A tribute to the best and greatest thread in the world: Off Topic

[Wolfshade]

So cool.

[eldargal]

Enjoying XCOM, but:

My commanding officer sniper shoots at some big critter with a 81% chance to hit and misses. Eight times (I reloaded in contempt). Tempted to change her nickname to '****ing Useless'. My newbie sniper on the other side of the map shoots the same critter with a 25% chance, scored a critical hit. It roars, she panics, fires again, hit it and kills it.

[Psychosplodge]

So cool.

It's a novelty act to distract from an otherwise average set.

[Wolfshade]

Which XCOM you go, UFO Enemy Unknown or The Bureau ?

[Deadlift]

Saw the guy doing the 2p's from the sliding machines in Portsmouth few weekends back. Pushing a shopping trolley full of money....

Lol that's one way to do it.....for a wimp :D just finished hoofing 3k of 2ps from one end of the arcade to the other and then weighing it out. In this heat it's not pleasant and I look a bit of a mess.

[Deadlift]

Xcom is just begging to be made into a squad based 40k game. Just imagine it.

[Psychosplodge]

Chaos gate?

[DrLove42]

I've jsut seen the most horrifying thing ever.

Super Hot Karen Gillinham (Thats Amy Pond Dr Who fans) has shaved her head for a different film.

Hot Red Head - Red Hair + Potato Skull = Not hot :(

[Psychosplodge]

lols

but think how much fun rubbing her stubble will be.

on another note the lack of workshop fans has got so bad I've just pulled a 140mm fan out a unit, pulled a 12v psu off a test rig and voilà desk fan...

[Wolfshade]

Passive cooling really isn't working out for me

[DrLove42]

Air Conditioning

[Psychosplodge]

oh the relief is unbelievable...
Apparently it's 26°c at my desk if you believe the questionably calibrated thermometer

[Wolfshade]

the air con does not work for the room I am in, actually, the air con does not work for the building. It is just startuing too cool down and my thermometer is now only reading 27...

[Psychosplodge]

Air conditioning? We're lucky to get heating in winter...

[Wolfshade]

You are northern, surely the only concession you make to winter is to put your hands in your pockets, while still wearing t-shirts...

[Psychosplodge]

That's when walking around in it. Sitting in the same spot for eight hours in a draught is a different proposition entirely.

[Mr Mystery]

And that's me booked up for LRP.

Happiness!

[Deadlift]

That's when walking around in it. Sitting in the same spot for eight hours in a draught is a different proposition entirely.

My Grandmother says air conditioning gives you arthritis of the head.

[Mr Mystery]

And now?

Now I've booked our dirty(ish) weekend away in Nottingham for September.

HUZZAH! We're off to The Salutation Inn for a night of hair and poodle metal. RAWK!

[Psychosplodge]

My Grandmother says air conditioning gives you arthritis of the head.

Sounds reasonable. It probably isn't good for you everyday...


And now?

Now I've booked our dirty(ish) weekend away in Nottingham for September.


If you get lucky?


LBD have a new video. Liking the setting, shame the camera man needs a tripod.


http://youtu.be/sYItU9osWPA

[Wolfshade]

I saw it on their FB page, forgot to watch it though.

Also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23433955

This is what should be happening.

I also admire the footballer who rallied against wearing the wonga logo on their kit as it was againts their relgion, then kinda spoiled it all by being a regular at a casino...

[Psychosplodge]

Lets face it though there's worse hypocrisy out there.
A local restaurant owner rang the radio up when they were talking about something, and said he was amazed how many people would spend twenty mins arguing over if the meats halal, then order a pint of lager with their meal...

[Wolfshade]

The taxi firm my mate works at are all muslim, aside from him, so they all stop work at sunset go back home or to the office and feast. There is a communal going outside and having a cigarette.

[Psychosplodge]

While this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23444771) is a cool reaction to a sad thing, have you seen the size of the security detail for someone out of power for twenty years?

[Wolfshade]

While this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23444771) is a cool reaction to a sad thing, have you seen the size of the security detail for someone out of power for twenty years?

Yup, then times that by the number of ex-presidents and their family that are currently alive. Lets assume that a president is 40 when they are elected, elections occur every 4 years, that they have above average life expectances as they are privilledged and rich and hey presto that is some 10-13 teams of similiar size. And the republicans think that the cost of secruity for the monarchy & close family is too expensive...

This is cool: http://road.cc/content/news/89230-video-experiments-speed-framebuilder-tom-donhou-sees-how-fast-he-can-go-drafting

100mph push bike....

[daboarder]

While this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23444771) is a cool reaction to a sad thing, have you seen the size of the security detail for someone out of power for twenty years?

Considering the things those guys must know about state secrets and security its no wonder a nation with such a reputation for paranoia gives them that much security.

incidentally, anyone know when and WHY the yanks decided to limit presidents to two terms only?

[Psychosplodge]

Oh I knew they always had a detail, I just never considered the size of it. I suppose to have 24-7 cover with holiday sick cover you need twenty plus.

Is it a tradition thing?

That's madness Wolfie.

[Wolfshade]

From my google-fu, it is the 22nd amendment, Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951.

The essence of it was right from the founding rebel leaders with washington not standing for a thrid term. The idea is that it creates fresh change instead of having one person in power for a long time al la monarchy..

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah I thought it was Washington related.

[DrLove42]

Suppose i better get my "morning all" comments in.

So Morning all!

[Psychosplodge]

Only just...

[DrLove42]

Totally counts

[Psychosplodge]

Well yes, but only just...

[DrLove42]

Thats what she said

[Wolfshade]

Boo!

[Psychosplodge]

Thats what she said

No we've been through what she said many many times...

[Wolfshade]

In the "Overly defensive replies on internet forums. " thread I was very tempted to post the anacedote about a friend of mine who has painted some "african" style skin tones, after doing a unit he realised that it was his penal unit and the only non-white unit in his army. He felt awkward.

[Psychosplodge]

oops...
That's as stereotyped as those heads...

[Wolfshade]

Well he was doing it to add some flavour, he had previously experimented with different complextions of white tones from the almost albino like norse to the mediterranean.

By painting regular heads black you end up with (or can) end up with a more north-african type army.

I think the argument is a bit null and void and I'll point to Christanity as a reason for this. Jesus was a Jew so we can make assumptions about what he looked like, yet despite this, peope from all over the globe follow his teachings regardless, and indeed despite knowing this it has not stopped people from portraying him in a way to reflect their own culture

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/CompositeJesus.JPG

[DrLove42]

Jesus was born in the middle east. He'd have been of Arabic skin colour and looks

[Wolfshade]

Jesus was born in the middle east. He'd have been of Arabic skin colour and looks

Exactly, yet it doesn't stop representations of him being made to reflect the local culture, nor is it a barrier to christianity, or if it is then someone should tell the Archbishops of Canterbury and York...

In the same way, while we may guess that the faces of the humans are white europeans it doesn't stop us from painting them any colour we like.

[DrLove42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23449261

I've hired this prostitute to help me buy tomatos.

[Wildeybeast]

Jesus was born in the middle east. He'd have been of Arabic skin colour and looks

Given the Bible makes no reference whatsoever to his ethnicity/nationality (beyond being Jewish and Judean, whatever those terms meant back then) any discussion is nothing more than idle speculation. Indeed, the New Testament seems wholly uninterested in matters of race, which is hardly surprising given that a) Israel was a coastal province of the Roman Empire on a key trading route and so would have been very cosmopolitan and b) the message of the NT is that he came to save all humanity, regardless of race, gender etc.

We can presume the following: as a travelling carpenter, he's like to have been physically fit, probably wiry rather than well built. He probably had a beard (shaving largely being restricted to the rich). He would share certain racial characteristics with modern Jews, though it's hard to say which, given how long most Jews have spent adapting to other climates and breeding with other ethnicities (both before and after Jesus' time).

[Wildeybeast]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23449261

I've hired this prostitute to help me buy tomatos.

How many tomatoes does he need? 20 quid is a lot to spend on tomatoes.

[Psychosplodge]

Yay Wildey's back for the summer?

[Wildeybeast]

Sure am! 6 glorious weeks of it thread derailment! Though the forum seems rather dead at the moment, probably because it's a fantasy month.

[Psychosplodge]

No the forums moved down here. There was an influx of grumpy rules types up top...

[Wildeybeast]

Yeah, endless Space Marine speculation and dissection of GW vs CHS by people who know little to nothing about doesn't really interest me. Though the threads down here seem to have gotten a bit 'weighty' in nature, I think I need to get some more fun/inane threads going.

[Wolfshade]

Tomatoes in dudley are expensive, though I wish he had claimed it was for plums

[DrLove42]

Melons would be more appropriate surely?

[Psychosplodge]

Well they locked a couple of threads that tangentel in the proper bit... It's not like when TDA was overseeing things :D

Even the weighty ones are interspersed with nonsense.

Melons would have made more sense, or maybe peaches.

[Wolfshade]

I don't know, paying someone £20 to squeeze plums for you sounds better than paying someone £20 to squeeze their melons

[Psychosplodge]

you don't pay to squeeze melons, you go Babe, look at that distraction -> then depending on her mood the SO either laughs/mock glares/slaps you

[Wolfshade]

Hipster bike accessory:

http://www.evanscycles.com/product_image/image/226/3ad/528/71141/product_page/pdw-bar-ista-coffee-cup-holder.jpg

Yes that's right a coffee cup holder for you bike. Oh dear...

[Mr Mystery]

You get the torches.

I'll get the mob.

[Wolfshade]

Ok.

http://image.made-in-china.com/43f34j00isKEPqNnAzba/Cool-Crank-Flashlight-Torch-for-Hurricane-Hot-in-2012.jpg

It even has a built in wireless...

[Psychosplodge]

Needs more fire...

[DrLove42]

Cos this is what "invention" counts as in the 21st century

First it was anything with an added clock
Then added Radio

Now its anything with added WiFi

Gamesworkshop, get on that. I want to connect to the internet through my Land Raider by this time next year

[Wolfshade]

Sorry I meant radio.

While I can't find a land raider wireless router, but I bet you could make one simples with antenna for lascannon,

instead this:
http://gadgetsin.com/uploads/2010/07/computer_case_mod_inspired_by_dreadnought_in_warha mmer_40k_1.jpg it is a computer case...

[Psychosplodge]

missing link/pic?

What do you mean I can't access facebook on my landraider?

[eldargal]

Just spent the last five hours checking over all my Reaper Bones stuff for miscasts and making sure I got everything I ordered, blargh.

[Wolfshade]

and now to paint?

[Psychosplodge]

That took five hours?
pics please... :p I imagine that's an impressive haul...


DOC you seen what's coming to gamertee? A SPACEBUTTERFLY T-SHIRT!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/0a4f741e70e21538b1e9d87bc654c0a1/tumblr_mqhhv5RGxv1qgtc21o1_500.jpg

[DrLove42]

Need

Jesses back over for Gemucon next year. but Nottingham is now even further away from me, and when he does his tour of country hes going back to the Hobbit in Soton....but i won't live there anymore!

[Psychosplodge]

Gemucon is being held in august at iirc warwick university next year, unfortunately that's too close to Bloodstock for me :(

[Kirsten]

Just spent the last five hours checking over all my Reaper Bones stuff for miscasts and making sure I got everything I ordered, blargh.

you have been very quiet this week, was starting to think you had been killed in your sleep by kittens...

[eldargal]

Nope. Well almost, sometimes they go to sleep on my face which makes it hard to breathe but they tend to fall off. Been too cranky for socialising and also playing XCOM.:p I'm proud to say I no longer suck horribly at it and am merely bad. In a few weeks I might be decent at it...

[Wolfshade]

Have you got second wave?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

An Agent wildly appears.

[eldargal]

Have you got second wave?
No idea? So probably no.

Got my mother playing it too now as she recovers from a marathon Dragon Age Origins playthrough

[DrLove42]

XCOM was great. Need to go back and finish it

I got to the final boss fight. Had 2 Plasma Totting Sniper Rifles able to headshot and double tap the big bad guy, kill to win. First one took off 95% of his health.

The my Xbox crashed. Turned it off to restart from a save file, about 15 seconds previous. Before switching it on, wife calls, had to leave to pick her up from work. Didn't play again that day. next day Halo 4 came out and Xcom came out the box and hasn't been back since :P

[Wolfshade]

ITs part of the 3rd patch, it enables various modifiers to be tweeked and gives slightly different options like weapons having a wider range of damage and ellerium degrading over time

[Mr Mystery]

Seems the UK's soon to be introduced Pr0n filter is.......run by a Chinese Company!

Comrade Big Brother is watching us?

[Psychosplodge]

Well they are the experts at censorship...

[Mr Mystery]

Tonight's entertainment shall be several hands of Magic the Gathering, and an impromptu trip inside my Rogue Traders head, following his brain buggering off a Grey Knight last week.

[DrLove42]

Tonight, 40K

Tomorrow, tournement

[Deadlift]

Couple days off after a 72 hour week, I'm currently relaxing on the sofa with the kids watching clone wars. Going to take them to the pub for our weekly full English breakfast in a bit. Not sure what I shall do with them for the rest of the day. Tonight I'm finally getting to see Pacific Rim. Curry afterwards :D

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Pacific Rim is soooooooooo good, dude. I walked out of it wanting a Wraithknight even harder than I already did, too.

[Mr Mystery]

Why not host a 'sitting still and being quiet' competition?

[Psychosplodge]

Tonight I'll be in the pub blotting out another week of work...

[Deadlift]

Why not host a 'sitting still and being quiet' competition?

That's going to last a whole 30 seconds then lol

[Deadlift]

Pacific Rim is soooooooooo good, dude. I walked out of it wanting a Wraithknight even harder than I already did, too.

Lol that's cool as I working on an Iyanden Army at the moment :)

[DrLove42]

Theres so many films out right now, why is cinema so expensive!

[Psychosplodge]

why do they take so long to come to dvd/blu-ray ?

[Mr Mystery]

why do they take so long to come to dvd/blu-ray ?

'Because' appears to be the best answer.

[Psychosplodge]

Well it's not good enough.

[Psychosplodge]

oh gods all the feels...





You all have probably know about the new generation of My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. It has, for one reason or another, become an overnight sensation. Whether or not you like the show yourself, you have to admit that its success is impressive.
However, it raises a question. Lauren Faust has worked on other popular shows, and has been working on her own line of toys, The Galaxy Girls. How did she wind up creating the re-make of some 80’s toy commercial instead of working on her own show ideas? It could be that she’s just nostalgic about her childhood MLP toys or something, but even then, what artist wouldn’t rather work on their own ideas?

I read this news story a few years ago. It was about 6 girls who all went to the same school, and died on the same day, Januaray 18th, 1989. A friend of mine from N.C. sent me the article from a small local newspaper. I forgot about it until I was watching a few episodes of MLP and realized the main characters are surprisingly similar to the girls who died. I decided to look for that article again. The paper had either gotten shut down or I had misremembered the name, so I tried tracking down my old World of Warcraft buddy and asked him for the article. Turned out he happened to have the file saved to his computer, and I was right! There’s a definite connection here!

The first girl, named Samantha Gales, was obviously the inspiration for Fluttershy. A shy, introverted girl, what her classmates didn’t know was that she was constantly abused at home by her mother and stepfather. Her mother conceived her at age 15, and she blamed poor Samantha for ruining her life. This made Samantha self-conscious. When her stepfather moved in, this made the neglect worsen. Her stepfather never liked having to take care of Samantha when her mother was away, so he would lock her in the basement and leave her, sometimes for a whole day. Her mother tolerated this, and, as she grew, would hit Samantha for talking out of turn. When her half-sister was born, the abuse became considerably worse. She would be starved, forced to sleep outside, and sometimes beaten outright. Because she dressed in shabby clothes and had low self-esteem, she was often picked on by other kids at school. Her only friends were animals she would rescue, which her family would make her get rid of. She committed suicide by overdosing on valium.

The second, named Janice Walters, was always one of the popular girls. She was rich, smart, beautiful, and seemed to live the charmed life. However, her parents argued constantly and were really only together for appearances. She was held up to a high standard, which made her a perfectionist. She wanted to be a designer and live in Paris, but her parents wanted her to remain in Carolina and marry a proper man, one of good breeding and high income. For the most part, her parents ignored her. Her parents’ only concern was appearing rich and of high social standing, but in reality, her mother married her father because of money, and since he had accumulated so much debt, they had been losing money, fast. This is what got her interested in fashion initially, since she started making her own fashionable clothes to maintain the appearance of wealth. She died in a car crash, when her mother and father got into another argument over money while he was driving. Her neck was snapped on impact and she died instantly. She was clearly the inspiration for Rarity.

Then there was Alexandra Matthews. Alex was a competitive girl. She always sought to be the best at the best, especially at sports, track in particular. Her father always wanted a boy, and since her mother was declared incapable of having another child, he decided to raise her as if she was his son. In the end though, she loved her mother and father, and was more than happy to play sports with her father. She excelled at them, even. This made her popular, and by the time she was in high school, was being sought out by athletic scouts from Colleges all over the country. This made her try even harder. She had always wanted to compete in the Olympics. However, when she was 15, her mother, who had been told she could never have another child, had a son. After that, her parents didn’t pay very much attention to her, which made her more determined to succeed. She ended up pushing herself so hard at track, she neglected her friends, her grades, and even her personal health. At one point, she became so desperate, she started taking steroids. What her and her family didn’t know was that she had a minor heart condition that the steroids worsened. Since she was pushing herself so hard physically as well, she ended up collapsing during a match due to a heart complication. She died in the hospital, a few days later. In the show, Rainbow Dash seems the most similar.

The girl most similar to Applejack, Jamie Sanders, was a farm girl, just like the character based off of her. What the show didn’t include was that her farm was run down, and her family always struggling with money. She often times worked odd jobs under the table to try and help to support her family. She had many brothers and sisters, and she was the second, which meant it was up to her and her brother to take care of the “youngins”. This meant she didn’t have enough time to hang out with friends or take any extracurricular activities, or even do her homework on most nights. She had an aunt, whom her family from Manhattan was based off, who kept offering to send money to support her mother and father, but they were proud and always refused. That is until her father died from a heart attack in 1987. Her mother followed shortly after, having killed herself when she couldn’t handle the pressure of taking care of all the children. They were taken in by their then senile grandma, who was incapable of truly taking care of them. Jamie herself often times helped out with other family’s yard work to keep her family afloat. She died when she fell into a wood chipper.

Pinkie Pie’s inspiration probably has the saddest story. Katherine Jackson was a foster child and moved from home to home. Her birth father killed her mother and himself in a fit of rage when she was 5, and she could never quite settle into a good home. Some of the foster families who would take her in were merely interested in the financial support adopting a child would bring, and would refuse to feed or clothe her. Even when she was in a nice home with a good family, the old memories still haunted her, breaking her fragile sanity into a million pieces. She would have nightmares of her mother’s screaming and bleeding and her father screaming for her, claiming to be after her next. By the time she was in high school, she completely snapped. She started to hallucinate and act out in class. Many of the other kids and even teachers assumed she was merely hyperactive and was trying to be funny. She would often times paint and draw and write about fantastical things, and dressed in over the top clothing. All the while her condition was getting worse and worse, the voices and images becoming more realistic and more demanding. She died when she jumped off a building, one of the voices having told her she could fly. What makes that last fact even more chilling is that Lauren originally designed Pinkie Pie to be a pegasus, as seen in her early development sketches.


The last, Twilight Sparkle’s inspiration, was an A student by the name of Cynthia Little. She was held up to a high standard from a young age. Her older brother was always getting awards for academic and athletic achievement, and she was held up to the same high standard. She ended up neglecting other facets of her life in order to make sure she got the best grades. For a while, this worked. Her parents were proud of her accomplishments and bragged to their friends about having not just one genius child, but two. That is until a local private academy for the gifted started to become interested in her, among several other advanced students. She knew that this would be the best opportunity she could have to prove herself as the perfect child. But the pressure was high. She knew that there were limited spots for new students, and she knew that there would be a test and an essay required to get in. So she became a little desperate. She studied to the point where she would hardly eat, and never sleep. As the test closed in, she panicked, and she opted to find an essay online to copy, and during the test resorted to cheating. When she was caught, her parents were horrified. She sank into a deep depression, and eventually hung herself to save herself the shame of being an imperfect daughter.
You might be wondering now why Lauren Faust would be inspired to make a sweet children’s show inspired by such depressing events. Perhaps she felt some odd need to give the girls closure, or perhaps to tell their stories in any way she could. Think about it. In one episode named " The Cutie Mark Chronicles", each pony describes of how they each earned one’s cutie marks. Ranibow Dash, who was able to make a Sonic Rainboom on the same day for all girls to see and to make them be able to earn their cutie marks, clearly makes you tend to wonder about each girl’s death in real life on the same day. And In the show, Fluttershy is able to take care of the animals she adores, Rarity is a successful designer with loving parents, Rainbow Dash is in fact a great athlete, Applejack has a successful farm, Pinkie Pie is happy with not a care in the world, and Twilight Sparkle was accepted into an exclusive school. Maybe, just maybe, she wanted to give the spirits of these girls what the always wanted.
And I think they’re happy.

[Mr Mystery]

That's going to last a whole 30 seconds then lol

Add hours with the addition of 'Gag 'n' Staplegun', new, from Mystery Industries!

[Psychosplodge]

duct tape to the wall, or seat them on the edge of the garage roof so they daren't move...

[eldargal]

Talk of crystals skulls in the Marco Colombo topic has reminded me of something, am I the only person who really enjoyed Indiana Jones IV? The original films were inspired by 30s-40s pulp fiction, the fourth film was inspired by 50's pulp fiction, hence the aliens. I don't see how surviving a nuclear explosion in a fridge is any less realistic than a radio to God melting **** faces either. Not to say it didn't have its flaws, but so did the original films and everyone gives them a pass.

[Psychosplodge]

yes.
I do like how they refernce the fridge in fallout vegas though (wildwasteland trait).

But no, like star wars, there are only three indiana jones films.

[DrLove42]

Its a decent stand alone film, but i think it doesn't match up to the high level of the originals

[Deadlift]

Add hours with the addition of 'Gag 'n' Staplegun', new, from Mystery Industries!

Lol, we went to play some "pirate golf" instead and now were in a very nicely air conditioned indoor play area. Tried to see a movie but the air con in the theatre was broken. We lasted about 20 mins and got a refund. I'm sat here enjoying a nice cold drink whilst the nippers run around.

[Mr Mystery]

Talk of crystals skulls in the Marco Colombo topic has reminded me of something, am I the only person who really enjoyed Indiana Jones IV? The original films were inspired by 30s-40s pulp fiction, the fourth film was inspired by 50's pulp fiction, hence the aliens. I don't see how surviving a nuclear explosion in a fridge is any less realistic than a radio to God melting **** faces either. Not to say it didn't have its flaws, but so did the original films and everyone gives them a pass.

I thought it was brilliant!

[Deadlift]

1st time I watched it I fell asleep half way though, woke up right at the end where the skulls merge. I was a little "what bloody hell, what the hell is that all about ? "

[eldargal]

Its a decent stand alone film, but i think it doesn't match up to the high level of the originals

I'd agree with that in general, I'd put it on a level with Temple of DooOOOoom but not as good as Last Crusade and Raiders.

[Kirsten]

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd380/KirstenIGMB/minion_zps0ed6024b.jpg (http://s1216.photobucket.com/user/KirstenIGMB/media/minion_zps0ed6024b.jpg.html)

[Kirsten]

:eek: I want a penguin


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUmK_ftWpU0

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I did an M14 draft tonight and did rather well, came 3rd. :D

[Kirsten]

hurrah, an add on for firefox to de-restrict things like Netflix. so much more on the american version. watching Hunchback of Notre Dame now, mmm Esmerelda.

[Deadlift]

Just got back from Pacific Rim, how awesome is that film :D. I bought the graphic novel prequal and read that a couple weeks ago. So had a little prior info on the story and the origins of the Jaeger program. Hope they make a sequel but I hear the movie didn't do to well at the box office. Still I have been neglecting my Wraith army as of late. Been a bit down to be honest. But walked out of that movie thinking I must finish my Wraithguard so I can buy a Knight. Just the kick up the bum I needed.

[Wolfshade]

What is M14, other than the only zone 1 number without a motorway

[Psychosplodge]

:eek: I want a penguin


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUmK_ftWpU0


That's adawbs!

[Necron2.0]

Posting this, a la "the Ring", in the hopes that it will go away. I've had this song stuck in my head for about five days now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XGp5ix8HE

Oh, by the way, NSFW.

[Wolfshade]

Another day in the long war, another day of futility and existential crisis. All hail Monday the bringer of woe.

[Psychosplodge]

If we didn't have Monday, we'd just hate Tuesday...

[Wolfshade]

But Tuesdays, well Tuesdays' evenings have been good for me recently, with the SO's grandfather buying be a case of badger beer to drink for the last so many.

[DrLove42]

Hungry.

Morning all. Good weekends I trust?

[Psychosplodge]

But Tuesdays, well Tuesdays' evenings have been good for me recently, with the SO's grandfather buying be a case of badger beer to drink for the last so many.

Other beers are available?


Hungry.

Morning all. Good weekends I trust?

Not so much. Lack of sleep. Didn't see the SO. Spent ten hours on PS2 and only made about 250 kills.

[Mr Mystery]

Yeah not bad. Could have been better.

But today? Power cut at work, which means I can't have a cuppa.

This will not do!

If anyone wants me, I'll be in my non-existent workshop trying to invent a clockwork kettle, ideal for such emergencies.

[Psychosplodge]

camp stove and kettle?

[DrLove42]

Our lights are out, so either a hundred bulbs have all blown or they've blown the circuit breakers

I had a 40K tournie. Went 4 wins 2 losses, so came 10th out of 40

[Psychosplodge]

one bulb popping can do particularly sensitive circuit breakers...

[Wolfshade]

Legitmate reason to set fire to things.

Or if the workshop has suitable alternatives, bunsens/oxyceletaine tourches/soldering iron/forge

Crap weekend thanks to the neighbours who fail to understand that there music is so loud that it can be heard in every room of my house, and their continual insistance that their footballs should be in my garden.

[Psychosplodge]

Plant large spikey spikes in the garden, that'll sort your ball problem out...

[Wolfshade]

Beauty sees of this rubberised menace. So when I return the remenants, it gets returned forcefully, one actually managed to miss my garden and landed in next doors.

It's not that I dislike them, more that I think they should be relocated to the nearest gulag for crimes against humanity.

Can I suggest a Bols walking holiday to this nature trail: http://www.mapfodder.com/sculptureTrail.pdf

Also NZ, I love you : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23475583

[Psychosplodge]

Saw both of those over the weekend, very amusing...

[Wolfshade]

Conservation US style: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2378775/Family-catch-eat-octopus-tentacles-Greek-vacation--second-specimen-rare-hexapus-found.html

I played a andriod game the other day and thought about you it involved a jumping dashing robot unicorn

[Psychosplodge]

Robot unicorn attack?
It's on android now?

This one (http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html)?

[eldargal]

Conservation US style: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2378775/Family-catch-eat-octopus-tentacles-Greek-vacation--second-specimen-rare-hexapus-found.html

I played a andriod game the other day and thought about you it involved a jumping dashing robot unicorn
I don't know, I can understand that happening. When you're on holiday in a popular tourist area doing something you do every holiday (fishing for proto-fried tentacles) you don't expect to fish up an ultra-rare species of hexapus. Also if a Greek chef told me he wouldn't fry it up 'cos it was rare I'd assume he was just being an obnoxious git.

[Wolfshade]

I don't know, when I go swimming I don't think, oh I should eat that. Though that is more that I don't like sea food rather than Lev.11

[Wolfshade]

Robot unicorn attack?
It's on android now?

This one (http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html)?

Yes

[Psychosplodge]

I'm not very good at it, I struggle to get anything over about 50k. It's a sign the gaming skills have changed from the platformers of our youth...

[Mr Mystery]

Just found myself looking at Trouser Presses on Amazon.....

I don't know what's more depressing. 1) I was looking for one 2) I actually kind of need one :(

[eldargal]

Nothing wrong with trouser presses.

[Deadlift]

Nothing wrong with trouser presses.

I married mine ;)

[Wolfshade]

I married mine ;)


A Korby would have been cheaper in the long run...

[Mr Mystery]

They're a bit 'square'.

Sadly, Dad's one ruined my ability to properly iron trousers, and that lead to the skill atrophying in my head.

Don't think there's anyway past it.....I'm gonna have to order one.

And ideally, I want to buy it before Chrimbo, else it will go on the list. And if that happens, I may as well wear thick specs and change my name to Neville.

[eldargal]

I married mine ;)

I won't judge, gives new meaning to the phrase 'hot wife' though...

[Mr Mystery]

And in other news....

The news in general is rather depressing today.

Never mind. Not long now until home, dinner, feet up and a bit of Arkham City.

[Psychosplodge]

uh uh uh, I just remembered, I finally found and watched Equestria girls last night. And enjoyed it a lot more than I expected.

Wassup Mystery?

[Mr Mystery]

Just the news. It's so depressing today.

Fire here, murder there, another kiddy fiddler jailed, we're all doomed, and your Dog's got crabs (maybe not the last one).

I mean, it's a Monday. It's pretty much miserable enough without a diet of sad news left right and central!

[Psychosplodge]

maybe they're getting it out the way?

[Mr Mystery]

Found something positive

Really quite positive (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23489702) in the grand scheme of things.

[Wolfshade]

The church of rome, always behind the curve...

[eldargal]

He seems like a decent Pontif and a decent person all in all. Genuinely humble.

[Psychosplodge]

Certainly more in keeping with what the new testament says?

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

And with the A B of C, Justin Welby going to war against Wonga, it seems as if the Christian world has realised it's not the dark ages anymore, and there are more practical ways to help people than to tut at them from a pulpit.

[Wolfshade]

There have always been actions done by and onbehalf of christians to help the world, it is just not in vogue to publish it.

[Wildeybeast]

He seems like a decent Pontif and a decent person all in all. Genuinely humble.

There was a bit of a hoo hah in the past when he allegedly failed to offer to of his Jesuit priests any protection from abduction by Argentinian death squads, though he did personally plead to the military top brass for their release and seemed genuinely remorseful about the whole affair. Said priests having forgiven him and the experience does seem to have shaped the man he has become today.


Yup.

And with the A B of C, Justin Welby going to war against Wonga, it seems as if the Christian world has realised it's not the dark ages anymore, and there are more practical ways to help people than to tut at them from a pulpit.

Though he looked a right wally when it was revealed the following day that the C of E pension fund invested in Wonga.

[Psychosplodge]

Is he the one with some silly ideas about the Falklands?

And it's not really the ABofC job to know where the pension investments are, though it might have been wise to speak to the people that did first...

[Wolfshade]

Though he looked a right wally when it was revealed the following day that the C of E pension fund invested in Wonga.

Not the best of days, but it was only 75k which in terms of the Church's investment and Wonga's investment is very little. Plus the it is just a general pool that it uses indirectly.

There is a moreover problem when it comes to ethical investment. Imagine you invest in a british steel plant, initially seen as a good thing, keeping jobs in britain, money into the economy and all that, but then the steel is then bought by a company who then use it to make a device, that device is then sold to another company that then use it landmines, those landmines are then used. So it can be a literal minefield..

[Wildeybeast]

I believe it was under the previous administration's watch, though the church was told that Wonga was being invested in and raised no objections at the time. He really should have checked exactly what they have invested in before denouncing the immorality of any particular business. It's when we find out they own several conflict diamond mines and a landmine manufacturing company that he really gets into bother.

[Mr Mystery]

Though he looked a right wally when it was revealed the following day that the C of E pension fund invested in Wonga.

Held his hands up when he found out though, and seem genuinely upset about it.

[Psychosplodge]

lols http://youtu.be/CtGA4phu2X8?t=43s

[Wolfshade]

Held his hands up when he found out though, and seem genuinely upset about it.

He did it wrong, obviously what you are supposed to do is to cover it up for decades then have it explode out into the public with huge media coverage, including the cover-ups.

[Kirsten]

your Dog's got crabs (maybe not the last one).

my dog had crabs over the weekend. not sure what impressed me more, the fact he built his own pot or that he could use it successfully...

[Wolfshade]

Best complaint of the day:

"I was driving home and I saw your signs saying that the road was closed, I drove past four, called up your information line and was told that the road was closed. Then I got to the location indicated on the signs and telephone call to find the road was closed."

That is it.

[Deadlift]

I always like the "watch out for bikers in your blind spot" sign.

If they are in my blind spot, it's a bit difficult.

[Mr Mystery]

I'd also advise Bikers not to ride like absolute fannies.....

And in other news, won the team quiz (hurrah!) which means I get to set this weeks....*evil cackle*......

[Psychosplodge]

That sounds awfully like team building...

[Mr Mystery]

Indeed.

Though mine tend to be pretty vicious, as it's a Nerd's revenge on all those sodding sports rounds!

Also, I see the Smurfs have another lacklustre movie out...whereas Dredd.....Dredd keeps fighting. Go on, sign up to push for a Dredd sequel! HE IS THE LAW!

[Psychosplodge]

Sounds discriminatory against introverts to me.

[Kirsten]

just finished the HD remake of Zone of the Enders. was quite fun, but explains nothing at all throughout the game and stops incredibly suddenly. You beat a boss round about the five hour mark, the story is going on about how the mech will continue on to mars to fight, but the game just stops... started playing the sequel, and it is set two years after the first, yet doesn't explain how the mech ended up where it did when in the first game it was all set to self destruct...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Dale is single again.

[Necron2.0]

Sorry if I'm dragging this off-topic thread off-topic, but I have to rant.

Forty-five minutes ago some idiot kid thought it'd be cool to take a few shots at me, while I was standing in my kitchen, with a BB gun. He ended up putting three spider-webs in my window (none of the shots got through). At least the dumbsh!t had the presence of mind to run away before I reached my front door, because if I had been able to reach him, I would have taken his BB gun away from him and used it to break each and every single tooth out of his head.

The police left here not ten minutes ago. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I really hope they catch the punk(s).

[eldargal]

What a cretin, hope the police find him.

[Wolfshade]

Bad news Necron :(

Will the insurance cover the cost of the repair?

It is things like this that make me think having all children brought up in boarding schools wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

[Psychosplodge]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Dale is single again.

We warned you to stay away from her arse.
Seriously though, you ok mate?


Sorry if I'm dragging this off-topic thread off-topic, but I have to rant.

Forty-five minutes ago some idiot kid thought it'd be cool to take a few shots at me, while I was standing in my kitchen, with a BB gun. He ended up putting three spider-webs in my window (none of the shots got through). At least the dumbsh!t had the presence of mind to run away before I reached my front door, because if I had been able to reach him, I would have taken his BB gun away from him and used it to break each and every single tooth out of his head.

The police left here not ten minutes ago. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I really hope they catch the punk(s).

We do have a rant thread somewhere :D
What a dickhead thing to do. I've never quite understood the need to destroy other peoples property. Lucky it was only a BB gun?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Seriously though, you ok mate?

Pah. If I let women get to me I'd be in a very bad place. Onto the next one...

On a lighter note, my Contemptor has been despatched. :D

[Psychosplodge]

Pah. If I let women get to me I'd be in a very bad place. Onto the next one...

On a lighter note, my Contemptor has been despatched. :D

Well if it helps that's one way to look at it.

Distract yourself with shiny plastic crack...

[DrLove42]

More money for models, thats the up point

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Well if it helps that's one way to look at it.

Distract yourself with shiny RESIN crack...

FTFY. :p

I still have Hayley. Hahhaha

[Psychosplodge]

same thing really...

Yes, yes you do...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Roll on 23rd September...

[Wolfshade]

Several battles were fought today in history:

634 – Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh
1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

And now:

2013 - The battle for 6-VDT. 4070 Pilots from Test and CFC duke it out over 5 hours with Test loosing out.

[Psychosplodge]

wasn't the battle for 6-VDT on the 28th?

[Wolfshade]

28th/29th D'oh.

Ah well

[DrLove42]

Yep, saw it on the news and everything.

[Psychosplodge]

Looks awesome, but I only ever had a go at the free trial. Too hard to get into, too much pvp when you're a noob, and needs too much time investing. Plus I don't pay for games every month.

but it really looks good...

oh well stick to planetside 2... Esamir has seen a good revival since the redesign.

[Wolfshade]

Now updated for the right day :)


Several battles were fought today in history:

904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.


And now:

2013 - The battle for 6-VDT. 4070 Pilots from Test and CFC duke it out over 5 hours with Test loosing out.

[Psychosplodge]

Clearly the most important is The battle for 6-VDT

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Banana.

[Psychosplodge]

http://i40.tinypic.com/b6po29.gif

[Wolfshade]

I <3 minions

http://images.fandango.com/images/fandangoblog/Avengers-Minions73F.jpg

[DrLove42]

Minions rock. Hence why I have two on my desk

[Psychosplodge]

I only have three sets of flutterdash...

[Wolfshade]

I have no personal effects on my desk as it needs to be available for hot desking. Despite it being one of only three places where I can actually work from, and no one hot desking who is permanetly based here.

I have snuck in a racing granny though...
http://www.deviltronics.com/shopimages/products/extras/racing-grannies.jpg

[Wolfshade]

Also this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23495649

FTW!

[Psychosplodge]

Oh not my work desk, I just have sarcastic posters stuck up on that.


Also this is awesome



1. Pillage, then burn.[1]
2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.[2]
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.[3]
4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.[4]
5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.[5]
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. [6]
7. If the food is good enough, the grunts will stop complaining about the incoming fire.[7]
8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.[8]
9. Never turn your back on an enemy. [9]
10. Sometimes the only way out is through. . . through the hull.[10]
11. Everything is air-droppable at least once. [11]
12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. [8]
13. Do unto others. [9]
14. "Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?" [12]
15. Only you can prevent friendly fire. [13]
16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth. [8]
17. The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster. [14]
18. If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. [15]
19. The world is richer when you turn enemies into friends, but that's not the same as you being richer.
20. If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win. [16]
21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow. [17]
22. If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody's done something wrong. [18]
23. The company mess and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart
24. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun. [19]
25. If the damage you do is covered by a manufacturers warranty, you didn't do enough damage.
27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.[20]
28. If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you. [21]
29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.[20]
30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.[20]
31. Only cheaters prosper.[22]
34. If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.[23]
35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.[24]
36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.[25]
37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'[26]
38. Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients.[27]

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

This day is getting worse...

[Wolfshade]

Why are there only 38 and not 70?

In what was is today worsening?>

[Psychosplodge]

I've no idea, I stole them from elsewhere...


How TDA? don't tell me she's pregnant?

[Wolfshade]

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries is a popular handbook in the Schlock Mercenary universe. The book's maxims are often quoted by Tagon, as well as other characters. The following is a list of the maxims found in Schlock Mercenary, ordered by maxim number. - via googlefu

[Psychosplodge]

So they only quote the first thirty eight?

[Wolfshade]

Yeah, the rest haven't been said (yet), a bit like the Rules of Acquisition, although there are 285 not all of them have been uttered.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Well, my income to rent ratio is too damn low, I earn a measly 10.5k a year.
I tried asking the government for help, ie, benefits. Apparently my wage is too high for their support.

So now I'm sitting here thinking wtaf am I going to do. The obvious solution is find somewhere cheaper, but that seems to be incredibly hard in Shrewsbury at the moment. I can't go that far out of Shrewsbury, otherwise my money will be eaten by trains.

I'd like to find a better job, but there just isn't anything at the moment. :/

[Psychosplodge]

Ah that problem.
I can't help you with that one.

[Wolfshade]

I understand your problem TDA, my neighbours are very strongly negatively affecting my wife's (fragile) mental stability so I am looking to sell and move. But I am geographically restricted to where I can live, it needs to be within a certain locus from a couple of points so is a challenge, potentially. I am currently looking at moving to a village about 5 miles from where I currently live, but that would be a slight downsize and then that would wipe out any monthly surpluss I have with the increased cost of living. But if I don't move the wife will have a breakdown or worse.

[Psychosplodge]

You could "accidently" run over the neighbours.

[Wolfshade]

I might damage my rims, I am concerned with their density...

My other cheaper plan is to get their landlord to evict them...

[Psychosplodge]

There's always a downside.
That might work.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

It might, yes. If you explain the situation.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

As for me, I'm having quite a good day. Bang up to date on all work, and confirmation from my manager that my progession application is receiving their endorsement. 2nd of 3 hurdles down, and staring at the third pay rise this year.

[Wolfshade]

Probably won't though as mental health isn't a proper illness apparently...

[Mr Mystery]

So what is it that the neighbours are doing?

Also, Suddenly! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23500917) music may not suck quite so much!

[Wolfshade]

Existing at the moment. It is music complaints, going through environmental health, the council have written to them a couple of times and to no avail.

[Mr Mystery]

Just A-Team their arse! (http://www.bing.com/search?q=directional+EMP+device%2C+home+made&src=IE-SearchBox&Form=IE8SRC&adlt=strict)

[Wolfshade]

I have considered it.

I accept that we share a wall so I will hear noises from them like washing machines, vaccuming, baby crying things of that nature. What my objection is that I should not be able to hear their music in every room in my house. At times the music is louder than I would listen to my own music. It is not like we haven't spoken with them to explain the situation that the base penetrates the whole house, but no, they are too selfish/lack selfawarness to understand this.

I am tempted to get some mates round with their half stacks and just have a 24hour jam session, but then you are resorting to their level and then you lose the moral high ground.

For me the worst part is that there seems to be nothing that people can do about it. The police are not interested as it is a council issue, the council aren't really interested until it proceeds to a level 3 complaint all the while while you are waiting to escalate it you are having to deal with the noise. Which in practical terms means visting a mates house, but then that isn't fair on my hounds.

Might have to send DL round to discuss with them the benefits of being quiet.

[Mr Mystery]

EMP! EMP! EMP!

Not like they can prove owt. Will look like they just fry the circuit breakers!

Seriously! Just ask yourself, WWSPD?

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4742121708325583&pid=1.7&w=153&h=153&c=7&rs=1

[Psychosplodge]

Wait for them to go out then take an axe to their VinMAINS

[Wolfshade]

WWJD:

"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the noisey neighbours, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” - Rev 21:8

So clearly I need to kill them and through them in a lake of fire and sulfur...

[Mr Mystery]

WWJD:

"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the noisey neighbours, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” - Rev 21:8

So clearly I need to kill them and through them in a lake of fire and sulfur...

Yes. And send them on their way via Chainsaw.

Chainsaw to the face.

[Psychosplodge]

I prefer

WWLJD
refer to my previous post, but take out the wait for them to go out.

[Wolfshade]

LJ?

[Psychosplodge]

Leroy Jenkins though you could pass the L off as lord if you needed to :D

[DrLove42]

Afternoon all

How is the Tuesday of the week going. I just backed my second ever Kickstarter

[Psychosplodge]

it's going crap.

yours?

[Wolfshade]

Who is he?

Googlefu got me:
Leroy Jenkins may refer to:
Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician) (1932–2007), composer and free jazz violinist and violist
Leroy Jenkins (televangelist), American televangelist
Leeroy Jenkins, a player character and internet phenomenon from World of Warcraft
Leeroy Jenkins, an alert (launch) sign used in many Combat Search and Rescue(CSAR) operations in the Middle East, based on the World of Warcraft meme
Leeroy Jenkins, a funny character act of Flip Wilson, American comedian and actor


So I am still none the wiser, though did get me thinking of Leroy Jethro Gibbs...

[DrLove42]

paperwork for the new job all morning. Lots of stuff

Get to sign the Official Secrets act (again) on this job

[Wolfshade]

Surely admitting that you are under the official secrets act is in itself a breach of that very act.

[DrLove42]

Its not fight club. I just can't talk about *REDACTED BY THE NSA*

[Wolfshade]

That would have been better if you had said [removed]

[Psychosplodge]

Who is he?

Googlefu got me:
Leroy Jenkins may refer to:
Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician) (1932–2007), composer and free jazz violinist and violist
Leroy Jenkins (televangelist), American televangelist
Leeroy Jenkins, a player character and internet phenomenon from World of Warcraft
Leeroy Jenkins, an alert (launch) sign used in many Combat Search and Rescue(CSAR) operations in the Middle East, based on the World of Warcraft meme
Leeroy Jenkins, a funny character act of Flip Wilson, American comedian and actor


So I am still none the wiser, though did get me thinking of Leroy Jethro Gibbs...

it's the WOW one...

http://youtu.be/LkCNJRfSZBU

[Wolfshade]

Video no work :( firewall.

[Psychosplodge]

watch it later, it's just silly.

[Wolfshade]

I thought it was the wow one, but you never know with TV evangilists...

[Psychosplodge]

Well they do like bandwagons, it helps them with new recruits

[Wildeybeast]

Whilst that video is awesome, two things always bug me about it. 1) Why are they filming their raid? 2)Why on earth did they follow him in, rather than simply let him die? Maybe I'm overly suspicious, but it always strikes me as being like one of those 'You've been framed' clips that are so clearly staged.

[eldargal]

People often filmed raids to see how they could improve their performance by review and they followed him in because when someone in the raid aggroed everyone did, the only way to have a shot was to try and kill them all ASAP.

[Psychosplodge]

I've been told before it was staged as a pisstake at overly organised guilds, and also because they shouldn't really need to plan to take on those enemies apparently (I've never played it so dunno).

[Wolfshade]

People film lots of things and upload them, so why not a raid. If they are so detailed in sorting out their battle plan, why not film it so tehy can analyse their performance as part of the PDCA cycle.

[Wildeybeast]

Pdca?

[Psychosplodge]

people film all sorts,


http://youtu.be/2Mw_ibzKSSg

I'm in there somewhere :D

[eldargal]

I've been told before it was staged as a pisstake at overly organised guilds, and also because they shouldn't really need to plan to take on those enemies apparently (I've never played it so dunno).

There is an element of truth to that, especially for that particular dungeon which was 'only' 15-person at the time. But for the 40-person raids you really needed extreme organisation to succeed.

I prefer MC Raiders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjmJCy1ksYY
MC= Molten Core, the big end game 40-person raid of the original WoW before expansions.

[Wolfshade]

Plan, Do, Complicate, Abandon.

Sorry Plan, Do, Check, Act.

It is one of those cycle review systems to itteratively improve quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA

[Wildeybeast]

One of the advantages of working in the public sector is that such things are largely absent.

[Psychosplodge]

If you want to find a better way to things, give it to a lazy person to do, they'll look for an easier/quicker way to do it...

I thought the public sector was the home of pointless paperwork and tick box exercises for sake of nothing?

[Wildeybeast]

In my experience that results in the job either being done badly or not at all.

[Psychosplodge]

i should have added competent/intelligent as they have to be able to realise they solve nothing by having to do it again.

[Wolfshade]

Let us be perfectly honest most people do this without thinking about it.

We plan do something, we do it, we consider where it can be improved (quicker/better formats/different methodologies), then we implement them.

For instance you are teaching Photosynthesis, you have your lesson plan, you teach it, then review how well it worked, if the students didn't pick it up or understand it you would adapt it for next time.

It is one of the less silly parts of ISO 19001

[Wildeybeast]

Can you be considered both competent and lazy? If I were running a business I would never describe anyone who I labelled 'lazy' as a 'competent employee'. Surely the best way is just to give the job to someone skilled at doing things efficiently and quickly?

[DrLove42]

Saw this and had to share it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q64hTNEj6KQ&feature=player_embedded

[Wildeybeast]

Let us be perfectly honest most people do this without thinking about it.

We plan do something, we do it, we consider where it can be improved (quicker/better formats/different methodologies), then we implement them.

For instance you are teaching Photosynthesis, you have your lesson plan, you teach it, then review how well it worked, if the students didn't pick it up or understand it you would adapt it for next time.

It is one of the less silly parts of ISO 19001

Well, of course we do. It's just in the public sector we don't feel the need to give it a silly acronym. Also, I teach Religious Education; Science has no place in my subject. ;)

[Wolfshade]

I think a lot of the issue is perception.

[Wildeybeast]

Saw this and had to share it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q64hTNEj6KQ&feature=player_embedded

I'm fairly certain that light bondage stat will have gone up since the publication of 50 Shades. Apparently the fire brigade have seen a massive increase in call outs to people trapped in handcuffs since its publication.

[Wolfshade]

Well, of course we do. It's just in the public sector we don't feel the need to give it a silly acronym. Also, I teach Religious Education; Science has no place in my subject. ;)

I work on behalf of the public sector and it was a requirement that we had the accreditation. :p

[Wildeybeast]

Doing what?

[Wolfshade]

Modeling...

I analyse the traffic response to incidents on the motorways/trunk roads in england. Through traffic modeling I look for optimal traffic redirection across the network to try and improve the information to the public and stuff

[Psychosplodge]

Can you be considered both competent and lazy? If I were running a business I would never describe anyone who I labelled 'lazy' as a 'competent employee'. Surely the best way is just to give the job to someone skilled at doing things efficiently and quickly?

You work in the public sector :p

you can very well be competent and lazy. I for example am good at my job, but as there is no reward or incentive to anything but the bare minimum I've been driven to laziness...

[Wolfshade]

You work in the public sector :p

you can very well be competent and lazy. I for example am good at my job, but as there is no reward or incentive to anything but the bare minimum I've been driven to laziness...

Snap.

Though we keep having these appraisals that increase what you need to do and give you stretch goals, but in the end you don't get any additional recognition for it and can end up doubling oyur workload.

[DrLove42]

Page 300....

[Wildeybeast]

Hence your continual presence on BoLS during work hours. :p

[Psychosplodge]

Exactly.

[Wolfshade]

Page 300....

P.75, you need to up your replies/page it makes this thread easier to follow.

Exactly Wildey :)

[DrLove42]

Holy WTF

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-23496088

Girl banned from selling homemade cakes at school bake sale as her mother doesn't have a Food Hygiene Certificate.

[Psychosplodge]

arse covering taken to the extreme.

[Wolfshade]

I think that this is, as is quite common with these stories, the interpritation of HS being massively wrongly applied.

Similiarly: http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/2012/case067-nursery.htm

[Psychosplodge]

where do they find these (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23505723) idiots?

[DrLove42]

Everywhere apparantly

A lot of politicians and people in power are so removed from Normality it is worrying

3000!