Bits and Bobs 29-The Copper Edition

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 14:19

Pundabaya wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Awaiting the delivery of my tweed jacket with much anticipation. It was posted second class yesterday. Hopefully I'll have it by the weekend.

That's it, you'll never be cool again. I hope you've made your peace with your uncoolness. It happens to everyone eventually.

It's very smart, thank you very much.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25622

Actually, Tweed fabric/yarn is absolutely wonderful, and a proper Harris Tweed is a thing of beauty. I have some pretty lovely tweed yarns which I am saving for something extra special one day.

I'd like to learn how to spin a proper tweed yarn, but you really need a wheel rather than spindle for that for it to be effective.

Decca · **Joined:** 23rd Jun, 2010 **Posts:** 2282

sinister agent, congratulations on never having to see the people who have made your working life a living hell ever again.

Personally I would level with your friend as suggested and work there for the short term (unless you decide to stay) if only to have your newest reference a good one.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

MaliA wrote:

Pundabaya wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Awaiting the delivery of my tweed jacket with much anticipation. It was posted second class yesterday. Hopefully I'll have it by the weekend.

That's it, you'll never be cool again. I hope you've made your peace with your uncoolness. It happens to everyone eventually.

It's very smart, thank you very much.

Smart <> Cool, I think you'll find. What are you doing at the weekend? Teaching a class on pottery? Going to an antiques fair? Something else deeply uncool?

Dr Gaywood thinks you're a dweeb, you're that uncool.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6521

I went to the Surrey County Show on Monday, and bought a hand-made side table and some organic sloe gin. A tweed jacket would have suited me perfectly.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14364

I thought I'd pick up a copy of Retro Gamer today, after several months of avoiding it due to a lull in the writing, after seeing an article on Knightmare. Turned out it was just a general article on Knightmare the TV show rather than the acebest Tony Crowther Amiga/ST game. The article is dishwater dull with Crowther's game having two measly paragraphs basically saying 'Tony Crowther did a game dontchaknow'...tch. What a waste. And the magazine hasn't moved on any I see either. Very disappointing.

I wonder what happened to Tony Crowther. Any fans in here of his games?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 16:22

I loved The Price is Right.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Zardoz wrote:

I loved The Price is Right.

You just know that most of the "hostesses" have probably had their norks out in a top shelf magazine or three.

[waits for someone to say that the one that winks at the camera is their mother]

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Facebook appears to be deleting (legitimate) links that you put in the comments section. This annoys me.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

I love the one who winks.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

MaliA wrote:

Pundabaya wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Awaiting the delivery of my tweed jacket with much anticipation. It was posted second class yesterday. Hopefully I'll have it by the weekend.

That's it, you'll never be cool again. I hope you've made your peace with your uncoolness. It happens to everyone eventually.

It's very smart, thank you very much.

I found the perfect tweed jacket at a classic car jumble, but, sadly, it was slightly too short in the arms and narrow across the shoulders. It felt like a cross between s romcom and a Greek tragedy.

In related "perfect sartorial elegance" news, I'm still weeping about the perfect hat I found in a pub, only for it to be claimed by its rightful owner.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Ian Fairies wrote:

I thought I'd pick up a copy of Retro Gamer today, after several months of avoiding it due to a lull in the writing, after seeing an article on Knightmare. Turned out it was just a general article on Knightmare the TV show rather than the acebest Tony Crowther Amiga/ST game.

Might be interesting. C+VG had a good article on it in one edition. Possible December 1987? Had Thundercats on the cover IIRC.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 22:14

I had Knightmare for the CPC. I remember you had to use the spade to get out of the first room, but I hardly got anywhere after that

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Grim... wrote:

I had Knightmare for the CPC. I remember you had to use the spade to get out of the first room, but I hardly got anywhere after that

Grim.. facing down Ste Pickford. Yesterday.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 22:59

Amazon tells me that Mimi's book is out today, so why has it not been despatched, I've had it on pre-order for ages. Grrr.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

Wait, Mimi's written a book? That is a positive development. In the field of authorship by Beex forumites.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

I saw a badger when out cycling this evening. It looked startled to see me but I told it I wasn't Craster.

Usually only see them that close when they are dead.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Meh, badgers are old news. Bears are more of a challenge.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Craster wrote:

Meh, badgers are old news. Bears are more of a challenge.

Denial.

Meanwhile in sports news, due to FIFA corruption England are to boycott the World Cup. Keen to make political capital, Alex Salmond has pointed out that Scotland have been boycotting the World Cup since 1990.

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:12

Village life:

Torygraph wrote:

Bell-ringers trapped in village ding-dong
...
The mysterious `Mr Crotchety` is thought to have taken revenge against the bellringers after enduring two-thirds of a three-hour peal of bells.
He scaled two flights of steps inside St John the Divine Church in Sharow, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, before peering through a trap door and unleashing a tirade of abuse.
Having vented his spleen, he then headed home – but not before jamming the trap door shut with a piece of wood.

The perpetrator has form:

Quote:

Yesterday village sleuths were wondering whether `Mr Crotchety` is the same man who waged a hate campaign against local bellringers a few years ago.
His most dastardly crime on that occasion was to wedge a potato in a car exhaust.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:16

I like 'Mr Crotchety'.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:18

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

I've had it on pre-order for ages. Grrr.

"Dispatch Estimate: 13 Jun 2011 - 16 Jun 2011" = Mehs.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:33

kalmar wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

I've had it on pre-order for ages. Grrr.

"Dispatch Estimate: 13 Jun 2011 - 16 Jun 2011" = Mehs.

Ah, that doesn't show up on my phone. Thank you.

Decca · **Joined:** 23rd Jun, 2010 **Posts:** 2282

Flu status "mehhh"

Promised to take four children to the park (5,7,7 and autistic) as my 'rents have to work, then we are going to play the "follow mummy/auntie helen round town while she does stuff and behave or she won't take you for sweeties" game

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:42

Is autistic an age now?

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:47

I have a cousin with autism, it may as well be!

Malc

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:00

Kern wrote:

Village life:

Torygraph wrote:

Bell-ringers trapped in village ding-dong
...
The mysterious `Mr Crotchety` is thought to have taken revenge against the bellringers after enduring two-thirds of a three-hour peal of bells.
He scaled two flights of steps inside St John the Divine Church in Sharow, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, before peering through a trap door and unleashing a tirade of abuse.
Having vented his spleen, he then headed home – but not before jamming the trap door shut with a piece of wood.

The perpetrator has form:

Quote:

Yesterday village sleuths were wondering whether `Mr Crotchety` is the same man who waged a hate campaign against local bellringers a few years ago.
His most dastardly crime on that occasion was to wedge a potato in a car exhaust.

To be honest, I think he's been extremely restrained. Church bell ringing is probably the most annoying sound in the entire world. It wouldn't be so bad if anyone could actually do the damned things in time...

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:08

Curiosity wrote:

It wouldn't be so bad if anyone could actually do the damned things in time...

We have to practice somewhere

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:11

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Amazon tells me that Mimi's book is out today, so why has it not been despatched, I've had it on pre-order for ages. Grrr.

Awesome! Is it about Animal Crossing?

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:26

Kern wrote:

`Mr Crotchety`

Hmm... that name rings a bell...

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:26

Zardoz wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Amazon tells me that Mimi's book is out today, so why has it not been despatched, I've had it on pre-order for ages. Grrr.

Awesome! Is it about Animal Crossing?

Ha ha! Publishers note this idea would be ace for the 3DS version!

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:27

Malc wrote:

I have a cousin with autism, it may as well be!

Malc

I have first hand experience myself Malc, I just wouldn't define her by it though.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:58

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Malc wrote:

I have a cousin with autism, it may as well be!

Malc

I have first hand experience myself Malc, I just wouldn't define her by it though.

I think she was using an Oxford Comma (insert Vampire Weekend joke). As in the third child is 7 and autistic, not there are three children and the 4th is autistic.

I could, however, be completely wrong.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:06

I think I'm the only person in the office to not have applied for Olympics tickets.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:08

I got the wireless microphone working last night. The laptop was turned off, as was the router (as it is broken, still) and it connected straight away. So lord knows what is going on there. We played Rock Band a bit and it was fun.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Sweet joy. Finally have my external Blu-Ray writer replacement back. The old model being 2 years old they couldn't do a direct replacement so now I have a super pimped new model.

Bad news is that I have about 15 discs to write.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:29

Reminds me, I need to buy a USB DVD burner thingymabob stuff.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

MaliA wrote:

Reminds me, I need to buy a USB DVD burner thingymabob stuff.

Ebuyer have them fairly cheap. I bought one and whacked it in the cupboard as an emergency burner as it was jolly inconvenient when both the Superdrives in the Mac refused to burn and the Blu-Ray was away being looked at.

BTW, the cost of Blu-Ray burners has reduced enormously. My external cost about 200 sovs 2 years ago and now the same (but updated) unit is under £100. Ironically I have never watched a movie on it. I back all the video stuff up to Blu-Ray and hard disk.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:52

Thank you very much. I'll have a look at the weekend.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:10

Just got a really snarky phone call from someone at the Job Centre for not signing on this morning. Really snappy and sounding quite pissed off.

She didn't quite know how to react when I told her I did :shrug:

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:22

Went uptown at lunch. In both the ecntral shopping arcades, they had those fish that nibble on your feet, but no signs of any customers. Lots of tourists made getting from A to B slower than usual.

Had a look in Gamestation. They have some XBox360 games for a fiver, but I don't know if I want FIFA 10 and Crackdown. Second hand Fallout New Vegas was £12.99 or two second hand games for £20. In the end I went to the bookshop and spent my £15.99 on 3 books by Jack Campbell; Fearless;Dauntless;and Courageous, figuring I'd get more hours out of them than more games for an XBox that rarely gets turned on. I just wish I had a Kindle, so I could hide the embarressment of reading Sci-Fi. I'm hoping that Investment Director behind me doesn't ask, as she's nice and I want to appear well cool and stuff.

Anyways, still plugging away at these business cards and no indication if they want me or not next week. but I've to force the issue anyway, as I've got more Citizen's Advice Bureau stuff to do for three days next week.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:24

MaliA wrote:

...I don't know if I want FIFA 10 and Crackdown. Second hand Fallout New Vegas was £12.99 or two second hand games for £20. In the end I went to the bookshop and spent my £15.99 on 3 books by Jack Campbell; Fearless;Dauntless;and Courageous, figuring I'd get more hours out of them than more games for an XBox that rarely gets turned on.

Do the £5.99 per month Lovefilm rental thing that I did then. Perfect for my current gaming usage.

See bargain thread for details.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:28

MaliA wrote:

Had a look in Gamestation. They have some XBox360 games for a fiver, but I don't know if I want FIFA 10 and Crackdown.

You want Crackdown.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:33

Yeah.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Mmm, Ecoli cucumber flavoured.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12262

MaliA wrote:

Went uptown at lunch. In both the ecntral shopping arcades, they had those fish that nibble on your feet, but no signs of any customers.

When I had this done on a Sunday the shop was empty then so the chap gave us an extra ten minutes for free.

It was ace. I'm going back again this weekend.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:51

It is fun, I tried it in Chester..

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 13:56

Unicorns.

Twitter wrote:

litlchef182
Unicorn playing snooker done http://twitpic.com/55ufi9

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38477

Gonna split the BGT discussion out. Hang on

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

DavPaz wrote:

Gonna split the BGT discussion out. Hang on

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