Boots secret santa advert the way it should be!
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So soz if im not quite there with the etiquette of the board. I have been a lurker for ages, thought i should step up!
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I liked this, I work for the Civil Service now and then, and they have "secret santa" guidelines, making the whole thing a bit pointtless - nice post
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For your kind words, i might try and keep this up then !
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There is now a semi-digested paste of biscuit and tea over my monitor!
Love this! I hate this advert and I hate secret santa. And why is it that it's women that always suggest it? We have to do it every year at work and then the ladyfolk spend the month before and after trying to work out who got who what.
(, Sat 6 Dec 2008, 14:55, Reply)
Can't stand that sort of thing at workplaces.
/misanthrope blog
(, Sat 6 Dec 2008, 21:46, Reply)
Cucumber and Vaseline!
Do you want crab paste with that too?
(, Sun 7 Dec 2008, 14:41, Reply)
"The Rock-afire Explosion" is the story of a small-town car salesman, a struggling inventor, and an animatronic rock band, that quickly becomes an eccentric portrait of childhood memories, broken dreams, and the resilience of the human spirit.
With the closing of Showbiz Pizza Place in the early nineties, and the subsequent removal of the Rock-afire Explosion, a small but determined group of fans persisted with the hopes of reviving their fallen obsession. It wasn't until 2007, with the resurgence of the Rock-afire Explosion on YouTube with songs like "Ms New Booty," "Hey There Delilah," and "Love in This Club," that the animatronic band found its way back into the public consciousness. Chris Thrash, a car salesman from Phenix City, Alabama who recently purchased a Rock-afire Explosion, has led the charge with his inventive programming and clever song choice. Aaron Fechter, creator of the Rock-afire Explosion and sole employee of Creative Engineering Inc., has worked closely with his fans and in conjunction with his starsof.com website with the hopes of revitalizing what was once a 300 employee, 20 million dollar per-year industry.
This whole "animatronics" thing is Deeeeeep!!
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:07, Reply)
thats the first word I saw too, a little too much b3ta I think.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:31, Reply)
but I call PENGUINS for 8 points.
I need to get out more.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:47, Reply)
Prob should of posted this when QOTW was about laziness. But I couldn't be arsed.
SFW although it does have 1 swear and some mild, er, satanism.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:46, Reply)
Yes, really.
Found by accident when looking for Morris Day and the Time - I was kind of asking for it really wasn't I.....
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How on earth do they know that's Fergie there?
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:26, Reply)
rather than ginger duchess
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:30, Reply)
Featuring Just in Timberlands & Acorn
Let me know what you think, I really want to get a record deal.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:11, Reply)
..which was a school project. 2 days before the deadline and I bought a wacom, this is the result.
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well have you?
Its a little bit silly but it made me do a little lol
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:55, Reply)
Family Guy have a hall of a lot to answer for :)
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:57, Reply)
Last one of these from me, as they take far longer than they really should.
Anyway, I always fancied watching Bargain Hunt if the 'experts' were just s smidgen more mental, tipping them over into the realms of loons.
So I made this.
I think I peaked with Neighbours and this and Danny Dyer are worse.. still. Kept me busy.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:50, Reply)
Well I am enjoying them all muchly :D
But I do prefer Flog It and those people :D
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:56, Reply)
you should pitch these to bbc3, I'd watch it!
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:14, Reply)
these are completely and utterly brilliant.
keep doing this.
lots.
*clicks*
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 21:03, Reply)
I will never be able to watch Bargain hunt again without thinking of this.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 23:03, Reply)
Torn between wanting to laugh at an idiot diving in to a frozen lake and wanting to kill the person filming it laughing at what is presumably his mate nearly killing himself.
I decided to laugh. :)
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If it had happened by accident then it would be funny, but that was just a wanker of a thing to do.
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Im not sure they knew that it was frozen. The rest of the people around seem genuinely concerned about him, its just the guy filming who seems to be a bit of a dick.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:40, Reply)
I would have liked even slower motion so we could get Pink Panther style Kato sound.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:14, Reply)
PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON..YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY, LOL!
These guys are apparently working on a new line of robots.
www.qinetiq.com/home.html
Also, we WILL adopt the Euro whether you like it or not.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7757830.stm
Probably around the same time the US adopts the Amero or similar currency which will see the US, Canada and Mexico merge.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:23, Reply)
So that I don't have to look at Charles' mug every time I go shopping in the future.
Also Robots = Cool.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:31, Reply)
www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2007/2nd_quarter/_26m_151_more_talons.html
Search for 'robots' on the site, eeenteresting.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:34, Reply)
www.foster-miller.com/t_robotics.htm
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'The Amero is definitely coming in', to now suggesting it'll be 'the Amero or similar currency'. Is 2010 still the year you predict it'll come in then?
Because that doesn't leave an awful lot of time to shift everything over to a new currency, review and change economic policy in 3 countries to accommodate
a new currency none of them currently use, and also promote and educate their own citizens on the use and concept of a new currency.
That last point alone will probably take more than a year (if not significantly longer) from any announced changeover, which doesn't leave a lot of time if 2010 is still on the cards.
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*refuses to believe* ;)
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I don't predict anything, I just read the numerous sources that have stated these things for the last few years.
I don't know what's happening with the Amero at the moment, but we will adopt the Euro and the US, Mexico and Canada will merge.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:00, Reply)
it wasn't attached to a 'source' as such, but written as though you were informing us yourself.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:02, Reply)
Well if it did, it's either right or wrong.
I aint a fookin sooth-sayer.
:P
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/Afternoon anyway sir, hope you're well :)
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makes for more transparent prices/taxes etc across borders
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:17, Reply)
Euro Bad. - huge price hikes (just read about price increases after conversion abroad).
Anyways i don't want no johnny foreigner monies.....
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:37, Reply)
Clearly I need to WAKE UP.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:29, Reply)
Wish I had a nice warm fleece right now. And was asleep.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:41, Reply)
and realised the value of it once again this weekend in prague while getting ripped off at the change booth.
Frankly, Europe isn't going to be able to compete with China, the US, India et all if all the states have their own economic policy. UKIP saying that those 'people that matter' should do some basic economics is ironic.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:04, Reply)
some tidy up work around the barracks and of course do all of the KP . . .
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 20:04, Reply)
Bitch loses her rag during a debate. I love the way she obviously thought there'd be no repercussions and the look on her face when there was one.
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Twat!
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It's a classic throughout history.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:26, Reply)
fantastic little game involving all sorts of technobabble and time travelly/ wormhole stuff
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:05, Reply)
A Lapland-style theme park in the New Forest fails big time. My fave is picture no.7! :)
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I've heard people complaining about this place, but I'd not actually bothered to look at any pics till now.
What a dump! The organisers have got the nerve to insist they haven't misled people too.
edit: Update here; Santa punched in his grotto, apparently :D
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:09, Reply)
Minimum wage santa punched? poor fucker's just earning a few quid.
I doubt it's the staff's fault.
Blame the pikey management I say.
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Lapland is ace, went there on a works do last Christmas, it's full of snowy win
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:35, Reply)
So this link has been posted before, big deal; not everyone will have seen it the first time (me included)
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:52, Reply)
people may want to see what else was said when it was posted yesterday.. some of the comments were amusing and there are other links for people to look at too.
i wasn't trying to say gc like i've seen so many other people do, just add to what is already there
is this a wrong thing?
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 16:55, Reply)
I actually thought that after I posted, but you replied before I could edit. In that case, fair play to you and apols for appearing to insinuate you might be a gc nazi :)
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it's my fault for not adding a comment on the link when i posted it. =-)
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Amended before I could post, but this was in the "More news" section of the Guardian homepage just a few minutes ago. Obviously they didn't think much of the UK's geography education.
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Interesting story from "You Thought We Wouldn't Notice". The alleged art thief steps into the debate to defend himself some way down the comments thread...
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:32, Reply)
and I did find the comments rather annoying.
From what Reger said himself, he was unaware of the Nate the Great series when he started the character of Emily the Strange. Kudos to him for actually going on there to defend himself. But it does seem that it is the same old, we think you are a thief, so we are going to maintain that sentiment regardless of what you say.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:16, Reply)
more that his friend Nate who drew the original skateboard/bumpersticker(?) design is the thief, and that this Reger guy just continued to exploit what turned profitable - even after knowing of its origin.
I find his defence slightly suspicious, in that he spends most of it talking about how important the character has become in his hands. I'm interested to see if he addresses the questions someone put to him in response to his post.
And if it's a "homage", surely some mention of the original artist's name would be in order at some point?
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:24, Reply)
8 minutes of joy:)
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:27, Reply)
It looks like it was used to beat out a skip fire first.
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The original 'On the Road' manuscript is being displayed in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts on the University of Birmingham Campus for a couple of months. This is the first time it's left the US.
This is only of excitement to Kerouac fanboys and (probably) people who live in/near Birmingham, so sorry for the dullness to everyone else.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:02, Reply)
i fuckin loved the fact that it was s ingle roll. i'd love to see it, but alas, The hague is nowhere near Brum.
EDIT: as much as i liked the book and appreciate Kerouac as a writer (although i concede a lot more is made of him than is deserved) This-"One of the most valuable literary manuscripts in existence"-smacks a little bit of bullshit.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:03, Reply)
I nearly screamed with excitement when I heard it's being exhibited here - I'm a student at the uni and live about 5 minutes from the Barber.
Have you read the unedited version they released a couple of years ago? It's just the scroll in a book form. There's barely any punctuation....he just goes from one sentence....to the next, but it almost helps to convey the passion in his writing.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:08, Reply)
what ya studying? read more from other peeps around the same era (if you haven't already, i don't wanna sound like a patronising cunt), i think it'll be an enlightenment. kerouac was good, others were better.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:16, Reply)
But I'm a massive bookworm. Yeah, I've read some other stuff like a bit of Ginsberg and Kesey. What others could you recommend?
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:22, Reply)
He reeeally liked to fuck boys.
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I figure that in order to understand Burroughs, you have to be on the same drug as he is...(wotever the fuck THAT might be). I tried to read his book "X" & put the bastard down after 20 pages.....it was crap!!
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:35, Reply)
It took me three attempts to get through 'Naked Lunch'.
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....then read ANYTHING by Eric Frank Russell.
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But I do love Isaac Asimov, Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, much goodness.
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That he joined in defense of free speech. I'm not sure how much I believe that, or even if it's a good thing. Ah well, the man wrote good poetry.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:35, Reply)
I wouldn't mind learning more about the MOD tech you've played with.
:)
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:39, Reply)
But it was still pretty cool, mini-cameras focused on my eye movement to move cursors around the screen.
TBH, you can buy that level of stuff in high street stores (nearly anyway). This was a few years ago I tried it out, when it was more novel.
The coolest thing I've seen lately, which I'm sure has origins in military tech too, is a new bit of kit by OCZ. It allows you to control your computer by thought on a *very* basic level, but it's the sort of thing we'll probably be using at work to help people with disabilities
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:46, Reply)
Eye/thought recognition is defintely the way things are going.
There's some good demos of both on YouTubes.
Also, did you see the new holographic technology used by CNN during the elections? It's called TelePresence, cool shit.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:50, Reply)
but didn't follow up any of the links at the time; I should do so really. Exciting times though; Telepresence does sound cool
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 14:53, Reply)
a fair few high end SLR (Single lens reflex) cameras these days, so that when peering through the viewfinder, you can focus on individual points by looking at them. genius shit.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 15:16, Reply)
I couldn't stand "on the road". It seemed like pointless, irresponsible, beatnik drivel to me.
"Rabbit, Run" had a similar effect on me.
I've tried but I just don't get it.
(, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:38, Reply)
I wouldn't like to go back and ask for a refund!
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