Winter vegetable and smoked sausage stew/soup
the skiing, fucking CONSTANTLY, because I've been at my parents. And if it wasn't skiing, it was bloody CSI or some variant thereof.
I'm so damn glad I don't own a tv and thus don't have drivel pouring in to my eyes and ears for god-knows-how-many hours a day.
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 13:55, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I only seem to watch the news and the odd film on film 4 nowadays.
And yet I stil get nothing done.
( girlinthehole, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 13:59, Reply)

Oh, I still don't get anything done
mostly because I come on here instead, or read a book and pretend the washing up has already been done.
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:00, Reply)

I think this year will be my year of getting things done.

( girlinthehole, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:01, Reply)

I really fail to understand how people can voluntarily watch televised skiing.
It's just people falling down a hill with bits of wood stuck to their feet. Surely it becomes a bit repetitive after the first one?

And CSI pisses me off because the science is so horrendously misrepresented. Quite frankly I don't know how you coped.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:01, Reply)

I enjoy CSI
Apart from when they do anything related to computers, phones or image enhancement, because they do it wrong and inevitably invalidate the integrity of the evidence. Which makes me angry. No such thing as Good Practice on CSI.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:03, Reply)

thiiiiiiiiiiis
can't speak for your field obviously but this has more truth in it than I care to admit, and by christ it annoys me to watch it.
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:15, Reply)

Oh I agree with that completely!
Unfortunately it's created the CSI Effect, where jurors believe that this shit is actually possible, and the lack of a super-enhanced CCTV image of the suspect automatically acquits him.

I have done some awesome CSI-worthy things though, like zoom in on a pic of a party to show lines of coke on the glass table, along with a credit card with the suspect's name on it. That probably wouldn't have been possible if the suspect hadn't taken a pic using an expensive (but stolen) DSLR camera and had then saved the pic in it's orignal high res format.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:23, Reply)

Wow. That really is some way to shoot yourself in the foot.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

It's a rather common occurence
See also posing with guns. Did a murder case where a teen got shot for being on the wrong 'turf'. Kid portrayed as an innocent, hard working guy with good prospects, but photos and mobile phone vids of him posing with and firing guns into the air said otherwise.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:29, Reply)

*facepalms*
If it doesn't exist already, there should be a criminal equivalent of the Darwin Awards.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

That's actually pretty cool and impressive
feel validated ONLINE.
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

*prouds*
Thanks! I love it when crims do things like that, it really makes my day!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:30, Reply)

CSI is one of my favourites.
It's binge-food for the soul.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:05, Reply)

As ever you are correct
I actually preferred the skiing to CSI because at least I could look at the snow and daydream about going sledging (which I missed out on YET AGAIN). CSI and it's brethren are so ludicrously unscientific from time to time that it makes me seethe and want to throw things at the tv.
I coped by spending most of my evenings hiding upstairs, trying to smoothe the tic out of my cheek.
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:12, Reply)

This is where not being remotely scientific has it's benefits.
Ignorance is bliss and all that.
( girlinthehole, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:16, Reply)

It's when they go to a crime scene and log into the suspect's webmail that gets me
Not only have they contaminated the crimescene and rendered the computer inadmissable, they've stepped outside the boundary of their search warrant by accessing files on a remote server. GAH!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

Unfortunately I can't even think about skiing with a straight face after a Viz top tip:
"Want to go skiing but can't spare the expense in these recession-riddled times? Simulate the experience by strapping planks of wood to your feet, then sitting in the freezer for an hour before running headfirst into the nearest tree."
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:29, Reply)

*snort*
yes, I can see how that thought might ruin televised skiing for you. How's you, anyway?
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:33, Reply)

Not bad at all, thanks. (Makes a change, I realise)
The year seems to have got off to a reasonable start. I'm still chronically un-productive at work but no worse than I was before, and other, more interesting things seem to be happening around it so I'm going to take that as a positive thing. How about you? Did you get your car fixed in the end?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

Yeah, my brother hit it with a screwdriver
and it bizarrely was fine thereafter. (Took it to the garage anyway and they charged me despite finding nothing wrong) but at least it got me home without blowing up or charging at high speed in to the central reservation.
Glad to hear things are better than before Christmas though. Do you think you're nearly done with your PhD or still a ways to go?
(berk, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:40, Reply)

It's amazing how many things can be fixed by belting them with a blunt object.
Sadly a PhD is not one of them. I'm going to be here a while longer. Probably still going to be here after the funding runs out, if I'm honest. Not that this should discourage you if you're still looking to do one - the more people I talk to, the more convinced I am I just drew the short straw with this one.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 14:47, Reply)