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(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:11, archived)
# hahahahahahaha
WOO! most splendid.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:13, archived)
# morning Mr Thor
must dash, late for work now
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:14, archived)
# quick, run, run as fast as you can.
i've been at work since 7.30am

but then i work from home.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:16, archived)
# whoops- what happened?
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:16, archived)
# stephen had an episode yesterday and quit twitter
it cause twitter shares to plummet to an all time low.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:18, archived)
# give it a few days, and he'll be back in a 5 year £250,000 per week deal
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:19, archived)
# didn't you say that yesterday?
maybe he'll get a free car that he can tweet about.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:21, archived)
# eventually, I'll say it enough times to get a laugh
/it's as bad as the doorstep 'bad taste' line I tried last week - pah
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:23, archived)
# either a laugh or a sponsorship deal
whichever is first.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:25, archived)
# He said women don't like sex
and then flounced off Twitter

But now he's back

or something
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:20, archived)
# More importantly...
*Do* women like sex? I need to know.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:27, archived)
# Holding The Wrong Opinion = NOT ALLOWED
Expressing The Wrong Opinion = PUNISHABLE BY DEAAATH!
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:18, archived)
# What he said was almost a word-for-word quote from his novel The Hippopotamus published in 1994


I can't see why he's getting all the attention now, nor indeed why people care so much about his views on sex
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:30, archived)
# Well quite.
The Hippopamus is ace.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:48, archived)
# I don't give a damn what he's said about women's sexual appetite.
What worries me the most is how fickle his "supporters" are. During the Jan Moir incident he was practically called a God, he could do NO wrong! Then he makes a public faux pas and shoves his foot in his mouth on a subject that he has no real authority about and then suddenly the homophobic and mental illness comments come gushing out from people who previous only gushed over his every wonderful word.

As for me I can take him or leave him, he was good in Black Adder and such but I never glorified him as a celebrity god who could do no wrong!

So all this proves is he's very human, just like all of us.

Let him be!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:54, archived)
# Take him or leave him...exactly right
He's a chronic flip-flopper and it's not just shades of opinion. He was all over the shop a few years ago doing an hilarious
opinion pastiche about a 'portable data storage technology for information that is lightweight, durable, you can read it
in the bath - it's a book" Geddit! and computer technology will never replace it.

Then he fell in love with Jonathan Ives' pretty computers and it was all different.

Let's not forget he is a certified fraud and menatlist too: not a very reliable authority on anything, despite an eye-wateringly expensive education.

(Mind Forged Manacles Me nice to society, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:07, archived)
# "a certified fraud and menatlist "
sorry but I find those comments more offensive than anything Stephen Fry has ever said, or reportedly said.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:15, archived)
# I'm not sure what a menatlist is
maybe he means mentalist like the psychic tv show person?
The fraud thing is accurate though, or close enough, credit card theft
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:27, archived)
# Really? I wasn't aware he had done that.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:29, archived)
# he went to prison for 3 months or so in the 70s
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:33, archived)
# I'd say there's a difference between
being a fraudster and being a fraud

AT least that was the inference I got from the comment.
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:36, archived)
# I suspect it's probably also fair(ish) comment to describe that episode
when he had a breakdown, disappeared mid-run from that play he was doing and high-tailed it to Belgium as a bit "mental"

insensitive, perhaps, but not inaccurate
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:38, archived)
#
"At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend, was arrested in Swindon, and as a result spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand."
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:38, archived)
# surely Pucklechurch Prison is in Trumpton
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:51, archived)
# He'd probably get off with a fine nowadays
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:52, archived)
# or 3 book deal
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:54, archived)
# Haha - lovely animation!
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:20, archived)
# They should use this for the ads for IPad
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:21, archived)
# oh hahahahaha
*click*
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:32, archived)
# hahahahaha
Did he lose his manbag containing his guide to being a smug pseudo-intellectual twat? So all his adoring fans hate him now? Such a fickle life.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:34, archived)
# it would be so funny if he returned to twitter and everybody just stopped following him
.....and didn't start following him again
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:51, archived)
# I still think he's great
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:53, archived)
# I think no worse of him, nor any better.
Meh! He's some bloke with an opinion about women, yeah like that's hugely different!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:58, archived)
# what he said wasn't that wrong to be honest :D
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:08, archived)
# Well I was thinking it was rather a tepid thing to say - I've heard much worse comments about women
mostly coming from b3tans. ;)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:12, archived)
# it was a stupid thing to say, but so what?
he tells people they should all buy every Apple product too, if people want to believe everything he says then that's their own gullible lookout
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:21, archived)
# Precisely, personally I've never paid much attention to his ramblings about his gadgets,
to me he's just another rich tosser telling everybody just how very rich and priviledged he is. Not that I bear him any ill-will but if I could afford an Apple Mac and replace all my software I would have done so a long time ago - yet my conscience keeps nagging me and telling me that Apple Mac's are no better than a well-specced PC, so why the need to throw away good money just to look trendy with the designer-set?
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:28, archived)
# ^
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:29, archived)
# ^this
now why won't people listen
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:49, archived)
# You only need to be rich if you feel the need to be trendy and get all the newest stuff to flash about in your trendy bars,
if you just want a nice simple stable mac just buy last years model or get one off eBay from someone with more money than sense who just got the trendy new version.

It usually takes about 6 months for Apple to iron out all the bugs, lower the price and make it a worth while investment anyway, so just leave it till then if you want one.

Avoid all the silly paper thin, super sleek, all packed in super shiny super compact stuff, it looks nice but IMO it's just for show (a laptop without a CD or hard drive for example, pah!), get the practical boxy stuff no one queues for, it's a lot cheaper and way more serviceable when something goes wrong. If you want something with all the functionality of an iPhone without the bill get a nokia 5800. Or a touchscreen Android.

And I can assure you finding downloads of Mac software floatin about free online isn't impossible, maybe a bit trickier than for a PC but you only need to find it once.

If ya don't wanna come across as a flashy tech nerd, don't be one, but don't reject all of it for fear of being accused as one, that's as bad as following the other sheep!
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:51, archived)
# I'm not opposed the having an Apple Mac but it seems a big leap for a little upgrade
the only tempting thing is that all Apple Macs are 64-bit whereas most PCs are 32-bit and in order for me to upgraded my PC to 64-bit I could just load up a 64-bit OS but there would be no real benefit unless I changed the Motherboard to gain extra memory slots and fitted a newer faster Processor. But I see no real difference or real benefit by switching to Apple Mac.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:58, archived)
# Fairy nuff. A lot of folks are!
I can see why, all this stupid overpriced shiny stuff and daft trendy tech nerds queuing around the block for days just for something they can impress their mates with, but I hate teh idea folks avoid ALL of it for the same reasons, just don't get involved in the silly season stuff and go for the older or more practical products, it's good shit and they last for years anyway!

*edit* Ah well you see I'm not a techie boy so can't answer that, but that's my main reason for liking macs, I don't need to know about or deal with what's under the bonnet, it just works and needs very little maintenance, practically none in fact, everything I add new adds itself, anything I remove removes itself, it rarely falls over or gets sick, and I love that!

Mind you my experience of PCs was about 10 years ago when Windows was it's former over bloated over active self, I'm told it's new (Mac OS style) self is way nicer and a lot less random and poorly, but I notice my friends with PCs still seem to be spending at least one weekend every other month re-jigging them to keep 'em running properly and stable, and they talk to one another like a couple of binars.
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:08, archived)
# No I agree with you I've often thought of getting a last season's Mac from Ebay or such
just money is very tight at the moment, but I'm sure I'll have to move on soon before I'm caught completely on the wrong side of the the 32-bit / 64-bit gap.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:13, archived)
# Aw poor cartoon Stephen!
Lets remember his best bits:

www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Stephen+Fry/
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:08, archived)
# haha not seen that one before.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:20, archived)
# as usual
lovely stuff
(I helped save b3ta! beaubodor blogless, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 16:12, archived)