:32:30 AM
I took a picture of some sausages and the boss said it was "Too phallic."

You're being subtly corrupted by the iconography of your provincial capital.

(http://media.hgtv.ca/blogimages/top-5-friday-icons-of-canadian-design-0.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 March, 2014, 12:42:35 PM
The Worf of Starfleet - Trailer Parody (The Wolf of Wall Street)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sUtXAl24o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sUtXAl24o)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 05 March, 2014, 03:36:36 PM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 05 March, 2014, 03:32:30 AM
I took a picture of some sausages and the boss said it was "Too phallic."

It's not your fault you're a sexual tyrannosaurus and everything you do is charged with a dangerously erotic energy - they knew this when they hired you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 March, 2014, 04:21:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9gtu2Yb0nk4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9gtu2Yb0nk4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 07 March, 2014, 12:17:24 PM
I'm feeling all sophisticated after throwing out all the socks I had with holes in them. Seeing how I'm about to start sorting through my underwear, I'm pretty sure I'll soon be pushing people into puddles so I can step over them without having to risk getting my feet wet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 07 March, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 07 March, 2014, 12:17:24 PM
I'm feeling all sophisticated after throwing out all the socks I had with holes in them. Seeing how I'm about to start sorting through my underwear, I'm pretty sure I'll soon be pushing people into puddles so I can step over them without having to risk getting my feet wet.

First to be shot when the glorious revolution comes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 07 March, 2014, 05:34:21 PM
Off to look at Jupiter tonight...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 March, 2014, 06:07:42 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 07 March, 2014, 05:34:21 PM
Off to look at Jupiter tonight...

Few better things to do in this life.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 March, 2014, 07:46:23 PM
Awww jelous! Wish I could do that...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 March, 2014, 08:39:58 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 March, 2014, 07:46:23 PM
Awww jelous! Wish I could do that...

Do!  It's the bright thing high in the southern sky at the moment, above Orion (and the home of our alien benefactor), to the right of the moon.  Glorious with the naked eye even in built-up areas, but a darker sky and a decent set of binocs or small telescope will show you Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Europa, not to mention the broad strokes of Jupiter's atmosphere.  Just the most incredible thing to see for the first time: other worlds in orbit around the clouds of another world!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 07 March, 2014, 09:37:45 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 07 March, 2014, 08:39:58 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 March, 2014, 07:46:23 PM
Awww jelous! Wish I could do that...

Do!  It's the bright thing high in the southern sky at the moment, above Orion (and the home of our alien benefactor), to the right of the moon.  Glorious with the naked eye even in built-up areas, but a darker sky and a decent set of binocs or small telescope will show you Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Europa, not to mention the broad strokes of Jupiter's atmosphere.  Just the most incredible thing to see for the first time: other worlds in orbit around the clouds of another world!


Was you stood behind me!?!

But yes, all those things was observed.


Our local Astronomical group is having a open night (over two nights, in fact), so went along.

The main focus was Jupiter - and a real buzz to see four of the moons, along with the bands of Jupiter's atmosphere for the first time.
And stunning views of our Moon as well.

And a bit of homework to do - how many stars can be seen in the 'rectangle' of Orion? - http://www.cpre.org.uk/what-we-do/countryside/dark-skies/update/item/3525-star-count-2014

Great fun, and pretty well attended.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 March, 2014, 09:45:43 PM
the downside of living in the inner city- It looks like a bright star, and my falt mate is outside now with binoculars trying to see more, but generally we see jack shit. FIGHT LIGHT POLLUTION!

I did see the most impressive shooting star I've ever seen last week though - rather than just a moving 'star' this one flashed red and seemed to have a comet like tail - for the one second before it was gone.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 March, 2014, 09:48:11 PM
Update - he's back and reports: without a tripod or better binoculars it *just looks like a star"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 08 March, 2014, 09:58:27 PM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 07 March, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 07 March, 2014, 12:17:24 PM
I'm feeling all sophisticated after throwing out all the socks I had with holes in them. Seeing how I'm about to start sorting through my underwear, I'm pretty sure I'll soon be pushing people into puddles so I can step over them without having to risk getting my feet wet.

First to be shot when the glorious revolution comes.

As long as I no longer own a pair of underwear that're almost as old as me when said revolution comes, I'll go happy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 March, 2014, 01:17:25 AM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 08 March, 2014, 09:58:27 PM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 07 March, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 07 March, 2014, 12:17:24 PM
I'm feeling all sophisticated after throwing out all the socks I had with holes in them. Seeing how I'm about to start sorting through my underwear, I'm pretty sure I'll soon be pushing people into puddles so I can step over them without having to risk getting my feet wet.

First to be shot when the glorious revolution comes.

As long as I no longer own a pair of underwear that're almost as old as me when said revolution comes, I'll go happy

So you've rejected all that is holy? BURN THE HEATHEN!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 March, 2014, 07:35:02 AM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 07 March, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
First to be shot when the glorious revolution comes.

1688?  Better pick up some raw steak over at the canteen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 March, 2014, 02:20:56 PM

Never knew that!

Indiana Jones + Magnum PI = Chip 'n' Dale.

(http://i.imgur.com/IPfmXDU.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 09 March, 2014, 05:23:25 PM
I've always just assumed that anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 09 March, 2014, 11:23:15 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 March, 2014, 07:35:02 AM
Quote from: Trout Trousers on 07 March, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
First to be shot when the glorious revolution comes.

1688?  Better pick up some raw steak over at the canteen.

Stop showing off with all your book learning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 10 March, 2014, 08:44:23 AM
One adult and three children for The Lego Movie: £39.56.

Popocorn and drinks: £18.50.

FFS! No wonder I hardly go to the pictures. Far better off buying the DVD and some Butterkist in Asda.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 March, 2014, 11:32:04 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/f3r65cm.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 March, 2014, 04:22:11 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8087486208/h1ADC08FF/ (https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8087486208/h1ADC08FF/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 March, 2014, 04:35:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lm-6RR4sLXw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lm-6RR4sLXw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 March, 2014, 09:15:39 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/514ce107e27c09dc0741d3a35d271ef1/tumblr_n2bb1qkSMB1t1abv2o1_400.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 March, 2014, 10:52:20 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 13 March, 2014, 09:15:39 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/514ce107e27c09dc0741d3a35d271ef1/tumblr_n2bb1qkSMB1t1abv2o1_400.gif)

That's hypnotic!....must...stop...watching...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 March, 2014, 10:54:04 AM

Awkward moment for Richard III

(http://i.imgur.com/21Pg7mh.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 March, 2014, 01:16:15 PM
Gas Consumption....
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/black-hole-snack-time/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 March, 2014, 09:04:30 PM
(http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/imagelibrary/displaymedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=2190&SizeId=3http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/imagelibrary/displaymedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=2190&SizeId=3)(http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/imagelibrary/displaymedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=2191&SizeId=3)


Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett designs new artwork for upcoming comics exhibition at the British Library


In anticipation of the UK's biggest comics exhibition to date, Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK, the British Library has unveiled a brand new artwork by 'Tank Girl' and 'Gorillaz' co-creator, Jamie Hewlett. Comics Unmasked traces the history of the British comic book.

Jamie Hewlett will be joined by the original writer of Tank Girl Alan Martin for a special public event, Tank Girl and the Aftermath, at the British Library on Friday 27 June, 18.30-20.00. Tickets priced £8 (£6, £5 concessions) available from http://boxoffice.bl.uk

There will be an extensive programme of other events, featuring many of the most renowned Comics artists and writers, both British and International. Those on sale now include Bryan and Mary Talbot (2 May) and a European Graphic Novelists event (15 May). The full season will be announced soon on our What's On pages. www.bl.uk/comics-unmasked / #ComicsUnmasked /@britishlibrary

Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK opens on 2 May and runs until 19 August 2014. Prices: Standard Adult £9.50, Gift Aid £10.50, Senior 60 plus £7.50, Other concessions £5, Under 18s Free, Friends of the British Library Free. All galleries are accessible by wheelchair. Information can be requested from Visitor Services staff on: T +44 (0)20 7412 7332



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Post by: Frank on 16 March, 2014, 09:22:32 PM

Missed out this part: Featuring such iconic names as Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe), this exhibition traces the British comics tradition back through classic 1970s titles including 2000AD, Action and Misty to 19th-century illustrated reports of Jack the Ripper and beyond. www.bl.uk/comics-unmasked / #ComicsUnmasked /@britishlibrary

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Post by: Theblazeuk on 17 March, 2014, 03:59:19 PM
Cant wait for this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 March, 2014, 04:40:45 PM
Me neither....!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 March, 2014, 04:45:08 PM
But while we ARE waiting...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G4vubz942rY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G4vubz942rY)


"Deep Penetration"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O1--0DLJv-8#t=90 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O1--0DLJv-8#t=90)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 March, 2014, 12:19:21 PM

What the...

http://www.bananamanmovie.com/ (http://www.bananamanmovie.com/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 18 March, 2014, 03:46:05 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 March, 2014, 12:19:21 PM

What the...

http://www.bananamanmovie.com/ (http://www.bananamanmovie.com/)


Emmmmm......

Is that.... IT?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 18 March, 2014, 09:54:17 PM
Superman has a Go-Pro...
http://www.imagepic.net/what-if-superman-wore-a-gopro/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 19 March, 2014, 10:26:05 AM
I think I would have enjoyed that more if I didn't play so much HL2.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 March, 2014, 03:21:35 PM
 :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0pFZG7j5cE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0pFZG7j5cE)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 19 March, 2014, 04:09:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H0Ib9SwC7EI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H0Ib9SwC7EI)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 19 March, 2014, 05:08:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmK3AQ2Yozk
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmK3AQ2Yozk)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 19 March, 2014, 08:34:52 PM
Comment when you see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjnW2WSz3A4




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 March, 2014, 08:47:28 PM
Fred Phelps is dying and now he's been kicked out of his own church. What a tosser.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 19 March, 2014, 11:20:45 PM
Or.... (https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/posts/10151934398335443?stream_ref=10)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 March, 2014, 11:49:16 PM
I'm working late trying to finish a bloody report, and somehow I've got into long detailed arguments on race on two separate forums.  I desperately need to stop and get back to work, but racists who use cool scientific-sounding arguments to back up their pathetic nazi ideals piss me off no end - all it takes is for one unsuspecting reader to take them at face value and have a 'revelation', and the store of human evil is increased.  Gah.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 20 March, 2014, 03:16:19 PM
I was thinking about getting the new Infamous game for my PS4 so I thought I'd read a few reviews.
I went on IGN and read through the article and then, foolishly, scrolled down to the comments section.
Oh my god! :o
I knew there was rivalry between consoles and a bit of playground 'My dad's bigger than your's' type stuff but, seriously, what is wrong with these people? 99% of the comments are just pure trolling.

It reminded me of a time I went on the CBR comic board and said something slightly negative about one portrayal of Superman (I think) on the DC board and was practically lynched!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 March, 2014, 03:19:26 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 20 March, 2014, 03:16:19 PM
It reminded me of a time I went on the CBR comic board and said something slightly negative about one portrayal of Superman (I think) on the DC board and was practically lynched!

I think it same between Marvel and DC fans. very dangerous zone to go to!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 March, 2014, 05:16:06 PM
I hope no one pickets Phelps' funeral. That would be a bit dickish.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 March, 2014, 05:16:32 PM
Do YOU know someone like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_Kruger_effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_Kruger_effect)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 March, 2014, 05:38:54 PM
Slo-mo a reality?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10697529/Prisoners-could-serve-1000-year-sentence-in-eight-hours.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10697529/Prisoners-could-serve-1000-year-sentence-in-eight-hours.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 March, 2014, 08:08:16 PM
Did anyone try place Judge helmet on new latest The Raid 2 poster at London Underground?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 March, 2014, 08:17:23 PM
No, as I don't live in London. You should pop down and travel around the whole network doing it tomorrow :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 March, 2014, 08:31:06 PM
Sorry as off to Rome tomorrow with my gal; will try if there same posters there!

You can see it's Mega City in the Raid 2 latest poster!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 March, 2014, 08:35:53 PM
Feeble excuse and you call yourself a Dredd fan. I hope you're back in time to make it to one of the 2000 AD gatherings around the country next weekend ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 March, 2014, 08:43:24 PM
Yep, shame on me, even don't got iPad with me so can't draw Dredd Helmet on it! ;)

Wish I did better same as you by nick Dredd billboard poster!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 20 March, 2014, 08:45:22 PM
How very dare you, I gave a donation to charity for that and it was all cleared with the film company :D


Best I arrest you at the next con!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 March, 2014, 07:06:43 AM
Hehe! Can't wait!

Have a fab weekend creeps!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 March, 2014, 07:06:57 AM

GET UGLY (http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3264196.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/MAIN-Sellotape-3264196.jpg)

(http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3264196.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/MAIN-Sellotape-3264196.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 March, 2014, 07:59:10 AM
Wannabes. I don' need no steenkin' sellotape.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 March, 2014, 10:48:45 AM
The 'What do you really look like' thread without the posing / air-brushing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 21 March, 2014, 12:56:04 PM
Kate Bush is playing 15 concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo - Tsk, some people just won't shut up will they, it's only been 35 years since she was last on tour!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 March, 2014, 04:59:22 PM
Something to make you squirm...

And stop picking on Kate Bush!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 22 March, 2014, 09:02:41 PM
Picked up 'The Rat Pack' from The Works for £4 today.
(http://stat.homeshop18.com/homeshop18/images/coinjoos/463/300x300_9382d4d326a90628a6fed25b5a1cfd04.jpg)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 22 March, 2014, 10:24:18 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2012, 04:04:33 PM
When are we going to see a trailer???? Pull your finger out, Rebellion!

Did they ever get around to this?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 March, 2014, 08:57:07 AM
Scarface remake of the ordinary film getting remake...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 25 March, 2014, 09:08:44 AM
New Earth....or Nu-Earth...
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/world-news/item/119504-have-scientists-found-a-new-earth
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 March, 2014, 08:23:32 AM
*whispering*

Prometheus 2 got new writers and Release Date will be March 4th 2016.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 March, 2014, 01:32:20 PM
Feck's sake, how long has it been since last Summer?  I've had enough of this filler, let's get back to the real weather.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 March, 2014, 03:49:06 PM
Stuff that!


I demand some surreal weather!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 March, 2014, 05:30:41 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 March, 2014, 03:49:06 PM

I demand some surreal weather!



I thought that was what we had been getting?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 March, 2014, 06:40:41 PM
NASA's Next Top Spacesuit.

http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/z2/ (http://jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov/z2/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 26 March, 2014, 10:11:03 PM
So NASA's next top spacesuit is [spoiler]Buzz Lightyeary, Bioshockish, Tronesque, casual wear[/spoiler]?

Smart.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 March, 2014, 10:36:31 PM
Guys...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 March, 2014, 10:51:36 PM
Always check your spigot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 March, 2014, 11:42:51 PM
Did I just have a weird dream, or did I hear on the news that Japanese pensioners are being put into robot suits developed by the Cyberdyne Corporation?

Does nobody watch sci-fi movies? This can only end badly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judda fett on 27 March, 2014, 12:23:17 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 March, 2014, 11:42:51 PM
Did I just have a weird dream, or did I hear on the news that Japanese pensioners are being put into robot suits developed by the Cyberdyne Corporation?

Don't know about all the that but I just woke from a daydream that Austrian pensioner robots are going to be making a comeback.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2014, 11:40:03 AM
Just admiring a massive bubble-chart distribution map (inspired by my graphing hero Hans Rosling) I just completed for a publication, only to realise the circles I've drawn are directly proportional by radius, not area.  Bad data visualisation, bad!  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 28 March, 2014, 01:33:31 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 28 March, 2014, 11:40:03 AM
Just admiring a massive bubble-chart distribution map (inspired by my graphing hero Hans Rosling) I just completed for a publication, only to realise the circles I've drawn are directly proportional by radius, not area.  Bad data visualisation, bad!  ::)
Can I interest you in a copy of one of my favourite books: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (http://www.amazon.com/The-Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142)?

Sounds like fun apart from forgetting to divide by pi! What journal do I need to buy to see it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2014, 02:02:16 PM

Facebook buys virtual reality headset start-up for $2bn

(http://i.imgur.com/ld7g2u2.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2014, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 28 March, 2014, 01:33:31 PM
Can I interest you in a copy of one of my favourite books: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (http://www.amazon.com/The-Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142)?

Sounds like fun apart from forgetting to divide by pi! What journal do I need to buy to see it?

I'd just scaled up the radius as simple multiples of the 'size' of the quantity, rather than the area of the circle (if you get my meaning).  What was fascinating is that by tightening up the range (the smallest circle became twice the size it was, the largest half), the whole impression changed visually, and all sorts of new and interesting (for a very narrow definition of that word) patterns became apparent.  It's an intriguing validation of the method.

Great book Tufte, I have a pile of well-thumbed photocopies but I really will have to get the original...

Hopefully it'll be in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy for 2015 - it's not my article, I'm just doing the distribution things, and a few plans and sections. I only came on board because the main guy was way behind schedule and looking for more money, but after a steep re-learning curve I'm pleased to report that not only are they cheap and fast but my drawings are best.

So there.  Now if only I could escape from my windowless 'office' for 5 minutes, but there's another job has to be finished by Monday...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 March, 2014, 04:01:17 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 28 March, 2014, 02:02:16 PM

Facebook buys virtual reality headset start-up for $2bn

(http://i.imgur.com/ld7g2u2.png)

LIKE!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 March, 2014, 06:56:22 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/xgeawQ5.jpg)


'Once very popular',  :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 March, 2014, 07:38:46 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 28 March, 2014, 02:02:16 PM

Facebook buys virtual reality headset start-up for $2bn

and there are a few pissed off kckstarters who raised $2.4m to develop the thing in the first place.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 March, 2014, 03:57:36 PM

As a baby, I feel the aircraft, passengers and crew of flight MH370 may merely have placed their hands across their face, giving us the illusion they have disappeared. At some point in the near future, they may be planning to remove their hands from before their face, surprising us with the realisation that they were there all along.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 March, 2014, 04:31:53 PM
(http://i56.servimg.com/u/f56/17/37/62/53/19667110.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 March, 2014, 06:47:18 PM
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--bzi6Xfu7--/l46egyg9hkqhx8549jtl.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 31 March, 2014, 07:35:51 PM
wordless comic by Grant Morrison & Rian Hughes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26730067 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26730067)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 April, 2014, 01:01:07 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/dUgQtUq.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 April, 2014, 10:16:38 PM

THIS. IS. BRILLIANT!

(http://i.imgur.com/1VU7GbV.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 02 April, 2014, 04:25:23 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgII2gDY-Rw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgII2gDY-Rw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 April, 2014, 04:46:43 PM
Happy World Autism Awareness Day! I would like to thank my family and the staff at Bolton Kidz2gether today for all the time they spent helping me learn to cope with my aspergers syndrome. I doubt I would be in the position I am today without their help. :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 April, 2014, 04:21:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pyV57QlGUGI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pyV57QlGUGI)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 April, 2014, 04:28:18 PM
Would be nice if you put titles to those links, Doctor Alt 8?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 April, 2014, 04:34:33 PM
What? And spoil the surprise?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 03 April, 2014, 06:54:39 PM
Yes.

Is there netiquette for such things? I would have thought letting people know what they might be clicking on was good manners. So long as you do not spoiler it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 April, 2014, 08:48:37 PM
Not been to cinema for months, but what the hell is D-BOX?

As I saw there is subtitled version of Winter Soldier next Tuesday, but it with D-Box?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 April, 2014, 08:52:47 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 03 April, 2014, 08:48:37 PM
what the hell is D-BOX?

I've researched this extensively (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=D-BOX).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 03 April, 2014, 10:23:10 PM
The BBC tried to spice up the news channel yesterday.
(https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/p200x200/10150742_10152001273866024_1560734641_n.jpg)




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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 April, 2014, 02:04:38 PM

You never see two women, whose names you know, talking about the Bechdel test.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 05 April, 2014, 02:33:15 PM
That's because one of them is batman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 05 April, 2014, 02:45:49 PM
Nagged my wife with "are we doing anything today".

Now she's in the shower and I can't be arsed to move. Dammit!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 April, 2014, 03:20:02 PM
That'll learn you!

perhaps she will take you to the ballet.
Men hate ballet.

(Mind you... so do I!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 April, 2014, 04:29:21 PM
Vote For The 250 Greatest Sci-Fi And Fantasy Moments Of All Time
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What are the greatest moments in sci-fi, fantasy and horror? It's your chance to decide the ultimate countdown in our landmark issue 250.



SFX's 250th edition is approaching rapidly. To celebrate, we're compiling the definitive list of the 250 greatest moments in science fiction, fantasy and horror. You can vote in the poll now, so it truly is a democratic list of the moments that have made our genre great. Anything is eligible, from comics, TV, film, books and games. Our experts (including many celebrity buddies) have hand-picked 250 of our favourites for you to choose from, and here they are.



Now select your 10 favourite moments from the list below – including one of your own if you think we've missed a highlight! Hurry, poll closes Wednesday 30 April.


http://www.sfx.co.uk/2014/03/28/vote-for-the-250-greatest-sci-fi-moments-of-all-time/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 April, 2014, 06:40:52 PM
(https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/l/t1.0-9/s370x247/10177887_10152782967992516_1708994137_n.jpg)





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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 05 April, 2014, 08:12:19 PM
We bought cake and found a really interesting second-hand bookshop. It ended well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 April, 2014, 09:45:27 PM
Cake? I hope you brought enough to share with the whole forum....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 April, 2014, 10:29:54 PM
There could be sequel to the Goonies?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/31562/they-re-making-a-goonies-sequel (http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/31562/they-re-making-a-goonies-sequel)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 06 April, 2014, 02:06:46 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 05 April, 2014, 06:40:52 PM
(https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/l/t1.0-9/s370x247/10177887_10152782967992516_1708994137_n.jpg)


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To Glory ?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 07 April, 2014, 12:43:34 PM
Oh yes to Glory. Or maybe mid table.






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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 April, 2014, 02:55:38 PM
This Bechdel test thing has me confused.

See, I can speak velociraptor, and I was wondering if Jurassic Park would get a pass. It's established that all the dinosaurs are female (apart from a minority of transgender dinos). Two of the 'Raptors discuss a male character, but it's in the context of them being food and as such they don't actually use any gender specific terms, so does it get a pass?

Although maybe it fails because the most prominent scene in which they feature is in a kitchen? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlPoPMbiffU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 April, 2014, 04:17:23 PM
The Voice of Winnie the Pooh Tries His Hand at Darth Vader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fSvkgign8mQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fSvkgign8mQ)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 April, 2014, 02:22:33 PM
Aww they did it in my honour  :)

GAME OF GOATS (Game of Thrones Goat Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tKZ-cg4RI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tKZ-cg4RI)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 10 April, 2014, 04:00:59 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 10 April, 2014, 02:22:33 PM
Aww they did it in my honour  :)

GAME OF GOATS (Game of Thrones Goat Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tKZ-cg4RI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tKZ-cg4RI)

I call fowl!

One of those goats was a sheep....!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 10 April, 2014, 04:33:58 PM
Oh if you had THIS many visual options for your character I'd never get around to actually PLAYING the game...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TP4L1vHfpk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TP4L1vHfpk)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 April, 2014, 02:25:19 AM
Slomo (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/opinion/slomo.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_Sxx_20140406&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 April, 2014, 09:35:05 AM
Right! Im off to Oban for my Advanced Open Water course, the gate way course to my Dive Master. Three days, choppy weather, new dive kit. Bring. It. On.

I'll be reading comics while i'm their.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 April, 2014, 12:38:21 PM

Jean-Claude Van Damme as Predator's original monster.

Thanks gosh it was dropped for Pussy Predator! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GfUoB0kog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GfUoB0kog)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 April, 2014, 04:17:17 PM
A convoluted way to get to your booze...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wSuH9u0kvhU
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wSuH9u0kvhU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 April, 2014, 03:19:06 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/5253825024/hD405CBB2/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 12 April, 2014, 06:42:50 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 April, 2014, 03:19:06 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/5253825024/hD405CBB2/)

There's a nice little Chinese takeaway in a town over the other side of my county called 'Soon Fatt'!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Third Estate Ned on 13 April, 2014, 10:52:13 AM
The most unsettling punning shop name is the fish and chip shop near where I used to live in Sheffield: A Salt N Battered.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 April, 2014, 10:04:04 PM
Blade Runner engagement announcements.

http://paulhillier.tumblr.com/post/82808169037 (http://paulhillier.tumblr.com/post/82808169037)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 April, 2014, 08:32:39 PM
Mrs Doubtfire is getting a sequel....


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 April, 2014, 08:34:59 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 17 April, 2014, 08:32:39 PM
Mrs Doubtfire is getting a sequel....

And I bet they didn't get anything like 120,000 signatures.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 April, 2014, 09:29:22 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlW29k3CEAATH_5.jpg)

Finally! Now I don't have to eat around all those bones in my bananas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 18 April, 2014, 07:09:13 PM
Once again, i find myself watching the One Show and wondering how the human race has come to this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 19 April, 2014, 04:12:59 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8152028416/hBBA9B69B/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 April, 2014, 12:26:16 PM
Is it Wednesday yet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 April, 2014, 06:47:30 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 20 April, 2014, 12:26:16 PM
Is it Wednesday yet?

Buggeration, I've just realised that because of the long weekend I probably won't get the prog til Thursday or Friday.  Oh cruel, cruel fate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 April, 2014, 08:28:30 PM
Oh I hadn't thought of that. Another reason to hate Bank Holiday's.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 April, 2014, 10:07:07 AM
Not a problem for.........digital. :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 21 April, 2014, 11:05:29 AM
But I can still go into the shop to get it right?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 April, 2014, 02:49:44 PM
How accurate were Isaac Asimov's 50-year predictions for 2014, made at the World Fair in 1964?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27069716 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27069716)

Answer - pretty accurate mostly!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 22 April, 2014, 03:05:12 PM
Very interesting - and he had a great hit-rate...
Curious that he - in a side-comment - worried about population growth. Usually find myself coming down on the advancements-will-keep-up-with-that side of the argument. Fuel, food, etc. isn't actually going to run out.
Not the same thing as fair distribution, but that's politics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 April, 2014, 04:43:23 PM
Wolverine cat....

Pt 2.

Troll hunter....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EntDIkI8mCc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EntDIkI8mCc)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 April, 2014, 05:35:55 PM
I love stop motion animation:

http://vimeo.com/92022684#at=90 (http://vimeo.com/92022684#at=90)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 April, 2014, 06:54:54 PM
Sorry for the double post but George Takei RAWKS:

http://imgur.com/gallery/9ZEaD (http://imgur.com/gallery/9ZEaD)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 22 April, 2014, 07:08:00 PM
George Takei does a lot of stuff - A LOT of stuff - but THAT has to be amongst my favourites :D Nice linkage Von Boom - !
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 23 April, 2014, 01:16:43 AM
I was in an art gallery full of framed comic book art and I didn't have time to look at it. Pity meeee.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 April, 2014, 09:21:53 AM
Look at tiny wee little Joffrey.  Look at him.

(http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/F4/16928C9F1FCE5BD7912AB1373975F7_h416_w622_m2_q80_cbWogwnNs.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
This is what passes for completely-unable-to-breath hilarious in my world:  http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/cgpdacf?context=3

Pity me, as you would Trout in an gallery of comics art. Or Joffrey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 April, 2014, 06:18:45 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
This is what passes for completely-unable-to-breath hilarious in my world:  http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/cgpdacf?context=3

Pity me, as you would Trout in an gallery of comics art. Or Joffrey.

Ha! Oh my word that would be a veritable utopia for myself! And how many archeologists are given obituries on the 7 'O Clock News, eh! Life times work that sadly never reaches the mainstream media.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 April, 2014, 06:53:29 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
This is what passes for completely-unable-to-breath hilarious in my world:  http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/cgpdacf?context=3

Pity me, as you would Trout in an gallery of comics art. Or Joffrey.

:D  I don't know much about archaeology, but I prefer it to football.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 April, 2014, 06:56:20 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
This is what passes for completely-unable-to-breath hilarious in my world:  http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/cgpdacf?context=3

Pity me, as you would Trout in an gallery of comics art. Or Joffrey.

I'd love to live in a world where archaeology is treated like sport. I'd probably even take an interest in the Archaeology Winter Olympics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 23 April, 2014, 08:39:28 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
This is what passes for completely-unable-to-breath hilarious in my world:  http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/cgpdacf?context=3
Brilliant. The billboard poster is how I imagine you and mrs Back.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 23 April, 2014, 10:08:34 PM
That is fantastic.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 24 April, 2014, 01:26:14 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/OVJdy.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 24 April, 2014, 07:31:28 PM
Im left handed. Can I be granted minority status as well?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 April, 2014, 10:11:52 PM

JH Williams III art for forthcoming Blondie album, Ghosts Of Download:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmAYuO4CcAAKECW.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 April, 2014, 02:57:20 PM
Mapping Small Arms Trade

http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/index.php (http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/index.php)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 April, 2014, 05:40:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 25 April, 2014, 02:57:20 PM
Mapping Small Arms Trade http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/index.php (http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/index.php)

$19.5 million? What the hell are Brits doing with all those weapons, or are shotguns $100,000 a pop? I've only ever known one person who owned a gun in my entire life.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 25 April, 2014, 08:58:05 PM
^Townie.^
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 26 April, 2014, 01:47:35 AM
Quote from: Trout on 23 April, 2014, 01:16:43 AM
I was in an art gallery full of framed comic book art and I didn't have time to look at it. Pity meeee.

I'm going back tomorrow. Creative people will be there, too! Yay!

Anybody know the work of Seth?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 26 April, 2014, 02:30:27 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 April, 2014, 05:40:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 25 April, 2014, 02:57:20 PM
Mapping Small Arms Trade http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/index.php (http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/index.php)

$19.5 million? What the hell are Brits doing with all those weapons, or are shotguns $100,000 a pop? I've only ever known one person who owned a gun in my entire life.


The U.S. provides some great club-visuals.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
Now this is PROPER archaeology! (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/25/atari-et-new-mexico-landfill-dig-video-game)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 April, 2014, 01:29:22 PM
Quote from: Trout on 26 April, 2014, 01:47:35 AM
Anybody know the work of Seth?

Seth  (Greg Gallant?) is the man - although to be truthful, I probably have an impression of him as much influenced by his regular appearances in Joe Matt and Chester Brown's auto-bio books. Aside from some great comics (check out Wimbledon Green), the little cardboard sets he builds for his stories are incredible pieces of art in themselves.  A great sense of craft, design and history, and despite an artfully contrived personna probably the least weird of the Toronto Three, or at least the one least given to onanism.

Let us know if you meet him!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 April, 2014, 01:32:04 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
Now this is PROPER archaeology! (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/25/atari-et-new-mexico-landfill-dig-video-game)

While I have a lot of time for the ideas of Contemporary Archaeology, the way various 'cool' archaeologists have draped themselves all over this one just pisses me off.  I'm close to conducting a purge of my Twitter feed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 April, 2014, 02:56:38 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 April, 2014, 01:29:22 PM
probably the least weird of the Toronto Three, or at least the one least given to onanism. Let us know if you meet him!

Should be safe to shake his hand, at least.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 26 April, 2014, 03:04:07 PM
Um... thank you. :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2014, 07:34:42 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 April, 2014, 01:32:04 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2014, 12:44:13 PM
Now this is PROPER archaeology! (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/25/atari-et-new-mexico-landfill-dig-video-game)

While I have a lot of time for the ideas of Contemporary Archaeology, the way various 'cool' archaeologists have draped themselves all over this one just pisses me off.  I'm close to conducting a purge of my Twitter feed.

bwahaha. My work here is done!  >:D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 27 April, 2014, 12:13:35 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 April, 2014, 01:29:22 PM
Quote from: Trout on 26 April, 2014, 01:47:35 AM
Anybody know the work of Seth?

Seth  (Greg Gallant?) is the man - although to be truthful, I probably have an impression of him as much influenced by his regular appearances in Joe Matt and Chester Brown's auto-bio books. Aside from some great comics (check out Wimbledon Green), the little cardboard sets he builds for his stories are incredible pieces of art in themselves.  A great sense of craft, design and history, and despite an artfully contrived personna probably the least weird of the Toronto Three, or at least the one least given to onanism.

Let us know if you meet him!

I did. What a guy. I started a thread about him.

Cheers!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 27 April, 2014, 02:25:11 PM
It's my birthday today. Thirty-bleedin'-five.  :'(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 April, 2014, 02:37:51 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 27 April, 2014, 02:25:11 PM
It's my birthday today. Thirty-bleedin'-five.  :'(

Mid-30s, that's nearly-new - hell, I bet all the equipment is still under warranty.  Enjoy it while it lasts!

Happy birthday!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 27 April, 2014, 03:03:34 PM
Happy birthday! Have a zarjaz day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2014, 10:25:42 PM
Nein. NEIN!!!!!!!  >:(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27178025
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 April, 2014, 10:30:08 PM
Happy birthday, Eightball. Sure mid-thirties is still only a babby.

Dad's Army the movie.  No.  Absolutely not.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 April, 2014, 07:14:12 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 April, 2014, 10:25:42 PM
Nein. NEIN!!!!!!!  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27178025

"The Sunday Times reported that the film would be directed by Oliver Parker, who made Johnny English Reborn, St Trinian's and Othello starring Sir Kenneth Branagh.

The script will be written Hamish McColl, who wrote Johnny English Reborn and Mr Bean's Holiday

Stuart Wright, chairman of the Dad's Army Museum in Thetford, Norfolk, where much of the series was shot, said "we hope they do justice to what is a national institution, and that it will not be like some remakes which have not worked."


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 April, 2014, 05:05:48 PM
Star Wars... bad foley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZU_tWJUmdU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZU_tWJUmdU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 29 April, 2014, 01:49:56 PM
I love reading this site. Relaxes me in a way to discover how many idiots there are out there and that it is not our sole burden to deal with them: http://clientsfromhell.net/

Would fit right in on "Stupid things people have said to you" (unfortunately my stupid workstuff is all too baroque and specific and is only stupid because the organisation I work with doesn't understand its own systems/processes)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 April, 2014, 02:40:52 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 29 April, 2014, 01:49:56 PM
I love reading this site. Relaxes me in a way to discover how many idiots there are out there and that it is not our sole burden to deal with them: http://clientsfromhell.net/

Truly beautiful site that, I've had many hours of fun there.  I just had a telephone conversation about rates for sub-contracting 12 HOURS of work that would fit right in there: 
"You'll need to demonstrate that you have more than 3 years experience for us to justify that rate to the client"
"That should be fine, I have 25 years experience!".
"Yes, but can you demonstrate it?".
"It's all set out on my CV, and in more detail on my profile.  I can send you links to download sample reports and testimonials".
"Yes, but can you demonstrate it?".
"If you mean in practice, I'm sure I can do anything that's required: I've been doing this a long time and I keep my CPD certification up to date".
"Yes, but can you demonstrate it?".
"I... Yes.  Yes I can."
"Good".

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 April, 2014, 03:25:07 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 29 April, 2014, 01:49:56 PM
I love reading this site. Relaxes me in a way to discover how many idiots there are out there and that it is not our sole burden to deal with them: http://clientsfromhell.net/

Would fit right in on "Stupid things people have said to you" (unfortunately my stupid workstuff is all too baroque and specific and is only stupid because the organisation I work with doesn't understand its own systems/processes)

Do you work in government?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 April, 2014, 03:31:44 PM
BrewDog apologises to Portman Group for 'not giving a shit' over marketing rules breach (http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/29/brewdog-apologises-portman-group-not-giving-shit-over-marketing-rules-breach#35sd1K0YM1rxY1zb.01)

That's how you apologize
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 29 April, 2014, 03:42:28 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 April, 2014, 03:25:07 PM
Do you work in government?

Close! But not quite so bureaucratic, more technical. TV. Everyone's favourite auntie. So forth.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 April, 2014, 05:23:41 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 29 April, 2014, 03:31:44 PM
BrewDog apologises to Portman Group for 'not giving a shit' over marketing rules breach (http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/29/brewdog-apologises-portman-group-not-giving-shit-over-marketing-rules-breach#35sd1K0YM1rxY1zb.01)

That's how you apologize

That's how you do marketing!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Old Tankie on 29 April, 2014, 05:33:30 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 29 April, 2014, 03:42:28 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 29 April, 2014, 03:25:07 PM
Do you work in government?

Close! But not quite so bureaucratic, more technical. TV. Everyone's favourite auntie. So forth.

So you work for the Labour Party then!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 April, 2014, 05:34:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 April, 2014, 05:23:41 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 29 April, 2014, 03:31:44 PM
BrewDog apologises to Portman Group for 'not giving a shit' over marketing rules breach (http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/29/brewdog-apologises-portman-group-not-giving-shit-over-marketing-rules-breach#35sd1K0YM1rxY1zb.01)

That's how you apologize

That's how you do marketing!

Yep! It's a sunny day in Belfast and everyone's after some Brewdog now
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 April, 2014, 12:55:42 PM
To be fair, they do top beers.  Except for Nanny State, their pissy non-alcoholic one - I like non-alcoholic beers sometimes, but this one isn't even trying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 May, 2014, 09:28:57 PM

SATANIC STATUE TAKING SHAPE NICELY
AFTER US PUBLIC DONATE $30,000


(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1772343/thumbs/o-BAPHOMET-SATANIC-STATUE-570.jpg)

Work on a 7ft tall monument of a goat-headed demon destined for erection at the Oklahoma state Capitol is well underway. New York-based Satanic Temple revealed the design in January, which depicts Satan as Baphomet sitting on a pentagram throne flanked by two children. The proposed location would see the statue, set to be cast in bronze, placed adjacent to a Ten Commandments monument.

(D)uring a debate on Fox News, when asked whether the proposed erection of the statue "was not a mockery and absolutely ridiculous?", David Silverman, President of the American Atheists replied: "Absolutely not – not a mockery, not ridiculous. The separation of the church and the state is what makes America great. "Religious freedom means the government cannot take sides over one religion or another. You may not like the Satanists but guess what? It doesn't matter."



http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/02/satanic-temples-7ft-baphomet-demon-pictures_n_5253153.html
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 May, 2014, 03:28:33 PM

A young Chris Weston tries out for Mark Millar's Canon Fodder. Superb colour work and insane attention to detail all present, but I'm glad the character which eventually saw print in the strip didn't look quite so much as if he was straining on the toilet: https://twitter.com/westonfront/status/462313247983419392/photo/1

(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/westoncanonfoddertryoutpage.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 03 May, 2014, 03:46:08 PM
Not much of a sense of place either.

Panel 1 - On top of some building with a church behind him to his right.

Panel 2 - Backed against a wall with a gargoyle hanging over his shoulder. Church below him and to the right?

Panel 3 - The middle of nowhere.

Panel 4 - in a graveyard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 03 May, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
Speaking of straining on the toilet, recently there were posters for the rubbish Lars Von Trier film Nymphomaniac, all depicting various cast members in the throes of "enjoying themselves" but all I could see was "constipation". :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 05 May, 2014, 11:22:44 AM
cant find the worst tattoo's thread.

(https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/s526x395/10313600_10152122989012081_3984303145001115951_n.jpg)




V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 06 May, 2014, 02:24:31 AM
I remember when this was all fields.

And the board was at least partly about comics. Where are all these music threads coming from?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 May, 2014, 09:43:25 AM
This is what happens when you reprint Zenith without the spunkwizard's consent - categories get blurred, the line between realities fractures, and all the music nerds come pouring out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 06 May, 2014, 01:47:40 PM
Quote from: Trout on 06 May, 2014, 02:24:31 AM
I remember when this was all fields.

And the board was at least partly about comics. Where are all these music threads coming from?

GrinningChimera. All of them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 07 May, 2014, 04:27:07 AM
Next: best glockenspiel solo.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 07 May, 2014, 07:35:09 AM
Will xylophone do?

http://youtu.be/703AFmOd80o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 07 May, 2014, 08:59:49 AM
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 07 May, 2014, 07:35:09 AM
Will xylophone do?

http://youtu.be/703AFmOd80o

So lightning fast his hands barely seem to move.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 May, 2014, 12:45:26 PM
Wonder what all 'iff' threads about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 08 May, 2014, 01:22:14 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 08 May, 2014, 12:45:26 PM
Wonder what all 'iff' threads about?

I wonder what the best 'iff' thread ever is?

Maybe I should start a thread...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 May, 2014, 01:36:17 PM
Best ever what ifs?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 May, 2014, 05:10:05 PM

I think it's outrageous that some folk have been posting links to purchase high quality unofficial Judge Dredd action figures. Only pictures and links to purchase (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Real-Action-Heroes-NO-1-JUDGE-DREDD-MEDICOM-RARE-/251478507626) low quality official Judge Dredd action figures are acceptable:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1tHmkw25vLQ/Tu2pke_t4GI/AAAAAAAAt6g/Mo6Yf5cRk6M/s640/02_dredd.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Zb82IWAN_A/Tu2pjS6BeqI/AAAAAAAAt6c/qfyZeTQbWfI/s640/01_dredd.jpg)

Unbelievably, that's a RAH figure (http://toyhaven.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/judge-dredd-2012.html) - they've obviously come a long way since 1995.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 05:40:37 PM
The treated the subject with all the respect it deserved.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 May, 2014, 05:53:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 05:40:37 PM
The treated the subject with all the respect it deserved

It does look as if you could twist and unscrew the head, allowing bubble bath to pour out. More totally legitimate merchandise embarrassing tat:

(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTQ0M1gxMTMz/z/Pa8AAOxyJX1TCMVC/$_35.JPG)
(http://cerealoffers.com/Quaker_Ltd/Sugar_Puffs/1990s/Judge_Dredd_Poster_-_Sticker_P/1995-Sugar-Puffs-Judge-Dredd-Watch.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 May, 2014, 05:54:48 PM

Yeah, okay. Message received and understood.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Molch-R on 09 May, 2014, 05:59:20 PM
Thank you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 May, 2014, 06:00:17 PM
Do really wonder why the tell the judges from Stallone's Judge Dredd got huge codpiece! I can guess none cosplays would wear that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 May, 2014, 06:09:43 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 09 May, 2014, 06:00:17 PM
Do really wonder why the tell the judges from Stallone's Judge Dredd got huge codpiece!

I'd guess that although Stallone was always keen to get his shirt off in films, he didn't want that particular part of his anatomy to be outlined in close-fitting lycra and subject to close scrutiny by cinema audiences. They were aiming for a PG certificate originally.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 09 May, 2014, 07:37:56 PM
Well can guess Stallone only wear it for 5 mins in the length of the film.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 May, 2014, 09:57:06 PM
they had two of those watches as tombola prizes at Lawgiver!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 May, 2014, 12:49:07 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 May, 2014, 12:50:39 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 May, 2014, 12:49:07 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

Ask the OP.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 May, 2014, 03:11:21 PM
The hero TD reported that there were "a few little screams, mainly from the men" when the rat was spotted and warned people working in Leinster House to "tuck their trousers into their socks".

Why can't we have dudes like that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 May, 2014, 06:28:03 PM
Help yourself, take as many as you like - just don't send us any of yours in return.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 May, 2014, 10:52:24 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 May, 2014, 06:28:03 PM
- just don't send us any of yours in return.

That's where the rat came from!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 13 May, 2014, 12:38:39 PM
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m39/therothwellincident/f72a7a42-c5c7-415c-81e5-e542655aa446_zps6e8401bd.jpg?t=1399981057)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 May, 2014, 01:33:23 PM
Every time I lose a chunk of weight I swear that it will be the last time I ever have to do it.  Then a couple of years later when the flab has returned with a vengeance, I can't quite remember why I was so vehement about keeping it under control.  Now, a week after I was spurred to action by the realisation I'll have to buy a new pair of jeans if I don't do something drastic, I remember: I'm so bloody hungry I could kill and eat the next Local/European Election shill that comes to the door.

There's half a tub of ageing hummus in the fridge that has taken on the rosy glow of ambrosia in my tortured mind.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 May, 2014, 01:54:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 May, 2014, 01:33:23 PM
I can't quite remember why I was so vehement about keeping it under control. 

How about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNr80gYjUO8
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 May, 2014, 02:03:29 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 13 May, 2014, 01:54:07 PM
How about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNr80gYjUO8

Hey, I resent that! 

I don't even have a motorbike. 

Aside from that, not far off...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 May, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81-zmNAOj0L._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 May, 2014, 03:44:48 PM
Lucas might have a lot to explain by disbanding the expanded universe, but at least he can still claim jizz...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 14 May, 2014, 03:58:46 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 14 May, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81-zmNAOj0L._SX522_.jpg)

shouldn't that be in the best skiff ever thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 May, 2014, 04:48:30 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 14 May, 2014, 03:44:48 PM
Lucas might have a lot to explain by disbanding the expanded universe, but at least he can still claim jizz...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz

From that wiki, I learnt the term "Jizz-wail".  I never knew there was a word for it, but man, if I had a euro for every time I've heard it...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 14 May, 2014, 05:02:03 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8170886656/hE2FD5F4A/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 14 May, 2014, 05:50:26 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 14 May, 2014, 03:44:48 PM
Lucas might have a lot to explain by disbanding the expanded universe, but at least he can still claim jizz...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz

Ewww... http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz-box (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz-box)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 May, 2014, 06:42:49 PM
Nobody knows where my johnnies have gone
I left them in the top drawer
Some desperate soul must have borrowed them
I wonder what he wanted them for...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 15 May, 2014, 04:13:10 PM
Don't make me start writing Vogon Poetry....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 15 May, 2014, 07:56:47 PM
Do any of you know how to un-bake a cake?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/38-yahoo-questions-that-will-destroy-your-faith-in-humanity
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 15 May, 2014, 11:20:20 PM
But...but but... Why would you want to? Its CAKE!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 May, 2014, 12:10:28 AM
Don't talk to me about cake...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 May, 2014, 12:24:37 AM
Being a fan of cake, I wouldn't want to un-bake one. It's just a question posed by someone on the intestinet.

Here's another...'Are there gravity in India?'
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/38-yahoo-questions-that-will-destroy-your-faith-in-humanity


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 16 May, 2014, 12:53:51 AM
Nothing on this thread rhymes with "if". It is therefore unfunny.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 May, 2014, 01:35:29 AM
Quote from: Trout on 16 May, 2014, 12:53:51 AM
Nothing on this thread rhymes with "if". It is therefore unfunny.

Ahem...

Quote from: Mister Pops on 14 May, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81-zmNAOj0L._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 May, 2014, 04:39:29 PM
How to sell your second hand car....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nkStZnWo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nkStZnWo)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 16 May, 2014, 05:35:56 PM
The most popular search terms that bring people to my blog, apparently:

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/redhotchillis/meoop_zps66edfce9.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 May, 2014, 09:29:01 PM
Why is Alan Moore flogging cheese?

(https://www.aldi.co.uk/typo3temp/pics/f54a6c742a.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 May, 2014, 11:04:43 PM
I hope that wall behind O'Reilly isn't one he built himself.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 16 May, 2014, 11:29:17 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 16 May, 2014, 09:29:01 PM
Why is Alan Moore flogging cheese?

(https://www.aldi.co.uk/typo3temp/pics/f54a6c742a.jpg)


Because he is quite sexualy adventurous.... The old goat!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 17 May, 2014, 02:10:31 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 May, 2014, 11:04:43 PM
I hope that wall behind O'Reilly isn't one he built himself.

Never trust a one-handed builder.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 May, 2014, 07:54:46 AM
Buttonman, the Crock-Block Years.

Quote from: von Boom on 16 May, 2014, 09:29:01 PM
(https://www.aldi.co.uk/typo3temp/pics/f54a6c742a.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 May, 2014, 02:54:45 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8186674944/h8EAA9983/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 17 May, 2014, 04:18:14 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8176074752/h7BBC658C/)


This Artist Was Arrested for Sexual Exhibitionism After Tying a Rooster to His, Well, Rooster
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 May, 2014, 10:10:49 PM
Happy birthday to our very own CrazyFoxMachine! Hope you had a good one Owen. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 May, 2014, 04:06:31 PM
Damn! Perfect match! Clint can be Old Man Logan as that comic?

(http://i.imgur.com/5nfAtdX.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 May, 2014, 05:24:57 AM
Belated happy birthday, CFM!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 19 May, 2014, 03:00:28 PM
Cheers everyone here and on the Weekend thread - twas indeed a cidery weekend!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 May, 2014, 07:42:42 PM

Character in How To Train Your Dragon sequel comes out as gay (http://www.christianpost.com/news/gay-viking-in-how-to-train-your-dragon-2-revealed-i-love-the-idea-says-director-video-119910/): Christian parents worried children might be influenced to become Vikings.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 May, 2014, 08:36:27 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 19 May, 2014, 07:42:42 PM

Character in How To Train Your Dragon sequel comes out as gay (http://www.christianpost.com/news/gay-viking-in-how-to-train-your-dragon-2-revealed-i-love-the-idea-says-director-video-119910/): Christian parents worried children might be influenced to become Vikings.

How utterly fucked in the head must these people be.  Couldn't they at least interpret it as a victory for the anti-same-sex-marriage lobby in dragon-riding communities?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 May, 2014, 04:16:31 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnxUnF8CYAA9FHX.jpg)


(http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2012/11/14/22dab5d4-a645-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/270x150/150f37000f63b1e53a1700dddcb81214/loomis-gorilla.jpg)

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01290/zombie_1290011c.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 May, 2014, 01:45:33 AM
You have a really crazy commute Doc Alt 8.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 May, 2014, 05:14:26 AM
Yeah... And that is just the shortcut... :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 21 May, 2014, 10:16:31 AM
Pretty good summary of Judge Dredd:

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56737/everything-you-need-get-back-judge-dredd-comics
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 21 May, 2014, 10:42:16 AM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 16 May, 2014, 05:35:56 PM
The most popular search terms that bring people to my blog, apparently:

Where's your blog? I would like to read it on account of you being funny.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 May, 2014, 04:25:17 PM
Why I don't travel abroad:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NX41Vzfda1Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NX41Vzfda1Y)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 21 May, 2014, 11:56:12 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 21 May, 2014, 10:42:16 AM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 16 May, 2014, 05:35:56 PM
The most popular search terms that bring people to my blog, apparently:

Where's your blog? I would like to read it on account of you being funny.

You should Google those search terms.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 22 May, 2014, 12:15:47 AM
I dread to think what else comes up in Google when you use those search terms, but you can find my blog by clicking the wee globe in my profile info on the right.  I've had nearly 8 views!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 May, 2014, 08:34:57 AM
Read the Prof's blog - it's durned funny and not a little grouchy, as you might expect.  Also, some great scratchings and a very nice ongoing strip which will have you rummaging through his archive, which is a thing you may never have envisaged doing, ever. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 May, 2014, 04:27:55 AM
Ye wouldn't think there was a world cup on the way would ye?

Where's all the usually unavoidable hype?

I was expecting we'd a least get a panel show about the 1966 World Cup. Presented by John Bishop, with Jason Manford and Ian Wright as team  captains. It's like ye don't even care.

Come on England
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 May, 2014, 04:42:18 AM
It's probably all on the radio. Talk Sport is full of it and Radio 5 Live is getting into its stride. I'm not looking forward to the coming weeks ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 May, 2014, 08:48:58 AM

The arrival of the World Cup wall chart with your Saturday paper used to be the first sign of the competition's imminence, but I suppose that's all online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/fixtures) nowadays. My local Co-op's got those cheapo, not-Panini stickers on sale by the cash till, but thinking that kids will want to pay a pound for a sticker to paste in a book just seems like another of the ways in which those in charge of the Co-operative Society seem to be living in the past, or some kind of altered state of consciousness.

The usual chatter in the run up to any tournament is which of England's show ponies has pulled a tendon and will have to be metaphorically shot, but Roy Hodgson's cunningly negated that by picking a bunch of teenagers with ligaments so fresh, flexible and resilient you could use them as trampoline springs. These indestructible and inexhaustible adolescents enjoy the added advantage that nobody really knows who they are, so if one of them did fall off their scooter and have to pull out, the news wouldn't be all over the front pages of the tabloids anyway.

Also, everyone appears to have finally accepted that England have very little chance (http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/) of winning the tournament.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 24 May, 2014, 09:54:37 AM
And that post there is why we need a like button!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 May, 2014, 10:36:08 AM

That post will be seen as a result of sour grapes, even though no-one in Scotland has ever even seen a grape.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 24 May, 2014, 10:47:32 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 24 May, 2014, 04:27:55 AM
It's like ye don't even care.

Come on England

I think they're trying reverse psychology this time.
A bold, dangerous move.

Now leave me alone to enjoy this bottle of vintage 2012 Sour Grape Grenache.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 24 May, 2014, 11:07:39 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 24 May, 2014, 04:27:55 AM
Come on England

Oh, don't get me started on that shower...  Bah!



Not keen on grapes, I'm more a Northern bitter type,  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 24 May, 2014, 01:01:05 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 24 May, 2014, 10:36:08 AM

That post will be seen as a result of sour grapes, even though no-one in Scotland has ever even seen a grape.

S'true. I grew up believing them to be somehow medicinal, only ever having witnessed them being consumed within hospitals. This, in turn, led me to believe Crackerjack's Stu Francis was likely intent on the total annihilation of the NHS and probably secretly a Nazi or something like them UKIPs nowadays. The git.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 02:31:34 PM
If you want to post about sport, we should have a special section for it. Then the small number of board members who are interested can fill up the board with specialised threads, many of them spoofing other threads, while the rest of us search in vain for threads about comics before giving up and going back to Facebook.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 24 May, 2014, 02:47:45 PM
I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 24 May, 2014, 03:09:54 PM
Quote from: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 02:31:34 PM
If you want to post about sport, we should have a special section for it. Then the small number of board members who are interested can fill up the board with specialised threads, many of them spoofing other threads, while the rest of us search in vain for threads about comics before giving up and going back to Facebook.

The threads about comics are in the 'Books and Comics' section.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 May, 2014, 03:24:25 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8193379584/h90536B2C/)


Tired of Dealing With Potholes in Pennsylvania, Citizens Make the Most of Them
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 03:34:02 PM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 24 May, 2014, 02:47:45 PM
I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 24 May, 2014, 04:03:35 PM
Quote from: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 03:34:02 PM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 24 May, 2014, 02:47:45 PM
I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.

Can't help you there, but will these discussions on biscuits (http://dcfcfans.co.uk/topic/9341-tuc-biscuits/) and cheese (http://dcfcfans.co.uk/topic/13579-cheese-of-the-day/) do?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 May, 2014, 04:22:26 PM
Quote from: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 03:34:02 PM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 24 May, 2014, 02:47:45 PM
I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.
Can't help youthere, but here's a thread (http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4444555)from mildly popular indie music website drownedinsound which correctly identifies Midnight Surfer as best ever Dredd story in the first post.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 May, 2014, 04:26:13 PM
Forget it....

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 May, 2014, 04:31:07 PM
Quote from: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 03:34:02 PM
I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.

Can't help you there, but here's a post I made on a politics forum during discussion of Thursday's election results:

QuoteRorschach's not the protagonist, he's just the most entertaining character. He doesn't do anything in the story other than beat folk up, and his 'investigation' leads nowhere (in fact, he's reluctant to even suspect [spoiler]Adrian Veidt[/spoiler]). The most consequential act he performs in the entire story is to mail a letter.

The fact that it's an extract from Rorschach's diary which opens the narrative, with its Marlowe-by-way-of-Bickle prose, tricks the reader into thinking it's going to be a detective story told from his point of view, but we're treated to a tour round the heads of another five characters during the course of the story, sometimes through text inserts purporting to be their (auto)biographies.

The comic doesn't have a central character, or any one person through whom the reader experiences the narrative, which means all the characters end up being developed and nuanced portraits of what feel like the real and fallible individuals whose fragility, complexity and inter-relatedness end up fascinating Dr Manhattan so. The costumed characters end up saving the world, not through superheroics or with one mighty leap, but because they fucked up and are so fucked up themselves.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 11:00:56 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 May, 2014, 04:22:26 PM
Quote from: Trout on 24 May, 2014, 03:34:02 PM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 24 May, 2014, 02:47:45 PM
I agree, this forum is hardly the place to discuss a niche interest.

Correct. I also hope to find widespread discussion of 2000AD at derbycounty.com.
Can't help youthere, but here's a thread (http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4444555)from mildly popular indie music website drownedinsound which correctly identifies Midnight Surfer as best ever Dredd story in the first post.

Thank you. I fear the original intent if this thread has been lost. Once, it was a place where tongue-in-cheek complaints could be made with impunity. Now it's a place where no one dare point out that Farscape was a bit shit.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 24 May, 2014, 11:39:30 PM
To be fair, no-one mentions it because it goes without saying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 25 May, 2014, 01:25:29 AM
Sorry. I just wanted to keep  the "can't help you there" theme running.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 25 May, 2014, 02:07:29 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 25 May, 2014, 01:25:29 AM
Sorry. I just wanted to keep  the "can't help you there" theme running.

No apologies needed. Unless you are an incongruous muppet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 May, 2014, 02:14:00 AM
Have you ever met a congruous muppet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 25 May, 2014, 10:36:33 PM
Must... resist... obvious... answer...  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 May, 2014, 10:39:11 PM
My kids ended up a church service this morning because I was unexpectedly working and the good woman doing something for her work at the church (don't ask) - and there was less chance of being squashed by a Himac with her than with me.  It dawned on us (as atheists) that the kids have only ever been in churches as tourist attractions (my youngest described the church as 'that tower'), and a few weddings, none recently.  I tell them Bible stories in the same way I tell/read them stories from other mythologies (for as such I see them), because it's an important part of their culture - and hypocritically I can't abide people not knowing their Bible.  So I was very keen to see what they had made of it all. 

Both enjoyed the singing, and apparently there were scones and sambos after which went down very well indeed.  I pressed the eldest (8) for what he had learnt about Christianity, and he looked thoughtful and said 'that Jesus created all the animals as well as the people'.  'Aren't you confusing Jesus with God?', I asked him rather disingenuously.

"Well, they have quite similar origins", he says.  "Jesus was born in a farmyard, and God was cut from the belly of a Titan".  That's my boy.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 25 May, 2014, 10:48:59 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 May, 2014, 10:39:11 PM

"Well, they have quite similar origins", he says.  "Jesus was born in a farmyard, and God was cut from the belly of a Titan".  That's my boy.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 26 May, 2014, 08:45:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 May, 2014, 10:39:11 PM
scones and sambos after which went down very well indeed. 

I don't know what that is but it sounds racist!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 May, 2014, 09:49:55 AM
Quote from: JamesC on 26 May, 2014, 08:45:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 May, 2014, 10:39:11 PM
scones and sambos after which went down very well indeed. 

I don't know what that is but it sounds racist!

File with 'niggardly', 'fag' and (for more regional parole) 'Gaybo'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 May, 2014, 11:02:13 AM
Holy shit! I WORK at that dive centre! Franticly been calling my boss to check she's OK, found out she's been up all night negotiating with (in order) the feckin eejits who work next door, the fire fighters, the land lord, the eejits, the land lord and the eejits, the fire fighters, the police, the bank, the eejits and finally going to bed at 9 this morning. I swear, if I ever get my hands on the 'garage mechanics' I'll wring their neck. We operate on compressed air and nitrox for gods sake! If it hadn't been for a single, wafer thing wall the whole of Bolton would just be a damn crater about now! Worst of all! Even though we can go in the centre again after three days we can't start up the compressor for another week until the air has cleared! I'm more pissed off than I have any right to be, but the worst thing is, it isn't the first time this has happened!

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/11235916.Fire_rips_through_mill_used_by_diving_club/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 May, 2014, 03:16:55 PM
Good Grud, 7,000 posts!

Should I be celebrating or getting a life?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mogzilla on 27 May, 2014, 03:20:54 PM
both :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 May, 2014, 04:35:50 PM
Yeah, he is just the worst, and this board used to be good until he came along.  I reckon he loves the attention and complaining would just encourage him, so I say nothin.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 May, 2014, 07:26:46 PM
Ugh. When did I become so old that the barber has to trim my eyebrows?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 27 May, 2014, 07:28:03 PM
Have you not had the burning torch waved around your ears yet, now that's a shock the first time :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 May, 2014, 07:33:05 PM
Missus makes me tweeze 'em. Sigh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mogzilla on 27 May, 2014, 07:36:13 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...

:lol:

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 May, 2014, 07:47:28 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...

Same to you, you old something that rhymes with hunt!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Charlie boy on 27 May, 2014, 07:57:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 May, 2014, 07:47:28 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...

Same to you, you old something that rhymes with hunt!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_rhymes_with_hunt?#slide=1
Featuring the word mutantblunt which I have never seen or heard before so I'm about to Google it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 May, 2014, 08:13:08 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...

If you think you can drive me away, think again sunshine.  I'm like a fungal infection in your big toenail - all the foul-smelling paste in the world ain't going to dislodge me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mogzilla on 27 May, 2014, 09:07:21 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 May, 2014, 08:13:08 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...

If you think you can drive me away, think again sunshine.  I'm like a fungal infection in your big toenail - all the foul-smelling paste in the world ain't going to dislodge me.

he's onto you ghost get the giant ped egg quick!   ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ghost MacRoth on 27 May, 2014, 09:28:18 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 May, 2014, 03:59:22 PM
You know who really pisses me off on this forum? Whose every post has me grinding my teeth in impotent frustration?

That guy.

You all know who I mean...

The kind of twat that doesn't get banned for aggression when other far less aggressive types do? 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mogzilla on 27 May, 2014, 09:35:56 PM
yup
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 May, 2014, 09:54:04 PM
Is that a Jim sized mountain I see edging towards the battle field?.....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 May, 2014, 10:01:51 PM

The mountain does not move (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DkUE0BLi5PQ#t=47)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 May, 2014, 10:13:07 PM
Has anyone ever used The Wordery on amazon marketplace before? They are astoundingly cheap but seem to be rated quiet highly...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: mogzilla on 27 May, 2014, 10:17:00 PM
quite possibly,speedyhen are good too
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 28 May, 2014, 07:29:19 AM
Just to clarify, I honestly did not have anyone in mind when I posted that last comment.

It was just meaningless 'Threadjacking' talk.

Sorry to disappoint.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 28 May, 2014, 10:39:48 AM
Guinea pigs are too cute.



Even that guy would think so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 May, 2014, 10:55:45 AM
1 Direction's fans does really scare me!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 May, 2014, 11:03:34 AM
I was working the night shift on the main street of our fair city as a recent 1D  oncert got out.  It was utterly freaky, an unstoppable tsunami of face-painted humanity, trudging past like a wildebeest migration in white, pink and uncomfortable shoes.  For hours.

I don't blame the kiddies, but the grown women were terrifying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 28 May, 2014, 11:11:48 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 28 May, 2014, 10:39:48 AM
Guinea pigs are too cute.



Even that guy would think so.

That guy eats guinea pigs. Baby guinea pigs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 May, 2014, 06:59:32 PM

Emily Blunt's provided the glamorous but not an underwear model/younger than the leading man but not so young she makes him look decrepit or pervy female support in Looper, The Adjustment Agency, and now Tom Cruise's latest vaguely sci-fi nonsense (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmSVcttXnI). Is she the new Rene Russo?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 28 May, 2014, 07:39:55 PM
She can certainly 'Rene' (suck) MY 'Russo' (cock) if you get my drift.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 May, 2014, 07:49:27 PM

Tiplodocus has started a thread which may be of interest to you, Spaceghost.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 May, 2014, 08:02:20 PM
I've just put Ultimate Kylie onto my MP3 player. Both discs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 May, 2014, 08:17:58 PM
Stephen Hawking analyses England's chance at the World Cup, shrugs his shoulders and declares meh. (Not really).

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/28/stephen-hawking-formulae-england-world-cup-success (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/28/stephen-hawking-formulae-england-world-cup-success)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 May, 2014, 12:02:59 AM
Quote from: an independence from sauchie on 28 May, 2014, 06:59:32 PM

Emily Blunt's provided the glamorous but not an underwear model/younger than the leading man but not so young she makes him look decrepit or pervy female support in Looper, The Adjustment Agency, and now Tom Cruise's latest vaguely sci-fi nonsense (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmSVcttXnI). Is she the new Rene Russo?

The only time Blunt hasn't just plain annoyed-me-for-no-reason onscreen is B-Movie horror Wind Chill.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 29 May, 2014, 01:27:31 AM
Pulled pork may sound rude but I love it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 May, 2014, 02:28:24 PM
Twisted Chicken? WTF!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 29 May, 2014, 05:07:45 PM
My pal Katie does painting and stuff (http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/katies-home-is-where-the-art-is-165109n.24285102).

Inappropriate sidebar ads and articles are nothing new on newspaper sites but I'm a bit disheartened by the fact that the Evening Times there has prioritised its subheadings as:
- News
- Celtic
- Rangers
- Sport

I may have to visit again tomorrow to see if the second and third entries are switched around.
Title: Re: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 30 May, 2014, 02:35:05 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 May, 2014, 10:13:07 PMHas anyone ever used The Wordery on amazon marketplace before? They are astoundingly cheap but seem to be rated quiet highly...

Yep, managed to snap up pretty all 5 of the 100 Bullets deluxe hardbacks between them and another seller called 'speedy hen' for a fraction of the rrp.

Service was excellent all round.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 May, 2014, 06:04:27 PM

You know the wee sidebar on Amazon that shows you other books by folks whose work you've purchased? Imagine my delight to discover that there was a new Alan Moore (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Moore/e/B006NJ9UWG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1) book out I had never even heard of before. Looks like Rian Hughes has done the cover in the style of his Filth work too:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Tgj7KVHnL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX342_SY445_CR,0,0,342,445_SH20_OU02_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Straight-Lines-Alan-Moore/dp/0956766242/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_4_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=15MEM7HCYBAVPH9SN60C)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 31 May, 2014, 12:02:32 PM
"a charismatic visionary who has a firm grasp of the significant and disruptive trends which are currently reshaping our world".  Seems legit. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 May, 2014, 03:12:48 PM
Worst Mis heard Song Lyric?

Here....  "Is it a Reebok Or A Nike?"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BQ4c54rCJ_k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BQ4c54rCJ_k)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 02 June, 2014, 04:29:04 PM
Evolution in action...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3i1EyMpxk&feature=player_embedded



BACON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P_0HGRWgXw&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 June, 2014, 09:28:26 PM
Stupidity tester (http://freegames.org/stupidity-tester/)

Only took me two attempts to achieve 0% stupidity!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 03 June, 2014, 11:06:21 PM

(http://www.darkhorrorgames.com/images/game_review/slender-man-real-photo.jpg)


Two little girls attempt to murder friend (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/wis-girls-stabbed-friend-expressed-regret-police-article-1.1815456) in bid to join with urban legend, The Slender Man (http://theslenderman.wikia.com/wiki/Slender_Man).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 03 June, 2014, 11:32:09 PM
Quote from: lord sauchie on 30 May, 2014, 06:04:27 PM

You know the wee sidebar on Amazon that shows you other books by folks whose work you've purchased? Imagine my delight to discover that there was a new Alan Moore (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Moore/e/B006NJ9UWG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1) book out I had never even heard of before. Looks like Rian Hughes has done the cover in the style of his Filth work too:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Tgj7KVHnL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX342_SY445_CR,0,0,342,445_SH20_OU02_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Straight-Lines-Alan-Moore/dp/0956766242/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_4_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=15MEM7HCYBAVPH9SN60C)


Alan Moore knows the score (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOORE-Sex-Party-Games-SC-/271375726108?pt=AU_Non_Fiction_Books_2&hash=item3f2f40f61c).

(http://bookzangle.com/images/books/00003/12036.jpg)




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 June, 2014, 02:30:33 PM
Some proper dodgy accents in this! But hilarious when the poor guy shits himself with terror.

http://youtu.be/HgEkDWRb9IM
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 June, 2014, 04:51:46 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 June, 2014, 11:32:09 PM
(http://bookzangle.com/images/books/00003/12036.jpg)

What's truly remarkable is what Tommy Cooper was hiding under that penguin suit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 04 June, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
Listening to the ECBT2000AD interview with Keef and Parr and I thought of a new question - how do you pronounce Sauchie? Sochi or Soki? Personally I go with Soki as it's the same as a town near me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 05 June, 2014, 02:16:48 AM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 04 June, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
Listening to the ECBT2000AD interview with Keef and Parr and I thought of a new question - how do you pronounce Sauchie? Sochi or Soki? Personally I go with Soki as it's the same as a town near me.

It's pronounced "yo-kehl".  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 June, 2014, 06:39:27 AM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 04 June, 2014, 10:44:57 PM
Listening to the ECBT2000AD interview with Keef and Parr and I thought of a new question - how do you pronounce Sauchie? Sochi or Soki?

Chí-kén Drínk-ér

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 June, 2014, 12:51:39 PM
There is reports of 'smoke in the basement' of The Shard, are Shard try to launching into space?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 June, 2014, 01:59:43 PM
It's the bloody Cybermen/Daleks/Silurians again.  No imagination that lot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 June, 2014, 02:01:47 PM
[spoiler]Spoonheads[/spoiler] last time, wasn't it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 June, 2014, 03:59:39 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 June, 2014, 02:01:47 PM
[spoiler]Spoonheads[/spoiler] last time, wasn't it?

Cardassians?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 June, 2014, 05:37:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 June, 2014, 03:59:39 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 June, 2014, 02:01:47 PM
[spoiler]Spoonheads[/spoiler] last time, wasn't it?

Cardassians?

Can't let it go Chief, can you?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 June, 2014, 05:45:55 PM
Now we know why you only need one hand to use an iPad.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/04/apples-ipad-porn-android-tablet-users (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/04/apples-ipad-porn-android-tablet-users)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 June, 2014, 05:47:40 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 June, 2014, 03:59:39 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 June, 2014, 02:01:47 PM
[spoiler]Spoonheads[/spoiler] last time, wasn't it?

Cardassians?
Keeping up with the Cardassians?

'Don's hat and leaves'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 June, 2014, 06:32:42 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 05 June, 2014, 05:37:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 June, 2014, 03:59:39 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 June, 2014, 02:01:47 PM
[spoiler]Spoonheads[/spoiler] last time, wasn't it?

Cardassians?

Can't let it go Chief, can you?

It's not them I hate; I hate what Kanye became because of them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
I am pleasantly surprised at how much people accept my reason for not liking football - "Because it's played by millionaires, I can't get enthused about a game played by men earning more money than  I will in a lifetime" - whilst simultaneously, I am slightly depressed by how even the most die hard  supporters nod their head sagely yet persist in their obsession and speculation over how these millionaires will be bought and sold.

I suppose as money is the basis of our society it makes sense that premier league football is the sport of our nation. Perhaps its the same for the states and American Football. (Inspired by a report that 71% of the UK's football club's overall costs are wages and that otherwise 'margins are razor thin' despite generating ridiculous amounts of money).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 06 June, 2014, 03:10:20 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
I am pleasantly surprised at how much people accept my reason for not liking football - "Because it's played by millionaires, I can't get enthused about a game played by men earning more money than  I will in a lifetime" -

the silly money they earn is ridiculous, but it's a bit of a non-sequitur as a reason for not enjoying the game. Do you also not enjoy music by bands like the Rolling Stones or movies by Hollywood stars?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 06 June, 2014, 03:16:01 PM
Victoria Coren Mitchell (Only Connect BBC4 Mondays 20:30) - my (now not so) secret celebrity crush.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 03:28:51 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 June, 2014, 03:10:20 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
I am pleasantly surprised at how much people accept my reason for not liking football - "Because it's played by millionaires, I can't get enthused about a game played by men earning more money than  I will in a lifetime" -

the silly money they earn is ridiculous, but it's a bit of a non-sequitur as a reason for not enjoying the game. Do you also not enjoy music by bands like the Rolling Stones or movies by Hollywood stars?

The difference being that bands generally play their music, hollywood stars record a movie (I won't go so far as to say they act but I only enjoy those that do), yet most of the time footballers do not score a goal or win matches. And in terms of loyalty, the average football fan is the equivalent of a fanatical music/actor fanboy/girl.

I don't mean simple enjoyment - I enjoy watching football from time to time. But dedicating a quarter to a half of every newspaper, full football channels, following obsessively, taking up 25% of all conversations in the UK (rising to 50% within pubs).... It was simpler when I supported Man U because I'm from Manchester, but then I asked who was actually from Manchester...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 June, 2014, 07:36:02 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 06 June, 2014, 03:16:01 PM
Victoria Coren Mitchell (Only Connect BBC4 Mondays 20:30) - my (now not so) secret celebrity crush.

Back of the bloody line, sunshine - some of us have been camping out here for years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 07 June, 2014, 12:20:19 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 03:28:51 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 June, 2014, 03:10:20 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
I am pleasantly surprised at how much people accept my reason for not liking football - "Because it's played by millionaires, I can't get enthused about a game played by men earning more money than  I will in a lifetime" -

the silly money they earn is ridiculous, but it's a bit of a non-sequitur as a reason for not enjoying the game. Do you also not enjoy music by bands like the Rolling Stones or movies by Hollywood stars?

The difference being that bands generally play their music, hollywood stars record a movie (I won't go so far as to say they act but I only enjoy those that do), yet most of the time footballers do not score a goal or win matches. And in terms of loyalty, the average football fan is the equivalent of a fanatical music/actor fanboy/girl.
At the risk of defending overpaid, preening poltroons...
You seem to be suggesting that a footballer's only benchmark is scoring goals. This seems like a child's reasoning. Akin to conflating the feint with the strike or demanding that The Rolling Stones' royalties be apportioned on the basis that Mick only sings a few lines while Charlie hits four times in every bar!

It's the lines you don't draw that make you an artist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 07 June, 2014, 12:21:40 AM
NB I await a second "taking this too serious" award.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 07 June, 2014, 12:52:27 AM
Cosh, the post-midnight posts surely don't count. Or I'd be in a secure facility.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 07 June, 2014, 01:53:44 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 07 June, 2014, 12:20:19 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 03:28:51 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 June, 2014, 03:10:20 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 June, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
I am pleasantly surprised at how much people accept my reason for not liking football - "Because it's played by millionaires, I can't get enthused about a game played by men earning more money than  I will in a lifetime" -

the silly money they earn is ridiculous, but it's a bit of a non-sequitur as a reason for not enjoying the game. Do you also not enjoy music by bands like the Rolling Stones or movies by Hollywood stars?

The difference being that bands generally play their music, hollywood stars record a movie (I won't go so far as to say they act but I only enjoy those that do), yet most of the time footballers do not score a goal or win matches. And in terms of loyalty, the average football fan is the equivalent of a fanatical music/actor fanboy/girl.
At the risk of defending overpaid, preening poltroons...
You seem to be suggesting that a footballer's only benchmark is scoring goals. This seems like a child's reasoning. Akin to conflating the feint with the strike or demanding that The Rolling Stones' royalties be apportioned on the basis that Mick only sings a few lines while Charlie hits four times in every bar!

It's the lines you don't draw that make you an artist.

I may be simplifying things but by the same token, you just suggested its the goals they don't score that make them professional footballers...

You next up for the England job?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 June, 2014, 07:52:30 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 07 June, 2014, 01:53:44 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 07 June, 2014, 12:20:19 AM
You seem to be suggesting that a footballer's only benchmark is scoring goals. This seems like a child's reasoning. Akin to conflating the feint with the strike or demanding that The Rolling Stones' royalties be apportioned on the basis that Mick only sings a few lines while Charlie hits four times in every bar! It's the lines you don't draw that make you an artist.

I may be simplifying things but by the same token, you just suggested its the goals they don't score that make them professional footballers ... You next up for the England job?

[guffaw] x 2  Sad to hear the news that France won't be taking Franck Ribery to the World Cup, as he's clearly the most Gallic looking man alive. Before looking at these pictures, please remember that Ribery * is very unusual - don't have nightmares:

(http://img.uefa.com/imgml/TP/players/1/2014/324x324/95665.jpg)(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2011/3/21/1300730490476/French-midfielder-Franck--007.jpg)(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01242/franck_ribery_1242993c.jpg)(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/abb3a399-0fd3-48bf-a268-a48d21365d84.jpg?t=1402123761g)



* best Nick Ross based pun ever
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 07 June, 2014, 06:39:14 PM
He looks like he belongs in the Angel Gang.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 07 June, 2014, 11:57:01 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 07 June, 2014, 01:53:44 AM
I may be simplifying things but by the same token, you just suggested its the goals they don't score that make them professional footballers...

You next up for the England job?
Ha! It's every Scotchman's dream job.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 09 June, 2014, 09:35:36 AM
Look at that first pic. Is he missing the World Cup to meet filming commitments as the Joker?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 June, 2014, 01:46:57 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 07 June, 2014, 07:52:30 AM

[guffaw] x 2  Sad to hear the news that France won't be taking Franck Ribery to the World Cup, as he's clearly the most Gallic looking man alive.


They can't all be pretty boys like Rooney or Lescott.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 June, 2014, 02:48:06 PM
Mars? who'd have thought it!  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 June, 2014, 05:20:07 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 June, 2014, 02:48:06 PM
Mars? who'd have thought it!  :o

I see your Mars and raise you a Twix.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 June, 2014, 05:21:12 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 June, 2014, 05:20:07 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 June, 2014, 02:48:06 PM
Mars? who'd have thought it!  :o

I see your Mars and raise you a Twix.

I see your Twix and raise you a Snickers.

(http://www.whudat.com/news/images/mr-t-banned-snicker-commercial-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 June, 2014, 12:10:59 PM
Nuts! whole hazelnuts! Cadbury's take em and them cover in chocolate Huh!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 June, 2014, 12:12:03 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 10 June, 2014, 12:10:59 PM
Nuts!

Yeah
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 10 June, 2014, 04:56:51 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7197118720/hA2023E66/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 June, 2014, 07:09:52 PM

FARM FOODS GETS A TEN FROM LEN! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjX3A4xBPg)

An advert obviously calculated to appeal to pensioners (possibly widowers) highlights the offer of 18 fish fingers for £1.50 and 4 sausage rolls for a pound. My granny cooked everything from scratch, and my granddad would have made a thousand fry-ups before a sausage roll passed his lips, which made me realise that the first generation who grew up thinking fish fingers and Angel Delight were hot shit are the largest group of pensioners nowadays. Is there any more disingenuously named shop than Farm Foods? The only things in their freezer cabinets that ever saw daylight, never mind a farmer's field, are the frozen peas.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 June, 2014, 08:13:35 PM
How to Tell the Difference Between an Open-Carry Patriot (US) and a Deranged Killer

(http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1192cbCOMIC-open-carry-patriots.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 12 June, 2014, 04:35:54 PM
Just How Many People Does it Take .....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvxOuC7Bhc&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvxOuC7Bhc&feature=player_embedded)

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8213768704/hD2C392E8/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 June, 2014, 05:58:38 PM
How many 'years of hurt' are we up to now?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 June, 2014, 06:38:59 PM

Dazzle Ships (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage) are a John Smith phrase and a Pablo Picasso visual all rolled into one weird concept:

(http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/razzle-dazzle-camouflage-450x253.jpeg)
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ6LtN-U-cXmBMaMrJ2rmVd75LNxPVB7YkctLx9cSPVXRHsdhBUCQ)(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyGSGFbiFkDmcyZvmLFl4AgQ5HtcQ_vOs8hMvW8ua4Q79GFnOGYA)
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii111/diskochimp/razzledazzle.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steve Green on 12 June, 2014, 07:29:21 PM
That's a belts and braces attitude to seasickness.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 June, 2014, 07:52:40 PM
Hoops really do make things look fat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 June, 2014, 10:35:24 PM
Dazzle camouflage is great but surprisingly hard to replicate on an Airfix model.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 June, 2014, 12:58:14 AM
How to look like you know loads about football: A beginner's guide to the world cup awards, by chris (simpsons artist)  (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/how-to-look-like-you-know-loads-about-football-a-beginners-guide-to-the-world-cup-awards-9530038.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 13 June, 2014, 07:11:48 AM
Quote from: King Pops on 13 June, 2014, 12:58:14 AM
How to look like you know loads about football: A beginner's guide to the world cup awards, by chris (simpsons artist)  (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/how-to-look-like-you-know-loads-about-football-a-beginners-guide-to-the-world-cup-awards-9530038.html)

that is the type of post that i like to see
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 June, 2014, 08:18:30 AM
Apparently theirs some kind of sport related even going on at the moment. Guess who really doesn't give much of a damn.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2014, 09:28:49 AM
Aye, it begins: it's only 9:22 and already I've been invited into five separate conversations about the World Cup which-we-didn#t-even-qualify-for.  How do I rate  Spain's chances tonight? Will Brazil go far, do I think?  I dunno mate, do you reckon Logan will be a key character in Dark Justice?  Do you think a change to center-fed mainsheet would benefit takeup in the heritage classes, or just  be an added expense for existing sailors?  What, you have no opinion?  What a boring shite you are.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 June, 2014, 12:20:07 PM
I always enjoyed Moss and Roy's take on football:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN7HNncHik (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN7HNncHik)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 13 June, 2014, 04:06:32 PM
Scott Wilson...one of those actors just plodding along doing great work forever. The Walking Dead...as Pa Angel ... and In Cold Blood..and on and on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzFBNWeVhj0

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934113/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 June, 2014, 05:08:19 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 June, 2014, 09:28:49 AM
Aye, it begins: it's only 9:22 and already I've been invited into five separate conversations about the World Cup which-we-didn#t-even-qualify-for.  How do I rate  Spain's chances tonight? Will Brazil go far, do I think?  I dunno mate, do you reckon Logan will be a key character in Dark Justice?  Do you think a change to center-fed mainsheet would benefit takeup in the heritage classes, or just  be an added expense for existing sailors?  What, you have no opinion?  What a boring shite you are.

I've often used the  Lawgiver mark I vs lawgiver mark II question in response to any sports enquiry....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 14 June, 2014, 04:42:43 PM
Hoverboards.
http://io9.com/holy-crap-these-hydropropulsion-hoverboards-look-amazi-1590115743
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 15 June, 2014, 04:53:00 PM
Is it really that people in the U.K. tune into RTÉ 2 to watch the football tournament matches for the decent analysis by the holy trinity of Johnny Giles, Liam Brady and Eamon Dunphy rather than listening to fawning, weak rubbish from BBC/ITV/Sky et al?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 June, 2014, 05:07:26 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 15 June, 2014, 04:53:00 PM
fawning, weak rubbish from BBC

You didn't hear Phil - CHOOSE AND PERISH - Neville last night. Milk curdled in the udder, and infants emerged from Venus's crease in monstrous perversions of the human form, as his words remade our reality in new and terrifying ways. I'm scared to turn the telly back on in case he's still there, waiting for me.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 June, 2014, 05:11:11 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 15 June, 2014, 04:53:00 PM
Is it really that people in the U.K. tune into RTÉ 2 to watch the football tournament matches for the decent analysis by the holy trinity of Johnny Giles, Liam Brady and Eamon Dunphy rather than listening to fawning, weak rubbish from BBC/ITV/Sky et al?

But then they'd never have found out what Sturridge usually has for breakfast, which is clearly more important to ITV than...y'know...the actual Football match between two very good teams.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 June, 2014, 05:49:25 PM
Back in dry land from wonderful week in Croatia Islands! No 2000AD forum post or 2000AD prog comic under the eyes of missus! Just download latest prog, so anyone miss Goaty?


No... So any latest on Sequel?   ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 June, 2014, 11:45:34 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Dl80sbs.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 June, 2014, 03:13:06 PM
has anyone see Goaty recently?   :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 16 June, 2014, 07:36:54 PM
It's not Britney Mitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTByHbjgz8k
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 June, 2014, 07:47:03 PM
World Cup organisers take note, THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_ryJCugco&feature=share) is how you deal with streakers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 June, 2014, 08:27:45 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 16 June, 2014, 07:47:03 PM
World Cup organisers take note, THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_ryJCugco&feature=share) is how you deal with streakers.

Hmmm, wouldn't want to be their insurers at the same time...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2014, 08:32:08 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 16 June, 2014, 07:47:03 PM
World Cup organisers take note, THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_ryJCugco&feature=share) is how you deal with streakers.



I think he was going for rear entry with that tackle. Streakers are that rare highlight of any sporting event.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2014, 08:40:01 PM

If that surface's astroturf, the streaker's just been treated to free gender reassignment surgery. A guy I work with gashed his hand on fake grass during five-a-side a month ago, and he's still got a mangled stump like Logan's today.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 June, 2014, 08:43:08 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2014, 08:32:08 PM
Streakers are that rare highlight of any sporting event.

Seeing diver-diva Ronaldo dry-swallow after being throttled 4-0 by Germany does take a bit of beating, Joe.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 June, 2014, 08:51:24 PM
Don't know why Sauchie changes his profile pic and name into ISIS as awful news about it on the news sites.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2014, 08:54:13 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 16 June, 2014, 08:43:08 PM
Seeing diver-diva Ronaldo dry-swallow after being throttled 4-0 by Germany does take a bit of beating, Joe.


That means nothing to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 June, 2014, 08:59:17 PM
This is the best streaker ever!

Sadly it only the advert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0Q4prLBMk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0Q4prLBMk)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 16 June, 2014, 08:59:47 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 16 June, 2014, 08:51:24 PM
Don't know why Sauchie changes his profile pic and name into ISIS as awful news about it on the news sites.

Because there is awful news about it on the news sites. Same reason radiator and Jayzus have pics from the Stallone film as their avatars - I don't imagine either of them approve of or endorse Judge Dredd (1995).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 June, 2014, 09:00:50 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 June, 2014, 08:54:13 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 16 June, 2014, 08:43:08 PM
Seeing diver-diva Ronaldo dry-swallow after being throttled 4-0 by Germany does take a bit of beating, Joe.


That means nothing to me.

Fair enough, it's likely you would take grim satisfaction in it.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/28294-cristiano-ronaldo-crying-memes-win-twitter-after-germany-slams-portugal-4-0
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 June, 2014, 09:06:08 PM
Quote from: ISISauchie on 16 June, 2014, 08:59:47 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 16 June, 2014, 08:51:24 PM
Don't know why Sauchie changes his profile pic and name into ISIS as awful news about it on the news sites.

Because there is awful news about it on the news sites. Same reason radiator and Jayzus have pics from the Stallone film as their avatars - I don't imagine either of them approve of or endorse Judge Dredd (1995).

Thanks, just those photos of those poor men so haunting :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 June, 2014, 05:42:49 PM
Well. Apparently this is happening.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 June, 2014, 05:45:36 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 19 June, 2014, 05:42:49 PM
Well. Apparently this is happening.

May be the best decision for a lot of people.

About time.

:|
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 June, 2014, 05:48:21 PM
And in case you haven't been hearing enough about WC football, now you can generate your very own Brazilian footballer name:

http://www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml (http://www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml)

With a name like Vincisco I'd be a star.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 19 June, 2014, 06:09:08 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 19 June, 2014, 05:42:49 PM
Well. Apparently this is happening.

Hmmm. Probably not a bad thing. I always thought he should have been a good fit for Doctor Who but it never quite clicked.
I'd like to see them try the American show running/writing system.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2014, 11:45:22 PM
So what I miss tonight on forum?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 June, 2014, 11:48:22 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 June, 2014, 11:45:22 PM
So what I miss tonight on forum?

That was funny up until the third time!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 June, 2014, 03:10:53 PM
Bravest Guy In Whole Wide World Wears Mentos Suit, Drops Into Tank Of Diet Coke (VIDEO)
Have no fear. As Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" site explains, "When you open and drink a Diet Coke, it releases much of the pressurized carbon dioxide that forms the carbonation. As the soda warms while traveling to the stomach, the gas continues to vaporize. Any remaining might cause your stomach to expand, but it isn't enough to spark a dangerous gassy rebellion if you chase the soda with a pack of Mentos."

The ad was released by Epic Meal Empire, a TV show premiering on FYI July 26.

Lest we forget Joshua Jackson's haunting Pop Rocks scene in the 90's film "Urban Legend," you can never be too careful with candy:

view-source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/mentos-suit-diet-coke-dunk-tank_n_5513683.html (http://view-source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/mentos-suit-diet-coke-dunk-tank_n_5513683.html)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 June, 2014, 04:18:19 PM
This has GOT to be a prank:
Mexico's Outfits for the 2014 Sochi Olympics Are Totally Insane
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfAvB6NCMAAyTHM.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 June, 2014, 04:23:32 PM
No No No...
The Bra That Only Opens When True Love Is Detected.
The bra comprises of a sensor which monitors your heart rate and other vitals, the data is constantly transmitted via Bluetooth to a mobile phone which processes the data using a special app and measures the heart rate elevation using special algorithms and preset data and it is only when your heart has truly found that special someone would it beat in a way that the app would recognize and wirelessly unhook the bra.

Ladies can relax as not any changes in heart rates will unhook the bra as the experts at Ravijour say it is only when a woman falls in true love does she get excited enough for the Adrenal Medulla to secrete Catecholamine which affects the autonomic nerve and increases the heart rate which is detected by the sensor and processed by the specially developed iOS app.

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8024858112/h1A53C331/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 June, 2014, 08:33:34 PM
Typical. As soon as I was considering buying some Marvel Essentials, I find out many have been out of print since only recently. Wanted to get me some Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider and Moon Knight. ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 June, 2014, 03:41:57 PM
Sex Tips:

Very wise words here men. PAY ATTENTION!

As Ruth warns the "sensitive young woman" that the book was intended for to beware of women who "actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure," it's clear just how far attitudes to sex have changed in the last century.

All advice featured follows Ruth's mantra: "Give little, give seldom, and above all give grudgingly."

We wonder what the author would make of Cosmopolitan magazine's famous sex tips today?

Prepared to be boggled by these extracts from Ruth's book:


A wise bride will make it the goal never to allow her husband to see her unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her... sex when it cannot be avoided should be practised only in total darkness.


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/13/these-sex-tips-from-1894-ruth-smythers_n_5490933.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cukt2%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D273189#slide=3852316 (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/13/these-sex-tips-from-1894-ruth-smythers_n_5490933.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cukt2%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D273189#slide=3852316).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 June, 2014, 10:28:40 PM
Is it just me that finds it hilarious that the Brazilian team has a 'Fred' and a 'Hulk'?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 23 June, 2014, 10:50:48 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 19 June, 2014, 05:42:49 PM
Well. Apparently this is happening.

As he is no longer on Twitter, it's even more impressive.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 23 June, 2014, 11:08:44 PM
I will give you a chinese burn of epic proportions at Thought Bubble for getting my hopes up like that, Hawk.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 June, 2014, 11:19:14 PM
No need. I'm in inverting my own frontal lobe as ourir spweeak.

::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 June, 2014, 04:40:58 PM
Nightmares in hair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkgbEGkc9E&feature=player_embedded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkgbEGkc9E&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 June, 2014, 08:25:29 PM
I really wish I spoke Hindi for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fOaW6A4j5E#t=226 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fOaW6A4j5E#t=226)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 June, 2014, 08:59:27 PM
(http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/slowly-scroll.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 24 June, 2014, 11:00:42 PM
Aghhh fear the penguin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2014, 07:57:29 AM
I'M ON A BOAT!

No, really, I am!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 June, 2014, 08:25:35 AM

(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/b193855c-c8ed-4a39-82d4-c6e0872eaf97.jpg?t=1403680972)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 June, 2014, 09:44:06 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 June, 2014, 07:57:29 AM
I'M ON A BOAT!

No, really, I am!

What are you doing on a boat? Get off it this instant, young man
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 June, 2014, 09:47:20 AM
Never get off the boat.

(Unless your gonna go all the way).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 June, 2014, 03:54:11 PM
AMERICAN STUDENT RESCUED.... FROM.... OH I CAN'T TYPE IT. LOOK IT UP. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8232574464/hDE6DFAEB/ (https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8232574464/hDE6DFAEB/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 June, 2014, 03:57:00 PM
I haven't even clicked the link and i'm betting it's either someing to do with beer or a vagina.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 June, 2014, 04:34:16 PM
A statue of  the latter option.   :lol:


Meanwhile


(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8016967168/h032CBC3F/)

http://cheezburger.com/161797?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+failblog+%28The+FAIL+Blog+-+Fail+Pictures+%26+Videos+at+Failblog.ORG%29 (http://cheezburger.com/161797?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+failblog+%28The+FAIL+Blog+-+Fail+Pictures+%26+Videos+at+Failblog.ORG%29)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 June, 2014, 05:02:11 PM
Judge in training?

4-Year-Old 'Detective' Busts Babysitter In Alleged Robbery

It was an elementary case for a child not even in elementary school.

A 4-year-old Ferndale, Washington, girl foiled an alleged robbery plot by her 17-year-old babysitter on Wednesday.

Like Roger Murtaugh being "too old for this sh*t," rookie detective Abby is already dealing with the stress of locking up alleged criminals.

"Wednesday was the worst day of my life," the little girl told Q13 Fox News.

Police said the girl's babysitter, who is not being named because she is a minor, planned a false home invasion in order to steal things from the residence. Her alleged accomplices included her 16-year-old boyfriend, and 18-year-old Ruben Benjamin, according to Fox News.

When officers arrived at the apartment, the babysitter allegedly told police that two armed black men had entered the residence and stolen things including a video game system, laptops, and Abby's iPod and piggy bank.

Investigators said the babysitter even tried pinning the crime on a black neighbor, who was taken in for questioning, according to the New York Daily News.

But when officers spoke to Abby, the little girl told them that the robbers were white, not black, and that they had ordered the little girl out of the house in order to steal.

A short time later, police said the suspect admitted to the crime. The babysitter and her alleged accomplices were all arrested.

The babysitter now faces charges of second-degree perjury, conspiring to commit robbery and conspiring to commit burglary. The two other suspects were both charged with second-degree robbery, theft, and burglary.

As for Abby, she told Q13Fox that she was just happy to have her stuff back.

"[Police] got it back because of me being the superhero," she said.

Abby also had some pretty strong opinions about her now former babysitter.

"That was really her being bad," she said. "She's not a good babysitter."

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 June, 2014, 05:03:30 PM
6 months till Xmas...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 June, 2014, 05:26:02 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8013347840/hE6258D6A/ (https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8013347840/hE6258D6A/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 June, 2014, 06:17:02 PM

What is it with Suarez and biting? How many folk have you ever bitten? This idiot's on strike number three.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 25 June, 2014, 07:28:53 PM

According to The One Show, anthropology hottie Professor Alice Roberts is only ten minutes walk away from my house right now.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 25 June, 2014, 11:01:00 PM
Speaking of hotties, am I alone (or just sick) in finding the otherwise vile she-devil Rebekah Brooks the teensiest bit attractive? God help me. >:D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 June, 2014, 11:21:53 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 25 June, 2014, 11:01:00 PM
Speaking of hotties, am I alone (or just sick) in finding the otherwise vile she-devil Rebekah Brooks the teensiest bit attractive? God help me. >:D

(http://www.seriessub.com/series/actors/1776.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 26 June, 2014, 12:40:41 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 June, 2014, 07:28:53 PM

According to The One Show, anthropology hottie Professor Alice Roberts is only ten minutes walk away from my house right now.

This reads like a pre-emptive alibi.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 26 June, 2014, 10:42:35 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 June, 2014, 06:17:02 PM

What is it with Suarez and biting? How many folk have you ever bitten? This idiot's on strike number three.

If he was a 3 year old at nursery school they would be sitting down with his parents right about now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 26 June, 2014, 12:28:10 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 25 June, 2014, 11:01:00 PM
Speaking of hotties, am I alone (or just sick) in finding the otherwise vile she-devil Rebekah Brooks the teensiest bit attractive? God help me. >:D

No, no you're not alone in thinking that.  The idea of copping off with an attractive, powerful but ultimately evil and corrupting women does appeal to me as well, especially if she's wearing a tailored business suit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 June, 2014, 12:33:22 PM
All 11 Tomb Raiders in one room.

(http://i.imgur.com/aN05xAQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2014, 04:04:11 PM
The American supplement scandal:
Pay attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2014, 04:15:15 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 June, 2014, 06:17:02 PM

What is it with Suarez and biting? How many folk have you ever bitten? This idiot's on strike number three.

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8235386624/h9F3039B6/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 June, 2014, 08:29:20 PM
Lonely men everywhere rejoice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsO5hdrh9XU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsO5hdrh9XU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 27 June, 2014, 02:09:09 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 June, 2014, 04:15:15 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 June, 2014, 06:17:02 PM

What is it with Suarez and biting? How many folk have you ever bitten? This idiot's on strike number three.

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8235386624/h9F3039B6/)

#hatingtwitter
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 27 June, 2014, 05:14:23 PM
GOOD NEWS BOYS!

Booze Doesn't Kill Brain Cells

Myth: Alcohol kills brain cells. Now, to qualify that title, pure alcohol will absolutely kill brain cells and many other types of cells, which is why it is used as a disinfectant. However, recent research has shown that the quantity of alcohol you could possibly take in, without killing yourself, does not introduce enough alcohol into your bloodstream to kill brain cells.

This was proven by a study by Grethe Jensen and co. (1993), who meticulously counted neurons in matched samples of non-alcoholics and alcoholics. What they found was that there was no real difference in the density or overall number of neurons between the two groups.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 June, 2014, 05:37:36 PM
Things seem to have taken a turn at Glastonbury.

(http://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/the-green-inferno.jpg)
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Post by: M.I.K. on 27 June, 2014, 08:36:59 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 27 June, 2014, 05:14:23 PMBooze Doesn't Kill Brain Cells

It can, however, mess neurons up something terrible by damaging the ends of them.
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 29 June, 2014, 06:53:17 AM
45 seconds of David Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjQ99gMIEM8
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Post by: Frank on 29 June, 2014, 08:42:14 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 29 June, 2014, 06:53:17 AM
45 seconds of David Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjQ99gMIEM8

Fuck me. That really is a proper Lynch narrative too.

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Post by: Minkyboy on 30 June, 2014, 10:52:21 PM
Stone me as a heretic if you must, but having watched a bit of this world cup thingy it strikes me that footing the ball is more complicated than it looks and mildly diverting.

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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 July, 2014, 04:22:06 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 26 June, 2014, 10:42:35 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 25 June, 2014, 06:17:02 PM

What is it with Suarez and biting? How many folk have you ever bitten? This idiot's on strike number three.

If he was a 3 year old at nursery school they would be sitting down with his parents right about now.

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8238309376/hF67E0124/)
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 July, 2014, 04:54:43 PM
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7896745216/h957787B8/)
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Post by: 8-Ball on 01 July, 2014, 11:01:41 PM
While out shopping in my home town of Stirling today I came across a man playing "When the saints go marching in" on a casio keyboard down by the river. The place where he was playing doesn't get a lot of foot traffic so it looked to me as if he got up this morning and decided "To hell with it! I fancy playing the keyboard outside today."
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 02 July, 2014, 04:50:40 PM
Man Dies From Atomic Wedgie




A man recently killed his stepfather, Denver Lee St. Clair, by giving him an "atomic wedgie." It's reported that Brad Davis went to St. Clair's home to fight him. When police arrived, they found St. Clair with a head injury and his underwear pulled up his back and over his head, leaving the waistband around his neck.


One police official said it was the first time he'd seen someone killed by a pair of underwear. Medical examiners determined that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation.
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Post by: Frank on 02 July, 2014, 05:54:29 PM

British tennis champion fails to retain his British Wimbledon crown. All of Britain sad at this tragic British loss, especially residents of his home town in North of Britain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/28110931

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Post by: M.I.K. on 02 July, 2014, 07:15:24 PM
Helpmaboab, is that no jist typical?
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Post by: Goaty on 03 July, 2014, 09:06:04 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/wJzLgXy.jpg)
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Post by: Bubba Zebill on 03 July, 2014, 11:39:54 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 29 June, 2014, 08:42:14 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 29 June, 2014, 06:53:17 AM
45 seconds of David Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjQ99gMIEM8

Fuck me. That really is a proper Lynch narrative too.
I hope there's a sequel.
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Post by: von Boom on 03 July, 2014, 10:27:35 PM
Kid: But Daaad...

Dad: Did you just call me Butt-Dad? You're grounded.
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Post by: Frank on 03 July, 2014, 10:36:38 PM

The streets of London are paved with ... EXPLOSIONS. 64 so far this year:

QuoteA street in central London was closed for several hours after a manhole explosion set a lorry on fire near Fortnum and Mason department store.

About 20 firefighters tackled the blaze on Piccadilly, which started at 22:55 BST on Wednesday.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said nearby buildings were evacuated but there were no injuries or arrests.

It comes as figures reveal the number of pavement explosions have increased from 49 in 2013 to 64 so far this year.

In 2011, there were nine pavement explosions, but this more than tripled to 31 in 2012, according to figures obtained by BBC London from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28139346

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Post by: JOE SOAP on 04 July, 2014, 08:25:26 PM

For the day that's in it, a musical Mega-City primer for the primer that is Origins:


America is dead...and all that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iiiy8GnBNI)



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Post by: Goaty on 07 July, 2014, 03:52:36 PM
Scotland Commonwealth Games athletes new uniform...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/07/article-2682689-1F6E1ABD00000578-847_634x441.jpg)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2682689/Scotland-unveil-lurid-parade-uniforms-Commonwealth-Games-opening-ceremony.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2682689/Scotland-unveil-lurid-parade-uniforms-Commonwealth-Games-opening-ceremony.html)
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Post by: Fungus on 07 July, 2014, 04:22:09 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 07 July, 2014, 03:52:36 PM
Scotland Commonwealth Games athletes new uniform...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/07/article-2682689-1F6E1ABD00000578-847_634x441.jpg)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2682689/Scotland-unveil-lurid-parade-uniforms-Commonwealth-Games-opening-ceremony.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2682689/Scotland-unveil-lurid-parade-uniforms-Commonwealth-Games-opening-ceremony.html)

Speechless.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 07 July, 2014, 05:37:09 PM
Nolan North Steven Blum provides the voice for too many video games. In Batman alone he provides the voice for too many characters

Also, I confused Steven Blum for Nolan North.
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Post by: Frank on 07 July, 2014, 05:45:37 PM

The Aussie cozzies are crook (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/swimming/australias-commonwealth-games-swimming-uniforms-criticised-by-fashion-experts-20140704-zsve4.html). I'm not sure whether that journalist's claim, that nobody watching sports wants their eye to be drawn to the athletes' rude bits, is 100% accurate:

[/url](http://images.smh.com.au/2014/07/04/5567888/1404430855245.jpg-620x349.jpg)
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Post by: Professor Bear on 07 July, 2014, 06:13:52 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 07 July, 2014, 05:37:09 PM
Nolan North Steven Blum provides the voice for too many video games. In Batman alone he provides the voice for too many characters

Also, I confused Steven Blum for Nolan North.

Having lived through a lot of English anime dubs, I have absolutely no objection to talent wranglers giving work to voiceover people who are actually good at it.
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Post by: Frank on 07 July, 2014, 07:49:15 PM

Peloton. Pel-o-ton. Peleton.

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Post by: Goaty on 07 July, 2014, 08:17:30 PM
It was on bible at hotel room last weekend. Maybe Ricky Gervais was stay here!

(http://i.imgur.com/NJ3g6pN.jpg)
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 07 July, 2014, 09:31:54 PM
Quote from: Professor Theopolis K Bear on 07 July, 2014, 06:13:52 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 07 July, 2014, 05:37:09 PM
Nolan North Steven Blum provides the voice for too many video games. In Batman alone he provides the voice for too many characters

Also, I confused Steven Blum for Nolan North.

Having lived through a lot of English anime dubs, I have absolutely no objection to talent wranglers giving work to voiceover people who are actually good at it.

I am all for him being cast, particularly where he gets the chance to do different voices - personalities. However having Spike Siegel voice two different goons in the same scene as well as one of the SWAT team they have taken hostage was a bit much for me. And then hearing him in all the animated stuff as well. Unless you are John DiMaggio you cannot be that many people without breaking it a little bit...

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Post by: von Boom on 08 July, 2014, 07:42:32 PM
Footage of a Great White attack off the coast of Southern California this past weekend. You can't really see anything, but the people that shot the film are laughing as the poor fellow is bitten and attacked. Bastards. The victim survived thankfully.

http://boingboing.net/2014/07/07/video-swimmer-bitten-by-7-foo.html (http://boingboing.net/2014/07/07/video-swimmer-bitten-by-7-foo.html)
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Post by: Frank on 08 July, 2014, 09:26:53 PM

If you're not watching the football, you really should be watching the football.

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Post by: ZenArcade on 08 July, 2014, 10:00:08 PM
Now we know what the Marianas Turkey Shoot looked like.
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Post by: Frank on 08 July, 2014, 10:22:44 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/mh41ilb.gif)

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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 July, 2014, 10:23:59 PM
Hey kid don't forget it can always get worse... like 3 minutes later...
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Post by: ZenArcade on 08 July, 2014, 10:36:13 PM
Jesus wept, 7up, there's not gonna be too much salsa tonight. Z
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Post by: Frank on 08 July, 2014, 10:41:08 PM

There's a guy in the sub-editorial department of The Sun praying there's another two goals, so he can use all the headlines incorporating puns on the German word for 'no' that he's been working on since the first half.

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Post by: Fungus on 08 July, 2014, 10:47:14 PM
I'm not saying David Luiz is a bad marker but he's in my street.

'Germans are furious!'   :)  :)  :)
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Post by: ZenArcade on 08 July, 2014, 10:49:39 PM
Oh Brazil just knoked one in. Nah the Sun'll go for ein, zwei, ein zwei, ein, zwei, ein... or some other cliched WW2 nonsense. Z
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Post by: Frank on 08 July, 2014, 10:52:01 PM

At least that goal salvaged some Brazilian national pride. Russell Brand speculated that there might be five minutes of extra time because of all the time Cesar spent picking the ball out of the back of the net.

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Post by: ZenArcade on 08 July, 2014, 10:55:42 PM
Or another could be: kicked in the 'Brazil' nuts. Z
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Post by: I, Cosh on 09 July, 2014, 12:22:06 AM
A reich good hiding.

Something, something, Boys from Brazil,  something.

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 July, 2014, 01:17:33 AM
I was working during this.

It seemed to me like every time I turned my back on the screen there was a goal.

Apart from Brazil's single goal. When that went in, the entire bar let out a cheer that can only be described as the single most patronizing syllable I have ever heard.

I wish I could have recorded it so that I could play it whenever I disagreed with someone.

Best line of the night:
Quote
That's the most embarrassing semi since I watched Brokeback Mountain with me Dad
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Post by: Dandontdare on 10 July, 2014, 09:07:26 AM
Alan Moore in the news again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28235072 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28235072). When I read the headline, I thought he was predicting some kind of Mummy's Curse!
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 10 July, 2014, 11:04:08 AM
I just bought a boat



Ok a dinghy.

But a 3 person dinghy.

Test it on a lake in Cumbria in 2 weeks - then onwards, plans to drift 'pon the thames from Richmond to Teddington (and then train it back....)
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Post by: von Boom on 10 July, 2014, 02:08:36 PM
*Knuckles Forelock*

Congratulations Cap'n Blaze.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 10 July, 2014, 03:38:42 PM
Good god i never even thought of the nautical possibilities at play here

Need to stock up on Rum i think.

Good work bosun boom. Extra grog rations for that man



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Post by: Frank on 10 July, 2014, 05:07:52 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 July, 2014, 09:07:26 AM
Alan Moore in the news again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28235072 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28235072). When I read the headline, I thought he was predicting some kind of Mummy's Curse!

Cheers for that. The Today programme had a furious Egyptian fella on yesterday, who made it clear that his country didn't dispute the right of museums to display their ancient treasures, but that the same rules which allow them to do so forbid their sale to private individuals. Apparently the problem of important historical objects going invisible - disappearing into private collections, where nobody else can see them - has worsened since the collapse of Western capitalism in 2008.

They mentioned Van Goch's Portrait of Dr. Gachet (http://ayay.co.uk/backgrounds/paintings/vincent_van_gogh/portrait-of-doctor-gachet.jpg), which might be doing an Ark of the Covenant in a Japanese warehouse, but its elderly multi-millionaire 'owner' expressed a desire to have it go up in flames along with him when he died. The idea that being really great at running a factory entitles you to deny anyone else the right to see that painting ever again is abhorrent, so good on Alan Moore for taking on the council and Lord Northampton (surely that honour belongs to Moore).

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Post by: ZenArcade on 10 July, 2014, 05:32:59 PM
Yeah the Japanese dude's taking conspicious consumption to new levels or may he misread the consumption for combustion. Poor stuff, deffo should be an injunction on this kinda stuff. Z
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Post by: ZenArcade on 10 July, 2014, 05:35:02 PM
Oh and anyone know when is Tordel back?
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Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 10 July, 2014, 11:52:35 PM
Has he been on that much spoken about camping holiday - ? Hope he enjoyed the summer special he was saving forrit!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 11 July, 2014, 05:40:57 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 10 July, 2014, 11:04:08 AM
I just bought a boat

(https://lebowskifest.com/shop/uploads/images/large/3622446bd2f0f98583c3ed1d5eb8c1da.JPG)
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 11 July, 2014, 05:54:15 PM
C'mon Dude.
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Post by: Frank on 12 July, 2014, 11:11:54 AM

Teasers for new series of Sláine reveal Mills has continued to pare back the dialogue to a minimum, and Simon Davis has taken his art in a radical new direction:


(http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp2013/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sdr2.jpg)(http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp2013/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sdr1.jpg)
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Post by: TordelBack on 12 July, 2014, 10:15:06 PM
You can all relax now, I'm 'Back. 
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Post by: Trout on 12 July, 2014, 10:17:47 PM
Now we need a full report.
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Post by: Goaty on 12 July, 2014, 10:27:47 PM
Who are you?
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Post by: Frank on 12 July, 2014, 11:03:12 PM

We changed a few things while you were gone - the spoons are in the fork drawer and Thryllseekr's the ruthless board enforcer who weeds out any troublemakers and pounces upon minor factual errors without mercy. Bread is still thinly sliced white rectangles of chewy dough, though - get used to it.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 July, 2014, 10:08:35 AM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10502042_724053087633465_2887851840226598914_n.png?oh=36efab8b75e20018da58b7decb499565&oe=54336121&__gda__=1414094233_f69b46fa2e761e4e8fa50f27963ada9f)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 July, 2014, 10:09:35 AM
P.S. good to have you back, Tordyboy.  Where's yer bin anyway?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 July, 2014, 10:18:01 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 12 July, 2014, 10:27:47 PM
Who are you?

Hey, at least I didn't copy my username from some graffiti in the Dredd movie...   ;)

Yes indeed, I have been on my travels: two ferries and 2,500 miles in a Ford Fiesta with a wife, two children, a SciFi Special, sundry vicious insects and one very wet tent.  I've eaten and drunken and spent too much.  And I've seen wondrous things.   
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Post by: Grugz on 13 July, 2014, 01:15:08 PM
I'm assuming your wife and two children?  ;)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 July, 2014, 02:19:22 PM
Quote from: 2T(fru)T on 13 July, 2014, 01:15:08 PM
I'm assuming your wife and two children?  ;)
:D

I'm guessing you went to France, Tordels?  I remember doing a very similar trip with my family when I was a kid; even down to the Sci-Fi Special! This one, which I remember reading on a French campsite:


(http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m60hs8O5ZMIq2ZBLRps3aow.jpg)
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Post by: TordelBack on 13 July, 2014, 03:58:02 PM
Heh, yes my own wife and kids, but only because anyone else's would probably have murdered me before we got as far as Rosslare...

France it was, a very long loop (Cherbourg - Paris/Ile de France - Massif Central - Languedoc/Rousillon - Vendee - Normandy) spent in part trying to dodge the rain that followed us across the country, helpfully identifying the numerous leaks in our new tent, which went back into the car wet after each stop.  Largely deterred from the internet by high charges, I prepared a long drunken screed on the whole thing as I went, intended for later serialisation, but on re-reading it without the benefit of 1-euro-a-litre VRAC wine numbing my judgement I decided against doing so.  It lacked the purity of theme of a Buttonman, unless you counted my objectification of naked ladies, and the worrying absence of my right hand in photos.

Probably suffice it to say it was a blast, I visited several exhibitions that have been decades-held dreams (including Monet's Nymphea at the Orangerie, and the Palaeolithic collection at National Museum of Prehistory at St. Germain en Laye) learnt a lot and even managed to attend a conference, the kids were splendid travelling companions given the very cramped conditions and mixed weather, and I got to read my Sci-Fi Special under canvas in a thunderstorm as Tharg doubtless intended.
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Post by: Fungus on 13 July, 2014, 05:29:39 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 July, 2014, 03:58:02 PM
I got to read my Sci-Fi Special under canvas in a thunderstorm as Tharg doubtless intended.

That practical alien has always used sturdier paper stock for the summer specials...
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Post by: Jim_Campbell on 13 July, 2014, 08:59:40 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 July, 2014, 10:18:01 AM
And I've seen wondrous things.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orleans... C-beams glittering in the dark near the Menin Gate...

Cheers

Jim
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Post by: Spikes on 13 July, 2014, 10:06:11 PM
This Footie match sure is exciting....
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Post by: Frank on 13 July, 2014, 10:30:59 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 13 July, 2014, 10:06:11 PM
This Footie match sure is exciting....

The finals are always shite. Both teams are more scared of doing something that means they lose the game than they want to win it, so they just end up playing for a penalty shoot out. That small child's goal should shake things up a bit.

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Post by: Frank on 13 July, 2014, 11:23:11 PM

SICK BASTARD SPIELBERG
MURDERS TRICERATOPS:


idiots of world condemn his actions

Incredibly, a fair few members of the public didn't grasp that the picture was taken from the Jurassic Park set, believing that Spielberg had actually poached a dinosaur; dinosaurs, a breed of animals that became extinct 66 million years ago.

The image has been shared over 33,000 times attracting thousands of comments, initially from misinformed users (apparently unaware that dinosaurs are no longer) and also those lamenting their stupidity.

Tyrell Patrick branded Spielberg "a worthless son of a b****!", while Scoomp Pi called it a "sad, disgusting scene".

Becky Daigle said: "One day we realise that we are killing all animals on this planet and we need them to survive. But, when we realise it will be too late."

"I did not know that Steven Spielberg is a dinosaur hunter," said Andrea O'Donnell Koran. "I am not only outraged, but disgusted!!"

"This is no sport!!" cried Omega McCracken, as Sondre Jorstad questioned: "Why did he kill such a rare animal?"


http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/facebook-users-troll-jurassic-park-director-steven-spielberg-over-dead-dinosaur-photo-30426459.html


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Post by: Dandontdare on 15 July, 2014, 04:08:20 PM
Now THAT'S what I call weather! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28299459)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 July, 2014, 06:13:10 PM

Hollywood leading men arranged in order of height:


(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/daily/vulture/2014/06/20/20-comparative-height.jpg)
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Post by: ZenArcade on 15 July, 2014, 07:02:31 PM
I didn't think they could stack shite that high.
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Post by: JamesC on 15 July, 2014, 07:26:28 PM
I don't recognise the first guy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 July, 2014, 07:36:19 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 15 July, 2014, 07:26:28 PM
I don't recognise the first guy

Kevin Hart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5klp6rkHIks&feature=kp)

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 July, 2014, 05:38:24 PM
So...if I came into possesion of Slash's top-hat (the source of his power), would that make me the new Slash?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 July, 2014, 07:50:16 PM
You do realise that that thing under the hat is just a fungal growth used to disguise the fact that the hat is in fact sentient.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 July, 2014, 10:19:24 PM
Oh right.

So did this growth metastasize to form Axl Rose? Or is the oRAl sex anagram just a parasite on said fungus?

That would explain a lot
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 July, 2014, 09:08:21 AM
What if Futurama is real?

Awesome 3D opening!

http://vimeo.com/100785455 (http://vimeo.com/100785455)
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Post by: Fungus on 17 July, 2014, 01:22:30 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 16 July, 2014, 10:19:24 PM
is the oRAl sex anagram just a parasite on said fungus?

Wondered what that was.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 July, 2014, 01:24:29 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 15 July, 2014, 06:13:10 PM

Hollywood leading men arranged in order of height:


(http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/daily/vulture/2014/06/20/20-comparative-height.jpg)

i can only name 3, does that make me a bad person?
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 17 July, 2014, 04:17:20 PM
Which 3?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 17 July, 2014, 05:14:59 PM
Dunno, Harry Potter, Jack Black or Russel Grant?, Maverick, Marky Mark Maybe, Robert Downey Jr, Christ knows, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Sorry, Big Willie Style, Art Garfunkel, Looks kind of like an older and fatter Joey from Friends, Vince Vaughn (is he a leading man?)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 July, 2014, 05:41:04 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 17 July, 2014, 04:17:20 PM
Which 3?

Tom, Dick, HarryJohnny and Will  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 July, 2014, 10:40:39 AM
Why do I read the comments, why.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 20 July, 2014, 10:06:12 AM
Why is Peter Hitchins on my television every bloody sunday morning.  Why isn't he in church?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:09:55 PM
It knows EVERYTHING. http://en.akinator.com/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 20 July, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:09:55 PM
It knows EVERYTHING. http://en.akinator.com/

I almost killed it with Johnny Alpha. The first time it guessed Barry Trotter and when I said it was wrong and tried to continue it crashed.
I tried again and after one wrong guess of Ben Hope it finally got there with Johnny.
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Post by: JamesC on 20 July, 2014, 12:19:46 PM
It nailed Captain Birdseye in about 15 questions!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:23:24 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 20 July, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:09:55 PM
It knows EVERYTHING. http://en.akinator.com/

I almost killed it with Johnny Alpha. The first time it guessed Barry Trotter and when I said it was wrong and tried to continue it crashed.
I tried again and after one wrong guess of Ben Hope it finally got there with Johnny.

Ah, interesting - it never got Johnny Alpha when I tried. But it did get Cheradenine Zakalwe.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 July, 2014, 12:32:56 PM

Took a second round of questions to nail Johnny Briggs (http://youtu.be/lP5u8b1L9LA). It was the Does Your Character Wear A Gold Belt? question that really narrowed it down. Impressive.

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Post by: Dandontdare on 20 July, 2014, 12:35:17 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:23:24 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 20 July, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:09:55 PM
It knows EVERYTHING. http://en.akinator.com/

I almost killed it with Johnny Alpha. The first time it guessed Barry Trotter and when I said it was wrong and tried to continue it crashed.
I tried again and after one wrong guess of Ben Hope it finally got there with Johnny.

Ah, interesting - it never got Johnny Alpha when I tried.

Did you confuse it by answering yes to "is he real?"

It found judge Dredd, Bill Shatner and William of Orange easily enough but after 25 questions had a stab at "your own character" before asking a few more and successfully reaching Tharg.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 July, 2014, 03:21:06 PM
Beat the bastard with Nasir from off of Robin of Sherwood.  Fair play to me.
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Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 20 July, 2014, 08:42:27 PM
Didn't there used to be a far more effective version of that somewhere? It couldn't even get McNulty from The Wire...
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Post by: I, Cosh on 20 July, 2014, 10:00:38 PM
It had no trouble with Nemesis and Case from out of Neuromancer.
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Post by: Third Estate Ned on 21 July, 2014, 03:52:14 PM
Case from Neuromancer is what I beat it with about a month ago and I had to type it in at the end, so maybe I helped him out there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 21 July, 2014, 05:02:10 PM
This is addictive, I keep going back to it. It found Tom Bombadil after 17 questions and Louis Wu after 25 (quite impressed with that one).

I tried a really easy one (The Queen) to see just how quickly it could guess, and I thought it would guess after Q:6 (Does her face appear on British money?), but it still wasn't sure so asked "does she have long flowing hair? "- who the hell else could it have been thinking of?
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Post by: I, Cosh on 21 July, 2014, 05:14:09 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 21 July, 2014, 05:02:10 PM
I tried a really easy one (The Queen) to see just how quickly it could guess, and I thought it would guess after Q:6 (Does her face appear on British money?), but it still wasn't sure so asked "does she have long flowing hair? "- who the hell else could it have been thinking of?
Florence Nightingale?
Britannia?
Mary Slessor?
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Post by: Dandontdare on 21 July, 2014, 05:17:04 PM
It had already established that she was a living female member of the British Royal family by that point!
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Post by: Fungus on 21 July, 2014, 05:19:55 PM
Sounds like showboating.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 21 July, 2014, 05:59:33 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 21 July, 2014, 05:17:04 PM
It had already established that she was a living female member of the British Royal family by that point!
I did wonder what else it had asked but Didn't want to let that get in the way of me being a smartarse.
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Post by: Mikey on 21 July, 2014, 07:51:06 PM
How come C-3PO, self proclaimed fluent in some 3000 forms of communication, speaks Huttese with an RP English accent?

M
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 July, 2014, 09:04:10 AM
Well this takes the biscuit. PETA, the masters of hypocrisy, seem to dislike Pokemon of all things.

http://www.p4rgaming.com/peta-member-traumatized-by-pokemon-sues-nintendo-for-emotional-distress/
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Post by: Spaceghost on 25 July, 2014, 09:30:46 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 25 July, 2014, 09:04:10 AM
Well this takes the biscuit. PETA, the masters of hypocrisy, seem to dislike Pokemon of all things.

http://www.p4rgaming.com/peta-member-traumatized-by-pokemon-sues-nintendo-for-emotional-distress/

Is that real? It CAN'T be real. It reads like a knowing parody.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 July, 2014, 09:36:06 AM
It certainly seems that way, but PETA have been rather overt in their campaign against Nintendo. Here's a list of parody games, many of which I certain infringe on copyright.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETA_satirical_browser_games
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Post by: Frank on 26 July, 2014, 08:03:24 AM

(http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/multiversity-map.jpg)


The DC Universe, as imagined by Grant Morrison (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/07/sdcc-check-out-the-mind-altering-map-of-dcs-multiverse/)



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Post by: Spikes on 27 July, 2014, 07:32:36 PM
Quote from: Buntonman on 13 July, 2014, 11:23:11 PM

SICK BASTARD SPIELBERG
MURDERS TRICERATOPS:


And now this....

(http://i.imgur.com/n96V3UA.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 July, 2014, 01:16:41 PM
I just realised. Our very own SmallBlueThing could be read as an advocate for The Smurfs. The comics, I hope, not the movies.
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Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 28 July, 2014, 01:40:20 PM
"ARGH - " said the moth "I went near that bloody flame again"

"Don't go near it then" said his friend, some kind of beetle I think.

"Yeah - I won't from now on. Don't know why I bother it's always so hot anyway..." Grumbled the moth.

Yet that evening, in the absence of anything else constructive to do the moth found himself approaching the flame he hated so much. The next day he was desperate to complain about the experience to someone, but the beetle thing was gone.

ONLY TO BE REPLACED BY AN ACCUSATORY ANALOGY OF SOME KIND.
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Post by: Satanist on 01 August, 2014, 10:35:18 AM
I've got an empty this weekend so feel free to show up with drugs and booze.
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Post by: Frank on 01 August, 2014, 11:19:00 AM

"I used to love doing the gold tones on Dredd's shoulder pads". Oh, the irony:


(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/Craddockcolour.jpg)

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Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 01 August, 2014, 01:43:12 PM
Yeah I saw that, can't recall where, but if that's from a non-public FB discussion I think it's a bit off putting it up here.

but moley that's disturbing for all the wrong reasons
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Post by: von Boom on 01 August, 2014, 01:48:01 PM
How the dinosaurs really went extinct:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bts3havCEAAFQTR.jpg)

Could we be next?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 August, 2014, 01:49:20 PM
I was in Sauchie this week, on the way to  walk the Ochils, when I realised that is where I bought my cat, no sign of the post office.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 August, 2014, 01:52:19 PM
Quote from: sauchie post office on 01 August, 2014, 11:19:00 AM
Oh, the irony
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 01 August, 2014, 01:43:12 PM
but moley that's disturbing for all the wrong reasons

Don't get it. What am I missing?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 01 August, 2014, 01:55:08 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 01 August, 2014, 01:49:20 PM
I was in Sauchie this week

Nice girls dont kiss & tell
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 August, 2014, 04:21:03 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 01 August, 2014, 01:55:08 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 01 August, 2014, 01:49:20 PM
I was in Sauchie this week

Nice girls dont kiss & tell

Who said I was nice?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 August, 2014, 05:44:21 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 August, 2014, 01:52:19 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 01 August, 2014, 01:43:12 PM
Quote from: sauchie post office on 01 August, 2014, 11:19:00 AM
Oh, the irony

moley that's disturbing for all the wrong reasons

Don't get it. What am I missing?

The part of colouring the America sequel (and Dredd in general) which afforded Alan Craddock most pleasure - the airbrush metal effects on  Dredd's shoulder decoration - were the aspects of his work which caused me most consternation. He thought he was doing real good, and wished he could have done more.

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Post by: Dandontdare on 04 August, 2014, 05:46:04 PM
ah I see - I kinda liked those metallic tones.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 04 August, 2014, 06:07:43 PM
Deleted on grounds of taste
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Post by: Frank on 04 August, 2014, 06:14:00 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 August, 2014, 05:46:04 PM
Quote from: sauchie post office on 04 August, 2014, 05:44:21 PM
The part of colouring the America sequel (and Dredd in general) which afforded Alan Craddock most pleasure - the airbrush metal effects on Dredd's shoulder decoration - were the aspects of his work which caused me most consternation. He thought he was doing real good, and wished he could have done more.

ah I see - I kinda liked those metallic tones.

Alan Craddock has enjoyed a long career in comics, so there are obviously many readers and industry professionals who share your opinion.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 August, 2014, 06:47:56 AM
I didn't mind his metal tones either.  It was everything else I hated - the pasty skin, the washed-out colours, the overly-detailed skies.  Still, as long as he was happy, eh
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Post by: Proudhuff on 05 August, 2014, 11:52:06 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 August, 2014, 06:03:21 PM
I like cake.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 August, 2014, 12:02:56 AM
NSFW. It's great though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7W0U65gh8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7W0U65gh8)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 August, 2014, 12:55:22 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 05 August, 2014, 06:03:21 PM
I like cake.

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02985/commonwealth-tunno_2985040b.jpg)
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Post by: von Boom on 06 August, 2014, 07:37:07 PM
Some serious near deaths here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-v0fG2Pvp0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-v0fG2Pvp0)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 August, 2014, 06:47:25 PM
Apparently, I 'may have a serious level of alcohol-related problems requiring immediate attention and possible treatment'... Fucking hell.  I thought I was a reasonably moderate drinker, but in this country, maybe the bar has been set a bit higher than average.

https://ncadd.org/learn-about-alcohol/alcohol-abuse-self-test (https://ncadd.org/learn-about-alcohol/alcohol-abuse-self-test)
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Post by: I, Cosh on 07 August, 2014, 06:51:30 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 August, 2014, 06:47:25 PM
https://ncadd.org/learn-about-alcohol/alcohol-abuse-self-test (https://ncadd.org/learn-about-alcohol/alcohol-abuse-self-test)
I can barely even find the thing when I'm pissed never mind....
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Post by: Frank on 07 August, 2014, 09:52:50 PM

Russians childishly taunt Obama by projecting racist image on US embassy. I preferred Gail Porter's bahookie on Westminster Palace:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bucak90IAAAamJt.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuMBflkIIAETjdw.jpg)
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Post by: Goaty on 07 August, 2014, 10:00:09 PM
(http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/russian-dog-putin.jpg)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 August, 2014, 11:48:11 AM
Russia has become a nation where the bigoted underclass are encouraged by an ex-KGB whack job with not a trace of sanity left in him. Watching it fall apart is simultainiously amusing and horrofying.
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Post by: von Boom on 08 August, 2014, 03:15:19 PM
Dear Grud, why, WHY could this not have been?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/05/brian-blessed-turned-down-doctor-who-bbc (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/05/brian-blessed-turned-down-doctor-who-bbc)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 08 August, 2014, 03:23:56 PM
Mega Thunder and lighting in Edinburgh just now Take that ya fringe F***ers!!! Look at them run like pigs from a gun...
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Post by: Dandontdare on 08 August, 2014, 03:26:41 PM
I was just having the same evil thoughts about all those cricket-loving bastards who were clogging up the trams this morning. They won't be watching much cricket right now, it's lashing down!
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Post by: von Boom on 12 August, 2014, 09:38:21 PM
Drunk texting a Doctor Who fan. Priceless:

http://m.tickld.com/x/why-you-should-never-drunk-text-a-doctor-who-fa (http://m.tickld.com/x/why-you-should-never-drunk-text-a-doctor-who-fa)
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 13 August, 2014, 12:13:51 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 12 August, 2014, 09:38:21 PM
Drunk texting a Doctor Who fan. Priceless:

http://m.tickld.com/x/why-you-should-never-drunk-text-a-doctor-who-fa (http://m.tickld.com/x/why-you-should-never-drunk-text-a-doctor-who-fa)

I have seen this in a fe places now and I just think "Fake!". And not that funny either.
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Post by: Hoagy on 13 August, 2014, 03:51:54 AM
Welcome to millsverse and thread zero in a time continuum flux...



http://millsverse.com/
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 August, 2014, 06:51:24 AM
Some comedy quotes from everyone's favourite funnyman:

http://imgur.com/gallery/D1niq/new (http://imgur.com/gallery/D1niq/new)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 13 August, 2014, 09:12:26 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 August, 2014, 06:51:24 AM
Some comedy quotes from everyone's favourite funnyman:

http://imgur.com/gallery/D1niq/new (http://imgur.com/gallery/D1niq/new)


Kanye West - voice of the People and quite possibly, the second-coming of Christ!

Cheers
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Post by: Proudhuff on 13 August, 2014, 11:02:03 AM
Sinister?
http://home.bt.com/news/oddnews/13-things-only-lefthanded-people-will-understand-11363926580019 (http://home.bt.com/news/oddnews/13-things-only-lefthanded-people-will-understand-11363926580019)
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 13 August, 2014, 02:11:04 PM
Short Film Proves What It's Really Like For Female Superheroes

As Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony take a slow walk toward putting a female superhero back onscreen, writer Jordan Zakarin, director Jeff Kornberg and star Ali Vingiano have taken matters into their own hands. The trio is responsible for "A Female Superhero Pitches A Movie," a new short film about the Sisyphus-like journey of Angelfire, a female do-gooder in search of her own development deal in a world of codpieces. Released last week, the short has already racked up more than 120,000 views on YouTube.

"The response has been remarkably predictable -- really supportive and kind from bloggers who have written it up and commented on those posts, and incredibly (laughably!) sexist in a number of the YouTube comments," Zakarin, a reporter at TheWrap and former editor at HuffPost Entertainment, wrote in an email. "Lots of knuckle-dragging anti-feminist garbage, really defensive arguments about why there shouldn't be women superheroes, and some real delightful remarks about the actors involved. Aside from being sad for the commenters, we actually don't mind the comments, because they really prove our point."

Throughout the five-minute short film, Angelfire is stymied by Hollywood executives who want her to take a back seat to a male protagonist. The outlandish situation is played for laughs, but it's not that far from a reality where Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has spent the better part of two years side-stepping questions about the studio's lack of female-led blockbusters.

"We're not dissing the Marvel movies -- they're often great! -- we just think that there's room for diversity, and that those movies would do very well," Zakarin wrote. "We think the studios will probably slowly start moving toward women superheroes because they're going to need something new. It won't be because they suddenly become progressive feminists; they're just gonna run out of tragedies to give Batman to overcome, and Wonder Woman is a better bet than a third tier DC hero."

Angelfire's attempts to score her own movie don't work, but she's not going away: Zakarin said the plan right now is to continue the character in a web series. "We're still developing it, but we think it will be a running series of fun shorts about her everyday life, as a woman and a superhero," he wrote.

Watch "A Female Superhero Pitches A Movie" below.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17patZUB3o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17patZUB3o)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 August, 2014, 03:07:50 PM
Identify future film cities:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/aug/13/quiz-identify-movie-future-cities (http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/aug/13/quiz-identify-movie-future-cities)

10!
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Post by: TordelBack on 13 August, 2014, 03:13:11 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 13 August, 2014, 03:07:50 PM
Identify future film cities:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/aug/13/quiz-identify-movie-future-cities (http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/aug/13/quiz-identify-movie-future-cities)

10!

Aye, 10 too - would have been more fun if it asked us to name the cities!
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Post by: von Boom on 13 August, 2014, 03:17:26 PM
I was just happy to see MC1 included.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 August, 2014, 03:28:03 PM
8/10 - but it won't show me which I got wrong (A few were just random guesses).

Did anyone get No:6? Tricky!


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Post by: Theblazeuk on 13 August, 2014, 03:31:45 PM
You click "show answers" to find out which you got wrong.

I got 9. BUT I contend I got none of them wrong and all of you who got '10' actually got 9; That is a picture from [spoiler]ghost in the shel[/spoiler]l, which I spotted, but then realised [spoiler]Ghost In the Shell [/spoiler]is not set in Tokyo. It is set in Nihima City.

I also give myself an extra point for noticing such a ridiculously nerdy error.



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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 13 August, 2014, 03:34:28 PM
10 out of 10. :)

Top nerd.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 13 August, 2014, 03:37:05 PM
I got 10/10 but some were educated guesses.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 August, 2014, 03:44:19 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 August, 2014, 03:28:03 PM
8/10 - but it won't show me which I got wrong (A few were just random educated guesses).


Same!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 August, 2014, 04:04:06 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 13 August, 2014, 03:31:45 PM
You click "show answers" to find out which you got wrong.

spotted that but clicking it does nothing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 August, 2014, 11:39:43 AM
Most of my mates made it through their exams. Well proud of them, chuffed to have supported them through this last year even if I couldn't make the journey with them. :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 14 August, 2014, 09:17:50 PM
When I look at this...

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/votingguide2_zps000173a8.jpg)

...I see this...

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/Scottishhitchhikerguide2_zps4878771e.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 14 August, 2014, 09:25:02 PM
Just say No.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 August, 2014, 01:57:16 PM
Yummy owl burritos. Mmmmm...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu9ETMAIgAArvGZ.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hoagy on 21 August, 2014, 08:41:15 PM
Modesty Blaise; Girl in the Iron Mask. good anniversary gift first year for the female? Good idea?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/wandero/ModestyBlaise72-13.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 August, 2014, 02:04:41 AM
Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes -Паметник на Съветската армия 18.06.2011

The Moscow Times is reporting that Bulgarian pranksters are repainting Soviet-era monuments so that the Soviet military heroes depicted are recast as American Superheroes (h/t to trans-atlantyk posting at reddit's /r/worldnews):


Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted, ITAR-Tass reported.

The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally clean up the monument in Sofia's Lozenets district, identify and punish those responsible, and take "exhaustive measures" to prevent similar attacks in the future, the news agency reported Monday.

The monument was sprayed with red paint on the eve of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's celebration of its 123rd anniversary, the Sofia-based Novinite news agency reported.

The vandalism was the latest in a series of similar recent incidents in Bulgaria — each drawing angry criticism from Moscow...
[img][/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_18.06.2011.jpg/1024px-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_18.06.2011.jpgimg]
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Post by: atp on 22 August, 2014, 11:10:41 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 August, 2014, 02:04:41 AM
Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes -Паметник на Съветската армия 18.06.2011

FTFY

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_18.06.2011.jpg/1024px-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_18.06.2011.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 August, 2014, 11:21:24 AM
Quote from: Hoagy on 21 August, 2014, 08:41:15 PM
Modesty Blaise; Girl in the Iron Mask. good anniversary gift first year for the female? Good idea?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/wandero/ModestyBlaise72-13.jpg)
Thats an awfuly long time for a three panel strip coming to run for...

Saying that I might add it to the pile.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 August, 2014, 12:27:22 PM
Quote from: atp on 22 August, 2014, 11:10:41 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 August, 2014, 02:04:41 AM
Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes -Паметник на Съветската армия 18.06.2011

FTFY

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_18.06.2011.jpg/1024px-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_18.06.2011.jpg)

Those pesky Bulgarians. Always up to no good. Someone should tell them that Ronald McDonald is the worst villain ever conceived though.
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Post by: Link Prime on 22 August, 2014, 01:00:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 22 August, 2014, 12:27:22 PM
Someone should tell them that Ronald McDonald is the worst villain ever conceived though.

He's my hero!
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 August, 2014, 04:05:00 PM
Signed up to dive the Farne Islands in november. So it look's like i'll be having a close quater dive with Seals in a few weeks! So, unbelievably excited as it's been one of those things i've wanted to do since I started diving.
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Post by: TordelBack on 22 August, 2014, 09:23:43 PM
How the ever-loving feck did Kate Bush write The Man With The Child in His Eyes at 15?  That's a completely ridiculous level of genius.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 August, 2014, 09:49:58 PM
Whenever I hear something like that I always think of that line from The Comic Strip Presents Bad News:

"I could play 'Stairway to Heaven' when I was 12. Jimmy Paige didn't actually write it until he was 22. Which I think says a lot."
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Post by: Grugz on 23 August, 2014, 01:47:18 PM
Bernie ecclestone is keeping the german economy afloat !
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Post by: von Boom on 25 August, 2014, 06:27:15 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvauX72IcAAD970.jpg)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 25 August, 2014, 07:06:03 PM
Suger Mice? wtf?
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Post by: von Boom on 26 August, 2014, 07:07:06 PM
I still prefer the Wargames version:

http://global.thermonuclearwar.org/ (http://global.thermonuclearwar.org/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 30 August, 2014, 07:07:33 PM
I went a first date today with a lovely lady called Molly. It went well and a second date is on the cards. :D
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Post by: ZenArcade on 30 August, 2014, 07:09:36 PM
Who's the lucky lady then, loverboy? Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 August, 2014, 07:38:01 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 30 August, 2014, 07:07:33 PM
I went a first date today with a lovely lady called Molly. It went well and a second date is on the cards

I fear the detrimental effect the first flush of love may have on your usually welcome contributions to the music threads.

http://youtu.be/pJhcGepfG04

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 30 August, 2014, 08:34:53 PM
Quote from: sauchie post office on 30 August, 2014, 07:38:01 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 30 August, 2014, 07:07:33 PM
I went a first date today with a lovely lady called Molly. It went well and a second date is on the cards

I fear the detrimental effect the first flush of love may have on your usually welcome contributions to the music threads.

http://youtu.be/pJhcGepfG04

I will provide an answer to that in the music thread. :D
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Post by: Frank on 31 August, 2014, 09:50:25 AM

Unearthed by art archaeologist David Roach (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=616600325120976&set=a.123937014387312.23882.100003130436569&type=1&theater), caked with the dirt and grime of 1979. No need to explain who the artist is:


(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10649724_616600325120976_4120858811987683538_n.jpg?oh=70568f33581c6066e14893825b5ff16b&oe=54674443&__gda__=1416299685_e189068ef4aa2a6ade9300c66b32d960)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 31 August, 2014, 07:17:51 PM
Image found in my Photobucket account.  Your guess is as good as mine.
(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/redhotchillis/gjfgj_zps8ad38e15.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on 31 August, 2014, 07:28:00 PM
I remember you posting this on here before.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 31 August, 2014, 07:50:28 PM
I thought that was this one?
(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/redhotchillis/dghdfhdfh_zps4b6edf50.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on 31 August, 2014, 08:29:43 PM
Nope, but you posted that one up before, as well.

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 August, 2014, 08:41:11 PM
Heh, I remember the latter but not the first one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 September, 2014, 04:47:49 PM
(http://i.mailonline.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09_01/SpiderDogLP_GIF.gif)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/05/1409921045814_wps_1_Polish_prankster_Sylweste.jpg)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 05 September, 2014, 04:52:24 PM
Done right, that would serious freak out a cctv operator!!
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Post by: TordelBack on 05 September, 2014, 05:18:16 PM
Mate, that's just not right.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 05 September, 2014, 05:34:39 PM
http://youtu.be/YoB8t0B4jx4?t=1m8s
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 September, 2014, 07:34:46 PM

Robert Plant was just on telly, with now quite droopy, hang dog features obscured by dyed dark hair and a geometrically precise beard. He looks like Alan Moore if he got a male grooming kit for Christmas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcone


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Post by: Theblazeuk on 07 September, 2014, 10:46:59 AM
Funnily enough that's roughly what I said when I saw him at Glasto.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2014, 07:27:12 AM
I should imagine the best way to die would be to have Clint Eastwood shoot you...while Morgan Freeman narrates it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 September, 2014, 11:46:51 AM
Quote from: Killer Hawk Queen on 08 September, 2014, 07:27:12 AM
I should imagine the best way to die would be to have Clint Eastwood shoot you...while Morgan Freeman narrates it.

I totally misunderstood that  :-[, when you say shoot?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2014, 12:07:50 PM
(http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090628033544/fallout/images/f/f9/User_Clint-eastwood-dirty-harry.jpg)
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Post by: TordelBack on 08 September, 2014, 06:22:06 PM
So this meal thing.  I'm on my way out to work now, so it might be breakfast, I suppose.  I mean, I'm going to have my sambos at about midnight, so that one has to got to be lunch.  But then what the hell is the stuff I eat when I get up in the morning?  Reality is losing cohesion and the men building an extension in the row behind are destroying what's left of it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 09 September, 2014, 04:45:24 AM
Quote from: Bear McBear on 05 September, 2014, 05:34:39 PM
http://youtu.be/YoB8t0B4jx4?t=1m8s

That is magnificent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 September, 2014, 05:43:48 PM

What a lovely symbolic gesture:   http://youtu.be/9kREzbLUZHc


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Post by: radiator on 09 September, 2014, 07:03:50 PM
Could end up eating my words but try as I might I just cannot understand the point/appeal of smartwatches and really can't see them catching on.

Isn't the whole point of smartphones that they replace/consolidate existing gadgets into one device? I haven't felt the need to own any kind of watch in 10+ years. Totally obsolete in my mind.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 September, 2014, 07:11:49 PM
I don't think wearable technology will ever catch on. Makes ye look like a prat. Wrist watches are the only notable exception.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 September, 2014, 07:20:24 PM
Would you wear this rad?

(http://massassi.hobby-site.com/massassi/pictures/episode_5/img/cloud_city_corridor06.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 September, 2014, 07:23:04 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 09 September, 2014, 07:11:49 PM
I don't think wearable technology will ever catch on. Makes ye look like a prat. Wrist watches are the only notable exception.

He knows what time it is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 September, 2014, 07:25:56 PM

I like the idea of your smartphone disappearing into something you would be wearing anyway, like your jacket or glasses, but we're years away from that. The i-swatch is pointless, but they needed something new to announce at an event where they're trying to sell the same stupid £500 phone for the sixth time.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 09 September, 2014, 09:23:50 PM
I'll be buying an iPhone 6 to replace my iPhone 4 which is slowly dying after 3.5 years of heavy use and also, with the 128GB storage also finally allow me to replace my 5 year old iPod Classic - I'm also very interested in the updated camera - but yeah they do seem to be casting about aimlessly for innovation.

I had heard a late rumour that the iPhone 6 would be drop, water, dust-proof which would have been actually practical and useful (amazed that this isn't already the standard) but it seems not...

The watch though - it just seems like something that would only be of interest to the kind of people who buy gadgets for the sake of it, but most people will surely just see it as yet another screen. Surely any productivity/organisational advantage from having it would be outweighed by the time the user would spend fannying about with apps/syncing etc?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 10 September, 2014, 03:23:24 AM
Not to mention having yet another device that needs charging every few days/hours.... And it's evidently not waterproof either.

The more I think about it the more convinced I am this will be - if not a disaster for Apple - then at least something of a misstep. They can't seriously think this is a mass-market product can they?

Happy to be proved wrong though - it wouldn't be the first time!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 10 September, 2014, 10:16:42 AM
I think it's unlikely the iWatch will be the huge success of the rest of Apple's products, but that enough wealthy/misguided fanatics will get one as an accessory to make them money.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 10 September, 2014, 04:15:47 PM
The iWatch may actually become become popular among some people:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxIPKEVCEAEWVbJ.jpg)
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Post by: SuperSurfer on 10 September, 2014, 09:29:43 PM
Not sure that I get a lot of the complaints about Apple not being innovative any more.

It's not as if they are inventors. They didn't invent MP3 players, tablets, smart phones or smart watches etc.

Possibly the only real innovation they made was the original Mac operating system – which was a very long time ago. It could be argued that they merely develop and improve on products that are already being made, the difference being that they make them better and easier to use. Well, in the opinion of many people, me included.

As for the Apple Watch – I haven't owned a watch for many years as I've relied on my phone. I've considered buying a watch but anything half decent is super expensive. But I don't like the idea of walking around with something expensive on show so I doubt I will be getting one. My current iPhone is pretty old and I'm due an upgrade so I will be getting a new one for sure.

I know of people who splash out on numerous super expensive games consoles (one console isn't enough – they have to have multiple platforms by competing companies) and super expensive games – funny how they don't get called every name under the sun.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 September, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
WHY IS THERE A U2 ALBUM IN MY iTUNES???????
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 September, 2014, 03:43:37 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 September, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
WHY IS THERE A U2 ALBUM IN MY iTUNES???????

Did you take your tinfoil hat off again? I told you this would happen Larry.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Skullmo on 11 September, 2014, 03:51:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 September, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
WHY IS THERE A U2 ALBUM IN MY iTUNES???????

You listen to U2?

All respect  . . .lost
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 September, 2014, 04:31:58 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 11 September, 2014, 03:51:39 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 September, 2014, 03:41:00 PM
WHY IS THERE A U2 ALBUM IN MY iTUNES???????

You listen to U2?

All respect  . . .lost

nobody got a choice - if you've got i-tunes, you've got the new U2 album. Surely there's a human rights violation in there somewhere?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 11 September, 2014, 05:25:26 PM
"Was neil armstrong actually 20ft tall when he came back to earth?"...sigh... https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130506170221AAp9fnU
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 September, 2014, 10:05:21 AM

Private commission by the incredible Chris Weston, via twitter (https://twitter.com/westonfront/status/510569610526351360/photo/1):

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxXoWpsCMAAo5oZ.jpg)

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Post by: JamesC on 13 September, 2014, 01:39:06 PM
That is awesome!
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 13 September, 2014, 02:42:31 PM
It achieves awesomeness effortlessly! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 13 September, 2014, 07:02:57 PM
Second date with Molly happened today. Wandered around the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum then went to the park and ate ice cream. Third date set for a fortnight. Woo-hoo. :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 13 September, 2014, 08:53:59 PM
Second date: awwwww, how sweet. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 13 September, 2014, 09:22:51 PM
http://www.hitchbot.me/storify/

One robot's tale of adventure, human kindness and exploration across Canada.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2014, 09:56:37 PM
Here's a tip:

Listening to Heavy Metal in the shower makes washing your hair more fun.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 September, 2014, 08:25:17 PM

With prog 1900 and Wagner & Ezquerra's Block Judge imminent, here's a reminder of what a genius Carlos can be when he feels like it (via facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204004953260334&set=a.1833959804927.2107052.1118384142&type=1)):


(https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10414898_10204004953260334_1823929237016186095_n.jpg?oh=81f4cc3affceae4272f77eafeb44f40d&oe=549B1B54)
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 16 September, 2014, 12:15:20 PM
That's just fecking gorgeous.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2014, 03:19:32 PM
Quote from: sauchie karate club on 15 September, 2014, 08:25:17 PM

With prog 1900 and Wagner & Ezquerra's Block Judge imminent, here's a reminder of what a genius Carlos is    (via facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204004953260334&set=a.1833959804927.2107052.1118384142&type=1)):


(https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10414898_10204004953260334_1823929237016186095_n.jpg?oh=81f4cc3affceae4272f77eafeb44f40d&oe=549B1B54)

FTFY  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 16 September, 2014, 05:06:26 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2014, 03:19:32 PM
Quote from: sauchie karate club on 15 September, 2014, 08:25:17 PM

We need no reminder of what a genius Carlos is

FTFY  ;)

FTFY2
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Post by: ZenArcade on 16 September, 2014, 06:16:23 PM
Josh and Siobhan....third anniversary?  That is a he'll if a third anniversary. Momento! Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 September, 2014, 07:29:57 PM
Space: 1999 fans, the Eagle Boneyard:

(http://www.scifiairshow.com/images/ships/boneyard/BY03A_large.jpg)


See all the pics here:

http://www.scifiairshow.com/ships-boneyard.html (http://www.scifiairshow.com/ships-boneyard.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 16 September, 2014, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 13 September, 2014, 07:02:57 PM
Second date with Molly happened today. Wandered around the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum then went to the park and ate ice cream. Third date set for a fortnight. Woo-hoo. :D

Spoke too soon. Just got ditched. No spark between us, apparently. Looks like I am back on the market. Oh goody. :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 16 September, 2014, 10:27:03 PM
Was she a yes voter by any chance....naw only ribbing you 8 Ball, you'll be grand. Z  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 16 September, 2014, 10:57:29 PM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 16 September, 2014, 10:27:03 PM
Was she a yes voter by any chance....naw only ribbing you 8 Ball, you'll be grand. Z  :thumbsup:

Cheers, Z. It kinda stings but thanks for the support. Now, how's that map coming?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 16 September, 2014, 11:02:53 PM
Another couple of months for high Def Mc1; the Texas City draft.will soon be ready. mimikeke is hopefully well into the interactive Mc1 me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: 8-Ball on 16 September, 2014, 11:05:27 PM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 16 September, 2014, 11:02:53 PM
Another couple of months for high Def Mc1; the Texas City draft.will soon be ready. mimikeke is hopefully well into the interactive Mc1 me.

Cool. 'Night my friend. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 September, 2014, 05:59:01 PM
Is their a webcomics thread? I really hope theirs a webcomics thread, love me some webcomics.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 September, 2014, 01:02:51 PM
It's Fresher's Week on the nightshift, which means being the background in uncountable (oxymoronic) selfies.  In a moment of existential horror  I realised that a day will come, and very soon, where every one of these teetering gurning children (or their successors) will be followed by their own miniaturised drone-cams continually snapping them from multiple preferences-set flattering angles.  A buzzing, bobbing, auto-instagramming swarm recording every banality.

The collapse of technological civilisation can't come fast enough. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 September, 2014, 02:20:04 PM
TB:
Behind the glitter of spectacular distractions, a tendency toward banalization dominates modern society the world over, even where the more advanced forms of commodity consumption have seemingly multiplied the variety of roles and objects to choose from.

— Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1967
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 September, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
Back after a week holiday in some Italian Island, so is Scotland free yet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 18 September, 2014, 06:41:13 PM
Quote from: Killer Hawk Queen on 17 September, 2014, 05:59:01 PM
Is their a webcomics thread? I really hope theirs a webcomics thread, love me some webcomics.

Start one !
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 September, 2014, 09:05:14 PM
If Scotland leaves the UK, does that mean England will start posting compromising photos and videos of Scotland on Facebook, twitter, and revenge porn sites?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 September, 2014, 10:40:45 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 18 September, 2014, 02:20:04 PM
TB:
Behind the glitter of spectacular distractions, a tendency toward banalization dominates modern society the world over, even where the more advanced forms of commodity consumption have seemingly multiplied the variety of roles and objects to choose from.

— Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1967

No, you are.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 September, 2014, 11:31:42 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 18 September, 2014, 09:05:14 PM
If Scotland leaves the UK, does that mean England will start posting compromising photos and videos of Scotland on Facebook, twitter, and revenge porn sites?

(http://i.imgur.com/12NHLzN.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 September, 2014, 02:54:44 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 September, 2014, 11:31:42 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 18 September, 2014, 09:05:14 PM
If Scotland leaves the UK, does that mean England will start posting compromising photos and videos of Scotland on Facebook, twitter, and revenge porn sites?

(http://i.imgur.com/12NHLzN.jpg)

I find that extra funny because the word hun is sometimes used as a derogatory term for the British in certain parts of the Emerald Isle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 19 September, 2014, 12:37:42 PM
racist ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 19 September, 2014, 08:11:11 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 19 September, 2014, 02:54:44 AM

I find that extra funny because the word hun is sometimes used as a derogatory term for the British in certain parts of the Emerald Isle.

I haven't heard that down in this neck of the woods, which part is that if you don't mind me asking?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 September, 2014, 08:16:34 PM
Up in The North
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 September, 2014, 08:20:53 PM

See also Celtic fans' charming nickname for the red, white, and blue- wearing team from the other side of the city, and their followers.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 19 September, 2014, 08:41:59 PM
Kristofer hivju for sternhammer in strontium dog.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2014, 09:21:48 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 19 September, 2014, 02:54:44 AM

I find that extra funny because the word hun is sometimes used as a derogatory term for the British in certain parts of the Emerald Isle.

Wow - those old war comics must've been REALLY confusing!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 September, 2014, 09:38:43 PM
Gérard Depardieu is my new hero (http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gerard-depardieu-drink-14-bottles-4242142).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 September, 2014, 09:47:21 AM

I'd avoided this week's slew of Pizza Express Review Girl tweets because I assumed they were just sneering metropolitan journalists being ironic, but there is something genuinely charming about someone seeing something unremarkable through fresh eyes and without the cynicism of professional food critics:

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/what-s-on/leisure-lifestyle/restaurant-review-my-first-reaction-was-wow-1-6304145


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 20 September, 2014, 10:57:28 AM
I'm no fan of Pizza Express but good for her. I liked that she took her mum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 September, 2014, 12:08:32 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 September, 2014, 09:38:43 PM
Gérard Depardieu is my new hero (http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gerard-depardieu-drink-14-bottles-4242142).

I hope he paid the tax on those.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 September, 2014, 12:22:34 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 September, 2014, 12:08:32 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 September, 2014, 09:38:43 PM
Gérard Depardieu is my new hero (http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gerard-depardieu-drink-14-bottles-4242142).

I hope he paid the tax on those.

I hope I never have to sit next to him on a 'plane.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 September, 2014, 08:48:00 AM
If you ever think your wierd for believing in Aliens, just remember at least your not Billy Meier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 22 September, 2014, 07:16:24 AM

Doesn't apply so much to us here, whose interests are genuinely marginal, but this makes interesting reading all the same:

QuoteIn a debate on the nature of geek culture at its present juncture published earlier this week, my friend Frederick deBoer wrote what I think is a succinct and important summary of one of the more dismaying trends in cultural conversation today: the inability of people who love what is now the dominant culture to recognize that their interests have gone from marginal to hegemonic.

"My fear is not merely that the geeks will never come to acknowledge their triumph, as comfortable as they are in their self-professed victimhood," deBoer argued. "I fear too that we have come to so thoroughly associate fandom with grievance that the two are now inextricable. That, I suspect, is the long-term consequence of the rise of the geeks: that we no longer know how to enjoy art without enjoying it against others."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/09/19/geeks-have-become-their-own-worst-enemies/

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Post by: Satanist on 22 September, 2014, 11:37:38 AM
Quote from: sauchie co-op on 19 September, 2014, 08:20:53 PM

See also Celtic fans' charming nickname for the red, white, and blue- wearing team from the other side of the city, and their followers.

Did you see the state of them in George sq after No win? I would say Hun is polite.

as a side note I couldnae give a toss about either bigoted side and wish they could both fuck off.
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Post by: von Boom on 22 September, 2014, 06:42:51 PM
She says she wants to be unattractive to men. I bet it doesn't work.

(http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/breastssss.jpg)

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/woman-has-third-breast-implant.html (http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/woman-has-third-breast-implant.html)
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Post by: Frank on 22 September, 2014, 06:47:55 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 22 September, 2014, 11:37:38 AM
I couldnae give a toss about either bigoted side and wish they could both fuck off.

If by 'fuck off' you mean drop to a lower division and stay there, the current trajectories of the old firm suggest you may yet see your wish fulfilled.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 September, 2014, 09:38:36 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 September, 2014, 01:02:51 PM
It's Fresher's Week on the nightshift, which means being the background in uncountable (oxymoronic) selfies. 

I was in town for a drink recently.
It was like being on the set of Damo Ivor and Ivor.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 September, 2014, 09:49:34 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 September, 2014, 09:38:36 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 September, 2014, 01:02:51 PM
It's Fresher's Week on the nightshift, which means being the background in uncountable (oxymoronic) selfies. 

I was in town for a drink recently.
It was like being on the set of Damo Ivor and Ivor.

There is some amusement to be derived from knowing that these charming clowns will, with complete confidence, be telling me what to do in 5 or 6 years.  I feel an Ed Reardon rant coming on. Sheer asininity etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: radiator on 24 September, 2014, 01:06:51 AM
I'm at my wit's end with online passwords - must have (no exaggeration) about 100 of the bloody things to remember.

I'm tempted to try out one of those automatic password generator type apps. Are they as horrendously bad an idea as they sound on the face of it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 September, 2014, 04:31:27 PM
Mean Angel had clones?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByEJ9p6IUAAbuiU.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 September, 2014, 11:40:17 AM
Tourists are money:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbFk6ydJNs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbFk6ydJNs)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 September, 2014, 01:31:21 PM
Quote from: radiator on 24 September, 2014, 01:06:51 AM
I'm at my wit's end with online passwords - must have (no exaggeration) about 100 of the bloody things to remember.


A common complaint from friends & colleagues alike.
The best method; have 3 passwords, and 'Tier' them:

Level 3; Stuff you don't really give a toss about (TripAdvisor, Booking.com, 2000AD Online, Ticketmaster, etc)
Level 2; "Yeah, it would be an inconvenience if this got out" (Amazon, Ebay, Play.com, PSN, etc)
Level 1; The important ones (Online banking, Paypal, etc.) I slightly modify these (changing the last letter), just in case.

Works for me anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 September, 2014, 03:00:04 PM
I use the master password feature in Firefox for everything except stuff like my bank and paypal. I also keep a little notebook (in another room) with all my dozens of passwords recorded in case that feature ever packs up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 September, 2014, 03:43:36 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 25 September, 2014, 03:00:04 PMI also keep a little notebook (in another room) with all my dozens of passwords recorded in case that feature ever packs up.

Good to know. Good to know.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 26 September, 2014, 11:53:45 AM
Three different passwords, tailored to the specific thing I am trying to access in a fashion I can deduce from the name of the thing in question.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 September, 2014, 12:28:53 PM
I have now been 19 for half and hour. When do I start feeling like and adult?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 27 September, 2014, 01:18:28 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 September, 2014, 12:28:53 PM
I have now been 19 for half and hour. When do I start feeling like and adult?

I'm 37 and I still don't feel like an adult.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 September, 2014, 10:07:47 AM
I'm 50-odd and haven't felt an adult (or anyone else) for ages
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 October, 2014, 08:50:42 PM

Did you ever wonder what Sinead from Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles would look like wearing some clothes for a change? Me neither, but Simon Davis is a fantastic portrait artist:

https://www.facebook.com/simondavispainting/posts/953745081308863

(http://i.imgur.com/NllR5ZB.jpg?1)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 October, 2014, 09:14:02 PM
WAAAAAGH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G30ffBEa_dw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G30ffBEa_dw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 October, 2014, 11:23:24 AM
Quote from: sauchie co-op on 01 October, 2014, 08:50:42 PM

Did you ever wonder what Sinead from Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles would look like wearing some clothes for a change? Me neither, but Simon Davis is a fantastic portrait artist:

https://www.facebook.com/simondavispainting/posts/953745081308863

(http://i.imgur.com/NllR5ZB.jpg?1)

or indeed without:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/s960x960/10631238_932937943389577_62230669884796992_o.jpg)
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Post by: TordelBack on 02 October, 2014, 11:40:33 AM
SBD is extraordinary, isn't he?  Really gives the lie to the misguided notion that comics artists aren't 'real' artists.  The funny thing here is that the very solidity and distinctiveness of the charcater of Sinead in Slaine means I'm not remotely surprised to see that her model exists almost unchanged in the real world - in a way that perhaps sight of the various real-world Slaines themsleves have discombobulated me. 
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Post by: Proudhuff on 02 October, 2014, 11:48:18 AM
Love the way Dredd and D'eath are poking over the top of that painting!
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Post by: Dandontdare on 04 October, 2014, 12:28:06 PM
Interesting looking exhibition at the British Library on all things Gothic: Terror & Wonder (http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/gothic/index.html)

I was impressed with the comics one recently, so if I get a chance to be in London before this ends I'll give it a go.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 October, 2014, 12:53:15 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 24 September, 2014, 04:31:27 PM
Mean Angel had clones?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByEJ9p6IUAAbuiU.jpg)

On a training course last year, I came across a nice little crop of Brainblooms..

(http://i.imgur.com/MHxRODZ.jpg)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 October, 2014, 02:23:17 PM
Discovered today that their is indeed a word that can best describe non-autistic people. Allistic. This actually makes me really happy because it devalues the "label" that is given to people diagnosed on the spectrum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 October, 2014, 03:15:13 PM
Whenever I hear or read a label (autistic, disabled, Jewish, militant, immigrant, criminal, hero, legend, celebrity, tramp, woman, man, black, French, etc., etc.) I try always to replace it with "human".  Works wonders on my perception of the world and its problems and, crucially, on the solutions to those problems.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 October, 2014, 03:23:30 PM
I'd still suggest we retain "Irish". Need something slightly more gentle than "silly sod".  :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 October, 2014, 03:36:14 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 October, 2014, 03:23:30 PM
I'd still suggest we retain "Irish". Need something slightly more gentle than "silly sod".  :P

Heh!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 October, 2014, 08:03:36 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/XhmVPCl.jpg?1)

Could probably have done with working from reference for Death, but look at it ... if you could paint like that, you'd do so all day. (via facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=742996519071593&set=pcb.742996589071586&type=1))


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 06 October, 2014, 10:28:38 PM
my wife keeps asking what I want for Christmas ,I want a black series biker scout and speeder bike an xbox one or just a newer 360 and several books but if I tell her she'll just say "I'm not getting you that" what to do? 

we also bumped into my mother in asda and as I was no where near the garlic couldn't escape, she asked what the daughter would like but again if we give her a list of stuff you can guarantee it will be nothing remotely close on the day!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 06 October, 2014, 10:30:29 PM
Quote from: sauchie co-op on 06 October, 2014, 08:03:36 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/XhmVPCl.jpg?1)

Could probably have done with working from reference for Death, but look at it ... if you could paint like that, you'd do so all day. (via facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=742996519071593&set=pcb.742996589071586&type=1))

I can't un-see Jar Jar Binks when looking at Death's head.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 October, 2014, 11:12:02 PM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 06 October, 2014, 10:30:29 PM
I can't un-see Jar Jar Binks when looking at Death's head.

It's not as if Fabry can't draw Death et al:


(http://i.imgur.com/IXYvP0e.jpg?1)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 October, 2014, 10:19:05 AM
Very last straggly strung-out added-on day of my current main contract, and I happen to discover that my standard hourly charge-out rate is the lowest in the entire €400,000,000 project - the self-employed equivalent of a fourth-year apprentice, to be precise.  Imagine how I laughed, especially when I remembered that my next decent contract (if it ever bloody starts) is charged at the same rate!  The things we do for Prog money.   ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 07 October, 2014, 10:43:28 AM
Screw that Tordels, if your earning roughly as much as I am then I shudder what some people are earning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 October, 2014, 10:57:12 AM
At least in my case it's my own desperation for work at any price that's screwing me, and as was pointed out to me rather forcefully yesterday, screwing everyone else too. 

The world of low-wage work is scary, but even at these amusingly low rates, there's far worse. My Dad's been in and out of hospital lately, most seriously with a very resistant wound infection he picked up the previous time he was in... Simultaneously I read that the average hospital cleaner in Ireland earns just 50c an hour over minimum wage.  You might think that cleaning hospitals was a pretty important job, but you might also wonder how motivated you might be to put in the maximum effort and attention to detail if they couldn't legally pay you any less to do it.  Speaking as a former cleaner of shopping centre and university toilets, I confess to a hope-no-one-notices approach.

NB: not automatically suggesting cleaners are at fault here - anecdotal evidence favours consultants who are too important to wash their hands between patients, and it certainly isn't their wages levels to blame.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 October, 2014, 11:15:19 AM
No better than slavery, is it? In modern slavery, you keep your chains in your bank account and pay for your own room and board.
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It's about time some MPs, bankers or corporatists started catching nasty diseases from poorly cleaned toilets - cleaners' rates might go up then.
.
Makes me fume that the most important jobs are paid very poorly and the most irrelevant jobs pull in millions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 October, 2014, 11:38:07 AM
As usual I question your definition of slavery, which while historically is a very diverse state, I generally view as a far worse condition, but I endorse your hopes for bacteriologically-mandated social change - but maybe I've now dragged a story of stupidity told against myself into the rightful balliwick of the Political Thread!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 07 October, 2014, 02:06:55 PM
Perhaps not slavery, but indentured servitude surely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 October, 2014, 10:34:43 PM

Decker from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Jake Cutter from Tales Of The Golden Monkey are child molesters:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ted-2-fires-actor-stephen-738742


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 October, 2014, 10:54:09 PM
Jesus, that's depressing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 October, 2014, 02:03:24 PM
Bloody hell. This sort of thing makes me sick (as it would any normal person). I'm not sure these sorts of things should be mentioned on this board any more, it's just so depressing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2014, 11:30:33 AM
Now we know why they were called cougarwagons:

(https://media.rbl.ms/image?u=%2Fhphotos-xaf1%2Ft51.2885-15%2F10724596_750299845041061_1320278972_n.jpg&ho=http%3A%2F%2Fscontent-a.cdninstagram.com&s=137&h=d35717d6a1c42404fd6a23d0fcea45a2680c1ee44d37f16fa55a592196be0ea2&size=origin&c=669440500)
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Post by: Link Prime on 09 October, 2014, 12:21:09 PM
Cor!  :o


That looks a bit like (Transformers G1) 'Swindle'
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Post by: Goaty on 09 October, 2014, 12:22:09 PM
Blimey!  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 October, 2014, 12:34:05 PM
Is it sad that the first thing I noticed was the beluga in the background?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 October, 2014, 12:54:40 PM
Objectification alert!  Objectification alert!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2014, 01:01:55 PM
If he likes Belugas he like belugas!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 October, 2014, 01:39:17 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2014, 01:01:55 PM
If he likes Belugas he like belugas!
PWWWWWAAAARRRR!!!!
(http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/004/cache/beluga-whale_458_600x450.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 09 October, 2014, 01:48:36 PM
Fast n Bulbous.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2014, 03:18:05 PM
mammalist!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 October, 2014, 03:20:35 PM
Mammalistist!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 09 October, 2014, 04:00:13 PM
Terry Moore used 30 brushes to ink the whole of Strangers in Paradise.

(http://i.imgur.com/h8YH7XG.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 October, 2014, 06:27:17 PM

You might imagine that small differences between photographs of the same person can be explained by different angles and lighting, and the malleability of human physiognomy; these guys aren't fooled so easily.

http://www.thebeatlesneverexisted.com

What I find most entertaining about the idea that the four most famous people on the planet were in fact an army of dopplegangers created by shadowy forces for sinister purposes is the insistence that whatever process has been employed is capable of producing duplicates identical to the originals .. except for one eyebrow. Simultaneously, they claim the same process that delivers doubles whose facial features can only be distinguished by reference to minor differences in ear size is incapable of turning out two Pauls of roughly the same height.

I'm fascinated by the sober, regretful, metaphorical shaking of the head that accompanies the frequent statement that their discoveries represent the revelation of some horrifying truth about the fundamental nature of reality. Even if the Fab Four were actually a baker's dozen, I'm not sure what difference that would make, especially when the rationale given for such a programme is nothing more sinister than creating enough Beatles to fulfill their touring and promotional commitments.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 October, 2014, 07:49:38 PM
I knew a guy who was a total Beatles fanatic and used to give a fabulously entertaining lecture on the whole "paul is dead" hoax, pointing out all the many clues in photos, covers and lyrics. Many of his audience would be actually convinced by the end, so he always had to explain afterwards that it's not really true.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 October, 2014, 09:12:32 PM
I've heard a similar conspiracy about J.K.Rowling. Apparently that's not her real name and she is just the front for a sinister cabal of writers who precision engineered the perfect kids story with an aim to create a billion dollar global franchise
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2014, 11:00:06 AM
yeah some people don't even believe in Tharg!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2014, 12:41:17 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2014, 11:00:06 AM
yeah some people don't even believe in Tharg!

Pffft, bloody abetelgeusiests, next they'll be expecting us to believe that Thrills 'evolved' naturally from Look & Learn...

(The glaring anomaly of The Trigan Empire is clearly the result of a conspiracy of vested interests).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 October, 2014, 03:49:05 PM

It's like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,
Like a picture of Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.
There's a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,
The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,
You made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.
To be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,
And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.
And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 October, 2014, 03:56:48 PM
I have no idea what that's from or who wrote it but I like it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 October, 2014, 05:10:04 PM
On the radio, a documentary about the Western. The argument is that the Western is dying - kids today think Indiana Jones is a cowboy.
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Cue enthusiastic expert: "Nonsense! Kids know exactly what a cowboy is! Look at Woody from 'Toy Story' - who inspired his own doll! I love to see the kids going around holding their Woodys!"
.
Snot in my coffee and snotty coffee all down my front.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 October, 2014, 03:22:48 PM
Anyone ever used the Winsor and Newton Water Markers? Got my mits on some using my staff discount at work and bloody hell they're some nice, thick pens.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 14 October, 2014, 04:36:58 PM
Just occurred to me whilst doing some research that the prog's Stone Island had a lot of similarities to Invasion: Earth.

Which wasn't a terribly good show on reflection I suppose but had its moments; the distinctive and enigmatic friendly aliens - who all commit suicide after decades of war just to spite their enemy. And lets not forget the creeping horrors from another dimension that are looking to make us the next harvest, the creeping paranoia and body horror of those taken and returned by the enemy - and of course the brutally bleak outlook of a world under attack from within and without, a world where the 'magic bullet' completely fails and the only hope left is a nuclear bomb and a scorched earth policy for the slightest intrusion... which seemed far from certain anyway.

Creeped me out massively as a child
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 14 October, 2014, 05:34:12 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 October, 2014, 05:10:04 PM
Cue enthusiastic expert: "Nonsense! Kids know exactly what a cowboy is! Look at Woody from 'Toy Story' - who inspired his own doll! I love to see the kids going around holding their Woodys!"

I bet if you look in Andy's mothers drawer you'd find her toys have the same names as his.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 October, 2014, 06:24:05 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 14 October, 2014, 05:34:12 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 October, 2014, 05:10:04 PM
Cue enthusiastic expert: "Nonsense! Kids know exactly what a cowboy is! Look at Woody from 'Toy Story' - who inspired his own doll! I love to see the kids going around holding their Woodys!"

I bet if you look in Andy's mothers drawer you'd find her toys have the same names as his.

I can see the appeal of a battery powered Slinky Sausage Dog, but Mr Potato Head sounds like it would be an uncomfortable fit. Jesse The Yodelling Cow Girl is presumably a model aimed at the lesbian market.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 October, 2014, 08:05:44 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BztQh7eIIAAuZsI.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 15 October, 2014, 06:06:02 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 09 October, 2014, 07:49:38 PM
I knew a guy who was a total Beatles fanatic and used to give a fabulously entertaining lecture on the whole "paul is dead" hoax, pointing out all the many clues in photos, covers and lyrics. Many of his audience would be actually convinced by the end, so he always had to explain afterwards that it's not really true.


I'm not convinced they was even from Liverpool.
Not one of 'em sounds like wot Wayne Rooney does..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 October, 2014, 06:37:25 PM

That's a point, isn't it? Even in their earliest appearances, they all spoke with the same Beatles-specific accent. I know Epstein spent some time smoothing off their rough edges - and that Lennon had a middle class background - but even posh Liverpudlians just sound posh, rather than the weird Beatlesburgh tones they adopted.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 October, 2014, 02:47:05 PM
Working with deaf freelance from Ireland, and he looks like young version of Karl Urban! I must be stopped with Karl Urban stalking!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 16 October, 2014, 02:51:08 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 09 October, 2014, 09:12:32 PM
I've heard a similar conspiracy about J.K.Rowling. Apparently that's not her real name and she is just the front for a sinister cabal of writers who precision engineered the perfect kids story with an aim to create a billion dollar global franchise

That's not a conspiracy theory but actually an episode of the Simpsons. Neil Gaiman is part of the group with Homer and Professor Frink and at the end of the show admits he's illiterate. One of the better later eps I thought.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 October, 2014, 02:52:24 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 October, 2014, 03:56:48 PM
I have no idea what that's from or who wrote it but I like it.

sorry Sharkie, missed this. it was Evlis Costello from the Blood and chocolate LP.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 October, 2014, 04:34:40 PM
Quote from: sauchie outbreak on 09 October, 2014, 06:27:17 PM

You might imagine that small differences between photographs of the same person can be explained by different angles and lighting, and the malleability of human physiognomy; these guys aren't fooled so easily.

http://www.thebeatlesneverexisted.com


They can spend millions cloning back-ups of Macca, yet still can't get his astonishingly bad dye-job to look remotely natural.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 16 October, 2014, 04:37:12 PM
Lets have the board clear up a drunken argument me and the mates had the other night. First off apologies to any Welsh boarders, I've nothing against the Welsh I'm just using them below as an example. I've been to Wales twice and had a lovely time.

If I call a Welshman a "Twat" then I'm just being rude (unless he is a twat).

But if I call him a "Welsh Twat"  is it Racist, Xenophobic or something else?

Also to clarify the argument was about the definition of the words and not about something someone said. We did Google in the pub but most of the definitions we found were quite ambiguous or similar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 October, 2014, 04:48:49 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 16 October, 2014, 04:37:12 PM
Lets have the board clear up a drunken argument me and the mates had the other night. First off apologies to any Welsh boarders, I've nothing against the Welsh I'm just using them below as an example. I've been to Wales twice and had a lovely time.

If I call a Welshman a "Twat" then I'm just being rude (unless he is a twat).

But if I call him a "Welsh Twat"  is it Racist, Xenophobic or something else?

Also to clarify the argument was about the definition of the words and not about something someone said. We did Google in the pub but most of the definitions we found were quite ambiguous or similar.

I think it depends on how many twats are in the room at the time. Do you need to clarify which twat is which? In that case Welsh twat may just be a method of clarification.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 October, 2014, 04:49:43 PM
I suppose it depends if he's with a bunch of other twats of various nationalities and you want to be clear about exactly who you are insulting, in which case it's simply descriptive and you are merely being precise. You Scotch prick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: amines2058 on 16 October, 2014, 04:59:07 PM
I am Welsh, and quite possibly a twat, and if confronted with that outburst I would be more offended with the 'Twat' aspect, than the 'Welsh' prefix. I would not find it racist or homophobic.
Now sheep-shagger on the other hand is a different matter altogether (and a fun activity!!) ;)







...that was a joke by the way before the rumours start...........again!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 October, 2014, 05:32:07 PM
Get Aliens vs Predator (2000) game free for next day or so:

http://www.gog.com/news/giveaway_aliens_vs_predator_classic_2000 (http://www.gog.com/news/giveaway_aliens_vs_predator_classic_2000)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 16 October, 2014, 05:40:41 PM
Quote from: amines2058 on 16 October, 2014, 04:59:07 PM
I am Welsh, and quite possibly a twat, and if confronted with that outburst I would be more offended with the 'Twat' aspect, than the 'Welsh' prefix. I would not find it racist or homophobic.
Now sheep-shagger on the other hand is a different matter altogether (and a fun activity!!) ;)







...that was a joke by the way before the rumours start...........again!

rumours nuttin we all saw the pictures.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 October, 2014, 06:08:06 PM
Quote from: amines2058 on 16 October, 2014, 04:59:07 PM
I am Welsh, and quite possibly a twat, and if confronted with that outburst I would be more offended with the 'Twat' aspect, than the 'Welsh' prefix. I would not find it racist or homophobic.
Now sheep-shagger on the other hand is a different matter altogether (and a fun activity!!) ;)

Heard a Canadian comedian at Edinburgh fringe do a routine in which he said he was happy to be in Scotland "but I hear you guys shag sheep" -  someone inevitably shouts "that's Wales", to which he responds "you shag whales? My God, you people really are hardcore!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 October, 2014, 03:20:17 PM
Sorry to be all boring and politically correct, but in nearly all cases, unless it is the specific topic being discussed, it is at worst racist and at best inappropriate to highlight someone's race, particularly to precede an insult (even a jokey one), but it obviously depends how well you know each other.

I'm trying to teach this to my kids at the moment, that race and/or colour should never be used to single out or define a person. And it should never be used even to describe a person ("He's the black one") as that in itself is lazy and demeaning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 03:43:46 PM
If a black person says "I'm proud to be black", that's perfectly all right.
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If I proclaim "I'm proud to be white", that's most certainly not all right.
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And what the Hell is wrong with calling a black person black? If you wanted to point out one black person in a crowd of white people you'd say "the black person over there." Similarly, if you wanted to point out one white person in a crowd of black people, what's wrong with saying "the white one"?
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Using a person's skin colour or race as a descriptor isn't racist in my book - but harming someone on those bases is racist, not to mention just generally vile.
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All that political correctness is doing is turning words like "black" into minor profanities. Orwelian Madness.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 October, 2014, 03:47:12 PM
I just think people, especially kids at school, have the right to be defined by something other than that they're the black one.

I don't think I am overly political correct, but I just find that sort of thing annoying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 03:55:52 PM
This should probably be on the Political Thread but I'll just point out that saying "the black guy over there" no more reduces a person to nothing more than their  skin colour than saying "the guy in the red coat" reduces that person to their choice in clothing. What's next? Will we be banned from calling people girls, boys, women, men, old, young?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 October, 2014, 04:00:22 PM
I never said I was trying to "ban" anyone from anything. Don't go Daily Mail on me Shark!

I merely said I was trying to encourage my children to see a person's defining traits in greater terms than their race or colour.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 17 October, 2014, 04:04:56 PM
But am I still okay to call someone a boss-eyed ginger gimp with a limp?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 October, 2014, 04:11:31 PM
I get it worse at schools and in streets with "Deaf twat" or "Deaf and Dumb" as deaf people hated that word!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 October, 2014, 04:14:56 PM
If someone in a group has an obvious difference to the others in that group, I don't see how it's demeaning to immediately go to it to describe them as long as it's not in obviously insulting terms. If I say "the black one" or "the white one", I'm no more defining their entire persona than if I were to call them "the bearded one" or "the tall one".

I've actually caught myself referring to someone as "the Scottish bloke" before, when talking to Scottish people, in Scotland, while being Scottish.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 October, 2014, 04:17:49 PM
Sharky. The key difference between "black" and "white" people is the fact that the former has been subject to hate crime, enslavement and political scapegoating for centuries. Still think ot isn't an issue? Look to Ferguson.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 October, 2014, 04:20:15 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 03:55:52 PM
I'll just point out that saying "the black guy over there" no more reduces a person to nothing more than their  skin colour than saying "the guy in the red coat" reduces that person to their choice in clothing.

The distinction might be made that the red coat is a choice - but you do make a good point.  It's the pejorative connotation that's the issue (as with ginger, gay, fat), and the ghastly historical and contemporary association - once that goes away it's just another descriptor.  Although as my wee daughter is wont to point out when asked who various of her friends are, she doesn't know any black kids - plenty of ones with lovely brown skin though. 

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 04:55:17 PM
Sorry, Spaceghost, I wasn't having a go at you or accusing you of anything and I am absolutely and breathtakingly unqualified to criticise anybody's parenting technique. If I gave that impression then I unreservedly apologise. This is just a subject that gets right up my nose, is all. (And why the mods usually keep me chained up with a bucket of fish heads in the Political Thread.)
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Hawkmonger - subjection to slavery, hate crimes and political scapegoating is in no way the exclusive preserve of any race - just ask the Boers, the Jews, the Gypsies, the Chinese, Muslims, Christians, etc., etc., etc. I would suggest that by claiming otherwise you are, unknowingly of course, perpetuating the myth that the Only Thing in black culture or history with any relevance is slavery and such. There's a lot, lot more to it than that.
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Heh, Tordels, that wee lass of yours has the right idea. You rarely see racist kiddies, in my experience.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 October, 2014, 04:56:57 PM
Sharkey, when a person say's "I'm Black and proud" they're standing up against the white shit bag's that try to oppress them. Saying "I' white and proud" make's you sound like a privaliged tit because you have never felt oppresion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 17 October, 2014, 05:10:15 PM
This actually occurred in my work where a lady had to go see a guy in another dept. She knew his name but not appearance. Loads of people trying to explain that he was 2 rows behind the photocopier, sits near the water cooler etc until someone piped up that he was the only black guy in that room. Is that racist or just common sense?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 05:26:09 PM
No. I have never felt oppression. :-/
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Just to be clear, I've never been proud of my skin colour and neither have I ever despised it. It just happens to be the colour of bag I was given to keep my organs in which are, so I'm led to understand, the same colour as everyone else's.
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My point, which you so eloquently just made for me, reduces whole swathes of people to caricatures: black = oppressed, abused slaves. White = oppressive, abusive slavers. Never mind the facts that in many parts of Africa black tribes regularly raided other black tribes to capture slaves and that many white people abhorred and opposed slavery even when it was legal.
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This is why I despise political correctness, it stifles debate by limiting vocabularies and topics, subdues thought by homogenising everyone and encourages the acceptance of biased racial and individual paradigms. To me, political correctness is more insidious than any racist joke. I'd rather watch a dvd of Bernard Manning than a dvd of David Cameron any day of the week.
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Being respectful to people shouldn't mean ignoring the myriad aspects that make them who they are. Being respectful to people, in my opinion, is about being honest and refraining from chopping each other up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 October, 2014, 05:44:39 PM
Hear, hear.


Apart from the Bernard Manning bit.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 October, 2014, 05:47:34 PM
Your argument ignores the conflict present today though. When white police officers can get away with murdering a young black man because of a stereotype that he's a gang member, then formulate a intricate lie to support his statement, then society has a problem.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 06:00:35 PM
White police officers get away with murdering people of all colours (as do white soldiers, but to a much higher degree). The media focuses on the black ones because that focus is dramatic and pulls in audiences.
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There are plenty of police officers, of virtually every race, who never killed anybody and wouldn't want to. Once again, by focusing on the white v black aspect of a much wider problem, political correctness skews our perceptions and makes everything seem so, well, so black and white, if you'll forgive the pun.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Molch-R on 17 October, 2014, 06:05:38 PM
Please transfer this discussion to the Political Thread, which is where it belongs. Thank you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 October, 2014, 06:12:12 PM
Threadist...
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But you're correct, of course. Sorry - that was my fault.
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 October, 2014, 06:55:18 PM
Ditto, should have done it sooner. Thanks Molch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 October, 2014, 08:09:20 PM

DROIDS OF YESTERYEAR: AN OCCASIONAL SERIES

http://www.jonathancooper.co.uk/michael-j-austin/

Michael J Austin is known for his bold and expressive figurative style, capturing the dynamism and machismo of the animals he depicts. Using a limited palette of only four colours (magenta, ultra marine, yellow and white), Austin paints quickly and with a fluid 'wet in wet' technique. His bold contrasting of vivid and naturalistic hues brings a sense of grandeur and theatre to even the simplest of everyday subjects.

Michael J Austin (b. 1959, UK) lives and works in Devon. In 2003, he was invited by the HRH the Prince of Wales to accompany him to India and Oman as Tour Artist. He has also exhibited at international galleries including; The Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York and The Everard Read, Johannesburg.


His dealer appears to have excised drawing Crusade, or any of his other comics work, from the former Mick's Austin's CV. Because of the sometimes seventies styling of his work, I assumed Austin was one of the generation of older artist - like Arthur Ranson and John Burns - who cast up at Tharg's door when the rest of the UK comics industry collapsed, but he was much younger than I assumed at the time he was drawing Dredd. He was only in his early twenties when he was working for Warrior.

Here he is painting and talking about his process: http://youtu.be/QSLakiKobCw?t=1m48s


(http://i.imgur.com/Zbj2GEv.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 October, 2014, 01:17:19 AM
Why I Will Never Make a Con-Man, by TLS.
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I set off in the works van at 6 o'clock this morning on a  cock up inspired trek. The facts were these:
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One of the local salad kingpins who we do some transport for found themselves in something of a bind due to an extensive production line failure. Because of this failure, an order for a national chain of 'restaurants' failed to leave their depot on time. Said national chain was heartily dischuffed at this development as it meant they had no lettuce with which to disguise the core unhealthiness of their culinary offerings and demanded something be done about it. A lot of managers did a lot of tut-tutting, for which they will no doubt be receiving handsome bonuses, and came up with a Plan. The only bar to their Plan was that it required the participation of an idiot. This idiot transpired to be me.
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In the normal course of events, the packaged lettuce would be neatly stacked onto two Chep pallets and transported by my firm to a bigger haulage firm who then split down the order to be distributed by different vehicles with regular delivery routes to many businesses around the country. All very efficient.
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Due to the production line implosion, this regular arrangement fell into that category which distribution managers enjoy labelling "in yer dreams, mate." My boss, on the other hand, being blessed with a "can-do attitude" (or, more specifically, a "you can-do attitude"), opened his 'phone book at the page headed 'Idiots', this page containing only one name, and roped me in with promises of gold, jewels and days off in thanks.
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Consequently, I set off this morning with a van full of boxes of lettuce bound for Wallsend, Gateshead, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Carlisle. Which doesn't sound so bad when said brightly, through a friendly smile. The next time you visit a shopping centre or pedestrianised arcade set like a fabulous island surrounded by yellow lines, traffic wardens, one-way systems and murderous inner-city traffic, spare a thought for the poor delivery drivers. Many of these 'restaurants' also seem to have been deliberately hidden away in unfathomable nooks and crannies or constructed in an area of null-space so that the closer one gets to them the further away they move, like sadistic and more than a little befuddled mirages. Eventually, though, I found all the drops and saved the day. Hurrah for me!
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As the day wore on, and I wore out, several of the branch managers of this chain offered me a bite to eat in gratitude for my single-handedly rectifying the lettuce drought. Being up against it, however, I politely declined and planned to avail myself of a bite to eat from my last drop in Carlisle, when the panic was over.
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The branch manager in Carlisle was on first inspection just as cheerful and teenaged as the rest of them and so I felt I was on firm ground. It was just gone 9pm when I got there, 15 hours after setting off and with still another two and a half hour drive to get home. I deftly inserted these facts into the conversation I had with the Carlisle branch manager and he appeared to be suitably grateful on behalf of his company. I then casually mentioned that the only thing I'd had to eat since 6am was a single biscuit (which was, I kid you not, provided to me by one of your favourite droids - I won't tell you which one, as every good story needs a mystery) and I felt that this was bound to have an effect.
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"Gosh, you must be starving," the manager observed in a corporately chipper fashion. I nodded. He nodded and then, through a smile asked, "Fancy a burger and chips?"
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I nodded again and said that would be most kind of him. He put his best chef on the project, and in between doing homework and fretting about it being past his bedtime, the chef prepared my meal and handed it to the manager who, in his turn, handed it to me.
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"Thanks," I said, "I've been looking forward to this all day."
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"I'm sure," he said. "Seven eighty five, please."
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"What?" I asked. "I thought..."
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The manager raised an eyebrow that would have looked more at home on his top lip. "What? What did you think?" he asked, leaving the words 'you greedy little freeloader' out of the sentence but somehow still manifesting them in the conversation.
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"Nothing," I mumbled and prized open my wallet with the leverage afforded by two spoons and a thick iron ashtray. I handed over two fivers, displacing several moths, took my meal and left in a huff. When I found somewhere to park up and dine, I opened the bag and took in the sickly, warm smell of the burger, which pounced into the cab of the van with all the sophisticated allure of a witch's fart. It was nasty. Even the dog had to visibly force himself to eat it.
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So, in attempting to get something for nothing I failed so completely that I fetched up getting nothing for something and had to make myself some toast when I got home - which was just before midnight.
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I will never make a con-man - I can't even get stuff I've previously been offered.
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In order to make up for it, and to make this post marginally more interesting and relevant to this web site in particular, the first person to correctly guess the identity of the droid who gave me a biscuit (and a cup of coffee) will win -£7.85p.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 October, 2014, 07:15:19 AM
I'm sure there must be a German word for laughing at another's misfortune while simultaneously not taking any pleasure in it.  Brilliant tale, TLS.

By way of an aside, in the late 90's I worked on what seemed a long succession of pub extensions for a brace of successful millionaires (as was the fashion at the time, that and tying an onion on your belt).  Often we'd make use of the breakfast usually served in the extant pub (proper site welfare facilities were still some years off), and at the close of work the crew would frequently repair to the extant bar for a drink, sometimes more than several.  In all that time neither I nor any of my workmates was ever once offered a complimentary cup of coffee or a slice of toast, never mind a pint.  But at least we weren't offered a pint and then asked to pay for it.  There are degrees of bastardy, it seems.

My guess for your mystery droid is Colin MacNeil, 'cos he always seemed the type.   
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 20 October, 2014, 08:14:51 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 October, 2014, 07:15:19 AMMy guess for your mystery droid is Colin MacNeil, 'cos he always seemed the type.


I can imagine him with a permanent pouch full of short-breads for weary travellers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 October, 2014, 08:21:22 AM
FLESH COMPUTER
http://vimeo.com/108751357
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 October, 2014, 08:34:36 AM
MOUSE X
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/86766083
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 20 October, 2014, 08:42:59 AM
Ah C'mon Shark, lettuce know who it was? Z.  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 20 October, 2014, 09:06:13 AM
This has made my day - "...warm smell of the burger, which pounced into the cab of the van with all the sophisticated allure of a witch's fart. "
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 October, 2014, 10:57:32 AM
There need to be more guesses, Zen, before I reveal the truth...
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Glad you liked my witch's fart, Bubba!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 20 October, 2014, 11:10:47 AM
Frazer Irving?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2014, 12:21:00 PM
I'm still marvelling at the idea of "Salad kingpins" - shady underworld figures manipulating the lettuce consumption of a nation for their own nefarious ends.

I feel for you - I did some KP in a Greek restaurant years ago - after my first night of scrubbing greasy pans and preparing squid I was knackered - manager offered me a beer from the bar but thend charged me their usual rip-off price
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 October, 2014, 12:29:32 PM
Grating, isn't it? There must be a law against it, or an old charter, or something.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 October, 2014, 01:53:26 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 20 October, 2014, 08:14:51 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 October, 2014, 07:15:19 AMMy guess for your mystery droid is Colin MacNeil, 'cos he always seemed the type.

I can imagine him with a permanent pouch full of short-breads for weary travellers.

Racist.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 20 October, 2014, 02:21:46 PM
WHERE THE HELL IS MY DAMN PROG?

AGAIN?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 October, 2014, 04:30:34 PM
I have been universally lucky with my employment it seems. When I was a KP my manager told me to help myself to the chips as they just got manky if left too long, and also poured me pints every time I was held back due to the late service/inept or lazy senior staff. Even better when she knew full well I was firmly below legal age.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 October, 2014, 06:10:56 PM
Former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read is not a racist, and people just simply need to lighten up... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xLbcIianBg)




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 October, 2014, 01:21:37 PM
We've no "Y'know What Really Floats My Boat" or "Shortlist For Sainthood" threads, ye buncha miserable moany fuckers ye.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 21 October, 2014, 02:26:14 PM
There's a couple of em.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 21 October, 2014, 02:42:29 PM
I'm just back from the toilet and may or may not have done a ghost-shit but as theres no evidence of it I'll never know. What I really need is some kind of recording device fitted in the U-bend  which I can play back when this (rarely) happens. Hmm, off to Dragons Den it is...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 October, 2014, 02:57:35 PM
Some kind of crapper mapper? Sounds like a shit hot idea, only a fool would poo-poo it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 October, 2014, 05:49:57 PM
Tomorrow is prog day.  Grud bless TMO and all His works, a lifeline in a world that's short on them. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 October, 2014, 05:50:38 PM
Here's One I Shat Earlier?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 21 October, 2014, 07:20:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 October, 2014, 05:49:57 PM
Tomorrow is prog day.  Grud bless TMO and all His works, a lifeline in a world that's short on them.

Grrr - I'm at prog day +3 and no sign yet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 October, 2014, 07:45:51 PM
Just met a guy who is ambivalent about marmite
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 October, 2014, 07:48:58 PM
Quote from: King Pops on 21 October, 2014, 07:45:51 PM
Just met a guy who is ambivalent about marmite

I am too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 October, 2014, 08:44:55 PM
Here's a Leopard trying Marmite.
(http://i.imgur.com/cIdnjzA.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 21 October, 2014, 09:02:26 PM
Rarely does a gif have me freaking out laughing but that one... I AM WEEPING.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 21 October, 2014, 10:50:45 PM
Hah!
That cage needs a sign.
Do Not Feed The Animals Drugs
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 October, 2014, 05:19:04 PM

Holy Smoke! Mr Incredible, Batgirl, Chewie, Freddy Krueger and Wally got into a fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T8iQj5ksU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T8iQj5ksU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2014, 07:22:27 PM


(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78428000/jpg/_78428117_sovietmap.jpg)


So why would the Soviets need a map of Edinburgh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 October, 2014, 07:37:00 PM
To avoid it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 22 October, 2014, 08:46:28 PM
In case they either wanted to sabotage, invade or saturation nuke administrative hubs within the UK from the 50's through to the early 90's. Or am I being obtuse again? Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 October, 2014, 10:15:51 PM
Today is (probably) the last day of clearing the Great Lettuce Cock-up - but how's this for a day's work:
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02:30 - set off to work.
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03:00 - pick up van from yard.
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03:45 - load boxes of lettuce from Skelmersdale.
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04:00 - set off to first drop.
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09:15 - first drop made in Aberdeen.
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17:00 - second drop, Gateshead.
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17:45 - third drop, Sunderland.
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21:15 - last drop, York (where I was given a free meal and coffee - yaay!)
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21:40 - park up and eat.
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22:10 - write this.
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22:15 - head down for a couple of hours
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00:30 (approx) - set off on the 2 1/2 hour drive home.
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This ceased to be funny about 8 hours ago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 October, 2014, 03:06:09 PM
I'm just gonna leave this here.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0kk1jfCAAAoc5k.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 24 October, 2014, 03:32:27 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 25 October, 2014, 03:16:15 PM
carlos is all beardy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 25 October, 2014, 07:41:59 PM
I had a real 'woah!' Moment the other day when someone pointed out plastic dinosaurs are made out of real dinosaurs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 25 October, 2014, 08:00:15 PM
Weellll possibly, most likely plant matter from the earlier periods like the Devonian....ah f**k it: that is a real wow moment. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 26 October, 2014, 10:25:29 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 25 October, 2014, 07:41:59 PM
I had a real 'woah!' Moment the other day when someone pointed out plastic dinosaurs are made out of real dinosaurs.

Grud on a greenie. I'm having that  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 26 October, 2014, 04:10:09 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 25 October, 2014, 07:41:59 PM
I had a real 'woah!' Moment the other day when someone pointed out plastic dinosaurs are made out of real dinosaurs.

I've heard this before, and it is a nice thought, isn't it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2014, 04:59:58 PM
Given the prevalence and longevity of carbon (etc.) atoms, You are made of dinosaurs too. You are also made of stars, the matter in you is billions of years old and has been countless things before becoming a part of You.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 October, 2014, 05:21:43 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2014, 04:59:58 PM
...the matter in you is billions of years old and has been countless things before becoming a part of You.

Gawd, that must have been one hell of a let down for it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 October, 2014, 05:54:02 PM

I don't have a loft ladder, and I go a bit wobbly whenever I have to swing down and lower myself to the ground. I would need to be on Valium to do this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29775924


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 October, 2014, 08:42:49 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has officialy been cast for Doctor Strange. Discuss.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56641
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 27 October, 2014, 09:04:48 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 October, 2014, 08:42:49 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has officialy been cast for Doctor Strange. Discuss.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56641

Have not managed to watch a Marvel movie right through.... possibly ever. But a well-made Doctor Strange - with the right effects - and limited guest appearances, could be OK.

Also, is he spreading himself a bit thin? He'll be Doctor Who next at this rate...  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 October, 2014, 05:57:02 PM

Judge Dredd's biggest fan thinks that new Judge Death animation is the definitive screen interpretation of Dredd and his world:

http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/judge-dredd-superfiend-goes-live/#comment-16858


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 October, 2014, 05:59:58 PM
Can't even call himself scojo anymore eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 29 October, 2014, 09:04:45 PM
What a daft loser.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 October, 2014, 09:12:58 PM

I sort of like him. He's dependable.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 October, 2014, 07:37:02 AM
Eighties UK government plan for new order following nuclear war based on Mad Max:

QuoteJane Hogg, a scientific officer in the Home Office, envisaged the police would be busy helping "inadequate" people in disaster-struck areas, and suggested that another group could be recruited to help keep order.

"It is... generally accepted that around 1% of the population are psychopaths," she wrote.

"These are the people who could be expected to show no psychological effects in the communities which have suffered the severest losses."

Hogg suggested psychopaths would be "very good in crises" as "they have no feelings for others, nor moral code, and tend to be very intelligent and logical".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29804446

The Home Office had a department dedicated to producing the arseless leather trousers and feathered shoulder pads this plan would require.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2014, 08:04:31 AM
Quote from: sauchie library on 30 October, 2014, 07:37:02 AM
Hogg suggested psychopaths would be "very good in crises" as "they have no feelings for others, nor moral code, and tend to be very intelligent and logical".

Even a nuclear war can't dislodge the Bullingdon boys. 

Now stuck with the mental image of Lord Humongous de Pfeffel Johnson.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2014, 10:45:44 AM
But most psychopaths already have jobs as government officials, MPs and police officers, so that plan won't work. If, however, we remove these poor tormented souls from those positions the threat of nuclear war will probably decrease dramatically.
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 October, 2014, 05:34:07 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2014, 10:45:44 AM
But most psychopaths already have jobs as government officials, MPs and police officers, so that plan won't work. If, however, we remove these poor tormented souls from those positions the threat of nuclear war will probably decrease dramatically

You've been warned before - back to your own thread!


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2014, 05:46:09 PM
Not until I get my bucket of fish heads!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 30 October, 2014, 06:06:25 PM
Whilst I should have been working, I caught a decent-ish cover version of Tears for Fears' Head over heels, on Radio 2. Which lead me to searching out the original on YouTube, which reminded me that I need to re-watch Donnie Darko again. And soon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2014, 06:15:24 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2014, 05:46:09 PM
Not until I get my bucket of fish heads!

That's quite enough of that, chum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 October, 2014, 07:21:34 PM
The Argument by vintage speech synthesizers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjMwGWdqHVQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjMwGWdqHVQ)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 31 October, 2014, 12:35:19 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 30 October, 2014, 06:15:24 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2014, 05:46:09 PM
Not until I get my bucket of fish heads!

That's quite enough of that, chum.

as puns go on a scale of one to ten that's strictly small fry :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 31 October, 2014, 03:07:41 AM
Ok Grugz make that the sole comment on Tordel's pun. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2014, 06:52:54 AM
I'm not rising to this bait.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 October, 2014, 07:38:57 AM
Puns are quite common plaice on this here board, though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2014, 08:49:56 AM
Reminds me of the time I heard a pink fish saying "the night, the night, the night" over and over again. Yes - the salmon chanted "evening"...
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I'll get me coat
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 October, 2014, 10:32:27 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2014, 10:44:33 AM
Yes, we should bring this to eel straight away - not that it was started on porpoise, it's all just a fluke.
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Please cod, stop me!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 31 October, 2014, 11:36:08 AM
anyone else want turbot in?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 October, 2014, 12:30:19 PM
You all having a whale of a time, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 31 October, 2014, 01:49:39 PM
they're just doing it for the halibut.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 October, 2014, 01:51:52 PM
This is no Plaice for inane puns.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 October, 2014, 02:04:15 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 31 October, 2014, 01:51:52 PM
This is no Plaice for inane puns.

*Re-used one-liner fail*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 31 October, 2014, 03:09:04 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 31 October, 2014, 02:04:15 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 31 October, 2014, 01:51:52 PM
This is no Plaice for inane puns.
*Re-used one-liner fail*
That's knocked him off his perch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2014, 04:00:58 PM
And earned him a sick squid fine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 31 October, 2014, 04:02:48 PM
31st Oct... mmmm 31st Oct? What special about that date?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2014, 04:10:01 PM
Hallowbream?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 31 October, 2014, 04:25:24 PM
Followed by all soles day. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 October, 2014, 04:32:13 PM
That jokes a bit flat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 November, 2014, 12:01:48 PM
It's 1st Nov and there's 5 Xmas films on TV!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2014, 12:09:18 PM
1st November is the date from which I as supreme domestic overlord have permitted the wearing of Christmas-themed clothing, the playing of Christmas songs at prescribed volume, and the watching of an approved list of Christmas movies.  Permission for sessile decoration and consumption of seasonal foods will be extended from 1st December.  Opening of gifts and reading of Prog 2015 may only take place on or after 25th December.  All trace of the foregoing to be removed on or before 7th January, annual prog excepted.  Behaviour outside these designated norms will be reported directly to Santy.  They have been warned.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 02 November, 2014, 12:50:47 PM
You're not allowed to talk Christmas until after Bonfire Night. That's the rule.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 November, 2014, 01:53:16 PM
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 02 November, 2014, 12:50:47 PM
You're not allowed to talk Christmas until after Bonfire Night. That's the rule.

I dunno man, June (http://ireland-living.blogspot.ie/2011/06/irish-bonfire-night.html) always seems a bit early to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 02 November, 2014, 03:40:38 PM
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 02 November, 2014, 12:50:47 PM
You're not allowed to talk Christmas until after Bonfire Night.december That's the rule.

ftfy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 November, 2014, 03:58:51 PM
Truth in product naming taken too far?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1QrQZvCIAEE5W_.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Third Estate Ned on 03 November, 2014, 05:54:42 PM
(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i160/ThirdEstateNed/33-LimaCentro_zpscc23d84a.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 November, 2014, 07:09:31 AM

(http://i.imgur.com/n7sBXze.png?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 04 November, 2014, 07:11:26 AM
That is clever thinking :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 05 November, 2014, 01:03:17 AM
My party trick used to be doing Paul McCartney's 'The Frog Chorus' in burps.

I can't do it anymore - my oesophageal muscles have worn down over time, and now I just end up with a mouthful of sick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 November, 2014, 03:58:06 AM
That Paul McCartney's got a lot to answer for, going around spoiling people's throats in such a manner.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 05 November, 2014, 08:23:03 AM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 05 November, 2014, 01:03:17 AM
My party trick used to be doing Paul McCartney's 'The Frog Chorus' in burps.

I can't do it anymore - my oesophageal muscles have worn down over time, and now I just end up with a mouthful of sick.

Whenever I hear the Frog Chorus I end up with a mouthful of sick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 November, 2014, 06:17:11 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 05 November, 2014, 08:23:03 AM
Whenever I hear the Frog Chorus I end up with a mouthful of sick.

Heh, it always makes me think of being hideously drunk at the Rocky Horror and trying to stay conscious for the main feature.  So much the same as Spaceghost.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 November, 2014, 09:00:50 PM
What would be funny line for this?

Spot the odd penguin?
(http://i.imgur.com/U0P1t5x.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 November, 2014, 09:14:21 PM
What do you mean I'm adopted?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 November, 2014, 10:52:56 AM
Notice some threads is "moving to Holding Pen" What it about??
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 November, 2014, 11:28:48 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 12 November, 2014, 10:52:56 AM
Notice some threads is "moving to Holding Pen" What it about??

This:
[spoiler]
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,41382.0.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,41382.0.html)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 November, 2014, 12:50:04 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 12 November, 2014, 10:52:56 AM
Notice some threads is "moving to Holding Pen" What it about??
Hush now, dear, let's not arouse suspision. Put your tin foil hat on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 November, 2014, 01:17:41 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 November, 2014, 09:00:50 PM
What would be funny line for this?

Spot the odd penguin?
(http://i.imgur.com/U0P1t5x.jpg)

Dammit, nobody told me it was black tie!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 12 November, 2014, 09:47:53 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 November, 2014, 09:00:50 PM
What would be funny line for this?

Spot the odd penguin?
(http://i.imgur.com/U0P1t5x.jpg)


it was brian's first convention but he still felt awkward being the only non cosplayer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 November, 2014, 11:18:49 AM

(http://i.imgur.com/U0P1t5x.jpg)

'So this is what the holding pen looks like!'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 November, 2014, 11:27:17 AM
"Waiter, could I please get a... Excuse me, waiter.... Er, waiter... Wai... wait... W... Whuh... Wai... Oh, ffs..."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 November, 2014, 02:16:59 PM
The third one is entitled ' The purple ring of wedded bliss!'


(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78784000/jpg/_78784823_976newrelationshipstatusb.jpg)

Didn't Rog get banned for showing that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 14 November, 2014, 02:59:25 PM
It is now quit-day + 8 hours and I WANT A CIGARETTE!!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 14 November, 2014, 06:58:21 PM
why does my dishwasher refuse to clean the spatula? we've had plastic and metal ones ,cleaned pans with dried on mash but the slightest bit of egg on the damn thing it just doesn't comply.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 November, 2014, 09:30:59 PM
This is how you use this, right?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2rYfPmIUAAtubO.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 19 November, 2014, 10:58:14 AM
Penny Arcade's Automata series (currently running) is pretty bloody beautiful. Glad they came back to this world after a sneak peek so many years ago, back when I was reading 'em in IT class.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 November, 2014, 01:25:28 PM
How come half of a sandwich made with two slices of bread is more satisfying than one made with one slice of bread folded over?   
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 November, 2014, 02:08:16 PM
Because you can get more filling in.
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Extensive government-funded research at my subterranean Sharklabs Facility #4 revealed that folding bread led to an up to 42% loss of space within the sandwich, based upon the thickness and/or awkwardness of the filling. Two slices cut in half, however, offer a practically unlimited filling-space and thus a much more satisfying sandwichical experience.
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£420,000 that research cost. Well worth it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 November, 2014, 02:13:31 PM
What's wrong with an open slice. Having any upper boundary clearly reduces the potential filling depth from ∞ to ∞-hslice.

Acceptable answers could include being assured of having a top layer of mustard/mayo/etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 November, 2014, 03:44:29 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 19 November, 2014, 02:08:16 PM
£420,000 that research cost.

Crap, and I only used one slice because I was too cheap to buy a new loaf.  Could we work out some kind of installment plan?  Fifty pence now and £419,999.50 when I get paid?



(Obviously I meant 'all other things being equal', assuming an equal quantity of filling in both.  Obviously).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 November, 2014, 04:12:16 PM
The open slice is an inferior option, mainly employed purely for decorative purposes, as it lacks the structural integrity of the double or triple slice. The open slice is also unfriendly to moustaches and those with an especially prominent conk.
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Happily, Tordels, the research has already been paid for by the Ministry of Other Things and the National Buttie Board.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 November, 2014, 04:23:22 PM
Two slices, which first to pick up??
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 November, 2014, 04:33:59 PM
The real point of contention is which slice do you put your condiments? Top slice or bottom slice? And then in which order?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 19 November, 2014, 05:20:24 PM
You do realise a single slice of bread that's been cut in half and layered is exactly the same as one half of two slices of layered bread, enabling you to obtain the required amount of filling?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 November, 2014, 05:23:35 PM
Depend on what fillings?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 November, 2014, 05:29:25 PM
Well, these questions will require more research.
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Miss Bobbitt! Get on to Sir Edward Clyde-Flange up at the Ministry, tell him I've got another million pound research proposal - and if he gives you any trouble, tell him I still have the MP3...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 November, 2014, 03:16:06 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 November, 2014, 04:33:59 PM
The real point of contention is which slice do you put your condiments? Top slice or bottom slice? And then in which order?

Both.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 November, 2014, 03:27:18 PM
And of course you have to ask, is a sandwich a sandwich if it doesn't contain any sort of animal carcass? Without some sort of animal protein you could argue that it isn't a sandwich, but rather a poncy salad with two really big croutons.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 20 November, 2014, 04:32:32 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 20 November, 2014, 03:27:18 PM
And of course you have to ask, is a sandwich a sandwich if it doesn't contain any sort of animal carcass? Without some sort of animal protein you could argue that it isn't a sandwich, but rather a poncy salad with two really big croutons.

Seeing as it's a discussion about sandwiches, I'll bite...

Tempeh, peanut butter, sliced and fried tofu, falafel, hummous, etc. Pretty certain that these are all good sources of protein and definitely not "poncy salad" or "animal carcass".  No need to kill or be cruel to have a nice sarnie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 04:55:11 PM
Yes, yes, yes - but...
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Bacon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 20 November, 2014, 05:01:39 PM
For somebody who has the most left-field view of the world I've ever come across, that is the most tediously predictable reply to any vegetarian/vegan post. Or are you referencing something I posted earlier to that effect?

Anyway, I'm not stupid (mostly). I know that BACON tastes nice.

But not that nice.

And I really don't think it's worth the slaughter and the cruelty just for our pleasure and convenience.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 November, 2014, 05:17:40 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 20 November, 2014, 05:01:39 PM
And I really don't think it's worth the slaughter and the cruelty just for our pleasure and convenience.

Quite.



Unless it was really nice bacon.

I think we're just engaging in the traditonal forum blood-sport of dinosaur baiting!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 05:20:28 PM
Not being cruel to animals - absolutely, I'm 100% behind that and if I could choose the farm/abattoir I get my meat from then I would.
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I see the sense in vegetarianism and I try to eat a lot of fruit and veg myself. Because of the concerns of health, morality and sustainability I now eat less meat but I don't think I'll ever fully give it up.
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So, innocent animals get slaughtered for my food - boo bloody who. A hungry wolf or tiger wouldn't have any qualms if it had me in its sights. Things eat each other, often in the most gruesome and painful ways. Being at the top of the food chain, we can eat any damned thing we like but of all the meats I enjoy, the only one that I could never even contemplate giving up is bacon.
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I'm sorry, but there's just something so damned delicious about it. I'm sorry that pigs have to die for my BLT but that's just tough. If it didn't want to get slaughtered it shouldn't have chosen to be incarnated as a pig.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 20 November, 2014, 06:11:52 PM
human beings are omnivorous and animlas taste nice when grilled.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 November, 2014, 06:17:20 PM
Quote from: Grugz on 20 November, 2014, 06:11:52 PM
human beings are omnivorous

Human beings are also fratricidal feckers with bad eyesight, a range of fatal/debilitating parasites, and a tendency to die in childbirth, but we've taken steps to address this over the past number of years.  There'll be no appeals to nature on my watch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 06:22:19 PM
I have taken this serious subject lightly and will continue to do so. I honestly can't get too upset about us slaughtering animals for food and pleasure while we're still slaughtering each other for wealth and power.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 20 November, 2014, 06:39:44 PM
if we want to balance the whole discussion, we apparently taste like pork cannibals in the guineas calling man "long pig"  I personally think these hippy vegetarians should be banned polluting the atmosphere with the excess methane from veggy farts. ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 November, 2014, 07:12:36 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 06:22:19 PM
I honestly can't get too upset about us slaughtering animals for food and pleasure while we're still slaughtering each other for wealth and power.

And lulz.  Don't forget the lulz.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 07:20:49 PM
I don't know what that is :-(
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To Google!
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Woo-hoo! I learned a new word :-)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 20 November, 2014, 07:27:27 PM
No, the vegetarians and vegans are right.  The rest of us are just lazy and morally lax.
We should have had jet packs, flying cars and cities on the Moon by now, I don't think it's stretching things to say that we could have come up with an alternative to bacon as well.  Although I am actually worse than a fully-committed carnivore, I reckon, as I really like the range and variety of vegetarian food compared to the rather lazy preparation and presentation of meat products (which tends to be "pile it high and apply fire"), but by not committing to a veggie diet I'm taking tofu off the shelves and from the mouths of hippies, thus forcing them to eat something else - probably bacon.

As for not caring about slaughtering animals when we're slaughtering each other - food that could prevent famines goes into making feed for first world animals, so eating meat is basically causing starvation in the third world.  That taste you get from a McDonalds burger that you just can't get in home-cooked meat is the taste of dead baby.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 November, 2014, 07:29:46 PM
This has been a PSA for 2KAD Forums.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 20 November, 2014, 07:39:37 PM
Ugh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 07:40:26 PM
We are a miserable shower of feckers sometimes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 November, 2014, 07:41:40 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 20 November, 2014, 07:29:46 PM
This has been a PSA for 2KAD Forums.
Wow. That was a very mean spirited statement by myself and note at all what I was going for.

Sorry guys.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 07:43:22 PM
I thought it was ironic - and funny.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 20 November, 2014, 07:47:30 PM
Quote from: Grugz on 20 November, 2014, 06:39:44 PM
if we want to balance the whole discussion, we apparently taste like pork cannibals in the guineas calling man "long pig"  I personally think these hippy vegetarians should be banned polluting the atmosphere with the excess methane from veggy farts. ;)
I think you will find that the livestock you breed for slaughter fart a lot more than vegans do. So it's your diet that's really causing the stink.

The sustainable production of food for all on the planet is genuinely a political issue and I find it hard to understand how you, Shark, who has such an ability to see beyond the "norms" of society has missed out on seeing such an obvious injustice before your very eyes just because of convenience and pleasure. It actually makes me think less of some of your other arguments that you cannot see this one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 20 November, 2014, 08:01:29 PM
But he's a shark. (http://youtu.be/xkR2XEYEFgk?t=4s)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 08:10:14 PM
I can see it, Tips, and I know it's important to a lot of people. It's important to me too but there's only so much spleen in me and this issue is not at the top of my list.
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The issues of artificial growth hormone and antibiotic injections now being mandatory, regulations making it all but impossible for private people to own their own cow, pig or sheep for food, the insane distribution of livestock across thousands of unnecessary miles, the economic pressures that encourage Hellish battery farming, animals kept almost constantly pregnant for veal and lamb and suffering the ongoing stress of always having their newborns stolen, the demise of smaller farms - and everything - will all improve when we reclaim our freedoms and dismantle the banking scam.
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And why am I so sure about that? Because, when this has happened, people like you will have access to the resources needed to change things for the better. I won't be able to help you with that because by then I'll probably be dead in a ditch with a disgruntled banker's bullet in my face.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 November, 2014, 08:11:55 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 08:15:11 PM
I took my fleas out for a walk and they caught a dog.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 November, 2014, 08:15:40 PM
Bored Games what's all that about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 20 November, 2014, 08:25:08 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 08:10:14 PM
I can see it, Tips, and I know it's important to a lot of people. It's important to me too but there's only so much spleen in me and this issue is not at the top of my list.
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Ah but I'm not suggesting that you need to be an activist and a campaigner. All you need to do is stop eating meat, dairy and using animal products.  A really simple for me of your "do nothing" protest that costs you nothing, adds to a growing band of similar minded people and even in your life time will make a difference to some poor little underdog animals.

That's why I thought you'd be all over the idea like HP sauce on a bacon butties.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 08:40:24 PM
The thing is that I like meat and I want to eat it. I'm perfectly willing to cut down and even boycott sources that don't come up to snuff morally but I'm not going to stop eating meat altogether.
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That's the crappy thing about freedom - I get to do things that you abhor. The flip-side of that is that I have the responsibility to make sure that the thing I do that you abhor is done in as morally acceptable a way as possible - and who better to explain that morality than someone like yourself who has studied this subject and whose opinions I respect?
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By all means keep on at me to give up meat, one day you might succeed - you never know. Rest assured, I'm going to keep going on at you to expose the banking scam and dismantle the illusion of authority!
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I sense a presence....
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I think Molch-R's coming to kick me back to the Political Thread...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 November, 2014, 08:59:07 PM
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lerhl2JaFj1qcoktfo1_400.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 20 November, 2014, 09:09:59 PM
I'm  just gonna start eating vegans ,i'll benefit from there alledged healthiness and still get me meat fix and no animals get killed ! simples!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 November, 2014, 09:21:33 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 November, 2014, 08:59:07 PM
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lerhl2JaFj1qcoktfo1_400.gif)

Are you mad? Offering toast to someone these days it like pointing a gun at their heads with all that gluten. It's a weapon of mass destruction these days, just like peanuts. Shame on you.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 20 November, 2014, 09:40:07 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 20 November, 2014, 08:40:24 PM
The thing is that I like meat and I want to eat it.

Do you mean in the same way bankers like money?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Misanthrope on 21 November, 2014, 01:06:56 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 November, 2014, 08:15:40 PM
Bored Games what's all that about?

They are games one plays when bored.

See what I did there?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 November, 2014, 05:37:23 PM
I'm apparently addicted to Taylor Swift's 'Shake it Off'.  I'm 43.  If only Roger were here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 November, 2014, 06:07:17 PM
I'm sure that, somewhere, he's softly fapping in his (virtual) grave.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 21 November, 2014, 08:32:14 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 November, 2014, 05:37:23 PM
I'm apparently addicted to Taylor Swift's 'Shake it Off'.  I'm 43.  If only Roger were here.

You're not the only one. Damn that song. Damn it to Hell.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 November, 2014, 08:33:06 PM
Most of times I am glad to be Deaf!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 November, 2014, 12:26:50 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 November, 2014, 05:37:23 PM
I'm apparently addicted to Taylor Swift's 'Shake it Off'.  I'm 43. 

is that a Bored Game? I'm 96 you know.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2014, 04:19:32 PM
Simple things tickle me...
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Out walking the dog just now, I espied a local notice board screwed to the front of the Chemist's and ambled over for a butcher's. The whole thing was taken up by six sheets of laminated A4 printer paper self-importantly displaying the agenda and minutes of the last Parish Council meeting. The placement of the following two agenda items made me chuckle aloud:
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ITEM 5: To discuss the Parish Council's income for the 2014 Second Quarter (£00.00p).
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ITEM 6: To discuss the appointment of a new internal auditor.
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Ah, England - how thy ways amuse!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 November, 2014, 04:57:39 PM
Brilliant.

This reminds me of the antics of a CEO of my unhappy acquaintance, who is under sustained media (and union) fire for sloppy procurement decisions and misplaced priorities in expenditure - his response to the leaking of invoices etc. that informed this criticism is to spend a small fortune installing a state-of-the-art security system on the accounts room.  This seems to be the central tenet of the Worthless Executive school: "trying to hide things is always a better use of your time than having nothing to hide".

And I bet they still get left in the photocopier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 November, 2014, 09:28:25 PM
(http://1.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/79/45/8cfc530773ecebac2065b57d471e382c.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 24 November, 2014, 03:38:32 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2014, 04:19:32 PM
Simple things tickle me...

I will reserve that right for the next time I see you  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 November, 2014, 07:13:20 PM
Well, all right but - be warned - my bladder control isn't what it used to be...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 27 November, 2014, 01:49:45 PM
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/24/christian-fundamentalist-goes-science-museum-audit-its-liberal-bias-makes-ass-self-video/

Submitted without comment
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 November, 2014, 04:02:06 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 27 November, 2014, 01:49:45 PM
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/24/christian-fundamentalist-goes-science-museum-audit-its-liberal-bias-makes-ass-self-video/

Submitted without comment

Un-be-frickin-lievable.

I love the comment about the video "warning, you may want to wear a helmet from all the facepalming you're about to experience"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 November, 2014, 05:17:07 PM
I think she makes an excellent point - over and over and over again - "we can't come from monkeys because there are still monkeys" seems airtight to me.

I have applied her scientific principles elsewhere and concluded that tire swings can't exist because there are still tires on cars.  As best I can understand it, tire swings are a lie perpetuated by the liberal media to discredit Christians, as are dogs, which can't have evolved from wolves because there are still wolves.  I believe that dogs aren't real and it's just a small group of very vocal liberals in dog costumes bullying the media.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 November, 2014, 05:37:12 PM
The human is the only ape that doesn't have a penile bone. Humans also have fewer chromosomes than their nearest known genetic relatives. There are massive differences between the shoulders, neck, jaws and nasal passages of humans and their closest relatives - too many to be explained by a single "missing link" - which might be missing because it isn't there.
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Humans, then, were obviously created out of monkeys and pigs by prehistoric extradimensional aliens. Everyone knows that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 November, 2014, 05:44:06 PM
Humans were magicked into existence by a Santa Claus that lives in the clouds for which there is not a single shred of evidence only because it has been suppressed by the liberal media because it doesn't fit in with their biased agenda to bully Christians - white Christians in particular.  As a white Christian male, I find it appalling that my opinions are so marginalised.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 November, 2014, 05:48:50 PM
If you are a Christian then, like Christ and Moses, you think usury is a sin and therefore cannot use any bank or building society or company or government that indulges in this evil sin - right?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 November, 2014, 06:46:57 PM
Jesus didn't hate the concept of usury (or corporate bailouts), he hated the Jewish-run banking system of the day, supported as it was by the liberal Roman media's endorsement of homosexual lifestyles.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 November, 2014, 08:04:02 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 November, 2014, 05:37:12 PMThere are massive differences between the shoulders, neck, jaws and nasal passages of humans and their closest relatives - too many to be explained by a single "missing link" - which might be missing because it isn't there.

But not too many to be explained by the 400,000 'missing links', or as we like to call them 'generations', that separate ourselves and the last common ancestor we share with chimps.  That's 800,000 generations separating our species.  More than enough missing links for most things.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 November, 2014, 09:35:21 PM
I saw on some tv show that in a few thousand years' time (if we all died overnight) there won't be any proof of human civilisation left, and yet there are museums full of billion-year-old bones and cavemen knickers?  This science lark seems a bit fishy to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 27 November, 2014, 09:55:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrxnPG05SU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrxnPG05SU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 November, 2014, 10:06:36 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 27 November, 2014, 09:55:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrxnPG05SU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxrxnPG05SU)

Well. That's me convinced.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
Evidence that humanity existed will remain for millions of years. Things that will endure include city foundations, worked stone and quarries, various spacecraft such as Voyager and Pioneer, radio emissions, refined metals and cut gemstones. That's even before you get to the fossils of humans and domesticated animals, gases, radiation, artificial pollutants and plastics retained in ice/soil/rocks.
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Also, maybe there are up to 400,000 missing links and maybe there aren't. I don't know. Evolution is a great theory but I don't think it's either properly understood or the whole story. I suspect that there are several aspects to evolution, and processes concomitant to evolution, that we haven't sussed out yet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 November, 2014, 06:29:36 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
Also, maybe there are up to 400,000 missing links

And they out queues at stores this morning...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 November, 2014, 06:51:50 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
Evolution is a great theory

It is, as modern science defines a theory, don't get it confused with other uses of the word:

"In modern science, the term "theory" refers to scientific theories, a well-confirmed type of explanation of nature, made in a way consistent with scientific method, and fulfilling the criteria required by modern science." (with apologies for the lazy as Wikiquote!)

Quotebut I don't think it's either properly understood or the whole story.

But it is on both counts. Its observable, evidenced to the nth degree and pretty much a fact, as far as science will ever go with the term. It is able to explain the development of life on the planet in all its rich and varied forms by and large definitively.

QuoteI suspect that there are several aspects to evolution, and processes concomitant to evolution, that we haven't sussed out yet.

Yep but that's the great thing about science, as opposed to belief, faith or fairy tale based systems, as it always strives for a deeper more complete understanding of what it investigates and questions rather than buying into dogma. That said the theory (see above) of evolution is very unlikely to change any time soon as its robust and does the job all but conclusively.

Right I'm off to get my head back down under the parapet and get back to talking about comics, like we all come here for.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 November, 2014, 09:05:39 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
Also, maybe there are up to 400,000 missing links and maybe there aren't.

No maybe about it, it's a logical necessity, unless you're positing divine creation or space aliens diddling monkeys.  Chimps and humans shared a common ancestor sometime around 6 million years ago.  Allowing 15 years for a generation (generally true for both Chimps and humans for most of our history, but change it to 20 if you want, makes little difference), that's roughly 400,000 individual ancestors linking you to that shared ancestor, and another 400,000 linking that shared ancestor to any given chimp.  By contrast, the first person to think about milking a goat was only 500 generations ago, and the first pencil monkey to scratch a burnt stick on a cave wall and pronounce it zarjaz was only 2500-3000 generations ago.  800,000 generations is an awful lot of time for even major structures to change, especially given the tiny populations we think humans must have been reduced to on at least one and probably several occasions.

With an almost negligible number of exceptions (most in the past 1,000 years) every single one of those people is a 'missing link' between you and the point of departure between our species and our closest cousins.

But I agree entirely that there's a lot about the details of evolution that we still don't know.  That's what mkes it fun.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 09:50:15 AM
I'm not saying that the Theory of Evolution is wrong - it does seem to describe the observable world very well.
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I just don't think that we should simply accept it without question (I don't think any serious scientist would do that anyway) - but such a view is often taken in a religious context and met with some scoffing piffle about the only other option being Intelligent Design.
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There are problems with Evolutionary Theory, the biggest being the most fundamental - how did life begin? The current, widely believed hypothesis is that complex, non-biological chemicals came together entirely by chance in a priomodial soup on an abiotic world and, by a bolt of lightning, formed into complicated chains of replicating molecules. Given the complexity of the required molecules - their constituents and the necessary assembled order of those constituents - the chances of this being a random occurrence are vanishingly small - the equivalent of tipping all the jigsaw pieces in the world into the Pacific and expecting one completed jigsaw to wash up on a beach in Hawaii - possible but not very likely. In fact, if the origin of life depends entirely on chance then the possibilities of life beginning anywhere in the entire universe are virtually nil, as close to nil that the word 'impossible' just about covers it. If life on Earth does come from that random chance then we may very well be unique in the cosmos - and I don't like that idea at all.
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(As an amusing aside, scientists have been trying to create life in this way for ages - filling flasks with all kinds of primordial rubbish and then shooting lightning or fire or ice at it - to no avail. If they do ever succeed, however, the irony will be that they have not proven the 'chance' theory of the Origin of Life but the Intelligent Design theory!)
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Another puzzler is the origin of replication. In order to replicate, two things are required - blueprints and a 'factory'. The DVD analogy works well to explain this problem - a DVD disk is useless without a DVD player; but what if the instructions for building the very first DVD player were encoded on the very first DVD disk? How would one access the data on the disk to create the player? Similarly, replicating molecules containing information on how to replicate (and where did that information come from to begin with?) need external mechanisms that 'know' how to interpret that data and construct copies. Clearly, the two systems seem unlikely to have developed separately and so must have come into being at the same time.
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Evolutionary Theory, as far as it goes, seems solid enough - biology wouldn't make sense without it - but we (the generally scientifically illiterate person like myself) should not fall into the trap of thinking it's all done and dusted. When we start believing things like that we reduce science to the level of mere religion, full of dogma and forbidden questions, and destroy its usefulness to society.
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So when I argue with science or refuse to fully accept some of its hypotheses or even theories it is not through a dislike of science but a love of it. When I ask science a question I regard that act of questioning in much the same way that religion regards a prayer. Without prayers there would be no need for religion and without questions there would be no need for science.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 28 November, 2014, 10:01:09 AM
 Are we not supposed to be programmes running in an uber simulation set up by entities at the omega point? Z ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 10:06:38 AM
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Edited to add (but my time was up so posted here instead): If some of the strange observations coming from Quantum Research are taken into account, there may be totally natural mechanisms 'built in' to the universe that might seem 'Divine' and make the creation/evolution of life virtually inevitable. We simply have to discover these mechanisms and understand them. ("Simply"! Ha!)
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Yes, yes, Molchie, I know - bugger off to the "Science is Drokking Fantastic Because..." Thread :-D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 November, 2014, 10:07:37 AM
Never accept anything without question!

However, how life began isn't part of the theory of evolution, which deals with how species evolve through natural selection from that point on. I completely agree that biogenesis remains a massive puzzle, and engages many minds, careers, and even spaceships.

The replication issue is really very well dealt with in embyrology, which can derive all the elements of the human body from the (ostensibly) simplest set of individual biochemical instructions at the point of conception so that the embryo bootstraps itself into existence.  The set of procedures that work get to reproduce, and thus encode and replicate those instructions, those that don't, don't.

I think if creationists (and I'm not in any way suggesting Shark is one) read a bit more about embryology, most of their questions (if such they are) would be answered.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 10:20:21 AM
Heh, I like that - evolution has little to do with the origin of life. It's a similar thing with astronomy, which has little to do with the origin of the universe. In the Beginning, Something happened, we don't know what, exactly, but we pretty much understand what happened after that Something because we can see and analyse the results all around us.
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This is not a dig, Tordels, I agree with you. I look forward to the day, however, when the Theory of Evolution can be expanded to describe biogenesis as well.
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And now, I'm off to read up on embryology...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 28 November, 2014, 10:23:48 AM
We all zygote to start reading up on this eh Shark. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 28 November, 2014, 06:12:07 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 28 November, 2014, 06:29:36 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
Also, maybe there are up to 400,000 missing links

And they out queues at stores this morning...


I love you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 28 November, 2014, 08:08:04 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 28 November, 2014, 09:05:39 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2014, 04:08:17 AM
Also, maybe there are up to 400,000 missing links and maybe there aren't.

By contrast, the first person to think about milking a goat was only 500 generations ago

I often wonder what WAS going through that person's head. And the goat must have been "Seriously!!! Dude! WTF?"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 December, 2014, 12:30:49 PM
(http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag453/philtemp/dff311fd-3f1a-424d-8aa0-5c529c273753_zps2c85bcc3.jpg)

(nicked from Private Eye - for some reason, this just tickled me  :lol:)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 02 December, 2014, 04:01:05 PM
Is there a 'trekkie' style term for 2000AD lovers? Dredd-Heads? Thrill-fiends?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Molch-R on 02 December, 2014, 04:03:06 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 02 December, 2014, 04:01:05 PM
Is there a 'trekkie' style term for 2000AD lovers? Dredd-Heads? Thrill-fiends?

Squaxx dek Thargo has always worked quite well :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 02 December, 2014, 06:16:10 PM
Hey Molch R, can you get Tharg to wing a few copies of 1909 over to Belfast....bit of a Thrill drought over here. Z :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 03 December, 2014, 10:16:04 AM
If you haven't already, I'd check out the BBC's oddly-advertised Sci-Fi season: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01ytdbm/my-life-in-science-fiction-1-stories-from-the-stars

Some very interesting bits of insight into the production of Alien, 2001 and even Avatar. Plus some inspiring words from some of the assembled talking heads; Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) talks about how NASA asked her to be the face of their female/minority recruitment drive "It is top, it has to happen, it must happen now, not later - that's who we are, we're going like you where no man or woman has gone before. It's not just a story. We're going to do it."



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 December, 2014, 09:16:25 PM
I would see this film!

http://vimeo.com/110080609 (http://vimeo.com/110080609)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 December, 2014, 06:11:07 AM
I always wanted to be buried rather than cremated. It always seemed peevish for people to be cremated, like burning your house down after you've moved out or setting fire to the car you've just sold. It's like saying to the Earth, "this is mine and you can't have it", even though she built and maintained it for you. Then there's the waste of energy and that absurd, game show conveyor belt through the hatch, red velvet curtains and a song. The only thing that's missing is a big THE END sign.
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I'd rather be buried so that my body can be turned into bacteria and grubs and butterflies and birds. I wouldn't be averse to that ancient burial rite of being left out on a platform for the birds to pick clean. Or burial at sea to say thanks for all that Co-Op sushi I've grown partial to recently. Even Resyk, at a push. Something useful to the Earth, you know?
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Sure, decomposing bodies ooze all sorts of nasty toxins and assorted hobgoblins but it's all easily dealt with. Just don't burn my body, is all. Don't waste it.
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Heh, reading that back it kinda' sounds like a suicide note! Rest assured (or mutter curses under your breath) it isn't. I intend to die aged over 1,000, having visited hundreds of planets, met scores of other races, made dozens of friends and fathered countless offspring - and not a minute sooner!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 07 December, 2014, 07:07:56 AM
You can actually have your ashes mixed with compost and seeds of an indigenous plant in Australia now so a tree grows in your resting place, I can hardly think of a more sustainable way than that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 December, 2014, 07:21:55 AM
I think I'd rather have a thicket - "something prickly and difficult to eradicate" would suit me fine - the uglier the better!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 07 December, 2014, 01:24:19 PM
This thread keeps getting derailed in the most strange directions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Molch-R on 07 December, 2014, 01:51:31 PM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 02 December, 2014, 06:16:10 PM
Hey Molch R, can you get Tharg to wing a few copies of 1909 over to Belfast....bit of a Thrill drought over here. Z :(

When newsagents/comic book shops do you frequent? Shouldn't have been a problem with 1909.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 07 December, 2014, 01:58:53 PM
Forbidden Planet and Easons. None in both. Guy in FP hopes to have one for me this wed. I hear a lot of people were asking last week in Belfast. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Molch-R on 07 December, 2014, 02:20:22 PM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 07 December, 2014, 01:58:53 PM
Forbidden Planet and Easons. None in both. Guy in FP hopes to have one for me this wed. I hear a lot of people were asking last week in Belfast. Z

That's quite odd - I'll mention it to our distributors tomorrow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 07 December, 2014, 02:24:07 PM
Cool, this week's was there no problem, but I'd say a lot of Squaxx are keen to pick up the missing one. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 December, 2014, 07:46:05 PM
I hardly ever remember my dreams. This is very frustrating because I often awake knowing that I've just had a brilliant, or terrible, or enthralling experience but have no recollection of it at all save for the certainty that it was brilliant/terrible/enthralling.
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The worst part is that the rare dreams I do remember are usually rather dull. Maybe it's my subconscious telling me that I should become more interesting. Or maybe I should lay off the vodka.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 08 December, 2014, 08:13:02 PM
well if you ever wish to give up the ciggies, forget them vapers, try the nicotine patches, they give you some vivid dreams. I'm on them at the moment (day 24 and only blagged one) and they always give me the most convoluted, narrative and believable dreams I've ever had. I can't always remember the details, but I wake up feeling like I've not just watched a full movie, but starred in it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 08 December, 2014, 08:46:48 PM
If you want to give up ciggies, the one piece of advice I've heard from people who have successfully done so without ever getting back on the wagon has been to just make a clean break and don't use any kind of placebo or substitute, as all this does is make you think of the ciggies you aren't having.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 December, 2014, 03:41:10 AM
Heh, have you two been talking to my mum?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 10 December, 2014, 06:56:01 PM
Molch R many thanks to the young lad in FP in Belfast who scrounged me the 1909 prog. Above and beyond on his part....off home to revel in some High end Dredd. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 December, 2014, 08:22:30 PM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 10 December, 2014, 06:56:01 PM
Molch R many thanks to the young lad in FP in Belfast who scrounged me the 1909 prog. Above and beyond on his part....off home to revel in some High end Dredd. Z

Really? Really really. There must be another FP in Belfast of which I am unaware.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 10 December, 2014, 11:15:59 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 September, 2014, 12:28:53 PM
I have now been 19 for half and hour. When do I start feeling like and adult?

Are you male by any chance?

Then you will never feel like an adult.... Because you will never become one.

(Be grateful... Like most things in life it is overrated)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 10 December, 2014, 11:51:07 PM
oi! blatant sexistism
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 December, 2014, 01:23:05 AM
I prefer the term "statement of fact born out of bitter personal experience!" Thankyou
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 December, 2014, 10:10:38 AM
(http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/09f/28d/b8e/resized/crazy-eyes-meme-generator-bit-harsh-cc3b71.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 11 December, 2014, 11:03:45 AM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 11 December, 2014, 01:23:05 AM
I prefer the term "statement of fact born out of bitter personal experience!" Thankyou

Very grown up :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 December, 2014, 09:25:03 PM
The US has started developing their very own Death Star. First step - laser weapon. Check. And it'll be controlled by a game controller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DbgNju2wE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DbgNju2wE)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 December, 2014, 11:48:56 AM
Christmas? what's that all about?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 December, 2014, 02:10:30 PM
Money, mince pies and misery.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 18 December, 2014, 03:12:12 PM
You're doing it wrong.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 19 December, 2014, 09:34:01 PM
Yep for many people it's no money mince pies and misery. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 December, 2014, 05:31:00 PM
Aye. I've just picked a shitload of holly (WITH BERRIES), and got some candles and red Primark slipper-socks which I fixed to the fireplace with golf tees.  Decorated my living room for less than a tenner, I did, and it looks much better and more traditional than poxy fairy lights. Fair play to me
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 December, 2014, 05:29:12 PM
Summer Glau + 10' Robot = Awsome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHIWcRU38ls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHIWcRU38ls)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 22 December, 2014, 05:43:10 PM
Summer Glau: I'd prefer JBC's Hayley Berry....oh he meant holly berries. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 December, 2014, 08:42:43 PM
 :o

(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--gMPYLaUC--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/jyq2sulsvya2m3vdnb3v.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 December, 2014, 07:24:48 PM
A golf-ball inside a tree..

(http://i.imgur.com/jp7bQEH.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 December, 2014, 08:05:45 PM
That's going to need one Hell of a shot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 December, 2014, 10:26:56 AM
I got a number of really good co-op games in the Steam sale this year, including Borderlands 2 and Fallout New Vegas. Just search Hawkmonger if you want to add me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 29 December, 2014, 11:05:17 AM
Can't find ye, Hawk!  :o

This is like Thought Bubble all over again - !
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 December, 2014, 11:26:05 AM
Herm....found you! Request sent! Grief this is like Thought Bubble! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 December, 2014, 11:45:40 AM
The diet was meant to start this morning.

Just had three Lindor Lindt chocolates and a Wispa for breakfast.
Why does willpower disappear this time of year...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 29 December, 2014, 06:53:09 PM
Because chocolate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 December, 2014, 11:07:50 PM
Couldn't put this in the limerick comp. because I can't take credit for it:

(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ML6ne4oD--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/uubfc4c3swxozrwo7ksk.png)

A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
plus five times eleven
Equals nine-squared plus zero, no more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 04 January, 2015, 10:27:27 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 04 January, 2015, 06:10:58 PM
Quote from: Man2Man on 04 January, 2015, 04:33:21 PM
Blah, blah, blah

TL; DR; DC.

Jim

Course you didn't; nobody would. I seek Thrylseekr's crown.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 05 January, 2015, 09:46:33 AM
Come back to the flat to discover packages awaiting from the Christmas period!

Wait. It's these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/301223629768?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&chn=ps&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108

I can't put the image in because it's so ridiculous to be looking at this in the office.

So.... I don't know who bought them for me. Both likely candidates have denied it. Who has my address???

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 07 January, 2015, 07:43:02 PM
http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/07/men-who-post-lots-of-selfies-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths-5012342/


  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 January, 2015, 09:42:33 PM
What would you have on your headstone? I love Spike Milligan's ("I told you I was ill") but I thought I might quite like, "If all goes to plan I'll see you again in three days."
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I hope I can remember that on my death bed!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 07 January, 2015, 10:43:11 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 07 January, 2015, 09:42:33 PM
What would you have on your headstone? I love Spike Milligan's ("I told you I was ill") but I thought I might quite like, "If all goes to plan I'll see you again in three days."
.
I hope I can remember that on my death bed!

I'd quite like "I'm behind you."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 07 January, 2015, 11:36:19 PM
I want a fairly simply gravestone, just my name, the two dates and right at the bottom in really small letters, so small that someone would have to get in real close to read it - "You're standing on my head"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 08 January, 2015, 06:53:49 AM
The film director Lindsay Anderson wanted his gravestone to read: "Surrounded by fucking idiots."

Sadly, it was not to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 08 January, 2015, 09:40:34 AM
"i'll be back!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 January, 2015, 10:44:03 AM
No headstone for me, feed me to the pigs and spend the cash on some cheap wine instead.

Is what I'd like on my headstone.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 08 January, 2015, 10:58:36 AM
A 'Best Before" date ?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 January, 2015, 11:36:04 AM
No Parking. Offenders will be haunted without let or mercy.
.
Or maybe...
.
If you read this twice, you will die. Now fuck off and let me R.I.P.
.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 January, 2015, 11:47:54 AM
"Shit I think I left the oven on...."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 08 January, 2015, 11:53:01 AM
Cremation for me, but if I was to be buried then the stone would have "Sssshhhhh.....listen! Did you hear that?"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 January, 2015, 11:54:23 AM
Don't beam me up yet, Control, I've got to finish my headst
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 08 January, 2015, 11:57:49 AM
Fuck the Headstone, I'd rather have a Viking-Style funeral! Chuck me on a boat, set it aflame and send me out to Sea.

And don't forget to Wave.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 January, 2015, 12:18:07 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 08 January, 2015, 11:57:49 AM
Fuck the Headstone, I'd rather have a Viking-Style funeral! Chuck me on a boat, set it aflame and send me out to Sea.

And don't forget to Wave.

Cheers

Sounds like a plan,  that.  I love boats and plan to start living on one this year.  I'm also a huge fan of the nice open fire.  Though I suppose by that stage I'm not going to be too bothered what happens, unless I find out I've been hugely mistaken about the whole post-death scenario.  In which case,  I apologise in advance to whichever god turns out to be the real one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 08 January, 2015, 12:37:50 PM
In case you missedit first time around:

(http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/entertainment/stargazing/2013/01/04/william_shatner_aka_captain_kirk_tweets_space_station_commander_chris_hadfield/shatnertweet.jpeg.size.xxlarge.letterbox.jpeg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 08 January, 2015, 12:38:23 PM
I don't like all this similar themed talk - seems close to staying on topic. This is about Threadjacking.

Did I tell you I repaired our tumble dryer the other day?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 January, 2015, 12:53:05 PM
I like cake.
Also, if we're staying on topic,  isn't that threadjacking a thread with a threadjacking theme? Kind of thing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 January, 2015, 01:34:49 PM
Sometimes, I get the nagging suspicion that the entire universe is a practical joke perpetrated against next door's cat and that I'm only involved because I didn't pay attention to some fine print somewhere along the line.
.
Mostly, though, I suspect other things entirely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 January, 2015, 04:58:55 PM
If you squint real hard...


you get a headache.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 09 January, 2015, 05:20:37 PM
People on the internet are insane .
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 January, 2015, 07:58:22 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 09 January, 2015, 05:20:37 PM
People on the internet are insane .

ah but whenever the insanity threatens to push you over the edge, you can always found crazier insanity to give you some perspective.

When I get exasperated by the (heavily moderated) comments on BBC news (basically everything in Britain would be fine if it wasn't for immigration), I mosey over to FoxNews or Reddit to gauge what insanity REALLY looks like.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 January, 2015, 02:25:49 PM
A tip from a source I can't remember:
MISSY Elliott. Take your freak off when indoors,  or you won't feel the benefit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 January, 2015, 10:12:12 PM
Fuck the Budweiser Frogs.

Slimey primitive fucks living in a swamp.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 January, 2015, 10:40:14 PM
Budweiser isn't even foamy water, mate. It's unrefined piss extracted from the underwear of an obese Mancunian couch potato in the middle of a Jeremy Kyle marathon. It's the drink of the devil.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 January, 2015, 10:59:05 PM
Don't even get me started on Jack Daniels.

Ye mix it with Coca-Cola so you don't have to taste it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 12 January, 2015, 05:05:28 PM
All of America is built on an Indian Burial Ground!

Spppoooooky.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 January, 2015, 08:07:48 PM
That would explain a great deal, I think.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 January, 2015, 03:30:33 PM
People who you should never give a waterbed to:

Wolverine
Edward Scissorhands

People you gave a waterbed to:

Wolverine
Edward Scissorhands
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 January, 2015, 03:49:39 PM
Is this the most bizarre arrest video ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVJU1CuM0Q
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 January, 2015, 05:11:51 PM
Ray Bradbury's home torn down. This is a crime.

http://file770.com/?p=20397 (http://file770.com/?p=20397)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 January, 2015, 03:18:21 PM
Is it okay to feel smug occasionally?
.
In late 2007 I joined a website called www.YouWriteOn.com where writers post and review each other's work. One of the first short stories I submitted, 'In the Wink of an Eye,' achieved Number One in the website's Sci-Fi chart, earning me a professional review.
.
That's not what I'm smug about, though. At least, not any more.
.
Yesterday I decided to go back there again, get back into the swing of prose writing. It's over six years since I was there last and, just for fun, had a look at the Sci-Fi top ten. Seven years after entering the chart, 'In the Wink of an Eye' is still there, at Number Nine.
.
Is it okay to feel smug, occasionally?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 18 January, 2015, 06:48:04 PM
Well done that man. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 19 January, 2015, 03:53:09 PM
Alien Super-Fiend is a bloody great combination of words.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 January, 2015, 04:11:43 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 19 January, 2015, 03:53:09 PM
Alien Super-Fiend is a bloody great combination of words.

Better than Alien Sex Fiend?  I don't think so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 January, 2015, 05:14:13 PM
Sexy Alien Super-Fiend, shoreley? Or Super Alien-Sex Fiend. Or Alien Fiend Super Sex.
.
I'll shut up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 January, 2015, 07:55:51 PM
Johnny Vegas seems to have a standing order for 2000AD at Raygun comics in Richmond. Zarjaz
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 January, 2015, 08:58:07 PM
Expect more signs like this a your local Tesco's.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7uHFWUIUAAgjZQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 January, 2015, 04:40:33 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/6NhV2WE.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 25 January, 2015, 11:11:16 AM
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 99 Bottles of Beer - If one of those Bottles should happen to fall...

...There'll be Broken Glass and Beer on the floor!

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2015, 04:58:01 PM
I was thinking of taking up womanising again but I'm not sure my knees can take it any more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2015, 05:23:37 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2015, 04:58:01 PM
I was thinking of taking up womanising again but I'm not sure my knees can take it any more.

It's spelled 'niece'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2015, 07:08:14 PM
:-O
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 January, 2015, 07:13:39 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 25 January, 2015, 11:11:16 AM
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 99 Bottles of Beer - If one of those Bottles should happen to fall...

...There'll be Broken Glass and Beer on the floor!

Cheers

That's what ye get for storing large quantities of alcohol in a precarious place
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2015, 07:38:29 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 January, 2015, 05:23:37 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2015, 04:58:01 PM
I was thinking of taking up womanising again but I'm not sure my knees can take it any more.

:D

It's spelled 'niece'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 January, 2015, 08:29:21 PM
Wise words my friends, wise words.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8abY5TCIAISHCu.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 February, 2015, 03:48:07 PM
Three words.

Doctor. Who. Lego. (http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-02-04/doctor-who-gets-official-lego-set)

I've been waiting my whole goddamn life.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 February, 2015, 04:21:01 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 February, 2015, 03:48:07 PM
Three words.

Doctor. Who. Lego. (http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-02-04/doctor-who-gets-official-lego-set)

I've been waiting my whole goddamn life.

Don't know why this didn't happen sooner. Just think how many Doctors, companions, villains, and TARDISes they can churn out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 04 February, 2015, 07:37:06 PM
...and now surely the game will follow...


yes?


A good Dr Who game? YES?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 February, 2015, 07:43:56 PM
Yes, cfm, but it has to involve time travel. I don't know what the game would be but you should be able to make moves that resolve in the future and change moves that happened in the past (within reason). Certain moves would be unchangeable because they are considered 'fixed'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 February, 2015, 07:49:24 PM
Ah now come on chaps, Destiny of the Doctor starred Anthony Ainley for gods sake. So what if the rest of the game was guff?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 February, 2015, 08:00:27 PM
A three-tiered board structure; past, present and future. Die rolls at face value for the Present board, +1 for the Future board and -1 for the Past board. The object is to get all three incarnations of yourself into the Tardis (one on each level) first. Card components allow die roll manipulations and offer setbacks.
.
Gallifreyan Temporal Chess?
.
Time Chess?
.
Chronopoly?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 February, 2015, 08:01:52 PM
Fuck it all, LEGPO Dalek would be awesome!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 February, 2015, 08:10:46 PM
You have to get all three incarnations of yourself into the Tardis at the same time, or maybe in three successive moves. If you fail, any of yourselves in the Tardis have to go back to that level's start.
.
You could buy different versions of the PPF levels to make different arrangements with different rules.
.
Who's in?
.
I'll get me Ker-Plunk...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 February, 2015, 08:31:17 PM
The 'Action Cards' would be numbered, one deck for each level. Turning them unfolds the narrative for each level and some cards effect other levels as well or instead of their own.
.
The top board of your game could be cybermen trying to take over a space station, the middle level could be Autons trying to infiltrate UNIT in the present and the bottom level could be Julius Caesar fiddling about with a damaged Dalek. Other storyboards would be available (£19.99 each) and even parallel-dimension 'sideboards' for advanced players (£49.99).
.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 February, 2015, 10:34:40 PM
So who's excited about the six nations?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 February, 2015, 10:42:28 PM
"This hit, that ice cold. Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 06 February, 2015, 11:46:31 AM
You fight like a cow!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 February, 2015, 12:02:37 PM
Your father smells of elderberries!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 February, 2015, 04:37:58 PM
Bloody plebs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 February, 2015, 12:28:28 PM
Greg could have popped round our way for Dark Justice reference photos last night.  First we were shocked awake at 2.30 by a familiar sounding explosion (facial expressions for Judge Fear's victims), to see a car outside the cowboy mechanic's* house two doors down merrily blazing away while its tyres popped, tank whooshed and airbag exploded in predictable sequence (Judge Fire in action), before the car beside it began to join in.  Then I remembered that the next car along was my own, inconveniently loaded with cardboard boxes full of freshly-dug skeletons (judged by Mortisssss), and stood about shivering in my Official Merchandise ®ebellion t-shirt (Judge Death - reaching here) wondering whether rescuing the already-dead** was worth the risk of getting caught in further explosions. 

Happily once (I suppose) the brakes had burned away the burning car rolled downslope into the middle of the road, and the fire brigade showed up a relaxed 20 minutes after we called them with only two cars destroyed (neither of them mine), plus a melted wheelie bin and a large area of completely fecked tarmac.   

Never a dull moment in Dublin 24 - the fifth such incident within sight of my house in the 10 years I've lived here, plus the two serious house fires.   

* Not the Happy Shrapnel/Tubal Cain sort.
** The Dredd checklist of helping ''mutie, alien, cyborg or human" doesn't cover the long-dead, so in this case I figured the law can turn a blind eye.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 08 February, 2015, 02:17:17 PM
 :o :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 February, 2015, 02:38:35 PM
You could have given those corpses a proper Viking funeral and set your blazing car pyre down the street.


Jokes aside i'm grateful to hear nothing serious was done to your properties, Tordels.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 February, 2015, 07:03:20 PM
Jesus.  Tallaght, eh?  I used to live near Fatima Mansions, where daily life was a similar warzone.  Within my four years there, there were three murders within a hundred-metre radius of my house.  I'm a simple country yokel.  I moved away, and now live in a village again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 08 February, 2015, 07:31:36 PM
Ah the joys of urban life. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 February, 2015, 12:07:01 PM
I used to think that "Future Shock" was an implausible mental illness, but when we are being warned not to discuss sensitive information in front of our TV in case it's spying on us (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31296188), I'm not so sure!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 February, 2015, 12:16:54 PM
So glad I am Deaf, lol
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 10 February, 2015, 04:47:06 PM
QuoteFringe starts off great, season 3-5 gets weird and lame.

The internet once again demonstrates to me that people have difference of opinions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 February, 2015, 01:42:56 AM
"You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and only moved the headstones!" Is something I actually had occasion to say today. I did hang around for a while in the hope that JoBeth Williams would come out and slide about in the mud in her pants, but no such luck.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 February, 2015, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 12 February, 2015, 01:42:56 AM
I did hang around for a while in the hope that JoBeth Williams would come out and slide about in the mud in her pants, but no such luck.

This should've been placed in the Minor Impediments thread. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 February, 2015, 10:29:13 AM
Heeerm....do amazon charge you the moment you place your order or do they charge you on dispatch?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2015, 12:31:06 PM
it can be either - check the listing. Pre-orders don't get charged immediately as the price often changes. I imagine most others will take your cash and then send the books
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 February, 2015, 12:41:22 PM
About half an hour passed between placing the order and cancelling. It wasn't pre-orders. I'll check my statement.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 February, 2015, 02:22:16 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/d2z88bu.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 February, 2015, 04:27:27 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 February, 2015, 12:07:01 PM
I used to think that "Future Shock" was an implausible mental illness, but when we are being warned not to discuss sensitive information in front of our TV in case it's spying on us (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31296188), I'm not so sure!

Holy fucking shit. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 February, 2015, 11:37:09 AM
(http://blog.livetocrush.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dune-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 February, 2015, 01:36:48 PM
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1009/1385816813_aaa5797583.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2015, 04:03:25 AM
Ireland vs the Windies in the Cricket is so damn exciting the night shift is ending too soon for once! 162 for 1 after 25 overs, chasing 305.  Don't muck this up lads!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 February, 2015, 07:22:55 AM
Where you working these days, Professor?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2015, 05:15:09 PM
All over, as it happens. Right now I have jobs along the new Luas line, on the South Quays, Lansdowne, Lusk, Enfield, Athy, Lough Derryvarragh and my desk!  What I don't have is sleep, or a decent hourly rate!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 February, 2015, 05:30:02 PM
It's good to be busy, Prof C. Glad to hear you're still in demand.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2015, 06:46:15 PM
It feels a bit surreal TBH, seeing as the closest I was getting to paying work only 18 months ago was doing odd jobs for the in-laws.  Far too much of it is of the '2 hours a week' variety, and more is subcontracting where I'm basically a cheaper alternative to an employee, but for the last 3 or 4 gigs people I've recently done work for have actually approached me, rather than the usual begging and prostrating on my part. One of my jobs from last year is going to be on the telly next week, and the clients put my contact details up on the programme website! So it's all good, as long as I can keep the plates spinning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 February, 2015, 06:59:12 PM
If there's anything I can do to help, proof-reading or whatever, just holler. No charge for a fellow Squaxx, obviously.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2015, 09:41:57 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 16 February, 2015, 06:59:12 PM
If there's anything I can do to help, proof-reading or whatever, just holler. No charge for a fellow Squaxx, obviously.

May have to take you up on that one of these days, Sharky!  Proof-reading is one of the biggest hassles of working in my own - no matter how hard I try, as soon as I hit 'send' there's a clanger staring up at me from the screen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 February, 2015, 01:01:22 AM
Fair play,  Tordels, hope things continue to improve. sounds line they will
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 February, 2015, 01:01:47 AM
Fair play,  Tordels, hope things continue to improve. sounds like they will.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 February, 2015, 08:41:21 PM
Canada's developing a Lawgiver?

http://www.gizmag.com/smart-gun-evolution-military-weapon/36091/ (http://www.gizmag.com/smart-gun-evolution-military-weapon/36091/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 February, 2015, 08:48:14 PM
Has Extermination ever been so cute?

(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2yj3sv4u--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/loxcqicpjjw4rvtnellr.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 18 February, 2015, 08:53:20 PM
Awwww.  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 February, 2015, 04:46:50 PM
An awkward moment for this man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34zlmoj3TvA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34zlmoj3TvA)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 February, 2015, 07:03:15 PM
Fresh baked malware from Jamie Oliver.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/18/jamie_oliver_exploit_kit/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/18/jamie_oliver_exploit_kit/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 February, 2015, 12:15:46 PM
I'd like to use this thread to express my man-crush on Professor Brian Cox.  As well as being a dishy dreamboat whose full name could be my autobiography (now you know what the 'B' stands for), his podcast makes science interesting and funny, rubbishes pseudo-science and has Alan Moore on it.  Things can only get better - WITH BRIAN IN THE WORLD.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 February, 2015, 09:37:22 PM
I don't there's a band wide enough for this watch.

(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--aMb-T1oV--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/to2bprxa6ji6cwpz4dox.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 25 February, 2015, 07:00:39 PM
My girlfriend threatened to leave me today over my obsession with the Monkees.   I thought she was joking...




...And then I saw her face.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 25 February, 2015, 07:11:44 PM
Apeologise to her. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Sideshow Bob on 28 February, 2015, 12:48:09 AM
Quote from: Tombo on 25 February, 2015, 07:00:39 PM
My girlfriend threatened to leave me today over my obsession with the Monkees.   I thought she was joking...

...And then I saw her face.

Now I believe her...
(sorry !)
Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 28 February, 2015, 01:42:07 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 25 February, 2015, 07:11:44 PM
Apeologise to her. Z

Is that the Ack-Ack Macaque version of an apology?  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 28 February, 2015, 09:41:42 AM
With a layering of Ulysses Sweet. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 March, 2015, 09:07:08 AM
It appears Manchester has a blizzard residing in in it's fair wall's today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 March, 2015, 10:00:54 AM
I'm on the M62 (Hartshead Moor Services) and it's blizzarding like buggery.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 March, 2015, 10:19:41 AM
In the city it's windy with a  bit of sleet and hail but I wouldn't call it a blizzard. No proper snow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 March, 2015, 10:28:17 AM
I have to work in it - therefore it's a blizzard. If I wasn't working in it, it would be a light dusting...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 March, 2015, 06:46:45 PM
I got blizzarded the fuck out of it too.  My unshakeable cold virus begins its fourth month. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 March, 2015, 07:01:43 PM
That's a long time to have a cold, JBC, if I were you I'd go and stick my tongue out at the quack. Seriously, you need to get that looked at.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 March, 2015, 04:32:14 PM
Chuck Jones' rules for writing Roadrunner/Coyote:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_SLrViU0AI1Luv.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 05 March, 2015, 06:01:17 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/0LgShKx.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 05 March, 2015, 10:48:53 PM
What's the context in the drawing Spikes, I like the gunsmoke skull effect. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 March, 2015, 11:01:05 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 02 March, 2015, 07:01:43 PM
That's a long time to have a cold, JBC, if I were you I'd go and stick my tongue out at the quack. Seriously, you need to get that looked at.

Sorry,  Sharky, didn't see this till now. cheers,  but I'm pretty sure I don't need Med Bay just yet. I was on the road to getting better till I found myself having to work outside for most of January,  and boozing a wee bit too much at the weekend, both of which shook the old immune system up.  Starting to feel better now anyway. But thanks all the same!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 March, 2015, 12:04:07 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 05 March, 2015, 10:48:53 PM
What's the context in the drawing Spikes, I like the gunsmoke skull effect. Z

In the grand tradition of 'Who would win...', seems the owner of this commission (popped up over on the CAF site) likes to think Frank would best Joe.

Over to you CF.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 March, 2015, 01:35:28 AM
You're welcome, JBC.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 March, 2015, 05:57:36 PM
I just had my first mouthful of Nitrox (36% O2) and to my surprise it tastes faintly of Melon. If i'm to be diving on the stuff in Malta it'll be a jolly enjoyably bimble around the Bristol Blenheim on day 2.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 March, 2015, 07:46:40 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 06 March, 2015, 05:57:36 PM
I just had my first mouthful of Nitrox (36% O2) and to my surprise it tastes faintly of Melon. If i'm to be diving on the stuff in Malta it'll be a jolly enjoyably bimble around the Bristol Blenheim on day 2.

Swapping depression for compression!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 March, 2015, 08:07:22 PM
Indeed. Started today in the foulest of moods, but one good thing happened (got a message on facebook from a friend I haven't seen in years) and I just kind of started to do things. Today hasn't been that productive, but I got some students signed off at the dive center and serviced some regulators, even helped blend this batch of Enriched Air. So over all at least I wasn't stewing in my own self pity all day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 06 March, 2015, 08:52:22 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 06 March, 2015, 12:04:07 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 05 March, 2015, 10:48:53 PM
What's the context in the drawing Spikes, I like the gunsmoke skull effect. Z

In the grand tradition of 'Who would win...', seems the owner of this commission (popped up over on the CAF site) likes to think Frank would best Joe.

Over to you CF.

Just another jimp.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 March, 2015, 09:57:10 AM
I'm sorry to have to bring this subject up again (and outside of the Politics or Truth threads) but I find it oddly flattering that the Anti-Vaccination crowd thinks that I— an actual Autistic— am some kind of monster that was created in a lab. There's a '50s B-movie in this, is what I'm getting at.

'My God, Doctor! It's alive! What does it want with us?'

*the creature lumbers forward, inciting obligatory screams*

'LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT TRAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINSSSS'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 March, 2015, 01:34:51 PM
What the hell is going on in France?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_ZJ_G-U8AIydy3.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 11 March, 2015, 03:39:05 PM
good lord! French bestiality on the galaxies greatest forum?  mods!!!! :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 11 March, 2015, 07:01:23 PM
 :lol: l'amour avec Le cheval, formidable. What the absolute f**k??? Z
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 March, 2015, 07:12:33 PM
Pretty interesting illustration really, especially the way it uses colour to show that a horse's whole lower leg is in fact carpals/tarsels, i.e. feet, rather than fibia/tibia. What you filthy lot see is on your own heads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 11 March, 2015, 07:21:11 PM
Says the guy who probably dines out every week on megabucks  french horse cuisine  (if his recent posts are anything to go by....whilst poor Buttonman starved on the insipid fare the (notoriously parsimonious Scottish NHS) provided for him). Heh. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 March, 2015, 07:32:13 PM
I'm sorely tempted to take FCBD off this year.....
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Post by: Goaty on 14 March, 2015, 07:03:18 PM
Something unexpected when reading The Punisher book...

(http://i.imgur.com/87NIaVb.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 14 March, 2015, 08:30:18 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 12 March, 2015, 07:32:13 PM
I'm sorely tempted to take FCBD off this year.....

Whaddya mean this year? Who's queued up and posted you your FCBD prog for the past couple of years?  :think:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2015, 08:53:11 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 14 March, 2015, 08:30:18 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 12 March, 2015, 07:32:13 PM
I'm sorely tempted to take FCBD off this year.....

Whaddya mean this year? Who's queued up and posted you your FCBD prog for the past couple of years?  :think:
And as always I am in your debt, DDD.  :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 March, 2015, 05:21:19 PM
Just booked the day off so i'm deffinelty down for it! What's the better place to pick up the free thrills? Forbidden Planet or Traveling Man?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 16 March, 2015, 05:30:04 PM
I've always found that whilst Forbidden Planet might give you a couple of random freebies when you purchase anything you can just raid the freebie table and take anything and everything at Travelling Man
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 March, 2015, 08:19:06 PM
Running Man it is then! Anyone up for a lunch time pint on the day?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 March, 2015, 11:02:44 PM
ah g'wan, you twisted my arm! (unless I'm away that weekend, but I don't think I am)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 March, 2015, 04:41:56 PM
The baby in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin would now be 90 years old.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 March, 2015, 10:27:30 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/10423758_1206858222676962_6822523994187376678_n.jpg?oh=e8c1904f1b41b868f9fed9d9c8d5ff33&oe=557CE996&__gda__=1433992726_fe91ecabdf8c1ed84b15ddb0235e1abb)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 March, 2015, 10:50:10 PM
The Campo dei Miracoli is a truly fantastic place (and far more than just the Leaning Tower), but that ubiquitous pose being struck by at least a dozen people at any one time does make visiting a bizarre experience. 

Of course I did.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 March, 2015, 11:10:05 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 17 March, 2015, 04:41:56 PM
The baby in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin would now be 90 years old.

Wonder if he's still alive?  I'd love to see him meet up with the similar ex-babies from both Brazil and The Untouchables.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 March, 2015, 06:08:56 PM
Now you can be the envy of real Dredd fans everywhere....

(http://i.imgur.com/nmTmEER.jpg)


Taking offers - here (http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1210872&GSub=165311)
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Post by: ZenArcade on 19 March, 2015, 06:32:49 PM
The staff must have flipped when this arrived on the desk. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 March, 2015, 07:38:18 PM
I never noticed before, but that's just Commando Forces sketched by Sam Kieth.

I'm always heartened by the knowledge that a cover from one of the great comics creators wouldn't get an HM in the board art comp.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 March, 2015, 09:19:58 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 March, 2015, 06:08:56 PM



Taking offers - here (http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1210872&GSub=165311)

I'll trade you a drawing lesson, a description of Batman's personality, and a lesson on the diversity of Muslim culture.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 March, 2015, 09:25:34 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 March, 2015, 09:19:58 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 March, 2015, 06:08:56 PM



Taking offers - here (http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1210872&GSub=165311)

I'll trade you a drawing lesson, a description of Batman's personality, and a lesson on the diversity of Muslim culture.
JAyzus Christ!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 March, 2015, 10:32:51 PM
David Warner is a hugely underrated actor.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 March, 2015, 10:54:27 PM
He is. Like a much subtler version of Ian McKellen. Or something.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 March, 2015, 11:05:50 PM
I would say like Liam Neeson with more gravitas. I think our views meet in the middle somewhere.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 March, 2015, 11:15:08 PM
Heh, either that or one of us is cross-eyed...
.
He was great torturing Captain Picard. "How many lights?" (That was David Warner, wasn't it?) Neither McKellan nor Neeson could have done better, anyway. (Unless I'm misremembering and it wasn't him, in which case either one of them would have aced it.)
.
Cider. Sorry *hic**
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 March, 2015, 11:25:34 PM
Funny little story happened today. On the train from Victoria to Bolton, I was almost alone in the end carriage. At Salford Crescent a lady, about my age, came in to the car. Now, ever since the pride parade last year i've had a badge with the bi-sexual flag on it and it's attached to my ruck sack. The young lady had one for Asexuals. We kinda spotted them, smiled, then went back to reading/staring out of the window respectively. Then, at Salford Central, another girl, around mid-twenties, also entered the carriage with a pansexual badge on her chest. She spotted out badges, we spotted her's. She plonked herself down in the middle of the nearly empty carriage and proclaimed "I guess we're the Three Muskaqueers!".

I haven't laughed at something so out of left field in age's and the sheer randomness of the situation still feel's like I wondered onto a scene from Psychoville!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 March, 2015, 11:31:14 PM
We have to wear badges now? I am so out of touch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 March, 2015, 11:36:16 PM
I just kind of keep mine because it looks nice on my satchel. It's note a 1984 classification of compatible desirable's or anything like that. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 March, 2015, 11:39:50 PM
I see. It's a good thing I don't have to get one; it's been so long I can't remember which type I'd need.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 March, 2015, 11:43:12 PM
You don't have to pick. You don't have to be confined by the definitions. Sexuality and romantic orientation or fluid to the point of being unique from person to person. It's not about picking a camp and staying in it for your entire life. Bisexuality is just one of four umbrella terms to describe a wide variety of orientations on the spectrum.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 March, 2015, 11:55:09 PM
Sorry, Hawks. I was just trying to be funny, is all. I'm sorry if I offended you. I'm fairly certain I know what I am and what I like. I just adore women, you know? Their shape, their voices, their... allure. Everything about them, really. Some of them, anyway. Well, a few. One or two. Okay, okay - female versions of me.
.
Jeez - any psychiatrists out there?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 March, 2015, 07:25:42 AM
Wasn't offended in the slightest Sharky!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 21 March, 2015, 10:06:45 AM
Quote from: King Pops on 20 March, 2015, 10:32:51 PM
David Warner is a hugely underrated actor.

Always loved him in the original Tron.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 March, 2015, 11:30:42 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 20 March, 2015, 11:15:08 PM
That was David Warner, wasn't it?

All you have to do is say it was Ian McKellan and you can go home.

Incidentally I can well see why Amnesty International embraced those episodes. To see someone like Picard broken, as he was at the end, was very affecting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 March, 2015, 12:58:14 PM
One of my favourite episodes of B5 involved torture as well - Intersections in Real Time, I think.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 21 March, 2015, 01:24:00 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 21 March, 2015, 12:58:14 PM
One of my favourite episodes of B5 involved torture as well - Intersections in Real Time, I think.

Would've been even more powerful if it had been the last episode of Season 4, as originally intended.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 21 March, 2015, 01:27:10 PM
Not a big B5 fan but the scene interrogation always stuck in my mind....the sheer sinister banality of the interrogator was right on the nail. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 21 March, 2015, 01:53:08 PM
A friend told me that the weirdest thing about living in Ireland (the Free State) was not being able to buy a baked potato for lunch. Is this true?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 21 March, 2015, 01:56:43 PM
Donno, they probably eat them raw down there....sure they only heard Elvis was dead last week. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 March, 2015, 02:56:46 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 21 March, 2015, 01:53:08 PM
A friend told me that the weirdest thing about living in Ireland (the Free State) was not being able to buy a baked potato for lunch. Is this true?

Emphatically nott. Many shades and filling available, outside of blight season anyway.

The weirdest thing about living in Ireland is that ANY kind of English accent is considered super posh and evidence of vast absentee estate holdings.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 21 March, 2015, 03:25:26 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 21 March, 2015, 02:56:46 PM
The weirdest thing about living in Ireland is that ANY kind of English accent is considered super posh and evidence of vast absentee estate holdings.
Really?  Even gor-blimey, luv-a-duck accents?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 March, 2015, 04:56:03 PM
We suspect Cheryl Cole to be third in line to the throne, and the guests on Jeremy Kyle to be hopelessly inbred nobility driven insane by pressures of Chancery on their encumbered estates. Pete Wells' voice is indistinguishable from Gielgud.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 21 March, 2015, 05:03:21 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 21 March, 2015, 03:25:26 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 21 March, 2015, 02:56:46 PM
The weirdest thing about living in Ireland is that ANY kind of English accent is considered super posh and evidence of vast absentee estate holdings.
Really?  Even gor-blimey, luv-a-duck accents?

Pffft, I can't sees you lot thinking I's posh. I'm From Dem*

Cheers

*Devon
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 March, 2015, 07:19:04 PM
Just got in from walking the dog to find Arthur Lowe reading 'Diary of a Nobody' on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Bliss!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 21 March, 2015, 08:12:31 PM
S Club 7 were just on Ant and Dec's Takeaway and Hannah (this board's favourite pop princess) looked absolutely gorgeous. I think I've fallen in love with her all over again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 March, 2015, 05:50:44 PM
10 years ago, almost to the hour, I was introduced to my first love. My heart was a flutter as he graced my prescence, and week in week out he entertained me, even to this very day.

10 years ago today, Russel T. davis brought back Doctor Who to TV and a new generation of fans, of whom I was one. And though I like to mock Moff's problematic writing and the bumpy road these last few years have been, I wouldn't have it any other way. It's my forever fandom, the show that has had the biggest impact on my life, and a program i've spent many a happy hour watching and just loseing myself in this rich universe of unadulterated joy. So thank you, everyone who has ever contributed to the series, and let's look ahead to makeing the next season better than the last.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 March, 2015, 06:16:19 PM
The barman said, "Hoy! We don't serve time-travellers in this bar!"
.
The Doctor and Rose walk into a pub...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 27 March, 2015, 09:04:43 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/pqN34N8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 March, 2015, 09:07:39 AM
I'm not missing anything with this new 'Art Therapy' magazine that's on the telly am I? It's a colouring book  with a bit of psychobabble tacked on?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 27 March, 2015, 10:13:27 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 27 March, 2015, 09:04:43 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/pqN34N8.jpg)

Apparently the Russian word written on her sword means friendship! Those Russians...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 March, 2015, 11:28:05 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 27 March, 2015, 09:04:43 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/pqN34N8.jpg)

I think I'm in love.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 April, 2015, 01:24:06 PM
Did you know you can play Pacman in Google maps?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 01 April, 2015, 01:37:18 PM
Some of the mazes you can get by playing Pacman on maps of places like Tokyo are completely mental.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 April, 2015, 10:56:09 PM
 It doesn't count after 12 midday, chaps  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 April, 2015, 09:56:24 PM
Having a bad day? Cyanide and Happiness is the one webcomic guaranteed to make you feel better about yourself.
(https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10981614_10152971665969998_5164954614870326024_n.png?oh=bf5685acfb063c5fc5ee2b0b01b978ce&oe=55A1EAA0)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 April, 2015, 12:18:04 AM
I love Cyanide & Happiness - but not as much a I love The Perry Bible Fellowship (http://www.pbfcomics.com/):

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/PBF246-Bee.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 April, 2015, 04:58:17 PM
Astronaut Posts Awesome 'Star Trek' Selfie From Space

(http://i.imgur.com/EYJeS4p.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 April, 2015, 12:56:50 AM
Look after your deck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bg586-wl38)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 27 April, 2015, 01:31:16 AM
Deck = dick for 2 long mins ?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2015, 04:56:49 PM
It's Tapir Day. So as you can imagine it's a more relevent day of celebration for myself than Christmas Day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 May, 2015, 06:42:44 PM
Jackie Chan watch out!

(http://i1.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yARDZw1.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXL-KM2UqU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXL-KM2UqU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 09 May, 2015, 11:47:31 AM
Judge Minty is reviewed in this magazine MYM. 'Fan-tastic Films' is the section with Minty standing alongside   Troops and the controversial reworking of Power/Rangers. £3.75.

http://www.mymags.net/mym-issue-37-is-out-now/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 11 May, 2015, 04:31:58 PM
What's with that advert for the robotic Women that's been on telly - and now you can 'buy' the very same model on eBay.

Nowt to do with the first showing of Prometheus last night??
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 14 May, 2015, 11:37:00 PM
Famous Bear (http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/as-long-as-you-obey-the-law#.erZjLpxld)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 May, 2015, 12:10:35 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 14 May, 2015, 11:37:00 PM
Famous Bear (http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/as-long-as-you-obey-the-law#.erZjLpxld)

Brilliant!

I'd like to add the Baron Harkonnen:

(http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/62222175.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 15 May, 2015, 02:28:27 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 04 May, 2015, 06:42:44 PM
Jackie Chan watch out!

(http://i1.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yARDZw1.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXL-KM2UqU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXL-KM2UqU)


those parents have great faith in their child allowing him to do that so close to the telly!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 May, 2015, 06:15:05 PM
My little sister is just after showing me some pictures of a young Sir Ian McKellan. That hansome bastard made me feel quite inadequate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 May, 2015, 07:51:09 PM
What is different between nerd and geek?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 21 May, 2015, 07:54:33 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 21 May, 2015, 07:51:09 PM
What is different between nerd and geek?

I've always seen it that 'geek' is just a counter-culture afficianado; 'nerd' is more about obsessing/revelling over the details and stats and numbers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jock Savage on 21 May, 2015, 09:39:09 PM
The main difference seems to be biting the heads off chickens. Touching that so many computer nerds look up the definition of nerd

(http://i.imgur.com/k5neKqy.png?1)

(http://i.imgur.com/qww5tbB.png?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Third Estate Ned on 25 May, 2015, 09:08:57 PM
Posting here to not derail the Last Movie Watched thread. I thought Lesbian Seagull was Sauchie's new board name after being called Butch for a bit but now here they both are.

Which one was Sauchie? And who was the other one? I'm so confused.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 May, 2015, 09:10:53 PM
My understanding:

Butch = Sauchie
Lesbian Seagull = Prof. Bear
White Falcon = Sharky
Bear Shark = ?????

Honestly, constant name changes really annoy me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Third Estate Ned on 25 May, 2015, 09:14:53 PM
You see, I thought Bear Shark was Prof. Bear. Now Butch is back on the scene, I don't understand anything.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 25 May, 2015, 09:18:13 PM
Bear Shark = King Pops

Name changes don't bother me (unless you count being annoyed because I don't know how) but I wish everyone would get over this fad for vulgarly inflated avatars.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Professor Bear on 25 May, 2015, 09:37:47 PM
No, I am actually both, that's why you never see the two different accounts posting at the same time - I have to sign out, then sign in again.  I'm amazed I've got away with it this long, but then I suppose the moderators don't really care as long as I don't post death threats again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 25 May, 2015, 09:50:01 PM
It really couldn't be simpler:

When the Legendary Shark became the White Falcon, Butch (formerly Sauchie) was the Lesbian Seagull; then Bear Shark (formerly Prof Bear and many, many others) also became Lesbian Seagull, so now Lesbian Seagull (not the Bear, but Sauchie) has gone back to Butch (but not Sauchie). Meanwhile, King Pops became Bear Shark. This means that Hawkmonger must become Sauchie, Jim Campbell is Roger Godpleton and Goaty and Thryllseeker swap places (except on alternate Thursdays, when both will be Judge Burdis and the real Judge Burdis becomes Zenarcade.

Clear?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 May, 2015, 09:54:27 PM
What?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 May, 2015, 10:15:18 PM
If I'd known simply changing my name would unleash such anarchy, I'd have done it years ago!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 May, 2015, 10:18:17 PM
I only did it because all the cool kids were doing it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 May, 2015, 10:22:29 PM
I did it because the invisible blue pixies living in my ears told me to.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 25 May, 2015, 10:33:48 PM
Blue pixies are smurfs.

Never take advice from a smurf - too easy to misinterpret.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 May, 2015, 10:41:25 PM
My pixies are invisible but swear a lot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 May, 2015, 09:35:56 AM
What?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 May, 2015, 09:55:33 AM
Absolutely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 May, 2015, 02:37:35 PM
This thread needs to be set to music. Perhaps the Major-General's Song by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 May, 2015, 02:40:37 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 26 May, 2015, 02:37:35 PM
This thread needs to be set to music. Perhaps the Major-General's Song by Gilbert and Sullivan.

I'd go with Frolic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZDZCGQJf8
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 May, 2015, 08:41:42 PM
Theme tune to the Magic Roundabout, surely?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 27 May, 2015, 03:58:56 PM
Madhouse, by Anthrax.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 27 May, 2015, 04:06:33 PM
Happy 93rd birthday, Christopher Lee!

(http://i.imgur.com/9GI10ZF.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 May, 2015, 07:55:16 AM
some amazing prices paid for Action Man stuff: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/27/action-man-star-wars-figures-sell-auction (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/27/action-man-star-wars-figures-sell-auction) - but the bit that got my attention was:
Quotea box which had once contained Star Wars figures, made £160.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 June, 2015, 12:48:04 PM
Well, for the necessaity that is my uni course I needed a new PC that didn't lag like a MF and was less than 10 years old. So one new PC later I still need to instal some antivirus, does anyone know any good free (or at least, cheap) good quality antivirus protection software?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 June, 2015, 01:20:55 PM
I always used to use Comodo. (https://antivirus.comodo.com/download-free-antivirus.php)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 01 June, 2015, 02:10:55 PM
AVG too.

Other ideas:

Check your online banking (if you use it) as some banks provide a 1-year free license to Kaspersky, amongst others.

Check your broadband provider too, as some of them also provide a 1-year free license.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rog69 on 01 June, 2015, 02:27:52 PM
Avast is another good free antivirus.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 01 June, 2015, 02:47:52 PM
AVGs always done me proud. Still main thing to keep in mind - only use 1 at a time or you'll find their passive scanning blocks each other out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 01 June, 2015, 09:38:05 PM
Trustee Rapport (I think is the name).  Apparently one of the big tax payer owned banks has never had a single case of pc hacking fraud reported on a pc with that installed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 02 June, 2015, 01:14:36 AM
Rapport isn't an antivirus though, it's strictly a malware detector and it's aimed at identity protection. So useful but won't stop alot of the more basic, destructive ****storms that people have invented.

Now that I think about it computer viruses are a sorry statement on the human race.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 June, 2015, 05:46:30 PM

You're reading the galaxy's 287,113rd greatest website! John 'crying' Freeman googles the world's top websites and finds that this here site is the third most viewed comics related site in the UK.

Viz is number one and Forbidden Planet is number two, so all Tharg has to do is introduce a Top Tips section and start selling Marvel comics through the post and he could make number one:

QuoteI thought I'd have a look at the documented audiences for various British comics-related web sites – both publishers and news sites – on Alexa.com, which details their world rankings. As you can see, VIZ is one of the most popular British comics-related sites on the Internet, with the ComicsUK forum also a very popular location.

Although 2000AD's world rank may be 287,113 (for comparison, Marvel Comics' rank is 3,558 and IDW Publishing's is 140,331), it's ranked at 15,283 in terms of most popular UK-only sites.

VIZ: Ranked 54,156 UK Ranked: 2,747
Forbidden Planet International: Ranked 91,760 UK Rank: 4,701
2000AD Online: Ranked 287,113 UK Ranked: 15,328
ComicsUK: Ranked 818,808 UK Rank N/A
Titan Comics: Ranked 907,419  US Rank: 201,441 UK Rank N/A
DownTheTubes: Ranked 1,038,873 UK Rank: 110,825
The Phoenix
Lew Stringer's Blimey! It's Another Blog About Comics: Ranked 1,638,877 UK Rank: 89,702
The Beano: Ranked 1,934,385 UK Rank N/A
TOXIC: Ranked 2,858,754 UK Rank N/A
Bear Alley: Ranked 3,013,284 UK Rank N/A
Commando Comics: Ranked 3,316,577 UK Rank N/A

http://downthetubes.net/?p=23055 (http://downthetubes.net/?p=23055)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 06 June, 2015, 11:53:52 AM
Got the worse news possible this morning....had me in tears as soon as I saw it:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102738090

I had to run to the kitchen to check that my breakfast was still there ready to be cooked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 06 June, 2015, 01:00:49 PM
I walked past Games Workshop yesterday and it was simply called Warhammer!

Quote from: Butch on 05 June, 2015, 05:46:30 PM
You're reading the galaxy's 287,113rd greatest website!
Eleventy-third?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 12 June, 2015, 05:29:39 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/dqD7lOe.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 June, 2015, 06:55:49 PM
(http://i2.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/609051-a9850786-0c55-11e5-b08a-ef2f23067d2e.jpg?resize=650%2C488)

Kim Jong-Un: See. I told you dissidents would make the wheat grow.

Worried looking officer: Slowly, slowly. Back away slowly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 June, 2015, 08:38:08 AM
Wow Zombo universe could be reality as Donald Trump wants be the next President!?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 17 June, 2015, 09:09:55 AM
In which Kieron Gillen and friends talk enthusiastically about Warhammer stuff: http://hipsterhammer.tumblr.com/

I've never actually played Warhammer myself, but there are a pile of ineptly painted miniatures lying around my mum's cupboards and things like this always have me contemplating a stop in at the local GW on the way home to grab a box of goblins or whatever.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 17 June, 2015, 12:55:36 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 17 June, 2015, 08:38:08 AM
Wow Zombo universe could be reality as Donald Trump wants be the next President!?
It's not the first time that Trump has put himself up for the candidacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_presidential_election,_2000#Other_nominations).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 June, 2015, 05:18:57 PM
Sometimes those drawers full of bits'n'bobs just need to be sorted out!

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/49ae8e74-bd36-4e13-98b1-22b543f4ee5e_zps8rkipkfe.jpg)

For the sharp-eyed, there's a 25mm Dredd figure in amongst that lot if you fancy a game of WHERE'S WALLY JOSEPH?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2015, 05:22:53 PM
Just above the banana thing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 June, 2015, 06:19:08 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2015, 05:22:53 PM
Just above the banana thing.

well spotted! If you'd like to pop round to collect your prize - it's a couple of carrier bags full of redundant chargers, broken scissors, bent sunglasses, nail clippers, conkers, old Christmas cracker puzzles and various interesting jars and bottles with missing lids.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Third Estate Ned on 18 June, 2015, 07:47:50 PM
Is that a piece of Toblerone above the green lighter? Can I have that?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2015, 10:39:48 PM
Oh. I already have several of those. Best give it to someoneore deserving.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 June, 2015, 02:16:03 AM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 June, 2015, 05:22:53 PM
Just above the banana thing.

Nope.

All I can see is coarse curly hair.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 June, 2015, 06:02:35 PM
I got my Dad one of those Raspberry Pi things and haven't seen him since.

I think he likes it
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 June, 2015, 06:33:55 PM
Didn't get anything for Fathers day. Because both my dad's are a little shit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Big_Dave on 21 June, 2015, 07:02:17 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/VRtMNqt.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 21 June, 2015, 07:15:37 PM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 21 June, 2015, 07:02:17 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/VRtMNqt.jpg?1)
"So I made a decision, and it was wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call."

"I made this."

etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 June, 2015, 07:20:49 PM
Heh. As much as having same sex parents would have been a great 'and so what' response, it's just a typical bio-father/step-father situation. The former is absent completely from my life, the latter is just a bell end.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 21 June, 2015, 08:35:49 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 21 June, 2015, 07:20:49 PM
Heh. As much as having same sex parents would have been a great 'and so what' response, it's just a typical bio-father/step-father situation. The former is absent completely from my life, the latter is just a bell end.
My girlfriend (whom some of you have met) can sympathise totally.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Big_Dave on 21 June, 2015, 09:03:01 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 21 June, 2015, 07:20:49 PM
same sex parents would have been a great 'and so what' response

Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan were never lovers. Terrible things happened in the 80s but that wasn't one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXeo57xj3k
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 June, 2015, 11:16:46 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 21 June, 2015, 06:33:55 PM
Didn't get anything for Fathers day. Because both my dad's are a little shit.

I didn't read that right first time. I thought you said both your sons were little shits. The subsequent posts make more sense now.

Caveat: it's my fiancé's 30th and I might've had a pint or 2
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 June, 2015, 11:23:45 PM
It's official Trev and Simon do do duvets ;)

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11050103_10207209085049793_3768622670031952843_n.jpg?oh=73972510fbfc36c80af21a25721060a5&oe=55EAEE4D)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 June, 2015, 09:03:25 AM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 21 June, 2015, 09:03:01 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 21 June, 2015, 07:20:49 PM
same sex parents would have been a great 'and so what' response

Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan were never lovers. Terrible things happened in the 80s but that wasn't one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXeo57xj3k
I will honestly admit to have never watched the show, so it was a fair guess (if somewhat embarrassing now) on my part.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 22 June, 2015, 10:07:45 AM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 21 June, 2015, 11:23:45 PM
It's official Trev and Simon do do duvets ;)

Did you both swing your pants?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 22 June, 2015, 10:25:57 AM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 22 June, 2015, 10:07:45 AM
Did you both swing your pants?

By both I mean all three of you, seeing as I didn't actually spot the scroll bar...ahem.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 22 June, 2015, 10:29:40 AM
Yes we did and so did my good lady. I also got a photo of them reading the latest Meg and a Prog.
Simon loved Dredd and was telling Trev to see it. I had a brilliant chat with them both.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 22 June, 2015, 10:32:12 AM
Perfect - those two are legends.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 June, 2015, 10:38:56 AM
(http://weknowgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/50-cent-picard-gif.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 26 June, 2015, 12:09:40 PM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 21 June, 2015, 07:02:17 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/VRtMNqt.jpg?1)

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c0/0d/18/c00d18da50b11a3c38785bf1db11af61.jpg)

The Bear was there first  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 June, 2015, 11:56:25 AM
Heh.  BJ.

Hang on, my first and middle names are Brian John. :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 30 June, 2015, 04:25:12 PM
shit, John Noakes has gone missing - hope he's OK
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 30 June, 2015, 05:05:36 PM
Back from Glasto... small highlight of the early days was meeting a lighting crew droid (does the lights for the Park Stage tower if you know that) who was wearing a Judge GEEK t-shirt.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Daveycandlish on 30 June, 2015, 09:21:36 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 30 June, 2015, 04:25:12 PM
shit, John Noakes has gone missing - hope he's OK

He's been found. Phew!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 01 July, 2015, 01:13:10 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 30 June, 2015, 05:05:36 PM
Back from Glasto... small highlight of the early days was meeting a lighting crew droid (does the lights for the Park Stage tower if you know that) who was wearing a Judge GEEK t-shirt.

....what. I was there - met two squaxx because I had a 2000 AD badge on! We should have had a forum meetup!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 July, 2015, 04:38:16 PM
Guide to hottest Underground in London...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIpyPDSWoAA107C.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 01 July, 2015, 05:07:50 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 01 July, 2015, 01:13:10 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 30 June, 2015, 05:05:36 PM
Back from Glasto... small highlight of the early days was meeting a lighting crew droid (does the lights for the Park Stage tower if you know that) who was wearing a Judge GEEK t-shirt.

....what. I was there - met two squaxx because I had a 2000 AD badge on! We should have had a forum meetup!!

Next time I'm up for a beer or intoxicant of your choice. General customer or working in some way? I work so my favourite bars are the crew places (cheaper, better beer).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 02 July, 2015, 01:45:21 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 01 July, 2015, 05:07:50 PMGeneral customer or working in some way? I work so my favourite bars are the crew places (cheaper, better beer).

Sort of neither - not got access to the crew areas though :S Damn shame because the one time I did get backstage at Cabaret they were selling glasses of local mead for £2 !!!!!

Next year!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 02 July, 2015, 09:56:13 PM
Dustin Brown beats Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in the second round today, and his nickname is "Dreddy"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Big_Dave on 02 July, 2015, 10:19:58 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 02 July, 2015, 09:56:13 PM
Dustin Brown beats Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in the second round today, and his nickname is "Dreddy"

(https://newsetcblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/dustin-brown-twitter.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q659IaXrS3Y)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 03 July, 2015, 02:27:09 PM
Bloody hell - installing Exchange 2013 takes a fecking age.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 03 July, 2015, 05:28:00 PM
If anyone's wondering what became of the Dark Judges, I think I spotted one of them in Belgium..

(http://i.imgur.com/jnke6pP.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 24 July, 2015, 03:00:48 PM
This perps pseudonym is Johnny Alpha. Toothy is so inspiring even crooks can't resist!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-33650358
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 24 July, 2015, 05:48:52 PM
I'm going to play STAR WARS battle pod in 30 minutes. Woo-hoo!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 July, 2015, 10:17:39 PM
Well, Goaty is back after two weeks break with missus...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 July, 2015, 11:14:29 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 26 July, 2015, 10:17:39 PM
Well, Goaty is back after two weeks break with missus...

Wait, what, when did this happen?  Goaty hypnotised some hapless UN para-psychiatrist that was sent to study him and used his goat-powers to con her into her marrying  him?  Wasn't insinuating himself into every second scene of the Dredd movie enough? Where will it end?

Hope I haven't misinterpreted this comment, but if you are in the marraige business these days, my heartiest congratulations!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 July, 2015, 11:17:06 PM
Hehe... still fiancee. marrying next year! And yes I brainwashing her with my Goat-powers!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 July, 2015, 11:31:30 PM
Phew, thought my invite must have got lost in the post!  ;)


Genuinely great to hear you got engaged man, sorry I'm late with the sincerest of congratulations!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 27 July, 2015, 08:00:23 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 01 July, 2015, 04:38:16 PM
Guide to hottest Underground in London...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIpyPDSWoAA107C.jpg)

Nice, having just got back from a week in London.  Personal favourite:  "let's all stop at the top of the escalator / steps / just past the gates and figure out where we are all going without any awareness of the fact that there are several hundred people trying to get past".

Also Saturday afternoon by the London eye / County Hall tourist attractions cash extractors, crowds were so dense pedestrians literally brought to a stand still.  Ended up turning around and heading back away from Westminster and crossing the river by Charing Cross.  Scared our eldest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 July, 2015, 08:45:59 AM
Parked up on my break at the services, I've just seen something I don't think I've seen before - sparrows going from truck to truck, poking their heads through the front grilles to pick dead insects from the radiators. Is this new behaviour for sparrows or have I just never noticed it before? Either way, I love how they've discovered this food source.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 August, 2015, 09:19:22 AM
Oh look, an article about Steven Universe! I love that show!

'Looks at the comments section'

.....Uuuuurrrggghhh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 04 August, 2015, 09:45:43 AM
Superman Lives!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSu5P3oY-OU
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 August, 2015, 05:22:21 PM
So; Lego Simpsons Mini-figures.
The greatest product in the history of mankind?
I believe so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 August, 2015, 06:13:31 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 05 August, 2015, 05:22:21 PM
So; Lego Simpsons Mini-figures.
The greatest product in the history of mankind?
I believe so.

Only until Big Trouble in Little China mini-figs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 06 August, 2015, 09:59:02 AM
♫ Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I dooooooooooooooo ♫
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 August, 2015, 03:00:58 PM
(http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l44bj5jN7P1qz9tv8o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 10 August, 2015, 07:11:52 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 06 August, 2015, 09:59:02 AM
♫ Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I dooooooooooooooo ♫
Nice D&D Tshirt!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2015, 08:00:32 PM
 :lol: Love that Nosferatu!

Saw this place in Amsterdam and it reminded me of something ... can't put my finger on it...

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/IMG_0251_zpsessuliow.jpg)

I did hear that you don't want to mess around with their store detectives though!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 August, 2015, 11:19:10 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 10 August, 2015, 07:11:52 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 06 August, 2015, 09:59:02 AM
♫ Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I dooooooooooooooo ♫
Nice D&D Tshirt!

Ha, thanks to Uncle Loot Crate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 August, 2015, 02:54:55 PM
In honour of Johnathan Frakes' birthday I would highly recommend everyone visits scrolldowntoriker.com
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 21 August, 2015, 11:02:41 AM
We won't be hit by an asteroid -and Blakes 7!Yesss  nerdery!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34004081/nasa-asteroid-capable-of-wiping-out-us-wont-hit-us-on-15-september-probably
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 August, 2015, 06:39:43 PM
Day 2 in France, and though we have yet to stray from the concert of out coastal resort, thus impeding any of my searches for these legendary Franco-Belgian comic book shops, I have found a great many titles regularly available on newspaper stalls. The token and much popular Disney comics, hardcovers for The Smurfs, Blake and Mortimer and Asterix abound, and (somewhat amusingly) French translations of One Piece and Naruto. Funny selection their...

Oh, and the weather is...various.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 August, 2015, 08:33:32 PM
I remember finding a Barbarella comic* on an early-teenage family holiday in France once. My folks were fine with me keeping this "sci-fi" comic without ever noticing the erotic content. Kept me 'amused' for a long time did that comic.

* an example of Le porno d'haie
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 25 August, 2015, 10:35:58 PM
Patience is a virtue.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 August, 2015, 12:40:54 AM
But I want to be virtuous NOW!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 August, 2015, 09:04:08 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/SlYfKZO.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 August, 2015, 09:14:52 AM
Just what EXACTLY is that white mark on the last photo?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 26 August, 2015, 09:22:01 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 August, 2015, 09:14:52 AM
Just what EXACTLY is that white mark on the last photo?
It's the guy rope of the tent the creepy photographer is sleeping in.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 27 August, 2015, 03:26:07 PM
nah its toilet roll accidentally tucked into her super knickers ,can happen to anyone even superheroines
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 August, 2015, 12:41:14 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2015, 12:59:45 PM
without wishing to make light of a serious topic, this BBC headline did make me chuckle: Young goths 'at risk of depression' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34065763)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 28 August, 2015, 04:29:05 PM
Depressed young 'at risk of becoming goths' might be more accurate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 August, 2015, 06:01:44 PM
Heard a good story (don't know if it's true or not) on the radio last week. During WWII, British soldiers in the snowy northern countries were hampered by certain of their machine guns freezing up overnight. Enterprising Tommies discovered that sliding condoms over the barrels prevented this freezing problem.
.
When the War Office approached Churchill for permission to commission 18 inch long condoms from a johnny company, he agreed with two conditions. First, every packet must be clearly marked 'Made in Britain' and, second, must display the word 'Medium.'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 29 August, 2015, 06:08:19 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 28 August, 2015, 04:29:05 PM
Depressed young 'at risk of becoming goths' might be more accurate.

Depressed goths at risk of becoming young?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 August, 2015, 06:48:49 PM
Jim wishes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 August, 2015, 01:02:29 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 29 August, 2015, 06:48:49 PM
Jim wishes.

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 31 August, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
Am I the only one who finds the BigBangTheory episode where Sheldon spanks Amy extreeemly disturbing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 August, 2015, 07:52:17 PM
Quote from: Modern Panther on 31 August, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
Am I the only one who finds the BigBangTheory episode where Sheldon spanks Amy extreeemly disturbing.

Possibly not, but what about TBBT isn't disturbing?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 September, 2015, 11:15:39 AM
Quote from: Modern Panther on 31 August, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
Am I the only one who finds the BigBangTheory episode where Sheldon spanks Amy extreeemly disturbing.

Link please...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 September, 2015, 11:21:37 AM
Donald Trump or Kanya West to be US President...

:o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 01 September, 2015, 11:45:04 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 01 September, 2015, 11:21:37 AM
Donald Trump or Kanya West to be US President...

:o

If either of those loudmouth fools got elected I would be very surprised. But then the Tories got re-elected so I suppose anything is possible.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 04 September, 2015, 04:55:53 PM
over eight hundred pages on the Dredd film, three hundred here, and how many on the latest Megazine? get typing you monkeys! Shakespeare indeed!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 05 September, 2015, 06:22:01 PM
Sadly I gave up on the megazine. The ostriches did for me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 September, 2015, 07:17:52 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 05 September, 2015, 06:22:01 PM
Sadly I gave up on the megazine. The ostriches did for me.

I almost did too.  The Pa Angel story kept me going though; hope to see it back soon
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 05 September, 2015, 08:06:22 PM
Haven't bought this months yet. The Meg can sure run hot and cold. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 September, 2015, 08:10:26 PM
Honestly the only thing in the meg that isn't superb at the moment is Storm Warning. And it's not strictly bad it's just very....samey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 06 September, 2015, 12:00:18 PM
I fell into the Political Thread again, but managed to lob a comment and scarper before my head exploded.

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 September, 2015, 12:19:02 PM
When you go on holiday your bills should too. I'm just saying'...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 September, 2015, 12:24:14 PM
Mikey... You're one of uuuuus... one of uuuuus! Bwa-ha-ha-haaaaa!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 September, 2015, 10:07:45 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/2U1rhrD.png?1)

CAN I BAT YOU, PLEASE?


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 07 September, 2015, 09:32:52 AM
(http://orig04.deviantart.net/3085/f/2013/054/6/0/60_s_batman_tv_show_x_dark_knight_returns_by_m7781-d57xzea.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 September, 2015, 12:26:46 PM
Quote from: Butch on 06 September, 2015, 10:07:45 PM

CAN I BAT YOU, PLEASE?

Where's that from, Butch?
Didn't know Flint has done any Batman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 07 September, 2015, 12:32:37 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 07 September, 2015, 12:26:46 PM
Quote from: Butch on 06 September, 2015, 10:07:45 PM

CAN I BAT YOU, PLEASE?

Where's that from, Butch?
Didn't know Flint has done any Batman.

He posted it on his Facebook page last night.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 September, 2015, 12:37:33 PM
Cheers Richmond.
Hopefully only a fleeting glimpse into a horrifying parallel dimension wherein 2000AD's greatest modern artist is lured stateside.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 September, 2015, 12:55:35 PM
Feck. I hope we don't lose the Flintmonster.

It's great, though, isn't it?  He does a better job of the aged, Clintish Dark Knight than DK2 did, though that's not saying much...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 07 September, 2015, 05:27:35 PM

Sometimes I dream I'm being chased down an endless maze of dark corridors by a formless, savage terror that's always just out of sight. As I feel its hot breath on my back and it reaches to drag me into its maw, my feet seem to melt and stick to the ground beneath, turning each achingly slow step forward into two steps back towards the terrifying thing behind me.

A strange calm settles upon me as I resign myself to my fate, but then I notice a restaurant window to my left and see Dan DiDio laughing as he passes an enormous cheque to a delighted Henry Flint - and that's when I wake up, screaming.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 September, 2015, 07:40:19 PM
Mick Foley is making an appearance in Belfast tonight. I would love to be a fly on the wall for a conversation between himself and Jackie Chan while they compare battle scars.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 September, 2015, 08:45:36 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COerCWAWoAAUU5K.jpg:large)

Eerily accurate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 September, 2015, 12:08:31 PM
We Wuv Wiggum
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2015, 07:34:41 PM
Lying on the bunk in my hut, radiator on, listening to the Last Night of the Proms over my digital radio and reading Voltaire's Candide on my Blackberry. Surely this is the best of all possible worlds...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 September, 2015, 11:34:27 PM
Old publicity pic of Brendan Gleeson, Hugo Weaving and Daniel Craig in student production of Three Men in a Boat.

(http://images.checkthisyo.com/000/176/819/38-Princeton-students-after-a-freshman-vs-sophomores-snowball-fight-1893.jpg)








;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 13 September, 2015, 12:47:26 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2015, 07:34:41 PM
Lying on the bunk in my hut, radiator on, listening to the Last Night of the Proms over my digital radio and reading Voltaire's Candide on my Blackberry. Surely this is the best of all possible worlds...

I have a Blackberry and have read Candide.  Wouldn't want to read the latter on the former though (or any sizeable amount of text on any handheld device - don't know how commuters manage it).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tombo on 13 September, 2015, 01:13:37 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2015, 07:34:41 PM
Lying on the bunk in my hut, radiator on, listening to the Last Night of the Proms over my digital radio and reading Voltaire's Candide on my Blackberry. Surely this is the best of all possible worlds...

Does Mrs Radiator know you've borrowed her husband  :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 September, 2015, 02:24:59 AM
Glad you've got a roof over your head sharky!

but remember - il faut cultiver notre jardin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 September, 2015, 07:15:26 AM
Grrrr... I had to Google that, DDD, as French is like a foreign language to me, and now you've ruined the ending!
.
I'm kidding, of course. Knowing Voltaire's conclusion in advance helps me appreciate the story a bit more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 September, 2015, 01:59:36 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/2QWMGiq.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 14 September, 2015, 02:26:45 PM
like that - I saw a guy at the weekend with a t-shirt that said "Star Wars - Number 1 fan" with a picture of the Enterprise
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 September, 2015, 04:14:11 PM
Beam me up, Yoda.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 September, 2015, 05:01:29 PM
Doctor Spock was my favourite Star Wars character.  But only when Zachary Quinto played him,  not that old bloke who sang hobbit songs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 September, 2015, 05:11:56 PM
I always liked how the Enterprise was bigger on the inside and ran on kestrels.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 September, 2015, 05:18:54 PM
(https://absurdlynerdly.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/offensive.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2015, 12:38:13 PM

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/IMG_1889_zpsm72to6i4.jpg)

Which David Bowie track does this remind me of?  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 12:53:31 PM
Is it China, doll?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 16 September, 2015, 01:29:38 PM
Surprisingly easy! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOpO7SGLdtM)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 September, 2015, 01:59:18 PM
Damn, I was going for the laughing gnome.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 16 September, 2015, 02:55:19 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/ab9lHVs.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2015, 02:58:00 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 16 September, 2015, 01:59:18 PM
Damn, I was going for the laughing gnome.

Scary monsters and super freaks? but I think you guys hit the button! man.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 September, 2015, 09:34:20 PM
Meat shoes. Genius!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CO8jmrIWwAA3tGq.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 September, 2015, 03:58:43 AM
The Japanese defeating the Springboks was quite possibly the Greatest Sporting Moments I have ever witnessed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 21 September, 2015, 09:01:22 PM
"I failed you. I wish there were another way for me to say it. I cannot. I can only beg your forgiveness, and pray you hear me somehow, someplace... someplace where a warm hand waits for mine."


Batman The Animated Series - Heart of Ice.

(Kids show!  :o :'()
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 21 September, 2015, 10:49:25 PM
Pour encourager des autres?  Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 September, 2015, 09:35:32 AM
Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams...  :o

(http://i.imgur.com/3NIrYVH.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 September, 2015, 10:34:04 AM
I prefer Gillian Anderson...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 September, 2015, 12:23:20 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 17 September, 2015, 09:34:20 PM
Meat shoes. Genius!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CO8jmrIWwAA3tGq.jpg)

Maybe that explains Porkgate!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 22 September, 2015, 07:42:40 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 22 September, 2015, 09:35:32 AM
Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams...  :o

Photoshopped.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 September, 2015, 09:28:48 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 22 September, 2015, 07:42:40 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 22 September, 2015, 09:35:32 AM
Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams...  :o

Photoshopped.

It's a picture of a female celebrity. Of course it's photoshopped.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 September, 2015, 08:09:34 PM
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/s960x960/12002465_2452266954820480_6486891692252633052_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 September, 2015, 09:48:46 PM
Maybe they're planning a coo?



I'll get my coat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 September, 2015, 10:52:20 PM
There's a clear right wing bias in that picture, typical of mainstream reporting these days...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 September, 2015, 09:10:31 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 23 September, 2015, 09:48:46 PM
Maybe they're planning a coo?



I'll get my coat.
You win today's internet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 24 September, 2015, 10:36:03 AM
I think the third one is Gloria, between Lofty and Mr la-da-da Gunner Graham.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 September, 2015, 08:58:24 PM
So unusually for me, I have been involved in a couple of discussions on FB where I have had to point out why people's mouths were full of wrong.

God, it was tiring.

Jim Campbell, I salute you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 September, 2015, 12:14:47 PM
Yesterday I saw one of the most depressing scenes I've ever clapped eyes on.  Don't read the next bit if you're even slightly squeamish about bodily functions.

[spoiler]At the outside of a restaurant fire exit, on which I'd painted a mural early this year, a drunk, probably homeless woman was shitting liquid for a good couple of minutes, while staff and others stood around shouting at her to stop.  In Dublin city centre in the afternoon. I usually feel a bit of a buzz walking past my own public murals but I'll never walk past that doorway feeling good again.  [/spoiler]

It's haunted me since. Wish I had clapped my eyes elsewhere but I was working across the road. (How do you clap your eyes anyway? I want them uncapped.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 September, 2015, 12:47:21 PM
Speaking as one who works  outdoors in the city centre all hours, frequently with no fixed welfare facilities, I can never figure out where homeless people are supposed to shit - although I'm painfully familiar with where they do. There are no public toilets, stalwarts like McD's and Starbucks use keycodes and security guards to keep them out, and heaven help the homeless person who tries to get into a pub toilet. It's hard enough for me to find somewhere to spend a penny, and I look all respectable-like in my shiny jacket, and seldom suffer from substance abuse-related diarrhea.

As ever it appears to be the considered position of the authorities that they should just cease to exist and then everything will be fine, including the poop.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 September, 2015, 01:04:01 PM
They simply need to poop out of existence...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 September, 2015, 04:33:23 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 26 September, 2015, 12:47:21 PM

As ever it appears to be the considered position of the authorities that they should just cease to exist and then everything will be fine, including the poop.

Yup, that's the way of Irish government. If you don't fit in, we'll pretend you don't exist till you stop existing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 27 September, 2015, 03:53:51 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/9nIrHRF.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 28 September, 2015, 01:00:38 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 September, 2015, 04:33:23 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 26 September, 2015, 12:47:21 PM

As ever it appears to be the considered position of the authorities that they should just cease to exist and then everything will be fine, including the poop.

Yup, that's the way of Irish government. If you don't fit in, we'll pretend you don't exist till you stop existing.


Nothing particular to Irish government about that :-(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 28 September, 2015, 09:08:20 PM
Then there was red moon, and they found water on Mars and Facebook down, so was it end of the world tomorrow not Tuesday last week?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 04 October, 2015, 10:49:11 AM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12106808_1173725212643701_7262656228446944930_n.jpg?oh=32081780180ce9fc0753aad240027d6e&oe=56A1F793&__gda__=1453454585_b768c73d7014b98aa06121a7c6aeaaaf)

For some reason Ozzy Osbourne was in my home town yesterday. I find that hilarious for some reason.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 04 October, 2015, 11:32:30 AM
He's looking rather sprightly for an old rocker. My old Boss used to work for him as a cleaner/washer up. It's a small world after all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 October, 2015, 10:41:38 PM
I'm linking this because, god above, that's some truly stupendously awful art and I wouldn't want to scar any one here with Frank Miller awfulness.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/frank-millers-first-dark-knight-iii-cover-revealed
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 05 October, 2015, 11:02:44 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 October, 2015, 10:41:38 PM
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/frank-millers-first-dark-knight-iii-cover-revealed
Makes that unused Megazine cover look like a classic.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 October, 2015, 11:03:44 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 October, 2015, 10:41:38 PM
I'm linking this because, god above, that's some truly stupendously awful art and I wouldn't want to scar any one here with Frank Miller awfulness.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/frank-millers-first-dark-knight-iii-cover-revealed

It sort-of works if you imagine it's a background detail from Marshal Law.

To quote Chief Judge Silver, when they fall, they fall hard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 October, 2015, 10:27:16 AM
Kev O'Neill, however, is a massively accomplished artist and any kind of gaudy art in Marshal Law is entirely intentional (see Public Spirit in the original mini, or the Golden Age Hero's in Hateful Dead).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 October, 2015, 01:40:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 06 October, 2015, 10:27:16 AM
Kev O'Neill, however, is a massively accomplished artist

So is Miller. He changed comics. Twice.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 October, 2015, 04:09:58 PM
Quote from: Butch on 06 October, 2015, 01:40:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 06 October, 2015, 10:27:16 AM
Kev O'Neill, however, is a massively accomplished artist

So is Miller. He changed comics. Twice.

Fair enough. Though I'm finding it harder and harder to separate young, fresh, groundbreaking Frank from old, racist, cack-handed Frank.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 06 October, 2015, 04:17:19 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 October, 2015, 04:09:58 PM
Quote from: Butch on 06 October, 2015, 01:40:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 06 October, 2015, 10:27:16 AM
Kev O'Neill, however, is a massively accomplished artist

So is Miller. He changed comics. Twice.

Fair enough. Though I'm finding it harder and harder to separate young, fresh, groundbreaking Frank from old, racist, cack-handed Frank.

Exactly.
He may have done great stuff 30 years ago, but he'd a horrible old racist now. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 06 October, 2015, 06:10:36 PM

Being a great artist and being an apalling human being aren't mutually exclusive.

Sin City, 300, and Martha Washington - a strong, black female (title) character who isn't a dull exercise in box ticking - were all good until around 1999, but (like many comic creators) Miller spent most of the 21st century trying (and failing) to get out of comics and into the film industry. All Star Batman is good, apparently.

The image King of the Hawkmongers linked to above is rubbish, but the reasons for that are obvious. The 2000ad board probably isn't the best place to open up a discussion about comic creators who were great in the eighties but who - through a combination of ill health and old age - no longer hit quite the same heights.


(https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/miscellaneous-worms-can-tin-opening_a_can_of_worms-opening-jfa2492_low.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 October, 2015, 07:23:07 PM
Ach, you could probably make a really long list of artists (from any creative field, musicians, writers, you name it) that produced seminal works early in their careers, but then two of three decades later, the quality of their work plummeted.

I'll start, shall I?

Paul McCartney.

Although he might have died years ago and we should be blaming Billy Shears for Wings etc...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 October, 2015, 07:58:08 PM
I wouldn't hold getting old and losing it against anyone.  I would, however, hold producing blatantly racist work while spouting chickenhawk, elitist crap against Frank Miller.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 07 October, 2015, 12:42:22 PM
Martha Washington is the one that stuns me out of his back catalogue.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Citi-Def_Joe on 07 October, 2015, 03:09:12 PM
Always a shame to see some one who once clearly had "it" to loose "it".
Not just his decidedly dodgy semi facistic views but also the loss of his artistry judging from some of his more recent efforts.
Perhaps he has harboured his views for a while, so be it but he was once a true great storyteller and artist, I can't compute that the man who did such great things with Daredevil, Batman and his own creations is now producing such utter rubbish

Sometimes maybe it is better to burn out than fade away
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 07 October, 2015, 03:13:48 PM
I've always considered Millers body of work over rated. Really, he was never that great.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 07 October, 2015, 03:47:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 07 October, 2015, 03:13:48 PM
Really, he was never that great.

Really, he was. When we're talking about the era-defining greats of sequential art, Miller absolutely has a seat at the table. The passage of time, his wildly controversial personal beliefs, and the appropriation of his techniques and ideas by later creators may all have obscured this, but in his day, Miller was a remarkable and innovative storyteller. Nothing can change that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 October, 2015, 06:33:39 PM
Ah hey. I can get as good a hate on for Miller as the next man, but there are only four bat-books on my bookshelf, and two of them are his (and Janson's and Mazzuchelli's, obv). Add Daredevil, Elektra, Martha Washington and even the first stretch of Sin City, and the guy was one of the all-time greats.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 October, 2015, 08:26:31 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 07 October, 2015, 06:33:39 PM
the guy was one of the all-time greats.

He was. I miss that Frank Miller.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 October, 2015, 08:30:23 PM
The are pages of TDKR that I have stared at again and again. Miller's art has always been fairly static, but he was an absolute genius at framing panels to create action and tension.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 07 October, 2015, 11:09:41 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 04 October, 2015, 11:32:30 AM
He's looking rather sprightly for an old rocker. My old Boss used to work for him as a cleaner/washer up. It's a small world after all.

I was thinking it must have been a picture from the late seventies / early eighties, before I worked out it was his son next to him...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 October, 2015, 09:56:15 AM
Nah, never much cared for TDKR, or indeed his run on Daredevil. Sin City is excruciating nonsense and 300 utter drivel.

And don't get me started on Holy Terror. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 October, 2015, 10:20:59 AM
But you don't have to like TDKR to recognise that it redefined comics and comic storytelling - not just Batman, but comics as a medium.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 October, 2015, 10:33:12 AM
Oh, I'll grant it that. It truly was a game changer, I just honestly don't see why everyone rates it so highly.

But ain't that the beauty of comics? The fact we can all agree to disagree 'starts nervously sweating'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 October, 2015, 01:51:36 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 08 October, 2015, 10:33:12 AM
Oh, I'll grant it that. It truly was a game changer, I just honestly don't see why everyone rates it so highly.

But ain't that the beauty of comics? The fact we can all agree to disagree 'starts nervously sweating'.

SAY YOU LIKE TDKR, OR I'LL KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

Er, sorry. Just trying to get good at the internet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 08 October, 2015, 02:15:41 PM
That reads just like it was said by THE GAWDDAMNED BATMAN!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 08 October, 2015, 05:34:53 PM
When TDKR came along, US superhero comics were in a bit of a rut. Frank Miller's work really did come across as ground breaking at the time. He wasn't the greatest artist or the greatest writer but a superb storyteller.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 October, 2015, 06:39:23 PM
Jock been teasing on Instagram that he doing DKIII. Guess it sequel to Dark Knight Return...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 October, 2015, 08:56:35 AM
Sometimes I forget who I am, even for weeks at a time.  Always quite a shock to remember.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 October, 2015, 03:04:00 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 07 October, 2015, 03:47:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 07 October, 2015, 03:13:48 PM
Really, he was never that great.

Really, he was. When we're talking about the era-defining greats of sequential art, Miller absolutely has a seat at the table. The passage of time, his wildly controversial personal beliefs, and the appropriation of his techniques and ideas by later creators may all have obscured this, but in his day, Miller was a remarkable and innovative storyteller. Nothing can change that.

Agreed.
Everyone's entitled to an opinion Hawk, and that's how it should be.
In this case however you'd be in the minority amongst fans of the medium.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 October, 2015, 03:09:51 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 08 October, 2015, 06:39:23 PM
Jock been teasing on Instagram that he doing DKIII. Guess it sequel to Dark Knight Return...?

I heard that Jock is doing a cover for DKIII, but maybe some interior art too?
Kubert & Janson are the series' main artists, but having Jock on one of the 'mini comics' would be great.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 October, 2015, 07:57:32 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 09 October, 2015, 08:56:35 AM
Sometimes I forget who I am, even for weeks at a time.  Always quite a shock to remember.

I have no idea who I am any more, if it's any consolation.  Not sure I ever did. Who is anyone anyway other than a series of electrical impulses controlling a colony of cells? These are things I think about a lot. Or at least what my DNA for some reason forces my braincells to collectively process. I'm a motorised mass of meat; and beyond that I haven't a clue.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 October, 2015, 08:04:47 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 11 October, 2015, 03:04:00 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 07 October, 2015, 03:47:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 07 October, 2015, 03:13:48 PM
Really, he was never that great.

Really, he was. When we're talking about the era-defining greats of sequential art, Miller absolutely has a seat at the table. The passage of time, his wildly controversial personal beliefs, and the appropriation of his techniques and ideas by later creators may all have obscured this, but in his day, Miller was a remarkable and innovative storyteller. Nothing can change that.

Agreed.
Everyone's entitled to an opinion Hawk, and that's how it should be.
In this case however you'd be in the minority amongst fans of the medium.
I can live with that, and I don't think it's quite as small a minority as you might think.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 October, 2015, 03:59:00 PM
Future Shock (http://disinfo.com/2015/06/future-1972/) documentary. From 1972. With Orson Welles!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 12 October, 2015, 05:21:10 PM
Played my first game of D&D. Super fun pretend times!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 October, 2015, 09:36:53 PM
Hey you lot, stop seeking in a debate about comics and the industries fading lights in a thread that is meant* to be a nonsense distraction. Its almost as though you don't want to hear me roll out my thoughts, once again, on the fact that Frank Miller's work hasn't stood the test of time. His DD run (first one) has dated badly and while fun doesn't really hold up as well as its remembered. DKR is good but not great, however significent it was in the day. His work beyond that is fair proof if the law of diminishing returns and only Born Again and Year One stand up to real scrutiny as classics**. Its as if you don't wish to hear me spout on yet again, with typos abound and spelling asunder, that Klaus Janson and David Mazzucchelli are artists that raise his game beyond his own art (though boy he could tell a story)... its almost as if you don't want me to play.


*Well I say that, I've never understood this thread, I'm simple and old.

** I need to re-read Elektra Assasin before I pass judgement there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 October, 2015, 09:38:46 PM
Bet you wish you lived in Tennesse now.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRQbPqsUEAARJrr.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 October, 2015, 09:43:30 PM
Blessed are the Colt Peacemakers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 October, 2015, 10:00:01 PM
Imagine if that ad was in Farsi...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 15 October, 2015, 09:27:20 AM
Sean Philips talks about comic art. Apple logies if posted somewhere else.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34226071
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 October, 2015, 10:25:47 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 14 October, 2015, 09:38:46 PM
Bet you wish you lived in Tennesse now.

http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm (http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 October, 2015, 06:51:50 PM
Sean Phillips (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34226071) talks about drawing famous comic heroes on the BBC website

EDIT - oops, sorry IATS, you beat me to it by several hours! Should've checked  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 15 October, 2015, 11:41:20 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 14 October, 2015, 09:38:46 PM
Bet you wish you lived in Tennesse now.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRQbPqsUEAARJrr.jpg)

"35-
"For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;...

Cross References
Luke 12:51
Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division."


And here I thought they were such nice boys.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 October, 2015, 12:01:59 AM
Kill your way to Heaven.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 October, 2015, 12:16:16 AM
In fairness to that Jesus fella, if my residual memories of my long-gone religious self is to be trusted, the division He speaks about is between the old ways and the new - of necessity there will be conflict between the generation that cleave to codified, traditional ways of doing things, and those who follow Jesus' radically new way of just, y'know, loving one another, giving away your stuff, and hanging out with known floozies and officers from Revenue. 

So in this many of the major threads of Christianity are to be congratulated, in adopting exactly the kind of arcane monied hierarchies and enforced just-so stories that would be devoid of any hint of the kind of hippie nonsense that might cause the intergenerational friction that the Jesus warned about.

Although I'm fairly sure he didn't envisage automatic weapons being involved.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 October, 2015, 10:28:06 PM
A little bit late to this one, but on behalf of your southern bretheren, I would like to thank all of Scotland for this little hero.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/video-st-andrews-piper-defeats-street-preacher-in-the-most-scottish-way-possible-1.901024 (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/video-st-andrews-piper-defeats-street-preacher-in-the-most-scottish-way-possible-1.901024)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 19 October, 2015, 03:47:11 PM
I've invented an Ian Edginton drinking game.

Read any of his comics and take a drink every time a character says either "The warp and weft of the world" or "I'll not play anyone's catspaw!".

You'll be absolutely legless in no time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 October, 2015, 05:12:29 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 19 October, 2015, 03:47:11 PM
I've invented an Ian Edginton drinking game.

Read any of his comics and take a drink every time a character says either "The warp and weft of the world" or "I'll not play anyone's catspaw!".

You'll be absolutely legless in no time.
Think I'll stick with those hardy perennials "Spit and clench!" and "Piss and vinegar."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 October, 2015, 06:18:56 PM
The solution is here:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRhqq6TUYAEGEhv.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 19 October, 2015, 08:20:27 PM

Robert Zemeckis exploited 9/11 to open a portal in space-time so he could make Back to the Future and promote The Walk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ULjJ3EqyY)



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 October, 2015, 08:28:46 PM
I'm sorry, even mocked up conspiracy videos make my skin crawl. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 October, 2015, 09:09:31 PM
Now that is pure genius.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 October, 2015, 09:41:40 PM
That should be shown to every Media Class in the country
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 October, 2015, 01:00:21 PM
Von Boom - that's brilliant!

The way I'm going to jack this thread is via the medium of smug nostalgia.

The heady days of Windows 95 and my first modern computer since the Commodore 64 at High School. The O/S is a pirate copy and the PC cobbled together from cast-offs and hand-me-downs. No internet. Long, dark, alcohol and fag fuelled nights of frustrated tinkering. Trying to print just one file takes six hours and results in Windows Explorer disappearing altogether. Getting Explorer back but losing the ability to re-boot. BIOS, chkdsk, fdisk, "thrum!", "ping!", "dong!", BSoD and, inevitably, format :/C. ARE YOU SURE? No, I'm desperate. Starting all over again.

Getting the hang of it. Here's Windows 98. Blind fumbling turns to ham-fisted fumbling. Feeling proud of myself for installing a complicated driver and then screaming my frustrations at the mutant PC for nearly an hour before realising it won't boot because I've left a floppy in the A Drive. Is this a hardware or software problem? Turns out to be both. Expense. Frustration. Madness.

Windows XP and ham-fisted fumbling has evolved into blasé fumbling but that's all right because I've got two hard drives now and XP re-installs much more easily. Security, spying, adware, malware, viruses, rootkits, keyloggers. Snowden, CIA, MI5, Google, Microsoft, corporatism, SOPA, PIPA.

So I switched to Linux Mint on my newly re-activated laptop. Hence the nostalgia. Dabbling with Linux in the past proved frustrating. It's supposed to be easier now. Yeah, easier to screw up. All installed well. Impressed myself. Restored 20GB of my own files (novels, scripts, artwork, etc.) - over 20 years' worth of stuff - with ease. Great. Now I can do some work. There's a small change I want to make to one of my Zarjaz fanzine Bix Barton scripts. Clicking on Open.

You do not have permission to open this file.

Every single one of my files locked out to me. Hence the nostalgia.

Four days of ham-fisted fumbling, including a re-install working from confusing and incomplete instructions on a shady website, and I appear to have fixed the problem.

Hence the smugness.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 October, 2015, 09:24:38 PM
Don't forget; Marty McFly is popping by tomorrow....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 October, 2015, 07:41:06 AM
Bit gutted we don't have hover boards and flying cars......
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 21 October, 2015, 10:43:34 AM
A guy at work clearly went to the Secret Cinema and spent oodles of money on his costume. 'Self-lacing' Nike boots with lights in the heels.

Those not in the know are looking at him like he's a complete muppet  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 21 October, 2015, 09:01:31 PM
Quote from: Trout on 25 August, 2015, 10:35:58 PM
Patience is a virtue.

You have a year to write a post, and this is what you come up with?

Need more practice. You know you want to come back.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 October, 2015, 09:11:53 PM
This would explain a lot:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR1c0ZnUEAARe8m.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ming on 22 October, 2015, 11:36:45 AM
Apologies if this has already popped up but I love this so much I don't really care.

"When I worked at BMP, the Head of Television commuted in from Brighton every day.
He started reading The Exorcist on the train.
He said he thought it was the most evil book he'd ever read.
In fact, he said it was so evil he couldn't finish it.
So, at the weekend, he went to the end of Brighton pier and threw it as far as he could.
So I went to the bookshop.
I bought another copy.
Then I ran it under the tap.
And left it in his desk drawer.
For him to find."


Dave Trott
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2015, 04:33:12 PM
Is it me or is Jeremy Corbyn looking more and more like Ben Kenobi?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 October, 2015, 05:13:27 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 October, 2015, 04:33:12 PM
Is it me or is Jeremy Corbyn looking more and more like Ben Kenobi?

Steve Bell (http://www.belltoons.co.uk/bellworks/index.php/if/2015/7437-290915_LABOURSTARWARS) seems to think so! This is the first of an ongoing gag that's still running this week
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 October, 2015, 06:58:42 PM
May the Farce be with you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 22 October, 2015, 07:13:17 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 October, 2015, 04:33:12 PM
Is it me or is Jeremy Corbyn looking more and more like Ben Kenobi?

I don't know, how much did you look like Ben Kenobi in the first place?

(the first thing that comes to my mind whenever anyone says 'is it me or...' :-)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 October, 2015, 10:31:38 AM
I wonder if making a fully-circular Cat Centipede would be inherently wrong. The time and expense it would save me...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2015, 11:51:33 AM
Have you ever tried getting a cat to sit still long enough to sew it to anything? Not easy, I can tell you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 12:50:09 PM
You need to staple it down first of all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2015, 01:02:49 PM
What does GYNWA mean?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 02:10:16 PM
This might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 October, 2015, 02:14:01 PM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 02:10:16 PM
This might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone

Spell it out for us Dave; http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=40008.60

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 23 October, 2015, 02:43:27 PM
Sometimes I quite like walking alone...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2015, 04:05:33 PM
Aha. Thank you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 23 October, 2015, 05:48:28 PM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 02:10:16 PM
This might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone)

It helps on the YNWA, not so much on the G.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2015, 09:54:06 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 23 October, 2015, 05:48:28 PM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 02:10:16 PM
This might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_Never_Walk_Alone)

It helps on the YNWA, not so much on the G.

I got used to it with ColinYNWA, but I'm afraid I always read Dave's as "gynae" (I work in medical insurance, so gynae is a commonly used abbreviation   :-[) Where's the G come fom?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2015, 09:56:41 PM
woops -  nothing to see here
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 23 October, 2015, 09:59:06 PM
Isn't that likely to be a surname? You'd think?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 10:49:15 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2015, 09:56:41 PM
woops -  nothing to see here

The penny dropped, didn't it? :D

Quote from: Fungus on 23 October, 2015, 09:59:06 PM
Isn't that likely to be a surname? You'd think?

*mind blown*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2015, 11:02:09 PM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 10:49:15 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2015, 09:56:41 PM
woops -  nothing to see here

The penny dropped, didn't it? :D

I tied to correct a typo but ended up quoting the whole post!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2015, 11:27:19 PM
So, I'd be MarkHYNWA. Except that I generally do walk alone, so I guess I'd be MarkHIGWA.

I think it might be the smell.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2015, 02:03:10 AM
Yesterday, a girl gave me an apple. I accepted it, of course.
.
After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2015, 05:56:38 AM
What's the deal with pedestrian flows being the reverse of traffic flows? I spend my days trudging a giant circular route around the horrifically crowded city centre, and it's become apparent that pedestrians 'drive' on the right.  This places their backs to the oncoming traffic when they are nearest the kerb, which seems utterly crazy.  My current theory is that the bulkiest and slowest foot traffic are tourists from Europe or the States, and walk as they drive, thus setting the direction of flow for everyone else.  Any advances on that?

Also: I hate people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 October, 2015, 09:34:23 AM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 23 October, 2015, 10:49:15 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2015, 09:56:41 PM
woops -  nothing to see here

The penny dropped, didn't it? :D

Quote from: Fungus on 23 October, 2015, 09:59:06 PM
Isn't that likely to be a surname? You'd think?

*mind blown*

Feck. Still not getting it. Is it 'generally'?

And Tordel, you're right. The city centre is a fucking nightmare to walk around,  particularly right now when they're extending the Luas lines. And why do Spanish students stand in the middle of narrow pedestrian thoroughfares to have their conversations? It's enough to make you rachelist. (I taught them for ten years. I KNOW.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2015, 09:49:03 AM
Avoiding the Crush. (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/avoiding-the-crush/6344314)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2015, 09:53:49 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2015, 09:49:03 AM
Avoiding the Crush. (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/avoiding-the-crush/6344314)

You're going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study. Not to bring back. But to wipe them out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 October, 2015, 09:56:02 AM
That's the plan...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 30 October, 2015, 02:30:45 PM
In relation to recent events elsewhere - can I add the inevitable comment here that I'M FOREVER GLAD that Tordelback is back amongst us to offer brilliantly measured words during times of crisis?

Never leave us again, sir. I know nothing of your real name or appearance but I imagine you to be a wise kingly figure or a kindly hermit type. Or some amalgam of the two.

If you're actually Donald Trump I'll be extremely perturbed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 30 October, 2015, 03:28:07 PM
Where on the forum do we talk about the new Mad Max game?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 30 October, 2015, 04:18:39 PM
you don't
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 October, 2015, 06:16:07 PM
Yeah, just read through the thread in question. My opinions on the situation are unimportant, and I remain merely amused by TS video.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 November, 2015, 08:29:01 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTEPX-_XIAU7dGS.jpg:large)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 06 November, 2015, 07:24:39 PM
I got bored last night and this happened...

Oooh, a fwaggle! (https://youtu.be/Jv86eh4q6IU)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 November, 2015, 09:47:01 AM
I've just realised there's a huge mirror in front of my seat in Eddie Rockets, and another one behind me. Staring into infinity is not good for a hangover.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 November, 2015, 09:58:41 PM
Please let this happen:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/lego_saturn_v/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/lego_saturn_v/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 10 November, 2015, 05:36:12 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 November, 2015, 09:58:41 PM
Please let this happen:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/lego_saturn_v/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/lego_saturn_v/)

AMEN!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 November, 2015, 02:11:58 PM
I wonder what Sinead O'Connor would think if she knew my 9 year old plays live-action Five Nights at Freddy's with a brace of twin girls (always sinister). He describes the experience as "99.9% pants-wetting", which is quite an evocative turn of phrase.

Meanwhile my 6 year old was gleefully horrified to learn that cesarian deliveries are not performed under general anaesthetic: " So it's like that bit in Jurassic Park where the man says you're still alive when the raptors start to eat you?".

I suspect kids are somewhat tougher than people give them credit for.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 13 November, 2015, 03:30:03 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 November, 2015, 09:58:41 PM
Please let this happen:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/lego_saturn_v/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/lego_saturn_v/)

Want!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 November, 2015, 06:17:49 AM
There were only ever 8 episodes of Manimal.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 18 November, 2015, 11:47:59 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 18 November, 2015, 06:17:49 AM
There were only ever 8 episodes of Manimal.

There were only 8 episodes of Comrade Dad. And yes, I did think it too many!

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 18 November, 2015, 12:40:43 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 18 November, 2015, 06:17:49 AM
There were only ever 8 episodes of Manimal.
And I've never seen any of them. How is this possible?
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 November, 2015, 10:34:55 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 18 November, 2015, 06:17:49 AM
There were only ever 8 episodes of Manimal.
And I own them all. Nice little DVD from Network going very cheap, I think it even includes the Nightman/Manimal crossover.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 November, 2015, 10:36:48 AM
I've thought of a new Internet response.

It's along the same lines of TL:DR (or TL:DNR) which I am informed means "Too long: didn't read".

This one is G.O.M.

And it means "Get. Out. More".

The long version is. G.O.M. FTLOGPGOM.
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Post by: Goaty on 25 November, 2015, 10:43:50 AM
G.O.M
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Post by: TordelBack on 25 November, 2015, 11:17:00 AM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 25 November, 2015, 10:36:48 AM
G.O.M. FTLOGPGOM.

Amazing aspect of the role of context in information context of language that that acronym is immediately clear!
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 November, 2015, 11:26:43 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 25 November, 2015, 10:43:50 AM
G.O.M

Touche.
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Post by: Goaty on 25 November, 2015, 12:06:44 PM
Try type "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" in Google search
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Post by: TordelBack on 25 November, 2015, 12:46:25 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 25 November, 2015, 11:26:43 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 25 November, 2015, 10:43:50 AM
G.O.M

Touche.

Fencing is mainly indoors.
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Post by: Goaty on 26 November, 2015, 02:15:39 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE7tyW8CYXs (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE7tyW8CYXs)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 November, 2015, 01:48:02 PM
"Well I had to fight my way out but I got a £900 for £600!"

Was your dignity really worth £300?
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Post by: Tjm86 on 27 November, 2015, 04:52:42 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 25 November, 2015, 11:17:00 AM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 25 November, 2015, 10:36:48 AM
G.O.M. FTLOGPGOM.

Amazing aspect of the role of context in information context of language that that acronym is immediately clear!

Took two or three reads to make it out.  :-[

That said.  Chortle!   :lol:
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Post by: Link Prime on 29 November, 2015, 09:12:52 PM
A random shop in a local Dealz (ROI discount store) for cheap Malteasers has allowed me to fulfil a life-long dream; the procurement and scoffing of some genuine Hostess Twinkies.

I'm happier than an overweight beat cop in an 80's action thriller.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 30 November, 2015, 03:41:43 PM
Oh they have those in Tesco now. Along with snowballs. I got 10 Twinkies for £3 the other week.

It's a changed world. Cybercandy and other import shops must be fumin'.

Still need to try one of those hostess fruit pies though, I think Lex Luthor must be stealing them again. That's terrible*





*Hopefully one of you will get that.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 30 November, 2015, 04:14:24 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 30 November, 2015, 03:41:43 PM
Still need to try one of those hostess fruit pies though, I think Lex Luthor must be stealing them again. That's terrible*

*Hopefully one of you will get that.

Until I Googled it to find the variant Marvel villain, I had no idea just how many different versions of those ads (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hostess+fruit+pies+marvel+DC&espv=2&biw=1518&bih=691&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyiLDwxLjJAhXBog4KHSJvASMQ_AUIBigB) there were
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 01 December, 2015, 09:50:57 AM
They're closing down the local Iceland Store I've been using for years. 31st December it will shut to become ...a coffee shop and a Hairdressers. Like we need more of them in the world. Very tough news for the staff at this time of year; Merry Christmas -you're fired. I'll have to use Tesco and that means a higher food bill. Still you have to feel for the poor employees many of whom have worked at the store since it opened. Bad, eh?
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Post by: von Boom on 03 December, 2015, 02:02:47 PM
Why do we have eyebrows?
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Post by: Link Prime on 03 December, 2015, 02:27:37 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 03 December, 2015, 02:02:47 PM
Why do we have eyebrows?

Because Dr. Who
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Post by: M.I.K. on 05 December, 2015, 02:18:05 AM
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/eyebrows_zps8xztwzrz.jpg)
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Post by: Tjm86 on 05 December, 2015, 06:03:12 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 03 December, 2015, 02:02:47 PM
Why do we have eyebrows?

Why is all my hair migrating south?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 December, 2015, 09:37:09 AM
Not immediately in my case, sadly. But I got there in the end. Maybe I should GOM.
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Post by: von Boom on 05 December, 2015, 07:44:55 PM
How fucking stupid is this?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/gun-tv-home-shopping-channel (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/gun-tv-home-shopping-channel)

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 December, 2015, 08:30:38 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 05 December, 2015, 09:37:09 AM
Not immediately in my case, sadly. But I got there in the end. Maybe I should GOM.

Sorry, somehow managed not to read any post between Tordel's second to last one.

Von Boom: stupid? It's positively American ;)
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Post by: ZenArcade on 06 December, 2015, 03:13:03 PM
Eyebrows I think channel perspiration away from the eyes. Z
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Post by: TordelBack on 06 December, 2015, 03:52:38 PM
They do indeed, albeit badly, but I think from an evolutionary perspective MIK has the right of it - vital elements of reading facial expression at a distance in a hairless chimp that uses theory-of-mind to juggle complex social relationships.
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Post by: Goaty on 07 December, 2015, 01:39:39 PM
Confused Vincent Vegas?
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Post by: von Boom on 07 December, 2015, 09:43:01 PM
Socrates was an incredible philosopher. He really changed the way we thought, the way we approach so many aspects of our lives!
Here's a little story.
Socrates was walking through the agora when one of his young students ran up to him, calling his name.
"Socrates! I just heard an enormous rumour about someone that you should know!"
"Wait," said Socrates. "Before you tell me this thing it must first past the three tests of rightness. The first test is truth. Is what you are about to tell me true?"
"Well, it's a rumour, so I can't say for sure."
"So you don't know if it is true," said Socrates." Very well, there is the second test, the test of goodness. Does this rumour say something good about the person it pertains to?"
"Actually, no, it does not."
"So you want to tell me something bad about someone that may not be true," said Socrates. "It doesn't look good. But you may still pass the final test, and that is the test of usefullness. Are you going to tell me something that I can use to make myself a better person?"
The student hung his head. "No, teacher, it is not."
"Well," said Socrates, "you were going to tell me a rumour about someone that is bad, of which you cannot ascertain the truth, which I will not be able to use to improve myself. Then I do not want you to tell me this rumour!"

This is why Socrates was such a great man!


And why he never found out Plato was knocking off his wife.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 08 December, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
The Guardian's regular  "How we made..." feature today is on 2000ad with input from Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill - nice anecdote about Graham Linehan I hadn't heard before: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/08/how-we-made-2000-ad-judge-dredd-comics-interview (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/08/how-we-made-2000-ad-judge-dredd-comics-interview)
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Post by: Fungus on 08 December, 2015, 02:14:08 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 08 December, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
The Guardian's regular  "How we made..." feature today is on 2000ad with input from Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill - nice anecdote about Graham Linehan I hadn't heard before: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/08/how-we-made-2000-ad-judge-dredd-comics-interview (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/08/how-we-made-2000-ad-judge-dredd-comics-interview)

Enjoyed the Buster comment too  :)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 09 December, 2015, 02:55:47 PM
Bloody 'Transport for Edinburgh' at it again:

(http://media.galaxant.com/000/176/786/08-Circus-hippo-pulling-a-cart-1924.jpg)
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 11 December, 2015, 11:15:02 AM
Mark Kermode reviews FutureShock on the 5Live podcast

And in other filmy type stuff, Idris Elba as Roland Deschain (AKA The Gunslinger from Stephen King's Dark Tower series)? Sure, I'm in. I quite liked the first book even if the sprawl killed it off for me by book three. And big dris would be a good choice I think.
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Post by: von Boom on 16 December, 2015, 08:09:12 PM
Tea on the ISS. Put the kettle on lad.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/14/heston-blumenthal-tim-peake-channel-4-eauropean-space-station (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/14/heston-blumenthal-tim-peake-channel-4-eauropean-space-station)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 December, 2015, 08:32:02 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 07 December, 2015, 09:43:01 PM
Socrates was an incredible philosopher...

This is why Socrates was such a great man!


And why he never found out Plato was knocking off his wife.

Brilliant!
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 December, 2015, 11:27:18 PM
FINALLY got all the chrimbob shopping done. :D
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Post by: TordelBack on 17 December, 2015, 06:39:12 AM
Bartender, I'd like a Manhattan please.
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Post by: von Boom on 21 December, 2015, 05:57:34 PM
Star Wars opening weekend results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjOzXBmB0s&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjOzXBmB0s&feature=youtu.be)
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Post by: Goaty on 23 December, 2015, 02:36:45 PM
(http://s.mlkshk-cdn.com/r/14FUQ.gif)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 23 December, 2015, 02:47:12 PM
Stop me if you've heard this one, but I feel as though we've met before. Perhaps I am mistaken?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 December, 2015, 06:21:10 PM
Heh, that's excellent, Goaty!
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Post by: TordelBack on 23 December, 2015, 07:53:09 PM
But it's just that I remind you of someone you used to care about.

Oh but that was long ago.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 23 December, 2015, 09:26:10 PM
Which is why I never talk to strangers... anymore
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 December, 2015, 04:17:41 AM
But I still love you - and I always will.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 24 December, 2015, 08:33:48 AM
For Tom Waits fans, he sings On The Nickel about ten minutes in.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153744013639687&id=52725749686
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 December, 2015, 08:43:14 PM
Stop me if you think
That you've heard this one before

Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less
Than I used to, my love.

</Godpleton*>





*May his meme-ridden soul rest in peace
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 December, 2015, 10:09:30 PM
Ah, I miss Roger. Right about now he'd be starting the annual Thin Ice Awards.
.
I don't know where you are, you perverted little Teddy bear, but I wish you were still here.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 January, 2016, 12:44:27 PM
Personally I thought he was fairly entertaining for a few years, but near the end got more than a bit bored of his memes and song-lyrics; he finally tipped over the edge from semi-troll to fully-fledged one.  But I wish him all the best.

Anyway, I'm here today to talk about that most excellently named creature, the Daddy Longlegs.  I once as a child got admonished by my Mr-Logic-like friend for calling it that ('Tut.  It's a cranefly.')  but now I see it can refer to a few creatures, both arachnoid and insectoid. 

For me it's a long-legged insect with flimsy wings, but I know for some it's some kind of spider (which, although similar in appearance, is somehow much scarier for me). What is it to you?

There is a story that the daddy longlegs is the most poisonous insect (or spider) there is, but its fangs are too small to pierce human skin.  If it's the insect; I know that is a load of trollocks, because I once watched our cat eat one whole. If it's the spider, it's still a load of trollocks because I just checked it on Google.

I once read an article in the sadly missed Dublin magazine The Slate describing the strength of one particular type of crappy E as 'like a kick in the arse from a daddy longlegs'. 

That is all.  Further daddy-longlegs-related bulletins as daddy-longlegs-related events warrant.
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Post by: I, Cosh on 04 January, 2016, 12:50:04 PM
What's your position on the Daddy vs Jenny Longlegs controversy?

[spoiler]The latter is used only by fops in dilettantes[/spoiler] in my view.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 04 January, 2016, 01:47:25 PM
never heard "Jenny" - but whatever they're called, I hate the little feckers - it's the way they sort of scuttle up a wall until they know you're looking, and then home straight in on your face. Brrrrrrr!
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Post by: TordelBack on 04 January, 2016, 05:47:09 PM
My wife breeds giant African land snails ('GALS', in the secret parlance of the mollusc molester) in our living room. Useful leverage considering my own foibles, or grounds for an anullment?
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Post by: M.I.K. on 04 January, 2016, 06:00:56 PM
My guess is that the flying Daddy Longlegs is the original and the wingless eight-legged beasties have gained the name 'cos of their similar looks, (although I've definitely heard Jenny Longlegs used for craneflies too).

The eight legged beasty that people mainly refer to as the Daddy Longlegs (also known as the Harvestman), is an arachnid, but isn't actually a spider, (there is a spider with the name as well, but it looks very spidery indeed - it's the only one with a venomous bite, but isn't dangerous to humans).

One night, several years ago I went downstairs to my kitchen and could hear a faint crunching noise coming from the direction of the table. I thought there might be a mouse somewhere, so I crept slowly up to where the noise was coming from, but instead found a Harvestman gnawing on a bit of cream cracker.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 January, 2016, 10:47:47 PM
Never heard it called a Jenny Longlegs.  Sounds like some old-timey fourpenny strumpet.

I never want to find a Harvestman gnawing on anything.
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Post by: Goaty on 05 January, 2016, 11:35:43 AM
Facebook social network founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he plans to build artificial intelligence (AI) to help him around the house and with his work...

Why it so familiar...?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 January, 2016, 12:58:50 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 05 January, 2016, 11:35:43 AM
Facebook social network founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he plans to build artificial intelligence (AI) to help him around the house and with his work...

Why it so familiar...?

Jesus.  That's it; we've had it.  If I 'borg myself up they might accept me into Skynet.


Sorry, but I'm going to return to the daddy longlegs issue again - I wonder if the plural is 'daddy longlegses' or 'daddies longlegs'?  Out of pigheaded stubbornness I think I'll insist on people using the latter in future.  Or simply refer to them as 'D.L.s' and assume everyone knows what I'm talking about.
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Post by: SuperSurfer on 05 January, 2016, 01:58:06 PM
Where is the annual Floppy bagged with the Megazine cover of the year 2015 vote thread?

So much for the search function.
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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 05 January, 2016, 07:02:45 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 04 January, 2016, 05:47:09 PM
My wife breeds giant African land snails ('GALS', in the secret parlance of the mollusc molester) in our living room. Useful leverage considering my own foibles, or grounds for an anullment?

W..w..why?
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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 05 January, 2016, 07:04:21 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 05 January, 2016, 12:58:50 PM

Sorry, but I'm going to return to the daddy longlegs issue again - I wonder if the plural is 'daddy longlegses' or 'daddies longlegs'?  Out of pigheaded stubbornness I think I'll insist on people using the latter in future.  Or simply refer to them as 'D.L.s' and assume everyone knows what I'm talking about.

Longlegs, unless you are The Gronk.

For the same reason that the plural of arm and leg is arms and legs, not armses or legses.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 08 January, 2016, 10:18:51 AM
Justice Department runs a city on 99% welfare.

Grud-damn liberals...
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Post by: Spikes on 08 January, 2016, 04:10:27 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/4759lPx.jpg?1)
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Post by: Modern Panther on 10 January, 2016, 10:59:26 AM
Recent bbc report on political shenanigans, and some of those "anti austerity protesters" they have now...

(http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/520/cpsprodpb/4F20/production/_87565202_2015-07-2411.17.21.jpg)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-35262873 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-35262873)
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Post by: von Boom on 14 January, 2016, 04:24:14 PM
While reading some old online-comics:

(http://cdn2.cad-comic.com/comics/cad-20060619-23597.jpg)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 January, 2016, 01:19:15 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/8BhmUY4.jpg)
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Post by: vzzbux on 15 January, 2016, 10:19:56 PM
Hey all I am back. Miss me?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 January, 2016, 12:24:50 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 15 January, 2016, 10:19:56 PM
Hey all I am back. Miss me?

Go on then, tell us how you faked your death.
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Post by: TordelBack on 16 January, 2016, 06:34:09 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 15 January, 2016, 10:19:56 PM
Hey all I am back. Miss me?

Welcome back, V!  Still enjoying Frozen twice a day?
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Post by: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 09:41:24 AM
Good god no that is long gone. Sophie is into Barbies life in the dream house on Netflix. That has got to be the most god awful piece of garbage I have ever watched.




V
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Post by: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 09:43:13 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 16 January, 2016, 12:24:50 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 15 January, 2016, 10:19:56 PM
Hey all I am back. Miss me?

Go on then, tell us how you faked your death.
Quite easy really.............................








V
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Post by: TordelBack on 17 January, 2016, 09:57:48 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 09:41:24 AM
Good god no that is long gone. Sophie is into Barbies life in the dream house on Netflix. That has got to be the most god awful piece of garbage I have ever watched.

Happily my own little girl's Frozen and Tinkerbell phase morphed into PowerPuff Girls and Breadwinners, with only occasional MLP. Unfortunately my son enjoys a bit of Barbie on the QT so it's not all plain sailing. Good to see you back, V - what did ya make of TFA?
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Post by: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 10:15:37 AM
Loved it, so did the lad. Plenty of similarities to ANH but will give the benefit of the doubt to see where the next two films go. Just waiting for the Rogue Squadron film now.




V
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2016, 11:18:16 AM
Ah come now Tordela, your son's into Barbie so what? So long as he's happy! Get him onto Powerpuff girls ASAP mind you!

And the answer is Buttercup, BTW.
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Post by: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 11:42:39 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 17 January, 2016, 09:57:48 AM
Quote from: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 09:41:24 AM
Good god no that is long gone. Sophie is into Barbies life in the dream house on Netflix. That has got to be the most god awful piece of garbage I have ever watched.

Happily my own little girl's Frozen and Tinkerbell phase morphed into PowerPuff Girls and Breadwinners, with only occasional MLP. Unfortunately my son enjoys a bit of Barbie on the QT so it's not all plain sailing. Good to see you back, V - what did ya make of TFA?
I dare you to sit through some of this with your daughter....over and over and over and over etc....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl7sfFMCzaI





V
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 January, 2016, 12:51:26 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 17 January, 2016, 11:18:16 AM
Ah come now Tordela, your son's into Barbie so what? So long as he's happy! Get him onto Powerpuff girls ASAP mind you!

And the answer is Buttercup, BTW.

The answer is always Buttercup.  She's clearly the best.

It's not boys liking Barbie I have a problem with (I myself have a drawer full of Padme and her handmaidens in all available costume variations, after all), it's the godawful nature of her cartoon adventures, as ably illustrated by Vzzbux's link there. Shudder.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2016, 01:12:25 PM
I'll grant you that, she's no Legend of Korra.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: vzzbux on 17 January, 2016, 06:27:30 PM
The Barbie movies are, at best, drivel but that Netflix series makes you just want to drown yourself.





V
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Post by: Ancient Otter on 18 January, 2016, 08:59:24 PM
An old tv ad about a little boy playing with dolls... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNtuVGWgBDM)
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Post by: Goaty on 19 January, 2016, 10:30:44 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/kpySPdT.jpg)
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Post by: Spikes on 19 January, 2016, 05:27:01 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/337a3ni.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 January, 2016, 08:18:13 PM
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1499/24404161241_bbb82d605f_z.jpg)]

Hail Hydra!! (http://[url=https://flic.kr/p/DbvGUH)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 January, 2016, 03:45:02 PM
In a sadly transparent attempt to turn my missus' thoughts to romance while in bed the other night, I mused aloud on our upcoming anniversary: 'I wonder what the traditional present for a 27th anniversary is?', I fished.

Came the unmoved  reply: 'Batteries'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 January, 2016, 04:14:17 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 22 January, 2016, 03:45:02 PM
In a sadly transparent attempt to turn my missus' thoughts to romance while in bed the other night, I mused aloud on our upcoming anniversary: 'I wonder what the traditional present for a 27th anniversary is?', I fished.

Came the unmoved  reply: 'Batteries'.

Well it saves you the trouble.
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Post by: Spikes on 25 January, 2016, 05:29:56 PM
Kill Bill....

(http://i.imgur.com/JG7Cwr8.jpg?1)
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Post by: SuperSurfer on 25 January, 2016, 11:22:27 PM
It's the sincerest form of flattery. Apparently.

Bites tongue.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 26 January, 2016, 01:48:12 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/3o8doY5IvaF286dGKY/giphy.gif)
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Post by: von Boom on 29 January, 2016, 01:04:30 PM
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3314f39d1b03eb9efa545da3ddcb48088bb21d06/0_0_2400_3764/master/2400.jpg?w=940&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=2413a473d473a11633222e6e4d9a6104)
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Post by: NapalmKev on 30 January, 2016, 10:34:09 AM
Apparently, Guinea Pigs are quite partial to Capsicums (Peppers) which also provide them essential Vitamins.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 January, 2016, 02:39:47 PM
This should maybe go in the science thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44&ab_channel=IQIMCaltech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44&ab_channel=IQIMCaltech)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 February, 2016, 07:16:43 PM
I, for one, welcome our new amphibian overlords.

(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/N4rlxbB5q4NjcL02t3xyvg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/wp_tumblr_migration_provider_889/39066368e39e6d535ac742fc494b4ecc)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 February, 2016, 08:12:06 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/26FPFKYG7StLZuURa/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 February, 2016, 01:26:13 PM
Last night I had a dream that I was climbing around on a massive robot called Colossus Mecanico, so enormous that it was an explorable landscape in itself.  All the while its theme song was playing in the background, basically 'Col-oss-uss Mec-an-ic-o' to the tune of that monk's chant that finishes with the word 'domine'.

When I woke up, I Googled it to find I'd referenced a tune by some Chilean band I'd never heard of.  I really hoped it would be an apocalyptic, industrial-techno masterpiece.  But it was just some shit, nondescript synth-pop that sounds like it was written on a Commodore 64.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0LLaiLEiA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0LLaiLEiA)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 07 February, 2016, 03:28:37 PM
I demand someone turns your dream into a Japanese anime with that Chilean tune playing over the end credits immediately!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 February, 2016, 05:52:07 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 07 February, 2016, 03:28:37 PM
I demand someone turns your dream into a Japanese anime with that Chilean tune playing over the end credits immediately!

As long as I get the royalties... I'd use them to pay some Gregorian monks to sing my dream's theme tune.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 February, 2016, 07:45:44 PM
Several theads about the Superbowl, all over the net have been jacked with pictures like this:

(http://dreamatico.com/data_images/owl/owl-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 February, 2016, 08:04:02 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fb/e8/20/fbe820b0603af3ad203b9180045e72ce.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 10 February, 2016, 10:59:11 PM
We need more nudity on this forum

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBZ-UjKUcAAJPM8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 February, 2016, 11:56:04 PM
And there I was trying to keep my hands above the sheets for Lent. 'Nuff said, true believers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 February, 2016, 06:33:57 PM
This. Is. Brilliant. Music. Video. Ever!!


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXafLUL5hs (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXafLUL5hs)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 February, 2016, 06:38:19 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 February, 2016, 06:33:57 PM
This. Is. Brilliant. Music. Video. Ever!!


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXafLUL5hs (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXafLUL5hs)

I'd like to see the out-takes of this. They don't call those planes vomit comets for nothing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 February, 2016, 06:57:17 PM
Absolutely fantastic. Can you imagine how many trips it took to rehearse those routines.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 February, 2016, 09:34:06 PM
Sweet jumping Christopher; that's incredible.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 11 February, 2016, 10:25:22 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 10 February, 2016, 08:04:02 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fb/e8/20/fbe820b0603af3ad203b9180045e72ce.jpg)
I was thinking of this photo the other day - the only thing which could make it more perfect would have been if they'd had a copy of Moby Dick on the table...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 February, 2016, 10:45:58 AM
A sea of happy disembodied David Bowie heads. I cant stop looking at it...

(http://i.imgur.com/kpjhlAi.jpg?2)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 18 February, 2016, 01:50:33 PM
Har har. Dredd fan at the Daily Mash -

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/helmet-camera-cyclist-thinks-hes-judge-dredd-20160218106352
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 February, 2016, 03:18:38 PM
Hey Chaps, posting this from Budapest. Over in Hungary for a couple of days diving in flooded mines so, expect pictures!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 19 February, 2016, 03:22:19 PM
Oo. Sounds interesting!

Go for some food in Koleves if you are in Budapest proper, best food I've ever had on holiday and so cheap. Oh and grab a Langos, they are delicious.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 February, 2016, 04:30:18 PM
Sounds dangerous - take care dude!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 February, 2016, 08:43:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbmXPmXUkAAsWfr.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 21 February, 2016, 03:43:25 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/kpO7oZE.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 February, 2016, 11:31:03 AM
Well Budapest has been a nice weekend away! Kabanya mines where just stunning, and the beer fest last night was bloody fantastic. Video and pictures of the mine dives up soon but Christ it was unusual.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 22 February, 2016, 11:46:10 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071fk5x/mastermind-20152016-episode-26

Drokk, I could do this on X-Men comics. I wouldn't have got the Dark Phoenix/Gold Tooth question though. And would have got the question about Sinister and Dominus wrong too. So I guess I'd be on 9 rather than 10...

I thought they'd be asking questions about the last 10 years not the good stuff. So funny hearing John Humphreys ask about Adamantium though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ming on 22 February, 2016, 12:23:55 PM
For some reason the Norman Invasion popped into my head this morning, but it was one with Norman Tebbit, Norman Wisdom, Norman Rockwell and Norman Mailer so I don't know how successful it was.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 February, 2016, 02:06:47 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 February, 2016, 08:43:52 PM
(http://2nerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/fedora-flowchart-e1323071107836.jpg)

Darn internet keeps moving things.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 22 February, 2016, 04:08:06 PM
I had the song 'cool rider' from Grease 2 in my head yesterday and I don't know why.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 February, 2016, 04:49:22 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 11 February, 2016, 10:25:22 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 10 February, 2016, 08:04:02 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fb/e8/20/fbe820b0603af3ad203b9180045e72ce.jpg)
I was thinking of this photo the other day - the only thing which could make it more perfect would have been if they'd had a copy of Moby Dick on the table...

see that's lost on me as I only know her from Longmire
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 February, 2016, 04:29:21 PM
I'm with stupid.

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/63468215e63063bd2ff7876c8398f5c18ee7cc27/0_0_3192_2109/master/3192.jpg?w=700&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=c51d00043ee3db80ac26670618f994c0)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 23 February, 2016, 07:09:59 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 23 February, 2016, 04:29:21 PM
I'm with stupid.

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/63468215e63063bd2ff7876c8398f5c18ee7cc27/0_0_3192_2109/master/3192.jpg?w=700&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=c51d00043ee3db80ac26670618f994c0)

This is the bar steward that is going to really screw you over now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 24 February, 2016, 08:47:31 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 23 February, 2016, 07:09:59 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 23 February, 2016, 04:29:21 PM
I'm with stupid.

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/63468215e63063bd2ff7876c8398f5c18ee7cc27/0_0_3192_2109/master/3192.jpg?w=700&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=c51d00043ee3db80ac26670618f994c0)

This is the bar steward that is going to really screw you over now.

If you stick a pair of glasses on Cameron they could pass themselves off as the new Morcombe and Wise.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 24 February, 2016, 08:50:14 AM
Needs-a-combe and un-wise?


Sorry...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 February, 2016, 09:21:55 AM
Dim and Dimmer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 February, 2016, 02:11:21 PM
I bet if you print out the photo and fold it so their fingers touch you'll get one of those Mad fold in images.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 February, 2016, 02:15:52 PM
This is seriously effed up.

(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--gAdTnDov--/arixmegnxl9exhevlpzx.gif)

http://toyland.gizmodo.com/you-probably-shouldnt-weaponize-a-nerf-blaster-with-sca-1761054757 (http://toyland.gizmodo.com/you-probably-shouldnt-weaponize-a-nerf-blaster-with-sca-1761054757)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 February, 2016, 02:55:40 PM
Nothing new - I had a blowpipe with rubber-sucker darts as a kid in the 70s - took me until mid-afternoon on Christmas day to work out how to push a pin through the sucker cap to make a more dangerous dart! Only enough to pop a balloon or make my brother go "ouch" though - those look a bit more lethal!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 28 February, 2016, 10:55:14 AM
I watched a documentary on YouTube detailing how the world is really Flat instead of round and that the Sun orbits us and is the same size as the Moon! Apparently, Gravity doesn't exist either and the reason things fall to Earth are because they're lighter than air.

"Nonsense!" I hear you cry. And yes, you are probably right.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2016, 11:10:15 AM
Even I'm not going anywhere near this one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 February, 2016, 12:04:15 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 28 February, 2016, 10:55:14 AM
I watched a documentary on YouTube detailing how the world is really Flat instead of round and that the Sun orbits us and is the same size as the Moon! Apparently, Gravity doesn't exist either and the reason things fall to Earth are because they're lighter than air.

"Nonsense!" I hear you cry. And yes, you are probably right.

Cheers
I think a few brain cells died whilst reading that alone.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2016, 12:08:16 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2016, 11:10:15 AM
Even I'm not going anywhere near this one.

Aw, Sharky.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2016, 02:23:35 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2016, 12:08:16 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2016, 11:10:15 AM
Even I'm not going anywhere near this one.

Aw, Sharky.  ;)

Heh. This guy came to the campsite for a fortnight. He was quite a clever guy, a bit of an inventor, and we were having a good conversation about this and that. The conversation turned to space and the Solar System and I was talking about Titan. He went very quiet and then said, "There is no Titan - the Earth is flat and the stars are holes in a glass dome." I laughed, thinking he was taking the piss. He wasn't. Nothing I said could disabuse him of this belief and nothing he said could convince me he was right. Funny old world, innit?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 March, 2016, 08:34:23 PM
Anyone start building Mega-Cities yet?


(http://i.imgur.com/ajX5UAD.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 March, 2016, 08:47:37 PM
Look on the bright side, he gets tied to a hovervan and riddled with bullets by muties in the end.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 March, 2016, 10:48:31 PM
WOw...

https://youtu.be/AW9UJ0zh7cA (https://youtu.be/AW9UJ0zh7cA)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 March, 2016, 08:18:47 AM
Wow indeed - that's very impressive (and it has Judge Dredd and the Blues Brothers in it!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 March, 2016, 05:39:26 PM
Decided to give myself a 'slight' name change. This variation has slowly been replacing my Hawkmonger username across the net so figured this place was next.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 March, 2016, 06:49:57 PM
Nothing like a good mong-out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 March, 2016, 10:18:22 AM
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

No, wait, that wasn't it. Last night I dreamt the entirety of Gran Torino, except that they had remade it shot-for-shot but with Ricky Gervais playing Mr. Kowalski, and it was now called Vauxhall Astra.  It was fecking horrid.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 14 March, 2016, 10:37:34 AM
Broforce is a video game where you slowly unlock BRO versions of various action heroes and yesterday I unlocked this guy...

(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7wYfFIBj2DquUVZxbkBKs50ateQQKfsJtugI82_uR6fL4J4nT)



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 14 March, 2016, 01:17:34 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 14 March, 2016, 10:18:22 AM
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

No, wait, that wasn't it. Last night I dreamt the entirety of Gran Torino, except that they had remade it shot-for-shot but with Ricky Gervais playing Mr. Kowalski, and it was now called Vauxhall Astra.  It was fecking horrid.

I would watch that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 March, 2016, 03:17:46 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 14 March, 2016, 01:17:34 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 14 March, 2016, 10:18:22 AM
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

No, wait, that wasn't it. Last night I dreamt the entirety of Gran Torino, except that they had remade it shot-for-shot but with Ricky Gervais playing Mr. Kowalski, and it was now called Vauxhall Astra.  It was fecking horrid.

I would watch that.

No, seriously, I had to sit through the whole thing, it was awful. Imagine Ricky mooching around the Hmong neighbours' house scoffing party food, imagine Ricky doing his squeaky toothy grimace in place of Clint's growl, imagine Ricky bossing Thao around... Ugh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2016, 03:43:47 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 14 March, 2016, 03:17:46 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 14 March, 2016, 01:17:34 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 14 March, 2016, 10:18:22 AM
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

No, wait, that wasn't it. Last night I dreamt the entirety of Gran Torino, except that they had remade it shot-for-shot but with Ricky Gervais playing Mr. Kowalski, and it was now called Vauxhall Astra.  It was fecking horrid.

I would watch that.

No, seriously, I had to sit through the whole thing, it was awful. Imagine Ricky mooching around the Hmong neighbours' house scoffing party food, imagine Ricky doing his squeaky toothy grimace in place of Clint's growl, imagine Ricky bossing Thao around... Ugh.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hn6ALcsNARA/UyXxYQHg7eI/AAAAAAAAAFA/9CdF6P6F4J0/s1600/crcl-gran.torino.bdrip-cd1.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 March, 2016, 04:31:33 PM
I dreamed last night about a female student that helps me out with my work sometimes; and that's about as Mayoral as I'm about to get with the description. 
Imagine my disappointment when I woke up to find myself old and single.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 15 March, 2016, 10:42:34 AM
Happy Birthday wee Jack!!! :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 March, 2016, 11:04:46 AM
Workmates were asking what has just had me in a fit of giggles - it was Ian McShane's reaction to criticism that he'd given away spoilers about the next season of Game of Thrones:

"I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think, get a fucking life, it's only tits and dragons"

I'm going to adopt that for any overreaction - "chill out dude, it's only tits and dragons"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ming on 16 March, 2016, 11:18:24 AM
"Chris Packham has stolen a Lollipop Lady's lollipop and is licking it, shouting 'the sweetest taboo!'"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 March, 2016, 01:10:45 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 16 March, 2016, 11:04:46 AM

"I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think, get a fucking life, it's only tits and dragons"


Brilliant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 March, 2016, 09:16:44 AM
so Microsoft launches a learning A.I. on twitter - and it takes less than 24 hours for it to become a misogynistic holocaust-denying racist. Don't know whether to be amused or terrified.  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 March, 2016, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 March, 2016, 09:16:44 AM
so Microsoft launches a learning A.I. on twitter - and it takes less than 24 hours for it to become a misogynistic holocaust-denying racist. Don't know whether to be amused or terrified.  :o
Well to be fair MRA's are camping on Twitter 24/7 so it's no surprise they got in first with the BS before anyone with any actual self worth logged in.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 03 April, 2016, 08:17:55 PM
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12938358_10156759458150187_1406172186140074742_n.jpg?oh=32335880126691ceaad6313be2b3db5f&oe=578E3C59)

Dan Dority approval  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 April, 2016, 12:07:47 AM
Nice one!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 April, 2016, 02:18:58 PM
So true.

(http://i.imgur.com/T7Qfkhl.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 April, 2016, 09:11:50 PM
Hold on that doesn't include the cats space?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 April, 2016, 02:16:21 PM
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aX9dzwb_460sa.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 April, 2016, 03:41:24 PM
Sweet jumping feck, I've just realised Saul Goodman's brother Chuck is the lead singer from Spinal Tap. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 April, 2016, 08:04:58 PM
Please, please, please...

http://comicbook.com/2016/04/23/karl-urban-wants-to-do-a-dredd-series-for-netflix-or-amazon-prim/ (http://comicbook.com/2016/04/23/karl-urban-wants-to-do-a-dredd-series-for-netflix-or-amazon-prim/)

Dredd 2 : I'd do it !! @netflix or @Amazon . There's a gold mine of Awesome Mega city 1 stories ! https://t.co/5KeUAizPNS
    — Karl Urban (@KarlUrban) April 21, 2016
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2016, 11:23:33 AM
Today is World Tapir Day, so go spread that love for the lesser remembered but equally awesome cousin of the Rhino!

No, like seriously guys. Tapirs are bloody awesome.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 04 May, 2016, 10:03:45 AM
(https://49.media.tumblr.com/db9ea3d8450bbd79eb74d59c80c4cff0/tumblr_o6epejGycF1u929uoo1_250.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 May, 2016, 04:51:49 PM
That guy's name must be Peter Parker...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 May, 2016, 05:29:28 PM
No. Or his spider sense would have been tingling.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 05 May, 2016, 06:45:03 PM
New Power Breasts... oh, Rangers suits.

(http://i.imgur.com/QF8wvLo.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 09 May, 2016, 04:36:44 PM
If you visit London often enough, eventually you will bump into someone famous...

Saw Mike Leigh in the Curzon Bloomsbury (formerly the Renoir), and I held the exit door open for him. He said 'ta'.

And that's it really.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 09 May, 2016, 08:08:12 PM
Buy my book, you bastards!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Violets-M-Spencer/dp/1530626331/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=P2ECPMDP59KFNN8Q8ABW
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 11 May, 2016, 10:42:22 PM
(http://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/pics/bionic-bigfoot-drag-race.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 14 May, 2016, 04:42:18 PM
I've just seen a bird eating a butterfly... 

Nature is cruel.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 14 May, 2016, 07:23:01 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 14 May, 2016, 04:42:18 PM
I've just seen a bird eating a butterfly... 

Nature is cruel.

pah! come back to us when you see the butterfly eating a bird... ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 May, 2016, 12:11:55 AM
I don't understand how Australia not win Eurovision?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 15 May, 2016, 01:35:11 AM
If you'd gone to the FCBD in London, now that you live there, then you'd've found out!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 15 May, 2016, 07:58:19 AM
What's that(?)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 15 May, 2016, 01:16:13 PM
You are kidding, Free Comic Book Day. The event Tharg has been plugging all over the place. You must've seen some mention of it, like in the Prog, as well as the web!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 May, 2016, 05:21:54 PM
Is that the day when you can hire comedians for your functions without having to pay them?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 15 May, 2016, 10:25:13 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 15 May, 2016, 05:21:54 PM
Is that the day when you can hire comedians for your functions without having to pay them?
They laughed when he said he was going to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 May, 2016, 08:19:41 PM
Meliana Trump says 'Donald is not Hitler.' And under her breath says, 'He's fucking Goebbels.' (Probably).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 May, 2016, 02:04:03 PM
Anyone fancy some Star Wars knock off shite?  Then get yourself to the Works - It's only £4 a pop...


(http://i.imgur.com/sZAJxfW.jpg)





Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 May, 2016, 02:46:22 PM
See, this is the kind of thing that estranges grandparents.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 May, 2016, 01:11:33 PM
I had the great good fortune to be quizzed in great detail on the birds and the bees by my eldest (just turned 10, and 'not a little child anymore') yesterday. I've always taken the view of answering just those questions asked rather than delivering a lecture (my own parents' attempts at sex education started and stopped at 'don't get that girl in trouble!')  but any attempts at generalities were cut off at the knees by "Dad, I've heard loads of things, but I want to know exactly how mammals fertilise each other".

While the conversation was rooted in the physical rather than emotional/social aspects I didn't get to hold back much, forced into setting out the precise arrangements of the various openings, fluids and activities.  Towards the end he said, "wait, when does all this stuff happen?". He was not impressed. "Now i'm not sure I did want to know that", he mused, "and I don't think I'll want to be doing any of it". Long may it continue!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 May, 2016, 11:57:00 AM
Three words that simply do not belong together:

Great canoe action
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 27 May, 2016, 09:03:25 PM
hey, what you and your canoe do in the privacy of your own home..... just don't post it on here or you'll go the same route thryllseeker did.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 May, 2016, 07:52:55 PM
Sure is quiet in here this week.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 31 May, 2016, 11:32:04 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/5k3ubL0.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 June, 2016, 07:36:50 AM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2016, 07:09:43 PM

I fucking love Thryllseekr:


(http://i.imgur.com/KZepBma.png?2)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 June, 2016, 07:33:20 PM
Oh he still go on about that! Good thing he still banned: is it sad no one like or comments on his status?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 June, 2016, 07:38:33 PM
IANAM, but I'm guessing re-posting familiar rambles from recently banned members in their entirety is sailing a bit close to the wind, Butch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 June, 2016, 07:43:23 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 17 June, 2016, 07:38:33 PM
IANAM, but I'm guessing re-posting familiar rambles from recently banned members in their entirety is sailing a bit close to the wind, Butch.
Agreed, i'd say leave it as it stands.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2016, 08:28:20 PM

Thryllseekr was nixed because he wouldn't stop posting offensive rants about women, not the entertaining descriptions of his domestic life*.

The content above isn't offensive, except in the Soviet sense - where no reminder of the continuing existence of the ostracised can be tolerated - but if Indigo Prime wishes to excise the above post, my huff will remain resolutely untaken.


* Everyone concerned for Mick's well being should know that he has mice. I've suggested hiring a cleaner.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 June, 2016, 08:32:16 PM
I was more concerned about his comments about children in the wardrobes! That kind of thing could land you in some trouble if your not careful!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 17 June, 2016, 09:13:57 PM
I'm just saying right, but I've got a mentally ill relation who posts long ranty statuses about all sorts of things on FB. It can be funny. As a relative there's a certain private dark humour about it but most of the time it's a worry. It shows how lonely it is in his world.

I wonder how I would feel however if I found a screen shot of one of his more paranoid statuses taken and exhibited on a public forum, presumably for the purpose of making fun of him.

Thryllseekr didn't abide by the rules of the forum and for that reason he was banned. However out in reality where he continues to live he's clearly not well and I certainly didn't feel that this particular update on his troubled existence was at all worth broadcasting. He may not be able to properly "edit" his reactions to things but YOU certainly can. The content wasn't itself 'offensive' no - the act of posting it here for us to gawk at was though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2016, 09:18:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 17 June, 2016, 08:32:16 PM
I was more concerned about his comments about children in the wardrobes! That kind of thing could land you in some trouble if your not careful!

Unless you're a Liberal Democrat MP. 

I thought that part was sexual, until I read about the kids' malleable skulls allowing them to slip through small spaces and his routine of warning intruders he's arrived home.

My gran went a bit like that, convinced people were coming into her home to steal worthless items and that she could hear her neighbours threatening her through several feet of concrete. It must be terrifying to genuinely believe such things are happening.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 17 June, 2016, 09:42:50 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 17 June, 2016, 09:13:57 PM
I'm just saying right, but I've got a mentally ill relation who posts long ranty statuses about all sorts of things on FB. It can be funny.

Thryllseekr didn't abide by the rules of the forum and for that reason he was banned.

He may not be able to properly "edit" his reactions to things but YOU certainly can.

For me this is the most uncomfortable aspect of his banishment.  There are too many of us that have mental health problems that we are dealing with.  Thyrllseakr's were patently obvious.  By banning him, have we passed up  an opportunity to help him?

I'm not saying that this is why we are here but at the same time can't we be supportive of the most troubled amongst our brethren?  As CFM says, can't we help him by modulating our response?

There but for the grace of God go I?

Sorry but as disturbing as his posts were, I truly hope that he finds the help that he needs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2016, 10:13:27 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 17 June, 2016, 09:42:50 PM
By banning him, have we passed up  an opportunity to help him ... can't we be supportive of the most troubled amongst our brethren? 

Molch-R mentioned abusive PMs (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43356.msg917813#msg917813), so his banishment isn't in question.

CFM makes a good point about emotional proximity subtly shifting the boundary between laughing at and laughing in sympathy with someone, but makes too great an assumption regarding my own intentions.

Everyone who shares a continuing interest in Thryllseekr's welfare can befriend him on social media.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 June, 2016, 10:38:31 PM
Quote from: Butch on 17 June, 2016, 10:13:27 PM
Everyone who shares a continuing interest in Thryllseekr's welfare can befriend him on social media.

This is an excellent point.

I apologise if I come across as censorious, Butch, and I too have always enjoyed TS's beat poetry, but I am deeply uncomfortable about us still making fun of the lad after he's been booted.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 17 June, 2016, 10:47:37 PM
Quote from: Butch on 17 June, 2016, 10:13:27 PM
CFM makes a good point about emotional proximity subtly shifting the boundary between laughing at and laughing in sympathy with someone, but makes too great an assumption regarding my own intentions.

Everyone who shares a continuing interest in Thryllseekr's welfare can befriend him on social media.

Is it because you posted it simply going "I fucking love Thryllseekr" and said nowt else perhaps? It's easy to make great assumptions about your behavior because I know next to nothing about you.

Thryllseekr posted so much, a great deal, I know what that man looks like, I know his views on far far too many things. I know his name. I know it all. It's easier to feel things about him. There's far more context to that man for me.

You however, Butch, I literally had to go back in forum history to even check whether you're the same person who used to very occasionally call themselves Sauchie. I don't know what your name is, I don't know what you look like, I know nothing about you. The only rock to cling to amongst all your name-changes is that you rarely stray beyond standard-opinionated-internet-snark like ninety percent of the time. I don't know your intentions, I don't know you. Of course I made an assumption regarding your motives they're utterly alien to me.

Think about that - I've been on this on-and-off for over a decade and literally all I can draw on is "it is likely he is being sarcastic about this". A triumph to your hard-won anonymity perhaps but this is as absolutely your choice as it was to post a screenshot of the FB status of a mentally troubled man with the only remark being "I fucking love Thryllseekr" and to trust entirely that we'd all somehow view this with an understanding of your concern. So by befriending him on social media you have a passing interest in his health, is clearly what we're meant to assume - but not enough to avoid gleefully screenshot his paranoia and post it here for us to ... what?!

Feel sorry? All share a collective invisible glance that says "well this IS a concern but IT'S HEARTENING HE'S UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS OF SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS!"

This forum isn't life, I'd talk that way to co-workers about a colleague maybe, or family members together but never post it here where history and circumstance is utterly ephemeral to the majority of people viewing these posts.

I'd seriously think about that before your contextless next snark whoever you actually are.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 June, 2016, 11:19:22 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 17 June, 2016, 10:38:31 PM
I am deeply uncomfortable about us still making fun of the lad

There's a difference between finding someone funny and making fun of them. For what it's worth, the declaration of affection for Thryllseekr in my original post is entirely sincere.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 June, 2016, 05:26:23 AM
On the one hand, I'm sorry Thrylls is gone. Sure, some of his posts were the next best thing to impenetrable and others were a bit off-colour but I never felt angered or offended by them. A few other forum members did, though, and seemed to take great delight in, or at least be unable to stop themselves from, registering their anger and offence quite brutally. But these few, these unhappy few, do that to anyone who upsets them anyway. The majority seemed to care for Thrylls and didn't let his posts anger or offend them, giving him an outlet at least and the opportunity to have some form of caring human contact at most. I worry what cutting him loose from this community might do to him.

On the other hand, this is a website about a comic, not a day centre for the mentally ill, and those who frequent it have the right to be offended and angered (sometimes, it seems those two "rights" are the only ones people really care about any more) and the website owners have the right to decide who can and can't post here and what is or is not appropriate.

Personally, I would not have banned him but I understand why it happened. Furthermore, this is not my website - I am merely a member and have no say in the matter, nor do I want one.

I think it's a shame he's gone, that's all. I feel we've lost a little diversity, that the forum is now a little bit poorer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 18 June, 2016, 06:25:27 AM
Quote from: Butch on 17 June, 2016, 10:13:27 PM

Everyone who shares a continuing interest in Thryllseekr's welfare can befriend him on social media.

Fair point, as is CFM's about this being a website about a comic.

I'm not saying that I disagree with the decision.  There are aspects of TS's behaviour that we haven't been privy too (well, a lot of us) and so are not in a position to comment on.  The moderators have a duty of care and even though the majority of us are KOS's there are likely to be some youngsters kicking around.

I guess it was more of an observation on how supportive folks are around here at times.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 June, 2016, 03:00:34 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 June, 2016, 05:26:23 AM
On the other hand, this is a website about a comic, not a day centre for the mentally ill...

Both, surely. Like most fan websites.

I miss TS for all the reasons you outline, Sharky. We are poorer for his absence. But I believe it wasn't random offense-taking by other members that was at issue, it was the hostile and deluded attitudes to women (and to a lesser extent trans folk), and occasional violence, and more importantly the detailed accounts of his actions re same. This was very worrying real world stuff. You just can't have that, and if TS had grasped that, he'd still be here. The PMs I know nothing about, he was always courteous in any PM exchanges we had, but I trust those who report a different experience.

I think Butch is right when he says that we can provide whatever human contact he got here by other online routes. That said, if he could be let back on a strict probation, I'd welcome that.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 18 June, 2016, 03:14:54 PM
I'm afraid he'd been warned, didn't respond in the appropriate manner and consequently had to go. That's the law of the west!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 June, 2016, 12:06:55 AM
I was quite pleased with that sportsball result tonight. Don't know who's happier, the Irish Fans or the French Pub Owners...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 June, 2016, 02:02:31 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 23 June, 2016, 12:06:55 AM
I was quite pleased with that sportsball result tonight. Don't know who's happier, the Irish Fans or the French Pub Owners...

*Hic* good quesstun

Jeebus, haven't had a mid-weeker like that since my teens, thank Grud I've booked the morning off.  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 23 June, 2016, 02:14:02 AM
Surely it's Island?

And everyone else on Earth who isn't a member of Ronaldo's immediate family.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 June, 2016, 07:20:37 AM
Yes. Sportsball good for once.

Man two doors down very loudly smashed his telly when the worst of the non-penalties occured, then ran around even more loudly trying to get his spare tuned in. Much diversion on our estate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 June, 2016, 07:39:35 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 23 June, 2016, 07:20:37 AM
Yes. Sportsball good for once.

Man two doors down very loudly smashed his telly when the worst of the non-penalties occured, then ran around even more loudly trying to get his spare tuned in. Much diversion on our estate.
Must have been amusing for you at least. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2016, 09:52:30 PM
And now soccer appears to have developed a sense of cruel poetry...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 27 June, 2016, 09:55:03 PM
Bless, England lost to Wildlings of Game of Thrones...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 27 June, 2016, 09:57:47 PM
They didn't deserve to go any further after that performance. H-U-M-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N is to kind a word. The English football team always lets their fans down and this is final proof of that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steve Green on 27 June, 2016, 10:04:01 PM
That was hilarious.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 June, 2016, 10:05:20 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 27 June, 2016, 09:52:30 PM
And now soccer appears to have developed a sense of cruel poetry...

Not really. Wales pushed Norn Iron out...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2016, 10:08:57 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 June, 2016, 10:05:20 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 27 June, 2016, 09:52:30 PM
And now soccer appears to have developed a sense of cruel poetry...

Not really. Wales pushed Norn Iron out...

Just like it did on Thursday, you mean?  Sounds like a rhyming structure to me...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 June, 2016, 10:20:51 PM
That was an absolute bollocking shower of shite
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 June, 2016, 10:51:26 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 27 June, 2016, 10:08:57 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 June, 2016, 10:05:20 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 27 June, 2016, 09:52:30 PM
And now soccer appears to have developed a sense of cruel poetry...

Not really. Wales pushed Norn Iron out...

Just like it did on Thursday, you mean?  Sounds like a rhyming structure to me...

Yeah, but Wales are still in
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 June, 2016, 06:19:30 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 June, 2016, 10:51:26 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 27 June, 2016, 10:08:57 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 June, 2016, 10:05:20 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 27 June, 2016, 09:52:30 PM
And now soccer appears to have developed a sense of cruel poetry...

Not really. Wales pushed Norn Iron out...

Just like it did on Thursday, you mean?  Sounds like a rhyming structure to me...

Yeah, but Wales are still in

I see you've been reading your J Evans Pritchard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 June, 2016, 11:24:07 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 June, 2016, 02:45:22 PM
Wild bears use humans as bodyguards. (http://www.seeker.com/wild-bears-use-humans-as-bodyguards-1874005979.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dnewsnewsletter)

Hope that helps steer us back on-topic.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 29 June, 2016, 07:28:22 PM
...... out.


Tortoises mating.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 10:39:10 AM
A rather brilliant, all be it not particularaly convincing, Nessie cadaver on the shores of loch ness.

https://twitter.com/tetzoo/status/748804052322955265
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 01 July, 2016, 05:20:11 PM
...complete with indestructible intestines!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 05:38:57 PM
Quote from: Grugz on 01 July, 2016, 05:20:11 PM
...complete with indestructible intestines!
Decomposition, whats that?!

Also, thats a pigs head.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 01 July, 2016, 09:11:26 PM
heh, maybe its a leaving present to Cameron from sturgeon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 06 July, 2016, 01:51:44 AM
To the person who used to steal leaves from my wife's bay tree on the front .you have been at it again but you may notice they aren't as good as they used to be cos they're fake. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 July, 2016, 03:45:11 PM
Argh! I feel like such a plumb! I just turned away a job interview yesterday for Company B because Company A had already offered me a position on monday! Now Company A has turned around and said 'sorry, but we're not offering that position anymore!' leaving me once again without a job, and Company B aren't responding to my attempt to get that job opportunity back!

>:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 July, 2016, 11:37:11 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 July, 2016, 03:45:11 PM
Argh! I feel like such a plumb! I just turned away a job interview yesterday for Company B because Company A had already offered me a position on monday! Now Company A has turned around and said 'sorry, but we're not offering that position anymore!' leaving me once again without a job, and Company B aren't responding to my attempt to get that job opportunity back!

>:(

Rat's cocks. Sorry to hear that.  You're young though, plenty of time to sort yourself out.  I didn't start my current business till I was 38.

A couple of years ago, a guy in his 40s I know left his stable, long-term job for another far more lucrative one.  He was made redundant in a matter of months; leading to a complete breakdown and divorce.  The second job was for the Trump Organization.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 July, 2016, 10:15:45 PM
I've just come across this, on the website of my other favourite comic.  I think we know someone who can help him out there.

http://viz.co.uk/letterbocks-ornithologist/ (http://viz.co.uk/letterbocks-ornithologist/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 July, 2016, 09:37:18 AM
Ha!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 July, 2016, 09:46:11 AM
Ha! Sexy Ostritches indeed!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 24 July, 2016, 12:03:06 PM
I assume this is deliberate?  :lol:


(http://i.imgur.com/PZ6oiEN.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 July, 2016, 12:56:45 PM
Took me a few seconds!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 August, 2016, 10:50:38 PM
Has anyone else noticed that Judge Koburn's hat looks like a cartoon duck in shades?  From his very first appearance, I've never been able to see it as anything else.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 08 August, 2016, 08:14:51 PM
I can't believe it's been four years since the last Olympics....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 August, 2016, 06:10:18 PM
I thought it was longer. I was living a squalid and highly stressful life in Beijing at the time - I think it was the different environment that makes it seem such a long time ago. 

EDIT - Now that I think of it, how could it be anything other than 4 years ago? I wasn't sure if the Olympics were every 4 or every 5 years; which is how little a shit I tend to give about them.

I would like a t-shirt like Booga's in a very old Tank Girl, which read 'I hate the Olympics.  They're shit!'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 August, 2016, 06:56:12 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 August, 2016, 06:10:18 PM

I would like a t-shirt like Booga's in a very old Tank Girl, which read 'I hate the Olympics.  They're shit!'

I'd buy one of those! Maybe one done up like the Skegness is fucking shit shirt.

(http://www.moretvicar.com/media/product/2014/10/02/1672_6548_w300.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 August, 2016, 07:26:49 PM
'Cal-Hab is Fucking Shit'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 10 August, 2016, 01:25:07 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 09 August, 2016, 07:26:49 PM
'Cal-Hab is Fucking Shit'

I hope you mean the cliche-rich crap-fest Dredd series.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 August, 2016, 07:33:06 AM
Aw come on lads, I just woke up and you've given me two heart attacks in as many minutes! I shall have to report you to the mods!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 10 August, 2016, 07:48:03 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 09 August, 2016, 07:26:49 PM
'Cal-Hab is Fucking Shit'
Well that's just rude.

I'm going to go and have a cry in the corner.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 August, 2016, 08:31:25 AM
Quote from: Fungus on 10 August, 2016, 01:25:07 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 09 August, 2016, 07:26:49 PM
'Cal-Hab is Fucking Shit'

I hope you mean the cliche-rich crap-fest Dredd series.
NATURALLY!
Quote from: CalHab on 10 August, 2016, 07:48:03 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 09 August, 2016, 07:26:49 PM
'Cal-Hab is Fucking Shit'
Well that's just rude.

I'm going to go and have a cry in the corner.
Whoops! Sorry Cal-Hab....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 August, 2016, 10:49:46 AM
25 years Anniversary of Hook

(http://www.etonline.com/movies/2016/08/24260682/1280_hook_lost_boys_cast.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 10 August, 2016, 11:28:35 AM
Celebrating the anniversary of an incredibly cack film. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 10 August, 2016, 12:15:50 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 10 August, 2016, 11:28:35 AM
Celebrating the anniversary of an incredibly cack film. :lol:

Spielberg apparently can't bring himself to watch it (according to a recent Kermode podcast, anyway).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 10 August, 2016, 03:09:31 PM
Bangarang!

I love that movie. Through the lens of yesteryear.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 August, 2016, 07:59:07 PM
Is anyone else concerned about those robotic doner kebab slicers becoming self-aware and dooming humanity?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 August, 2016, 08:18:04 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 11 August, 2016, 07:59:07 PM
Is anyone else concerned about those robotic doner kebab slicers becoming self-aware and dooming humanity?

They ask you to stand still and slice your skin off?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 August, 2016, 08:34:30 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 August, 2016, 08:18:04 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 11 August, 2016, 07:59:07 PM
Is anyone else concerned about those robotic doner kebab slicers becoming self-aware and dooming humanity?

They ask you to stand still and slice your skin off?

They trick you into thinking they've been cleaned when they haven't been in years. So no change from your average kebab shop I guess.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 August, 2016, 03:21:54 PM
I left this thread precisely because of childish posts like this annoying me, but I heard about this post from someone and had to come here and read it, just so I could see how childish and annoying it was. It was just as childish as I remember, now I a annoyed and can leave again. Until the next time this kind of thing I don't like happens, when I'll swing by for a read, just in case I miss it. Children, that's what you are.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 August, 2016, 03:30:10 PM
Never mind that, I HEAR YOUR A RACIST NOW FATHER???!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2016, 03:30:40 PM
lalalalalallalalalalalalalalalalal Not listening!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 15 August, 2016, 08:19:52 PM
I wonder how many unique page views the forum got yesterday    :-X
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 August, 2016, 03:19:50 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 15 August, 2016, 03:21:54 PM
I left this thread precisely because of childish posts like this annoying me, but I heard about this post from someone and had to come here and read it, just so I could see how childish and annoying it was. It was just as childish as I remember, now I a annoyed and can leave again. Until the next time this kind of thing I don't like happens, when I'll swing by for a read, just in case I miss it. Children, that's what you are.

Sickle like you make me peep.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 16 August, 2016, 04:45:13 PM
I was on a bus the other day and for the entire hour long journey a bunch of teenage boys impersonated Pingu as if it was the funniest thing ever, and yet if I had killed them all I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the youth of today and public transport are not as good as they used to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 August, 2016, 06:15:35 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 16 August, 2016, 04:45:13 PM
I was on a bus the other day and for the entire hour long journey a bunch of teenage boys impersonated Pingu as if it was the funniest thing ever, and yet if I had killed them all I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the youth of today and public transport are not as good as they used to be.


You should try living in a festival city... with added Pikachu ggggrrrrrr!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 16 August, 2016, 09:25:54 PM
alexander and sergei adopted a kid,got bored with him and dumped him in the Serengeti to be eaten by hyenas. They're now cruising round in a caravan trying to pick up children and seemed very put out that macauly was a grown up...we need to report these rodents before we have another scandal.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 August, 2016, 08:05:59 PM
I'm writing my entry for the forum limerick competition whilst having my evening shit.

In memory of Pete Wells, not gone just very trying at times.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 August, 2016, 12:00:05 AM
Gilmore Girls is great stuff. I'd be lying if I said my crush on Lauren Graham doesn't have a great deal to do with my enjoyment, but I like the 90s Magical Realism meets Americana/Wonderful Life vibe. It's also fun to see the premise change so rapidly over the first few episodes as it finds its feet. However, one terrible spectre looms over the whole first season: Lorelei's job. 

Lorelei, we are told, manages an 'Inn', which appears to be a sort small upmarket rural hotel and quirky events venue.  However, she is also free Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, and apparently Sundays too. She leaves for work at the same time as her daughter goes to school, having time for both of them to breakfast at a diner. She is usually free for an evening meal at the same diner, and to attend any of Stars Hollow's near-daily evening festivals. She spends the night at home or out with friends. From this I judge that her hotel management job does not involve the Friday evening rush or high weekend occupancy, morning check out, breakfast, evening meals and check in. This seems like a very odd Inn indeed.

Did I mention that Melissa McCarthy plays the head chef of this establishment, and she too appears to be regularly available for an evening meal or concert?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 August, 2016, 07:30:38 AM

The first thing any successful manager does is appoint several staff members to do their job for less money: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Duty+Manager&defid=4089133

Never watched the Gilmore Girls, probably because I never caught a cold or twisted my ankle at the right time to catch a couple of episodes and get hooked.

Junk telly survives on the back of sick pay, unemployment benefit and shift work. I watched every episode of Veronica Mars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wRHRaNoWh4) just because it was on telly when I got in from work.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 August, 2016, 07:37:53 AM
Quote from: Butch on 19 August, 2016, 07:30:38 AM
Junk telly survives on the back of sick pay, unemployment benefit and shift work.

No coincidence that I've just finished two months of 12-hour night shifts. When your friends and family are all asleep, their prettier wittier proxies get you through.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 19 August, 2016, 11:40:51 AM
Well my wife has been binging the Gilmore Girls on her week off sick from work... soo..

And great observations about the ludicrousness of Lorelei's job. I forget she actually works 90% of the time as she is mostly around her rich parent's house, ferrying Rory around or sitting in a diner (where Luke is always, always working).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 August, 2016, 01:17:33 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 19 August, 2016, 12:00:05 AM
Gilmore Girls is great stuff. I'd be lying if I said my crush on Lauren Graham doesn't have a great deal to do with my enjoyment, but I like the 90s Magical Realism meets Americana/Wonderful Life vibe. It's also fun to see the premise change so rapidly over the first few episodes as it finds its feet. However, one terrible spectre looms over the whole first season: Lorelei's job. 

Lorelei, we are told, manages an 'Inn', which appears to be a sort small upmarket rural hotel and quirky events venue.  However, she is also free Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, and apparently Sundays too. She leaves for work at the same time as her daughter goes to school, having time for both of them to breakfast at a diner. She is usually free for an evening meal at the same diner, and to attend any of Stars Hollow's near-daily evening festivals. She spends the night at home or out with friends. From this I judge that her hotel management job does not involve the Friday evening rush or high weekend occupancy, morning check out, breakfast, evening meals and check in. This seems like a very odd Inn indeed.

Did I mention that Melissa McCarthy plays the head chef of this establishment, and she too appears to be regularly available for an evening meal or concert?

I finally caved into my wife's pleas to watch Gilmore Girls. We watched the first episode last evening and damn now I'm hooked.

The worst bit is how smug my wife is about it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 August, 2016, 05:04:39 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 August, 2016, 01:17:33 PM
I finally caved into my wife's pleas to watch Gilmore Girls. We watched the first episode last evening and damn now I'm hooked.

The worst bit is how smug my wife is about it.

See you did that all wrong - you should claim that it's just as awful as you predicted, and then binge-watch in secret.

How are we ever going to win the battle of the sexes if you keep admitting things just because they're true? Tsk  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 August, 2016, 04:14:42 PM
Unpopular opinion: I never watch music videos, and frankly have a bit of distaste for them, finding them rather distracting and boring. I want to LISTEN to music, not watch a story that only bares a superficial relationship to the lyrics. If I want to watch something i'll put a film or a TV program on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 August, 2016, 04:49:01 PM
I was on a bus the other day and for the entire hour long journey a bunch of teenage boys impersonated Pingu as if it was the funniest thing ever, and yet if I had killed them all I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the youth of today and public transport are not as good as they used to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 22 August, 2016, 05:35:14 PM
I was on the web today and for an entire post a gangly auld bugger quoted me word for word, and yet if I had reported him to the mods I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the elderly of today and internet are not as good as they used to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 22 August, 2016, 05:45:04 PM
 :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 22 August, 2016, 06:28:48 PM
Is it just me or have multi-pack Twix been hit by a shrink ray?  Seriously, I never thought my hands had grown that much!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 August, 2016, 07:04:01 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 22 August, 2016, 05:35:14 PM
I was on the web today and for an entire post a gangly auld bugger quoted me word for word, and yet if I had reported him to the mods I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the elderly of today and internet are not as good as they used to be.
I DID have a double take wondering where I had heard that post before...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 22 August, 2016, 07:44:14 PM
I thought I was having a deja vu episode.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 August, 2016, 09:26:46 PM
(http://oneperfectshotdb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/image1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 24 August, 2016, 12:23:10 PM
Spotted!  :o

That Mark Millar, at the Theatre last night *
I tried explaining to Her Indoors exactly who he was, but the eyes glazed over and I found my own interest waning. It's a tough sell.

* Get me! I am not a theatre-goer - first time in years - and not a play I'd have picked. But thoroughly enjoyed it, got to admit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 24 August, 2016, 04:22:11 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 22 August, 2016, 07:04:01 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 22 August, 2016, 05:35:14 PM
I was on the web today and for an entire post a gangly auld bugger quoted me word for word, and yet if I had reported him to the mods I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the elderly of today and internet are not as good as they used to be.
I DID have a double take wondering where I had heard that post before...

I DID have a double take wondering where I had heard that post before...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 August, 2016, 04:28:27 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 24 August, 2016, 04:22:11 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 22 August, 2016, 07:04:01 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 22 August, 2016, 05:35:14 PM
I was on the web today and for an entire post a gangly auld bugger quoted me word for word, and yet if I had reported him to the mods I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the elderly of today and internet are not as good as they used to be.
I DID have a double take wondering where I had heard that post before...

I DID have a double take wondering where I had heard that post before...
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/7336081e993df6a5140f380a54f07bcd/tumblr_ncjmi5zUPz1rp0vkjo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 August, 2016, 07:16:10 PM
I'm flying home tomorrow morning to start my new job and also go to my first Pride in Manchester. Feel like a bit of a plumb going all by myself but I know i'll have a great time anyway! 😆
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 August, 2016, 08:37:21 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 25 August, 2016, 07:16:10 PM
Feel like a bit of a plumb going all by myself but I know i'll have a great time anyway! 😆

Nowt wrong with going anywhere on your own. I often go on trips on my own, to challenge myself to meet people. Despite being a relatively shy person, i always do.
Congrats on the new job. What is it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 26 August, 2016, 11:49:07 AM
Enjoy Hawks, it gets bloody messy around Canal Street around then. Watch out for t'buses
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 26 August, 2016, 01:08:34 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 25 August, 2016, 07:16:10 PM
I'm flying home tomorrow morning to start my new job and also go to my first Pride in Manchester. Feel like a bit of a plumb going all by myself but I know i'll have a great time anyway! 😆
Enjoy feeling your plumbs (and hope you have a great time)!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 03:10:05 PM
You know what gets my gears grinding? people posting in the wrong thread! ... and er...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 26 August, 2016, 03:47:01 PM
Santa - childhood wonder or parental betrayal?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 04:03:01 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 26 August, 2016, 03:47:01 PM
Santa dear - childhood wonder or misspelt bank?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 04:09:55 PM
I was in the comic shop today and wanted to spend money but there was nothing except marvel and DC reboots, and yet if I had reported then to the CBR I would have been the one in the wrong? Political correctness gone mad!!!

Yet more proof that the comic shops of today and internet are not as good as they used to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 04:11:06 PM
Y'know what really grinds my gears? treble posts on the wrong threads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 August, 2016, 04:29:47 PM
Cheers chaps! Just landed so having my feet up before tomorrows LOOONG parade. So very excited actually.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 26 August, 2016, 04:43:46 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 04:03:01 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 26 August, 2016, 03:47:01 PM
Santa dear - childhood wonder or misspelt bank?

Santaist - dyslexic devil?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 26 August, 2016, 05:00:35 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 04:09:55 PM


Yet more proof that the comic shops of today and internet are not as good as they used to be.

And comic conventions, don't forget them.  <sigh> Nowhere near the same as they used to be.  </sigh>
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 26 August, 2016, 06:10:13 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 03:10:05 PM
You know what gets my gears grinding? people posting in the wrong thread! ... and er...
Is it possible to post to the wrong thread if the thread posted to is threadjacking?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 August, 2016, 08:43:41 PM
I've just heard the same Bible quote twice, from two completely different sources, in one day...

Revelation 6:12-13: "(12) I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, (13) and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind."

Eek...

It's just a coincidence. It's just a coincidence. It's just a coincidence. It's just a coincidence...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 28 August, 2016, 01:05:57 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 26 August, 2016, 06:10:13 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2016, 03:10:05 PM
You know what gets my gears grinding? people posting in the wrong thread! ... and er...
Is it possible to post to the wrong thread if the thread posted to is threadjacking?
This can be the kōan of 2000AD.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 August, 2016, 05:02:03 PM
Well Manchester Pride has been one of the most delightful, wonderful and happy experiences of my life. So many wonderful people willing to help me out and give advice on my first Pride and even bumped into a few friends from years past i'd long lost touch with. I shall be going again and will deffinetly have to look at going to other across the country, such a blast. :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 28 August, 2016, 05:17:44 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 03 July, 2012, 12:58:56 AM
I've been reading comics since the Bayeux tapestry.
Well, I've been reading comics since Trajan's Column (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column) (I flunked hieroglyphs).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 28 August, 2016, 05:18:43 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 28 August, 2016, 05:02:03 PM
Well Manchester Pride has been one of the most delightful, wonderful and happy experiences of my life. So many wonderful people willing to help me out and give advice on my first Pride and even bumped into a few friends from years past i'd long lost touch with. I shall be going again and will deffinetly have to look at going to other across the country, such a blast. :D
Glad you had a good time - I have a work colleague who's been to the New York, London and Brighton ones (though I think the only two she did in the same year were London and Brighton).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 August, 2016, 05:56:52 PM

John Wagner turned 67 today. Many happy returns.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 28 August, 2016, 06:12:38 PM
Quote from: Frank on 28 August, 2016, 05:56:52 PM

John Wagner turned 67 today. Many happy returns.
Younger than Dredd then.



Well, plus 122 years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 02 September, 2016, 01:40:31 PM
Channel-hopping at lunchtime and former Tharg David Bishop turns up on a BBC2 quiz!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 02 September, 2016, 01:56:04 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 02 September, 2016, 01:40:31 PM
Channel-hopping at lunchtime and former Tharg David Bishop turns up on a BBC2 quiz!
If you keep watching long enough, a certain Letters obsessed boarder will turn up on the same programme...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 September, 2016, 02:03:13 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 02 September, 2016, 01:56:04 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 02 September, 2016, 01:40:31 PM
Channel-hopping at lunchtime and former Tharg David Bishop turns up on a BBC2 quiz!
If you keep watching long enough, a certain Letters obsessed boarder will turn up on the same programme...
Jeez Buttmans really going up in the world...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 September, 2016, 03:27:58 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 28 August, 2016, 05:02:03 PM
Well Manchester Pride has been one of the most delightful, wonderful and happy experiences of my life. So many wonderful people willing to help me out and give advice on my first Pride and even bumped into a few friends from years past i'd long lost touch with. I shall be going again and will deffinetly have to look at going to other across the country, such a blast. :D

Glad you had such a good time. It really seems to have taken off in here in Dublin over the last few years and long may it last.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 September, 2016, 05:07:48 PM
Indeed, JBC, long may it continue indeed. In retrospect, only two things somewhat spoiled the mood. One was a bit more general and easily mocked, as a small huddle of sad little religious zealots with banners emblazoned with the usual moronic shit. Luckily they got sick of the laughing and the pointing and the rhetoric so where gone after a bit.

Less pleasant and less easy to avoid was the general bigotry, of a very vocal nature, throughout the rest of the city. Some very despairing remarks and the token hilarious "Why isn't there a STRAIGHT pride?!" almost became a drinking game. Sad, sad little people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 02 September, 2016, 05:55:22 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 02 September, 2016, 05:07:48 PM
Less pleasant and less easy to avoid was the general bigotry, of a very vocal nature, throughout the rest of the city. Some very despairing remarks and the token hilarious "Why isn't there a STRAIGHT pride?!" almost became a drinking game. Sad, sad little people.
To which the answer is, there is, every other day of the year...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 September, 2016, 09:11:10 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 02 September, 2016, 05:07:48 PM
Indeed, JBC, long may it continue indeed. In retrospect, only two things somewhat spoiled the mood. One was a bit more general and easily mocked, as a small huddle of sad little religious zealots with banners emblazoned with the usual moronic shit. Luckily they got sick of the laughing and the pointing and the rhetoric so where gone after a bit.

Less pleasant and less easy to avoid was the general bigotry, of a very vocal nature, throughout the rest of the city. Some very despairing remarks and the token hilarious "Why isn't there a STRAIGHT pride?!" almost became a drinking game. Sad, sad little people.

Far sadder than that; a former work colleague of mine (really, really nice guy) got a terrible kicking in Dublin during the last Pride, leaving him with a permanent dent in his head and what seems to be serious and irreversible brain damage.  It made the papers but I didn't realise it was him till weeks afterwards.

They never apprehended the attackers.  For all the glorious acceptance that has spread throughout this country over the last decade or so, there are obviously a few pockets of knuckle-dragging, shit-thick savages left; and the quicker they die out, the better.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 September, 2016, 09:36:59 PM
Fuck those 'people'. History will judge them and find them even more contemptible than decent folk do now. I'd be happy to claim that my own kids couldn't even conceive of acting or thinking along those lines, whereas when I was their age to be gay was pretty much the most shameful thing we could imagine.  Pride has played a big part in driving this change home.  Who can feel anything but happy looking at all that colour and joy?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 September, 2016, 11:48:36 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 02 September, 2016, 09:36:59 PMwhen I was their age to be gay was pretty much the most shameful thing we could imagine.

Me and all... Odd when you think of it now. 
The first time I heard the word 'gay' (in its current-day meaning) was when my schoolfriend told me to 'put (my) hand on (my) hip and pretend to bounce a tennis ball'.  He roared laughing, then told schoolyard bystanders to 'look at the gay boy'.

This was when I was about 10.  He left our town soon afterwards.  I caught up with him on Facebook a couple of years ago.  He is, you guessed it, gay.  (I brought up the incident when he spoke against homophobia on Facebook - because petty, small-minded, manchild victories against a bit of harmless playground mickey-taking that happened 30 years ago are still victories for all that, y'all.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 05 September, 2016, 10:13:10 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 02 September, 2016, 05:55:22 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 02 September, 2016, 05:07:48 PM
Less pleasant and less easy to avoid was the general bigotry, of a very vocal nature, throughout the rest of the city. Some very despairing remarks and the token hilarious "Why isn't there a STRAIGHT pride?!" almost became a drinking game. Sad, sad little people.
To which the answer is, there is, every other day of the year...

TBH the parade has got a bit shit in recent years
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 05 September, 2016, 04:50:44 PM
Glasgows marchers are absolutely fabulous. They play music, have lovely orange sashes and some even wear funny hats and waistcoats. Its just a shame their pride lies in the fact they are all inbred hate-mongers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 September, 2016, 04:53:16 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 05 September, 2016, 04:50:44 PM
Glasgows marchers are absolutely fabulous. They play music, have lovely orange sashes and some even wear funny hats and waistcoats. Its just a shame their pride lies in the fact they are all inbred hate-mongers.
Took me a moment there. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 September, 2016, 04:53:54 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 06 September, 2016, 10:50:44 PM
It was too hot today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 September, 2016, 10:52:58 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 06 September, 2016, 10:50:44 PM
It was too hot today.
Has there ever been a more english statement than THIS?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2016, 01:12:27 PM
Well if this job interview I have in a few weeks goes well you all might have another librarian on the board...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 08 September, 2016, 05:09:30 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2016, 01:12:27 PM
Well if this job interview I have in a few weeks goes well you all might have another librarian on the board...
G'luck!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 08 September, 2016, 06:18:36 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 08 September, 2016, 05:09:30 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2016, 01:12:27 PM
Well if this job interview I have in a few weeks goes well you all might have another librarian on the board...
G'luck!

Oook!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 September, 2016, 06:37:24 PM
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/waksack2-and-newspiderboy/images/c/c5/Jack-Burton.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140411224941)

Just wanted to Jack this thread good and proper.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 September, 2016, 09:53:29 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2016, 01:12:27 PM
Well if this job interview I have in a few weeks goes well you all might have another librarian on the board...

And you used to be such a nice boy. This is what happens when you hang with out that awful Colin person in those New Comics Megathread dives you frequent. One moment you're just checking out how he shelves his Kirby, next thing you're up to to your 741.5s in Dewey decimals. Such a waste.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2016, 11:05:22 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 09 September, 2016, 09:53:29 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2016, 01:12:27 PM
Well if this job interview I have in a few weeks goes well you all might have another librarian on the board...

And you used to be such a nice boy. This is what happens when you hang with out that awful Colin person in those New Comics Megathread dives you frequent. One moment you're just checking out how he shelves his Kirby, next thing you're up to to your 741.5s in Dewey decimals. Such a waste.
I'll be Manchesters most polite, anxiety riddled punk librarian...

...Oh wait, hang on, thats every librarian under the age of 30 in Manchester. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 September, 2016, 02:32:21 PM
good luck with the interview - which library is it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 September, 2016, 03:36:36 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2016, 11:05:22 AM
I'll be Manchesters most polite, anxiety riddled punk librarian...

Rufus on art, Ewing to script, I'm already looking forward to the sequel.

Best of luck, Hawkie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2016, 03:52:13 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 09 September, 2016, 02:32:21 PM
good luck with the interview - which library is it?
Thanks Dan, it's the Manchester University library, which i'm kind of surprised they accept outside applications for I would assume you would need to be an alumnus...
Quote from: Tordelback on 09 September, 2016, 03:36:36 PM

Rufus on art, Ewing to script, I'm already looking forward to the sequel.

Best of luck, Hawkie.
The best comic that DEADLINE never published, ta Tordels!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 09 September, 2016, 04:00:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2016, 11:05:22 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 09 September, 2016, 09:53:29 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 September, 2016, 01:12:27 PM
Well if this job interview I have in a few weeks goes well you all might have another librarian on the board...

And you used to be such a nice boy. This is what happens when you hang with out that awful Colin person in those New Comics Megathread dives you frequent. One moment you're just checking out how he shelves his Kirby, next thing you're up to to your 741.5s in Dewey decimals. Such a waste.
I'll be Manchesters most polite, anxiety riddled punk librarian...

...Oh wait, hang on, thats every librarian under the age of 30 in Manchester. :lol:
I only know of one library in Manchester (not having spent massive amounts of time living in the place or anything) - has a collection of Pre-Raphaelite artwork, I believe?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 10 September, 2016, 04:33:36 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/f5d1fbd72a840257f837344c585c8d2d/tumblr_o3p2qu422O1uadz9uo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 11 September, 2016, 03:33:44 PM
It's not even been a year since The Force Awakens came out, and I've nearly totally forgotten about it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 11 September, 2016, 03:59:02 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 11 September, 2016, 03:33:44 PM
It's not even been a year since The Force Awakens came out, and I've nearly totally forgotten about it.

[spoiler]Luke Skywalker starts training as a Jedi and then blows up the Death Star![/spoiler]

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 13 September, 2016, 04:16:20 PM
my daughter has to have a kilt style skirt at high school, we washed and dried it and all the pleats have gone...only then did I check the washing instructions apparently you're not supposed to put them in the drier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2016, 06:34:39 PM
Quote from: Grugz on 13 September, 2016, 04:16:20 PM
my daughter has to have a kilt style skirt at high school, we washed and dried it and all the pleats have gone...only then did I check the washing instructions apparently you're not supposed to put them in the drier.

That sooo happens to me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 16 September, 2016, 07:05:24 PM
My wife has a thing for Superdry.  I tumble dried one once.  Never again.  The closest that they get now is to the washing machine next to it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2016, 07:57:48 PM
You should try these:

(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/iHQAAOSwKrhVccB2/$_57.JPG)

That is a big pair of breeks!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 17 September, 2016, 01:29:11 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/pNtj2A1.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 September, 2016, 11:28:22 AM
Just want to say, confusing Tordelback with mecha anime reviews is my new favorite hobby. It's like an adult version of burning ants with a magnifying glass. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 September, 2016, 11:20:06 PM
I can not be certain that this salad does not in fact contain anthrax. (https://youtu.be/j4z3xv2l9_k)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 September, 2016, 11:44:06 PM
I'm terrible at haberdashery
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2016, 12:00:19 PM
Fantasy Flights are losing the GW licence which means lots of good stuff may become rare depending on whether GW bring out their own versions, and I couldn't give a fleeing feck, details are lost on me...

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/9/9/a-new-path-forward/

There's some stuff on that list which I'm never gonna have to get, or care about mainly Fury of Dracula as that just came back and bit me on the erse.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 21 September, 2016, 01:02:15 PM
You are FUCKING CRUISIN





for a boozing next saturday
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2016, 02:35:56 PM
Grud! you weren't in that graveyard too were you?  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 September, 2016, 08:46:31 AM
Am I the only one that thinks David Brent is a pretty good musician / songwriter?  'Ooh La La' is a belter, and 'Thank Fuck It's Friday' sounds a wee bit like the Rolling Stones.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 September, 2016, 07:43:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 22 September, 2016, 08:46:31 AM
Am I the only one that thinks David Brent is a pretty good musician / songwriter?  'Ooh La La' is a belter, and 'Thank Fuck It's Friday' sounds a better than the Rolling Stones.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 September, 2016, 12:03:58 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 20 September, 2016, 11:44:06 PM
I'm terrible at haberdashery

Sorry, wrong thread...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 September, 2016, 06:17:22 PM
I've got to say that I'm not that excited by the forthcoming prog 2000.

Prog 2001, on the other hand, does have a most futuristic, and space-age ring to it.

Can we not postpone all the celebrations by a week?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 26 September, 2016, 10:21:11 PM
FFS. Things do happen that don't need your seal of approval.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 September, 2016, 07:18:02 AM
I remember 2001.  Every ad on the telly said '2001 - a (insert product) Odyssey'.

I'm looking forward to prog 2016.  It'll be the first and last time the prog and the year are the same.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spaceghost on 27 September, 2016, 08:26:21 AM
I can't read Frank's review of Jerusalem because he's (presumably) mispelt Alan Moore as Anal Moore and the firewall at work is blocking it...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 27 September, 2016, 12:59:41 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 27 September, 2016, 08:26:21 AM
I can't read Frank's review of Jerusalem because he's (presumably) mispelt Alan Moore as Anal Moore and the firewall at work is blocking it...
It's been renamed now!

Though... there is a picture from an art exhibition in that thread which you may not want on your screen at work...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 27 September, 2016, 02:11:32 PM

Sorry, Spaceghost. I am a silly person:

https://londonhollywood.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/if-you-read-only-one-alan-moore-jerusalem-interview-make-it-this-one/


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Post by: Goaty on 29 September, 2016, 10:44:38 PM
So for comics, DC said Wonder Woman is bisexual...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 29 September, 2016, 11:49:57 PM
Someone didn't know?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 30 September, 2016, 03:13:02 PM
No ****.

On a less whimsical note, this is a good thing. I read Ms Marvel the other day after a friend raved about it (she is an african-muslim gal) and I thought about the whole Miles Moralez thing - and in short, I'm truly happy if more people can read comics and find their own heroes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 September, 2016, 10:22:20 PM
.
Wagner*
Mills
Moore
Morrison
----------

Smith
Dabnett
Williams
Milligan
Ewing

---------

The Rest



* with and without Grant
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 September, 2016, 11:44:26 PM
Never thought i'd say it, but I'd throw in Ennis.  Ennis after he got Preacher out of his system, at least.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 October, 2016, 07:57:11 AM

2000ad work only, buddy. Pat Mills is not the second best writer on Earth.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 October, 2016, 09:21:48 AM
Quote from: Frank on 01 October, 2016, 07:57:11 AM

Pat Mills is not the second best writer on Earth.

Wash out your mouth!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 October, 2016, 10:20:57 AM
Quote from: Frank on 01 October, 2016, 07:57:11 AM

2000ad work only, buddy. Pat Mills is not the second best writer on Earth.

He's the best writer on the Cursed Earth, anyway. 

But fair enough.  My knowledge of yank comics by non-2000ad writers is pretty much restricted to Frank Miller (for better or worse) and Brian Azarezazzazzarello.

Yeah, Garth's 2000ad stuff was desperate - though I think I'm the only person in the world (bar Garth Ennis) who liked Helter Skelter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 04 October, 2016, 11:29:55 AM
I give you Henry Cole, and his Wing(s)...

(http://i.imgur.com/ux1rET5.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 05 October, 2016, 05:23:44 PM
Just been stood next to D'isreali on a bus!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 05 October, 2016, 06:55:45 PM
Quote from: Woolly on 05 October, 2016, 05:23:44 PM
Just been stood next to D'isreali on a bus!

I once sat down to eat my lunch outside in Edinburgh and got talking to a bloke who said he was an artist. Turned out, as I later discovered, that bloke was Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead, 2000ad, etc). :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 06 October, 2016, 09:52:07 AM
jehovah's Witnesses get everywhere, at high streets, even Florence and now at my local tram station!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 06 October, 2016, 12:56:01 PM
Quote from: Woolly on 05 October, 2016, 05:23:44 PM
Just been stood next to D'isreali on a bus!

Bloody buses - He must have been waiting absolutely ages.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 October, 2016, 10:03:15 AM
So my takeaway from the first third of Inktober is that Dave Kendall should draw every strip in 2000AD.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 October, 2016, 04:36:43 PM
Soon be Wednesday. Wonder how much they'll cost...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 October, 2016, 08:53:29 PM

Rob Williams regrets killing Enormo Overdrive. I regret Rob Williams killing Enormous Overdrive.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 October, 2016, 10:18:19 PM
Quote from: Frank on 12 October, 2016, 08:53:29 PM

Rob Williams regrets killing Enormo Overdrive. I regret Rob Williams killing Enormous Overdrive.
Big Barry Pinge! Big Barry Pinge!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 13 October, 2016, 10:32:36 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuovwwjWEAAtnSK.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 13 October, 2016, 09:25:28 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 13 October, 2016, 10:32:36 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuovwwjWEAAtnSK.jpg:large)
Vegemite are missing opportunities by not doing something like this!  (Bovril are also supplied by unilever though - and the twitter account is owned by some Australian bloke).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 14 October, 2016, 06:54:43 AM
I just came home late at night and ate all the chocolate my wife left in the fridge.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 October, 2016, 01:00:45 PM
Possible Lawmaster base.

(https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_574/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BMWMotorcycle1.jpg)

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/bmws-motorcycle-tomorrow-feels/?mbid=social_fb (https://www.wired.com/2016/10/bmws-motorcycle-tomorrow-feels/?mbid=social_fb)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 14 October, 2016, 02:37:06 PM
Cyber Punk and Akira live! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 16 October, 2016, 02:00:10 PM
Local comic book reader and 'conspiracy theorist' politely requests Court Official to leave his riverside domicile.  :-\  Z
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 October, 2016, 02:53:41 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 16 October, 2016, 03:50:42 PM
"If you want I can get into the tub and thrash about a bit if that's what it takes."   ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 16 October, 2016, 03:55:42 PM
Would you....if it's no bother'   :P. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 October, 2016, 04:08:29 PM
You're gonna' need a bigger Court Official...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 16 October, 2016, 04:10:38 PM
Top lad Sharky.  :D. Z
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 16 October, 2016, 04:19:08 PM
AHHHH!  Zen's into Shark porn!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: ZenArcade on 16 October, 2016, 04:53:32 PM
Phoarrrr....look at the gills on her!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 October, 2016, 12:51:01 PM
I'm implying that you are a xenophobic racist mé-feiner because I infer from everything you say that you are, in point of fact, a xenophobic racist mé-feiner. If you have a genuine beef with the level of and manner in which state support is distributed to the unemployed, sick, homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged, all is copacetic with me, my friend.

But that's not what you actually said.

Nor, sadly, was this what I said in response.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 October, 2016, 01:15:43 PM
Goes to google what 'mé-feiner' means...


...Along with a few other words.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 October, 2016, 01:49:37 PM
Mé-féiner I know.  It was copacetic I had to look up.

Feck me pink, Tordels, you're an effluent* bastard all the same.

*An adjective once bestowed on my best mate by a girl he was chatting up; meant as a compliment towards his eloquence.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2016, 02:49:59 PM
Because I have a beef with the way state support works, I'm getting a bit paranoid now...

However, just because I think I understand what I believe you wrote, it doesn't mean that what I read is necessarily what you meant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 October, 2016, 03:20:42 PM

Rest easy, Shark. The context specific use of me-feiner suggests The Tord is sharing his l'esprit d'escalier version of an exchange on the comment section of an Irish Sunday newspaper.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2016, 03:24:21 PM
Phew!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 October, 2016, 03:41:13 PM
Quote from: Frank on 23 October, 2016, 03:20:42 PM

Rest easy, Shark. The context specific use of me-feiner suggests The Tord is sharing his l'esprit d'escalier version of an exchange on the comment section of an Irish Sunday newspaper.

Frank is correct in all but the most superficial of particulars.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2016, 04:20:38 PM
I see. So, you're calling me superficial...

:-D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 October, 2016, 08:42:06 PM
More like Super-Fish! ...al.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 October, 2016, 03:50:21 AM
Ouch. You're gonna need a bigger joke...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 October, 2016, 04:56:04 PM
I know, I know.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 October, 2016, 06:07:28 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/l0MYAtechRVX9uFTa/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 October, 2016, 07:55:42 PM
See, this is what happens when they cut funding for ITV Sport.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 November, 2016, 10:14:12 PM
Charlie Brooker's Halloween costume.

A bit obscure, but bloody brilliant. I guess this is the right Thread to post this in...



(http://i.imgur.com/N8VaigB.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 November, 2016, 11:18:46 PM
Took me a while, but I got there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 02 November, 2016, 01:43:22 AM
I'm going to hazard a guess that next to the nuclear apocalypse bloke is Konnie Huq as Eleven from Stranger Things.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 November, 2016, 10:57:08 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 02 November, 2016, 11:32:12 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 02 November, 2016, 10:57:08 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

Because conversations evolve over time.

In other news: it's hot today!

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 November, 2016, 12:55:01 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 01 November, 2016, 10:14:12 PM
Charlie Brooker's Halloween costume.
A bit obscure, but bloody brilliant. I guess this is the right Thread to post this in...
(http://i.imgur.com/N8VaigB.jpg)

Threads is still one of the most chilling TV programs I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 02 November, 2016, 04:16:40 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 02 November, 2016, 01:43:22 AM
I'm going to hazard a guess that next to the nuclear apocalypse bloke is Konnie Huq as Eleven from Stranger Things.

I'm going to hazard a guess, that the guess you made, was not actually a guess at all.  ;)


Anyway, Tharg must have bought his character rights along with all those others, as he's now getting his own 2000ad strip...

(http://i.imgur.com/tBrXZGv.jpg?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 02 November, 2016, 04:56:00 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 02 November, 2016, 04:16:40 PM
I'm going to hazard a guess, that the guess you made, was not actually a guess at all.  ;)

Well, it was an educated guess based on the hand holding the box of Eggo waffles, but it was still a guess. I did check afterwards to see if I was right, though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2016, 10:02:24 PM
Do Facebook accounts last forever after people die?  I've just noticed I'm still Facebook friends with a mate who hasn't been around for five years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: DaveGYNWA on 06 November, 2016, 04:52:10 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2016, 10:02:24 PM
Do Facebook accounts last forever after people die?  I've just noticed I'm still Facebook friends with a mate who hasn't been around for five years.

They stay until they closed down using the account credentials - in the absence of those, a family member can request closure. Otherwise, they stay there.

Got a couple myself now :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 November, 2016, 04:55:33 PM
Quote from: DaveGYNWA on 06 November, 2016, 04:52:10 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2016, 10:02:24 PM
Do Facebook accounts last forever after people die?  I've just noticed I'm still Facebook friends with a mate who hasn't been around for five years.

They stay until they closed down using the account credentials - in the absence of those, a family member can request closure. Otherwise, they stay there.

Got a couple myself now :(

Someday there'll be far more accounts than people :(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 06 November, 2016, 05:02:59 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 November, 2016, 04:55:33 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2016, 10:02:24 PM
Do Facebook accounts last forever after people die?  I've just noticed I'm still Facebook friends with a mate who hasn't been around for five years.

Someday there'll be far more accounts than people :(

30 million FB users died in the first eight years of the site's existence alone; and 428 die every single hour (that's 10,273 a day). It's currently expected that 'dead' accounts will outnumber the living by 2065!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 November, 2016, 05:10:28 PM
That's if there is a Facebook then, of course.  My sister was told by one of her teenage students that 'Facebook is for old people'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 November, 2016, 06:08:10 PM
How the world turns.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 November, 2016, 04:54:11 PM
The politics of today is enfuriating me. So here'a a gif of Godzilla dancing...

(http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/godzilla-dancing-gif.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 November, 2016, 06:25:31 PM
Anyone built mega-cities yet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 08 November, 2016, 06:36:54 PM
Yes, just google it and you'll see Toronto is the main one but there are many others around the globe.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 09 November, 2016, 10:36:31 AM
Today is my birthday.  I woke up to a lovely page of Colin McNeil's art, a copy of Monster, and the news that climate change will now definitely kill us all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 09 November, 2016, 10:40:23 AM
Happy Birthday M P and don't worry- the 1% will do us all in long before the climate gets a chance.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 09 November, 2016, 10:52:29 AM
Cheers.  My favourite tweet I saw this morning...

One day we'll look back on this and laugh.  From our radiation huts on the edge of the mutant wasteland.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 09 November, 2016, 11:12:34 AM
Quote from: Modern Panther on 09 November, 2016, 10:52:29 AM
Cheers.  My favourite tweet I saw this morning...

One day we'll look back on this and laugh.  From our radiation huts on the edge of the mutant wasteland.

I 'm going to build a wall to keep those muties out! With my extra arms and limbs, all thanks to Trump's Nuclear tan it will be ready in no time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 November, 2016, 11:18:45 AM
Happy birthday, Panth. All the best to ye.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 November, 2016, 12:04:21 PM
Happy birthday, Panther.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 November, 2016, 02:15:39 PM
Happy Birthday Panther.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 09 November, 2016, 03:09:04 PM
Happy birthday Panther! All across the world, people will forever more remember exactly where they were and what they felt like on your birthday (this year).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 11 November, 2016, 01:36:38 PM
(http://newsbusters.org/s3/files/styles/blog_body-40/s3/images/south_park_-_the_very_first_gentleman_-_10_17_53_pm.jpg?itok=7SmQI4Rb)

♪ I'm Bill ♪ ♪ And I'm Bill ♪ ♪ And together, we're Bill and Bill ♪ ♪
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 18 November, 2016, 03:54:28 PM
Recently unearthed pilot episode of a bizarre 1970s UK children's programme, intended for younger viewers but deemed too terrifying to broadcast...

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/Trumps%20Flumps%20small_zpsre2dqdq1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 November, 2016, 04:02:27 PM
Ha! Mind if I spread that about social media, know some folk who would love that!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 18 November, 2016, 04:21:50 PM
Be my guest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 18 November, 2016, 06:13:57 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/6miG06i.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 November, 2016, 06:28:01 PM
No. Just no.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 19 November, 2016, 03:39:48 PM
Dredd appears down the bottom of this amazing poster along with Judge Anderson.

  http://io9.gizmodo.com/can-you-pick-out-all-the-references-in-this-action-pack-1789155423
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 20 November, 2016, 01:11:06 AM
i finally got around to trying sake and tequila. nice...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 November, 2016, 11:49:15 AM
Is it me, or has Mayir managed to sliver back into the forum...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 20 November, 2016, 05:57:39 PM
By Jove, I think you may be right...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 November, 2016, 10:52:25 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 20 November, 2016, 05:57:39 PM
By Jove, I think you may be right...

Nah. This -  http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=33361.msg937052#msg937052 (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=33361.msg937052#msg937052) - could have been anyone.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 21 November, 2016, 06:23:23 AM
A bit too much info,there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 21 November, 2016, 07:47:12 AM
Quote from: Smith on 21 November, 2016, 06:23:23 AM
A bit too much info,there.

Yep you will see more
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: morpheas on 21 November, 2016, 09:49:54 AM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 19 November, 2016, 03:39:48 PM
Dredd appears down the bottom of this amazing poster along with Judge Anderson.

  http://io9.gizmodo.com/can-you-pick-out-all-the-references-in-this-action-pack-1789155423

Hey, thats nice. Bladerunner, Daft Punk, Alien, etc etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 November, 2016, 08:38:32 PM
Well Mayors gone again...should we have a revolving door installed?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 22 November, 2016, 07:19:06 AM
^Was that the Slaine obsessed guy?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 November, 2016, 08:05:41 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 November, 2016, 10:52:25 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 20 November, 2016, 05:57:39 PM
By Jove, I think you may be right...

Nah. This -  http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=33361.msg937052#msg937052 (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=33361.msg937052#msg937052) - could have been anyone.

And now it's been deleted, my post makes no sense at all. 

Smith - oh yeah.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 22 November, 2016, 08:46:33 AM
Somebody should write something like a historical overview of that to get the newer users up to date. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2016, 12:57:10 PM
Historical overview:

First, there was nothing - nobody's really sure what kind of nothing - and then something happened, though nobody's really sure what, which resulted in the nothing being replaced by a universe (that is, if you can replace a nothing; how does one replace a nothing when there's nothing to replace?).

Anyway, after a time there were stars, then planets. On the vagueth day of Sometime, on an alien world (possibly from Dimension-F), Tharg is born.

Tharg brings the Betelguesian 2000ad Franchise to Earth.

Some comics are printed.

2000adonline manifests.

Some posts are posted.

Donald Trump becomes PotUS - history ends.

Think that more or less brings us up to date.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 22 November, 2016, 01:56:11 PM
And somehow,every conversation ends up with Trump.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2016, 02:06:31 PM
It's the Last Trump.

Somebody best go wake Jesus up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 22 November, 2016, 02:16:48 PM
To be fair,people go thru same shit every 4 years,and the Earth is still there.
And I dont live in the US,so I dont care all that much TBH.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2016, 03:05:12 PM
Best wake Jesus up anyway.

The Vatican's left a load of washing-up in the sink and He's got the dishcross and Trinitea-towel.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 22 November, 2016, 03:19:34 PM
Lets sidetrack this.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/9d/16/9d/9d169d36b87438fa3f029eb8de5a4998.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 November, 2016, 04:08:29 PM
Quote from: Smith on 22 November, 2016, 08:46:33 AM
Somebody should write something like a historical overview of that to get the newer users up to date. :)

There was a video that would have explained everything.
I think that was banned as well.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 November, 2016, 09:20:06 PM
Brilliant

https://youtu.be/Q__bSi5rBlw (https://youtu.be/Q__bSi5rBlw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: morpheas on 22 November, 2016, 09:50:43 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 22 November, 2016, 09:20:06 PM
Brilliant

https://youtu.be/Q__bSi5rBlw (https://youtu.be/Q__bSi5rBlw)

:D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 November, 2016, 11:47:36 AM
So; Reese's Peanut Butter is now available in Irish supermarkets.

My risk of contracting Type II Diabetes has increased exponentially.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 23 November, 2016, 11:54:21 AM
MAMON was great. Poyo!

(http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2012/07/10/Poyo-rules-the-Chew-roost-in-Secret-Agent-O31R1IQP-x-large.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 23 November, 2016, 07:10:45 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 23 November, 2016, 11:47:36 AM
So; Reese's Peanut Butter is now available in Irish supermarkets.

My risk of contracting Type II Diabetes has increased exponentially.


  tried that the other month, too runny... sunpat all the way for me
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 23 November, 2016, 07:12:59 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 21 November, 2016, 08:38:32 PM
Well Mayors gone again...should we have a revolving door installed?

what did I miss?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 November, 2016, 08:06:14 PM
Quote from: Grugz on 23 November, 2016, 07:12:59 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 21 November, 2016, 08:38:32 PM
Well Mayors gone again...should we have a revolving door installed?

what did I miss?
Mayor rejoined the forum under the username By Jove, straight back into his old antics and banned again.

But never mind that, where have ya been Grugz?! Is there anything in the bag for me?! IS THERE IS THERE???!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 24 November, 2016, 07:02:56 PM
you sound like my dog would if he could speak!  every bit of shopping MUST contain something for him...and god help us if we go to the chippy and forget to get him a sausage!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 01 December, 2016, 03:50:51 PM
Wheres Huffster, was he also the Mayor?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 01 December, 2016, 04:01:31 PM
Maybe. Maybe not.

Everyone on here has about 14 accounts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 December, 2016, 05:20:08 PM
Who's Huffster?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 December, 2016, 07:02:20 PM
Has it ever occurred to anyone just how...jarring, the Blakes 7 ending theme is? Like, even after THAT final episode we still get this ridiculous upbeat, techno ballad. Oh 70's BBC sci-fi!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 December, 2016, 07:03:11 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 01 December, 2016, 05:20:08 PM
Who's Huffster?

Sharky's dealer, way I hear it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 01 December, 2016, 07:21:33 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 01 December, 2016, 05:20:08 PM
Who's Huffster?

That's the spirit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 December, 2016, 12:16:39 AM
I heard that old classic from my childhood, 'Another Rock 'n' Roll Christmas', playing in a pub the other day. Hadn't heard it in years. For some reason.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 December, 2016, 01:16:39 PM
I won't start the review thread because I haven't read it yet (hate it when people do that) but I got Prog 2012 this morning! unfortunately, this means an even longer wait till the next one!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 23 December, 2016, 01:29:12 PM
I just renewed my passport today so consider yourself warned rest of world!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 23 December, 2016, 03:55:19 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 23 December, 2016, 01:29:12 PM
I just renewed my passport today so consider yourself warned rest of world!
You know the fortieth birthday party isn't actually on Quaxxan?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 31 December, 2016, 08:35:15 PM
This really is getting a bit much.

Just how many more issues of the Megazine am I going to find bagged with my monthly copy of Sinister Dexter?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 01 January, 2017, 05:49:52 AM
I'm genuinely impressed to learn the Church of Satan says Satan does not exist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 January, 2017, 09:21:23 AM
But of course, they would say that, wouldn't they?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 January, 2017, 09:59:40 AM
Church Official: Satanic goings on? Most certainly not!

Tourist: Is that nun crawling on the ceiling sacrificing a goat?

Church Official: NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 02 January, 2017, 10:34:31 PM
Four years after leaving the U.K., I don't often get cravings for stuff but by Christ I could kill for a proper fish supper.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 January, 2017, 01:31:45 PM
Had a best Fish supper I've ever had yesterday, in North Berwick, will take a fotae next time and send it  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 03 January, 2017, 04:13:44 PM
You monster
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 03 January, 2017, 04:33:04 PM
Well I know what you means Trout. It is now 8 months since I moved from Newcastle to London.

Fish and chips in the South is not great as North-East fish!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 03 January, 2017, 04:39:17 PM
I wouldn't knock fish 'n' chips down south.

There is a decent place near me. We went there a few months ago. Sat down to have calamari rings starter to share and each had cod and chips, mushy peas and a beer.

Only came to £47. :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 03 January, 2017, 04:42:24 PM
Quote from: Trout on 02 January, 2017, 10:34:31 PM
Four years after leaving the U.K., I don't often get cravings for stuff but by Christ I could kill for a proper fish supper.
The two things I normally try to fit into any trip home are a chippy and a proper, Scotch Chinese takeaway!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 04 January, 2017, 08:00:28 AM
I'm not planning any visits. I'll have to console myself with Scotch pies from the British store which, by happy chance, is near my house. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 04 January, 2017, 10:32:24 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 03 January, 2017, 04:33:04 PM
Well I know what you means Trout. It is now 8 months since I moved from Newcastle to London.

Fish and chips in the South is not great as North-East fish!

There are a couple of good ones in Richmond of all places. Not too bad on the prices either. But they don't do good gravy or curry sauce!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 05 January, 2017, 01:12:00 PM
Quote from: Trout on 01 January, 2017, 05:49:52 AM
I'm genuinely impressed to learn the Church of Satan says Satan does not exist.

I now feel much better about my board name and might just go get a fish supper to celebrate.


and a pickle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 January, 2017, 01:16:25 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 03 January, 2017, 04:39:17 PM
fish 'n' chips down south. .... calamari rings starter

This says everything you need to know about the North/South divide!  :lol:



reminds me of that (apocryphal) story of Tony Blair (sometimes Peter Mandelson) visiting a chippy in their NE constituency and asking for some of "that lovely looking guacamole" while pointing at the mushy peas
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 05 January, 2017, 01:21:51 PM
For a Scotchman, entering any English chippy where they have an actual choice of different types of fish is like being transported to some mystical pleasure garden to be fed sweetmeats by nymphs.

Cod and chips twice please, mate. Just a pity they don't have sauce.

On the other hand, my mate's Mancunian wife couldn't get her head round the idea that she could buy cigarettes in a Scottish chippy, so it's swings and roundabouts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 January, 2017, 01:24:11 PM


Trout you see the culture you're missing?
(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/76538000/jpg/_76538254_teacakes.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 January, 2017, 01:25:58 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 05 January, 2017, 02:07:17 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 05 January, 2017, 01:21:51 PM
For a Scotchman, entering any English chippy where they have an actual choice of different types of fish is like being transported to some mystical pleasure garden to be fed sweetmeats by nymphs.

First time I was in a chippy in London I got a sausage supper and the exact words out my mouth were...

"What the fuck is this?"

They don't come covered in batter by default???
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 05 January, 2017, 04:02:57 PM
You're all insane.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 05 January, 2017, 04:38:33 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 05 January, 2017, 01:16:25 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 03 January, 2017, 04:39:17 PM
fish 'n' chips down south. .... calamari rings starter

This says everything you need to know about the North/South divide!  :lol:

reminds me of that (apocryphal) story of Tony Blair (sometimes Peter Mandelson) visiting a chippy in their NE constituency and asking for some of "that lovely looking guacamole" while pointing at the mushy peas

Bring back jellied eels. Having said that, I seem to recall the aforementioned establishment does sell jellied eels.

They also do a warm goat's cheese salad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 05 January, 2017, 05:51:51 PM
My usual choice of meal when frequenting such establishments is a haggis supper, and thus English chippies are o' nae yis tae me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 January, 2017, 06:06:00 PM
Quote from: Trout on 05 January, 2017, 04:02:57 PM
You're all insane.

You're just realising this now???

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 January, 2017, 06:44:22 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 05 January, 2017, 01:21:51 PM
my mate's Mancunian wife couldn't get her head round the idea that she could buy cigarettes in a Scottish chippy

They tried giving us blankets infected with TB, but the combination of fags and deep fried carbohydrates proved more effective.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 January, 2017, 07:14:37 PM
Today I (hopefully) smoked my very last cigarette - and I'm not even up before a firing squad.

Feeling pretty chilled about it so far - almost enjoying the sensation of being a quitter. Trying to convince myself that I'm not "giving up" anything because that implies a sacrifice, which quitting sucking poison into me really isn't.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 05 January, 2017, 10:59:23 PM
Good luck! I'm a fellow quitter, for health reasons. It's a positive step!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 January, 2017, 05:24:41 AM
Thanks, Trout. Seems to be going okay so far; I haven't bitten anyone's head off yet, anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 January, 2017, 09:53:33 AM
Good luck sharkie, surprised you've supported big business for so long  ;) :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 January, 2017, 06:34:01 AM
Thanks, Tom. It's going well so far. (I know I'm only on Day 2 but these first few days are the hardest, as a rule. This new (to me) method I've discovered seems to be a doozy. Believe it or not, I'm actually enjoying quitting, which I didn't think was possible.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 January, 2017, 12:16:26 PM
Day 4 and still stopped. Feeling better already, almost no coughing now and able to take deep breaths without that tickly pain.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 January, 2017, 01:13:35 PM
I'' told (hardly smoked in my life) that cravings subside after a few days, giving way to mood swings.

A hormonal Sharky, grud help us all!


I jest of course, chuffed for you Sharky, packing in the habit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 January, 2017, 01:35:08 PM
It's not the cravings, they're mild and easy to deal with, as every smoker knows. The trick is to overcome the brainwashing - or so I've read. Seems to be working so far!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 09 January, 2017, 04:59:32 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 January, 2017, 01:35:08 PM
It's not the cravings, they're mild and easy to deal with, as every smoker knows. The trick is to overcome the brainwashing

Yes.

"Hey, giving up smoking is easy! I don't feel too bad. I think I'll just have one cigarette, because I can easily quit again tomorrow."

Six months later: "I should have stayed quit when I quit."

Stick with it, Shark. Solidarity!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 January, 2017, 05:18:42 PM
You're absolutely right, Trout, and thank you for your support. This method I'm using drills it into you that there's no such thing as one cigarette. The minute I smoke one I'll be filling myself up with nicotine again. That nicotine level will then begin to decrease, triggering fresh cravings which trick me into believing I need nicotine and can never quit.

The only cigarette I need to resist is the next one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 January, 2017, 04:10:47 PM
Giving up smoking  is easy - I've done it dozens of times
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 10 January, 2017, 06:59:20 PM
Just to clear up any confusion:

(https://thetravelexpose.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/toilet-sign.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 11 January, 2017, 05:55:11 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/l4xVGOegQxqe9za4E/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 January, 2017, 05:56:08 PM
What even is life anymore? Humanity has reached peak self awareness.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Grugz on 11 January, 2017, 06:44:21 PM
are we all looking forward to thundersnow?  and is it just me but wouldn't that make a great title for an ac/dc song?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 January, 2017, 08:49:39 PM
Dear Grud I want one!

*mashes keyboard in hopes of entering valid credit card number*

(http://www.hollywood-collectibles.com/store/images/P/Smart_Gun_400_01.jpg)

http://www.hollywood-collectibles.com/store/product.php?productid=16582 (http://www.hollywood-collectibles.com/store/product.php?productid=16582)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 January, 2017, 10:26:48 AM
I'd say 'this is why we can't have nice things', but it wasn't really that nice in the first place. I'm just impressed that it wasn't Sharky on a nicotine-deprived anarchist rampage that brought about its demise. Where will I go now for my Trump, Foster and Brexit needs? Oh wait, the entire rest of the internet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 January, 2017, 10:28:33 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 January, 2017, 10:26:48 AM
I'd say 'this is why we can't have nice things', but it wasn't really that nice in the first place. I'm just impressed that it wasn't a Sharky on nicotine-deprived anarchist rampage that brought about its demise.
Well, we did get one of those as well, so it's not all bad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 January, 2017, 10:43:17 AM
Aye, its the end of an era.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steven Denton on 12 January, 2017, 10:49:20 AM
It didn't really seem any more mean spirited then normal.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 12 January, 2017, 10:51:51 AM
I'd disagree, but it went predictably.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steven Denton on 12 January, 2017, 11:37:47 AM
when the thread is unlocked again I would imagine things will go on much as before. probably with replies to the posts that are there now. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 January, 2017, 11:43:59 AM
Guess it's time to dig up the Truth thread.

Or is it the Post Truth thread these days?...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steve Green on 12 January, 2017, 12:31:36 PM
Nooooooooooooo!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 12 January, 2017, 03:25:54 PM
I just accidentally did an ok impression of Skeletor and now feel that going forward I should use this voice for every phone call I make.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 January, 2017, 03:44:08 PM
If you'd done She-ra, then I'd have to agree.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 12 January, 2017, 04:11:40 PM
After checking my email,I find out that Nigerian scam is still a thing,apparently. :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 January, 2017, 04:18:11 PM
What is the point of have small house gods if they just flaff around?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 January, 2017, 11:54:09 AM
Quote from: Steve Green on 12 January, 2017, 12:31:36 PM
Nooooooooooooo!

Yes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 January, 2017, 02:13:36 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 11 January, 2017, 05:55:11 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/l4xVGOegQxqe9za4E/giphy.gif)

That's all what the Ruskies had? Two buckets of pish being emptied on a turd? and they call that entertainment
politics!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 January, 2017, 08:58:54 PM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--uDzOw2p8--/rwutwu9wypzzrfk2took.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 14 January, 2017, 08:01:13 AM
(https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15873498_1222186567873473_5224057751219255594_n.jpg?oh=37229d6f9299e30ffc1d7b96fe779838&oe=59192BA5)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 January, 2017, 02:46:14 AM
Donald Trump has just tagged the wrong Ivanka on Twitter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 17 January, 2017, 10:33:00 AM
He-Man and She-Ra cartoons just debut on Netflix...!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2017, 03:26:20 PM
The scots have Trump sussed: CLICK (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38635518)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 January, 2017, 07:56:30 PM
Donald Jr is to Donald Sr as Ivanka is to Uwanka.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 January, 2017, 08:16:46 PM
It looks like the politics thread is metastasizing
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2017, 09:35:19 PM
We gotta go somewhere to dump the Trump.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 January, 2017, 10:19:01 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2017, 09:35:19 PM
We gotta go somewhere to dump the Trump.

Twitter?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 18 January, 2017, 05:33:16 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 18 January, 2017, 10:19:01 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2017, 09:35:19 PM
We gotta go somewhere to dump the Trump.

Twitter?

Kamchatka?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 19 January, 2017, 07:21:20 AM
Guillermo del Toro post this on twitter... 11 hours left!

https://twitter.com/realgdt/status/821791584048005120 (https://twitter.com/realgdt/status/821791584048005120)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sixmo on 19 January, 2017, 06:34:56 PM
(//)Reading some Stronty Dog to my young fella (6) the other day. He instantly spotted some worrying parallels to current events in the attached image.

Can someone reassure me that everything will be okay after tomorrow? Or that there is a young lad somewhere who can see through walls that is going to sort all this out?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 January, 2017, 07:01:01 PM
Unlock the Political Thread.

It's our only hope to stop this poison spreading to the rest of the forum...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 19 January, 2017, 07:03:16 PM
I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a busy day here.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 January, 2017, 07:43:24 PM
I'm not even going to tune in. We'll be seeing enough of the dickhead over the next 4 years. I'll be watching poxy Quatermass or something...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 January, 2017, 08:08:48 PM
Very wise.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 January, 2017, 09:09:40 PM
Get ready.

(http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pvponlinenew/img/comic/2017/01/pvp20170119.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 20 January, 2017, 12:42:08 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 19 January, 2017, 07:43:24 PM
I'm not even going to tune in. We'll be seeing enough of the dickhead over the next 4 years. I'll be watching poxy Quatermass or something...

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/QuatermassandtheTrump_zps6sl8meym.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 January, 2017, 07:04:11 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 19 January, 2017, 07:43:24 PM
I'm not even going to tune in. We'll be seeing enough of the dickhead over the next 4 years. I'll be watching poxy Quatermass or something...

Think I'll join you, I've been to enough toddlers' parties. My chair back will be turned towards the West throughout.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 January, 2017, 09:31:12 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 20 January, 2017, 12:42:08 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 19 January, 2017, 07:43:24 PM
I'm not even going to tune in. We'll be seeing enough of the dickhead over the next 4 years. I'll be watching poxy Quatermass or something...

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/QuatermassandtheTrump_zps6sl8meym.jpg)
Oh my GOD! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 January, 2017, 11:41:19 AM
Quote from: sixmo on 19 January, 2017, 06:34:56 PM
(//)Reading some Stronty Dog to my young fella (6) the other day. He instantly spotted some worrying parallels to current events in the attached image.

Can someone reassure me that everything will be okay after tomorrow? Or that there is a young lad somewhere who can see through walls that is going to sort all this out?

If only more people had the intellect and compassion of a 6-year old.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 January, 2017, 06:51:22 PM
(https://i2.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/tumblr_ojxri7ikiX1uufl6zo1_500.jpg?w=500)

This is photoshopped.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 January, 2017, 12:10:36 AM
Been to a party. Dancing, drinking - no cigarette and honestly didn't miss it.

Woo-hoo!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 22 January, 2017, 06:39:56 AM
Hang in there. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 22 January, 2017, 07:30:29 PM
Quote from: Smith on 12 January, 2017, 04:11:40 PM
After checking my email,I find out that Nigerian scam is still a thing,apparently. :o

I got a 'President Trump is giving $250 to everybody who voted for him' email on Friday...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 25 January, 2017, 08:30:25 PM
Is there for honest poverty
That hings his head, an' a' that,
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that.
Our toils obscure an' a' that,
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.

What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an a that,
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
A Man's a Man for a' that,
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, an' a' that,
The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.

Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that,
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that,
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that,
The man o' independent mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that,
But an honest man's abon his might,
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that,
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.

Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That man to man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 26 January, 2017, 07:46:03 AM
(https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t35.0-12/16357937_1072601819515443_2141686006_o.png?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=21a2611851297a7356175527e3ae9440&oe=588C37C0)
Havent laughed this hard in a while. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 January, 2017, 09:08:37 PM
Did you ever think that Kim Jong Un wouldn't be the most batshit crazy leader in the world?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 January, 2017, 09:02:12 AM
Well before this thread was so rudely jacked, I was posing the real questions,

Marmite, yay or nay?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 January, 2017, 09:07:55 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 27 January, 2017, 09:02:12 AM
Well before this thread was so rudely jacked, I was posing the real questions,

Marmite, yay or nay?
"Love it or hate it" :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2017, 09:17:02 AM
Meh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 January, 2017, 09:53:42 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2017, 09:17:02 AM
Meh.
Now now Sharky you cant be on the fence now!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2017, 11:11:46 AM
*chortles*

Can't be doing with the stuff, to be honest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 January, 2017, 12:25:39 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 27 January, 2017, 09:53:42 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2017, 09:17:02 AM
Meh.
Now now Sharky you cant be on the fence now!

never bothered me either way, but Lorne Vs Link?  I'm with Rowdy Yates Block!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 January, 2017, 02:37:26 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 28 January, 2017, 12:25:39 PM
Lorne Vs Link?

Why would anyone try to force greasy, cylindrical objects between two squares of bread and expect them not to roll off or squirm about in their grip, leaving one bit of the roll/sandwich all bread and another all sausage *?

Square sausage is the one area of life where Scotland clearly, undeniably has it right and the rest of the world is doing it wrong. Everything else, we're fucked, but we know how to get pig's head shavings between two pieces of chewy white dough.


* You could cut the sausages in half, to make them lie flat, but that's just acknowledging the basic flaw in the design, and that you'd have been better making them square in the first place.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 January, 2017, 03:15:01 PM
Just for Tips here's the Vegan version:

(http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/theFrontpage-10th-page-001-21-1024x768.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 03:26:06 PM
If it ain't cylindrical and in a skin, it ain't a sausage, it's a just a hunk of sausage-meat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 January, 2017, 03:27:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 03:26:06 PM
If it ain't cylindrical and in a skin, it ain't a sausage, it's a just a hunk of sausage-meat.

Faggot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2017, 03:35:42 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 28 January, 2017, 03:27:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 03:26:06 PM
If it ain't cylindrical and in a skin, it ain't a sausage, it's a just a hunk of sausage-meat.

Faggot.
'Ulps' Tordelbacks become a Youtube comment writer...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 28 January, 2017, 04:14:04 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2017, 03:35:42 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 28 January, 2017, 03:27:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 03:26:06 PM
If it ain't cylindrical and in a skin, it ain't a sausage, it's a just a hunk of sausage-meat.

Faggot.
'Ulps' Tordelbacks become a Youtube comment writer...

I was going to say, Faggots are made of mince anyways.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 January, 2017, 04:21:00 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 28 January, 2017, 04:14:04 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2017, 03:35:42 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 28 January, 2017, 03:27:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 03:26:06 PM
If it ain't cylindrical and in a skin, it ain't a sausage, it's a just a hunk of sausage-meat.

Faggot.
'Ulps' Tordelbacks become a Youtube comment writer...

I was going to say, Faggots are made of mince anyways.

Wikipedia:
Quote
It is made from meat off-cuts and offal, especially pork.[3] A faggot is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes bread crumbs.

Sounds like sausage meat to me!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2017, 05:35:12 PM
A rim of thick, sturdy crust is the answer to sausage displacement.

This is buttyology 101.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 06:01:20 PM
Y'see? There's an Englishman who knows how to handle a sausage. We don't need them to be skinned and made into squares for sandwiches  - to make a stable sausage sandwich with equidistant distribution and  lateral stability, you just slice them lengthwise
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 January, 2017, 06:15:31 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 06:01:20 PM
There's an Englishman who knows how to handle a sausage.

It's wrong to characterise all Englishmen as effete homosexuals.

As I said before, slicing two links lengthwise creates a flat, square area of pig residue, restoring the sausage to the rhomboid form it should have taken in the first place.

Beats me how Southerners build a tripler with links - where do you put the tattie scone?


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2017, 06:19:04 PM
Thanks, DDD - now I have coffee up my nose. :-D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 06:55:07 PM
and I never even mentionerd his crusty rimming...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2017, 07:03:12 PM
This is the gayest thread i've seen on a comic book forum since the last time I read a Saga thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2017, 07:05:26 PM
(https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.meme.am%2Fcache%2Finstances%2Ffolder964%2F49029964.jpg&sp=f1fb1a1888652e3b32b12c023b1f909f)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 28 January, 2017, 08:10:01 PM
Quote from: Frank on 28 January, 2017, 06:15:31 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2017, 06:01:20 PM
There's an Englishman who knows how to handle a sausage.

It's wrong to characterise all Englishmen as effete homosexuals.

If anybody knows how to handle a sausage, surely it's a (male) homosexual?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 January, 2017, 08:32:14 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 28 January, 2017, 07:03:12 PM
This is the gayest thread i've seen

We like reading comics about gladiators:


(http://www.2000ad.org/thrillpower/1266.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/ajG8085.png)(http://i.imgur.com/ABEPiS9.png)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 29 January, 2017, 06:00:52 PM
4:0
Great game today.:)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 January, 2017, 08:03:56 PM
What about Mrs Slocome's pussy? has anyone seen it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 January, 2017, 08:24:52 PM
I thought everyone had seen it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 31 January, 2017, 06:23:19 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 January, 2017, 08:03:56 PM
What about Mrs Slocome's pussy? has anyone seen it?

Have you asked Donald?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 01 February, 2017, 09:18:05 PM
Apparently Rose and Grant's in the Merchant city do an awesome vegan square sausage.

I think the phrase "awesome vegan square sausage" sentence maximises the number of words that you might think are contradictory but aren't.

I'm getting too used to this new world order.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 February, 2017, 09:20:21 PM
Missus has just informed me that it's the 26th anniversary of the day of our first date.  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 February, 2017, 12:27:47 AM
Awww, congratulations vB, that's quite an anniversary and a proper achievement.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 February, 2017, 01:49:33 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 01 February, 2017, 09:18:05 PM
Apparently Rose and Grant's in the Merchant city do an awesome vegan square sausage.

I think the phrase "awesome vegan square sausage" sentence maximises the number of words that you might think are contradictory but aren't.

I'm getting too used to this new world order.

Go back to page 366 and you'll see it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 02 February, 2017, 01:54:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 02 February, 2017, 01:49:33 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 01 February, 2017, 09:18:05 PM
Apparently Rose and Grant's in the Merchant city do an awesome vegan square sausage.

I think the phrase "awesome vegan square sausage" sentence maximises the number of words that you might think are contradictory but aren't.

I'm getting too used to this new world order.

Go back to page 366 and you'll see it!

If you wish to slay the sleeping Dragon turn to page 274

If you wish to try and steal some of its gold turn to page 366

If you wish to wear the magic ring and try to sneak through turn to page 193
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 February, 2017, 12:38:25 PM
Hey Kids! Now you can be just like Uncy Trumpy. Create your own Executive Orders! and share them with your friends! See who can come up with the bestest order evar!

http://hepwori.github.io/execorder/ (http://hepwori.github.io/execorder/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 04 February, 2017, 03:51:26 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 02 February, 2017, 01:54:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 02 February, 2017, 01:49:33 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 01 February, 2017, 09:18:05 PM
Apparently Rose and Grant's in the Merchant city do an awesome vegan square sausage.

I think the phrase "awesome vegan square sausage" sentence maximises the number of words that you might think are contradictory but aren't.

I'm getting too used to this new world order.

Go back to page 366 and you'll see it!

If you wish to slay the sleeping Dragon turn to page 274

If you wish to try and steal some of its gold turn to page 366

If you wish to wear the magic ring and try to sneak through turn to page 193
193
You put on the magic ring, only to find that it is cursed!  The dragon regains its appearance as an unlucky dwarf while you slowly turn in to a dragon, too large to get through the exit and forever trapped in this cave.  For you, the adventure ends here.

274
Dragon
Skill: 18
Stamina: 22
Attacks: 2
If you win, turn to paragraph 300

366
Test Your Luck, if you fail, the dragon awakes, skewering you on its claws.  For you, the adventure ends here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 06 February, 2017, 05:27:28 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 02 February, 2017, 01:49:33 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 01 February, 2017, 09:18:05 PM
Apparently Rose and Grant's in the Merchant city do an awesome vegan square sausage.

I think the phrase "awesome vegan square sausage" sentence maximises the number of words that you might think are contradictory but aren't.

I'm getting too used to this new world order.

Go back to page 366 and you'll see it!

Ah yes, I can see it in the name in the window. Looks nice. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 February, 2017, 06:58:07 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/vZJ5PVt.png?2)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 10 February, 2017, 07:26:05 PM
That level of creativity should be illegal.

Cue Waynes World "We're not worthy!" adulation.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2017, 06:06:52 PM

(http://i.imgur.com/ddenKbi.png)  (http://i.imgur.com/bXuiFAR.png?2)

Archbishop of Canterbury          David Bishop


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 13 February, 2017, 09:46:20 AM
I want to take it out of the packaging and play with it admire it better, but it looks so good as is.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2017, 05:42:58 PM
From the Independent: As 2000AD turns 40, here are 40 reasons why it's the galaxy's greatest comic (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/as-2000ad-turns-40-here-are-40-reasons-why-its-the-galaxys-greatest-comic-a7571466.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 February, 2017, 08:53:26 PM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5DFjNqCd--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/nquix5ntcwldkptucvqn.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 February, 2017, 07:05:03 PM
Tiny Trumps (Not trying to disparage Tips or his clan here :))
http://boingboing.net/2017/02/17/lil-trump.html (http://boingboing.net/2017/02/17/lil-trump.html)

(https://i1.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/LilTrump.jpg?w=640)

More at https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyTrumps/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyTrumps/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 25 February, 2017, 06:29:05 AM
Putting raspberries in a drink automatically makes it classy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 February, 2017, 07:25:14 AM
Quote from: Trout on 25 February, 2017, 06:29:05 AM
Putting raspberries in a drink automatically makes it classy.

It's not easy to squeeze them into my morning can of Special Brew, but if it impresses the ladies who walk to work along the canal, I'll give it a shot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 February, 2017, 07:51:06 AM
Quote from: Trout on 25 February, 2017, 06:29:05 AM
Putting raspberries in a drink automatically makes it classy.
I tried that but I just ended uo getting spittle in a ladies prosecco.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 February, 2017, 04:00:42 PM
"I had a dream I had an awesome dream".
Lionel Richie 1986


Having a Saturday afternoon siesta, I dreamt a right corker.

Planet Replica's had tweeted a sneaky peek photo for a forthcoming 2017 Judge Dredd annual.
At first I thought it was a mock up of one for a bit of nostalgic fun, but then - somehow - I got hold of a advance copy, and it was real and it was fantastic.

Proper old school it was. Just like the ones of yesteryear.

Sigh...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 28 February, 2017, 08:30:07 AM
I was browsing thru one of those great Alan Moore retrospectives(not gonna say which one) and I noticed something that kinda happens often with British writers;Alans 2000AD bibliography is barely mentioned.Okay,DR and Quinch were not Watchmen or Miracleman,but they deserve a mention.
Or maybe really nobody outside Thargs fandom cares.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 March, 2017, 10:52:15 AM
Quote from: Smith on 28 February, 2017, 08:30:07 AM
I was browsing thru one of those great Alan Moore retrospectives(not gonna say which one) and I noticed something that kinda happens often with British writers;Alans 2000AD bibliography is barely mentioned.Okay,DR and Quinch were not Watchmen or Miracleman,but they deserve a mention.
Or maybe really nobody outside Thargs fandom cares.

Not to mention the utterly incredible Halo Jones, which rarely gets more than a passing nod.  Not superheroey enough for the yanks, perhaps.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 01 March, 2017, 10:58:46 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 March, 2017, 10:52:15 AM
Quote from: Smith on 28 February, 2017, 08:30:07 AM
I was browsing thru one of those great Alan Moore retrospectives(not gonna say which one) and I noticed something that kinda happens often with British writers;Alans 2000AD bibliography is barely mentioned.Okay,DR and Quinch were not Watchmen or Miracleman,but they deserve a mention.
Or maybe really nobody outside Thargs fandom cares.

Not to mention the utterly incredible Halo Jones, which rarely gets more than a passing nod.  Not superheroey enough for the yanks, perhaps.
That probably plays a part.But if you can go thru Lost Girls and Neonomicon,why dismiss the 2000ad material almost entirely?Some weird priorities there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 March, 2017, 03:04:06 PM
Guys, it's been three years since the last run of Low Life. I'm starting to get a little concerned.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 08 March, 2017, 08:09:13 AM
I remembered Zenith:Tales of alternate Earths.I think the coolest detail is Arthur Montgomery toys.A pull-string toy of a stereotypical Yorkshirman that says: THIS BLEEDING COUNTRY HAS GONE TO THE DOGS,ITS IS!
That need to happen.I would buy it.:)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:03:49 PM
Quote from: Smith on 28 February, 2017, 08:30:07 AM
I was browsing thru one of those great Alan Moore retrospectives(not gonna say which one) and I noticed something that kinda happens often with British writers;Alans 2000AD bibliography is barely mentioned.Okay,DR and Quinch were not Watchmen or Miracleman,but they deserve a mention.
Or maybe really nobody outside Thargs fandom cares.

Does anyone get raped?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:06:00 PM

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/IMG_3799_zpsmvbz5yqg.jpg)

Is Jazz Hands a confirmed medical condition? or just a degenerate German?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 09 March, 2017, 04:12:05 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:03:49 PM
Quote from: Smith on 28 February, 2017, 08:30:07 AM
I was browsing thru one of those great Alan Moore retrospectives(not gonna say which one) and I noticed something that kinda happens often with British writers;Alans 2000AD bibliography is barely mentioned.Okay,DR and Quinch were not Watchmen or Miracleman,but they deserve a mention.
Or maybe really nobody outside Thargs fandom cares.

Does anyone get raped?
Not really.You think that might be the reason?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 March, 2017, 04:12:54 PM
It's his transformation pose.

SHUWATCH! BUTTMAN!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:14:02 PM
I thought it was in Moore's contract that there must be sexual violence against wimmin or he takes his ball home.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:06:00 PM

(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/button71/IMG_3799_zpsmvbz5yqg.jpg)



Can't help but hear 'Putting on the Ritz' as I look at that... the Dr Frunkenstien version

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 09 March, 2017, 04:18:42 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:14:02 PM
I thought it was in Moore's contract that there must be sexual violence against wimmin or he takes his ball home.
I think I heard a similar opinion once...Excuse me mister Morrison,would you please sign my JLA #1?  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:19:04 PM
That's you that is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FLZPFI3jc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FLZPFI3jc)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:20:03 PM
not you Smithy, Buttman  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 March, 2017, 08:23:39 AM
Quote from: Smith on 09 March, 2017, 04:18:42 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2017, 04:14:02 PM
I thought it was in Moore's contract that there must be sexual violence against wimmin or he takes his ball home.
I think I heard a similar opinion once...Excuse me mister Morrison,would you please sign my JLA #1?  ;)

Well, yes.  Grant has never ever depicted anyone being raped.  Except for Dan fucking Dare and Britney fucking Spears.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 10 March, 2017, 08:46:11 AM
At this point let's try to remember that Alan Moore and Grant Morrison are both excellent comic writers and it's a pretty extreme stretch to assume that either of them condone sexual violence in any way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 March, 2017, 09:10:58 AM
Quote from: JamesC on 10 March, 2017, 08:46:11 AM
At this point let's try to remember that Alan Moore and Grant Morrison are both excellent comic writers and it's a pretty extreme stretch to assume that either of them condone sexual violence in any way.
Ofc,nobody assumed THAT.Its just that they use it as a narative device somewhat often.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 March, 2017, 09:12:31 AM
Quote from: JamesC on 10 March, 2017, 08:46:11 AM
At this point let's try to remember that Alan Moore and Grant Morrison are both excellent comic writers and it's a pretty extreme stretch to assume that either of them condone sexual violence in any way.

Well, yes, of course; Morrison is one of the finest writers in comics today, while Moore is the best who ever lived.  I don't really have a moral problem with the fictional depiction of rape, uncomfortable as it is to look at.  But I do find it a tad daft that Morrison has used it as a jab at Moore, claiming that he himself has never used it in his scripts when he very clearly has.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 March, 2017, 09:22:20 AM
I'm kinda repulsed at the utilisation of rape as a plot device, it smacks of cheap shocks and easy writing. If rape IS to be used in anyway, i'd rather the author took the Fury Road approach. Implication over gratuity.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 10 March, 2017, 09:57:08 AM
I think it would be an issue if all they wrote about was rape but they don't so it isn't.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 March, 2017, 10:07:36 AM
I'm just waiting until someone in the anti-Moore brigade learns to read books without pictures and manages to parse the several rape/incest chapters in Jerusalem.  The internet will break asunder beneath the weight of their click-bait hypocrisy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 March, 2017, 10:30:33 AM
Well,we are a visual culture.Who reads books anymore? ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 March, 2017, 10:46:31 AM
Just us dinosaurs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 March, 2017, 03:33:06 PM
Dan Dare secretly enjoyed it.... just like in Watchmen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 March, 2017, 04:19:55 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 March, 2017, 03:33:06 PM
Dan Dare secretly enjoyed it.... just like in Watchmen.

(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/open-can-worms-8565239.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 March, 2017, 04:47:17 PM
Here something I will regret asking...when did that happen?I don't recall it from Dare. Which in all honesty,I loathed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 12 March, 2017, 08:09:49 PM
As walking this afternoon..

(https://scontent.flhr3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17201265_10154581823006636_6214311059177206091_n.jpg?oh=fdc4d6a6f3821b6ba3ba3dde46793533&oe=592BA728)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steve Green on 12 March, 2017, 10:18:03 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 March, 2017, 04:47:17 PM
Here something I will regret asking...when did that happen?I don't recall it from Dare. Which in all honesty,I loathed.

https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/57623.html (https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/57623.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 March, 2017, 01:57:59 AM
Oh, joy! I had thought that Spartacus: Vengeance was the last in the series but now discover War of the Damned, which is like stumbling upon a previously undiscovered Christmas. Woo-hoo!

And wouldn't Dustin Clare be ideal to play Slaine? Oh yes, yes he would!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 13 March, 2017, 05:22:21 AM
Quote from: Steve Green on 12 March, 2017, 10:18:03 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 March, 2017, 04:47:17 PM
Here something I will regret asking...when did that happen?I don't recall it from Dare. Which in all honesty,I loathed.

https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/57623.html (https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/57623.html)
First time around I thought they were talking about executing him,but now I see the heavy,heavy implication.Dear Grud,Mekons face...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 March, 2017, 03:50:24 PM
Quote from: Steve Green on 12 March, 2017, 10:18:03 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 March, 2017, 04:47:17 PM
Here something I will regret asking...when did that happen?I don't recall it from Dare. Which in all honesty,I loathed.

https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/57623.html (https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/57623.html)

You know what, I enjoyed (re-reading) that, it looked good too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 March, 2017, 04:47:07 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2017, 05:19:11 PM
We just discussed Dan Dare getting anal probed by The Mekon, how much more on topic do you want?! :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 14 March, 2017, 05:44:39 PM
(https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/17190650_618349445028181_7609102396606416813_n.png?oh=1edaf6f7c46ed3da27f831434665675f&oe=592EDF42)
Just asking,but is anyone else tired of all the origin story movies/shows at this point?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 March, 2017, 06:23:01 PM
I'm I right in thinking his thank you is for the clarity of thought explained later when he blows em all tae feck ?

(and when I say blows them all, no not that)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 17 March, 2017, 02:59:30 PM
Obviously,yes.
Can we now focus on some Dan Dare stories that were a little more cheerful?Garth Ennis' series was freaking amazing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 March, 2017, 09:44:58 PM
Quote from: Smith on 17 March, 2017, 02:59:30 PM
Obviously,yes.
Can we now focus on some Dan Dare stories that were a little more cheerful?Garth Ennis' series was freaking amazing.
amazing yes, but I wouldn't go for "cheerful" - [spoiler]Everybody dies! Digby dies! The seargant's entire squad dies! [/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 18 March, 2017, 05:11:01 AM
Well,compared to Dare...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 March, 2017, 10:52:49 AM
Do you ever see, or even talk for any period of time, and swear blind they're someone you know?

It's just I served a gent at the cafe today I could have sworn was our Batking but didn't think to ask.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 18 March, 2017, 11:16:36 AM
Once or twice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 March, 2017, 11:46:15 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 18 March, 2017, 10:52:49 AM
Do you ever see, or even talk for any period of time, and swear blind they're someone you know?

It's just I served a gent at the cafe today I could have sworn was our Batking but didn't think to ask.  :lol:

PM him!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 18 March, 2017, 10:31:04 PM
Anyone know a scene when monster or creature attack from the sea? or slow rise from sea from top view. Need a quick clip for it.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 18 March, 2017, 11:34:08 PM
I know a bloke* called Godzilla who might be able to help.



*Gender may fluctuate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 March, 2017, 11:55:05 PM
The Johnny Vegas Adaptation Of Halo Jones That The BBC Turned Down (https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03/18/johnny-vegas-adaptation-halo-jones-bbc-turned/)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 19 March, 2017, 12:50:23 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 18 March, 2017, 11:55:05 PM
The Johnny Vegas Adaptation Of Halo Jones That The BBC Turned Down (https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03/18/johnny-vegas-adaptation-halo-jones-bbc-turned/)

If only the person who wrote that article had thought to end it:

Where did she go? Out.

What did she do? Nowt.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 March, 2017, 01:09:32 AM
Where did she go? Out.
What did she do? Nowt.
Who said she did? Trout.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 March, 2017, 02:22:19 PM
I now own a pair of reading glasses.


....now I can read the 'damage report' again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 March, 2017, 10:29:40 PM
I saw a bunch of famous gaming You-Tubers (of the 7 or 8 digit subscriber variety) do Q&As at a con this weekend. It was pretty fascinating, seeing as I'd only ever heard of two of them and had watched neither.

Some of them were astonishingly charismatic in person, and guilelessly charming. Others were preening fools or dullards out of their depth (destined for high office, no doubt), and one particularly odious racing-game gang had - genuinely - modelled themselves on the Top Gear knobs, complete with individuals affecting the bumbling May hairdo, sneering Clarkson contempt etc. Shudder.

But the ones who were good, wow they were good. I suppose I was mainly intrigued to see that online game commentary has definitely grown into a real medium, with all the virtuosos, dickheads and corporate shits of a real medium.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 March, 2017, 11:17:59 PM
Last year one of the cinemas in town had live screening of some big gaming finals. Can't remember which game, or figure out why people wouldn't just watch it online, but that made me stop and think about the medium in a similar fashion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 March, 2017, 10:21:19 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 March, 2017, 10:29:40 PM
I saw a bunch of famous gaming You-Tubers (of the 7 or 8 digit subscriber variety) do Q&As at a con this weekend.

Glad you made it into the con, by all accounts it was organized chaos.

I was tempted to go myself, but the price and content put me off a bit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 March, 2017, 10:43:19 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 20 March, 2017, 10:21:19 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 March, 2017, 10:29:40 PM
I saw a bunch of famous gaming You-Tubers (of the 7 or 8 digit subscriber variety) do Q&As at a con this weekend.

Glad you made it into the con, by all accounts it was organized chaos.

Oh Gamercon was a complete disaster, but I expected nothing less when they were boasting 12,000 attendees a day (most of them pre-teens) in a venue that can feel badly crowded with 8,000. Apparently we were all only supposed to stay for 2 hours and not the whole day, so it was basically OUR fault.

I was accompanying TordelBoy rather than going for myself, and as an eternal pessimist we came prepared with raingear, fully charged DSs, sambos and flask of coffee and managed to have a great time. When folk were queuing for over an hour for nachos, having waited 2-3 hours in the rain to get in, and ALL of the 100s of consoles had to download 15gig  updates at the same time while sharing wifi with 10,000 attendees, you  know someone has screwed the metaphorical pooch.

However, there was lots of cool stuff going on, only issue we had  was the queues for the VR stuff: I calculated 90 minutes waiting per 3 minute go for even the simplest rig, so we went and played some Counterstrike instead.

Spotted a Judge McKnight in movie regalia but I was stranded by broken escalator at the time and didn't get a chance to say hi, anyone here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 March, 2017, 12:12:27 PM
If anyone is in London and wants a go on VR on a Tuesday afternoon, PM me and I'll see what I can do. Big British Castle has a special room of such scrying devices and I can bring guests.

(Just spent a week showcasing the tech to people and I think we should get people excited about stuff like the Vive, which is a million miles better than even the PSVR).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 20 March, 2017, 12:49:07 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 20 March, 2017, 12:12:27 PM
If anyone is in London and wants a go on VR on a Tuesday afternoon, PM me and I'll see what I can do. Big British Castle has a special room of such scrying devices and I can bring guests.

What/where is Big British Castle?  T'internet suggests it's something to do with Adam and/or Joe...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 20 March, 2017, 12:50:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 March, 2017, 10:43:19 AM
Oh Gamercon was a complete disaster, but I expected nothing less when they were boasting 12,000 attendees a day (most of them pre-teens) in a venue that can feel badly crowded with 8,000. Apparently we were all only supposed to stay for 2 hours and not the whole day, so it was basically OUR fault.


As a matter of interest, how much were they charging?  Tried to look at the website but it only has the potential refund message under tickets.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 March, 2017, 01:22:37 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 20 March, 2017, 12:49:07 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 20 March, 2017, 12:12:27 PM
If anyone is in London and wants a go on VR on a Tuesday afternoon, PM me and I'll see what I can do. Big British Castle has a special room of such scrying devices and I can bring guests.

What/where is Big British Castle?  T'internet suggests it's something to do with Adam and/or Joe...

B_____ B_____ C :)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 March, 2017, 04:32:04 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 20 March, 2017, 12:50:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 March, 2017, 10:43:19 AM
Oh Gamercon was a complete disaster, but I expected nothing less when they were boasting 12,000 attendees a day (most of them pre-teens) in a venue that can feel badly crowded with 8,000. Apparently we were all only supposed to stay for 2 hours and not the whole day, so it was basically OUR fault.

As a matter of interest, how much were they charging?  Tried to look at the website but it only has the potential refund message under tickets.

Depended when you booked - I think non-VIP tickets were initially €15 last year, rising to €25 the month before.

Was talking to a mate today whose son waited 3 hours outside to get in... That's some nonsense.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 22 March, 2017, 10:47:59 AM
I work for an American firm and just had active shooter training which was hilarious and frightening in equal measure. Hilarious due to the fact the film was like a mini episode of 24 and terrifying that in the U.S. this is the equivalent of a fire drill.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 22 March, 2017, 10:49:19 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 22 March, 2017, 10:47:59 AM
I work for an American firm and just had active shooter training which was hilarious and frightening in equal measure. Hilarious due to the fact the film was like a mini episode of 24 and terrifying that in the U.S. this is the equivalent of a fire drill.

Hope it not like the upcoming film; The Belko Experiment
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 March, 2017, 11:07:37 AM
Don't forget to be afraid. If you're not afraid, you're hard to rule and if you're hard to rule the 1% are out on their ears - and that would never do... :D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 March, 2017, 08:38:47 PM
New reading glasses and now I can read what you lot are on about! :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 23 March, 2017, 10:45:31 AM
You might end up regreting that investment. :p
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 23 March, 2017, 09:47:03 PM
Any news on the 2000ad FCBD signing for 2017?

It's been about 6, or 7 weeks since the 40th bash, and I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 March, 2017, 10:54:07 PM
Quote from: Smith on 23 March, 2017, 10:45:31 AM
You might end up regreting that investment. :p

Read everything else before you read the political thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 March, 2017, 11:01:24 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ
link=topic=36237.msg950816#msg950816
date=1490309647


Read everything else before you read the
political thread.


Yes - preferably the entire rest of the internet...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 March, 2017, 10:40:50 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 23 March, 2017, 11:01:24 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ
link=topic=36237.msg950816#msg950816
date=1490309647


Read everything else before you read the
political thread.


Yes - preferably the entire rest of the internet...

The discussions in that thread can get rather... spirited.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 24 March, 2017, 10:55:34 AM
Not quite the word I would use,but lets say spirited.  :|
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 24 March, 2017, 11:04:05 AM
For the more sapient members of the forum it goes a little something like this;

- Randomly open 'The Political Thread'.
- Shake head.
- Chuckle.
- Close 'The Political Thread'.
- Continue to never post in 'The Political Thread'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 24 March, 2017, 11:07:52 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 22 March, 2017, 10:47:59 AM
I work for an American firm and just had active shooter training which was hilarious and frightening in equal measure. Hilarious due to the fact the film was like a mini episode of 24 and terrifying that in the U.S. this is the equivalent of a fire drill.

Had something similar  which reminded me of 'Duck and Cover', oh and get on your silenced mobile while your hiding.
Couldn't help thinking ' Glasgow Airport Staff haven't seen this have they?'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 24 March, 2017, 11:33:24 AM
Still heads and shoulders above any politically themed discussion I've seen elsewhere on the internet
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 24 March, 2017, 12:18:40 PM
That's not a very high bar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 24 March, 2017, 01:23:09 PM
True, let me fix that-


Still heads and shoulders above any politically themed discussion I've seen elsewhere on the internet, the pages of most newspapers or at PMQs.

No, the bar is still pretty low.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 March, 2017, 01:51:28 PM
Let's face it, any thread that has the likes of me as one of its stars is never going to be winning any awards.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 24 March, 2017, 03:05:07 PM
Well,points for honesty.  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 March, 2017, 08:07:16 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 24 March, 2017, 11:04:05 AM
For the more sapient members of the forum it goes a little something like this;

- Randomly open 'The Political Thread'.
- Shake head.
- Chuckle.
- Close 'The Political Thread'.
- Continue to never post in 'The Political Thread'.

I learnt a new word today. Sapient - well done that man.

It was a very sapient comment you made very sapiently (can you made a sapient into a sapiently?)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 25 March, 2017, 08:53:37 AM
Only if its Pearwood.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 March, 2017, 10:22:08 AM
Sharky's already got plenty of baggage.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 March, 2017, 11:22:35 AM
Nah, I divorced her years ago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 March, 2017, 08:44:35 AM
Nobody mentioned Slaine in a while,weird. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 March, 2017, 09:21:32 AM
Quote from: Smith on 27 March, 2017, 08:44:35 AM
Nobody mentioned Slaine in a while,weird. :)
GOOD!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 March, 2017, 09:38:13 AM
We didn't link it to any(thing else).

I'll get me woad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 March, 2017, 10:27:58 AM
Quote from: Smith on 27 March, 2017, 08:44:35 AM
Nobody mentioned Slaine in a while,weird. :)

This particular Elephant in the Room was a troubled and lonely individual and i had a lot of sympathy for him.  But i have to say i don't really miss his rambling, obsessive posts and misogynistic language much.*

(*Possibly a bit rich coming from someone who was recently banned for using a particular word, though it's a word i always associate with awful men rather than the part of the female anatomy it literally means.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 March, 2017, 10:52:46 AM
It's a perfectly cromulent word, and was an odd choice for censure here in particular when it appeared in a story in the Meg not so long ago, and it the context you used it almost the dictionary definition*.  But oddly I hardly ever use it myself. 

As we know, most if not all swearwords have their etymology in derogatory language used against groups of 'others', with the additional benefit of reminding everyone of the supposedly negative connotations of belonging to  that group (for example the now entirely acceptable sod and bugger, and their modern descendant 'gay').  As has been pointed out to me on this very forum, it's bizarre that I find 'cretin' and 'moron' are totally fine, but I can hardly bring myself to even type 'retard' or 'mong' and would never use them, despite all having essentially the same origin, just at different historical remove.

I suspect the C-word enjoys special protected status despite usually being applied in an entirely gender-neutral manner just because it is reserved for the most negative judgement one can pass, and predictably for our society, cognate with that most distinctive aspect of oh-so-contemptible female anatomy.

Personally I live for the day when I am banned from the HoloNet for calling someone a trumping farage.



*Although I happily defer to the CoC and its light-handed enforcement.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 March, 2017, 11:07:04 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 March, 2017, 10:52:46 AM
It's a perfectly cromulent word, and was an odd choice for censure here in particular when it appeared in a story in the Meg not so long ago

Thanks TB; I have to admit it's not a word I use often myself and indeed its inclusion in the Meg gave me some encouragement to swear freely on the board.  Like RTE 2, I used to use 'feck' a lot on this board, then changed it to its similar-sounding but far more profane brother when I realised that we were pretty much all adults here. But as for the other word; all I can say is that Farage, and his 'silver-backed gorilla' sex-offending friend Trump, bring out the worst in me.

I missed the warning, but fair enough; we were warned, and I fully respect the mods' decision.  I turn off the extreme swearing in front of my elderly parents, so I can for the board too.  Lesson learned.   

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 March, 2017, 11:12:08 AM
Kinda reminds me of when me and a few friends where searching for a village in Stromness for a good giggle, named Twatt. Struggling to locate the bloody thing we stopped in a pub (OFC) and inbetween rounds I asked the bar man for directions.

Me: "S'cuse me mate, don't suppose you could point us in the direction of...Twait....Tweet...Tw-"

Barman: "It's fucking pronounced TWAT!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 March, 2017, 12:20:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 March, 2017, 10:27:58 AM

(*Possibly a bit rich coming from someone who was recently banned for using a particular word, though it's a word i always associate with awful men rather than the part of the female anatomy it literally means.)


You got banned for saying it; I got banned for being one - you must try harder! :-P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 March, 2017, 12:23:11 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 March, 2017, 12:20:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 March, 2017, 10:27:58 AM

(*Possibly a bit rich coming from someone who was recently banned for using a particular word, though it's a word i always associate with awful men rather than the part of the female anatomy it literally means.)


You got banned for saying it; I got banned for being one - you must try harder! :-P
😁

You may be a ****, but you're OUR ****.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 March, 2017, 12:50:28 PM
Aww, you say the nicest things, *sniff*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 March, 2017, 01:13:02 PM
A horrible word for a beautiful thing...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 29 March, 2017, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 March, 2017, 01:13:02 PM
A horrible word for a beautiful thing...

if we cant use that what insult should replace it? I'm quite partial to the term fannybaws.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 March, 2017, 02:15:10 PM
Cnut?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 29 March, 2017, 08:53:26 PM
What is interesting about the word in question is that it used to be almost universally acceptable - for example, there was a street next to the Bank of England, renowned as a hang-out for prostitutes, called 'Gropec*nt Lane' and it wasn't the only street so named. It is, simply, the only word that describes the whole of the female genetalia; vagina, labia etc only describe particular bits. Some would argue that, in fact, vagina is far more offensive as it comes from the Latin for sheath/scabbard, reducing that beautiful area to a mere recepticle for a man's weapon. I know many women who baulk at the very thought that that's all it's good for. As is usual in a patriarchy, it's men that have made it a 'bad' word.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 29 March, 2017, 08:54:31 PM
An interesting article, I thought, about the whole issue:

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/11/27/c-is-for-cunt/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 March, 2017, 09:26:42 PM
Excellent article, thanks for sharing.

I don't think any words should be taboo or banned. To my mind, the issue behind banning such words or punishing their users is this modern terror of offending people, which is an even worse foolishness. To claim offence at mere words is what an old friend and mentor of mine used to call a "thought stopper." By claiming offence over certain words or ideas, by playing it as a trump card, rational discourse is stopped in its tracks. "I'm not going to address your issues because they are, or are presented in, an offensive way - therefore I win the argument." I'd call that bullshit and an impediment to proper argumentation and opinion forming.

On the other hand, there's the phenomena of name-calling, which is a subtly different thing. To be offended by an argument, or the wording of an argument, is foolish, I think, but if one puts forward an argument or statement only to be met by "you are a total cnut" then there is some justification in taking offence because that's just a childish schoolyard ad-hominem attack which is the verbal equivalent of a slap in the face. Even so, I personally don't take much offence over being called names because it's a sign of the name-caller's lack of intelligence more than anything and to be pitied rather than reviled - although, like everyone, I can only be pushed so far before hitting back.

In conclusion, I'd say that it's always okay to use any words at all in making an argument but not in name-calling because the former increases understanding whilst the latter retards it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 March, 2017, 07:47:34 AM
QuoteAnd prively he caughte hire by the queynte
- Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales.

Hippy, you're going to get yourself banned, young man
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 30 March, 2017, 08:22:49 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 30 March, 2017, 07:47:34 AM
QuoteAnd prively he caughte hire by the queynte
- Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales.

Hippy, you're going to get yourself banned, young man

I assumed it was okay to discuss the word and its use in an intellectual context; it's not like I called anyone a queynte!  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 March, 2017, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 29 March, 2017, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 March, 2017, 01:13:02 PM
A horrible word for a beautiful thing...

if we cant use that what insult should replace it? I'm quite partial to the term fannybaws.

Weegee?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 March, 2017, 06:38:38 PM
Oh no. Sharknado is real.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/30/shark-washes-up-puddle-australia-cylone-debbie-sharknado (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/30/shark-washes-up-puddle-australia-cylone-debbie-sharknado)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 30 March, 2017, 06:53:50 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 March, 2017, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 29 March, 2017, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 March, 2017, 01:13:02 PM
A horrible word for a beautiful thing...

if we cant use that what insult should replace it? I'm quite partial to the term fannybaws.

Weegee?

Some people can spell weegie and some people can't,  you sir are a complete can't!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 30 March, 2017, 07:14:32 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 30 March, 2017, 06:53:50 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 March, 2017, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 29 March, 2017, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 29 March, 2017, 01:13:02 PM
A horrible word for a beautiful thing...

if we cant use that what insult should replace it? I'm quite partial to the term fannybaws.

Weegee?

Some people can spell weegie and some people can't,  you sir are a complete can't!

(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/WeegeeSmall_zpsirmancev.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 30 March, 2017, 07:48:27 PM
Ahem...

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns4089 (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns4089)

Sorry but that's just the work of another illiterate can't
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 March, 2017, 08:33:36 PM
The four main Red Dwarf actors have surnames that are also forenames.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 30 March, 2017, 08:51:46 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 30 March, 2017, 07:48:27 PM
Ahem...

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns4089 (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns4089)

Sorry but that's just the work of another illiterate can't

Pah! Ye'll be tellin' me nixt that it's no spelt "Feejee (http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_feejee_mermaid)"!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 March, 2017, 10:17:46 PM


Funt.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 31 March, 2017, 07:02:15 AM
I think I recognized a forum member on 2000ad's facebook page.Not that hard since they used their real name in both places.  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 March, 2017, 11:32:21 AM
What about my cock? It's big and ginger. What do I call that?

My cock:

(http://rs641.pbsrc.com/albums/uu138/RHewitt/DSC00294-1.jpg~c200)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 March, 2017, 01:53:20 PM
That's not what you said at the 40th  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 March, 2017, 04:55:12 PM
It's pronounced Slaine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2017, 05:05:20 PM
You're pronounced Slaine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 March, 2017, 05:05:37 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 31 March, 2017, 04:55:12 PM
It's pronounced Slaine.
Mayor, you came back to us!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 March, 2017, 05:36:47 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2017, 05:05:20 PM
You're pronounced Slaine.

It's spelt yore.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 March, 2017, 06:48:33 PM
I'll see your big ginger cock and raise you a huge pink and white Dick.

(http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/hollywood/portraits/dick_van_dyke.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 31 March, 2017, 09:12:39 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 March, 2017, 05:36:47 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2017, 05:05:20 PM
You're pronounced Slaine.

It's spelt yore.
Your're.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 31 March, 2017, 09:32:29 PM
Midge Ure?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2017, 09:39:42 PM
U're.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 March, 2017, 09:44:18 PM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_pSinzHHVu0/UJ0KCGqxH9I/AAAAAAAADZ0/IUCGguQL8Fw/s1600/yor1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2017, 10:23:20 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 April, 2017, 09:50:31 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/Slik.jpg/220px-Slik.jpg)

Why did Wagner name Joe's niece after Rigsby's cat?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: flip-r mk2 on 02 April, 2017, 07:58:28 PM
Judge Olivia
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/flipray09/Mobile%20Uploads/_20170402_195407_zpsgeaiibcy.jpg) (http://s601.photobucket.com/user/flipray09/media/Mobile%20Uploads/_20170402_195407_zpsgeaiibcy.jpg.html)

filippo
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 April, 2017, 11:49:11 PM
😁
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 April, 2017, 02:27:19 PM
That's one happy judge filippo. :D She must have just sent someone to the cubes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 April, 2017, 02:40:50 PM
The cubie-wubies :)

Mega-cute.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 April, 2017, 02:49:41 PM
Judge Pal.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 April, 2017, 03:10:56 PM
The Judge Child!!  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 April, 2017, 03:44:51 PM
This forum really needs a "Like" button!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 04 April, 2017, 03:33:24 PM
An early start to the Academy of Law - clearly a prodigy with the daystick.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 April, 2017, 04:13:00 PM
Judge Coil returns to uniformed duties?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 08 April, 2017, 05:43:36 AM
bloody-disgusting.com/news/3431405/hellboys-hell-water-cinnamon-whiskey-coming-soon-friends/ (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3431405/hellboys-hell-water-cinnamon-whiskey-coming-soon-friends/)
Hellboy whiskey. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 09 April, 2017, 11:35:57 AM
Without context this is glorious

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17800359_10213188863017216_2673213806699310650_n.jpg?oh=27ae6da6116fb469c73a6728b6be8006&oe=594DB25C)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 09 April, 2017, 11:48:01 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 30 March, 2017, 07:47:34 AM
QuoteAnd prively he caughte hire by the queynte
- Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales.
Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap?
Ophelia: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?
— Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 April, 2017, 12:24:54 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 09 April, 2017, 11:35:57 AM
Without context this is glorious

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17800359_10213188863017216_2673213806699310650_n.jpg?oh=27ae6da6116fb469c73a6728b6be8006&oe=594DB25C)
Has there ever been an Owl themed Stronty Dog? There should have been...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 09 April, 2017, 02:04:19 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 09 April, 2017, 11:48:01 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 30 March, 2017, 07:47:34 AM
QuoteAnd prively he caughte hire by the queynte
- Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales.
Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap?
Ophelia: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?
— Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2

...then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust...
To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell

I wonder, by my troth,
what thou and I did, till we loved?
Were we not weaned till then,
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
The Good-Morrow, John Donne
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 April, 2017, 02:24:53 PM
"Here lies the body of Mary Lee. Died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years, she kept her virginity. Not a bad record for this vicinity." (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/02/0c/b5/020cb53748e9ebc6d0ee3a6303959cae.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 09 April, 2017, 05:38:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 April, 2017, 02:24:53 PM
"Here lies the body of Mary Lee. Died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years, she kept her virginity. Not a bad record for this vicinity."
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/02/0c/b5/020cb53748e9ebc6d0ee3a6303959cae.jpg)
Up there with Shakespeare, John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 April, 2017, 06:41:59 PM
As one of the endless distract the drones so they don't realise what poorly paid slavery they are suffering colleague engagement events, we're having an egg-decorating comp

Only one option for me ......

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd359/anaconda888/50a66a81-f01f-40f6-8137-e431e19313fd_zpstivgegxi.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 April, 2017, 07:35:54 PM
Eggcellent!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 10 April, 2017, 07:45:11 PM
The Law is no yolk in Egga-City One.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 12 April, 2017, 06:16:51 PM
http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/11/hubble-just-spotted-something-massive-coming-out-of-uranus-6567896/ (http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/11/hubble-just-spotted-something-massive-coming-out-of-uranus-6567896/)
Interesting article.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 April, 2017, 06:24:36 PM
Space haemorrhoids?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 12 April, 2017, 08:42:37 PM
I saw a Little Egret this morning while I was cycling! I've never seen one before, it was beautiful and I was oddly excited about the whole thing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 13 April, 2017, 09:52:31 PM
Nasa announces alien life could be thriving on Saturn's moon Enceladus

(http://i68.tinypic.com/4uhr8y.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 09:56:03 AM
I just joined facebook and fucking hate it already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 14 April, 2017, 09:58:55 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 09:56:03 AM
I just joined facebook and fucking hate it already.
No like.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 April, 2017, 10:05:16 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 09:56:03 AM
I just joined facebook and fucking hate it already.
Now why would you do a damn fool thing like that?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 10:27:03 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 April, 2017, 10:05:16 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 09:56:03 AM
I just joined facebook and fucking hate it already.
Now why would you do a damn fool thing like that?!

Seemed like the easiest way to stalk people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 14 April, 2017, 10:41:02 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 10:27:03 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 April, 2017, 10:05:16 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 14 April, 2017, 09:56:03 AM
I just joined facebook and fucking hate it already.
Now why would you do a damn fool thing like that?!

Seemed like the easiest way to stalk people.
At least you figured out whats it for pretty fast.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 April, 2017, 02:13:07 PM
Well got birthday party to go next Sat with missus, but the theme is Typical American Citizen!

Any suggestions? or anyone got spare Judge uniform...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 April, 2017, 03:29:19 PM
"Typical" is a toughie as America is so polarised - maybe a kind of vertical split (like Twoface) with a liberal tree-hugging transgender anti-racist campaigner on one side and a redneck frothing bible-basher on the other?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 20 April, 2017, 05:02:21 PM
Or some burger/eagle hybrid or something? ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 20 April, 2017, 05:10:37 PM
Bring yer guns
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 April, 2017, 09:22:06 PM
Travis Bickle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 April, 2017, 09:27:57 PM
Audie Murphy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 April, 2017, 09:35:47 PM
Superman costume with an orange syrup.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 April, 2017, 11:15:45 PM
A fat, polite racist with a gun.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 April, 2017, 11:22:12 PM
What does a typical European look like? Or a typical African? Typical Asian?

Your're pal's a fucking RACIST
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 April, 2017, 11:29:30 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/92/c0/0e/92c00ec2fc7a09793cb8c7653d0065ec.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 April, 2017, 04:01:47 AM
I think the Shark has nailed it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 April, 2017, 07:16:38 AM
Shark just dropped the mic through the floor!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 21 April, 2017, 09:14:43 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 20 April, 2017, 02:13:07 PM
Well got birthday party to go next Sat with missus, but the theme is Typical American Citizen!

Any suggestions? or anyone got spare Judge uniform...?

Belly wheel?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 April, 2017, 10:58:34 AM
A minor Sudafed overdose can lead to hallucinations and extreme deja vu.
So there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 April, 2017, 11:46:18 AM
Haven't you said that before, Your Worship?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 April, 2017, 03:54:38 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 April, 2017, 11:46:18 AM
Haven't you said that before, Your Worship?

I....I am Tharg!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 April, 2017, 03:56:36 PM
What? No! I'm Tharg, I'm Tharg!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 April, 2017, 03:59:51 PM
You joining me for a vacation on The Golgotha Plains, Sharky?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 April, 2017, 04:16:19 PM
I'll bring the Malteasers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 April, 2017, 10:43:10 AM
Apparently, my GMail account was just accessed from Kenya. I suspect this is a mistake on Google's part but I've changed my passwords anyway. Still, if you get any emails about gold mines or caskets of jewels with your name on them, I want 10%! :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 27 April, 2017, 10:55:01 AM
2-Factor authentication is the way forward!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 April, 2017, 11:18:52 AM
Congratulatings for and to you, Mr The Blaze! Your posting last up on here has made you completely eligible to claim sever bags of cash to the confirmed valuation of 1,50,0000$.999p!

To claim this bounty, found in the remains of your ancestor Mr Another Blouse and his crashed aircraft, send all your banking, addressing, telephones and details to: totallylegit@kenyascam.com
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 April, 2017, 10:17:45 PM
>> 9000 posts! <<




Oh God, I need a life.....




Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2017, 10:38:50 PM
(http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dont-forget-youre-here-forever1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 April, 2017, 11:07:48 PM
It feels like it - 16 years and counting!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 May, 2017, 01:40:46 PM
Big Issue North #1180 (24-30 April 2017) "The Comic Art of John Higgins" article. (Exhibition at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool until October.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 May, 2017, 04:27:05 PM
About time he took the Law to the lawless...

Do the have hubcaps on lawmasters :-*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 May, 2017, 04:58:53 PM
Not any more...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 02 May, 2017, 03:35:45 PM
I turn on the computer with a very precise plan of what Im going to do...and I end up playing Magic The Gathering.How does that always happen? :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2017, 05:46:13 PM
I had an interesting conversation with a couple of bailiffs today - all very civilised. They were here for a friend, not me, and she was being awkward (good on her!) so I chatted with them for over an hour (regs of the Political Thread will be feeling sorry for them already).

Anyway, no matter what you say, these guys are bullies and eventually they'll break her door in. So, at the last minute, she agrees to let them in. She points to my 'phone. "Record please," she says (English is not her first language), "can you use your... ahm, er, dictaphone?"

"No," I say, "I use my finger like everyone else."

At this point one of the bailiffs, who had been perfectly civil to me (in a passive-aggressive kind of way) scowls at me as if I'd just pissed on his leg. He continues scowling as I record him verifying that my friend has nothing in her caravan worth taking.

He eventually leaves her alone and, as he's climbing into his van, still scowling, he pauses, looks me in the eye and suddenly stops scowling.

He laughs as if suddenly tickled and says, "heh! Dictaphone!"

His mate rolls his eyes and they drive away. Nice to see HMG is still hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 02 May, 2017, 06:41:47 PM
That must have been an interesting hour.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 02 May, 2017, 07:00:54 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2017, 05:46:13 PM
Nice to see HMG is still hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool...

Well, it makes sense when you look at the house of commons.  As Robin Williams once said: "Someone in the royal family knows someone in the royal family."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 02 May, 2017, 08:01:43 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2017, 05:46:13 PM
He eventually leaves her alone and, as he's climbing into his van, still scowling, he pauses, looks me in the eye and suddenly stops scowling.

He laughs as if suddenly tickled and says, "heh! Dictaphone!"

His mate rolls his eyes and they drive away. Nice to see HMG is still hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool...

(https://partridge.cloud/grabs/S02E06/gif/FpF9afIjgcgW.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2017, 09:06:21 PM
Gee thanks, Foxy.

Anyway, time to get your dibbers out... (http://www.wngd.org/index.html)

(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/18209121_1417833454906603_8779480040045941204_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=c6c5fecadb9bcb2ffe5b525c867e513c&oe=59832EBF)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 May, 2017, 02:45:24 AM
Why the hell am I awake at this time again?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 May, 2017, 04:52:49 PM
When the driving work started to dry up I was a bit worried - who's gonna hire an awld anarchist like me?

Well, my landlady approached me and offered me a job on-site; weeding, strimming, looking after fences, planting stuff in the veg patch and all stuff like that. As one door closes...

How lovely, working under the sky. No more 01:00 starts, no more traffic jams, no more "hurryupandgetthereasquickasyoucanthenhurryback" type stress.

This is day two and every part of me that doesn't ache is stiff, every part that isn't stiff aches and every part that is neither stiff or aching is either burning or numb. Thank God I quit smoking in January - if I was still on the fags I'd be dead.

Anyway, need sleep now...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 May, 2017, 08:32:51 PM
The most dreaded words in the English language:

Melissa McCarthy stars
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 04 May, 2017, 06:10:08 AM
I like Slivers,but its a 3 color deck,so mana can be a huge problem.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 07 May, 2017, 07:00:41 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2017, 09:06:21 PM
Gee thanks, Foxy.

Anyway, time to get your dibbers out... (http://www.wngd.org/index.html)

Bit cold out for that sort of thing, isn't it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 May, 2017, 07:37:18 PM
Cold. Yes.

Er, that's right...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 May, 2017, 09:55:46 AM
Welcome back to the forum SmallBlueThing.

We can only lament that the golden opportunity to rename yourself "SmallBlueThing (Cont)" has been missed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SmallBlueThing(Reborn) on 10 May, 2017, 08:12:30 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 10 May, 2017, 09:55:46 AM
Welcome back to the forum SmallBlueThing.

We can only lament that the golden opportunity to rename yourself "SmallBlueThing (Cont)" has been missed.

I just literally spat out my coffee. Ah, thanks so much, and yes, that would have been so much better. Sigh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 May, 2017, 06:03:12 PM
What the hell happened to the forum there? I was getting a message about an insecure site. I assume Sharky was inciting a riot either on the Political thread or perhaps the Mega-City One thread to cause this. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 May, 2017, 06:10:59 PM
A riot? Me? How very dare you! I wouldn't stoop to anything less than a full-blown global rebellion!

But I need to have my tea first, I'm famished...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 16 May, 2017, 04:48:16 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 May, 2017, 06:03:12 PM
What the hell happened to the forum there? I was getting a message about an insecure site. I assume Sharky was inciting a riot either on the Political thread or perhaps the Mega-City One thread to cause this. :)
Same here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 21 May, 2017, 08:40:14 PM
This TV/movie recycling thing went too far.A reboot of Dynasty and continuations of Will and Grace and Roseanne?
Gee,is Jaleel White doing anything these days? :|
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 25 May, 2017, 01:15:25 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAq5FGMXsAIr9-m.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 25 May, 2017, 01:48:38 PM
Heh,saw that this morning. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 May, 2017, 11:25:42 AM
Who would have thought that it woud be the 2000AD forums that  made me truly appreciate the irriration of mansplaining.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 May, 2017, 11:48:15 AM
I had to Google "mansplaining." It doesn't really apply oop north as our women never listen to us anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 May, 2017, 01:05:00 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 May, 2017, 11:25:42 AM
Who would have thought that it woud be the 2000AD forums that  made me truly appreciate the irriration of mansplaining.

Heh, I've been thinking exactly the same lately. I was about to ask if anyone knew of a geek version of mansplaining
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 May, 2017, 01:40:29 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 May, 2017, 11:25:42 AM
Who would have thought that it woud be the 2000AD forums that  made me truly appreciate the irriration of mansplaining.
I know what you mean.Or rather,who you mean.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 May, 2017, 04:30:08 PM
...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 May, 2017, 06:25:03 PM
Sharksplaining is a whole other thing.  There's usually mention of the gold standard and the fallacy of authority, and occasionally Tower 7, and at least some of it is interesting.

Then there's the far more tediously patronising Tordelsplaining, but I think I covered that above.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 May, 2017, 11:06:18 PM
Phew!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 28 May, 2017, 05:21:44 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 May, 2017, 11:06:18 PM
Phew!
I didnt mean you. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 May, 2017, 08:28:08 AM
Let me tell you why you should have...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 28 May, 2017, 09:07:59 AM
I could just pop down to the political thread and save you the trouble. ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 May, 2017, 10:20:26 AM
You could, but let me tell you why that wouldn't work...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 May, 2017, 05:56:53 PM
Poach an egg in baked beans. It'll change your life
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 29 May, 2017, 02:41:23 PM
Or in tomato sauce.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 29 May, 2017, 02:47:28 PM
Sounds like Shakshuka, which is excellent:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/mar/03/how-to-make-the-perfect-shakshuka
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 29 May, 2017, 06:11:23 PM
So, it turns out

Angela Rippon is a bit of a dope fiend! (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/29/angela-rippon-tests-positive-for-opiates-in-poppy-seed-experiment#comments)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 29 May, 2017, 08:07:24 PM
Is it safe now?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 May, 2017, 10:09:15 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 29 May, 2017, 08:07:24 PM
Is it safe now?

Not yet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 May, 2017, 10:57:10 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 27 May, 2017, 01:05:00 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 May, 2017, 11:25:42 AM
Who would have thought that it woud be the 2000AD forums that  made me truly appreciate the irriration of mansplaining.

Heh, I've been thinking exactly the same lately. I was about to ask if anyone knew of a geek version of mansplaining
It's taken me 4 days and a recollection of our discussion on FCBD to realize who you chaps where talking about. I'm such a muppet.  :angel:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 May, 2017, 02:06:26 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 May, 2017, 05:56:53 PM
Poach an egg in baked beans. It'll change your life

God is watching you!  >:(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 31 May, 2017, 03:07:41 PM
Anyone fancy a Covfefe...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 May, 2017, 04:17:19 PM
(https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/211.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 01 June, 2017, 07:29:11 AM
Best summing up of the situation, from perpetual Trump haters CNN...


"While spending time trying, as Trump suggested, to figure out what "covfefe" means is a waste, it's far more worthwhile to take a big step back and look at the situation that leads to the President of the United States tweeting, poorly, at 12:06 a.m. about the bad press he gets."


I'm just going to make the same leap that some Trumpeters made about "pizzagate" and assume "Covfefe" is code for "the secret satanic rituals I run in the basement of Trump Tower".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 June, 2017, 01:03:50 PM
The political thread is leaking again.

I prefer Tesco cheapest own brand beans. Never cared for heinz
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 June, 2017, 03:06:59 AM
Hmmm, "Hello captain!" (http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/333462/trump-barge-boat-ohio-waves-hello-captain/?amp=1) is very close to "Hello sailor!".  Pat Mills on the ball again...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 08 June, 2017, 03:31:18 PM
Done something worse than FBI Comey Testify hearing, my job interview. So wait and see next few weeks...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 09 June, 2017, 04:18:14 PM
Is it just me or is the peoples friend a bit racist?

https://www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/ (https://www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/)

On there web page I count (just on the front page)

-44 white people
- 0 other peoples

You can't tell me their readership is 100% white...

At least Hitler would be happy with it I suppose...

The peoples friend...more like the white peoples friend.

Rant over.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 09 June, 2017, 05:25:03 PM
Probably none of my buisness,but you avatar is a bit disturbing.Just saiyan.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 09 June, 2017, 10:55:56 PM
Quote from: Smith on 09 June, 2017, 05:25:03 PM
Probably none of my buisness,but you avatar is a bit disturbing.Just saiyan.

Will it help if I tell you it's not real? ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 June, 2017, 06:30:30 AM
You  dont say?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 June, 2017, 10:10:46 AM
Quote from: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 09 June, 2017, 10:55:56 PM
Quote from: Smith on 09 June, 2017, 05:25:03 PM
Probably none of my buisness,but you avatar is a bit disturbing.Just saiyan.

Will it help if I tell you it's not real? ;)

I'm no fan of The Donald (nor the other attention seeking moron in that pic), but it's an unpleasant image.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 13 June, 2017, 11:41:22 AM
To avoid offending people I have changed my avatar. Sorry to anyone who was disgusted at seeing what it would look like for Donald Trumps head to be removed from his body.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 13 June, 2017, 11:58:35 AM
That did make me chuckle even if I appreciate people not wanting to see a severed bloody head every time they look in the forum
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 13 June, 2017, 12:24:57 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 13 June, 2017, 11:58:35 AM
severed bloody head

A fake head. I think the fake part is important. I mean I'm not a sicko...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 13 June, 2017, 02:00:19 PM
Quote from: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 13 June, 2017, 12:24:57 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 13 June, 2017, 11:58:35 AM
severed bloody head

A fake head. I think the fake part is important. I mean I'm not a sicko...
Could have fooled me...
Ok seriously now,I don't care for Donald either way,but like Theblazeuk said,some of us dont want to see a severed(fake or real) head every time we open the board.
Actually,why do I bother?We have an ignore option.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 June, 2017, 02:28:23 PM
Is anyone else expecting Theresa May to peel off her face to reveal an alien from V?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 June, 2017, 04:40:19 PM
A Photoshopped severed head doesn't bother me in the slightest. Be different if it was real, I guess.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 June, 2017, 04:57:25 PM
There has been way more gruesome stuff issued from Tharg's Mighty Organ
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 June, 2017, 05:05:10 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 13 June, 2017, 04:57:25 PM
There has been way more gruesome stuff issued from Tharg's Mighty Organ

Indeed - Space Girls for a start...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 June, 2017, 09:27:10 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/DrForester/StayOnTopic.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 14 June, 2017, 11:39:03 AM
I really don't mind at all (and take a little sadistic pleasure in seeing it everytime in truth). However I'd hope we could be considerate of other users if they ask nicely. So.... please can you change it Pizza? Not out of censorship about whose head it's supposed to be but just out of being nice to nice people, even if we don't share their feelings.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 14 June, 2017, 04:51:06 PM
I was try to create funny video of me reaction to the advert of picture of me in sunglasses it was embarrassed advert to make me so awkward, any suggestions of what advert it should be?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 June, 2017, 09:22:52 PM
...Hamlet, the mild cigar from Benson & Hedges...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 15 June, 2017, 03:46:26 PM
Bloody, bastard flies.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 June, 2017, 05:46:41 PM
Bruce Lee fights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2017, 06:58:43 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 June, 2017, 05:46:41 PM
Bruce Lee fights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4)
I saw that a few days ago. I wonder how Bruce Lee would have fared against a modern day MMA fighter. Would the famous one inch punch push be effective?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 June, 2017, 07:35:17 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2017, 06:58:43 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 June, 2017, 05:46:41 PM
Bruce Lee fights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4)
I saw that a few days ago. I wonder how Bruce Lee would have fared against a modern day MMA fighter. Would the famous one inch punch push be effective?

In all honesty I don't think Lee or an MMA fighter would stand a chance against a boxer of the same weight class.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 16 June, 2017, 10:27:42 AM
I dunno, a boxer's arms or legs don't bend any differently than other peoples.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 16 June, 2017, 12:25:56 PM
So many variables. I would put my money on the boxer using boxing rules and in general, the MMA fighter using MMA rules. If it gets to grappling I would say game over for the boxer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 June, 2017, 12:52:34 PM
Get the popcorn for August 26th.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 June, 2017, 09:08:43 PM
Damn you, Google! When I click on my emailed links I want to see the linked page, not a bloody advert.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2017, 01:05:35 PM
 :D

(http://i67.tinypic.com/20iypo7.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 June, 2017, 11:02:38 AM
Im watching the new ABC's video and I notice a weird suggestion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRNmpZfr7o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRNmpZfr7o)
Im just kinda in the "wut?" mode right now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 27 June, 2017, 11:58:51 AM
Impressive.  10 minutes of ranting about a comic that you hate.  Not to mention the £4 spent buying the comic you hate.  At least he gives some bland reasons why he hates it!

Looking further down his list of videos, there is one where he posts a congratulations for America electing Trump as president.  Perhaps he does comedy and irony incredibly well?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 June, 2017, 12:18:39 PM
You would think so,but there are more rant about the prog,so he seems to be a pretty dedicater hater.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 27 June, 2017, 12:32:26 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 27 June, 2017, 11:58:51 AM
Impressive.  10 minutes of ranting about a comic that you hate.  Not to mention the £4 spent buying the comic you hate.  At least he gives some bland reasons why he hates it!

Looking further down his list of videos, there is one where he posts a congratulations for America electing Trump as president.  Perhaps he does comedy and irony incredibly well?
At work so can't listen to it, but I do note that one of his other rants is about a satire of Trump - so that's probably what inspired this rant as well...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 June, 2017, 12:41:54 PM
Quote from: Smith on 27 June, 2017, 11:02:38 AM
Im watching the new ABC's video and I notice a weird suggestion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRNmpZfr7o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRNmpZfr7o)
Im just kinda in the "wut?" mode right now.
WTF is he wearing on his HEAD??!!  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 June, 2017, 01:50:55 PM
At least that part should be obvious.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 June, 2017, 03:51:16 PM
A MAGA hat is always a good indication of the kind of pond scum who wears it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 27 June, 2017, 05:14:23 PM
Internet May Contain Idiots shock.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 27 June, 2017, 05:31:57 PM
Spoiler: he didnt like Sons of Booth.
But the focus on 2000ad is kinda unique for the type.And it was probably more leftist in the golden days then its today.Just saying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 June, 2017, 10:43:45 PM
Right then, is Booth (as in President Donald Bob) pronounced to rhyme with 'smooth' or 'Ruth'?  I suppose it's probably the first, given his nickname, but I will always pronounce it as the second.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 28 June, 2017, 09:06:04 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 June, 2017, 10:43:45 PM
Right then, is Booth (as in President Donald Bob) pronounced to rhyme with 'smooth' or 'Ruth'?  I suppose it's probably the first, given his nickname, but I will always pronounce it as the second.
It's pronounced the same way as the thing James Bond had a nasty turn in once.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 28 June, 2017, 09:52:30 AM
Holy drokk, Pat Mills held up as some kind of Right Wing champion?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 28 June, 2017, 10:34:43 AM
Well,you can read pretty much anything and sort it so it supports your views.
I thing the argument of: Its(2000AD) not as good as it used to be is the only one that makes sense.Ofc,that's a personal opinion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 28 June, 2017, 02:22:40 PM
Yes, right up until he presents his reasoning why. When wimmin were wimmin and not just 'basically men with boobs', etc etc.

However you're right about being able to read pretty much anything and sort it so it supports your views. One comment thread on that video really makes you feel sorry for the tuber, as he doesn't seem to quite grasp his own reasoning...

QuoteHave you read old 2000 AD?
Halo Jones: Pioneering female character in adventure comics.
Nemesis the Warlock: Condemnation of cultural, religious and racial hegemony
Strontium Dog: Criticism of injustice against minorities.

2000 AD hasn't changed its outlook, you just never understood it.

Rorshach1004
Rorshach100423 hours ago

Or, now I grew up, I can see the leftist cultural programming more clearly? Yeah, the indoctrination of my childhood clearing, now I see what they have been doing all along. I go with that. You are 100% correct.
   
Lugh Summerson
Lugh Summerson23 hours ago

Makes you wonder what other 'programming' you are infected with.

Rorshach1004
Rorshach100423 hours ago

Yeah, great point. When I think about all of the leftist indoctrination I've been subjected to through the years it makes me shudder. But, what can I do? I can read, learn, and do my best, but in a poisonous culture there are scars inflicted upon me that will remain forever.
   
Lugh Summerson
Lugh Summerson18 hours ago

Try thinking for yourself instead of thinking in other people's cliches.

Rorshach1004
Rorshach100415 hours ago

I'll give it a go, but it's going to be really, really hard. Wish me luck. I'm a trier, if nothing else. Thanks for the great advice btw, very much appreciated, and thanks so much for watching my video, and spending all of your time with the thoughtful comments.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 28 June, 2017, 04:49:24 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 28 June, 2017, 09:52:30 AM
Holy drokk, Pat Mills held up as some kind of Right Wing champion?

Years ago some supposed French 'academic' posted a furious, vitriolic review to each and every Charley's War book on Amazon - accusing it, and Pat, of being Establishment apoligists, of revelling in the carnage and glory of warfare, of whitewashing history at the expense of a generation's sacrifice to fly the flag for the British Imperialism the author obviously loved so much. Not a little but racist in their tone, too.

Talk about missing the point...!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 28 June, 2017, 05:47:43 PM
Which goes to show that people will see what they want to see,especially if they can use it to prop their own narrative.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 June, 2017, 07:56:08 PM
What is Macron thinking?!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/donald-trump-to-visit-paris-for-bastille-day-ceremonies (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/donald-trump-to-visit-paris-for-bastille-day-ceremonies)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 29 June, 2017, 08:39:37 PM
Doing what billionaires and their corporations want is the new punk.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 30 June, 2017, 12:47:18 AM
Happy Canada Day! (On Saturday.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 30 June, 2017, 08:13:46 AM
150 years since the founding of the dominion. A beacon of sanity, tolerance and multi-culturism in a chaotic world. It's not perfect, but at least they seem to know which direction they should be heading in.

I'll stick on some Neil Young, Leonard Cohen or Arcade Fire to celebrate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 30 June, 2017, 09:08:38 AM
Political thread is spilling out,again.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 30 June, 2017, 09:32:50 AM
Quote from: Smith on 30 June, 2017, 09:08:38 AM
Political thread is spilling out,again.  ::)

My apologies.

I'll head back there, humming "O Canada".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 June, 2017, 09:43:39 AM
Quote from: Smith on 30 June, 2017, 09:08:38 AM
Political thread is spilling out,again.  ::)

-WE HAVE A CONTAINMENT BREACH! I REPEAT WE HAVE A CONTAINMENT BREACH! SCP 1209 MUST BE ESCORTED BACK TO THE POLITICAL THREAD I REPEAT SCP 1209 MUST BE ESCORTED BACK TO THE POLITICAL THREAD!-
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 30 June, 2017, 12:01:04 PM
that's funny

whatever happened to all-caps?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 30 June, 2017, 12:14:15 PM
Cleanup at aisle 1! :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 30 June, 2017, 01:14:00 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 30 June, 2017, 12:01:04 PM
that's funny

whatever happened to all-caps?


They went to the Stuff you don't see anymore (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=44379) thread (only joking, still far too prevalent).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 June, 2017, 02:24:51 PM
Quote from: Smith on 30 June, 2017, 09:08:38 AM
Political thread is spilling out,again.  ::)

Ever notice that this only seems to happen when the threads are next to each other?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 30 June, 2017, 06:04:09 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 30 June, 2017, 02:24:51 PM
Quote from: Smith on 30 June, 2017, 09:08:38 AM
Political thread is spilling out,again.  ::)

Ever notice that this only seems to happen when the threads are next to each other?

Obviously there is a limit to how much any one thread can contain.  Must also be a leaky edge to the Threadjacking thread.  Better get the mods to have a look and see if they can spot where the hole is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 30 June, 2017, 10:07:49 PM
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2lx9nro.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 02 July, 2017, 12:18:46 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 30 June, 2017, 08:13:46 AM
I'll stick on some Neil Young, Leonard Cohen or Arcade Fire to celebrate.
Why not Simple Plan? ;)
(Ducks for cover)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 03 July, 2017, 05:02:40 PM
Bought some Barry Norman Pickled Onions.  These are far and beyond the finest pickled produce I've ever had.  Why Mr Norman was spending his time being a film critic when he had this level of pickle production expertise is beyond me.  It's like the world's greatest poet working as a brick layer.  Or the world's greatest brick layer trying to write verse.  I may never go back to gherkins.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 July, 2017, 02:22:49 AM
Quote from: Modern Panther on 31 August, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
Am I the only one who finds the BigBangTheory episode where Sheldon spanks Amy extreeemly disturbing.

Me too!

Any woman who likes being treated like that... has problems. and little self esteem.


Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP21yQUpmSs
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 07 July, 2017, 04:16:31 AM
Well.I find every episode of BBT extremly disturbing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 07 July, 2017, 01:21:50 PM
From today's meeting between Trump and Putin.

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/526a71ec9c00c62df2aa8d46052033b7/tumblr_oio1z37Zpa1s7xfipo4_500.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 10 July, 2017, 01:22:47 PM
Seen in Cardiff yesterday; Walter the Wobot was Welsh?

(http://i.imgur.com/aM6lnni.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 10 July, 2017, 01:45:17 PM
Took me a while to twig!  Clearly been in Wales too long.  I think the 'i' threw me.

Diolch for the chuckle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 July, 2017, 06:05:19 PM
I wonder if Sharky knows it's shark awareness day?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 July, 2017, 06:54:13 PM
I had no idea.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 21 July, 2017, 11:21:23 PM
Cheeky girls
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Never ever ask what do you do
I never ever ask what do you do
I never ever ask what's in your mind
I never ever ask if you'll be mine
Come and smile
Don't be shy
Touch my bum - this is life
We are the cheeky girls, we are the cheeky girls
You are the cheeky boys, you are the cheeky boys
We are the cheeky girls, we are the cheeky girls
You are the cheeky boys, you are the cheeky boys
Hmmmmmm cheeky cheeky
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Oh boys cheeky girls
Oh girls cheeky boys
Never ever...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 July, 2017, 12:58:14 AM
well said sir
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 23 July, 2017, 07:07:38 AM
(http://68.media.tumblr.com/c66696b524fb2585a8a791edb5430ae0/tumblr_n977305uvK1sy7kxko1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Something Fishy on 23 July, 2017, 01:43:10 PM
Bit cheeky to be honest Trouty.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 30 July, 2017, 08:16:09 PM
Man don't you just hate it when your in the supermarket, and you pick a till that has a short queue, but the people in front decide to pay with coupons, and the other till, the one you didn't choose, gets served first, and you end up waiting a little bit longer.  The supermarket clearly has some sort of Agenda against me.  I will never visit a supermarket ever again.  Anyone who disagrees with my self important world view is just virtue signalling rather than just a decent human being.


Aaaaagggggeeeeennnnddddaaaa!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 31 July, 2017, 06:40:28 AM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/83/b9/f3/83b9f32048fd4c734bf70233fe90f936.jpg)
Lately,this place...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 July, 2017, 02:44:48 PM
Clearly you aren't keeping tabs on the Doctor Who threads. ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 31 July, 2017, 02:48:46 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 July, 2017, 02:44:48 PM
Clearly you aren't keeping tabs on the Doctor Who threads. ;)
To be fair,I havent watched it in years,so I dont really care.But I do need a dandelion break.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 July, 2017, 02:58:14 PM
(https://erinsromance.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/dandelion-field-660.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 July, 2017, 03:50:35 PM
Whatever happened, it wasn't me (for once).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 August, 2017, 03:17:20 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/44/14/3c/44143cca64f8673f907284ccf8a7f6c2.jpg)

What happened Muskie?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 August, 2017, 04:06:21 PM
My trusty old Blackberry died (the charger socket housing fell out) :(

Got a new old one off Ebay for £13 (including postage), just slightly newer than my old old one, and suddenly I have spiffingly fast 3G connection :)

Life sucks, then it doesn't.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 August, 2017, 12:53:26 PM
I wonder if there's going to be a short story competition this month...


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 August, 2017, 01:16:42 PM
Why does nobody think about the children, Mumsnet was right about Fidgets
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 07 August, 2017, 05:23:37 PM
https://vimeo.com/228595376 (https://vimeo.com/228595376)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 August, 2017, 06:49:26 PM
Whenever I see someone fall over or hurt themselves I get a weird sympathetic pain in my plumbs.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 07 August, 2017, 06:52:57 PM
I get that when I see someone making an ass of themselves.Thats why I avoid twitter profiles of comic book writers. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 August, 2017, 06:14:28 PM
Pat Mills or Satanic Mills? you decide!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 August, 2017, 08:06:46 PM
Or Dark Satanic Pat Mills...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 August, 2017, 11:17:51 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 08 August, 2017, 08:06:46 PM
Or Dark Satanic Pat Mills...

oh I like that... that's his unofficial biography title sorted out!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 08:27:46 AM
People seem to hate Bruce Willis these days.When I say people I mean the tumblr(and adjacent) population. ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 August, 2017, 10:48:25 AM
Quote from: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 08:27:46 AM
People seem to hate Bruce Willis these days.When I say people I mean the tumblr(and adjacent) population. ::)

What they talkin' 'bout Willis?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 11:07:31 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/aug/08/eli-roth-death-wish-remake-alt-right-film-bruce-willis (https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/aug/08/eli-roth-death-wish-remake-alt-right-film-bruce-willis)
Its Guardian,so consider yourselves warned. ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 10 August, 2017, 01:04:53 PM
Quote from: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 11:07:31 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/aug/08/eli-roth-death-wish-remake-alt-right-film-bruce-willis (https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/aug/08/eli-roth-death-wish-remake-alt-right-film-bruce-willis)
Its Guardian,so consider yourselves warned. ::)

Revenge fantasy movies are ten a penny, Star Wars, The Godfather 2 have strong revenge themes so I wouldn't get too upset about a Movie that appears to have vengeance as its central theme. I never read the original Death Wish book, but understand it's a warning against vigilantism which might have been a better more thoughtful Film to have made than this appears to be. This Movie is Lib Baiting for publicity: White guy shoots members of minorities>gasp<, drops the car on White man>meh< guaranteeing outrage and promoting the film. Don't take the bait just vote with your wallet and don't see it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 August, 2017, 01:07:01 PM
Reading that article and most comments from each 'side' can only elicit one response from most normal people; https://youtu.be/vAME2NCkFK4

Oy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 01:13:39 PM
IMO,any judgment should be reserved after we see the movie.
I dont know was some political statment intended,but it feels more like an action vehicle for Willis(sort of like John Wick) then a study of vigilante justice.Or,you know,its just a movie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 August, 2017, 01:18:19 PM
Quote from: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 01:13:39 PM
its just a movie.

No dice.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 02:33:25 PM
Because its hard to separate fiction from reality?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 August, 2017, 03:16:31 PM
Quote from: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 02:33:25 PM
Because its hard to separate fiction from reality?

Dis aint ovah.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 10 August, 2017, 04:36:03 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 10 August, 2017, 03:16:31 PM
Quote from: Smith on 10 August, 2017, 02:33:25 PM
Because its hard to separate fiction from reality?

Dis aint ovah.

I'm going to refer you to Mr Gaiman's words on that topic, sir (or madam, don't mind which you prefer).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 14 August, 2017, 04:01:15 PM
Worldcon 2019 to take place in Dublin.

https://dublin2019.com/ (https://dublin2019.com/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 15 August, 2017, 07:54:25 PM
Catching up on Twin Peaks.  Really, how successful can a guy be if he just stumbles from disaster to disaster, not understanding things, speaking in bits of sentences and just agreeing with the last person he spoke to?  I mean, that's just....

Oh.  Yeah.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 August, 2017, 08:22:14 PM
Must... breathe... must... breathe...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/15/good-omens-david-tennant-michael-sheen-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett-tv-adaptation (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/15/good-omens-david-tennant-michael-sheen-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett-tv-adaptation)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 August, 2017, 06:58:01 PM
"On and on, you fall towards her
Cold embrace in shadowed doorway
Offers nothing, still she draws you
Ever to her

On and on and on, you stumble on
Towards the sinking sun
Turn a blind eye, fight or run
Rest assured, the night will come

On and on you grasp and guess
And search for patterns in the mess
Of what has been, and what is left
To yet endure"

You know the way you get a song stuck in your head? We I have this one - from Ned Rierson's unexpected solo in Tim Minchin's superb Groundhog Day musical - for a week now. Melancholy doesn't cover it. Thought I'd share.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 August, 2017, 02:04:41 PM
Woo-hoo, double 'jack!

So today I'm wondering why Joss Whedon having secret extra-marital affairs bars him from being a feminist icon (specifically). Did the other participants in these affairs have no agency? Did all the mooning over lipstick-lesbians and short-skirted ass-kickers in his work somehow suggest a puritanical mein that he has betrayed? Does disrespecting an individual equate to disrespecting a whole gender?

He's bit of a git, maybe, but I can't see why it should bother anyone but his family.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 August, 2017, 05:17:12 PM

Having googled an image of Whedon, congratulations seem more in order than condemnation.*

More pressing and of much greater importance is the revelation that it's pronounced

sink-ayyyy-vitch

... the thing in which you wash your face, followed by the Fonz's catchphrase, then what Angela Merkel dresses up as for Hallowe'en. I always said Shanky-vitch, but Dave Gibbons describes his fellow artist as a friend, so he should know:

http://www.orbitalcomics.com/orbital-in-conversation-episode-117-in-the-studio-with-dave-gibbons/ (http://www.orbitalcomics.com/orbital-in-conversation-episode-117-in-the-studio-with-dave-gibbons/)


* Although if you asked me which US celebrity blamed his sexual incontinence on being "surrounded by needy, aggressive young women (https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/08/21/joss-whedons-ex-wife-kai-cole-accuses-feminist-buffy-writer/amp/)", I'd have guessed Don Trump.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 21 August, 2017, 05:19:55 PM
"Sin-KEV-ich"... it's actually on his website.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 21 August, 2017, 05:27:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 August, 2017, 02:04:41 PM
Woo-hoo, double 'jack!

So today I'm wondering why Joss Whedon having secret extra-marital affairs bars him from being a feminist icon (specifically). Did the other participants in these affairs have no agency? Did all the mooning over lipstick-lesbians and short-skirted ass-kickers in his work somehow suggest a puritanical mein that he has betrayed? Does disrespecting an individual equate to disrespecting a whole gender?

He's bit of a git, maybe, but I can't see why it should bother anyone but his family.
As I said before,it can be hard to separate artist from the art these days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 August, 2017, 08:36:18 PM

Quote"I can't think of another comic which has had one of our prime ministers on the front," she said"

I haven't checked the Guardian's comments or Twitter, but I'm pretty sure SelfMadeHero's Emma Hayley is about to become intimately acquainted with the covers of progs 843, 1071 and 1073.

Not sure how much of a market there is for a comic about Jezza; at least they're guaranteed to sell a copy to everyone here except Shark, myself, and Tankie (for different reasons):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/21/jeremy-corbyn-comic-book-hero?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 21 August, 2017, 11:52:09 PM
Quote from: Frank on 21 August, 2017, 05:17:12 PM
More pressing and of much greater importance is the revelation that it's pronounced

sink-ayyyy-vitch


As always, Alan Moore knows the score (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7QFb0tBZ_k&t=2m30s).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: maryanddavid on 22 August, 2017, 12:15:58 AM
Bulletproof!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 August, 2017, 04:51:05 PM
Whatever happened to Commando Forces?  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 23 August, 2017, 05:06:47 PM
I've worked in this office for over a decade and just discovered a room I was previously unaware of.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 August, 2017, 06:45:54 PM
True story: Last night I dreamed my Molcher-tall brother told me he had landed the role of Hamlet in the national theatre. As he has never acted in anything, we were all gobsmacked, but duly the family went along to the opening night. The lights dimmed, Horatio, Marcellus and the guards appeared on an impressively high battlement set and commenced their prattling about Fortinbras etc.

Suddenly, my brother appeared, painted luminous green and looming over the battlements by dint of his (dream-exaggerated) height, moaning extravagantly.  Ah, we chorused, OLD Hamlet. I woke myself up laughing.

And they say there's no point teaching kids Shakespeare.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 August, 2017, 07:40:49 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 August, 2017, 04:51:05 PM
Whatever happened to Commando Forces?

Still all over social media, the ECBT podcast, and WH Smith's:

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/20989164_10214294905110866_5313006822812068119_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=68ee47fd12dbca56dbf6895aa96210b2&oe=5A2953FD)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 August, 2017, 07:52:05 PM
He went outside. He may be some time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 23 August, 2017, 08:13:24 PM
He can't remember his 2000AD login password
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 August, 2017, 08:19:14 PM
Was setting fire to the 1st issue if the Prog Collection last I saw!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 August, 2017, 09:09:58 PM
Tordels, dreaming in Shakespearian is bloody impressive. Most of mine are about tits (in one way or another).

CF got fed up of certain pillocks...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 August, 2017, 09:22:42 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 23 August, 2017, 09:09:58 PM
Tordels, dreaming in Shakespearian is bloody impressive. Most of mine are about tits (in one way or another).

CF got fed up of certain pillocks...
Bill Hooks?
(https://cdn.legalcheek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Fork-Handles-640x400.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 23 August, 2017, 09:29:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 August, 2017, 04:51:05 PM
Whatever happened to Commando Forces?  :o

He got an ice pick that made his ears burn. :-)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 August, 2017, 08:57:26 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 23 August, 2017, 05:06:47 PM
I've worked in this office for over a decade and just discovered a room I was previously unaware of.
Malkovich Malkovich?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 August, 2017, 11:16:34 PM
Tour of Duty re-read: <CONTROL> "Go to corner of twelfth and Dave - Citizen caught in the ape chute"

:lol:

Is there a more perfect Mega-City line?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2017, 04:22:46 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 23 August, 2017, 05:06:47 PM
I've worked in this office for over a decade and just discovered a entire Ninja section I was previously unaware of.

You work for the Justice Dept?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 August, 2017, 04:29:07 PM
Quote from: Frank on 23 August, 2017, 07:40:49 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 August, 2017, 04:51:05 PM
Whatever happened to Commando Forces?

Still all over social media, the ECBT podcast, and WH Smith's:

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/20989164_10214294905110866_5313006822812068119_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=68ee47fd12dbca56dbf6895aa96210b2&oe=5A2953FD)

Well that's good to know he's keeping his hand in  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 August, 2017, 05:04:03 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 23 August, 2017, 05:06:47 PM
I've worked in this office for over a decade and just discovered a wardrobe I was previously unaware of.

Take some Turkish Delight with you.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 August, 2017, 06:12:14 AM
What next for Connor McGregor?

Marathon against Mo Farrah?

Bike race against Bradley Wiggins?

Punching balls back to Roger Federer?

If Floyd Mayweather ever came over here I'd chase him 'round the field with dog shite on the end of me hurl, I swear to god
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 August, 2017, 05:55:15 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 June, 2017, 07:35:17 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 June, 2017, 06:58:43 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 15 June, 2017, 05:46:41 PM
Bruce Lee fights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GzHAvh0U4)
I saw that a few days ago. I wonder how Bruce Lee would have fared against a modern day MMA fighter. Would the famous one inch punch push be effective?

In all honesty I don't think Lee or an MMA fighter would stand a chance against a boxer of the same weight class.

Quote from: Theblazeuk on 16 June, 2017, 10:27:42 AM
I dunno, a boxer's arms or legs don't bend any differently than other peoples.

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 16 June, 2017, 12:25:56 PM
So many variables. I would put my money on the boxer using boxing rules and in general, the MMA fighter using MMA rules. If it gets to grappling I would say game over for the boxer.

Quote from: Link Prime on 16 June, 2017, 12:52:34 PM
Get the popcorn for August 26th.

I think we can put the boxer v. MMA fighter to rest now.

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/27/world/27WEEKENDBRIEFING-slide-boxing/27WEEKENDBRIEFING-slide-boxing-largeHorizontal375.jpg)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/sports/floyd-mayweather-beats-conor-mcgregor.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/sports/floyd-mayweather-beats-conor-mcgregor.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 27 August, 2017, 09:59:46 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 27 August, 2017, 05:55:15 PM
I think we can put the boxer v. MMA fighter to rest now.
We can put to rest the argument that one of the greatest boxers in history (at 40) is better than one of the greatest MMA fighters: at boxing. Can't say I was surprised at the result. Well I was surprised, as I expected Mayweather to have won before the 10th round.

McGregor gave a pretty good account of himself.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 August, 2017, 05:59:07 AM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 27 August, 2017, 09:59:46 PM
McGregor gave a pretty good account of himself.

Certainly has a pretty good account now.

Not sure I'd want to have Mayweather wail on me for 10 rounds for any sum, but that was a very big number.

No interest in boxing since Ali retired (and certainly none in MMA), but I appreciate McGregor as local-boy done good who is still a friendly sight in the pub, and his giving Imelda May the chance to grab the most enormous career boost has endeared him to me no end. Up the Dubs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 August, 2017, 10:22:32 AM
So as a lot of peeps know i've been going through a lot of rough shit recently, thankfully seem to be over the hill now but needed the slim down my online presence a little to achieve that. But even in spite of that two forumnites kindly reached out to me over this here board to check if I was OK, and though we've never met before, I can't thank you wonderful chaps enough...you know who you are, but that extends to all of ye, best place on the web without a doubt.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 August, 2017, 11:31:36 AM
Glad to hear things are settling down for you, Hawkie. All the best!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 August, 2017, 06:17:49 PM
Glad to hear it hawk... there are some right nice bar stewards around these parts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2017, 06:23:11 PM
Glad to hear it Hawk - were you in town this weekend for all the Pride shenanigans?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 August, 2017, 08:09:06 PM
Cheers chaps, it's all working out, still got stormy stuff on the horizon but it's all stuff I think I can weather. Life sure is...interesting, at times. But a few doors close and a few more open, life goes on.

Yeah DDD, I was on Saturday, sadly couldn't make it on Sunday or today but still had an absolute blast, it's just a wonderful venue and a great time. :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 August, 2017, 09:46:17 PM
Just watched Logan again and still love it, was wondering why I'm so fond of films where the hero [spoiler]dies at the end[/spoiler].

I think it's because most of us are going to [spoiler]die in bed[/spoiler]. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing but it really doesn't seem all that meaningful either - well, beyond the fact that it means we're top animal, which is kind of meaningful in its own way. It never appealed to me, though it will probably be my fate.

Wouldn't we all rather go out on our feet, protecting someone else, or is that just me?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 01 September, 2017, 04:52:20 PM
A quick message for the quiet heroes of comic book production...

(https://i2.wp.com/modernpanther.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/img_20170901_163158.jpg?ssl=1)


Easy.  Don't see what the big deal is. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 September, 2017, 05:07:45 PM
Oooh, crossbar I - Jim won't like that  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 01 September, 2017, 05:49:26 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 September, 2017, 05:07:45 PM
Oooh, crossbar I - Jim won't like that  :lol:

Should've been in Comic Sans, just to highlight how necessary lettering droids are ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 September, 2017, 05:51:14 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 September, 2017, 05:07:45 PM
Oooh, crossbar I - Jim won't like that  :lol:
Letters who use Crossbars on comics get an Ironbar to their knees, with love from Campbell.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 06:39:47 PM

If, like me, you've ever wondered whether Jonathan Ross is really a nerd or just one of those people who likes Marvel movies, the following video settles the matter.

The vast majority of this is taken up by discussion of Micronauts (Mikooroman), but along the way we learn a lot about Oo-an McGregor and Mark Mill-AARR, too.

If, like me, you've ever wondered how valid Tharg's claim that Ross is a squaxx really was, the answer lies here also*. And the backdrop is 2000ad's booth at Comicon:

https://youtu.be/62zIih0bdLc


* To be fair, anyone who understands it's cooler to name check Carlos for Stronty Dog than Dredd is alright by me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Goaty on 01 September, 2017, 07:11:38 PM
I start think Frank is Jonathan Ross!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 08:05:00 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 01 September, 2017, 07:11:38 PM
Quote from: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 06:39:47 PM
If, like me, you've ever wondered how valid Tharg's claim that Ross is a squaxx really was, the answer lies here also*. And the backdrop is 2000ad's booth at Comicon:

https://youtu.be/62zIih0bdLc


* To be fair, anyone who understands it's cooler to name check Carlos for Stronty Dog than Dredd is alright by me.

I start think Frank is Jonathan Ross!

I should have warned everyone that the video above contains moderate but thankfully brief scenes of John Burdis*, which some viewers may find disturbing.


* Even taking that time with Russell Brand and Manuel's answer phone into consideration, the question of whether Burdis has caused greater offence to the listening public than Ross is open to debate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 September, 2017, 08:27:46 PM
Quote from: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 06:39:47 PM

If, like me, you've ever wondered whether Jonathan Ross is really a nerd or just one of those people who likes Marvel movies, the following video settles the matter.

The vast majority of this is taken up by discussion of Micronauts (Mikooroman), but along the way we learn a lot about Oo-an McGregor and Mark Mill-AARR, too.

If, like me, you've ever wondered how valid Tharg's claim that Ross is a squaxx really was, the answer lies here also*. And the backdrop is 2000ad's booth at Comicon:

https://youtu.be/62zIih0bdLc


* To be fair, anyone who understands it's cooler to name check Carlos for Stronty Dog than Dredd is alright by me.

Cheers, enjoyed that. Always nice to see a bit of Burdis action (I miss him round here). I want to see his not-so-sneaky phone pass footage.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: lincnash on 01 September, 2017, 09:31:36 PM
Quote from: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 06:39:47 PM

If, like me, you've ever wondered whether Jonathan Ross is really a nerd or just one of those people who likes Marvel movies, the following video settles the matter.

The vast majority of this is taken up by discussion of Micronauts (Mikooroman), but along the way we learn a lot about Oo-an McGregor and Mark Mill-AARR, too.

If, like me, you've ever wondered how valid Tharg's claim that Ross is a squaxx really was, the answer lies here also*. And the backdrop is 2000ad's booth at Comicon:

https://youtu.be/62zIih0bdLc


* To be fair, anyone who understands it's cooler to name check Carlos for Stronty Dog than Dredd is alright by me.

That was quite good, it led me to seek out the 1977 and 1994 adverts (never seen in OZ!), Zarjaz!.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 10:56:59 PM
Quote from: lincnashOZ on 01 September, 2017, 09:31:36 PM
Quote from: Frank on 01 September, 2017, 06:39:47 PM
If, like me, you've ever wondered how valid Tharg's claim that Jonathan Ross is a squaxx really was, the answer lies here*. And the backdrop is 2000ad's booth at Comicon:

https://youtu.be/62zIih0bdLc


* To be fair, anyone who understands it's cooler to name check Carlos for Stronty Dog than Dredd is alright by me.

That was quite good, it led me to seek out the 1977 and 1994 adverts (never seen in OZ!)

The 1994 ad was seldom seen in the UK. As discussed in Thrillpower Overload (p167), Egmont spent quarter of a million on the ad then didn't have any cash left to buy airtime*.


* and bought space on channels nerdy kids didn't watch, (like Sky Sports), at a time nobody watched anyway
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: lincnash on 01 September, 2017, 11:00:10 PM
I was silly enough to buy all the Lawman of the Future, without any ad's to sway me  ::).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 02 September, 2017, 02:40:56 PM
Well, judging by how quiet it is in the prog spoilers area, I'm assuming I'm not alone in the absence of this week's tooth.  Guess the bank holiday was too much for the printers.  Posties been and gone but ...


<sigh>
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 04 September, 2017, 12:55:07 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DItusKpXgAAgqp8.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 September, 2017, 01:48:31 PM
Absolutely brilliant.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 September, 2017, 10:02:20 AM

Comics laureate Dave Gibbons and Abelard Snazz-a-like Steve Fry discuss comic sound effects as onomatopoeia. He's on near the middle, but comes back at the end to lower the tone by relating how Captain America and Captain Britain use a wank for very different reasons:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dmr0d


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 September, 2017, 07:12:26 PM
Chocolate oranges are not just for breakfast you know.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 September, 2017, 06:43:02 AM
I hang around at one or two other boards and I noticed that the upcoming TV show got some people interested into checking out Judge Dredd comics.So thats cool.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 10 September, 2017, 10:49:38 AM
I was behind someone in the Newsagent who bought a Judge Dredd Megazine. The insurgency grows!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 September, 2017, 12:22:19 PM
And you didn't say, "you got a permit to purchase that, Creep?" in a gravelly growl? Tsk!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 10 September, 2017, 12:41:37 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 06 September, 2017, 07:12:26 PM
Chocolate oranges are not just for breakfast you know.

Mind the Chocolate Oranges Marlon?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 10 September, 2017, 01:29:48 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 10 September, 2017, 12:41:37 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 06 September, 2017, 07:12:26 PM
Chocolate oranges are not just for breakfast you know.

Mind the Chocolate Oranges Marlon?

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 10 September, 2017, 02:09:47 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 10 September, 2017, 10:49:38 AM
I was behind someone in the Newsagent who bought a Judge Dredd Megazine. The insurgency grows!
Ya mean,the rebellion?  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 11 September, 2017, 01:03:21 PM
Spent the morning waiting for the Scottish Gas engineer who will definitely be here before 1:00, since its an emergency.  Now been told that the whole company only has one engineer for the whole of central Scotland, who is too busy, but will definitely be here before 5:00.    Screw you, Scottish Gas. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 10:15:03 AM
Gaaah...

I've got the "Scary Mary skins a canary every Saturday night" tune running around in my head, leaving ruts and knocking things over. In the name of God, please, make it stop!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 September, 2017, 10:19:18 AM
You know when it snows and it makes your street look completely different? Well this morning was like that, but with school kids instead of snow
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 September, 2017, 01:40:04 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 10:15:03 AM
Gaaah...

I've got the "Scary Mary skins a canary every Saturday night" tune running around in my head, leaving ruts and knocking things over. In the name of God, please, make it stop!

You think that's bad? I've got Jilted John stuck in me head. Keep getting funny looks when I shout "GORDON IS A MORON!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 02:52:11 PM
Heh, we should do an a capella duet.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 September, 2017, 03:04:28 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 10:15:03 AM
I've got the "Scary Mary skins a canary every Saturday night" tune running around in my head

In Scotland, it's Aunty Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers. The poet goes on to describe how she pulled a string (to make it sing), leading to the sudden appearance of Santa Claus.

Any other regional variations?


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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 03:58:25 PM
Eww, that sounds very... euphemistic :&

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Post by: JOE SOAP on 12 September, 2017, 05:54:11 PM


Not an equivalent but Dublinese has the similar sounding Up in Nelly's room behind the wallpaper – sounds like the location of a sinister presence in a horror film – which is a slang response to the question of something's whereabouts (http://www.slang.ie/index.php?entryid=10056).
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Post by: JamesC on 12 September, 2017, 05:57:05 PM
I'm in Norfolk and am unaware of any such rhyme.
I have been known to sing "I shagged your mum, she opened up her legs and gave me one, it was fantastic, she takes cash or plastic." To the tune of The Sign by Ace of Base, but only since the 90s.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 06:08:28 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 12 September, 2017, 05:54:11 PM


Not an equivalent but Dublinese has the similar sounding Up in Nelly's room behind the wallpaper – sounds like the location of a sinister presence in a horror film – which is a slang response to the question of something's whereabouts (http://www.slang.ie/index.php?entryid=10056).

Hmm, a local answer to the same question is "up ' suff at back o' Martha's in a jug," which means "up the chimney at the back of Martha's house, in a jug."

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 08:06:10 PM
I wonder whether the Terminator films could be the prequels to the Matrix films?

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 September, 2017, 08:09:38 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 08:06:10 PM
I wonder whether the Terminator films could be the prequels to the Matrix films?
Impossible, seeing as according to the fucking comics Robocop accidentally created Skynet.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2017, 08:14:44 PM
Robocop > Skynet > Matrix.

Still works!

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 September, 2017, 08:32:04 PM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCIvoa1cygjOZ10_1Ft6hP2bq0OqTzb_j6wAP5bSXgckeW-gPc)
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Post by: Frank on 19 September, 2017, 07:54:29 PM

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ALGORITHMS:

Daily Record, 19th September 2017

'Would-be bombers don't have a problem finding the right ingredients to create explosive devices - Amazon offers tips.

The internet giant pairs searches for ingredients used in the production of thermite with other chemicals necessary to create deadly devices through their FREQUENTLY BOUGHT TOGETHER recommendations.

Users searching for black powder are also offered steel ball bearings, often used as shrapnel in improvised explosives, under the heading CUSTOMERS ALSO BOUGHT.'



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Post by: Smith on 20 September, 2017, 01:25:55 PM
And I thought you cant buy fertilizer without FBI busting down your door...
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Post by: Tjm86 on 20 September, 2017, 07:37:21 PM
Americans don't need to buy it.  They just wait for Trump to open his mouth.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 September, 2017, 08:48:59 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 20 September, 2017, 07:37:21 PM
Americans don't need to buy it.  They just wait for Trump to open his mouth.
Far right zealots have named this form of dung, 'Holy shit'.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 September, 2017, 08:50:27 PM
(http://media.popculture.com/2017/05/iron-sky-hitler-rides-dinosaur-trailer-20000496-1280x0.jpg)
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Post by: Smith on 20 September, 2017, 08:51:21 PM
Somehow,the topic of making bombs seems like the funnier one right now. :|
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Post by: Smith on 25 September, 2017, 03:39:42 PM
Apparently,sex robots will be mass produced pretty soon.Another thing JD predicted.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 September, 2017, 03:44:31 PM
About time, too - it's so exhausting being one of a kind...

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Post by: Tjm86 on 26 September, 2017, 08:01:04 PM
Oh, stop going onanon.
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Post by: Goaty on 27 September, 2017, 08:55:22 PM
A Guide On How To Ruin Sequels By Including Casting Photo...

(https://i.imgur.com/due7K8n.jpg)

Good luck Avatar sequels!
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 27 September, 2017, 09:07:55 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 27 September, 2017, 08:55:22 PM
A Guide On How To Ruin Sequels By Including Casting Photo...

(https://i.imgur.com/due7K8n.jpg)

Good luck Avatar sequels!

Weren't the Na'vis all Computer generated? Could these folks be their voice-over artists?
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 11 October, 2017, 10:57:46 AM
A woman said hello to me. This place is in the South for God's sake where people acknowledging each other's existence is a social faux pau! Does she not know the horror of a stranger issuing a greeting? I intend to write to my MP about this verbal 'Hello' nonsense if I can remember my MP's name.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2017, 01:50:58 AM
Tonight I spent some time with a bloke on holiday in his caravan. He's been here before but today invited me for a beer. He wanted to watch a film. I suggested Dredd, of course. He talked right through it.

At first I was quite miffed.

But he wanted to talk about having spent twelve years in prison for murder. He shot someone in the head over drug money.

Holy shit.

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Post by: Fungus on 13 October, 2017, 03:24:36 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2017, 01:50:58 AM
Tonight I spent some time with a bloke on holiday in his caravan. He's been here before but today invited me for a beer. He wanted to watch a film. I suggested Dredd, of course. He talked right through it.

At first I was quite miffed.

But he wanted to talk about having spent twelve years in prison for murder. He shot someone in the head over drug money.

Holy shit.

He wasn't impov-ing the film?

Try Mr Bean next time?
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Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2017, 07:56:42 AM
That must have been a very intense experience, Shark. It's not a conversation I've ever had, but I did share many night shifts with a largely unrepentent bloke who'd served 6 years for robbery, possession of firearms and supply of drugs, and while he was perfectly affable (and ever since hails me loudly on the street whenever our paths cross) that was quite edgy enough for me.  Living with a murder is presumably a whole different level, and added to that length of incarceration, it's hard to imagine.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2017, 09:07:56 AM
Indeed, Tordels. This guy is repentant, it's tearing him apart. Intense is exactly the right word. It was difficult to find anything to say, especially with being full of beer, and there were a couple of quite unnerving moments. I get the feeling that, like you, I've made a friend for life because I listened and didn't turn my face away. 

It ruined the bloody film, though! How am I supposed to watch Dredd from now on without remembering that conversation? Some people have no consideration...
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Post by: Smith on 14 October, 2017, 06:58:05 PM
Moral of the story is: Dont try to bond with your dealer.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 October, 2017, 07:04:04 PM
Hmmm... There's an oddball road-trip comedy action buddy movie in that...

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Post by: Smith on 14 October, 2017, 07:46:11 PM
We're the Millers?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 October, 2017, 08:14:18 PM
Never heard of it - any good?

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Post by: Smith on 14 October, 2017, 08:17:49 PM
Eh,its okay.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 October, 2017, 08:59:28 PM
Room for something better, then!

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Post by: Tiplodocus on 15 October, 2017, 01:28:34 PM
Ideal? Johnny Vegas BBC3 show. Written, I think, by Tony Mills/Burgess.
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Post by: Smith on 30 October, 2017, 03:33:30 PM
Who knew a discussion about Halo Jones in color would escalate so quickly...
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Post by: von Boom on 09 November, 2017, 10:27:15 PM
Well fuck.

https://twitter.com/DuneAuthor/status/928527656001314816 (https://twitter.com/DuneAuthor/status/928527656001314816)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2017, 07:50:13 PM
If that was my fault, I'm genuinely very sorry.

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Post by: Goaty on 21 November, 2017, 05:09:15 PM
NASA reveals 'Oumuamua' historic visitor from another solar system is shaped like a CIGAR

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/20/17/468BE61D00000578-0-image-a-1_1511199121328.jpg)

Am I only one who think of Lifeforce?

(http://www.cageyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lifeforce_01.jpg)
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Post by: von Boom on 21 November, 2017, 05:18:44 PM
No, but I wondered if it were hollow.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 November, 2017, 06:37:20 PM
It's clearly Rama. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama)

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Post by: Theblazeuk on 22 November, 2017, 11:14:46 AM
Exactly what I thought of. A long way off our rendezvous unfortunately.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2017, 11:36:36 AM
This time but, I seem to recall, the Ramans always do things in threes...

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Post by: Proudhuff on 22 November, 2017, 03:27:41 PM
While the Ramones done things in four...

Onetwothreefour!
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2017, 03:35:40 PM
Heh, Rendezvous With the Ramones - sounds like my kinda sci-fi!

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Post by: TordelBack on 26 November, 2017, 03:38:39 PM
So is the 2000AD Facebook page just people complaining that every current image posted of every character isn't exactly the same as when they last read/bought a prog x0 years ago?
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Post by: Jim_Campbell on 26 November, 2017, 03:58:34 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 November, 2017, 03:38:39 PM
So is the 2000AD Facebook page just people complaining that every current image posted of every character isn't exactly the same as when they last read/bought a prog x0 years ago?

Yes. It seems to consist largely of people who haven't bought a prog in decades agreeing with each other that the comic isn't as good as it used to be.
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Post by: TordelBack on 26 November, 2017, 04:40:43 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 26 November, 2017, 03:58:34 PMIt seems to consist largely of people who haven't bought a prog in decades agreeing with each other that the comic isn't as good as it used to be.

I'm always grateful to Rob Williams for teaching me the word saudade, it's surprisingly useful.
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 November, 2017, 04:49:48 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 November, 2017, 03:38:39 PM
So is the 2000AD Facebook page just people complaining that every current image posted of every character isn't exactly the same as when they last read/bought a prog x0 years ago?

No, no they only spend about 50% of the admittedly limited time I've spent there doing that. The rest of the time they spend slagging the Forum off and calling it mean spirited and full of bullies and nonsense.... they then turn on anyone who defends it as one of the nicest places on the internet, but not perfect, like a pack of rabid dogs...

... its a fun place!
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 November, 2017, 04:54:48 PM
I hardly ever look at it. I'm happy here amongst all you mean-spirited bullies... :D

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Post by: von Boom on 26 November, 2017, 04:56:41 PM
Sure. And Facebook is populated only by well-mannered and reasoned-thinking individuals.  :rolleyes:
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 November, 2017, 05:10:47 PM
Facetube does get right on my threpennys but it's hard to take most of it seriously. It's generally a bunch of ill-informed muppets getting all emotional over things they misunderstood to start with, pillocks who think the contents of their digestive systems are fascinating and wazzocks who believe their opinions are of vital global importance. (I'm in the third category, mostly.)

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Post by: TordelBack on 26 November, 2017, 05:33:12 PM
I miss the days when we had a righteous cause and a clear enemy to thwart in the JBF.  This new post-truth world of asymmetric inter-platform low-level warfare lacks moral focus and/or colourful villains, and I suspect it's just Zuckerberg and @jack trying to turn us against each other so they can move in and monetise the Art Comp.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 November, 2017, 05:41:55 PM
I wish they'd monetize the writing comp. :(

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Post by: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:08:06 PM
Why does joining a library in the UK require me to declare my ethnicity?
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Post by: JamesC on 28 November, 2017, 07:16:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:08:06 PM
Why does joining a library in the UK require me to declare my ethnicity?

Are you sure it's actually required?
It's usually so they have data to illustrate their reach within the community. Postcode, age, gender and ethnicity are all useful for them to know.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2017, 07:26:39 PM
Maybe it's because libraries are provided by the state and the state likes to remind us all, at every possible opportunity, about our differences so that it can protect us from one another.

Or maybe they just want to see what the different ethnic groups like to read so that they can provide an adequate range of reading material in various locations.

Or maybe they're just nosey.

(It's the first one...)

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Post by: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:38:54 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 28 November, 2017, 07:16:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:08:06 PM
Why does joining a library in the UK require me to declare my ethnicity?

Are you sure it's actually required?
It's usually so they have data to illustrate their reach within the community. Postcode, age, gender and ethnicity are all useful for them to know.

Take a look at the form online. Ethnic origin is a required box.

https://librarycatalogue.essex.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=useractivities#GuestRegistration=1 (https://librarycatalogue.essex.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=useractivities#GuestRegistration=1)
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Post by: JamesC on 28 November, 2017, 07:48:15 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:38:54 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 28 November, 2017, 07:16:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:08:06 PM
Why does joining a library in the UK require me to declare my ethnicity?

Are you sure it's actually required?
It's usually so they have data to illustrate their reach within the community. Postcode, age, gender and ethnicity are all useful for them to know.

Take a look at the form online. Ethnic origin is a required box.

https://librarycatalogue.essex.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=useractivities#GuestRegistration=1 (https://librarycatalogue.essex.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=useractivities#GuestRegistration=1)

But one of the options is 'prefer not to say'.

Trust me, there'll be a big chart somewhere where all this data is collated and the local library managers will be hoping that it's enough to keep their services off the chopping block next time the council makes a round of cuts.
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Post by: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:55:59 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 28 November, 2017, 07:48:15 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:38:54 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 28 November, 2017, 07:16:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 28 November, 2017, 07:08:06 PM
Why does joining a library in the UK require me to declare my ethnicity?

Are you sure it's actually required?
It's usually so they have data to illustrate their reach within the community. Postcode, age, gender and ethnicity are all useful for them to know.

Take a look at the form online. Ethnic origin is a required box.

https://librarycatalogue.essex.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=useractivities#GuestRegistration=1 (https://librarycatalogue.essex.gov.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=useractivities#GuestRegistration=1)

But one of the options is 'prefer not to say'.

Trust me, there'll be a big chart somewhere where all this data is collated and the local library managers will be hoping that it's enough to keep their services off the chopping block next time the council makes a round of cuts.

Didn't scroll that far.  ::)

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Post by: Modern Panther on 28 November, 2017, 08:48:23 PM
Government services generally ask, to make sure they're serving the whole community.  If 7% of the population are Martians, but only 0.01% of library users are, then there's something wrong.

I once had an English lady get quite annoyed that the only box she could fit herself into was "other British".
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Post by: TordelBack on 28 November, 2017, 08:51:00 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 November, 2017, 07:26:39 PM
Maybe it's because libraries are provided by the state ...

Those bastards again! I thought they'd already had their pound of flesh with the whole vaccination and workplace safety outrages. 

Let's face it when libraries aren't provided by the state that you need to worry.  And yeah, it's about outreach: I do volunteer community outreach stuff with a County Council every summer, and if you're in any way Diverse (young, old, immigrant, disabled: anything other than local white male over 20 or under 60) boys oh boys do we want to know it: that stuff is funding gold. 

Also, just occasionally, it makes us think about how we provide our services and to whom, and how we might improve.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 10:11:36 AM
My argument is not that the state is bad, the state provides libraries therefore libraries are bad.

My argument is that the state fosters divisions in society so that it can present itself as a solution to divisions in society, the state provides libraries and therefore uses (or abuses) that privilege (along with many others) in order to remind people of those, in this case ethnic, divisions.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 29 November, 2017, 10:15:59 AM
Put the tinfoil hat away! it's about trying - in the haphazard, fumbling way that is the only means possible when trying to support a mass population - to ensure that your services reach and help everyone, not just the majority.

It's just aggregate data. When you start saying a Library sign-up form is a means by which the state engenders division, you're going overboard. The truth is entirely the opposite.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 10:29:03 AM
I think that if the truth was opposite, there'd be no need to ask which ethnic group one belongs to but, rather, what kinds of books or subjects the library applicant is interested in.
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Post by: TordelBack on 29 November, 2017, 11:10:54 AM
I'm not convinced that the question in the OP is terribly sensible myself for precisely the reasons Sharky sets out, but at the same time I honestly can't see anything wrong with a local service provider looking for information that allows it to assess how well it is serving its population. If (for example) only people with a multi-generational background in the country are accessing the library, I think this is useful information: people from different backgrounds may not be aware of the servcies on offer, or the way they are provided may not suit them.

We're back to arguing about the Census again, aren't we?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 11:28:06 AM
I guess I'm just a cynic, lol. Anyway, maybe I'm wrong but I do sincerely think that reminding us of our differences on just about every government form they expect us to fill in is a great way for it to keep those differences visible and alive.

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Post by: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 12:15:24 PM
Preposterous idea - "hey look at this form - I know I'm white but there are other categories here. I'd forgotten that some people in this town are from other ethnicities, but now I've seen this, I am reminded just how different they are - Grrrrr"

Nope, wrong target on this occasion - these forms are purely to ensure that certain groups aren't missing out or falling through the cracks when it comes to delivering services.
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Post by: Modern Panther on 29 November, 2017, 12:20:02 PM
Sometimes they go as far as providing multi lingual services, thereby dividing people further  by reminding them that they speak different languages.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 12:30:49 PM
Heh, I'm not sure Nigel Farage even has a library card. Only people with that kind of mentality would react so vehemently. For most people, I contend, it's simply a low-level reminder.

On the positive side, once one notices these "divisions" the optimists amongst us can say, "hey, look at all these different kinds of people who enjoy reading as much as I do. Maybe we're not so different, after all."

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Post by: Fungus on 29 November, 2017, 12:35:56 PM
Please don't ruin this thread with more politics...
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Post by: Modern Panther on 29 November, 2017, 12:40:44 PM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    The politics thread is loosed upon the world,
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Post by: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 12:49:29 PM
Okay change of subject - why the hell has my left eye been weeping ever since I left the house this morning? Right eye's fine. It's very weird
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 November, 2017, 12:53:23 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 12:49:29 PM
Okay change of subject - why the hell has my left eye been weeping ever since I left the house this morning?

Don't knock it - I hear the alt-right will pay top dollar for a source of leftie tears. 
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Post by: Modern Panther on 29 November, 2017, 01:04:29 PM
There is, sadly, no "polite applause" emoji available.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 01:18:30 PM
Quote from: Fungus
link=topic=36237.msg974333#msg974333
date=1511958956

Please don't ruin this thread with more
politics...

Apologies.

(https://www.iaml.com/sites/default/files/field/image/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-01%20at%208.53.18%20PM.png)
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Post by: Link Prime on 29 November, 2017, 01:48:06 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 12:49:29 PM
Okay change of subject - why the hell has my left eye been weeping ever since I left the house this morning? Right eye's fine. It's very weird

Eye'll handle this.

Likely nothing to worry about DDD- really common complaint and 99.9% of the time nothing to worry about.
Could simply be a bit of grit in your left eye.
If you have a cold / sinus infection it's also a possible cause.

Recommend; over the counter meds for head cold / sinus infection and Brolene eye drops / warm compress for the eye.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 05:00:20 PM
In a transparent effort to redeem myself: How Art Spiegelman Designs Comic Books: A Breakdown of His Masterpiece, Maus (http://www.openculture.com/2017/11/how-art-spiegelman-designs-comic-books-a-breakdown-of-his-masterpiece-maus.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29)

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Post by: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 05:16:01 PM
I drank far too much free wine at a Maus signing once and made a right prat of myself in front of Mr Spiegelman and the rest of the audience  :-[
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 November, 2017, 05:30:03 PM
Tell me you didn't do a Basil Fawlty...

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Post by: von Boom on 29 November, 2017, 05:44:37 PM
¿Que?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 November, 2017, 05:50:20 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 05:16:01 PM
I drank far too much free wine at a Maus signing once and made a right prat of myself in front of Mr Spiegelman and the rest of the audience  :-[

Ah, so this was you!

(http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/metamaus/metamaus_intro.jpg)
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 29 November, 2017, 07:26:50 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 November, 2017, 12:49:29 PM
Okay change of subject - why the hell has my left eye been weeping ever since I left the house this morning? Right eye's fine. It's very weird

As with any plumbing the seals eventually rot and you begin to leak.

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Post by: von Boom on 04 December, 2017, 08:02:01 PM
Bother.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/04/winnie-the-pooh-v-and-a-museum-london-bear-exhibition (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/04/winnie-the-pooh-v-and-a-museum-london-bear-exhibition)

Not really.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 06 December, 2017, 10:40:07 AM
God, I miss living in London even more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 December, 2017, 07:10:00 PM
Don't you hate it when people are nice to you for no apparent reason? BASTARDS!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 December, 2017, 04:00:13 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 December, 2017, 10:40:07 AM
God, I miss living in London even more.

the man who tires of London tires of tyres.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 December, 2017, 04:31:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 December, 2017, 04:00:13 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 December, 2017, 10:40:07 AM
God, I miss living in London even more.

the man who tires of London tires of tyres.

Doctor Goodyear?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 December, 2017, 07:15:31 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 08 December, 2017, 04:31:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 08 December, 2017, 04:00:13 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 06 December, 2017, 10:40:07 AM
God, I miss living in London even more.

the man who tires of London tires of tyres.

Doctor Goodyear?

Colonel Blimp?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 December, 2017, 01:23:22 AM
You don't think male privilege exists? 

I sat between my regional manager and the No. 2 in my Union at tonight's Christmas party, both ladies in their 40s. I initially found myself joking that I was being sexually harassed by the former ('Have you seen the Star Wars sex toys you can get online? There are some things should never look like Darth Vader's helmet - and some things definitely should') to the latter, then after more wine was consumed, joking that I was being harassed by the latter ('What age were you when you first had anal sex? If you can't remember, we can always pop to the toilets for a quick refresher') to the former. "Nowhere left to turn!" I wailed, dramatically.  But while some of it was mildly awkward (as my own rather more junior staff were in earshot) I didn't feel remotely pressured or harassed. Now imagine I was a woman sat between two men in positions of relative power.

Then I got the last tram and took a shortcut across some frosty wasteground at 1am, and my main concern was breaking through some puddle ice because I have a hole in my shoe.

That there is male privilege.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 December, 2017, 07:00:14 AM
Interesting observation, Tordels. I wonder, though, is that entirely male privilege or could at least some of it be male mindset? (Male mindset admittedly being foisted on all society by male privilege.)

Sounds like a good party, though!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 December, 2017, 09:05:03 AM
Fair point, Sharky!  The keen observer may have detected more than a degree of festive inebriation in that post, but I suppose I was reflecting on the fact that at no point in my evening did I feel I had to analyse what was being said to me in case there was an implied pressure or threat there, nor was I threatened by the environments I was in, which I strongly suspect would not be the case if I had been a woman. 

Hence, male privilege.

I understand that there are circumstances where men feel more at risk than women (the risk of being picked out for a drunken fight, for example), and I've seen the nasty put-downs and bullying that can go one between men in the workplace, but being able to ignore (or join in) with sex-laden banter from more senior colleagues of the opposite sex and know that there were no consequences for me... well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 December, 2017, 09:58:33 AM
answer the grudamn questions!
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Post by: TordelBack on 09 December, 2017, 11:49:50 AM
At least buy me dinner first, Huff.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 December, 2017, 06:13:08 PM
Heh, I don't want to spoil the thread again so I'll keep my thoughts concerning Planet Misogyny to myself :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 December, 2017, 10:30:42 AM
I wasn't calling you a misogynist by the way, Tordels - just observing that we live in a misogynistic world.

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Post by: Tjm86 on 10 December, 2017, 11:25:24 AM
That's an old Madonna song isn't it?  "Living in a misogynist world ...."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 December, 2017, 12:27:27 PM
Misogyny, misogyny, where did I put my sogyny?

I'll get me man coat (manorak?)...

I know, I know. I'm going...

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Post by: Goaty on 12 December, 2017, 08:53:16 PM
Fossil hunters find man-sized penguin on New Zealand beach

So Mountains of Madness was real?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 December, 2017, 09:00:25 PM
To the Batcave!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 December, 2017, 10:59:47 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 12 December, 2017, 08:53:16 PM
Fossil hunters find man-sized penguin on New Zealand beach

So Mountains of Madness was real?

it was a travelogue!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 December, 2017, 07:00:29 PM
Why don't they give him a sippy cup?

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2afda0c7974962d5f0f98fbde5fe2bf96c8052b7/0_0_3000_2309/master/3000.jpg?w=1010&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=07f8175d6cee65f0753c502fa311c14f)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 December, 2017, 07:11:33 PM
Because he appeals to mugs.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 December, 2017, 07:19:11 PM
Ba-dum-tish.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 19 December, 2017, 08:52:14 PM
Shame on you Von Boom - I mean, what kind of peson would mock someone because of the way they drink water while giving a speech? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-s7eG2ckN4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 26 December, 2017, 06:03:59 PM
Bleeding Cool did a 100 most powerful people in comics list.Matt Smith is number 82.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 December, 2017, 07:39:12 PM

RANTING!!!

CAN ADMINS OF THIS BOARD DO A BETTER JOB OF MONITORING WHO IS ALLOWED IN HERE PLEASE?

WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER. AN ELDERLY WOMAN. SHE'S BEEN PRIVATELY MESSAGING MEMBERS, SENDING THEM NAKED PICTURES OF HERSELF IN NASTY POSES ALONG WITH CLOSE UPS OF HER UNMENTIONABLES. SHE IS OFFERING AN IPHONE 7+ IN EXCHANGE FOR SEXUAL FAVOURS.

I AM ESPECIALLY BOTHERED BECAUSE IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN IPHONE 6S AND OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH IT BECAUSE IT'S SUPER SLOW AND THE CAPS LOCK IS STUCK ON.

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Post by: von Boom on 27 December, 2017, 08:11:09 PM
Funny. Mine's a 7.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 31 December, 2017, 04:04:15 AM
There's no "Last Book Read" thread that I could find, but for Christmas, my sister got me Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium by Paul Kidby.

Basically All the book covers supplemented with character studies. Kidby's got talent. Tharg should get him to do a cover or some such.

I was quite touched by this gift as I had told my sister that I would miss getting a new Pratchett book at Christmas.

The book opens with a quotation from Pterry himself:

"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it exercises the muscles that can."

That man could write.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 03 January, 2018, 03:04:08 PM
I bought some small plastic grip-seal bags from ebay to keep old game cartridges in - I thought it would be a good idea to stop unboxed games from getting dirty or corroded.
I'm now getting suggestions on Ebay, Facebook and various other sites for items which I can only describe as things you'd find in a drug dealers tool kit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 11 January, 2018, 09:40:36 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 31 December, 2017, 04:04:15 AM
There's no "Last Book Read" thread that I could find,


There's this thread (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=24633.6300).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Satanist on 11 January, 2018, 09:45:17 AM
So is there any news on what Tharg has planned for 2000ad's 41st celebration?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 January, 2018, 12:24:33 PM
I woke up this morning with the words "pantheon of idiots" rattling around my head.

Maybe I should start a band.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 January, 2018, 09:08:24 PM
Nukemap. (http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) Scary.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 January, 2018, 07:17:42 PM
Johnny Rotten is 62 today. How'd that happen?
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Post by: Goaty on 31 January, 2018, 07:39:49 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 January, 2018, 07:17:42 PM
Johnny Rotten is 62 today. How'd that happen?

His parents had sex and 9 months later, he born on 31 January 1956 in Holloway, London.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 January, 2018, 08:19:47 PM
SHE'S BEEN PRIVATELY MESSAGING MEMBERS

read as massaging members... :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 January, 2018, 08:39:13 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 31 January, 2018, 07:39:49 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 January, 2018, 07:17:42 PM
Johnny Rotten is 62 today. How'd that happen?

His parents had sex and 9 months later, he born on 31 January 1956 in Holloway, London.

No, it was Somethin' Else.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 11 February, 2018, 11:55:14 AM
The 41st 2000ad anniversary bash is not a patch on the 40th.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 February, 2018, 06:35:08 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 31 January, 2018, 07:39:49 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 January, 2018, 07:17:42 PM
Johnny Rotten is 62 today. How'd that happen?

His parents had sex and 9 months later, he born on 31 January 1956 in Holloway, London.

Sometimes I think of the fact that my parents were about 15 years too old for punk, and wonder if we middle-aged comic geeks are completely missing the existence of another angry, anti-establishment, cultural revolution, happening right in front of our eyes.

And then I see how popular Ed Sheeran is, and realise the answer is 'no'.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2018, 07:02:15 PM
The Cultural Revolution has been postponed pending the results of Big Brother.
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Post by: TordelBack on 11 February, 2018, 07:31:02 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 February, 2018, 06:35:08 PM
And then I see how popular Ed Sheeran is, and realise the answer is 'no'.

Top 5 UK Singles 1977: ABBA, Elvis,  Rod Stewart and two by David Soul.


http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml (http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml)
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Post by: von Boom on 12 February, 2018, 02:19:03 PM
Treat yourself to a listen of Boy (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hwhgc).

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 February, 2018, 04:09:29 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 February, 2018, 07:31:02 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 February, 2018, 06:35:08 PM
And then I see how popular Ed Sheeran is, and realise the answer is 'no'.

Top 5 UK Singles 1977: ABBA, Elvis,  Rod Stewart and two by David Soul.


http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml (http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml)

Point.

Quote from: von Boom on 12 February, 2018, 02:19:03 PMTreat yourself to a listen of Boy (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hwhgc).

I thought this was going to be a link to some new band that has turned the establishment on its head, to prove me wrong.  Then I realised that not everything is about me.  I love Boy; I think I read it three times as a kid.  Made me realise how easygoing my school was; even though many of our teachers hadn't quite got used to the fact that corporal punishment was banned.



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Post by: von Boom on 12 February, 2018, 04:26:55 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 February, 2018, 04:09:29 PM

Quote from: von Boom on 12 February, 2018, 02:19:03 PMTreat yourself to a listen of Boy (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07hwhgc).

I thought this was going to be a link to some new band that has turned the establishment on its head, to prove me wrong.  Then I realised that not everything is about me.  I love Boy; I think I read it three times as a kid.  Made me realise how easygoing my school was; even though many of our teachers hadn't quite got used to the fact that corporal punishment was banned.

Too right. It was bad enough being locked in a cupboard for an hour or two... ::)
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Post by: von Boom on 12 February, 2018, 05:45:02 PM
Well fuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/12/judas-priest-glenn-tipton-parkinsons-disease (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/12/judas-priest-glenn-tipton-parkinsons-disease)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 February, 2018, 11:49:04 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 11 February, 2018, 11:55:14 AM
The 41st 2000ad anniversary bash is not a patch on the 40th.

At least you got served at the bar this year, kid.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 February, 2018, 02:26:36 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 February, 2018, 07:31:02 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 February, 2018, 06:35:08 PM
And then I see how popular Ed Sheeran is, and realise the answer is 'no'.

Top 5 UK Singles 1977: ABBA, Elvis,  Rod Stewart and two by David Soul.


http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml (http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1977.shtml)

Plenty to hate there.  ;)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 14 February, 2018, 04:41:14 PM
(http://division51.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lonely-man.jpg)
Quote from: Spikes on 11 February, 2018, 11:55:14 AM
The 41st 2000ad anniversary bash is not a patch on the 40th.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 February, 2018, 10:48:46 PM
What the drokk is wrong with that Ben Shapiro creature?  Who watches/listens to someone who talks like that? He's like that guy at a conference who asks a question after each and every speaker, and then proceeds to rabbit on about something else entirely while refusing to meet anyone's eye, and then everyone avoids him when they eventually escape for coffee.  Stunned to learn he's 34 - I would have guessed south of 21. 
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 14 February, 2018, 10:50:22 PM
His views are mostly arse but I find him mildly amusing, in a shifty way.
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Post by: von Boom on 15 February, 2018, 01:29:26 PM
When I googled Ben Shapiro (never heard of him before) I noticed that the entry on the side of the page lists he only has one parent, David. So it's probably safe to bet he's a botched clone of said David.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 15 February, 2018, 09:19:33 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 February, 2018, 04:09:29 PM
Made me realise how easygoing my school was; even though many of our teachers hadn't quite got used to the fact that corporal punishment was banned.

.. it was banned?  No one told my head or the staff.  In fact, no one told them how to treat their students with anything approaching to humanity.  Spare the rod, spoil the child = knock the shit out of the little bastard.
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Post by: TordelBack on 16 February, 2018, 08:49:05 PM
I reckon that the quality of drama on telly/streaming services nowadays simply towers over all but the most exceptional programmes of my youth. There are shows I venerate,  like Edge of Darkness,  I, Claudius, Blake's 7, Day of the Triffids,  A Very British Coup, Robin of Sherwood,  HHGttG,  Hill Street Blues etc,  but really these were islands in a sea of Hart to Hart, V The Series, Littlest Hobo,  Upstairs Downstairs, Land of the Giants and Little House on the Prarie.

And yet all I seem to see is constant griping about 'lazy storytelling' and 'reliance on tired tropes'.  Has everyone gone mad? I could genuinely watch unbelievably compelling, frequently original, telly every minute for a week and not come close to catching up with all the things I want to watch. This is the golden age of small-screen drama.
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Post by: JamesC on 16 February, 2018, 09:10:21 PM
How could anyone possibly have a bad word to say about The Littlest Hobo?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 February, 2018, 09:20:01 PM
Scruffy little git.

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Post by: Smith on 16 February, 2018, 10:57:29 PM
There was a show.You liked it as a kid,it was awesome.Later on,you decided to revisit it.You torrent the whole thing (because ofc,there are no DVDs of it)...and you couldnt make it thru two episodes.Sounds familar? :)
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 16 February, 2018, 11:38:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 February, 2018, 08:49:05 PM
And yet all I seem to see is constant griping about 'lazy storytelling' and 'reliance on tired tropes'.  Has everyone gone mad?

Pretty much; even sticking with the new 'mainstream', the last season just gone of Game of Thrones is better than almost all of what we watched in our misspent youth yet there's still so much griping. Having said that, there's still quite a staggering amount of rarely seen treasures of telly produced over the last 5 or 6 decades –previously lost/locked up in vaults/aired only once– that can be mined for years if one can be bothered to look.
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Post by: JamesC on 17 February, 2018, 08:52:04 AM
There's some fantastic TV out there at the moment but much of it is on subscription services.
Prime time BBC1 and ITV have never been worse in my opinion. It's almost like a world beyond soaps, detectives and hospital dramas doesn't exist. Even the really good stuff that the BBC produces seems to be viewed as niche and chucked onto the BBC2 mid week 10 o'clock slot. I think things like Upstart Crow and Inside No.9 should be on at 9 o'clock on BBC1 (where they'll often put a repeat of a panel show on. Madness).
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Post by: Smith on 17 February, 2018, 09:00:10 AM
In the last decade or so,things got turned upside down.TV became smart and innovative and movies became dumb and by the numbers.
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Post by: Link Prime on 23 February, 2018, 11:01:31 AM
I never could bring myself to post in The Political Thread, but if I could right now it would be this image.
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Post by: Tjm86 on 23 February, 2018, 11:42:42 AM
 :D
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2018, 11:36:14 AM
The snow is going to be like it was in 1982, which is one of my best childhood memories.  Not so much fun when you're painting Paddy's Day murals the outside of a restaurant and being a Vikings extra in the Wicklow mountains.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2018, 12:31:13 PM
Not much fun when you're up a ladder lopping trees, either. Brrr.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2018, 09:16:17 PM
Nice to see you're up and about after your recent hospital spell, though.

Oddly enough my mother suffered exactly the same kind of mini-stroke on Saturday; she's fine now and I told her about your recovery to give her a bit of encouragement.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2018, 09:41:28 PM
Thanks, JBC, I appreciate it. People keep asking me how I feel. I spark up a fag, smile and say, "Oh, you know. I'm still alive - which is always a bonus." It sure is a bonus - biggest one there is, I guess. The only question is whether I'm going to focus on how I'm going to live or how long I'm going to live.

Tell your Mum I wish her well and to keep some lemon and ginger tea (preferably Twinings) in the cupboard in case I drop in - us sexy survivors gotta stick together!
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2018, 10:33:07 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2018, 09:41:28 PM
Thanks, JBC, I appreciate it. People keep asking me how I feel. I spark up a fag, smile and say, "Oh, you know. I'm still alive - which is always a bonus." It sure is a bonus - biggest one there is, I guess. The only question is whether I'm going to focus on how I'm going to live or how long I'm going to live.

Tell your Mum I wish her well and to keep some lemon and ginger tea (preferably Twinings) in the cupboard in case I drop in - us sexy survivors gotta stick together!

Thanks, Sharky.  I'll even overlook the fact that you called my Mam sexy.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2018, 10:37:05 PM
So long as you don't overlook the fact that I'm sexy...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 February, 2018, 10:39:22 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2018, 10:37:05 PM
So long as you don't overlook the fact that I'm sexy...

Well, that goes without saying, Love-chunks.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 February, 2018, 10:41:12 PM
Thanks, Honey Bunny ;)

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Post by: Modern Panther on 01 March, 2018, 09:14:21 AM
Don't know if you chaps have noticed, but it's snowing.

I'm in the middle of a part of the country with a Red Warning in place, and it is bloody apocalyptic here.  It's -3, but the wind makes it much colder.  Snow's about a foot deep in places, making powdery dunes.

Warnings are in place telling people not to travel. Trains stopped running yesterday, the M80 is jammed with people who've been stuck in their cars overnight. Twitter is full of official warnings (and people complaining about how the SNP didn't give enough official warning. I saw one lady complain to the First Minister that the council hadnt collected her bins. Blitz spirit.)

If the worst of the weather is heading your way, don't underestimate it. I ran into a couple of american tourists the other day, who had decided to drive across the country and had broken down. No mobile, no toolkit, no map. They had to gut a tauntaun to keep warm.

I'm going outside now. I may be some time.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 March, 2018, 09:43:27 AM
I think that Manchester's councillors have been sacrificing their first-borns to the weather gods because every extreme weather event in the last year or two has caused havoc to the North, South or East of us, but we have been relatively untouched - we have snow, but it's just a light blanketing unless you get up on the hills.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 March, 2018, 09:49:49 AM
The perfect time to hunker down with a pile of progs? Keep an eye out for your neighbours too - if they get too cold you can take 'em some Thrillpower to warm 'em up. Stay warm, Panth.
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Post by: Tjm86 on 01 March, 2018, 12:22:14 PM
Wasn't' there a future shock about that?  About the same time as the Apocalypse War?  John Higgins art?  Passing recollection of one of the creatures melting and being used to toast a marshmallow.
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 01 March, 2018, 07:54:30 PM
I haven't left the house today, mostly because the wife is on her treatment so hasn't woken up for more than a few minutes, but otherwise because the wind is howling threats across the whole valley.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 March, 2018, 08:13:57 PM
My best wishes to your Good Lady, Blaze.

My shed's creaking and groaning like an old boat in this wind.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 March, 2018, 08:16:55 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 01 March, 2018, 08:13:57 PM
My best wishes to your Good Lady, Blaze.

My shed's creaking and groaning like an old boat in this wind.

Yes, all the best to your wife Blaze.

And maybe you'll lay off the beans at breakfast tomorrow Sharky.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 March, 2018, 08:40:27 PM


Oh, now you know how much I love my hot air :)

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Post by: Spikes on 02 March, 2018, 01:39:59 PM
Was aiming to be in London today, a prebooked long weekend trip, but alas the Beast has put paid to that.

Luckily I have gotten, or will be getting, a full refund for train and hotel. So, that's indeed something.

But looking at the news, plenty of folks are having a real nightmare, with no immediate let up in sight.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 02 March, 2018, 03:35:51 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that there might be a delay in subscription copies of Tooth this week.
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Post by: TordelBack on 02 March, 2018, 04:41:32 PM
I do love when things exceed expectations.  We're closing in on 3 days of continuous snow backed by driving winds here out on the Blessington road, with the estate roads now 2 feet deep of packed snow (I dug a hole to measure!), most of the cars well over their bonnets and many vanished altogether, drifts in the lee of buildings easily 5-6 feet.  Even if we could get the car out the main road doesn't appear to have been treated since Wednesday and is a long ski-slope of frequent car-shaped humps and the occasional gracefully-sliding 4x4.  The only shop open in the area had queues outside it for the two hours it was open until it closed due to lack of anything to sell.

Best. Fun. EVER!

I had long lamented the absence of the rosy-tinted snow-days of my childhood, and managed to trudge to work every day during the last big'un (2010), but this! If our employers and my various clients weren't spending their empty days demanding work from us every five minutes, it'd be pure heaven.  As it is, regular sledding breaks, polar expedition style walks to gawk at a new corner of the devastation, long baking sessions, attempts at snowmen (too granular to compact well, unfortunately) and repeatedly digging-out doors and pavements... ah man, it's wonderful, and no sign of it slackening off any time soon.

I truly feel for those without warm shelter, power and water, or stuck alone or in poor health, but selfishly, for myself, this is something I really never thought I'd get to experience again, and better yet, it's way more extreme than anything I've seen before.  To live so long and see such things!
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 March, 2018, 05:16:12 PM
A lot of the cars outside are crawling by their wheels spinning in the snow. It's spookily quiet too with very little noise, and somehow that's unnerving for me! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 March, 2018, 05:44:49 PM
Just heard that our local Lidl (closed since yesterday morning) has been looted, so it's not all fun and games!

No laughing now, Trout I'm looking at you, but here's some pics of unprecedented suburban snowiness. 

Our estate:

(http://i68.tinypic.com/11rbsbt.jpg)

(http://i67.tinypic.com/wco7t2.jpg)

Our national road, the N82:

(http://i63.tinypic.com/2v9wund.jpg)

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 March, 2018, 05:54:19 PM
Well here in Bolton we where just on the outskirts of todays blast, but 50MPH winds where the norm and the blizzards the last few days...christ.

It's been a great time for me to catch up on cosplay projects though, and get some comics read!

Also i'm told that it's snowed in Guernsey, much to the delight of my family, for the first time in 30 year!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 March, 2018, 06:28:30 PM
Tordels, you're a bloody poet.

It's just cold and windy here. A light fall of snow on the first day's been it, so far. That fall's mostly gone now, except for a few stubborn bones, probably be turning to ankle-snapping ice sculptures before long.

Speaking of, we discovered a small "ice tree" under one of the caravans. A small, four or five inch high tree of ice with a trunk and branches going off in all directions. A proper, three dimensional tree shape made entirely of clear ice. It was beautiful, a natural wonder, and I can only think that it was caused by the slow accumulation of ice around a spider's web. Any other explanation would need to rely on either magic or quantum physics - or both.

Beauty in the Beast.

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Post by: Trout on 02 March, 2018, 06:42:13 PM
YOU CAN'T SEE ME SO YOU DON'T KNOW IF I AM LAUGHING
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Post by: Tjm86 on 02 March, 2018, 06:50:39 PM
I walked over to my in laws this morning.  It was a weird experience.  One moment you were up to your ankles in snow, the next the pavement was clear.  The few cars that were out were mainly 4x4's and  moving slowly.

The winds have seriously shifted the snow.  I dug out our drive this morning (we live on top of a hill and have a really steep drive) and by this afternoon it was completely covered again.  Part of that was windblow, part was fresh falling snow.  Fun times but not the first time we've had it this late in the year.
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Post by: TordelBack on 02 March, 2018, 09:05:44 PM
So now I'm watching video of feckers destroying the looted Lidl with a stolen digger,  and the shutters of our local Centra shop have been angle-grinder-ed and it's being looted too. Cops can't get to us/too busy elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/rogieop/status/969675001795358721?s=17 (https://twitter.com/rogieop/status/969675001795358721?s=17)

Still,  should keep my property tax down,  I suppose.

You Nordy boarders better hope that border is a hard one after all.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 March, 2018, 10:13:42 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 02 March, 2018, 09:05:44 PM
So now I'm watching video of feckers destroying the looted Lidl with a stolen digger,  and the shutters of our local Centra shop have been angle-grinder-ed and it's being looted too. Cops can't get to us/too busy elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/rogieop/status/969675001795358721?s=17 (https://twitter.com/rogieop/status/969675001795358721?s=17)

Still,  should keep my property tax down,  I suppose.

You Nordy boarders better hope that border is a hard one after all.

Saw this footage last night.  For once I'm going to stop being a libtard snowflake and say that I hope these scumbags get stamped on by the law, and taken off the streets for a long time.
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 03 March, 2018, 10:19:07 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 March, 2018, 10:13:42 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 02 March, 2018, 09:05:44 PM
So now I'm watching video of feckers destroying the looted Lidl with a stolen digger,  and the shutters of our local Centra shop have been angle-grinder-ed and it's being looted too. Cops can't get to us/too busy elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/rogieop/status/969675001795358721?s=17 (https://twitter.com/rogieop/status/969675001795358721?s=17)

Still,  should keep my property tax down,  I suppose.

You Nordy boarders better hope that border is a hard one after all.
Saw this footage last night.  For once I'm going to stop being a libtard snowflake and say that I hope these scumbags get stamped on by the law, and taken off the streets for a long time.

Couldn't they have waited till it opened like the rest of us? No, its probably professional crooks calculating rightly the Emergency services are to busy with the storm to attend to any skullduggery. Keep safe folks. The Roads are now passable in my part of Blighty land and I might venture out this afternoon.
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Post by: TordelBack on 03 March, 2018, 11:25:51 AM
I dunno, I think a professional crook would know you can't break a safe with a digger bucket - you need to lift it as high as you can and drop it a lot (comes up a surprising amount in site clearance work).  The looting started sometime before 1730 (and people were on to the Guards about it immediately), the demolition didn't start until maybe 2030, so it looks like pure maggoty opportunism based on a complete lack of police response - the digger (and dumper) was stolen from a compound right beside the shop (the smashed-out gates are an impressive sight). 

The Lidl is a 30 minute walk from the nearest cop shop, and it was a full 12 hours after the worst of the storm, so lack of access is no excuse.

Look, it's a complete disgrace for all concerned, but what probably annoys me more is the utter bile being poured on Tallaght and Jobstown (even though the Lidl isn't actually in either), as if all 100,000 of us were some kind of sub-human out here: it was our bloody shop that was destroyed! 

(http://i63.tinypic.com/o6hcpk.jpg)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 March, 2018, 11:57:33 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 March, 2018, 11:25:51 AM
I dunno, I think a professional crook would know you can't break a safe with a digger bucket - you need to lift it as high as you can and drop it a lot (comes up a surprising amount in site clearance work).

A likely story, Sonny Jim.

Seriously though, I saw this footage after walking through the snow with my friend, all the time nodding and smiling at strangers (not the norm in Dublin) and helping push a stuck van out of the snow. We were just discussing how nice it was to see people pulling together in a crisis. So the whole looting thing was hugely disappointing; and I felt my faith in humanity drain just a little bit.  There are Negans out there, and they will take power while others are trying to work together.  Hell, there's one running the world right now.

I suppose it's always worth remembering, though, that there are a million unreported stories of kindness and co-operation for every newsworthy one of bastardy.

Also, I'd been saving my Neil Gaiman audiobook of Norse legends for the appropriate wintry, fireside atmosphere.  I'm enjoying it immensely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 March, 2018, 12:10:42 PM
Yeah,  the snow has been a blast, we've had great fun pushing cars and shovelling for each other, sharing sleds and exchanging tips on what shops might be open when. Dug, pushed and eventually drove a car for a nurse this morning who had been stuck at work for 2 days.  That hasnt stopped (and nor has the snow - no way for cars in or out of this estate at all now). But then you hear that 10 snow-abandoned cars were burnt out on Fortunestown Lane last night and you just wonder where it all goes wrong.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 March, 2018, 12:26:32 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 March, 2018, 12:10:42 PMBut then you hear that 10 snow-abandoned cars were burnt out on Fortunestown Lane last night and you just wonder where it all goes wrong.

Aw, that's fucking appalling, it truly is. This is why I live in a houseboat community well outside the city these days.  I spent years living round the corner from Fatima Mansions (one of Dublin's absolute roughest spots) and just got sick of its shit.

Not that I'm in my boat now, mind you - I'm really, really not equipped to deal with this chaos.  A friend has shown me a true act of mid-crisis kindness and put me up in his spare room till we're out of the wintry woods.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 03 March, 2018, 01:16:50 PM
I hope you're all staying safe and warm in wintry Europe. I was smirking a bit at first, but not for long because I know a major snowfall is a challenge with real human consequences.

I know that, when this isn't routine, communities just aren't ready for it. It's different in Canada, where we all have the necessary gear and know what to do. I've been impressed by the positivity over there that I've been reading about during these last few days.

Our snow is melting a bit but there's more due on Tuesday. Ah well.

- Trout
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: darnmarr on 07 March, 2018, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 March, 2018, 11:25:51 AM

...Look, it's a complete disgrace for all concerned, but what probably annoys me more is the utter bile being poured on Tallaght and Jobstown (even though the Lidl isn't actually in either), as if all 100,000 of us were some kind of sub-human out here: it was our bloody shop that was destroyed! 
I'm not Tallaghfornian (being a Donaghmeejit myself) but nonetheless...
^this^
Also, as I'm sure you are aware, there are some on this island who are going to seize any opportunity to denigrate every single one of the denizens of Jobstown, from now into perpetuity, for political reasons. Heartbreaking to see a few loo-lahs just hand this type of fodder to them...
to loot LIDL of all places*.

*Full disclosure: my own ancestors did loot in 1916... but we got a cast-iron bed from BROWN THOMAS #classyhistoricallooting
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 March, 2018, 04:27:31 PM
In case anyone is interested, since it's the 40th anniversary, Radio 4 is airing a new series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at 6.30. It's based on And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer and much of the original cast is returning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v379k (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v379k)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 11 March, 2018, 08:15:24 PM
Listen and loved... not a reckon clue what's going on....
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Post by: Proudhuff on 19 March, 2018, 03:21:08 PM
apparently there is some snow in engerland... the media has hardly mentioned it at all so I thought I better draw your attention to it. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 March, 2018, 04:38:58 PM
There is no snow here.

That is all.

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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 March, 2018, 04:44:51 PM
Snow news day...
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Post by: Proudhuff on 27 March, 2018, 11:02:20 AM
They should ban people who double post.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 March, 2018, 06:27:33 PM
A Lego Dimensions-inspired conversation about the lives of the Istari before they came to Middle Earth has led to my children jubilantly singing "What's the story in Valinor-y/ Wouldn't you like to know..." as they battle the Weeping Angels.  I have retreated to my sanctum sanctorum (shed) in despair at the riches we cast beneath the hooves of today's youth. 
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Post by: von Boom on 03 April, 2018, 05:03:15 PM
On Ilkley Moor bah'tat. Brrr.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 09 April, 2018, 11:36:51 PM
Old hat to many boarders I'm sure but jayzus B christ (one of the ones who surely knows), Murphyville is real: http://www.taytopark.ie/
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Post by: TordelBack on 09 April, 2018, 11:48:10 PM
S'right,  but the core theme of Taytopark (crisps aside) is actually Wild West, not Oirish, 
an off-the-shelf package of pre-fab log cabins and totem poles the irrepressible Ray Coyle built his salty empire around.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 April, 2018, 07:24:27 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 09 April, 2018, 11:36:51 PM
Old hat to many boarders I'm sure but jayzus B christ (one of the ones who surely knows), Murphyville is real: http://www.taytopark.ie/

Yes, I was just trying to explain this to an English person last weekend.  Never been myself but I believe it's actually pretty good, so it is, so it is, to be sure to be sure.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 13 April, 2018, 11:51:13 AM
Netflix has decided that I'm into Nazis. I don't know if I accidentally clicked on a programme at some time, but there's a documentary about Hitler in my 'continue watching' section that I've certainly never watched, and now it keeps suggesting other Nazi-themed programmes I might like. Very annoying!
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 April, 2018, 12:00:02 AM
Herr Dare, your internet history is showing!
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Post by: TordelBack on 14 April, 2018, 09:30:33 AM
Netflix is just reminding you that you have to give both sides a fair hearing, Dandontdare, that's free speech in a democracy.  Otherwise you're worse than, umm, Hitler.


My fingers are quite sore from a morning challenging the lies of anti-choicers on Irish social media, in my various guises.  I know it's pointless, but we've been here before: it ain't over 'til it's over.  My conclusion thus far is that the most pernicious modern narrative of all is that both sides are equally corrupt and dishonest, an internet koan that only ever benefits the side that are more so: usually promoting the cause that is already morally bankrupt.

But it's nice outside for once, so I think I might risk a break.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 14 April, 2018, 12:06:04 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 April, 2018, 07:24:27 AM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 09 April, 2018, 11:36:51 PM
Old hat to many boarders I'm sure but jayzus B christ (one of the ones who surely knows), Murphyville is real: http://www.taytopark.ie/

Yes, I was just trying to explain this to an English person last weekend.  Never been myself but I believe it's actually pretty good, so it is, so it is, to be sure to be sure.

Never heard of it before, but impressed by this event: Autism Awareness Day (http://www.taytopark.ie/events/autism-awareness-day-april-14th)
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Post by: Mardroid on 14 April, 2018, 11:34:36 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 20 July, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:09:55 PM
It knows EVERYTHING. http://en.akinator.com/

I almost killed it with Johnny Alpha. The first time it guessed Barry Trotter and when I said it was wrong and tried to continue it crashed.
I tried again and after one wrong guess of Ben Hope it finally got there with Johnny.

It amazingly got Rogue Trooper.

When I chose Nikolai Dante I thought it might actually get him when the last two questions were "does he have a beard?" and "is he Russian?"

Then it accused me of being 'a smart guy who answers randomly"!

Then it continued, but still didn't get it.

I'm not surprised that it didn't get Dante as he is not a well known character, but those two last questions the first time. Quite a coincidence.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 15 April, 2018, 03:38:06 PM
27 questions to get Blossom from Powerpuff girls; 33 to get Geralt from The Witcher.

Impressive! Though it did throw Old Boy at me before choosing Geralt which was a little unexpected.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 April, 2018, 04:19:12 PM
Dear God, I'm agreed in a drunken tizzy to go to NornIron...wtf have I done!! :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 April, 2018, 07:46:05 PM
I've just been through my spam folder and added up what the UN, Nigeria, Bank of America, ATM, Euromillions and "Unknown" owe me. Looks like I've got sixty eight point five million dollars coming to me all together.

Seems legit.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 April, 2018, 07:58:51 PM
I'll send you all the contacts from my spam folder and you can spend the lot on bitcoins and meeting exciting Russian women.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 April, 2018, 09:18:39 PM


Think I'll pass on the Bitcoins...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 April, 2018, 02:24:34 PM
And I on the Russian women.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 April, 2018, 02:44:50 PM
I said "pass"...

:D

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Post by: von Boom on 26 April, 2018, 03:36:21 PM
 ::)
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Post by: Dark Jimbo on 26 April, 2018, 08:31:29 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 April, 2018, 09:21:03 PM
In Soviet Russia women pass on you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 02 May, 2018, 01:32:13 PM
Congratulations to Heath Ackley! (https://downthetubes.net/?p=45238)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2018, 05:26:05 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01
link=topic=36237.msg983640#msg983640
date=1525264333

Congratulations to Heath Ackley!

Seconded!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2018, 10:27:10 PM
I've been fascinated by this alleged "Mandela Effect" ever since Jim pointed out the fifth Young One, the existence of whom is right there - and obviously so - on my dvds.

Of course, it's entirely possible that she was there all along and that I simply failed to notice her. Perhaps it's just my own refusal to believe that I could have been so blissfully unobservant for so very long that makes me want to consider the possibility that it's reality going wrong rather than my memory.

However, I've recently noticed another detail that has me semi-baffled. This one has to do with punctuation, of all things.

I was taught at school that the word "and" negates the need for a comma. For example, "I have a Prog, a Megazine and a floppy to read" was how I'd always write that sentence. However, I have recently noticed, in books old and new, that this sentence structure now seems to be, "I have a Prog, a Megazine, and a floppy to read." There is now a comma and an and.

I spoke to an old friend about this, a man who was in the same English class as me at school and he also remembers being taught that the word "and" in a list negates the need for a final comma. I suppose that Mr Occam would explain that our English teachers were simply wrong, or teaching us a form that was only briefly in vogue, or that we are both misremembering, or that as an writist I find it difficult to accept that I could have been wrong about such a fundamental (if otherwise entirely trivial) detail. The idea that reality has somehow changed seems rather outlandish but, still, it does have a certain "more things in Heaven and Earth" appeal - especially to a sci-fi fan.

Anyone else having similar experiences? Are we all simply susceptible to false memories or is the Matrix glitching? Either way, I find this to be a fascinating aspect of reality.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 02 May, 2018, 10:46:55 PM
You have discovered the Oxford comma. It's not a new thing. Nor is arguing about its usefulness.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 May, 2018, 10:58:31 PM

So that's what you call it in this universe. In the universe I'm from, it didn't exist...

:)



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Post by: TordelBack on 03 May, 2018, 05:49:44 AM
There's even a song  (https://youtu.be/P_i1xk07o4g) about it.

I was taught the same as you TLS, and seem to have been arguing about it ever since - I can report no sudden break, just shifting differences in preference.

Now if you want to talk about the change from Oil of Ulay to Olay...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 May, 2018, 06:10:09 AM
It's probably an example of confirmation bias, thinking about it. As soon as I started noticing the Oxford comma (thanks for teaching me about that, Cosh), it simply stood out more in my consciousness. Probably. Maybe it's because I read fewer novels and more factual books these days, the two having different preferences. Maybe.

My Mum always used what I remember as Oil of Ulay, I remember because we all used to deliberately mispronounce it in "hilarious" ways.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 03 May, 2018, 11:51:46 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 May, 2018, 06:10:09 AMMy Mum always used what I remember as Oil of Ulay, I remember because we all used to deliberately mispronounce it in "hilarious" ways.

That's nothing, my mum used to eat some slimming chocolates called AIDS



EDIT - damn, just googled it and they were called AYDS.
You're right Sharky, some malign force is rewriting history and altering our memories!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 May, 2018, 12:04:56 PM
I do remember the advert "Aids cubes for slimmers," which seemed to come out about a fortnight before the A.I.D.S. monolith adverts in probably the most spectacularly ill-timed ad campaign in history!

I don't remember them being called "Ayds," though - maybe that was a bit of hasty and futile re-branding after the fact?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 May, 2018, 09:18:22 PM
As a 51 year old English graduate it's rare that I come across a word I  don't know- I have just learned 'haptic' and I'm delighted
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 May, 2018, 09:24:59 PM

My deepest contratifibulations, DDD!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 05 May, 2018, 12:07:22 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 April, 2018, 09:21:03 PM
In Soviet Russia women pass on you.


Close, just one letter out (if you pay for the... privilege).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 05 May, 2018, 12:11:30 AM
Quote from: Mardroid on 14 April, 2018, 11:34:36 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 20 July, 2014, 12:17:48 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 July, 2014, 12:09:55 PM
It knows EVERYTHING. http://en.akinator.com/

I almost killed it with Johnny Alpha. The first time it guessed Barry Trotter and when I said it was wrong and tried to continue it crashed.
I tried again and after one wrong guess of Ben Hope it finally got there with Johnny.

It amazingly got Rogue Trooper.

When I chose Nikolai Dante I thought it might actually get him when the last two questions were "does he have a beard?" and "is he Russian?"

Then it accused me of being 'a smart guy who answers randomly"!

Then it continued, but still didn't get it.

I'm not surprised that it didn't get Dante as he is not a well known character, but those two last questions the first time. Quite a coincidence.

I tried it on Nemesis - there were two questions that made me pause though - one about whether they've ever lived on Mars and whether they're a robot - well, if you're counting Deadlock as part of Nemesis then yes to both of those, but I answered no, as Deadlock was only one with Khaos for a short(-ish) time.

Eventually it got it wrong and presented me with a list, one of which had Nem on.

"Character already played 197 times,
last played on 17/04/2018 - 02H43."  - which of you was up at quarter to three in the morning educating it unto the ways of the Warlock?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 05 May, 2018, 11:10:47 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 May, 2018, 09:18:22 PM
As a 51 year old English graduate it's rare that I come across a word I  don't know- I have just learned 'haptic' and I'm delighted

See now, if you'd done Computer Science you would've know that one.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 May, 2018, 11:43:53 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 05 May, 2018, 11:10:47 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 May, 2018, 09:18:22 PM
As a 51 year old English graduate it's rare that I come across a word I  don't know- I have just learned 'haptic' and I'm delighted

See now, if you'd done Computer Science you would've know that one.

Or paid attention to Indigo Prime*

(https://i.imgur.com/ilNyAzM.png?1)

* Prog 2057, art by Lee Carter, script by Nigel Long
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 05 May, 2018, 12:54:43 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 05 May, 2018, 11:10:47 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 May, 2018, 09:18:22 PM
As a 51 year old English graduate it's rare that I come across a word I  don't know- I have just learned 'haptic' and I'm delighted

See now, if you'd done Computer Science you would've know that one.

Before I hit wiktionary - something to do with touch?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 05 May, 2018, 02:33:53 PM
yep.  Some sort of feedback when pressing or interacting with devices.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 May, 2018, 06:35:15 PM
ok, so everyone knows this word except me!  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 05 May, 2018, 06:58:58 PM
CNN calls Kanye a white supremacist.  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 08 May, 2018, 10:08:47 PM
Unbe-fecking-lievable. I'm swapping identically sized cupboard doors from one bedroom to the other because we want to get rid of the louvred ones andreplace them with the ones we plywood covered and painted over several years back.

And two, just two of the fourteen doors don't match. One is an inch bigger than the other.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 09 May, 2018, 03:06:13 AM
Watching 47 Ronin with my son and he looked at a scene with a severed head and asked: "Is that a real head?"

Kids are great.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 10 May, 2018, 06:05:10 PM
Google the real 47 Ronin story; I reckon it would have made for a better movie.

But yeah, kids are great and endlessly fascinating.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 May, 2018, 06:59:18 PM
Recently sat down with my little brother and and he watched Jurassic Park for the first time. He genuinely flinched when Sam Jacksons severed arm poped up and was baffled at how a prosthetic could look, in the eyes of a 10 year old, so realistic.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 May, 2018, 07:08:02 PM
When the name "Al... Tatlock flashed past in  the Stranger Things credits i did a double-take - was this really written by a flat-capped Northern pensioner (who's dead)(and fictional)?

Back in the day, such a conundrum would involve waiting until the exact right second the following week to check the credits (at which moment, your brother would punch you to make you miss it), Nowadays we have Google .... sadly it was Alison, not Albert.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 May, 2018, 09:18:29 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/TLyiKfc.png?2)


We live in a world where this conversation can happen, yet 2000ad sells fewer copies than What Caravan.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 May, 2018, 09:25:31 AM
Typical of the populist guff i'd expect from a Which Motorhome? subscriber.

Also  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 20 May, 2018, 09:46:08 AM
Quote from: Frank on 20 May, 2018, 09:18:29 AM
We live in a world where this conversation can happen, yet 2000ad sells fewer copies than What Caravan.

Quality, not quality!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Steve Green on 20 May, 2018, 10:40:40 AM
Don't think much of that Future Shock twist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 May, 2018, 10:44:44 AM
I think he jumped the Gunn there....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 May, 2018, 04:14:01 PM
I've been thinking way too much about the following recently:

Did the whole idea of tumbleweeds for badly-received jokes originate with Vic and Bob on Shooting Stars? Or did they get the idea from the phrase?

Everyone must listen to Bob's Athletico Mince podcast. I have no interest in football and I still love it.
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Post by: Goaty on 25 May, 2018, 09:21:16 PM
Hello forum...? After long break from it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 May, 2018, 09:43:03 PM
Hello, Goaty.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 May, 2018, 10:21:57 PM
Yay, Goaty! I hope you've been using this time to build up a warchest of SillyWorld to unleash at opportune moments...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 May, 2018, 11:02:01 PM
Hi Goaty - how's the big smoke treating you?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 May, 2018, 10:21:04 AM
Hey, goaty. Was just thinking yesterday we hadn't heard from you in a while.
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Post by: von Boom on 12 June, 2018, 03:50:08 PM
[rant]
I am so sick and tired of working for a man that regularly sets policies and then on a whim, with no notice or reasons given, changes, retracts, or does an about face on those policies, and then blames me and everyone else around when said changes blow up in our faces. Ugh.
[/rant]
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Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2018, 01:54:58 PM
Treat yourselves to a follow of @wokennice over on Twitter. Proper lampooning for our modern age.
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Post by: Frank on 20 June, 2018, 01:51:52 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/wDiAvPr.png?1)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 June, 2018, 12:26:38 PM
I just found a wasps' nest. Thought I'd been nettled until I took off my glove and found it full of irritated wasps. Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!

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Post by: Frank on 24 June, 2018, 12:49:12 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/SEBIVnT.png?2)
(https://i.imgur.com/n7MrPO8.png?1)


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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 June, 2018, 10:51:23 AM
I got a call from a friend who was storing my collection of graphic novels in one of his sheds following The Event. The roof of the shed has collapsed and closer inspection reveals that the rain's been getting in for ages. Hundreds of GNs ruined. :(

Made a note in my diary. It simply reads, "bollocks."

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 June, 2018, 11:15:07 AM
I just winced, thats an absolute tragedy Shark!
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 June, 2018, 12:12:06 PM
Thanks, Hawkie. I was upset for a while but that's passed now. They're only books, after all, and the world is full of books. It makes the few I still have all the more precious!

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Post by: von Boom on 24 June, 2018, 01:01:13 PM
Sorry to hear that Sharkie. I know their only books, but having lost a sizeable portion of my own collection to a flood I know it still hurts.
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Post by: TordelBack on 24 June, 2018, 02:26:01 PM
Aw shite, sorry to hear that Sharkie. 
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 24 June, 2018, 02:59:00 PM
Thank you, Chaps. I still have a few left - including all my precious comp copies of Zarjaz, DogBreath, FutureQuake and Paragon and the few GNs I won in the Forum's very own writing competition. It would have killed me to lose those!

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Post by: paddykafka on 24 June, 2018, 03:55:53 PM
Ah, that sucks, Sharkie. Sorry to hear that. Hope some good luck comes your way soon.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 25 June, 2018, 12:04:02 PM
Oh, that's horrible Sharky.

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Post by: Woolly on 25 June, 2018, 01:24:41 PM
PM'd you Sharkey...
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 June, 2018, 07:22:39 PM
Thanks so much to everyone who's PMed me - I really love you guys. Unfortunately, my mother has recently suffered a stroke so it's all hands to the pumps at the moment. I'll get back to you as soon as I can but really, I'm very, very impressed with you guys (again) but please forgive me if I'm quiet for a bit.

XXX

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Post by: von Boom on 25 June, 2018, 07:30:40 PM
Sorry to hear about your mum Sharkie. Hope she gets better soon. Take care.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 June, 2018, 08:33:05 PM
Thanks, VB. Mum's home now and making an incredible recovery. The paralysis is all but gone, her vision has (mostly) returned and she's even walking again as well as seeming to have retained all her marbles. It's breathtaking, to be honest, after seeing how devastated she was on Day One. I guess the Shark family are prickly and difficult to eradicate!

I also want to thank everyone for their kind offers of GNs to help me rebuild my lost collection. To receive such generous offers was truly inspiring and humbling and I hope you will understand my reasons for declining. To be honest, just the offers meant the world to me and are far more precious than the books themselves. You guys are truly, unquestionably and legendarily AWESOME.

When The Event first occurred, several people came to my aid - most notably Kath and Tony from the local food bank, who I did not know at the time. I'll never forget the day these two turned up unannounced, not knowing me from Adam, with carrier bags full of food, clothing, toiletries and other essentials. These people, and you people, are the reason why I have such a high opinion of and such optimism for humanity.

I do not deserve such friends but, by Grud, I'm glad to have you. All of you, even those who don't like me very much.

If you do have any spare GNs, though, I would ask that you donate them to your local charity so that they can go towards helping people in greater need than I. I was strong enough to push through the shite, but only with help. Not wanting to sound big-headed or ungrateful, but I don't need that help so much any more - if you can find it in your hearts to show me such generosity then, perhaps, you can donate your surplus GNs to people who need your amazing generosity more than I do.

Thank you all, from the heart of my soul, and may your gods bless you.

Sharky xxx
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Post by: Tjm86 on 26 June, 2018, 09:15:34 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 June, 2018, 08:33:05 PM
you can donate your surplus GNs to people who need your amazing generosity more than I do.

I'm going to be incredibly pedantic here and question how we define 'need'.  At the end of the day every single one of us 'needs' to be recognised and valued.  Granted, refugees from Syria or other war zones might have faced significantly greater challenges but by the same token there are forumites who have survived a range of abuses in their lives and grapple with considerable challenges. 

There are also forumites who meet a host of challenges on a daily basis that might not be on the same magnitude but still present significant obstacles.  What makes them less worthy of support?  Sorry but I didn't realise it was a competition;  "Who has the most shit life?"  Surely basic humanity means that we meet people in their need rather than some artificial rating of how worthy they are?  I can understand why the phrase 'first world problem' entered into the lexicon but I don't think it applies to anyone who is suffering at a lesser level than some folks around the globe.

Sorry, rant over (for now).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 June, 2018, 09:53:12 PM
Looking back, I realise now that I was looking to the state to fix the problems the state created for me - and that option was and is certainly there. It was like being in an abusive relationship, "please stop hurting me and I'll promise to be good." Well, f*ck that.

What I needed at the time was to learn that ordinary people are more helpful, sympathetic and downright humane than the state. I have learned this lesson and so I guess the "need" of which I speak is just that. People need to learn the same lesson, I think. A lot of people are in that abusive relationship, waiting for the state to stop hurting them. The need I referred to is the need to rediscover humanity, as I have, and it's a rediscovery that improved my life dramatically - and continues to do so.

That's my rant (temporarily) over, too! :)

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Post by: Dandontdare on 27 June, 2018, 10:27:48 AM
Feels a bit apocalyptic this morning as the whole of Manchester is hazy and smells of smoke due to the huge fire on Saddleworth Moor - must be horrible for people living closer, but when you're 15 miles away, it's quite a pleasant smell.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 June, 2018, 12:28:58 PM
All I can smell is my own sweat as I dig billions of ragwort plants out of a horse's paddock under a merciless sun. Reminds me of 1976 - except that in 1976 I was 10 and having a great deal of fun with water pistols and such.

Even our two volunteers, one from Italy and one from Argentina, are complaining about the heat.

Scorchio!
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 June, 2018, 12:51:01 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 27 June, 2018, 10:27:48 AM
Feels a bit apocalyptic this morning as the whole of Manchester is hazy and smells of smoke due to the huge fire on Saddleworth Moor - must be horrible for people living closer, but when you're 15 miles away, it's quite a pleasant smell.
It's drifting as far as Bolton. Quiet the peculiar odore but such a shame for the locals of Saddleworth.
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Post by: Frank on 27 June, 2018, 12:51:31 PM

Clint Langley's girlfriend pops out for fags and munchies:

(https://i.imgur.com/6GgqeKa.png?2)
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Post by: TordelBack on 27 June, 2018, 04:23:40 PM
Surely that's Death cosplaying as her little brother...
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Post by: Jim_Campbell on 27 June, 2018, 04:51:22 PM
It's never Whitby Gothic Weekend again already...?
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Post by: Proudhuff on 27 June, 2018, 07:16:26 PM
Its amazing what you can get at the co-op
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Post by: Proudhuff on 27 June, 2018, 07:19:04 PM
Sharkie, sorry I've been a bit lax of the parcel front, looks like you need a bundle soon, will start packing  :P
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 June, 2018, 07:57:57 PM

No problem, Huffy, you know I appreciate everything you send and wouldn't dream of complaining or making a fuss :)

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 June, 2018, 06:31:24 AM

As a lifelong entitled fan of Doctor Who, I deeply resent how terrible the next series is going to be and DEMAND that the BBC remake it immediately...

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Post by: TordelBack on 28 June, 2018, 08:40:49 AM
24,000 is a dangerous age, Cynthia.

I think I shall rest my keyboard (if not my eyes) at this base-ten apposite point, and attend to real life for a while.  Stay slappy, peeps and creeps!
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 June, 2018, 12:58:41 PM
And so it is passed, once again Judge Tordels leaves his duties on the street to bring law to the lawless. May his spud gun always fire true.

-------------------------------------------------

On a more positive note, he, I really like the look of Doctor Who season 11 so far!
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Post by: Frank on 28 June, 2018, 01:26:07 PM

Kennedy Out, Boyega & Ridley Replaced By Walberg & Butler, Lucas To Return And Make Six Prequels Set In-Between Revenge Of Sith And Rogue One (https://youtu.be/UPw-3e_pzqU)


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Post by: Tjm86 on 28 June, 2018, 02:02:57 PM
Still not got round to watching season 10 of Doctor Who yet.  Need to get caught up so I can do a proper fanboy strop.  Apparently they're even redoing the theme tune.  What next?  A female doctor?
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 June, 2018, 02:09:10 PM
The hilarious thing about the theme tune ou cry is, well, it's changed almost every season since 1964....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 June, 2018, 02:43:57 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 28 June, 2018, 02:09:10 PM
The hilarious thing about the theme tune outcry is, well, it's changed regenerated almost every season since 1964....

FTFY
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Post by: von Boom on 28 June, 2018, 04:01:57 PM
The new companion keeps banging on about being a Baldwin. Whatever that means.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 June, 2018, 04:35:34 PM
She must be after the old clothing factory on Coronation Street (which was still in full swing the last time I watched it).

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Post by: von Boom on 28 June, 2018, 04:40:36 PM
That didn't work out so well for the boys of the Dwarf.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 29 June, 2018, 02:21:52 PM
"Elon Musk accused of stealing farting unicorn"

That's not a headline you see every day.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 June, 2018, 11:57:41 PM
This world cup has been pretty good so far.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 July, 2018, 09:00:21 AM

You're right, it has been good - it's hardly penetrated my consciousness at all.

:D

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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 01 July, 2018, 10:50:17 AM
It's hot outside. It's hot in the shade which is even worse. Tried the old Ice Cube on my head trick and it ain't even 11:00 AM.
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Post by: paddykafka on 01 July, 2018, 02:33:55 PM
By 'Ice Cube' I assume you're not referring to the Rapper? ;)
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Post by: Frank on 02 July, 2018, 06:19:28 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/bcmkgJS.png?3)


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Post by: Tjm86 on 08 July, 2018, 08:14:12 AM
The heat is clearly getting to me and I'm starting to think completely bonkers thoughts for this time of the morning.  Latest line of completely bonkers thinking?  R2-D2 and C3PO in a New Hope are modelled on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet.

Reasoning:

- both sets of characters are supplementary to the main character.
- both sets of characters are tasked with the delivery of an important message.
- both sets of characters are generally either lost, confused or following the paths laid out by others.

C3PO is clearly Rosencrantz (or possibly Guildenstern).  Often confused, generally following aimlessly and hoping for the best.  Completely out of his depth.  R2-D2 is clearly Guildenstern (or possibly Rosencrantz).  Far more purposeful and aware of his responsibility but still largely controlled by the task he has been commissioned to fulfil.

In the next episode:  How Romeo and Juliet was clearly modelled on Attack of the Clones.
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Post by: M.I.K. on 08 July, 2018, 03:01:27 PM
George Lucas famously based R2-D2 and C3PO on characters from Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress".

But...

Akira Kurosawa was really into Shakespeare, adapting a couple of the plays to a feudal Japanese setting and lifting elements for other films.

So you might not be far off.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 July, 2018, 03:47:43 PM

I love you guys.

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Post by: I, Cosh on 08 July, 2018, 03:58:00 PM
Heads?
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 July, 2018, 05:19:16 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 08 July, 2018, 03:58:00 PM
Heads?

Is this a game of Questions?
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Post by: Tjm86 on 08 July, 2018, 05:30:02 PM
One - love.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 July, 2018, 05:46:31 PM

I'm feeling comfortably lost.

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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 July, 2018, 06:10:02 PM
https://youtu.be/swqfFHLck1o (https://youtu.be/swqfFHLck1o)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 July, 2018, 06:15:00 PM

Can't do videos on this old comm unit.

Still lost.

Still comfy.

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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 July, 2018, 06:16:53 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questions_(game) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questions_(game))
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 July, 2018, 06:19:49 PM

Is this what we're doing?

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Post by: Funt Solo on 08 July, 2018, 07:17:31 PM
QuoteGeorge Lucas famously based R2-D2 and C3PO on characters from Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress"

(https://www.insidejapantours.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Peasants.jpg)
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Post by: Tjm86 on 08 July, 2018, 08:13:13 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 08 July, 2018, 05:46:31 PM

I'm feeling comfortably lost.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" has to be Stoppard's finest piece of work.  The Disney version with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman is outstanding (and unfortunately incredibly hard to find on DVD now).  It was performed in London last year with Daniel Radcliffe as Rosencrantz (or Guildenstern) and was a close second.  Richard Dreyfuss, for me, absolutely nailed the part of Playmaster so the Disney version still has the edge.

"Like Kurosawa I make mad films
Okay I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a samurai"
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 July, 2018, 08:24:56 PM
Thank you - sounds like one for The List.

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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 July, 2018, 09:18:06 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 08 July, 2018, 08:13:13 PM

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" has to be Stoppard's finest piece of work.  The Disney version with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman is outstanding (and unfortunately incredibly hard to find on DVD now).

Well this chat made me have another look, gave up looking for this a while back and low and behold there's a 25th Anniverary edition available on Amazon as I type.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 03 August, 2018, 01:47:19 PM
Has everyone gone away? No activity since this morning? Did I miss a memo?
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Post by: broodblik on 03 August, 2018, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 03 August, 2018, 01:47:19 PM
Has everyone gone away? No activity since this morning? Did I miss a memo?

Maybe we have been hit by the Forum Apocalypse.........
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2018, 02:38:16 PM

What, you aren't at the party?

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Post by: Link Prime on 03 August, 2018, 02:50:34 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2018, 02:38:16 PM

What, you aren't at the party?

You're such a feckin blabbermouth Sharky- we all agreed last Thursday that Bolt and Frank weren't invited.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2018, 02:57:00 PM

Neither was I :(

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Post by: Frank on 03 August, 2018, 04:42:18 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 August, 2018, 02:50:34 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2018, 02:38:16 PM
What, you aren't at the party?

You're such a feckin blabbermouth Sharky- we all agreed last Thursday that Bolt and Frank weren't invited.

Damn. At least let me know which one of you had to eat the soggy biscuit.*


* My money's on Jimbo (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soggy%20biscuit)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 August, 2018, 04:49:25 PM
Quote from: Frank on 03 August, 2018, 04:42:18 PM

Damn. At least let me know which one of you had to eat the soggy biscuit.


Alas, Proudhuff never came through with the promised supply of blue pills.
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Post by: Tjm86 on 10 August, 2018, 08:41:50 AM
Plenty of red pills though.
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Post by: TordelBack on 15 August, 2018, 01:56:33 PM
So while out for a walk with the Terrible Hound yesterday evening, I came across (fnarr fnarr) an actual bramble mag!  Prior to this I would gave believed that in our age of smart-phone access for the under-10s the classic medium of hedge porn had long since ceased to exist, but there it was, a pristine copy of British Bondage Boys, staring out of a low-growth of Rosa pimpinellifolia right beside the beside the path, a traditionally thorny habitat if ever there was one.  Not being 13, and not of a sexual persuasion that found the prospect of further images of the handsome-if-rather-unhappy young men on the cover particularly tempting, I left it for a more appreciative walker to find.

Anonymous philanthropic evangelist of anglocentric homosexual BDSM in printed form, I salute you!  Anyone seen Gavin Leahy lately, BTW?   :angel:


NB: If anyone here is collecting a full run of BBB, I'm afraid I didn't catch the issue number, but one of the two blond lads on the cover had a collar with really giant spikes, if that helps narrow it down.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2018, 02:18:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 August, 2018, 01:56:33 PM
, I left it for a more appreciative wanker to find.

.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 August, 2018, 02:33:38 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2018, 02:18:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 August, 2018, 01:56:33 PM
, I left it for a more appreciative wanker to find.

.

FTFY

Beat me to it, fnaar, fnaar...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2018, 04:23:42 PM
Quote from: Frank on 03 August, 2018, 04:42:18 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 03 August, 2018, 02:50:34 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 August, 2018, 02:38:16 PM
What, you aren't at the party?

You're such a feckin blabbermouth Sharky- we all agreed last Thursday that Bolt and Frank weren't invited.

Damn. At least let me know which one of you had to eat the soggy biscuit.*


* My money's on Jimbo (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soggy%20biscuit)

I'm assuming you're an old RAF man from that reference  :-X... happy days in the (Eatin) Mess.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 August, 2018, 04:25:32 PM
So when was the Last time you shouted 'Oddsbodkins' with pure glee?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 August, 2018, 10:04:40 PM
Hamburg's football manager is called Christian Titz.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 August, 2018, 05:34:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 27 August, 2018, 10:04:40 PM
Hamburg's football manager is called Christian Titz.

:lol: That's a funny name... Christian.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 September, 2018, 11:15:09 AM
I found an Unkar Plutt figure in Tescos yesterday (did you know you can get the Prog in some Tescos now?), and now I amuse myself (and only myself) by having him rate everything in Portions in a garbled Simon Pegg voice.  Dinner last night was worth... 2 and a quarter portions, whereas my daughter's room tidying efforts were worth... 1 half portion. 

I'm never bored, it's a gift.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 September, 2018, 08:28:06 AM
 A few days ago I did something to my lower back, lifting up an empty bucket ffs, which made life something of a chore. Whimperings accompanied all my tasks thereafter. Even when the day was done I had to cross a pain barrier to simply get into or out of my chair. Those who know will know and those who do not should count themselves blessed. It was also an ordeal to get comfy. It was so unfair, I wailed at the Multiverse in general, for pains inflicted during working hours to follow me back into My Time. Not cricket at all. Should be ashamed of itself. Quite ashamed.


The Multiverse must have heard me because, just as I got comfy, something I'd eaten decided that it wanted out. Now. Ordinarily, this species of intestinal emergency is inconvenient but manageable – all I have to do is leave my shed, climb over a fence and waddle a hundred yards to the toilet block – but this time the odds were stacked against me.


I hauled myself up slowly, painfully, and made it about half-way before my back locked. "Ouch," I said, and, "oh dear," and things similar as I stood, clenching everything capable of being clenched. The situation seemed insurmountable as it was but then the Multiverse decided to throw in a punchline in the form of a vicious grip of cramp in my inner thigh. At this point, I'm not ashamed to say that there were a few tears – though whether of pain, fear or misery, I'll let you decide.


I could turn this story into a long, drawn-out thrillathon describing how I got from being frozen, cramped and on the verge of a faecal eruption to the toilet block and back but I'm sure your imaginations are up to it (especially the tricky fence-climbing manoeuvre ). I will say that, after about an hour of agonized faffing, the situation was resolved with little damage and a minimum of stains.


In these troubled times, I thought a story about triumphing over a situation of such dire circumstance might be somewhat uplifting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 11 September, 2018, 09:11:53 AM
I was about to say 'Shit, Sharky!' but that would be wildly inappropriate. It sounds like you've pulled your Lumbars and you'll need prescription medicine to reduce the inflammation. Book a Doctor's appointment at once Shark. Are there any walk-in Medical Centres near you? A bad quip I know but it sounds like you've got to see a medic pronto.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 September, 2018, 10:21:43 AM

S'okay, IATS, a couple of days taking it easy and dangling from door jambs seems to have done the trick.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 11 September, 2018, 11:29:50 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 September, 2018, 10:21:43 AM

S'okay, IATS, a couple of days taking it easy and dangling from door jambs seems to have done the trick.

Oh good. Glad you're on the mend.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 11 September, 2018, 02:31:58 PM
Back pain is just the absolute worst. Glad to read you are on the mend, Sharkster.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 12 September, 2018, 12:11:44 AM
I also am glad you're feeling better, but I'd ask you to go back a step or two in your story.

I'm going to regret this, but... you have to climb over a fence to use a toilet? Is your life being written by the ghost of Johnny Speight?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2018, 05:58:28 AM
Heh, I don't have to climb over a fence, there is a gate but it can be awkward to open. (The fence surrounds my shed cabin, to keep it separate from the rest of the campsite.)

Thanks all for your concern - my back's a lot better now, just a bit stiff.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 September, 2018, 09:26:10 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2018, 05:58:28 AM
..there is a gate but it can be awkward to open. (The fence surrounds my shed cabin, to keep it separate from the rest of the campsite.)

Hmmm, is this a high fence,  spikey bits on the top, 'Do Not Feed The Shark' signs, that sort of thing...? 

Glad to hear the back's feeling better, mind yersel'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2018, 10:27:27 AM

The machine gun nests are my biggest worry...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 September, 2018, 10:46:42 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2018, 10:27:27 AM

The machine gun nests are my biggest worry...
This wouldn't be a worry if the Sharks had guns...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 September, 2018, 10:57:52 AM

Yer darn tootin'.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 13 September, 2018, 02:24:12 AM
Or "lasers".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 13 September, 2018, 12:39:39 PM
Sharks mounted with lasers were always a great idea....

Sharkie, sorry to hear about you're back your back. I've been prodding the soft underbelly of  Europe for the last few weeks but an back now and will get an ThrillAid package in the post to you tomorrow  :thumbsup:

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 September, 2018, 12:55:01 PM

You're a good bloke, Huffy, thanks  :)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 September, 2018, 05:41:01 PM

Saw a ripped poodle today. Not just one of those tall poodles, some kind of crossbreed. Totally hench, but still looked like Terry McDermott (//http://).


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Post by: Modern Panther on 13 September, 2018, 10:35:28 PM
Accidentally clicked on a c*micsg*te video. Now an algorithm thinks I'm a racist flat Earther.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 September, 2018, 11:46:55 PM
I clicked on a Jordan Peterson video and now the YouTube algorithm thinks I'm a male supremacist.  And a mysoginist.  And a homophobe.  And a pseudo-intellectual.  And in need of anger management.  And a conspiracy theorist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 September, 2018, 08:19:53 AM
I actually follow Peterson on Twitter.  I find the contrast between the sneering superiority of his tone (and his followers) and the utter stupidity of everything he says (and his followers) endlessly fascinating. As a failed academic it makes me feel good about myself,  as in: "at least I didn't end up like this thick c**t"; and after all,  isn't that what the prof wants for us all? 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 14 September, 2018, 02:58:23 PM
Quote from: Frank on 13 September, 2018, 05:41:01 PM

Saw a ripped poodle today. Not just one of those tall poodles, some kind of crossbreed. Totally hench, but still looked like Terry McDermott (//http://).

One of Rorschach's lesser known journal entries.
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Post by: Frank on 15 September, 2018, 08:37:07 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/1jUWu7p.png?2)
(https://i.imgur.com/aA7ipkB.png?2)


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Post by: Proudhuff on 17 September, 2018, 01:48:00 PM
Uncanny! :o
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Post by: Proudhuff on 17 September, 2018, 01:50:48 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 13 September, 2018, 12:39:39 PM
Sharks mounted with lasers were always a great idea....

Sharkie, sorry to hear about you're back your back. I've been prodding the soft underbelly of  Europe for the last few weeks but an back now and will get an ThrillAid package in the post to you tomorrow  :thumbsup:

acht, due to a medical incident the package will now be posted today... no proudhuffs were injured in the packaging of this material.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 September, 2018, 04:33:42 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 17 September, 2018, 01:48:00 PM
Uncanny! :o

Wee Stevie Yaxley-Lennon could only dream of being such a charismatic arch-villain, rather than the snidey little petty crook he really is.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 September, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
Quote from: Frank on 15 September, 2018, 08:37:07 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/1jUWu7p.png?2)
(https://i.imgur.com/aA7ipkB.png?2)

I have no idea who that is, but growing up in Norn Irn has taught me that people who hang around waving the Butcher's Apron are probably scrotes.

Watching the London Olympics was weird for me.
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Post by: TordelBack on 18 September, 2018, 11:27:49 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 September, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
I have no idea who that is...

Nobody important.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 September, 2018, 11:28:28 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 September, 2018, 11:27:49 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 September, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
I have no idea who that is...

Nobody important.

That's a weird name
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2018, 12:39:01 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff
link=topic=36237.msg991886#msg991886
date=1537188648

Quote from: Proudhuff
link=topic=36237.msg991592#msg991592
date=1536838779

Sharks mounted with lasers were always a
great idea....
Sharkie, sorry to hear about you're back your
back. I've been prodding the soft underbelly
of Europe for the last few weeks but an back
now and will get an ThrillAid package in the
post to you tomorrow
acht, due to a medical incident the package
will now be posted today... no proudhuffs
were injured in the packaging of this
material.

No probs, Huffster - I hope all is well with you now, that's the most important thing.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2018, 02:43:52 PM
All good, had to chum a chum to the hospital... meantime your package sent off yesterday, just in time to be blown out of your postie's hand as he tries to deliver it through the tail end of a hurricane  :thumbsup:   
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2018, 05:49:04 PM
Heh, it's been like working in a wind tunnel today. Tonight will be interesting, as my shed shudders, rattles and groans under the onslaught. You bricks-and-mortar dwelling Earthlets don't know how lucky you are :D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 September, 2018, 07:13:15 PM
(https://i.redd.it/g088k7z9gcm11.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 September, 2018, 08:07:51 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2018, 05:49:04 PM
Heh, it's been like working in a wind tunnel today. Tonight will be interesting, as my shed shudders, rattles and groans under the onslaught. You bricks-and-mortar dwelling Earthlets don't know how lucky you are :D

Shed, eh? Luxury.
My boat came off its moorings while I was at work. Luckily my neighbours managed to stop it and moor it again, otherwise I would have been homeless (again).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2018, 09:48:25 PM

Boat people are good people. Glad to hear your home didn't float away and I hope there was no damage.

Winds seem to have abated here - it's all gone very quiet...

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Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2018, 10:02:43 PM
.... too quiet 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 September, 2018, 10:13:12 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 14 September, 2018, 02:58:23 PM
Quote from: Frank on 13 September, 2018, 05:41:01 PM

Saw a ripped poodle today. Not just one of those tall poodles, some kind of crossbreed. Totally hench, but still looked like Terry McDermott (//http://).

One of Rorschach's lesser known journal entries.


:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 September, 2018, 09:56:58 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2018, 09:48:25 PM

Boat people are good people. Glad to hear your home didn't float away and I hope there was no damage.

Winds seem to have abated here - it's all gone very quiet...

Cheers Sharky, it's all good (thanks to my boatneighbours)! For all the hiccups I'd find it hard to be a landlubber again
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 September, 2018, 03:06:11 PM
Yesterday I walked past a homeless beggar. I ruffled my hair and tried to look twitchy, hunched and eccentric myself, so I wouldn't be asked for any help. It then struck me that I'd become Boris Johnson, only down a social class or two.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 September, 2018, 10:27:06 PM
Here's a good one...

Type "itanimulli" (illuminati spelled backwards) into a search engine and see where you end up...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 September, 2018, 12:57:48 AM
(https://www.sffchronicles.com/attachments/46568/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 September, 2018, 04:16:01 PM
Patrick Stewart Shares First Photo From New Star Trek Series, James McAvoy Interested in Playing Young Picard. (http://www.treknews.net/2018/09/25/patrick-stewart-star-trek-series-photo-james-mcavoy/)

Prepare to be disappointed and excited at the same time. (Sounds like my sex-life :( )

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 September, 2018, 06:14:32 PM

Whatever happened to the Short Story Competition?

:(

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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 30 September, 2018, 06:47:38 PM
They shortened it to nothing! :P
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Post by: Tjm86 on 07 October, 2018, 07:52:06 AM
So two questions from looking at the twitter feed for NYCC:

1/ Why is Babs Ravenholme sticking up two fingers to the camera?

2/  Why didn't someone explain the gesture to her before tweeting the pic?

:-*
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 08 October, 2018, 04:22:30 PM
So I was at Waterloo this week visiting the rather splendid Memorial 1815.

It's a bit "Napoleon-porn" as it sets up the context for the battle but the 4d film is great and it did make me wonder a bit how different the world would be if Sean Bean and his mates hadn't defended that farmhouse quite so well.

Two things:

I assume as well as Germans winning second World War, there is a sub-genre of Napoleonic alt-history?

Would it have been better if the status quo (regency, aristocracy and church) had received a kicking And Bony had won?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 08 October, 2018, 06:59:33 PM
It would have been better for guillotine manufacturers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 October, 2018, 03:02:32 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 08 April, 2018, 05:04:26 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 07 April, 2018, 08:59:30 PM


To finish there is a letters page, with a couple of letters echoing what seems to be a widely held opinion that the stories since 2073 have been great, if what immediately preceded that wasn't to everyone's taste.


I saw that - one especially was very articulate and perceptive.
Hope his old Heartsie is holding out  :-\




It was me (what, you guessed?) first since way back in Prog 2020. Got the fever again. The letters fever!

Anyone see BUttonman recently... there are letters to be filed in the Beast.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 October, 2018, 06:33:21 PM
(https://www.sffchronicles.com/attachments/47430/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 October, 2018, 06:34:27 PM
Not to scale.
(http://cdn.sheldoncomics.com/strips/main/181010_1539130101.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 October, 2018, 08:03:10 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/NvVkfut.png?1)

(https://i.imgur.com/v0TzZe8.png?1)


Only one of these images is deliberately absurd (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/president-trump-new-painting-white-house-republican)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 October, 2018, 08:38:21 PM
Quote from: Frank on 15 October, 2018, 08:03:10 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/NvVkfut.png?1)


Only one of these images is deliberately absurd (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/president-trump-new-painting-white-house-republican)
So we're supposed to be seeing that picture from the stripper's point of view.
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 15 October, 2018, 08:42:43 PM
I'm so glad that when their time has come, US Presidents become force-ghosts.

(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/the-democratic-club-30x45-final.jpg)

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Post by: Steve Green on 15 October, 2018, 08:56:03 PM
Good to see a replacement for the crying boy painting that survives house fires.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 15 October, 2018, 10:09:40 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/genidGw.png?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/qTB5I6L.png?1)
(https://i.imgur.com/zCzXLDz.png?3)


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Post by: Funt Solo on 15 October, 2018, 10:48:40 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/5sIUZXs.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 October, 2018, 12:30:05 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 15 October, 2018, 10:48:40 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/5sIUZXs.png)
(https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/picard_clapping.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 16 October, 2018, 07:02:38 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/yemKIRG.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/IbawPro.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 October, 2018, 04:50:47 PM
There's your Illuminati proof right there!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 October, 2018, 05:07:29 PM
Guardian's analysis of that picture: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/president-trump-new-painting-white-house-republican (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/president-trump-new-painting-white-house-republican) including Jack Nicholson playing Nixon and Reagan';s odd cocktail
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 20 October, 2018, 06:25:44 PM
They rebooted Magnum.Is nothing sacred anymore?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 October, 2018, 06:28:25 PM
Magnum?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 October, 2018, 07:04:05 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 20 October, 2018, 06:28:25 PM
Magnum?

Higgins is now a sexy yoga lady*, which is political correctness gone mad:

https://youtu.be/ADAeeJclFIU


* What more can SJWs take from us? Higgins was a role model for rotund, effete schoolboys with pencil moustaches everywhere. Who will pretend-English (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384916/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm) boys look to when constructing their identity, now?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 October, 2018, 04:19:27 PM
Quote from: Smith on 20 October, 2018, 06:25:44 PM
They rebooted Magnum.Is nothing sacred anymore?

(https://cdn.aldi-digital.co.uk/Deluxe-Mini-Chocsticks-A.jpg?o=WVpSlG7hp%40bYSBKDfMwizHTMeKAj&V=I%24pi&w=480&h=600&p=2&q=77)

better in fact
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 October, 2018, 07:47:01 PM
I must have watched Magnum a hundred times as a kid, without ever paying attention to or giving a shit about what was happening. I remember nothing except the bit where he checks out the girl's arse in the opening credits.
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Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2018, 08:50:16 PM
So true. I couldn't tell you the plot of a single episode - Magnum, moustache, Hawaiian shirt, helicopter landing and taking off, girls, Higgins and some kind of ghastly McMansion with a tennis court and pool. From the title I presume Magnum was a private detective?  That's genuinely all I retain - and I must have watched hours and hours of it.  And the shit I give Dr Who!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 October, 2018, 09:18:04 PM
Helicopters of the 80s:

(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/4/9/6/333496-15641-62-pristine.jpg)

(http://d2z9n6dxqzav0p.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Airwolf.jpg)

(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/f9/02/79/mzi.ltgqpvmq.jpg/268x0w.jpg)

And that one in Rambo 2:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/c3/ce/e2c3ce8c5e9d77675981e88098a2119a.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 31 October, 2018, 12:13:43 AM
The best thing about Magnum is they had a crossover episode with Murder She Wrote.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 31 October, 2018, 09:13:23 AM
Why do they keep remaking things?

WRITE SOME NEW SHOWS!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 31 October, 2018, 10:10:49 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 31 October, 2018, 09:13:23 AM
Why do they keep remaking things?

WRITE SOME NEW SHOWS!!!
My point exactly.
But they need to make money and in theory,its safer to play on an already built-in audience.Its also funny that whenever they reboot something,fans of the original HATE it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 October, 2018, 06:22:11 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2018, 06:33:17 PM
Amazing watching folk on Twitter Samhainsplaining to the various academics who have kindly produced long threads setting out the specific Irish origins of Halloween and its traditions. "Well,  actually... ".

Genuine historians being told repeatedly that there's "no evidence so who can say" despite their repeatedly citing the huge manuscript collections that contain exactly that, and spodes banging on that everything is "Celtic" and "Druidic" so it really comes from Britain too. Well,  no, that might be what you've gleaned from Slaine or the Simpsons,  but that's not what the sources say! 

Every bloody fool on the internet knows better than any expert,  it's a grim state of affairs.  Go burn some Catholic effigies on your own bonfires next week,  you'll feel better.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 31 October, 2018, 06:57:24 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2018, 06:33:17 PM
Amazing watching folk on Twitter Samhainsplaining to the various academics who have kindly produced long threads setting out the specific Irish origins of Halloween and its traditions. "Well,  actually... ".

Genuine historians being told repeatedly that there's "no evidence so who can say" despite their repeatedly citing the huge manuscript collections that contain exactly that, and spodes banging on that everything is "Celtic" and "Druidic" so it really comes from Britain too. Well,  no, that might be what you've gleaned from Slaine or the Simpsons,  but that's not what the sources say! 

Every bloody fool on the internet knows better than any expert,  it's a grim state of affairs.  Go burn some Catholic effigies on your own bonfires next week,  you'll feel better.


If that's the case Samhainsplaining this:

(https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/8848338.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery)
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Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 07:03:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2018, 06:33:17 PM
Amazing watching folk on Twitter Samhainsplaining to the various academics who have kindly produced long threads setting out the specific Irish origins of Halloween and its traditions. "Well,  actually... ".

Genuine historians being told repeatedly that there's "no evidence so who can say" despite their repeatedly citing the huge manuscript collections that contain exactly that, and spodes banging on that everything is "Celtic" and "Druidic" so it really comes from Britain too. Well,  no, that might be what you've gleaned from Slaine or the Simpsons,  but that's not what the sources say! 

Every bloody fool on the internet knows better than any expert,  it's a grim state of affairs.  Go burn some Catholic effigies on your own bonfires next week,  you'll feel better.

It may very well be Irish, but those same traditions have been around in Scotland for a good few centuries as well.

"OF a' the festivals we hear,
Frae Handsel-Monday till New Year,
There's few in Scotland held mair dear
For mirth, I ween,
Or yet can boast o' better cheer,
Than Hallowe'en.

Langsyne indeed, as now in climes
Where priests for siller pardon crimes,
The kintry 'round in Popish rhymes
Did pray and graen;
But customs vary wi' the times
At Hallowe'en."

( From "Hallowe'en" by John Mayne, 1780 )

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 October, 2018, 07:26:40 PM
Reality has no place in the twittersphere.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 October, 2018, 07:34:50 PM

Nah, what the entire world celebrates now is Trick Or Treat, a US festival, the international popularity of which dates back to that episode of Roseanne[1] where she pretends she's murdered Dan (https://youtu.be/16uxm8K3dAg) and The Simpsons.

Like Christmas, it's something new that happens at the same time of year something else used to.


[1] Some scholars date the UK's fascination with Trick Or Treat to Spielberg's ET, but I didn't see that until it came on telly years later, so that blows that theory out of the water.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2018, 07:40:26 PM


We invented Hallowe'en and we combined with our talent for wreckin' the place and blowin' things up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2018, 07:52:39 PM
Scotland certainly has its own Halloween traditions, but Samhain specifically comes from Irish influence via the overkingdom of Dal Riada and its various wider invasions that introduced Gaelic to Scotland. It's not to dispute the widespread nature of Halloween/All Hallows Eve customs, just to note that the version that went to the US and came back as modern Halloween is pretty much 100% Irish in origin, and well documented as such.

Anyways,  it's not the specifics (I'm no expert),  it's the "we can't possibly know so anything goes" attitude that horrifies,  because people do know - they've spent their working lives studying this stuff.

Arguing (as many do) that Halloween is equally Welsh, because it's "Celtic" and Tacitus claimed the "Druidic capital" was based on Angelsea, is just factually wrong.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2018, 08:02:56 PM
Halloween is a lot more Irish than Pat Mills, who I suspect set out to trace his genealogy with a very specific result in mind.

On a related note, jayzus but you'd never suspect fireworks were illegal here. 

EDIT: I really enjoyed that Trick or Treat series of horror films with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2018, 08:08:34 PM
  Nm
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 08:11:41 PM
Of course, technically, Samhain is Irish and Hallowe'en is completely Scottish, 'cos we came up with the actual word.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 October, 2018, 08:12:44 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2018, 08:02:56 PM
I really enjoyed that Trick or Treat series of horror films with Jamie Lee Curtis.

Arf! The third one was about Salmon.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2018, 09:19:20 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 08:11:41 PM
Of course, technically, Samhain is Irish and Hallowe'en is completely Scottish, 'cos we came up with the actual word.

That said, we won't be letting the Scotch celebrate it after Brexit.  You can stick to pushing that V for Vendetta chap round in a wheelbarrow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 09:57:32 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2018, 09:19:20 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 08:11:41 PM
Of course, technically, Samhain is Irish and Hallowe'en is completely Scottish, 'cos we came up with the actual word.

That said, we won't be letting the Scotch celebrate it after Brexit.  You can stick to pushing that V for Vendetta chap round in a wheelbarrow.

I can remember seeing some Scottish folklorist on the telly yonks ago relaying a story about her visit to America around this time of year and her surprise at encountering some American youths carting a dummy about and asking for money. "This cannae be right", thought she.

"What's his name?", enquired folklorey wumman.

"Sam Hain", replied American bairn.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 October, 2018, 10:20:16 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2018, 09:19:20 PM
That said, we won't be letting the Scotch celebrate it after Brexit.  You can stick to pushing that V for Vendetta chap round in a wheelbarrow.

(https://i.imgur.com/JGSqhhK.png)

If you're doing it by mistake, please take heed.  If you're doing it on purpose, please catch yourself on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2018, 10:30:54 PM
Joke from Zenith innit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 October, 2018, 10:35:43 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 31 October, 2018, 10:20:16 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/JGSqhhK.png)


If the last four years have taught us anything, it's that all Scotch agree about everything.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 10:36:20 PM
As a general rule, us Scottish folk don't really care what we're called, as long as it's not "English".

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 October, 2018, 10:43:16 PM

> Awkward silence <


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 October, 2018, 10:51:51 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2018, 10:30:54 PM
Joke from Zenith innit.

It's a joke in Zenith. Context.  When you find a nickname for a group, that many of that group dislike, and you keep using it, then what are you doing there?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 11:01:54 PM
Quote from: Frank on 31 October, 2018, 10:43:16 PM

> Awkward silence <

(https://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/r/2014/09/17/1a9b3c47-c586-496b-ae81-741ff0d39363/resize/350x241/927a64709a13aaabb5545955502826f4/140917simpsons-scotland1.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 October, 2018, 11:16:16 PM
Oh, I think I get it.  Is it like this:

(https://ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/images/origins/turkey.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 11:54:55 PM
Nope. I don't think it's anything remotely like that.

I've actually worn a kilt and ruffled shirt in real life, for a start.

(I was a toddler at the time and it wasn't by choice, but still...)

I also currently have a haggis defrosting in the fridge.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 November, 2018, 12:19:25 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 11:54:55 PM

I also currently have a haggis defrosting in the fridge.
That's a clear violation of the Geneva Convention.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2018, 08:45:14 AM
I dunno man, context.  My impression would be that Scots (and Scot-adjacent) have been the backbone of the comic's creators and fan community since day one, if not an actual majority. A significant proportion of all humour in 2000AD has derived from the idea that Scottish people are usually incomprehensible. Gentle self-mockery in pretending not to know the correct term to use (as Zenith does with Eddie) doesn't really seem equivalent to racism or even offensive behaviour, in this context. Don't think any of us Irish object to being called micks or paddies here for much the same reason: it's a friendly,  jokey environment. (But don't try any of that Eire business, buddy do we hate that...)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 01 November, 2018, 08:50:35 AM
I don't think I'd argue that using the term is discriminatory or particularly offensive in this context.

Equally, I don't think I'd argue with the idea that repeatedly using it, despite being asked not to, is daft and unnecessary.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2018, 09:07:33 AM
Have people asked for it not to be used here,  prior to this?  I wasn't aware of that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2018, 09:20:22 AM
Aaaand I've just realised I'm the guy explaining to offended people why they shouldn't be offended. And I never want to be that guy. So my apologies, I won't do it or defend it again.

I am genuinely surprised that fans of a comic where Scottish writers and artists gave us Middenface and Kenny Who? (among others) would be offended by an obviously intentionally-wrong 'Scotch' on this forum (as opposed to in the workplace or on the street), but that's my own ignorance: we all have to learn. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 01 November, 2018, 10:08:02 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 November, 2018, 09:07:33 AM
Have people asked for it not to be used here,  prior to this?  I wasn't aware of that.

I certainly have a sense of deja-vu about reading the above conversation. I may be mistaken or mixing up my forums (fora?), though. If so, my apologies.

For me , the use of "Scotch" above is a light-hearted reference to a well-loved character, and I understand that. I have also had someone use that term towards me in the past in a deliberate attempt to antagonise, offend and belittle. It's not something that comes without baggage.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 01 November, 2018, 11:52:36 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2018, 10:36:20 PM
As a general rule, us Scottish folk don't really care what we're called, as long as it's not "English".

Not just those North of the Wall.  Same applies to the West of the Dike.

(although I do remember winding up one of the guys on the squadron out in Germany calling him a 'pseudo-trog' because he wasn't even a real Welshman.  The irony ... )
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 November, 2018, 12:24:17 PM
personally I love this photo, makes me want to write a scotch version of Reservoir Dogs... Restalrig Dugs?

(https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/8848338.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 November, 2018, 02:33:04 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 November, 2018, 09:20:22 AM
Aaaand I've just realised I'm the guy explaining to offended people why they shouldn't be offended. And I never want to be that guy. So my apologies, I won't do it or defend it again. 

Thanks.  That really means a lot.

I just liken it to people shouting "GINGER" with hard Gs at someone with red hair.  And when the red-haired person says "Actually, that's a bit offensive", some people (Hi Frank!  Hi Proudhuff!) feel the need to shout "GINGER" even louder, whilst doing a little jig.  And then someone with red hair comes along (probably someone's Uncle Tom) and says "I don't mind people calling me GINGER.  It's just a bit of fun!"

I always thought fun was where anyone could join in.  Not where some people get to play Lord of the Manor and shout insults at the proles, who are supposed to doff their caps in reverence.  Fuck it.  I'll see you in the funny papers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 November, 2018, 02:55:39 PM
I never felt I was lord of any manor (I'm a broke Irishman who lives in a small boat), but fair enough. Never meant to be serious, and I didn't realise it upset people, so I won't say it in future.  My apologies.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 November, 2018, 03:33:18 PM
Also, I have just managed to stop myself typing something like 'I'm sorry if people were offended', and in the process becoming the biggest gobshite in the world.
I apologise because what I said was offensive, and I'm going to take Funt's advice and catch myself on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 01 November, 2018, 03:41:17 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 01 November, 2018, 02:33:04 PM
I always thought fun was where anyone could join in.  Not where some people get to play Lord of the Manor and shout insults at the proles, who are supposed to doff their caps in reverence.  Fuck it.  I'll see you in the funny papers.

Nobody doffs their caps (or bunnets) around here. People usually join in by chucking insults right back at the insulter.

But, like other folk are saying, if you're personally offended by a word, then I'm not going to argue that it's not offensive.

(ye'll not get me to stop posting pictures of Groundskeeper Willie though, even if his accent is horrendously inaccurate)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 01 November, 2018, 04:28:33 PM

This place is a pretty weird corner of the internet. Today, it expanded into the realm of the bizarre and ridiculous.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 02 November, 2018, 06:46:49 PM
Nah, we did "bizarre and ridiculous" years ago.  Remember the iPod dairy product repair thread?

Mind you, I suppose it's a bit like the Platinum Horde.  "End of Bizarre and Ridiculous: 30 000 000 000 parsecs."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 November, 2018, 06:56:05 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/t0GYoRY.png)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 November, 2018, 08:44:20 PM
That's as good a way as any.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 02 November, 2018, 08:49:11 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/uLfnomM.png?1)(https://i.imgur.com/jeZxvph.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/kFEhWuz.png?2)
(https://i.imgur.com/eV2zLgu.png?2)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 November, 2018, 11:44:35 PM
The tie's too short.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 03 November, 2018, 01:06:55 PM
Wait,Buffy is getting a reboot(quell)?
For the love of crap...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 03 November, 2018, 01:50:42 PM
Quote from: Frank on 02 November, 2018, 08:49:11 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/uLfnomM.png?1)(https://i.imgur.com/jeZxvph.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/kFEhWuz.png?2)
(https://i.imgur.com/eV2zLgu.png?2)

Littlefingers *TM


*Jemaine Clement
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2018, 02:04:10 PM
 :lol: He shoots, he scores! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 08 November, 2018, 04:08:37 PM
After extensive research I can now reveal that the optimum time to buy a service station sausage roll is 8.15am.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 08 November, 2018, 07:54:19 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 08 November, 2018, 04:08:37 PM
After extensive research I can now reveal that the optimum time to buy a service station sausage roll is 8.15am.

Could I politely ask for an answer to the following questions in the interests of reliability and validity;

1.  how are you defining 'optimum'?
2.  from what purveyor do you procure the aforementioned items?
3.  are they heated or chilled?
4.  do you consume them immediately or after having departed the service station?
5.  how many service stations did you visit in the process of this research?
6.  what would you consider the most appropriate cheese to use to remove a broken headphone jack from the headphone port of an iPod?
7.  what is the meaning of life?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 November, 2018, 08:49:14 PM


This really needs a montage, accompanied by Set On You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwjdGSqO0k), of a teenage Adolf at his desk, sketching out idea after idea, screwing up sheets of paper and flinging them in the bin, mussing his hair in frustration, showing a design to a friend who shakes their head, maybe getting up and doing a wee dance with a passing cleaning lady, before settling on the final design, punching the air, and running off excitedly to show Goebbels:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrenEYIX4AASEDJ.jpg)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 November, 2018, 03:42:59 AM
For dictator humor, I prefer springtime (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lu0ef).

Which reminded me of revolutionaries (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMuSA63eoA).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 November, 2018, 01:26:37 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 08 November, 2018, 07:54:19 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 08 November, 2018, 04:08:37 PM
After extensive research I can now reveal that the optimum time to buy a service station sausage roll is 8.15am.

Could I politely ask for an answer to the following questions in the interests of reliability and validity;

1.  how are you defining 'optimum'?
2.  from what purveyor do you procure the aforementioned items?
3.  are they heated or chilled?
4.  do you consume them immediately or after having departed the service station?
5.  how many service stations did you visit in the process of this research?
6.  what would you consider the most appropriate cheese to use to remove a broken headphone jack from the headphone port of an iPod?
7.  what is the meaning of life?

Thank you for your interest in our project Tjm86 (if that is your real name).
To answer your pertinent questions:

1) Underside 5% too soggy / over side 5% too crisp.
2) Many different emporiums of high calorie minced pig intestines were sampled, including local favorites Centra, Super Valu, EuroSpar and Maxol. Alas, it seems 'Circle K' now has the monopoly in the immediate vicinity.
3) 15 minutes out of the oven.
4) One piece of piping hot sausage roll is normally consumed immediately, the remainder must await the short trip to the office for a complimentary cup of coffee.
5) All except the one that constantly has the magazines missing from the Sunday papers.
6) Only Halloumi has the necessary structural integrity to survive the process.
7) According to a 1980's episode of beloved children's cartoon M.A.S.K. it's "Love", but I have since verified that's a load of bollocks.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 November, 2018, 04:29:43 PM
Good grief, what a truly vile day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 November, 2018, 04:44:48 PM
You're not wrong. I'm utterly fliuch go craiceann and have to work in my wet clothes till 9. Nobody in the history of the world has suffered more than I.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 November, 2018, 06:38:56 PM
I always thought Circle K was something made up for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but now they're real. Life imitating art?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 November, 2018, 06:38:56 PM
I always thought Circle K was something made up for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but now they're real

Strange things are afoot ...

Adolph Hitler was Nazi party member 555 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(number)). He was actually one of the very first recruits*, but Drexler and Eckart started membership numbers at 500 because they thought it might make them look a little less like a chickenshit club for angry weirdoes.

(https://i.imgur.com/NZ5ySCB.png?1)

The only thing weirder than being a Nazi is being the kind of weirdo who reads all those books they have in your local library about the Nazis, but my interest has been piqued by Robert Evans's Behind The Bastards (https://www.behindthebastards.com/), which has done deep dives into the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise, the history of fascism in the USA, and the Koch brothers, as well as very funny potted histories of Leopold III and wacky loons like L Ron Hubbard.


* Hilariously, once he was made Fuhrer, Schicklegruber would have his membership card altered to give the impression he was in on the ground floor (number 7 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7#Religion_and_mythology)). I mean, HE RULED MOST OF EUROPE, but once an insecure narcissist, always an insecure narcissist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:42:16 PM
Quote from: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise

That makes me worse than Hitler.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 November, 2018, 12:39:36 AM
One Minute Time Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY&index=5&list=RDSZ2L-R8NgrA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY&index=5&list=RDSZ2L-R8NgrA)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 10 November, 2018, 10:50:29 PM
That was good fun. Thanks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 11 November, 2018, 12:56:42 PM
That was great. Cheers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 November, 2018, 07:53:17 PM
Nostalgia can be toxic sometimes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 November, 2018, 08:21:44 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 November, 2018, 07:53:17 PM
Nostalgia can be toxic sometimes.

It ain't what it used to be,  that's for sure.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 November, 2018, 09:14:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 November, 2018, 08:21:44 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 November, 2018, 07:53:17 PM
Nostalgia can be toxic sometimes.

It ain't what it used to be,  that's for sure.
My childhood was so awesome because I had nostalgia.Poor kids today,all they have is these reality shows and   
all that crap...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 November, 2018, 12:02:40 AM
Quote from: Smith on 11 November, 2018, 09:14:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 November, 2018, 08:21:44 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 November, 2018, 07:53:17 PM
Nostalgia can be toxic sometimes.

It ain't what it used to be,  that's for sure.
My childhood was so awesome because I had nostalgia.Poor kids today,all they have is these reality shows and   
all that crap...
You aren't wrong there. Reality television is killing imagination.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 12 November, 2018, 01:49:37 AM
Redacted
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 November, 2018, 11:17:07 AM
Quote from: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
, but my interest has been piqued by Robert Evans's Behind The Bastards (https://www.behindthebastards.com/), which has done deep dives into the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise, the history of fascism in the USA, and the Koch brothers, as well as very funny potted histories of Leopold III and wacky loons like L Ron Hubbard.

Thanks for that... off down that rabbit hole  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 12 November, 2018, 12:45:00 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 November, 2018, 11:17:07 AM
Quote from: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
, but my interest has been piqued by Robert Evans's Behind The Bastards (https://www.behindthebastards.com/), which has done deep dives into the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise, the history of fascism in the USA, and the Koch brothers, as well as very funny potted histories of Leopold III and wacky loons like L Ron Hubbard.

Thanks for that... off down that rabbit hole  :-\

I was momentarily confused there and thought that the author of The Third Reich trilogy and Cambridge Professor of History had brought out some new and unusual-for-him work. But that's Richard Evans.

As you were.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 November, 2018, 12:47:23 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 12 November, 2018, 12:45:00 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 November, 2018, 11:17:07 AM
Quote from: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
, but my interest has been piqued by Robert Evans's Behind The Bastards (https://www.behindthebastards.com/), which has done deep dives into the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise, the history of fascism in the USA, and the Koch brothers, as well as very funny potted histories of Leopold III and wacky loons like L Ron Hubbard.

Thanks for that... off down that rabbit hole  :-\

I was momentarily confused there and thought that the author of The Third Reich trilogy and Cambridge Professor of History had brought out some new and unusual-for-him work. But that's Richard Evans.

The guy with the high-pitched laugh from the Red Letter Media videos? That's range.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 12 November, 2018, 01:02:37 PM
Quote from: Frank on 12 November, 2018, 12:47:23 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 12 November, 2018, 12:45:00 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 November, 2018, 11:17:07 AM
Quote from: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
, but my interest has been piqued by Robert Evans's Behind The Bastards (https://www.behindthebastards.com/), which has done deep dives into the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise, the history of fascism in the USA, and the Koch brothers, as well as very funny potted histories of Leopold III and wacky loons like L Ron Hubbard.

Thanks for that... off down that rabbit hole  :-\

I was momentarily confused there and thought that the author of The Third Reich trilogy and Cambridge Professor of History had brought out some new and unusual-for-him work. But that's Richard Evans.

The guy with the high-pitched laugh from the Red Letter Media videos? That's range.

At the risk of straying into Politics thread territory, I'd recommend Richard Evans' (who, as far as I am aware, has never reviewed a Star Wars film) writings on the David Irving trial as a topical read. Alternatively, if you want a laugh, his review of Boris Johnson's Churchill book is a classic:
https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2014/11/one-man-who-made-history-another-who-seems-just-make-it-boris-churchill
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 12 November, 2018, 05:45:51 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 12 November, 2018, 01:02:37 PM
Quote from: Frank on 12 November, 2018, 12:47:23 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 12 November, 2018, 12:45:00 PM
Quote from: Frank on 09 November, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
, but my interest has been piqued by Robert Evans's Behind The Bastards (https://www.behindthebastards.com/), which has done deep dives into the complicity of German business in the Nazi's rise, the history of fascism in the USA, and the Koch brothers, as well as very funny potted histories of Leopold III and wacky loons like L Ron Hubbard.

I was momentarily confused there and thought that the author of The Third Reich trilogy and Cambridge Professor of History had brought out some new and unusual-for-him work. But that's Richard Evans.

The guy with the high-pitched laugh from the Red Letter Media videos? That's range.

At the risk of straying into Politics thread territory, I'd recommend Richard Evans' (who, as far as I am aware, has never reviewed a Star Wars film) writings on the David Irving trial as a topical read. Alternatively, if you want a laugh, his review of Boris Johnson's Churchill book is a classic: (LINK (https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2014/11/one-man-who-made-history-another-who-seems-just-make-it-boris-churchill))

'This book claims the Nazis captured Stalingrad'

Like most humans, I know one thing about Stalingrad*. The inability to understand history and carelessness over detail displayed in Johnson's writing explain why Michael Gove was able to torpedo his leadership ambitions so easily.

It's easy to get confused by small details. Evans usually starts his show by clarifying that he's the other Robert Evans (https://youtu.be/FL_Y1-knz8s?t=1113).


* That Hitler failed, in spectacular and consequential fashion, to conquer Stalingrad
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 November, 2018, 11:27:40 PM
Referencing the article "One man who made history" by another who seems just to make it up: Boris on Churchill (https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2014/11/one-man-who-made-history-another-who-seems-just-make-it-boris-churchill).

The author is at pains to point out how clumsy Boris is (which was never in doubt, shurely?), only to be very clumsy themselves with this comment: "Hitler did not plan to kill the disabled, as he claims: most of the disabled in Germany in the 1930s were war veterans."

I begs to differs (as the Gronk might say).  I don't know if Adolf had a soft spot for war vets, but his gang certainly didn't like hereditary disabilities (or diseases), and had a program of sterilization and euthanasia in place in a (mass murderous) attempt to homogenize the gene pool (https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/nazi-persecution-of-the-disabled).

There really is nothing cuddly about Adolf, including the presented notion that it might be amusing to watch him put the finishing touches to his swastika and thus present him as a sort of bumbling Mr Bean like character.  Threadjacking, not bootjacking.  Please.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 November, 2018, 07:07:39 AM

Ever wonder what Alan Sugar did to end up in the House of Lords (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-offered-campaigner-peerage-in-return-for-sex-mrcmbs5rh)?


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 November, 2018, 07:49:51 AM

Nope.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 13 November, 2018, 07:53:17 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 12 November, 2018, 11:27:40 PM
I begs to differs (as the Gronk might say).  I don't know if Adolf had a soft spot for war vets, but his gang certainly didn't like hereditary disabilities (or diseases), and had a program of sterilization and euthanasia in place in a (mass murderous) attempt to homogenize the gene pool (https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/nazi-persecution-of-the-disabled).

That does seem the most contentious part of his review. Evans is very much an expert on the subject, though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Evans
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 November, 2018, 05:10:40 PM

Evans is making a spoddy distinction between different kinds of disability, isn't he? The Nazis didn't want to murder all people with disabilities.

Nazi Germany was pursuing an insane idea of genetic purity*. According to their genocidal misconstruction of Darwin, WWI veterans who lost a leg weren't contaminating the gene pool, but Down Syndrome kids who reached maturity might**

So Evans is taking issue with the imprecise, careless nature of Johnson's phrasing, which is his problem with Johnson's book in general. Not sure this necessarily reveals a lack of knowledge*** -  Evans just finds Johnson's carelessness professionally contemptible and revealing of character.


* See previous discussion concerning Heinrich Himmler's (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=35063.msg995628#msg995628) career as a rival to Colonel Sanders and how the crude, metaphorical understanding of heredity afforded by battery farming influenced Nazi ideology on racial purity and eugenics.

** Deeply offensive, unscientific horse shit, obviously.

*** I'm fairly sure Johnson knows why German institutions orchestrated the mass murder of vulnerable people, he just treats it with the same vague generalities as the biographical details of the life he's recording and the future of the country
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 November, 2018, 09:31:07 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/3SiEtKz.png?2)


Thanks to Pye Parr
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 November, 2018, 11:37:18 PM

This is a very old piece, but it's the finest bit of writing I've read all year.  Jon Ronson goes inside the tawdry world of the odd goblin currently taking up residence on ITV and the Australian jungle.

The Noel sections are pure Partridge, the timing a work of finely honed genius, but the stuff about the contestants is warm and sympathetic. I was crying with laughter by the time I finished:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/oct/21/broadcasting.arts


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 22 November, 2018, 09:03:45 AM
It's certainly the best piece of writing by a former member of Frank Sidebottom's band that I've read this year.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 November, 2018, 10:12:06 AM
Great little read all the same.  Though I'm surprised Edmonds still has a job after murdering Clive Anderson in 1997.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 November, 2018, 11:10:58 AM
It's hard to say no to someone holding a rocket launcher.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 22 November, 2018, 03:16:09 PM
I miss Frank Sidebottom. He was the greatest comedian in history. One joke: Frank isn't funny. Audience of one: Frank.

Just fucking genius.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 November, 2018, 07:01:39 PM
On a trawl through research on the Docs Duvalier (for no real purpose) I find this unfortunately named programme.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPADEP (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPADEP)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 November, 2018, 07:19:33 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 23 November, 2018, 07:01:39 PM
On a trawl through research on the Docs Duvalier (for no real purpose) I find this unfortunately named programme.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPADEP (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPADEP)

Aaaah - PEPPADEPig! 


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 November, 2018, 11:06:01 PM
Quote from: Frank on 23 November, 2018, 07:19:33 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 23 November, 2018, 07:01:39 PM
On a trawl through research on the Docs Duvalier (for no real purpose) I find this unfortunately named programme.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPADEP (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPADEP)

Aaaah - PEPPADEPig! 




Yup. 

Also, someone really should invent a character called Peppa Doc Duvalier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 November, 2018, 10:29:03 AM
Peeeppas RIBS!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 24 November, 2018, 10:43:36 AM
"Tasty Daddy Pig!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 November, 2018, 05:49:09 PM

I took out a subscription to The Peoples Friend (https://www.dcthomsonshop.co.uk/subscriptions/magazines/the-peoples-friend/the-peoples-friend-subscription?options=cart) for my mum's Christmas and it felt like an act of charity.

Poor old magazine. You must have about a dozen subscribers left, and most of those magazines are being shoved through the letterboxes of doors with three months of unopened milk cartons crowding the step.

Nope.  194,000 copies every single week (https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/uk-magazine-abcs-winners-losers-and-full-breakdown-as-circulation-declines-average-6-per-cent/)!  The sub works out at less than a pound per issue.  Tharg needs to make every cover a watercolour of a Scottish fishing village.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 November, 2018, 06:33:29 PM
*Entire readership of 2000AD switches allegiance to The People's Friend.*

*Tharg seen begging for groats in downtown Oxford.*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 November, 2018, 10:26:44 AM
Most Online Ever: 980 (10 November, 2018, 10:23:59 pm)

2:1 on loony speculation of "Russian Bots".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 November, 2018, 10:32:37 AM
Right now it's 15 users (sounds about right) and 752 guests?!? That seems like a lot for a windy Wednesday morning.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 November, 2018, 10:37:00 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/47krqkF.jpg?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 November, 2018, 10:44:53 AM
We've a €100 Million cheque to clear lads, lets show those overseas investors just how damn popular we are!

Molch-R; to the account cloning facility!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 28 November, 2018, 02:29:04 PM
...and are the '4 hidden' in the walls ?   ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 28 November, 2018, 02:52:02 PM
Quote from: Frank on 24 November, 2018, 05:49:09 PM
Tharg needs to make every cover a watercolour of a Scottish fishing village.
Not the worst idea actually.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 November, 2018, 03:35:44 PM
Mick Austin would be your man for that. He could keep the core fans happy by adding the occasional Anderson or Hershey visible through the window, lounging about in their smalls, lovingly photo-reffed from images of Carol Vordeman, Charlotte Church or Catherine Zeta Jones.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 28 November, 2018, 04:15:47 PM
Photos or it didn't happen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 November, 2018, 04:41:02 PM
Back to work you lot...that candy wont crush itself.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 29 November, 2018, 07:34:39 PM

Hugh Jackman's touring (https://t.co/vqki3lLJFZ). Wonder how they'll do the claws?


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 November, 2018, 07:21:46 PM
Dear Grud will this week ever end.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 November, 2018, 08:01:45 PM
Good music removeth the blues. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8phH0k5HI)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 November, 2018, 08:24:15 PM
Does the pope shit in the woods? Asking for a friend, these alternative fetishes are getting out of hand.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 November, 2018, 11:20:39 PM

GRAHAM NORTON: 'And we've got a doll of you here, from Black Panther'

(https://i.imgur.com/s8dI118.png?3)


MICHAEL B JORDAN'S FACE:

(https://i.imgur.com/DdbUZW7.png?3)

Easy mistake to make (https://youtu.be/8Y1o8910Xs4)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 November, 2018, 11:26:13 PM
I think he could be forgiven, seeing as that actually is a Killmonger toy....


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 November, 2018, 11:33:09 PM

You're messing with my mind, man.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 December, 2018, 10:36:41 PM
'Allo 'Allo's Fallen Madonna sells for £15,000 at auction (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-46397261)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 02 December, 2018, 10:00:42 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 01 December, 2018, 10:36:41 PM
'Allo 'Allo's Fallen Madonna sells for £15,000 at auction (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-46397261)

Turns out it was a fake.  The Auction team didn't spot that the boobies were too small.  They were more interested in other anatomical parts ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 02 December, 2018, 12:01:08 PM
Whamageddon: I'm out already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 December, 2018, 09:53:56 PM
'MAKIN' LOTSA NOISE, LIKE AL COSTINO!'

...is the Beastie Boys lyric that was stuck in my head all day.  It doesn't exist - I dreamed it last night. And could my subconscious please tell me who the hell Al Costino is?  I'm not even a Beastie Boys fan.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 December, 2018, 06:56:18 AM

Most unsettling dream/nightmare for me - one of those that seems to keep going all night, waking me up every hour or two. Yeesh.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 December, 2018, 11:41:23 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 03 December, 2018, 06:56:18 AM

Most unsettling dream/nightmare for me - one of those that seems to keep going all night, waking me up every hour or two. Yeesh.

You're still dreaming Sharky.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 December, 2018, 12:15:42 PM

I hope not - I've just done half a day's work and I really don't want to start all over again...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 December, 2018, 01:39:59 PM
Legend'ry Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Legend'ry Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Legend'ry Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Legend'ry Shark!

Let's go write, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Let's go write, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Let's go write,  doo doo doo doo doo doo
Let's go write!


Yes,  I was babysitting my littlest niece at the weekend,  how did you guess. ..?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 03 December, 2018, 04:53:34 PM
Worst dream eva!

Hunted by the Predator thro Newhaven village as he was after my... Harris Tweed sample!! WTF  :o

Explain that Mr Tinfoilhat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 03 December, 2018, 05:51:54 PM
The Predator, an alien, clearly represents hordes of migrants swamping the country, whilst the Harris Tweed represents your British cultural identity under threat.

You've been sleep-torying again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 03 December, 2018, 06:39:46 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 December, 2018, 01:39:59 PM
Legend'ry Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Legend'ry Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Legend'ry Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Legend'ry Shark!

Let's go write, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Let's go write, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Let's go write,  doo doo doo doo doo doo
Let's go write!


Yes,  I was babysitting my littlest niece at the weekend,  how did you guess. ..?

Well, she already makes more sense than I doo :D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 03 December, 2018, 06:44:28 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 03 December, 2018, 05:51:54 PM
The Predator, an alien, clearly represents hordes of migrants swamping the country, whilst the Harris Tweed represents your British cultural identity under threat.

You've been sleep-torying again.

Alternatively, the Predator represents the aristocracy who want to take what rightfully belongs to you so they can go grouse shooting or something.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 December, 2018, 06:51:24 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 02 December, 2018, 12:01:08 PM
Whamageddon: I'm out already.

Spug it. I'm wiped
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 05 December, 2018, 12:08:49 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 03 December, 2018, 04:53:34 PM
Worst dream eva!

Hunted by the Predator thro Newhaven village as he was after my... Harris Tweed sample!! WTF  :o

Explain that Mr Tinfoilhat.

The Predator, symbolising global capitalism, seeks to take a cultural artefact from you. This dream represents your anxiety over the UK government's failure to sign up to the UN charter for Intangible Cultural Heritage and its likely failure to protect unique products post-Brexit.

We've all had one of those dreams.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 December, 2018, 12:50:56 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 04 December, 2018, 06:51:24 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 02 December, 2018, 12:01:08 PM
Whamageddon: I'm out already.

Spug it. I'm wiped
Wham is a part of the bars christmas playlist. I lost in mid november dudes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 December, 2018, 01:53:12 PM
I still don't understand the video  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 December, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
At this time of year, could all amateur drinkers take a moment to give some thought as to what kind of beverage they like, rather than waiting until they've finally been served before debating the issue. Also, it isn't necessary for every twonk in the office to stand at the bar while a round is bought.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 December, 2018, 10:20:05 PM
Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol and soft middle age.
The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
And you hide, hide, hide
Behind brown-and-mild eyes.

It's been one miserable shit of a day then a week then a month after another and another and another, but it's 2018 (for a bit) and I have every album I've ever liked on a MicroSD shoved in the side  of my crappy secondhand phone, and as far as I can tell through this bottle I won in a raffle I'm still not Donald Trump. So we'll call it a draw, until the third umpire delivers their verdict.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 December, 2018, 12:10:45 AM

Lord but it's a wild night tonight, screaming straight in off the Irish Sea like the wrath of Aeolus. The wind is positively roaring, the rain's squalling like lead shot against my groaning tin roof and my shed's shuddering so much I fear I'm going to end up in Oz. Sleeping fitfully, dreaming of being cast adrift in mountainous seas or watching the local sea defences crumble and everything being swept away before the tempest wakes me up again with a fresh assault. Going to be a ton of tidying and repair work to do around the farm tomorrow, if I survive the night that is.

For God's sake look after our people...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 December, 2018, 08:38:58 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 07 December, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
Also, it isn't necessary for every twonk in the office to stand at the bar while a round is bought.

This. And they can burn their Christmas jumpers as well; those fucking things stopped being funny and ironic ten years ago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 08 December, 2018, 10:29:31 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 08 December, 2018, 08:38:58 AM
And they can burn their Christmas jumpers as well; those fucking things stopped being funny and ironic ten years ago.

When were they ever?

[says the man with the "Tesco's Value Christmas Jumper"]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 December, 2018, 11:25:24 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 08 December, 2018, 10:29:31 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 08 December, 2018, 08:38:58 AM
And they can burn their Christmas jumpers as well; those fucking things stopped being funny and ironic ten years ago.

When were they ever?

[says the man with the "Tesco's Value Christmas Jumper"]

Actually I've changed my mind. They immediately stopped being cool on December 26, 2010.

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=31127.msg571055#msg571055 (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=31127.msg571055#msg571055)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 08 December, 2018, 03:49:33 PM
I like my Christmas jumper and other people's christmas jumper without a trace of irony thank you very much
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 08 December, 2018, 04:01:52 PM

Actual Bill proper Sienkiewicz's real cover for the totally authentic Big Numbers issue 6. The Sink says he produced covers for the series in advance, so there are another 3 unseen masterpieces out there*

USD 4,500, if you're looking for a last minute Christmas present:

(https://i.imgur.com/WpdhM1B.jpg?1)


* Held by Kevin Eastman, apparently. Part of the mammoth early-nineties acquisition spree that saw him use Turtles cash to commission comics from anyone who had ever picked up a pencil.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 December, 2018, 04:28:57 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 08 December, 2018, 03:49:33 PM
I like my Christmas jumper and other people's christmas jumper without a trace of irony thank you very much

If yours has functioning lights on it, I regret to announce it will be immediately removed and destroyed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 08 December, 2018, 06:25:33 PM
Quote from: Frank on 08 December, 2018, 04:01:52 PM

Actual Bill proper Sienkiewicz's real cover for the totally authentic Big Numbers issue 6. The Sink says he produced covers for the series in advance, so there are another 3 unseen masterpieces out there*

USD 4,500, if you're looking for a last minute Christmas present:

(https://i.imgur.com/WpdhM1B.jpg?1)


* Held by Kevin Eastman, apparently. Part of the mammoth early-nineties acquisition spree that saw him use Turtles cash to commission comics from anyone who had ever picked up a pencil.
Holy shit!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 December, 2018, 01:16:28 PM
I recently got to thinking how did the entire household functioned with 1 phone?
On the other hand,I miss saying the magic words: Tell them Im not here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 December, 2018, 02:45:48 PM
Quote from: Smith on 11 December, 2018, 01:16:28 PM
I recently got to thinking how did the entire household functioned with 1 phone?
On the other hand,I miss saying the magic words: Tell them Im not here.

I can go one better than that. Our house functioned with no phones at all until my dad's work paid to install one about a week before I moved out to go to University.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 December, 2018, 10:31:45 PM
Its not really a competition.  :)
Its just pretty weird to look back and contrast to now where 5 people have 9 numbers.Or it could be more,Im not sure.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 December, 2018, 11:01:57 PM
444 was my family's original phone number. They don't make them like that any more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 December, 2018, 11:09:45 PM
Im not breaking any new ground here,I know...but all this tech that was supposed to make our lives easier made it a lot more complicated.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 December, 2018, 06:24:01 AM

Strange how smartphones had the potential to make work easier but somehow led to people working more. People can now climb off their partners, still panting and glistening with sex sweat, only to say, "I'll just email Geoff in Accounts about that P303/1440A form." People now work on the way to work, on the way home from work and lying naked in bed with an iPhone in one hand and a can of squirty cream in the other.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 December, 2018, 06:41:46 AM
I swear to Grud, Sharky, you promised you'd taken all your damn cameras out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 December, 2018, 06:44:28 AM

Never trust a shark ;)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 12 December, 2018, 10:15:08 AM
Quote from: Smith on 11 December, 2018, 10:31:45 PM
Its not really a competition.  :)
Its just pretty weird to look back and contrast to now where 5 people have 9 numbers.Or it could be more,Im not sure.

Another to add to the not-competition (just as well, because I wouldn't win it).

I remember my student halls having one payphone between the hundred or so who lived in the block (and it wasn't really a problem). If I were to mention this to a student today, I suspect it would make me sound like some grizzled old timer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 December, 2018, 12:44:34 PM
As late as 1997 I did a job interview over the phone from an isolated coin-op payphone in a bog on the side of a hill overlooking Killala Bay. There was no phone at my then-job, and there was no phone in our house - I had to jog 2 miles there and back to fit it into my lunchbreak!  Got the job, mind, so maybe I should try that now...  although I didn't find out until the post arrived a week later. I got a mobile about a year later (lovely chunky Sony Ericsson) and it's been all downhill since.

Shoebox, gravel, mill owner, breadknife, dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2018, 01:05:16 PM
For god's sake think of the children will you!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 December, 2018, 01:40:26 PM
When my Grandma finally got a phone put in, my Granddad wouldn't touch it. On the rare occasions he had to answer it he would hold it at arms length and shout, but could never hear the reply. While studying in the US in 1986 I was amazed that all the dorm rooms had telephones and that local calls were free - it felt so decadent ringing someone who was just a few doors down the hall, whilst nowadays, kids will text from the next room without a second thought.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 December, 2018, 01:52:20 PM
What I can't get over is how shit the phones sound now. I remember Christmas calls to thank relatives for the shoes, socks, and other items to keep us warm for the winter and the reception was very clear. It sounded as if they were next to you.

Now I take a call and as often as no I et bad rec ion or they so d very far away.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2018, 02:33:21 PM
eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 December, 2018, 02:52:02 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 12 December, 2018, 01:52:20 PM
What I can't get over is how shit the phones sound now. I remember Christmas calls to thank relatives for the shoes, socks, and other items to keep us warm for the winter and the reception was very clear. It sounded as if they were next to you.

Now I take a call and as often as no I et bad rec ion or they so d very far away.

Try working in a call centre - we get unintelligible calls all the time, with crackles, bad reception, wind or traffic noise etc - and then they get really narky when you keep asking them to repeat things! Or they refuse to discuss personal information because they're in public - well I didn't ask you to call about your genital warts from the 8:15 to Paddington, did I?.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 December, 2018, 04:03:09 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 December, 2018, 02:33:21 PM
eh?
Exactly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 12 December, 2018, 07:12:16 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 12 December, 2018, 01:40:26 PM
...  kids will text from the next room without a second thought.

Next room?  The little sods are sat next to each other texting etc.  On the plus side, at least they're quiet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 December, 2018, 03:39:05 PM
Finally, a twitter thread I can take seriously.

https://twitter.com/StephenMangan/status/1072458602982637569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw (https://twitter.com/StephenMangan/status/1072458602982637569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 December, 2018, 07:16:05 PM
The perfect examples of the art of twitter trolling.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/13/londoners-troll-new-york-times-petty-crimes (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/13/londoners-troll-new-york-times-petty-crimes)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 14 December, 2018, 01:22:31 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 13 December, 2018, 07:16:05 PM
The perfect examples of the art of twitter trolling.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/13/londoners-troll-new-york-times-petty-crimes (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/13/londoners-troll-new-york-times-petty-crimes)

Not *that* Guy Adams?  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 14 December, 2018, 05:51:38 PM
At the risk of putting my head in the lion's jaws, is it just me, or has Squirrel Girl put on weight? (https://www.newsarama.com/43121-marvel-rising-returns-with-new-title-this-march.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 December, 2018, 01:05:48 AM
Where's the confessions thread these days? Because I've just remembered that I was in my late 30s before I realised that an 'outgoing president' wasn't a description of his personality.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 15 December, 2018, 07:55:16 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 14 December, 2018, 05:51:38 PM
At the risk of putting my head in the lion's jaws, is it just me, or has Squirrel Girl put on weight? (https://www.newsarama.com/43121-marvel-rising-returns-with-new-title-this-march.html)
Thats just inhouse bad webcomic Art style.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 December, 2018, 10:54:46 PM

Ice Man

(https://i.imgur.com/L1VJtsy.jpg?3)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 December, 2018, 10:59:02 PM
Frank, I can't unsee that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 December, 2018, 11:40:26 PM
Not quite sure what it is, but I don't like it one little bit, let me tell you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 December, 2018, 12:03:42 AM
Less Uncanny Valley more Uncanny Tower.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 December, 2018, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 December, 2018, 10:59:02 PM
Frank, I can't unsee that!

Who would want to!

I'm sure the Chinese authorities use these to harvest your data, but they're still incredible. Like the bit in Blade Runner where Han Solo keeps zooming further and further into the image*, except for entire cities:

THIS MUST BE HOW GOD FEELS WHEN HE USES THE ZOOM FUNCTION (http://www.bigpixel.cn/)


* which, at the time, I casually opined would never be possible, since the memory required to produce such an image would be greater even than the capacity of a Commodore 64
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 December, 2018, 10:07:08 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 December, 2018, 11:40:26 PM
Not quite sure what it is, but I don't like it one little bit, let me tell you.

You should taste it first before rushing to judgement.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 December, 2018, 10:48:42 PM
Quote from: Frank on 18 December, 2018, 09:57:31 PM
I'm sure the Chinese authorities use these to harvest your data, but they're still incredible. Like the bit in Blade Runner where Han Solo keeps zooming further and further into the image*, except for entire cities:

THIS MUST BE HOW GOD FEELS WHEN HE USES THE ZOOM FUNCTION (http://www.bigpixel.cn/)

Oh my god, Hong Kong is haunted!

(https://i.imgur.com/J0VoCGl.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 December, 2018, 11:04:31 PM
Uhm...

(https://i.imgur.com/EhGiA10.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 December, 2018, 09:25:47 AM
(https://goo.gl/images/HFNDWG)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 December, 2018, 09:30:26 AM
(http://samblanco.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/popup.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 19 December, 2018, 10:10:23 AM
Glitch in the Matrix?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 December, 2018, 10:17:11 AM
Lootenant Dan?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 19 December, 2018, 01:32:15 PM
Solomon Cone?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 19 December, 2018, 02:29:07 PM
That's given me a great idea for a fancy dress outfit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 December, 2018, 07:06:31 PM

Just a few years ago, Guy Ritchie's Aladdin remake existed only in the realm of satire:

(https://i.imgur.com/0MtbarK.jpg?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 December, 2018, 07:37:08 PM
Don't do that. I had a mouthful of tea and now everything is wet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 December, 2018, 05:28:46 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 December, 2018, 07:37:08 PM
... now everything is wet

Speaking of which, the BBC audience is coveted by advertisers, since it's generally regarded as a slightly higher demographic (in terms of social status and income) than ITV and Sky viewers, which is why you don't see too may adverts for Waitrose during X-Factor.

Looks to me as if the BBC audience is as horny and bloodthirsty as everyone else:

(https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/624-2.jpeg)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 December, 2018, 05:58:55 PM
Quote from: Frank on 20 December, 2018, 05:28:46 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 December, 2018, 07:37:08 PM
... now everything is wet

Speaking of which, the BBC audience is coveted by advertisers, since it's generally regarded as a slightly higher demographic (in terms of social status and income) than ITV and Sky viewers, which is why you don't see too may adverts for Waitrose during X-Factor.

Looks to me as if the BBC audience is as horny and bloodthirsty as everyone else:

(https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/624-2.jpeg)

More horny and bloodthirsty I would think. They just do it with their pinkies extended. ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 December, 2018, 06:35:25 PM

I know exactly what they're doing with their pinkies.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 December, 2018, 08:55:09 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 20 December, 2018, 05:58:55 PM
Quote from: Frank on 20 December, 2018, 05:28:46 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 December, 2018, 07:37:08 PM
... now everything is wet

Speaking of which, the BBC audience is coveted by advertisers, since it's generally regarded as a slightly higher demographic (in terms of social status and income) than ITV and Sky viewers, which is why you don't see too may adverts for Waitrose during X-Factor.

Looks to me as if the BBC audience is as horny and bloodthirsty as everyone else:

(https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/624-2.jpeg)

More horny and bloodthirsty I would think. They just do it with their pinkies extended. ;)

HBOoooohh Myyyyy...
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 January, 2019, 06:35:44 AM

5 Outrageous New Year's Predictions. (https://steemit.com/fun/@corbettreport/5-outrageous-new-year-s-predictions)

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Post by: Tjm86 on 07 January, 2019, 06:47:24 AM
Number 5 will never catch on ...
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Post by: von Boom on 07 January, 2019, 03:40:01 PM
And a shame about the sneaky 6th one. I was looking forward to watching that on the telly.
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Post by: Smith on 07 January, 2019, 05:41:58 PM
They are tearing down the Nelson Mendela block.We can only hope that a new building will bear the name Trotter.  :)
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Post by: von Boom on 07 January, 2019, 05:52:53 PM
Quote from: Smith on 07 January, 2019, 05:41:58 PM
They are tearing down the Nelson Mendela block.We can only hope that a new building will bear the name Trotter.  :)
(https://media.giphy.com/media/NJZMSqRY3rG9i/giphy.gif)
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Post by: Proudhuff on 08 January, 2019, 02:56:49 PM
Quote from: Frank on 17 December, 2018, 10:54:46 PM

Ice Man

(https://i.imgur.com/L1VJtsy.jpg?3)


The Ice man cometh!
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Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 08 January, 2019, 05:34:34 PM
My wife makes a lovely egg and bacon flan.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 08 January, 2019, 07:02:54 PM
Flan pron:

(https://www.thespruceeats.com/thmb/S3JwS6ccKdADXc9v0oq63X3ly1c=/450x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/from-above-white-plate-with-flan-and-spoon-on-the-wooden-background--horizontal-shoot--674493822-5ab18fb7875db90037a94645.jpg)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 09 January, 2019, 04:14:45 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/grL90Zt.png)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 January, 2019, 07:47:06 AM
Whatever it is I'm looking at, I want one.
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Post by: von Boom on 11 January, 2019, 08:20:28 PM
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/53b74b89b5fc350cc24907e405ea39719b7ab2e8/0_0_1000_780/master/1000.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3b2ea99d8f9165cc47177356ee22988b)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/11/jaysus-i-wasnt-expecting-that-dublin-by-sarah-bowie-an-urban-cartoon (https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/11/jaysus-i-wasnt-expecting-that-dublin-by-sarah-bowie-an-urban-cartoon)
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Post by: Smith on 15 January, 2019, 08:04:58 AM
Im just gonna check Youtube to see if anyone uploded anything- Ten minutes later - "GI Joe Extreme PSAs"
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 January, 2019, 11:10:29 AM
Quote from: Smith on 15 January, 2019, 08:04:58 AM
Im just gonna check Youtube to see if anyone uploded anything- Ten minutes later - "GI Joe Extreme PSAs"
Today on the 'Zac's Youtube Rabbit Hole'

Binge watching a 24 episode series on retired LEGO themes.

This is fine.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 15 January, 2019, 05:58:58 PM
never mind Brexit bobble hats are a sign of the end of civilization...
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Post by: Funt Solo on 16 January, 2019, 05:08:08 PM
There used to be a thread for inventions wot are now real that appeared in 2000AD in a fictional sense.  Well, I can't find it, so I'll just post here...

Self-lacing jogging shoes (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46876941), which the article says were fictionally invented in Back to the Future, part II, but I seem to recall were invented years earlier by Abelard Snazz in one of his misadventures.  Anyone else recall?

(Maybe in prog 254: The Multi-Storey Mind Mellows Out.)
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Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 January, 2019, 06:05:15 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 January, 2019, 05:08:08 PM
There used to be a thread for inventions wot are now real that appeared in 2000AD in a fictional sense.  Well, I can't find it, so I'll just post here...

This thread?

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=40441.105
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 January, 2019, 07:17:37 AM
Where the hell did the word 'bastich' come from ?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 January, 2019, 09:39:41 AM

Scotland.

Probably.

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Post by: Proudhuff on 17 January, 2019, 10:56:30 AM
Bar Steward. best job title ever.
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Post by: Smith on 17 January, 2019, 01:09:20 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 January, 2019, 07:17:37 AM
Where the hell did the word 'bastich' come from ?
I heard it from Lobo.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 January, 2019, 02:36:00 PM
Me too, but then Mean Angel started saying it. I've just read some Batman v Lobo Elseworlds special; it's terrible.  Bisley clearly didn't give a shite at that stage.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 January, 2019, 02:50:03 PM

Can anyone tell me which Megazine(s) featured a "sexy ostrich" calendar?

Asking for a friend...

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Post by: M.I.K. on 17 January, 2019, 04:05:58 PM
Pretty sure 'bastich' is just a word Alan Grant uses to get around censorship.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2019, 06:14:52 PM
I always thought it was a unisex insult conflating bastard and bitch
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 January, 2019, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2019, 06:14:52 PM
I always thought it was a unisex insult conflating bastard and bitch

Never thought of that.  I like your reasoning.

On a similar note, I always liked Dave Stone's 'slitch' - sounds horribly sexist and vicious for a word that has no meaning whatsoever.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 17 January, 2019, 06:56:27 PM
But how do we say bastich?  Bas-teesh or bast-itch?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 January, 2019, 07:39:47 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2019, 06:14:52 PM
I always thought it was a unisex insult conflating bastard and bitch

Yep. That too.

Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 January, 2019, 06:56:27 PM
But how do we say bastich?  Bas-teesh or bast-itch?

I've always read it as the second one.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 January, 2019, 08:57:20 PM

Doesn't anyone know about sexy ostriches?

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Post by: Funt Solo on 17 January, 2019, 10:17:50 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 17 January, 2019, 08:57:20 PM
Doesn't anyone know about sexy ostriches?

Google says:

(https://images.rebellion.co.uk/productVersion/44/4e/00.large.jpg)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 January, 2019, 06:12:00 AM

Thanks, Funt - what issue number is that and is there a sexy ostrich calendar inside by any chance?

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Post by: Theblazeuk on 18 January, 2019, 09:54:06 AM
It's 321 according to the little Dredd head above the bardcode. Distracted by those gams eh?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 January, 2019, 10:08:52 AM
Thanks, Blaze - I can't zoom in on this old 'phone.

I can't say why I'm so interested - you'll just have to trust me...

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 January, 2019, 10:24:46 AM
I'm having American Shitter flash backs. God almighty, what was Mills THINKING?!
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 18 January, 2019, 01:41:29 PM
American Reaper!

I'd clean forgotten the title of that particular tale entirely.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 January, 2019, 02:22:16 PM
"Like shooting fish in a barrel" is a shite idiom for a simple task.

First you have to get a barrel, fill it with water, then catch a fish, somehow get the slippery fucker in the barrel, then get a gun, load the gun, get ear protection (I don't know if you've ever fired a gun, but they're bastard loud), and fire the gun at the barrel. Once you've done all that, your barrel is rendered useless and it's leaking diluted fish guts everywhere.

In conclusion "Shooting fish in a barrel" is an altogether convoluted and messy way to dispatch a fish, not simple and straight forward at all. The better way to kill a fish is called "Fishing", it's even a shorter and simpler one word affair.

I propose a new modern version:

"Like causing outrage on twitter"

Just ask the folks at Gilette
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Post by: von Boom on 18 January, 2019, 02:33:00 PM
Not ready. Bah.
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Post by: Smith on 18 January, 2019, 09:42:41 PM
In what movie somebody makes a similar case for "taking a candy from a baby"?  :-\
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Post by: Dandontdare on 20 January, 2019, 09:24:04 PM
this is fun - go to Unread posts, select ALL unread posts and go to the last page to see what this board was talking about 15 years ago. I've just read through an absolutely hilarious 4 page argument between Scojo (former resident troll and dickhead of this parish) vs Si Spurrier, Gordon Rennie, Jim Campbell and WR Logan about how his future shock idea is so much better than anything Alan Moore or John  Wagner could write, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Plus a few good thread ideas that I may necro-resurrect (or start afresh claiming the credit for the idea)

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2019, 11:38:09 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 January, 2019, 09:24:04 PM
this is fun - go to Unread posts, select ALL unread posts and go to the last page to see what this board was talking about 15 years ago. I've just read through an absolutely hilarious 4 page argument between Scojo (former resident troll and dickhead of this parish) vs Si Spurrier, Gordon Rennie, Jim Campbell and WR Logan about how his future shock idea is so much better than anything Alan Moore or John  Wagner could write, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Plus a few good thread ideas that I may necro-resurrect (or start afresh claiming the credit for the idea)

Sweet feck, I'd forgotten about scojo.  Sharky recently described a dream he had that was a better future shock by miles than anything Scojo had done.  (Sometimes, having serious mental issues doesn't save you from being a gobshite.)
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Post by: Trout on 21 January, 2019, 12:03:24 AM
I enjoy Brussels sprouts cooked in maple syrup and garlic.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 January, 2019, 01:34:10 AM
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/11/01/health/01well_sprout/01well_sprout-superJumbo.jpg)
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 January, 2019, 11:27:40 AM
Ah, my fishy liege- that sounds lovely, but I doubt anything will be better than sprouts with creme fraiche and bacon...

A treat my teenagers actually requested be on the table for Christmas dinner.

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 January, 2019, 12:32:56 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 January, 2019, 09:24:04 PM
this is fun - go to Unread posts, select ALL unread posts and go to the last page to see what this board was talking about 15 years ago. I've just read through an absolutely hilarious 4 page argument between Scojo (former resident troll and dickhead of this parish) vs Si Spurrier, Gordon Rennie, Jim Campbell and WR Logan about how his future shock idea is so much better than anything Alan Moore or John  Wagner could write, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Plus a few good thread ideas that I may necro-resurrect (or start afresh claiming the credit for the idea)
Scojo was a bit before my time, but in the days I frequented the ECBT2KAD message board (long past) he was prowling those stomping grounds last I checked, berating Henry Flints art by pointing out inconsistencies* every week of Day of Chaos.

[spoiler]*They where not, he just clearly has an ADHD level of attention to detail and tried to worm his way out of being called out. Rinse and repeat for 18 months.[/spoiler]
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 January, 2019, 12:46:22 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2019, 11:38:09 PM


Sweet feck, I'd forgotten about scojo.  Sharky recently described a dream he had that was a better future shock by miles than anything Scojo had done.  (Sometimes, having serious mental issues doesn't save you from being a gobshite.)


Thank you, er, I think...?

(https://i.imgur.com/6L5lzNO.png)
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by: sheridan on 21 January, 2019, 12:53:34 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 17 January, 2019, 07:39:47 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 January, 2019, 06:14:52 PM
I always thought it was a unisex insult conflating bastard and bitch

Yep. That too.[/quote

Me three.

Quote
Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 January, 2019, 06:56:27 PM
But how do we say bastich?  Bas-teesh or bast-itch?

I've always read it as the second one.

My vote is on the itchy version.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 21 January, 2019, 12:56:11 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 18 January, 2019, 02:22:16 PM
"Like shooting fish in a barrel" is a shite idiom for a simple task.

First you have to get a barrel, fill it with water, then catch a fish, somehow get the slippery fucker in the barrel, then get a gun, load the gun, get ear protection (I don't know if you've ever fired a gun, but they're bastard loud), and fire the gun at the barrel. Once you've done all that, your barrel is rendered useless and it's leaking diluted fish guts everywhere.

In conclusion "Shooting fish in a barrel" is an altogether convoluted and messy way to dispatch a fish, not simple and straight forward at all. The better way to kill a fish is called "Fishing", it's even a shorter and simpler one word affair.

I propose a new modern version:

"Like causing outrage on twitter"

Just ask the folks at Gilette


But first you have to acquire a computer or mobile device capable of using twitter.  Then you need to sign up for an email address. Then you need to create a twitter account.  Then you need to get enough followers that when you say something controversial (or uncontroversial that somebody insists on taking offence at anyway) then it will be noticed.  Not so simple!
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 January, 2019, 03:24:11 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 21 January, 2019, 12:46:22 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2019, 11:38:09 PM


Sweet feck, I'd forgotten about scojo.  Sharky recently described a dream he had that was a better future shock by miles than anything Scojo had done.  (Sometimes, having serious mental issues doesn't save you from being a gobshite.)


Thank you, er, I think...?

(https://i.imgur.com/6L5lzNO.png)
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I was referring to Scojo, of course. Tordelback (I think) once posted Scojo's video audition to be the new James Bond on the board. It was terrifying.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 January, 2019, 06:09:01 PM
Just kidding, JBC. He was just slightly before my time, close enough that I was accused of being him once or twice.

He once came into the Yap Shop, in disguise, and it was like throwing a brick into a hen cabin - which is saying something as people like Roger Godpleton were regulars in there at the time. He was the only person I ever had to ban, and I didn't even know it was him until after the event.

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Post by: Tjm86 on 21 January, 2019, 07:52:03 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 21 January, 2019, 11:27:40 AM
Ah, my fishy liege- that sounds lovely, but I doubt anything will be better than sprouts with creme fraiche and bacon...

A treat my teenagers actually requested be on the table for Christmas dinner.

... while the wife requested NBC suit respirators?

:o
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 January, 2019, 08:41:00 PM
Our first troll, I think, was called Death Monkey - a daft wee 14-year old who was around in about 2002.  After realising that people were ignoring him, he gave a grovelling apology. 

Which of you was he? Come on, tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 January, 2019, 08:54:30 PM
I would have been 7. That me' alibi guv, honest!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 January, 2019, 09:13:02 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 21 January, 2019, 08:54:30 PM
I would have been 7. That me' alibi guv, honest!

A likely story, sunshine.  Still though, Death Monkey remains one of the coolest board names ever.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 21 January, 2019, 11:53:39 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 21 January, 2019, 07:52:03 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 21 January, 2019, 11:27:40 AM
Ah, my fishy liege- that sounds lovely, but I doubt anything will be better than sprouts with creme fraiche and bacon...

A treat my teenagers actually requested be on the table for Christmas dinner.

... while the wife requested NBC suit respirators?

:o

It would be worth it.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 22 January, 2019, 11:12:45 AM
Damn straight!
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Post by: Theblazeuk on 22 January, 2019, 04:25:15 PM
I have only ever known Thryll, really.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 22 January, 2019, 07:10:42 PM
Start at the top right. (https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 January, 2019, 12:52:51 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 January, 2019, 07:10:42 PM
Start at the top right. (https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/)

Jesus, that's mind bogglingly amazing.  You're going to make me miss my train.
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Post by: Smith on 01 February, 2019, 09:31:35 AM
Well,The Outhouse(the "news" site) is closing down on the 8th.Strangly,Im going to miss that crazy place.
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Post by: Link Prime on 01 February, 2019, 11:14:08 AM
Quote from: Smith on 01 February, 2019, 09:31:35 AM
Well,The Outhouse(the "news" site) is closing down on the 8th.

* Toilet Flush Gif *

Surely there is some demand out there for a comics based news site that isn't slimy guttersnipe trash.

This very forum is the only source of decent genre reviews / discussion on the web, even allowing for the fact half the time yiser rambling on about Brexit.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 February, 2019, 01:03:08 PM
Life's Little Pleasures #27.

After three and a half days of existing as a starving lump of quivering, chilled and goose-bumpy flesh wrapped in a scalding aura of aching dizziness with a broken sewer pipe sticking out of one end, today the fever broke and I've just thoroughly enjoyed probably the best bowl of hot (pea and ham) soup of my entire life.

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Post by: paddykafka on 08 February, 2019, 11:38:55 AM
Glad to hear you're on the mend, Sharkey.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 February, 2019, 11:55:24 AM

Thanks, Paddy - still wobbly, weak and achey but improving slowly. I don't remember being floored like this since I was at Primary School - I keep having flashbacks of being stuck in bed, surrounded by tissues, comics, potions and too many blankets, unable to concentrate on watching PlayAway.

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Post by: Proudhuff on 08 February, 2019, 04:30:14 PM

Brain Cant had the must unfortunate second name, depending on which bit of the cantry you come from, same as Clark Kent really  :-X
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 February, 2019, 04:31:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 January, 2019, 08:41:00 PM
Our first troll, I think, was called Death Monkey - a daft wee 14-year old who was around in about 2002.  After realising that people were ignoring him, he gave a grovelling apology. 

Which of you was he? Come on, tell the truth and shame the devil.

They didn'y have computers/internet/enigma machines when I was a 14...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 08 February, 2019, 06:50:28 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 08 February, 2019, 11:55:24 AM
... I keep having flashbacks of being stuck in bed, surrounded by tissues, comics, potions and too many blankets, unable to concentrate on watching PlayAway.

Okay, but what was it like when you were back in primary school?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 February, 2019, 06:51:16 PM

Much the same but with fewer confusing fever erections...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 February, 2019, 10:15:23 PM
(https://cache-graphicslib.viator.com/graphicslib/thumbs674x446/7845/SITours/eiffel-tower-summit-priority-access-with-host-in-paris-604656.jpg)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2019, 08:50:59 AM

Needs more sueur...

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 February, 2019, 11:05:27 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 10 February, 2019, 10:15:23 PM
(https://cache-graphicslib.viator.com/graphicslib/thumbs674x446/7845/SITours/eiffel-tower-summit-priority-access-with-host-in-paris-604656.jpg)

Don't you just love Blackpool.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 February, 2019, 02:40:04 PM
 :lol:
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Post by: Funt Solo on 12 February, 2019, 08:01:27 PM
Nerd challenge: do you know all the references?

(https://i.imgur.com/ZDX6DDI.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 February, 2019, 08:52:59 PM
Don't know Qo'nos or Haafingar (is that [spoiler]Skyrim [/spoiler]?)

And is there a bonus point for working out where the sign is relative to the others?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 12 February, 2019, 11:28:41 PM
I know all of them. One of them was... a recent Discovery. You might say.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2019, 11:41:09 AM
Had to google Haafingar (and now I'm kicking myself!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 13 February, 2019, 12:02:34 PM
It seems I can remember things. The two I didn't get, I have never encountered.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 February, 2019, 02:29:52 PM
Got them all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 February, 2019, 05:30:40 PM
If you liked that, then naming all the characters here should be a doddle:

(https://i.imgur.com/R4SvCvL.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 February, 2019, 05:27:27 PM

Bloody Hell and bollocks.

Only I could have a damned heart attack at a funeral. Back in Liverpool hozzie with another stent added to the collection - a bit more hard work this time; my heart stopped three times during the op, which was a very weird experience!

Still alive, though, so that's a bonus!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 February, 2019, 05:46:48 PM
Feck. Hang in there, Sharkman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 February, 2019, 05:56:36 PM
By christ Sharks! Get better soon chum!
As an aside however it did remind me of this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOTW6gFQUlg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOTW6gFQUlg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 15 February, 2019, 06:06:53 PM
Fecking hell, Sharky. :o

Hope you're on the mend. Feel better soon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 15 February, 2019, 06:16:09 PM
Fucking Hell. Glad you're still here to post about it though.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 16 February, 2019, 12:00:15 AM
Blimey! Keep on swimming Sharky.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 February, 2019, 05:03:21 AM
This is turning into a long night. Despite my bone-deep weariness, sleep eludes due to a plethora of tubes and wires, machines that go "ping" and an automatic blood pressure cuff that explodes into life every forty five minutes or so like a tyre-repairer's compressor. Then there's the pain in my ribs caused, I'm given to understand, by having my heart zapped back to life. Who knew that would feel like the aftermath of being kicked in the chest by a horse?

So there's nothing to do but lie here and contemplate the absolute nature of my own mortality. Without the not-so-tender caress of that electric horse, your beloved/reviled Shark would by now be nothing more than a memory instead of still assaulting your eyeballs with arrogant and condescending words. Even though I managed to exit the service under my own steam, causing the minimum of fuss, by giving me a heart attack at a funeral and having me ministered to outside by a very dapper undertaker, the Universe does seem to be laying it on a bit thick.

Still, the best part is the people - the ones from work and you guys, who are here for me in my Actual Hour Of.

It's almost enough to make me humble.

Almost... ;)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 February, 2019, 02:30:41 PM
Ah Sharky, never change.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 16 February, 2019, 02:49:57 PM

Jaysus, Sharkey! Hope you'll be on the mend soon. At least you managed to maintain your dignity despite your difficult situation, unlike the hapless Roy, as can be seen if you Google the link below. All the best, pal!

The IT Crowd - Series 2 - Episode 2: Heart attack
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 February, 2019, 01:40:10 PM
Kia kaha sharpie, have PM'ed you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 February, 2019, 11:33:44 PM
Thanks, everyone.

A quick status update for those what want one. All my readings seem fine, all the tubes and wires disconnected. Still tired and sore but not badly. Scan due tomorrow to assess any damage and then home in the next couple of days.

The weirdest part of this latest adventure on the edge of eternity was when my heart stopped during the procedure. One minute I was there, experiencing everything, then there was what I can only describe as an interruption (during which time zapping was applied but which was totally beyond my ability to experience), then I was back in the moment experiencing everything again aware only that something had just happened.

I won't be so melodramatic as to say that these three interruptions were death but they were at least the initial seconds of death. The weirdest thing is the knowledge that if I had died for real, I probably wouldn't have noticed. I honestly don't know how to feel about that!

I'll let you know what tomorrow's scan reveals.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 18 February, 2019, 01:37:54 AM
Wow. All the best for tomorrow , Sharkey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 February, 2019, 11:32:53 AM

Scan done. No clots, no fluids, no significant
apparent damage, good rhythm - all looking
good.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 18 February, 2019, 12:29:46 PM
Funt me! Missed all this.

Take care Sharkster, hope you keep recovering.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 18 February, 2019, 12:43:29 PM
Good wishes and godspeed Sharky. Better be more casuistry in the thread not to be named or I'll ask the NHS for my money and the real shark back  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 February, 2019, 12:55:36 PM

:D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 February, 2019, 01:45:38 PM
Happy the scans went well for you sharky!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 February, 2019, 05:48:27 PM
Been released back into the wild, staying at a friend's for a couple of days before heading home.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 February, 2019, 10:44:05 AM
Feck sake Sharky, a dramatic weekend.

Glad to hear you've recovered. Take it easy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 February, 2019, 03:56:12 PM
Phew, glad you're on the mend now Sharky (let us know when it's an appropriate time to start taking the piss about all that expensive tax-funded treatment you've had  ;))

If I don't sort myself out soon, I'll be tubed up in the bed next to you soon. At the moment, my ticker is fine, but I'm falling to bits on a musculoskeletal level. I know exactly what's caused it - months of lying on my bed in the same position watching Netflix on a laptop), but didn't realise how bad it was - just had a weekend in London and found that after about 45mins walking, I get a crippling pain in my right buttock and lower back, which isn't good news for wandering around or exploring galleries and museums. Sitting down cures it almost immediately, but 10 mins after setting off again it's back. This meant I spent far more time sitting in pubs than I intended - what a shame.



Oh and another random thought - On Valentine's day, I tried to log into this forum but misspelled my user name as Dandontdate. Oh the irony.  :'(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 February, 2019, 04:58:20 PM

I'm never too ill to argue, DDD!

Aye, get yourself looked at, fella. That kind of thing sounds like something that could get to be really miserable if you leave it to develop.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 February, 2019, 07:17:05 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 19 February, 2019, 04:58:20 PM

I'm never too ill to argue, DDD!

Aye, get yourself looked at, fella. That kind of thing sounds like something that could get to be really miserable if you leave it to develop.

Luckily I work for a medical insurer and get some cover included, which means I won't have to wait 6  months to get some physio sessions. If those don't work, it's off to the consultant to look at injections or even (gulp) a discetomy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 February, 2019, 07:42:05 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 February, 2019, 03:56:12 PM
name as Dandontdate. Oh the irony.  :'(

Didn't Madness chart with a song by that title?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 20 February, 2019, 01:43:30 AM
Wtf? Will you people look after yourselves, please? A shocking state of affairs.

Hey Shark, I'm glad you're not dead.  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 February, 2019, 08:54:10 AM

Thanks, Trouty - so am I! :D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 February, 2019, 11:28:43 AM
We where so close...

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM2NGFlOTYtMzYyMC00YTU1LTlhOGEtNjY2MzYyMjIxMTU5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjQxODA2ODA@._V1_.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 February, 2019, 11:53:18 AM

:D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 February, 2019, 09:25:05 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 20 February, 2019, 11:28:43 AM
We where so close...

One of these days I'll refresh the active topics and there won't be a crackpot screed about the Black Knight Satellite being responsible for the illusion of the distribution of wealth in 1st world economies.

That dark day shall be known as 'Jour du Requin Fantôme'.
Hopefully years away.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 February, 2019, 07:02:38 PM
Was anyone else watching the rugby earlier. I could swear the Dredd soundtrack playing over the stadium PA when the teams were warming up
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 February, 2019, 03:23:36 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/xZIeqed.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 March, 2019, 09:25:26 PM
I seem to be stuck in two separate whatsapp group chats at the same time, discussing different things, both of which include my best friend, and one of which includes her boyfriend and a bloke I've never met who I'll be sharing a hotel room with at the Sci Fi Weekender.

How do young people cope with this shit?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 March, 2019, 09:40:48 PM
They kill themselves.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 02 March, 2019, 03:01:55 AM
'Stuck' ?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 March, 2019, 03:35:34 AM
Well they just go on and on don't they - endless banter and emojis. It feels rude to be the first to go silent!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 March, 2019, 10:37:24 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 March, 2019, 09:25:26 PM
How do young people cope with this shit?

We don't.
'Fumbles with paroxetine bottle'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 March, 2019, 10:45:19 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 March, 2019, 09:25:26 PM


How do young people cope with this shit?


By growing old.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 March, 2019, 10:58:22 AM
I spent a large chunk of my childhood and teens hopelessly addicted to crap Spectrum 48k games.  I'm in no position to judge the computer habits of young people.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 02 March, 2019, 11:45:25 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 02 March, 2019, 10:58:22 AM
I spent a large chunk of my childhood and teens hopelessly addicted to crap Spectrum 48k games.  I'm in no position to judge the computer habits of young people.

You know, I can take most offensive remarks.  I can stomach the most outrageously inflammatory statements.  I can even handle a picture of Boris Johnson for about five seconds ....

But NOBODY disses the Spec!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 March, 2019, 01:51:57 PM
Don't get me wrong, Miner Willy (a boozing bachelor doomed to an unending task of cleaning up the mess after sessions with his mates) has had a huge influence on the man I am today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2019, 01:42:25 PM
anyone want to talk about comics?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 March, 2019, 03:23:03 PM

On a comics website? Are you mad!?

:D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 March, 2019, 05:07:51 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2019, 01:42:25 PM
anyone want to talk about comics?

Morecambe and Wise were good.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 March, 2019, 12:08:39 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 March, 2019, 05:07:51 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2019, 01:42:25 PM
anyone want to talk about comics?

Morecambe and Wise were good.
Some say Peter Cushings ghost still haunts BBC and ITV production houses across the country, looking to be repaid completely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 March, 2019, 04:41:54 PM
He'll be after extra wages for his post-mortal role in Rogue One (https://youtu.be/vlSn50_BePU) as well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 March, 2019, 09:35:11 PM
Vegetable Orchestra (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190311-viennas-unpredictable-vegetable-orchestra)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 March, 2019, 11:05:20 AM

I thought some of you foodies out there might like making your own healthy chocolate...

https://www.precisionnutrition.com/chocolate-making?fbclid=IwAR00Wckwhelw_dFNTAhoUcXj4m3vAzJubsEtfNDMH-pMHZimlQkXAF23BpY

Enjoy!

I'm not a foodie, I'm more of a dustbin (in another (quite close) reality I'm known as The Legendary Pak'ma'ra), but if I was I think I'd be all over this.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 March, 2019, 04:03:07 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ktxxHfF.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 April, 2019, 04:31:17 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 31 March, 2019, 06:04:27 PM
as if someone's tried to replicate the Mona Lisa using nothing but blue crayons.

You made me think of this:

(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/media/images/62447000/gif/_62447895_frescopic.gif)

And more recently this:

(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180627031635-st-george-botched-large-169.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 April, 2019, 06:30:14 AM

Heh, that just about sums it up for me.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 01 April, 2019, 05:20:08 PM
Challenge accepted!

(but I only had one blue crayon and couldn't be bothered spending more than half an hour on it)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 April, 2019, 05:53:14 PM
That's really impressive, and it doesn't look that much like Ross Noble.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 April, 2019, 06:41:48 PM
I wonder what Alanis Morrisette is up to this weather.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 April, 2019, 06:56:11 PM

That is rather good!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 01 April, 2019, 07:11:32 PM
You probably only think that 'cos it's a Kirk original.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 April, 2019, 07:54:16 PM

Not really, but it is very enterprising of you...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 April, 2019, 04:30:13 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/rZ8kZQP.png)

Or: "Religious extremists move against 70s fashion!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2019, 06:50:49 AM
Glad to hear it.  I've noticed with alarm that they seem to be coming back in. 
 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 April, 2019, 08:54:29 PM
Along with ironed creases in denim
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 10 April, 2019, 11:57:46 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2019, 06:50:49 AM
Glad to hear it.  I've noticed with alarm that they seem to be coming back in. 


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2d-iGtXUAAVhNE.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 11 April, 2019, 02:44:22 PM
QuoteOr: "Religious extremists move against 70s fashion!"

QuoteGlad to hear it.  I've noticed with alarm that they seem to be coming back in.

Brilliant response.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 April, 2019, 04:17:45 PM
Bay City Rollers 4evz
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 21 April, 2019, 10:06:16 AM
 To be fair, I'm surprised that no one thought to do this before .... (https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/lifestyle/familys-easter-marred-by-accidental-purchase-of-xenomorph-eggs-20190419184835)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 May, 2019, 08:11:48 AM
Last night my 12 year old took me to task for indoctrinating him in Christianity by engaging in what he calls "family traditions" like Easter and Christmas, and taking him to funerals and weddings etc.

As I have studiously avoided presenting *any* religion as anything other than a set of stories and practices that some people believe and take comfort in, tried to make him aware of all the various churches and mythologies, haven't baptised him, or sent him to a school with a religious patronage (not an easy task in Ireland, and involving a 1.5hr round trip every day for 8 years of primary school) and maintained that belief and non-belief were valid choices but choices nonetheless, I was a bit taken aback.

I've also never felt so proud.   :'(
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 May, 2019, 08:16:56 AM
Good man, TB, he didn't lick that off the stones.  Christmas for me is all the more special for its crazy pagan roots, and, for the same reason and to quote the Terminator, I still love Easter, baby.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 May, 2019, 08:21:28 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 01 May, 2019, 08:16:56 AM... to quote the Terminator, I still love Easter, baby.

Oh dear god.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 01 May, 2019, 08:24:55 AM
Jaysus - that is genius. I applaud you.

TB - They grow up so fast.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 May, 2019, 10:20:14 AM

JBC - thanks, now I have coffee all over my shirt.

Tordels - fab!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 May, 2019, 02:12:46 PM
TB - Time to break out the aluminium pole and prepare for the feats of strength.

JBC - That needs to go into a Hall of Fame for board posts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 May, 2019, 03:02:27 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 May, 2019, 02:12:46 PM
TB - Time to break out the aluminium pole and prepare for the feats of strength.

Happy Festivus one and all!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 May, 2019, 03:31:25 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 01 May, 2019, 08:24:55 AM
Jaysus - that is genius. I applaud you.

TB - They grow up so fast.

I'd love to claim credit but I got it from the Adam & Joe podcast..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 May, 2019, 07:27:14 PM
It's quite difficult to raise a child in a christian dominant country and have them be able to navigate the perilous path of passive indoctrination.  Or maybe it's easy: I guess time will tell.  At some point I just have to have faith (ha!) that she'll do a great job of thinking for herself.

The idea that there are two sides to the argument (God / no God) is already dangerous.  It suggests a 50/50 even logical split to either supposition (just as a starting point). 

My daughter was relieved when she figured out the [spoiler]Santa Claus[/spoiler] myth, because it then made sense why he hadn't been able to provide her with the [spoiler]present[/spoiler] she desired: which was for all her [spoiler]toys[/spoiler] to come to life.  She knew he could do magic as part of the myth, so it followed logically that he could provide the other miracle - unless the entire story was bogus.  Some great evidence based logic there.  Proud dad moment.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 May, 2019, 08:42:47 PM

Just the religion of government to overcome and then we'll be on a better path altogether...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 May, 2019, 09:44:29 PM
Oh ffs.  [Goes and hides under a mossy boulder.]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 13 May, 2019, 09:40:12 AM
I just had an annoying morning where my Bookmark Internet pages all disappeared. Both Microsoft and Google reset all my pages to default, and I had to sign in again with a misfiring '@' at key. You press SHIFT and the Number '2' since my English Language at been set to English US, so I blame the Yanks for it! Anyone back to normal now. Has anyone else suffered Microsoft update weirdness?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 10:02:07 AM

Not since I went over to Linux Mint. (https://linuxmint.com/)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 May, 2019, 02:42:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 10:02:07 AM

Not since I went over to Linux Mint. (https://linuxmint.com/)
What's wrong with BSD (https://www.freebsd.org/)?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 04:25:44 PM

Never tried it - any good?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 May, 2019, 04:55:54 PM
I love most flavours of BSD with Open and Free being my favourites. The advantage Linux has over BSD is hardware support. Linux generally has more up to date drivers and such. BSD though, is rock solid. Once it's working for you you can forget about it. It really comes down to personal preference.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 07:11:27 PM

Maybe I'll give it a try. I do love my Mint, though.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 26 May, 2019, 10:14:16 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/1vIuwHZ.png)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_(music_magazine) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_(music_magazine))


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 June, 2019, 05:10:36 AM
A story to stir the heart of Rees-Moggs up and down the (rural south-west) of our green and pleasant land:

Zack Pinsent is a young tailor who dresses like a Regency gentleman, every day. (https://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/48757020/the-brighton-tailor-whose-identity-became-his-business)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 June, 2019, 12:53:45 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 13 May, 2019, 02:42:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 10:02:07 AM

Not since I went over to Linux Mint. (https://linuxmint.com/)
What's wrong with BSD (https://www.freebsd.org/)?

Bondage, Submission, Domination?

Nothing, nothing at all as long as we're all consenting citz.
Why can threads never stay on track here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 June, 2019, 02:26:40 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 June, 2019, 12:53:45 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 13 May, 2019, 02:42:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 10:02:07 AM

Not since I went over to Linux Mint. (https://linuxmint.com/)
What's wrong with BSD (https://www.freebsd.org/)?

Bondage, Submission, Domination?

Nothing, nothing at all as long as we're all consenting citz.
Why can threads never stay on track here?
I always knew you liked it rough, 'Huff. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 26 June, 2019, 02:42:41 PM
Quote from: Frank on 26 May, 2019, 10:14:16 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/1vIuwHZ.png)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_(music_magazine) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_(music_magazine))

That wikipedia page has got something wrong. The Raw Power telly programme was launched at least a couple of years before 1993 and Simon Bisley and Alan Grant were on an episode talking about Judgement On Gotham among other things, (which is probably the point at which that cover got commissioned).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 June, 2019, 03:20:36 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 26 June, 2019, 02:26:40 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 June, 2019, 12:53:45 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 13 May, 2019, 02:42:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 13 May, 2019, 10:02:07 AM

Not since I went over to Linux Mint. (https://linuxmint.com/)
What's wrong with BSD (https://www.freebsd.org/)?

Bondage, Submission, Domination?

Nothing, nothing at all as long as we're all consenting citz.
Why can threads never stay on track here?
I always knew you liked it rough, 'Huff. :)

yes Ma'am.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 June, 2019, 09:32:11 AM

People criticise technology, but there's an entire generation of kids today who have never vandalised a bus shelter:

https://youtu.be/2Yz9EC1mzI4


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 30 June, 2019, 08:23:35 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/xn9evZ4.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/mQB9HJa.png?1)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 30 June, 2019, 09:11:19 PM
Quote from: Frank on 30 June, 2019, 08:23:35 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/xn9evZ4.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/mQB9HJa.png?1)

https://www.oorwullie.com/wullies/choose-life/ (https://www.oorwullie.com/wullies/choose-life/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 June, 2019, 11:28:34 PM
Love it, and the link! Was just reading Viz's The Broon Windsors earlier today. Laugh-out-loud stuff, especially Prince Wullie dressed exactly like Oor Wullie.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+broon+windsors&client=ms-android-xiaomi&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin06aXoJLjAhVRTcAKHcxgAYkQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=360&bih=560#imgrc=mqx8wQ2hYPmKNM (https://www.google.com/search?q=the+broon+windsors&client=ms-android-xiaomi&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin06aXoJLjAhVRTcAKHcxgAYkQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=360&bih=560#imgrc=mqx8wQ2hYPmKNM)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 July, 2019, 01:03:05 PM
the end of an era: Mad Magazine to cease publication of new material (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48865342).

I used to love Mad, but it's had a lot of reprints for a while - I bought one a year or two ago and it featured several strips from when I used to regularly read it in the 80s

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 July, 2019, 09:59:06 PM

If Rebellion refuse to provide fans with the themed rainwear and migraine-inducing fitted tees they demand, self-starting entrepreneurs will step in to fulfil their needs:


(https://i.imgur.com/CUMrA5P.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/F6m4TTS.png?2)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 July, 2019, 10:30:36 PM
Quote from: Frank on 05 July, 2019, 09:59:06 PM

If Rebellion refuse to provide fans with the themed rainwear and migraine-inducing fitted tees they demand, self-starting entrepreneurs will step in to fulfil their needs:


(https://i.imgur.com/CUMrA5P.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/F6m4TTS.png?2)




ooooh

I generally don't buy ripoff products on principal (and fear of a Rigellian Hotshot frrom TMO) but I really want that hoody!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 July, 2019, 10:35:48 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 05 July, 2019, 10:30:36 PM
I really want that hoody!

I'll level with you, Dan: not the reaction I was expecting.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 July, 2019, 11:11:32 PM
how come?

It's black
It's warm and water resistant (presumably)
and it's Dreddish enough to satisfy my geek, without actually walking around in a replica judge uniform (I mean, what kind of sadsack would do THAT?)

It would probably only be worn at comic-cons rather than every day, and would probably look 90% shitter in real life than it does in that photo, but I still want one
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 05 July, 2019, 11:23:45 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 05 July, 2019, 11:11:32 PM
I still want one

I'm not the cops, but I worry anyone supplying that site with their payment details can expect to see a few dozen withdrawals marked LAGOS on their next bank statement.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 July, 2019, 11:33:11 PM
ha, no intention of ordering that (wherever it's from), but if they ever made a reputable version....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 July, 2019, 11:31:57 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 05 July, 2019, 10:30:36 PM
Quote from: Frank on 05 July, 2019, 09:59:06 PM

If Rebellion refuse to provide fans with the themed rainwear and migraine-inducing fitted tees they demand, self-starting entrepreneurs will step in to fulfil their needs:


(https://i.imgur.com/CUMrA5P.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/F6m4TTS.png?2)




ooooh

I generally don't buy ripoff products on principal (and fear of a Rigellian Hotshot frrom TMO) but I really want that hoody!
Nah, we'd be able to see the face in that hoodie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 July, 2019, 10:54:55 PM
So of the Top 20 Bestsellers in my local Easons, no fewer than 5 are novels about Auschwitz. A quarter. WTactualF. And in at No. 12, Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules.

These are strange, strange days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 08 July, 2019, 11:48:13 PM
I'm assuming that Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules are something like this:

1. I'm far more intelligent than you.
2. There are only TWO genders!
3. The correct one to be is MALE!
4. The work that I've done invalidates your argument.
5. Females are weaker than males.
6. Females like being weaker than males.
7. Females like to be paid less than males.
10. Context is irrelevant: there is no male privilege.
11. If you allow the thing I dislike, it will lead to worse things.
12. I was working in base 8 all along, you fools!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 July, 2019, 11:57:14 PM
It hurts my heart to think that people who (a) can read and (b) buy books are buying Peterson in sufficient quantities for him to end up on a brick-and-mortar bestseller list.  Chalk another one up for the YouTube algorithm. 

Anyway, back to work on my debut novel, The Classic Liberal of Bergen-Belsen.   
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 09 July, 2019, 12:02:29 AM
Jordan Peterson doesn't even know how zebras work.

He does a bit about how zebras aren't camouflaged against their surroundings because they're black and white and not brown. According to him, what they're actually camouflaging themselves against is the rest of the herd.

Lions are colour blind.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 July, 2019, 12:31:10 AM
Is this the same guy that did that Get Out movie?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 July, 2019, 01:19:59 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 09 July, 2019, 12:31:10 AM
Is this the same guy that did that Get Out movie?

Taking you at face value, no:




Jordan Peterson:
right-wing misogynist transphobe
Jordan Peele:
critically acclaimed director
(https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/ito/files/field/image/jordanpetersonbanned.jpg)
 
(https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2019/02/14/14-jordan-peele.w700.h700.jpg)

(And I haven't done that amusing Private Eye thing where they swap the photos on purpose.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Fungus on 09 July, 2019, 11:45:49 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 09 July, 2019, 01:19:59 AM
that amusing Private Eye thing where they swap the photos on purpose

Thank you! It's all publications now, and I started to grin as I realised you hadn't. You subversive!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 July, 2019, 02:32:46 PM
I haven't read much of Peterson, but the little I have can pretty much be summed up thusly:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 July, 2019, 11:37:42 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/iNwBxaI.png)

Or "Man with enormous heid dominates game with devastating headers."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 July, 2019, 06:33:29 PM
I still think of 2000Ad's online presence as a recent development. Then I realise I've been a forum member for 18 sodding years.

(Including my former self, jayzus b. christ with spaces, if anyone is checking.)

I feel like Dredd in 50 Year Man.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 July, 2019, 07:37:53 PM

I'm still a newbie - only 11 years. But, damn, that's 11 years of fun and mayhem!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 July, 2019, 12:31:33 AM
It ain't the years, honey: it's the word-count.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Trout on 28 July, 2019, 12:12:11 AM
It's the quality, you fools.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 07 August, 2019, 06:34:59 PM
Have you ever noticed how it is always sunny in space?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 August, 2019, 07:00:57 PM

It's a bit overcast in the Mutara Nebula.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 August, 2019, 08:16:49 PM
The approach to Kessel looks a bit murky too.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2019, 10:54:32 AM
Watching The Terminator with the Boy last night, he was laughing himself silly at the idea of giant books of phone numbers lurking under every telephone. Then we told him about the Golden Pages. I don't think he believed us.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 08 August, 2019, 03:18:11 PM
If they don't appreciate the Terminator's effort to locate Sarah Connor, they'll never understand the sisyphean struggle of JR Hartley.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 August, 2019, 04:38:23 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 08 August, 2019, 03:18:11 PM
If they don't appreciate the Terminator's effort to locate Sarah Connor, they'll never understand the sisyphean struggle of JR Hartley.

😀
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2019, 11:16:18 AM
So ...  Amazon has paid $250m to the Tolkien estate, Warner Bros and HarperCollins for the rights to Lord of the Rings, with a reputed billion dollar budget to make it .... and won't be able to show anything that actually happens in the book!

I wonder if all the executives involved in greenlighting this were fully aware of this?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/09/amazons-new-lord-of-the-rings-cannot-use-much-of-tolkiens-plot (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/09/amazons-new-lord-of-the-rings-cannot-use-much-of-tolkiens-plot)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 August, 2019, 11:29:33 AM
It's a fiddly one - at one end you have Middle Earth before the Numenoreans came east, so entirely elves, dwarves and maybe some barbarians, at the other Elendil, Sauron and the Last Alliance, which everything is building up towards, but which equally everyone has already seen. And the spans of time are so vast, you'd really need to pick one. My guess would be the 3000s, so it'll all just be pure prequel nonsense, founding of this, birth of that, foreshadowing of the other.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2019, 12:37:01 PM
QuoteSpanning 3,441 years, the Second Age begins after the banishment of the dark lord Morgoth and ends with the first demise of Sauron, Morgoth's servant and the primary villain in The Lord of the Rings, at the hands of an alliance of elves and men...

....But you can add new characters and ask a lot of questions, like: What has Sauron done in the meantime? Where was he after Morgoth was defeated? Theoretically, Amazon can answer these questions by inventing the answers, since Tolkien did not describe it. But it must not contradict anything which Tolkien did say.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 August, 2019, 12:50:27 PM
If you went for something small, a doomed romance somewhere on the fringes of great events, it might be fun.  But I'd imagine we're looking at jumping straight into something along the lines of the Akallabeth as a prologue, and then Elendil's arrival in Middle Earth.

Think I'd have probably spent that $250M on scratch cards instead.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 August, 2019, 12:52:04 PM
I must admit to knowing very little about the world of Tolkien, but isn't The Silmarillian and The History of Middle-Earth kind of poor material to adapt? Isn't it just a truncated bible of all the stuff referenced throughout The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? All the really anal stuff that only the most deeply interested fans know about.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 August, 2019, 01:06:29 PM
This is certainly the case, it's a rather dry mythology-style outline for the origins and history of Tolkien's world, but it's also the skimpiest bones of lots of stories that could be told in more detail: for example, the War of the Ring takes up about half a dozen pages in my copy IIRC.  Mind you, the whole Second Age where this series is set doesn't take up more than half a chapter! 

When you think of the liberties Jackson had to take with the text to come up with his LotR films, the sequence that is already the most readily cinematic, it's hard to imagine how you'd navigate the Second Age without changing anything, unless you kept it small in the MERP fashion: and why pay a quarter of a billion if you don't get to play with the toys everyone remembers?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2019, 01:36:42 PM
Yeah, I reckon it's going to be the Elendil vs Sauron show, with as much foreshadowing as they can possibly manage squeezed in (forging of the rings, breaking of Narsil, basically anything mentioned in the LotR)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 August, 2019, 02:09:45 PM

Sauron's childhood, like Gotham with elves? :D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 August, 2019, 02:43:48 PM
Why not Wicker baskets.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2019, 03:34:51 PM
Bloody hell, they'll give anyone a page on imdb these days....

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5867930/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5867930/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 August, 2019, 10:00:43 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2019, 03:34:51 PM
Bloody hell, they'll give anyone a page on imdb these days....

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5867930/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5867930/)


:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 August, 2019, 10:03:32 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 August, 2019, 03:34:51 PM
Bloody hell, they'll give anyone a page on imdb these days....

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5867930/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5867930/)

Back in the days of the old IMDB boards, I'd have trolled the shit out of that page.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 August, 2019, 03:01:45 PM
"Smellin' of Troy". Did The Simpsons ever top that one?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 11 August, 2019, 05:16:01 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 10 August, 2019, 02:09:45 PM

Sauron's childhood, like Gotham with elves? :D


Shireville, with the last episode featuring the smalltown country boy finally making it to the big city and assuming a new identity as Isildur!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 11 August, 2019, 05:54:47 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/MhNCMDa.png?2)(https://i.imgur.com/1m09832.png?4)

Reader art from prog 550, by Gordon Klimes of Slough. The other piece of art on show that week was by Simon Fraser of Edinburgh:


(https://i.imgur.com/8eKUuIN.png)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 August, 2019, 09:01:21 PM
£10 in a third world nation like Slough goes a long way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 12 August, 2019, 01:27:51 PM
Blimey, Tharg's a bit harsh on that poor Welsh lad!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 August, 2019, 03:23:00 PM
What exactly is Tharg the Yuppie doing with his left hand?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 August, 2019, 02:55:58 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 August, 2019, 03:23:00 PM
What exactly is Tharg the Yuppie doing with his left hand?

what all Yuppies were  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 August, 2019, 07:34:57 PM
HP Lovecraft was on to something after all...https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/14/human-sized-penguin-fossil-discovered-in-new-zealand (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/14/human-sized-penguin-fossil-discovered-in-new-zealand)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 16 August, 2019, 10:10:44 AM
Whatever the old advert said, that's one Penguin I won't be pa-picking up any time soon!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 August, 2019, 10:12:47 AM
Quote from: paddykafka on 16 August, 2019, 10:10:44 AM
Whatever the old advert said, that's one Penguin I won't be pa-picking up any time soon!

If I saw it in a singles bar I'd probably have a shot.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 16 August, 2019, 12:33:54 PM
Well, it's a lovely big penguin... :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 August, 2019, 01:05:07 PM
Pingu's been hitting them 'roids.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 16 August, 2019, 02:14:15 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 16 August, 2019, 10:12:47 AM
Quote from: paddykafka on 16 August, 2019, 10:10:44 AM
Whatever the old advert said, that's one Penguin I won't be pa-picking up any time soon!

If I saw it in a singles bar I'd probably have a shot.

If I saw it in a singles bar my wife would have me shot!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 August, 2019, 09:01:12 AM
Roger, a cautionary tale on telling, not showing. (https://youtu.be/_-rNLqgBl1Y)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 August, 2019, 09:22:10 AM

Art Spiegelman (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/16/art-spiegelmans-marvel-essay-refused-publication-for-orange-skull-trump-dig) withdraws Marvel essay after being asked to remove comparison of Trump to the Red Skull.

Marvel disingenuously claimed it wants to remain apolitical, which, irrespective of which side of the Culture War you consider to be unbiased, seems a bit rich.

While Marvel comics and movies espouse the California version of liberalism, their CEO is an actual member of Trump's administration and a massive donor to his election and reelection campaigns.

So, whether you think Girl Thor is white genocide or you're triggered by Rocket Racoon, just boycott Marvel. You don't have to stop reading the comics or watching the movies - you can get them for free online. Just stop buying them.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 17 August, 2019, 12:41:51 PM
I almost felt sorry for this guy, until I read the last sentence. Yuck!

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 17 August, 2019, 12:45:21 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 August, 2019, 12:41:51 PM
I almost felt sorry for this guy, until I read the last sentence. Yuck!

He clearly should have called it the Lawrod.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 August, 2019, 02:09:41 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/cuwIsdk.png?2)

We all remember the heady days of July 2019. Couldn't move in here for all the other boarders; 1638, packed in like commuters on a subway car at 08:30.

Almost as many nerds online at the same time as joined during the entire Dredd3D boom of 2011-2012.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 August, 2019, 02:37:13 PM
I thought things seemed quieter than ten years ago. I hear whispers of FaceSpace (or was it MyBook) groups, but I never sold my soul to FaceSpace so I can only peer in through the rain-streaked floor to ceiling windows, hammering ineffectually at the sound proof glass as those within enjoy the caviar and vintage wine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 August, 2019, 02:38:04 PM
Shouldn't this species of data be presented on The Roger Godpleton Memorial "Thin Ice Awards" Thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 August, 2019, 02:42:47 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 August, 2019, 02:38:04 PM
Shouldn't this species of data be presented on The Roger Godpleton Memorial "Thin Ice Awards" Thread?

Everyone's afraid to click on that one lest The Algorithm takes note of their image preferences...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 18 August, 2019, 03:28:07 PM
Quote from: Frank on 18 August, 2019, 02:09:41 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/cuwIsdk.png?2)

Activity on the appallingly named Megaverse (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2000admegaverse) group shows two-thirds of all traffic is just blokes called Dave looking at a Cliff Robinson Dredd drawing and clicking on one of six predetermined emojis. The other third comment I REMEMBER BRIAN BOLLAND.

Presumably, a similar proportion of Daves look at stuff on this forum without bothering to share their thoughts on Arthur Ransom or Absolam. Turns out the forum really does need a LIKE button:

(https://i.imgur.com/vFHP4po.png?2)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 August, 2019, 03:34:16 PM
I don't have anything against the Facebook groups but there's a lot of passive aggressive drama alert types in them, which i'm waaaay over. That kind of negative engagement is exhausting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 18 August, 2019, 08:33:54 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 August, 2019, 03:23:00 PM
What exactly is Tharg the Yuppie doing with his left hand?


You'd have to ask Simon Fraser!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 18 August, 2019, 08:39:31 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 August, 2019, 12:41:51 PM
I almost felt sorry for this guy, until I read the last sentence. Yuck!

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz (https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz)


That link didn't work for me, just took me to the daily mash homepage.  This version did (with a timestamp):
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz-20190817188287 (https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz-20190817188287)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 18 August, 2019, 08:39:47 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 17 August, 2019, 12:45:21 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 August, 2019, 12:41:51 PM
I almost felt sorry for this guy, until I read the last sentence. Yuck!

He clearly should have called it the Lawrod.


Tell it to the Lawmaster!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 20 August, 2019, 12:29:26 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 18 August, 2019, 08:39:31 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 August, 2019, 12:41:51 PM
I almost felt sorry for this guy, until I read the last sentence. Yuck!

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz (https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz)


That link didn't work for me, just took me to the daily mash homepage.  This version did (with a timestamp):
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz-20190817188287 (https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/relationships/2000-ad-reader-ruins-date-by-saying-woman-looks-zarjaz-20190817188287)

Thanks for fixing that link for me, Sheridan.

The thought just occurred to me: Is Mr Booker a MEMBER of this forum? :P
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 August, 2019, 10:12:23 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 August, 2019, 02:38:04 PM
Shouldn't this species of data be presented on The Roger Godpleton Memorial "Thin Ice Awards" Thread?

Go on I DARE you!  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 20 August, 2019, 10:34:42 AM
Quote from: Frank on 18 August, 2019, 03:28:07 PM
Presumably, a similar proportion of Daves look at stuff on this forum without bothering to share their thoughts on Arthur Ransom or Absolam. Turns out the forum really does need a LIKE button:

I'm not Dave (and nor's my wife) but although I'm here pretty much each and every day of my life - however briefly - I rarely comment on threads any more. Bet there's a fair few who are similar.

Even though entries had been dwindling, I do think the shutting down of the art comps chased off a fair few of the last creative/arty types. The tumbleweeds became very noticeable for a while after that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 August, 2019, 12:19:25 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 August, 2019, 10:12:23 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 August, 2019, 02:38:04 PM
Shouldn't this species of data be presented on The Roger Godpleton Memorial "Thin Ice Awards" Thread?

Go on I DARE you!  :lol:

I'm not that brave!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 August, 2019, 02:27:23 PM

Today, the art of Burdising reaches new, hitherto unexplored heights, thanks to the novel addition of a third title


(https://i.imgur.com/zVYDgAY.jpg?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 August, 2019, 02:32:44 PM
Bravo!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 August, 2019, 02:39:49 PM
Quote from: Frank on 21 August, 2019, 02:27:23 PM

Today, the art of Burdising reaches new, hitherto unexplored heights, thanks to the novel addition of a third title


(https://i.imgur.com/zVYDgAY.jpg?1)

So was that you or a Commando Forces raid?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 August, 2019, 02:47:07 PM

It's an original.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 August, 2019, 03:20:17 PM
[Wednesday, 9:30AM, WHSmiths up the back arse of god knows where]

[Asset from here on known as the Burdis Bomb deployed at 9:45AM]

[9:50AM, Asset successfully decimates all competition, not a single copy of Photographers Monthly remains to be seen]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2019, 09:17:01 PM
10,000 posts ... but despite thinking for months that I should keep an eye out for the big 10k, I still missed it. Bah!

Only 693 to go and I push Paulvonscott out of the top 10.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 28 August, 2019, 09:52:54 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2019, 09:17:01 PM
10,000 posts ... but despite thinking for months that I should keep an eye out for the big 10k, I still missed it. Bah!

Only 693 to go and I push Paulvonscott out of the top 10.

(https://i.imgur.com/9Ge2ZYi.png?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2019, 10:47:54 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 August, 2019, 12:34:20 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2019, 09:17:01 PM
10,000 posts ... but despite thinking for months that I should keep an eye out for the big 10k, I still missed it. Bah!

Only 693 to go and I push Paulvonscott out of the top 10.

Congrats! Top ten? :think:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 29 August, 2019, 02:19:50 PM
If you click the "more stats" link at the bottom of the index page, it shows various stats, including the top 10 posters - you're currently at No 5 between Trout and Jim Campbell.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 August, 2019, 02:25:14 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 August, 2019, 02:19:50 PM
...between Trout and Jim Campbell.

-shudder-

Between the devilfish and the Great Big C.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 August, 2019, 02:39:20 PM

:D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 29 August, 2019, 03:16:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 August, 2019, 02:25:14 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 August, 2019, 02:19:50 PM
...between Trout and Jim Campbell.

-shudder-

Between the devilfish and the Great Big C.
*spurt* Tea. Everywhere.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 August, 2019, 03:55:33 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 August, 2019, 02:25:14 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 August, 2019, 02:19:50 PM
...between Trout and Jim Campbell.

-shudder-

Between the devilfish and the Great Big C.

:sick:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 August, 2019, 07:25:21 PM
Thats enough Freudian imagery for today lads, why can't any of you just stay on topic?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 August, 2019, 12:13:34 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41cI9Ar44FL._AC_SY400_.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 August, 2019, 09:35:20 AM
A hole with a nut inside?! What did I say about Freudian imagery?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 August, 2019, 02:20:35 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 30 August, 2019, 09:35:20 AM
A-hole with a nut inside?! What did I say about Freudian imagery?!
FTFY.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 30 August, 2019, 04:41:28 PM
What's got a hazelnut in every bite?

[spoiler]A squirrel's shite![/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 September, 2019, 12:50:16 PM
All together now ... awwwwwww! How cute is this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 September, 2019, 07:58:04 PM
There are now fully grown voting-age adults walking ariound who weren't even alive for 9/11.

That makes me feel old!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 September, 2019, 08:01:54 PM
Gives me a bit of hope, to be honest.

Although reflect that while it was 18 years ago, many of us here would have been born only around 25 years after WWII...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 13 September, 2019, 08:26:35 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/b5fCqXk.png?2)


Not entirely.


(https://i.imgur.com/90CSROe.png?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 September, 2019, 10:12:49 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 14 September, 2019, 12:34:52 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 September, 2019, 12:50:16 PM
All together now ... awwwwwww! How cute is this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140)

There was me thinking it was going to be a link to the wildlife photography article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49690173).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 14 September, 2019, 02:19:42 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 September, 2019, 12:50:16 PM
the 1977 film A New Hope

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140)

Never understood how fundamentalist jihadis are radicalised, until now.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 14 September, 2019, 04:27:08 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 14 September, 2019, 12:34:52 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 September, 2019, 12:50:16 PM
All together now ... awwwwwww! How cute is this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-49577140)

There was me thinking it was going to be a link to the wildlife photography article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49690173).

I was even more surprised that that did actually link to a wildlife photography article!   :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 21 September, 2019, 10:24:05 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/TyNmjhJ.png?1)


Don't mess too much with your hair face or by the time you're forty, it will look eighty-five*



* Interesting documentary (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszvtr) on nineties novelty song Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), which wasn't based on a speech given to students by Kurt Vonnegut, even though everyone is doomed to believe that forever
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2019, 02:29:42 PM
What's going to happen to bananas post Brexit?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 September, 2019, 02:45:20 PM
They will be renamed bendyBorisnanas and restricted to royal consumption only. (They'll need something to replace the Epstein Diversion...)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 October, 2019, 12:37:22 PM
I'm shocked by how many threads I manage to kill with my inane comments.... 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 October, 2019, 03:25:40 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 16 October, 2019, 12:37:22 PM
I'm shocked by how many threads I manage to kill with my inane comments....

Apologies for ruining the perfect capstone to this godawful thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 October, 2019, 04:25:10 PM
I see what you done there...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 October, 2019, 06:48:20 PM
In gaming news, Blizzard fail to recognize that they've modeled their logic on the totalitarian government of the novel 1984. The controversy (in case you missed it) is that they banned a competition player (Blitzchung) for saying a slogan about the Hong Kong situation. He said: "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time".

But Blizzard's response (https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23185888/regarding-last-weekend-s-hearthstone-grandmasters-tournament) is some of the finest double-think you could drum up. Try to get your head around it:

QuoteEvery Voice Matters, and we strongly encourage everyone in our community to share their viewpoints in the many places available to express themselves. However, the official broadcast needs to be about the tournament and to be a place where all are welcome.

I read this as "Because every voice matters, you must not make any statements." Or "Someone somewhere may be offended, so we can ban you for saying anything and then later say you broke the rules." Or "Your voice is important, but not here."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 October, 2019, 07:03:17 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 October, 2019, 06:48:20 PM
In gaming news, Blizzard fail to recognize that they've modeled their logic on the totalitarian government of the novel 1984. The controversy (in case you missed it) is that they banned a competition player (Blitzchung) for saying a slogan about the Hong Kong situation. He said: "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time".

But Blizzard's response (https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23185888/regarding-last-weekend-s-hearthstone-grandmasters-tournament) is some of the finest double-think you could drum up. Try to get your head around it:

QuoteEvery Voice Matters, and we strongly encourage everyone in our community to share their viewpoints in the many places available to express themselves. However, the official broadcast needs to be about the tournament and to be a place where all are welcome.

I read this as "Because every voice matters, you must not make any statements." Or "Someone somewhere may be offended, so we can ban you for saying anything and then later say you broke the rules." Or "Your voice is important, but not here."

The NBA are going through the same thing (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2019/10/07/basketball/nba/nba-faces-backlash-ceding-ground-china-pro-hong-kong-tweets/#.XairwehKhhE). There's just too much money in China to make pissing them off viable.

It's Xi Jinping's world; we just live in it.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 October, 2019, 07:32:18 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 October, 2019, 06:48:20 PMI read this as "Because every voice matters, you must not make any statements."

Which is not unreasonable - if they allow this, they must allow pro-china comments. Then pro-Trump and anti-Trump, then pretty soon you've got warring factions of people using the platform to shout about whatever issue they want to. Then the company has to start making judgements about which comments are acceptable and which aren't, and fending off accusations of polictical bias or censorship.

Better to say "look, it's a fucking game so leave your politics out of it, whatever they are"

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 October, 2019, 10:18:58 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 October, 2019, 07:32:18 PM
Better to say "look, it's a fucking game so leave your politics out of it, whatever they are"

That I can agree with (to an extent: there's a side argument about what defines a political statement), but then why do they also claim their All Capped mantra of "Every Voice Matters"?  It's very much them wanting to have their cake (of presenting themselves as open to people's opinions) and eat it (by heavily censuring and censoring people's opinions).

The side argument is an interesting one. If someone says "killing all the peaceful protesters in Tienanmen Square was state-sanctioned murder", is that a political statement? Or just a statement of fact?

Given the Chinese state's behavior towards its own populace (totalitarian rule, brainwashing and encamping of an entire region, disappearing people who disagree with the state), is it political to call for reform? Or is it just a request for your human rights to be upheld? Are human rights just politics?

Ah well ... maybe that's not what anyone wants to be thinking about as they play their garish card game.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 October, 2019, 10:07:15 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 17 October, 2019, 04:25:10 PM
I see what you done there...

You're off the hook 'Huff, they're on about Fortnite, basketball and China now!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 October, 2019, 01:51:03 PM
To the Politics thread with the lot of 'em. I'm all for freedom of expression, but there's a time and a place for threadjacking and the Threadjacking thread ain't it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 18 October, 2019, 02:56:22 PM
Whilst the Threadjacking thread may commonly be used only for threadjacking, I think its wrong to take any position on this.  After all, if we don't unquestioning allow all political opinions to be expressed everywhere, we can't allow any anywhere without some sort of value judgement, which could lose us shareholders
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 October, 2019, 03:56:52 PM
As you know, the realistic compromise for any two opposed viewpoints should be somewhere on the middle. So it follows that we should make the Threadjacking thread 50% deliberately distracting posts irrelevant to any ongoing discussion, and 50% completely on-topic, that is to say, deliberately distracting posts irrelevant to any ongoing discussion,

It's the only way to honour the wishes of Proudhuff, who spent literally seconds thinking abour the implications of creating this thread some years ago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 October, 2019, 04:29:16 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/54/3b/24543b238f88c408d31ac6ec0bd176c8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 18 October, 2019, 05:35:58 PM
We need to be a bit careful now, otherwise the moderators will have us for getting off-topic ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2019, 06:02:15 PM


What's good for excessive naval fluff? I've been hanging it in the trees so birds can use it in their nests, but they all seem to have perished.

It's a worry.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 October, 2019, 06:39:57 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2019, 06:02:15 PM
What's good for excessive naval fluff?

You reading Patrick O'Brian?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 18 October, 2019, 06:44:48 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 October, 2019, 06:39:57 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2019, 06:02:15 PM
What's good for excessive naval fluff?

You reading Patrick O'Brian?

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2019, 07:08:01 PM

Got a job de-fluffing old frigates.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 October, 2019, 09:02:01 PM
I read back some of the early pages of this thread.

I can't for the life of me what the "kicking an old man playing tennis" refers to.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 October, 2019, 11:31:58 AM
Your call is important to us, but not enough to employ more people, please call back at some really obscure time when our other customer isn't on the line, thank you your call is important to us.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 19 October, 2019, 02:07:58 PM
QuoteWhat's good for excessive naval fluff? I've been hanging it in the trees so birds can use it in their nests, but they all seem to have perished.

did you take it out first?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 October, 2019, 02:34:13 PM

Not since the prong snapped off my pitchfork.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 October, 2019, 02:49:21 PM
Your call is still important to us,  thank you, your call is important to us..
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 19 October, 2019, 08:28:05 PM
Quote from: Frank on 17 October, 2019, 07:03:17 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 17 October, 2019, 06:48:20 PM
In gaming news, Blizzard fail to recognize that they've modeled their logic on the totalitarian government of the novel 1984. The controversy (in case you missed it) is that they banned a competition player (Blitzchung) for saying a slogan about the Hong Kong situation. He said: "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time".

But Blizzard's response (https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23185888/regarding-last-weekend-s-hearthstone-grandmasters-tournament) is some of the finest double-think you could drum up. Try to get your head around it:

QuoteEvery Voice Matters, and we strongly encourage everyone in our community to share their viewpoints in the many places available to express themselves. However, the official broadcast needs to be about the tournament and to be a place where all are welcome.

I read this as "Because every voice matters, you must not make any statements." Or "Someone somewhere may be offended, so we can ban you for saying anything and then later say you broke the rules." Or "Your voice is important, but not here."

The NBA are going through the same thing (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2019/10/07/basketball/nba/nba-faces-backlash-ceding-ground-china-pro-hong-kong-tweets/#.XairwehKhhE). There's just too much money in China to make pissing them off viable.

It's Xi Jinping's world; we just live in it.

(https://i.imgur.com/VDSkxbJ.png?1)


(https://i.imgur.com/fQB7rtH.png?2)


A South Park episode which got the show banned in China has been screened on the streets of Hong Kong in protest.

The show's recent season 23 episode Band In China, which explores how Hollywood shapes its content to avoid offending Chinese government censors, led to South Park being completely removed from the Chinese internet.

Following attention around the episode, pictures have been shared on social media of Band In China being shown on a projector screen in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district. It's unclear who set up the screening.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are nearing what's likely to be a rich deal for the streaming rights to South Park.

Numerous companies are bidding for exclusive U.S. streaming rights to the full library, with sources confirming to The Hollywood Reporter the potential price tag of up to $500 million.

The eye-popping deal offers a considerable windfall for the show's creators, who had previously negotiated "points" in the series. Parker and Stone created South Park while in college together at the University of Colorado Boulder.  LINK (https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/banned-south-park-episode-screened-streets-hong-kong-protest-china-10895848/) & LINK (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/south-park-streaming-rights-may-fetch-up-500m-bidding-war-1248757)



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 12:13:14 PM
I'd forgotten all about South Park.  Time to start watching again.

In unrelated news (in the spirit of the thread title), does anyone remember when John Constantine became a down-and-out alcoholic vagrant?  Then, when he changed his mind, he went home again. To the apartment he had owned all along, but simply chose not to sleep in  in favour of doorways and concrete pipes.  When I was homeless a few years ago I slept on mates' sofas and spare rooms for a few months, but now I'm thinking maybe I own a flat sonewhere that I've forgotten all about.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 20 October, 2019, 01:08:20 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 12:13:14 PM
.... does anyone remember when John Constantine became a down-and-out alcoholic vagrant?  Then, when he changed his mind, he went home again. To the apartment he had owned all along, but simply chose not to sleep in  in favour of doorways and concrete pipes.  ....

This was part of the Ennis / Dillon run around about issue 60 to 80.  Just after Ennis and Will Simpson's run (which includes for me the all time classic Hellblazer episode in which he cons the devil to save a friend's soul).  He had the breakdown after the breakup with his then girlfriend after a particularly nasty piece of work.

I think Ennis got Constantine far better than any other writer.  He had the balance of complete and utter bar-steward / conman and flawed hero in search of redemption down pat.  Of course it did help that he had some of the best artists to grace the title on his run (Simpson and Dillon).  Plus he was far more nuanced in his approach than he was with Preacher (enjoyable in its own way but also a bit puerile in places).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 01:31:50 PM
Well, I'm not saying I didn't like Garth on Hellblazer.  And yeah, it holds up way better than Preacher in my opinion.  It's just that particular bit, his instant transformation from drunken bum back to streetwise wideboy, that made me scratch my chin a bit.

I only recently read the spinoff series about Kit's life in Belfast - quite brave of both him and Vertigo to do a comic on a minor supporting character without magic, mysticism, violence, sci fi or fantasy.  And it was great; sort of a female-fronted Irish Auf Weidersehn Pet / Rock and Chips vibe. Who would have thought the Americans would go for it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 October, 2019, 07:03:04 PM
Studying color theory I was surprised to learn how often blue and orange is used:

(https://s29588.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Movie_Posters_Orange_Blue_Featured.jpg.optimal.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 08:35:39 PM
Complementary colours, innit. I remember reading an article  (probably on Cracked) about the absolute tsunami of orange-and-teak films these days, and I haven't not been able to notice it since.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 20 October, 2019, 08:39:21 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 October, 2019, 07:03:04 PM
Studying color theory I was surprised to learn how often blue and orange is used:

Teal and Orange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nPaGYkQSs

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 20 October, 2019, 09:01:29 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 08:35:39 PM
Complementary colours, innit.

Truth, but that doesn't explain why we aren't inundated with green-red or yellow-purple Netflix thumbnails, too.

People reasonably point out that most box/poster art is going to feature the (Caucasian) faces of the stars, and orange is a close approximation to (Californian) flesh.

I'd add conservatism and herding. If a film tanks, nobody wants to be the guy who takes the blame for putting a cane toad (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/85/ac/3c/85ac3cda60adddaf6e4e98ec80cfc208.jpg) Dwayne Johnson against a lavender backdrop.


(https://i.imgur.com/7nbfnub.png?1)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 20 October, 2019, 09:28:27 PM
Quote from: Frank on 20 October, 2019, 09:01:29 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 08:35:39 PM
Complementary colours, innit.

People reasonably point out that most box/poster art is going to feature the (Caucasian) faces of the stars, and orange is a close approximation to (Californian) flesh.

It's not quite true, though. It's not colour changes but light that is the problem with different skintones. Similar colour adjustments can work for both caucasian and darker skin because most skin tones fall into the midtones of the tonal curve. This is why there's a single skin-tone-line on a Vector scope – all human skin tones fall on that line within a small range. Darker and lighter skin tones are nearly the same hue, the differences are mostly variations in level and saturation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArjLBRxudQs&t=2m47s



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 09:34:56 PM
Teal, not teak!  :-[  And me supposedly a painter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2019, 04:12:06 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 01:31:50 PM
Well, I'm not saying I didn't like Garth on Hellblazer.  And yeah, it holds up way better than Preacher in my opinion.  It's just that particular bit, his instant transformation from drunken bum back to streetwise wideboy, that made me scratch my chin a bit.

He spoke about this at the Lakes and how he grow to dislike Constantine as he was such a shit: 'here I'll do you a favour... and in return I'll wreck your life'  paraphrasing here
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 October, 2019, 04:26:41 PM
That's a solid take on John - how long can you keep chronicling a guy whose m.o. boils down to making new friends, using them and then getting them killed (worse again if you're family  - eternal damnation beckons). That final Milligan run where in short order he ruined (or ended) the lives of Phoebe, Epiphany and Gemma...  Ouch.   It's more depressing than writing vacation ideas for Jessica Fletcher!

(Not that I don't love Hellblazer - a complete re-read a few years ago was really satisfying,  barring a few wobbles).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 October, 2019, 04:42:07 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2019, 04:12:06 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2019, 01:31:50 PM
Well, I'm not saying I didn't like Garth on Hellblazer.  And yeah, it holds up way better than Preacher in my opinion.  It's just that particular bit, his instant transformation from drunken bum back to streetwise wideboy, that made me scratch my chin a bit.

He spoke about this at the Lakes and how he grow to dislike Constantine as he was such a shit: 'here I'll do you a favour... and in return I'll wreck your life'  paraphrasing here

Odd, though, that he seemed to view the boorish, self-important bully Jesse Custer as some kind of god amongst men.  At least John is supposed to be a wanker.

I suppose it's a bit like how baffled I was that Ayn Rand expected me to admire her misanthropic rapist and shit architect character Howard Roarke - one man's (or woman's) noble hero is another's overbearing pain in the arse.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 October, 2019, 04:52:08 PM
ChristJayzusB, there's threadjacking and then there's mentioning Ayn Rand!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 October, 2019, 05:14:12 PM
I'll mention Scojo in a minute if you're not careful.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 October, 2019, 05:18:40 PM

Roger Godpleton.

Now the Unholy Trinity is complete and the End Times are

Aaaaaaaaah!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2019, 05:20:45 PM
"When the gates of hell are open, You shall wander the sea of darkness."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 October, 2019, 05:35:57 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2019, 05:20:45 PM
"When the gates of hell are open, You shall wander the sea of darkness."

When your're MOM is open, you shall wander the sea of darkness.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2019, 05:37:01 PM
Eck Muttox, there I said it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 October, 2019, 05:43:08 PM
An enterprising young fellow, although his Twitter feed is somewhat... specialised.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2019, 05:52:11 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 October, 2019, 05:43:08 PM
An enterprising young fellow, although his Twitter feed is somewhat... specialised.

Bet he keeps the baby powder industry afloat...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 October, 2019, 07:17:45 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2019, 05:52:11 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 October, 2019, 05:43:08 PM
An enterprising young fellow, although his Twitter feed is somewhat... specialised.

Bet he keeps the baby powder industry afloat...

If I may quote the board name my younger self lumbered me with: Jayzus Christ. I shudder to think what that's about.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 October, 2019, 01:55:45 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/I2u32Q2.png)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 23 October, 2019, 02:43:43 PM
That's a bit off topic!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 October, 2019, 02:56:55 PM
What has salt got to do with a Beatles song?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 October, 2019, 04:05:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 October, 2019, 02:56:55 PM
What has salt got to do with a Beatles song?

Goes with Sgt Pepper.


I see what you did there
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 23 October, 2019, 04:07:02 PM
Quote from: Frank on 23 October, 2019, 04:05:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 October, 2019, 02:56:55 PM
What has salt got to do with a Beatles song?

Goes with Sgt Pepper.

... and Mr Mustard (https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/obscure-beatles-song-classic-abbey-20526933).


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 October, 2019, 04:26:19 PM

And a yellow submarine sandwich.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 October, 2019, 05:02:27 PM
Quote from: Frank on 23 October, 2019, 04:07:02 PM
Quote from: Frank on 23 October, 2019, 04:05:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 October, 2019, 02:56:55 PM
What has salt got to do with a Beatles song?

Goes with Sgt Pepper.

... and Mr Mustard (https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/obscure-beatles-song-classic-abbey-20526933).

He was from Elgin, which explains a lot
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 October, 2019, 04:32:45 PM
Is it safe to google Poogate yet? or would that bring back the Thin Ice Awards?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 October, 2019, 05:06:37 PM
Poohgate?

(https://i.imgur.com/O0OLEfT.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 08:37:33 AM
It's getting scary, Doctor Jones (https://youtube.com/watch?v=GD5qDnk2wVw).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 October, 2019, 01:43:34 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 08:37:33 AM
It's getting scary, Doctor Jones (https://youtube.com/watch?v=GD5qDnk2wVw).

Maybe Harrison Ford could be persuaded to Irishman the new Indy film he and Spielberg seem determined to make.

Thirty-year-old stuntman dives about the Amazon wearing a blue mask then Ford phones in his dialogue from a barging holiday in the Midlands.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 October, 2019, 02:04:00 PM
Rules for being a Landlord

1. Never take a call from a tenant.
2. Always return messages when tenant is not home.
3. Always doubt the veracity of a tenant's complaint. A flood is only a drop or two if at all.
4. Schedule all appointments/visits to tenant's home at most inconvenient times for tenant.
5. Complain to tenant that they aren't paying enough every time you do speak.
6. Delay all repairs. Indefinitely if possible.
7. Any repairs that must be done can be handled with grey tape and paint.
8. Cash rent cheques at least three days early.
9. Charge penalties and fees when cheques bounce.
10. Evict early. Evict often.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 02:42:48 PM
Quote from: Frank on 31 October, 2019, 01:43:34 PM
Maybe Harrison Ford could be persuaded to Irishman the new Indy film he and Spielberg seem determined to make.

They tend to end up with smoother versions of fatter, older faces, so if you know what young Indy Ford (or De niro) actually looked like 30/40 years ago, it's disconcerting. It worked better with Samuel Jackson (or unfamiliar faces), but as they say, black don't crack.

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bbcad0f2727be3646b9fee1/1569439679660-80LUCFG9M9YPDO0GEIDH/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kPRsOv5OdlpVlcyg34Vxp0YUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8N_N4V1vUb5AoIIIbLZhVYxCRW4BPu10St3TBAUQYVKcsdTD2X163_zjnK8DWW6jAlSDkqC5ML6t2sT5btUDk5rqUiRCHwHCRor-41Ocu-Vu/image-asset.jpeg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2019, 03:29:49 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 08:37:33 AM
It's getting scary, Doctor Jones (https://youtube.com/watch?v=GD5qDnk2wVw).

This is obviously very good fun, but tell problem for next is that 'Selleck' is still making use of Ford's expressions and body language, so despite the face fungus he still looks more like Harrison than Tom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2019, 03:39:36 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 October, 2019, 02:04:00 PM
Rules for being a Landlord

1. Never take a call from a tenant.
2. Always return messages when tenant is not home.
3. Always doubt the veracity of a tenant's complaint. A flood is only a drop or two if at all.
4. Schedule all appointments/visits to tenant's home at most inconvenient times for tenant.
5. Complain to tenant that they aren't paying enough every time you do speak.
6. Delay all repairs. Indefinitely if possible.
7. Any repairs that must be done can be handled with grey tape and paint.
8. Cash rent cheques at least three days early.
9. Charge penalties and fees when cheques bounce.
10. Evict early. Evict often.

You okay, vB?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 03:46:28 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2019, 03:29:49 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 08:37:33 AM
It's getting scary, Doctor Jones (https://youtube.com/watch?v=GD5qDnk2wVw).

This is obviously very good fun, but tell problem for next is that 'Selleck' is still making use of Ford's expressions and body language, so despite the face fungus he still looks more like Harrison than Tom.

I think Tordelbot has been deep-faked.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 October, 2019, 03:47:53 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2019, 03:39:36 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 October, 2019, 02:04:00 PM
Rules for being a Landlord

1. Never take a call from a tenant.
You okay, vB?
Yeah, just frustrated with my landlord.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 31 October, 2019, 04:18:49 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 03:46:28 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2019, 03:29:49 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 31 October, 2019, 08:37:33 AM
It's getting scary, Doctor Jones (https://youtube.com/watch?v=GD5qDnk2wVw).

This is obviously very good fun, but tell problem for next is that 'Selleck' is still making use of Ford's expressions and body language, so despite the face fungus he still looks more like Harrison than Tom.

I think Tordelbot has been deep-faked.

The Gardaí dredged a rohypnol laced cardigan from the Grand Canal earlier.
Worrying.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2019, 05:07:25 PM
Not worry [$addressee$], fat fingers lose battle with autocorrupt, [$username$] peak physical condition, ask me how. Still think Boris doing [$superlative$] job, Irexit next then please whole Union of Europe implode! Meghan Merkle to follow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2019, 06:31:35 PM
There's a surprising amount of nerd-pleasure in opening the front door to a really good homemade Demogorgon.

I also got to confide to Miles Morales that he was the best Spiderman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2019, 06:38:28 PM

But... what about Nicholas Hammond? Nicholas Hammond, dammit!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 31 October, 2019, 06:45:07 PM

Doubt Tharg could afford to get Neal Adams to draw Judge Dredd, but this guy (https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=549788) did:


(https://i.imgur.com/IWVWvyH.png)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 31 October, 2019, 09:05:19 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2019, 06:31:35 PM
There's a surprising amount of nerd-pleasure in opening the front door to a really good homemade Demogorgon.

I also got to confide to Miles Morales that he was the best Spiderman.

this made me smile ... https://imgur.com/gallery/i6M108Y (https://imgur.com/gallery/i6M108Y)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2019, 10:47:36 AM
So good!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 01 November, 2019, 11:59:19 AM
Found out last night that Catch bars are back on the market.
They taste like 1988 and refined sugar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2019, 01:02:01 PM
Good, aren't they? Strangest single item my kids brought home was a lonely somewhat-battered jaffa cake. Yum!  Also, despite repeated appeals folk are still dropping unwrapped peanuts and sesame bars into bags... nostalgia is one thing, but that can seriously screw up a kid's night. Both my kids' schools have been nut-free zones for a decade now, you'd think the message would have filtered in by now! Still, bloody great for me, shelling peanuts is the best kind of snacking.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 01 November, 2019, 01:32:53 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 01 November, 2019, 11:59:19 AM
Found out last night that Catch bars are back on the market.
They taste like 1988 and refined sugar.

They've been back about 5 years; either that or I've been eating very old-stock.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 02 November, 2019, 12:14:05 AM
I saw a headline on my home page today that rwad "John Krazinsky reveals secret of happy marriage to Emily Blunt"

I assume that would be waking up in the morning, realising you are married to Emily Blunt and then spending the rest of the day doing every fucking thing in your power to ensure that remains the status quo.

I know that's what I do with Mrs. Tips.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 November, 2019, 10:23:33 AM
I've never hear of either of them, but I have heard of Mrs Tips
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 November, 2019, 12:10:24 PM
I'm a bit shit at celebrities too, but I know John Krasinsky is Jim off of the American Office, and the lad off A Quiet Place.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 November, 2019, 02:35:13 PM
I suspect Tips has a calendar of Emily up his loft...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 02 November, 2019, 06:44:57 PM
No, we don't do that anymore. It's a Zelda Breath Of The Wild calendar.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 November, 2019, 06:52:11 PM
I bet it's the Zelda version, not the Link one. Those damn SJW's haven't driven all the badness out of our Tips, I know it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 November, 2019, 11:28:45 AM
Today marks the 30th anniversary of me finally losing my virginity, as Prog 650's John Higgins Dredd watched aghast from the bedside table of a grungy attic room in Bournemouth. While the occasion wasn't particularly earth-shattering for either participant, we did improve over time. The prog however has seldom been bettered.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 November, 2019, 11:59:26 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2019, 11:28:45 AM
Today marks the 30th anniversary of me finally losing my virginity, as Prog 650's John Higgins Dredd watched aghast from the bedside table of a grungy attic room in Bournemouth. While the occasion wasn't particularly earth-shattering for either participant, we did improve over time. The prog however has seldom been bettered.

Behind a Higgins stony grim hides trauma most foul.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2019, 01:21:22 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2019, 11:28:45 AM
Today marks the 30th anniversary of me finally losing my virginity, as Prog 650's John Higgins Dredd watched aghast from the bedside table of a grungy attic room in Bournemouth. While the occasion wasn't particularly earth-shattering for either participant, we did improve over time.

I remember it well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium pup on 03 November, 2019, 01:24:16 PM
42
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2019, 01:32:00 PM
Quote from: strontium pup on 03 November, 2019, 01:24:16 PM
42

But what's the question?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 03 November, 2019, 01:51:33 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2019, 11:28:45 AM
Today marks the 30th anniversary of me finally losing my virginity, as Prog 650's John Higgins Dredd watched aghast from the bedside table of a grungy attic room in Bournemouth.

You've just ruined 'The Shooting Match' for me forever.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 November, 2019, 02:02:24 PM
Turns out I was fastest on the draw. Accuracy not so much.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 November, 2019, 02:45:22 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2019, 11:28:45 AM
Today marks the 30th anniversary of me finally losing my virginity, as Prog 650's John Higgins Dredd watched aghast from the bedside table of a grungy attic room in Bournemouth. While the occasion wasn't particularly earth-shattering for either participant, we did improve over time. The prog however has seldom been bettered.

that's not what is meant by Thread-jacking
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 05 November, 2019, 06:39:54 PM
The biscuit game.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2019, 12:55:03 PM
Its what the RAF is for!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 10 November, 2019, 07:30:38 PM

Commando's 50p per issue if you subscribe:  https://www.commandocomics.com/


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 November, 2019, 05:40:13 PM
Quote from: Frank on 10 November, 2019, 07:30:38 PM

Commando's 50p per issue if you subscribe:  https://www.commandocomics.com/

Ian Kennedy's Instagram account has some great Commando covers and a nice Dredd or two too
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 12 November, 2019, 02:30:08 PM
Quote from: Frank on 10 November, 2019, 07:30:38 PM

Commando's 50p per issue if you subscribe:  https://www.commandocomics.com/

Bloody hell, that's a great deal!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 November, 2019, 09:04:37 AM
When the Famous Five called each other 'fathead', my brother didn't recognise it as a compound word and used to pronounce the first part like the 'fath' in 'father', and the second like the 'ead' in 'bead'.

Nowadays, when I reread (usually Ennis) Dredd calling people 'meathead', I can't help myself pronouncing it in a similar fashion. It sounds ridiculous either way up - did Wagner Dredd ever call someone a meathead (or me-theed)?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2019, 10:37:32 AM

Hie thee to the I'm Sorry I haven't a Prog th' red and start anot her game, you thostel...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 15 November, 2019, 01:39:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 November, 2019, 09:04:37 AM
Nowadays, when I reread (usually Ennis) Dredd calling people 'meathead', I can't help myself pronouncing it in a similar fashion. It sounds ridiculous either way up - did Wagner Dredd ever call someone a meathead (or me-theed)?

Off the top of my head, there's this classic exchange with a vigilante:

(https://i.imgur.com/x5Z5jGw.jpg?1)

Dredd's response: Meathead! You're doin' thirty!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 November, 2019, 01:47:12 PM
Tobermory Tatties, with a free gift?   :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 November, 2019, 02:13:35 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 15 November, 2019, 01:39:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 November, 2019, 09:04:37 AM
Nowadays, when I reread (usually Ennis) Dredd calling people 'meathead', I can't help myself pronouncing it in a similar fashion. It sounds ridiculous either way up - did Wagner Dredd ever call someone a meathead (or me-theed)?

Off the top of my head, there's this classic exchange with a vigilante:

(https://i.imgur.com/x5Z5jGw.jpg?1)

Dredd's response: Meathead! You're doin' thirty!

Fair enough. I just hated Garth's Dredd dialogue - he seemed to take a few things Wagner Dredd said once or twice and repeat them ad nauseum - all 'swell', 'lousy', and 'doughball' till it just sounded weird.

Funnily enough, I thought he'd really improved on the dialogue front in Monkey on my Back and Helter Skelter. Say what you like about the stories but Dredd definitely sounded like Dredd.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 17 November, 2019, 12:19:30 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/fGnnVgW.png?2)


Courtesy of Charles Lippincott (https://www.facebook.com/298100334451387/photos/a.315018609426226/427769701484449/?type=3&theater)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 21 November, 2019, 07:46:31 PM
People can complain about fracking all they like, but have they considered that maybe those earthquakes are being caused by something else.  Angry gods for example.  Or stampeding buffallo.

I'm not saying its definately the gods and buffalloes, but we can't immediately discount them without proper evidence.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 November, 2019, 08:14:59 PM

I wonder if I might interest you in this wonderful angry god detector? Sure, it might look like an old biscuit tin filled with various bits of old wire but it works like a charm, honest.

They're two grand in the shops (I know, right?), but as I know you, you can have this one for fifty quid. Squaxx rates.

I don't need it myself anymore because the god under my shed has just gone off for a nap and won't be back for a century or three. It'd just be sat here gathering dust, so I'd rather it went to a good home where it's needed.

Okay, a tenner.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 November, 2019, 08:32:27 PM
I'll give you 5 3 quid.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 November, 2019, 09:03:11 PM

Six quid and a photograph of 75p.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 22 November, 2019, 06:26:47 AM
75p and a photo of a sick squid?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2019, 08:20:41 AM

A fiver and a jar of fin polish.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 November, 2019, 01:58:15 PM
Perusing different specs on Fitbit / Smart watches online there for a Christmas present.

We're not too far away from Pip-Boys, are we?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 22 November, 2019, 02:04:51 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 November, 2019, 01:58:15 PM
We're not too far away from Pip-Boys, are we?

I look forward to freezing time with VATS mode.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2019, 02:16:43 PM

My mate's mother wanted one because she heard that they recorded periods of rem sleep. So he bought her one and, a couple of days later, she rang him up to ask if he knew how to plug it into the telly so she could watch her dreams.

I think it's living in a drawer, now.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 November, 2019, 02:35:50 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2019, 02:16:43 PM

I think it's living in a drawer, now.

I strongly anticipate that the recipient of this expensive present will lose any and all enthusiasm by mid-January.

C'est la vie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 November, 2019, 04:12:39 PM
When I got one, I didn't do any running but I wanked a half marathon.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2019, 04:20:12 PM

I'm not really interested in getting one myself. It might be another story, however, if they produce an Unfit-Bit.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 November, 2019, 04:48:22 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 22 November, 2019, 04:12:39 PM
... I wanked a half marathon.

Another printing of The Invisibles: Absolute Edition it is, so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Frank on 24 November, 2019, 07:31:33 PM

(https://i.imgur.com/17USG8Z.png?2)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 09:18:12 AM
Am I the only one who thinks the Cybertruck looks fuckin deadly?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 November, 2019, 10:42:37 AM
It looks like a early gaming design for a batcar...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 26 November, 2019, 10:57:01 AM
Mind blown by an article on the fifth, unknown, member of The Young Ones.

And creeped out by the photos.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 November, 2019, 11:03:35 AM
link?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 26 November, 2019, 11:08:06 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 26 November, 2019, 11:03:35 AM
link?

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2016/06/18/25118/eerie_riddle_of_the_young_ones_mysterious_fifth_flatmate
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 26 November, 2019, 11:51:21 AM
Flippi-neck!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 26 November, 2019, 11:54:53 AM
The Young Ones mashed up with the original, Japanese, The Ring.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 26 November, 2019, 01:08:17 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 09:18:12 AM
Am I the only one who thinks the Cybertruck looks fuckin deadly?

I mean it's hardly the first deadly Tesla (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-driver-killed-fire-doors-model-s-trial-elon-musk-a9169691.html). In fact, it's almost a company feature (https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-latest-autopilot-death-looks-like-prior-crash/).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 02:16:03 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 26 November, 2019, 01:08:17 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 09:18:12 AM
Am I the only one who thinks the Cybertruck looks fuckin deadly?

I mean it's hardly the first deadly Tesla (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-driver-killed-fire-doors-model-s-trial-elon-musk-a9169691.html). In fact, it's almost a company feature (https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-latest-autopilot-death-looks-like-prior-crash/).

I like those odds.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 November, 2019, 02:23:33 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 02:16:03 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 26 November, 2019, 01:08:17 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 09:18:12 AM
Am I the only one who thinks the Cybertruck looks fuckin deadly?

I mean it's hardly the first deadly Tesla (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-driver-killed-fire-doors-model-s-trial-elon-musk-a9169691.html). In fact, it's almost a company feature (https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-latest-autopilot-death-looks-like-prior-crash/).

I like those odds.

I think it looks hideous - like it's designed by a 12 year old armed only with a ruler
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 November, 2019, 02:28:42 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 November, 2019, 02:23:33 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 02:16:03 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 26 November, 2019, 01:08:17 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 26 November, 2019, 09:18:12 AM
Am I the only one who thinks the Cybertruck looks fuckin deadly?

I mean it's hardly the first deadly Tesla (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-driver-killed-fire-doors-model-s-trial-elon-musk-a9169691.html). In fact, it's almost a company feature (https://www.wired.com/story/teslas-latest-autopilot-death-looks-like-prior-crash/).

I like those odds.

I think it looks hideous - like it's designed by a 12 year old armed only with a ruler
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.kmp0SDijnSJcs9mbHnXApgEsDh%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 December, 2019, 12:12:08 AM
https://imgur.com/gallery/qa7Epq3 (https://imgur.com/gallery/qa7Epq3)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 December, 2019, 10:03:48 AM
I've just found this on Google.  I see what they've done.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ht1nqwbSFYM/T3hWrVGewZI/AAAAAAAABls/ASpU6_b2ARI/s1600/rogue-cooper.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2019, 08:46:31 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 01 December, 2019, 12:12:08 AM
https://imgur.com/gallery/qa7Epq3 (https://imgur.com/gallery/qa7Epq3)

Saw this in the comments, enjoyed:

Dredd / Princess Bride mash-up (https://i.imgur.com/ApZ4U6i.mp4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 03 January, 2020, 06:17:24 PM
If you were to write a one-off thrill in 2000 AD in the years 1982-1983 your first name had to be Alan:

Hot Item, prog 278, Alan Moore
Homer The Barbarian, prog 296, Alan Grant
The Pioneer, prog 302, Alan Hebden
What A Load Of Rubbish, prog 311, Alan Grant
Mr. Macabre: A Tharg Special Thriller, prog 314, Alan Grant
The Hyper-Histronic Headbang, prog 322, Alan Moore
The Lethal Laziness Of Lobella Loam, prog 323, Alan Moore
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 January, 2020, 02:12:25 AM
Little boy says to his dad: "Daddy, remind me again - why did you and mummy call my sister Teresa?
"well son," says dad, "Teresa is an anagram of Easter, and your mummy really, really loves Easter."
"oh yeah, thanks dad"
"no problem Alan."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 04 January, 2020, 11:21:32 AM
Of a similar vein:

A young Native American Indian boy asks his Dad "Father, how did you name your children?"

His father replies: "Well son, each time one of my children was born, I would look outside the tee-pee, and whatever I saw would determine my children's name. So that is why your brother is called Many-Buffallo and your sister is called White-Clouds-Drifting.

But why do you ask me this question Two-Dogs-Fucking?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 January, 2020, 07:50:07 PM
We've similar cases in recent years, but never more awful than this one: Something obnoxious and toxic, simmering away under the surface for years, suddenly springs to life. People inexplicably jump on board en masse, and this idea's popularity spreads to other countries, polarising once-harmonious communities. Eventually even the most innocuous social or even family gatherings become a tightrope-walk as divisions become massive schisms.

How has it become so popular? When did we let this phenomenon get out of control? Will the world ever return to relative normality? And above all, I'd like to apologise on behalf of my country.  Some day in the future it will be an imprisonable offence to deny Mrs Brown's Boys ever happened.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 January, 2020, 08:17:03 PM
Message boards, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 January, 2020, 10:13:20 PM
Sorry.  Sounded much funnier in my head.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 January, 2020, 10:56:59 PM
Ah: I was making a non-sequitur.

I will say, though, having done five seconds of thorough research, that I can't tell the difference between these two things:

(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p0139sck.jpg)

(http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/d/d0/Ray.jpg/250px-Ray.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 January, 2020, 11:12:51 PM
Ah, I see.  Was out last night with a friend who lives in Korea and comes home once every couple of years, so I'm a bit delicate and thus paranoid today. (Also had to look up 'non-sequitur'.)

Funnily enough I've spent this week rewatching clips of Extras on YouTube, including one that showed When the Whistle Blows in its entirety.  And yeah, now you mention it...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 24 January, 2020, 11:27:08 PM
heh, I've had many a drunken blurt on this thread (apologies if that one was composed over a canalside breakfast coffee)
:lol:
I remember Mrs Browns Boys before it was on TV - it was a touring show that came back with a new show every year and sold out the Manchester Opera House every time. The show gets huge ratings, so while it may not be to my taste, if it makes millions of people laugh, so it is by definition good comedy*.

Ricky Gervais on the other hand - he can be soooo funny, but also a nasty piece of work (cf Sellars, Cleese and many others.) I only watched one episode of that particular turd, but I paid money for Extras on DVD, go figure.

*though they should fire the hack responsible for that crappy animation  ;)

EDIT - was typing before you posted that last
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 January, 2020, 11:49:40 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 January, 2020, 11:27:08 PM
heh, I've had many a drunken blurt on this thread (apologies if that one was composed over a canalside breakfast coffee)
:lol:
I remember Mrs Browns Boys before it was on TV - it was a touring show that came back with a new show every year and sold out the Manchester Opera House every time. The show gets huge ratings, so while it may not be to my taste, if it makes millions of people laugh, so it is by definition good comedy*.

Ricky Gervais on the other hand - he can be soooo funny, but also a nasty piece of work (cf Sellars, Cleese and many others.) I only watched one episode of that particular turd, but I paid money for Extras on DVD, go figure.

*though they should fire the hack responsible for that crappy animation  ;)

EDIT - was typing before you posted that last

I think your memory is playing tricks on you, my friend - When the Whistle Blows never was a Ricky Gervais sitcom.  You're right about Gervais being a bit of a gobshite though, and about my being pissed  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 January, 2020, 01:44:42 AM
Ah, I thought it was a still from Derek, his misguided "genial-mentals" sitcom
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 02:17:15 AM

I have biscuits.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2020, 07:43:01 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 02:17:15 AM

I have biscuits.

Why do you always drag this thread into circular arguments about having biscuits versus not having biscuits?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2020, 09:04:30 AM
Bourbons aren't circular. Although I accept that other revolutionary biscuits are.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 11:34:14 AM

It's moot now anyway.

I ate them.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2020, 01:48:53 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 11:34:14 AM

It's moot now anyway.


I ate them.

Fascist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2020, 04:39:15 PM
Were they Jaffa Cakes?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2020, 05:38:29 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2020, 04:39:15 PM
Were they Jaffa Cakes?

Some variety of Chulac baked good, certainly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 January, 2020, 06:01:07 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2020, 04:39:15 PM
Were they Jaffa Cakes?

They're not actually biscuits. The clue is in the name.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 06:32:04 PM

McVitie's Victoria selection. The box had pictures of snowflakes on it.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2020, 07:07:21 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 06:32:04 PM

McVitie's Victoria selection. The box had pictures of snowflakes on it.

My portrait was on a box of biscuits?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 25 January, 2020, 07:24:34 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2020, 07:42:27 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 January, 2020, 06:01:07 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2020, 04:39:15 PM
Were they Jaffa Cakes?

They're not actually biscuits. The clue is in the name.

Whilst, legally-speaking (for purposes of VAT), you're correct: the debate around the issue produced an article on the BBC ("Cake or biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes excite philosophers" (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38985820)) that manages to wend it's way to linking the conundrum to a discussion on gender fluidity. But is it art?


Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2020, 07:07:21 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2020, 06:32:04 PM

McVitie's Victoria selection. The box had pictures of snowflakes on it.

My portrait was on a box of biscuits?

I now can't drink my tea for laughing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 26 January, 2020, 01:06:13 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 January, 2020, 05:38:29 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2020, 04:39:15 PM
Were they Jaffa Cakes?

Some variety of Chulac baked good, certainly.

Thought that was J'Far cakes?  No?

Or is that taking the pun too far?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 29 January, 2020, 11:59:28 PM
Just musing - do you remember 70s Dredd, how he was all action poses, dramatic exclamations of his own name and generally acting a bit up himself? I reckon he was having a mid-life crisis.

Twenty years as a ramrod stickler, he hits his forties and goes off the rails. He's already got the big fuck-off motorbike of course, and a new wardrobe or a younger girlfriend aren't really on the cards, so he watches a few holo-slugs, loses a ton of weight and starts acting like some action-vid star twenty years his junior. Why do you think they sent him to the moon for six months, it was just getting embarrassing! Near death in the Cursed Earth, followed by Cal and the Apocalypse War knocked the twattery out of him, returning him to the complex sober character we've come to know subsequently, and seen previously in various flashbacks.

Only explanation.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 January, 2020, 12:49:41 AM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 January, 2020, 06:16:25 AM
Early contender for Post of the Year right there. Off to amend the Dredd wiki...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 January, 2020, 03:12:44 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 January, 2020, 11:59:28 PM
Just musing - do you remember 70s Dredd, how he was all action poses, dramatic exclamations of his own name and generally acting a bit up himself? I reckon he was having a mid-life crisis.

Twenty years as a ramrod stickler, he hits his forties and goes off the rails. He's already got the big fuck-off motorbike of course, and a new wardrobe or a younger girlfriend aren't really on the cards, so he watches a few holo-slugs, loses a ton of weight and starts acting like some action-vid star twenty years his junior. Why do you think they sent him to the moon for six months, it was just getting embarrassing! Near death in the Cursed Earth, followed by Cal and the Apocalypse War knocked the twattery out of him, returning him to the complex sober character we've come to know subsequently, and seen previously in various flashbacks.

Only explanation.

That explains the black horse.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 January, 2020, 03:21:18 PM
I can't believe Kazans clone was the Horse all along....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: strontium71 on 31 January, 2020, 09:56:54 AM
So...Brexit Day is here , just as a virulent plague is confirmed in the UK...
Wagner's prophetic sense strikes again!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gary James on 31 January, 2020, 10:18:42 AM
Quote from: strontium71 on 31 January, 2020, 09:56:54 AM
...just as a virulent plague is confirmed in the UK...

Simon Cowell or Piers Morgan?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 31 January, 2020, 11:26:09 AM
Quote from: strontium71 on 31 January, 2020, 09:56:54 AM
So...Brexit Day is here , just as a virulent plague is confirmed in the UK...
Wagner's prophetic sense strikes again!

John or Richard's?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 January, 2020, 01:58:04 PM
I wonder if it means anything that William Gibson is London today of all days?
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1223153095191994370 (https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1223153095191994370)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gary James on 31 January, 2020, 05:45:50 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 31 January, 2020, 01:58:04 PM
I wonder if it means anything that William Gibson is London today of all days?
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1223153095191994370 (https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1223153095191994370)

Is it okay to hate the fact that one of his tweets contains more literary value than anything I've done in the last year?  :-X

As for him being in Blighty... Pretty sure we're well past "warning signs of the apocalypse" by this point anyways.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 February, 2020, 03:13:45 PM
I've lost my train of thought. Have any of you seen it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 February, 2020, 03:41:37 PM
I think I saw it over there with my motivation and energy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 February, 2020, 07:35:48 PM
We have this sheet, on the farm. We call it "The Sheet," we even pronounce the capitalisation and bold font. We sometimes add italics and waggly finger tips to acknowledge impending eerieness. Because The Sheet isn't what it seems to be. The Sheet is purest evil.

Oh, it must have been magnificent when it was new. Tough, hard, shiny black plastic cut to precisely three metres by twelve metres, easy to fold in half to receive a load of wood chips or horse manure; I imagine how easily my spade would slide over it as I fill barrows of chippings for the woodland paths or barrows of horse shit for the Smelly Corner. How easy to scrape up those last bits, how easy to wash off, how easy to fold away.

But all that was long ago and The Sheet has long since revealed its true nature. It's more holes, now, than plastic, twisted and evil. Jagged, rent pennants flap from its once geometrically perfect sides, jagged holes pucker and gape, sucking at your hands and boots with bad tempered jaggedy edges. And it stinks, now, and it's always unpleasantly moist, and it has... things living in it. Things that disappear when light gets on them. It whips and it writhes and it whispers in the wind even, and especially, when it isn't windy.

It is like the four dimensional shadow of the ideal Platonic shape of a nightmare protruding into our world. But I fear it may be more even than that. I can't be certain (because I had to construct my instruments out of old baked bean tins and a hair dryer) but I think the farmer is deliberately feeding The Sheet. Nearly six per cent of every load simply vanishes between delivery and relocation. It's odd, because she's always so careful to keep the cats and dogs away from it and hates to go near it herself. We lost a chicken to it, one time, and all Hell let loose for a fortnight - The Sheet kept blowing loose and ending up in all sorts of weird places. I swear one night I saw it fighting with another sheet in the woods, whipped up by one of those storms that come screaming in at us from the Irish Sea, whipping and rending and biting - black jagged fury in a black jagged night.

This morning, I had to unfold The Sheet in preparation for a delivery of wood chips. It's easy to do - just be aware of your feet and under no circumstances gaze into one of the holes. I looked at it, lying there, the solid four dimensional shadow of the mouthparts of a superdimensional energy-sucking death worm, pinned down by the eldritch powers of six bricks and a traffic cone, and I thought...

Maybe I should do a blog about how the world is in danger from a massive attack of the sheets.

And then I thought...

Nah.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 February, 2020, 07:53:37 PM
Send it to Chibnall. It's as good a plot for Doctor Who as any he's done so far.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 05 February, 2020, 10:11:16 PM
Work that up into a Terror Tale, there. (Also: reminds me of Black Bag - the Faithful Border Bin Liner.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 February, 2020, 11:35:47 PM
KILL IT  BEFORE IT GROWS!
https://imgur.com/gallery/XeZdIsi (https://imgur.com/gallery/XeZdIsi)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 06 February, 2020, 10:58:56 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 February, 2020, 07:35:48 PM
We have this sheet, on the farm. We call it "The Sheet," we even pronounce the capitalisation and bold font. We sometimes add italics and waggly finger tips to acknowledge impending eerieness. Because The Sheet isn't what it seems to be. The Sheet is purest evil.

What can I say, Sharkie? Sheet happens.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 06 February, 2020, 11:21:53 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 February, 2020, 07:35:48 PM
We have this sheet, on the farm. We call it "The Sheet," we even pronounce the capitalisation and bold font. We sometimes add italics and waggly finger tips to acknowledge impending eerieness. Because The Sheet isn't what it seems to be. The Sheet is purest evil.

Oh, it must have been magnificent when it was new. Tough, hard, shiny black plastic cut to precisely three metres by twelve metres, easy to fold in half to receive a load of wood chips or horse manure; I imagine how easily my spade would slide over it as I fill barrows of chippings for the woodland paths or barrows of horse shit for the Smelly Corner. How easy to scrape up those last bits, how easy to wash off, how easy to fold away.

But all that was long ago and The Sheet has long since revealed its true nature. It's more holes, now, than plastic, twisted and evil. Jagged, rent pennants flap from its once geometrically perfect sides, jagged holes pucker and gape, sucking at your hands and boots with bad tempered jaggedy edges. And it stinks, now, and it's always unpleasantly moist, and it has... things living in it. Things that disappear when light gets on them. It whips and it writhes and it whispers in the wind even, and especially, when it isn't windy.

It is like the four dimensional shadow of the ideal Platonic shape of a nightmare protruding into our world. But I fear it may be more even than that. I can't be certain (because I had to construct my instruments out of old baked bean tins and a hair dryer) but I think the farmer is deliberately feeding The Sheet. Nearly six per cent of every load simply vanishes between delivery and relocation. It's odd, because she's always so careful to keep the cats and dogs away from it and hates to go near it herself. We lost a chicken to it, one time, and all Hell let loose for a fortnight - The Sheet kept blowing loose and ending up in all sorts of weird places. I swear one night I saw it fighting with another sheet in the woods, whipped up by one of those storms that come screaming in at us from the Irish Sea, whipping and rending and biting - black jagged fury in a black jagged night.

This morning, I had to unfold The Sheet in preparation for a delivery of wood chips. It's easy to do - just be aware of your feet and under no circumstances gaze into one of the holes. I looked at it, lying there, the solid four dimensional shadow of the mouthparts of a superdimensional energy-sucking death worm, pinned down by the eldritch powers of six bricks and a traffic cone, and I thought...

Maybe I should do a blog about how the world is in danger from a massive attack of the sheets.

And then I thought...

Nah.

I think PJ should draw this up. Folklore Thursday? How about a Thursday Shark Tale!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 06 February, 2020, 12:11:43 PM
Richmond vegetarian (might actually be vegan?) sausages are almost identical in taste and texture to the meat ones. I just had the most delicious sausage sandwich.

(https://www.veganlifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THIS-ONE-5057624225987-Render.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 February, 2020, 03:01:55 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 06 February, 2020, 12:11:43 PM
Richmond vegetarian (might actually be vegan?) sausages are almost identical in taste and texture to the meat ones. I just had the most delicious sausage sandwich.

(https://www.veganlifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THIS-ONE-5057624225987-Render.png)
Ah. Those are the ones with the grammatically incorrect bags. They were supposed to read Free-Meat sausages.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 February, 2020, 11:55:19 AM
You'd have to think that Winona Ryder has been almost uniquely badly served by popular music over the years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 09 February, 2020, 03:58:23 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 06 February, 2020, 12:11:43 PM
Richmond vegetarian (might actually be vegan?) sausages are almost identical in taste and texture to the meat ones. I just had the most delicious sausage sandwich.

(https://www.veganlifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THIS-ONE-5057624225987-Render.png)

I'm having a go at making my own seitan "steaks" for tea tonight. Actually easier than I thought. Using a Bosh recipe. Will let you know how they taste.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 February, 2020, 07:51:54 PM
I wonder if Richmond Clements is involved. I bet he is.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 February, 2020, 09:09:54 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 09 February, 2020, 03:58:23 PM
Using a Boosh recipe.

FTFY.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 February, 2020, 10:45:00 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 06 February, 2020, 03:01:55 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 06 February, 2020, 12:11:43 PM
Richmond vegetarian (might actually be vegan?) sausages are almost identical in taste and texture to the meat ones. I just had the most delicious sausage sandwich.

(https://www.veganlifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/THIS-ONE-5057624225987-Render.png)
Ah. Those are the ones with the grammatically incorrect bags. They were supposed to read Tree-Meat sausages.

Also ftfy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 February, 2020, 01:59:40 AM
This thread is making me hungry...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 February, 2020, 04:27:17 PM
Quote from: Rately on 06 February, 2020, 11:21:53 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 February, 2020, 07:35:48 PM
We have this sheet, on the farm. We call it "The Sheet," we even pronounce the capitalisation and bold font. We sometimes add italics and waggly finger tips to acknowledge impending eerieness. Because The Sheet isn't what it seems to be. The Sheet is purest evil.

Oh, it must have been magnificent when it was new. Tough, hard, shiny black plastic cut to precisely three metres by twelve metres, easy to fold in half to receive a load of wood chips or horse manure; I imagine how easily my spade would slide over it as I fill barrows of chippings for the woodland paths or barrows of horse shit for the Smelly Corner. How easy to scrape up those last bits, how easy to wash off, how easy to fold away.

But all that was long ago and The Sheet has long since revealed its true nature. It's more holes, now, than plastic, twisted and evil. Jagged, rent pennants flap from its once geometrically perfect sides, jagged holes pucker and gape, sucking at your hands and boots with bad tempered jaggedy edges. And it stinks, now, and it's always unpleasantly moist, and it has... things living in it. Things that disappear when light gets on them. It whips and it writhes and it whispers in the wind even, and especially, when it isn't windy.

It is like the four dimensional shadow of the ideal Platonic shape of a nightmare protruding into our world. But I fear it may be more even than that. I can't be certain (because I had to construct my instruments out of old baked bean tins and a hair dryer) but I think the farmer is deliberately feeding The Sheet. Nearly six per cent of every load simply vanishes between delivery and relocation. It's odd, because she's always so careful to keep the cats and dogs away from it and hates to go near it herself. We lost a chicken to it, one time, and all Hell let loose for a fortnight - The Sheet kept blowing loose and ending up in all sorts of weird places. I swear one night I saw it fighting with another sheet in the woods, whipped up by one of those storms that come screaming in at us from the Irish Sea, whipping and rending and biting - black jagged fury in a black jagged night.

This morning, I had to unfold The Sheet in preparation for a delivery of wood chips. It's easy to do - just be aware of your feet and under no circumstances gaze into one of the holes. I looked at it, lying there, the solid four dimensional shadow of the mouthparts of a superdimensional energy-sucking death worm, pinned down by the eldritch powers of six bricks and a traffic cone, and I thought...

Maybe I should do a blog about how the world is in danger from a massive attack of the sheets.

And then I thought...

Nah.

I think PJ should draw this up. Folklore Thursday? How about a Thursday Shark Tale!

THIS!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2020, 05:22:40 PM

Heh. If PJ fancies it, I'd humbly honoured and happy to work it up into a script for a 12 part graphic novel series...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 February, 2020, 03:04:40 PM
A limerick:

12 + 144 + 20 + 3√4  + (5 x 11) = 92 + 0
               7




Waddya mean you don't get it? It's clearly:

A dozen a gross and a score
plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
plus five times eleven
is nine squared and not a bit more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 12 February, 2020, 03:37:07 PM
There was a young lady named Alice
Who used dynamite sticks as a phallace
they found her vagina
in North Carolina
And bits of her tits down in Dallas



This is more my speed. :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 12 February, 2020, 04:13:17 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 12 February, 2020, 03:04:40 PM
A limerick:

12 + 144 + 20 + 3√4  + (5 x 11) = 92 + 0
               7




Waddya mean you don't get it? It's clearly:

A dozen a gross and a score
plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
plus five times eleven
is nine squared and not a bit more.
Consider this nicked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2020, 04:49:32 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 12 February, 2020, 03:37:07 PM
There was a young lady named Alice
Who used dynamite sticks as a phallace
they found her vagina
in North Carolina
And bits of her tits down in Dallas



This is more my speed. :lol:

Ha. I heard that on Radio 4, believe it or not.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 February, 2020, 06:15:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 12 February, 2020, 04:13:17 PM
Consider this nicked.

Steal away, I nicked it off Imgur!

I only signed up to Imgur after Photobucket got arsey about free links, and now I'm fucking addicted to short videos of cats and dogs being cute, kids and drunken idiots hurting themselves, and endless pop culture memes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 February, 2020, 06:37:05 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 12 February, 2020, 04:13:17 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 12 February, 2020, 03:04:40 PM
A limerick:

12 + 144 + 20 + 3√4  + (5 x 11) = 92 + 0
               7




Waddya mean you don't get it? It's clearly:

A dozen a gross and a score
plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
plus five times eleven
is nine squared and not a bit more.
Consider this nicked.

Fantastic!

One I remember from school:

There was a young lady from Bude
Who went for a swim in a lake.
A bloke in a punt
Stuck a pole up her nose,
And said 'You can't swim here, it's private'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 February, 2020, 06:53:46 PM
There are a few variations on this one:

There was a young man from Dundee
Got stung on the leg by a wasp
When asked does it hurt
He said 'Yes it does.
'I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet.


As discussed by Mark Forsyth in his fantastic article The language rules we Know, but don't know we know (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160908-the-language-rules-we-know-but-dont-know-we-know).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 12 February, 2020, 06:54:19 PM
There was a young man from Calcutta,
Who had the most terrible stutter,
He said 'pass the j jam
And the h h h ham
And the b b b b b b butter'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 February, 2020, 07:13:45 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2020, 04:49:32 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 12 February, 2020, 03:37:07 PM
There was a young lady named Alice
Who used dynamite sticks as a phallace
they found her vagina
in North Carolina
And bits of her tits down in Dallas



This is more my speed. :lol:

Ha. I heard that on Radio 4, believe it or not.

I heard it on The Crown. Harold Wilson was reporting to Lizzie that Princess Margaret had told it to LBJ. Popular rhyme!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2020, 08:13:02 PM

There was a young man from Bengal,
Who used to do tricks in the Hall,
His most famous trick,
Was to stand on his dick,
And spin 'round and 'round on one ball.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 February, 2020, 11:07:44 AM
So it turns out my brother works with Alistair Fruish, who is  very good friend of Alan Moore.  Yesterday I painted a mural in the prison where the brother and Fruish sometimes work.  My next plan is to wangle a meeting with the Great Beard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 February, 2020, 11:20:25 AM

Take a silver crucifix with you. And lots of garlic...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 February, 2020, 11:32:25 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 14 February, 2020, 11:20:25 AM

Take a silver crucifix with you. And lots of garlic...

...or even a shaver   :P.

My first prison job was very interesting - we were painting in a small room in the drug rehab section and I couldn't believe how they left sweating, shivering convicts unattended in the room with us.  They were fine though, one lad finding the strength to compliment our work. 

Walking around the wing it was amazing to see that many cell doors were open and inmates were wandering round chatting and joking with guards. Most of the prisoners knew my brother and I ended up having a few friendly chats in there.  I'd expected unrelenting grimness and ended up having a laugh.

But then, of course, I could leave at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gary James on 14 February, 2020, 09:18:48 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 February, 2020, 11:32:25 AM
My first prison job was very interesting - we were painting in a small room in the drug rehab section...
Rather apt that there's an Alan Moore connection then.  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 February, 2020, 02:00:29 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 February, 2020, 11:32:25 AMWalking around the wing it was amazing to see that many cell doors were open and inmates were wandering round chatting and joking with guards. Most of the prisoners knew my brother and I ended up having a few friendly chats in there.  I'd expected unrelenting grimness and ended up having a laugh.

But then, of course, I could leave at the end of the day.

I used to watch Porridge as a kid and think that prison was a brilliant lifestyle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 February, 2020, 06:48:09 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 February, 2020, 02:00:29 AM
I used to watch Porridge as a kid and think that prison was a brilliant lifestyle.

Whereas Porridge always terrified me as a nipper. The Barker voice-over in the credits, the dark grainy footage an the clanging.door... brrrr. I spent a lot of my secondary school years with the nagging feeling that I was in Slade.

Not that I didn't love the show (and still do), and badly wanted a mate like Fletch. He's one of the greatest, most rounded, characters in TV comedy.

But it is just possible that Porridge scared me straight (in the legal sense).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 February, 2020, 09:30:36 AM

I wanted to be Fletcher. The way nothing fazed him, and his ready wit, impressed young me no end.

As for Ronnie Barker, he's my comedy hero. It still amazes me that one man could present us with such disparate characters as Fletcher and Arkwight with virtually no overlap - and his monologues on the Two Ronnies were often sublime. I love that man.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 17 February, 2020, 12:49:16 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 12 February, 2020, 06:15:30 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 12 February, 2020, 04:13:17 PM
Consider this nicked.

Steal away, I nicked it off Imgur!

I only signed up to Imgur after Photobucket got arsey about free links, and now I'm fucking addicted to short videos of cats and dogs being cute, kids and drunken idiots hurting themselves, and endless pop culture memes.


Glad it's not just me.  I usually end up there after following an image link from this very forum, and end up trapped in a spiral of - well, you've just about covered it in your post.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 February, 2020, 03:54:17 PM
Oh yes, them derps, birbs, floofs and chonks are addictive!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 February, 2020, 04:37:05 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 February, 2020, 03:54:17 PM
Oh yes, them derps, birbs, floofs and chonks are addictive!

Every time I think I'm getting to grips with modern net-speak, this happens...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 February, 2020, 05:00:46 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 15 February, 2020, 09:30:36 AM
I wanted to be Fletcher. The way nothing fazed him, and his ready wit, impressed young me no end.

As for Ronnie Barker, he's my comedy hero. It still amazes me that one man could present us with such disparate characters as Fletcher and Arkwight with virtually no overlap - and his monologues on the Two Ronnies were often sublime. I love that man.

He couldn't take criticism, though. When the production team would suggest alternatives to his ideas, he would say very little but often take it out his anger later on those further down the pecking order, reducing more than one makeup girl to tears. Maybe that's the price of genius...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 February, 2020, 05:56:55 PM

I guess nobody's perfect :)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 26 February, 2020, 03:14:55 PM
I am the answer to the Ultimate Question!

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 February, 2020, 08:43:06 PM
Did you turn 42 today?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 February, 2020, 09:34:29 PM

Pfft. That whole 42 conversation is so eighteen months ago. The hip answer is, it depends. Or ~42ish.

The dolphins know all about it, or so I'm given to believe.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gary James on 27 February, 2020, 12:02:37 PM
How do you know you aren't the answer to a trick question?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 February, 2020, 12:09:19 PM

Baby, I ain't the answer to anybody's question.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 February, 2020, 01:35:39 PM
I dunno. If the question is 'who ate all the bloody biscuits?' I'd be inclined to look your way, Sharky.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 February, 2020, 02:41:48 PM

It's the dolphins.

All their biscuits are soggy.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 February, 2020, 03:08:25 PM
The dolphins went to Eton, then?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 27 February, 2020, 03:17:30 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 26 February, 2020, 08:43:06 PM
Did you turn 42 today?

I did indeed! Well done, sir. I'm now on the fast track towards CodgerVille.

Did somebody mention biscuits? I'll have a couple of Ginger nuts to go with me cuppa.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gary James on 27 February, 2020, 04:09:23 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 27 February, 2020, 03:17:30 PM
I'll have a couple of Ginger nuts to go with me cuppa.
The preferred term is redheads.








I couldn't not make the joke. Apologies to all redheads - death threats won't be necessary...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 February, 2020, 04:51:45 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 February, 2020, 03:08:25 PM
The dolphins went to Eton, then?

Podwarts.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 27 February, 2020, 06:57:07 PM
Or a similar school.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 February, 2020, 07:17:00 PM

It still doesn't excuse the state of their biscuits. If you live in the sea you need tupperware, or at least an air-tight biscuit tin. It's just a no brainer.

And people say dolphins are intelligent. Pfa. They can't even keep their biscuits dry.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 February, 2020, 07:31:32 PM
I bet they keep their biscuits soggy on porpoise.

*duck*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Gary James on 27 February, 2020, 08:24:38 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 February, 2020, 07:17:00 PM
And people say dolphins are intelligent.
Given that they are unable to keep out of tuna nets, I hardly think one is going to complete the Times crossword puzzle in the near future.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 01 March, 2020, 05:16:03 PM
So the government has announced the new Coronavirus Czar .....

Chris Grayling.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 01 March, 2020, 06:39:27 PM

I have a cold and everybody's looking at me weird.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 March, 2020, 06:42:09 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 01 March, 2020, 05:16:03 PM
So the government has announced the new Coronavirus Czar .....

Chris Grayling.

He must be blowing someone.*

*By which I mean, of course, blowing them kisses.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 05 March, 2020, 06:59:25 PM
I notice that the animal itself aint saying much. Might this be the "Silence of the LLama's"?

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/lifestyle/wedding/a-man-brought-a-llama-in-a-tuxedo-to-his-sisters-wedding-and-the-photo-of-her-unamused-expression-is-going-viral/ar

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 March, 2020, 10:16:51 AM
This might interest the lettering nerds here. You know Alphabetti Spaghetti? There's an official name for its font. It's Times New Ramen.

I regret nothing!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 15 March, 2020, 01:06:18 PM
Chortle!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 March, 2020, 01:28:55 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 13 March, 2020, 10:16:51 AM
I regret nothing!

This is what happens when there's no effective deterrent for this kind of outrage. We should bring back flogging, then you might have cause to reflect and regret your actions.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 March, 2020, 04:43:56 PM
When I open up the forums on Firefox it tells me I'm permanently banned for spamming.  My heart skipped a beat for a second - I really don't need to lose this little pocket of socialising when I'm in semi-isolation.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 March, 2020, 06:46:28 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 March, 2020, 04:43:56 PM
When I open up the forums on Firefox it tells me I'm permanently banned for spamming.  My heart skipped a beat for a second - I really don't need to lose this little pocket of socialising when I'm in semi-isolation.

Yeah it does the same thing when I visit here with my VPN on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 March, 2020, 06:30:38 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/lm185wc25an41.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f6565861b4ba744e210bba3517e37ff7071de899)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 March, 2020, 06:41:14 PM
(https://cached.offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/SUC/richedit/MAME.PNG)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 March, 2020, 06:42:24 PM
(https://thefunnybeaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/abbott-and-costello-corona-virus-meme.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 March, 2020, 07:01:56 PM
Tharg's Future Shocks and Tharg's Terror Tales both dropped the moniker to become just plain old Future Shocks (in 2000) and Terror Tales (in 2002), but Tharg's Time Twisters kept Tharg involved and never got purged.

Why the inconsistency? It's been diggling, sorry, niggling at me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 March, 2020, 01:30:34 PM
Sneek. No one will notice me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 March, 2020, 02:40:45 PM

Hi Doc - good to see you again.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 31 March, 2020, 03:13:05 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 31 March, 2020, 01:30:34 PM
Sneek. No one will notice me.

HI DOCTOR ALT 8! GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK AGAIN !!!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 March, 2020, 03:44:49 PM
What's up, doc?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 March, 2020, 04:23:33 PM
Woah, it only took the actual end of the world to bring the Doc back!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 April, 2020, 03:27:53 AM
 :lol: :lol: :lol:

You know the world is in REAL trouble if I am around....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 April, 2020, 09:13:26 AM
Well it's nice to have you back.

Did you ever whip that am-dram group into shape?  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 01 April, 2020, 08:30:49 PM

Nope. I left.

Well when i as an ELECTED official are told by the rest of the committee "You don't need to turn up to the committee meetings" WITHOUT explanation... Just because I am only the social secretary whos ideas for events are ignored by everybody and those same people refuse to tell me what they DO want me to organise...  Well I gave up. At least with this virus that'll be one summer show the won't be able to terrorize Beckenham with...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 April, 2020, 01:15:44 AM
This is quite cool - go to www.radio.garden/live  (http://www.radio.garden/live) and you'll see a map of the world with lots of green dots - every one is a radio station - just click on them to listen in to radio all over the world.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 10 April, 2020, 03:54:30 PM
The Catholic Church has made an official stance on the covid-19 pandemic.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthumbs.gfycat.com%2FWhisperedVacantChicken-size_restricted.gif&f=1&nofb=1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 April, 2020, 05:31:04 PM
Huzzah! It's my 6,666th post!

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/9d/75/5f9d751695ca807b51350c690026fa99.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 April, 2020, 05:55:39 PM

Congratulations, you little devil, you... :D

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 20 April, 2020, 03:03:18 PM
Congrats on your epic achievement Funt. On a slightly less happy note, somebody on Facebook was offering to do quick sketches of any 'fandom.' When I sent a Judge Dredd request, he admitted he had no idea who that character was, neither the film nor comic versions. Perhaps I should have asked for Sonic the Hedgehog instead.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2020, 01:13:33 AM
Does anyone ever look what guests are viewing on this forum (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?action=who;sort=time;show=all;start=0) and wonder what random google search prompted that click? There are currently 2 people viewing a two-post thread about a metal festival 14 years ago!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 April, 2020, 02:14:10 AM
Could it be bots?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2020, 02:27:58 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 26 April, 2020, 02:14:10 AM
Could it be bots?

Unlikely surely. why? Does Putin need to know that two long-departed 2000ad fans failed to instigate a discussion of Bloodstock '06?

I've done it myself - googled some random obscure topic and ended up on a forum discussion from 15 years ago that I really wish was current as I want to join in.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 April, 2020, 09:20:10 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 26 April, 2020, 02:27:58 AM
Does Putin need to know that two long-departed 2000ad fans failed to instigate a discussion of Bloodstock '06?

Hoping this is a teaser for that long-awaited sequel, John Cassavettes is Still Dead.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 26 April, 2020, 09:26:23 AM
You know the one thing I love about the Tooth shop?  They don't get things wrong very often but when they do they don't just own it but go the extra mile.  So I ordered the Sweeney Toddler volume for my nipper who really enjoyed the Cor / Buster special as well as the Tammy / Jinty one and has been nagging me for ages about more. 

It was part of a larger order but it was the only one missing.  Email later to see what the reason was.  Reply today to let me know that they were looking into it, up to their neck in orders at the moment so would appreciate a bit of patience (no problem there).  Oh, and by the way, have the digital edition on the house.

Now too often these days customer service is a bit of an oxymoron.  A lot of places would have just sent out a stock "look, we're busy right now, leave us alone ..." response if we're lucky.  Rebellion though?  Nope.  Got to do that little bit better ...

So, fair dues to them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 26 April, 2020, 10:21:14 AM
As a huge fan of cats - the wonderful creatures themselves, that is, NOT the movie or musicals - this brief reddit post brought a huge smile to my face. (I shortened the link address for convenience, so it will take just a couple of clicks to get to the item itself.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/g7sf5r/lockdown_is_hard_for_everyone/

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 April, 2020, 01:33:34 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 26 April, 2020, 10:21:14 AM
As a huge fan of cats - the wonderful creatures themselves, that is, NOT the movie or musicals - this brief reddit post brought a huge smile to my face. (I shortened the link address for convenience, so it will take just a couple of clicks to get to the item itself.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/g7sf5r/lockdown_is_hard_for_everyone/
He's quite right.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 April, 2020, 06:01:55 PM
Please watch, this video could save your life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGSz4L0-0M&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGSz4L0-0M&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 26 April, 2020, 08:18:37 PM
 :lol:

Love it. I'm sharing....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 04 May, 2020, 04:29:21 PM
As a voluntary "track and trace" app is made available, it's sort of cute the sudden appearance of social media conspiracy theorists, who seem entirely unaware that the government can track their phones already.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 08 May, 2020, 03:47:24 PM
I've been catching up on my 1979 comic reading with a little Tornado, which has this amazing, giant, collectible poster, center-spread series by Carlos Ezquerra:

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/scans/hires/tornado04.jpg)
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/scans/hires/tornado05.jpg)
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/scans/hires/tornado06.jpg)
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/scans/hires/tornado07.jpg)
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/scans/hires/tornado08.jpg)
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/scans/hires/tornado09.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 May, 2020, 04:11:58 PM
That's a thing of beauty.  I always thought it was amazing how what someone - possibly John Wagner - described as Carlos's 'sunbaked, Spanish style' could still perfectly render the most Northern European of subjects, like the Scotsman and the Viking there in their natural habitats.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 May, 2020, 04:23:39 PM
Suitable for framing is what comes to mind when I see that poster.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 May, 2020, 05:27:19 PM
If you ever enjoyed Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett, Stingray, et. al. then you need to check out Nebula-75 (https://www.filmedinsupermarionation.com/nebula-75). Filmed in Supermarionation and Superisolation.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 10 May, 2020, 05:01:04 PM
What kind of person thinks "stay alert" is a clear message? 

The same kind of person who thinks "Brexit means Brexit" explains everything. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 May, 2020, 06:43:51 PM
It's fucking evil genius is what it is. Everyone has their own idea of what it means, it's completely fact-proof ("But I was alert! I did control the virus! Prove that I didn't!"), and the Govt can blame and define the inevitable covid-traitors in any way they feel suits them.

Compare with "Stay at Home". Clear advice, easily assessed: did you follow it and stay at home, or not?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 10 May, 2020, 07:42:50 PM
As someone who writes instructions and explains things to people for a living, I have to say, that was a complete fucking shambles.

So there's an R number, and it has to be less than 1, but it's somewhere between 0.5 and 0.9, and we have a rating system that goes from level 5 to level 1, and that's at 4, and we'll work on getting it to 3 by trying to meet 5 tests so we stay below 1, and as the rating goes from 4 to 3 we'll move from stage 1 to stages 2 and 3.  At Stage 1 you should work at home of you can, but go to work if you can, unless your place of work is closed, and you shouldn't use public transport, unless you need to, and you can go out if you like becuase some things are open now, but don't go anywhere that there are other people because if you do you might be fined. At stage 2, when we're at Level 3, things will be diferent.  It's almost time to start quaranteen for people who arrive in the country by plane, but just planes, and just by getting them to stay at home,to save lives

"we're shining the light of science on an invisible foe".  This guy was an editor.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 May, 2020, 04:44:31 PM
Sometimes elements of 2000 AD sneak into the math questions I write. Here's one:

QuoteSlaine's sidekick, Ukko, is probably the least powerful warrior in the land.  In fact, he's not a warrior: he's a charlatan and a thief.  He has an 85% chance of talking his way out of trouble.  What are the chances that he can talk his way out trouble six times in a row, but then on the seventh occasion he's too clever for his own good (and so fails).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 May, 2020, 02:15:28 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 12 May, 2020, 04:44:31 PM
Sometimes elements of 2000 AD sneak into the math questions I write. Here's one:

QuoteSlaine's sidekick, Ukko, is probably the least powerful warrior in the land.  In fact, he's not a warrior: he's a charlatan and a thief.  He has an 85% chance of talking his way out of trouble.  What are the chances that he can talk his way out trouble six times in a row, but then on the seventh occasion he's too clever for his own good (and so fails).

Is it (0.85)^6 * 0.15 ~6%?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 May, 2020, 06:20:03 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 13 May, 2020, 02:15:28 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 12 May, 2020, 04:44:31 PM
Sometimes elements of 2000 AD sneak into the math questions I write. Here's one:

QuoteSlaine's sidekick, Ukko, is probably the least powerful warrior in the land.  In fact, he's not a warrior: he's a charlatan and a thief.  He has an 85% chance of talking his way out of trouble.  What are the chances that he can talk his way out trouble six times in a row, but then on the seventh occasion he's too clever for his own good (and so fails).

Is it (0.85)^6 * 0.15 ~6%?

Correct: so far you have scored 100%!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 May, 2020, 04:53:56 PM
Isolation and the internet has led me to start listening to a favourite of my parents', Steeleye Span. The same factors have led me to discover that their song Black Jack Davey ( played on the record player ad nauseum in my childhood) is actually, give or take some Chinese whispers, the same song as The Waterboys' Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o.  Bob Dylan also has a version, and they all sound completely different.

Now I really want to know how the original folk version sounded.  Obviously I'd prefer to go to the pub, but...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 May, 2020, 06:36:25 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 May, 2020, 04:53:56 PM
Isolation and the internet has led me to start listening to a favourite of my parents', Steeleye Span. The same factors have led me to discover that their song Black Jack Davey ( played on the record player ad nauseum in my childhood) is actually, give or take some Chinese whispers, the same song as The Waterboys' Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o.  Bob Dylan also has a version, and they all sound completely different.

Now I really want to know how the original folk version sounded.  Obviously I'd prefer to go to the pub, but...

There are many, many versions of this song, it's a folk standard, almost as ubiquitous as the soldier/sailor outside a girl''s window. This is the fantastic song Sick Old Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmK6Sd1XM4) by The Imagined Village (a kind of folk supergroup, vocals on this one are by Eliza Carthy) - it imagines the story of what happened to the neglectful husband whose wife ran away with the gypsies, a tale of bitterness and self-pity with a nice topical reference to Yarl's Wood.

Can't recommend Imagined Village enough - they do a modern updating of Tam Lyn with Benjamin Zephaniah, Paul Weller sings John Barleycorn, and there's more folk royalty involved than you can shake a stick at.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 May, 2020, 09:08:21 PM
Thanks for the recommendation! I always get a bit folk-y in May, and something to feed my Wicker-Man-addled imagination is always appreciated.

EDIT - just listened; it's good stuff.  I did kind of wonder what happened to the poor old aristocrat left to bring up a child on his own.  Wonder if any of this song's influenced seeped into Wuthering Heights at all - Heathcliff and Black Jack Davey seem like spiritual brothers at least.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 17 May, 2020, 10:30:00 PM
Thanks for sharing that DDD, awesome stuff  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 May, 2020, 09:24:41 PM
Here's a question: has the meaning of 'objective' changed recently?  Over and over I get told, generally rudely,  that people's unpleasant opinions about films, comics, music, and by extension their creators' deficiencies,  are not just valid but objectively true.

Is it really possible to assert objectivity about art and entertainment, the value of which is surely in the eye of the consumer, and thus subjective? I understand the notion of valid criticism,  certainly you can make observations about technical issues or structural shortcomings from a position of expertise, but can you really claim objectivity about the value of art?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 May, 2020, 01:54:33 AM
That's a tricky one without a concrete example. There may be some aspect of a piece of art that one could apply an objective truth to (such as breaking the fourth wall, or drawing outside the panel boundaries), but whether you find it enjoyable or not could not be an objective truth because, as you say, there's another word for that - and it's subjective.

Citizen Kane was technically innovative at the time of its release: we can point to the objective truth of that in its use of deep focus and wipes. Whether you enjoy watching it is another matter.

Perhaps people are abusing "objective" in the same way that "literally" is often used these days to mean "metaphorically". Whenever that happens my head literally explodes, which is subjectively impossible. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 22 May, 2020, 10:30:20 AM
So when Prof Bear says a film is "objectively good" or "objectively bad" I normally assume he is being funny with the use of the term. But now I'm not so sure...

Nah, he's having a laugh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 22 May, 2020, 11:55:20 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 May, 2020, 04:53:56 PM
Isolation and the internet has led me to start listening to a favourite of my parents', Steeleye Span.

That's me digging out the vinyl and putting on Old Masters then :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 May, 2020, 12:31:46 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 22 May, 2020, 10:30:20 AM
So when Prof Bear says a film is "objectively good" or "objectively bad" I normally assume he is being funny with the use of the term. But now I'm not so sure...

The Prof is obviously - objectively, even - the exception to all such considerations.  His observations have the status of FACT.  No-one could suffer through the kinds of media he consumes without his critical faculties being honed and purified in the white-hot flame of truth.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 May, 2020, 01:55:03 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 22 May, 2020, 11:55:20 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 May, 2020, 04:53:56 PM
Isolation and the internet has led me to start listening to a favourite of my parents', Steeleye Span.

That's me digging out the vinyl and putting on Old Masters then :)

My brother and I used to have a right old laugh about the lameness of lyrics like 'all around my hat, I will wear a bright blue ribbon'.  Now I find myself getting chills to the mix of ethereal folk and snarling rock guitar in gems like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NrHkf7rB34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NrHkf7rB34)

Also the one lyric that seems to unite all mutations of Black Jack Davy / Gypsy Davy / Raggle Taggle Gypsy / 7 Gypsies is the one about the runaway lady having boots made of 'Spanish leather'. They don't even share a tune or a title, but the origin of her footwear seems to be important.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 May, 2020, 03:31:22 AM
You know what we don't see enough of? Science fiction Folk music.

More Imagined Village (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ZgShUIfQc)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 23 May, 2020, 11:27:09 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 May, 2020, 12:31:46 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 22 May, 2020, 10:30:20 AM
So when Prof Bear says a film is "objectively good" or "objectively bad" I normally assume he is being funny with the use of the term. But now I'm not so sure...

The Prof is obviously - objectively, even - the exception to all such considerations.  His observations have the status of FACT.  No-one could suffer through the kinds of media he consumes without his critical faculties being honed and purified in the white-hot flame of truth.

Does this mean I have to reappraise Batman & Robin?

(https://i.imgur.com/2iJvdjs.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 May, 2020, 10:26:16 PM
After a gap of five years, I'm finally watching the second series of Gotham.  Five years ago, I wasn't too happy to see the [spoiler]Joker (if it is him) given a backstory[/spoiler], but now that sacred cow has been slain by [spoiler]Joaquin Phoenix[/spoiler], I have to say that Gotham guy is perfect for the role.  If they must keep making Batman films, I can think of worse people to be part of the franchise.  [spoiler]Jared Leto,[/spoiler] for example.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 May, 2020, 11:19:05 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 May, 2020, 10:26:16 PM
After a gap of five years, I'm finally watching the second series of Gotham.  Five years ago, I wasn't too happy to see the [spoiler]Joker (if it is him) given a backstory[/spoiler], but now that sacred cow has been slain by [spoiler]Joaquin Phoenix[/spoiler], I have to say that Gotham guy is perfect for the role.  If they must keep making Batman films, I can think of worse people to be part of the franchise.  [spoiler]Jared Leto,[/spoiler] for example.

[spoiler]Oh. It's not him.[/spoiler]  :-[
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 May, 2020, 08:37:36 PM
After weeks of isolation, I finally got some hair clippers and gave myself a haircut. What do you think of the results?

(https://deepdarkspace.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/screenshot-2020-05-31-at-3.34.14-pm.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 June, 2020, 04:54:30 PM
Just because you're wearing a facemask it is not an excuse not to brush your teeth.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 June, 2020, 12:10:17 AM
A low budget remake of Alien.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc7yp7fZWRY&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc7yp7fZWRY&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 June, 2020, 08:53:25 PM
I wonder if it's time the Trailers section of this board was put to rest.  Last time anyone posted there, Obama was still president.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 13 June, 2020, 11:13:57 AM
At the time of writing it is 11.12 AM on Saturday 13th and I've just had my Prog and Meg delivered. Not opening till Lunch but Thanks be to Grud for the first relatively normal thing that has happened this week.

#PraiseTharg!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 June, 2020, 10:42:06 PM
Are we not certain that Wullie/Frank isn't Scojo? I know they're low tier trolls both, but they both have the same tedious MO.

Oh, and the 2KAD Facebook groups still suck.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 June, 2020, 12:55:06 AM
Nah - Scojo was like Alec Trench turned up to 11.

Whilst you might not like Frank's persona, he doesn't come across as a frustrated creative writer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 June, 2020, 10:16:31 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 June, 2020, 12:55:06 AM
Whilst you might not like Frank's persona, he doesn't come across as a frustrated creative writer.

Frank comes across as many things, creative isn't one of them. Scojo had that at least.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 June, 2020, 10:49:04 AM
Its a little unsettling that he seems to spend as much time here as he ever did. But now unable to contribute (for reasons not of his choosing) he's 'reporting back' to the Megaverse. Which I'll say again is a great group when its not so obsessed with the forum!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 June, 2020, 11:07:41 AM
My primary axe to grin with the Megaverse and affiliated groups is the miserable, boomer 'Everything that isn't exactly as I remember it IS BOLLOCKS' rhetoric. There a are number of superb contributes, but never read the comments.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2020, 01:44:26 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 June, 2020, 11:07:41 AM
... the miserable, boomer 'Everything that isn't exactly as I remember it IS BOLLOCKS' rhetoric....

Ahem. That's Generation X to you, cheeky Millennial pup. It's the parents of the Facebook grumps that are boomers.

There's a lot of really terrific content on the Megaverse, and many estimable forumites past and present strutting their stuff, but the general attitude of deteriorationism is straight out of Hesiod, and I wonder whether a measurable proportion of the members wouldn't be happier if the comic had been cancelled 30 years ago. It certainly undercuts the efforts many people there make to celebrate and promote the Prog, but I suppose this is a consequence, like gibes at actual human creators that ignore that it is a public forum, of the wider more casual audience that is Facebook.

Frank is as Frank does, if he's a little bitter about the forum I can understand that when he contributed so much here (I know, I know, he pissed several people off too), but I mainly find amusement in the sensation that our little ant-farm doings are on a web-cam. Maybe we should look into teledildonics as a revenue model. *Noise of Tinkly Coins* Mmmmm, thrilling.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 June, 2020, 04:29:50 PM
I take a more sporadic-burst approach to the board, and missed a lot of the bits where Frank pissed people off.  I always got on well with him and he's helped me out with a few things through the old PM system.

I don't doubt for one minute that people's grievances with him were genuine, but I remember Scojo's toxic heyday and Scojo he ain't.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 June, 2020, 06:41:19 PM
I've browsed the Megaverse (sounds like something Galactus would say), because it gets mentioned here from time to time. I have opinions about it (which will probably be copied and pasted over there, because that happens), which I'll list, because lists are great and in a potential conflict situation they're a Fantastic Way of Getting Your Point Across Without Any Negative Consequences TM. Yup.

1. There are some interesting posts there that contain 2K-relevant creator-chatter that we don't see here. Those are interesting and valuable.

2. It's Facebook, and I don't understand how it works. Like a book with the contents page and the index ripped out, where the pages keep re-ordering themselves.

3. It's intimidating: dissent from the heightened reality they've created is quashed instantly by animated meme-zingers and disses that get uber-liked by the locals. Perhaps this is because they feel defensive or something. (I would never dare actually go on there and type this - because I don't like being attacked en masse by angry nerds.)

4. It's not really a place that can claim to support 2000 AD. I noticed one guy boasting that he read the comic for free by downloading it from somewhere, and nobody criticized him. So, that suggests the people there wish for the comic to fail. (Plus there's very little support for anything that Rebellion currently publish: most of it gets called out as rubbish before its even gone out. Trump would say "sad". See: he's not completely pointless, is he?)

5. As Sherlock is to real detective work, Megaverse is to a real conversation. Hyper-reality: don't expect normality. For example, a perfectly calm exchange between two Thargs on here got reported there as a terribly exciting conflict. Fake news!


Summary: interesting links, but a broiling undercurrent of hatred.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 June, 2020, 09:02:45 AM
pointerpointer.com (http://pointerpointer.com)

(doesn't work on mobile)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 09:35:19 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 June, 2020, 06:41:19 PM
I've browsed the Megaverse (sounds like something Galactus would say)

You sir are a certified comedy genius!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 15 June, 2020, 12:03:12 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 June, 2020, 06:41:19 PM
I've browsed the Megaverse (sounds like something Galactus would say), because it gets mentioned here from time to time. I have opinions about it (which will probably be copied and pasted over there, because that happens), ...

I have a feeling that this is going to get meta very quickly but on the strength of your remark I decided to take a chance and see what it was like.

Thirty seconds in and apparently the speculation is that Dredd is going to die?

Okay then.  Can see it is going to be an interesting experience.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 June, 2020, 12:36:57 PM
Wullie/Frank is now reporting that Tjm is reporting that Meagaverse Facebook is discussing that Julius Howe is reporting that Official 2000AD Facebook is speculating that Dredd will die.

:wave:

This brings me back to the days of the JBF War,  except as it's 2020 it's more of a civil war.  Fun,  though!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 01:18:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2020, 12:36:57 PM
... JBF War...

What was that? Sounds dramatic???
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 01:33:36 PM
Anyway I've left this comment about our comments in one of their comment sections. I leave it here for comment (and maybe to try to but the time space fandon continuium into some sort of perpetual comment loop)

QuoteCool your Megaverse is commenting on the Forum, the forum is commenting on the Megaverses commenting. You'll be commenting on the forums commenting on your commenting. Which will lead to much discussion on the Forum, that will be reflected upon here... and eventually the whole of 2000ad fandom will implode on itself, leaving only one lone avenger seeking revenge across all other fandoms screaming GODPLETON!

Mind at least we'll all agree Henry Flint should draw it...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 June, 2020, 02:04:38 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 01:18:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2020, 12:36:57 PM
... JBF War...

What was that? Sounds dramatic???

If I remember corrctly, it was when some of our agents went undercover to live amongst the denizens of the John Byrne Forum, initially pretending to join them in devotion to their frothing, boorish leader.  I can't quite remember how it went after their cover was blown.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 15 June, 2020, 02:12:37 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 June, 2020, 02:04:38 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 01:18:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2020, 12:36:57 PM
... JBF War...

What was that? Sounds dramatic???

If I remember corrctly, it was when some of our agents went undercover to live amongst the denizens of the John Byrne Forum, initially pretending to join them in devotion to their frothing, boorish leader.  I can't quite remember how it went after their cover was blown.

I remember browsing the John Byrne forums.

Very quick way to lose interest in a childhood favourite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 June, 2020, 07:07:14 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 01:33:36 PM
... and eventually the whole of 2000ad fandom will implode on itself, leaving only one lone avenger seeking revenge across all other fandoms screaming GODPLETON!

And in the distance, a Peterwolf howls ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 15 June, 2020, 07:09:37 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 June, 2020, 09:02:45 AM
pointerpointer.com (http://pointerpointer.com)

(doesn't work on mobile)

A work of genius. This what the internet was created for
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 07:50:12 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 June, 2020, 07:07:14 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 June, 2020, 01:33:36 PM
... and eventually the whole of 2000ad fandom will implode on itself, leaving only one lone avenger seeking revenge across all other fandoms screaming GODPLETON!

And in the distance, a Peterwolf howls ...

Ha! Whatever happened to...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 15 June, 2020, 08:12:33 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 June, 2020, 07:09:37 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 June, 2020, 09:02:45 AM
pointerpointer.com (http://pointerpointer.com)

(doesn't work on mobile)

A work of genius. This what the internet was created for

It works on my mobile. And is indeed genius.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 June, 2020, 08:35:20 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 15 June, 2020, 08:12:33 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 June, 2020, 07:09:37 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 15 June, 2020, 09:02:45 AM
pointerpointer.com (http://pointerpointer.com)

(doesn't work on mobile)

A work of genius. This what the internet was created for

Wife and daughter both squealing with delight at the genius of pointerpointer.

It works on my mobile. And is indeed genius.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 21 June, 2020, 06:19:15 PM
The last three comments on the thread below certainly gave me a much-needed laugh.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055724270&page=2



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 June, 2020, 06:50:19 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 21 June, 2020, 06:19:15 PM
The last three comments on the thread below certainly gave me a much-needed laugh.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055724270&page=2

:) Reminds me of the web site that had to rethink their URL when they first set up www.expertsexchange.com.  (It's since been altered to avoid confusion.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 June, 2020, 08:45:36 PM
Magnificent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 21 June, 2020, 09:49:55 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 June, 2020, 06:50:19 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 21 June, 2020, 06:19:15 PM
The last three comments on the thread below certainly gave me a much-needed laugh.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055724270&page=2

:) Reminds me of the web site that had to rethink their URL when they first set up www.expertsexchange.com.  (It's since been altered to avoid confusion.)

there was also one for locating psychotherapists in your area called findtherapist.com
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 June, 2020, 11:11:34 PM
Outstanding  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 24 June, 2020, 02:10:45 AM
I decided to share my 2000ad tat on imgur https://imgur.com/gallery/eAVDLzO (https://imgur.com/gallery/eAVDLzO)

I used to scoff at people who were hungry for internet likes, but after 50 views it had two upvotes and two downvotes. Who bothers to downvote something like that?* Visit and give me likes! Validate me! *sob*

and no rude comments - I'm looking at you, Wells.

EDIT - shit, it's at -1 now.

possibly a Trump voter who's screened my comments history
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 June, 2020, 05:49:00 AM
Why is Ro-Jaws' turd not brown? Is it supposed to be an "old white crumbly"?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 24 June, 2020, 03:06:43 PM
Now I can't unsee that t-shirt.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 June, 2020, 03:44:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 24 June, 2020, 03:06:43 PM
Now I can't unsee that t-shirt.

Its not the t-shirt that's the problem!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 24 June, 2020, 05:26:41 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 24 June, 2020, 03:06:43 PM
Now I can't unsee that t-shirt.

Whereas the rest of us can't see it ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 June, 2020, 11:50:39 AM
What happened everyone's Avatar????
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 25 June, 2020, 11:56:20 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 25 June, 2020, 11:50:39 AM
What happened everyone's Avatar????
Only those of us prepared to perform grotesque sexual acts with the forum gods were allowed to keep them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 June, 2020, 12:09:11 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 25 June, 2020, 11:56:20 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 25 June, 2020, 11:50:39 AM
What happened everyone's Avatar????
Only those of us prepared to perform grotesque sexual acts with the forum gods were allowed to keep them.

Observation of those who have retained their avatar would support this statement.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2020, 12:23:07 PM
Stop trying to shame us.  Avatar work is work.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 June, 2020, 01:22:11 PM
Christ, I would have done it for free, but if that's their attitude...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 25 June, 2020, 02:04:20 PM
Due to 'things' you need to reload icons.

I think that the notifications is off as well and the icons seem to come and go.

On the whole the forum is still working, but I think once things settle down it may need a little attention.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2020, 03:13:20 PM
What Bolt said! 

Those who are still unpersons, just go to Profle: Modify Profile: Forum Profile and upload an image from your desktop or wherever. Juggling with Wayback Machine snapshots may find one you've mislaid.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 June, 2020, 03:39:12 PM
I'm debating whether I should go back to my awful Stallone Dredd one.  Think I was only trying to find something worse than Godpleton's Chronos Carnival one at the time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 June, 2020, 03:54:07 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 June, 2020, 03:39:12 PM
I'm debating whether I should go back to my awful Stallone Dredd one.

It's how we all think of you now. Defiant, barely intelligible and absolutely ripped on steroids.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 26 June, 2020, 09:11:46 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 June, 2020, 03:54:07 PM
It's how we all think of you now. Defiant, barely intelligible and absolutely ripped on steroids.

In the nicest possible way :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 June, 2020, 09:40:52 AM
SHHHHLLORRRPPPPPPP
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 June, 2020, 02:52:04 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 June, 2020, 03:54:07 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 June, 2020, 03:39:12 PM
I'm debating whether I should go back to my awful Stallone Dredd one.

It's how we all think of you now. Defiant, barely intelligible and absolutely ripped on steroids.

My entire biography in a sentence  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 June, 2020, 03:13:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2020, 01:44:26 PM

Frank is as Frank does


Looks like I missed all this.

So Frank was permanently banned from the forum?
In 2019?
For posting a drawing of Pete Wells' knob?


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 29 June, 2020, 03:30:32 PM
It was a really big nob. As you'd expect.

Your Frank fix is available on Facebook.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 29 June, 2020, 03:54:38 PM
I think it was more the entire picture in context rather than the lovely Mr Wells lovely knob.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 29 June, 2020, 06:58:01 PM
"Of course, forum members all have lovely nobs."

How do you spell 'nob' anyway? It's not come up as often in my job as English teacher as you'd imagine.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 29 June, 2020, 07:00:31 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 29 June, 2020, 03:54:38 PM
I think it was more the entire picture in context rather than the lovely Mr Wells lovely knob.

:o

This is not a conversation you want to stumble over halfway through ....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 29 June, 2020, 07:27:29 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 29 June, 2020, 06:58:01 PM

How do you spell 'nob' anyway?


In regards to describing certain individuals I've always used 'Knob' and variations thereof. I think the the 'K' adds more weight to the word/insult and 'nob' might be misconstrued as Nobility, which in themselves could also be Knobs.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 29 June, 2020, 09:32:26 PM
I remember a book of nursery rhymes my family had in the 1980s which contained a line about Jack having his "nob" mended with vinegar and brown paper, "nob" apparently being a 17th century synonym for "head".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 30 June, 2020, 09:21:49 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 29 June, 2020, 03:30:32 PM
Your Frank fix is available on Facebook.

I often enjoyed Frank's postings on the forum, but if I've managed to avoid signing up to that shite this long, forsaking convenient global communication with friends & family, I don't think the nerdy wittering of a kilt wearing Steve Buscemi will entice me to join.

Salute, Francis.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 30 June, 2020, 11:35:17 AM
In other news the former Mayor has just ordered a copy of Zarjaz #37 to be delivered all the way to his abode in Oz.

Old boarders don't really leave - they just don't (or in some cases can't) log-in.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 June, 2020, 01:00:07 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 29 June, 2020, 09:32:26 PM
I remember a book of nursery rhymes my family had in the 1980s which contained a line about Jack having his "nob" mended with vinegar and brown paper, "nob" apparently being a 17th century synonym for "head".

Feck, I remember that now - the vinegar and brown paper bit anyway, not the nob bit. My mind used to boggle trying to picture them fixing someone's broken head that way, and indeed what a broken head looked like.

Quote from: Bolt-01 on 30 June, 2020, 11:35:17 AM
In other news the former Mayor has just ordered a copy of Zarjaz #37 to be delivered all the way to his abode in Oz.

Old boarders don't really leave - they just don't (or in some cases can't) log-in.

Bloody hell! I'd almost forgotten about the Mayor.  Maybe one day Hollywood rreally will cast Harry Styles as Sláine, and then we'll be laughing on the other side of our faces.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 30 June, 2020, 10:30:06 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 30 June, 2020, 01:00:07 PM
Feck, I remember that now - the vinegar and brown paper bit anyway, not the nob bit. My mind used to boggle trying to picture them fixing someone's broken head that way, and indeed what a broken head looked like.

Well, going back even further than the 80s... I have a very clear memory of falling into an inspection pit my dad had dug in floor of his garage when I was about two years old and bashing my head. After I'd been retrieved from said six foot deep hole in the ground, my mother informed me that she didn't have any vinegar so she'd just have to use margarine and brown paper instead.

I understood the reference but also understood that a nursery rhyme probably wasn't the best source of information when carrying out a medical procedure, and probably even less so when you're substituting ingredients. I thought she'd gone totally mental.

(Turns out butter, margarine and indeed some types of vinegar are supposed to help reduce swelling and bruising due to their potassium content.)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 June, 2020, 11:12:47 PM
Well, i never.  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 30 June, 2020, 11:40:18 PM
Actually, just checked and it seems I got that a bit wrong. It's the potassium in vinegar but the phosphate in butter/margarine.

Butter's the one most likely to help, (a knob of which is spelt with a 'k').
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 June, 2020, 11:44:21 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 29 June, 2020, 03:13:10 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2020, 01:44:26 PM

Frank is as Frank does


Looks like I missed all this.

So Frank was permanently banned from the forum?
In 2019?
For posting a drawing of Pete Wells' knob?

Well, it showed the aftermath of Tharg having been [spoiler]raped to death[/spoiler]. If you wanted a graphical definition of tasteless, gratuitous and deliberately offensive, it worked quite well. Or it answers well the question "what image would persuade any potential reader to never pick up a copy of any comic, ever".

The artist continues to appear baffled as to what exactly all the fuss was about, which seems either disingenuous or pathological.

It made me question the sanity of many that saw it and behaved as if it was somehow normal. If that's normal, then maybe I'm in the wrong fandom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 01 July, 2020, 12:31:10 PM
Submitted without comment. I mean...what can you possibly say? Have to admit. I was stumped...

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/pubs-reopening-ireland-locals-joke-18520573#source=push

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: MacabreMagpie on 01 July, 2020, 01:08:39 PM
I've always gone for spelling "knob" with the K as in doorknob, bedknob etc since I presumed the word "knob" - "a rounded lump or ball, especially at the end or on the surface of something" - is where the euphemism comes from?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 08 July, 2020, 05:51:54 PM
JK Rowling loves freedom of speech and she will sue anyone who says otherwise.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 08 July, 2020, 09:48:36 PM
Did she actually sue or threaten to sue someone?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 July, 2020, 10:20:56 PM
She's just gearing up for a run at high office now that her writing career is over.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 July, 2020, 11:17:31 PM
Spag-bol sarnie. Yea or nay?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 09 July, 2020, 11:45:03 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 July, 2020, 11:17:31 PM
Spag-bol sarnie. Yea or nay?

Spag bol on toast. Bit of cheese on top, stick it under the grill.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 July, 2020, 11:51:03 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 09 July, 2020, 11:17:31 PM
Spag-bol sarnie. Yea or nay?

AMATEURS!

Spag-bol on folded goodfellas pizza toastie
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 July, 2020, 11:42:40 PM
Where did all these fecking spambots come from?  They're dredging up threads from 20 years ago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 11 July, 2020, 08:34:52 AM

Quote from: tameragr4 on 11 July, 2020, 08:11:05 AM
Utter Hosreshit!

I don't like Spam! I'm not a big fan of Luncheon Meat either.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 11 July, 2020, 10:07:35 AM
Quote from: Modern Panther on 08 July, 2020, 05:51:54 PM
JK Rowling loves freedom of speech and she will sue anyone who says otherwise.
What was it this time?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 11 July, 2020, 10:23:37 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 10 July, 2020, 11:42:40 PM
Where did all these fecking spambots come from?  They're dredging up threads from 20 years ago.

Aye, because no-one in these parts would ever do that would they?

So if you're fixing your iPod do you use ordinary Cheddar or would you go for a nice bit of Brie to entice out the lodged headphone jack? ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 July, 2020, 02:28:03 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 11 July, 2020, 10:23:37 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 10 July, 2020, 11:42:40 PM
Where did all these fecking spambots come from?  They're dredging up threads from 20 years ago.

Aye, because no-one in these parts would ever do that would they?


I'm guilty myself, but to be fair to me I don't write in Cryllic when I do it. Uncle Vlad is watching us!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 July, 2020, 11:07:25 AM
Whats new on the forum lads?
Just back from an informative visit to Skolkovo.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 July, 2020, 06:11:00 PM
Like a scab I can't stop picking, and I know it's unhealthy for me and I've got to stop, but I keep going to the Megaverse FB page and being annoyed with what's there. It's a sense that 2000 AD fandom is kind of eating itself - like, it won't be happy until it's completely undermined and destroyed the thing that it exists because of. Like an out of control parasite.

They're obsessed with typos in the prog, voraciously truffling for them and then having a feeding frenzy when they find one. As if making a comic is so fucking easy and making the odd mistake a crime against some kind of saintly, perfect reader who never makes mistakes but is only ever the victim of other people's.

(https://i.imgur.com/DmCnWrO.png)


There's so much ill will and deep, festering wounds between things like the ECBT podcasts and creators that it's causing well-meaning contributors to lose out to an ongoing fan / creator feud that I only partly understand but where, clearly, peaceful solutions are not being sought. So, a recent article on podcasts was advertised and then pulled from downthetubes.net, due to the inclusion of the ECBT. If, like me, you're more interested in the comic than the fandom-diaspora then you might not know that ECBT stands for Everything Comes Back to 2000AD, who appear to be at war with other fans of and many employees of the thing that "everything comes back to".


If you're female, and you appear on the Megaverse, then you can guarantee (cast iron, 100%) that you'll be sexually objectified, and that it will not be challenged.

(https://i.imgur.com/sWjlQ2c.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ue39RUl.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/tIAkYYv.png)


I know, I know ... the solution is not to look. It's to find somewhere healthier to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 13 July, 2020, 06:33:56 PM
A typo...who gives a shit,who gives a fuck...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 July, 2020, 07:56:36 PM
Wuts er tipo?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 13 July, 2020, 08:01:44 PM
Makes me glad I have never been on Facebook.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 July, 2020, 08:23:07 PM
There's a certain type of 'fan' that baffles me, constantly spaffing on about how great 2000 AD was in the good old days, and how rubbish it is now. Despite having not actually read the comic in 15 years, they'll be convinced that Matt Smith is the ultimate evil, and that the comic is just days away from being rebranded WOKE AD. They'll gripe about Brink, and get all excited about Harry 20 On The High Rock.

It's just another extension of that weird aspect of the internet where people exist to be mean and negative, stomping about and shitting on things they profess to love, and claiming that everything would be wonderful if only they were in charge. God knows what we'd get if such people took over the Prog, but it'd probably make the Morrison/Millar takeover look like Watchmen by comparison.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 July, 2020, 09:09:11 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 13 July, 2020, 06:11:00 PM
So, a recent article on podcasts was advertised and then pulled from downthetubes.net, due to the inclusion of the ECBT. If, like me, you're more interested in the comic than the fandom-diaspora then you might not know that ECBT stands for Everything Comes Back to 2000AD, who appear to be at war with other fans of and many employees of the thing that "everything comes back to".

I was really curious about this one. Do we know why it was pulled - or if it was? There have been problems Downthetubes? I genuinely have no idea, it may well have been pulled but haven't seen any evidence that this is that case (not looked too hard). I did wonder of its just down and ECBT love that as it fits into their curious narrative of being so rebellous and anyone who like the comic, what Rebellion is doing with it etc etc are just sheep. Its such a weird stance... from what I understand of it. I might be misunderstanding but from the little I can gather this seems to be the attitude?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Leigh S on 13 July, 2020, 09:18:37 PM
ECBT2K baffles me  - I was an interested listener to begin with, more for Rich than the Mrs Browns Boys fellow who seemed very sure of his opinions and how right they all were.  Once Rich went, it became an intolerable downer to listen to.  I tried a podcast thing the other day and I presumed they were making some kind of sneery joke about affirmative action as their opening gambit, so that one didnt get far.  compare and contrast with Space Spinner or MCBC where they focus on the positive, and are happy to express their delight and disappointments n equal measure, annd I canp;t see who gets enjoyment listening to fellow "fans" pissing on the thing they still like enough to buy (if they aren't current readers, then the psychology boggles).

I can find a good chunk, perhaps more than I'd like, of current 2K to be personally underwhelming, and there is no harm in expressing that (God knows I'm not averse to pointing out why, for example, I have struggled with Rob Williams Dredds).  But to dedicate you efforts to a whole show that seems designed to undermine the thing it is about?  Curious behaviour!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: judgeurko on 14 July, 2020, 12:22:00 PM
Quote from: Leigh S on 13 July, 2020, 09:18:37 PM
ECBT2K baffles me  - I was an interested listener to begin with, more for Rich than the Mrs Browns Boys fellow who seemed very sure of his opinions and how right they all were.  Once Rich went, it became an intolerable downer to listen to.  I tried a podcast thing the other day and I presumed they were making some kind of sneery joke about affirmative action as their opening gambit, so that one didnt get far.  compare and contrast with Space Spinner or MCBC where they focus on the positive, and are happy to express their delight and disappointments n equal measure, annd I canp;t see who gets enjoyment listening to fellow "fans" pissing on the thing they still like enough to buy (if they aren't current readers, then the psychology boggles).

I can find a good chunk, perhaps more than I'd like, of current 2K to be personally underwhelming, and there is no harm in expressing that (God knows I'm not averse to pointing out why, for example, I have struggled with Rob Williams Dredds).  But to dedicate you efforts to a whole show that seems designed to undermine the thing it is about?  Curious behaviour!
Yep, I listened to a few but its just so mean-spirited. Same type of 'fan' as a lot of those Doctor Who fans who claim they are 'true fans'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 July, 2020, 01:08:02 PM
I thought I was the one of the few who couldn't handle ECBT2KAD. I listened to it in the very early days but after the initial novelty (people talking about 2000AD while I commute!!!) I rapidly gave up. During lockdown I found a few episodes while doing a long-overdue tidy of my offline backups and hit play on one - I lasted 5 minutes.  Space Spinner I have enjoyed, but I'm still in the early years (so many podcasts, so little etc).

I'm not going to comment much further on the Facebook groups, they are what they are, but I will say that in their general bustle and banter they remind me of how this place was over a dozen ago, which makes me a bit sad about how and to where the baton of online fandom has been passed. Unfortunately I don't think the Facebook groups have moved beyond that level of immaturity, that peculiarly modern type of targeted nastiness that masquerades as a knowing impishness, which for me overshadows the frequently solid reviewing, reporting and discussion (on the Megaverse in particular). Maybe this will change, as it did here, but I don't have the will to stick around around and see.

I'm pretty sure you could trawl the archives here and find a post from me that would easily match the most sexist or insensitive one you could find on Megaverse (please don't!), but I like to think I've grown a little as a person through the events of the intervening quarter of my life, or at the very least become aware that I'm posting in a public place where my words can have real impact on others, and not just raving drunkenly to myself in a corner. This isn't to suggest those were teenage indiscretions, much of it dates to my 30s, but still: watching the 2020 iterations of my younger self shitting on the comic while making 'I fucked your mother' jokes, nah, just too painful to revisit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 14 July, 2020, 03:00:55 PM
I've got to agree with the above.

The Facebook fan pages are never more than a post away from descending into a cesspit of misogyny and hate. Best avoided.

I don't know when ECBT2K was worth listening to, but it's been horrific whenever I have heard it. Really, really awful. I assume that they're some sort of weird social club, because god knows they're not interested in the prog or in providing an engaging listen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 July, 2020, 03:09:57 PM
I used to like ECBT a lot when Rich was around - his funny, laid-back attitude was a nice balance for Flint's ranty intensity. I listened to a lot of them when I was living in China, and they brightened up what was a very dark period in my life.

When Rich left, it started getting a bit odd - there were a few decent interviews and the like, but it seemed to become more deliberately obnoxious, and finally I just couldn't listen any more. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 15 July, 2020, 09:28:55 AM
The last ECBT I listened to (this would have been a few years ago), one of the contributors happily stated that they hadn't read the comic in years and had no intention of doing so. It was utterly baffling. Between that and the general level of obnoxiousness, I didn't listen to it for long.

There are plenty of good podcasts out there, and the standard is generally rising. Even something as niche as 2000AD has lots of good options now. Mega City Book Club, Space Spinner and the Thrillcast are all obvious and good quality alternatives.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 July, 2020, 10:04:48 AM
Mega City Book Club is reliably great - and I caught Eamonn's new Sandman pod (https://handfulofdustpodcast.blogspot.com/) last night, which he is making with his equally eloquent daughter Jenny.  I'm in a halfway pause in a Sandman re-read at the moment (the often-fatal point where I've run out of trades and have to re-excavate the floppies), so it's right on time for me.  The man is a marvel.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 15 July, 2020, 10:48:09 AM
I ended up buying them (again) in a Comixology sale for my re-read earlier this year, so I now have the original issues in the attic somewhere, well-thumbed paperbacks in a bookcase and a digital version. Neil Gaiman and DC have done pretty well out of me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 July, 2020, 12:54:36 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 July, 2020, 10:04:48 AM
I'm in a halfway pause in a Sandman re-read at the moment (the often-fatal point where I've run out of trades and have to re-excavate the floppies)

Can confirm I've also encountered the same dilemma.

I wonder if the introduction of the Vertigo banner increased floppy sales of Sandman.
I know a few fellow geeks who started reading it monthly with the 'Brief Lives' arc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 July, 2020, 01:03:18 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 July, 2020, 12:54:36 PM
I know a few fellow geeks who started reading it monthly with the 'Brief Lives' arc.

Precisely this in my case.

Although in my defence, I had been cadging reads of most of the earlier issues from friends as they came out in that informal exchange library that was my late teens/early 20s. I can clearly remember having Issue 1 pressed enthusiastically on me, but I was deep into late Moore Swamp Thing and early Delano Hellblazer and couldn't justify the extra spend.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 July, 2020, 01:11:40 PM
Sandman's finally being collected in OS HC as of this year. I've been working my way through my trades collection, replacing softbacks, and that's one of the few remaining series I really want to shift format for. (Others would be: Brink—on its way From Hachette; Fantagraphics-era Usagi Yojimbo; Lucifer; and Atomic Robo.)

EDIT: Deluxe Edition is the moniker. Volume 1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandman-Deluxe-Book-Neil-Gaiman/dp/1401299326/) is #1–16. Vol. 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandman-Deluxe-Book-Two/dp/1779508115/) will be #17–31 and a few other bits. That suggests there will be five in all, for a total outlay of about 200 quid. (Way cheaper and smaller than the Absolutes; but also more manageable than those monstrous omnibus editions.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 July, 2020, 01:18:19 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 July, 2020, 01:11:40 PM
Sandman's finally being collected in OS HC as of this year.

Good to know, it's definitely one series I would consider upgrading for.

I also have a constant, constant, battle with my spend-demon regarding the purchase of the over sized Sandman Gallery Edition.
So far sanity has won the struggle, but loses ground by the day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 July, 2020, 01:34:47 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 July, 2020, 10:04:48 AM
Mega City Book Club is reliably great - and I caught Eamonn's new Sandman pod (https://handfulofdustpodcast.blogspot.com/) last night, which he is making with his equally eloquent daughter Jenny.  I'm in a halfway pause in a Sandman re-read at the moment (the often-fatal point where I've run out of trades and have to re-excavate the floppies), so it's right on time for me.  The man is a marvel.

He really is; MCBC is always a joy to listen to.  Didn't know there was a new one out but I'll most certainly listen to it today.  Obviously nothing will ever top the Cradlegrave and Cinnabar episodes, but well, you can't improve on perfection  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 15 July, 2020, 01:51:48 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 July, 2020, 01:03:18 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 July, 2020, 12:54:36 PM
I know a few fellow geeks who started reading it monthly with the 'Brief Lives' arc.

Precisely this in my case.

Although in my defence, I had been cadging reads of most of the earlier issues from friends as they came out in that informal exchange library that was my late teens/early 20s. I can clearly remember having Issue 1 pressed enthusiastically on me, but I was deep into late Moore Swamp Thing and early Delano Hellblazer and couldn't justify the extra spend.

I started buying it at Brief Lives as well. I'd read some previously and enjoyed them, having been handed them by my English teacher. I was the only person in the class who would admit to reading comics and I think he wanted someone to talk about them with!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 15 July, 2020, 01:57:44 PM
My Sandman experience was the opposite.  Read and enjoyed the early arcs but fell away from it and comics in general.  Took me years to getting round to finish it off and now the Absolute Editions hold pride of place.  I know what folks say about the logistics of the tomes but they are beautiful books that highlight the artwork perfectly.  The Shakespeare Midsummer Nights Dream issue is a perfect example and one of my favourites of the series.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 July, 2020, 02:10:12 PM
Don't get me wrong: I'm tempted by the Absolutes. And we now have appropriate shelving. But they are expensive, and I'll be just as happy with the Deluxe editions. (Omnibus editions, however, I will never understand.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 July, 2020, 10:10:52 PM
I remember reading The High Cost of Living when I was about 16, and seriously fancying the upbeat teenage Goth even though she was only a drawing.  Also wondered what she was doing hanging round with that adolescent gobshite who clearly didn't deserve her.   But it was brilliant.  Just a beautiful little story, even though I had no prior experience and didn't even know who the Sandman was.  Plot, dialogue and artwork working together flawlessly.

Oddly I haven't revisited that world much; and am still fairly ignorant of a lot of Neil Gaiman's stuff.  I really must.  Any recommendations (apart from Eamonn and Jenny's, of course)?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 July, 2020, 10:24:44 PM
His (prose) North Mythology book is suitably mad. He's researched and rewritten some of the stories of that mythology. More a collection of short stories, it plays around with logic quite a lot and has inconsistencies (as you might imagine from the remnants of a largely spoken word mythos).

I *think* that's where I learned about the days of the week being mostly Norse in origin, but I might have that backwards. You know: Thursday::Thor's Day kind of thing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 16 July, 2020, 05:03:57 PM
(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/imagebucket/davepersonal/AlienInAHat.png)

I know we normally just mention Monkeys in hats, but this made me laugh. I just can't decide which is my favourite - currently it is 'B'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 16 July, 2020, 05:22:09 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 16 July, 2020, 05:03:57 PM
(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/imagebucket/davepersonal/AlienInAHat.png)

I know we normally just mention Monkeys in hats, but this made me laugh. I just can't decide which is my favourite - currently it is 'B'

It should be 'F' - a combination of 'B' and 'E' (á la Fink Angel and Ratty).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 July, 2020, 05:31:29 PM
Where have all the porn spambots suddenly cropped up from? Seems like every other day i'm reporting half a dozen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 16 July, 2020, 05:37:59 PM
Hawk, I wish I knew - it seemed to coincide with the reveal of the interactive Dredd experience. I'm fed-up of clicking 'remove' and always worry I'm going to harm an actual boarders post.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 16 July, 2020, 07:18:07 PM
Between the omnipresent spam and the deranged "discussion" on the politics thread, it feels like a bit of a madhouse here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 16 July, 2020, 08:31:39 PM
I know.  I mean, I get that politics right now has all the intellectual rigour of a nursery playground with only one tricycle but the one thing we've all been able to agree on is how f***** up everything is right now.  Clearly folks are lock-downed out and now channelling their inner Trump.  Looks like it may well be end of the road for the political thread.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 16 July, 2020, 09:31:42 PM
Since no one seems to be able to stay on topic, has anyone tried using the Netflix recommendation button? I'm afraid to since my missus likes to watch teen comedy films and true life crime stories. Since the account is in my name I dread to think what Netflix might dredge up.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 July, 2020, 09:40:54 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 16 July, 2020, 08:31:39 PM
I know.  I mean, I get that politics right now has all the intellectual rigour of a nursery playground with only one tricycle but the one thing we've all been able to agree on is how f***** up everything is right now.  Clearly folks are lock-downed out and now channelling their inner Trump.  Looks like it may well be end of the road for the political thread.

I hope not. I hate the freaking thread sometimes (right now for example) but it's the one I follow most closely.

Quote from: von Boom on 16 July, 2020, 09:31:42 PM
Since no one seems to be able to stay on topic, has anyone tried using the Netflix recommendation button? I'm afraid to since my missus likes to watch teen comedy films and true life crime stories. Since the account is in my name I dread to think what Netflix might dredge up.  ::)

If DR and Quinch was a TV series, it would be that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 July, 2020, 09:52:48 AM
Ritz Crackers: now with 70% less saturated fat.

Taste has dropped by a factor of, oh, lets say, 2/3.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 July, 2020, 10:23:38 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 15 July, 2020, 10:24:44 PM
His (prose) North Mythology book is suitably mad. He's researched and rewritten some of the stories of that mythology. More a collection of short stories, it plays around with logic quite a lot and has inconsistencies (as you might imagine from the remnants of a largely spoken word mythos).

I *think* that's where I learned about the days of the week being mostly Norse in origin, but I might have that backwards. You know: Thursday::Thor's Day kind of thing.

Hang on , now you mention it, I got the audiobook of it a couple of years ago, just as I was finishing up my stint as an extra on the Vikings series.  Listened to it during the mad snowfall of that year, which I thought was an appropriate atmosphere.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 July, 2020, 11:08:07 PM
I just saw an advert for a Love Island game app. The apocylpse must not be far off. I hope.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 July, 2020, 01:52:02 PM
I felt a serious sharp pain in my right thigh two minutes ago.  I emptied my pocket and found there was an AA battery in there, with a key, an earring and a drillbit, which were all touching each other and carrying the battery's current to produce increasing heat.
No more batteries in the pocket for me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 July, 2020, 01:54:25 PM
Same power supply as the T-800.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 23 July, 2020, 01:59:22 PM
Yet there's one battery that we keep in our pockets all the time - just don't pierce it, as this happening close to your nuts would be ... unfortunate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzvJnBF-V0g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzvJnBF-V0g)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 July, 2020, 02:10:04 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 23 July, 2020, 01:59:22 PM
Yet there's one battery that we keep in our pockets all the time - just don't pierce it, as this happening close to your nuts would be ... unfortunate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzvJnBF-V0g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzvJnBF-V0g)



Well, I wasn't expecting that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 27 July, 2020, 03:26:37 PM
An internet forum populated by weirdo middle aged nerds and no-ones mentioned the Pentagon's "Recovery of off-world vehicles" news topic from a few days ago??

Granted, it's genuinely difficult to determine authentic news sources these days, especially from across the pond, but this seemed to be more than a Legendary Shark anecdote, didn't it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 July, 2020, 07:06:05 PM
I'm suspicious of the timing...

Covid....BLM ... economy ...   OOH LOOK, ALIENS!!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 July, 2020, 09:33:24 AM
A conspiracy that the Pentagon is covering up the NON-existence of aliens. Strange times indeed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 28 July, 2020, 10:05:16 AM
Covering up the non-existence of Aliens?  Have you seen Trump's wife and kids?  Don't tell me they're not pod-people!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JamesC on 29 July, 2020, 08:28:32 AM
I've just been on my favourite Sexy Teen Photos forum and it's full of spam posts about Judge Dredd.
Bloody typical.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 July, 2020, 08:49:31 AM
Quote from: JamesC on 29 July, 2020, 08:28:32 AM
I've just been on my favourite Sexy Teen Photos forum and it's full of spam posts about Judge Dredd.
Bloody typical.

Its when they get really obcsure and post those 'hardcore action' panels from 'Angel' and 'Second City Blues' over at my favourite Kyrgyzstan Water Works site that I find it most annoying. The other Krgystan Water Works social media pages really seem to get off on it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 29 July, 2020, 10:01:34 AM
...sigh...

We're doing our best :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 29 July, 2020, 10:06:49 AM
On the other hand, I now have a contact for a piling rig in Novosibirsk. Which is handy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 29 July, 2020, 02:49:14 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 29 July, 2020, 08:28:32 AM
I've just been on my favourite Sexy Teen Photos forum and it's full of spam posts about Judge Dredd.
Bloody typical.

And at the other end of the age spectrum, my regular Granny Porn pages are being infiltrated by diabolical demons. In the name of all humanity, won't someone please think of the Grannies?!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 05:40:03 PM
Slap Kirk (https://www.slapkirk.com/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 31 July, 2020, 08:00:11 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 05:40:03 PM
Slap Kirk (https://www.slapkirk.com/)

That's ridiculous - a silly, pointless waste of time.

Thank you
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 July, 2020, 08:16:48 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 05:40:03 PM
Slap Kirk (https://www.slapkirk.com/)

:D Ridiculous fun. I assume you've managed to get it to red alert?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 31 July, 2020, 09:28:46 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 05:40:03 PM
Slap Kirk (https://www.slapkirk.com/)
You wouldn't have a link for a Slap Trump game perchance?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 11:01:07 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 31 July, 2020, 08:00:11 PM
That's ridiculous - a silly, pointless waste of time.

Thank you

Don't mention it. This kind of thing is what the internet is really meant for.

Quote from: Funt Solo on 31 July, 2020, 08:16:48 PM
:D Ridiculous fun. I assume you've managed to get it to red alert?

Of course, as a lifelong Trekkie I have developed deft wrist action.

Quote from: von Boom on 31 July, 2020, 09:28:46 PM
You wouldn't have a link for a Slap Trump game perchance?

I suspect Trump is the way he is because no one has ever given him the slappin' he richly deserves.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 August, 2020, 01:02:33 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 11:01:07 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 31 July, 2020, 08:16:48 PM
:D Ridiculous fun. I assume you've managed to get it to red alert?

Of course, as a lifelong Trekkie I have developed deft wrist action.

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 01 August, 2020, 01:15:05 AM
I got it to go red,but does more happen...?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 08 August, 2020, 01:22:40 AM
A convoluted google trail led me to this gem : https://youtu.be/xwPVk72GLfY (https://youtu.be/xwPVk72GLfY)

A 7 minute animated map of the British Isles showing who ruled which bits, every year from 43ce to 2016 - The 9th century was particularly fun
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 August, 2020, 03:21:33 AM
Harry Potter with guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7AoK_ksv_s&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7AoK_ksv_s&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 August, 2020, 03:45:16 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 July, 2020, 01:11:40 PM
EDIT: Deluxe Edition is the moniker. Volume 1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandman-Deluxe-Book-Neil-Gaiman/dp/1401299326/) is #1–16. Vol. 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandman-Deluxe-Book-Two/dp/1779508115/) will be #17–31 and a few other bits. That suggests there will be five in all, for a total outlay of about 200 quid. (Way cheaper and smaller than the Absolutes; but also more manageable than those monstrous omnibus editions.)

Vol 1 pre-order already down to £27. Simply irresistible.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 August, 2020, 11:25:03 PM
My missus and I were wed 25 years ago today. Covid put an end to my wife's plans for a big party so we made do with an Indian feast and a few calls. I think I preferred it this way.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 19 August, 2020, 03:22:59 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 31 July, 2020, 05:40:03 PM
Slap Kirk (https://www.slapkirk.com/)

I used to enjoy this : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/slap-michael-gove

I am surprised there isn't a Boris one out there... 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 August, 2020, 08:49:42 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 18 August, 2020, 11:25:03 PM
My missus and I were wed 25 years ago today. Covid put an end to my wife's plans for a big party so we made do with an Indian feast and a few calls. I think I preferred it this way.

Congrats to you and Mrs Von Boom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 August, 2020, 10:09:44 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 August, 2020, 08:49:42 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 18 August, 2020, 11:25:03 PM
My missus and I were wed 25 years ago today. Covid put an end to my wife's plans for a big party so we made do with an Indian feast and a few calls. I think I preferred it this way.

Congrats to you and Mrs Von Boom.
Thanks, JBC. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 August, 2020, 07:55:46 PM
How we made Flash Gordon.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/17/how-we-made-flash-gordon-brian-blessed-mike-hodges-vultan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/17/how-we-made-flash-gordon-brian-blessed-mike-hodges-vultan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 29 August, 2020, 04:30:16 PM
Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53956683)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 01 September, 2020, 10:19:11 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 29 August, 2020, 04:30:16 PM
Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53956683)

* Insert Donald Trump joke *
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 01 September, 2020, 11:04:50 AM
Quote from: Rately on 01 September, 2020, 10:19:11 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 29 August, 2020, 04:30:16 PM
Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53956683)

* Insert Donald Trump joke *

* Insert David Cameron *
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 01 September, 2020, 11:22:54 AM
Quote from: Woolly on 01 September, 2020, 11:04:50 AM
Quote from: Rately on 01 September, 2020, 10:19:11 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 29 August, 2020, 04:30:16 PM
Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53956683)

* Insert Donald Trump joke *

* Insert David Cameron *

:o :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 September, 2020, 02:22:59 PM
I don't have time to watch all the hot sexy movies listed in the movie thread. Also I'm afraid of hand cramp.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 September, 2020, 06:46:08 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 01 September, 2020, 02:22:59 PM
I don't have time to watch all the hot sexy movies listed in the movie thread. Also I'm afraid of hand cramp.

Don't be worried about hand cramp! Buy the new [CENSORED] Deluxe from Top Secret Industries with extra [CENSORED] action*.

*Frank Hoffenstatler says: "I used the [CENSORED] Deluxe and it took surgeons three hours just to get the smile off my face!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 September, 2020, 06:49:21 PM
Fantastic! Now I don't have to go all the way over to the movie thread for my Russian porn!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 September, 2020, 10:33:23 AM
Am I a bastard for enjoying the current internet trend for shaming 'influencers' looking for free shit?  Feck off and spend some money, you pack of cheapskates.

Personally, I've found that the more established my mural-painting business has become, the fewer chancers ask me to work for 'exposure'. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 08 September, 2020, 07:58:16 PM
I can understand employers' fears about people working from home. They don't want to run into this situation.
https://youtu.be/5UT8RkSmN4k?t=19 (https://youtu.be/5UT8RkSmN4k?t=19)

or this

https://youtu.be/R_rF4kcqLkI?t=168 (https://youtu.be/R_rF4kcqLkI?t=168)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 September, 2020, 03:54:45 AM
My daughter (8) made a comic and I'm proud:

(https://i.imgur.com/Oo6b6F8.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 September, 2020, 09:39:05 AM
Man, she's on fire.  Fair play.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 10 September, 2020, 10:01:11 AM
Funt Solo - That's grand!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 September, 2020, 09:53:42 PM
Thanks - I'll pass on the compliments. I'm impressed with the pun "I love ... miaw". We can't have cats in the house due to allergies, so this is some wish fulfillment as well.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 September, 2020, 03:26:29 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 10 September, 2020, 09:53:42 PM
Thanks - I'll pass on the compliments. I'm impressed with the pun "I love ... miaw". We can't have cats in the house due to allergies, so this is some wish fulfillment as well.

Awww man, that just gives it a whole new level of poignancy.

My brother and his partner are in a similar position - both cat-lovers but both allergic.  There are allergy-free breeds, but they'll clean out your bank account.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 September, 2020, 02:55:38 PM
Jedward, who are sensible about the pandemic, have put Ian Brown in his place, who is not, on Twitter.  The former are two of my least respected musicians ever and the latter is one of my most, but I find myself very much fighting with Jedward Block.  20 fucking 20, eh. Who'd have it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 14 September, 2020, 04:19:38 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 September, 2020, 02:55:38 PM
Jedward, who are sensible about the pandemic, have put Ian Brown in his place, who is not, on Twitter.  The former are two of my least respected musicians ever and the latter is one of my most, but I find myself very much fighting with Jedward Block.  20 fucking 20, eh. Who'd have it.

Christ.

If you'd ever told me i'd side with Jedward over Ian Brown, i'd have laughed in your face.

Need to go have a laydown.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2020, 04:57:43 PM
Calm down lads, it's a Twitter argument, there are no winners.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 September, 2020, 06:16:19 PM
The genuine Rise of Jedward as twin voices of reason is fecking terrifying, but the ship of the world has hit the rocks, and we needs must cling to what wreckage will support us; in such circumstances, the thicker the planks the better
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 September, 2020, 06:36:36 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 14 September, 2020, 04:57:43 PM
Calm down lads, it's a Twitter argument, there are no winners.

No, but there is a right argument  and a wrong one, and the right one can save lives while the wrong one can end them.  And the singer and writer of some of the most amazing music I've ever heard is objectively and dangerously wrong, while the identical pair of spouters of the least substantial bilge the music scene has to offer are correct, to the point where I really hope they're having much more of an impact on the world than a living legend I've admired since I was a teenager.

So shut the spug up till this is over, Monkey King, except if it's to sing songs.  John and Edward (who live in the next village to me), kindly do the opposite.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 September, 2020, 03:43:51 AM
Ah - anyone who uses the phrase "lamestream media" goes into the gibberish bucket - despite, yes, those cheek bones and that great music. There's a lot of it about, though - Chuck D recently hinted that he's bought into the "Covid was man-made" aspect of the current morass of conspiracy theories. (As in, made in a lab, as opposed to the argument that human encroachment on animal habitats is a factor in the species-leap of the virus.)

I've figured out the cure, though! (Not to Covid - just to bullshit conspiracy theories.) All you need to do is get the BBC to publish a story that links Bill Gates to 5G to Covid to every other conspiracy theory ever (including all of the ones in The Illuminatus! Trilogy) and everyone who believes them would immediately unbelieve them purely on the basis that the BBC reported it.

Simple.

(Then we could all worry about the real bullshit shenanigans being pulled by governments - like Cummings dismantling the civil service and replacing it with himself, or Putin slipping radioactive poison into his opposition's cuppa, or Trump working hard to dismantle what's left of the US democratic system and trying his best to spark a civil war.  Shit that's really happening.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 September, 2020, 08:32:28 AM
Ian Brown banging on about conspiracy theories.  Morrissey a mouthpiece for the far right.  Johnny Rotten oozing round in a MAGA T-shirt.  Iggy's old car insurance ad would look like the cutting edge of the counterculture these days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 September, 2020, 08:58:22 AM
The dumbest thing any celeb or creator could ever do is spout their inner monologue via social media.
It just confirms that the sad truth we already know - everyone is an asshole, to some degree.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 15 September, 2020, 09:11:55 AM
On a lighter note, addled old Rately is seeing Garth Marenghi GIFs in use all over the place.

The worrying thing, is that I've mistaken Garth for William Friedkin every single time, and got too excited at the thought that I've stumbled across a Friedkin interview / soundbite that I've never seen before.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 September, 2020, 12:58:36 PM
I loved Garth Marenghi's Darkplace- one of the most underrated comedies ever.  Also, all the cast seems to be hugely successful these days, except for Garth Marenghi.  Although I was surprised recently during a rewatch of the Office to note that he was the nerd IT guy that impresses Gareth with his bullshit stories.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 15 September, 2020, 01:21:06 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 September, 2020, 12:58:36 PM
I loved Garth Marenghi's Darkplace- one of the most underrated comedies ever.  Also, all the cast seems to be hugely successful these days, except for Garth Marenghi.  Although I was surprised recently during a rewatch of the Office to note that he was the nerd IT guy that impresses Gareth with his bullshit stories.

Fantastic show! The Bike chase scene might be one of the funniest things ever conceived.

Matthew Holness recently directed Possum, a psychological Horror movie that is on my watchlist, and got some great reviews.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 September, 2020, 02:41:10 PM
Nice one! I'll keep an eye out.  Pretty sure that was the first time I'd encountered Matt Berry - Richard Ayoawaoyawade was in Nathan Barley before that, I think.  Also an amazing show; though I didn't really get it till a few years later when the hipster scene hit Dublin properly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 15 September, 2020, 02:59:00 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 15 September, 2020, 02:41:10 PM
Nice one! I'll keep an eye out.  Pretty sure that was the first time I'd encountered Matt Berry - Richard Ayoawaoyawade was in Nathan Barley before that, I think.  Also an amazing show; though I didn't really get it till a few years later when the hipster scene hit Dublin properly.

Have Nathan Barley on the watchlist. I'm still wondering how i didn't watch it when it originally aired, as i love Chris Morris' work, and Charlie Brooker is another favourite of mine.

Matt Berry really stole every scene he had in Darkplace. Fantastic actor, and judging by his Twitter, a fantastic fella.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2020, 11:38:03 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 September, 2020, 12:00:03 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 16 September, 2020, 11:38:03 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

Yes.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 16 September, 2020, 05:46:47 PM
Right, stop this silliness and pay attention.

Scotland's covid contact tracing app has been downloaded 900,000+ times in the last few days.   If you're a person in Scotland and you own a phone, get it downloaded.  Not only will it help in preventing the spread of this dastardly virus, but everytime the app is downloaded Matt Hancock looks more incompetent.

Carry on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 September, 2020, 09:46:30 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/IXIr8OF.png)

Wait - what? (https://youtu.be/1o_8b31GRnU) Hicks is turning in his grave ... again.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 September, 2020, 10:21:17 AM
Never mind Hicks, what about Edginton and Disraeli.  Oooo-laaa.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 September, 2020, 05:19:42 PM
Less attention is being paid to the National Guard's response: "ummmm .. we don't have one?"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 September, 2020, 08:56:37 PM
I expect something out of print wouldn't just appear somewhere on the Internet - although I saw a cool Scream! web site that seems like it's maybe not stepping on anyone's toes.

I wonder if anything like that will ever appear for Deadline. I used to own most of those, but they fell in the skip when I emigrated. As with all things I throw away ever, I regret it. (Like my Starblazers, Victors, Hotspurs & Commando comics. I should've kept them all.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 September, 2020, 10:01:53 PM

It is better to have collected and lost than to have never collected at all, I guess.

Or maybe it's precisely the opposite. Depends which way up your glass is.

Speaking of which... "Bartender... Same again."

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2020, 10:05:54 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 September, 2020, 10:01:53 PM

Speaking of which... "Bartender... Same again."

It's a long time since I heard, or said, that.  :(

Speaking of which, I don't know why The Poke is moaning about these.  They're fecking arsom.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/09/18/these-next-level-face-masks-had-the-entire-internet-shaking-head/ (https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/09/18/these-next-level-face-masks-had-the-entire-internet-shaking-head/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 September, 2020, 10:13:27 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2020, 10:05:54 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 September, 2020, 10:01:53 PM

Speaking of which... "Bartender... Same again."

It's a long time since I heard, or said, that.  :(

Speaking of which, I don't know why The Poke is moaning about these.  They're fecking arsom.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/09/18/these-next-level-face-masks-had-the-entire-internet-shaking-head/ (https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/09/18/these-next-level-face-masks-had-the-entire-internet-shaking-head/)

My eye was drawn to the ad next to that article ... remind me - what's 2,500 times nothing?

(https://i.imgur.com/peqc6eR.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 September, 2020, 10:15:25 PM
Those helmets are okay, but look silly with business attire.

They should be wearing space suits. It's the only way to go.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 September, 2020, 10:19:05 PM
Covid rave suit (https://coolmaterial.com/style/ppe-rave-suit/).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2020, 10:28:51 PM
Now we're fecking talking.   Though I have to admit, if things haven't changed since my old raving days, heatstroke would be a more pressing concern than Covid.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 September, 2020, 10:58:18 PM
True - it has to come with a built-in coolant system (and Vicks-auto-applicators).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2020, 11:24:08 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 18 September, 2020, 10:58:18 PM
True - it has to come with a built-in coolant system (and Vicks-auto-applicators).

I'd forgotten about the Vicks  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 September, 2020, 11:31:20 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2020, 10:28:51 PM
Now we're fecking talking.   Though I have to admit, if things haven't changed since my old raving days, heatstroke would be a more pressing concern than Covid.
I remember your raving days.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tenor.com%2Fimages%2Ff9facf9b095d9b468bdbeeb23657cf45%2Ftenor.gif&f=1&nofb=1)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 September, 2020, 11:42:14 PM
 :D

You're not far off the truth there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 September, 2020, 01:10:49 AM
Brolly's Baked Potato (https://www.mixcloud.com/peterneeson1/burst-volume-2-side-1-dj-james-brolly-brollys-baked-potatoe/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 11:04:42 AM
Sausages: square or link?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 September, 2020, 12:51:10 PM
I've never seen square sausages in my life.  Some mad CalHab thing, I believe.  Mind you, it would make the frying process easier.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 01:49:24 PM
Doesn't slip out of the roll so easily either
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 01:51:14 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 September, 2020, 12:51:10 PM
I've never seen square sausages in my life.  Some mad CalHab thing, I believe.  Mind you, it would make the frying process easier.

(https://www.realfoodrealingredients.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lorne-sausage-raw-1038x692.jpg)

Bigger question Red or brown sauce?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2020, 02:39:51 PM
I've had this argument many times, but THAT ISN'T A SAUSAGE! It's a square of sausage-meat. If it ain't in a skin, it ain't a sausage!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 03:24:17 PM
so what about sausage rolls?

(https://realfood.tesco.com/media/images/RFO-1400x919-SausageRoll-mini-mini-29fc8e80-b27c-488f-9241-910d21e92152-0-1400x919.jpg)


eh? :-X
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 September, 2020, 03:28:09 PM
Square sausages are heretical, but rhomboid sausages are blasphemy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 19 September, 2020, 04:12:28 PM
Man, the Spam-porn on this site is getting downright weird!

:o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 September, 2020, 04:30:06 PM
Lorne with a robust black pudding shaft:

(https://i.imgur.com/8pKThp8.png)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2020, 06:17:34 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 03:24:17 PM
so what about sausage rolls?

A sausage roll is a pastry confection filled with sausage meat. It is not a sausage.




You know when you keep saying a word and it starts to sound weird? same aplies to typing apparently - I just had to triple check the spelling of sausage.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 September, 2020, 06:31:18 PM
Denial of the rights of Lorne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_sausage) to be considered a sausage is typical of the prevailing cased-sausage outlook.

Rise up, fellow sausages, against the cis-age hierarchy!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 September, 2020, 07:47:05 PM
An Aberdonian friend brought some lornes back with him after a visit home. It was the most horrifying and terrible thing ever visisited upon the north of Ireland by a scotsman.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2020, 08:44:11 PM
I will respect Lorne as an ethnic delicacy, and another great contender for "ways to serve sausage-meat" but, and I hate to be pedantic on this point, it's NOT A FUCKING SAUSAGE!
Quote
    noun Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.
    noun A small cylinder-shaped serving of this meat.
Quotesausage
noun
minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
Quotesausage
noun
A sausage consists of minced meat, usually pork, mixed with other ingredients and is contained in a tube made of skin or a similar material.
Quotesausage
noun
a thin, tube-like case containing meat that has been cut into very small pieces and mixed with spices:
Quotesausage
1noun An item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.
1.1mass noun Minced and seasoned meat encased in a skin and cooked or preserved, sold mainly to be eaten cold in slices.
1.2usually as modifier An object shaped like a sausage.

In the ineterests of fairness, Miriam-Webster let me down with their second definition, but they're Americans so we can't take their word when it comes to lexicography can we?
Quotesausage noun
: a highly seasoned minced meat (such as pork) usually stuffed in casings of prepared animal intestine
also : a link or patty of sausage
This is clearly wrong. Even Judge Dredd, alerted by the shape and construction but without any pork, beef, or herbs, knew one when he saw one:
(https://i.imgur.com/65hwMtLm.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 September, 2020, 09:34:56 PM

Dude, are you okay?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 September, 2020, 12:09:18 AM
I find that in these moments of calm and prosperity when there's nothing important happening in the world, we can take the time to address these important issues.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 September, 2020, 12:19:06 AM
Oh, look! Another case (sic) of an uncased sausage, that (as it bears the appellation "sausage") is, of course, a sausage:

(https://healthstartsinthekitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/homemade-country-sausage-seasoning-01-500x375.png)

I think you need to relax and allow uncased sausages to insert themselves (into your life).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 September, 2020, 01:19:11 AM
No.

Just tell me where I can find these 'healthstartsinthekitchen' bastards. I'll show them what a sausage is.

That's a meat patty. And if it's 'healthy', you're missing the point of sausages entirely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 September, 2020, 10:16:23 AM

Back in the dim and distant, my granny used to make sausages for special occasions like Christmas, coronations and cremations. She had all the required and vaguely distressing Victorian equipment kept in a box under the stairs. My little brother and I used to eat the sausages she made raw - they were delicious.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 20 September, 2020, 01:26:59 PM
 :lol

What about veggie sausages? Or the awesome Simo n Howie veggie square sausage just to doubly fuck you up?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 September, 2020, 02:43:22 PM
If this was a Labour forum the lot of you would have starring roles in an anti-semitiism probe by now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 September, 2020, 08:40:14 PM
From that famous web-site we all know and love, Don't Go Bacon My Heart, comes a recipe that will trouble the nefarious cased-sausage brigade: it's "Easy Homemade Skinless Sausages (https://www.dontgobaconmyheart.co.uk/homemade-pork-sausages/)"!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 20 September, 2020, 09:04:38 PM
Well there it is. I always knew deep down, but now it's official.

This place is a sausage fest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 September, 2020, 09:43:39 PM

Either that or a load of baloney.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 September, 2020, 10:52:17 PM
Weli, it ain't chopped liver.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 September, 2020, 12:07:45 AM
The proof is in the pudding: in this case, a beautiful Savory Sausage [uncased] and Cheddar Bread Pudding (https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/savory-sausage-and-cheddar-bread-pudding.html).

If I could turn groans of despair into electricity, I could solve the world's energy needs!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 21 September, 2020, 05:14:40 PM
Good point. The internet can go from nought to full whinge in 0.003 seconds.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 September, 2020, 05:46:17 PM

0.00257, actually. Why can no one around here be presise?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 22 September, 2020, 05:09:17 AM
Mathematically speaking W, the ratio for internet whinging, is the result of dividing the time to process a statement by the length of the given statement, that is:

W = (time to process / length of statement).

Given that all internet arguments are circular this can be represented geometrically where processing time is constantly revolving and the length of the statement is the diameter of the circle.

Hence there are no integers t or l for which t*l is an integer, therefore w is irrational.

Consequently it is impossible to be fully precise about the length of time for any given statement to produce a whinge and it can only be given to an appropriate degree of accuracy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 22 September, 2020, 12:12:45 PM
Work it out with logs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 September, 2020, 02:27:07 PM
...and we're back to sausages.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 September, 2020, 02:49:12 PM

Well, if we refer to the 'Book of Wall's' as venerated by the ancient and glorious Order of Master Cumbrian Sausagesmiths (Cockermouth Branch), whose symbol is a sausage with its head up its own arse to symbolise the futility of an eternity without sausages, such was inevitable.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 22 September, 2020, 07:03:14 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 22 September, 2020, 12:12:45 PM
Work it out with logs.

Ah, the old 'constipated mathematician' joke ...

;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 September, 2020, 07:32:55 PM

I thought he got that from bad pi? Added to hydration subtraction dividing him in half many times, throwing his algorithms off and extrapolating his stools along a square route. He got it moving in the end, though - he worked it out with the aid of a chemist.

The mathematician did, however, sign the waiver with a pencil (so there's that), but the chemist couldn't sign anything because his fingers were covered in shitty Vasaline. Otherwise, pencils don't really factor in.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 September, 2020, 10:19:23 AM
what will a hard brexit do to our sausages? Will we be able to make em from anything we like now? Can we put blood and sawdust back in them? Take that Johnnie Foreigner!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 September, 2020, 01:00:48 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 September, 2020, 10:19:23 AM
what will a hard brexit do to our sausages? Will we be able to make em from anything we like now? Can we put blood and sawdust back in them? Take that Johnnie Foreigner!

I suspect you'll have to make the high quality ones out of the less important bits of your own intestines. And so will we.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 23 September, 2020, 01:02:58 PM
"Those cold beans wrapped in a condom, how much?"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 23 September, 2020, 01:54:45 PM
Quote from: Rately on 23 September, 2020, 01:02:58 PM
"Those cold beans wrapped in a condom, how much?"
ASDA's new slogan.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 30 September, 2020, 07:45:52 PM
At the beginning of the month my landlord informed my wife and I that he was selling up and we had to vacate. The last month has been pure hell as he's had viewers barging in at all hours during this covid mess. Well, today, after a panic filled month we secured a new place to live and will be moving in a couple of weeks.

I only hope we can get shifted before there's a major lock down again.

Oh, and my former landlord has not had so much as a sous offered for his poxy flat. Take that you twat!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 September, 2020, 07:52:32 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 30 September, 2020, 07:45:52 PM
Take that you twat!

Things I miss about the UK: being able to say someone's behaved like a twat without everyone gasping in horror. It's synonymous with c*nt here. (Which you're not allowed to say either.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Rately on 01 October, 2020, 10:11:49 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 30 September, 2020, 07:45:52 PM
At the beginning of the month my landlord informed my wife and I that he was selling up and we had to vacate. The last month has been pure hell as he's had viewers barging in at all hours during this covid mess. Well, today, after a panic filled month we secured a new place to live and will be moving in a couple of weeks.

I only hope we can get shifted before there's a major lock down again.

Oh, and my former landlord has not had so much as a sous offered for his poxy flat. Take that you twat!

Good luck with the move, Von Boom!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 October, 2020, 03:04:47 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 30 September, 2020, 10:02:58 PM
No American baller will ever be as famous as the greater soccerists

Skee-Lo - I Wish (https://youtu.be/cmXZOI7cM0M)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 October, 2020, 03:32:29 PM
Quote from: Rately on 01 October, 2020, 10:11:49 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 30 September, 2020, 07:45:52 PM
At the beginning of the month my landlord informed my wife and I that he was selling up and we had to vacate. The last month has been pure hell as he's had viewers barging in at all hours during this covid mess. Well, today, after a panic filled month we secured a new place to live and will be moving in a couple of weeks.

I only hope we can get shifted before there's a major lock down again.

Oh, and my former landlord has not had so much as a sous offered for his poxy flat. Take that you twat!

Good luck with the move, Von Boom!
Cheers!  :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2020, 09:08:11 PM
Who chooses the humorous user status names? "Bionic fingers" makes sense, "Battle-Hardened War Robot" is cool, and I'm proud to be a "CALL-ME-KENNETH!" but I just noticed that our Jayzus is "Squealing meat" - where the drokk did that come from? And "never nude" for newbies is gonna sound increasingly weird and off-putting to new members as Arrested Development fades as a cultural reference point.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 02 October, 2020, 09:18:07 PM
We've all got titles based on number of posts - Jayzus is a Bionic Fingers - but you can add a Personal Text field too. Jayzus is responsible for making his own meat squeal.

I'll be honest though, I never realised what 'never nude' was in reference to.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2020, 10:44:50 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 02 October, 2020, 09:18:07 PM
We've all got titles based on number of posts - Jayzus is a Bionic Fingers - but you can add a Personal Text field too. Jayzus is responsible for making his own meat squeal.

I'll be honest though, I never realised what 'never nude' was in reference to.

ha, yes I see now  :-[ - I just glanced at that and thought someone had re-jigged the names. I must give some thought to my own personal text field, i'd not really noticed that function till now



errm ... and good luck with the spoons?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 02 October, 2020, 11:23:50 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2020, 10:44:50 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 02 October, 2020, 09:18:07 PM
We've all got titles based on number of posts - Jayzus is a Bionic Fingers - but you can add a Personal Text field too. Jayzus is responsible for making his own meat squeal.

I'll be honest though, I never realised what 'never nude' was in reference to.

ha, yes I see now  :-[ - I just glanced at that and thought someone had re-jigged the names. I must give some thought to my own personal text field, i'd not really noticed that function till now
I need one for wheezing bifocal wearing ginger gits like myself, but I can never come up with something appropriate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Greg M. on 03 October, 2020, 10:07:07 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2020, 10:44:50 PM
errm ... and good luck with the spoons?[/size]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXzubuENjHk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXzubuENjHk)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 October, 2020, 01:18:40 PM
I love these.  Check out Tommy Robinson at no. 4

https://www.boredpanda.com/medieval-animal-paintings-that-dont-look-real-daniel-holland/?utm_source=iosapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=iosapp (https://www.boredpanda.com/medieval-animal-paintings-that-dont-look-real-daniel-holland/?utm_source=iosapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=iosapp)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 October, 2020, 09:37:29 PM
(https://memeguy.com/photos/images/this-struck-me-106569.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 October, 2020, 07:53:33 PM
I've been painting a mural of the Seven Dwarfs and have a question for the, er, Hivemind, as all the cool kids round here say. Now I know this is a generalisation, and probably both sizeist and racist, but...

Why do dwarves (or dwarfs), gnomes, goblins, elves etc wear those long, floppy, tapered hats? Not the Tolkien folk, but the ones in pretty much every other depiction.  Where did this trope even come from? Even our Ukko wears one, and in fact looks odd without it.

It's a genuine question, by the way, and Google isn't coming up with the goods. My guess is that it was some kind of hat worn by medieval peasants or other labourers, and that the depictions of the little folk derive from this time when even full-sized people wore them.  In fact I may well have spotted some tradesman types in Breughel the Younger paintings wearing them, but again Google is coming up short.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 October, 2020, 08:15:57 PM
I got the amusingly named phrygian cap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap) right here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 October, 2020, 08:21:09 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 October, 2020, 08:15:57 PM
I got the amusingly named phrygian cap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap) right here.

Bloody hell, you do and all. Thanks, Funt, I'll have a proper read of that when I go to bed.  I never knew liberty caps were anything other than those mushrooms that used to make me see weird shit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 October, 2020, 08:47:45 PM
Omigod - there was that one time we had to pick them really fast off the football field because the guy who mowed it in his tractor had started at the other side, then we made revolting mushroom and mince sandwiches and I lost the ability to count or discern colors and therefore couldn't play gin rummy.  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 October, 2020, 10:41:09 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 October, 2020, 08:47:45 PM
Omigod - there was that one time we had to pick them really fast off the football field because the guy who mowed it in his tractor had started at the other side, then we made revolting mushroom and mince sandwiches and I lost the ability to count or discern colors and therefore couldn't play gin rummy.  :o

:lol:

And there it is, folks.  Do you want to take hallucinogens or do you want to play gin rummy?  It can't be both.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 October, 2020, 06:31:40 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 October, 2020, 08:15:57 PM
I got the amusingly named phrygian cap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap) right here.

I'm going to sound incredibly ungrateful here for your giving me an interesting and informative link that has expanded my vocabulary, but... It still doesn't really explain why the caps are so popular amongst the mythological shortarse community. Anyone?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 October, 2020, 06:40:14 PM
Someone else fell down that rabbit hole and now you can join them: https://wendysalter.wordpress.com/tag/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-symbolism/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 October, 2020, 07:14:33 PM

Maybe the floppy bits contain bladders which can be inflated in order to meet the height requirements of the rides at Ye Altone Towerf.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 October, 2020, 07:22:46 PM
Height requirements are part of a statist agenda etc.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 October, 2020, 11:32:51 PM

Staturist agenda, if you please.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 October, 2020, 11:36:42 PM
 :lol:

Thanks for the link, by the way, Funt. For some reason it's really important to me right now to get to the bottom of this.

The pandemic.  That's the reason, isn't it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 October, 2020, 08:28:17 AM
The new Lego IKEA boxes are great.

< End message >
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 October, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 October, 2020, 08:28:17 AM
The new Lego IKEA boxes are great.

< End message >

Ohhh you got them. I've been wondering about these. The one thing I've not seen from the photos is whether their bases are smooth or have ... what are these called... lego brick receptor molding thingies. You know the shapes that let you attach the tops of lego into them. They must have a name right.

My thinking was it would be cute to have a column of these interspaced using Lego bricks so you could have box, display space, box, displat space etc...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 October, 2020, 08:55:35 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 19 October, 2020, 08:39:24 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 October, 2020, 08:28:17 AM
The new Lego IKEA boxes are great.

< End message >

Ohhh you got them. I've been wondering about these. The one thing I've not seen from the photos is whether their bases are smooth or have ... what are these called... lego brick receptor molding thingies. You know the shapes that let you attach the tops of lego into them. They must have a name right.

My thinking was it would be cute to have a column of these interspaced using Lego bricks so you could have box, display space, box, displat space etc...


The 'Bygglek' bases don't have Lego stud connections, but have a new (to me) connection system that allows stable-ish stacking.
Regardless, they are really great. Decent price, good quality and some thought went into fabrication (including internal dimensions).

Any AFOL would be A FOOL not to snap them up (* been sitting on that one 4 weeks).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 19 October, 2020, 04:48:35 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 October, 2020, 08:28:17 AM
The new Lego IKEA boxes are great.

< End message >
If you don't make your Lego box out of Lego you're doing it wrong.  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 October, 2020, 07:13:45 PM
I couldn't find the STD thread, but I understand the new series is honouring Roddenberry's vision by remaking Andromeda?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 October, 2020, 08:43:10 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 19 October, 2020, 04:48:35 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 October, 2020, 08:28:17 AM
The new Lego IKEA boxes are great.

< End message >
If you don't make your Lego box out of Lego you're doing it wrong.  ;)

Will only accept critical comments from Ming.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 October, 2020, 01:25:42 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 19 October, 2020, 07:13:45 PM
I couldn't find the STD thread, but I understand the new series is honouring Roddenberry's vision by remaking Andromeda?

It took me a while, but the penny finally dropped. It's that kind of STD.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 October, 2020, 02:38:17 PM

The only thing missing is a genital Worf.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 October, 2020, 04:29:10 PM
OOOoooohhh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 October, 2020, 04:32:31 PM

Sorry.

It was either that or "k'lap!"

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 October, 2020, 04:46:40 PM
I think your coat's on that chair...  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 October, 2020, 05:47:49 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 21 October, 2020, 04:32:31 PM

Sorry.

It was either that or "k'lap!"

Qlapla'!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 21 October, 2020, 09:55:22 PM
Gornorrhea?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 October, 2020, 09:57:50 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 21 October, 2020, 09:55:22 PM
Gornorrhea?

I thought that was Star Wars?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 October, 2020, 11:11:31 PM

No, Star Wars is Sithphilis.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 October, 2020, 12:24:45 AM
(https://beeimg.com/images/x78719469464.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 October, 2020, 03:15:24 AM
(https://i.pinimg.com/474x/f7/68/d1/f768d1f015fde5c6a0e7e5c3c0791d8b.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2020, 03:31:56 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 October, 2020, 07:53:33 PM
I've been painting a mural of the Seven Dwarfs and have a question for the, er, Hivemind, as all the cool kids round here say. Now I know this is a generalisation, and probably both sizeist and racist, but...

Why do dwarves (or dwarfs), gnomes, goblins, elves etc wear those long, floppy, tapered hats? Not the Tolkien folk, but the ones in pretty much every other depiction.  Where did this trope even come from? Even our Ukko wears one, and in fact looks odd without it.

It's a genuine question, by the way, and Google isn't coming up with the goods. My guess is that it was some kind of hat worn by medieval peasants or other labourers, and that the depictions of the little folk derive from this time when even full-sized people wore them.  In fact I may well have spotted some tradesman types in Breughel the Younger paintings wearing them, but again Google is coming up short.

Like London polis their head go right to the top of the hats.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2020, 03:41:07 PM
Not justice then?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54618520 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54618520)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 October, 2020, 04:00:38 PM
As much as I hate to admit it, the fact that Europe banned the term "soya milk" is actually an argument in favor of Brexit. Who wants to be in the Banning Helpful Language gang? This is Britain! (Whoo, watch out - it's pretty easy to just slip into Full Farage if you're not careful.)

---

If we all become vegetarians (or face extinction!), won't it be weird in about a hundred years when we're eating things that are made of vegetable but shaped and flavored to taste like animal?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 22 October, 2020, 07:29:18 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 October, 2020, 04:00:38 PM
As much as I hate to admit it, the fact that Europe banned the term "soya milk" is actually an argument in favor of Brexit.

TBH even as a Remainer I have to admit to a high degree of ambivalence towards the EU.  Back in the 90's when the Eastern Bloc Accession States were being brought into the fold Freedom of Movement was poorly judged.  Too many communities suffered from the decision of companies to recruit from these countries rather than making wages competitive. (yes I know, far more complex than this).

Now though my far bigger concern is about what the rampant psychopaths in Westminster are doing to our country.  Portrait of a Mutant is looking dangerously prescient.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 23 October, 2020, 11:04:54 PM
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/171/364/Otp3p.jpg)

Yay! It's my 7350th post!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 October, 2020, 11:07:22 PM
Congrats to you, Funt. I'm still winning, though.

Though 7793 posts isn't that impressive when I realise I've been here for almost 20 years  :o :o

I had a few posts before that too though, as my former board self Jayzus B. Christ (with spaces).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 25 October, 2020, 06:36:09 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 23 October, 2020, 11:04:54 PM
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/171/364/Otp3p.jpg)

Yay! It's my 7350th post!

er, no .... that was your 7351st post.

Keep this up and you'll get a job in Tesco's accounting, NHS (sorry, no Serco) Trip and Traipse, or the Treasury ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 October, 2020, 03:26:14 PM
So, if it says "Posts: 1", you're saying that actually indicates two posts? Me not think so.

(And this is my 7351st post. Prime, mofo!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 October, 2020, 06:10:04 PM

9820.

3 of them were actually entertaining. After a fashion.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 25 October, 2020, 07:08:20 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 October, 2020, 03:26:14 PM
So, if it says "Posts: 1", you're saying that actually indicates two posts? Me not think so.

(And this is my 7351st post. Prime, mofo!)

Well, it says 7354 so maybe it is a literacy problem?

I dunno, next thing I know ye'll be telling us January is the 2nd month of the year ...

Keep this up and we'll start calling you Dido!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 25 October, 2020, 08:16:53 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 25 October, 2020, 07:08:20 PM
Well, it says 7354 so maybe it is a literacy problem?

I'm seeing it as "7353", (he's posted twice elsewhere in the meantime), so maybe you're just in a parallel universe or something.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 October, 2020, 12:23:00 AM
I don't know what to think anymore, Tjm85.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2020, 07:31:41 AM

Maybe it's like birthdays, your first post is your noughth post?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 October, 2020, 05:18:04 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/db2512ffaov51.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=aad48faf141adc6918024b56083be676cb1b3b48)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2020, 05:50:20 PM
Unable to acquire pumpkins this year (thanks, Obama), I had the opportunity to return to my roots and carve turnips instead. It's roughly 3 times the work for 1/5 the size, but drokk me if they aren't 15 times scarier!

Proustian moment when the candle started heating up the turnipy insides. I was instantly 6 again, sitting at the blue melamine of my mam's kitchen table in a cardboard-and-tinfoil knight's helmet and breastplate.

Went for a wet and windy walk earlier in the hills behind our house, and after a few hours, at the exact limit of our 5km radius, on top of Black Hill, we encountered the first other humans: it was my wife's cousin and her husband, who were at the exact limit of their 5km, but from the other side.

If that wasn't spoooooky enough, my dog emerged from the woods and deposited a severed deer leg at our feet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2020, 06:06:38 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 October, 2020, 05:50:20 PM
Unable to acquire pumpkins this year (thanks, Obama), I had the opportunity to return to my roots

Nice.

I carved a turnip last year too, which took me back - I honestly don't remember there being any pumpkins around back when I was a little lad.  It definitely took me back to the days of trick-or-treating wearing a bin bag, and the feeling of sticking your tongue through the mouth-hole of your plastic mask.


QuoteIf that wasn't spoooooky enough, my dog emerged from the woods and deposited a severed deer leg at our feet.

Feck. That's Antichrist shit right there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 October, 2020, 06:33:08 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2020, 06:06:38 PM
the feeling of sticking your tongue through the mouth-hole of your plastic mask.

Oh yeah!

I got a taste for raw turnip through all that. We got our turnips from the edge of the field, and our festive trees from the woods.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2020, 07:07:26 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 31 October, 2020, 06:06:38 PM
  It definitely took me back to the days of trick-or-treating wearing a bin bag, and the feeling of sticking your tongue through the mouth-hole of your plastic mask..

I hadn't thought of that sensation in decades! I had a knock-off Darth Vader mask from Hector Gray's that I wore for several years running, and it developed a savage tear on one side of the mouth-slit that would catch and pinch my tongue. Wonderful memory to recover thanks Jayzus!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 31 October, 2020, 07:40:18 PM
My turnipy effort from last year...

(https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/c80.0.206.206a/p206x206/72577429_10157891316092792_601158210119794688_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=da31f3&_nc_ohc=vVm4c8W4718AX9UZFBi&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&tp=27&oh=7d0a7f4dcbbba558c76c7bc0e8990662&oe=5FC42C41)

..and it was "guising" in my day.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2020, 07:56:06 PM

Did your dog find the severed leg or sever the limb itself?

Either way - uh-oh...

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Post by: TordelBack on 31 October, 2020, 09:05:28 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 31 October, 2020, 07:56:06 PM
Did your dog find the severed leg or sever the limb itself?

Heh, the former, he was only gone a minute. Not wanting to spoil the vibe, but it's deer-culling season in the Dublin Mtns and some of those lads are far from tidy. A few years ago rhe same dog emerged from some bracken (on a different hill) with a whole (deer) head.

Great turnip, MIK! Here's a shitty pic of my subpar effort:

(https://pichost.net/i/2020/10/31/20201031_1724012e685f6642825343.jpg)
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 03 November, 2020, 01:34:34 AM

I prefer something more tasty and traditional....

https://youtu.be/tpWdzXJObZ0
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2020, 09:00:54 AM
Excellent turnipwork, lads!

'Guising' is a new one on me. We always said the standard 'trick or treat', but when I moved to Dublin, I was told that was an American thing, and 'real' Irish kids said 'help the Halloween party'.  Which sounds kind of shite, and was probably only a Dublin thing that has since died out.
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Post by: Link Prime on 03 November, 2020, 09:33:25 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2020, 09:00:54 AM
We always said the standard 'trick or treat', but when I moved to Dublin, I was told that was an American thing, and 'real' Irish kids said 'help the Halloween party'.  Which sounds kind of shite, and was probably only a Dublin thing that has since died out.

Can confirm.

The Dubs switched to 'Trick or Treat' sooner than you could say "90210" in the early 90's (noticed the change when bringing my little sister around at the time).
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2020, 09:50:58 AM
Thanks for confirming!

'Trick or treat' may well be an American import, but we never heard 'help the Halloween party' in my little midlands town in the early 80s.

I also notice that nobody ever puts the apostrophe into Halloween any more - I remember an 80s British comic (no idea which one) spelled it 'Hall'owe'en', and even then I thought 'that can't be right'. 

Also, in other horror-related 80s news, the stories inside the Trebor Mummies wrappers used to scare the bejesus out of me.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/6035566856/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/6035566856/)
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 03 November, 2020, 09:52:57 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2020, 09:00:54 AM
'Guising' is a new one on me. We always said the standard 'trick or treat', but when I moved to Dublin, I was told that was an American thing, and 'real' Irish kids said 'help the Halloween party'.  Which sounds kind of shite, and was probably only a Dublin thing that has since died out.

Never heard of 'Help the Halloween party', it was usually 'Any apples or nuts?' in Dubland.
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Post by: Link Prime on 03 November, 2020, 09:59:51 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 November, 2020, 09:52:57 AM
'Any apples or nuts?' in Dubland.

Heard my Da mention that years ago, but he was originally a resident of the sovereign nation of Walkinstown, so nothing that came out of his mouth surprised me (when I could understand it).
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Post by: TordelBack on 03 November, 2020, 11:41:29 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 November, 2020, 09:52:57 AM
Never heard of 'Help the Halloween party', it was usually 'Any apples or nuts?' in Dubland.

Definitely the former in my leafy Ballyroan suburb, but then we were infested with the children of first-generation immigrants, who brought their strange country customs with them. My so-afflicted best mate's house specialised in a savage variant of bobbing for apples where they held your head under until you succeeded, or went limp. I can still feel the metal rim of the tub pressed into my chest.

As I've probably reminisced here before, we were blessed with a (irredeemably culchie)  Garda inspector living on our street, who would bring a giant haul of confiscated fireworks home at Hallowe'en and let them all off at our bonfire. Quite how he had that night off was always a mystery.  Corruption is no biggie when you're a beneficiary.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2020, 01:16:15 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2020, 11:41:29 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 November, 2020, 09:52:57 AM
Never heard of 'Help the Halloween party', it was usually 'Any apples or nuts?' in Dubland.

Definitely the former in my leafy Ballyroan suburb, but then we were infested with the children of first-generation immigrants, who brought their strange country customs with them. My so-afflicted best mate's house specialised in a savage variant of bobbing for apples where they held your head under until you succeeded, or went limp. I can still feel the metal rim of the tub pressed into my chest.

As I've probably reminisced here before, we were blessed with a (irredeemably culchie)  Garda inspector living on our street, who would bring a giant haul of confiscated fireworks home at Hallowe'en and let them all off at our bonfire. Quite how he had that night off was always a mystery.  Corruption is no biggie when you're a beneficiary.

Aye, fireworks are the most legal illegal thing in Ireland.  I remember going to a bonfire party at a copper's son's gaff as a kid, and the fireworks were plenty - it's only when I read your post I realise where they came from.

Your mate's Clockwork Orange version of bobbing for apples sounds like great life-threatening craic. I remember in my early teens walking round the town with my mates trying to think of troublesome, rowdy things to do at Halloween, the trouble being that we weren't troublesome or rowdy kids and couldn't think of anything beyond nervously throwing an egg at an 'enemy's' doorstep, setting off bangers made from caps and firelighters, and kicking out streetlights (made far less daunting by the knowledge that they came back on after a minute or so).

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Post by: von Boom on 03 November, 2020, 04:32:58 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 November, 2020, 01:16:15 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2020, 11:41:29 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 November, 2020, 09:52:57 AM
Never heard of 'Help the Halloween party', it was usually 'Any apples or nuts?' in Dubland.

Definitely the former in my leafy Ballyroan suburb, but then we were infested with the children of first-generation immigrants, who brought their strange country customs with them. My so-afflicted best mate's house specialised in a savage variant of bobbing for apples where they held your head under until you succeeded, or went limp. I can still feel the metal rim of the tub pressed into my chest.

As I've probably reminisced here before, we were blessed with a (irredeemably culchie)  Garda inspector living on our street, who would bring a giant haul of confiscated fireworks home at Hallowe'en and let them all off at our bonfire. Quite how he had that night off was always a mystery.  Corruption is no biggie when you're a beneficiary.
The version of apple bobbing I had to contend with was apples hung from the door frame. Many a bloody and splintered lip came away from missing the apple and smacking your face into the frame. The adults just howled at that.
Aye, fireworks are the most legal illegal thing in Ireland.  I remember going to a bonfire party at a copper's son's gaff as a kid, and the fireworks were plenty - it's only when I read your post I realise where they came from.

Your mate's Clockwork Orange version of bobbing for apples sounds like great life-threatening craic. I remember in my early teens walking round the town with my mates trying to think of troublesome, rowdy things to do at Halloween, the trouble being that we weren't troublesome or rowdy kids and couldn't think of anything beyond nervously throwing an egg at an 'enemy's' doorstep, setting off bangers made from caps and firelighters, and kicking out streetlights (made far less daunting by the knowledge that they came back on after a minute or so).
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Post by: Dandontdare on 04 November, 2020, 06:13:50 PM
Today I learned that not only were Martin Landau & Barbara Bain from Space 1999 husband and wife, their daughter was Drusilla in Buffy.

I always forget these celebrity connections, and am surprised anew when reminded, but that was a new one on me.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 November, 2020, 11:23:55 PM
Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 November, 2020, 09:36:57 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 10 November, 2020, 11:23:55 PM
Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm)


Obviously I'm never going to read the fine details, but it made me laugh all the same.
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Post by: paddykafka on 12 November, 2020, 01:18:20 PM
Oh, Lord! Round up the Unusual Suspects.

https://www.thejournal.ie/cartoon-characters-crown-court-uk-5263964-Nov2020/



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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 November, 2020, 09:21:12 AM
Star Wars Intro Creator (https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 November, 2020, 10:01:57 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 November, 2020, 09:21:12 AM
Star Wars Intro Creator (https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/)

GREATEST. THING. EVER.

My Student CRM Process Group meeting in 30 minutes has just go the best start its known...
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 November, 2020, 02:02:26 PM
Perfection.  I've already trolled two of my friends with it.  Thinking of how I can incorporate it into online classes.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 17 November, 2020, 03:13:14 PM
Some genius right there.
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Post by: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 03:36:46 PM
Good stuff! The other credits formats are cool too.  My lad has to do a school safety presentation Thursday, which now has a "Safety Things" intro.
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Post by: Tjm86 on 17 November, 2020, 03:41:49 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 November, 2020, 09:21:12 AM
Star Wars Intro Creator (https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/)

Easy enough to do in powerpoint.  A google search will turn up the method.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 03:45:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 03:36:46 PM
Good stuff! The other credits formats are cool too.  My lad has to do a school safety presentation Thursday, which now has a "Safety Things" intro.

Scratch that, he tells me that apparently it'll take months to render unless he sends them a tenner 'donation'. Nope.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 November, 2020, 04:36:22 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 03:45:43 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 03:36:46 PM
Good stuff! The other credits formats are cool too.  My lad has to do a school safety presentation Thursday, which now has a "Safety Things" intro.

Scratch that, he tells me that apparently it'll take months to render unless he sends them a tenner 'donation'. Nope.

I noticed that, but if you just cut and paste the address while it's running you can run the sequence 'manually' whenever you want.
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Post by: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 05:04:56 PM
Ah-hah, cheers Jayzus, I'll pass that on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 November, 2020, 10:45:39 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 17 November, 2020, 05:04:56 PM
Ah-hah, cheers Jayzus, I'll pass that on.

N'bother
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 November, 2020, 01:01:53 PM
A mate of mine also captured the sequence by recording it while it was onscreen, then chopping the end of with some kind of editing app.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 November, 2020, 12:49:10 AM
How in the bright blue fuck are you people able to pick between artists? What's the next poll? Oxygen Vs Water?
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Post by: von Boom on 21 November, 2020, 12:51:45 AM
(https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/126830950_10224862343167091_113592851322813375_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=2&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_eui2=AeEL5bqneLct02-QyrjhbIZBt-uhWLxNa6q366FYvE1rqhnmr-8u8dNpxjutQ2wcoQ8&_nc_ohc=Ee2kB5inJ5UAX9fw0GW&_nc_ht=scontent-amt2-1.xx&tp=6&oh=f09e508ddeeaebad57dde347d7422291&oe=5FDEC27A)
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Post by: TordelBack on 21 November, 2020, 09:17:17 AM
Nice.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 November, 2020, 10:02:17 PM
I can't help thinking it's time the Trailers section of this board was retired.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 November, 2020, 10:51:35 PM
To be fair, none of the studios are releasing anything this year, hence no trailers for that thread.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 22 November, 2020, 11:48:12 PM
Some classic Ali G that could be a major headline story in 2020 supported by various protest marches and a strongly attended online community:

"Is it true that all of us have bones, or is that just what the media wants us to believe?" (https://youtu.be/rddtw6uMNoo) [18:00]
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Post by: von Boom on 23 November, 2020, 09:54:11 PM
The Borg collective is social media taken to its logical conclusion.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 24 November, 2020, 09:06:47 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 November, 2020, 10:02:17 PM
I can't help thinking it's time the Trailers section of this board was retired.

And the Wiki section. Five years....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 November, 2020, 10:54:51 AM
Quote from: CalHab on 24 November, 2020, 09:06:47 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 November, 2020, 10:02:17 PM
I can't help thinking it's time the Trailers section of this board was retired.

And the Wiki section. Five years....

Feck, yeah, I hadn't even thought of that - think my mind doesn't even register that that one exists any more.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 24 November, 2020, 07:15:00 PM
The Dredd 2012 movie folder is a bit of a Frankenstein's monster - it's in off topic, even though it's on topic, and then people think it's the movie folder and blah.

Yes - this forum could do with some curation. It feels like a dusty basement that everyone's forgotten about, haunted by the ghosts of yesteryear...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 November, 2020, 07:15:53 PM
The Spambots recall all...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 24 November, 2020, 07:56:15 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 24 November, 2020, 07:15:00 PM
It feels like a dusty basement that everyone's forgotten about, haunted by the ghosts of yesteryear...

Ah, that would be the forumites then ...

::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 November, 2020, 10:49:53 PM
I can't be the only one that thinks The Legendary Shark and TordelBack would be the ultimate couple on Strictly Come Dancing.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 November, 2020, 11:09:08 PM

Ultimate couple of what..?

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Post by: Tjm86 on 26 November, 2020, 05:46:30 AM
I can see someone like Wagner writing one of those Dredd parodies of "Strictly ..."

Contestants have to perform their dance in a live mine-field or while being chased by carnivorous animals, a laser mesh activates every time they mis-step ...

After judgement they are dunked in piranha infested tanks.  The scores indicate the amount of time removed so higher scores mean they are out quicker.

.... and Dredd arrives just in time to save the last contestant from losing more than just their limbs.
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Post by: TordelBack on 26 November, 2020, 08:04:23 AM
Quote from: von Boom on 25 November, 2020, 10:49:53 PM
I can't be the only one that thinks The Legendary Shark and TordelBack would be the ultimate couple on Strictly Come Dancing.

Our beards* would become hopelessly tangled, resulting in a less than elegant Paso Doble.



*Im assuming Shark has a beard. It seems... likely.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 November, 2020, 08:57:06 AM

Dancing into the night, whiskering one another around the arena.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 November, 2020, 09:05:31 AM
Someone do a mock-up of the Rumours album cover for Gruds sake.
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Post by: TordelBack on 26 November, 2020, 09:06:15 AM
But not Frank.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 November, 2020, 09:17:41 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 November, 2020, 09:06:15 AM
But not Frank.

Definitely not.

That guy is nearly as risque as a current year episode of Devlin Waugh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 27 November, 2020, 02:47:28 PM
I just offered to explain a process step-by-step to a customer on the phone and she said "no that's fine, this isn't my first radio"

Didn't have the heart to correct her  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 27 November, 2020, 05:11:16 PM
I have a very close acquaintance who insists that when she disagrees with something on principle that in gets 'stuck in her claw'.

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Post by: Funt Solo on 27 November, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
Wondering if she then goes up to four on it.

---

I've seen "walla" written down a few times in place of "voila".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 November, 2020, 01:29:33 AM
Make your own Jackson Pollock (https://jacksonpollock.org/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 November, 2020, 02:26:13 AM
It bugs me how *Jackson Pollock" has become a byword for shit art,or random art, or anything that looks messy by people who know fuck all about art.

The random shite blurbs that thing produces have as much relationship to Jackson Pollock as I do to Miley Cyrus
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 28 November, 2020, 03:27:44 AM
Shoosht... I'm seeing if I can use it to recreate The Hay Wain.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 November, 2020, 04:07:11 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 28 November, 2020, 02:26:13 AM
It bugs me how *Jackson Pollock" has become a byword for shit art,or random art, or anything that looks messy by people who know fuck all about art.

The random shite blurbs that thing produces have as much relationship to Jackson Pollock as I do to Miley Cyrus

Fair enough, but "a web browser page which uses clever html code to track your cursor movements and attempts to emulate the effects of a fluid dripping on a blank canvas" just isn't that snappy.

This is just another silly website I posted as an antedote to social media nonsense, I'll stop if it's annoying (https://zoomquilt.org/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 28 November, 2020, 04:09:55 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 28 November, 2020, 03:27:44 AM
Shoosht... I'm seeing if I can use it to recreate The Hay Wain.

No, really, I was. Compare and contrast...

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSZlDd4v2QE/X8HMA3r2MnI/AAAAAAAABRM/avZTmvefzBYQh_2I0ZinqJehl50dGtGuACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/the_hay_wain.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2wqUMyOKv6E/X8HLiC8wiGI/AAAAAAAABRE/d1kNYUlAWP8tw2IRIWXLHsnKONHaJOI5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/HaywainPollock.png)


It's a bit "expressionistic".
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Post by: von Boom on 28 November, 2020, 09:20:43 PM
Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War.

Nukemap (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 November, 2020, 10:38:47 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 28 November, 2020, 04:09:55 AM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 28 November, 2020, 03:27:44 AM
Shoosht... I'm seeing if I can use it to recreate The Hay Wain.

No, really, I was. Compare and contrast...

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSZlDd4v2QE/X8HMA3r2MnI/AAAAAAAABRM/avZTmvefzBYQh_2I0ZinqJehl50dGtGuACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/the_hay_wain.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2wqUMyOKv6E/X8HLiC8wiGI/AAAAAAAABRE/d1kNYUlAWP8tw2IRIWXLHsnKONHaJOI5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/HaywainPollock.png)


It's a bit "expressionistic".

You did a good job trying to recreate it, but yours is a bit too small.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 December, 2020, 08:19:20 PM
That's Christmas sorted (https://weirdorconfusing.com/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 December, 2020, 10:26:49 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 01 December, 2020, 08:19:20 PM
That's Christmas sorted (https://weirdorconfusing.com/)
That is more fun than it has a right to be. I wish I had the bottle to buy and give some of the selections.


I have heard through the grapevine that the poxy landlord of my last flat has had not one, but two possible sales of the flat I was turfed out of fall through! I know I shouldn't feel happy about this with the silly season upon us, but I can't help but feel that maybe, just maybe, there's a bit of justice in the world after all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 December, 2020, 03:42:55 PM
If you want to see a couple of old Japanese guys in their 50/60s rocking the fuck out, then CLICK HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI79e5iZKs&list=RDMM3bklFIanHdk&index=35).

Trust me, you want to.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 December, 2020, 04:37:56 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 01 December, 2020, 08:19:20 PM
That's Christmas sorted (https://weirdorconfusing.com/)

I had some fun clicking on that and getting results like "tanned ferret-hides", and now I'm getting auto-emails (which, I realize I can switch off) saying "Hey! Are you still interested in those tanned ferret-hides?"

Whoever's selling those must be super excited to see someone browsing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 December, 2020, 01:31:50 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 10 December, 2020, 04:37:56 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 01 December, 2020, 08:19:20 PM
That's Christmas sorted (https://weirdorconfusing.com/)

I had some fun clicking on that and getting results like "tanned ferret-hides", and now I'm getting auto-emails (which, I realize I can switch off) saying "Hey! Are you still interested in those tanned ferret-hides?"

Whoever's selling those must be super excited to see someone browsing.
I really am!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 December, 2020, 08:30:17 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/xtD1W6O.png)

Dobby has come to protect!
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 December, 2020, 10:35:23 PM
 :D

Biden and Harris are Time's Person(s) of the Year.  And Trump was jealous when a teenaged girl got it. I've given up the pretence that I'm not enjoying the schadenfreude. For a man who seems to hate losers so much, he's been doing a LOT of losing lately.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 December, 2020, 05:41:00 PM
I explained the concept of Occam's Razor to my daughter the other day, and she's since referenced it back to me a couple of times - but has forgotten the name, so instead opted for both "Feldon's Puzzle" and "Glandorf's Mindsweeper".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 December, 2020, 06:23:27 PM
Thanks to Neal Stephenson, I have to resist calling it Gardan's Steelyard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 December, 2020, 06:55:21 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 12 December, 2020, 05:41:00 PM
I explained the concept of Occam's Razor to my daughter the other day, and she's since referenced it back to me a couple of times - but has forgotten the name, so instead opted for both "Feldon's Puzzle" and "Glandorf's Mindsweeper".

Have you heard of Newton's Flaming Lazer Sword? That which cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

So named because although it can be very effective, it's also quite dangerous, especially in the wrong hands.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 December, 2020, 07:47:51 AM
How to reconcile the pure nerd joy of watching the Starship SN-8 test with daily reinforcement of the fact that Musk is a bona-fide c*nt.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 19 December, 2020, 06:54:14 AM
Sinister Dexter predicted the virtual-actors trend. Im sure nobody pointed that out before.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 19 December, 2020, 11:02:25 AM
I'd have to check dates but I'd put Gibson's "Idoru" ahead of Sin / Dex on that score ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 19 December, 2020, 07:07:14 PM
There was that Tales from the crypt episode with Boggart around that time,so maybe some people could see where we are going...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 December, 2020, 07:37:33 PM

Rendez-vous in Montreal (1987). (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendez-vous_in_Montreal)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 December, 2020, 09:15:57 AM
I've owned 8 cats in my life, plus countless fosterlings, and not one of them has had the faintest interest in Christmas trees. Until our youngest, 1.5 yrs, who despite ignoring it last year when he was a kitten now cannot be kept out of it. Our living room is a carpet of chewed pine needles, and the soundtrack is of jingling ornaments and scrabbling claws.

Doesn't help that he's a chunky boy, and I fear even my compression-strapping the base to four breeze blocks may not get us safely through the season.
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Post by: von Boom on 23 December, 2020, 04:15:36 PM
Don't show this to climate change deniers.
https://youtu.be/7tAYXQPWdC0 (https://youtu.be/7tAYXQPWdC0)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Modern Panther on 08 January, 2021, 11:37:33 AM
After the events of the last few days, I heartily recommend In Search of a Flat Earth by Folding Ideas, a 75 minute video essay on why people believe absurd things...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 08 January, 2021, 11:44:58 AM
Watched a Flat Earth docu-movie on Netflix a few weeks ago - Behind the Curve.
Hilarious.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 January, 2021, 12:45:35 PM
That's a much less depressing take than the Folding Ideas video. I had a grudging admiration for the guy who was cynically exploiting the true believers by selling them flat Earth tat. The highlight was the bit at the end [spoiler]when their grand experiment proved the Earth was round[/spoiler]. I'm not sure I need to put that in spoiler tags.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 08 January, 2021, 02:44:51 PM
Quote from: Modern Panther on 08 January, 2021, 11:37:33 AM
After the events of the last few days, I heartily recommend In Search of a Flat Earth by Folding Ideas, a 75 minute video essay on why people believe absurd things...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

Yeah, this is great. I've started watching a lot of Folding Ideas stuff. Makes me feel cleverer than I am.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Andrew_J on 08 January, 2021, 10:18:35 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 08 January, 2021, 12:45:35 PM
The highlight was the bit at the end [spoiler]when their grand experiment proved the Earth was round[/spoiler]. I'm not sure I need to put that in spoiler tags.

Ha ha! Thanks all the same!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 January, 2021, 10:55:58 PM
I am deeply concerned that this platform has yet to ban Donald Trump
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 January, 2021, 11:33:24 PM
Well he hasn't drawn Pete Wells' willie yet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 10 January, 2021, 11:59:03 PM
Phrased that way, it seems like a challenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiP_jN1Pv4).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 11 January, 2021, 10:19:58 AM
Random pimpage:

(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/imagebucket/davepersonal/ImPurity-Cover-Web.jpg)

New strip this week for ACES weekly produced under the FQP banner.

ACES Weekly is £6.99 for all seven weeks and this is just one of the six strips available as of Today!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 January, 2021, 09:37:45 PM
You should not watch this video (2000AD IN 2017: Identity Politics is Destroying a Comic Book Institution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZoEpb1hXIQ)) because his patter's shite, but the section running from 0:58 - 1:40 is inadvertently amusing as it reminds me of In 1975 No One Died (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs), which you should watch.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 15 January, 2021, 07:45:52 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 January, 2021, 09:37:45 PM
You should not watch this video (2000AD IN 2017: Identity Politics is Destroying a Comic Book Institution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZoEpb1hXIQ)) because his patter's shite, but the section running from 0:58 - 1:40 is inadvertently amusing as it reminds me of In 1975 No One Died (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs), which you should watch.
Somebody digs up this guy every year.
And apparently,now hes a fan of Owen Benjamin. Because ofc he is. 😂
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 January, 2021, 12:12:56 PM
Would you Adam and believe it? Frank Lampard has been sacked from Chelsea Football Club Team, and not a peep out of any of you!

I'm starting to suspect you guys don't really care about the football sport.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: broodblik on 25 January, 2021, 12:22:09 PM
What is football ? the one with the bad actors?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 January, 2021, 12:22:20 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 January, 2021, 12:12:56 PM
Would you Adam and believe it? Frank Lampard has been sacked from Chelsea Football Club Team, and not a peep out of any of you!

I'm starting to suspect you guys don't really care about the football sport.

We've maxed out our 'Dirty Frank' attention span.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2021, 12:49:05 PM

I played football once.

I didn't like it.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 January, 2021, 01:59:12 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2021, 12:49:05 PM

I played football once.

I didn't like it.
You should've stuck with it, Sharkie. Then you might have had the unique experience of scoring winning goal* in a championship match like I did.

*It was an own goal and thus ended any interest I had in football at the age of seven.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 January, 2021, 02:16:59 PM
I once saved a penalty on the last day of the season to help AC Southsouth not finish bottom of the bottom division of Sheffield's Saturday League (not even Sunday league!)... achievements at footie can be at levels...

... my future wife was there to see it and I'm pretty sure that must have need why she married me... or my large comic collection...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 25 January, 2021, 02:29:42 PM
My decision to grow out my beard in lockdown has led me to assemble a collection of oils and balms rivalling any branch of Lush and now I find myself on a website pondering over if I want to smell of sandalwood, vanilla, blood orange and basil or go for the lighter aroma of gardenia, lavender, green lily and peppermint.

I'm pretty sure this isn't what having a beard used to be about.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 25 January, 2021, 03:08:13 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 25 January, 2021, 02:29:42 PM
I'm pretty sure this isn't what having a beard used to be about.

And the world is better for having beards disassociated from previous and outdated notions of masculinity.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 25 January, 2021, 03:13:23 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 25 January, 2021, 02:16:59 PM
I once saved a penalty on the last day of the season ...

Well, if we're going with footie tales ..

I once scored a goal during Trade Training.  The PTI asked me to talk him through the even ...

"Well, I was trying to pass to ... so he could get it in the net.  The wind picked the ball up as it passed across the goal mouth and pulled it in."

Only time I ever scored a goal. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 January, 2021, 03:43:47 PM
Shocking to read that venerable members of the 2000AD Forum had trouble scoring when they were younger.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 January, 2021, 04:42:11 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2021, 12:49:05 PM

I played football once.

I didn't like it.

I can imagine you were unimpressed with a set of rules you had not consented to and didn't like how the ref was allowed to impose his will on the players just because he had a whistle.

There's an alternate universe where you did take an interest in football and came up with a utopian vision for the sport where the FA is abolished and replaced with vague rhetoric and there's no need for referees because pressure from other players eliminates any foul play. Oh and everyone plays together on the same side because you don't believe in teamism.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2021, 05:03:02 PM

Nope, wrong on all counts.

I was too fat.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2021, 06:10:17 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 25 January, 2021, 02:29:42 PM
...now I find myself on a website pondering over if I want to smell of sandalwood, vanilla, blood orange and basil or go for the lighter aroma of gardenia, lavender, green lily and peppermint.

This complex decision is usually made for me at the same time I decide what to have for breakfast.  Mmmm hickory-smoked bacon beard... but not so good when it's a kedgeree day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 25 January, 2021, 06:38:25 PM
Breakfast whilst bearded is indeed time of great hazard. Porridge? Milk over granola? Absolute minefield. Eggs? Dont even go there.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: broodblik on 25 January, 2021, 06:45:01 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 25 January, 2021, 06:38:25 PM
Breakfast whilst bearded is indeed time of great hazard. Porridge? Milk over granola? Absolute minefield. Eggs? Dont even go there.

You can always tell your wife: kissing a man with a beard is like eating soup with a fork you can never get enough.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 January, 2021, 03:07:50 PM
It seems that the hair on my head has imperial ambitions. It seems to be moving from my head and setting up a colony in my nose.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 27 January, 2021, 03:41:05 PM
You are not the only one! My hair has been in steady retreat for a while now. I suspect the fate of many a Squaxx is to turn into Bill Bailey.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 27 January, 2021, 03:48:24 PM
I look forward to being able to dance!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 January, 2021, 04:28:17 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 27 January, 2021, 03:07:50 PM
It seems that the hair on my head has imperial ambitions. It seems to be moving from my head and setting up a colony in my nose.

I haven't been to a barbers in ten months and I'm starting to look like some kind of Top Gear Presenter
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 27 January, 2021, 07:13:49 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 25 January, 2021, 05:03:02 PM

Nope, wrong on all counts.

I was too fat.

Never stopped me. Though I was actually sent off once for being fat. The ref gave me a yellow first then about five minutes later said "I warned you about being fat, I booked you for being fat but you've ignored me and are still fat. So off!".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 January, 2021, 07:21:17 PM
I have both versions of the Ewok victory song stuck in my head all week.  Both versions. I expect to be written up in a medical journal shortly.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 January, 2021, 07:27:40 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 January, 2021, 07:21:17 PM
I have both versions of the Ewok victory song stuck in my head all week.  Both versions. I expect to be written up in a medical journal shortly.

Here you go: this'll (https://youtu.be/BC35cQKHwzg) shift that pesky ear wurm.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 January, 2021, 07:32:42 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 January, 2021, 07:27:40 PM
Here you go: this'll (https://youtu.be/BC35cQKHwzg) shift that pesky ear wurm.

What's most disturbing is that I knew exactly what that link would be before I clicked it. And I did it anyway.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 27 January, 2021, 07:13:49 PM


Never stopped me. Though I was actually sent off once for being fat. The ref gave me a yellow first then about five minutes later said "I warned you about being fat, I booked you for being fat but you've ignored me and are still fat. So off!".


Ha! I am so stealing that for my autobiography! ;-)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 January, 2021, 08:29:19 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
Ha! I am so stealing that for my autobiography! ;-)

Presumably to be entitled "fin".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 27 January, 2021, 09:28:06 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 January, 2021, 08:29:19 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
Ha! I am so stealing that for my autobiography! ;-)

Presumably to be entitled "fin".
I would have thought "The Whole Tooth and Nothing But the Tooth".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2021, 10:39:30 PM

Shark the Herald Angel.

Obvs.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2021, 10:45:28 PM
"Cut juries to one!" screams Judge Dredd (https://newsthump.com/2021/01/28/cut-juries-to-one-screams-judge-dredd/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 29 January, 2021, 07:44:33 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9199365/Sigma-male-archetype-akin-alpha-mocked-online.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9199365/Sigma-male-archetype-akin-alpha-mocked-online.html)

Even Daily Mail is dunking on Teddy Spaghetti (aka Theodore Beale) and his Socio-sexual hierarchy. 😆
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 31 January, 2021, 11:00:49 PM
So there's a twitter thread doing the rounds all about crappy waxworks, and this one of Doc Brown looks suspiciously like Pat Mills to me... :D

(https://i.imgur.com/BE1w7gG.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 February, 2021, 12:28:30 AM
"I invented the flux capacitor but now I hear my future self is using it in the past and attempting to time travel  with a steam train! I protested to myself (by leaving a letter with a law firm who would deliver it to a future me) but was, of course, ignored. Inventors should invent their own time traveling technologies, even if they are me at a different point in the timeline!"

Quote from: Woolly on 31 January, 2021, 11:00:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/BE1w7gG.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 February, 2021, 01:32:14 PM

I heard the following rhyme today for the first time since early childhood - and it rang a vague bell here or hereabouts...

Hegetty Pegetty, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen,
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten,
Hegetty Pegetty, my black hen.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 February, 2021, 01:38:40 PM
I wonder if there are any rhymes about her male counterpart?

I'm off to google Black Cock.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 February, 2021, 03:42:14 PM

And that's how it all started, Your Honour; you have to believe me...


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 February, 2021, 11:21:04 PM
I've had big black cocks on my mind all day, here's what I came up with

Dickitty Prickitty, my big black cock,
The worlds most obnoxious alarum clock,
The chicks all say he's as hard as rock,
Dickitty Prickitty, my big black cock

Even if I do say so myself, that's a pretty good single entendré
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 February, 2021, 08:55:42 AM
(applause)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 February, 2021, 02:04:09 AM
I hear that Tom Brady is now the greatest American Hand-Egger of all time, but that might not've been the case had I been given the opportunity to play the game when I went to school.

A fact that no doubt keeps him up at night
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 February, 2021, 05:04:10 PM

Thank God that day's over - it's waaaaaay too cold to be digging out drainage ditches. Even my bones feel cold.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 February, 2021, 08:09:37 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 February, 2021, 05:04:10 PM

Thank God that day's over - it's waaaaaay too cold to be digging out drainage ditches. Even my bones feel cold.

Yep. I have a new morning chore - going onto the roof of my boat to sweep snow off the solar panels (which I bought with the money I didn't spend down the boozer during lockdown).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 February, 2021, 10:18:22 AM

No snow here to speak of, a few flakes here and there, but mostly sunny. It was quite magical (as well as perishing) in the ditch yesterday. With all the greenery around the ditch, the babbling water and the bright sunshine, it might well have been an image of high summer - if it wasn't for a gentle flurry of snow shining like stars as they drifted through the trees like cherry blossoms.

When I lived on the narrowboat in this kind of weather, one of the guiltiest pleasures was watching the ducks attempting to land on the ice. A few are experts, most are wobbly but okay, but a few are hilarious.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 February, 2021, 04:44:27 AM
Hagrid on LSD: "You're a lizard, Harry!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 February, 2021, 12:26:32 AM
Jordan Peterson bullies Himself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULZzkbITE4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2021, 12:31:08 PM
Immortality has been achieved, and my name will forever be inscribed alongside those legendary heroes of old....!

(https://i.imgur.com/VsC6ns2m.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 February, 2021, 12:35:16 PM
Hey who you calling old... I post too much here don't I!

Well done Dandontdare, I have to be honest I had a curious feeling of pride when I got into the top ten and never imagined getting to the number 2 spot... I'll not even imagine catching the glorious Tordelback who magically mixes quality with quantity to this day.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 13 February, 2021, 06:19:02 PM
I'm never going to get close.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 14 February, 2021, 08:39:10 AM
One thing to notice there is that 4 of those fine folk no longer post here and in a couple of cases haven't for several years.

However I bet many, many former boarders lurk so this is a hello to all of you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 February, 2021, 04:37:35 PM
Brainiac declares that stage 01 of his chip-implanting, humanity-enslaving project going well, but he is worried about managing stage 02: converting earth's atmosphere to house his Sirian overlords. (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56042029)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 February, 2021, 04:48:06 PM
Wow that interview taking place there, in that way is pretty surreal. I kinda assume Bill Gates has made it quite clear that of the interviewer upsets him he will make the skeletal remains of his aquatic minion ATTACK with his mind powers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 February, 2021, 07:34:18 PM
Look,  I know Barney is an incredible resource, but even so I think this is is taking it a bit too far (https://twitter.com/getmyvaccine/status/1363555453108649991?s=20).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 25 February, 2021, 10:39:08 AM
If this upcoming census finally confirms Jedi as an official religion, will that mean Star Wars fans will be protected by religious hate speech laws?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 February, 2021, 02:23:45 PM
Not from the Church of Trek.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 25 February, 2021, 02:36:03 PM

Or the Born Again Sithtians. (Although there are only two of us, er, them.)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 February, 2021, 08:08:37 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 25 February, 2021, 10:39:08 AM
If this upcoming census finally confirms Jedi as an official religion, will that mean Star Wars fans will be protected by religious hate speech laws?

More importantly will my SW figure habit be tax deductible.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 February, 2021, 10:53:51 PM
What would a truly wild Ireland look like? (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210211-rewilding-can-ireland-regrow-its-wilderness)*

*Story sponsored and funded by a Mr. Rees-Mogg of Somerset.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 February, 2021, 11:47:27 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 February, 2021, 10:53:51 PM
What would a truly wild Ireland look like? (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210211-rewilding-can-ireland-regrow-its-wilderness)*

*Story sponsored and funded by a Mr. Rees-Mogg of Somerset.

I get the feeling that the J-Dogg would prefer an unforested Ireland, where the barbarians can't hide and attack civilised folks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 February, 2021, 09:00:42 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 25 February, 2021, 10:53:51 PM
What would a truly wild Ireland look like? (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210211-rewilding-can-ireland-regrow-its-wilderness)*

I'm all for rewilding, even the tiny efforts that have been made around decommercialising forestry in Dublin have been magical, but I'd be happier if it wasn't presented as some sort of return to an edenic past state.

From archaeological evidence post-glacial Ireland appears to have had very few mammal species, for example deer and probably pig were human introductions, and the first settlers would have faced almost unbroken forests with none of the familiar trails and glades that those animals createdo in the rest of Europe. Irish elk may have been extinct in Ireland before humans arrived, lynx probably went extinct in the Mesolithic, and bears didn't outlast the Bronze Age. We're not mainland Europe, or even GB, and we never were.

The aim should be for a *new* and rich biodiversity, not a hankering after an imagined past one, or one that has never co-existed with humans.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 February, 2021, 11:38:26 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 February, 2021, 09:00:42 AMWe're not mainland Europe, or even GB, and we never were.


Yet more pre-Horned God retconning.

Interesting stuff though; I'd always thought the elk had been hunted to extinction.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 February, 2021, 12:27:35 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 February, 2021, 11:38:26 AM
Interesting stuff though; I'd always thought the elk had been hunted to extinction.

Take it with a pinch of salt (mmmm, seasoned giant venison), because experience strongly suggests I'll shortly be proved wrong, but this is going from the absence of megaloceros (or indeed red deer) bone from excavated Irish Mesolithic sites, which argues against it still being around at the time (so by 11000 BC,  give or take). In mainland Europe yes, they last longer and hunting is definitely a contributing cause, but in Ireland it's most likely the unhappy interaction of Those! Antlers! and the growth of post-glacial forests, together with the absence of other large mammals to help create clearings for browse etc.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 February, 2021, 01:31:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 26 February, 2021, 12:27:35 PM

, but in Ireland it's most likely the unhappy interaction of Those! Antlers! and the growth of post-glacial forests.

Well, that makes sense - though I do feel sorry for them, it's quite a cartoonish reason to die out.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 04 March, 2021, 11:11:37 PM
Holy sweet fuckin' Jesus bright blue Christ there's an Ulster Scots version of the census (https://census.gov.uk/ni/assets/Ulst%C3%A8r-Scotch-Hoosehaud-Speirins-Foarm-help-buik.pdf)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 04 March, 2021, 11:37:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 04 March, 2021, 11:11:37 PM
Holy sweet fuckin' Jesus bright blue Christ there's an Ulster Scots version of the census (https://census.gov.uk/ni/assets/Ulst%C3%A8r-Scotch-Hoosehaud-Speirins-Foarm-help-buik.pdf)

Ah'm probbly bein' awfae ignrant, bu'sn't thon just English written wie a phonetic accent?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 05 March, 2021, 09:38:14 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 04 March, 2021, 11:37:07 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 04 March, 2021, 11:11:37 PM
Holy sweet fuckin' Jesus bright blue Christ there's an Ulster Scots version of the census (https://census.gov.uk/ni/assets/Ulst%C3%A8r-Scotch-Hoosehaud-Speirins-Foarm-help-buik.pdf)

Ah'm probbly bein' awfae ignrant, bu'sn't thon just English written wie a phonetic accent?

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that someone with WAAAAAAY too much time on their hands is taking the piss!

That is superb!!!!!   :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2021, 10:31:46 AM
"Parotee o Astaim".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 05 March, 2021, 10:53:52 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 05 March, 2021, 09:38:14 AM
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that someone with WAAAAAAY too much time on their hands is taking the piss!

That is superb!!!!!   :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nah, it's no. It's affishil awrayt. Thers buddies thit hink it's a lengwidge, wull say it is, cuz themins hae Eyrish an gawt a payle a munny fer teachin it an putin it oan bins an rohad saynes. It's aw aboot cultyer an party o isteem wuddn't ye know, as yer by Tordels sez but spelt it wrang. Whit these fockin glypes hink iz at it's moar Prod, even win aw the fowk tawk lik thaht dependin waur they're frae, no ther raligion. It's those yins thit thocht it soonded wile cooerse afore and wahntit fowk to soond mare Inglish an aw. An it's differnt in differnt payerts uh the country onywey. Nae doot the way me ma an er famly spoke is differnt tuh thon buddies frae Awntrum ur doon the low country, so meebe yiz dinnae even unnerstan this av wrawt doon!

It'd gie ye the dry boke.

M.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2021, 11:02:59 AM
Howdy Mikey, good to see you around! 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 05 March, 2021, 12:08:37 PM
Howdy TB! It's been quite a while since I last showed up, but as I'm almost back up to date on the Prog thought I'd pop back, see what's going on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 March, 2021, 12:10:47 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 March, 2021, 11:02:59 AM
Howdy Mikey, good to see you around!

T'is.

I hear you Nordies have had a bit of trouble importing Tetley's Bitter this year for some reason.
Every cloud, eh?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2021, 12:45:21 PM
Quote from: Mikey on 05 March, 2021, 12:08:37 PM
...thought I'd pop back, see what's going on.

We're ranked No. 1 for ranking stuff these days, so there's that!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 05 March, 2021, 02:07:35 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 05 March, 2021, 12:10:47 PM

T'is.

I hear you Nordies have had a bit of trouble importing Tetley's Bitter this year for some reason.
Every cloud, eh?

You, sir, are obsessed with my imbibement of said beer. For the last time:

There. Was. No. Smithwicks.

But you can get Tetley's shipped to Norn OK as long as you pay the extras. Or so I've been told  :-X
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 March, 2021, 08:55:33 PM
I've just read Pete Brown's book about brewing a keg of IPA and taking it to India by ship. I'd always thought Bass was an Irish beer that was more popular North of the border, like Harp. I know nowt
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 March, 2021, 09:52:01 PM
Fuck I'd love a pint of Bass.

Actually I'd settle for a pint of piss, or even Tennants, if I could drink it in a pub.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 06 March, 2021, 09:48:29 AM
Interesting piece on people who claim to have magna carta or common-law rights - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56295261 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56295261)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 March, 2021, 12:44:47 PM
I was painting a T-Rex on a wall yesterday and started looking into dinosaurs - things have changed drastically since the days of Satanus and Bloodfang.  I already knew adult tyrannosaurs walked horizontally, not vertically, and had feathers (which I'd originally thought Pat Mills made up for that Flesh story painted by Carl Critchlow), but I didn't know a baby one (probably) looked like this:

(https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+t-rex&sxsrf=ALeKk02fqWummvMMJyqe2E-7DytZskD3Og:1615639373702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8kdHXpa3vAhVwUBUIHRmGAnYQ_AUoAXoECAkQAw&biw=1280&bih=591#imgrc=BcmhX4rVIPsPuM)

https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+t-rex&sxsrf=ALeKk02fqWummvMMJyqe2E-7DytZskD3Og:1615639373702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8kdHXpa3vAhVwUBUIHRmGAnYQ_AUoAXoECAkQAw&biw=1280&bih=591#imgrc=BcmhX4rVIPsPuM (https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+t-rex&sxsrf=ALeKk02fqWummvMMJyqe2E-7DytZskD3Og:1615639373702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8kdHXpa3vAhVwUBUIHRmGAnYQ_AUoAXoECAkQAw&biw=1280&bih=591#imgrc=BcmhX4rVIPsPuM)

Also, all birds are considered non-extinct dinosaurs by paleontologists. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 March, 2021, 01:01:09 PM
Oh it's almost certain now most late Cretaceous therapods looked like giant chickens.
People say this is lame. These people where never been chased by a randy angry Cockerel as a child. Those things are TERRIFYING.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 13 March, 2021, 01:10:23 PM
Yeah, even though I've been down with the feathers for a good number of years, it's still hard to shake the images of baldy dinos hanging out around a volcano, doing a bunch of baldy dino stuff.

When my nephew was a toddler and just learning to speak he once pointed to a pic of some theropod and said 'bird!'. His granda corrected him, then I corrected his granda - who refused to accept it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 March, 2021, 01:27:44 PM
Quote from: Mikey on 13 March, 2021, 01:10:23 PM
Yeah, even though I've been down with the feathers for a good number of years, it's still hard to shake the images of baldy dinos hanging out around a volcano, doing a bunch of baldy dino stuff.


...which is exactly what I'm painting!  The brief was a volcano, but you can't have a volcano without baldy dinosaurs, in my book.  I just couldn't bring myself to add the feathers - sorry, science.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Mikey on 13 March, 2021, 02:02:05 PM
...but thank you Harryhausen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 March, 2021, 02:04:08 PM
The best.
(http://www.moriareviews.com/rongulator/wp-content/uploads/Valley-of-Gwangi-1969-5.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 March, 2021, 03:02:59 PM
I was just saying to the kids the other day we should watch that. To my horror they turned their noses up at the chance... I hate my children...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 March, 2021, 03:56:46 PM

Did you know that the "language circuit" (the particular arrangement of neurons and such responsible for human-level language) in the human brain is absent in other primates but exists in dolphins, whales, and certain birds such as ravens, parrots and hummingbirds.

One of the possible reasons for this is the advantage archaic species may have gained through the ability to recognise and reproduce the calls of prey animals and rivals. So it's entirely possible that some dinosaurs had forms of language.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 March, 2021, 04:22:34 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 13 March, 2021, 02:04:08 PM
The best.
(http://www.moriareviews.com/rongulator/wp-content/uploads/Valley-of-Gwangi-1969-5.jpg)

Now THAT'S a tyrannosaurus rex.  Menacingly upright and scaly like a dragon looks way cooler than horizontal and feathery like a chicken; therefore the science is incorrect and they looked exactly like Satanus.

Sharky, that's mental.  Jurassic Park would have been way more interesting with subtitles for the dinosaurs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 March, 2021, 04:50:02 PM

It is an intriguing idea.

(SHARKSPLAINING ALERT)

There are, the theory goes, three basic components to language.

The first component is understanding (mainly) that noises have an effect on the outside world. An (imperfect) example is cats, who know that making a noise can get them fed or let outside, but can't really modulate the sounds they make very well, so "meow" means just about everything.

The second component is an understanding that outside noises have meaning. An example of this is dogs, who better understand that different words have different meanings, which is why they're easier to train. They cannot, however, make their own meaningful noises, either physically or mentally. (This, alongside the first level is the level our ape cousins have achieved, although to a higher sophistication, but they still cannot connect concepts to individual sounds of their own making (words)).

Human-level communication (shared with the aforementioned animals) consists of the first two elements combined with the ability to physically modulate our voices with great precision and the cognitive ability to attach abstract meanings to sounds so that we can not only recognise sounds and meanings but also reproduce them accurately.

Our language skills may have been honed even further, it is suggested, by our hands. How often do we talk with our hands without even realising it? Our language may have started out as a basic survival advantage as with dolphins and birds but, crucially, we also have expressive hands. So I guess that means Adam was Italian. (For Grud's sake don't tell the Pope.)

(SHARKSPLANATION ENDS.)

Harryhausen trumps Darwin every time.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 March, 2021, 05:22:09 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 March, 2021, 04:22:34 PM
Now THAT'S a tyrannosaurus rex.  Menacingly upright and scaly like a dragon looks way cooler than horizontal and feathery like a chicken; therefore the science is incorrect and they looked exactly like Satanus.

Allosaurus - its an allosaurus old chap...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 March, 2021, 05:29:29 PM

It's a Hausensaur.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 March, 2021, 11:34:32 PM
Feck - I'd forgotten about the T-Rex's earlier cousin.  The younger me would weep at what I've become.  Sharky - I've had a few and will read your post about language in the morning, when I have the wherewithal to do so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 16 March, 2021, 04:40:20 PM
Doing some meg-indexing and found Rennie's Bile Duct where he made predictions for 2004...

QuoteAlas, Shako will still not return to the pages of 2000 AD.
He was right - Shako didn't return in 2004. We had to wait until 2020 for Shako to appear in every single story published that year.


QuoteNeither will Ant Wars.
Well, again, right. But we got Zancudo in 2005, and The Red Seas vs. Ant Wars in 2020. Was Spurrier reacting to Rennie's bile by writing Zancudo? Or just a co-inky-dink?


QuoteRogue Trooper will again take his leave of the pages of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic. Years from now, some other idiot will take a stab at the character. He, too, will encounter the problems inherent in trying to write a tough, gritty war story featuring a talking hat.
Realpolitik (by Rennie) was the last RT until 2010's Dead Ringer (GFD), then Guy Adams has a go in 2014, and on it goes with several writers having brief stabs at the character (including Rennie again, of course).


QuoteBlackhawk will still not return.
True. Although, Aquila was inspired by it years later.


QuoteThe Mighty One will run an Earthlet's letter claiming that his script droids are riddled with a dangerous and delusional notions of Stalinist Liberalism. Nerve Centre lettercol chaos and internet message board outrage will ensue for months to come.
This just happened, last week.


Quote2000 AD will run a cover featuring one of its characters – possibly Dredd – aiming a gun out of the page at the reader.
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1393.jpg)   (http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1404.jpg)


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 March, 2021, 05:19:24 PM
Heh. Used to love that page of the Meg, me. Rennie being an unashamed shit stirrer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 16 March, 2021, 05:32:38 PM
Yeah - he has a go at artists (226) and editors (227) then takes a month off, so Bishop takes over the column and has a go at writers (229). Hardy har.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 17 March, 2021, 05:21:03 PM
I picked up some very, very, very, very, very, VERY, very, very, very dark blue socks today.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 18 March, 2021, 02:08:24 PM
https://youtu.be/-S8a70KXZlI (https://youtu.be/-S8a70KXZlI)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: zombemybabynow on 18 March, 2021, 07:34:21 PM
Re: Threadjacking!

« Reply #7438 on: 17 March, 2021, 05:21:03 PM »
Quote
I picked up some very, very, very, very, very, VERY, very, very, very dark blue socks today.


Obviously not a priest
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 March, 2021, 03:03:43 PM
If you want something to make you feel REALLY old - today is William Shatner's 90th birthday  :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 March, 2021, 05:45:00 PM

Cripes. If his bladder's anything like mine, these days he'll certainly be going where no one's gone before.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 March, 2021, 08:19:54 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 22 March, 2021, 05:45:00 PM

Cripes. If his bladder's anything like mine, these days he'll certainly be going where no one's gone before.
:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 March, 2021, 09:14:01 PM
Here, I think a wee word of appreciation for the mods/admins is in order.

I'm sure I'm not the only handsome dickhead that doesn't use social media and hasn't had access to a pub to vent their nonsense.

Thanks for tolerating my bullshit. I'd buy ye a pint but I live across the sea and *broad gesture at the world right now*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 March, 2021, 09:22:28 PM
Mea culpa - I've made a few dick moves on the board in the past month or so, on reflection. Trying to do better and not get so rankled about the minor stuff. Reminds me of an old sketch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHySYPTbFLM) [that contains expletives].
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 March, 2021, 10:17:55 PM
I lost my rag today - and yeah the Mods do deserve credit for keeping calm heads and an even handed approach.

I also want to say to Legendary Shark - hoping you are checking in.

I lost my rag today. I disagree completely with some significent things you say - and I'm not going to pretend I think it was wrong to call them out. That said I don't think this forum is the place for that and so I tend to keep away from such stuff normally. But today I failed miserably and what I wanted to say came out in snark and snide comments that lacked any dignity for which I am sorry.

Hope you are okay.

Colin
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 March, 2021, 10:38:53 PM
I haven't always been civil on this board either, but I swear to Grud remembering this cartoon has saved me a few times from losing the plot on other threads.  The difference for me is that I live alone, and as such am both voices.  Of course, sometimes the sillier me on the right wins.



(https://thefireescapeartist.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/someone-is-wrong-on-internet.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 March, 2021, 10:51:11 PM
Relevant XKCD (https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 March, 2021, 11:03:56 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 30 March, 2021, 10:51:11 PM
Relevant XKCD (https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/)

Ooh, now that's clever.  I thought about how it would need to continue to [spoiler] infinity to really work, then I clicked on the link.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 31 March, 2021, 01:26:32 AM
In CSS code you can apply padding to an element individually, by side, like this:

padding-top: 3px;
padding-bottom: 2px; /*I know, padding-bottom is funny*/
padding-left: 3px;
padding-right: 3px;

OR, you can do it all in one, like this:

padding: 3px 3px 2px 3px;

The problem is that it's difficult to know which of those four values is the top, bottom, left or right. The secret to this conundrum is to remember your Star Trek - and, in particular, The Trouble With Tribbles, because the order is Top, Right, Bottom, Left.

The TRouBLe with TRiBbLes!

(https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/tos-thetroublewithtribbles27.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 March, 2021, 08:54:31 AM
Fecking tribbles!  I do remember the Star Trek episodes in question, but I'm more familiar with them from a ridiculously difficult, if not impossible, room from Jet Set Willy 2.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 April, 2021, 09:17:30 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/6b/cc/f0/6bccf0ae9b6e433b63974727c6a41bc5.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dog Deever on 02 April, 2021, 01:25:22 PM
A car got firebombed across the road a couple of nights ago, it was a fair blaze even though it was hosing with rain. It got carted away yesterday and was absolutely gutted. Local gossip is that 4 petrol bombs were used which seems remarkably inefficient. I did hear a loud bang like a car windscreen getting hit so I can only assume the first one didn't go through and the other minor bangs afterwards were the remaining petrol bombs being thrown at the vehicle.
It wasn't even that long before the cops arrived- taking so long and having to use so many seems like stupid risk- a ceramic bit off a spark plug will go through a car side window like a hot knife through butter (a molotov is just gonnae break on a reinforced window) and with access to flammable interiors it would be more of 'one and done' then hoof it doon the road.
Still, despite poor performance rating there was at least some excitement for a while. Word is the car belonged to a guy who just a few months ago was knocking round doors to see if anyone had seen his car getting vandalised just outside my house- apparently someone spray painted it and keyed the shit out of it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 April, 2021, 08:28:17 PM
'Kinell.  Hope everyone was alright.  Wonder if insurance covers that kind of thing?  Similar things used to happen a lot in the estate where I used to live.  I don't really miss it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 02 April, 2021, 08:46:09 PM
Dog - you need a new thread called "things you wouldn't put on your CV" or "skills for the apocalypse" - you've got the most efficient way to molotov a car. I know how to jimmy a Yale (purely for altruistic purposes, I should add). Does anyone know how to make moonshine?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 03 April, 2021, 12:37:28 AM
As a matter of fact moonshine was part of my work in my first year at uni. It's surprisingly easy. My professor took it one step further and showed us how to make it in about ten seconds with the right equipment.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dog Deever on 03 April, 2021, 01:16:00 AM
I believe it might have been over the heads of relationship issues, from what's been said (which means 'possibly not even true'). There was a bit of 'shouting the odds incoherently' a wee while before so I'd guess there might have been fisticuffs and repercussions but that's speculation based on... well... observations of the neighbourhood spanning several years-
like the time I was walking home at night and happened upon the aftermath of a stabby fight where one belligerent was complaining bitterly "Ah've been stabbed by a waster!" (like that is worse than being stabbed by a community pillar) while his GF tried to usher him back inside "jist leave it", etc . At the time, all I could think was that I was mildly surprised that it hadn't happened to him before because I reckon half the neighbourhood would've taken a turn if they thought they'd get away with it. In fairness, he has been a lot quieter since then, so ye ken... sometimes it does take a bam to make a bam stop being a bam.

There's been a lot of nuts stuff that just shouldn't happen in the middle of some fields in a fairly sparsely populated rural location- the village is fairly notorious throughout the north of Scotland as punching respectably above its weight for absolute belters- it really is like a dark stain saying you come from here and I always make a point of saying I'm from not from here, I just have to live here.

It's not actually that bad though, it's more other peoples perceptions of the place- it's not like we're under the thrall of violent gangs (you have to go to Elgin for that kind of upmarket criminality)- all the nonsense is always personal and the heidbangers can punch, stab and firebomb each other as much as they want and I'll just never care.

Saying that, we used to have a local cop station but it got shut down years ago... because it got firebombed... and there were 3 pubs, then one of them... got torched...

Quote from: Funt Solo on 02 April, 2021, 08:46:09 PM
Dog - you need a new thread called "things you wouldn't put on your CV" or "skills for the apocalypse" - you've got the most efficient way to molotov a car. I know how to jimmy a Yale (purely for altruistic purposes, I should add). Does anyone know how to make moonshine?

Logical deduction from 'known stuff'... but I have comedy stereotyping and a username to live up to.
:-X

Cold tea wine, yes- ready in around two weeks but absolutely foul beyond thole. And calling it 'wine' is a not inconsiderable stretch- it is 'the tipple of the desperate'... a man of your refinement has no use for this knowledge. Adding vodka to your tea would likely taste better and have a similar conceptual distance from 'wine'. Drinking it is very much the 'sniffing tippex' of alcohol consumption.
But not moonshine specifically, no- 'home distilling' is probably somewhere on you tube though- I once got recommended a video on how to manufacture 'natural painkillers' from poppy heads...

The comments were hilarious. I'm not sure what to make of the person who uploaded that- 'deranged hippy' springs to mind. I hadn't even been watching anything remotely dodgy either- rotator cuff exercises IIRC.
Looks easy enough though...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Smith on 03 April, 2021, 07:38:22 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 02 April, 2021, 08:46:09 PM
Dog - you need a new thread called "things you wouldn't put on your CV" or "skills for the apocalypse" - you've got the most efficient way to molotov a car. I know how to jimmy a Yale (purely for altruistic purposes, I should add). Does anyone know how to make moonshine?
Yes?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 April, 2021, 02:57:12 PM
Why is egg nog associated with Christmas and not Easter?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 April, 2021, 08:17:12 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 03 April, 2021, 02:57:12 PM
Why is egg nog associated with Christmas and not Easter?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 April, 2021, 06:47:09 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 April, 2021, 08:17:12 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 03 April, 2021, 02:57:12 PM
Why is egg nog associated with Christmas and not Easter?

Here is why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy20Hmytkmo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy20Hmytkmo)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 07 April, 2021, 05:48:17 PM
Jordan Peterson triggered by Captain America (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/07/jordan-peterson-shocked-by-captain-america-villain-espousing-10-rules-for-life)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 07 April, 2021, 08:08:50 PM
... and apparently so are a lot of comics 'enthusiasts'!

https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/falcon-winter-soldier-star-death-threats-captain-america/

:o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 April, 2021, 09:14:29 PM
That has to be whatever the current bizarro-world version of astroturfing is. Doesn't it...?  :-\
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 April, 2021, 10:07:30 PM

Of all the things in this world deserving of hatred, actors acting roles has to be amongst the very least of them - if such can be included at all. My heart goes out to all these hateful human beings - may they each find love and all the joys it brings.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 10:25:40 PM
Aye. I'm reminded of the lady who used to play Hilda from Coronation Street and how she used to get verbal abuse on the street. I mean, did people realise that she wasn't REALLY Hilda?

Actually it could have been Mrs Mangel from Neighbours either. One of the two anyway.  Probably both in fact.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 April, 2021, 10:57:17 PM

I have a Hilda Ogden/Jean Alexander story.

When I was young and not quite legendary yet, I worked at Woolworth's in Southport at weekends and school holidays. I saw Ms Alexander, who lived in Southport (or maybe Formby) at the time, walking through the shop but, as she was out of costume, I recognised her but didn't know who she was. Assuming that she was one of my Grandmother's seemingly infinite group of friends, I smiled and said hello.

She looked at me like I'd just pissed in her handbag and marched off in a huff.

Some years later, at Manchester Airport, I was told to f*ck off by someone I didn't recognise who turned out to be George Harrison.

Stars. They're an odd bunch.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 11:34:32 PM
Heh.  Sounds a bit Hilda-ish alright. 

On a less impressive scale, I was doing a painting job in the city centre a couple of years ago and saw someone I knew on the street.  I opened my mouth to start talking but then realised I couldn't remember who he was.  He looked back at me equally confusedly, and then I realised I didn't know him at all, he was merely Todd Unctious from Father Ted, so I thought I'd better close my mouth and walk on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 April, 2021, 11:41:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 10:25:40 PM
I mean, did people realise that she wasn't REALLY Hilda?

Forget about that and answer one simple question; why did you let them capture Ragnar, you useless bastard?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 11:57:37 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 07 April, 2021, 11:41:52 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 10:25:40 PM
I mean, did people realise that she wasn't REALLY Hilda?

Forget about that and answer one simple question; why did you let them capture Ragnar, you useless bastard?

:lol:

Well, a simple question deserves a simple answer:  He was long dead by the time I arrived in Kattegat, County Wicklow.  Also, depending on the day, I served King Harald, Bjorn or Ivar, so choosing sides got a bit complicated.

I do remember Alexander Ludwig accidentally dropping his towel once, and the extra sitting beside me trying to alert him by calling out 'BJORN! BJORN! BJORNIE, YOUR TOWEL!'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 08 April, 2021, 04:17:09 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 07 April, 2021, 10:57:17 PM

Stars. They're an odd bunch.

Puts me in mind of my experience with politicians.  Upset Nicholas Ridley when he was in the cabinet (this was about the time he was all over the news with some rather unpleasant comments about Germans ...)

He turns up at Brize one Sunday afternoon for a flight to Brussels.  Turns up on his tod and then gets really upset when I ask him for some identification ... "I'm the secretary of state for trade and industry!" ... "Thank you, can I see some identification please sir ..."  Not a happy bunny!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 April, 2021, 09:22:50 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 11:57:37 PM
I do remember Alexander Ludwig accidentally dropping his towel once, and the extra sitting beside me trying to alert him by calling out 'BJORN! BJORN! BJORNIE, YOUR TOWEL!'

Brilliant.

I got pissed with some of the senior crew one night in the beer garden in The Harbour Bar (™ The best bar in the world), and they shared an amusing anecdote about Travis Fimmel; All cast and crew regularly received a bun and apple for their lunch break, and a horrible waste of good, natural food an amusing pattern developed over time wherein everyone would just chuck their apple on the ground and eat the bun.
One afternoon Ragnar decidedly to jokingly lob his apple at a group of extra's, but misjudged his own strength and skulled some poor young wan. She was ok though.

A few other harmless but less than savory stories shared also, nothing I can repeat unfortunately.
Skol.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 10 April, 2021, 08:04:40 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 11:34:32 PM
Heh.  Sounds a bit Hilda-ish alright. 

On a less impressive scale, I was doing a painting job in the city centre a couple of years ago and saw someone I knew on the street.  I opened my mouth to start talking but then realised I couldn't remember who he was.  He looked back at me equally confusedly, and then I realised I didn't know him at all, he was merely Todd Unctious from Father Ted, so I thought I'd better close my mouth and walk on.

Sounds like you made the right decision (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/ex-father-ted-actor-given-six-months-to-pay-150-fine-1.4104838).
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Post by: von Boom on 10 April, 2021, 10:11:26 PM
There must be some scientific reason for how women remember dates men would never think about. I was 'informed' that today is the day I proposed to my missus. How do you survive this sort of thing?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 10 April, 2021, 10:45:24 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 10 April, 2021, 08:04:40 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 07 April, 2021, 11:34:32 PM
Heh.  Sounds a bit Hilda-ish alright. 

On a less impressive scale, I was doing a painting job in the city centre a couple of years ago and saw someone I knew on the street.  I opened my mouth to start talking but then realised I couldn't remember who he was.  He looked back at me equally confusedly, and then I realised I didn't know him at all, he was merely Todd Unctious from Father Ted, so I thought I'd better close my mouth and walk on.

Sounds like you made the right decision (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/ex-father-ted-actor-given-six-months-to-pay-150-fine-1.4104838).

Feck. He really is Todd Unctious, isn't he?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 April, 2021, 08:37:54 PM
BBC clickbait:

(https://i.imgur.com/riUM59b.png)

This made me think the answer was either "scantily-clad dancing in the sunshine", or perhaps observing said. Turns out it was an article on nostalgia. Clickbait ain't like it used to be.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 12 April, 2021, 09:15:43 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 10 April, 2021, 10:11:26 PM
There must be some scientific reason for how women remember dates men would never think about. I was 'informed' that today is the day I proposed to my missus. How do you survive this sort of thing?

You remember these dates by forgetting them once.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 April, 2021, 09:27:08 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 12 April, 2021, 09:15:43 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 10 April, 2021, 10:11:26 PM
There must be some scientific reason for how women remember dates men would never think about. I was 'informed' that today is the day I proposed to my missus. How do you survive this sort of thing?

You remember these dates by forgetting them once.

At work I constantly have to ask people's date of birth for data protection - one chap, calling on behalf of his wife, couldn't remember her DOB and was forced to ask her ... she did not sound amused.

Not as bad as the banker who had to ask his PA to remind him of his children's birthdays though.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 April, 2021, 09:38:29 PM

I'm terrible with dates. I can only remember three birthdays - my own, my brother's and Jesus Christ's. And I'm pretty sure that last one's wrong.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 14 April, 2021, 12:30:00 PM
Came across this fascinating article today. I can't see the Public Libraries here in the Emerald Isle using Curses as part of their own general, day-to-day operations anytime soon. But speaking personally, I might be tempted to try out the method, to guard my own modest library of books, comics, graphic novels etc.  :)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/protect-your-library-the-medieval-way-with-horrifying-book-curses

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 April, 2021, 07:52:59 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/zn2iailnvft61.jpg?width=665&auto=webp&s=fa98a87c26a47e1828b00dcfe35fa82be37cc88e)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 April, 2021, 09:07:50 PM

I know that guy, he's very posh but didn't half swear as he jumped out of the window. All we did was ask him to deal with our crèche.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 06:36:05 PM
Well, I've just finished listening to the audiobook of Around the World in 80 Days and learned what everyone else seems to have known already: nobody in it travels in a balloon, or even sees one.

Mind you, I haven't been so nervous about the conclusion of a story since Supersurf 10.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 April, 2021, 07:10:38 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 06:36:05 PM
Well, I've just finished listening to the audiobook of Around the World in 80 Days and learned what everyone else seems to have known already: nobody in it travels in a balloon, or even sees one.

Mind you, I haven't been so nervous about the conclusion of a story since Supersurf 10.

I had to check - so they added the balloon into the Disnae movie. So, if you were going to do a comic version, would you include the balloon or not?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 April, 2021, 07:25:49 PM
I've heard the balloon comes from the stage play where it was introduced because it was easy to, well, stage. This was then carried over in to the movie with David Niven, which adapted the play more than the book, because a lot of the heavy lifting with scripting and whatnot was already done. Apparently versions with the balloon are titled Around the World in Eighty Days, where the original was Around the World in 80 Days. Or vice versa. Big citation needed on all that, so take it with a pinch of salt.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 07:30:24 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 April, 2021, 07:10:38 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 06:36:05 PM
Well, I've just finished listening to the audiobook of Around the World in 80 Days and learned what everyone else seems to have known already: nobody in it travels in a balloon, or even sees one.

Mind you, I haven't been so nervous about the conclusion of a story since Supersurf 10.

I had to check - so they added the balloon into the Disnae movie. So, if you were going to do a comic version, would you include the balloon or not?

So you're saying Jules avoids balloons but Walt Disnae? Sorry.

The comics version... Not sure about the balloon. I'd probably change it a bit though, to include lots of drinking and swearing, some blasphemous mocking of Christianity, loads of castration and a bit of buggery. All these with the stipulation that I can't write comics, so the project would be ghost-written by another, more famous Irish comics writer.

EDIT: With lots of Pogues quotes.

EDIT 2: Cheers Mister Pops, sounds as good a theory as I've heard.
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Post by: broodblik on 19 April, 2021, 07:31:23 PM
0b111110100
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 April, 2021, 10:02:09 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 07:30:24 PM
So you're saying Jules avoids balloons but Walt Disnae?

The one I got told as a kid was:

- What's the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney?
- Bing sings but Walt disnae.

Using Bing dates it a bit - we need to update it for a modern audience. Who sings now?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 10:14:57 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 April, 2021, 10:02:09 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 19 April, 2021, 07:30:24 PM
So you're saying Jules avoids balloons but Walt Disnae?

The one I got told as a kid was:

- What's the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney?
- Bing sings but Walt disnae.

Using Bing dates it a bit - we need to update it for a modern audience. Who sings now?

Good question! Is Ed Sheeran still popular with the kiddies?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 April, 2021, 10:49:47 PM
That Scottish bloke sang a drunken belter of a ballad within the last five years - let's see if I can find out his name by Googling "scottish male singer" ...

... yup - it's Lewis Capaldi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABLecsR5UE)!


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 April, 2021, 06:52:03 PM
Never-meet-your-heroes storyline in The Simpsons falls foul of gurning narcissist Morrissey as he fails to accept a small amount of reasonable criticism in a bucket of heartfelt homage. Film at 11! (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56813256)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 April, 2021, 01:21:24 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 April, 2021, 06:52:03 PM
Never-meet-your-heroes storyline in The Simpsons falls foul of gurning narcissist Morrissey as he fails to accept a small amount of reasonable criticism in a bucket of heartfelt homage. Film at 11! (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56813256)

Aye, I've seen a lot of headlines about how Morrissey has reacted to a caricature of him whining by whining.  I'll never stop listening to The Smiths, but Christ, Stephen Patrick, just stop talking already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 April, 2021, 09:58:08 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 10 February, 2021, 08:09:37 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 February, 2021, 05:04:10 PM

Thank God that day's over - it's waaaaaay too cold to be digging out drainage ditches. Even my bones feel cold.

Yep. I have a new morning chore - going onto the roof of my boat to sweep snow off the solar panels (which I bought with the money I didn't spend down the boozer during lockdown).

Just looking through this thread and found this. Fecking crikey, I was sunbathing on the same roof today, and it feels like I posted that quoted post a few days ago.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 April, 2021, 07:26:33 AM

Only difference for me is that it's now way too warm to be digging out drainage ditches. >Grumble, whinge, moan, etc.<

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 April, 2021, 12:06:43 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 April, 2021, 07:26:33 AM

Only difference for me is that it's now way too warm to be digging out drainage ditches. >Grumble, whinge, moan, etc.<

:lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 April, 2021, 10:42:09 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 28 April, 2021, 12:23:54 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 28 April, 2021, 10:42:09 AM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?

Happy 500th Page Anniversary, Proudhuff!  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 28 April, 2021, 12:43:15 PM
a 500th anniversary for henry viii, too, being that many years since he was made 'defender of the faith'.
are they still officially chosen by god?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 April, 2021, 12:51:51 PM

Aren't we all?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 28 April, 2021, 01:42:02 PM
Many are chosen, few are selected.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 29 April, 2021, 01:26:19 PM
Wherever Peter St John is now, he would still appear to be in control of that poor guy he found fiddling with himself in a rubber room.  He's even sending Tony to his favourite barber's now.

(https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article20483040.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_tbJPG.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 29 April, 2021, 03:35:23 PM
Strangely enough - I'm getting a 'young Bill Hartnell' vibe from that.

Who'd like to see the adventures of Tony Blair as Dr Who?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 April, 2021, 04:01:34 PM

"It is clear that the Ood have Weapons of Galactic Destruction which may be deployed in 45 microseconds and the only way to be safe, as the Dalek Intelligence Force reports, is to exterminate the whole Ood species from a temporal orbit with shadow-quantumised thermobarbaric splinter bombs and unilethal genetically specific meltgas. Only by doing this can we achieve a lasting intergalactic peace."

"But, Master..."

"Oh, and disintegrate K9 for promoting doubt."

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 29 April, 2021, 04:29:13 PM
Well, fair point.  But you've got to admit, 2021 Tony has morphed from 2001 Tony to 2001 Pete.

(https://suggestedformaturereaders.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/zzzenith-p5-crop.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 29 April, 2021, 07:16:51 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/O6XIfk4.png)

Horror movie in my head just got worse.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 April, 2021, 07:37:02 PM
Shirley, that's a mummy-to-be?

ZING!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 April, 2021, 09:38:59 PM

Funny mummied mummy got love in her tummy.

I'll get me shroud...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 May, 2021, 11:30:08 AM
Mornin all, any thoroughly interesting discussions on the forum over the weekend?

...

...

AIEEEE!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 03 May, 2021, 12:14:54 PM
"I'm bursting with fiction" (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/03/im-bursting-with-fiction-alan-moore-announces-five-volume-fantasy-epic)

Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic plus short story collection.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 May, 2021, 12:59:46 PM
Cool!  Also thanks for reminding me of the term 'Boltzmann Brains' - for some reason I was thinking about the concept yesterday and was wracking my own Boltzmann brain trying to remember what it was called.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 May, 2021, 01:48:42 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 03 May, 2021, 12:14:54 PM
Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic plus short story collection.

This is the best news I've heard in ages, I didn't know whether he was working on anything these days. Massive fan of the Northampton books, so particularly keen to see the London one.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 May, 2021, 02:25:57 PM
Let's just hope the TV version of the fantasy series doesn't overtake the book and then he doesn't bother with the last two.

But yeah, I'm looking forward to these hugely.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 May, 2021, 07:42:44 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 May, 2021, 02:25:57 PM
Let's just hope the TV version of the fantasy series doesn't overtake the book and then he doesn't bother with the last two.

Beardist.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 03 May, 2021, 10:13:24 PM
I always think of George R.R. Martin's choices:

A. Sit at the keyboard and write a book.
B. Do whatever I want for the rest of my life because I'm rich beyond the dreams of avarice.


Whoo! Tough one...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 May, 2021, 12:13:30 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 May, 2021, 10:13:24 PM
B. Do whatever I want for the rest of my life because I'm rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Alas this very calculation delivered unto us the further thoughts of JK Rowling.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 May, 2021, 01:23:50 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 May, 2021, 07:42:44 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 May, 2021, 02:25:57 PM
Let's just hope the TV version of the fantasy series doesn't overtake the book and then he doesn't bother with the last two.

Beardist.

Some of my best friends have beards.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 04 May, 2021, 01:42:21 PM
I need to get more sleep. I signed a card for my mum without really looking at it and then realised it was a condolences card. Thank Tharg I didn't post it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 05 May, 2021, 03:09:23 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/6wj1sqE.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 05 May, 2021, 01:51:39 PM
Well, that certainly alters my perspective.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dog Deever on 06 May, 2021, 04:10:03 PM
Couple of big hairy grannies in my garden today. I was wondering what kind of butterfly/ moth they would turn into and did a quick google image search. Forgot my filters were off.
Didn't find out what they turned into. Probably moths- I dislike moths.

Didn't care much for google's images of hairy grannies either.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 06 May, 2021, 04:48:06 PM
Quote from: Dog Deever on 06 May, 2021, 04:10:03 PM
Couple of big hairy grannies in my garden today.

Tea::Keyboard interface achieved.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 May, 2021, 12:28:23 PM
Don't know about youse, but I could do with a fuckin drink.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 07 May, 2021, 12:53:28 PM
Several, so I can have a good wallow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 07 May, 2021, 01:58:30 PM
I've just had one. It feels a little fraudulent in a way, not knowing him as well most of you did, but I feel really shaken by this news.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 07 May, 2021, 04:10:54 PM
The spam has been reported.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: sheridan on 07 May, 2021, 04:12:56 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 07 May, 2021, 04:10:54 PM
The spam has been reported.

...and removed, mere minutes after appearing - well done moderator-bots!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 May, 2021, 05:37:37 PM
(https://intelligentcontacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/spam-spam-spam.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 11 May, 2021, 12:08:19 AM
Meanwhile in the Emerald Isle, with the restrictions lifted - and hair salons and barbers reopened - after months of lockdown, the rush for make-up's and hair-do's begins in earnest.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/9DinPR8bzFsmf74j9W/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47om2sj6ixi156bw9bjp285euqxnfyz5s117oc9oqy&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 May, 2021, 07:56:04 AM
  :lol:

I think the last time I had a haircut was 15 years ago, but fair play, a lot of people seem very happy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 May, 2021, 07:59:37 AM

One of our gardening clients yesterday said she was looking forward to hugging being allowed again.

Hugging.

Ffs.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 11 May, 2021, 01:51:54 PM
When I had my first haircut for months between lockdowns 1 and 2 I said to my barber that I'd considered getting some clippers to do it myself, but it probably would've looked shit. "Oh mate" he replied " you want to see some of the haircuts I've had through the door this last week"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 May, 2021, 02:34:12 PM

#1 buzz cut. Wait for it to start itching and repeat. Optional full-head wet shave for peak sexiness.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 11 May, 2021, 02:37:10 PM
You should have got the clippers! I would have hoped everyone would have gone for the chance to either shave their heads into some kind of Mad-Max-esque cut or grow their hair long during lockdown.

I decided to grow my beard out and it now looks awesome. I'm going to try and keep it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 May, 2021, 02:40:10 PM

My moustache is very expensive to keep. It eats its own weight in crumbs every day.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 11 May, 2021, 02:56:12 PM
That's the facial hair downside - I live in fear of the time when I might be called upon to eat soup / a donut / anything with crumbly pastry or cream in it in company again. I don't want to look like Mr. Twit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: CalHab on 11 May, 2021, 02:58:49 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 May, 2021, 01:51:54 PM
When I had my first haircut for months between lockdowns 1 and 2 I said to my barber that I'd considered getting some clippers to do it myself, but it probably would've looked shit. "Oh mate" he replied " you want to see some of the haircuts I've had through the door this last week"

My barber said "When did you last get this cut?!?" with an expression of horror when I went in. I was a bit confused. There was a lockdown. It was on the telly and everything.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 11 May, 2021, 03:21:12 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 May, 2021, 07:59:37 AM

One of our gardening clients yesterday said she was looking forward to hugging being allowed again.

Hugging.

Ffs.

Hopefully, THIS is not the kind of hugging she will get. ( I mean, you never know what you're going to find in some gardens, these days.)  :)

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1167058597.0336/raf,750x1000,075,t,FFFFFF:97ab1c12de.u3.jpg

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 May, 2021, 03:47:54 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 11 May, 2021, 02:58:49 PM
My barber said "When did you last get this cut?!?"

Am expecting the same comment from ol' Ed in a few weeks.
Never really had long hair before, but must admit that the 10 second application of a bobbin or clip is pretty handy compared to a 10 minute comb and style.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 May, 2021, 06:07:50 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 11 May, 2021, 03:47:54 PM
Quote from: CalHab on 11 May, 2021, 02:58:49 PM
My barber said "When did you last get this cut?!?"

Am expecting the same comment from ol' Ed in a few weeks.
Never really had long hair before, but must admit that the 10 second application of a bobbin or clip is pretty handy compared to a 10 minute comb and style.

I haven't looked back since I stopped cutting mine.  I do appreciate that I'm lucky to be in a position to do so, of course; both my brothers (one of whom used to have hip-length dreads) are bald.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 May, 2021, 08:17:18 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 May, 2021, 06:07:50 PM
I haven't looked back since I stopped cutting mine. 

Only a certain few can pull it off convincingly, which is why I'll be venturing to upper Abbey Street later this month.

In other words:

What I think I look like; Snake in 'Metal Gear Solid V'.
What I actually look like; An overweight mid-life crisis.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 May, 2021, 09:34:06 PM

Hell, I'm just about perfect. Surrounded by mirrors, me.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 11 May, 2021, 10:56:54 PM
And in keeping with the reopening of various activities, spare a thought - and guffaw or two - for this lady, who receives some unexpected and unwelcome news from her local golf club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvFbp4atLu8



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 May, 2021, 01:57:40 PM
The pubs are re-opening on Monday, but dancing will not be permitted.

I'm not sure if that's because of Covid or the Presbyterians.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 May, 2021, 02:44:56 PM

Or the eugenicists.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 22 May, 2021, 04:30:34 PM
Or just good sense. No one wants to see drunk white blokes dancing out of time to the music in their heads.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 May, 2021, 09:37:08 AM
Here's what Dante would have looked like after a few years of Tsardom.  (I've never read the books, but Jim DiGriz will always be one of Carlos's many James Coburns to me.)

(https://img.sfbook.com/books/large/the-stainless-steel-rat-for-president.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 May, 2021, 10:15:12 AM
Oh my Gosh that is abslutely brilliant - That is perfect... damn I know the idea here is to go off at tangents but that IS Dante and the perfect examination as to why it ended at the right place!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 23 May, 2021, 11:16:12 AM
So that's where he [spoiler]REDACTED[/spoiler] off to! Slippery indeed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 May, 2021, 12:28:48 PM
Big spoiler here if you haven't read the end of Dante, but...

[spoiler]This is Dante in the process of transforming into the new Vladimir, which is exactly what the latter predicted would happen.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 24 May, 2021, 10:13:50 PM
Anyone else looking forward to the Steel Rat collection? I am torn between having it for me or giving it to a son.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 May, 2021, 03:20:03 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 24 May, 2021, 10:13:50 PM
Anyone else looking forward to the Steel Rat collection? I am torn between having it for me or giving it to a son.

You and Boris have sooo much in common.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 26 May, 2021, 01:23:51 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 25 May, 2021, 03:20:03 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 24 May, 2021, 10:13:50 PM
Anyone else looking forward to the Steel Rat collection? I am torn between having it for me or giving it to a son.

You and Boris have sooo much in common.

One is a white, middle aged, right wing pontificator who likes the sound of his own voice and insists his opinions are right. The other is the PM.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 May, 2021, 02:55:58 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 26 May, 2021, 01:23:51 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 25 May, 2021, 03:20:03 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 24 May, 2021, 10:13:50 PM
Anyone else looking forward to the Steel Rat collection? I am torn between having it for me or giving it to a son.

You and Boris have sooo much in common.

One is a white, middle aged, right wing pontificator who likes the sound of his own voice and insists his opinions are right. The other is the PM.
Tea does not clean easily off my screen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 May, 2021, 03:04:30 PM
I see what you mean...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 26 May, 2021, 04:05:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 26 May, 2021, 02:55:58 PM
Tea does not clean easily off my screen.

Is there any liquid-like substance that does?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 May, 2021, 08:51:21 PM

Mercury.

Don't ask me how I know that.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 28 May, 2021, 06:34:50 PM
Feeling bad about your work at Amazon? Then GET IN THE BOX* (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57287151) and don't come out until you're ready to comply!


*Time spent in the box will be deducted from your pay Amazon vouchers, along with other unacceptable activities like speaking to colleagues, getting lost in thought, going to the bathroom, caring for your newborn infant, arriving on site, walking to your start location and thinking about products from other providers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 June, 2021, 09:16:44 AM
Best journalism of the week. Reporting on the Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul boxing match in the Grauniad:

"The fight between one of the greatest boxers in history and one of the best YouTube personalities in his family ended in predictable fashion on Sunday night..."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 09 June, 2021, 01:54:03 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 09 June, 2021, 09:16:44 AM
Best journalism of the week. Reporting on the Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul boxing match in the Grauniad:

"The fight between one of the greatest boxers in history and one of the best YouTube personalities in his family ended in predictable fashion on Sunday night..."
Tea-monitor interface: Success.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 09 June, 2021, 04:18:05 PM
To avoid any further monitor mishaps, you are advised to keep all liquid dispensing units far from your laptop / desktop when viewing this pic.   :)

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10219018945366064&set=gm.1088221278677832



Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 June, 2021, 06:07:46 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 09 June, 2021, 04:18:05 PM
To avoid any further monitor mishaps, you are advised to keep all liquid dispensing units far from your laptop / desktop when viewing this pic.   :)

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10219018945366064&set=gm.1088221278677832

There was an old video on YouTube (which I couldn't find last time I searched) of cats in a graveyard that was overgrown with catnip. It was like any top night out. As evening falls, they stroll up casually one by one and start enthusiastically snorting and monching the 'nip. After a while they're getting frisky, jumping about and chasing each other, generally 'aving it large. After that, things get a bit freaky, as they do, and they're lying on their backs, rolling their eyes, swatting imaginary prey, staggering about and just generally tripping balls. As dawn breaks, they're on full come-down mode, sprawled around the graves, sleeping it off. Bangin!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 June, 2021, 06:47:06 PM
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/400x/74313270/when-i-die-i-want-somebody-to-plant-catnip-on-my-grave-so-all-the-graveyard-cats-strays-will-hang-ou.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 09 June, 2021, 07:24:31 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 09 June, 2021, 06:47:06 PM
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/400x/74313270/when-i-die-i-want-somebody-to-plant-catnip-on-my-grave-so-all-the-graveyard-cats-strays-will-hang-ou.jpg)

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 June, 2021, 12:10:28 PM
(https://i.redd.it/t9bzyy84ap471.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 June, 2021, 10:24:52 AM

Hair today, gone tomorrow...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 June, 2021, 10:27:19 AM
There's a Trouble with Trebbles gag in there somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 13 June, 2021, 12:23:38 PM
I'll bet that there were wigs on the green after this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 14 June, 2021, 06:19:02 PM
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/InconsequentialPerfumedGadwall-size_restricted.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 June, 2021, 05:19:59 PM
The perfect object:

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2256/1635/products/VanGogh-mug_lifestyle-withbox_0125.jpg?v=1511966915)

Reasons why it's perfect:
- Just look at it.
- It can contain tea.
- The handle.
- When you pour in a hot beverage, his ear gets bandaged up.
- It says something aspiring: "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
- On the base, it's says "For best results, use other way up".
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 28 June, 2021, 04:54:14 PM
This is just too cute for words.

https://9gag.com/hot/a7EnmLx?utm_campaign=link_post&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Facebook

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 30 June, 2021, 11:53:57 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-57660603

Mobile Armored Strike Kommand
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 June, 2021, 12:30:24 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 30 June, 2021, 11:53:57 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-57660603

Mobile Armored Strike Kommand

Music all wrong, should be Ride of the Valkyries!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 June, 2021, 12:49:19 PM
A functioning flying car was built at least 70 years ago.  When do I get my one?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 30 June, 2021, 01:00:34 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 June, 2021, 12:30:24 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 30 June, 2021, 11:53:57 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-57660603

Mobile Armored Strike Kommand

Music all wrong, should be Ride of the Valkyries!

Yeah, in the Wagner v Tully thread.

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 30 June, 2021, 12:49:19 PM
A functioning flying car was built at least 70 years ago.  When do I get my one?

You get that boat seaworthy first, then we'll get back to you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 July, 2021, 06:53:58 PM
Today I learned that claymore is an English bastardisation of the Scots for "great big sword". I found that quite pleasing
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 July, 2021, 07:20:22 PM
That got me looking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Scottish_Gaelic_origin), and finding that "galore" is also borrowed from (the) Gaelic, which makes the movie Whisky Galore even better.

Turns out that any D&D players who hate bards have the Gauls to blame.

The one that really got me is that the surname Mackintosh just means "son of the chief".

Wait - Strontium is Sròn an t-Sìthein - I wonder that the Gaelic for dog is? Oh, right: cù.

So, Sròn an t-Sìthein Cù, starring Johnny Alpha
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 July, 2021, 08:22:46 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 01 July, 2021, 07:20:22 PM
So, Sròn an t-Sìthein Cù, starring Johnny Alpha

Seán Beith* surely

*first letter of the Ogham "alphabet"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 01 July, 2021, 08:59:11 PM
Seánie Beith
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 02 July, 2021, 03:45:31 AM
"Changeling" child born to English nobility in the 14th/15th century, kept hidden away in a room in Glamis Castle. Grows up and escapes into Highlands. Becomes a warrior in the same vein as William Wallace and Robert The Bruce. Fights for Scottish independence alongside his friends, a Scotsman named McNulty, a Norseman called Wulf, and a haggis with a heart condition.

There are rumours that the Sleagh Maith have bestowed magical powers upon him including the second sight. Other rumours state that Seánie Beith and his wife, Red Agnes, murder passers by and drag them off to their lair to loot and eat them, but this is widely considered to be English propaganda.

When he is finally slain, it is said that he is not truly dead - that his body was carried away by the fairies to heal and sleep beneath a certain hill, until such time that he is needed the most.

McNulty cannae wait and digs him up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 July, 2021, 12:47:33 PM
Well, that's better than most of the stories in that 2000ad Alternity Special right there. 
Quote from: Link Prime on 30 June, 2021, 01:00:34 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 June, 2021, 12:30:24 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 30 June, 2021, 11:53:57 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-57660603



You get that boat seaworthy first, then we'll get back to you.

I'll get right on that.  When the sea levels rise and all your homes are flooded, you'll all look up and shout 'save us!'... and I'll look down, and whisper 'no'.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 July, 2021, 03:45:28 PM
Apparently there was some football match...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 July, 2021, 04:15:18 PM
and its not coming home...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 July, 2021, 04:18:00 PM
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 July, 2021, 05:42:59 PM

Powerful image, isnit? Kicking the ball - who, me? - with an open goal - heaving, sweaty pressure - too much! Ooh, isnit? What happened to the halcyon days? Whither the enjoyment, hmm? Is it all gone, hmm? Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 July, 2021, 11:05:07 AM
1966 and all that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqhNqNtCinM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqhNqNtCinM)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 July, 2021, 12:54:46 PM
I was cheering on the Italians, naturally, but did feel a bit sorry for Southgate post-match, who seems like a decent oul sod.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 15 July, 2021, 03:00:51 PM
I'm always amazed at how seriously people take it. I was watching the Andrew Marr Show and they were shaking their heads in shame and dismay and banging on about the shoddy behavior of the provinces in not joining in with support for the beloved motherland. The best quote was "the England team really is showing the best of British". They don't even recognize any problem with that kind of statement. If it was the best of British, it would be a British team, not an English one. This is why Anyone But England is a thing, even among people who don't care at all what happens in fitba.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 15 July, 2021, 03:10:41 PM
If I ever want a quality laugh, I tune into Prime Minister's Questions.  Nothing beats Johnson sat there, slack jawed, as his latest cluster-f*** is torn into. 

Then he gets up, climbs on his high horse, and lets rip with a slew of utter nonsense that may well have sounded clever to someone in the 6th form debating team rejects that appear to be advising him.

Then I remember that he is supposedly 'leading' the country and just think "F***!" :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 July, 2021, 03:44:26 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 15 July, 2021, 03:00:51 PM
I'm always amazed at how seriously people take it. I was watching the Andrew Marr Show and they were shaking their heads in shame and dismay and banging on about the shoddy behavior of the provinces in not joining in with support for the beloved motherland. The best quote was "the England team really is showing the best of British". They don't even recognize any problem with that kind of statement. If it was the best of British, it would be a British team, not an English one. This is why Anyone But England is a thing, even among people who don't care at all what happens in fitba.

Andrew Marr and his ilk tend to get a bit sneery and condescending when soccerists get politically engaged, but he's more than happy to jump on their bandwagon. He clearly doesn't understand either the sport, the supporters or the culture surrounding it. That, or he's some sort of deranged little England nationalist. I suspect it's a combination of the two.

Credit to the the England squad, they seem like a great bunch of lads. A welcome replacement to previous decade's preening, primadonna, tabloid trash, "celebrity" England team. There's still no way I would ever support them. Have you seen how England fans get on? Who would want to join in with that rabble? I know English people who don't want to be associated with them.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 15 July, 2021, 04:08:32 PM
... but on a more serious note:

https://www.cbr.com/loki-classic-kermit-the-frog-mashup/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 15 July, 2021, 05:43:06 PM
Digressing from the thread, if I ever thought that England (and solely) England could sway the World and European championship in recent years, that would be (well, not exactly recently) circa mid to late 2000s. Gerrard (and his wife sunbathing in France - thanks DM), Lampard, Terry, Rooney, Crouch, Owen, Beckham... Those were superstars of the sport.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 July, 2021, 05:55:59 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 15 July, 2021, 04:08:32 PM

https://www.cbr.com/loki-classic-kermit-the-frog-mashup/

Aiiieee - CBR.com!

The goggles - they do nothing
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 July, 2021, 09:11:51 PM
Quote from: milstar on 15 July, 2021, 05:43:06 PM
Digressing from the thread, if I ever thought that England (and solely) England could sway the World and European championship in recent years, that would be (well, not exactly recently) circa mid to late 2000s. Gerrard (and his wife sunbathing in France - thanks DM), Lampard, Terry, Rooney, Crouch, Owen, Beckham... Those were superstars of the sport.

You, much like the coaches at the time, forgot about Paul Scholes. Which is why they won fuck all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 20 July, 2021, 08:49:05 AM
I had two cans of beer explode in the heat yesterday. Stupid 2020 2021!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Woolly on 03 August, 2021, 11:28:47 AM
Can we please make this a reality, somehow?
Surely someone on here knows either Bolland or Gibbons?  :)

(https://i.imgur.com/Uj8z0wf.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 August, 2021, 10:38:33 PM
Quote from: Woolly on 03 August, 2021, 11:28:47 AM
Can we please make this a reality, somehow?
Surely someone on here knows either Bolland or Gibbons?  :)

(https://i.imgur.com/Uj8z0wf.jpg)

Is that the latest Viz?  I went looking for it in vain today.  But yes.  Make this happen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 August, 2021, 10:57:57 AM

I'd never really questioned the basic goodness of humanity until I heard a chainsaw screeching away from a nearby farm at 02:32 on a Friday morning.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 06 August, 2021, 11:45:55 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 06 August, 2021, 10:57:57 AM

I'd never really questioned the basic goodness of humanity until I heard a chainsaw screeching away from a nearby farm at 02:32 on a Friday morning.

Yikes, Sharky! I do hope that you're not writing that from Texas?  ;)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 06 August, 2021, 01:27:16 PM
Leatherface is waitin' for ya.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 August, 2021, 12:02:52 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 06 August, 2021, 10:57:57 AM

I'd never really questioned the basic goodness of humanity until I heard a chainsaw screeching away from a nearby farm at 02:32 on a Friday morning.

Oh, man, that's brutal.  I have a new neighbour, an elderly guy who moored his massive, filthy steel barge not far from me and double-moored a cruiser to block most of the canal, and uses a generator till the small hours of the night.  I'm hanging on for him to get solar, which I believe he is planning to do (not for anyone else's comfort, you understand, but because it'll make his own life easier).  I have to believe it or I'll crack up.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 August, 2021, 02:29:50 PM

Well, it sounded like a chainsaw - and I didn't hear any screaming.

If you were to fire up something similar in the wee smalls, maybe your neighbour would quietly move away (especially if you added some recordings of distressed animals)...

That's a tongue-in-cheek suggestion, of course. Are there other folk being similarly annoyed? Maybe you could ask him to shut off his genny between, say, 23:30hrs and 07:30hrs or something like that? If he refuses, then you can look into purchasing a couple of torpedoes. :-D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 August, 2021, 12:42:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 07 August, 2021, 02:29:50 PM

Well, it sounded like a chainsaw - and I didn't hear any screaming.

If you were to fire up something similar in the wee smalls, maybe your neighbour would quietly move away (especially if you added some recordings of distressed animals)...

That's a tongue-in-cheek suggestion, of course. Are there other folk being similarly annoyed?

I believe so; though shutting off the genny would mean no electricity for him at all.  Waterways by-laws say that he can't run a genny after 9 anyway, but that's largely ignored where I am. 
The thing is, it's not particularly loud where I'm situated, but I just hate noise.  I really used to enjoy sitting on the deck watching the quiet sunsets, and I don't do it any more.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 August, 2021, 01:26:46 PM
That sucks :(

Shame to waste the sunsets, though - maybe throw some nice music into your earbuds, a bit of Elgar or Holst or Meatloaf might do the trick!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 August, 2021, 05:03:32 PM
 I go for white noise podcasts generally. Storms, seas, that kind of thing
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 09 August, 2021, 05:39:53 PM
Once the lockdown rules are relaxed, you could always start hosting Nerd parties at your gaff.

Between the multitude of bad character accents emanating from D&D games that go on into the early hours of the morning, and guests drunkenly mangling the theme tunes of "Star Trek" and "Star Wars", sure your man will be driven mad and away in no time. 

And as a fellow 'Tooth forumite I feel duty-bound to offer my service in a good cause. ;)

(But seriously, as someone who is profoundly noise-sensitive, I feel your pain. Hope the problem is resolved soon.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 August, 2021, 07:54:28 PM
This man wins awards as "Most Organized" and "Most Triggered" in this year's Nerd Cup:

Medieval Misconceptions: BATTLEFIELD, tactics, units, and formations (https://youtu.be/b_BFMw82l_s)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 August, 2021, 01:52:09 AM
It's not the unwieldy headline I find absurd, it's the fact that the Sunday Sport censors wanking, but not p*ssy or b*st*rd.

(https://i.imgur.com/RhWovUe.jpg)

It's also much funnier if you read it in Shaun Ryder's accent.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 14 August, 2021, 01:19:09 PM
LMAO!! I thought this only happens in DM.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 August, 2021, 03:54:11 PM
Anyone seen or heard anything of Tordelback lately? Noticed he's been pretty quiet of late and has removed his Twitter account. Hope the fellah is doing alright all things going on and all that...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 15 August, 2021, 04:12:13 PM
Aye, was wondering about that myself. If you're reading this, Tordel's, I hope all is good with you. Take care and cheers - Paddy
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 August, 2021, 04:25:36 PM

Yeah, it's a worry. Hope all is well, Tordels.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 August, 2021, 09:03:12 PM
I know he likes to take breaks from social media from time to time and I was assuming this was another of those. I don't do Twitter so I wasn't aware he'd deleted his account there. Fingers crossed part of the same process.

If you are lurking fella just know we are thinking of you and hope everything is okay.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 16 August, 2021, 07:18:51 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/S45Ktya.jpg)

Hire this Dave guy for writing 2000ad.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 August, 2021, 10:13:54 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 15 August, 2021, 04:12:13 PM
Aye, was wondering about that myself. If you're reading this, Tordel's, I hope all is good with you. Take care and cheers - Paddy

Come back to us, Tordels.  And stay safe
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 17 August, 2021, 02:00:57 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-58229967

Bleeding hell, I was visiting Dorset once, but never heard for Shitterton. In fact, never heard for any of these names anywhere in this country.

https://www.quora.com/I-have-shipped-my-son-to-Egypt-to-get-rid-of-his-satanic-gayness-Is-this-noble (https://www.quora.com/I-have-shipped-my-son-to-Egypt-to-get-rid-of-his-satanic-gayness-Is-this-noble)

Gotta love infinite creativity with questions on quora.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 August, 2021, 02:43:21 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 15 August, 2021, 03:54:11 PM
Anyone seen or heard anything of Tordelback lately? Noticed he's been pretty quiet of late and has removed his Twitter account. Hope the fellah is doing alright all things going on and all that...

Noticed TB's absence in the last few months, and a few other regular boarders too - Greg M, Joe Soap and Prof Bear come to mind.
The loss of regular exuberant commentary from Bolt is still an open wound as it is.

C'mon lads - we can only get through Skip Tracer if we're in this together.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 August, 2021, 12:02:48 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 August, 2021, 09:03:12 PM
I know he likes to take breaks from social media from time to time and I was assuming this was another of those. I don't do Twitter so I wasn't aware he'd deleted his account there. Fingers crossed part of the same process.

If you are lurking fella just know we are thinking of you and hope everything is okay.
Had the same thoughts and hope it is just a break to clear the head rather than anything else. If you are reading this TB, your imaginary pals from the internet love you and you can give me a shout anytime if there's something on your mind.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 September, 2021, 06:55:04 PM
Tharg's an alien and his workforce are all droids - so how come they had to go into lockdown?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 09 September, 2021, 08:14:43 PM
Quote from: milstar on 17 August, 2021, 02:00:57 AM
https://www.quora.com/I-have-shipped-my-son-to-Egypt-to-get-rid-of-his-satanic-gayness-Is-this-noble (https://www.quora.com/I-have-shipped-my-son-to-Egypt-to-get-rid-of-his-satanic-gayness-Is-this-noble)

Gotta love infinite creativity with questions on quora.

oh that's nothing ... https://imgur.com/gallery/WwYizDR (https://imgur.com/gallery/WwYizDR)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 23 September, 2021, 07:25:24 PM
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/sport/netball-queensland-under-fire-for-pitting-allmale-team-against-females-in-state-tournament/news-story/cb68cf9b9b834430b98a8773b7d1c5bf (https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/sport/netball-queensland-under-fire-for-pitting-allmale-team-against-females-in-state-tournament/news-story/cb68cf9b9b834430b98a8773b7d1c5bf)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 September, 2021, 05:37:12 AM
(https://www.maxim.com/.image/t_share/MTU0MTc4MDQ4MTQ3NTk2NjI0/nicolas-cage-superman-main.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 27 September, 2021, 09:13:20 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 September, 2021, 05:37:12 AM
(https://www.maxim.com/.image/t_share/MTU0MTc4MDQ4MTQ3NTk2NjI0/nicolas-cage-superman-main.jpg)

Nicholas Cage's Superman would have been the most bonkers thing ever filmed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 27 September, 2021, 10:09:35 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 27 September, 2021, 09:13:20 PM
Nicholas Cage's Superman would have been the most bonkers thing ever filmed.

Add to that Superman who doesn't fly, combats giganti spider (or was it polar bear) and doesn't wear his red shorts, and all directed by Tim Burton.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 28 September, 2021, 11:48:48 AM
Helena Bonham Carter would have made a crap Lois Lane.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 01 October, 2021, 10:30:11 AM
The new Guinness doohickey works surprisingly well; https://nitrosurge.guinness.com/

Happiness now has a new standard; Kitchen table on a Saturday night, mood lighting, Heart 80's playing on Alexa, a bowl of honey salt nuts, a few glasses of Glendalough whiskey and 4 cans of Draught Nitro Surge Guinness.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 01 October, 2021, 01:38:28 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 01 October, 2021, 10:30:11 AM
The new Guinness doohickey works surprisingly well; https://nitrosurge.guinness.com/

Happiness now has a new standard; Kitchen table on a Saturday night, mood lighting, Heart 80's playing on Alexa, a bowl of honey salt nuts, a few glasses of Glendalough whiskey and 4 cans of Draught Nitro Surge Guinness.
Thank grud their age challenge is so secure. No one under 18 will ever figure out how to watch this.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2021, 12:27:38 AM
what actually is it? the link demanded personal info and I'm not THAT  curious
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 04 October, 2021, 02:10:07 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 02 October, 2021, 12:27:38 AM
the link demanded personal info

Just give 'em Boris Johnson's DOB.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 October, 2021, 01:40:37 AM
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16617/production/_120717619_thesharkisbroken.imagebyoliverrosser-.jpg)

The Shark Is Broken: Jaws feud was 'legendary' (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58620280)

Like father, like son, apparently.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 October, 2021, 01:41:45 PM
'NEWS OF A GREAT FREE GIFT INSIDE'

Took me quite a few issues of Buster, Cor, Whizzer and Chips etc to stop falling for this shit.  The cynical feckers would break a child's heart sometimes. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2021, 04:08:11 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/fyof8z2ny7t71.jpg?width=750&auto=webp&s=89a650854ae95a109b174553f3610be1db9cb2a6)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2021, 04:57:11 PM

Well, I guess ol' Bill needs to update his image following the failure of his lingerie business, Shatner Panties.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 13 October, 2021, 08:18:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/TPguf3u.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 October, 2021, 08:37:47 PM
"I dunno, sir, it looks like a giant..."  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1UwmgkKgI)

(https://www.positivelyosceola.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/blueorigin-948x640.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 October, 2021, 08:56:43 PM

Well Ho-lee sh*t. I thought this was some meme I didn't get or befuddling Photoshoppery but, stomm, it seems this actually happened. I feel like I've woken up in the wrong universe.

That damned Nero has a lot to answer for...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 13 October, 2021, 11:59:13 PM
Are we sure the Shat didn't switch universes again?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 14 October, 2021, 12:32:45 AM
I thought it was a typo at first when it said he was 90 - my mum's 90 and she struggles getting to the bottom of her garden these days.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 October, 2021, 03:01:15 PM
What happened to our resident GREGG's specialist? I have a question.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 October, 2021, 09:39:10 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 October, 2021, 03:01:15 PM
What happened to our resident GREGG's specialist? I have a question.

Another question - has Brexit finally and definitively ruined the chance of some Gregg's branches opening in ROI?

< Samuel L Jackson voice / waving handgun wildly around the room > You stupid muthafuckas
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 October, 2021, 09:55:55 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 October, 2021, 09:39:10 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 14 October, 2021, 03:01:15 PM
What happened to our resident GREGG's specialist? I have a question.

Another question - has Brexit finally and definitively ruined the chance of some Gregg's branches opening in ROI?

< Samuel L Jackson voice / waving handgun wildly around the room > You stupid muthafuckas

You're not really missing much. We have a couple of them in Belfast, but they can't compete with our local bakeries. They don't even do filled sodas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 October, 2021, 10:00:22 AM
I dunno man, they have been a memorable treat from any visit to London, Liverpool or Glasgow in the past decade.
I will take your word for it Senor Pops - wouldn't be like a Northern Irishman to take a contrary position unfounded.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 October, 2021, 03:48:44 PM
Greggs is shite, Carrs Pasties are where its at as any self respecting northerner will attest.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 October, 2021, 09:27:44 PM

Latham's steak and kidney pies. Heaven in a crust.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 16 October, 2021, 10:51:04 PM
Ah - things I miss from the UK: bakeries and newsagents.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 17 October, 2021, 03:33:37 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 October, 2021, 10:51:04 PM
Ah - things I miss from the UK: bakeries and newsagents.

I've noticed that dark chocolate Kit-Kat multi-packs from Dealz are becoming increasingly harder to find, also. Oh, the Humanity!

Also:

Damn you Brexit!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 October, 2021, 10:22:15 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 16 October, 2021, 09:27:44 PM

Latham's steak and kidney pies. Heaven in a crust.

Can't beat Hollands in my book, all the way from Ramsbottom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 October, 2021, 10:26:32 PM
I don't think I want a Ramsbottom pie.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 October, 2021, 11:36:51 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 October, 2021, 10:51:04 PM
Ah - things I miss from the UK: bakeries and newsagents.

Weirdly, you don't get much of either here in Ireland either.  Newsagents were plentiful when I were a lad but have mostly been consumed by Spars, Centras and the like, while bakeries here are like curry houses - they exist, but they're not really part of the culture the way they are in the UK.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2021, 12:05:41 AM
Best bakery I ever knew wasn't a shop but a commercial bakers in Dundee that worked through the night to supply pies and rolls to local shops. They didn't advertise, but if you went round the back of the yard in the wee hours there was a grubby handwritten price list sellotaped to the back door and you could buy hot pasties for about 20p - great to fortify you for a drunken slog up the Hilltown after a night out!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 October, 2021, 01:47:54 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2021, 12:05:41 AM
...a commercial bakers in Dundee...

Do you mean Clark's Bakery - just round the corner from Highlander Games?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 19 October, 2021, 02:44:05 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/meet-the-man-with-the-largest-nose-in-the-world/ar-AAPeeAh?ocid=entnewsntp&fbclid=IwAR13KCbDGmrd0_ArgZ3S_J93eNYueag7dyzDnmOZGrTE4TC2oc0_AhYYZtw (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/meet-the-man-with-the-largest-nose-in-the-world/ar-AAPeeAh?ocid=entnewsntp&fbclid=IwAR13KCbDGmrd0_ArgZ3S_J93eNYueag7dyzDnmOZGrTE4TC2oc0_AhYYZtw)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2021, 07:27:46 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 October, 2021, 01:47:54 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2021, 12:05:41 AM
...a commercial bakers in Dundee...

Do you mean Clark's Bakery - just round the corner from Highlander Games?

Not sure - this was over 30 years ago , I've just had a look and that building is clearly newer than that, but I did have friends on Peddie St, just round the corner, so maybe. I was usually drunk and with other people, not sure I could have found it again even 25 years ago!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 October, 2021, 10:34:58 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2021, 07:27:46 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 October, 2021, 01:47:54 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2021, 12:05:41 AM
...a commercial bakers in Dundee...

Do you mean Clark's Bakery - just round the corner from Highlander Games?

Not sure - this was over 30 years ago , I've just had a look and that building is clearly newer than that, but I did have friends on Peddie St, just round the corner, so maybe. I was usually drunk and with other people, not sure I could have found it again even 25 years ago!

It was a still a drunk's nosh palace when I was there 13 years ago - but they'd created a queue and counter system. Their main operation was definitely producing goods for proper bakeries, though.

Ah, Dundee! Great place for drunken nosh.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 October, 2021, 12:21:12 PM
Greggs macaroni pies were the worst ever, big tubes of mac very little cheese, no pepper ggggrrrrrr!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 October, 2021, 12:46:08 PM
You never see Adam Driver and Noseybonk in the same room at the same time.


Hhhhmmmm.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 October, 2021, 02:29:48 PM
From a certain angle, he could also be an old Etonian who shouldn't be leading a country.



(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muc/images/7/7b/Noseybonk.png/revision/latest?cb=20200611190415)

EDIT - the image doesn't seem to be showing, so here's a link.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muc/images/7/7b/Noseybonk.png/revision/latest?cb=20200611190415 (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muc/images/7/7b/Noseybonk.png/revision/latest?cb=20200611190415)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 October, 2021, 12:14:21 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 14 October, 2021, 12:32:45 AM
I thought it was a typo at first when it said he was 90 - my mum's 90 and she struggles getting to the bottom of her garden these days.

He's had some life.

Just watched some footage this morning, Bill ringing the bell as he entered the craft was ever so slightly moving.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 October, 2021, 02:31:42 PM
hoping that's no a euphemism :o
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 October, 2021, 06:53:44 PM
Ringing his bell and offering to show the other passengers how earth-men kiss.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 22 October, 2021, 09:12:19 AM
I just had to post this story. (What can I tell ye? I'm a Fun Guy!  :D)

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/doneraile-man-finds-a-mushroom-the-same-size-as-his-head-40963564.html

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 14 November, 2021, 06:58:28 PM
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/husbands-passive-aggressive-note-neighbour-22133846 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/husbands-passive-aggressive-note-neighbour-22133846)

(https://i.imgur.com/ajbDJkU.png)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 November, 2021, 04:41:46 PM
(https://i.inews.co.uk/content/uploads/2018/03/2071702334_927a2f2ee4_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 20 November, 2021, 05:17:38 PM
Finally! An on topic post. Congrats, Proudhuff.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 November, 2021, 07:11:31 PM
(https://civiconcepts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/How-far-apart-should-Fence-Posts-Be.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 November, 2021, 12:16:00 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 November, 2021, 09:50:00 PM

(https://acidcow.com/content/img/new02/327/01.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 November, 2021, 10:07:04 PM
Texan mating rituals, level five.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 November, 2021, 12:37:26 PM
Texas hold em?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 24 November, 2021, 09:40:07 PM
These udderly terri-bull posts have put me in a bad moooooooooood
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 November, 2021, 02:49:07 PM
I don't think anyone herd you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 25 November, 2021, 03:35:18 PM
This thread has the potential to Steer in any direction.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 25 November, 2021, 03:42:27 PM
Pun-ishment?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 25 November, 2021, 04:04:55 PM
Alas, Pun-itive action was deemed necessary.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 November, 2021, 04:20:17 PM
These trough-les are simply bovine!

(https://www.cookingclassy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/chocolate-truffles-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 25 November, 2021, 06:27:05 PM
This thread is being needlessly milked.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 November, 2021, 06:29:41 AM
I think cattle be all for now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 26 November, 2021, 06:46:12 AM
Moooving swiftly on ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 26 November, 2021, 02:13:24 PM
Why can't anythread steak on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 26 November, 2021, 03:14:37 PM
Perhaps we need a meating to discuss this.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 29 November, 2021, 03:15:02 PM
There is a lot at steak!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 29 November, 2021, 10:28:50 PM
It's certainly something to ruminate on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 30 November, 2021, 12:43:19 AM
(https://external-preview.redd.it/jabB_rwiaDMcrBC1eaAPlwQuThy68k3SI7VWcw-kiSg.jpg?width=614&auto=webp&s=53dafed7161225f1a4ea2b2e64fa8cc453e755f7)

This is the way
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 30 November, 2021, 05:53:57 AM
I don't know - I find these Klingon books a little high brow.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 30 November, 2021, 06:46:10 AM
Nice to see things going so well for the Royal Navy with their latest purchase from the Yanks.  So glad we got shot of those old Harriers ...

https://twitter.com/sebh1981/status/1465351592018956295
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 November, 2021, 12:49:26 PM
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A6BE/production/_121868624_starfish.jpg)

The ancients gods arrive!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 30 November, 2021, 01:05:23 PM
 https://thenewscaravan.com/woman-exposes-her-penis-in-public-how-is-this-possible-understand/ (https://thenewscaravan.com/woman-exposes-her-penis-in-public-how-is-this-possible-understand/)

Love the title.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 November, 2021, 01:14:43 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 November, 2021, 12:49:26 PM
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A6BE/production/_121868624_starfish.jpg)

The ancients gods arrive!

I kinda expected more from Cthulhu and co than them arriving after years of interdimensional hibernation and it turns out all they really wanted was a holiday by the sea in Margate!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 November, 2021, 11:58:48 PM
The squidfalls have started!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 01 December, 2021, 01:22:10 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 30 November, 2021, 05:53:57 AM
I don't know - I find these Klingon books a little high brow.

Excuse the double post, but I missed this.  Bravo, sir.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 03 December, 2021, 03:59:47 PM
I think this is why there are so few comedians around these days.  So one of the leading trends on Twitter today is "Rectum".  Why, you ask? (no, seriously ...)   Well, it turns out Gloucester Royal Infirmary was perhaps not the safest place to go for treatment today!  (https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/bomb-squad-called-gloucestershire-royal-6298076)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 December, 2021, 04:06:32 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 03 December, 2021, 03:59:47 PM
I think this is why there are so few comedians around these days.  So one of the leading trends on Twitter today is "Rectum".  Why, you ask? (no, seriously ...)   Well, it turns out Gloucester Royal Infirmary was perhaps not the safest place to go for treatment today!  (https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/bomb-squad-called-gloucestershire-royal-6298076)

Poor man must have been mortarfied
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 03 December, 2021, 04:39:21 PM
This should be called mortar suppository.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 December, 2021, 11:14:51 PM
Rectum? It nearly feckin' killed him.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 04 December, 2021, 12:32:25 AM
"The man was a military enthusiast who found the shell while clearing out, but somehow "tripped" and fell onto the 57mm piece of army ordnance that landed him in hospital"

hmmmmmm....
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 04 December, 2021, 12:40:30 PM
If he was a musician, it could be said that this story ended on a bum note.

Meanwhile and in other news, this is all a bit mad, Ted...

https://www.thejournal.ie/fake-arm-italy-5619489-Dec2021/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 06 December, 2021, 01:15:03 AM
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15565/production/_121979378_hi072412778.jpg)

Oh, dear Jebus Grud in Heaven, I live on the same planet as these (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59543735) flatin' McCoys.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 December, 2021, 09:58:10 AM
Ye used to see pictures like that all the time in the 80s and 90s. Only they'd all be wearing balaclavas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 06 December, 2021, 02:38:59 PM
A couple of those gomers will become news reports ending with "...before turning the gun on themselves."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 08 December, 2021, 09:41:29 AM
The Jameson Crested - 'Devils Ladder' edition is a stunning drop of flavour that'll only set you back 50 smackers.

https://www.jamesonwhiskey.com/en-EN/ourwhiskeys/jameson-crested-devils-ladder

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 December, 2021, 11:42:07 AM
Jameson do some interesting stuff with their cast strength family of brews, when they're not fannying about putting citrus or some guff in their whiskey.

Will have to sample this one myself...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 08 December, 2021, 01:00:26 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 08 December, 2021, 11:42:07 AM
Jameson do some interesting stuff with their cast strength family of brews, when they're not fannying about putting citrus or some guff in their whiskey.

Will have to sample this one myself...

I do enjoy the Jameson Stout Edition as a sidekick with a few cans of Nitro or Draught Guinness, but the Devils Ladder edition is in another dimension - I've guzzled two bottles of it in the past 2 months or so.
Great paired with a decent craft beer, equally great on it's own.

Speaking of whiskey, I had a Christmas meet-up with a few friends in the worlds greatest pub - The Harbour Bar - last weekend, and tried a glass of their stunning Powers special edition.

https://theharbourbar.ie/2020/11/the-harbour-bar-single-cask-release/

€150 ain't for the cheap seats, but a very reasonable price for a whiskey of that quality.
I have a bottle en route for the festive season.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 08 December, 2021, 01:16:21 PM
I'll second the cheers for the Harbour Bar. A great venue indeed. I have fond memories of playing in a day-long D&D session there with my mates at the time, many moons ago. Also a good spot for going to on dates. I always got a laugh at seeing the chamber-pot hanging from above the bar, lol. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: milstar on 08 December, 2021, 08:46:36 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10279415/Queens-guardsman-31-sues-860-000-saying-cold-Estonaian-winter-caused-stammer.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10279415/Queens-guardsman-31-sues-860-000-saying-cold-Estonaian-winter-caused-stammer.html)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 10 December, 2021, 12:40:59 PM
I wonder if he used the services of this company? :-\

https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/265653180_2221805327968090_7844548876733640966_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=rO3Ln30VM5cAX-agJSL&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=42d6f9060091bc5261c029255fe5b844&oe=61B91F01

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 11 December, 2021, 02:56:21 PM
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15565/production/_121979378_hi072412778.jpg)

I have some questions, maybe they could answer them?

1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odour for the Lord (Lev.1:9). The problem is my neighbours. They claim the odour is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in (Exodus 21:7). In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev.15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offence.

4. (Lev. 25:44) states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians.Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

5. I have a neighbour who insists on working on the Sabbath. (Exodus 35:2) clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle is?

7. (Lev. 21:20) states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by (Lev.19:27). How should they die?

9. I know from (Lev.11:6-8) that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates (Lev. 19:19) by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev.24:10-16) Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 11 December, 2021, 03:09:06 PM
 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Masterful! Post of the week, as far as I'm concerned.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 December, 2021, 04:56:47 PM
(https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-j00trvqcfv/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/5750/35097/103360__92636.1623952867.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 December, 2021, 05:29:05 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 11 December, 2021, 03:09:06 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Masterful! Post of the week, as far as I'm concerned.

Seconded!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 December, 2021, 05:33:06 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 11 December, 2021, 03:09:06 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Masterful! Post of the week, as far as I'm concerned.
Front runner for post of the year.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: von Boom on 11 December, 2021, 05:36:26 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 11 December, 2021, 02:56:21 PM
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15565/production/_121979378_hi072412778.jpg)

9. I know from (Lev.11:6-8) that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
This is only relevant for goalkeepers.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 December, 2021, 09:49:37 PM
And Diego Maradona*.




*This comment sponsored by Jeremy "Get Me a Sandwich or I'll Punch You" Clarkson.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 December, 2021, 07:12:39 AM

If you are without sin, get casting!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 12 December, 2021, 09:32:14 AM
Quote from: paddykafka on 11 December, 2021, 03:09:06 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Masterful! Post of the week, as far as I'm concerned.

Aye, one of the better early season episodes of West Wing.  The look on the woman's face when Bartlett laid into her with this lot was priceless!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 December, 2021, 08:58:00 PM
parkmyspaceship.com (http://parkmyspaceship.com)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 21 December, 2021, 09:25:28 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 21 December, 2021, 08:58:00 PM
parkmyspaceship.com (http://parkmyspaceship.com)

Greatest thing ever! Flying the Eagle (from Space 1999) on my route to work was surprisingly tricky!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 30 December, 2021, 10:13:06 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/o7z8Ur6.jpg)
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Post by: Dandontdare on 30 December, 2021, 11:26:50 AM
The artist for that pic: https://jimll.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2PfRgrWL9QIVkd_tCh2mmwBqEAAYASAAEgJNr_D_BwE (https://jimll.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2PfRgrWL9QIVkd_tCh2mmwBqEAAYASAAEgJNr_D_BwE)
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 December, 2021, 05:51:02 PM
Bravo sir.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 December, 2021, 06:54:48 PM

Brilliant, DDD - that has to get my vote for Image of the Year!

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Post by: Link Prime on 05 January, 2022, 09:43:11 AM
What do any of you make of that Luiz Elizondo chap?

Brilliant and articulate bullshitter, or harbinger of a potential change to life as we know it?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 05 January, 2022, 11:34:40 AM
Had to google him - shameless self-publicist would be my take.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 January, 2022, 12:58:38 PM

Luis Elizondo: "Earth Is A Zoo Ruled By Aliens" (https://www.planet-today.com/2021/12/luis-elizondo-earth-is-zoo-ruled-by.html)

Whilst anything is possible, this guy seems to me to be yet another form of statist (exostatist?) who thinks we should all turn over our freedoms and rights not just to Earthly "authorities" but to extraterrestrial ones as well. Someone whose fantasies I might enjoy (as with Corey Goode) but not someone I'd put faith in.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 January, 2022, 03:38:09 PM
Novax Djokovic is one of the strangest examples of nominative determinism I've ever heard.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 January, 2022, 10:04:36 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 05 January, 2022, 11:34:40 AM
Had to google him - shameless self-publicist would be my take.

Rationally, yeah.

I watched this interview with him recently - he comes across as genuine, if a bit too slick;
https://youtu.be/4yX6ETCKyPo

Hard to completely dismiss him as a loon based on his former employment though.

Anyway, it's a topic that piqued my interest, based on the relatively large amount of coverage it's received in recent years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 07 January, 2022, 08:35:31 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 07 January, 2022, 10:04:36 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 05 January, 2022, 11:34:40 AM
Had to google him - shameless self-publicist would be my take.

Rationally, yeah.

I watched this interview with him recently - he comes across as genuine, if a bit too slick;
https://youtu.be/4yX6ETCKyPo

Hard to completely dismiss him as a loon based on his former employment though.

Anyway, it's a topic that piqued my interest, based on the relatively large amount of coverage it's received in recent years.

Emphasis mine.

High Office in the US is more concerned with right-wing christian demagoguery slick presentation than rigorous scientific scrutiny.

Bonkers personal beliefs do not exclude you from prestigious jobs in 'merca
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Post by: Funt Solo on 14 January, 2022, 06:35:54 PM
Single page of Spider-Man comic sells for over $3.3m (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60002289)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 January, 2022, 07:06:57 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 January, 2022, 06:35:54 PM
Single page of Spider-Man comic sells for over $3.3m (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60002289)

And while I defo get the historical significance its not a great example of Mike Zeck's work even.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 January, 2022, 12:12:45 PM
Friend of the forum and US Dredd-evangelist Douglas Wolk (KTT) has read every single Marvel comic and written a book about it. He talks about it in today's Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/20/douglas-wolk-27000-marvel-comics-dark-reign-trump-iron-man-unbeatable-squirrel-girl)

(https://i.imgur.com/ku38aP3.jpg)
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 January, 2022, 12:27:43 PM
And the pedant in me wants to point out the back drop to the photo header of the Guardian includes comics from a range of publishers. But that would be petulant and childish so I wont...

Great article I'm defo getting the book.
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Post by: CalHab on 20 January, 2022, 01:49:12 PM
It's a good book (so far, I'm only halfway through).
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Post by: Proudhuff on 20 January, 2022, 03:21:51 PM
Harsh words for The Punisher!
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Post by: Proudhuff on 20 January, 2022, 03:29:37 PM
I wonder what Dredd's head count is?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 January, 2022, 07:03:06 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 January, 2022, 03:29:37 PM
I wonder what Dredd's head count is?

2,500,009,675.














Approximately.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 January, 2022, 04:10:57 PM
So, some guy called Patrick Collins edited Star Trek: The Motion Picture down to just over 20 minutes and scored it with Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy. If you have a spare 20 minutes, I would highly recommend Star Trek Legacy (https://vimeo.com/217336882)
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 23 January, 2022, 05:20:58 PM
 :lol:

I'm hoping it's just twenty minutes of Enterprise pron.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 23 January, 2022, 05:23:22 PM
That's made me re-appreciate the visuals on that movie. Ultimately, I found it dull compared to all the shouty, blasty, ear-buggy, open-shirted Montalbon-iness of Khan, but visually it's striking.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 24 January, 2022, 01:32:55 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 23 January, 2022, 04:10:57 PM
So, some guy called Patrick Collins edited Star Trek: The Motion Picture down to just over 20 minutes and scored it with Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy. If you have a spare 20 minutes, I would highly recommend Star Trek Legacy (https://vimeo.com/217336882)

Thanks I enjoyed that. I remember thinking at the time that there was about 20  minutes of story stretched into a  very well-padded (and quite dull) movie! The score works pretty well most of the time too.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 24 January, 2022, 02:27:28 PM
Wish some one would do that with Star Wars....
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Post by: Funt Solo on 26 January, 2022, 01:44:26 AM
I see Russell Brand has started wearing the tin foil hat.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 26 January, 2022, 02:09:08 AM
Started?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 January, 2022, 02:53:11 AM
It's entirely possible that I just wasn't noticing before.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 January, 2022, 06:14:58 PM
How so? Not doubting you or anything, but I can't find anything online, despite literally dozens of seconds of Google research.

Seems like a fella whose heart is in the right place to me, even if I get the impression that going for a pint with him would be only marginally less irritating than having my eyeballs sandpapered.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 January, 2022, 08:02:37 PM
To be fair, I'm basing it also on a few seconds of research. It seems like he's switched to a lot of only vaguely obscured anti-vax disinformation. His support of Rogan is a red flag for me, frankly.

It goes a bit like this on his broadcasts:

"I'm not a doctor, and I'm not anti-vax - but isn't it all very suspicious, eh? Isn't it all a bit (not a doctor, not anti-vax) terribly, terribly suspicious that doctors are asking you to take the vaccine (but I'm not anti-vax, I'm not a doctor, don't listen to me) - but that vaccine seems very suspicious, doesn't it? You shouldn't trust anything you hear etc."

Then he goes on for ages about what a great guy Joe Rogan is. Who's anti-vax.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 January, 2022, 08:04:52 PM
I like Neil Young
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 January, 2022, 08:13:22 PM

"Fear knocked at the door, Faith answered. There was nobody there."

-The Sopranos-

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Post by: Funt Solo on 27 January, 2022, 09:17:31 PM
It's an interesting quote. MLK purported it to mean that faith conquers fear, but another reading of it is that, really, nobody was there. Neither fear, nor faith - as both are inventions of our imagination. I assume the door was automatic and opened on its own due to a passing tumbleweed.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 January, 2022, 09:51:57 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 27 January, 2022, 09:17:31 PM
It's an interesting quote. MLK purported it to mean that faith conquers fear, but another reading of it is that, really, nobody was there. Neither fear, nor faith - as both are inventions of our imagination. I assume the door was automatic and opened on its own due to a passing tumbleweed.

I prefer Psir Pterry's version

Quote"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 January, 2022, 11:27:47 PM
I'll tentatively posit that fear isn't always purely a product of the imagination. My parents' cat is seriously lacking in imagination to the best of my knowledge, but was scared shitless when my auntie brought her dog round at Christmas.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 28 January, 2022, 12:11:44 AM
Also, not being afraid doesn't mean there isn't any actual danger, as evidenced by the fate of the much lamented quotee.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2022, 01:00:08 AM

Maybe it's about putting fear behind you. Be roused to action by it, sure, but don't be ruled by it, and remember that nobody, ultimately, can make you afraid but you. But you need faith to make that true.

Furthermore, all you need is love (and a viable socio-economic system).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2022, 02:03:59 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 January, 2022, 11:27:47 PM
I'll tentatively posit that fear isn't always purely a product of the imagination. My parents' cat is seriously lacking in imagination to the best of my knowledge, but was scared shitless when my auntie brought her dog round at Christmas.

Cats are a completely different kettle of fish - not only is their fear real, but their goddess - Bastet - is also real. I think we need to alter the phrase...

Fear knocked at the door, Faith answered. There was nobody there. Until Bastet glanced down from her palanquin and realized it was her fifth disciple, Fear, returning from a hunt around the neighborhood bird tables.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2022, 02:47:46 AM

Fear knocked at the door. Dredd answered. Poor Fear.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 02 February, 2022, 01:32:08 AM
I've just realised 90s gangsta rap is the new dad rock
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 February, 2022, 02:08:30 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2022, 02:03:59 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 January, 2022, 11:27:47 PM
I'll tentatively posit that fear isn't always purely a product of the imagination. My parents' cat is seriously lacking in imagination to the best of my knowledge, but was scared shitless when my auntie brought her dog round at Christmas.

Cats are a completely different kettle of fish - not only is their fear real, but their goddess - Bastet - is also real. I think we need to alter the phrase...

Fear knocked at the door, Faith answered. There was nobody there. Until Bastet glanced down from her palanquin and realized it was her fifth disciple, Fear, returning from a hunt around the neighborhood bird tables.

If she's secretly a sock puppet, consider me a convert.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 02 February, 2022, 04:04:41 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2022, 02:47:46 AM

Fear knocked at the door. Dredd answered. punched him in the face. Poor Fear.

FTFY
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 02 February, 2022, 07:23:47 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 02 February, 2022, 02:08:30 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 28 January, 2022, 02:03:59 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 January, 2022, 11:27:47 PM
I'll tentatively posit that fear isn't always purely a product of the imagination. My parents' cat is seriously lacking in imagination to the best of my knowledge, but was scared shitless when my auntie brought her dog round at Christmas.

Cats are a completely different kettle of fish - not only is their fear real, but their goddess - Bastet - is also real. I think we need to alter the phrase...

Fear knocked at the door, Faith answered. There was nobody there. Until Bastet glanced down from her palanquin and realized it was her fifth disciple, Fear, returning from a hunt around the neighborhood bird tables.

If she's secretly a sock puppet, consider me a convert.

The Internet, apparently, has that (https://youtu.be/-IXPbD7HfK4)!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 02 February, 2022, 11:19:36 PM
Well, I wasn't expecting that.  Looks like my atheist days are over.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 03 February, 2022, 11:43:42 PM
...because that video made you a total nihilist?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 February, 2022, 04:46:34 AM

I guess it's all down to whether you believe consciousness is an intrinsic or emergent property.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 February, 2022, 01:18:21 PM
I've always leant into the Ligottian philosophy of consciousness being an inherently self destructive, independent entity distinct from its host body and locked in a constant war of attrition against its flesh and blood prison.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 February, 2022, 03:38:34 PM

I've never read any Thomas Ligotti so I'm not familiar with his philosophy. From what you say, though, it seems a rather bleak perspective.

I myself tend towards consciousness being an intrinsic property (a bit like the Star Wars Force), present to varying degrees and flavours in everything. I like the idea that our brains are receivers for the Universal Consciousness and also transmit experiences and perspectives back to it. The Minbari in B5 had a similar philosophy, iIrc, that we are the Universe trying to understand itself.

There are one or two episodes of Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast where he interviews quantum physicists who, considering the weirdness of the quantum realm, suggest that even subatomic particles may be conscious in some extremely limited way and that the more particles gather together, the greater the resulting amalgamated consciousness becomes. This raises the possibility that all consciousnesses may be nested somehow; our consciousnesses discrete parts of the Earth's consciousness, which is a discrete part of the Solar System's consciousness, which is a discrete part of the Milky Way's consciousness, and so on, upscale and downscale.

Nobody knows, of course, but a better description of God I have yet to encounter.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 February, 2022, 01:18:26 PM
Curling is a strangely compelling game, yet in about a weeks time I will completely forget about it for another four years.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 05 February, 2022, 02:36:47 PM
(https://media.allure.com/photos/5ecc84027570760008ba467e/1:1/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Velcro%2520Rollers%2520Cropped%2520(1).png)

Don't you forget about me...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 February, 2022, 02:52:07 PM
It's just been on the telly in the pub where I'm currently having a pint. How does one discover that one's talents lie in sliding teapots along while someone cleans the floor?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 February, 2022, 04:42:31 PM

Also, who was the first person to milk a cow? And what did he think he was doing...?

'Tis very windy here today - the old Sharkshed's shaking a bit and has more draughts than a branch of Toys R Us. Brrrr...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 February, 2022, 05:51:30 PM
It's easy enough imagine people in olden times picking up some brooms and kettles in an attempt to stave off the cold and boredom. It's amazing it's still practiced today, with all the global warming and internet pornography.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 06 February, 2022, 06:29:20 PM

Even the World Curling Federation (https://worldcurling.org/about/history/) doesn't know.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 February, 2022, 10:37:56 PM
Truly, it is the most enigmatic sport
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Post by: Funt Solo on 08 February, 2022, 12:34:21 AM
Meta: Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook's new name (https://youtu.be/Sya_ET05N7E)

This is like something from a dystopian horror movie - he's not talking the way normal people talk, he doesn't look much like a human (weird one-tone skin, what seems like Lego hair, and entirely black eyes - he's from V or something), he's selling the idea of us all participating in The Sims, but with all the gameplay elements removed, and without any legs. Why do tech-reveal gurus all have to wear tight-fitting dark pullovers?

I used to be kind of ambivalent about Facepuke, and the nerd who stole created it, but now ... now it's just hatred and fear. What this video needs is baseball bats, crazed maniacs to wield them, and some kind of points system so we can bet on how long The Zuck can survive armed only with corporate nuSpeak.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 08 February, 2022, 01:42:10 AM
Ah, Zuckerberg's presentation isn't sinisiter or alien, it's just the kind of gaping void of charisma you'd expect from a gormless nerd.

If it makes you feel any better: Facebook owner Meta sees biggest ever stock market loss (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60255088)

TL;DR: Last Thursday, Facebook saw it's first ever decline in active users, MetA lost $230 billion, and wee Mark lost $31 billion of his own personal fortune. Worse still, no one has started a GoFundMe for him.

My interpretation of why, in order of significance, is as follows:

1: Apple introduced new tech that prevents Facebook or any other social media apps from tracking you. This is the probably the real reason, the most reasonable explanation. The rest of this is me speculating

(b) Nobody wants the Meatverse [sic]*. mETa have banked a lot on VR, they released new Oculus headset at a surprisingly low price-point, hoping it will be a loss-leader. But VR headsets are nowhere near the point where they will replace screens. They're an oddity, a toy for hobbyists with big disposable incomes. People are addicted to screens, why try to ween them off? Nobody really wants VR in its current form, but MEtA's hubris just assumes that's the same as 18 years ago when no-one wanted Facebook, which brings me to my next, least provable, point.

[iii]Nobody wants Facebook anymore. When it started, nobody knew they wanted Facebook, but when they saw, it seemed great. It was like a phonebook/roledex that updated itself in real time. With pictures! It was a way to keep in touch with people that scheduling and/or geography and/or court orders may have prevented in the past. It was pretty cool in its early days. Until mass-adoption gave us a gross runaway mutant version of the Eternal September. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) I hardly need to go over everything Facebook has done wrong, but I often like to compare social media sites to real life social spaces like pubs. For all Facebooks claims to champion freeze peach, there's a name for pubs that don't have a problem letting Nazis in. I wouldn't go to a pub that turns a blind eye to its customers being harassed. I think during the pandemic, when people couldn't go to real bars, they realised they didn't want to hang around in Zuckerberg's virtual online Nazi bar.

FOUR- Tiktok

*not correcting that typo, it amuses me too much
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 08 February, 2022, 02:40:22 AM
Linking in with the idea of bad behavior in online spaces, there was this article about women being harassed in the Meatverse*: Meta moves to tackle creepy behaviour in virtual reality (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60247542)


*Adopting.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 08 February, 2022, 05:18:55 AM
Getting us back on topic: The Olympic curling stones crafted in Scotland (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60259628)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 16 February, 2022, 04:09:11 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 February, 2022, 02:52:07 PM
It's just been on the telly in the pub where I'm currently having a pint. How does one discover that one's talents lie in sliding teapots along while someone cleans the floor?

Its Scotland, not a lot else to do in winter.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 16 February, 2022, 07:03:36 PM
One-word gaffe invalidates thousands of US baptisms (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60409113)

TL;DR - the man doing the magic ceremony to indoctrinate thousands of babies into a belief system they have no knowledge of said the wrong magic words, so the magic didn't work, and now they're not proper humans.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 February, 2022, 11:56:05 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 February, 2022, 07:03:36 PM
One-word gaffe invalidates thousands of US baptisms (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60409113)

TL;DR - the man doing the magic ceremony to indoctrinate thousands of babies into a belief system they have no knowledge of said the wrong magic words, so the magic didn't work, and now they're not proper humans.

It's okay, the Pope's 10th level he can just cast "infallible bull" and reverse the spell, especially if he has enough dead medieval wizard bones.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 February, 2022, 11:59:11 PM
If any of those babies had died, would they have been eternally damned to hell because of a clerical error?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 February, 2022, 06:42:31 AM
I believe so. Not cool, Grud.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 February, 2022, 03:51:40 PM
This could be a bureaucratic nightmare, the queues in purgatory will be, retrospectively, massive.
If you get baptised again do you claim born again or clerical error, there isn't a tick box for that, back to the end of the line!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 February, 2022, 07:20:44 PM
It's just anti-catholic slander to say that those babies will go to Hell or Purgatory.

Unbaptized infants go to Limbo, a featureless grey plain where they wander until Judgment Day lamenting their separation from God. He's not a monster you know.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 February, 2022, 08:06:17 PM
To be fair, they eventually bump into Grant Morrison and find out he's been writing them the whole time.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 February, 2022, 08:24:18 PM
If it turns out tangible planes of reality only exist because of Grant Morrison's imagination, I would be OK with that, but it's also the most Grant Morrisony bullshit ever.

Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 February, 2022, 07:20:44 PM
It's just anti-catholic slander ...

'Round these parts, that's just the local assembly's policy. My wife, who had considered becoming a nun*, pointed out the whole limbo thing to me when I raised this story with her.

*and regrets not doing it since marrying me....ZING
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 February, 2022, 09:47:31 PM

Now it may confidently be said that, as the result of centuries of speculation on the subject, we ought to believe that these souls enjoy and will eternally enjoy a state of perfect natural happiness; and this is what Catholics usually mean when they speak of the limbus infantium, the "children's limbo." (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09256a.htm)

So, that's all right, then...

:-/

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 17 February, 2022, 10:09:03 PM
I'm assuming that everyone knows that the largest religious group in the world is 'lapsed catholic'?

NB: as a member of that group and having read the bible cover to cover, there is no biblical basis to purgatory.  The old testament (Jews) did not believe in an afterlife, or at least there is no real reference to it.  Limited reference to be sure e.g. Sheol.

It is only in the New Testament that it starts to come up and even then only in a handful of places.

NBB: the Catholic Bible is not the same as the King James / Non-conformist Bible.  There are several books in both the Old and New Testament that do not appear in other Bibles.

Mind you, this is from someone who still holds to the Pascal gambit so who am I to speak?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 February, 2022, 10:15:16 PM
It's nearly always fascinating to watch organized religion rub up against (careful!) reality, and stumble around punch-drunk for a moment before slapping on a straight face and letting you know that they've figured it all out now for real - but this time it's definitely kosher (sic).

I assume that religion smells of mothballs.

(I wrote this prior to Tjm's post, so this is not a response.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 February, 2022, 10:23:17 PM
Pascal's wager seems to be a threat. Believe or suffer! So very, very hateful. I can't abide it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 February, 2022, 11:22:00 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 17 February, 2022, 10:09:03 PM
I'm assuming that everyone knows that the largest religious group in the world is 'lapsed catholic'?

Is this true? I would have thought Muslim countries with large populations where your neighbours may kill you for perceived blasphemy would swing the demographics

Quote from: Tjm86 on 17 February, 2022, 10:09:03 PM
NB: as a member of that group and having read the bible cover to cover, there is no biblical basis to purgatory.  The old testament (Jews) did not believe in an afterlife, or at least there is no real reference to it.  Limited reference to be sure e.g. Sheol.

It is only in the New Testament that it starts to come up and even then only in a handful of places.

NBB: the Catholic Bible is not the same as the King James / Non-conformist Bible.  There are several books in both the Old and New Testament that do not appear in other Bibles.

Mind you, this is from someone who still holds to the Pascal gambit so who am I to speak?

I went to a catholic primary school where my impressionable mind accepted so much bullshit* and then a protestant secondary school where people had never heard of purgatory, guardian angels, intercessions by saints etc. I investigated the source material, as I was being taught to do, and realised that none of this was in the actual bible, and the socio/political reasons why the church had made all this shit up over the centuries.

I'm now off to google the Pascal gambit.

*We had this massive painting in the year 4 classroom of a child getting close to the edge of a cliff and a HUGE guardian angel shielding him with his wing. We were told that we all had an individual GA who was watching us 24/7. They told us of a child who'd been granted a vision of his GA and saw it as a presence filling his entire bedroom, and another who talked to his GA using CB slang (it was big at the time, but wait what? We're supposed to talk to them?). I think this was supposed to be comforting, but it scared the shit out of me. We were told that EVERY catholic altar contained a sliver of the True Cross and that not going to mass on Sunday was a mortal sin that would condemn you to hell. I once got the cane (lead-filled bamboo) for "disrespecting" a set of cheap plastic rosary beads. Not surprising that I joined that big demographic.

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 17 February, 2022, 11:51:17 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 17 February, 2022, 10:09:03 PM
I'm assuming that everyone knows that the largest religious group in the world is 'lapsed catholic'?

I prefer the term "recovering cath-aholic".
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Post by: Dandontdare on 18 February, 2022, 12:09:42 AM
 :lol:
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 20 February, 2022, 07:14:05 AM

I was up a ladder the other day, cutting the top branches off a willow tree before the wind brought the lot down. Willows, you see, are vastly optimistic beasts because they never know when they're dead. This one is a huge old thing, with a dying trunk - a dying trunk so big that I couldn't get my arms all the way around it if there were two of me - and about three years ago we got a professional in to cut two thirds of it down. Since then, new growth has spurted from the top and started to catch the wind like a sail, causing the dying trunk to creak and sway alarmingly and threaten to pull the whole thing over, possibly onto a nearby static caravan. The professional tree-feller fellow wasn't available, so guess who got the job? Muggins here, that's who.
So there I am, thirty feet up a ladder in the wind, clinging on for dear life, chunnering and mumbling to myself, cutting down branches with a rapidly enblunting bow saw as the Universe decided that the wind really needed to be applying as much rain as possible to my bum and neck, when Gigi* walked past below.
Now, Gigi is very lovely. Very petite, very gorgeous, very married. <sighs wistfully> I've just sawed through a thirty foot long branch as thick as my arm and am trying to lower it to the ground without overbalancing or braining anyone, when she looks up at me and smiles. A smile from Gigi always gives me the gooeys, even in such precarious moments when I'm wrestling with the wind for control of a heavy, awkward branch.
"Ooh," she says - and it's the 'ooh' that makes her next words so memorable - "ooh, that's a nice length of wood."
I'm only human. What am I supposed to do with a comment like that? I laughed so hard that I nearly fell out of the tree, bringing ladder, saw, and branches down on top of me. I almost died that day, killed by innuendo with the sound of Sid James chuckling in my mind. Wouldn't have been a bad way to go, though...

*Not her real name.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 February, 2022, 09:54:37 AM
I think I've just fallen for Gigi too.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 22 February, 2022, 09:57:09 AM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 17 February, 2022, 08:24:18 PM
If it turns out tangible planes of reality only exist because of Grant Morrison's imagination, I would be OK with that, but it's also the most Grant Morrisony bullshit ever.

Dreams of the Red King... nobody waken Grant.
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Post by: Barrington Boots on 22 February, 2022, 11:10:37 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 20 February, 2022, 07:14:05 AM
I almost died that day, killed by innuendo with the sound of Sid James chuckling in my mind. Wouldn't have been a bad way to go, though...

Stiffed?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 February, 2022, 12:13:13 PM

:-D

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Post by: NapalmKev on 26 February, 2022, 07:39:22 PM
/edit - I'm testing how to post pictures with new IPod. It doesn't seem to be working!


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Post by: NapalmKev on 26 February, 2022, 08:04:19 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 26 February, 2022, 07:39:22 PM
/edit - I'm testing how to post pictures with new IPod. It doesn't seem to be working!


No more. I tried;I failed (again)

Fruitless endeavours be Damned!

Cheers
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Post by: paddykafka on 27 February, 2022, 12:04:57 PM
If it helps at all, NK, below are links to some words of Wisdom that might offer you guidance.  ;)

https://booksonthewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Samuel-Beckett-quote-Fail-better.png

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/47/39/781331501-homer_simpson_quotes.jpeg

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Post by: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2022, 03:39:59 PM
Is it just me or is the board, really really quiet just now?
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 March, 2022, 04:01:11 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 05 March, 2022, 03:39:59 PM
Is it just me or is the board, really really quiet just now?

Its been quiet for the last couple of days but overall this year hasn't been off to a bad start I'd say.

It'll pick up, it normally does....
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 March, 2022, 04:38:04 PM
I read a story that a lot of the Russian troll farms have turned all their attention to anti-Ukraine propaganda now, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it, comrade.
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 March, 2022, 09:59:18 PM

Last Wednesday mother was admitted to hospital because of chronically low levels of calcium in her blood as well as some other issues. This evening I was informed that she has tested positive for Covid. 
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 March, 2022, 01:18:44 AM
Dolly Parton has been nominated on the shortlist for the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, this year, but has declined it

Quote from: Miss Dolly Parton

Dolly here! Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don't feel that I have earned that right. I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.

I do hope that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will understand and be willing to consider me again - if I'm ever worthy. This has, however, inspired me to put out a hopefully great rock'n'roll album at some point in the future, which I have always wanted to do! My husband is a total rock'n'roll freak, and has always encouraged me to do one. I wish all of the nominees good luck and thank you again for the compliment. Good luck!


That lady likes to joke about how trashy and low class she is, but there can be no doubt she is one classy broad. If you have a problem with Dolly Parton, then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 16 March, 2022, 01:59:24 PM
It takes a lot f money to look that cheap
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Post by: paddykafka on 16 March, 2022, 03:54:20 PM
Quote from: The Doctor Alt 8 on 07 March, 2022, 09:59:18 PM

Last Wednesday mother was admitted to hospital because of chronically low levels of calcium in her blood as well as some other issues. This evening I was informed that she has tested positive for Covid. 

Best wishes to your Mom, Doc Alt 8, and here's to a speedy recovery for her.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 28 March, 2022, 04:31:35 AM
Cockatoo dances to Elvis (https://youtu.be/5R0NMxo45vs)
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 March, 2022, 05:43:01 PM
Mother is back home. Now begins the fight to get her new medication sent to her on time....
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Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 16 April, 2022, 09:15:00 AM
The Easter Cat has risen!
I used to see a long-tailed white Ginger cat at work in the morning, but well into the Covid epidemic, I feared I'd spotted his splatted cat corpse on the road up the town. I never saw the ginger cat after the splatting incident and sadly assumed that it was he who had met his end there, and so I gave up on ever seeing 'scowling cat' as I nicknamed him when he looked at me ever again. But this morning, a miracle took place, for as I walked from one workplace to another, standing upon the Road, as if he owned the feckin' thing, was 'scowling cat,' hunting micey in the trees that ran alongside! Scowling Cat has risen from the dead! So, I wish you all a Happy Easter and choccy munchy good times.
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Post by: sheridan on 16 April, 2022, 10:09:11 AM
Scorling Cat truly following the advice from the phrase "What Would Jesus Do?"  i.e. fake illness* and have a few days off work before returning.


* illness, death, whatever...
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 April, 2022, 10:21:58 AM

Quote from: sheridan on 16 April, 2022, 10:09:11 AM

Scorling Cat truly following the advice from the phrase "What Would Jesus Do?"  i.e. fake illness* and have a few days off work before returning...


...to work abroad(?). (https://stellarhousepublishing.com/jesus-in-india/)

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Post by: paddykafka on 21 April, 2022, 05:45:03 PM
This is just priceless!

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/queen-elizabeth-ii-barbie-doll-released-on-her-96th-birthday-1.4858365



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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 21 April, 2022, 06:54:07 PM

LOL... hardly accurate!
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Post by: M.I.K. on 21 April, 2022, 07:03:41 PM
I don't think it's that bad a likeness...

...of Helen Mirren.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 April, 2022, 09:12:54 PM
It joins the ranks...

(https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/09/06/16/Braveheart%20Ronaldo%20statues.jpg)
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 April, 2022, 02:01:11 PM

(https://www.udrop.com/cache/plugins/filepreviewer/560320/68556786c117d4b5664e2f5026aad01cfc08413c6164e51d3cc4344435ca929f/1100x800_cropped.jpg)
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Post by: paddykafka on 22 April, 2022, 02:45:45 PM
 :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 April, 2022, 03:02:20 PM

NSFW - probably.

The joy of Painting, with Donald Trump.

https://www.udrop.com/cache/plugins/filepreviewer/560312/21f98d9d776a34a10748c73abec1c0a613fe60505b6fa4984ed052316cadb2e7/1100x800_cropped.jpg (https://www.udrop.com/cache/plugins/filepreviewer/560312/21f98d9d776a34a10748c73abec1c0a613fe60505b6fa4984ed052316cadb2e7/1100x800_cropped.jpg)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 22 April, 2022, 03:44:43 PM
This feels appropriate again: Leonard Nimoy: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (https://youtu.be/BC35cQKHwzg)


I'm not sure how you rinse your brain after that. Maybe this (https://youtu.be/GI6CfKcMhjY)?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 28 April, 2022, 07:17:58 PM
Assuming Putin saw this and misunderstood:

UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming (https://youtu.be/cWl69ZOINfE)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 May, 2022, 12:55:50 PM
Really not feeling THOUGHT BUBBLE this year, and it might actually be the first year I actively choose not to go. The line up of A list creators just leaves me a bit cold, and is giving me the uncomfortable feeling it'll be a repeat of the Gerard Way situation from a few years back.

Chillercon in a few weeks, on the other hand, looks stacked and is probably my most anticipated micro-convention of the year. Strange times.
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 23 May, 2022, 04:11:47 PM

Two of my favourite medieval YouTubers.... talking Judge Dredd?! 

https://youtu.be/9xz1BwbOH4I?t=1909
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 May, 2022, 11:07:51 PM
My condolences to any Liverpool fans here, but the good news is,  "The Football" has been renewed for another season...
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 08 June, 2022, 06:10:54 PM

Garfield... As you have never seen him before perhaps. https://youtu.be/O2C5R3FOWdE?t=4383
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Post by: paddykafka on 13 July, 2022, 01:50:29 PM
Another incredible image from the James Webb space telescope.

https://www.facebook.com/SigourneyWeaverFanspage/posts/pfbid0PUqbfXK7nrfb63jnP91XB5uZaFzgGToamf3MvWYdQUcofwNB9jRndGefxRnc9X7El

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Post by: Smith on 13 July, 2022, 05:48:40 PM
I see the political thread got nuked. :lol:
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Post by: Funt Solo on 16 July, 2022, 12:06:37 AM
You learn something new every day: Olivia Colman + Adrian Edmondson read letters between Sultan Mehmed IV and the Zaporozhian Cossacks (https://youtu.be/ACQiwLcFbLk)
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Post by: paddykafka on 01 August, 2022, 11:03:26 AM
Doesn't look like I'll be getting into Heaven, anytime soon.  :D

https://preview.redd.it/qaudvy5nqse91.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9f84d41fdf43caf236b78b4ddf8415cad59fa5f8

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Post by: Funt Solo on 01 August, 2022, 05:21:22 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 01 August, 2022, 11:03:26 AM
Doesn't look like I'll be getting into Heaven, anytime soon.  :D

https://preview.redd.it/qaudvy5nqse91.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9f84d41fdf43caf236b78b4ddf8415cad59fa5f8

Clearly lacking in graphic design nous. I'm amused that there are bible references included, as if the bible had the foresight to list "hardcore gamer" as a sinful enterprise. Also amusing that heaven is graphically depicted as being a thorny hedge. How appealing.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 August, 2022, 02:21:35 PM
I've just had my ears syringed.  It's an indescribably pleasant feeling to have normal ear-holes again.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 03 August, 2022, 02:38:12 PM
Huzzah!
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Post by: paddykafka on 03 August, 2022, 04:16:19 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 August, 2022, 02:21:35 PM
I've just had my ears syringed.  It's an indescribably pleasant feeling to have normal ear-holes again.

I had myself convinced, recently, that I was in dire need of the same procedure. Turn's out, I just had the wrong sound setting on my telly.  :lol:
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 03 August, 2022, 09:52:10 PM
I really hope that's true.   :)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 04 August, 2022, 04:15:40 AM
...9997...
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Post by: paddykafka on 04 August, 2022, 11:43:44 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 August, 2022, 09:52:10 PM
I really hope that's true.   :)

I'm happy to make your day, Jayzuz.  :) Yep, 'tis indeed true!

By next month, I'll probably be at this stage:  :D

https://www.facebook.com/PsychoticDelusions1/posts/pfbid054zfethqP7bAymvPd1rZsmKQDFcZHJhsbkySL8DJs3VPAhuHV1wYxXZR1JFMduDDl
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Post by: broodblik on 04 August, 2022, 12:21:30 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 04 August, 2022, 04:15:40 AM
...9997...


minus 4875
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 August, 2022, 04:57:59 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 04 August, 2022, 11:43:44 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 August, 2022, 09:52:10 PM
I really hope that's true.   :)

I'm happy to make your day, Jayzuz.  :) Yep, 'tis indeed true!

By next month, I'll probably be at this stage:  :D

https://www.facebook.com/PsychoticDelusions1/posts/pfbid054zfethqP7bAymvPd1rZsmKQDFcZHJhsbkySL8DJs3VPAhuHV1wYxXZR1JFMduDDl
Quote from: paddykafka on 04 August, 2022, 11:43:44 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 03 August, 2022, 09:52:10 PM
I really hope that's true.   :)

I'm happy to make your day, Jayzuz.  :) Yep, 'tis indeed true!

By next month, I'll probably be at this stage:  :D

https://www.facebook.com/PsychoticDelusions1/posts/pfbid054zfethqP7bAymvPd1rZsmKQDFcZHJhsbkySL8DJs3VPAhuHV1wYxXZR1JFMduDDl

:lol:   Maybe your neighbours were never noisy at all - your hearing was just REALLY GOOD. (Sorry!)
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Post by: paddykafka on 05 August, 2022, 11:40:23 AM
 :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by: Funt Solo on 09 August, 2022, 07:47:17 AM
They've only gone and turned Forbidden Planet into a sweet shop!
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 August, 2022, 09:11:57 PM
I was in the Dublin branch recently and struggled to find the actual comics.  Sad but necessary for their survival, I suppose; you can't download figurines and plushies from torrent sites.  Yet.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 09 August, 2022, 09:27:21 PM
Oh, there's that as well. I went looking for FP in Glasgow in Buchanan St, but they've moved, and there's a sweet shop in their old premises. I tracked them down today. Embarrassingly they didn't have this week's 2000AD, which I had to get from Smith's along the road.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 14 August, 2022, 11:26:07 AM
It's up on Sauchiehall Street now. I think.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 September, 2022, 11:01:50 AM
Did Operation Tower Bridge have any protocols for updating the lyrics to the Sex Pistols' song? King and regime don't rhyme that well.
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Post by: M.I.K. on 23 September, 2022, 03:01:29 PM
Regimen?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 23 September, 2022, 03:55:38 PM
God save the King, the fascist (dietary) regimen!

I can almost smell the gold disc*.




*Do they still do those? Or am I terribly out of date?
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 September, 2022, 11:27:05 PM
It's just occurred to me that whenever someone on the telly or on a film has a bit of a cough, it's never a cold, is it?  It's an undiagnosed illness that will kill them, as sure as night follows day.  I'm watching House of the Dragons and someone is coughing, see.  I'll be sorry to see them go.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 October, 2022, 01:20:32 PM
if there was a reset button would you hit it? when would you go back to?
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Post by: JohnW on 21 October, 2022, 01:28:47 PM
1985.
I don't think in terms of a reset button, but that's my instinctive answer.
To be perfectly honest, 1985 wasn't the best of years, but there was nothing really bad about it.
The prog was good that year, I liked what was in the charts, and I wasn't doing anyone any harm.

I always think that if someone put a gun to my head and told me that I had to pick one calendar year of my life to relive exactly as it had been, I'd say, 'Pull the trigger, tough guy.'
If, on the other hand, some official looked through the paperwork, sighed, and told me that it was out of his hands, that rules were rules, and that I'd have to relive one year, I might rant and rail for a bit, but then I'd just give in and say, 'Nineteen eighty-five.'
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 October, 2022, 01:51:52 PM

No. The future cannot be found in the past, only informed by it.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 October, 2022, 03:26:33 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 21 October, 2022, 01:20:32 PM
if there was a reset button would you hit it? when would you go back to?

Could I keep the mind I have now or would I go back to the person I was then? 

If it's the former, then it's about 1995 for me.  Still young and fresh-faced, and just getting over the shyness that had crippled me before that.  Best mate still alive, no major regrets in life.

If the latter, then no thanks. There's a lot of shit I wouldn't like to go through again. Pretty much all of it was a product of my own flawed mindset, so no, I don't want that mindset again.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2022, 04:33:37 PM
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was stronger
The can-can, such a pretty show
Steals your heart away
But backstage back on earth again
The dressing rooms are gray
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Post by: Funt Solo on 22 October, 2022, 06:16:25 PM
See, if you could go back and insert your now-mind into your younger self, then you're effectively stealing the body of your younger self and therefore effectively murdering them.

Should this be on the philosophy thread?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 October, 2022, 09:11:34 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 22 October, 2022, 06:16:25 PM
See, if you could go back and insert your now-mind into your younger self, then you're effectively stealing the body of your younger self and therefore effectively murdering them.

Should this be on the philosophy thread?

That brings in a time paradox. Since you've killed your past self at whatever point of time, you lose all experience and knowledge beyond that point, so effectively nothing would change.

In fact, this could have already happened to you and you would have no way of knowing.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 22 October, 2022, 09:15:06 PM

Furthermore, your Now Self would no longer be your Now Self because it would become your Now Self + X years, so you wouldn't only be murdering your Then Self but your Now Self as well...

My brain 'urts.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 22 October, 2022, 09:25:39 PM
Maybe Quantum Leap has the answer*: Whenever Sam leapt into a body, he was essentially doing a Freaky-Friday** with his victim subject across the space-time continuum. So you could go back and swap your brain with your teenage self, and redo things better; but all your current friends and family would wonder why you've gone all gormless and surly. Or assume some form of alzheimers.

*Lets be honest, when does Quantum Leap NOT have the answer?
**Again, never not relevant
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 October, 2022, 09:51:34 AM
Sorry to steer wildly off-topic - I know how important it is on this thread to stick to one subject - but I'm starting to wonder if anyone at all identified as a Chip-ite.  If you were a Whiz-kid your leader was a suave, good-looking kid with an intelligent snake like Steve McClaren has, while a Chip-ite only had a shorts-wearing anachronism with a shit haircut whose only gimmick was that he lost fights all the time.
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Post by: JohnW on 23 October, 2022, 03:34:50 PM
I had no horse in that race, but I can easily imagine many who'd have sided with the scrappy underdog over the self-satisfied git who owned his own snake.
After all, who in those days had never known the anguish of a shit haircut?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 October, 2022, 04:09:58 PM
Fair point.  However, you've undermined it somewhat by using the expression 'scrappy underdog', which has made everyone* here make a mental connection to another cartoon character that should have been killed with fire immediately after his unnecessary introduction to a perfectly good TV show.

*Yes, everyone.  They told me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 23 October, 2022, 04:33:56 PM
It was an unfortunate choice of words for which I can only apologise.
I had no intention whatsoever of recalling memories which you, or any of the readers of this thread, would naturally find painful.
But that reminds me:
I lost the badges and the wallet, I have forgotten the passwords, but I paid my dues (30p postal order IIRC) back in the day.
So am I or am I not still a member of the Dennis the Menace Fan Club?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 24 October, 2022, 02:31:51 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 23 October, 2022, 04:09:58 PM
'scrappy underdog'

I'll see your Scrappy Doo and raise you an ET made starting up a D&D club cool. Then, this happened...

(https://midlifecrisiscrossover.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/dungeon-master.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 24 October, 2022, 08:17:44 AM
And this is where I pretend I was never here.

*sidles off, talking loudly about girls and football*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 October, 2022, 06:52:20 AM
Quote from: JWare on 23 October, 2022, 04:33:56 PM
It was an unfortunate choice of words for which I can only apologise.
I had no intention whatsoever of recalling memories which you, or any of the readers of this thread, would naturally find painful.
But that reminds me:
I lost the badges and the wallet, I have forgotten the passwords, but I paid my dues (30p postal order IIRC) back in the day.
So am I or am I not still a member of the Dennis the Menace Fan Club?

My friend, you voted to leave it in 2016.  Don't start complaining now that you can't enjoy the benefits of it. 

Oh wait, hang on.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 25 October, 2022, 10:45:59 AM
Quote from: JWare on 23 October, 2022, 04:33:56 PM
I lost the badges and the wallet, I have forgotten the passwords, but I paid my dues (30p postal order IIRC) back in the day.
So am I or am I not still a member of the Dennis the Menace Fan Club?

Remembering the passwords to the Dennis the Menace Fan Club helped me meet my wife. They're like, the worst easiest passwords ever.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 25 October, 2022, 12:05:10 PM
Damn.
If middle age hadn't stolen my memory, maybe I'd have met your wife.
[Sorry]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 26 October, 2022, 03:09:19 PM
Missed the conclusion to TFFT - what did ye vote for in the end? Pandora Perfect?  ::)
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Post by: JohnW on 26 October, 2022, 03:26:51 PM
They don't call her pefect for nothing.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 26 October, 2022, 07:06:14 PM
Before was was was, was was is.
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Post by: JohnW on 26 October, 2022, 08:36:26 PM
This doesn't have anything to do with Peter Piper selling seashells, does it?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2022, 09:26:22 PM

Quote from: Mister Pops on 26 October, 2022, 07:06:14 PM

Before was was was, was was is.


That's awesome, because before is was is, is was was. But, hang on, shouldn't it be after was was was, was was is? Or, before was was is, was was was?
My brain's 'urtin agin.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 October, 2022, 10:30:52 PM
Quote from: Mister Pops on 26 October, 2022, 07:06:14 PM
Before was was was, was was is.

Tangentially, singular "they" was apparently in use for about 400 years before some pedants starting complaining about it (about 300 years ago). The pedants are revolting.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 26 October, 2022, 11:26:57 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 26 October, 2022, 09:26:22 PM

Quote from: Mister Pops on 26 October, 2022, 07:06:14 PM

Before was was was, was was is.


That's awesome, because before is was is, is was was. But, hang on, shouldn't it be after was was was, was was is? Or, before was was is, was was was?
My brain's 'urtin agin.

Surely, before was was was was was has been, then was was was was; and is was was was but was wasn't is. Is will be will be, but that's another story
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 October, 2022, 01:16:03 AM

This is all too tense for me.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 October, 2022, 07:10:59 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 26 October, 2022, 10:30:52 PMThe pedants are revolting.

Nice.

Also tangentally, I've just set mousetraps and finally killed the mice running round inside my ceiling for the last couple of months.  Got to say, I feel like a bit of a bastard about it but at least I didn't torture them till their very last breath like cats do, and I still like cats.
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Post by: JohnW on 27 October, 2022, 11:00:17 AM
The mice had it coming.
It was was you or the mice.
That's what you tell yourself to keep the nightmares at bay.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 October, 2022, 11:19:16 AM
Art Spiegleman will come a'knocking with a bat and some rusty nails if you keep this up.
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Post by: paddykafka on 27 October, 2022, 11:35:45 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 October, 2022, 07:10:59 AM
Got to say, I feel like a bit of a bastard about it but at least I didn't torture them till their very last breath like cats do, and I still like cats.

This cartoon came to mind after reading your post.  :)

https://www.facebook.com/AnoukTheNinjaCat/posts/pfbid02thHuKwY9kkw2RnmMc21kpPmuysSSWrMVnDtozoumSYK7Y9QCA1cqtSydnPMZjmm4l

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 October, 2022, 04:30:19 PM
I did try an ultrasonic device - about as much use as your proverbial chocolate fireguard.  I even tried letting my neighbour's cat wander about, hoping its scent would scare them off, but that was about as effective as the cat in Paddy's cartoon.

Sorry, lads. Meeces to pieces it is. I hope they didn't suffer,  nor mutate and take revenge come the Apocalypse.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 October, 2022, 05:13:17 PM

And, from the holes in the skirting boards, they drew their plans against us...

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Post by: Funt Solo on 27 October, 2022, 06:40:06 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 27 October, 2022, 05:13:17 PM

And, from the holes in the skirting boards, they drew their plans against us...

SQUEA-LAAAAAAAAA!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 October, 2022, 10:19:25 AM
I've spent my whole life thinking the female lead in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was called Esmerelda, but have just discovered her name is Esmeralda.  I blame Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum, which definitely spelled her name with three e's.

And there are still mice in my ceiling.  Fuck sake.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 October, 2022, 10:40:34 AM

That'll be the mouse detectives, looking for the bodies of the victims you've already killed. They'll soon be closing in...

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Post by: JohnW on 28 October, 2022, 10:40:53 AM
Have you considered that the mice you hear are not in your ceiling but in your mind?
Little ghost mice forever pitter-pattering in your troubled conscience?
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Post by: Barrington Boots on 28 October, 2022, 11:06:21 AM
I'm still pushing for the snake solution...

My parents have rats in their loft and you have to check the traps all the time in case one gets killed in it and then starts rotting or worse, the others come and eat it. They multiply like mad though and they can't figure out how they're getting in.
Some years ago they had a rat specialist dude come over and he asked if birds were eating a lot of food in the garden. My Mum admitted she just hung out another of those suet balls whenever the old one was gone without thinking about it. He took her out into the garden and there under a remote bush was a pile of about a dozen mostly eaten suet balls that the rats had been taking off the tree.

Good luck with your mousepocalypse JBC!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 28 October, 2022, 11:54:12 AM
QuoteI've spent my whole life thinking the female lead in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was called Esmerelda, but have just discovered her name is Esmeralda.  I blame Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum

Funny now.
I always assumed it was Esmerelda with three Es too.
Of course, we didn't have a Spectrum in our house. We had to make do with rudimentary flint tools.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 October, 2022, 01:14:56 PM

Flint? Luxury!

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Post by: Funt Solo on 28 October, 2022, 03:46:41 PM
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 October, 2022, 08:39:24 PM
Quote from: JWare on 28 October, 2022, 10:40:53 AM
Have you considered that the mice you hear are not in your ceiling but in your mind?
Little ghost mice forever pitter-pattering in your troubled conscience?

I can't say it HASN'T crossed my mind.

Turns out I didn't kill ANY of the bastards - the traps just sprang by themselves.  My ceiling is going to end up like Planet Charon in Halo Jones, isn't it.
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Post by: JohnW on 28 October, 2022, 09:50:10 PM
QuoteTurns out I didn't kill ANY of the bastards

Things to shout into the night to reassure the neighbours.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 28 October, 2022, 10:42:27 PM
Sent from the future to terminate mouse-kind's greatest threat, beware the M-1000, JBC:

(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/649/654/large/jou-wang-mouse-keyshot-12.jpg)
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 October, 2022, 12:10:04 AM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 28 October, 2022, 11:06:21 AM

Some years ago they had a rat specialist dude come over and he asked if birds were eating a lot of food in the garden. My Mum admitted she just hung out another of those suet balls whenever the old one was gone without thinking about it. He took her out into the garden and there under a remote bush was a pile of about a dozen mostly eaten suet balls that the rats had been taking off the tree.


I've heard soaking bird feed in hot sauce deters squirrels from eating all the bird food. It would probably work for rats too. Apparently birds' taste buds don't react to capsaicin. Chillies evolved to take advantage of this. Only birds eat them and then spread their seeds over a larger area.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 29 October, 2022, 08:21:42 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/2FDR8Xc.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/J5gormT.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/WP3Uw26.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 29 October, 2022, 11:57:30 AM
Quote from: JWare on 28 October, 2022, 09:50:10 PM
QuoteTurns out I didn't kill ANY of the bastards

Things to shout into the night to reassure the neighbours.

Chortle!

They are doing my fucking head in though.  I won't use poison for fear of killing my neighbours' cats and dogs as well as the awful death it causes mice , and the traps aren't working.  Might have to call in pest control though I think they'd use poison too.
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Post by: Tiplodocus on 29 October, 2022, 01:23:08 PM
We used humane mousetraps in The Great Mouse War of 2000. Peanut butter in one end. They are so light you hardly know they are caught. Take them at least a mile away to release them. We ended up catching about a dozen of them.

In a fantastic bit of irony, I released one only to see an owl swoop down and snatch it up.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 October, 2022, 02:17:19 PM
My granda, used to just use the spring loaded traps, then hang the mutilated rodent corpse from the clothesline as a warning to any others. Different times.

I should also mention he was a farmer and his nearest neighbour was ~half a mile away.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 29 October, 2022, 04:53:52 PM
Actually trying to be helpful now: we had a mouse problem (and a rat problem) in a mobile home a few years ago - rats had chewed their way into the bathroom through the dryer-vent pipe, and scuttly beasties were nesting underneath the floorboards, in the roof-space and in the walls.

The main problem, though, was the kitchen - because the mice were pooping everywhere and they carry disease here. We tried kill-traps, but that got *really* messy with the edge cases. I'll spare you the details. We switched to catch-'ems, and then ... the mice went to heaven (which, we can all agree, is at least a mile away).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 29 October, 2022, 11:09:14 PM
Thanks! I used to use the humane traps when I lived on the boat and they were quite effective. The problem now is that I don't have anywhere to put them - the mice are between my ceiling and the roof slates.
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Post by: JohnW on 18 November, 2022, 09:13:09 AM
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From Prog 307.
Whatever happened to the days when 2000AD advertised the basics of coarse fishing?
No wonder the youth of today has gone to the dogs.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 November, 2022, 09:57:34 AM
Quote from: JWare on 18 November, 2022, 09:13:09 AM
From Prog 307.
Whatever happened to the days when 2000AD advertised the basics of coarse fishing?
No wonder the youth of today has gone to the dogs.

To be fair, the youth of the 90s were getting shitfaced with the fake IDs Tharg used to advertise back then.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 18 November, 2022, 10:01:12 AM
Kids of the 90s didn't know they were born. I had to get shitfaced without any ID at all.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 November, 2022, 10:13:46 AM
With you all the way.

'Two flagons of Linden Village, please.'
'What school are you in?'
'St Ciaran's.'
'You're not old enough, then.'

I wasn't the smartest underage drinker in the world.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 18 November, 2022, 10:16:33 AM
The advice of Ivan Marks, Britain's top angling writer, could have saved you from a life of dissolution.
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Post by: JohnW on 25 November, 2022, 09:10:36 PM
Given that my first attempt at posting this apparently failed, I'd better rectify matters.
People need to know.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/jsware2002/prog_307.jpg)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 10 January, 2023, 06:58:01 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/b5gT1td/Thatcher-Schnapps.png)

Inspired by this story: "Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture" (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64223974)

If you look up Shapps in the dictionary it says "a man who cheats or tricks someone by gaining their trust and persuading them to believe something that is not true ... but he's not very good at it."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 January, 2023, 03:08:14 PM
I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he thought there were too many great big white phalluses in that picture.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 15 January, 2023, 10:07:24 AM
Friday marked the 20th anniversary of Trogdor the Burninator. This makes me feel old!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 January, 2023, 09:29:50 AM
I have caffeinated sparrows.
They congregate in a bush that overhangs the little concrete yard behind my kitchen. The yard is only big enough for the wheelie bins and it's littered with leaves from the bush above and by the dregs from my morning pot of coffee. The coffee sludge is chucked out there and left to dry. Sometime in the future it gets swept up along with the dead leaves, and the snail shells, and the rest of the organic rubbish, and put in the bin.
I've only started noticing the sparrows this past year because of their numbers and the noise they make. It occurs to me that they're there for the coffee. When I see them pecking away in the little yard, it may not be seeds they're after, but coffee grounds. That might explain their liveliness. I have caffeinated sparrows.
No wonder they're all chirrupping loudly at the same time and flying in rapid little flurries – going nowhere but going fast.
These sparrows are buzzed.
I can hear them now, cheeping at each other like they've got a million ideas for a tech start-up.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 January, 2023, 10:27:35 AM

There used to be a gang of sparrows that hung out in a tree outside my old flat and they had only two speeds, asleep and AAAAAH! I love 'em.

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2023, 12:31:55 PM
I've been feeding a trio of foxes that keep coming to the small garden round the back of the family home.
Probably shouldn't but i've grown quite fond of them actually, plus it keeps them from trying (and failing) to squeeze into the cat flap.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 January, 2023, 12:49:18 PM
Yes, but are you feeding these foxes stimulants?

(On an unrelated note, but seeing as it's you: I think I saw a hawk on Sunday. Brown thing with large wingspan. It was gone before I could get a better look. Calling after it was no use. If only, I thought, there was someone I knew of who could communicate with hawks, albeit in a low and indistinct voice!)
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Post by: Link Prime on 17 January, 2023, 12:55:26 PM
I got deer, boys.
Everything from little Bambis to big effing stags. And a lot of 'em.

Beautiful but brazenly annoying creatures.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 January, 2023, 12:59:05 PM
Quote from: JWare on 17 January, 2023, 12:49:18 PM
(On an unrelated note, but seeing as it's you: I think I saw a hawk on Sunday. Brown thing with large wingspan. It was gone before I could get a better look. Calling after it was no use. If only, I thought, there was someone I knew of who could communicate with hawks, albeit in a low and indistinct voice!)

The spirit of Rutger Hauer rides again, but never the two shall meet.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 January, 2023, 01:03:58 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 17 January, 2023, 12:55:26 PM
I got deer, boys.
Everything from little Bambis to big effing stags. And a lot of 'em.
Your deer might be bigger than my sparrows, but do they have a coffee habit? Are they at least all fucked up on diet pills?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 18 January, 2023, 04:44:42 PM
It's squirrels round 'ere. And a particularly wasteful bald eagle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 January, 2023, 05:32:03 PM

Some years ago when I took up lorry driving again after a decades long break, I noticed that the sparrows (and other small birds) on lorry parks had learned to reach in through the front grilles of the bigger trucks to pluck ready-cooked bugs out of their radiators.

Nowadays, robins hang around wherever I'm working in case I move something that might reveal a smorgasbord of slithering snacks, which they fall upon with speedy relish.

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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 18 January, 2023, 08:18:51 PM
Quote from: JWare on 17 January, 2023, 09:29:50 AM
I have caffeinated sparrows.
They congregate in a bush that overhangs the little concrete yard behind my kitchen. The yard is only big enough for the wheelie bins and it's littered with leaves from the bush above and by the dregs from my morning pot of coffee. The coffee sludge is chucked out there and left to dry. Sometime in the future it gets swept up along with the dead leaves, and the snail shells, and the rest of the organic rubbish, and put in the bin.
I've only started noticing the sparrows this past year because of their numbers and the noise they make. It occurs to me that they're there for the coffee. When I see them pecking away in the little yard, it may not be seeds they're after, but coffee grounds. That might explain their liveliness. I have caffeinated sparrows.
No wonder they're all chirrupping loudly at the same time and flying in rapid little flurries – going nowhere but going fast.
These sparrows are buzzed.
I can hear them now, cheeping at each other like they've got a million ideas for a tech start-up.

This is comedy gold. I'm quite sure it's true.

It really lightened my mood after a bad day. Thanks.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 18 January, 2023, 08:51:00 PM
My pleasure, Doc.
Every word of it true.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 19 January, 2023, 12:41:10 AM
Just imagine what would happen if you decided to switch to decaff coffee? Lots of strung-out sparrows is just too horrible to contemplate. Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" would be in the halfpenny place, mate. :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 January, 2023, 12:56:45 AM

Like a Sparrow out of Hell.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 19 January, 2023, 09:31:15 PM
Oh look, my log-in details. So that's where they ended up... *blows dust off scrap of paper*
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 January, 2023, 09:18:22 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 January, 2023, 09:31:15 PM
Oh look, my log-in details. So that's where they ended up... *blows dust off scrap of paper*

How you doin old timer?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 20 January, 2023, 10:24:57 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 January, 2023, 09:31:15 PM
Oh look, my log-in details. So that's where they ended up... *blows dust off scrap of paper*

Piece of paper? You'll find things have changed.
When I joined last year I had to have my log-in details encrypted into a barcode tattooed onto my forehead – and no, Rebellion was not going to pay for the tattoo. Failure to maintain a legible forehead is punishable by demerits.
Still though, it's a grand old forum and I'm lucky to be here.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 January, 2023, 09:35:24 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 20 January, 2023, 09:18:22 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 January, 2023, 09:31:15 PM
Oh look, my log-in details. So that's where they ended up... *blows dust off scrap of paper*

How you doin old timer?

I'm doing well thank you Rich.
Hopefully all is good for you and for t'others on here.

Four years gone..... lot of catching up to do.....

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 22 January, 2023, 09:38:41 PM
Quote from: JWare on 20 January, 2023, 10:24:57 AM
Still though, it's a grand old forum

'Appen.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 January, 2023, 10:11:23 PM
I see more foxes in the city these days - they're everywhere and they don't give a flying fook about human proximity.  I do hear them out in the countryside where I live though - their mating calls would scare the absolute bejesus out of you, and I'm convinced that the Banshee legend started with them.

Welcome back, Spikes, from another old-timer.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 25 January, 2023, 02:21:37 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 October, 2022, 08:21:42 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/2FDR8Xc.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/J5gormT.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/WP3Uw26.jpg)

Awww I loves that series...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 25 January, 2023, 06:13:00 PM
We had a bear pass through town a couple of years ago. Also, something took one of our ducks - but mostly that seemed about the killing - they didn't seem to eat much of it. We're assuming it was a trash badger (i.e. racoon) because it figured out how to unlock the coop. Problem solvers, those guys.

We gave away our remaining duck - as it felt bad to have a lone duck living in the same place her buddy was murdered, and we weren't in the market for another. The woman that took her has a bunch of pet ducks that she liked to cuddle - and, from the photos, it looked like our duck was going to have a much happier life with a flock, more room to forage and a bigger swimming area.

(That was Jane-Duck. The murdered one was Janet - who was literally a lame duck. Jane's brother, years earlier, we had to give away when he matured and became highly aggressive. He went to live as a duck-stud. Lucky duck.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 27 January, 2023, 04:53:39 PM

I have a nasty suspicion that a certain neighbours are taking advantage of the fact that postal and delivery workers are unable to read the difference between my flat no and block address and just the street address. Things and mail that we were supposed to receive just don't arrive and at the end of last year I had to claim my BT wi-fi kit from them after the engineer told me he had been sent to their address not mine. So I could prove that mix up. Today the specialist cat food that I have been told has arrived (And has NOT arrived HERE) is the latest of things. (Dorian is becoming a fussy little devil and this is an attempt to get him to eat more that a few cat biscuits and cooked king prawns). These people have never approached me with mis-directed mail and I think I only got the wi-fi kit back after I sent them a polite note. Yet I have returned mail for THEM I have got by mistake. Problem is I can't PROVE it so I can't confront people about it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 27 January, 2023, 05:20:26 PM
Doc, I think all you can do is periodically drop round their place with the cheeriest most neighbourly smile on your face, hand over their mail, and ask them if they happen to have any of yours.
That makes it a meeting of neighbours: not a confrontation.
It's harder for them to casually rip someone off if they see that you're a real person and if they know that you're likely drop around anytime your mail goes missing.
If they turn out to be ignorant pigs then try the cheery neighbourly community spirit thing on the postie. Become a face rather than an address. That might help.

I should add that I have no experience at all in this matter. I've been living in a small inner-city terrace for the past 19 years and we all happily sign for each other's parcels.
It only took five or six years to convince the neighbours that, even though I was born all of two miles away, I was actually pretty harmless (for an outsider, that is). We're parochial, so we are, and proud of it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 27 January, 2023, 10:39:16 PM

Oh I couldn't agree with you more. A good relationship with neighbours is priceless. I just irritated that if they have the parcel, knowing what happened last time they couldn't of just said "You want the flat across the road mate!"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 January, 2023, 12:51:30 AM
And although it's a pain in the arse, you can almost always get a refund unless they've got proof of delivery.

I once had a a missing parcel logged as "handed to the receptionist" (presumably one of the cats who roam around our flats when I'm at work)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 January, 2023, 12:21:13 PM
Quote from: JWare on 27 January, 2023, 05:20:26 PM

I should add that I have no experience at all in this matter. I've been living in a small inner-city terrace for the past 19 years and we all happily sign for each other's parcels.

I lived on a boat in a boat community for 4 and a half years, and now live beside the same communities in a cabin that legally doesn't exist.  Locating your deliveries is a life-long Sherlock Holmes case.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 January, 2023, 06:13:18 PM
Well problem solved this time. Opened the door this afternoon to talk to them ( Because they didn't answer the door last night so I left another polite note) And there was the box of cat food on the doorstep. (Good job our door is inside a forecourt) I miss our old postie. He knew who lived where and therefore always got the address right.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 January, 2023, 09:22:05 PM

Maybe send 'em a little thank you - start building that community spirit...?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 29 January, 2023, 09:31:04 PM
Something to contemplate, my brothers and sisters.

We are now farther from Johnny Logan's first Eurovision win than that win was from the Munich Agreement, when democracy was thrown to the fascist wolves.

Of course, we're still just about closer to Bucks Fizz's win than they were to the violation of the Polish Corridor, so there's that.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 30 January, 2023, 10:48:12 AM
I see profile pictures have re-appeared.

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 30 January, 2023, 12:11:49 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 30 January, 2023, 10:48:12 AM
I see profile pictures have re-appeared.
And now our true selves are revealed.
Barrington Boots's trifle wins it for me - because it's trifle, obviously.
That's an avatar a chap can trust.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 30 January, 2023, 02:36:30 PM
Day made  :)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 02 February, 2023, 12:48:06 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 22 January, 2023, 09:35:24 PMFour years gone..... lot of catching up to do.....



Any original art to share with us?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 February, 2023, 01:51:38 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 02 February, 2023, 12:48:06 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 22 January, 2023, 09:35:24 PMFour years gone..... lot of catching up to do.....



Good call. Whip um out Spikes

Any original art to share with us?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 February, 2023, 02:58:09 PM
One million seconds is around eleven and a half days.

One billion seconds is around thirty one and a half years.

One trillion seconds is is around thirty two thousand years.

***

Elon Musk has $178.3 billion, which equates to 5,650 years.

Boris Johnson currently has a net worth of £2.9 million, which equates to about 34 days.

I can scrape together maybe 200 quid if I raid my piggy bank. Just over 3 minutes.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 10 February, 2023, 06:09:33 PM
It's crazy that even if 99% of Musk's wealth was somehow wiped out, he would still be a billionaire.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 14 February, 2023, 11:17:48 AM
Last weekend I flagrantly violated all the rules of bachelor cooking by making stuffing.
The breaches of the Bachelor Cooking Code are as follows:
'That's more than three ingredients.'
'That's more than one cooking process.'
'That's a lot of fuss over something you're just going to shovel into your face.'


The fact is, though, I got so damn sick of my own cooking during lockdown that I've been gradually jazzing things up ever since.

The recipe, for those who would follow me down this lonely road:

Melt a quantity of butter in a big saucepan. If you have to ask how much, then you clearly misunderstand the fundamental nature of butter, where the concept of 'too much' shouldn't apply.

Get a good, big, fist-sized onion and chop it up really small. Put the chopped-up onion in the melted butter.

Grill four rashers. While you're at it, you might as well do as many rashers as you can fit under the grill. Then you can have rasher sandwiches.

Go back to the saucepan. Are the onions done enough? Yeah, probably.
Sprinkle a quantity of thyme into the saucepan. How much? Again, let me point out that you have the wrong attitude. Does it look about right? Does it smell nice? OK – job done.

Make rasher sandwiches. Leave some rashers aside and chop them up as small as you can. Add them to the saucepan.

Stir in half a bag of breadcrumbs. How big a bag? How should I know? They only have one size in the supermarket. Don't use more than half because you want to get another batch out of this somewhere down the line.

That's it. Shovel it into your face at your leisure. Freeze it. Add it to other stuff – I don't care.

Congratulations: you are now one step further removed from the apes, even though you have betrayed everything you've stood for since you first left home.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 February, 2023, 11:26:59 AM
I would add one further breach:

Why are you using a bowl/plate, when you can just eat it directly from the pot or over the sink?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 14 February, 2023, 11:29:49 AM
I throw myself upon the mercy of the court.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 14 February, 2023, 11:47:42 AM
That is known as a 'lockdown bowl' in my house.
See also eating sandwiches or cake straight off the breadboard - "I'll just use a lockdown plate."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 February, 2023, 12:44:06 PM

You guys have saucepans, crockery, and breadboards? 

Swish, guys. Real swish.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 February, 2023, 06:12:59 PM
Today I had to give a talk to secondary students to try and entice them into studying history in college. Obviously, I hit them with a 14th-century Icelandic text coupled with some 12th-century Irish dynastic propaganda, along with a little bit of the monastic annals for good measure.
Hot stuff, as you can well appreciate.

It was only as I was putting things together that I realised that these are the very sources I first encountered in Sláine: Time Killer, with Fabry and Pugh doing the battle of Clontarf.

Of course I didn't mention any of that old comics stuff to these kids. I wouldn't want them thinking I'm uncool, now would I?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 February, 2023, 07:37:12 PM

"Uncool"? Man, you're so hip it's a wonder you can get your pants on.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 February, 2023, 08:03:42 PM
I'm "down with the kids", so I am!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 February, 2023, 12:25:10 AM
Has anyone heard from the Bear recently?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 February, 2023, 05:21:49 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 February, 2023, 12:25:10 AMHas anyone heard from the Bear recently?

I thought you *were* the bear.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 February, 2023, 02:31:44 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 February, 2023, 12:25:10 AMHas anyone heard from the Bear recently?

I believe they've made a documentary film about his cocaine habit.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 February, 2023, 11:03:15 PM
Just in case anyone missed it: Cocaine Bear | Official Trailer [HD] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWEEKeJLMI)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 February, 2023, 04:44:33 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 14 February, 2023, 12:44:06 PMYou guys have saucepans, crockery, and breadboards? 

Swish, guys. Real swish.




Luxury
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Spikes on 25 February, 2023, 06:44:41 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 02 February, 2023, 01:51:38 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 02 February, 2023, 12:48:06 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 22 January, 2023, 09:35:24 PMFour years gone..... lot of catching up to do.....



Good call. Whip um out Spikes

Any original art to share with us?


Ha, I think I was pretty much retired from the art collecting game even before my break. So not a lot new tbh.
 
Will have to check.

And find a new photo uploading site!
 
I am waiting on a Hershey commission from John Burns courtesy of Wiggz. That's been 4 years.... and counting... The Order is definitely keeping him too busy :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 February, 2023, 04:57:35 AM
YouTube Shorts (aka TikTok Lite) don't have an adjustable volume control. It's either ON or OFF, which is shit UI.

But it reminds me of gold: worst volume controls in the world (https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950) and the roller (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6gjalr/back_in_my_day_you_had_to_roll_the_volume_up/).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 March, 2023, 08:45:35 AM
Yesterday I was promoted from Sentient Tea Bot to Prog Stacking Droid.
I'll miss the tea, but I can't say I'm sorry to see the back of sentience. Overrated if you ask me.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 March, 2023, 09:07:49 AM
Quote from: JWare on 17 March, 2023, 08:45:35 AMI'll miss the tea, but I can't say I'm sorry to see the back of sentience. Overrated if you ask me.

That's what you think -or do you?-.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 28 March, 2023, 10:39:17 AM
We are now farther from the first season of Miami Vice than Miami Vice was from the Berlin Airlift.
Ponder that as you roll back the sleeves of your unstructured linen jacket.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 April, 2023, 11:25:10 AM
Stop talking about Trump!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 April, 2023, 07:15:30 PM
I think we all have to accept he's going to dominate the game after Ronnie O'Sullivan retires
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 02 April, 2023, 05:34:28 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 01 April, 2023, 11:25:10 AMStop talking about Trump!

But he's my second favorite Hearthstone streamer (https://www.youtube.com/@TrumpSC/videos)!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 April, 2023, 01:55:25 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 01 April, 2023, 07:15:30 PMI think we all have to accept he's going to dominate the game after Ronnie O'Sullivan retires

Especially now John Higgins has hung up his cue and gone back to drawing Dreadnoughts.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 05 April, 2023, 02:36:52 PM

Nothing sounded more painful than Willie Thorne.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 April, 2023, 09:09:20 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 05 April, 2023, 02:36:52 PMNothing sounded more painful than Willie Thorne.



This guy ALLEGEDLY made a move on my neighbour in her young waitressing days.  Nominative determinism in action.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Spring (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Spring)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 05 April, 2023, 09:21:18 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 05 April, 2023, 09:09:20 PMThis guy

Ah – Dick Spring.
There's a name to revive the laboriously constructed puerile jokes of my youth.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 08 April, 2023, 04:37:05 PM
My step-mum went to college with a rugby player that had an impressive physique. His name was Richard Cox. Fondly remembered as Big Dick Cox.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 April, 2023, 06:24:37 PM
Zippy is my boss's dog and I've been looking after him (on a purely temporary basis, just until the kennel gets fixed) for four years.

He's an odd pup, for sure. Ostensibly a Jack Russel terrier, small and lithe like a miniature greyhound, mushroom white scruffy fur with ill-defined patches of sun-thinned gold, long narrow face, black eyes (dead eyes - like a doll's eyes), a long thin tail with half its fur missing and a ridiculous little tuft at the end, more patches of bare grey skin on the back of his neck, rumoured to be inbred, constantly trembling, unable to be touched anywhere on his body without his back legs going into joyous uncontrollable spasms that knock him over, snatches his food. Quick to nip.

I should tell you a little of his background. He's had a hard time and not much love. His mother used to rip into him all the time. Literally. They've both needed stitches more than once. Five years ago, his mother died. Zippy was distraught. So I put my dog, Chip, in with Zippy during the day to calm him down. Because Chip has manners. They had two fights, neither of them needed stitches. Then the kennel fell down in a storm, so Zippy was to stay in the Sharkshed with Chip from ~8am until ~4pm every day of the week until the kennel could be... Well, you know the rest. So I know Zippy pretty well by now, almost as well as I know Chip (whose birth I missed by mere hours), and Zippy knows me and Chip knows Zippy and there's this whole weird dynamic going on and it's all pretty cool and chilled, for the most part. No more fights and lots of loving attention, for the most part. Harmony, or near as damn-it. Zippy is ~17 years old. Chip is ~12. I am 56ish.

Recently, Zippy has become incontinent during the night. He often seems to forget where he is. Bumps into things. Falls over. His every bone is visible. He can't stop eating, much to Chip's dismay. (And mine - I don't get reimbursed for dog food, either grumble grump.) But tonight, as I was walking him from the Sharkshed, which has an outside enclosure in which he can roam at will, back to his mistress's comfy kitchen cage, he walked very slowly. I think that's where the feeling started. So I let him lead anyway, ambling along behind, trying not to fall over him. His end appears to have been looming ever more quickly of late, though he feels no pain - except when he bumps into things. It felt like this might very well be the last walk. So I let Zippy lead, left Chip back at the Sharkshed. He watched us through the fence as we went, silent and diligent. Because Chip has manners.

In the kitchen, Zippy sniffed at his comfy cage and then wandered around foraging, bumping into things and getting in the way as I took my washing from the machine and hung it over the kitchen range to dry. When I was finished, a sudden urge struck me. I got to my knees and beckoned Zippy over. He stood there defying me. So I waggled my fingers and he took a totter forward. I dropped my hands and called him. He stood there. Waggle. Totter. GOTO Waggle. He eventually planted his thin face between my welcoming thighs and I stroked his ears. He loves that. He's only recently discovered the joys, as his mother chewed on him so much he'd never let anyone near them. They're also the only part of his body you can touch without setting his back legs off - which must have been torture, If you think about it. He groaned and sighed and relaxed and then, finally, began to pull away. I changed the ear massage and he stayed a little longer. That's when I spoke to him.

"Remember this feeling, Old Lad. Take it with you. Go to sleep. Go and tell your mother about it. Tell your brothers and sisters and cousins. And keep an eye out, pay us a visit when it's our time. Be nice to see a friendly soul. It's okay to go. It's okay to stay."

Then I picked up my bag of knickers and socks, because I have manners, and left the kitchen. "Goodnight, lad," I said, closing the door on his totterings.

On the way back to the Sharkshed I wandered past the Library Bus, in which Brandy (not her real name) lives. I knew she wasn't in but we chat often and easily, so I imagined telling her about the Zippy thing. And a whole imaginary conversation ensued until she asked, "Do you think you can sense the end for Zippy?" to which I quipped, "Maybe - either for him or for me." Brandy's always kind enough to laugh at my quips, but this time imagination failed.

"Shit," I said aloud. It's just as possible. I haven't been well, what with my legs and all. He's a 17 year old dog who's tough as old boots. Cast your bets, ladies and gentlemen, cast your bets...

Two possibilities, then. Or three, if this presentiment thing is all bollocks. That's the one I'm rooting for. Whatever comes with the morning, though, I know one thing for sure - Chip will take care of who's left. Because Chip has manners.

~~~^~~~
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 12 April, 2023, 06:44:11 PM
Poignantly written, Sharky.
Have you considered any possible connection between all this and your bucket of aliens last night?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 April, 2023, 06:45:25 PM

I think it means the world's still mad.

Or...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 26 April, 2023, 07:27:55 PM
Just found myself absent-mindedly humming a tune at work. It took me a while to realize I was humming the tune to Monty Python's barber shop quartet.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 April, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Me, I've had David Brent's 'Ooh la la' stuck in my head for weeks.  If you haven't heard it, Google it - it's a slice of classic Americana that Tom Petty could have written.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 27 April, 2023, 05:37:26 PM
If I started referring to this forum as 'Tooth Social' from now on, would you all hate me?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 April, 2023, 05:41:51 PM

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ac/da/0f/acda0fce1e620acb858ed7b1ec2e85ed.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 27 April, 2023, 06:14:46 PM
I only recently came to this forum, but have found it a welcoming place, a loving place, a place where – our passionate youth behind us – we can safely shed the intolerance and prejudice of a less forgiving, less inclusive era of our lives.
Here, as most of us slip ever further into easygoing middle age, I can finally say I have found a fellowship.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 27 April, 2023, 05:37:26 PMwould you all hate me?
But yeah – Afraid so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 28 April, 2023, 01:52:23 PM
Cosh, what kind of moniker is that for a grown man..?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 April, 2023, 02:02:28 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 28 April, 2023, 01:52:23 PMCosh, what kind of moniker is that for a grown man..?

I thought that was the phonetic scouse pronunciation of 'Gosh'...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 04 May, 2023, 02:00:54 PM
Molch locked that thread before I even got the chance to type a Chucky ár lá quip.

What a world.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 May, 2023, 02:05:04 PM
My baritone national anthem exegesis has degenerated into a Sardaukar throat chant.

Such a mighty exercise, I can juggle marbles with my adenoids at this point.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 04 May, 2023, 05:02:44 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 04 May, 2023, 02:05:04 PM... I can juggle marbles with my adenoids at this point.

You should put that on your online dating profile
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 May, 2023, 05:21:43 PM

Or at the very least your c.v.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 04 May, 2023, 09:51:19 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 04 May, 2023, 02:00:54 PMMolch locked that thread before I even got the chance to type a Chucky ár lá quip.

What a world.

I wouldn't worry about missing that opportunity too much.

Your day will come.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 04 May, 2023, 10:29:49 PM
I got it   :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 05 May, 2023, 08:52:43 PM
Would you like to take a  virtual tour of every iteration of the USS Enterprise?

Because you can take a  virtual tour of every iteration of the USS Enterprise! (https://roddenberry.x.io/2265-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701/)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 May, 2023, 09:03:49 PM
I just remembered a documentary I watched pre-internet, about some stone fort in Scotland that was mysteriously melted by a temperature that 'would have needed more than all the wood in Scotland to generate' or some such tripe. Now with the interweb at my disposal, I find that it's been solved since I last thought about it.  You won't be amazed to discover that it wasn't advanced laser technology that has since been forgotten.

 https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/archaeologists-solve-ancient-mystery-melted-iron-age-fort-296899 (https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/archaeologists-solve-ancient-mystery-melted-iron-age-fort-296899)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 06 May, 2023, 10:02:41 PM
(https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9781685890643)
But seriously, I remember those vitrified forts from Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World.
I used to love all of that stuff and, oddly enough, I never resented it when rational explanations were put forward.
It always annoyed the pants off me when smug nutters ascribed any ancient technical achievement to aliens.

(Who built the pyramids? Egyptians.
How do I know? They were built in Egypt using local materials and available technology during a great flourishing of Egyptian civilization. That's how I know.)

But I always wanted the Loch Ness monster to be real.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 06 May, 2023, 10:10:37 PM
Indeed. I have a mate who once fell down the ancient alien rabbithole, and it became the focal point of every. SINGLE. conversation. Happily he's climbed out of that pit since but man, I really hate the whole 'I don't know, so aliens' paradigm.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 06 May, 2023, 10:20:11 PM
I grew up near the airport, so unidentified lights in the sky were always presumed to be of terrestrial origin.
On the other hand, I can well understand how any unusual beastie can enforce a belief in fantastical monsters.

Otters and seals (or maybe one otter and one seal who keep pretty busy) can occasionally be seen in the river near where I live. Because the river stank to hell and gone with pollution when I was small, it was a big surprise to see something bigger than a mutant fish for the first time. It's amazing how big and Nessie-like an ordinary otter can appear when you've never seen such a thing before in that context.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 08 May, 2023, 07:42:20 PM
I remember the aforementioned Arthur C Clark saying something along the lines of "If you've seen as many UFOs as I have, you don't believe they're aliens. And if you've never seen one, then you're just not looking up."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 08 May, 2023, 09:17:24 PM

When I was a teenager I worked on a beetroot farm in the summer holidays with a bunch of rough blokes. One overcast afternoon, we spotted a bright white light in the sky. We stood staring at it, mesmerized, for ages. The boss, seeing us stood around not working, came steaming out of the office to tear some strips off us but also found his attention captured by this mysterious, stationary light.

For minutes we stood transfixed until, all at once, it became apparent that it was nothing more than a small aircraft flying directly towards us, slowly due to a strong headwind (which is probably also why we couldn't hear anything until it was almost on top of us). We all felt like proper Charlies, I can tell you.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 08 May, 2023, 10:30:17 PM
For all my scorn of ancient aliens, I did see a UFO when I was about 18 - my mate spotted the classic cigar-shaped silver thing moving through the sky from the college canteen window and we were transfixed.

When I told other people in the class he played ignorant, the bastard, for fear of mockery, and pretended he didn't know what I was on about.  But I remember it clearly.

Was it aliens?  In response, I would with reasonable confidence say: was it bollocks. I don't know what it was.  Unidentified - the clue's in the name.  I've seen two other UFOs too but that was the most memorable.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 09 May, 2023, 06:47:04 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 08 May, 2023, 10:30:17 PMthe classic cigar-shaped silver thing moving through the sky
And they said the Zeppelin menace had been defeated!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 09 May, 2023, 06:55:25 PM
We saw a UFO from our primary school playground one morning - but only for about three minutes. After that, it became an IFO. Or, a helicopter, as some would have it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 May, 2023, 07:32:02 PM
Quote from: JWare on 09 May, 2023, 06:47:04 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 08 May, 2023, 10:30:17 PMthe classic cigar-shaped silver thing moving through the sky
And they said the Zeppelin menace had been defeated!

Didn't look like no zeppelin to me. Maybe it was a silver cigar?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 09 May, 2023, 07:43:02 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 May, 2023, 07:32:02 PMMaybe it was a silver cigar?
Well you know what they say:
If it looks like a huge silver cigar, and quacks like a huge silver cigar, and drifts through the air like a huge silver cigar...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 09 May, 2023, 09:13:32 PM

While I am firmly on the fence when it comes to aliens visiting our planet, I do find the whole subject fascinating. The current levels of hype from all sides (from the "lunatic fringe" to "official sources") concerning so-called disclosure does nothing to push me off the fence one way or the other but does still fascinate me.

The one claim that never made much sense to me was that actual proof of alien contact would cause widespread panic. I think that most people would be of the opinion that discovering we are not alone would be pretty cool. There might well be widespread street parties but, panic? I doubt it. Given my own world view, I think it would be more likely that the Powers That Shouldn't Be would panic the most if such contact was to occur. Imagine benevolent aliens giving us the blueprints for free energy devices, Star Trek like replicators or other such marvels - the only people panicking would be the CEOs of multinational corporations whose obscene profits and inhuman practices would no longer be needed. And what if the aliens said, "Wait - you guys still use money? Why?" Or, "Wait - you guys still think a small elite has the right to rule you? Why?" In this case, I for one would certainly be more in the street party group than the panicking group. How about you?

Of course, we've all been trained by Hollywood to expect aliens to be slavering monsters set on our destruction - usually starting with an array of famous landmarks being vapourized for no good reason - although there are a few notable exceptions. As I "learned" in a recent dream I had, any alien attack is more likely to be some global deep state false flag operation designed to usher in a worldwide authoritarian centralized control mechanism. But that's just me.

How would you react to actual proof of a wider extraterrestrial community? Do you think such a community would most likely be benevolent, hostile, or even disinterested? Genuinely interested in your thoughts.

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 May, 2023, 10:11:13 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 May, 2023, 09:13:32 PMWhile I am firmly on the fence when it comes to ...

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 May, 2023, 10:14:05 PM
Quote from: JWare on 09 May, 2023, 07:43:02 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 May, 2023, 07:32:02 PMMaybe it was a silver cigar?
Well you know what they say:
If it looks like a huge silver cigar, and quacks like a huge silver cigar, and drifts through the air like a huge silver cigar...

To be fair, it may not have been huge. It could have been a normal-sized drifting silver cigar that was just very near to us.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 May, 2023, 10:50:54 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 May, 2023, 10:14:05 PM
Quote from: JWare on 09 May, 2023, 07:43:02 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 May, 2023, 07:32:02 PMMaybe it was a silver cigar?
Well you know what they say:
If it looks like a huge silver cigar, and quacks like a huge silver cigar, and drifts through the air like a huge silver cigar...

To be fair, it may not have been huge. It could have been a normal-sized drifting silver cigar that was just very near to us.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 10 May, 2023, 06:53:59 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 09 May, 2023, 10:11:13 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 May, 2023, 09:13:32 PMWhile I am firmly on the fence when it comes to ...

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You think I'm funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown? Do I amuse you?

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Post by: JohnW on 10 May, 2023, 08:22:39 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 May, 2023, 09:13:32 PMHow would you react to actual proof of a wider extraterrestrial community? Do you think such a community would most likely be benevolent, hostile, or even disinterested? Genuinely interested in your thoughts.
They're coming for our human women!
How many times do you need to be told?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 10 May, 2023, 10:38:15 AM
If the history of our own planet is anything to go by, when a technologically superior civilization meets a more primitive one, things generally do not go well for the latter group. We can only hope that, if a technologically superior alien civilization does arrive here, that they will be a lot more benign in their outlook and attitude than humanity has shown itself to be.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 May, 2023, 10:43:56 AM
"So Fttagn, how shall we endear ourselves to this 'human' race? Cure their most crippling ailments? Limitless food replication? A fully automated socio-economic infrastructure allowing them to realize their true creative potential without the shackle of monetary commitments?"

"Nah. Lets just kill that there herd of bovines, just to fuck with them, ey."
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Post by: Link Prime on 10 May, 2023, 12:09:03 PM
The UFO / UAP topic is one I would have previously dismissed outright, but I have read some compelling reports in recent years.

Chief among them; The as yet unexplained "Nimitz incident".
Info about the incident is all over the net, but there's a pretty good summary in this article; https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21000/highly-detailed-report-on-harrowing-encounter-between-f-a-18s-and-ufo-off-baja-surfaces

I am not a 100% believer in anything more than advanced US or adversarial tech, but I believe the authenticity of that report and the eye-witness testimony of the multiple USAF pilots / technicians.

I have found some recent interviews with Dr. Garry Nolan very compelling also.
Very difficult to dismiss the man as a yer typical froot loop.

The topic in general seems to be gaining a lot more traction in recent years, and maybe heading towards some form of official acknowledgement with the recent congressional hearings.


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Post by: JohnW on 11 May, 2023, 10:34:17 AM
OK – it's the best part of a week since he was crowned and anointed, so how do you think Charles III matches up to Rocky III?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Barrington Boots on 11 May, 2023, 11:23:17 AM
He sure isn't the baddest man in the world.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 May, 2023, 11:39:10 AM

Maybe not, but he's sure in the Top 100.

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Post by: Barrington Boots on 15 May, 2023, 03:39:44 PM
As a young teenager I thought teenage parties were all going to be like the one in Teen Wolf and I was very nervous about attending them. They weren't like that at all and it was both a relief and a disappointment.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 May, 2023, 03:48:07 PM
It's been 10 years and I'm still bitter The Wolf of Wall Street didn't have any lycanthropic shenanigans going on.
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Post by: Barrington Boots on 15 May, 2023, 04:06:03 PM
That's off my watch list then.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 15 May, 2023, 05:08:13 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 15 May, 2023, 03:39:44 PMAs a young teenager I thought teenage parties were all going to be like the one in Teen Wolf and I was very nervous about attending them. They weren't like that at all and it was both a relief and a disappointment.

It's like going to America assuming that adults continue on in high school into their 30s, spend their entire time racing cars along enormous concrete flood-channels, or going to drive-in burger joints. Grease! You're to blame!

(Apparently Animal House caused a lot of life-imitating-art shenanigans.)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 15 May, 2023, 06:22:48 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 15 May, 2023, 03:48:07 PMIt's been 10 years and I'm still bitter The Wolf of Wall Street didn't have any lycanthropic shenanigans going on.

Everyone turned into werewolves during that bit when you legged it into the foyer area to find the pisser.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 15 May, 2023, 10:41:03 PM
To be fair, there were some far fetched elements. Like Leo having a relationship with someone well into their 20s...
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Post by: Dandontdare on 15 May, 2023, 11:14:02 PM
I know what you mean - Titanic is 26 years old this year and he doesn't want to be in it anymore.

As for werewolves, I want to start a werewolf-themed podcast just so I can call it Lycansubscribe.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 May, 2023, 06:47:10 AM

Lycantropes.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 May, 2023, 06:48:09 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 15 May, 2023, 11:14:02 PMI know what you mean - Titanic is 26 years old this year and he doesn't want to be in it anymore.

As for werewolves, I want to start a werewolf-themed podcast just so I can call it Lycansubscribe.

He shoots, he scores!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 18 May, 2023, 09:00:46 AM
First day of summer!
If anyone wants me I'll be beside the tennis court, a pastel sweater knotted loosely about my shoulders, sipping dry vermouth and swapping flirtatious bons mots with the police commissioner's mistress.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 May, 2023, 04:54:42 PM

...and then, in the evening, solve a murder or two.

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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 May, 2023, 06:38:46 PM
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 18 May, 2023, 11:38:46 PM
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Post by: paddykafka on 22 May, 2023, 05:14:00 PM
Link to pictures on a hilarious Facebook post titled: "Carry On Up the Empire". Just superb and bravo to the original poster. Had me in stitches!

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=570474171946701&set=a.404330421894411



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Post by: Dandontdare on 23 May, 2023, 12:34:00 AM
nah, stop messing about and come on over to the dark side.
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Post by: JohnW on 26 May, 2023, 09:55:25 AM
During the Third Crusade, Saladin made diplomatic gifts of iced fruit to Richard the Lionheart.
Consider the expense of obtaining ice in a twelfth-century Syrian summer – and this is just so you can give something nice to your mortal enemy who you hear is feeling a bit under the weather.
Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub – that guy had class to spare.
Me, I just paid €2.95 for a punnet of strawberries and I'm complaining about it on the worldwide web.
Two-ninety-five! A single punnet!
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Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 05 June, 2023, 05:01:43 PM
I know. and they are harvested too early so they are bitter.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 June, 2023, 06:37:18 PM
Did anyone actually identify as a Chip-ite?  Whizz-kids got a cool giant snake and the front cover; Chip-ites got a rubbish wannabe boxer and had to demolish the real comic to create their own inferior sub-comic.

This board is no place for bigotry, but I mean, come on, Chip-ites.  For fuck's sake.
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Post by: JohnW on 11 June, 2023, 06:59:01 PM
You're reopening old wounds (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?msg=1093919) and dragging back into the open things better left undisturbed.
The forum can stand only so much controversy.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 June, 2023, 07:23:18 PM

Which was the one that used to have a "disguise" on the back cover? I remember enjoying that so much that it became the first comic I ever collected. My Mum made me sell them to some swine at Southport Market who gave me virtually nowt for them, to teach me the value of money, I think. It seems to have induced the opposite effect.

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Post by: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2023, 09:47:40 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 11 June, 2023, 07:23:18 PMWhich was the one that used to have a "disguise" on the back cover? I remember enjoying that so much that it became the first comic I ever collected. My Mum made me sell them to some swine at Southport Market who gave me virtually nowt for them, to teach me the value of money, I think. It seems to have induced the opposite effect.



Ah Krazy comic - I gave up The Beano so that I could start getting Krazy
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 June, 2023, 02:42:40 PM
Quote from: JohnWare on 11 June, 2023, 06:59:01 PMYou're reopening old wounds (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?msg=1093919) and dragging back into the open things better left undisturbed.
The forum can stand only so much controversy.

Well feck me.  Seems I have little to be thinking about these days. 
Anyway I've been reading Oink! online; one of the rare 80s funny comics for kids that was actually funny.  Lots of death, blood, piss, shite and bums - that's what kids really wanted, unless that was just me.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 13 June, 2023, 09:26:08 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 June, 2023, 02:42:40 PM
Quote from: JohnWare on 11 June, 2023, 06:59:01 PMYou're reopening old wounds (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?msg=1093919) and dragging back into the open things better left undisturbed.
The forum can stand only so much controversy.

Well feck me.  Seems I have little to be thinking about these days. 
Anyway I've been reading Oink! online; one of the rare 80s funny comics for kids that was actually funny.  Lots of death, blood, piss, shite and bums - that's what kids really wanted, unless that was just me.

Much of which was written by Charlie Brooker in one of his first jobs
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Post by: Le Fink on 14 June, 2023, 09:19:03 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 June, 2023, 09:26:08 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 June, 2023, 02:42:40 PMAnyway I've been reading Oink! online; one of the rare 80s funny comics for kids that was actually funny.  Lots of death, blood, piss, shite and bums - that's what kids really wanted, unless that was just me.

Much of which was written by Charlie Brooker in one of his first jobs
No kidding... I remember reading his video game reviews in PC Zone. And his TV reviews in the Guardian were a bit of a Saturday highlight. They also featured bums quite heavily.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 June, 2023, 02:59:16 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 June, 2023, 09:26:08 PMMuch of which was written by Charlie Brooker in one of his first jobs


He definitely picked up a few of his old Oink plot-threads when he wrote Loch Henry  :o

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Post by: JohnW on 16 July, 2023, 06:56:21 PM
I've had TWO naps today!
Beat that, lads!
And they say middle age is dull.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 July, 2023, 07:52:01 PM

I generally can't help napping after my tea. I never used to, but these days escaping the post-feed nap is harder than escaping the gravity well of a black hole.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 July, 2023, 08:32:43 AM
To quote my neighbour, I think there's a sniper with a stun gun behind the TV.   I know what he means - I must accept the fact that every future night in I have will always result in my waking up cramped and cold on the sofa at 3.40.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 July, 2023, 02:36:18 PM
A Scottish man tells Richard Madely about the snobbery of people who make prejudiced assumptions about those with strong accents.  Madely responds by expressing his surprise about how articulate the man is despite the accent. Now over to Sidekick Simon.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1680852624529059841 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1680852624529059841)
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Post by: paddykafka on 17 July, 2023, 04:11:43 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 17 July, 2023, 08:32:43 AMTo quote my neighbour, I think there's a sniper with a stun gun behind the TV.   I know what he means - I must accept the fact that every future night in I have will always result in my waking up cramped and cold on the sofa at 3.40.

The last time I fell asleep on the sofa - many years ago and at a different location - proved to be disastrous for the unfortunate couple living next door. I had been watching telly whilst imbibing alcohol and conked out around midnight, leaving the TV still blaring until I woke up the next morning. Later that morning, the lady-half of the couple next door called around to inform me that they had not got a wink of sleep due to the noise of the TV. (I guess that the insulating wall between the two houses wasn't that soundproof.)

Well naturally I was very, very sorry and the lady was quite gracious in accepting my profuse apology. Later that day, as a token of my good will, I bought them a nice bottle of wine. The man-half of the couple answered the door (the lady was away at work). He accepted both the wine and my repeated apology to him. I returned back to my own abode, feeling very pleased with myself at my good deed, and glad that there was going to be no rancor between myself and my neighbours.

However, what I did NOT know at the time - and only later found out at a much later date - was that the chap was a recovering alcoholic. It turned out that, as he was alone in the house, the bottle of vino which I had unwittingly given him, was just too much of a temptation. And once he had consumed said beverage, he promptly fell back into his bad old drinking habit. In the heel of the hunt, he fell off the wagon big-time. Which resulted in the lady splitting up with him and eventually kicking him out of the gaff for good.

Perhaps there is a moral to this story but I'm damned if I know what it is.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 July, 2023, 04:48:52 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 July, 2023, 04:11:43 PMPerhaps there is a moral to this story but I'm damned if I know what it is.
Neighbours, am I right?
Like, you drop one little 4-cred Freezy Whip and they're all up in your face.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 July, 2023, 05:10:44 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 July, 2023, 04:11:43 PMPerhaps there is a moral to this story but I'm damned if I know what it is.



No good deed goes unpunished?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 17 July, 2023, 05:42:03 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 17 July, 2023, 05:10:44 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 17 July, 2023, 04:11:43 PMPerhaps there is a moral to this story but I'm damned if I know what it is.



No good deed goes unpunished?



Well, I did feel rather guilty for being the - albeit unwitting - cause of their break-up. So there's that, I suppose.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 July, 2023, 06:39:27 PM
Moral = If a problem is caused by alcohol, more alcohol is not the solution.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 17 July, 2023, 07:11:39 PM
When I was a sharklet, maybe eight or nine years old, I discovered a goat trapped in the ditch at the bottom of our back garden. I couldn't get it out, and it was a scary old, grumpy old thing with pointy horns and so, as I couldn't rescue it I decided to befriend it by feeding it leaves from the back of a neighbour's garden. It snaffled them up greedily for about an hour until I got bored and left it to find something more interesting to do, probably involving some much abused Action Men (Action Mans?) and an air rifle.

The next day, I overheard my Dad talking to the farmer, scruffy old Black Jack as he was known locally (due to his aversion to washing). "Just gettin' me goat," Black Jack said sadly. "Damn thing poisoned itself to t' death eatin' Joyce's evergreens."

Needless to say, I kept schtum and feel guilty about it to this day. Kindness, it seems, really can kill.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 19 July, 2023, 12:34:51 PM
I wouldn't feel too guilty Shark. Goats are dicks
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 July, 2023, 02:39:26 PM

Either dicks or baaastards...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 July, 2023, 02:53:21 PM
Caprinitwits, if you will.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 19 July, 2023, 06:44:00 PM

Heh. This is all getting too capricorny...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 19 July, 2023, 09:35:09 PM
I am V angry. Some person has stolen the water pump and solar power panel from my water feature. I haven't finished paying for it yet. I installed it for the local wildlife and some scrot has wrecked it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 July, 2023, 05:41:04 PM
Its amazing whay feckwits will steal from gardens!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 22 July, 2023, 02:06:06 PM
the Mistry deepens. I went to top up the bowl. Only to find out that it has now been badly cracked and cannot hold water. I also found the pipe from the pump in the grass. It has been shortened at both ends and "chewed". So it isn't theft but vandalism.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 July, 2023, 03:22:07 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 17 July, 2023, 07:11:39 PMWhen I was a sharklet, maybe eight or nine years old, I discovered a goat trapped in the ditch at the bottom of our back garden. I couldn't get it out, and it was a scary old, grumpy old thing with pointy horns and so, as I couldn't rescue it I decided to befriend it by feeding it leaves from the back of a neighbour's garden. It snaffled them up greedily for about an hour until I got bored and left it to find something more interesting to do, probably involving some much abused Action Men (Action Mans?) and an air rifle.

The next day, I overheard my Dad talking to the farmer, scruffy old Black Jack as he was known locally (due to his aversion to washing). "Just gettin' me goat," Black Jack said sadly. "Damn thing poisoned itself to t' death eatin' Joyce's evergreens."

Needless to say, I kept schtum and feel guilty about it to this day. Kindness, it seems, really can kill.



Reminds me of a kid in my school who was practising his golf swing in his back garden (golf is incredibly popular in my home town with all walks of life, simply because there's a nationally famous golf course there that doesn't have too snobbish an admittance policy).  He accidentally sent the ball into a field and killed a cow stone dead, but unlike yourself was not able to keep it under wraps and people still talk about it nearly thirty years on.  Like I'm doing now, small-town yokel that I am.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 23 July, 2023, 05:51:54 PM
Sounds to me like a classic beef sand wedge...

Also, that's a long time to be milking this story...

Etc.


I'll get me kagool...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 23 July, 2023, 09:28:08 PM
I've herd worse...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 26 July, 2023, 03:34:21 PM
Jaysus wept, remind me not to tell another cow story here. I'll make a note in my dairy.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 July, 2023, 05:15:15 PM

It doesn't matter, we'll still hear it on the bovine...

(TLS - A bad joke heifery time!)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 26 July, 2023, 05:16:17 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 July, 2023, 03:34:21 PMJaysus wept, remind me not to tell another cow story here. I'll make a note in my dairy.

Sorry, but I'm just not in the mooooo-ed for these dreadful cow puns.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 July, 2023, 05:32:37 PM

Ayrshire?

Maine-Anjou, it is wearing rather thin now.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 July, 2023, 12:27:40 AM
I'm not very good at these word games, but if I ruminate for a while I may be able to shoe-horn something in.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 27 July, 2023, 12:48:29 AM

Yeah, when Holstein-Friesians over...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 27 July, 2023, 06:30:42 AM
I Brecon these puns are getting quite bad.  At Thames this forum can be quite Paineful ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 July, 2023, 09:59:10 AM
Quote from: paddykafka on 26 July, 2023, 05:16:17 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 26 July, 2023, 03:34:21 PMJaysus wept, remind me not to tell another cow story here. I'll make a note in my dairy.

Sorry, but I'm just not in the mooooo-ed for these dreadful cow puns.

The sad thing was, I was genuinely only going to write that first sentence.  Then the second sentence came to me and I knew I was damned. 

And I totally understand if anyone has a beef with me.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 28 July, 2023, 04:06:13 PM
After the pun carnage you started, I imagine that you've been left Durham-Red-Faced with embarrassment.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 July, 2023, 06:50:08 PM
 :lol:  Top marks for totally changing the theme of the Dreddful puns. 
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 July, 2023, 06:54:04 PM

I hope we're all braced for the Raamifications.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 04 August, 2023, 11:01:03 AM
If any asks who ate all the ice cream, say it was I.
I ate all the ice cream.
All of it.
I alone.
I did it.

And I would do it again.

[burp]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: NapalmKev on 04 August, 2023, 04:28:57 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 04 August, 2023, 11:01:03 AMIf any asks who ate all the ice cream, say it was I.


But who ate all the pies?

Cheers
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 August, 2023, 04:44:12 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 04 August, 2023, 04:28:57 PMBut who ate all the pies?

Cheers

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 August, 2023, 06:22:37 PM

Moon Bears! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4)


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Post by: Funt Solo on 12 August, 2023, 04:37:06 PM
Bit rainy in Glasgow today, but warm (with a chance of bicycles).
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Post by: Proudhuff on 18 August, 2023, 03:33:33 PM
Warm rain is the work of the devil.
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 August, 2023, 03:53:11 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 18 August, 2023, 03:33:33 PMWarm rain is the work of the devil.

Yes, yes it is. Unless you are in an outdoor pool.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 18 August, 2023, 09:15:37 PM
Aye, warm rain can fuck off.  What is this, Blade Runner?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 August, 2023, 09:28:25 PM

As someone who works outside, I think warm rain is far more comfortable than cold rain.

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Post by: Funt Solo on 19 August, 2023, 08:03:29 AM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 18 August, 2023, 03:33:33 PMWarm rain is the work of the devil.

Reminds me of the Mablethorpe Margarine company motto: "Butter is the devil's spunk".*


*Thanks to Viz for allowing me to recycle their joke.
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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 August, 2023, 02:23:57 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 August, 2023, 09:28:25 PMAs someone who works outside, I think warm rain is far more comfortable than cold rain.



Spawn of Satan!!
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Post by: JohnW on 25 August, 2023, 10:35:58 PM
Today I bought the affection of my students with ice cream.

And they say educational standards are slipping.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 28 August, 2023, 04:49:25 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 25 August, 2023, 10:35:58 PMToday I bought the affection of my students with ice cream.

And they say educational standards are slipping.
Northing wrong with it. In my day it was wheeling in the big telly on a stand that would win over any class
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 August, 2023, 05:43:22 PM

Ah, the Big Telly - f*ckabout time!

Best was the Big Projector, though, because you could make shadow, er, puppets when the slavemaster teacher wasn't watching. And once when she was, facilitating my first introduction to the Big Slipper; a swimming pool rubber overshoe of almost clownish proportions.

Ah, those were the days. Brainwashing and brutality. NEVeR dID me aNY hArM.

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PM
I sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.
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Post by: paddykafka on 29 August, 2023, 10:52:53 AM
Yet another reason - aside from humungusly sized deadly spiders - to never, ever, ever visit Australia.

https://www.thejournal.ie/worm-found-in-womans-brain-australia-6154632-Aug2023/

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Post by: Funt Solo on 29 August, 2023, 04:07:13 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PMI sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.

- The Danse of Death
- Podiatrist's Passion
- Cobbler's Conundrum
etc.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 29 August, 2023, 04:48:27 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PMI sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.

As if there aren't enough skis in Russia already.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 August, 2023, 10:06:51 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 29 August, 2023, 04:48:27 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PMI sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.

As if there aren't enough skis in Russia already.

Indeed, if 80's action movies have taught me ought, there are loads of Russkis





I'm not sorry and I'd do it again.
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Post by: lincnash on 30 August, 2023, 01:41:12 AM
Quote from: paddykafka on 29 August, 2023, 10:52:53 AMYet another reason - aside from humungusly sized deadly spiders - to never, ever, ever visit Australia.

https://www.thejournal.ie/worm-found-in-womans-brain-australia-6154632-Aug2023/



A bit of local inside information.
Stupid and ignorant hippy woman had been making 'green salads' from the weeds growing around her house.
No regards for hygiene, she had not been washing her hands after harvesting in the garden or rinsing the 'salad' before consuming.
Doctors/scientists think the dummy must have been ingesting or in contact with python feces which contained the parasites egg.
Usually small native rodents carry the parasite, which is passed on to the unsuspecting python when it becomes prey.
A definite candidate for the Darwin Awards but science saved her before exiting the gene pool.

Austraya, If the croc's, sharks or giant freaking venomous hairy spiders don't get ya first, the drokking brain-worms will.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 August, 2023, 06:38:51 AM

Nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 August, 2023, 07:00:06 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 29 August, 2023, 10:06:51 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 29 August, 2023, 04:48:27 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PMI sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.

As if there aren't enough skis in Russia already.

Indeed, if 80's action movies have taught me ought, there are loads of Russkis





I'm not sorry and I'd do it again.

That was kind of the joke I was making  :P
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Post by: paddykafka on 30 August, 2023, 09:11:22 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PMI sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.

Bladerunner?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 30 August, 2023, 10:25:55 AM

Torvilivich and Deanski.

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 30 August, 2023, 01:23:03 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 30 August, 2023, 09:11:22 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 August, 2023, 11:43:32 PMI sometimes wonder how Nikolai Dante would've played out if his bio-blades were in his feet instead of his hands.

Bladerunner?

(Applause)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 31 August, 2023, 06:33:19 PM
It's just occurred to me that Rob Williams has the same name as Robbie Williams. I know whose writing I prefer though. 

(I mean, how can you beat lyrics like 'I look like Kiss without the make-up, and that's a good line to take it to the bridge'?)
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Post by: JohnW on 31 August, 2023, 10:18:16 PM
Lyrics aside, I think Rob could take a few lessons from Robbie when it comes to tone.
I've just reread the whole Enceladus/Small House thing in the UC and everyone's so damned intense.
A little of Robbie Williams's cheeky cheery pop sensibility would go a long way to lighten the mood.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 31 August, 2023, 10:36:15 PM
He was great as the genie and I've always enjoyed Mrs Doubtfire...
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Post by: Funt Solo on 01 September, 2023, 12:17:21 AM
I'm flubbergasted that it's taken the board this long to recognize that the athletic inspiration of Rob "Time Lord" Williams would lend itself well to the high octane, superhero stylings of Hershey. Or maybe a reboot of Harlem Heroes with some sport in it.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 11 September, 2023, 03:24:06 PM
So - has any Scottish person ever said 'help ma boab', 'jings' or 'crivvens' in anything other than jest?  And what is their etymology?  With all this talk of The Bogie Man coming back, I've been reading up on Scottishisms, but can't find anything other than that these ones possibly came from The Broons; and that 'jings' is possibly a euphemism to avoid blaspheming.

Irish equivalents, I suppose, would be 'begorra', 'bejabbers' and 'be the hokey' - never heard them used seriously, though I suspect they may have been used with a straight face in the distant past to avoid eternal damnation*. Prefacing sentences with 'Sure and..', or closing them with 'to be sure': Close, but no shillelagh.  We just say 'sure' at the start without the 'and', though we do say it a lot where I'm from at least. 

*Though a look at James Joyce's characters' dialogue reveals that the Dubliners of the turn of the 20th century didn't hold back TOO much when it came to swearing and blaspheming, with f-words, c-words and Jesus Christs seemingly as common as they are nowadays.
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Post by: JohnW on 11 September, 2023, 03:55:17 PM
I usually stay away from Oirishisms, but have recently taken to saying 'Faith!' at odd moments.
I think everyone needs at least one irritating foible.
On the other hand – atheist or not – I can blaspheme as only a good Catholic can. I frown upon young people taking the Holy Name in vain, seeing as they've never been intimidated by scary men in black dresses or been forced to kneel their way through the Rosary (in Irish, even).

As for the Scots and their strange Scottish ways: I have eaten haggis and heard bagpipes, but never a jings, crivvens or helpmaboab caressed my ears on my one long-ago weekend in Edinburrow.
They just say 'fuck' a lot – much like normal people.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 11 September, 2023, 10:43:27 PM
Colin MacNeil genuinely says "Jings" when surprised, I've witnessed it.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 11 September, 2023, 11:00:59 PM
Crivvens! Ah dinnae believe it for wan meenit.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 September, 2023, 06:56:56 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 September, 2023, 10:43:27 PMColin MacNeil genuinely says "Jings" when surprised, I've witnessed it.

Now you mention it, I've heard him say it too.
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Post by: Link Prime on 12 September, 2023, 12:23:26 PM
Shure look
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Post by: JohnW on 12 September, 2023, 01:52:36 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 September, 2023, 12:23:26 PMShure look

Yerrah lookit.

(Although I might start saying, "Och aye the noo" just to confuse American visitors. It can replace the "Gott in Himmel" I use now.)
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Post by: JohnW on 13 September, 2023, 08:58:55 PM
Yesterday I bought a whetstone.
I spent a soothing evening at my kitchen table, listening to eighties hits and sharpening knives.
The neighbours describe me as a quiet type.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2023, 10:48:31 AM
I should really replace mine, it's all dhried out
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 September, 2023, 11:41:50 AM

Then whet it, Mr. Pops, Mr.pops, Mr Pops,
Then whet it, Mr. Pops, Mr.pops, whet it...



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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 September, 2023, 11:57:51 AM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2023, 10:48:31 AMI should really replace mine, it's all dhried out

Well that gave me a much-needed giggle on a day when I'm struggling through a hangover to teach classes.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2023, 09:41:36 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 14 September, 2023, 11:41:50 AMThen whet it, Mr. Pops, Mr.pops, Mr Pops,
Then whet it, Mr. Pops, Mr.pops, whet it...

With what shall I whet it?
Dear Sharkie, dear Sharkie
With what shall I Whet it?
Dear Sharkie
With what?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 September, 2023, 09:53:31 PM

With whater, Mr. Pops, Mr. Pops, Mr. Pops,
With whater, Mr. Pops, Mr. Pops, whater...

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 September, 2023, 10:24:28 PM
In what shall I fhetch it?
Dear Sharkie, dear Sharkie
In what shall I fhetch it?
Dear Sharkie
In what?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 September, 2023, 10:42:17 PM

In a bhucket, Mr. Pops, Mr. Pops, Mr. Pops,
In a bhucket, Mr. Pops, Mr. Pops, a bhucket...

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Post by: JohnW on 15 September, 2023, 10:26:03 AM
If Shark & Pops are going to be singing duets late into the night, might I request '(Love Lift Us) Up Where We Belong'?
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 September, 2023, 10:53:22 AM

The last time that happened we opened another portal to Hell behind the washing machine. Took me ages to get my underpants back, and by then they were all covered in sulphur.

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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2023, 05:55:38 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 15 September, 2023, 10:26:03 AMIf Shark & Pops are going to be singing duets late into the night, might I request '(Love Lift Us) Up Where We Belong'?

You were the wind beneath my fins....
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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2023, 06:12:39 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 30 August, 2023, 06:38:51 AMNuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.



Joe was right then, and will be again.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 September, 2023, 06:13:56 PM
Why can't any thread stay on topic!?
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Post by: Proudhuff on 21 September, 2023, 06:31:06 PM
 :D

   

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 September, 2023, 06:39:51 PM

Has anybody seen my camel?

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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 September, 2023, 10:56:02 PM
I think it's important to acknowledge the 45th anniversary of the KISS solo albums:

(https://preview.redd.it/leo1lyi35npb1.png?width=768&auto=webp&s=f91877c48905ad7c48ec79715f10209bd9dbf43a)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 September, 2023, 11:10:24 PM
I always thought the cat fella must have drawn the short straw when they were working out their stage personas.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 September, 2023, 11:21:40 PM
He drew an even shorter straw to end up in a band with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 21 September, 2023, 11:55:17 PM

Back in the dim and distant, a school chum and I went to the pictures to watch a film they were in. I seem to remember that they wore their face paint all the time and could shoot energy beams at bad guys.

It was dismal.

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Post by: Proudhuff on 23 September, 2023, 12:18:13 PM
Kiss my axe!
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 September, 2023, 02:14:57 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 21 September, 2023, 11:21:40 PMHe drew an even shorter straw to end up in a band with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley

I didn't know that Gene Simmons was such a gimp. However, Google confirms that yes, he's an utter gobshite. Ah well
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Post by: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 11:12:20 AM
Went to hospital this morning for some short and snappy surgery. Astonishingly, I was in and out in about forty minutes, and I strode home all bandaged up and feeling fine.
But the anaesthetic is wearing off now, so if you told me that someone had taken a sharp blade and a cauterising iron to my eyelid only a couple of hours ago, I might just believe you.
Ow.

Anyway, the doctor assured me it was merely a harmless excrescence and not a malign alien parasite, but what does she know?

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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 September, 2023, 11:24:40 AM

Glad you're okay, John. Another battle scar to add to the collection - but that's okay, as rugby player Terry O'Connor (I think) once said, "chicks dig scars."

Feel better.

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Post by: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 11:35:31 AM
How do chicks feel about middle-aged men bumbling around half blind and fucked up on Neurofen?

Thanks for the kind wishes all the same, Sharky.
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 September, 2023, 11:53:57 AM
Quote from: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 11:35:31 AMHow do chicks feel about middle-aged men bumbling around half blind and fucked up on Neurofen?


I don't know why you have to bring me into it. You don't know anything about me.

Glad the surgery went well! Onwards and upwards.
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Post by: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 11:59:47 AM
Thanks, Jayzus.

Deft work by the sawbones. Credit where credit's due. She knew her onions (and her cauterising irons) and no mistake.
When it was over she showed me the nasty little whatsit she'd excised, harmless in a wee plastic jar, and assured me all was well, but what do they teach them about starborn things in med school?
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 September, 2023, 12:04:14 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 11:12:20 AMBut the anaesthetic is wearing off now, so if you told me that someone had taken a sharp blade and a cauterising iron to my eyelid only a couple of hours ago, I might just believe you.
Ow.


Go on, I'll take the bullet low hanging fruit.

I can't believe you didn't see this coming.

Get well soon, JW.  :)
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Post by: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 12:14:12 PM
Thanks, Hawkie.
Speaking of onions (and I did sort of mention them upthread), I can feel my eye running like a broken tap under the dressing.
I just thought I should share that.
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Post by: paddykafka on 28 September, 2023, 12:53:18 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 12:14:12 PMThanks, Hawkie.
Speaking of onions (and I did sort of mention them upthread), I can feel my eye running like a broken tap under the dressing.
I just thought I should share that.

Could it be said that you're in eyefull pain?

Hope you recover soon, mate!
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Post by: JohnW on 28 September, 2023, 01:39:20 PM
Quote from: paddykafka on 28 September, 2023, 12:53:18 PMCould it be said that you're in eyefull pain?

Where did you leave your coat?
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 October, 2023, 10:04:33 AM
As much as I vehemently dislike AI in the arts as a principle, it has been very amusing checking in to see what ungodly visions Shark has adorned himself with on any given day.

It's like the worlds most dire post code lottery.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 04 October, 2023, 12:46:54 PM

Today's avatar is "072-Old_Professor_Shark_006," which is one of the results I got from Picsart when I typed in "A shark-headed professor." Most of them come from a similar description, "a shark-headed X." Most of them are pretty easy to guess, some not, and a few are just bonkers.

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Post by: JohnW on 11 October, 2023, 07:59:47 PM
I was listening to Tom Waits's earlier stuff before I went to bed last night, but what was playing on a loop in my head when I woke up this morning?
'Hold Me Now': Johnny Logan's 1987 Eurovision win.

You try and you try to be cool, but if you ain't got it, then you just ain't got it.
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Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 October, 2023, 09:23:15 PM

Due to my aphantasia (https://aphantasia.com/guide/?utm_term), this rarely happens to me. When it does, though, I don't actually hear the tune. Instead, I imagine what it would sound like if I could hear it, which I can't. This is both temporally and philosophically annoying.

The only known cure is Glenn Miller's In the Mood - which works roughly half the time. Then you're into Dark Web stuff like 99 Red Balloons or anything by The Wombles.

Good luck...

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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 12 October, 2023, 01:16:14 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 11 October, 2023, 07:59:47 PMI was listening to Tom Waits's earlier stuff before I went to bed last night, but what was playing on a loop in my head when I woke up this morning?
'Hold Me Now': Johnny Logan's 1987 Eurovision win.

You try and you try to be cool, but if you ain't got it, then you just ain't got it.

I hear you... I'm in Japan right now and I wish I could remember a single song by Shonen Knife, who I obviously didn't use to listen to as much as I thought I did.  I bet your neighbours the Sultans of Ping would hate me for it.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 October, 2023, 01:40:23 PM
Wait...is Johnny Logan not considered cool?
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Post by: paddykafka on 12 October, 2023, 04:29:07 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 October, 2023, 01:40:23 PMWait...is Johnny Logan not considered cool?

A mate of mine once did some time in prison. He told me that, whenever Johnny Logan's song "What's Another Year?" was played on the radio, the overwhelming sound around the prison was the clatter of radios being flung against the cell walls by irate prisoners.

So, definitely NOT cool among that particular cohort of listeners, lol.
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Post by: JohnW on 12 October, 2023, 04:40:50 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 12 October, 2023, 01:16:14 PM...your neighbours the Sultans of Ping...
I worked for some years in an office overlooking the park where the singer's brother is alleged to have met Karl Marx.
Mostly the wildlife consisted of office workers having a sandwich or a smoke, except on Wednesday afternoons, when it was schoolkids having tentative sexual and pharmaceutical adventures.
It was amusing or depressing, depending on your humour on the day.
We'd occasionally be treated to spectacles of heroic drunkenness, but what we really wanted were instances of heavy-handed policing. That was when the whole office would stop work and crowd at the windows to watch some healthy young Garda putting all his country-bred fourteen stone on the back of some unfortunate miscreant, spread-eagled on the pavement among his scattered drug paraphernalia.
Street theatre at its best. Our taxes at work.

(Bleeding-heart liberal I may be, but you can't be brought up on Judge Dredd and not get a tiny thrill from that class of thing.)
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 12 October, 2023, 11:35:54 PM
So Big Chucky Windsor has some new coins:

(https://preview.redd.it/q3u2q7izlttb1.jpg?width=800&auto=webp&s=f833792785fbe2a9e6a662e629381d5d04c70c57)

Does this spark any nostalgia in Irish Squaxx? Particularly the 50p

(https://preview.redd.it/kitx57asnttb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd94be33c7b72544d3bc21bce4d92dca7c4e165c)
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Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 October, 2023, 12:54:44 AM
The cheeky bugger! I miss the old animal coins we had. The horse 20p and the bird 50p and all the rest. It was like collecting panini stickers for your zoo album.
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Post by: JohnW on 13 October, 2023, 06:34:44 PM
That's our fish, damn it!

Why can't you stick to your lions and unicorns and Britannia jabbing Johnny Foreigner with her trident, eh, Charlie?

First Cromwell and now this.
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Post by: Dandontdare on 13 October, 2023, 10:55:37 PM
BBC:
Large numbers on an entirely redesigned set of UK coins will help children to identify figures and learn to count, The Royal Mint has said....Rebecca Morgan, director at the Mint, told the BBC: "The large numbers will be very appealing to children who are learning to count and about the use of money.

"Also the animals and everything you see on these coins will appeal to children. They are great conversation starters."


Seems a bit ambitious. You'd have to explain what coins are first.
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Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2023, 11:10:57 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 October, 2023, 12:54:44 AMThe cheeky bugger! I miss the old animal coins we had. The horse 20p and the bird 50p and all the rest. It was like collecting panini stickers for your zoo album.

The bull 5p was my favourite, maybe tied with the 2p, which a school friend of mine got tattoo'd on his right tit for his 18th
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Irish_two_pence_%28decimal_coin%29.png)
Without the "2P"
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 October, 2023, 11:17:34 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 October, 2023, 10:55:37 PMRebecca Morgan, director at the Mint, told the BBC: "The large numbers will be very appealing to children who are learning to count and about the use of money."
This is supposed to help kids learn to count?
There are two bees (or are they flies?) on the one pound coin, three shamrocks and one of everything else on the two pound coin, three oak leaves on the five-penny piece, and one dodo on the twenty pence piece.
I'm confused already.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 October, 2023, 11:24:26 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2023, 11:10:57 PMThe bull 5p was my favourite, maybe tied with the 2p, which a school friend of mine got tattoo'd on his right tit for his 18th.
Without the "2P"
Without the "2P"?
Wise choice – otherwise 'right tit' would have been particularly appropriate.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2023, 11:58:50 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 13 October, 2023, 11:24:26 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2023, 11:10:57 PMThe bull 5p was my favourite, maybe tied with the 2p, which a school friend of mine got tattoo'd on his right tit for his 18th.
Without the "2P"
Without the "2P"?
Wise choice – otherwise 'right tit' would have been particularly appropriate.

No doubt about tit
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 October, 2023, 03:42:48 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 13 October, 2023, 11:10:57 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 October, 2023, 12:54:44 AMThe cheeky bugger! I miss the old animal coins we had. The horse 20p and the bird 50p and all the rest. It was like collecting panini stickers for your zoo album.

The bull 5p was my favourite, maybe tied with the 2p, which a school friend of mine got tattoo'd on his right tit for his 18th
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Irish_two_pence_%28decimal_coin%29.png)
Without the "2P"

That was a nice one alright, from the Book of Kells, which is the only famous thing my town ever produced.  If you have a curly animal tattoo, you can thank my ancestors for the inspiration.  Even though, as celibate monks, they were definitely not my ancestors.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: paddykafka on 18 October, 2023, 11:12:49 AM
How cool would it be if one of us Squaxx was to have their name put on a spaceship to Mars?

I've put my name forward in any event. For anyone else here who is interested, the link to the site is below.

https://ilovetheuniverse.com/send-your-name-to-mars?utm_source=sendfox&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=send-your-name-to-mars-be-part-of-history

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 18 October, 2023, 11:19:31 AM
Godspeed to the rocketship Paddykafka.

(And all who sail in her.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2023, 12:15:57 PM

"...this isn't a scam – it's funded by taxpayers' money."

(https://wowthatsfucked.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/facepalm_implied.jpg)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 18 October, 2023, 02:39:53 PM
According to the Irish Meteorological Office, an estimated eight squillion metric tonnes of rain have fallen on Cork in the past forty-eight hours – much of it down the back of my neck.
Sick of having my Max Normal clothes drenched, I dressed in something approximating a chem suit when I went out today.
It worked OK until I hit the floods on the quays.
My house smells of wet dog and I don't even own a dog.

Things that have washed up on my doorstep this afternoon:
assorted crisp packets and other plastic wrappings;
various Lucozade bottles and beer cans;
one dead mule;
the wreck of the schooner Hesperus.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2023, 03:26:26 PM

Been windy, here. Not ideal weather for clearing away hawthorns and brambles swaying about like sentient biowire. Makes me appreciate why Fr1day has no sense of humour.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 October, 2023, 06:23:40 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 18 October, 2023, 03:26:26 PMBeen windy, here. Not ideal weather for clearing away hawthorns and brambles swaying about like sentient biowire. Makes me appreciate why Fr1day has no sense of humour.


:lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 October, 2023, 06:43:27 PM
Mini-Solo has to use Khan Academy for their Middle School Math. But Khan Academy does stupid things - like if you get one question out of seven incorrect it makes you redo all seven. And if you take a "mastery challenge" but fail, it drops you down to below the level you'd already achieved. It's a c*nt, basically.

This has led to anguished, angry cries of "KHANNNNNN!!!!!" reverberating around our hoose.

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ytmnd-fads/images/8/8b/Kirk-yelling-khan.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 27 October, 2023, 04:08:54 PM
Fussy philosophers are philoso-fickle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richard on 28 October, 2023, 07:04:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/eZ7JH7Y.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Richard on 28 October, 2023, 07:07:20 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/rqTReTZ.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Le Fink on 28 October, 2023, 08:55:58 PM
 :D
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 28 October, 2023, 10:09:33 PM
I AM THE SQUASH!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 October, 2023, 05:52:45 AM

Bloody clocks.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 29 October, 2023, 07:40:11 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 29 October, 2023, 05:52:45 AMBloody clocks.
British Surly Time.
Greenwich Mean Time.
What's next?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 29 October, 2023, 10:11:37 AM

Next? Probably me banging on about my bugbear of the moment.

Yammer Time.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 29 October, 2023, 01:01:57 PM
Quote from: Richard on 28 October, 2023, 07:07:20 PM(https://i.imgur.com/rqTReTZ.jpg)
Pumpkins have a price.
The price is freedom.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: M.I.K. on 29 October, 2023, 07:29:34 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 29 October, 2023, 01:01:57 PMPumpkins have a spice.

Fixed that for you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 30 October, 2023, 07:15:44 AM
I think you can get it slightly cheaper at Aldi's though ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 05 November, 2023, 08:24:23 AM
Gunpowder treason!
Is there a Catholic hiding in your cellar?

A happy fifth of November to all my English brethren.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 November, 2023, 08:51:24 AM
Yep, happy V for Vendetta day, all. Do people still celebrate or has it been entirely overtaken by Halloween?  Our bonfires and fireworks* were on Halloween night, but maybe you English types are still stretching it over a week.

*The most legal illegal thing in Ireland, seconded only by smoking weed. I remember watching an illegal fireworks display, using illegally bought fireworks, in a copper's garden.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 05 November, 2023, 02:03:09 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 05 November, 2023, 08:51:24 AMI remember watching an illegal fireworks display, using illegally bought fireworks, in a copper's garden.
I'm reminded of a neighbour recommending to my mother that poitín (that's homemade whiskey to those who don't know) was the perfect thing for making Christmas cake. An unlabelled bottle of clear colourless spirit was duly provided by way of the neighbour's husband, who happened to be a district court judge. He'd acquired it from a friendly police sergeant.
[Cue diddly-idle-doodle music]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 05 November, 2023, 09:11:11 PM
I bought some hazelnut flavoured poitín from Lidl. obviously not really poitín, by virtue of the fact that it was on sale in a supermarket. Anyway, absolute pish
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 06 November, 2023, 10:07:48 PM
I don't know anywhere better to post this, as it seems a thread has been genuinely jacked.

Until this morning, wasn't there a recently-created thread dealing with 2000ad droids working on movies?
Did it actually exist outside my imagination? If so, why was it removed so suddenly and why is no one mentioning it?
Am I now committing some dreadful faux pas by drawing attention to this un-thread? And as such, will I and all my posting history quietly disappear, never to be spoken of again?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 November, 2023, 12:33:20 AM
Quote from: JohnW on 06 November, 2023, 10:07:48 PMI don't know anywhere better to post this, as it seems a thread has been genuinely jacked.

Until this morning, wasn't there a recently-created thread dealing with 2000ad droids working on movies?
Did it actually exist outside my imagination? If so, why was it removed so suddenly and why is no one mentioning it?
Am I now committing some dreadful faux pas by drawing attention to this un-thread? And as such, will I and all my posting history quietly disappear, never to be spoken of again?

There was - but it looks like it's been deleted (as opposed to locked, even). Side-chance that it's a technical glitch, but forums losing threads seems less likely than an admin removing one. Perhaps some legal issue? (Tempting to repost this on the stealth-conspiracy theory thread so we can make up whackadoodle-doo stories about how it's all part of a global plot.)

We could try to figure out what the problem was by reposting everything we can remember and then seeing if *this* thread gets deleted. (I'm joking!)

Mind you - if things are being deleted it would be nice if someone told us approximately what the problem is so that we don't accidentally repeat it. Years ago, it was "just be nice about everything in the comic or the forum's getting deleted" - now it looks li
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 07 November, 2023, 02:26:32 AM

My money's on a legal issue, some insanely complex NDA or whatever. Or the Mandela Effect. Or a glitch in the Mmatrixx. Or lizard people. Or JohnW, covering his tracks as part of some fiendishly cunning master plan. Or maybe it's still there but none of us can see it due to mass psychosis. Maybe the whole thread fled to Mumsnet begging for asylum. Perhaps it was sucked through time into Charles Fort's hairdresser's cousin's notebook. Perhaps the thread tax wasn't paid. 

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 07 November, 2023, 08:27:46 AM
I don't understand it. The thread was loud and clear until somewhere south of Bermuda. Then someone said something about Grange Hill and – silence.

Funt, Shark,
I'm glad to see you boys on the case. Working together, there's no problem you two can't solve.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Le Fink on 07 November, 2023, 09:02:25 AM
QuoteThere was - but it looks like it's been deleted (as opposed to locked, even). Side-chance that it's a technical glitch, but forums losing threads seems less likely than an admin removing one. 
Should be easy to discount the admin - isn't it only IP???
QuoteYears ago, it was "just be nice about everything in the comic or the forum's getting deleted" - now it looks li
Oops. You got too close to the truth!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 07 November, 2023, 02:03:20 PM
Most likely it was what I said about Frank Miller's RoboCop sequel scripts. I'm expecting a knock on the door from some large men, and when I ask who they are, they'll say 'Are you DENSE? Are you RETARDED* or something? We're goddamn Frank Miller's legal team'.  Then they'll lock my up and make me eat rats.

*Sorry, I'm only quoting the Goddamn Batman
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 November, 2023, 03:37:09 PM
Goddamn.

Quote from: Le Fink on 07 November, 2023, 09:02:25 AMShould be easy to discount the admin - isn't it only IP???
Sort of. Molch-R gets brought in on the occasional Sunday to shut down flaming nerd wars. There's a guy that upgraded the site software a while ago and posted three times before getting given a real job to do. So, y'know, emergency, floating admin types.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 November, 2023, 08:54:41 AM
22 posts to go before the big 10,000.  There were more, before my previous board incarnation, Jayzus B. Christ with spaces and capital letters, forgot how to log in and needed a new account, but that 26-year-old man no longer exists.  Anyway, can someone please remind me when I'm getting close?

I suppose that's 21 now, really, isn't it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 November, 2023, 09:07:15 AM
I, along with the rest of the board, will be keeping a close eye.
Will there be a retrospective exhibition? A re-release of your more memorable contributions?
'JayzusB Gold: Ten Thousand Posts - Ten Thousand Memories.'
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 November, 2023, 09:22:13 AM

Only another 256 posts and I enter the Top Ten Posters. Hope I can avoid getting barred until then...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 November, 2023, 10:30:02 AM
Cheers, lads.

If I end up forgetting it's my 10,000th post and end up using it to argue with you over politics, Sharky, I'm blaming you.

 ;)

I'm thinking 'The Very Best of Jayzus B. Christ':  A restrospective of my greatest hits, including way-too-obsessive examinations of Zenith Phase 4; railing against Ancient Aliens ad nauseum; insulting some very sound Scottish forum members in a misguided attempt to be funny (again, sorry); reminding everyone of how great that Full Mental Jacket Dredd was before waiting till everyone's forgotten and doing it again; doing the same with Sunday Night Fever; regretting the forum name I chose as a younger man; and waiting till the very last second with the Advent Calendar and stressing the bejesus out of myself to get an entry in on time, every fecking year without fail. As a bonus, I might throw in ranting about how Sinister Dexter should be a fun strip like in the old days.

20 to go. And this is how I choose to spend my last posts before D-Day.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 November, 2023, 12:33:22 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 13 November, 2023, 10:30:02 AM20 to go. And this is how I choose to spend my last posts before D-Day.



You never could top that explosive season finale cliffhanger in 2021.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 13 November, 2023, 01:41:21 PM
True...  :D

Some would say that was the moment I jumped the shark.  But he definitely consented.

18 to go.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 November, 2023, 05:30:42 PM

I do love a good jump.  :o

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 November, 2023, 01:47:09 PM
where's that top ten Sharkie?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 15 November, 2023, 01:47:31 PM
Why can't anythread stay on topic here?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2023, 07:19:39 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 November, 2023, 01:47:09 PMwhere's that top ten Sharkie?

01: [CENSORED]
02: The toilets in a fake Irish bar in Southport.
03: [CENSORED]
04: [CENSORED]
05: Anywhere with Bev Karalus.
06: An old-fashioned red 'phone box on the corner of Old Street Littoral one steamy summer afternoon in 1983(ish).
07: The warm custard, obviously.
08: [CENSORED]
09: Ainsdale sand dunes.
10: Manchester Airport short-stay PSV vehicle park (had to drive 'round three times to keep renewing my ticket).

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 15 November, 2023, 07:57:08 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2023, 07:19:39 PM02: The toilets in a fake Irish bar in Southport.
That was you? My God, they're still talking about that!
You know it was a fake Tex/Mex place until [CENSORED] happened?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 15 November, 2023, 08:27:13 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 15 November, 2023, 07:19:39 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 15 November, 2023, 01:47:09 PMwhere's that top ten Sharkie?

01: [CENSORED]
02: The toilets in a fake Irish bar in Southport.
03: [CENSORED]
04: [CENSORED]
05: Anywhere with Bev Karalus.
06: An old-fashioned red 'phone box on the corner of Old Street Littoral one steamy summer afternoon in 1983(ish).
07: The warm custard, obviously.
08: [CENSORED]
09: Ainsdale sand dunes.
10: Manchester Airport short-stay PSV vehicle park (had to drive 'round three times to keep renewing my ticket).
This is one of those conversations you really don't want to walk into the middle of ...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 17 November, 2023, 05:22:20 PM
There's a van parked across the road with – I'm not kidding – 'Acme' written on the side.
Why is my neighbour having huge rocket-powered roller skates (what else would it be?) delivered?
I mean, it's all hills and potholes around here. They'd never work.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 17 November, 2023, 06:40:33 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 17 November, 2023, 05:22:20 PMThere's a van parked across the road with – I'm not kidding – 'Acme' written on the side.

If you see a tunnel painted on the side of a building you should be perfectly fine to go through.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 17 November, 2023, 08:36:07 PM
I would check any takeaway deliveries for iron filings if I were you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 November, 2023, 03:42:51 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 17 November, 2023, 05:22:20 PMWhy is my neighbour having huge rocket-powered roller skates (what else would it be?) delivered?


Could it be an anvil and parachute combo?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Tjm86 on 26 November, 2023, 08:55:46 PM
Ah, another school trip permission form and another chance to test the attentiveness of school teaching staff.

Special dietary requirements: "Do not feed after midnight."
Doctor's Name: Dr H Shipman.

Be interesting to see if either of those register.  ::)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 26 November, 2023, 10:27:26 PM

Special dietary requirements: "Allergic to munce."
Doctor's Name: Robodoc #1327/AFa.

...

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 28 December, 2023, 12:19:18 AM
The youtube algorithm keeps recommending me pig racing videos


I'm OK with this, it feels weirdly vindicating. It's a comfort going into a USA election cycle.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 December, 2023, 12:30:58 AM

I lasted 43 seconds.

No, no... Not like that you reprobates at the back.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 28 December, 2023, 08:39:46 PM

Have they put the Blackpool tower out yet?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 28 December, 2023, 11:05:49 PM

Not fire. Orange netting blowing in the wind, apparently.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 30 December, 2023, 09:14:23 PM
Well that was embarrassing  :lol: 

Still at least a historic building was undamaged.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 January, 2024, 04:06:12 PM
After nearly four years of vaccinations and semi-reclusiveness, I finally caught the covid.
The part I really didn't enjoy was repeatedly being woken from delirious sleep in the shivering dark, choking on endless thin mucus.
Let me say it here, my friends: if this is what waterboarding is like, then I am against waterboarding.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 13 January, 2024, 05:25:51 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 13 January, 2024, 04:06:12 PMAfter nearly four years of vaccinations and semi-reclusiveness, I finally caught the covid.

Ah - I was wondering where you'd gone. Welcome back!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 January, 2024, 05:42:15 PM
Thanks, Funt.
[ugly fluids dripping from every facial orifice joined unnoticed by single sentimental tear]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Le Fink on 13 January, 2024, 07:51:46 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 13 January, 2024, 04:06:12 PMAfter nearly four years of vaccinations and semi-reclusiveness, I finally caught the covid.
Yeesh sounds ghastly. Glad you're feeling better JW.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 January, 2024, 08:56:40 PM
Too kind.
[waves feeble hand and coughs graciously in LeFink's direction]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 13 January, 2024, 10:01:53 PM

I once had a girlfriend whose cure-all was a bottle of whiskey and a candle. The idea was to get comfy, light the candle and drink the whiskey. The more candles you end up seeing, the less important the malady feels. Also, the ensuing hangover overwhelms the disease.

I imagine she's probably dead by now.

Which is my rather baffling way of wishing you a speedy recovery and enough tissues.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 13 January, 2024, 10:25:21 PM
Did this lady have long red hair a taste for black miniskirts? If so, then we have more in common than I reckoned, Sharky.
(I no longer drink whiskey, but on the positive side, these past few days I've been able to spit in every colour on the khaki end of the spectrum.)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 January, 2024, 10:15:14 AM

Rest easy, our commonality isn't going to get weird  :lol:
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 January, 2024, 10:31:25 AM
Glad you're on the mend, John. I've had the Covid at least once and probably twice but only realised it after the fact the second time round.  Right now I have a cold and it feels much worse than either dose.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 14 January, 2024, 11:31:13 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 14 January, 2024, 10:31:25 AMGlad you're on the mend, John.
Good of you to say so.
[wheezily directs attendant lawyer to include small consideration to JBC in the will]
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 January, 2024, 02:04:03 PM
I'll take it. I haven't a pot to piss in right now.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 14 January, 2024, 03:10:19 PM
[crabbed legalistic handwriting]
"To Jayzus Beelzebub Christ, bachelor of this forum, I bequeath: One pot to piss in (second best);
On the sole condition that the window to throw it out of be provided by himself."
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 January, 2024, 05:51:56 PM

Given the modern penchant for outsourcing, I am willing to supply as much of my exclusive Anarchist Piss©®TM as you need with which to full your new (second best) pot - only £7.99 per litre plus p&p.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 14 January, 2024, 06:27:32 PM
I provide my own Anarchist* Piss, thanks very much.

*Albeit a different type of anarchist and let's not go there on this thread...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 January, 2024, 06:37:27 PM

Damn it. I'll never shift the bloody stuff.

Might as well flush all the barrels down the bloody drain, mumble, grump, moan.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 January, 2024, 06:46:12 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 14 January, 2024, 05:51:56 PMGiven the modern penchant for outsourcing, I am willing to supply as much of my exclusive Anarchist Piss©®TM as you need with which to full your new (second best) pot - only £7.99 per litre plus p&p.


(https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NINTCHDBPICT000748361476.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 January, 2024, 07:22:59 PM
(https://www.udrop.com/cache/plugins/filepreviewer/1298906/9b1030c01f3175200ef4b7104f3281f622da5f2ae35b27dec2f82d476ce11d90/1100x800_cropped.jpg)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 January, 2024, 07:33:19 AM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 14 January, 2024, 06:46:12 PM(https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NINTCHDBPICT000748361476.jpg?strip=all&w=960)


I'm glad someone is finally remembering that Breaking Bad was orginally a British sitcom and the Vince Gilligan version was a US remake. 

LOVE the image by the way SharK!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 16 January, 2024, 06:17:19 PM
My parents are away, so I went back to their house last Friday to feed the cats for the weekend.  Then my mild dose of a cold suddenly became a very bad dose and they're still away and I'm still here.

They have Sky, and I'm really not used to watching whatever is on at the moment as opposed to whatever I want, even if there are about 70 channels compared to the 6 I grew up with.

But my Grud, Only Fools and Horses is amazing, isn't it? I watched the one with Grandad's funeral the other night and was just blown away by how Del Boy's wide-boy persona wavered and cracked in the face of tragedy. Hollywood's finest actors could learn from David Jason.

See, i haven't threadjacked too much.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2024, 06:22:54 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 January, 2024, 07:33:19 AMLOVE the image by the way SharK!

Cheers - it's just AI though (Bing, I think). No talent necessary so no praise required - but I'll take it with gratitude all the same  :lol:

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 January, 2024, 07:46:31 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2024, 06:22:54 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 January, 2024, 07:33:19 AMLOVE the image by the way SharK!

Cheers - it's just AI though (Bing, I think). No talent necessary so no praise required - but I'll take it with gratitude all the same  :lol:

Oh I know that - its still super fun. You can see 9most) AI art work a mile off still.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 January, 2024, 07:52:12 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 16 January, 2024, 07:46:31 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2024, 06:22:54 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 15 January, 2024, 07:33:19 AMLOVE the image by the way SharK!

Cheers - it's just AI though (Bing, I think). No talent necessary so no praise required - but I'll take it with gratitude all the same  :lol:

Oh I know that - its still super fun. You can see 9most) AI art work a mile off still.
The absolutely fucked light source(s) and weak perspective have become the obvious markers of this guff.

Think we should implement a tax on the use of AI images, paid directly into the AUE trust fund or something, if people must insist on doing it better to have some good come of it.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 16 January, 2024, 08:14:30 PM
I'm just confused about why he's surrounded by jars of piss
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2024, 08:18:36 PM
I only use the free ones, and just for fun. I wouldn't dream of even contemplating making money out of it. For use on suchlike as these boards, where an image seems appropriate but you haven't the time or talent to draw one or trawl through image searches to find one then I think it's okay. All one has to do is find the correct prompt and then pick the best of a (usually) rubbish selection.

Hawkie's perfect image got the ridiculous joke I'd made across with aplomb using a real image. I simply had to use AI to get my twisted version across in a timely fashion (it would have taken me hours to draw such a thing, if I even could, and I've got other stuff to do). AI is just a convenient toy for me. One day, though, it might become a useful tool.

Thread. Jacked.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 16 January, 2024, 08:26:33 PM

Furthermore, during this morning's deadly blizzards I accidentally introduced my knuckle to a blackthorn thorn at some considerable speed. I think it might have bruised the bone, if such a thing is possible, because it's aching like a glum poet. In fact, it's so sore that I'm forced to type this post with my penis.*

Thread re-jacked.

*No, I'm not. It's too cold...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Dandontdare on 16 January, 2024, 11:48:00 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 16 January, 2024, 06:17:19 PMMy parents are away, so I went back to their house last Friday to feed the cats for the weekend.  Then my mild dose of a cold suddenly became a very bad dose and they're still away and I'm still here.

They have Sky, and I'm really not used to watching whatever is on at the moment as opposed to whatever I want, even if there are about 70 channels compared to the 6 I grew up with.

But my Grud, Only Fools and Horses is amazing, isn't it? I watched the one with Grandad's funeral the other night and was just blown away by how Del Boy's wide-boy persona wavered and cracked in the face of tragedy. Hollywood's finest actors could learn from David Jason.

See, i haven't threadjacked too much.

I go over to stay with my old mum most weekends and have been reintroduced to Proper Telly. Before she goes to bed, it's usually murder of some sort. Midsommer Murders is actually pretty good - if you can suspend your disbelief about an area with about a hundred "big houses", thriving hubs of every tradition, hobby or activity known to middle-class England, and a murder rate to rival Colombia; the guest acting talent is top notch and it doesn't insult the intelligence. Brenda Blethyn as Vera is another good one.


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 18 January, 2024, 09:11:03 PM
We Need Jungle I'm Afraid - Remix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke_9ethHTG4)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 February, 2024, 03:48:38 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 February, 2024, 10:09:50 AMWhat usually happens is:
1: I post a video or article.
2: You don't watch or read it.
3: You denounce it anyway.
4: You denounce me for posting it.
5: Rinse and repeat.

The problem occurs at Step #1, because you post videos of obviously questionable veracity, either because they're vested-interest propaganda (usually right-wing dogma) or straight-up conspiracy theory bullshit. That's why (2), (3) and (4) happen. You could break the cycle by avoiding (5).

(To be fair, the same thing would happen to me if I did it. Like - this is definite evidence of alien life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJpFT-jKbw). You *must* watch it!)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2024, 05:49:48 PM

Funt, for the purposes of this exercise, I am going to pretend that you posted that link in all good faith because you found it interesting. As far as I can see, I have three options for responding...

Option #1:
I'm not even going to click that because it's obviously rubbish and only a complete fool would post such blatant nonsense. What you really need to do is accept what I tell you because I'm smart and go with the flow and you're just dumb so why don't you simply shut up, already?

Option #2:
Thanks for posting that video. I find no need to delve into the person of the "Angry Astronaut" at this stage because it's his claims I'm assessing, not the man. Although I cannot find the latest paper he cites (without any links or references provided), I did find two original papers from 2022 (A Meteor of Apparent Interstellar Origin in the CNEOS Fireball Catalog (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8eac/)) and 2023 (Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar  Composition in the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide (https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf)) which suggest that an extrasolor object hit the Earth in 2014. This is amazing news, if it's true.

However, the AA's claim that this is "UFO wreckage" appears spurious. The second paper puts forward several options for the unusual composition of the spherules found on the ocean floor, including supernova remnants, a fragment of the highly differentiated crust of a planet with an iron core outside the solar system, or that this "unfamiliar abundance pattern may reflect an extraterrestrial technological origin." That's a long way from evidence for alien vehicles.

In contradiction to the AA's claim that the mainstream media isn't reporting on this, I also found several mentions of the subject in the msm (although not very many), including USA Today, which goes with the headline "Alien technology? Harvard professor finds fragments that could be of otherworldly origin" (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/07/harvard-professor-avi-loeb-ufo-fragments/70391430007/). That's a clickbait headline, but not exactly a lie because alien technology is a possible explanation but by no means the only one. I for one would be overjoyed if actual alien wreckage had been found, but so far it has not.

Most of AA's video is filled with speculation based on this spurious claim of alien wreckage and so, while I am indebted to you for bringing IM1 to my attention, I cannot agree with AA's conclusions without further, more concrete data. But why do we need it? Isn't the possible presence of extrasolar material on the Earth amazing enough? The possibility of studying the composition of exoplanets and stars without having to travel billions of miles into space has extraordinary scientific potential in its own right.

So, thank you, Funt, for posting that. I think it's mainly bollocks but the kernel of truth the video presents is fascinating.

Option #3:
Not interested. Didn't watch. No comment.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 February, 2024, 05:58:55 PM
The parenthetical part of my post wasn't actually the relevant part.

(Now that I think on it, though - this could be a solution to your 5-step problem. Why not let me post the bullshit links, and you can deep-dive 'em?)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 February, 2024, 06:09:15 PM
Jeez, get a room guys
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 February, 2024, 06:10:47 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 February, 2024, 06:09:15 PMJeez, get a room guys

This *is* the room, Pops. It's a forum. Step up or step off.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2024, 06:12:30 PM
Which part (of your) last post (was relevant) then? The bits (in parentheses) or (the other) bits? Is (everything) you (bracket) irrelevant? How (are) we to (tell)?  :lol:

Also, a speedy recovery to you and everyone who's suffering. I hope you all get better soon.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2024, 06:13:02 PM

Hell, Pops - he couldn't afford me!

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 February, 2024, 06:32:59 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 11 February, 2024, 06:10:47 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 11 February, 2024, 06:09:15 PMJeez, get a room guys

This *is* the room, Pops. It's a forum. Step up or step off.

Grand, I'll just step off so.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 February, 2024, 06:41:07 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 11 February, 2024, 03:48:38 AM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 February, 2024, 10:09:50 AMWhat usually happens is:
1: I post a video or article.
2: You don't watch or read it.
3: You denounce it anyway.
4: You denounce me for posting it.
5: Rinse and repeat.

The problem occurs at Step #1, because you post videos of obviously questionable veracity. That's why (2), (3) and (4) happen. You could break the cycle by avoiding (5).

Well, just to be super-clear, Shark, I've edited down my original response to what you see above. It explains the cause of the problem and a solution. In all good faith.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 11 February, 2024, 07:16:31 PM

The video you posted in your Step #1 had questionable veracity yet contained a core of truth and taught me something amazing that appears to be real. If I'd dismissed the video out of hand (and I suspect you may have chosen it for that very purpose) I wouldn't have learned anything due to wilful ignorance.

All the other bullshit from that video aside, do you not think it's at least interesting that extrasolar material may have been found on Earth?

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 11 February, 2024, 09:47:37 PM
I refer you to my previous answer?

See, I've accidentally started a new cycle of The 5-step Shark Problem by posting a stupid video which you're now defending as if your life depended on it.

To answer your general question: no, I see no value whatsoever in watching bullshit videos from the Internet - whatever snake oil they're selling. No discoveries of alien life (unless it's presented as fiction), no secrets of Area 51 (although the Internet Historian has a great video about that), no climate denial or Covid denial, no flat earth, no Dem-pizza parties, no Truth of the Twin Towers poop, no Bill Gates be nanoprobing your dawg and none of the stuff about the Sky God Death Cult - none of it.

Just to be super-clear, my advice stands: you could break the cycle by avoiding (5).
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: lincnash on 12 February, 2024, 01:26:20 AM
THREADJACK!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:


Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2024, 06:41:11 AM

Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 11 February, 2024, 09:47:37 PMI refer you to my previous answer?

See, I've accidentally started a new cycle of The 5-step Shark Problem by posting a stupid video which you're now defending as if your life depended on it.

To answer your general question: no, I see no value whatsoever in watching bullshit videos from the Internet - whatever snake oil they're selling. No discoveries of alien life (unless it's presented as fiction), no secrets of Area 51 (although the Internet Historian has a great video about that), no climate denial or Covid denial, no flat earth, no Dem-pizza parties, no Truth of the Twin Towers poop, no Bill Gates be nanoprobing your dawg and none of the stuff about the Sky God Death Cult - none of it.

Just to be super-clear, my advice stands: you could break the cycle by avoiding (5).

So... why did you post what you consider to be (and mostly is) a bullshit video? Do you think that I trawl the interwebs looking for bullshit videos and articles at random? Your core argument is circular, you get that, right? "I know that's bullshit because you only post bullshit." 

I'm also not defending the video, all I did was watch it and give my opinion. And now, because you think everything I post is bullshit, that opinion is also bullshit. Circular reasoning. You know that you could break this cycle by going to Step #3? It does, after all, take two to tango. If you don't want to dance, why take to the dance floor? Seriously, why? All you do is upset yourself.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2024, 07:21:26 AM

Apologies, the above should read, "You know that you could break this cycle by going to Option #3?" Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 February, 2024, 06:55:09 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2024, 06:41:11 AMYour core argument is circular, you get that, right? "I know that's bullshit because you only post bullshit."

Well...all I can say is that so far it's true.

Imagine a crow divebombs your head every time you pass it's favorite tree. So, would you be crazy to start wearing a helmet? Or, y'know, the boy that cries wolf. According to your current argument, I should start believing that boy.

Actually, people on the board are far more patient than you give them credit for. Every time you post a video (despite all the previous instances of you posting conspiracy theory/vested interest content) someone usually does take the time to quickly check and notice that, indeed, you've done it again.

Your central argument seems to be a demand that we be brainwashed by nonsense.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2024, 08:18:43 PM


It seems to me that you are deliberately misunderstanding my posts, which is, of course, your right.

For example, I said at the beginning of my "Three Options" post above, "Funt, for the purposes of this exercise, I am going to pretend that you posted that link in all good faith because you found it interesting." Then I gave three options for responding to that video, which you also deliberately misunderstood by claiming that I was "defending (it) as if your life depended on it," which is clearly untrue. I believe, rightly or wrongly, that in reality you posted that video simply because it's mostly bollocks and not because you believed its conclusions. Maybe you knew about the possible extrasolar meteorite mentioned therein and maybe you didn't. In either case, that single nugget is definitely worthy of discussion (imo), but you ignore even this to make your point that if you believe something is shit on the surface, then it must be shit all the way through. The video you posted to support this argument patently failed because it contained that single diamond as well as loads of shit, and it only took a brief paddle (rather than a "deep dive" (no pun intended)) to demonstrate this.

I suspected that the video you posted might be rubbish before I even watched it, and the "Angry Astronaut's" style of presentation did nothing to disabuse me of this notion. However, acting as if you posted it in good faith (even though I suspected it was a joke) I gave my honest opinion, which you deliberately misunderstood as me endorsing the whole thing. I posted the video of Dr. Curry's testimony in good faith because I found what she had to say interesting and, yes of course, aligned with my worldview (and why would I post something that doesn't align with what I think and that I haven't at least conducted a brief paddle into?). I think it might be me you don't like, not what I think, but that's your right too, of course (which you will probably deliberately misunderstand as me "giving you permission to disagree," or somesuch twaddle).

I don't expect or require anyone to believe or listen to me, I don't expect or require anyone to even be interested. But I think that you are interested, otherwise why would we be having this discussion?

Anyway, I think people have had enough of this conversation for now and so I'll leave the last word in this particular discourse to you.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 12 February, 2024, 11:03:38 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2024, 08:18:43 PMwhy would we be having this discussion?

It's a good question, and there are two answers:

1. You complained (with your list, that I quoted up-thread a little bit) that you're frustrated that people dismiss your conspiracy theory/vested interest videos without deep-diving them. So, I was trying to help by explaining a way out of the repetitive loop. Just in case you missed it - the solution is to stop posting videos that are so easily debunked.

2. In the world, there are real problems. Vested interest groups, destabilizers and gullible folk muddy the waters of potential solutions by making up stories. Oil companies make up stories about climate change not being that big of a deal, and nothing to do with us humans anyway. Destabilizers sow discord, the better to promote their own brands - like Trump's fascism or Putin's dreams of Empire. Gullible folk lap it all up and redistribute it. All of this makes it more difficult for humanity to find real solutions to the real problems. Humanity, right now, is busy destroying the very environment that we require to survive. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. You're part of the problem. I can't help but try to stop you when you poop on my doorstep. Same solution as before: stop pooping.

Those really define the extent of my interest - I'm trying to do you a favor to do me a favor. I'm a hopeful sort.


Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 12 February, 2024, 08:18:43 PMso I'll leave the last word in this particular discourse to you

Gerbil.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 14 February, 2024, 10:10:09 AM

10 creepy vintage Valentines! (https://listverse.com/2013/02/14/10-creepy-vintage-valentines/)

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 14 February, 2024, 01:27:28 PM
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: The Doctor Alt 8 on 20 February, 2024, 03:14:50 PM
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 14 February, 2024, 10:10:09 AM10 creepy vintage Valentines! (https://listverse.com/2013/02/14/10-creepy-vintage-valentines/)


https://bavs.ac.uk/news/vinegar-valentines-trolling-the-victorian-way/
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 23 February, 2024, 04:29:42 PM
I used to love ZX Spectrum music,  despite it basically being a lot of sped-up beeps strung together. This was one of my favourites- it should have been the soundtrack for a game about someone in shades and leather fighting their way through a tech-noir dystopia, but instead they used it for fecking Ping Pong.

Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 March, 2024, 01:42:33 PM
Will nobody think of the octopuses!!
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 14 March, 2024, 10:08:37 PM
A belated happy Pi day one and all. Here's a video where a buncha deranged nerds try to calculify it...
(https://c.tenor.com/BXCVwdWgU64AAAAC/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JohnW on 15 March, 2024, 12:37:19 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/4nUSCBf.jpg)

THE FOUR DARK RAMONES
... because sometimes a man has too much time on his hands.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 March, 2024, 02:53:31 PM
Well Debbie Harry was Anderson...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 22 March, 2024, 03:54:13 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 March, 2024, 02:53:31 PMWell Debbie Harry was Anderson...

... who now looks younger than Debbie Harry did when she inspired Bolland to create the character's look.  They're only pictures in a comic, I know, but it gets on my wick something rotten.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
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Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 March, 2024, 04:32:27 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 22 March, 2024, 03:54:13 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 20 March, 2024, 02:53:31 PMWell Debbie Harry was Anderson...

... who now looks younger than Debbie Harry did when she inspired Bolland to create the character's look.  They're only pictures in a comic, I know, but it gets on my wick something rotten.
Totally agree, and what you said on Robin's thread.
I keep throwing outthere the idea that Anderson goes through the menopause and levels half of MC1, no takers so far...
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Vector14 on 22 March, 2024, 04:45:16 PM
Are there any other characters that don't age (or get younger) in Dredd? Hershey was allowed to age. PJ Maybe didn't stay a kid forever.
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 22 March, 2024, 05:44:27 PM
Quote from: Vector14 on 22 March, 2024, 04:45:16 PMAre there any other characters that don't age (or get younger) in Dredd? Hershey was allowed to age. PJ Maybe didn't stay a kid forever.

Well, there's Dredd. Sometimes grizzled, sometimes fairly fresh-faced. There was that Carroll-Dredd in the Meg that indicated a regular full-dermal rejuvenation process, so there is a lore-ish excuse for his carrying on. (Personally, I think they could've killed him off, or sent him to the Academy and had Rico take over the main strip - a long time ago.)

Inspector Morse Armitage also seems immune to age, having started out rather old and then stayed rather old for decades longer than one would assume is reasonable.

I think the real reason that Anderson's daughter never seems to age is that her psi-powers are projecting an image of eternal youth. As for Anderson herself - where has she been for all these years? Maybe tutoring at the Academy of Law? Or did she find love with one of the Orlok clones?
Title: Re: Threadjacking!
Post by: Funt Solo on 23 March, 2024, 11:14:47 PM
Singers Falling Down the Stairs (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/exbCKn-k0eI)