From a link of a link from the newsletter
this page on the BBC produced this nugget about the Pitcairn Islands.

1800: Murders and illness leave only one man, nine women and a number of children alive

So, if you were that man, what would you make of that situation?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 23:25, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Alright?
Why aren't you in the pub tonight?
( Maladicta, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 21:32, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Haha
"Raymond Domenech in his seat. Snapper takes photo. But snapper then takes hold of Domenech's pass. Was checking who he was. RD laughed."

From the BBC World Cup draw live text.







well it made me laugh
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 17:00, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Crimble do
Got our first office Crimble do tonight, at The Midland in Manchester. Big swanky type affair. I wanted yo do a pub crawl with money. Ah well.

Anyone else doing the forced joviality with colleagues thing tonight? And what would you rather be doing?
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Fri 4 Dec 2009, 15:36, 29 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Gonz let's millions slip by him yet again.
I had this idea months and months ago, about 9 months ago.
www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/03/iphone_ambulance_chasing/

But I didn't do anything about it, but could have done.

Damn.

=(
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 15:19, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Just noticed
a paper lying on my desk with numerous authors. One of whom has the unfortunate first name "Semen." No, really.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:46, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So
I have a googlewave login. Can anyone explain to me what I can do with it thats relevant to life, and by life, I mean people who dont work at Google.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:41, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Florence and the Machine can fuck off and all
*mistakes /offtopic for the late, lamented www.playlouder.com* Anyone here used to post there?

Alternatively: Any decent music magazine type sites out there? I don't like any of the ones I find these days.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 14:31, 63 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Sorry to harp on about music again but I just read this description of La Roux
"Widely understood to be the second coming of 80s pop, crazy hair and fat synths are just two tiers on this ziggurat of pop greatness. Bursting onto the scene in 2008, La Roux have declared war on the boring guitar bands that have 'had their day' and are determined to take you back to the decade we all know and love."

the 80s was an awful decade, particularly the hair and the pop music. La Roux must be destroyed.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:53, 89 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Word up bitches
So what's been going on in the last 500 years since I was here? Vipros is still posting shit I see....
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:32, 29 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Getting shirty
Can anyone please recommend a firm that can actually print a one (or two) off t-shirt for me that isn't total shit? Generally those places are terrible, I know, and I really want to get one done for my brother as a present, that's not awful.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:10, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Ok folks! The weekend starts now.
I am still at work till 4pm but I've nothing to do. I have a weekend full of win, for a change, and I want to get home and crack on.

It's also my parents birthday this weekend, (they share the same day), and my youngest sister is secretly flying over from Tenerife, were she works. I can't wait to see their faces when she shows up. *glees*

Booze, curry, b3tans and surprise visits FTW!


Question for psychochomp: Tell me something surprising about yourself.
( girlinthehole, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:49, 69 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Not as important as the roads and pedestrian systems in Milton Keynes I'll grant you...
www.virtualfestivals.com/latest/features/7066/-/U2-if-you-want-to-but-Ill-be-elsewhere
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:03, 92 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've just bought a got sausage, bacon and bbq sauce baguette
and the best fucking muffin ever.

my day has got 100% better
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:51, 47 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Tech support
_{(Sorry to fill OT with this sort of thing, but I wondered if any of you clever types had any idea)}

Firefox on Windows XP. For some reason - and it's been doing this for a while now - every time I start Firefox, it seems to revert to some point in the past, where it would have just updated/installed various add-ons, and so every time, I'm confronted with about four or five tabs all saying "thank you installing/updating xyz," including one for "thank you for upgrading to the newest version of Firefox." I've also noticed that certain settings, which I correct every time, get reset to what they would have been before.

Any ideas? Is there a simpler fix for this than the whole faff of reinstalling?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:35, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS, NONCES!
Come in - I've found a lovely present for you...
( thealternativefact, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:10, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Death Threats
Last night I had a call from a friend Chris, who'd just received a couple of texts from our mutual friend, a gold-toothed rudeboy from the neighbourhood called Dave. Dave is actually a lovely chap, when we three get together, the banter is excellent, much fun is had.

So Chris was somewhat perturbed to receive a text effectively threatening to kill him by burning his house down, and how Dave's 'boys' were watching him. The next one told him he had until Christmas to relocate, or die.

Obviously this was a little bit upsetting to Chris, so he called Dave and was met with a cheery 'oh, sorry mate! They were meant for someone else - sorry about that!'

Makes you wonder about the secret lives of people you think you know, eh?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:00, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Reports please.
Breakfasted: 15
Sky: blue
Underwear: blue boxers
Chance of anger: 28%
Bank balance: gloomy with threat of overdraft
Days until birthday: 365
Christmas avoidance: 96
You're going to charge me how much for the box: 1.22
Christ what a pessimistic post: 100
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 8:58, 42 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm going skiing today
Care for a book as to which limb I'm going to maim?

Arms: 2/11
Shoulders: 1/7
Legs (including knees): 3/7
Head: 2/15
Anything else: 1/8



Do we have any takers?
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 7:28, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

anyone out there?
Just wondering, this place seems to shut down for about 8 hours a day.
(knackerz is skinning up, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 3:02, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

The most utterly nom-tastic ribs ever. Fucking Seriously.
We are all three happily ensconced in the recently revitalised "chez-Blaireau" and vigourously preparing for the arrival of 5 Polish in-laws and all that goes along with a Polish Christmas.
I have experienced two Polish winters but only one Polish Christmas. It was the most wonderfull Christmas since my childhood.
Anyway, pork is the staple meat of non-Jewish central European omnivores.
And I love ribs.
So yesterday I did a
MAHOOOOOSIVE
big freezer-filling shop at TECHNO and a local wholesaler.
At the butcher counter in the wholesaler I asked the spotty yoof if he could furnish me with two dozen racks of pork spare ribs, for preparing and freezing purposes, to which he replied "24? Cos maybe you only meant a dozen and made a mistake?
Anyway he gets away and comes back with a ten kilo box of frozen pork spare-ribs.
I asked him how many racks were in a box and was surprised to hear 40. For some reason it was a surprise. It took fifteen minutes and two phone calls "upstairs" for our lad the butcher to comprehend that it was not legal to charge me £1.22 for the box the ribs were in.
£36.74 for 10kg of ribs! Yeah!!
And last night, calling upon all of my culinary experience, I did a recipe-experiment by way of establishing a benchmark for future rib-cookage. The details of this recipe must remain secret but 4 types of chilli, 3 types of sugar, 2 types of vinager...
This very day they recieved a twelve-hour slow-roast at mearly eighty degrees centiflux and upon examination were discovered to have converted completely into "WIN", whatever the fuck that is.
The Best Ribs I Have EVER Tasted.
EVER!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 4 Dec 2009, 2:03, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I am currently
on the phone with Maladicta! She is awesome!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 0:11, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Marc Almond at the 100 club review
Totally fucking rocked it. Scary superfans in the ladies toilets exchanging oneupmanship stories - I saw him play another secret gig in Berlin two years ago, well I saw him before you were even born etc...

Best bit: Tainted love obviously, but also the encore of Say hello, wave goodbye.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 23:41, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

HSH


How, if at all, is your house decorated for the forthcoming festivities?

Also, has anyone else noticed that all Rick Astley's songs sound exactly the same?
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 19:52, 40 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Pub quiz tonight!
We won last week, so expectations are high!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 3 Dec 2009, 19:17, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm bored
the mrs is trying out some weird new hair removal thing, and I don't know what to do. I'd play Sid Meier's Pirates but I've been having issues getting it to recognise the second disk in daemon tools, so I can't install it :-(

what are you doing?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 19:12, 43 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Some of you lot are quite dapper

Anyone know a good place to buy waistcoats?

I want mustard ones for the wedding; online I can only find nasty shiney strictly come dancing ones.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 17:15, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Crap Films
I have just watched Death Race with everyone's favourite meathead, Jason Statham.

It was one of those films that was so very crap that it ended up being quite enjoyable. Fast cars, ridiculous explosions, and hilarious use of napalm equalled a fun hour and a half.

What films do you like that you really, really shouldn't?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 15:29, 179 replies, latest was 16 years ago)