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[challenge entry] zebras
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 8:11, archived)
# Nicely!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:05, archived)
# SNAP!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:23, archived)
# I went down to the woods today. And bumped into a racist scientist
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:22, archived)
# Did you get a big surprise?
I believe it's traditional...
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:24, archived)
# yes
see below
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:26, archived)
# That has to count as giving
rather than getting a big surprise doesn't it?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:28, archived)
# It would have been both
in over a year, I have never seen anyone else in these particular woods.
I feel compelled to explain, I'm not some terrible exhibitionist - I really hadn't expected to see anyone else for miles. I just wanted a nice tan.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:34, archived)
# So who spotted you?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:37, archived)
# No-one, in the end.
But the person who nearly did was, sadly, in no way hot. Or female.
So it wasn't much like the movies, which was a shame.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:42, archived)
# it still could have been like the movies
like maybe 'Deliverance'
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:44, archived)
# You're getting a bit over-excited
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:52, archived)
# *waxes nostalgic*
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:54, archived)
# That's an odd term for your bikini line.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:04, archived)
#
snigger
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:35, archived)
# *Blink*
Oh shit, did I just imagine the past two hours again?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:22, archived)
#
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:25, archived)
# He never did tell us what the point we were missing was :(
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:26, archived)
# Nor where he did his science, or what type of science.
So many questions. So little real concern.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:29, archived)
# I fear it may take me 20 whole seconds to get to sleep tonight.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:31, archived)
# I feel your pain.
Now go to bed.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:32, archived)
# k
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 5:34, archived)
# lol
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 6:27, archived)
# Tell you what, folks
I am a scientist and, as not just a scientist but as a theoretical physicist, I can confirm that while I'm not a particular fan of his, Brian Cox is certainly a scientist and that Manchester - while one may or may not agree that it is a shithole; personally I rather like the city - is definitely a real city.

It's either that or I am suffering some entertainingly realistic psychoses.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:56, archived)
# so...
where do you do your science?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:23, archived)
# norway
previously, germany. previously, britain. simple answer, simple question.

or if i take you figuratively, IN MY BRAIN. yeah.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:46, archived)
# As a scientist, I mostly concur.
Having never seen anything with Brian Cox in it.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:34, archived)
# I wouldn't particularly recommend him
He knows what he's talking about and he's good at explaining it, but to get there you have to watch him flying off to some tenuously-connected remote location so that he can crouch down and shout it against the wind.

No-one quite knows why he feels this is necessary, nor why his production company feel it's worth the expense. One suspects that being married to a producer - who, I believe, is involved in this production company - is something to do with it.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:48, archived)
# Ah, I bet he still travels less than my curent boss, though.
Especially considering my boss has no results to report, yet still gets to go to every conference going and has lots of "invited" lectures to give.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:54, archived)
# It's the perk of being a professor
You don't do any work, you can blame your postdocs/students for any mistakes, but give all the plenary talks and claim all the plaudits in nice cities, without even spending any of your own grant.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 12:52, archived)
# i didn't manage to get the science thread, but i got this
but i got this
cfb
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 9:30, archived)
# ah, here's some of the earlier thread
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:13, archived)
#
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:49, archived)
# I also found this gem
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:54, archived)
# yeah, that's in the second screen grab
i managed to grab a fair bit of it, but there were three threads. he deleted two before i grabbed the last.
i managed to piece some of the others together, but i didn't get it all
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 12:23, archived)
# Ha! great thread!
Gotta give him credit for "spaz-packing fucknugget" though... Insult of The Day award!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:27, archived)
# Solid gold, baby!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:33, archived)
# What a nobber.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:35, archived)
# Thanks for preserving this, real
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:50, archived)
# my pleasure
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 15:52, archived)
# actually, it was a giant pain the arse
but it was worth it
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 15:53, archived)
# God! He should pen a guide for how to expose yourself as an ignorant twat
At least we now have a suspect for the pierced tits?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 12:03, archived)
# We attract some fair nutters.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 14:58, archived)
# Did you get murdered?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:25, archived)
# No, but I nearly got caught sunbathing in the nip. Arguably worse.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:26, archived)
# Depends on the weather I'd have thought?
It wasn't *that* cold out around the Midlands, at least...
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:28, archived)
# Why were you sunbathing in the woods?
Don't all the trees get in the way?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:28, archived)
# I have found that to be a problem.
So today I found a "clearing"
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:31, archived)
# That's not in the woods, that's in the bit that would be in the woods only there was no woods there to be in.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:33, archived)
# Technically, that's true.
But it would have made a bit of a long-winded title and I couldn't think of any Nick Cave songs about clearings in woods to name the gif.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:35, archived)
# coppice?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:07, archived)
# I haven't heard that one.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:26, archived)
# it's one of his early works
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:53, archived)
# Hypnotic pic is....
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:29, archived)
# Sorry what?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:30, archived)
# 4Q showed his willy to a stranger in the woods.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:37, archived)
# Again?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:38, archived)
# haha
shit
Why on earth did I even mention that...
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:40, archived)
# that's okay.
I often run naked in the woods, screaming "I wish I were a girly"

I mean....


(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:43, archived)
# Just like your dear Papa?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:44, archived)
#
girly american
edit: why didn't my strike hashtag work here on girly? It was fine in the preview
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:46, archived)
# hashtags here do searches.
#christmas+is+ruined
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:48, archived)
#
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:51, archived)
# I like FunnyManCharlie's rant
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:55, archived)
# haha - I'm such a spaz, I can't even use the right terminology
I meant I had put those angular brackets around the word 'strike' and in the preview, the next word had a line through, but not in the actual post
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:52, archived)
# <s> is how it's done
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:55, archived)
#
fuck off
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:55, archived)
# Oh, thanks!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:56, archived)
# The html that works in the preview is not always the html that works in reality.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:02, archived)
# that was deep
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:06, archived)
# Lazy and complacent of me to suppose any different.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:07, archived)
# Yeah, you were a complete dick to think the "check your post is working" box actually tells you if your post is working or not.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:08, archived)
#
<spoon>there is no</spoon>
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 4:30, archived)
# The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao
so "Tao"="HTML"?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 11:44, archived)
# Slow summer's afternoon
plus a mate's car that he wanted some pics of =



Clicky image for 1.4MB of giffy-goodness

(I tried really hard to get a decent shot of the engine but it's got more tupperware under the hood than a 1970's kitchen)
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 1:54, archived)
# This only really works on the click for big. And it's pretty cool then.
I was just about to trot out my 'read the faq', but I'm glad I clicked it first.
If I knew anything about it, I'd suggest way of optimising your gif so it would fit here :)
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:05, archived)
# Cheers :) The biggy works better
but I couldn't optimise it much more without losing too much shiny :(

(and faq-wise, the posted image is sub-100k and under 400px wide :)
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:11, archived)
#

ed: on second thoughts 1080 is a bit too much.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:21, archived)
# Nicely done :)
cheers.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:23, archived)
# I made it smaller and added 10% lossy.
It's just playing about with settings until you get something you're happy with.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:24, archived)
# Yup.
Original size and quality was for owner's laptop screen.
Brain's running a bit too slowly to remember to make a smaller version :(
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:26, archived)
# lossy?
I only have photo-paint for making GIFs. It never asks me about lossy.
What is it?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:28, archived)
# Reduction in quality
for smaller file-sizes.
Like adjusting JPG compression, but a bit more effective.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:29, archived)
# It's a sort of addy noisy stuff

^100% lossy
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:31, archived)
# *shudders*
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:36, archived)
# Nice
maybe I'm missing something, but I just can't find a way of optimising GIFs without making them look awful
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:39, archived)
# Er, reducing the colour palette can work, bit of loss - not too much.
Smaller image dimensions - less fewer frames
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:43, archived)
# yeah, I get the fewer frames, smaller, etc
but I sometimes see GIFs on here that look great and are still small and I just can't seem to get the same results.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:49, archived)
# you can make the gif small,
but when you post it add some html magic *pointy arrow left* img width="300" src="YOUR_FILE_URL"
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:12, archived)
# You forgot *pointy arrow right*
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:29, archived)
# *pointy arrow right* appears after the src file code anyway
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 7:58, archived)
# Less pixels changing between frames also helps.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 3:12, archived)
# Hmm
Less Fewer

;)
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 8:35, archived)
# And faq-wise the posted image is unshopped at first glance, which is why he was looking for faq-you gifs.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:23, archived)
# :-$
fair enough.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:25, archived)
#
phew
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:29, archived)
# Is that a Jag?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:15, archived)
# Indeedy.
One of the aluminium XK ones with 4.2 on the back.
Probably as well I wasn't allowed to take it out for a spin and put 12 points on the licence really...
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:19, archived)
# I like Jags.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:20, archived)
# Nice
though I'd say they are probably wide enough already :-P
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:25, archived)
# That is the only reason
I don't drive one. Honest!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:26, archived)
# I'm happier driving round in a rollerskate
than an armchair, even if the armchair is considerably quick.

(plus I've seen what he spends on petrol. meep!)
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:30, archived)
# I had a Cadillac
for a couple of years; an old huge one and believe me in the UK that was no joke trying to park it. Was bloody good fun though.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:37, archived)
# It's a car Dave
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:25, archived)
# Bit bored.

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:59, archived)
# i am a shrk, LOL
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 0:06, archived)
# I Mo Shark?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 0:32, archived)
# haMOhead shark?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 0:39, archived)
# You don't look very american in your profile pix,
do you have a residence permit?
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:08, archived)
# damb it!
busted :D
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 2:36, archived)
[challenge entry] he trains on pickled eggs and cabbage water
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 1:01, archived)
# d00d, lenzflare?!?
srsly? why? :P
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 1:03, archived)
# it was in the sauce, I didn't put it there
it's god from heaven
he wanted to see the race
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 1:05, archived)
# Sometimes, lens flare is the only thing that will do.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 1:51, archived)
# I fucking liked this quite a bit.
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 4:33, archived)
[challenge entry] We are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:53, archived)
# The lions have discovered technology and are twirling various dials and knobs
whilst the ladies move in for the kill..
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:59, archived)
# Is the technology powered by a Li-ion battery?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:43, archived)
# The crafty felines have finally figured out if they disrupt the stripes
they can actually see them with comparative ease.

Isn't evolution utterly mental
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:49, archived)
# Wasn't it theorised to confuse horse flies
I'll have to start wearing zebra print clothes and see if I'm attacked by a lion or a fly first.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:53, archived)
# That as well, but it certainly confuses the fuck out of cats, and zebras have sussed this out
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:04, archived)
# Tweaks vertical and horizontal hold
all the younglings will be scratching their heads over this.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:50, archived)
# moirebra!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 4:32, archived)
# Not a zebra but nothing Mediocre about our Mediocre :D


and the Mediocre Dutch Inventor Thumbs Up template - have fun ;)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:22, archived)
# What a happy Dutch inventor :)
Also: hidden copter-cat!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:33, archived)
# Indeed he found the actual copter cat. I'll see if he will link it.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:35, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:37, archived)
# Excellent stuff much better.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:38, archived)
# :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:39, archived)
# Our Mediocre has to become a meme the master of meme himself just has to be one himself :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:41, archived)
# It looks exactly the same...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:02, archived)
# it does now maiden's replaced hers, yes
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 13:04, archived)
# It's good to have the mad Dutch inventor's official approval on important things
I was once enjoying a bath and the light bulb went. I just happened to have my phone with me and texted him if I should change the light bulb as I could reach it standing up with one foot resting on the taps. You know what, he sent this photo. Great guy :)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:40, archived)
# The world is sorted with a thumbs up from Dutch Inventor Guy!
:D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:42, archived)
# Absolutely
My fuse box blew up, BUT WHO CARES!

Awesome guy :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:50, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:52, archived)
# Awesome!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:57, archived)
# Amazing!
but why is there a little love heart floating out of the back of his collar?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:40, archived)
# We have been wondering this.
He just loves giving a thumbs up to a job well done.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:42, archived)
[challenge entry]
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:11, archived)
# haha
now do Tom Daley Thompson
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:47, archived)
# RACEIALIST
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:58, archived)
# 'ello 'ello 'ello!
The heart is from the little card at the expo the helicopter cat was on. Would you believe the theme of the expo was LOVE. I did.
Click here to be enlightened by the original photo and all that
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:45, archived)
# cooler than the fonz
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:22, archived)
# Heeeyy! :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:29, archived)
#
凡庸なオランダの発明者は、死んだ猫のヘリコプターの承認のために死ぬ必要があります。
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:00, archived)
#
平凡は素晴らしい男です
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:14, archived)
# Okay, I think I have to approve of this here post

*thumbs up*
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:46, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:47, archived)
# What a goofy feller
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:51, archived)
# Hey don't insult our Dutch Inventor Awesome Guy
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 0:01, archived)
# F**king elephant :)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:13, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:14, archived)
# both are brill :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:22, archived)
# he's still got it
elephants never forget
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:27, archived)
# Pass and move, it's the elephant groove
Pass and move, it's the elephant groove
Pass and move
Pass and move
Pass and move
Pass and move
Pass and move, it's the elephant groove
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:27, archived)
# hehe
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:55, archived)
# haha
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:15, archived)
# Hahaha
What a bastard
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:18, archived)
# 8D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:20, archived)
# Haha, double-top!
That was the best planned prank EVER
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:26, archived)
# Hahaha!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:29, archived)
# Is that Nick Clegg with the ice cream?
It looks like it

(Great timing by the way)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:47, archived)
# Alan Titchmarsh looked so happy with his ice cream, he'd been slaving away in the garden all day looking forward to it
just look at his face, he feels let down, let down by you and your antics, in fact you've let the whole family down.
(, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 9:40, archived)
[challenge entry] Good Evening...........
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:15, archived)
# also on tour
coming soon to a theatre near zoo : )
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:56, archived)
# They've got war zebra!
"The theevin' bahstads!"
Erm... de-RIS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRkkVQ6OSE
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:18, archived)
[challenge entry] unfortunate markings
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:14, archived)
# hahaha I'm getting a Gary Larson vibe
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:15, archived)
# Yes
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:32, archived)
# Hahaha!
Bitch of a birth mark
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:17, archived)
# Not this one
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:23, archived)
# wow!
one tough zebra...awesome footage
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:31, archived)
# if animals could talk
that lioness would say 'I was only messing about, zebras take themselves too seriously'
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:32, archived)
# Must be a Target courier...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:28, archived)
[challenge entry] Oh how times have changed.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:36, archived)
# Have a click for your hummus
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:00, archived)
[challenge entry] Heh nice.

Have a random in response.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:05, archived)
# Zebras are people too!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:05, archived)
[challenge entry] RACEIALIST
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:05, archived)
# ^This
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:19, archived)
# Aha!
Vere clever *click*
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:31, archived)
#
funniest thing i seen today well done,
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 23:55, archived)
[challenge entry] To be read in a 'murkan accent

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:32, archived)
# I bet you think you're pretty damned funny don't you mister?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:37, archived)
# Hahaha:D
ilikebras
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:41, archived)
# They make you laugh?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:42, archived)
# :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:19, archived)
# They all look bloody uncomfortable
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:10, archived)
# often though that about all bras
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:22, archived)
# They're generally fine so long as the wiring doesn't start to come out
I had a bra once where the washing machine actually ate one of the wires. It must have gone through one of the little water holes. No other explanation for it.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why the plumbing is so buggered up in my flat.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:44, archived)
# fucking shitty magnets
sucked the wire out
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 22:27, archived)
# This
Is the leading cause of the demise of my last washing machine. Apparently those underwires can do some serious damage to the drum if you don't get them out :c
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 10:21, archived)
# i love the dead bird bra
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 0:11, archived)
# nah, E or F at best
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:35, archived)
# Whoa, for a minute I thought that troll was back... :p
Talking of Z bras... www.b3ta.com/board/10757081
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:32, archived)
# Easy enough in practice

But can he do it in the final??
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:00, archived)
# Not sure about that,
but he has a fair bit Tuc'd away in his trunks and I'm sure that, if he carries on, he could be in for a happy ending :/
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:09, archived)
# *waits for 'triple back somersault with fuck'*
or was that the synchronized compo?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:12, archived)
# He prefers the solo...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:18, archived)
# TUC Original
Now in a larger package!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:12, archived)
# crumbs !
that takes the biscuit
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:06, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:30, archived)
[challenge entry] They already had an igloo

Hello all, sorry I haven't been in lately, the dog overslept on my alarm clock
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:45, archived)
# Ha! Very good!
Also, Team GB win another medal.

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:03, archived)
# 'Richard Dean Anderson will be in my dreams tonight!'
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:26, archived)
# Good, sleep well and rest assured he has a plan for Sunday.
Something along the lines of him sorting out a great cooked breakfast from the single egg, tin of beans and packet of spinach in the fridge. Then he'll organize a walk around the park, lunch in the local Italian and beers, followed by cinema and late meal (with the right wine) at the French bistro round the corner.

He's got it all covered (and his grandmother is Welsh, so that's why he's in the boat).
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:46, archived)
# didn't watch any of it lol :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:58, archived)
# Come back here, you scamp!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:04, archived)
# can't make me
you're not my real dad....*pulls tongue out*
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:07, archived)
# WhyIoughta...!
-Mama?! E Dubya's off again!
-Don't he want his grits?
-No mama, he bin all rude an' sticky tongue out.
-There, there Jimbo, he be back. Mama's grits is the best in the whole dang three counties.
-I love you mama.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:17, archived)
# Nice touch with the xylophone
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:08, archived)
# Xylophones always remind me of music class
and the melodies drummed into our heads... B, B, A, A, C, B, A, C... gah!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:27, archived)
# They used your heads as drums?
Nasty!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:32, archived)
# I wouldn't put it past old Mr Lynch >:(
I only found out recently corporal punishment in schools was only banned in the late 80s... I'd always assumed it had been banned in the 60s or something
This means I only missed The Cane (or similar) by a few years. Worrying.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:37, archived)
# David Lynch was your music teacher?
Nasty!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:42, archived)
# If it wasn't for being taught a basic version of Tubular Bells on a xylophone in year 7
I might not have become a musician.

Although I think the king is holding glockenspiels.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:07, archived)
# True this
Xylophones are like witches - made of wood
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:35, archived)
# *searches*
Ooh, you're quite right, I never knew there was a difference
This'll teach me not to trust Google Images
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:39, archived)
[challenge entry] No reason


(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:13, archived)
# oh, get you and your fancy schmancy 128+2
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:19, archived)
# Ha ha!
Twiddle with the tape head.
(EDIT: also, click for Monkeon - that's great!)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:26, archived)
# A +2A, actually
Which was a +3 with a tape deck instead of a disc drive. Way better than a +2.

/speccy nerd blog
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:14, archived)
# all Japanese to me
/not a speccy nerd blog
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:00, archived)
# Hmm, a quick precis
There was the ZX82, which succeeded the ZX80 and ZX81, both of which were shit. The ZX82 was renamed "Spectrum" because it had colour, even if that colour was shit and made arcade games look like spazzy technicolour lego. This machine came with 16 or 48kb of addressable RAM, which was a lie because 6k was taken up by the system, leaving you with a maximum of 42k of addressable RAM (which was more than the Commodore "64", which had something like 38k of addressable RAM. These things mattered!)

Then there was the +, which was in a nicer box, and the 128k, which had 42k of addressable RAM. Then Sinclair went bust and sold out to "Sir" Alan "Sugar", who put it in a nicer box and sold the same thing as, oh fuck knows, the +2 I think. Then there was the +3 which had a useless disc drive that no-one used and which ran some shitty Amstrad DOS which was shit and no-one used. The +2A was the +3 but with a tape deck.

I can't remember what the practical difference was except slightly better sound and loads of 48k games didn't load.

Bet you're glad you didn't bother reading this post. (Which is also factually suspect at one point because I can't remember whether the 128k came before the + or if the + actually *was* the 128k.)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:05, archived)
# did read actually.....history always interests me
saw a fascinating documentary about the birth of computers and computer games in general..from the early Pong..mind-boggling... the steps that have been taken in the few short years.Not a gamer myself but the graphics always blow me away.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:20, archived)
# Can you remember what the documentary was?
I might hunt it out (or something very similar). I love all kinds of history too anyway, and the nostalgia value of the 80s and early 90s gaming scene for me is quite impressive.

I've just been watching videos of Frontier Elite 2 which for me is still one of the two or three best games ever (the others being maybe Super Mario World and Time Splitters: Future Perfect. Oh, wait, also Geoff Crammond's GP series, taken as a whole, so you may as well have GP4 which looks the nicest. And Thief. Thief was fucking brilliant.) I might waste the evening drinking cheap lager and playing Elite 2.



Edit: Also, now in scientist mode, we owe a massive debt to the world of gaming. Some of the best chips for scientific calculation are GPUs, so long as you know how to program for them (I don't, but I know people who do and what they achieve is utterly mind-bending). GPUs have been developed almost entirely for the gaming market, which apparently dwarfs the professional market (including that of film and TV) in terms of revenue for the chip manufacturers. Doubtless the push of Hollywood and big TV has also been extremely significant, but gaming has certainly played a very big part in getting GPUs to the state they're in now, which is one of amazing potential. I keep meaning to find time to start programming on them because almost every code I write professionally can be massively parallelised and would be pretty much ideal for a GPU.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:50, archived)
# clive sinclair drama/comedy
not sure if you can still watch this on iplayer....

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:53, archived)
# ta, i think i dimly remember hearing about that but never watched it
i can't get iplayer where i live but doubtless it's on youtube, or other slightly more nefarious sites
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:53, archived)
# there's scarcely been any development in ideas since the 1960s,
the things that supercomputers were doing back then are only just becoming mainstream. Of course it's many times refined by now in terms of actual implementation but in terms of concepts there's really nothing new.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:27, archived)
# if you look at what a chip is actually doing now
it's not really strictly true that things that were being done on supercomputers then are mainstream now. your mobile phone is a wonder of technology compared to a 60s mainframe.

i think i know what you mean though, i'm just very pedantic :) ultimately there's a limit to what we can use to do computing with. until something like quantum (or photonic) computing gets anything like usable, we're stuck with semiconductor physics, and increasingly complicated ways of harnessing it. the thing i find most impressive is that basically there is no-one in the world who really understands how, say, a third generation i7 chip actually works overall except in fairly general terms
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:41, archived)
# Sugar killed the whole thing.
I had a +2 and loved it, but the 48k/128k incompatibility killed some things - I picked up an old 48k on a car boot sale specifically to play Elite!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:21, archived)
# I dunno, I loved my +2A
and there were things that were much better on it - like Kwik Snax, which on the 48k was fairly mediocre but on the 128k opened with a song by the Yolkfolk with Grandpa Dizzy bodypopping. Aceness. I seem to remember HeroQuest did something weird and stupid in 48k mode too.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:49, archived)
# the ZX 82 (or ZX 81 Colour as it was also referred to) was only know as this in development
never as a released product.

the + boasted a full size keyboard, as opposed to the layout og the rubber key speccy.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:21, archived)
# :) I know
I grew up with the Speccy, some of my earliest memories are of playing Booty and JetPac. We had a DK Tronics keyboard so that the 48k was actually half-pleasant to use; without it it was like trying to use a cheap calculator as a computer. The + was a massive improvement, and the build quality of the Amstrad models (and built-in tape decks saving all the faffing with input levels) a jump up again.

I once built a Snoopy adventure game in Sinclair Basic. I soaked up all 8 user-defined graphics available within three screens - including a lovely two-part graphic of Snoopy's bandaged wrist after he broke it on screen 2 - and then ran out of RAM. Probably should have learned assembly.



Edit: looking at the original post I phrased that really badly, it does make it look like there was a machine called the ZX82 released which was then renamed "Spectrum". Obviously you're right; I meant to say it was renamed "Spectrum" before release.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:48, archived)
# currently doing the rounds...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:50, archived)
# Martian slapstick
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:54, archived)
# previous advert on youtube...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:38, archived)
# arf
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:45, archived)
# Hahaha good one
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:58, archived)
# Definite *click*
I can hear the straining mechanical sounds in my head... oh the memories
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:40, archived)
# oh yeah baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6uwfM8F5uU

43 seconds just to load the picture.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:01, archived)
# Nnnngh!
Then again, the internet was like this with photographs in the 90s...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:13, archived)
# I always had fun soaking up the family phone line for an hour or two each evening
My sisters didn't like it but bugger them, they didn't *need* to talk to their boyfriends, did they?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:20, archived)
# >FUCK GANDALF WITH AXE
Excellent shit-computer reminiscing, Boris. My Spaccy 48k had a prototype metal keyboard case. Weighed a ton. And was shit.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:42, archived)
# The DK Tronics case was pretty nice
And I got to the point where I could recognise which game was loading by the sound of the loading screen, or a particularly characteristic EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH near the end. Great days, especially when the EEEEEH was followed by a Horse Loading Error.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:19, archived)
# Hahaha Spec-tacular
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:39, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:31, archived)
# Sportspang
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:48, archived)
# Ha ha!
Likey (click)!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:49, archived)
# Proper bo
:)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:59, archived)
# hehehe
arfage
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:33, archived)
# ba-dum tish!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:42, archived)
# haha
classic Bo
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:46, archived)
# Oof!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:05, archived)
# Heeeee-heeeeeeeeeeeeee!
*click*
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:44, archived)
# :)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:27, archived)
# Spang!
'still clicked tho''
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 20:40, archived)
# have a pig
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 13:42, archived)
# ta
here's one back
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 13:51, archived)
# have a dancing pig
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 13:52, archived)
# nice! i haven't had one of those before
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:03, archived)
# Would you like a sneezing, flying pig to go with it?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:19, archived)
#
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:10, archived)
# i bet she tastes salty.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:41, archived)
# leave Claudia alone!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:09, archived)
# Claudia Con-Carne...
or something.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:45, archived)
# Still would.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 21:00, archived)
# I think I have already had her...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:25, archived)
# Mmm, portable bacon.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:27, archived)
# thanks.

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:09, archived)
# Hard to tell if he's enjoying himself
Or having a tantrum
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:09, archived)
# SQUEE!!
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 0:18, archived)
# yay :)
(, Sun 12 Aug 2012, 1:51, archived)
# The bacon, home, brung it will be.

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 16:40, archived)
# Thanks :D
bacon
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 19:29, archived)
#
 

 
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 12:37, archived)
# Where he's going, he won't need eyes.
Woo!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 12:49, archived)
#

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 13:16, archived)
# real talk
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 12:51, archived)
# Kiss his ring.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 12:59, archived)
# hahaha brilliant! :)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 13:32, archived)
# Have a go!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:11, archived)
# :D
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:00, archived)
# That is genuinely scary and very good!
But why all the Pope-bashing? He's head of a religion that promotes loving your neighbour and in particular young, innocent, people (the younger, the better, allegedly)... which advocates giving up your worldly possessions while he lives in luxury... which is against people having a choice as to whether they have children or not... and... hmmm, I see your point.

(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:15, archived)
# It's the imchocked void
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:53, archived)
# I see what you mean...
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 14:59, archived)
# OI! STOP BULLYING THE POPEFUHRER!
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:01, archived)
# Sorry!
*Says 5 Rosaries and drinks 10 Bloody Marys*

(old joke, I know)
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 15:25, archived)
# Were the bloody marys an indulgence?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:09, archived)
# They were sanctioned by his holiness.
They may not absolve my sins, but they'd help me forget about them.
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 17:19, archived)
# Ew..
Is his gob a cancerous arsehole, please?
(, Sat 11 Aug 2012, 18:47, archived)

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