I was just speaking to a friend at the airport after he got off a plane
He told me that he just joined the mile high club.

"Bullshit" I said

"Solo Aviators Division" he said

I am still laughing and felt the need to share.
(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 5:57, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

The Shining
The secrets revealed

www.jayweidner.com/ShiningSecrets.html

I really liked that piece, what with being an avid Kubrick fan and having a paranoid state of mind, it ticked loads of boxes.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 2:13, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I wonder how Edmund is getting on in prison?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 15 Oct 2009, 21:58, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

After a recommendation I've been watching Without A Trace recently
and have gotten to the controversial episode 2x04 and can't see what the problem is, even out of context the scene is tame and within the context of the episode it is necessary and understated. (see arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/06/7073.ars for details of the manufactured outrage).

Regardless, I'd recommend the series in general for those of us that like US crime dramas.
(bill, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 20:27, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Home Sweet Home

Today's question: What did you forget?


( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:14, 75 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Murder She Wrote Episode Titles
Here are just some:

1. "Alma Murder"
2. "Coal Miner’s Slaughter"
3. "Corned Beef & Carnage"
4. "The Corpse Flew First Class"
5. "Death By Demographics"
6. "Doom with a View"
7. "Film Flam"
8. "Hooray for Homicide"
9. "One Good Bid Deserves a Murder"
10. "Murder of the Month Club"

I'm sure we can do better than that, can't we?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 19:04, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've been out all day
wandering all rivers. It's been lovely, and although I have a headache now, it was still better than sitting in the office all day.

how are you all? looks like I've missed some good threads.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 17:22, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Shouty
This just happened. I'm working at home, ok, jobhunting and reading b3ta when I saw a large empty bottle of sprite come hurtling over the garden fence. I jumped upstairs and into the back room and spotted some oik walking down the passage next to my house. I opened the window and shouted in a(surprisingly) very serious voice and sounded actually pissed off "Oi you little shit do you just throw that in to my garden??".

Kid stops, turns round, he's obviously a little downs kid.

Now slightly confused and caught off guard, fuck it I think, he still knows better.

"I know where you live" I yell, only occurring afterwards that that might sound a bit out of order, so I added "and I'll have a word with your parents" less convincingly.

His shoulders drooped about a foot, and started crying.

How bad do I feel?

Well not that bad, he shouldnt have done it. Little fucker. Still, no doubt he has a massive fucking dad who will be round to batter me later. Ho hum
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 15:55, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Positive energies now everyone
Who would you like to go on a date with? No lustful fantasies, just to be in their company because they're lovely.

For me,

Jodie Kidd
Fiona Bruce
and a woman off BBC breakfast but I can't remember her name
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 12:32, 93 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm
listening to Coldplay. Quite nice songs really, I think I like them, I think they are my new favourite group. The yellow one is nice. And one called Clocks. Nice piano. I don't think many people can play that nicely.

Does any one know what poo tastes like? Other than the smell, whats it really like? Just wondering. I'm going to go for "not very nice".
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 10:01, 26 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I don't know why
but the mental image of someone punching Leona Lewis in the head at an in-store signing amuses me greatly.

Which 'celebrity' would you queue for half an hour to see then punch in the head, and why?

Edit: this thread is dedicated to the memory of Monty Boyce, who unfortunately seems to be stuck in a rotating frenzy of head-punching fantasy.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 9:18, 146 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Fucking hell! After the cat's $3,000 to get him fixed up
I fell tonight and have a massive gash in my hand, which, looking at it requires stitches. But I have no insurance.
Any merkins in SoCal that don't mind stitching it up wiht fishing line???
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 8:50, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Ahh, mornings
A world of drab greyness. The cold, slow skiing bore of Doom visiting us upon the great concrete slab of eternity. But fuck all that bollocks, I have morning hot chocolate to cheer me up. It has chilli in.

What do you have that makes mornings better?
(stimpy, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 8:21, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Christ alive
It's 2 in the morning, What would you add.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 2:20, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Random observation...
but having just watched the highlights of the England - Belaruse game, and noticing Beckham's new facial fuzz... he doesn't half look like Roddy McDowell's character (Cornelius?) in Planet of the Apes.

I wonder if there are any other sports stars / celebs that look like prosthetic monkeys?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 14 Oct 2009, 23:38, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Anyone else currently smell of dog vomit and death?
Just me then! God I bet commuters love me :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 21:33, 71 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

recommend software
I want to mirror files between two drives, but not with RAID

I have a boot drive (C) and a storage drive (D) which houses all my music, downloads and files etc. Is there a piece of software that will mirror file changes from one folder to another? A bit like Live Mesh, but across two drives in the smae computer rather than across the internet/online storage and without adding an extra 5 minutes to my boot up time, or hogging allthe system resources.

I want something that'll run in the background monitoring a folder and if there are any changes to any of the files therein, it copies it across to a folder on the other drive.

I don't want to have to run a sequence, and I don't want it to create archive files such as .bak or .zip etc.

Any ideas?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 19:16, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Home Sweet Home

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 19:11, 35 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Today it is Cliff Richard's birthday
Does he really have a colostomy? Does anyone give a shit?
Colostomy is my favourite medical term from Greek:
kolos = arse + stoma = mouth/opening.
Do you like Cliff or is he shittier than Davd Bowie?
Do you have any favourite words from other languages?
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 18:58, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

My life as an artist, continued
So while I was dismantling some old pianos in a church, I had the chance to talk to a guy why was using space there to store things. He turned out to be a college professor who just had a lot of large objects that he uses in lectures. One of the things he had was a full size traffic light. I asked where he got it and he told me where the shop is in the city where they repair and replace the lights.

I went down there and talked to one of the guys, who pointed me to their scrap heap. I got a half dozen lenses, and he told me I could have anything else from the heap that I wanted. So I grabbed a few other odd things, including a rounded thing with two funnel shapes on it that looked like something from a 1950s sci-fi movie. He told me it was part of a detection system for sensing when cars approached an intersection. I decided I wanted to investigate further, so I tossed it into my car.

It has a plate on it that identifies the manufacturer and how much electricity it draws and what voltage it needs, but doesn't say what it is. I figured that there was only one good way to find out, so I rigged up a power cord to it and plugged it in.

Turns out I now own a working fire siren. And it's LOUD.

So tell me, what would you do with such a thing?

EDIT: Apparently they still make this model. www.directindustry.com/prod/federal-signal/alarm-siren-9256-25255.html
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 14 Oct 2009, 18:36, 30 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Fact of the day!
Most people assume that on catfish, it's their whiskers that are poisonous, in actual fact their dorsal fins have barbs in them that they use as a defense mechanism. And it fucking hurts like a bitch when you get stabbed by one.

How do you like to impress people with FACTS?
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 17:16, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I want to bum
you all... but on another note, has anyone made any illegitimate money recently?
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 17:16, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yeah bitches!
I'm totally moving offices to somewhere only ten minutes from my house. I am fucking happy. Tell me something good that has happened to you in the last seven days.

If nothing good has happened in the last seven days, tell me why you haven't killed yourself yet. Alternatively, tell me how you're going to kill yourself, you pathetic lonely twat.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 15:28, 121 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm really bored
so I'm having a kit-kat and a can of coke.

what are you doing RIGHT NOW!?!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 14:14, 105 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm in a right old funny mood today
I keep finding things funny when they really aren't. Someone next to me lost their spoon and I asked her if she was sitting on it... for some reason this made me giggle like a friggin' idiot.

My question is... how are you feeling today?

Also who would win in a fight between a bear and a tiger shark?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 14 Oct 2009, 13:09, 45 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I went out with an American girl a couple of times
She had an interest in record collecting like me, and she asked me 'what is your most English record?' I said 'In the Land of Grey & Pink' by Caravan. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G61UV0U0APc) I stand by this, or perhaps 'Defecting Grey' by The Pretty Things (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xBn2OkXyk).

What say you?

EDIT: please do not mention David Bowie, thank you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 12:15, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yesterday at the Gym
while I was getting my sweat on I discovered that the towel was using was very rough and scratched my face. In addition, the used towel bag in the blokes changing rooms hadn't been emptied for two days and towels were stacked as high as my head against the wall.

Now my question for you is, as a lady in the gym, do you realise that the only reason most of those men are there too is because you're wearing lycra? Unless you an ugly of course, in which case they are wishing you had worn more.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 11:15, 37 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Where are all my tinternet buddies?
Most of the work is done for the day, veggie chillie for tea and got a date planned for Saturday.

Life is good for now.
( girlinthehole, Wed 14 Oct 2009, 11:12, 12 replies, latest was 16 years ago)