Chindie Posted July 17, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 17, 2016 That's definitely a shouldn't piss you off. It's pretty harmless, a distraction to get people out and about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Soap dispensers that shoot the soap flying across the room or onto your clothes if you aren't prepared for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Phumfeinz said: Soap dispensers that shoot the soap flying across the room or onto your clothes if you aren't prepared for it. They're the ones in nightclub loos that you definitely shouldn't tip. Edited July 17, 2016 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Ikantcpell said: Pokemon Go. What is wrong with the human race? People have played computer games for ages. Why's this one grinding everyone's gears so much. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 17, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 17, 2016 3 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: People have played computer games for ages. Why's this one grinding everyone's gears so much. Because it's popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 4 hours ago, Wainy316 said: People have played computer games for ages. Why's this one grinding everyone's gears so much. Doesn't it have people's faces in their 'phones even more than usual? And it's very 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 3 hours ago, snowychap said: And it's very 90s. So is the internet, at least you're not still riding that particular bandwagon and looking at screens and stuff all day, you will be posting on forums next .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 3 hours ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: So is the internet... I long for the days of Altavista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Quote Shoppers were trapped for up to four hours as they tried to leave the UK's newest Ikea store on Sunday afternoon. Customers took to social media to complain of gridlock at Ikea Reading during the first weekend of opening. Peter Coe tweeted he was "stuck for 4 hours trying to get OUT of the car park! Nightmare!". Ikea said the car park was "closed for a short period to allow customers to exit the store". You people spent your Sunday shopping at Ikea. **** ya. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-36782534 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 14 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: You people spent your Sunday shopping at Ikea. **** ya. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-36782534 I thought unless someone had a tale to tell of being stuck in a queue for Ikea on a Sunday, they weren't considered to be taking their shopping seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Sad to hear that ARM has been sold off to the Japanese. Truly the jewel in the crown of British technology, it is sad to see another piece of the family silver sold off. Hermann Hauser the founder, is yet another example which shows that most of the truly great Brits are/were foreigners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 2 hours ago, snowychap said: I long for the days of Altavista. I used it before the WWW so I was messing about connecting to Message boards when I was quite young. I had no idea what I was doing but it really increased the phone bill by a large amount so that was interesting. It was not what was on them but the fact I got it to work with some 14 ish bpm old modem. (I know people who can type almost this fast ffs) It was weird, I never understood at the time when i connected to an external message board what I had actually achieved, I sort of worked it out myself. I was not very old either, something like 11 or 12 maybe. Also, I learnt WordPerfect + Lotus 123 before we all had mice. Ctrl K+S and all that jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 18, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2016 Lena Dunham. Exhibit A “There are now big conversations at Oberlin, where I went to college, about cultural appropriation and whether the dining hall sushi and banh mi disrespect certain cuisines. The press reported it as, ‘How crazy are Oberlin kids?’ But to me, it was actually, ‘Right on,’” Dunham said. So she thinks the mere presence of sushi on a cafeteria menu is disrespectful to the country that it came from, because it's somehow 'appropriation'? WTF? This is a word removed who admits sexually molesting her own toddler sister in her autobiography and not thinking anything wrong of it. And she has strong views on food? **** moron. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted July 18, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2016 First computer I used was oil cooled and wrapped around the user like some cross between Space 1999 and a wurlitzer organ. Programmes were on punched cards and you could short cut writing common pieces of code by basically pulling out what looked like organ stops that already had common mini programmes on them. It was the size of a room and basically, it could do payroll. Saved the office the cost of two admin staff, but it cost so much they employed extra security and a maintenance man to look after it. I do mean maintenance not I.T., he had to replace valves, load that stripey green paper, ink the golf ball thing, keep the cooling pipes to outside wall sealed and top up the oil. Not this thing by Electrologica, but similar, with banks of buttons and switches and stoppers on three sides and a fixed keyboard built in.... To see boobs you had to type in 58008 and then stand on your head. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 18, 2016 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2016 Are you in the right thread though? Or did standing on your head piss you off? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 thread relevance is for pussies and people on double digit warning points I was kind of riffing off A_N_D mentioning lotus 123 and modems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted July 18, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2016 Bit of a niche one this but I've got a pair of those headphones with a little up and down volume thing halfway up the right ear wire. It's at exactly the right height to catch on the collar of my shirt every time I turn my head, pulling the bud out of my ear. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I'm potentially going to have to move house in a couple of months, I was looking on my work internal internet (kind of like a social media thing for work), to see if there were any adverts for houses to rent. I find a group has been set up, so I click on it to have a look, and it's a closed group. Bit silly I think to myself, as I'd think the more people see the posts the better. I click to join group though, as I could do with having a look. A box then pops up, asking me to justify why I want to join the group? Erm, because I want to adopt a ******* kitten, obviously! Suffice to say I didn't bother sending the request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 When you sit down on the can but you've forgotten to put the seat down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 On 17/07/2016 at 18:42, HanoiVillan said: In Brum? My car is shat on every single day. So far I've escaped unscathed, but my luck will run out soon. To put a bit more 'meat on the bone'. I was in a Birmingham beer garden when a gull deposited a fair whack of faeces on me. It was like a small tester tin of Dulux 'cornflower white' has been liberally splashed over me Jackson Pollock style. The beady eyed beaky word removed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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