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What are you fucking shit hot at? Better than everybody else you know?

Blow your trumpet, no other fucker's going to.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:45, 287 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
SYMPATHY REPLY

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:48, Reply)
I am fucking shit hot at 'knowing about things'.
I'll have you know that there's a fucking huge queue all around the block to blow my trumpet.

Some of them are even women.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:49, Reply)
But most of them are Darth Foxtrot.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:50, Reply)
All of them are.
*cries*
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:50, Reply)
I am shit hot at making Monty pee himself in fear

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:50, Reply)
*heart actually stops for a second*

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)
I'm definitely one of the best chefs of my friends
On here, I'm aware I'm not even close to the top 10 though.

Also, I'm definitely the one of my friends who knows the most useless shite.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:50, Reply)
I suspect Mighters wins that one.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:50, Reply)
I think you might be right.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
Gorillas can't swim.
Useless shite I know.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:54, Reply)
poor kroney
try a bit of yoga, you'll get supple enough one day...
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)
You know how some people can touch their toes and others can put their palms flat on the ground?
I can touch my knees. Seriously. That's it.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:55, Reply)
You are Michael Parkinson AICMFP

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:58, Reply)
My problem in life has been that I am 'quite good' at loads of stuff
but not 'fucking shit hot' at anything at all.

I've always wanted to be a specialist at something but lack the singlemindedness and application to be one.

WOE IS ME, I'M FISHING FOR COMPLIMENTS HERE - HELP A NIGGA OUT, YO.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:54, Reply)
My problem is that I found out what I'm good at way too late for me to have much chance at doing it professionally
Not enough money and nothing in the way of free education or youth left.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:56, Reply)
I'm not sure if 'being a tedious cock-end on the internet' pays that well anyway.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Aren't you? Or is this just you and your dislike for talking about how much you get paid?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)
You are AMAZING at taking MDs

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:56, Reply)
YESSSSSSS!!!!!!

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)
I'm a shit hot cook, and I'm the go-to guy for pub quizzes.
And knowing where the decent pubs are in Wakefield.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:54, Reply)
It would appear that I'm shit hot at being an excellent mate.
A bottle of champagne and box of chocolates have just been delivered as a thank you from Beekers and his missus.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:55, Reply)
Hooray!

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
It was a nice surprise I must admit.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Alright fella, how are we?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Fair to mediocre, Aggers.
I'm supposed to be starting my job search today but my heart isn't in it just now.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)
Aye, not good
I'm currently working up to asking for tomorrow afternoon off, as I have an interview for another job. Absolutely cacking it.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)
Good luck with that, fella.
I haven't been in this position for about 20 years. I've always applied for other jobs whilst being employed, so this is a bit different.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:07, Reply)
Oof, getting back into it sounds fun(!)
Cheers, am just trying to calm down and not freak out hugely about tomorrows interview.

1 hour long, of which 15 minutes has to be a presentation about an achievement of mine.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)
Tell them about the time you scoffed an entire munchy box in one sitting.
That should impress 'em.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:11, Reply)
Haha, sadly not.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)
there's always someone better.
I'm pretty good on the guitar, but I know a load of people who I think are better.

Ditto surfing.

I'm really good at the stuff I do for my job, but I'm stopping that on Thursday because it is fucking dull.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:56, Reply)
And leaving to do something you're worse at??

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:28, Reply)
at first
I'll quickly get better at it. I may be worse at it, but it'll be more challenging, more interesting and they'll pay me more.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:33, Reply)
result!

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:41, Reply)
I'm good at lots of things
but not fucking shit hot at anything, apart from useless stuff that will never aid me in any fashion.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
Nice to have party tricks though

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:28, Reply)
I can make a really good spliff.
and I am better than anyone I've ever met at making bongs out of household objects.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
My pal Stuart aquired a diamond-tipped drillbit for glass
and for a month or two turned out some superb devices, including one using a wine bottle and the top of a hurricane lamp, which was a bong for smoking hot knives through.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:59, Reply)
I always wanted one of those.
I have some drillbits for tiles, they might work

the main thing with a bong though is that you need to have the mouthpiece big enough to fit your mouth inside, so you inhale smoke, rather than suck it. Helps prevent Bonger's Cough.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
God, hot knives.
Not done these for years, time was, I'd start the day with a few.
Getting old :(
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)
I used to use the old Victorian curling tongs and a blowtorch.
Scared the shit out of a few people at university.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:15, Reply)
I had a milk bottle, for over 5 years, and never cleaned it.
It absolutely REEKED. Then some stoned fucker droopped it.
We had a funeral for it though, and buried the remnants in the garden, with some Columbian seeds planted over it.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:22, Reply)
/anal

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)
That's just killed my appetite.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 11:58, Reply)
*grins*

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)
I have watched over 200 anal porn clips today

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)
Any tips?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)
No, they stick it all the way in.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)
One was called 'Just the tip'

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
That's worrying.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)
Surely not as bad as "In Up to the Back Wheels"?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:26, Reply)
Don't make the first clip of the day
"Anal punch fucking"
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)
*Bokes*

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:04, Reply)
How did my hair look?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)
Slightly matted with clagnuts. Labs just texted me the details.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)
Ahh, must have been a Tuesday.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)
+1
Officelol
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:31, Reply)
Good grief.
You must be spent by now.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)
Me too.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)
Why?
Or, just becoz?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:33, Reply)
It's his job, believe it or not.
Computer forensics or summat.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Lucky the man who's work is also his hobby
/Jarvis
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:36, Reply)
I am a good singer, whistler, cook, fixer of problems and I have almost nothing in the way of a gag reflex.
Giz a job.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)
Mine has got better ; )

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)
Well done, young Blouse.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Fanku!
*prouds*
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
I have no need of a problem fixer, since that's my game.
A singer I could use, though.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)
What, like, just following you sound singing?
What problames do you fix?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:10, Reply)
Mechanical, technical or otherwise practical problames.
I'm well gud wiv moi 'ands, luv.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:16, Reply)
giz a job.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:28, Reply)
You can follow me around, singing my praises.
What would you prefer, bard or skald? I think skald is less faggy, but it might require you to grow a beard.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Bard.
I don't know much about that skald business but it sounds less colourful. And more beardy.
I am also good at proofreading and taking things to the dry-cleaners.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:45, Reply)
I'm a generalist/jack of all trades
So I'm not better at any specific thing (except being good with my hands) I'm just generally better, as a package.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:01, Reply)
for a moment I thought you had really failed at typing 'journalist'

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)
I thought it was Gonzo.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)
I'm not that dyslexic.
A demi-Gonz at best/worst more a demi-semi-Gonz usually. except when it comes to hand writing.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)
Don't forget welly pulling.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)
*sigh*
ei

How's you Ms. Blouse?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)
Lol
Pissed off with the rain.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:07, Reply)
What rain?
It's loverly and sunny. *innocentface*
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)
The weather is shit here.
And we've had to put the heating on for the first time in months. People are quite surprised by this, depsite the fact it happens every fucking year.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)
Still nice nd toasty in London
Best of all the cities.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:10, Reply)
That's it. I'm moving in with Gonz!!!!

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)
I thought he was moving out.
Besides he lives in The North. it's a bit shit there.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:14, Reply)
Then I'll have his flat.
Living in the north of London will be a nice reminder of home.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:17, Reply)
It is above a bar, this could be good.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:21, Reply)
A working men's club I think.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Yes, with free access for residents of the flat.
I think a pool table may have been mentioned
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:31, Reply)
WooHoo!

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:35, Reply)
It's cold and rainy.
I had porridge for breakfast to warm me up and I got drenched when I went out half an hour ago.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:10, Reply)
So, you're saying you're all wet....
and full of sticky white gooey stuff?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:11, Reply)
Just how you like me.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:14, Reply)
Not raining here. Yet.
I'm going to indulge in some laundry roulette later, see if I can get the towels out and dried before it stair rods from the heavens.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)
It's a wild life you lead DG

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:10, Reply)
I have to maintain some excitement, CQ.
Sometimes, right, when it starts to rain and there's laundry hanging out, I just leave it where it is.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:13, Reply)
Lazy skiver.
I thought you were getting a job.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:15, Reply)
See above.
I'm not in the mindset at the moment, too much other stuff going on.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Good point.
Friendly ribbing retracted.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:21, Reply)
No offence taken.
You know a little bit of the detail from Galtres, I suspect.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:25, Reply)
un petit peu mon ami

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:30, Reply)
You fucking rebel you.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:29, Reply)
I know, I can't help myself sometimes.
Today, for instance, there are still dishes from last night that remain unwashed because I can't be arsed to switch the water heater on.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:38, Reply)
I removed all my doorhandles in 1996, whilst decorating.
They are still in the same box, I couldn't be arsed to replace them.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:42, Reply)
You really do things differently in the north, don't you?
Here I simply turn on the "hot tap" and hot water comes out immediately.
We also have a toilet and washing facilities "plumbed in" in their own dedicated room in the house, to save that unpleasant walk to the end of the back yard.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:49, Reply)
A toilet in the lounge.
That would be luxury.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:51, Reply)
Alas, we don't have a combi boiler.
And I'm not forking out for one when the boiler we have is in good working order. And believe it or not, all of our facilities are indoors.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:53, Reply)
I bet the neighbours think you're dead posh

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:01, Reply)
They have exactly the same facilities, believe it or not.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Aww why won't you play along with my northern stereotyping?
Oh... it's because it isn't very funny, isn't it?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Sorry, I normally would but I'm not really in the fettle.
And it's just started pissing down, just as the washing machine has clicked off. Bastards.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:17, Reply)
make-up
i have even done the make-up for brides and maids on the wedding days of various friends.

subtlety and blending are the two keys to this success.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:11, Reply)
So they didn't look like circus clowns then?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Scariest wedding ever.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:25, Reply)
Weddings need a drunken brawl
with family members.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:28, Reply)
Mr Jelly is available for a booking I think.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:31, Reply)
Hey - that had never happened to me before.
I was under a lot of pressure at work, OK?

It's not you, it's me.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:44, Reply)
Badly applied makeup
is at the centre of the world's problems.

A noble skill. Good on you.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:34, Reply)
In her defence
Ms. Swipe has never claimed to be anything other than vapid, self centerd and superficial.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:39, Reply)
In her defence, neither have I.
I was serious.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:40, Reply)
I'm pretty good at writing
Which is nice, since it's what I do. Wish I could write a fucking novel though. Unfortunately, I'm crap at discipline *cough* and motivation and finishing stuff. I do a great first chapter.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)
You should have a chat with apeloverage.
He's a world-renowned short story writer. He's been published on The Brooklyner, you know.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:33, Reply)
The Brooklyner eh?
"I'm writin' here!" /ancient stereotype
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
Badda boom badda bing.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
Jeeez

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:44, Reply)
i am so fucking tired and i dont want to go to work, i fucking hate this place and only took the job bc it was offered, i want to cut myself

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:27, Reply)
Don't do it.
Only chicks dig scars, not men.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:29, Reply)
Depends on the bloke.
I bet Monty loves scars.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:31, Reply)
Like all good German aristocrats since the 1830s,
I do of course admire a good renommierschmiss.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:39, Reply)
Heh, you said "nommier"
nommynommynombies.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:40, Reply)
Heh indeed.
Heh.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
*awkward silence*
heh
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:44, Reply)
*sobs silently, head in hands*

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:52, Reply)
I can't fucking wait for your bash.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:58, Reply)
for the last 2 years i have been knowledgeable about random political trivia.
Holds me in good stead for P&G A level.
I can tell you what party won what seat where and when.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:42, Reply)
Who won East Fife in 1910?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
Herbert Asquith? (Liberal PM)

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:45, Reply)
Tell me about your Pringle flavours

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
i am awsum at spelin

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
I hate it when people do cutesy-woutsy spellings to mimic me.
My spellings aren't a fucking kitten at a keyboard, they're genuine forwenetic spellings.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:45, Reply)
Mine, on the other hand, are a combination of sloppy typing and spellcheck not being my friend.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:48, Reply)
I swear it's far worse at night, a touch of the old self medication eh
every night
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Chill out Gonz, this was nothing to do with you

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:52, Reply)
Yeh', I know, just sayin'.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:15, Reply)
I swear I replied to this just now.
There is a show on the telly called "4 ingredients" with some australian girl doing cooking. She's the most terrible cook I've seen on telly, she doesn't even compare to someone who's bad at cooking at home. She made some mushroom risotto by sortaying down mushrooms, then adding rice, and then the stock. No onions, no garlic, the mushrooms in with the rice stock. Looked like a shitty rice dish. Then another dish she did was a tin of tomarto soup poured over pasta topped with cheese and baked in the oven.... If she can get a show, then so can I.

I'm shit hot and making things on the internet.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:43, Reply)
Every single thing I've seen the 'Barefoot Contessa' cook looks inedible.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:45, Reply)
I reckon she's made a lot of stuff that I'd like, but lots of her food are simply expensive ingredients in catoring size... that is completely unachieavble in the average home.
I don't think she's ever made a meal for 2 people before without leftovers, let alone 1.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:49, Reply)
Plus I bet she has a smelly minge.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:52, Reply)
I bet she likes a good old scratch on the fanny lips, you know, the kind where they get really sweaty so you pull them to get a good surfice for rubbing a spork up and down.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:56, Reply)
I also bet this.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:56, Reply)
I bet the gunk that gets on it is also catoring sized.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:57, Reply)
I used to cook like that when I was a student.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:47, Reply)
Oh god, I shit you not, she's making pizza with marshmellows, ham, peppers, bbq sauce and some other random ingredients.
FUCKING MARSHMILLOWS
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:50, Reply)
Dude you'd do that, don't feign outrage.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:51, Reply)
BBQ sauce has no place on my pizza.
It's far too sweet.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:52, Reply)
Fucking hell, that's just embarrassing.
I think you and Adam Richman should join up, and do a show together. Your passion for cooking at his passion for eating would make it fantastic.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:51, Reply)
I took an ex of mine out to a local restaurant once.
She ordered risotto - it was hilarious. The portion would have fed three people comfortably, and was made with long grain rice.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:51, Reply)
Oh what the FUCK is this?
4ingredients.com.au/_webapp_828844/Baked_Ravioli
4ingredients.com.au/_webapp_828854/Pot_Pie
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:54, Reply)
Is she actually fucking kidding?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:55, Reply)
OK, this is the current one, I promise you, I'm not lying.
1) Minced Meat
2) Chilli Con Carn Spice Mix
3) Tinned Tomartos
4) Tinned kidney beans.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:57, Reply)
And this woman gets paid to do this?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)
She's no Nigella.
*Pervs over the voluptous Ms. Lawson*
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Nigella is rather tasty, I agree

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:04, Reply)
http://images.google.com/search?q=nigella%20lawson&biw=1280&bih=683&tbm=isch
Yes. I would.
She'd have you for breakfast mate.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:09, Reply)
Fine by me.
Pretty good way to go, really.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:10, Reply)
Yup =(
and apparently she has quite a following too.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Fucking hell, that's just ridiculous.
I understand that maybe she's seen as doing cooking for those who don't have a clue, but in this case it seems to be a case of the blind leading the blind.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)
I am the best person I know, at relay logic.
I can solve any digital control problem faster, better, safer, and with fewer relays and timers.....

Hang on, none of you guys know what I'm talking about do you?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:45, Reply)
No, but I like the sound of it.
Explain.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:45, Reply)
Building safety control systems that must work correctly under all circumstances.
This covers smoke extract systems for building, process safety systems, and nuclear control systems. A lot of it is still using technology that Edison would have recognised. Unfortunatley, computers just don't fail in a systematic way to a known outcome, everytime, so unless you spend a shed load of dosh, the old ways are still best.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:57, Reply)
The oldest electric technology I can think of are
AND and OR gates.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)
That's electronic though.
Electromechanicals are rather more robust.

Not only that, you can tell if your program's executing properly because the logic circuits would be making the wrong noises.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:00, Reply)
It's old.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:01, Reply)
I'm being unnecessarily flippant.
I've not run into electro-mechanicals before. I'm genuinely interested.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:03, Reply)
I'm no expert but I think the point is that if you lose power, a relay-based system will fall into a known state.
Pesky digital components won't necessarily do the same, being governed less by mechanical physics. That's probably a gross over-simplification.

/used to do a bit of 40XX and 74LS electronics as a kid ...
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:05, Reply)
The known state presumably being one of the switches hasn't (or has) switched
and it's Bartleby's job to figure out which one.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)
I guess so.
That and the fact that a relay-based system has proper bits of wire as conduction paths, so even if the logic power fails (i.e., the relays won't switch) the established circuits are still good, in contrast to semiconductor-based circuitry.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:08, Reply)
All this is true.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:13, Reply)
Think of fly by wire aircraft.
There are anynumbers of computers each coming up with an identical solution, which then moves a control surface to the required position. If one of the computers fails, the overall supervisor, and its backup, spot the different solution and reject that one. To make sure these sytems are safe, different software engineers write the software, so a systematic fault cannot occur. All this means big money. My soultion to fly by wire, would be add a bit of good quality string between the control surface and the pilot.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:10, Reply)
Yeah, I've got a basic understanding of flight control.
Unfortunately your bit of string would immediately be the cause of a huge crash, due to modern planes being so aerodynamically unstable the pilot wouldn't be capable of flying it.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:12, Reply)
That is so, it was a crap analogy.
Apply the reasoning to shutting down an oil storage depot, say Buncefield.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:15, Reply)
No argument about that. Relays are older though ...

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:03, Reply)
Very old.
In effect, it is hard wired AND and OR gates, and all the others too.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:03, Reply)
I don't suppose your company does
"Bring a random man off the internet into work day" days, do they?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:05, Reply)
Get your coat Barts, you've pulled.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)
I get the horn for all kinds of mechanical gubbins.
I'm really very boring. I expect I'll have a garage workshop with old signs and shit in it when I'm retired.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:07, Reply)
You really are.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:09, Reply)
Bah, you cool people with your long hair and your music and your drugs
need boring old cunts like me to sustain your lives of debauchery and endless, endless women.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Find a photo of Colosus off the internet,
and wank to that.

I do
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:12, Reply)
My dear fellow I've not forgotten about that MC5 DVD
My chum forgot to burn it as he was pissed. I have reprimanded him sternly for this oversight.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:10, Reply)
No problem. An eminently sensible excuse, anyway ...

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:11, Reply)
I bet you're popular at parties.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:47, Reply)
Oh man high five for that.
You are one cool-ass motherfucker right here already.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:48, Reply)
Thanks, sometimes I think I am.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)
brimg

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:58, Reply)
brimg?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)
brimmed minge.
It's a portmanteau, doncha know?

He's saying he's an epic spunker. Until the eyes go white. Know what I mean?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:00, Reply)
When they get cum-juctivitis?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:05, Reply)
BOOM

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:08, Reply)
Oh boy
I just ate nearly 200g of chocolate brazils.

I feel disgustingly sick.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:02, Reply)
I do that with chocolate peanuts.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:03, Reply)
I used to as well.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:08, Reply)
Back when you were about 3?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:09, Reply)
Nope.
Right up until July this year when I started my diet and exercise plan to help me go from 12 stones to 10 stones.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:12, Reply)
your excersise plan that involvs cycling 20 miles every day
except when you don't want to?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Eh?
When do i not want to?
Ive already done 500 cals today, doing some more tonight.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:17, Reply)
How does one calculate the calories burned while cycling?
And first thought, there would seem to be so many variables as to make it next to impossible, but I stand to be educated.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:20, Reply)
He reads off what it says on the trainer readout.
But that aside, the same way you can estimate the number of calories burned in any excercise, it's a measure of th distance covered and the time it took you, with a factor of how much you weigh thrown in if you want to be a bit more accurate.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:22, Reply)
I can understand that on an excersize bike
But surely there's quite a difference between the number of calories Tory Boy burns on his Halfords Special MTB and the number you burn on your Carbon Fibre Racer doing the same distance in the same time. Also hills.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Yes there will be
which is why a really good estimate will take into account the weight of the bike too.

If you used a GPS tracker on something like Endomondo or MapMyRun, then it can take hills into account too.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
OK, so possible to get a reasonable idea with some work.
Although probably not in TB's case.

I would also add stance (wind resistance) and tyres as factors to consider. Mind you he's on about the heaviest, least efficient bike possible so if anything he's burning off more than he thinks.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:36, Reply)
I don't think you would need to take those into account as they would be fairly minimal differences in relation to any reasonable distance travelled
as long as you're not wearing a sail suit or something silly.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)
interesting.....
I thought I had heard that over coming wind resistance was one of the things that took most effort. I certainly noticed a difference when I took the drops off my commuter, but that may have been psychological.

Any wya I have no source, so it could easily be bollocks.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:45, Reply)
You're suggesting it
so it's most likely bollocks.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:50, Reply)
aww, and we were having a civilised conversation and everything.
Silly Al.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 14:03, Reply)
they have the info on excerise bikes at the gym.
It must be an approximation.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:23, Reply)
See above^
I reckon a very rough approximation.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
I imagine it's based on how far you've gone and how long it took you
with a factor of how much you weigh for additional accuracy.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
I once got chocolate brazils for christmas and was quite upset.... _and_ it was the best present I got that year.
I spent a good amount of time and money getting something that everyone would want.
- My little cousen got a marble-run puzzel, which was a very 'in' toy of the moment. I didn't get anything from her parents (don't expect anything from her, she's too young)
- My 40 year old cousin who is into writing things got a moleskin diary, I didn't get anything from her, she pleeded poverty.
- My aunty and uncle who are into history got a big book about victorian london, I got brazil nuts that were probably left over at her house as a previous gift.
- Barbera got a fridge calender thing to help her keep track of things, she didn't get me anything, I don't expect anything from her though. I'm just happy when she remembers not to take her granny nappy through the living room.
- Everyone got an amazing prawn cocktail made'n'bought by me, I didn't get _any_ left overs, even the ones I saved on the side, they got picked up. Oh wait, I got some roast potatos. That was it. All the other live-alone people got loads though.

This has gone on for 4 years in a row now, this year everyone is getting the shittest gift I can think of, half a year's subscription to Save The Leopard that they'll feel guilty about not continuing.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Cock-gazzes all round this year, then.
Personally I think celebrating the birth of someone your relatives MURDERED is in rather poor taste anyway.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:44, Reply)
My roast potatoes are fucking awsome
In fact all of my Sunday Roast is really really very good indeed
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:08, Reply)
Roasties seem to be quite a boasting point for a lot of people
I've never actually cooked them, although I'm aware of the procedures (in general). How do you do yours?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:10, Reply)
maris pipers
Cut with lots of edges and angles as these are the bits that go really crispy
Par-boil in slaled water
Drain and shake gently to fluff up, creating a larger surface area for the fat
Melt some duck/goose fat in a metal tray until very hot, add potatoes and turn so they are covered in nommy fat
Place in the top of a hot oven for at least an hour
Add crushed garlic cloves half way through
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:13, Reply)
If you sprinkle them with semolina once you've rolled them in the fat
they get an extra crispy coat.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:16, Reply)
Also nice with some saffron sprinkled on the potatoes just after they've been fluffed up.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:21, Reply)
Oh you filthy bitch.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:23, Reply)
I know.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
My mum does this, and it is nice
but it feels a bit like cheating
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:21, Reply)
Your mum also sucks off tramps for coins.
Is that also 'nice', hmmm?
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:26, Reply)
yup but it's cheating
the steam drying step is the imporant one. then they get super crispy

try it
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:25, Reply)
OK we heard you the first time.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:26, Reply)
I couldn't hear him
because of the great seats I'm sitting in at this Squeeze concert.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:27, Reply)
WITH GREAT SEATS???

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:26, Reply)
And where might I be able to buy this 'slaled water'?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:25, Reply)
I can sell you two varieties
one of them is water with slate in it, and the other one is just water, but as I pass it to you I'll tell you it is shit.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:32, Reply)
heaux heaux

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
well...
Peal spuds chop up quite small them wash them till there is no more starch comming out of them (clear water)

Boil the spuds in really salty water till they are quite soft (most people leave them too hard)

drain & allow to steam dry for a bit. While the fat heats up in the oven = Goose fat 200C

Gently shake the spuds to fluff them up a bit

Chuck in the oil baste them so they are all covered

Turn & baste regularly

When they are nearly done, drain off the fat and give them a quick blast @ 220C
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:15, Reply)
Peal? Like a bell?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:24, Reply)
dyslexia rulz ko

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:25, Reply)
these people are both wrong
the best way is to cook them round the joint of meat so they get gooey and meaty as well as having crispy bits
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:17, Reply)
ruins the gravy
doing it that way

And the gravy is important
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:18, Reply)
This is true

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:20, Reply)
This is incorrect
they will suck up the juices, vital for gravy making, I surround my meat with carrots and onions which add to the juices beautifully.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:20, Reply)
I do like roast carrots

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:23, Reply)
yeah
really sweet and delicious
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:24, Reply)
Best tip I ever learnt was to add some suger to boiling carrots.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:25, Reply)
a better tip is to steam them rather than boiling them
then you don't need to
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:26, Reply)
I don't have a proper steamer. Only one of those metal steamers you put in a pan.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
that's what I use
it still steams things perfectly well
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
To be honest I don't eat carrots a lot unless they're roasted or in a veggie chilli.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:32, Reply)
you would if you had them steamed
they are much nicer
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
You only have one of those 'Cleveland' ones, right?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Don't be vulgar.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Sorry I meant 'Lakeland'.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Roast garlic is also fucking nom.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:26, Reply)
^this

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:26, Reply)
With wholegrain mustard and honey.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:25, Reply)
you are both wrong
I've always done it like that (and so has my mum) and the gravy has always been excellent.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:23, Reply)
You've never had proper gravy then
And your mum is filthy whore.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
your mum is a proper whore
and you've only had filthy gravy.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
You are the oxo family
aicmfp
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Sweet potato is good roasted.
And goose fat is the bollocks.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:27, Reply)
Sweet potato is the biz

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
We've an ace market nearby.
They specialise in Asian/Afro-Caribbean stuff.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
I've just finished writing my wedding speech
it was hard, but it's done now.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:24, Reply)
Have you mentioned me?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:25, Reply)
the speech mostly talks about people from /OT

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
Excellent

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
Cool! so I am mentioned then?

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
no

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
*sadface*

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
He must have done, he said "it" was hard.
I'm assuming that the "it" he's referring to is little Vipros.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
He had to stop calling it little Vipros as he was threatened with legal action under the trades descriptions act.
He now has to call it microscopic Vipros.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
telescopic actually

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Bit like my cock, then.
PS your mum says hi.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:27, Reply)
tell her she should be making the cake

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:28, Reply)
I was helping her with the 'icing'.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
She's mixing her fanny juices and montys spunk into the batter.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Ew! Al, you've gone a bit far now.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:30, Reply)
Shhh, it's a secret recipe.
Passed down from Vippers' gran, the dorty feckin bord.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:31, Reply)
He just spaffs up her, then shakes her remorselessly
Wedding cake à la Woodward.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)
This has really made me look forward to my dinner.
And we've the fucking Tory Party conference here next month. What a nice day this is turning into.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Hahaha
When I was out drinking with HimJim a week or so back he made a Parkinson's joke and this girl on the next table cracked the old 'actually I have that so that's not actually funny ACTUALLY' classic, at which I slyly pointed to a track on the LP I was holding, the song being 'Shakin' All Over'.

The LOLz were strong.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Magnificent.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:43, Reply)
Good song that.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:46, Reply)
Andy Weatherall reckons it's the best British rock'n'roll record ever.
In second place he reckons is 'Move It' by Cliff Richard.
(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Also, it didn't take long to finish

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Yep, both fit on a post-it note, folded in half.

(, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 13:40, Reply)

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