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

[Mr Mystery]

I'm doing Pinhead. Again.

Getting my £100 worth out that costume!

[Gotthammer]

I've got a Chell outfit & portal gun :)

Dream costume would be either Princess Allura from Voltron (though she's blonde) or Zelda. Or Commander Shepard.

[Wildeybeast]

That's a good question. Does anybody know of a male superhero with long, black hair and a potbelly?

Mark Addy's Hercules in Atlantis?

[Rissan4ever]

Mark Addy's Hercules in Atlantis?

Hmm... Not sure I have the right pieces for that, but I'm going to a Renaissance Faire tomorrow, so anything can happen.

[Wildeybeast]

What about Adam West Batman?

[KaiZie]

I normally cosplay a few things, my favourite was fancis from L4D. Shaved my head and rocked it hard

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I've got a Chell outfit & portal gun :)

Dream costume would be either Princess Allura from Voltron (though she's blonde) or Zelda. Or Commander Shepard.

Dibs Link. :D

Also, apparently I look like Jesse Pinkman.

[DrLove42]

GTA is stupid fun online. One minute we were parachute jumping and racing with cars with missiles on them....then we played 9 rounds of golf...

[eldargal]

So it works now?

[Deadlift]

GTA is stupid fun online. One minute we were parachute jumping and racing with cars with missiles on them....then we played 9 rounds of golf...

Surely you mean 9 holes ;)

[Psychosplodge]

go pick it up today. Supermarkets started selling it today because games usually come out on a friday, so a saturday release just confused them. so Nintendo got in touch and said 'eh, what the hell, go mad.' we have been selling it all day in Game.

Amazon...
managed to get a good twelve hours in, six gym badges about a hundred "caught" (includes evolved) over two hundred seen. and about ¥400k...
Not a bad start... The french professor is getting on my tits though ¬_¬


Which begs the question, if any of you guys were to cosplay a character, who do you most resemble to pull it off ?

That cosplay is awesome, but I can't imagine many venues allowing the horse...
I'm considering something nice and easy like this :D

http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/3444-1129309377.jpg



Surely you mean 9 holes ;)

^This

also probably wrong but this made me lol

http://img.totaloutdoornetwork.com/UserFiles/7/73/7337/where-white-man-go-wrong.jpg

[KaiZie]

no, he meant 9 rounds, they just really wanted to play PGA Pro Tour

[Psychosplodge]

Well it is entirely possible...

[Mr Mystery]

Well, now in the office, and facing one of three possible scenarios.

1. My team have been disintegrated over the weekend.

2. My team are playing hide and seek, and and have forgotten to inform me I'm 'it'.

3. It's 10-6 shift this week, which is going to be horrendous for me. Latest I can get in? 8:30. Realistic coach home? 6:50.... :(

[Wolfshade]

PGA GTA Cross over.

Mission #1 - Steal the Golf Buggy.
Mission #2 - Land mine the Sand Traps on the back 9
Mission #3 - Finish the course no worse than 4 over par while being chased by bandits...


Easter Egg Mission gratiuitous sex scene with the games only female character that doesn't really fit in the narrative but makes the game an 18 so we included it any way.

etc.

In other news I get into work and GoTSF sings "Hail the Dragonborn comes" at me.

[Psychosplodge]

PGA GTA Cross over.

Mission #1 - Steal the Golf Buggy.
Mission #2 - Land mine the Sand Traps on the back 9
Mission #3 - Finish the course no worse than 4 over par while being chased by bandits...


Easter Egg Mission gratiuitous sex scene with the games only female character that doesn't really fit in the narrative but makes the game an 18 so we included it any way.

etc.

In other news I get into work and GoTSF sings "Hail the Dragonborn comes" at me.

Sounds like a new game mode.
Are you sure she isn't trying to seduce you?



Deathwatch vacations are so wonderful. Meet new friends from different chapters, visit exotic alien worlds and kill the locals, play exciting games like “which inquisitor is really a traitor heretic”

[Mr Mystery]

Also, got my World of Darkness game underway last night, with a prelude session for two of the players (one of whom I used to live with until a fairly major falling out. Nice to be rebuilding bridges!).

Stuff to do with Macedonia and treasure maps, found at the end of WW1...and a mysterious crown...which is nothing like the story I intended, but I just went with it! Looking forward to next Sunday's session with those two, and kicking off the main game in a few weeks.


Hooray for the King of England, and his seriously secret service! HOORAY!

[Kirsten]

this is amazing, glamour beards!

http://www.bromygod.com/2013/09/19/glamour-beards-latest-internet-trend/

[KaiZie]

Have you guys seen this dude that lives in a hobbit hole (http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/13/20886752-360-degree-panorama-of-a-75-hobbit-hole-house?lite) in the US?

[Wolfshade]

Two things, the one led to the other the first is this: https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/390/243 expaling why the film armageddon was wrong :D

and the second from here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24518305)
But I shall reproduce:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70462000/jpg/_70462382_spock.jpg
Leonard Nimoy as Spock (right) in Star Trek

I am just curious why the need to specify right, surely it is obvious that the one who is male is Leonard. Then there is the question of relevance to the whole article which I shall not dignify.

[Psychosplodge]

So apparently you can make anything (http://my-very-own-odyssey.tumblr.com/post/63924504237/jackaspoopydiddle-you-can-make-anything-pop) pop-punk

Bananas

http://i42.tinypic.com/iqv2fk.jpg

PopPunk Bananas

http://i40.tinypic.com/wak611.jpg

[Wolfshade]

What is pop punk?

[Psychosplodge]

Avril lavigne, probably paramore.
maybe sum 41? weetus?

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Avril lavigne, probably paramore.
maybe sum 41? weetus?

To describe Avril Lavigne as even being in the same musical sphere as the word punk just made me die inside a bit.

[Mr Mystery]

What is pop punk?

A travesty. 'Nuff said.

[Psychosplodge]

I think she is generally held up as the definition of pop-punk.
Also we'll have less my first proper gig was to see her on her second album tour :D

[Kaptain Badrukk]

I think she is generally held up as the definition of pop-punk.
Also we'll have less my first proper gig was to see her on her second album tour :D

I can't live on this planet anymore.

[Psychosplodge]

It's like a gateway genre...

[Mr Mystery]

And the McCann story continues to trundle on, and on, and on, and on....because it seems everyone has forgotten the moral of the story is not to leave your kids unattended in a hotel room with the door left open whilst you nick off to dinner at a 'nearby' restaurant with your chums to get tiddly......unless of course you're upper middle class types with friends in the media, because then horrendous child neglect is somehow fine. Especially when you put it into the context that you've done it lots of times before, and nothing untoward happened.

[KaiZie]

Had this conversation with a few chums the other night that have kids, also intermingled with the mother that lost her child to a chorded blind while she left her unattended to take a leak.

Our conclusion was that many moons ago, it was acceptable to leave your child to mind itself for a few minutes here and there. e.g. leave a child in the car asleep while you pop into the shops or something. But now-a-days it just shouldnt be done. McCann is a prime example of deadful parenting. It's horrific to think you'd leave a child anywhere unattended even in your own home given the dangers that are lurking pretty much everywhere, but on holiday? It's unthinkable. I know I would never do it, and, as controversional as it may be, I think they deserve to go through to set an example to the rest of the world. Maddie didn't choose to be left alone, she was forced into the situation by bad parenting.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

I mean, I still have empathy with them for what they're going through. I'm not a parent myself, but I imagine they're beating themselves up over it. But....absolutley no sympathy for them. It was a moronic thing to do, and it really, really honks me off that they continually play the victim, acting as if their actions were totally reasonable.

[eldargal]

They are victims though, not only of their own stupidity but they were quite deliberately persecuted by the local police who decided they were guilty and refused to look elsewhere not only during the crucial first few days after the girl went missing but for a long time after. Had they reacted professionally instead of brutalising the parents they may have recovered her before any harm was done. The stupidity of the parents was exacerbated by the incompetence of the police, the parents are not solely responsible here.

[KaiZie]

My argument works on the basis of "prevention is better than cure". If you don't leave your child unattended, accidents, and abductions, cannot occur.

[Psychosplodge]

While tragic for those directly affected. I don't understand mass hysteria reaction of the general public.

[Mr Mystery]

Aryan Girl Child, seized upon by Das Daily Mail, for now being (allegedly) in the hands of a swarthy foreigner?

Sorry. I may not be completely heartless, but I am a deeply cynical sod.

And I still kind of suspect the parents know more than they're letting on....

[Psychosplodge]

IDK I think the red top rags and the guardian and especially the express (which really should be red topped) are as equally guilty in this one...

I mean they've got two spares haven't they?

[Mr Mystery]

I mean they've got two spares haven't they?

That made me s******. Room in hell booked and paid for now!

But yeah. As said, what really gets me is their absolutel refusal to accept any wrongdoing or responsibility. It's as if there's some utterly bizarre conspiracy at work to make people forget their negligence.

[eldargal]

My argument works on the basis of "prevention is better than cure". If you don't leave your child unattended, accidents, and abductions, cannot occur.
Yes but if prevention fails minimising the damage is still better than not. Regardless of the parents incompetence the police could potentially have saved the girl had they acted professionally. they did not, so they condemned her as surely as her parents incompetence.

[KaiZie]

Yes but if prevention fails minimising the damage is still better than not. Regardless of the parents incompetence the police could potentially have saved the girl had they acted professionally. they did not, so they condemned her as surely as her parents incompetence.

I couldn't agree more. there's been a lot of failures throughout this whole event, it should set an example of What not to do, but will undoubtably never be resolved or looked at again to learn from mistakes

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Neglect, either by the parents or police, is never excusable. The only victim I see here is the child.
Were the parents the major target of the investigation in error? Possibly yes.
Are they fit parents? Possibly no.
Is that kid in real trouble or dead? Definitely yes.
Who, therefore definitely deserves my sympathy and is definitely a victim.
I leave you to decide.

[Psychosplodge]

That made me s******. Room in hell booked and paid for now!
.

It's how they used to think of spawn when they used to die more in young age wasnt it?
also what have the starred out O_o

Anyway new tangent.
I can't decide if this (http://tinyurl.com/oc63mkd) annoys or amuses me. (link is shortened due to the filter)

[Mr Mystery]

Dunno. Work Blocked.

But one more thing on the McCann story....does anyone feel it more than slightly extracts the urine that at a time of severe cutbacks in Police budgets, they're fart arsing around in Portugal, due to the incompetence of Police and Parents both? Just. Drop. It.

Chances of her being found alive? Absolutlely minimal. Chances of her being found at all, not exactly a great deal higher. Cold case. Just leave it be.

There's more important things for our Police to be spending their limited funding on.

[Psychosplodge]

I meant what word of yours is starred out, or am I having a dumb moment?

[Mr Mystery]

The 'N' Word. Should have put 'titter' instead.

[Deadlift]

Did anyone read the police description of a man they want to question ?
Medium height, medium build, brown hair, clean shaven and between 20 to 40.
That narrows it down then. Could be Gerald himself.

[Psychosplodge]

The 'N' Word. Should have put 'titter' instead.

ah indeed an *Amused snort*

[Mr Mystery]

Did anyone read the police description of a man they want to question ?
Medium height, medium build, brown hair, clean shaven and between 20 to 40.
That narrows it down then. Could be Gerald himself.

Yep. Utterly vague. Total waste of everyone's time, and the tax payer's money to boot.

I really loathe that couple.

[Wolfshade]

One of the best abstracts I have read for a little while:

The feasibility of using lightning as a renewable source of energy is studied. It was found that, while a good idea in practice, efficiently converting electricity into a useful product presents a problem as well as the rarity of lightning strikes themselves. It was calculated that even in a location that experiences lots of lightning, it would only get struck on average once per year. Due to this, it is unlikely that the power obtained from lightning itself would outweigh the expense of building a facility to efficiently harvest it.

[KaiZie]

Haha, that's epic. So basically it would work if we could gather more lightning?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

A travesty. 'Nuff said.

We've had a discussion about your ignorance before. It did not end well for you.

[eldargal]

The 'N' Word. Should have put 'titter' instead.
Snicker is a socially acceptable alternate spelling.:)

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Snicker is a socially acceptable alternate spelling.:)

And a tasty peanut filled treat!

[Mr Mystery]

We've had a discussion about your ignorance before. It did not end well for you.

Pop Punk can suck my hairy Tartan Danglers.

Is terribad. If you want to be Pop, by all means, be Pop. If you want to be Punk, by all means be Punk. But....stop trying to blend the two together. It doesn't work, and either end us as ear drivel, or worse, utterly contrived (glares at Good Charlotte....)

[Deadlift]

Which used to be called "marathon"

[Psychosplodge]

And a tasty peanut filled treat!

No

It is an abomination.

A crime against chocolate!

Loving the sig pic DL :D

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Pop Punk can suck my hairy Tartan Danglers.

Is terribad. If you want to be Pop, by all means, be Pop. If you want to be Punk, by all means be Punk. But....stop trying to blend the two together. It doesn't work, and either end us as ear drivel, or worse, utterly contrived (glares at Good Charlotte....)

Pop means popular you goon. It is popular punk music.
Jesus.

[Mr Mystery]

Pop means popular you goon. It is popular punk music.
Jesus.

Nope. Pop means mindless drivel designed purely to sell records at the expense of all artistic integrity. Like Good Charlotte whining on about rich people, whilst the two front men date Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton. Oh, and advertise their own brand of clothing during the video. Quite heavily.

DEATH TO POP!!! LONG LIVE POPULAR MUSIC!

[KaiZie]

Will I be murderised if I say I love Bowling for Soup?

[Mr Mystery]

No. For they rock. They rock big 'Nads.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Then you have Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, Sum 41, A Day to Remember, blink182, Alien Ant Farm, All-American Rejects, Green Day, Bowling for Soup, Elliot Minor, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Green Day... etc
ALL REALLY POPULAR BANDS.
THEY ARE POPULAR FOR A REASON.
THAT REASON IS THAT THEY ARE ALL BRILLIANT MUSICIANS.
(for the record, I like Good Charlotte, and I don't really care who they date, or how they get money. They're good at what they do.)

Pete Wentz, whilst a bit of a nob, is a really rich guy. That's because he invested the money he made playing with Fall Out Boy into his own record label. I respect that.

[Wolfshade]

By that reasoning the Spice Girls must have been even more fabulous, they were even more popular so must be better still!

[Mr Mystery]

And many of those bands are awesomely entertaining. But not all are Punk. They might like to think they are, but it's too contrived from them.

Fall Out Boy...not my bag, but I see why some could enjoy them.

Sum41, Blink 182....awesome bands! Green Day likewise.

But face it. Pop has ceased to mean 'popular', and is now a 'sound' all to itself. Insipid, vapid, hollow and worthless. And Good Charlotte are part of that void.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

By that reasoning the Spice Girls must have been even more fabulous, they were even more popular so must be better still!

People liked them, they must have done SOMETHING right.

@Mr Mystery
You are the worst kind of people.

[Mr Mystery]

When Good Charlotte write a song about a subject where they aren't entirely hypocrtical, they'll still suck, but at least they won't be contrived anymore. The big tossers that they are.

So, to sum up....you can have Popular Punk, as in Punk that is a popular example of it's genre. This is relative, and will always exist.

You cannot however, have mass produced Pop Punk, on account it is the antithesis of the Punk ethos. Like Good Charlotte. The big tossers that they are.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Then you have Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, Sum 41, A Day to Remember, blink182, Alien Ant Farm, All-American Rejects, Green Day, Bowling for Soup, Elliot Minor, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Green Day... etc
ALL REALLY POPULAR BANDS.
THEY ARE POPULAR FOR A REASON.
THAT REASON IS THAT THEY ARE ALL BRILLIANT MUSICIANS.
(for the record, I like Good Charlotte, and I don't really care who they date, or how they get money. They're good at what they do.)

Pete Wentz, whilst a bit of a nob, is a really rich guy. That's because he invested the money he made playing with Fall Out Boy into his own record label. I respect that.

1.Hill Sisters – "Happy Birthday" (1893). Estimated earnings: $50 million

In 1893, the Hill sisters needed a song for their kindergarten class to sing on birthdays. Fast forward 120 years and "Happy Birthday" is by far the richest and most profitable song of all time. The Ownership of "Happy Birthday" has changed hands a few times in the last 100 years. Music holding company Warner Chappell bought the rights for $15 million in 1990. Today the song brings in $2 million a year in royalties ($5000 per day). It costs $25,000 to use the song in a movie or TV show which explains why you often see actors sing an odd, amalgamated version on screen. This also explains why chain restaurants sing their own custom songs for a guest's birthday. You may not even realize, but it's technically illegal to sing the song in a large group of unrelated people (like an office party) without paying a royalty to the current copyright holder Warner Music Group (which is owned by a private corporate conglomerate called Access Industries). The copyright for "Happy Birthday" expires in 2030 in the United States and 2016 in the European Union, at which point we can all finally sing Happy Birthday without writing a royalty check.

Since in modern society profitability = popularity, by your definition this is the best piece of music ever written.

[Psychosplodge]

Will I be murderised if I say I love Bowling for Soup?

No I wanted to go see them this week on their farewell tour but had no one to go with :(


Then you have Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, Sum 41, A Day to Remember, blink182, Alien Ant Farm, All-American Rejects, Green Day, Bowling for Soup, Elliot Minor, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Green Day... etc
ALL REALLY POPULAR BANDS.
THEY ARE POPULAR FOR A REASON.
THAT REASON IS THAT THEY ARE ALL BRILLIANT MUSICIANS.
(for the record, I like Good Charlotte, and I don't really care who they date, or how they get money. They're good at what they do.)

Pete Wentz, whilst a bit of a nob, is a really rich guy. That's because he invested the money he made playing with Fall Out Boy into his own record label. I respect that.

I think brilliant is stretching it.
Some are very much each to their own. some are good in your opinion. I remember when Greenday were good back in the day....

[eldargal]

I dislike the Spice Girls intensely. But I can't explain why 'cos TDA will get cranky with me for bringing up feminism in another topic again.:p

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Just end anything you say about feminism with the word BOOBIES!
Then you're being "ironic" and it's fine??:confused:
Oh wait, that's how NOT to do it..........

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I'm out.

[Mr Mystery]

I'm wrong and I'm sorry. I'll try to be a better person from now on...

Fix'd! :p :P :P :P

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I hate musical ignorance. Just because you don't like something, it doesn't necessarily make it bad.
I think ACDC are terrible, doesn't dispute the fact that they are popular for a reason, because people like them...

I'm done with this forum, all I do is sign in to check rumours, and, to be honest, I'll just let others show me what's gwan.
Adios.

[KaiZie]

So, while looking at punk as a whole, the bands previously mentioned are not, by the definition of punk music, Punk. They do however cross into Pop-punk and Punk-Rock. Punk was, as a whole, a social and musical movement, personified greatly by The s3x pistols.

When we start to look at bands such as Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Blink 182 and so on, we are neglating sub-genre a tad. These bands are a fusion of 2 genres, rock and punk to produce their own style of music. This can be seen throughout music as a whole with bands such as Mumford and Sons, crossing the barrier of Pop-folk-rock.

Where as true punk bands still exsist, such as Rancid, Good Charlotte etc are not punk by very definition, but in fact, punk-rock, or, if you prefer, pop-punk

[Psychosplodge]

Would the transplants be punk?

[KaiZie]

Would the transplants be punk?

They are a sort of weird mix of punk/rap rock. I think they are ace though

[Deadlift]

Punk rock = The Clash. Job done I win ;)

[Kaptain Badrukk]

I hate musical ignorance. Just because you don't like something, it doesn't necessarily make it bad.


Welcome to the internet, where disagreeing with people's opinions is the primary source of expression.
TBH I agree with you though, but music is a red rag to a bull subject.
Please don't go TDA, I may only just be getting to know you but people here obviously know you of old and are glad you're hear to disagree with.

[Mr Mystery]

Punk rock = The Damned. Job done I win ;)

Fix'd that too.....

[Deadlift]

Fix'd that too.....

Piss off ;)

[Mr Mystery]

:p

I've played Trivial Pursuits with a member of The Damned. Most random!

And in a complete surprise to no-one, paranoid right wing claims of benefit tourism seems baseless (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24522653) as the Government refuses to publish data.

[Deadlift]

How very rock n roll of you lol.

[Psychosplodge]

How can you assess it?
As hospitals refuse to check legality to be in UK.
And rarely attempt to recover costs owed by foreign nationals, how can they actually publish figures?

[KaiZie]

I suppose you can't publish what you don't have

[Mr Mystery]

How can you assess it?
As hospitals refuse to check legality to be in UK.
And rarely attempt to recover costs owed by foreign nationals, how can they actually publish figures?

Well indeed. But it makes the right wing hysteria over it laughable, as what cannot be measured, cannot be quantified as a threat....

And yeah. 600,000 migrants not working. Shame that includes kids and dependants and that....indeed, only 38,000 migrants on benefits.... Government unable to explain that one away....

[Psychosplodge]

No doubt the hysteria is overblown. But It also doesn't mean it should be just ignored where it is occuring.
Not sure how to that considering they apparently hand out NI numbers like sweets these days (and that's direct from a civil servant who works somewhere in that mess)
But are they defining EU nationals as migrants?

[KaiZie]

I still think we should have legislation that follows what Canada, the US, Australia have. If you want to live here, you must have skills that benefit our economy and communities

[Mr Mystery]

Dunno. Governemnt won't say....

And in other news, utter scumbags on Ebay consider their own pocket more important that a children's hospital (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-24515467). God I hate people like that. Whether it's scalping on Space Hulk, or overinflating a Gromit for your own financial gain....just knock it off.

[eldargal]

People also tend to forget that we can also claim various benefits from EU guvmints after being resident for a certain amount of time (six months for France I'm told). It's not a one-way street.

[Psychosplodge]

People also tend to forget that we can also claim various benefits from EU guvmints after being resident for a certain amount of time (six months for France I'm told). It's not a one-way street.

That's only relevant if you want to leave though :p

[KaiZie]

Yes we can, this is very true, but do we? It's more curiosity than a point. be interesting to see those figures

[KaiZie]

Have you seen this man? (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/14/20947455-images-of-a-man-sought-in-madeleine-mccanns-disappearance-released?lite)

[Psychosplodge]

Nobodies ever seen that man, especially as they're both apparently the same one?

[Mr Mystery]

Have you seen this man? (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/14/20947455-images-of-a-man-sought-in-madeleine-mccanns-disappearance-released?lite)

Yes. Medium height, medium build, medium brown hair, Mr Medium in fact.

You see them quite often, everywhere.

Tax Payers money, hard at work. In a foreign country. Clearing up after incompetent parents.

[KaiZie]

Agreed. Worst e-fit ever. Im sure thats every bloke I've ever passed in the street ever

[eldargal]

Yes we can, this is very true, but do we? It's more curiosity than a point. be interesting to see those figures

I don't know, but with hundreds of thousands of ex pats in Europe it's quite likely at least some of them are benefiting from their new countries of residence in some way that takes the burden of the British taxpayer.

Changing subject, anyone else noticed that every popular American television show starts getting bashed during its second and third season before people settle down? It's like people have to react against their praise of the first series by being really, really critical of the subsequent two before they just get over. I've seen it happen with Mad Men, Dexter and a bunch of others over the years and now Homeland. It's really odd.

[KaiZie]

Dexter season 3 was really weak, and in responce we got the Trinitiy killer, possibly the best season of the lot. American Horror Story seems to be taking a few hits as well, with a mighty 1 episode into season 3

[eldargal]

Well yes but it happened in season 2 with Dexter which was quite good. It just seems to be this odd trend, like reviewers and a certain number of fans suddenly have to turn on the show. Hipster effect? Genuine drop on quality which is remedied through taking the criticism onboard? Who knows.:rolleyes:

I will say that Dexter ****ed up royally when they pissed all over years of character development and Fridged his wife because the creators couldn't handle the direction they had taken the show. Cretins.

[KaiZie]

It was a joke. Hours of viewing sent sailing down the Great White Throne. However, breaking Bad does not suffer from this. This has pleased me greatly

[Mr Mystery]

Walking Dead goes from strength to strength.

Season 4 starts on Friday! *excited flailings*

[Deadlift]

Walking Dead goes from strength to strength.

Season 4 starts on Friday! *excited flailings*

I hear you mate, sky+ is on series link. But as much as I enjoy the series, the comic I enjoy much more.

[Mr Mystery]

I hear you mate, sky+ is on series link. But as much as I enjoy the series, the comic I enjoy much more.

Ah, I refuse to mix mediums! Once TV series is done, then I'll discover the comics. Prevent spoilers and disappointment in one swoop!

[Deadlift]

Ah, I refuse to mix mediums! Once TV series is done, then I'll discover the comics. Prevent spoilers and disappointment in one swoop!

Don't delay, the story's very different.

[Mr Mystery]

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4858558360913959&pid=1.7

Seems appropriate for no readily apparent reason.

[Kirsten]

No doubt the hysteria is overblown. But It also doesn't mean it should be just ignored where it is occuring.
Not sure how to that considering they apparently hand out NI numbers like sweets these days (and that's direct from a civil servant who works somewhere in that mess)
But are they defining EU nationals as migrants?

I think there are certain issues with the benefits system. not specifically to do with immigrants per se, but the fact that people can move around and not actually be re-tested. so people can come to the Isle of Man from the UK, and if they received benefits over there, they get them over here without being tested at all. I got annoyed once too when an older couple came to the counter, they were 60, just moved to the island and were both on disability living allowance. you have to have lived here five years before you can claim a pension, so they had moved here five years before retirement age. get disability living allowance for five years, then pension for the rest of their lives. at no point will they work here. honestly I found that a bit annoying.

[Wildeybeast]

What difference would it make if they worked there? You don't tax anybody. :p

[Kirsten]

hey we tax loads of people, just not as much as you lot too. I am immensely happy to see both Obama and the Conservatives coming forward now and saying that actually the Isle of Man is not some terrible tax haven. Having worked in financial compliance it drove me mad when people did that, the Isle of Man's tax laws are far more stringent than those of the UK. The UK may not like people living over here and paying less tax, but that is none of their business.

[Psychosplodge]

Walking Dead goes from strength to strength.

Season 4 starts on Friday! *excited flailings*

I heard they were going to do a spin off following a different group of survivors somewhere else in america...


I think there are certain issues with the benefits system. not specifically to do with immigrants per se, but the fact that people can move around and not actually be re-tested. so people can come to the Isle of Man from the UK, and if they received benefits over there, they get them over here without being tested at all. I got annoyed once too when an older couple came to the counter, they were 60, just moved to the island and were both on disability living allowance. you have to have lived here five years before you can claim a pension, so they had moved here five years before retirement age. get disability living allowance for five years, then pension for the rest of their lives. at no point will they work here. honestly I found that a bit annoying.

Do they not get reassessed every 12months or so like they would here?

[Mr Mystery]

I heard they were going to do a spin off following a different group of survivors somewhere else in america...

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4913108720158527&w=130&h=147&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7

*EVEN MORE EXCITED FLAILINGS*

[Deadlift]

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4913108720158527&w=130&h=147&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7

*EVEN MORE EXCITED FLAILINGS*

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/16/4736910/amc-developing-walking-dead-spin-off-series

[Kirsten]

Do they not get reassessed every 12months or so like they would here?

they don't necessarily get assessed every 12 months in the UK either, they can get a lifetime award in either place. there are of course disabilities which will never get better, but we saw plenty that did. they would get long term awards, often life, then be treated/recover, and not say anything and stay on benefits. I would like to see a system whereby people who could get themselves better, but refuse to do so don't get benefit too. we had an older woman who was massively overweight and getting DLA because she couldn't walk due to arthritis, if she had actually just lost weight she would have been perfectly fine. her doctor repeatedly reported that her issues were all weight related, and there was nothing we could do about it.

[KaiZie]

People like that irritate me that claim they can't do anything about their weight. There is a very simple solution in most cases.....Eat Less Move More!

[Mr Mystery]

We need more of a 'social contract' feel to the state handouts. And seriously, stopping calling them 'benefits' should be a start. You shouldn't 'benefit' from being unemployed! Splitting hairs I know, but hey, appearances and that.

DLA. If it's because you're a big fattyboomboom, you get that, as long as you sign up to a weight loss regime, monitored by your local quack. Not the 'lose half your weight in 6 weeks' tripe we see on the telly, but a gradual weight and diet control plan, to the point where you are able to work again. Nobody should be paid by the state just to shovel pies into their cavernous gob all day!

[Psychosplodge]

they don't necessarily get assessed every 12 months in the UK either, they can get a lifetime award in either place.

I thought they were currently reassessing everybody including those given lifetime awards as part of the change from DLA to ESA?

[Kaptain Badrukk]

I thought they were currently reassessing everybody including those given lifetime awards as part of the change from DLA to ESA?
They are, and they're targeted on how many people they can get "back to work" and not on how right they are.
Heard a story from a local mental health nurse I know about one of the patients they decided was "Fit for work".
A paranoid schizophrenic with one leg, who'll be in and out of surgery for the next 2 years due to a botched hip operation which cost him said leg.
Oh and he's 5 years away from retirement anyway.
Go privatization and targets based thinking.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

We need more of a 'social contract' feel to the state handouts. And seriously, stopping calling them 'benefits' should be a start. You shouldn't 'benefit' from being unemployed! Splitting hairs I know, but hey, appearances and that.

DLA. If it's because you're a big fattyboomboom, you get that, as long as you sign up to a weight loss regime, monitored by your local quack. Not the 'lose half your weight in 6 weeks' tripe we see on the telly, but a gradual weight and diet control plan, to the point where you are able to work again. Nobody should be paid by the state just to shovel pies into their cavernous gob all day!

As a big fat guy who works I couldn't agree more.

[KaiZie]

They are, and they're targeted on how many people they can get "back to work" and not on how right they are.
Heard a story from a local mental health nurse I know about one of the patients they decided was "Fit for work".
A paranoid schizophrenic with one leg, who'll be in and out of surgery for the next 2 years due to a botched hip operation which cost him said leg.
Oh and he's 5 years away from retirement anyway.
Go privatization and targets based thinking.

Sadly, I fear more of this behaviour in years to come. It's always a large flat drybrush applied by the government for an area that requires a fine detail brush....

They don't half make a bloody mess of it all

[Mr Mystery]

As a big fat guy who works I couldn't agree more.

Goes without saying of course those of independent means can scoff as many tasty pies as they like.

Lord knows I do! Which is a point....got a few Fray Bento's Steak and Ale in the cupboard...and the nights are drawing in.....


FRAY BENTOS FRENZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Kaptain Badrukk]

It's because they insist on applying business model methodology to public services.
We need to shake the illusion that the big business model of doing things is the "best" one.
It works for a very specific cause, to make 1% of the people involved VERY wealthy.
And there's no argument that it's fantastic at it.
I'm not sure that the methodologies from that model should be applied to say, keeping 100% of the nation healthy.
That just doesn't add up.

[Wolfshade]

Why do you think I cycle?
It isn't for some wooley headed idealism about saving the environment, it is about being able to eat pies without becoming lardy mcporkpie pants.

[Mr Mystery]

Why do you think I cycle?
It isn't for some wooley headed idealism about saving the environment, it is about being able to eat pies without becoming lardy mcporkpie pants.

Which is also why I am intent on walking everywhere it's practical. Going to the far end of town on the weekend? I'll walk. Little bit of exermacise goes a long, long way.

And having just scoffed a bacon stuffed roll, I say HURRAH!

Should we start a BoLS league of fatties?

[Kirsten]

I thought they were currently reassessing everybody including those given lifetime awards as part of the change from DLA to ESA?

yes at this point everyone is reassessed in the UK. I was highlighting issues from when I was there which was 2009. the ATOS bunch are making things far worse. the system is in desperate need of an overhaul, reassessments are vital, but because they are trying to force genuinely disabled people back to work, they have ensured everybody hates them. combine that with the general public opinion that if tories touch benefits at all it is because they 'hate the poor' and all in all a horrendously unfit for purpose scheme is left as is. I am classed as long term unemployed, because whilst I work part time, it is only eight hours a week at the moment, so I am still on job seekers. I apply for more than the minimum number of jobs each week I need to, I am registered with every agency on the island, I have been told I haven't got enough recent experience to do an office job at any level, I am apparently 'too old' at 28 for a trainee or graduate position, my degree isn't good enough, I have too much management experience to get a low level sales/admin job, not enough for a managerial position, the job centre turned me down for funding to retrain. yet on friday the 'long term unemployment officer' who is supposed to help me find work, screamed abuse at me for fifteen full minutes calling me a benefits scrounger, abuser of her taxes, lazy, complacent etc. for not working full time.

[KaiZie]

yes at this point everyone is reassessed in the UK. I was highlighting issues from when I was there which was 2009. the ATOS bunch are making things far worse. the system is in desperate need of an overhaul, reassessments are vital, but because they are trying to force genuinely disabled people back to work, they have ensured everybody hates them. combine that with the general public opinion that if tories touch benefits at all it is because they 'hate the poor' and all in all a horrendously unfit for purpose scheme is left as is. I am classed as long term unemployed, because whilst I work part time, it is only eight hours a week at the moment, so I am still on job seekers. I apply for more than the minimum number of jobs each week I need to, I am registered with every agency on the island, I have been told I haven't got enough recent experience to do an office job at any level, I am apparently 'too old' at 28 for a trainee or graduate position, my degree isn't good enough, I have too much management experience to get a low level sales/admin job, not enough for a managerial position, the job centre turned me down for funding to retrain. yet on friday the 'long term unemployment officer' who is supposed to help me find work, screamed abuse at me for fifteen full minutes calling me a benefits scrounger, abuser of her taxes, lazy, complacent etc. for not working full time.

And you took this to Trading Standards or some other form of complaint board I hope

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Wow, someone needs to get fired.

[KaiZie]

Also, this just crossed my mind. If you take something, i.e steal it, but leave the full amount for the item in cash, is it theft?

[Kirsten]

And you took this to Trading Standards or some other form of complaint board I hope

not worth the hassle, they really have you over a barrel. I can't afford to miss a cheque, I don't make enough and can barely pay bills as is. just ignoring it, keep doing what I need to do, handing in the paperwork etc.

[Mr Mystery]

Also, this just crossed my mind. If you take something, i.e steal it, but leave the full amount for the item in cash, is it theft?

Nope. Might be an arseache for their stock control, but as long as the asking price is left in place of the good, shouldn't matter too much when it actually goes in the till.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Also, this just crossed my mind. If you take something, i.e steal it, but leave the full amount for the item in cash, is it theft?

Depends. As long as you leave the full value where it can easily be found, and the item was intended to be sold I guess morally not. In the eyes of the law, probably.

[KaiZie]

I just wondered, as the conversation of scrumping came up at work, and to that end, urban scrumping, If I stole a car stereo and left the vaule of said stereo in the car, is it theft? I the case of Law, obviously is, however, morally speaking, has that person lost anything?

Assume I left full amount for a new stereo, cost to install and any damage cased while breaking into the car

[Psychosplodge]

And you took this to Trading Standards or some other form of complaint board I hope

Do not complain, they blacklist and you're ****ed.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

The inevitable outcome of a system in which people are being forced off unemployment benefits when there aren't enough jobs to go around.

Tory employment policy is literally magical thinking. Here's a fact for you. The economy was growing comfortably under the last Labour government (powered by asset bubbles we now know to be a sham, but it was growing). However, the private sector didn't grow very much. This wasn't because it was smothered in red-tape, because the last Labour government was actually very pro-business (this is yer post-Thatcher consensus you hear about).

So if the private sector wasn't growing in The Best Of Times, which the pre-crash economy pretty much was, at least as regards growth and the conditions for growth, why the hell is it suddenly going to grow in the middle of a chuffing global financial crisis and attendant recession? Just because the public sector's been shrunk? It doesn't work like that, and never has.

And now of course we have Labour telling us they'll hammer people on benefits even harder than the Tories. Oh lordy. Let the race to the bottom begin in earnest!

[Psychosplodge]

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/249/6/4/fluttershy_by_icefoxvi-d6l9s3h.jpg

[Mr Mystery]

Honestly. State of modern medicine in the UK.

Just had my annual flu jab from work (it's free, so why not). And I was a big boy and everything and didn't even cry.

Did I get a lollipop for being brave? No. No I did not.

Hell. In. A. Hand. Cart. You couldn't make it up!

[Psychosplodge]

No sugarlump?

Did you watch them do it?

[Mr Mystery]

No. I had to turn my head away.

But I didn't cry dammit. I want my Lollipop for that. If I won't stand up for standards, who will?

If it happens again next year, I shall write to the Daily Mail, who will no doubt blame the whole debacle on poor immigrant types, and demand Ed Milliband be launched onto the moon as recompense.

[Psychosplodge]

That's why you don't deserve it.

While all for launching Red Ed to the moon(only one way mind), I don't think our current finances justify it.

[Mr Mystery]

Didn't cry. Mystery get Lollipop. It's worked that way since 1980.

Also, random aggravation in life...2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine don't offer a Direct Debit Subscription. Which means, although I would dearly love to receive it every week, I have to pay up front, which I can never quite justify. The fools.

[Deadlift]

Didn't cry. Mystery get Lollipop. It's worked that way since 1980.

Also, random aggravation in life...2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine don't offer a Direct Debit Subscription. Which means, although I would dearly love to receive it every week, I have to pay up front, which I can never quite justify. The fools.

If you don't mind downloading them instead that's an option. I know they are available on iTunes. Not sure about other formats.

Derailing here slightly but as we're talking about 2000ad, I can't help but wonder why Hollywood hasent pick up on the other great 2000ad stories. Rogue Trooper, Slaine, ABC Warriors and even Nemesis would make brilliant movies. I'm guessing because Dredd was a bit of a financial flop despite being awesome we will never know.

[Psychosplodge]

DL are you familiar with the new Pokemon?

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/139/1/3/pancham_evolution_by_pokemon_diamond-d65vmhr.png

[Mr Mystery]

Indeed.

But Dredd wasn't that much of a flop. Made on a modest budget, and is in profit. Surely they could repeat that, especially with the word out.

I guess it just baffles the US critics, and some of the audience. For a horrendously violent film, it's remarkably restrained (no inexplicable explosions). And I find the criticism of Dredd as a faceless fascist...well...yes...yes he is. Might help to read the source material before deciding that's a downside to the character, rather than the entire intent. When Dredd says 'I am the law', it's not from ego....

[Deadlift]

DL are you familiar with the new Pokemon?

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/139/1/3/pancham_evolution_by_pokemon_diamond-d65vmhr.png

Nope I don't have a DS at the moment. But thanks for the new Avatar.

[Psychosplodge]

lol
you're welcome :D

[KaiZie]

Quick Q- Darksphere.co.uk, any good?

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Yeah, nice blokes too.
Not always the fastest, but reliable.

[KaiZie]

Reliability is key. Just looking for somewhere to save a few bucks really. Not a fan of totalwargamer, and Dark spehere has been recommended to me in the past

[Mr Mystery]

Think I got my Daemons from their B&M Store in Waterloo. 99% it was Darksphere. And yeah, nice enough guys.

[KaiZie]

Well, I'll give them a shot and see how it goes. Hopefully finished my first unit of RXB for my Dark Elves by Friday so will need something for Monday :P

[Wolfshade]

Totalwargamer is fine, but if you need them for a game I wouldn't use them, a bit slow, but ho-hum.

[KaiZie]

I used to work near TWG and i got nothing but negative feedback about them. A friend of mine ordered an Ork dex and a marine dex, the marine dex took 3 weeks and 8 for the Ork one. That swore me off them pretty quick

[Cap'nSmurfs]

My brother's used Darksphere before, he likes them.

[Kirsten]

If you don't mind downloading them instead that's an option.

you can download lollipops?

[Rissan4ever]

you can download lollipops?
Yes, but they taste like arse.

[Wolfshade]

Yes, but they taste like arse.

I am not sure I want to know how you know this.

[Gotthammer]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3vj9v9yr1qfiz9bo1_400.jpg

"Lord of the Flies"




Icelandic descendants of Vikings singing "Hear, Heavenly Creator" in a German train station:


http://youtu.be/e4dT8FJ2GE0

[Mr Mystery]

666! The page of the beast!!

[Wolfshade]

666! The page of the beast!!

I think you are 499 pages early, we are on 167.

Sigh.

[KaiZie]

Hell and Fire is going to be released!! *Disintergrates into mindless headbanging and memories of Download*

[Mr Mystery]

I think you are 499 pages early, we are on 167.

Sigh.

No. You just have a dylsexic browser setting. It's the page of the beast!

*joins in with KaiZie headbanging, on account he may have listened to Number of the Beast all the way through on his morning commute*

[KaiZie]

Nope, sadly not, TeamRock Radio didn't grace me with maiden this morning, but I did get a healthy hit of Pearl Jam and A7X

[Wolfshade]

Listen you noob, if you don't have 40 posts per page you are doing it wrong. Behold my l33t skills!

Also I feel compelled to write a children's book about a spy called La Cannard Rouge.

[Mr Mystery]

You're the noob, noob.

http://www.gamesprays.com/images/icons/youre-a-noob-3790_preview.png

[Kirsten]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3vj9v9yr1qfiz9bo1_400.jpg

"Lord of the Flies"


hehehehehehhe

[Wolfshade]

Whatever 40ppp is where it is at.

[Aenir]

Can you say long live the king if the average lifespan is only a few days? Or is that a faux pas?

[Kaptain Badrukk]

Long is subjective, so it's cool.

[KaiZie]

667! The Neighbour of the Page of the Beast! Hell, and Fire, Is going to be released!

Tourches Blazed, and sacred chants were raised!

[Mr Mystery]

Something interesting from the BBC news website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24545294).

Wonder how the Daily Mail will turn this story into a bashing stick?

[Wolfshade]

667! The Neighbour of the Page of the Beast! Hell, and Fire, Is going to be released!

Tourches Blazed, and sacred chants were raised!

No still page 167. Fool.


I am pleased that they are not allowed to vote.
I hink you break the law you foreit the priveliges of society.

[Mr Mystery]

No still page 167. Fool.


I am pleased that they are not allowed to vote.
I hink you break the law you foreit the priveliges of society.

But Wolfy....you just got post number 6,666.....does that make you the Beast squared? Or something. Leave me alone. Maths isn't my strong point. But at least I can spell it properly. Unlike the Yanks. You'd think 's' wasn't in their alphabet.

[Wolfshade]

6666 is a nonagonal number that is it can be expressed as n(7n-5)/2

[Mr Mystery]

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4833707679483025&w=189&h=149&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7

[Wolfshade]

6666 = 44 * (7*44 - 5) / 2

it is quite boring I think. Nonagonals are quite nice as they follow a pattern of two odd numbers then two even numbers, I have no practical purposes for them.

6666 is also the number of verses not in the koran.

[Mr Mystery]

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4648611795176209&pid=1.7

[Wolfshade]

lol

In other news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24273738

[Gotthammer]

Relative of the Garbage Ape?

http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cidu-garbageape-heathcliff.gif

[eldargal]

lol

In other news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24273738
I approve, reminds me a bit of that Paris underground group that secretly restores important buildings (or bits of them) when it sees the guvmint neglecting them.

[Mr Mystery]

Relative of the Garbage Ape?

http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cidu-garbageape-heathcliff.gif

Beats the Beer Monkey.

He follows me home when I've been out for just a couple of pints, waits until I'm asleep, then smokes all my ciggies, ruffles my hair, poops in my mouth, and then nicks £30 out my wallet before legging it...... one day I'll catch him!

[Gotthammer]

Beats the Beer Monkey.

And he has a tank!

http://joshreads.com/images/13/10/i131015heathcliff.jpg

[KaiZie]

DAFAQ is Garbage ape?

[Wolfshade]

what is Garbage ape?

I don't know, I was keeping quiet and hoping it would become clear

[KaiZie]

Okay Then! http://7770647a14b0867efc75-b939f832d8cd9c860ce8909163419528.r92.cf2.rackcdn.c om/18592.jpg]

[Psychosplodge]

I would assume people.

[Mr Mystery]

Brace yourselves..... the creator of Japanese character Anpanman has popped his clogs.

Anpanman who? I hear you cry. Me too.

But it's on the BBC website. So one can expect the Hipsters to suddenly adopt this as their latest cause. The cretins.

[Deadlift]

I'm immune to that sort of thing, plus I'm listening to "Rainbow Connection" by the muppets. Yay.

[KaiZie]

I'm listening to the monotonus drone of machines....got to love my office =/

[Wolfshade]

I'm listening to the monotonus drone of machines....got to love my office =/

So am I, hang on sorry I am listening to PMQ.

[KaiZie]

Prince Quick Mix?

[Wolfshade]

Prime Minister's Questions

[eldargal]

People ask why I love medieval art.

'Dude, do you mind, I'm in bed with my wife?':
http://31.media.tumblr.com/52a386e74ccc786522c806749e0362c0/tumblr_mtwlchYtQt1rqxd5ko1_500.jpg

Jesus Christ Fails at Music:
http://31.media.tumblr.com/ded3ef15fd51e02dbacf44b06f9c40e2/tumblr_mstd23TNx91rqxd5ko1_500.jpg

I don't even know:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/1a5d56e08514cedb74a35147cfb6a867/tumblr_mu5vqovwqw1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

Lolcat like it's 1330:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/6c72a41c1888e3ad758102dd36a14728/tumblr_mueq0vXF5M1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

[Psychosplodge]

I can haz ratburger?

[Gotthammer]

Rofl at the Jesus one, but in my defence it's late and I'm tired :p

[eldargal]

No it's totes rofl worthy.:p

"I told if you if we cut one of and planted it that it would grow a tree of them!"
http://31.media.tumblr.com/6e9f408f5d3bf7618fb22110298f729e/tumblr_mrf4hfVMb61rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

Religion lessons would have been much more interesting if they had mentioned the part where Jesus could shoot frikkin laser beams:
http://31.media.tumblr.com/f538951c648584c08d9da29af254466c/tumblr_mq2aniK4Be1qe5h76o1_500.jpg

[Cap'nSmurfs]

You've seen the manuscript where a cat must've stepped in some wet ink and has left paw-prints all across the page, yes?

It's also worth looking up medieval doodles and scribbles, there's hundreds of those and most of them are pretty fun. Bored scribes FTW.

[eldargal]

Paw prints rings a bell.

'Timmy will not participate in school sports today owing to the spontaneous eruption of flora from his anus. Yours humorously, his Mum''
http://25.media.tumblr.com/859abad3d00c6be441ab2317cd312403/tumblr_mivpzpbR7s1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

[Mr Mystery]

Yup. Medieval times were full of filth. Read Chaucer! It's a hoot (the translated version. The original text is hard going!).

And glad to see that with the great big winkle scrawled on Mars, we are continuing our proud tradition of defacing our way through history!

[eldargal]

Hur:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m83m1iXoZI1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

Most of human history was full of filth, the Victorian era and 17th century being rather anomalous in that regard. Our perception of history is largely shaped, ironically, throurgh a prism of Victorian values so we think our current liberal attitude to this sort of thing is new.


"You want me to put what where?"
"That's how it's done. Stop grimacing I'm no happier about this than you are"
http://24.media.tumblr.com/d35a51e26e34a4a264f62a2ec663df5d/tumblr_mewdccLyGU1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

[Mr Mystery]

Very true.

[Gotthammer]

"You want me to put what where?"
"That's how it's done. Stop grimacing I'm no happier about this than you are"

Explains the dick tree...

[Wolfshade]

We need more illuminated books...

[Mr Mystery]

We need more fartybums.

Fartybums are funny!

[Psychosplodge]

Hur:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m83m1iXoZI1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg

Well were do you think dragonborn come from?

[eldargal]

Tehcnially that's a wyvern. I just love the look of mutual surprise on their faces.

[Psychosplodge]

semantics.

[Wolfshade]

never confuse an anti-semantic with an anti-semetic.

[Psychosplodge]

no it could leave you in a world of trouble

[Mr Mystery]

It is by Tea alone I set my mind in motion.

It is by white with three that thoughts acquire speed, the pot acquires stains, the pot requires warming.

It is by Tea alone I set my mind in motion.

[Wolfshade]

I was looking after my nephew last night and we went to the park. He started shouting "Dirty muslin" as he had dropped his muslin in a puddle and it was dirty, unfortunately the n sounded not dissimiliar to an m.

[Mr Mystery]

Bahahaha! (at the awkwardness of the situation only) Or was it you that misheard him???

And speaking of incoherent shouting about Muslims...has the EDL imploded yet now that Tommey's retired, and probably fleeced their entire accounts?

And having seen Tommy on the telly a couple of times, I really, really cannot help but wonder if he's be Scrooged. Quite the change of heart recently.....

[Wolfshade]

It is ok, there was nobody in ear shot.
It reminded me of the "No Juice" skit from Michael McIntyre.

[Mr Mystery]

Unfortunately, I can't watch Michael McIntyre. Whilst he is quite funny, I can't stand his stage presence. I think it's the wobbly head and facial expression. Very stage school to me.

Unlike Jimmy Carr, Alan Carr, Russell Brand and Lee Nelson, who all have an annoying stage presence (often, it's just due to being inexplicably on the stage, again) and absolutely no talent for being funny.

Channel 4 in the mid-noughties really has a lot to apologise to the world of comedy for....grumblegrumble.

[Psychosplodge]

He's just a poor Lee Evans impersonator...

[Mr Mystery]

Kind of.

And Lee Evans....in very, very small doses. I appreciate him greatly as a comedian, but I find him excrutiating to watch!

[Deadlift]

Jack Dee, that's my kind of comedy. Keep it grumpy and I'm happy :). I also like David Mitchell very much.

Try saying "Whale Oil Beef Hooked" without sounding like an Irish man swearing. Is a favourite Jack Dee joke of mine.

[Wolfshade]

Jack Dee, that's my kind of comedy. Keep it grumpy and I'm happy :). I also like David Mitchell very much.

Try saying "Whale Oil Beef Hooked" without sounding like an Irish man swearing. Is a favourite Jack Dee joke of mine.

LOL!

It is like trying to say Beer Can without sounding like an AfroCarribeean type.

[KaiZie]

Jamaican? Jamacian me crazy!

Speaking of Comedians, I'm a big big fan of Ross Noble. That guy is just a whimsical druid from up north

[Mr Mystery]

Yep. Ross Noble, Jack Dee. All good! And relatively ego free. Add in Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran, and I'm in silly/grumpy comedy heaven!

[KaiZie]

My Wifelette is convinced I turn into Dylan Moran when I'm in a mood and having a rant

[Psychosplodge]

Bill Bailey is definitely the best live comedian I've seen.

[Mr Mystery]

There's a little Dylan Moran in all of us. It's the part wanting wine and ciggies.

[Wolfshade]

PCmon X/Y alternatives - for 'Splogy.

What happens if you mod Pokemon for Minecraft? Pixelmon
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/1291/10/Minecraft-1-610x335.jpg
http://pixelmonmod.com/blog/

What happens if you mod Pokemon for Skyrim? Pokerim/Skymon? I have no idea
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/1291/10/Skyrim-1-610x344.jpg
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=154083704

What happens if you add "pet" battles into the most sucessful MMO of all time? WOW:Mists of Pandara Pet Battles.
Not a mod, but an in-game game.

UnovaRPG
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/1291/10/UnovaRPG-610x344.jpg
Pokémon Online, but without all of the fantastic visuals, tender training tutorials, and feel-good storyline

What happens if you cross a tower defense game with pokemon? Pokémon Tower Defense
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/1291/10/Pokemon-Tower-Defense-2-610x344.jpg

[Wolfshade]

Also the Sun thinks Deus Ex is real.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/10/The-Sun-Sarif-610x346.jpg

[Mr Mystery]

Teenage Truant Badger Baiting! Teenage Truant Badger Baiting!

:p

[Mr Mystery]

Also the Sun thinks Deus Ex is real.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/10/The-Sun-Sarif-610x346.jpg

The Sun. Written by Morons, about Morons, for Morons.

[Kirsten]

Also the Sun thinks Deus Ex is real.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/10/The-Sun-Sarif-610x346.jpg

wow, I love Deus Ex, why did nobody tell me it was based on a true story?

[Psychosplodge]

PCmon X/Y alternatives - for 'Splogy.

What happens if you mod Pokemon for Minecraft? Pixelmon
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/1291/10/Minecraft-1-610x335.jpg
http://pixelmonmod.com/blog/

What happens if you mod Pokemon for Skyrim? Pokerim/Skymon? I have no idea
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/1291/10/Skyrim-1-610x344.jpg
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=154083704


Yeah minecraft is an abomination.
Think the skyrim one is supposed to be Charrizard.
I've definitely played a tower defence game one before not necessarily that one.


Also the Sun thinks Deus Ex is real.

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/10/The-Sun-Sarif-610x346.jpg

Yeah saw that last night. lazy lazy journalism...

[Mr Mystery]

Woop! Booked in for two fright fests for Halloween shenanigans.

And the lovely Gemma is accompanying me....might finally....hmm...planning.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

In fairness they Sarif Industries website is VERY convincing. If you're a moron.

[KaiZie]

Stupid Sun. I do love the fact they even put up a picture. Surely you'd question it? Even the Sarif website, although convincing, is covered in "Hacks".

[Wolfshade]

Well don't forget ITV confused Arma2 scene with real footage from the troubles.

Also, don't forget that the sun is the UK's biggest selling newspaper.

[Psychosplodge]

And is aimed at an 11 yo reading age iirc, so the writers probably aren't really any better...

[Mr Mystery]

And is aimed at an 11 yo reading age iirc, so the writers probably aren't really any better...

Average reading age in the UK is 12. Which to be honest, isn't all that bad, as it does cover the majority of basic english.

[Kirsten]

Average reading age in the UK is 12. Which to be honest, is utterly horrifying

fixed that for you

[Mr Mystery]

Tsk! Really, it's not that bad at all.

Beyond a certain age, there isn't much need to be a stronger reader or have a wider vocabulary. Is it nice? Yes. Is it impressive? Yes. But it doesn't prevent you from being a productive person in the workplace.

[Kirsten]

it is bloody awful

[Wolfshade]

What we need is parent(s) who is/are literate to spend time with their children reading to them.

[KaiZie]

To them/with them. Some of the most literate people I know tell me grand tales of their parents reading to them as a youngling, most commonly is The Hobbit and LotR. I'm not sure if it's a past trend but it does spring up a lot

[eldargal]

The evidence is actually unassailable, reading to your children dramatically increases their literacy and education prospects and ultimately employment prospects regardless of socio-economic background.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

I was read to, and encouraged to read. I remember always wanting Grandad Robinson to babysit, as every time, without fail, involved a trip to Safeways, snackycakefoodcrisps, fizzy pop.....and a brand new ladybird book, usually He-Man or Transformers.

Sadly, secondary school curtailed my love of reading with some dire books, like Buddy, Z for Zachariah and Empty World. Grim reading indeed, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone!

Came back with a vengeance in my early 20's when I discovered Gotrek and Felix. Haven't looked back since!

[Gotthammer]

I liked Z for Zachariah :P


Tank cat:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/8e3b3af5f50f165b729a338e5755c97d/tumblr_mih8uxZCEY1r0wqrdo1_400.gif


Tru life tales:

http://31.media.tumblr.com/30cb22d57d2c2a772033061d7822577e/tumblr_miusy8lyfa1qdc388o1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/ed464c31ce015067015fde73a982c72e/tumblr_miusy8lyfa1qdc388o2_500.jpg

http://31.media.tumblr.com/a1252726c8a281ee026ab9d76fd1f95f/tumblr_mj95coiwVY1qkffmvo1_500.png

[Wolfshade]

For me the Hobbit and LoTR rescued me from not reading. Though I don't have enough time to read all the fiction that I want.

[KaiZie]

Reading is an interesting one for me. It's hard for me to get gripped by a book so much that i can't put it down. The Horus Heresy, though wonderful in all its glory, just couldn't keep me going. However, that's not to say I don't like HH, I just couldn't read it. The Audio books however enthralled me.

The last book I read was one of the planeswalker novels (Magic the Gathering) Now that I absolutely loved. I must get more.

[Mr Mystery]

For me, anything Black Library, and lots of Pratchett.

Lovely stuff!

[Mr Mystery]

And a quick cryptozoological squee (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24565282).

Any why not.

[Gotthammer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Krz-dyD-UQ#t=337

[Wolfshade]

Sounds plausable, new species are being discovered all the time, why not a type of bear.

http://www.livescience.com/topics/newfound-species/

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

I'm a big fan of cryptozoology, which is probably the least harmful/willfully misleading of all the pseudosicences out there.

Indeed, were I of influence and learning enough, I'd ensure a third slot was created for things like Cryptozoology. It's honest work done outside of the scientific method due to necessity, as opposed to things like creationism, which involve the bending of facts rather than theory.

In fact, my WoD players are going to be sent hunting for some...and possibly cryptobotanic things!

[Mr Mystery]

Yay!

'I love 8th Edition, me' has been used as a Facebook editorial!

[Kirsten]

just watched a great 1950s film called X: The Unknown. someone is stealing radioactive material from locked rooms. the main character declares that the only logical explanation is that it is an intelligent energy creature from the centre of the earth taken a liquid form. all the english gentlemen nod seriously and say hmm, what are we going to do about it?
excellent, none of this complaining and disbelief and nonsense you get in a modern creature film. a radioactive mud monster you say? I see, best get on with stopping that then by jove.

[Psychosplodge]

Brilliant.

[KaiZie]

You should watch Grabbers. An Irish Island is attacked by grabbing monsters. They only way to stop them is to get **** faced because they dont like high alcohol content in their food

[Psychosplodge]

Surely that's boring then as aren't they all already ****faced?

[KaiZie]

What was relly confusing was this Irish Island....surely that's just Ireland?