I've just found an awesome wallpaper
this one if anyone cares which made me think when you're not looking at b3ta what's your desktop? Are you like me and hide desktop icons so it looks neater??

Alt Q: if you were designing your dream house what extravagant feature would you want? I'm thinking bowling alley
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:20, 114 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Alt:
Fred West's basement.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:26, Reply)

awight jeff
I don't think you're taking my question seriously
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:28, Reply)

I am.
It'll go well with the Fred West patio I want to put in.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:42, Reply)

hahaha

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:44, Reply)

The Fred West patio is part of the 'Brookside' collection.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:52, Reply)

free binbags with every purchase

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:53, Reply)

Alt: Indoor swimming pool and drum studio.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:28, Reply)

This:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whole_world_-_land_and_oceans_12000.jpg

Alt: I'd have a very obvious trapdoor in front of the front door and a sign that said: "Solicitors will be fed to the alligators."
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:30, Reply)

Nice
I miss my motorbike. My screen is just of a leaf, it's one of the standard windows ones but I like it so I've never bothered to change it. And the only icons I have are firefox, itunes, word and the recycle bin. It annoys me if there's more than one full row, so I keep it to those ones.

Swimming pool for sure, and a music studio. And a tennis court if I had the room in the garden.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:31, Reply)

I'm far too excited about the new motogp season
Although I don't think Rossi on a Ducati is going to be able to challenge Lorenzo
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:33, Reply)

I have no tv
and I've never found a pub showing it, sadly, so I don't really follow it. Motorbikes are v sexy though.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:37, Reply)

dude iplayer it up

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:37, Reply)

Didn't know it was on iplayer...
I shall keep an eye out for it from now on.

Would you ever have a motorbike?
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:43, Reply)

If I wasn't convinced I'd kill myself on one hell yeah
And you should. Ben Spies is also possibly the sexiest man in the world
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:45, Reply)

I wouldn't go that far
but I certainly wouldn't kick him out of bed.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:46, Reply)

mmm he's yummy
and he's an awesome rider and has a southern drawl *drifts off*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:47, Reply)

I prefer that Jensen whatsit from Supernatural
that Amberl linked earlier. Now him I really wouldn't kick out of bed. I'd probably tie him to it so that he could never, ever get away...
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:51, Reply)

Awesome you do that and I'll steal his car

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:53, Reply)

Fine by me
he won't need it on account of never being able to sit down properly ever again.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:57, Reply)

I'm more looking forward to the new F1 season
Not that I'm actually sure when it starts. To Google!
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:37, Reply)

The 13th I believe
I only remember as I am having Sunday dinner to celebrate with wooks and clendrix *remembers food*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:38, Reply)

You are correct
And this year there's no stupid dissertations to get in the way of watching it. Or in the way of the 6 nations.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:38, Reply)

6 nations starts tomorrow I believe
F1 is...soon? Next month, I think.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:42, Reply)

It certainly does start tomorrow
Wales vs England. And I now live in Wales. Good times.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:45, Reply)

Ah, so you can go to the pub
and cheer for Wales, then?
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:46, Reply)

Something along those lines
Gutted Scotland aren't playing down here this year, but they will be next year.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:47, Reply)

I prefer the British Touring Car championship.
More action in the average lap than there is over an entire F1 season.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:43, Reply)

Not bad
rallying is better though, mainly cos it's fucking mental.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:45, Reply)

Tru dat
I used to go to a rally stage near home in a forest. I once saw a Lada head off down a banking and plow into a tree.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:46, Reply)

into tree field
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:49, Reply)

That would be plough, no?
edits: Nope, both the same apparently.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:50, Reply)

Henning Solberg is always good for a crash or two

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:50, Reply)

A music studio
A really rather big one.

Desktop: Very icon-light, with a background of my logo from when I did freelance design work.

Is everyone else having the ridiculous wind that we're getting here? Or was it just something I ate?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:32, Reply)

No, I just saw a watering can fly past my window

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:33, Reply)

Do you live in some magical land these days?
Or are there lots of hooligans nearby?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:34, Reply)

haha
it was down a gulley on our roof garden and I have a patio door so it half rolled half flew past.

Gonz lives in a magical land though of fluffy clouds and pugs
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:37, Reply)

Look at you, posh Londoner
With your patio doors and gulleys.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:39, Reply)

My bathroom window will fall in tonight

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:45, Reply)

Better than having your back doors kicked in though, surely?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:47, Reply)

I couldn't agree more

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:59, Reply)

This thread needs more retro telly.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:01, Reply)

The Gaffer, starring Bill Maynard.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:03, Reply)

He's the gaffer!
*Lobs parking ticket onto the back seat of a white Rover*

(I'm sure I've got that right).

Murphy's Mob - YouTube the theme tune.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:08, Reply)

Me and my Dad used to love watching Murphy's Mob

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:12, Reply)

I quite liked it.
I also remember enjoying watching Chocky and Chocky's Children.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:14, Reply)

Do you remember Maggie, the Scottish series on BBC2?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:36, Reply)

I do - albeit loosely.
I remember a BBC documentary highlighting racism in England. (Black and White maybe?) Two people (one black, one white) trying to rent rooms and get a job.

That was depressing.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:44, Reply)

It has got really windy.
I couldn't find anyone who wanted to go to the pub, so I went to the shop to get some orange juice (Tropicana - smooth, as it happens) and I was shocked at how gusty it is.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:45, Reply)

ooh I have tropicana orange and mango
best of all the tropicananananas
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:48, Reply)

I have Rio so both of you lose.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:49, Reply)

I quite like the Ruby breakfast juice.
I'm not sure if I've got a favourite though.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:50, Reply)

Gusty
fnar. I'm glad I'm driving in to work tomorrow, it's howling outside.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:48, Reply)

Is your car all better now?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:51, Reply)

Yeah it's a happy little car again
has been for a while now. I just hope it doesn't cost me anything to damn well MOT next month or I'm fucked.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:52, Reply)

Have you booked up for next week?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:56, Reply)

My train tickets and that?
no, not yet. I found out today I don't need to be there til 10:30, so I can get the first train up and not worry about a hotel. Cutting it fine, but still. I'll sleep better in my own bed and a five hour train journey will give me plenty of time to go through my notes...
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:03, Reply)

Whilst they've said 10.30
I'm sure if you were to call and explain you'll be getting a same-day train they'd be able to see you later (how long are the interviews? A couple of hours?).

The cutting-it-fine-thing is always a worry, as if the train is running late for any reasion, you've a whole world of stress and concern that is completely out of your hands.

Putting your faith in someone else - especially the public transport man - is, in this DogFuckers view, folly.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:07, Reply)

Ah no, it;s a whole day thing
intro talks and whatnot start at 10:30, interviews are after lunch. I will check though.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:14, Reply)

If you can find the necessary to stay overnight, I'd go with that.
You might find that the cost of an off-peak train on one of the discount-rail fare sites off-sets the cost of the hotel when set against the same day travel ticket.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:17, Reply)

I've checked, it doesn't
well, it does. But it limits me to catching those two trains and only those two trains and is about £14 cheaper, so no point really.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:21, Reply)

three bottles of wine that is

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:23, Reply)

I would be sick
long before I managed to drink three bottles of wine.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:26, Reply)

Putting the financials to one side.
Will you be more relaxed if you know all you have to do on the day is get up and get to the venue by 10.30, rather than getting up and hoping that the train in on time?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:26, Reply)

Not really
I won't sleep well but I will sleep better in my own bed. I'll speak to the staff and see what they think would be best. I just really can't afford to spunk an extra £50 on a hotel even if I will get it back in a months time.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:29, Reply)

I understand that.
But if you can remove the stress of possibly putting your faith in the rail-network, you remove a potential problem, that's all I'm saying. But as you say, fifty quid is fifty quid.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:31, Reply)

That's 10 bottles of wine

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:33, Reply)

I always drive to work
Mostly due to the walk home being 4 miles of uphill.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:51, Reply)

I cycle usually
it's just over 3 miles with a small hill and a big hill. Fortunately the big hill is on the way back home so I can get off and walk without worrying about being late.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:54, Reply)

At home my wallpaper is Louise Brooks pouring a sly beverage.
At work it's Alan from The Hangover.
Indoor pool, or massive heated roof garden.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:44, Reply)

Rootaaaaaaa
How's tricks? Tigger scared of the wind?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 21:49, Reply)

POD! How's the new life?
I'm good ta. Just sampled a tiny piece of my own rocky road, just for quality control purposes.
The wind makes Tigger run round like a maniac, then collapse like a dead man.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:01, Reply)

The new life's good
Other than there not being any folk my age around here (or at all in work).
Tigger sounds awesome in the wind. We have an awesome dog here; lazy but affectionate, a good combination.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:24, Reply)

Currently
It's this. Rob Sheridan did a load of photography and art for NIN, and I rotate through about 30 or so of his wallpapers.

Alt: A slide from the bedroom to the living room, no question.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:00, Reply)

Purty

(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:02, Reply)

cool pic, I think I got some of his postcards given to me once
*gets given so many presents from her horde of admiring fans*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:13, Reply)

Oh yeah, totally, I want a slide. Good call.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:21, Reply)

my background is the view from my window but I might change it soon.
only have the recycle bin, documents/computer and firefox on my desktop. Anymore and I get annoyed at how busy it is.

And I would want a library.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:02, Reply)

I'm sure you've got some pictures from your travels you could use as wallpaper!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:04, Reply)

that's what I was thinking of...
got some really nice photos.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:16, Reply)

My wallpaper is a picture of a field of buttercups that I think I once had sex in.
No icons, just the dock on the left hand side.

Alt: vacuum cleaner on every floor. Luxury.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:11, Reply)

Have you had some Vienetta this evening?
It is your birthday. And if you don't have Vienetta then, when will you, eh?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:13, Reply)

No vienetta
but I did have a bloody amazing dinner in the Robin Hood's Retreat. Salt beef brisket and dripping roasties.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:15, Reply)

Did you have ale? Any good ones on? I've not been in for weeks now!
Happy Birthday !!
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:17, Reply)

Ta!
I was on the wine tonight.
Have you had Bath Ales Ginger Hare? I bought a crate of it because they threatened it would be a one time only ale. Lush.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:18, Reply)

I could happily live on Bath ales.
Do you ever use the Bath Ales pub in Hotwells? (I'm guessing being the owner of a small person, you don't get much chance).
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:21, Reply)

Hare on the Hill and the Welly for me.
What's the Hotwells one? Is it the Eldon House?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:23, Reply)

The Merchants.
www.bathales.com/pubs/merchants-arms.html

Nice for a few before venturing over to the Pump House and the Nova.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:24, Reply)

I'll have to try it, haven't been in there yet (in 10 years of living here)

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:26, Reply)

berk never knew about the cider boat when she lived in Bristol.
EDIT: And if you're having a family day out, you could get the ferry from the centre, for no money at all (really) it'll stop at The Cottage, The Nova and The Pumphouse.

It's a nice way to travel.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:27, Reply)

That sounds awesome
I may take a trip down in the summer.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:30, Reply)

And of course....
The Merchant is just around the corner from the Rose of Denmark.

www.theroseofdenmark.com/

Now that is a top top top pub.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:32, Reply)

No, sounds interesting though!
I think I will make a trip this weekend.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:21, Reply)

The have it on tap in the Welly.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:22, Reply)

word to your mother

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:25, Reply)

I've not been in there for ages.
They did a great pub-quiz years ago.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:18, Reply)

They're uber gastropub now. Really good but somewhat pricey.
The food was awesome, if somewhat poncey.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:20, Reply)

If that food is good, then I've got no problem paying for it.
The problem with pubs that try and set themselves up as gastro pubs is when the landlord still wants Sky Sports News on 24/7, if it is a restaurant with a bar, it works.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:23, Reply)

You think?
Was Chompy present?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:14, Reply)

I think in that it was either that field or an adjacent one.
Chompy was in the long grass fashioning a rudimentary bear trap from paperclips.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:17, Reply)

I have no desktop background
it's just plain. I occasionally change it but it never sticks

Alt: I'd have a moat. And a library
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:18, Reply)

supernatural was AMAZING
I'm trying to hold off season 6 till my mums is here... but I'll be blind then so maybe I should watch it now...
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:21, Reply)

Did you feel a little bit like crying
at the finale?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:24, Reply)

I may have shed a tear or two

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:25, Reply)

it's incredible once it gets going properly.
Be prepared to feel a little let down the first couple of episodes, but it gets better further into the season.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:25, Reply)

noted
as long as I get to look at Dean and his car I'll be happy
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:26, Reply)

You will, don't fret.
there are some very funny lines in it too.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:27, Reply)

oh god Cas was so funny in the last couple of episodes

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:28, Reply)

seconded on the library front.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:23, Reply)

I have a library
but only on account of the fact that my flat is teeny tiny. If you scaled it up, it'd be a library. But I'd need to buy more books.
(berk, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:25, Reply)

My desktop was a bit of Domo art for a bit, but my computer decided to restore the standard one
I just had lovely nommy sushi. Delicious times.

Alt: Walk in wardrobe. About the size of my bedroom at home, which is huge. And I'd have like 4 bedrooms, all with different beds.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:39, Reply)

It'd get a bit tiring if you had to lug the same bed into which ever room you wanted to sleep in

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:41, Reply)

Nah, you just sleep in whatever bedroom has the bed you want.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:43, Reply)

*shakes head*

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:44, Reply)

*shakes hand*

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 22:52, Reply)