Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[daboarder]

mulan maybe? She does kill almost the entire hun army in an avalanche.

ding ding ding

there is also the scene where they arrive at the battlefield and the army is dead.

[Psychosplodge]

What about Wall:e ? he's killed an entire planets worth of people...

[daboarder]

What about Wall:e ? he's killed an entire planets worth of people...

huh? howd you figure that one?

[Psychosplodge]

Skynet? Rise of the machines?
No people till the ships return?
It's all implied...

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Plus the first time I watched it we were drinking in a bar with no sound

[Wolfshade]

Railways aren't viable, why else would they require public funding and subsidy?

As opposed to the roads which have no subsidy? Oh, wait...

[daboarder]

Skynet? Rise of the machines?
No people till the ships return?
It's all implied...

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Plus the first time I watched it we were drinking in a bar with no sound

what kind of bar was showing wall e?

[Psychosplodge]

As opposed to the roads which have no subsidy? Oh, wait...

Don't pretend to run them as a business at same time though do we?


what kind of bar was showing wall e?

A hotel one, it was just showing BBC 1 or ITV or something and Wall:e happened to be on.

[Gotthammer]

http://www.pixartheory.com/

[daboarder]

http://www.pixartheory.com/

eh bit of a stretch.

plus, the big blue monster is a toilet seat cover in one of the earlier set but later produced films (which is what Monsters inc claimed humans did to monsters they caught)

[Psychosplodge]

Seen that as a tumblr post before, cool idea.

[Wolfshade]

Don't pretend to run them a business at same time though do we?
What are the Toll Roads/Bridges/Tunnels?

Pay per mile driving is coming, the technology exists, it is just a matter of time...

[Psychosplodge]

That's a gross violation of freedom of movement.
There's how many of them across the network?

[Wolfshade]

Got to:


Zero Point Energy (electromagnetic energy that exists in a vacuum).

But I cried and left...

[daboarder]

Got to:



But I cried and left...

hahaha

[Wolfshade]

That's a gross violation of freedom of movement.
There's how many of them across the network?

How is it?
You pay your bus fare by how far you go.
You pay your tram fare by how far you go.
You pay for train fare by how far you go.
You pay your areoplane fare by how far you go.


Freedom of movement, mobility rights or the right to travel is a human right concept that the constitutions of numerous states respect. It asserts that a citizen of a state in which that citizen is present has the liberty to travel, reside in, and/or work in any part of the state where one pleases within the limits of respect for the liberty and rights of others, and to leave that state and return at any time

The state is not stopping people from being able to travel or reside or work.

There are those who assert the tolls are a limitiation to the freedom of movement, but such arguments are fairly weak. Especially given the footpath network. Freedom of movement does not necessarily encompass your right to choose what vehicle you use. Hence I can't drive a tank on the motorway, or a jeep along a bridleway.

Current number of Toll Roads: 1, though historically there were the turnpike roads which were all toll roads.
Spain, for instance their motorway network is all privatised and suffers less congestion and the roads are of a better quality (although that is arguably as they do not suffer from the weather in the same way that British roads do.)

Road pricing: Durham & London, both under the auspices of controlling emissions.

Bridges/Tunnels: ~26

[Psychosplodge]

Because they're tracking your every movement which is by itself inherently wrong.
And because They wouldn't lower any other taxes to do it so only the wealthiest would have freedom of movement.

Nothing to do with us paying for all those nice EU funded spanish roads in the last few decades? ;)

Are you sure you can't take a tank on a motorway? I'm sure I've seen a Warrior racing down the A1.

The emissions argument is a joke they trot out to do whatever they want - eg the proposed slower and wider M1 at tinsley.

[Wolfshade]

Tracking movement isn't limiting your movement.
As it is your movement is tracked thanks to your mobile 'phone. GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless all of these track your movements.
Driving on a motorway or trunk road, look for the green or blue cameras, they are ANPR detectos and monitor where you drive and in what time. Specs do the same. CCTV across the road network, across cities.

Also, walking is still free at the point of entry.

The emission argument isn't a joke, CO2 emissions are linked to speed of the engine, certainly NO, PM10, NHMC and CO are more dependent on driving style and engine size than speed, but that isn't so with CO2. Plus it is simple, if you can take 10 cars off the road and replace it with a bus you make a net gain, you reduce congestion.

[Psychosplodge]

The one where they are targeting the high levels of whatever it was that is produced by lorries and buses by reducing a limit that they aren't subject to?

Yes I'm aware of the anpr camera dotted around, but I don't normally see them on my cross country backroad dash ;p

And the blue cones meant for traffic flow are only supposed to read the last three letters, or at least that was how they were originally touted.

[Wolfshade]

https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/National_Vehicle_Tracking_Database

Blue ones are for speed, you can't reliably count vehicles with cameras. Loops or Radar are better.

[Psychosplodge]

I'm not normally a conspiracy nut but this makes me uncomfortable.

[Wolfshade]

I cannot comment on what the Police do and do not do. I can tell you for most purposes CCTV is better than ANPR and it is not a cheap conversion and quite a lot of cameras lack the resolution required for ANPR tracking, facial recognition and what have you, though obviosuly the technology becomes cheaper and more affordable and the high-end becomes better and better.

What the HA does with it's ANPR systems: http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information/traffic-information-services/traffic-cameras/why-does-the-highways-agency-use-anpr/

[Psychosplodge]

That's what I thought the blue ones on the A roads did?

[Wolfshade]

They might do, Blue oens are owned by TrafficMaster. So they are a private firm and can do whatever they like with the information. Especially as the roads have been defined as "Public Space" so if you can see it capture it you can use it.

[Psychosplodge]

Seems sensible :eek:

[Wolfshade]

Yeah, at least the green ones have rules :) and who knows what happens in Wales and Scotland

[Psychosplodge]

probably nothing good...

[Mr Mystery]

Lordy lordy I am a busy bunny today.

It's great!

[Wolfshade]

If you have some free time I have several thousand lines of unannotated VBA (urgh) code that needs deciphering.

My current mission is trying to find a presumed variable L that may or may not hold a numerical value but as to how it is created, addressed updated I have no idea.

[Psychosplodge]

I go out of my way to avoid coding.

[Mr Mystery]

I could do that. Outcome would be wrong, but I could do that.

And now, to cheer people up......recent stories of UKIP.....

Borderline racist poster about dirty foreigners taking our jurrrbbbs - Model used is Irish. Not British. Oops.

Candidate says Johnny Foreigner should go home, despite himself being South Africa born. Oops!

Campaign for Common Sense Bus - Crashed into a train station whilst attempting a u-turn. Oops!


Anyone else expecting Noel Edmonds to turn up and hand the Nation a Gotcha!

[Wolfshade]

The model could have been used as an example of these foreigners coming in and taking the jobs. Or, a pointing to a UKIP belief that Ireland should be solely under UK control...

Number 2 & 3 I didn't hear about. Number 3 amuses me greatly.

[Lord Asterion]

I could do that. Outcome would be wrong, but I could do that.

And now, to cheer people up......recent stories of UKIP.....

Borderline racist poster about dirty foreigners taking our jurrrbbbs - Model used is Irish. Not British. Oops.

Candidate says Johnny Foreigner should go home, despite himself being South Africa born. Oops!

Campaign for Common Sense Bus - Crashed into a train station whilst attempting a u-turn. Oops!


Anyone else expecting Noel Edmonds to turn up and hand the Nation a Gotcha!

Don't forget Farage's personal assistant, his wife, is paid a wage for which Farage claims expenses and she is German

[Mr Mystery]

Indeed!

Oh, and a UKIP employee being caught on a vox pops type thing pretending to a bloke in the street type speaking brain. Oops!

[Psychosplodge]

Irish have had right to work here longer than we've been in EU.

The second is hilarious.

Should have picked a more common sense place for a Uturn :D

The wife thing is a non-issue, don't most politicians do this?

But this is all sensible criticism, and how they should be criticised.
Don't you find the shouting down at events and the defacing of posters a bit fascist? kinda like the tactics the National socialists employed in the twenties and thirties?

[Darren Richardson]

How is it?
You pay your bus fare by how far you go.

wow Wolfie when was the last time you rode a bus in London? :D

They stopped that zone rubbish years ago for buses, a single bus ride right across the city will cost the same price for a couple of stops in the suberbs.

Still aplies on the Underground though :(

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Anyone else expecting Noel Edmonds to turn up and hand the Nation a Gotcha!

ah so I'm not the only one who remembers (or even watched) Noel's House Party then :)

[Mr Mystery]

Irish have had right to work here longer than we've been in EU.

The second is hilarious.

Should have picked a more common sense place for a Uturn :D

The wife thing is a non-issue, don't most politicians do this?

But this is all sensible criticism, and how they should be criticised.
Don't you find the shouting down at events and the defacing of posters a bit fascist? kinda like the tactics the National socialists employed in the twenties and thirties?

Nah.

I like watching people lay in to UKIP. They're a really insipid party, and pretty much the acceptable face of English* racism.




*Important to note this is not absolving the other areas of the UK from racist idiots. We all have them. But the UK in UKIP is a total misnomer, but then I guess 'London and Home Counties Independence Party' is a bit of a mouthful.

[Wolfshade]

Never been to London, but in the rest of the UK, where you know, the majority of the populace lives :p

So on London 'buses you get the people doing short distances subsiding people who go long distances. Sounds fair and reasonable to me :rolleyes:

While we are at it, people should pay more on their Fiats so that Ferraris can be sold cheaper!

[Psychosplodge]

He's too busy pretending to talk to a man on a phone these days anyway

Sorry Mystery but having been caught between the UAF and EDL before, well they have a lot more in common with each other.

And really the UAF have a very ironic name.

[Mr Mystery]

What? Farage?

[Psychosplodge]

What? Farage?

No Edmunds, he's always on the phone pretending to talk to the bank, how will he have time to present a gotchya?

[Mr Mystery]

Oh right, yes. I'm with you now.

Have you seen the various Fruit Machines with him on them? Those photos are scary. I don't know if he's calling a w**k line, or working on a w**k line....

[Psychosplodge]

Oh right, yes. I'm with you now.

Have you seen the various Fruit Machines with him on them? Those photos are scary. I don't know if he's calling a wank line, or working on a wank line....

Yeah.
And they're definitely scary.

[Wolfshade]

So that is why he has an eye on this hand...

[Psychosplodge]

Mystery you ordered the heresy III ltd didn't you?

Is it tomorrow they come?

[Mr Mystery]

I didn't in the end....but my mate Flipping Enormous Simon has his.

Pics of it up on Facebook and that.

[Psychosplodge]

oh thats promising, it might be waiting for me later :D

[Mr Mystery]

Bob Hoskins has died :(

This makes me sad.

[Wolfshade]

he of the old BT advert "It's good to talk"

[Psychosplodge]

Just heard.
He was a very good actor.

[Mr Mystery]

BT Advert, Mario Bros Movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Long Good Friday....

Gonna be missed.

[Psychosplodge]

Hook, christmas carol, spice world...

Was he in Enemy at the gates as well?

[Wolfshade]

Urgh, my desk thermometer was showing 27 when I got into work four hours ago, it is now displaying no temperature meaning it is either below 9 or above 27. So no impressed.

[Psychosplodge]

My desk thermometer shows nothing resembling reality.
Though the boss reckons they're accurate enough for him to use them to not have heating on when its cold :mad:

[Wolfshade]

My toblerone was melting and I was hotter than when I had finished my ride into work.

I am minutes away from slipping my lycra shorts and top back on.

[Mr Mystery]

My toblerone was melting and I was hotter than when I had finished my ride into work.

I am minutes away from slipping my lycra shorts and top hat back on.

But whilst the combination of lycra shorts and a formal hat is of course dashing good sirra, you must surely wear some kind of torso related apparel?

[Wolfshade]

But whilst the combination of lycra shorts and a formal hat is of course dashing good sirra, you must surely wear some kind of torso related apparel?

It is to stop people to tell me to wear a helmet...

My torso is so awesome it requires no covering

[Mr Mystery]

A fair answer.

I shall put it in the tome of acceptable responses.

[Wolfshade]

My bear chest:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GqEAVqiy860/TgvO03SIhLI/AAAAAAAACVI/9dJjtKHGhcs/s1600/asian-black-bear.jpg

[Psychosplodge]

Bat bear?

[Mr Mystery]

Or 80's Stock Market Trader bear?

[eldargal]

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcdwcs1i961rngt2so1_400.jpg

[Tyrendian]

that's very very awesome :D

[Mr Mystery]

Starting to feel I'm the only one who has never played Mass Effect.

[eldargal]

It's on Steam.:p

[Mr Mystery]

I only have a crappy old laptop.

I game on my PS3 thanks. Currently revisiting Arkham Asylum. Such a good game!

[Psychosplodge]

You're doing it wrong.

[eldargal]

I think it's available on PS3 as well.

[Mr Mystery]

You're doing it wrong.

Doing it just as I intended, thank you Mr Splodgeynessabounds!

[Psychosplodge]

:p

All those many raises. Buy components, build a rig, join the PC Gaming Master Race

[Mr Mystery]

No.

Haven't got space in me flat for a gaming PC and monitor and that.

And I'm getting a PS4 in June anyways.

[Psychosplodge]

base it in a bitfenix itx case, on an itx format motherboard. It'll have a smaller footprint than the PS3. Hdmi output straight into your TV.
They aren't beige boxes anymore...

[Wolfshade]

Never played mass effect either.

Bitfenix itx cases are the boss!

[Tyrendian]

anyone who hasn't played Mass Effect ought to have his/her head calibrated...

[eldargal]

Yep. Best game series ever in my opinion.

[Kirsten]

rumoured to be coming to next gen consoles so you might be able to play it yet.

[Wildeybeast]

Yep. Best game series ever in my opinion.

Apart from the end.

[Tyrendian]

and even that gets more flak than it deserves, at least with the extended cut... the basic one was a complete and utter letdown that's true, EC makes it decent (which by the standards ME has set until that point is rather poor admittedly)

[Wildeybeast]

I haven't got round to replaying it with the extended cut. I gather Omega was pretty cool as well, slits on the list. Currently working my through the DA back catalogue (again) in time for 3

[Aegwymourn]

I haven't got round to replaying it with the extended cut. I gather Omega was pretty cool as well, slits on the list. Currently working my through the DA back catalogue (again) in time for 3

I just finished playing through again for the same reason. So many hours wasted on a worth cause. :p

[Tyrendian]

I don't even know how many times I've played through ME3... half a dozen maybe... it's just that awesome to me :D

[Darren Richardson]

anyone who hasn't played Mass Effect ought to have his/her head calibrated...

I have never played a single one of those, not interested in that series or style of game at all....

besides I like to spend my spare time making up my figures to paint them (soon), playing World Of Tanks (damn it's become addicative, and you can play it on consoles as well for those less superior to us PC users :D ) or heaven forbid, acutally sleeping ;)

So please explain to me why I need my head recalbrated?

[Psychosplodge]

anyone who hasn't played Mass Effect ought to have his/her head calibrated...


Yep. Best game series ever in my opinion.

Its OK, but its certainly not the best game ever.
It is massively over hyped though...

[daboarder]

Its OK, but its certainly not the best game ever.
It is massively over hyped though...


the ending kinda ruined it for me, felt very forced, shoe-horned and cliche

[Psychosplodge]

I got bored part way through ME2 as it felt like one with dumbed down controls.

[daboarder]

personally I preffered the interface used in 2 and 3, 1 was a very un-intuitive set of controls to me and the engine felt very clunky. And the graphics upgrade made a world of difference.

[Psychosplodge]

It used a mouse, you could just point at things...

[Wolfshade]

Yep. Best game series ever in my opinion.

Have you not played EU?

Leern2Paradox

[daboarder]

I was reffering the the interface for powers, commands and the way the characters moved

[Psychosplodge]

I can't remember it tbh its been that long since I played it, but I can't remember having any issues with it either.
Weren't they just hotkeyed?

[Darren Richardson]

found this on Tumbler, brought a tear to my eye.

Cats! (http://8bitrevolver.tumblr.com/post/80521454043/this-was-meant-to-be-a-quick-warm-up-but-it)

[eldargal]

Have you not played EU?

Leern2Paradox

Of course I've played EU.:p But Mass Effect is still better.

[Psychosplodge]

found this on Tumbler, brought a tear to my eye.

Cats! (http://8bitrevolver.tumblr.com/post/80521454043/this-was-meant-to-be-a-quick-warm-up-but-it)

I can't deal with feels like that at this time in the morning

[eldargal]

I saw that a couple of weeks ago, it was all I could do not to go out and adopt a whole fudging cat shelter.

[Wolfshade]

I have a confession to make. I was pamphleted by UKIP, or rather my house was. Here are what they are saying, bear in mind this is for a Local election:


Spend taxpayers' money on local services, not on foreign wars, foreign aid, wasteful EU membership and wind farm subsidies
Rubbish is blighting our neighbourhoods: UKIP will scrap Labour's green waste tax and restore effective rubbish collection
UKIP is totally opposed to the unfair bedroom tax
Sentences for crime and anti-social behaviour must be meaningful and act as a deterrent
UKIP will do more to incentivise enterprise, attract jobs to the city, and regenerate our local centres
Scrap Labour;s barmy plans to spend £7m on 20mph speed limits across the city: UKIP will spend the money on fixing potholes and improving local transport
Sucessive Lib/Lab/Con Councils have left Birmingham over £1billion in debt. UKIP will focus spending on front-line services that benefit you, not fat-cat management salaries, vanity projects, and political correctness
Immigration is out of control, and is fuelling over-development and the destruction of our green spaces. It's time to take control of our borders
Local services must first be fore the benefit of local people, young and old. UKIP will and health and benefit tourism
Our brave service women and men are being let down by the Establisment. They must have proper care, housing, and jobs when they return home
UKIP will create more Grammar schools and do more to protect our vulnerable children



So lets see:
#1 All those things listed come from central government expenditure and not anything local council can deal with
#2 The two aren't really related. A green tax does not prevent effective collection. But to be fair, the council's current record for rubbish collection is poor, especially now that you have to pay for green (garden) waste to be removed
#3 This is central government decision and not anything local council can deal with, also notice no plans to reverse it
#4 This is a judicary decision and not anything local council can deal with
#5 Find me a local councillor who does not think that this is their remit
#6 This is something that they can do.
#7 This is something that they can do.
#8 Birmingham has no borders with any no UK areas, this is central government decision and not anything local council can deal with
#9 Health/Benefit tourism is a border issue and not anything local council can deal with
#10 No substance here, though notice they lead with service women not service men and women.
#11 Creation of schools is part of the education department's remit and not anything local council can deal with

So bland statements, fear mongering, citing issues that the local council cannot deal with and platitudes. So brilliant work 11 points a third of them about local issues...

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Of course I've played EU.:p But Mass Effect is still better.

You must be doing it wrong...

[Psychosplodge]

http://i57.tinypic.com/2h4gxoz.gif


We got the LibDem one at weekend.
Doesn't tell us anything about what they'll do, but it does tell you they don't like Labour or UKIP...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Does anyone?

[Psychosplodge]

Doesn't tell you about any of their policies though does it?

[Wolfshade]

I want to have a UKIP polster come and talk to me on m door step!

[Psychosplodge]

The labour one was swiftly sent on their way

[Mr Mystery]

I'm hoping to get a UKIP flier, so I can cut it up quite finely with scissors, head out into the small rubble pile out the back, and then using lakky bands, attach a piece of cut up racist drivel to each bit of rubble. Then box them up separately, and send them to UKIP. at their freepost address.

Bankrupt them!

[Wolfshade]

I thought you needed to send them bricks?

[Psychosplodge]

Thats missing the point though.
They're currently leading the EU election polls, essentially the largest minority of the population supports them.
They have that support precisely because people on the left like yourself mystery are trying to stop open debate.
The best way to deal with them is to give them an open platform.

[Kirsten]

as in a platform that opens underneath them and drops them in to crocodiles? :p

plus, Mass Effect is one of the best game series ever.

[Psychosplodge]

as in a platform that opens underneath them and drops them in to crocodiles? :p

plus, Mass Effect is one of the most overated series ever.

lols
also ftfy :D

[Wolfshade]

as in a platform that opens underneath them and drops them in to crocodiles? :p

plus, Mass Effect is one of the best game series ever.

Vote Kirsten!

[Psychosplodge]

Fun quiz (http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/how-good-are-you-at-sex)

The result lmao

http://i61.tinypic.com/so936f.png

[Mr Mystery]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27225150

Apparently Farage didn't bottle it when given the chance to stand for Parliament.

And I agree, he didn't. He's far better off suckling at the teat of Europe than in the UK Parliament. Who would willingly give up a sweet job like that? Not that he'd ever admit it of course, but he's just on a scam.

[Psychosplodge]

It's where all our failed politicians go isn't it? Look at that former labour leader, no doubt clegg will be back out there when his party replace him

[Mr Mystery]

I guess.

But for all UKIP go on about it, it's a cushy number. Especially when UKIP only seem to vote on stuff that suppresses the rights of minorities and women. The actual important stuff? 'Protest vote' by not voting.

Yeah. Really effective. Well done. Cretins.

[Psychosplodge]

The votes are meaningless anyway, its europe, if the don't get the result they want they keep holding them till they do

[Wolfshade]

Ah well it could be worse.

[Wolfshade]

Some people like to deliver things in person rather than through the freepost address

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27240049

[Mr Mystery]

Bwahahahaha!

I'm tempted to send them....erm....something for the Roses.....

[Wolfshade]

I thought you would like that Mystery.

Happy Friday!

The whale hasn't exploded (http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bloated-whale-carcass-threatens-small-canadian-town). (But when the do go.. (http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-exploding-whales-goes-horribly-wrong).)

[Wolfshade]

So frustrated, last night set a database query up. Came in this morning and it had failed. I had failed to specify the date range so ended up trying to import the entire table (several GBs to my local machine). reset it up at 8 and still it hasn't finished.

[Psychosplodge]

oops

[daboarder]

I thought you would like that Mystery.

Happy Friday!

The whale hasn't exploded (http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bloated-whale-carcass-threatens-small-canadian-town). (But when the do go.. (http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-exploding-whales-goes-horribly-wrong).)

Hate to tell you, but that second one was blown up with TNT

[Wolfshade]

I know, it was supposed to be enough to blow it back out to sea, but failed KABOOOM! Sushi?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

My first week as Kitchen Fuhrer goes well. All of the orders have been done excellently. Teamwork and morale have increased. Work output has increased and as such food quality and service times have improved.

Looking good for me! :p

[Wolfshade]

Yay! But most importantly, is the mango chuntney in date?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Yes!
We have the audit next week so I am like a hawk right now. :p

[Wolfshade]

The reason I ask, is that I had an argument with one of the whetherspoons in Brum and every mango chuntey tub was off. I mean the pots had clearly blown. The chunet was brown not orange and you could smell it, yet still the bar manager refused to admit that it was off. I was unimpressed.
What is even more strange is that it is just that one 'spoons that I have consistent problems with, like running out of meals (I mean like reordered 3 times each time to be told, erm no sorry) yet the other 4 or 5 in the centre never a problem.
I suppose it goes down to what a difference the management make, so keep up the good work :)

[Mr Mystery]

Dunno about anyone else, but the Stick Pixie thread is making me moist in my special places.

Which is concerning, as I'm a dedicted Poop Pixie player, and normally hold no truck with the Stick or Glitter varieties....but I'm feeling drawn the moral ambiguity of the Forest.....

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

It is all about the management, and I shouldn't badmouth colleagues, but, the last team leader was sh!t. We had a lot of times where we would have to refuse orders due to lack of stock, this guy just wasn't in touch with reality. Only his own petty awful life, that he kept bringing to work with him...

[Mr Mystery]

My first week as Kitchen Fuhrer goes well. All of the orders have been done excellently. Teamwork and morale have increased. Work output has increased and as such food quality and service times have improved.

Looking good for me! :p

Just remember....improving morale, teamwork and output only shows how efficient the new 'flogging before shift' policy is, and should not be used as a reason to slacken off.

[Psychosplodge]

Stick pixie :confused:

[Mr Mystery]

Wood Elves. Stick Pixies.

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah I figured it out after posting lol

But all warhammer pixies have pretty models.

[Mr Mystery]

I know. But I'm a Poop Pixie.

Or was. The stick is strong this time around.

[Psychosplodge]

Never give up on your dreams (http://van-tallis.tumblr.com/post/84511750839/kitchenkind-iceeyu-disneysgreatest92)

[Mr Mystery]

Hmm.

EU Elections just round the corner.

I think it's time for me to be practical and pragmatic and that, and for once, actually vote.....Conservative.

Why such a betrayal of my political leanings? Well, I live in a total Tory stronghold, so my usual Labour vote is arguably wasted. In the general run of things, this doesn't bother me, and I vote Labour anyway. But this time around.....UKIP. Urgh. I hate UKIP. Whilst the Tories might be a shower of excrement, UKIP are far, far worse. Plus, I know any UKIP MEP will do precisely nothing to benefit the country in their position.

Tactical vote - Tory. That vote could be the one that stops UKIP in their tracks.

[Psychosplodge]

It's PR on a region basis Mystery, not like a proper election.

[Wolfshade]

...and local elections!

Me I will vote conservative for both.

The area I live in is a Labour stronghold. The labour concil has managed to deliver a poor service to my mind.
The rubbish collection is rubbish and now no longer collecting garden waste for free, isntead a £35 levy to do it which is non-transferable if you move to a different location.
Selling off of the NEC group, a terrible mistake.
The bus lane fiasco, where the prosecuted several thousands of drivers for driving in a bus lane despite being told that the signage was inadequate and so refunded only those who complained.
The "cycling manifesto" which has wasted thousands of pounds painting lines on roads and pavements preventing cyclists from getting where they would want to go, like the town centre, with ASLs where the advanced stop line is inaccessible without breaking the law
The absolute failure to repair my neighbours fence within six months.
Plus labour's anti-grammar school views are something I cannot abide.

[Kirsten]

hehehe, the Isle of Man on Buzzfeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/horrifying-problems-only-people-from-the-isle-of-man-will

[Psychosplodge]

I dunno what I'm doing for the euro elections.

But I will destroy my ballet paper for the council election.
It's a straight lib dem / labour fight for the council. Our current councillor or the one up for election anyway is a libdem, and abuses her position too much ( one example moved the existing park from behind her house to a position that had no park. Yes I'm a nimby but why else did she do it? easier tha getting the police to do their job, just move the problem.) Wrote and told her why I wouldn't vote, got the standard thank you for your interest response suggesting they never actually read the letter beyond the sender address.
Under no circumstances will I vote Labour for the council. They're so busy trying to score points off the national government they're letting people suffer.
Also they're responsible for the poor design of our road system, the supertram debts, the stadium fiasco, lack of parking and general anti car policy in the city centre.

[Mr Mystery]

It's PR on a region basis Mystery, not like a proper election.

Even so, I'd prefer a Tory euro-sceptic as an MEP. At least they know fact from fiction. UKIP, not so much.

Also, got a UKIP flyer through the door yesterday. Rude doodles completed, now looking for a paving slab so I can return to sender.

[Wolfshade]

Max Clifford 1 assault 1 year in gaol. With a total of 8 years, though only 4 in gaol the next 4 on licence.

[Psychosplodge]

hehehe, the Isle of Man on Buzzfeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/horrifying-problems-only-people-from-the-isle-of-man-will

lols

[Wolfshade]

Tried to read that twice.

First time it hung my pc
Second time it disconnected my internet...

[Mr Mystery]

Max Clifford, sentenced to 8 years.

http://www.first4lawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/banner-new-mobile.jpg

[Psychosplodge]

Surely justice would be if he served them?

[Wolfshade]

http://www.shouldivoteukip.co.uk/

[Psychosplodge]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

[Wolfshade]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Interestingly, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/02/lhc-black-hole_n_5249511.html from today.

[Mr Mystery]

And now a UKIP Councillor has included in his manifesto compulsory abortions for Foetuses with downs syndrome, spina bifida etc, calling them a burden on the state.

Mmmmmm. Eugenics!

[Wolfshade]

and I thought their velocopide views were strange.

[Mr Mystery]

I swear they're on a mission to win some kind of 'least electable party actually elected' award or something.

[Wildeybeast]

Still a fair way behind the BNP. I saw their election broadcast the other night and it was awful. Truly, truly awful. Half of it was bleeped out due to having been censored for being so offensive and it had some weird graphics that looked like they'd been made by brain damaged racist for poor computer skills on an LSD. Which is probably about right.

The Green Party had a decent one though. Couple of guys doing passable imitations of foggy and clegg, before then telling us about practical differences they have actually made. They've got my vote for the Euros (assuming they are standing round my way).

[Kirsten]

every day there is a new story about ludicrous UKIP nonsense, it is amazing they get any consideration whatsoever.

[Darren Richardson]

And now a UKIP Councillor has included in his manifesto compulsory abortions for Foetuses with downs syndrome, spina bifida etc, calling them a burden on the state.

Mmmmmm. Eugenics!

bah he doesn't have a clue does he, people with Downs and Spina are still productive people, they can work just like other people, ok with Downs you can't expect them to handle really complex tasks easily, but they can still interact with people and such.

People with Spina Bifida may end up wheelchair bound, but they are able to communicate and are capable of doing office based work.

So neither can be called a "burden on the state"

But on the other hand those poor souls who are stuck in wheelchairs, unable to feed themselves, talk or perform even the most basic of tasks in life, I do wonder why we make them and the parents suffer, it's cases like that for which I would support euthinasia for.

But making it Compulsary, ugh now we moving into **** Territory and we all know where that leads :(

- - - Updated - - -

hmm it seems the message board doesn't like the shortened version of the historic National Socialists Party it seems :rolleyes:

[Mr Mystery]

Indeed. That's the problem with eugenics.

As a pure theory, it does make sense. But as soon as it becomes a discussion point, you need to define what are desirable and undesirable traits, and it all goes horribly wrong.

[eldargal]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6bb039817c047e2605453c36e04085c/tumblr_n4ozwh1OxD1ta83ebo9_400.gif

[Gotthammer]

*boop*

[eldargal]

https://24.media.tumblr.com/5d3128688d774b1a6c219cc7adccba5e/tumblr_n4ozwh1OxD1ta83ebo6_400.gif

[Kirsten]

I can't get gifs to work, what sorcery is this?

[eldargal]

Gifs can not work?

https://31.media.tumblr.com/87bb1900a1dc92ec7f15297fd25d210e/tumblr_n47fr4Uxjv1qzhnmco1_500.jpg

[Kirsten]

I have never gotten gifs to work on any website.

I would be more impressed if the 'zilla' had been neatly stenciled to match the rest...

[Gotthammer]

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1436643424/image.jpg

[Kirsten]

rawr

[Mr Mystery]

I changed up all my shrapnel today using a machine in Sainsburys.

£16.53...all in 5's, 2's and 1's.

Not bad eh?

Though I seem to have ended £2 up on where I thought I should be.

[Gotthammer]

God is dead. (http://youtu.be/D5bOJT_HtUI)

[Kirsten]

an interesting article about pornography and why it isn't the problem, and restricting it will not help. the article also suggests that sex crimes go down when access to porn increases

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201305/porn-is-not-the-problem-you-are

[Darren Richardson]

well any body into porn could have told those idiots in charge that, the majority of people will be satisfied by porn, it's only the .00001% that would go further down the criminal route.....

Beside Porn isn't excatly new now is it, the Romans and Greeks like their porn too....

Plenty of mosics and poetry to prove it :D

[Mr Mystery]

Yay! Cannibal films!

Cannibal Terror done - and it was god awful.

Last Cannibal World now, with Cannibals and Cannibal Apocalypse to follow.

Video nasties RULE!

[eldargal]

I've always found the arguments about porn kind of flawed. I mean there is firm evidence that it screwed up pre-teen thinking about sex a lot but the solution to that is better, earlier sex education. The idea that porn is degrading to women rests on the premise that sex is degrading to women. The fact is it is only degrading because culturally we see sex as something that degrades women. If we got over this misogynist nonsense that women are degraded by sex then porn wouldn't be seen as degrading. As it is even if you banned porn, ignoring all the negative problems that would cause, men would STILL degrade women because we have a culture that says they can.

Hee:
https://31.media.tumblr.com/8e0d1d04040074bd516bad2f22ecaeac/tumblr_mr60318vlU1spa9a2o1_1280.png

[Darren Richardson]

Hee:
https://31.media.tumblr.com/8e0d1d04040074bd516bad2f22ecaeac/tumblr_mr60318vlU1spa9a2o1_1280.png

ah yes the Spidermen limited comic series, yeah that was kinda funny....

[Kirsten]

this is awesome, scientists solve the mystery of how the egyptians moved such massive stones across the sand

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/mystery-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones-solved

[Psychosplodge]

I swear they're on a mission to win some kind of 'least electable party actually elected' award or something.

Clearly got the "big three" (though debatable we should still include the libdems in that) running scared, or why else they barrage of attacks? Most lunatic fringe parties are merely ignored.




The Green Party had a decent one though. Couple of guys doing passable imitations of foggy and clegg, before then telling us about practical differences they have actually made. They've got my vote for the Euros (assuming they are standing round my way).

Ah yes, but you don't really on the private sector still existing :D



Indeed. That's the problem with eugenics.

As a pure theory, it does make sense. But as soon as it becomes a discussion point, you need to define what are desirable and undesirable traits, and it all goes horribly wrong.

Interesting way of looking at it, never considered that.


*boop*

*boop (http://getyourgifsout.tumblr.com/post/84210660503)*


I changed up all my shrapnel today using a machine in Sainsburys.

£16.53...all in 5's, 2's and 1's.

Not bad eh?

Though I seem to have ended £2 up on where I thought I should be.

Got an ammo box full of copper, its about reached the point to weigh in...

[Wolfshade]

Did everyone have a good May Day?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I went for a drink for Cinco de Mayo. :)

[Psychosplodge]

Yesterday?
I curled up in bed with the SO and played games all day...

[Wolfshade]

No morris dancing?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I was working from 5am, and it was a nightmare shift... Then the drinking. :)

Love trolling 40k players.

[Mr Mystery]

4 Cannibal films, argument with ex and cessation of all contact and that, and an episode of Game of Thrones.

So yep, pretty good day all round!

[Wolfshade]

I love cake,

- - - Updated - - -

Watched the first episode of Hannibal last night, gosh darn it, it is goood./

[Psychosplodge]

4 Cannibal films, argument with ex and cessation of all contact and that, and an episode of Game of Thrones.

So yep, pretty good day all round!

oh dear...

[Mr Mystery]

It was coming, and it was necessary.

Air cleared, and no need to ever go back, on account I don't believe in revisting your vomit. Much as I might love the species, I myself am not a dog.

[Psychosplodge]

But I thought it'd ended well? :eek:

I've managed to book a night in London, first class return rail for two adults, and a pair of gig tickets for......wait for it..... only £306, and they wonder why people hate things being in London.

[Mr Mystery]

Oh it did at first. Then it didn't. Hey ho. Unfortunately she mistook incompetence for malice.

I hate being in London too. Except when I'm at work. Because I can post on here and nobody seems to care, and I still get paid.

[Psychosplodge]

Ah, yeah that'd do it.

That does seem its one saving grace :D case of as long as everything is done whats it matter eh?

[Mr Mystery]

Yup!

And today, I have pretty much nothing to do. Too efficient, me!

[Darren Richardson]

Did everyone have a good May Day?

worked an evening shift 5pm till 10pm, nice quiet evening where for once everything went smoothly....

It felt like I was trapped in the Twilight Zone :D

[Mr Mystery]

Oooh! Just remember! Sunday night - WWE Extreme Rules Pay-per-view round my mates house.

It was ace! First ever PPV Wrestling I've seen. And now....FIRST OF MANY!

[Wolfshade]

Irritate people and say that it is just ballet without the music.

[Mr Mystery]

I quite agree.

Some of the stuff they do is really quite incredible. You'd never think such large, bulky blokes could be so light on their feet.

[Wolfshade]

I enjoy it, then you suddenly find yourself in that suspended disbelief

[Mr Mystery]

Daniel Bryan v Kane involved a Forklift Truck.

That was ace that!

It's all about the show!

[Wolfshade]

The bit I dislike is the divas but I think that we have gone over that countless times already.

[Mr Mystery]

The match on Sunday night was pretty cool. Muscle Woman vs Athletic build. Really well choreographed.

Oh 40k section. Y u meltdown every time a rumour come out?

[Psychosplodge]

What's the rumour?

[Wolfshade]

Because the sky is fallin' and it is just a last ditch attempt to grab my monies by GW

[Psychosplodge]

oh the usual

[daboarder]

Because the sky is fallin' and it is just a last ditch attempt to grab my monies by GW

dunno if the sky is falling, not yet. had thought it might be an attempt to grab cash by GW before the end of the financial year, but then found out that the UKs financial year is different to the australian one

[Wolfshade]

I think it is best to sit and wait and see what happens.
But then I play the long game...

There are times I feel sorry for GW, it is like the time they released an FAQ for a codex that was realsed on that same day. So on the one hand they get lamblasted for being slow to pick up faqs then on the other get slammed for a sloppy release. Now to be fair what was faqed should have been addressed in the codex originally, but we often see that this is not the case so a rapid response is good.

[Mr Mystery]

I'm always amazed at how many take stuff completely personally, as if GW have nothing better to do than to come up with a rule to annoy that same person on the intertubes, time and again. Even when it's something they'd been demanding, because they'll just change their mind.

[daboarder]

I think it is best to sit and wait and see what happens.
But then I play the long game...

There are times I feel sorry for GW, it is like the time they released an FAQ for a codex that was realsed on that same day. So on the one hand they get lamblasted for being slow to pick up faqs then on the other get slammed for a sloppy release. Now to be fair what was faqed should have been addressed in the codex originally, but we often see that this is not the case so a rapid response is good.

I can agree with that, complaining when they try to fix things is pretty silly. but when the changes make no sense and we dont even get the designers notes anymore....thats what irks must people really, the complete lack of communication.

Take the digital editions for example. Eddie on the facebook page was the best thing that has happened at GW in years, for the simple reason that he would respond and interact with the fans....the result, Some higher up at GW twists their underwear in a knot and it all goes away (with none of the replacement that certain posters assumed was coming returning)

[Wolfshade]

I think Eddie was a good thing too. I think that there is a bit of a disparity between upper management and the rest at GWHQ, actually I should phrase that stronger, it does exist, one pushes in one direction (usually in the "community" direction for want of a better phrase) the other in another (£).

The weekly release schedule was one of these upper management brain childs. But thankfully, it seems to have worked quite nicely, well the 40k side at least, I don't pay much/any attention to WFB.

The community like to feel like their voice is being listened to, and I think a lot of people treat GW as a couple of guys sat round with beer and crisps rather than a multi-national organisation. It would be good if they could ressurect an eddie type to respond to everyone but the amount of calls that they would get eddie would need to be a team of about 50 people...

[daboarder]

mm the weekly schedule is pretty cool really, always something new to read in the morning news

[Wolfshade]

When I first learned of the weekly release schedule I was opposed to it, I thought it was a silly idea.
My first thought was most people get paid monthly and still have a fixed hobby budget, so having four/five drops instead of the one wouldn't then cause people to spend 4x the amount each month. What it has done, is made it quite exciting to see what is happening and tied in with the weekly newsletter/wd thingy has made a more sustatined hobby excitement, which I something I didn't account for. When it was just weekly dataslates I was like o-oh but then we had some big ones.

[daboarder]

mm the weekly schedule is pretty cool really, always something new to read in the morning news

As to eddie, I hardly think that they require a team that large, the facebook page for the digital editions was a side project (the removal of it did not lead to the removal of digital editions) and that managed fine.

The stores manage fine as well

[Wolfshade]

What I mean is a team or being able to respond to every customer query in a timely fashion.

From the "My Vyper shipped without flying base" to the "How on earth can AM have a Ld of only 8!"

[Kirsten]

I'm always amazed at how many take stuff completely personally, as if GW have nothing better to do than to come up with a rule to annoy that same person on the intertubes, time and again. Even when it's something they'd been demanding, because they'll just change their mind.

but of course, GW are pure evil and all they do all day is have big meetings about what will annoy everybody the most. surely you are aware of this? EA do the same, nothing but pure corporate malevolence whose every action is geared toward destroying what they create...

[daboarder]

What I mean is a team or being able to respond to every customer query in a timely fashion.

From the "My Vyper shipped without flying base" to the "How on earth can AM have a Ld of only 8!"

they already have to do one (because contrary to what people think consumers have rights)

and the other could be served by at least releasing the designers notes for the release of the week to give people an incite into what was going through the authors heads. then you have a small group like "eddie" that deal with the community is small, subtle but ultimately positive ways.

ultimately we wont really change anything, it is what it is, but the understanding of why is important to understand the behaviour of both the community and GW towards each other

[Wolfshade]

Perhaps we just hold GW in a different position to other companies.

In itunes I can buy a track for 99c or 99p, which owing to currency fluctuations means that I can sometimes be paying a third more for the same digital track that costs no more or less to deliver to me, yet we don't see a big rally against apple. Nor in the way they have a completely closed market, and overly expensive pcs.

Or how I can buy a dvd in americas and it won't work in my european player, or how I can buy dog food that is branded for working dogs and avoid paying tax on it despite it being almost identical to their "non-working dog" receipe!

[daboarder]

its the investment, both emotionally and financially. many of the community are far more invested in GW than they are in products like computers, phones DVDs etc....

[Psychosplodge]

because you need to unlock your dvd player Wolfie, or set it to region 0 :D

[Wolfshade]

I know, hence we consider GW to be "our" little thing rather than a large corporate monolith.

In the same way Metallica when they "sold out" and did MTV and wore makeup...

[Psychosplodge]

yay!

My FW goodies have finally arrived!

[Mr Mystery]

Is that the books and that?

[Psychosplodge]

Aye, should be. Not expecting owt else i don't think and just got your parcels arrived text bit longer than I expected tbh, thought it would have come the day they went live on the site.

[Mr Mystery]

http://www.moonbattery.com/goodnewseveryone.jpg

I'm getting a second bonus in November.

[Psychosplodge]

Woohoo.

So what car you getting?

[Mr Mystery]

Delorian?

Time Travel back to the 80's, and turn out to be the sole cause of the London Property Boom.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Lolwat.

[Psychosplodge]

Sounds like a plan

[Mr Mystery]

Lolwat.

It's reverse political causality.

If I, as a committed left liberal of limited socialistic leanings were to go and tinker with the god awful greed of the 80's, RPC would ensure I turn out to be the power behind the throne, and directly responsible for everyone younger than 60 being stuffed for easy home ownership.

[Wolfshade]

You should get that electric velo bike. Be a proper liberal.

[Mr Mystery]

No.

I simply don't have that level of smug within me. :p

[Wolfshade]

Really you should be using the Boris bike.

[Mr Mystery]

Barely move in London. I get dropped off by my coach at Canary Wharf, and then it's a 10 minute walk to my office. Boris Bike really isn't required.

But you know what...November bonus, designed to give us a little extra cash in our sky rocket to help out with Chrimbo.....

I have no SO, and no dependants. Immediate family of three, so few pressies to buy.

Reckon I'm going to have to do the right thing and donate a decent chunk of it to a children's charity. One that ensures the poorest of poor little sods actually get something from Santa at Christmas. And by donate, I mean go out and buy toys, rather than the (to me) slightly cold giving of cash. That way, kid is getting something I reckon is well cool, rather than a sterile, mass bought because the money goes a bit further* gift.


*Nowt wrong with that for charities mind!

[Wolfshade]

Surely to celebrate the Birth of Christ you need to believe in him, or are you just celebrating Capitalism?

[Mr Mystery]

I'm celebrating a day in the year where mankind is actively encouraged not to be an arse to each other.

And you know, random acts of kindness are good for the soul.

[Psychosplodge]

Money isn't for charity, they just waste it on PR and posh offices.
Donate time if you must.
Enjoy your money properly by acquiring experiences and possessions.

[Mr Mystery]

Which is why Imma buy toys, and donate them.

That, and toy shopping is *fun*

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah I finished reading the post after my initial horror caused my reply :D

[Wolfshade]

I'm celebrating a day in the year where mankind is actively encouraged not to be an arse to each other.

And you know, random acts of kindness are good for the soul.

If you are worried about your immortal soul, go and spend time with the man with the yellow hat.

[Mr Mystery]

Nah.

All just about being a nice dude, and not spending all my money on me.

Just most of it.

[Wolfshade]

Sorry, just being an arse.

It is refreshing to see charity

"Faith, Hope and Charity, and the greatest of these is Charity" - Paul

[Mr Mystery]

And check out this t-shirt design.

http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.9881611.5664/fc,550x550,army.jpg

[Wolfshade]

Of course given the brown background it is ironic.

[Mr Mystery]

My one will be on a black hoodie.

Because Hoodies are dead comfy.

[Wolfshade]

Reminded me of hug a hoodie

http://municipaldreams.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/hoodie.jpg

[Psychosplodge]

urgh feel so sick. :(

[Wolfshade]

urgh feel so sick. :(

What up dude, Montezuma's Revenge? Attack of the Dehli Behli?

[Psychosplodge]

Inconsiderate work colleagues and lavender air freshener.

[Wolfshade]

Scenario I:
Inconsiderate colleague "droped" such a "bomb" that a cannister of air freshner was the only thing to stop the room smelling of fecease

Scenario II:
Inconsiderate colleague, in a fit of peak, attacked Spodgy with lavender air freshner to object to his neck beard body odours

Scenario III:
Inconsiderate colleague has read about the mystic energy and stress release that smelling lavender does, so doused the workshop liberaly with it

Scenario IV:
A new lavendar.

It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have
won their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.

During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power
to destroy an entire planet.

Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save her
people and restore
freedom to the galaxy....

[Psychosplodge]

Scenario one would be accurate, however as a company we've managed for the entirety of my employment to date to manage without air freshener in the building. No idea where it appeared from. Upon returning from outside where I'd won the battle with my stomach over whether to disgorge its contents or not I offered to vomit profusely next time it is used.

[Wolfshade]

Moreover, ask to see the risk assement for the use of aersole in an enclosed environment

[Psychosplodge]

hahahahahahahahahaha

As if H&S exists here, you should see how we access the high level racking.

[Wolfshade]

So a couple of months ago a project manager took one of my ideas to develop into a business case.

Today he came and spoke to me, then told me the exact same information again in an email with my original idea copy and pasted into a form....

[Psychosplodge]

So you're definitely aware of it then?

[Wolfshade]

I fail to see the value he has given.

Though I have just found out that the budget for him is zero, not his operational budget, but the one that pays his wage. "At risk" I believe is how they call it.

[Psychosplodge]

oh dear...

Middle management?

[Wolfshade]

"Consultant"

[Psychosplodge]

uh, worse.

[Mr Mystery]

Hurrah for a permanent contract, that's what I say!

[Wolfshade]

Huzzah!

[Mr Mystery]

Yarparoo!

Sadly, my Mentees? 36 month contracts. So they've got roughly 24 months left.....

Though I do expect a goodly number to be extended. This thing just won't die!

[Kirsten]

Moreover, ask to see the risk assement for the use of aersole in an enclosed environment

genuinely thought that said 'use of arsehole'

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Sometimes, I look at all the posts on this thread and go "I can't be arsed to read all of this"