Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[Wildeybeast]

Just do what I do and read the last page. If there is anything interesting or even coherent, then I bother replying, otherwise I just let the lunacy wash over me.

[Psychosplodge]

lazy *******

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Embrace the madness

[Wolfshade]

genuinely thought that said 'use of arsehole'

a) I don't want to know what they do at Game, though might explain the smell ;)
b) Sounds like the user was
c) It smells of lavender?!



If there is anything interesting or even coherent
Never

Interestingess and coherancy is overrated.

Beer festival tomorrow Woot Woot

[Psychosplodge]

But after the third or fourth pint do you notice what you're drinking anymore?

[Gotthammer]

http://youtu.be/qCp9-tEHa8U

[Wolfshade]

genuinely thought that said 'use of arsehole'


But after the third or fourth pint do you notice what you're drinking anymore?

You need to plan and strategise.

For a beer festival you need

- Tasting note book
- Pencil (pens become tricky)
- Beer menu

Step one: Sample each of the ales on tap as halves
(note 1: this is the only time that drinking halves is acceptable)
(note 2: it is acceptable to omit "american" and "craft" "beer")

Step two: Take notes of each beer

Step three : Determine the King of the Festival ( a combination of flavour, drinkablity and price)

Step four: Put away the pencil, note book, and half pinter, change up to pint glass (or larger) and quaff away.

[Psychosplodge]

One of the lads at work just shown me an awesome video.
POV Bloke watching superman goes outside, climbs on garage and flys over the city :D

[Wolfshade]

Cool.

I have just figured out why my big querry involving 10s of millions of records would only return 700. I was comparing two different months so the only overlap was at midnight at the end of one and midnight at the start of the other. I feel like a wazzock.

[Psychosplodge]

At least you discovered the issue.

[Wolfshade]

Huzzah, just another 2 days to extract and re-query the new information!

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Whey.

Meanwhile, I'm busy missing drinking because I work too much.

[Wolfshade]

You can drink at work.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I can, and then get fired.

[Mr Mystery]

You know what's sad about celebrity culture?

If we all ignored them, it would actually go away.

How depressing.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

But why would I ignore some of them?

[Mr Mystery]

Because whilst a few are in fact worthy of being celebrated, on account of talent/good works etc......

The vast, vast majority are simply famous for being utterly pointless.

The ones worth keeping aren't the ones who keep turning up like bad pennies, spread across every medium of tedium.

[Psychosplodge]

I've just had a thought.
Anyone got four sentinel legs and a taurox laying about?

[Tyrendian]

I like that thought! or maybe half a dozen Dreadnought leg pairs? Sents do look very spindly...

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah but so do the originals...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Are you trying to build Mini-AT ATs? I already suggested Sentinel legs near the Taurox's release. :p

[Psychosplodge]

That was the idea, and did you? I must have missed it :D

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

To be fair, I think I suggested it IRL.

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah, I would have missed that then...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

My god, Lauren Mayberry is hot.

[Tyrendian]

also, add horns to the front and call it a Tauros... oh wait that name already exists...

€dit: the legged Taurox obviously. not Lauren Mayberry.

[Psychosplodge]

after some brief google-fu I will moderately agree with the added with her hair up

[Gotthammer]

My god, Lauren Mayberry is hot.

Well it is almost summer over there isn't it? Maybe you should offer her a cool drink?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I would offer her more than that...






I'd buy her an ice cream too...

[eldargal]

after some brief google-fu I will moderately agree with the added with her hair up

With her hair down she looks 12.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Surprised you don't already know her EG


I absolutely accept that in this industry there is comment and criticism. There will always be bad reviews: such is the nature of a free press and free speech. When you put your work out there, you are accepting the fact that people will comment on it, but it is your choice whether you read it or not.
What I do not accept, however, is that it is all right for people to make comments ranging from "a bit sexist but generally harmless" to openly sexually aggressive. That it is something that "just happens". Is the casual objectification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification#Sexual_objectification_of_w omen) of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over and accept defeat? I hope not. Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to "just deal with"

[Wolfshade]

So I get approached by a civil servant for some information, being the curious person I was like, hmm, what's that for? They explained that it was part of this new project. Jokingly, I replied, oh is that this project (name redacted) that I am already doing some work for? No he replied. Oh I said, so we have two different projects looking at the same issue with the same deliverables but completely unaware of each other, that's efficient....

Sometimes I think life would be so much better if these government departments were working privately...

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It is less the left arm doesn't know what the right is doing, more the left arm has no idea that a right arm does and even could exist!

[Psychosplodge]

also, add horns to the front and call it a Tauros... oh wait that name already exists...

€dit: the legged Taurox obviously. not Lauren Mayberry.

lols


With her hair down she looks 12.

yeah quite disconcerting really. Who is she anyway?


So I get approached by a civil servant for some information, being the curious person I was like, hmm, what's that for? They explained that it was part of this new project. Jokingly, I replied, oh is that this project (name redacted) that I am already doing some work for? No he replied. Oh I said, so we have two different projects looking at the same issue with the same deliverables but completely unaware of each other, that's efficient....

Sometimes I think life would be so much better if these government departments were working privately...

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It is less the left arm doesn't know what the right is doing, more the left arm has no idea that a right arm does and even could exist!

So have you just killed a project? or are they still doing it twice?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

The lead singer of CHVRCHES. She was born in 1988, so she is 4 years older than me.

[Psychosplodge]

And far too young for me :D

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Fine, more for me.

[Psychosplodge]

You could look at it that way.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I will.

[Mr Mystery]

If e-mails were acts of aggression, that one would have been a proper hoofing.

How can you be so incompetent, and still want 30% plus VAT of someone's redress? I mean, seriously.

It brings me down, it really does.

[Wolfshade]

genuinely thought that said 'use of arsehole'


lols



yeah quite disconcerting really. Who is she anyway?



So have you just killed a project? or are they still doing it twice?

Twice apparently

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Hmm, I am not sure why, but when I use Reply with Quote it keeps including that quote from Kirsten.

[Tyrendian]

Twice apparently

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Hmm, I am not sure why, but when I use Reply with Quote it keeps including that quote from Kirsten.

too awesome to be kept down maybe? :D

[Wolfshade]

genuinely thought that said 'use of arsehole'


too awesome to be kept down maybe? :D

Prusmably, might need to add it to my sig.

[Tyrendian]

I do wonder: does that happen in other threads as well? that would make for some hillariously inappropriate situations I suppose :D

also, maybe a new T-Shirt is in order?
8737

[Mr Mystery]

Ompy-pom-pe-pom.

Very bloody nearly finally fixed up my finances. For good this time. All shored up.

So now it's time for to think about what I can do with it. Yay!

[Kirsten]

well I start a full time job on Monday, so now my finances will receive a serious boost too

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

YEY!

Rejoice.

[Mr Mystery]

Woop!

Go the collective us!

[Psychosplodge]

Twice apparently

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Hmm, I am not sure why, but when I use Reply with Quote it keeps including that quote from Kirsten.

It's a fault I've had a while, threads I've multiquoted on often still have them quoted when I quote on them again, so you have to delete them in the text box each time...


well I start a full time job on Monday, so now my finances will receive a serious boost too

woo!
Game? or elsewhere?

[Wolfshade]

Unfortuantley it didn't persist today.

Also, beer festival. TONIGHT. That's right britches! Fuggles Galore!

[Psychosplodge]

Woohoo!

[Mr Mystery]

Yay!

For me, it's Agents of SHIELD.

And something nice for dinner.

[Gotthammer]

https://31.media.tumblr.com/cdee3c8b071240d607aef2209db2354e/tumblr_n533x33JJV1tv2sd2o1_400.gif



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_WMG2Q5pQ


*dies of laughter*

[Psychosplodge]

Saw the gif yesterday, that video is just hilarious though

[Kirsten]

woo!
Game? or elsewhere?

elsewhere, it is a minimum wage archiving job for four months, basically going in to a warehouse full of files and sorting it out. but it is nice and active, 37.5 hours a week, basically I will make in a week what I do in a month at Game. plus once this project is finished there is a good chance they will have something else for me to do as well because they are moving offices.

[Wolfshade]

Fingers crossed Kirsten, fingers corssed.

[Kirsten]

cheers all.

[Mr Mystery]

More money is better than less money!

[Psychosplodge]

Doh, bet theres no internet access...

[Wolfshade]

More money is better than less money!

Are you sure you are a socialist?

[Kirsten]

well there wont be internet access no, but I will have many monies and shall buy the shiny things.

[Mr Mystery]

Are you sure you are a socialist?

Yup!

More money in the system, the more people can be helped.

All those with fortunes into the multiple billions of (insert local currency)....what's the bloody point in that? What good is money if you've not got owt to actually spend it on?

[Wolfshade]

Yup!

More money in the system, the more people can be helped.

All those with fortunes into the multiple billions of (insert local currency)....what's the bloody point in that? What good is money if you've not got owt to actually spend it on?

Less people in the system, the more people can be helped!

As for nowt to spend it on, look at Forgeworld!!!

[Mr Mystery]

IT'S TIME TO START FLAILING, FANBOIS AND FANGIRLS (AND FANS WHO ARE YET TO DECIDE!)......

Agents of SHIELD season 2and Agent Peggy Carter confirmed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27338698)

SQUEEEEE

[Wolfshade]

Never mind that I have big data! Did you know 2/3rds of all journeys on the motorways are done at 60mph or greater?

[Mr Mystery]

What a load of twaddle.

Does that even take into account the M25?? Hmm? Does it? DOES IT WOLFIE? DOES IT?

Sorry. Got a bit overexcited....

[Wolfshade]

Yes, for instance, the most undertook journey is between J14 to J15 with some 2.9 million journeys per month, manages an (unweighted) average speed of 64mph, with 72% of journeys at 60mph or more, though only 16% of the time it occurs the expected (or better) speeds.

[Mr Mystery]

Not bad!

Though I do wonder what the median, rather than actual average speed is. After all, a 10mph crawl in crappy traffic can be made up for by some goon in a sportscar tanking along at 130mph when it's quiet*.







*Ideal time to do it, as fewer people are witnesses to laugh at your clear trouser department concerns :p

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Oh, and apparently, according to Nigel Farage, the reason we never win Eurovision is because nobody likes us in Europe (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27339143). And because we don't do well in Eurovision, Cameron wouldn't be able to negotiate a stronger position for us.

Now, some might say he's clutching at straws here, but let's take a serious look......

1. It's Eurovision
2. Nobody really cares all that much about winning Eurovision
3. Dear god man....IT'S EUROVISION
4. We select crap songs.
5. Probably on purpose
6. IT'S EUROVISION.
7. He must be getting desperate.

[Wolfshade]

73.

Speeds above a certain threshold above average are excluded. So your 130mph are probable exculded.

[Mr Mystery]

Ah cool.

[Wolfshade]

2. This is actually debateable, on the continent it is much more of a significant thing.

Now certainly I think it is nonsense but not everyone does.

BTW Niggle's plan actually allows for immigration, Nick Griffindor says so.

[Mr Mystery]

I was meaning within the UK.

We clearly don't take it seriously enough to ever bother actually trying to win. Seriously. Look at the drivel we submit year after year.

When we win, it's completely accidental!

Poor old Griffindor. He's been completely sidelined by UKIP. Which is nice, in it's own way.

[Wolfshade]

Thing with Griff is that he always keeps one eye on the prize...

[Mr Mystery]

Fnarr.

One eye looking at you, one eye looking for you.

[Wolfshade]

One eye looking forwards, the other looking past.

[Psychosplodge]

I'd accept that most are above 60mph, still annoying when you're stuck not moving on one...

[Wolfshade]

I was surprised, given most people drive at rush hour where speeds are lower.

[Psychosplodge]

I think theres enough traffic on the rest of the time to average it out

[Mr Mystery]

Rush hour also tends to clog up specific sections.

I get the A20/M20 out of London, and join the M25 just south of the Dartford crossing, usually around 5:30. M25, and A21 are usually pretty clear at those times.

[Wolfshade]

Why did no one tell me about this:
http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3110659.ece/alternates/s615/Postman-Pat-The-Movie.jpg

[Psychosplodge]

oh dear.

[Mr Mystery]

Because it has Ronan 'Satan' Keating in it? And is therefore doomed to being terribad?

[Wolfshade]

He is only there for when Pat is singing.

[Psychosplodge]

What's he doing singing? No wonder our post doesn't come till after two if they're busy swanning about singing

[Wolfshade]

It is a critical appraisial of the captialist environment and how service delivery is subverted for profit. Also Britian's got talent.

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Also:
https://alt-fest.com/images/logo_blk_680.png

http://www.alt-fest.com/index.html

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Even got a Steampunk stage for Mystery...

[Psychosplodge]

its the week after Bloodstock.

[Wolfshade]

I need to be able clone myself at least twice.

[Psychosplodge]

Also professor elemental is a shockingly bad selection to be so high Sunday

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yes the downside of numerous stages.
Considered a day ticket for DL to see Rob Zombie, but theres only five bands on that day I want to see and I think most of them clash

[eldargal]

IT'S TIME TO START FLAILING, FANBOIS AND FANGIRLS (AND FANS WHO ARE YET TO DECIDE!)......

Agents of SHIELD season 2and Agent Peggy Carter confirmed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27338698)

SQUEEEEE
Totes excited, mostly for Agent Carter though obviously more Agents of SHIELD is good. It will be interesting to see how they redeem SHIELD, some fans were speculating the second season would be renamed Agents of SWORD which was kind of silly.

[Wolfshade]

Zombie! Zombie! Zombie!


Werewulf women of the SS!

The only prof. Elmental song I am aware of is cup of brown joy.

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Totes excited, mostly for Agent Carter though obviously more Agents of SHIELD is good. It will be interesting to see how they redeem SHIELD, some fans were speculating the second season would be renamed Agents of SWORD which was kind of silly.

By season 7 it becomes agents of MORNING STAR
Marvel's
Outside
Rationality
Ninja
Intrepid
New
Group

Scuppering
The
Angry
Rebles

[Psychosplodge]

He performed one at kitacon, something about loathing micheal gove, I'll have to upload it for Wildey's viewing pleasure.

[eldargal]

This new Eldar vs 'nids Warzone is returning some of my enthusiasm for 40k, been focusing on WFB for ages now. Probly because of the psychological blow the Howling Banshee fiasco was, despite houseruling it I'm sad 'cos for most people they are just a useless unit.:( But totes enthused for Valedor and the tie in novel(s). Hope they don't **** over the Eldar for a change.

[Mr Mystery]

I really like Prof Elemental.

Simply for the line about him being Rap's Brighton Pier and his 'rival' being Rap's Piers Morgan.

[Wolfshade]

Sorry to break it to you EG, it must be a fake after all GW will never release a xenos only thingy... :rolleyes:

[eldargal]

I was a bit sceptical, I mean to date it was following the FW pattern of Imperium vs someone. I had hopes though, if only because GW seems to doing all teh great things while FW is just churning out more bloody Marine variants.><

[Kirsten]

Why did no one tell me about this:
http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3110659.ece/alternates/s615/Postman-Pat-The-Movie.jpg

the tag line sounds a bit euphemistic...

I think they have got him confused with the other famous delivery Pat

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It is a critical appraisial of the captialist environment and how service delivery is subverted for profit. Also Britian's got talent.


apparently they had an awesome magician on Britain's Got Talent recently, only he was Canadian, and doesn't live in Britain, which rather makes a mockery of the title...

[eldargal]

https://24.media.tumblr.com/dbb3c242be0664faf4bc8ffb561fa4ef/tumblr_n55ukc66yg1rxtp5do1_500.jpg
Hee

[Gotthammer]

Love it :p what exactly I'm referring too I'll leave up to the imagination ;)

[Mr Mystery]

There's worse ways to go.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Loving the new Wood Elf book, it is fifty shades of great. :D

[Gotthammer]

http://youtu.be/zKH0XUjOq0o

[eldargal]

Lols.:p

Tolkien died in 1973. Reverse it and you get 3791.
Three rings for the elven kings under the sky, seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, nine for mortal men doomed to die, and one for the dark lord on his dark throne.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/66789a4790d329938e9b20e8cb7a65d7/tumblr_inline_n38kkh0SZk1qc3aov.gif
Source (http://foodforbears.tumblr.com/post/83023827725/melkorwashere-thranduil-stormborn)

[Gotthammer]

http://img.pandawhale.com/45822-Keanu-Bill-and-Ted-whoa-gif-Yr7D.gif

[eldargal]

Right? *discombobulated flails*

http://24.media.tumblr.com/44e21f545c055ffd55f9caa05acbd2f3/tumblr_n2u4ycuma51roiqyto1_500.gif
Hehehe.

[Gotthammer]

http://i.imgur.com/0QX5Y6N.jpg

[eldargal]

Lols.

[Kirsten]

finished my last shift at Game, ten months has flown by.

[Kirsten]

also, this is great

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/05/09/johnnyexpress_an_alfred_imageworks_animated_short_ is_sad_funny_video.html

[Tyrendian]

that's as dark as it is well done...

[Mr Mystery]

And my one man X-Fest continues apace.

X-men 1, 2 and 3 down, Wolverine Origins on now.

First Class and The Wolverine in 3D to follow.

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Also, new 'Getting to grips with' in Warhammer General folks.

Ogre Kingdoms this time around.

[Darren Richardson]

getting ready for "Days of Future Past" Mystery?

I know I can't wait for it to come out, looks amazing....

[Kirsten]

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd380/KirstenIGMB/ten_zpsbad626ec.jpg

[eldargal]

Hur.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/10246479_654092017979740_3188239091781034975_n.jpg

https://31.media.tumblr.com/5241241d310ef543d2c1bb4058bd2926/tumblr_n4s4kp0rsz1tqc27mo1_500.jpg

[Gotthammer]

@ Kirsten: *facepalm*

@ EG: I feel Barda's pain >.<


Also:

https://24.media.tumblr.com/0548dc2e6757153a7d7aaa2e34c7c5d4/tumblr_mvktxdGKUV1rtp3uyo1_500.jpg

[eldargal]

Lol, nice.

[Mr Mystery]

I too feel those ladies pain.

It seems all manufacturers labour under the misapprehension all men are either stylish, but scrawny or scruffy and hench.

Nothing ever fits me quite right. So I'm saving up for a tailored suit. That is the only way.

[eldargal]

There are some very good Indian tailors that visit London and the other larger cities that do very reasonable bespoke suits if you don't want to splash out on Savile Row.:p

[Mr Mystery]

True that, and my Dad speaks highly of Indian Tailors. When on business, he could be measured in the morning, and pick up his suit in the evening.

I shall look into it.

[eldargal]

Some of them are every bit as good as Savile Row and some are even Savile Row trained but work out of India because it is so much cheaper. They tend not to have as broad a selection of cloth which can be an issue if you want something specific or something unusual. They struggle more making mens style suits for women in my experience too, the older Savile Row firms cope better but whateves, they get it done perfectly well in the end.

[Mr Mystery]

Awesome.

And I dare say you don't get the snootiness of Saville Row to boot.

Reckon four tailored suits ought to be about right, bought over a period of time. Though I'll also have to admit to being Middle Class, and Middle Aged and buy a trouser press.

[eldargal]

They can't really afford to be snooty anymore.

[Mr Mystery]

I guess.

Still, there's no reason to confuse higher price with higher quality. It's all about the value.

[Gotthammer]

http://youtu.be/C2c2zVfxLo4

[eldargal]

Kitties evolved from pears? Seems legit, they are totes pear shaped sometimes. Other times cat shaped. Sometimes almost spherical. Sometimes balls with two feet sticking out at random angles.

Met a woman who listed her name as Brandi S. Knapp the other day, still giggling about it.

[Mr Mystery]

I had a consumer the other day by the name of V. Agina.

[eldargal]

Brandy S Knapp is more amusing.:p

[Mr Mystery]

Depends entirely on your mental age really!

Also.....why do people ask for rule clarifications wen they've already made up their mind, despite being wrong?

More importantly.....you'd think I'd know better than to wander in those parts.

[eldargal]

In my meatspace headcanon her middle name is literally just S because her parents were ****heads who wanted a daughter named Brandy Snap.

[Mr Mystery]

Weirdo.

Well, that's that then. I'm spent! X-Men, X-Men 2, X-Men 3, Wolverine Origins, X-Men First Class and The Wolverine all watched. I'm spent!

[eldargal]

AKA Wolverine I, Wolverine II, Omigosh it's Wolverine, Wolverine First Class and More ****ing Wolverine.:p

[Mr Mystery]

Got to say, watching them all together really works well.

And now a bit of Amazon Prime. Just found a Wonder Woman animated film, which I'm going to give a shot. Because it's free. And it's only 73 minutes long.

Straight in a burn....

Ares : You seem as eager to meet me in battle as you were in the bedroom, Hipolota (yeah I don't know how to spell that proper)

Hipolota : I just hope you show more skill in this field.


Fnarr.

[eldargal]

Hippolyta.:p

[Mr Mystery]

Fair enough.

She's now just lopped off her son's head, and told Zeus to bog off. This is quite good!

I may feel DC's comics and films are a bit bobbins, but their cartoons are typically pretty ace. And if I want, I can binge on Batman The Animated Series..... Mmmmmmmmmyeah!

[eldargal]

Yeah their cartoons are SO MUCH better than their live actions films it isn't funny. Their comics vary, a few are fantastic, most are average, some are absolutely horrific.

[Mr Mystery]

Got to say, I just don't understand it.

How can you get animation so right, yet suck so horribly at film?

Marvel's films work really well, possibly because they're all part of the same world. Their animation can be a bit touch and go, but are rarely considered dire (though not a fan of motion comics. Just seem lazy to me) and their comics I find to be damned good (except oddly, X-Men that I find difficult to get into).


Oop, and she's just podded the fighter pilot bloke.

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And now the lasso of truth just forced him to explain what crap means. And blurt out that he thinks WW has a nice rack.


General plot isn't too dissimilar to Thor. God from another time adjusting to the modern human world.

I'm wondering if DC have now left it too late to do a WW film, on account of the thematic similarities to Thor?

[Kirsten]

the Vatican believes it must have a big hand in meddling with people and laws all over the world, interfering in people's lives, condemning millions to death in Africa, driving anti gay measures around the world, covering up crimes, sheltering priests from the law, but none of it is actually their fault, they are innocent of everything and cannot be held responsible for their members...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/06/torture-the-little-children-the-catholic-church-says-it-s-not-responsible.html

if any company acted they way they do there would be all manner of prosecutions, sanctions, public outcry etc. but of course they are a religion, and so above reproach.

[Mr Mystery]

On one hand....they are technically right that paedophilia is something for local law enforcement to deal with. That is only just.

But then.....why have they been so keen to protect those priests accused, typically just shuffling them to a diocese, at least until the allegations start pushing through the threats again?

[Kirsten]

exactly, you can't have it both ways, claiming it is down to local law enforcement, whilst destroying/hiding records, moving criminals about, and obstructing justice.

[Darren Richardson]

ugh don't get me started on the Cathloic religion, biggest bunch of hypocrites (sp?) on this planet....

They are supposed to be following Jesus Christ's message of love and acceptance of everyone no matter their lifestyle, religion or culture, yet they damn well persicute homosexuals, not very accepting are they?

[Mr Mystery]

Current Pope is something of an improvement, if still not what I would necessarily consider a great human being.

Organised Religion is the main reason I'm an atheist. I just can't reconcile any kind of loving God with the buttholes he apparently left in charge.

[Houghten]

You know, I suspect it says something about me that when I saw "current Pope is something of an improvement" in the New Posts sidebar, I immediately thought you were talking about Aun'va's rules...

[Mr Mystery]

Fnarr.

Well, that's my Angmar army sold off, and interest in my WotR Dwarf army from the same guy.

Take THAT, financial hiccups!

[Kirsten]

Current Pope is something of an improvement, if still not what I would necessarily consider a great human being.


I don't think he is personally, I think it is all a veneer. he said they would tone down the anti gay rhetoric for example, and people said oh what a progressive pope, then days later he is excommunicating an australian priest for being pro equality. he talks a pretty game but it is just words, he has done nothing meaningful.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Fnarr.

Well, that's my Angmar army sold off, and interest in my WotR Dwarf army from the same guy.

Take THAT, financial hiccups!

I wish I could get rid of my damned Tomb Kings.

[Mr Mystery]

Have you tried The Ebay?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Hate eBay and PayPal. They've screwed me over too many times...

[eldargal]

Stayed up all night reading, blargh

[Darren Richardson]

Stayed up all night reading, blargh

good book then?

[eldargal]

Yep Dragon Age: The Masked Empire. Really, really good I thought. Not jsut by video game novel standards.

[Wolfshade]

I don't think he is personally, I think it is all a veneer. he said they would tone down the anti gay rhetoric for example, and people said oh what a progressive pope, then days later he is excommunicating an australian priest for being pro equality. he talks a pretty game but it is just words, he has done nothing meaningful.

If you have a belief system that is codified into rules, like say the church of rome, then anyone who opposes those rules or speaks out against them is creating a heresey and as such the tell you how to handle them. Those firm foundations on the one hand makes the church very easy to withstand time and pressure, on the other it is a massive failing in my opinion. After all the whole point of Christ was to move people away from the rules (10 Commandments, 613 rules...) to living my grace.

In other news, this month celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first anglican female priests.

Beer and heritage weekend was great fun.

Scored a quarter Friday night, and Saturday's peal failed owing to mechanical failure, only an hour and an half in so not too bad.

[Psychosplodge]

I really like Prof Elemental.

Simply for the line about him being Rap's Brighton Pier and his 'rival' being Rap's Piers Morgan.

Statistically someone has to. But after having the misfortune to see him live, and then watch the FB drama when some people criticised his performance, just nope


There's worse ways to go.

yep


finished my last shift at Game, ten months has flown by.

woohoo


http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd380/KirstenIGMB/ten_zpsbad626ec.jpg

I've seen enough hentai...




Also:

https://24.media.tumblr.com/0548dc2e6757153a7d7aaa2e34c7c5d4/tumblr_mvktxdGKUV1rtp3uyo1_500.jpg

Best head cannon ever


There are some very good Indian tailors that visit London and the other larger cities that do very reasonable bespoke suits if you don't want to splash out on Savile Row.:p

How much is a saville row suit?




Met a woman who listed her name as Brandi S. Knapp the other day, still giggling about it.

lols

[Wolfshade]

US science causes sucidies!

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/us-spending-on-science-space-and-technology_suicides-by-hanging-strangulation-and-suffocation.png

That's a 0.99 correlation, so the more money the US spends on science the more people top themselves...

[Psychosplodge]

That's an interesting graph.

[Wolfshade]

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/per-capita-consumption-of-mozzarella-cheese-us_number-people-who-drowned-while-in-natural-water.png

[Psychosplodge]

That water...

[White Tiger88]

That water...

Well it is a poll of the US........

[Wolfshade]

Lawyers do not marry:

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/marriage-rate-in-ohio_number-of-lawyers-in-georgia.png

[Psychosplodge]

Aren't statistics fun.

[Wolfshade]

Yup.

Morale of the story: Cheese Kills!

http://i.imgur.com/OfQYQW8.png

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I am now a customer of RBS! F*ck you Lloyds and TSB! I don't want 4 accounts with two different banks.

[Mr Mystery]

I just switched too, from HSBC to Halifax.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

How come Halifax?

[Mr Mystery]

They give me £5 a month, and £100 for switching.

Other accounts have bells and whistles that don't appeal.

Plus, state owned. It's nice to get something out of that!

[Mr Mystery]

BBC has a 'what to expect in Brazil' thing for Footy fans. But it's a bit long winded. Here's my take.

1. England. You are not going to win.
2. England Fans. Try any of your usual silliness and thuggery, and expect a trip to Hospital, or possibly the morgue.

[Psychosplodge]

England fans haven't been involved in large scale thuggery since the scousers earned us the ban from european club football.
The problem apparently according to my football obsessed colleague is that foreign hooligans and police still want to fight them like they're dealing with the England fans of the eighties.

Obviously following Scotland Mystery you wouldn't understand :D

[Mr Mystery]

We're crap and we know it.

Though I have to tip my hat to the England 'fans' that tried to riot in Glasgow. I mean seriously. Englishmen, kicking off in Glasgow? One can only assume they had no further use in mind for their limbs.

[Wolfshade]

I don't know, the english record in scotland is not in the home side's advantage...

[Mr Mystery]

Why do you think the Weegies are so angry?

[Wolfshade]

The performance in the rain shortened ODI?
Alex Salmond?

Also have you seen this:@http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27362722

[Mr Mystery]

Nah.

But I have just read that a UKIP Councillor contacted Police to a have a completely lawful, and indeed factually accurate list of reasons not to vote UKIP, taken from their own manifesto, removed from The Twitter......

Blogger responsible hasn't had a pop at the Police officers who visited him to ask for it to be taken down, but has questioned why they bothered asking when even they admit there was no legal basis whatsoever for this request to be made.

UKIP really need to wind their necks in.

[Psychosplodge]

Also have you seen this:@http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27362722


Is that the one in B&W with cleggy shrinking? Was fricking hilarious, but it didn't tell me anything about what Labour would do, just more negative campaigning as usual.
Was quite impressed with the conservative leaflet we got other day, they don't usually really bother round our way cause of Labour/Lib dem swing in local elections, but the EU election seems to be forcing them to challenge UKIP...

[Darren Richardson]

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/per-capita-consumption-of-mozzarella-cheese-us_number-people-who-drowned-while-in-natural-water.png

so what's the death rate while in Unnatural water then?

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Yup.

Morale of the story: Cheese Kills!

http://i.imgur.com/OfQYQW8.png

And that's why I don't have more then one bedsheet on the bed at any one time LOL

[Wolfshade]

Another cheese fact, eating more cheese increases the likelihood of getting an engineering PhD...
http://i.imgur.com/RnhEX7v.png

[Darren Richardson]

BBC has a 'what to expect in Brazil' thing for Footy fans. But it's a bit long winded. Here's my take.

1. England. You are not going to win.
2. England Fans. Try any of your usual silliness and thuggery, and expect a trip to Hospital, or possibly the morgue.

Soooo right on both counts Mystery....

Our footie thugs are sissies compared to the Brazilian Thugs :rolleyes:

[Wolfshade]

I am just surprised less people didn't die in South African footie world cup.

[Darren Richardson]

Another cheese fact, eating more cheese increases the likelihood of getting an engineering PhD...
http://i.imgur.com/RnhEX7v.png

so eating cheese wil earn me a PHD in enginering, damn where do I sign up for that, I'll earn my PHD whilest stuffing myself full of Mozzeralla and then engineer myself a full size mecha.....

[Wolfshade]

so eating cheese wil earn me a PHD in enginering, damn where do I sign up for that, I'll earn my PHD whilest stuffing myself full of Mozzeralla and then engineer myself a full size mecha.....

You may also want to trip people over:

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/number-of-people-who-tripped-over-their-own-two-feet-and-died_civil-engineering-doctorates-awarded-us.png

[Darren Richardson]

You may also want to trip people over:

yeah but if I Built a fullscale Mech, I could you know, just stomp on them instead....

I do wonder where abouts in the states they got the tripped over stats from, I mean I could understand if it was mostly located near cliffs or trainlines....

[Wolfshade]

yeah but if I Built a fullscale Mech, I could you know, just stomp on them instead....

I do wonder where abouts in the states they got the tripped over stats from, I mean I could understand if it was mostly located near cliffs or trainlines....

I can help you with this:

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/number-of-people-who-tripped-over-their-own-two-feet-and-died_number-people-who-drowned-by-falling-into-natural-water.png

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So about 1 in 2 trips in to water...

[Darren Richardson]

clumsy sods :D

The Lesson Learned (tm): Always make sure your shoe laces are well tied when walking near water!

[Wolfshade]

Becareful though that your cheese obssession doesn't end you:

http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/per-capita-consumption-of-cheese-us_people-who-died-by-falling-down-the-stairs.png

[Kirsten]

US science causes sucidies!


if they are suicides among the people who don't believe in science, then this seems like a win win to me

[Wolfshade]

Cheeses saves! Oh wait, kills, again:

http://i.imgur.com/OfQYQW8.png

[Kirsten]

Richard and Judy have said that they were each willing to assist the other with suicide should they reach a point of ill health.

"Alistair Thompson, a spokesman for Care not Killing, said in a statement: "This is another deeply depressing and misguided set of comments from two much-loved celebrities, who should know better.""

except that it isn't misguided. regardless of what you think about the moral or legal situation, you cannot call it misguided if that is what they have agreed to do. should know better than what exactly? it is their lives and their marriage.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27371266

[Wolfshade]

You could get them to spend more money on cheese, that would be a solution. Statistics said so!

[Gotthammer]

*snrk* :p

[Psychosplodge]

I think from general conversation over the years when its come up, if not a majority, then a large minority definitely think the option should be there for people to take if they want.

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Slight tangent, this is relevant to something EG said about Afghanistan in the 70's?
Just look at that top image

http://i59.tinypic.com/2wpuuxd.jpg

[Wolfshade]

He is a fact. Eat more cheese prevent deaths by amputation!


http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/per-capita-consumption-of-cheese-us_deaths-caused-by-amputation-of-limbs.png

[Gotthammer]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/021e0564733cbcd31dd6d1942221cf7a/tumblr_n2t9g1EbHH1rfdyj6o4_500.png

http://37.media.tumblr.com/82cffd6c2caaac0d88507d58f66f72f3/tumblr_n2t9g1EbHH1rfdyj6o2_500.png

http://24.media.tumblr.com/2ece115757bc424ef5fabcfedfcfba97/tumblr_n2t9g1EbHH1rfdyj6o3_500.png

http://31.media.tumblr.com/da3946a2aea0981cf8dd2b43fe5f7bd6/tumblr_n2t9g1EbHH1rfdyj6o1_500.png

http://24.media.tumblr.com/59f065ce17b5b330bc6cfc7185beed4d/tumblr_n2t9g1EbHH1rfdyj6o5_500.png

http://37.media.tumblr.com/9049a59cfb09ed80acb943c7cd76770d/tumblr_n2t9g1EbHH1rfdyj6o6_500.png

[eldargal]

Thanks to this topic I'm craving cheese and sausages now.

[Gotthammer]

Please don't. Given how sleep deprived and accident prone you are you're likely to get up from bed to have some cheese - put out to celebrate your receive your engineering doctorate - and get tangled in your sheets and fall down the stairs to your death (but you won't lose any limbs while doing it so yay?).

[eldargal]

I could just get someone to bring me them.:p Plus my bed is soo far from teh stairs that would be really hard even for me. I don't remember getting an engineering doctorate.

[Gotthammer]

Well I suppose that could work :p I'd still not leave it up to chance, you are very, um, talented after all... The surprise is probably what causes the tangle-fall-death.

[eldargal]

could have cheese in the sausage, cheese krainers for all! By all I mean me. It's been ages since I last injured myself.><

[Gotthammer]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/4359022/kramer-pizza-o.gif

Oh, krainer, not kramer, sorry.

Which means you are much more likely to injure yourself now. Like when I'm losing all my money on the slots it only means I need to keep going as a big win has to be around the corner!

[eldargal]

Now I want pzza.><

[Wolfshade]

I once had a stilton sausage, I didn't like it.

Though I didn't trip in my bedsheets down stairs into water and drown via a engineering phd

[eldargal]

Stilton goes better tiwth black pudding.

[Gotthammer]

Pizza does have cheese on and can have sausage too - everyone wins!

[eldargal]

A compelling argument.

[Wolfshade]

Worryingly if you choose chedar you might end up a lawyer rather than getting your engineering PhD.
http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/per-capita-consumption-of-cheddar-cheese-us_number-of-lawyers-in-the-northern-mariana-islands.png

[Psychosplodge]

Farage has acquired a German (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27341876) following

[Wolfshade]

Farage has acquired a German (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27341876) following

Other than Mrs Knock-Off Nigel?

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah, the educated disaffected youth.

[Wolfshade]

One thing we know about the educated is that they eat cheese while courting death.

[Psychosplodge]

But do North American statistics hold true for row?

[Tyrendian]

in other news, Hollande visits Merkel, they go to Stralsund (rather beautiful city in northern Germany) - and hardly believe their eyes when they see the decoration on the town hall:
8780
rather odd interpretation of the french flag...

[Psychosplodge]

Somebody mixed up Hollande and Holland?

[Tyrendian]

kinda looks like it yeah...

[Kirsten]

but did they think they were being visited by Holland?

[Mr Mystery]

Or has another European country discovered how much fun it is annoying France?

[Tyrendian]

well it's not like we Germans had no experience at that... maybe not quite as much as you Brits but ours are kinda more recent... *cough*

[Mr Mystery]

Yeah but our efforts had style and aplomb!

[Wolfshade]

Like the seige of Copenhagen..

[Psychosplodge]

Or has another European country discovered how much fun it is annoying France?


well it's not like we Germans had no experience at that... maybe not quite as much as you Brits but ours are kinda more recent... *cough*

Yes but its our national sport....

[Psychosplodge]

I want a contemplative sloth

http://i58.tinypic.com/nmkxoj.gif

[Wolfshade]

See Sloths are better and more wonderfully they are members of the anteater family not the ape family...

[Psychosplodge]

Its that chin stroke though...

[Darren Richardson]

damn baby Sloth's are cute, shame they are usless....

[Wolfshade]

Nicholas cage shoots down helicopters:
http://www.tylervigen.com/correlation_project/correlation_images/number-of-films-nicolas-cage-appeared-in_helicopter-accidents-killing-occupant.png

[Psychosplodge]

As opposed to all those useful pets?
I like the idea of a pet that stays in one place and only requires cleaning up after once a week :D

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I want a Corgi or a Shiba Inu, purely because of the internet. Called Robert and Doge respectively.

[Wolfshade]

They are entire ecosystems.

[Gotthammer]

http://youtu.be/MS95nnUdKEc

http://37.media.tumblr.com/f95266326e664d8580b7d1b92f5e9f3e/tumblr_mwngoa52qx1szmbyyo2_500.png

http://31.media.tumblr.com/68d6b0dc41a10f6d1098f89fd043e448/tumblr_mwngoa52qx1szmbyyo3_r1_500.png

[eldargal]

That is perfect.:p

[Gotthammer]

And apparently it's not even edited, just put the audio straight over the top with no cuts :p

[Psychosplodge]

People in awe and wonder of the mystical rejoice!
Further to the semi regular unicorn sightings occaisionally reported on this thread and its ancestors, we have the first photo of an Alicorn!


And apparently it's not even edited



http://i58.tinypic.com/5yffjt.jpg

[Psychosplodge]

In other news, Giger (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27390345) has popped his clogs.

[eldargal]

Awww.:(

[Wolfshade]

Clearly made his living out of stealing GW nid desgins..

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Also, the Alicorn wings are too small it would never fly. And would glide as gracefully as a rock.

[Psychosplodge]

They fly through magic, not physics the wings obviously just store flight magic :rolleyes:

[Wolfshade]

Back of envelope calculation.

(In the stylings of What-If XKCD)

Typically birds lift work out to be between 10 - 20 kg/m^2, so let us assume that the Alicorn feather can be a little bit more sturdy up to 25 kg/m^2.

A throughbread weighs about 600kg, now let us assume that the extra muscles and wings add a further 100kg, giving us a 700kg weight to lift.

So each wing would need to be about 14m^2

Typically, the wings attach between the shoulder and the hip, so say a maximum length of about 1.5m

Meaning our wing would need to be about 9m long...

Though I could seriously be underestimating the muscle mass and wing weight.

[Psychosplodge]

Magic Wolfie, Magic! :D

Also pegasus are acknowledged as having a lighter build. So the weights might be high.

[Wolfshade]

Halving the weight you still need a 5m wing! and I think I am massively understimating the muscle needed to flap such beasts. Look at birds, they are mostly chest, needed to propel their wings...

[Psychosplodge]

You just need to increase the magic.

[Wolfshade]

http://www.miataturbo.net/attachments/diy-turbo-discussion-14/68853d1362113010-1-6l-2560r-record-attempt-scotty-jpg

[Psychosplodge]

Sometimes laws need to be amended.

[Wolfshade]

Only if they are wrong

[Psychosplodge]

Maybe you should email the xkcd whatif for his take?

[Wolfshade]

I am very tempted to, including my workings :)

[Psychosplodge]

It would be funny.
I was arguing about flight dynamics of a pegasus/alicorn on a wargaming forum with a MLP fan :D

[Wolfshade]

It would be funny.
I was arguing about flight dynamics of a pegasus/alicorn on a wargaming forum with a MLP fan :D

Done.

[Psychosplodge]

hahahahaha

[Tyrendian]

if I weren't checking there regularly already, I would be now, that's for sure! :) let's hope he takes this up...

[Wolfshade]

I will keep you updated

[Psychosplodge]

I wonder how many he gets?

[Tyrendian]

lots I guess.. I mean he's been invited to speak at TED and all, so it's not like he wasn't popular...
although this might just be both crazy and "realistic" enough for him to do it... plus there's lots of opportunity for "clever" connections with European Swallows and such...

[Psychosplodge]

And possibly raptor attacks...

[Tyrendian]

yes there's always the opportunity for that... how could I forget... and be it only to find out if our Pegacorn (that word sounds... uh... dunno what to make of it even... anyways) could escape from one by just lifting off...

[Wolfshade]

So 6 months into my dispute with the council and it looks like they are going to try and claim that it isn't their's to maintain. So back to the Land Registry to get the details to send to them to prove it is their fudgecaking fence.

Surely, though it doesn't takle 6 months to try and fob someone off with that.

They can pay for that search and for the cost of my repairs so far...

[Psychosplodge]

Obviously though if you'd demolished to erect an eight foot high wall they'd have been round like a shot claiming "their" boundary...

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Pegacorn? Nah Alicorn! or possibly winged Unicorn...

[Wolfshade]

I am just very angry because of it. Had they, in December 2013, when I first raised my complaint said, that it wasn't theirs or it was a shared boundary then fine but 6months late to the ball and after I had confirmation from the land registry it makes me mad. Madder than having to pay to have my green waste collected. Bring out the cannon!

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In some literature and media, it is also referred to as an alicorn, which is a historical word for the horn of a unicorn.[1]

1. In the early episodes of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic television series, the species is not specifically named; for example, the sisters Celestia and Luna were referred as unicorns in first season's première episode "Friendship Is Magic - part 1" despite having wings.[5] However, an amulet with a pair of wings and a horned head of a horse is referred as the "Alicorn Amulet" in the third season's fifth episode "Magic Duel" (written by M. A. Larson),[6] and the species is explicitly named "alicorn" in its season finale "Magical Mystery Cure" (also written by Larson).[7]