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Right enough of that,
He just loves the attention.

This is a nice story www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16607018
Look at his honest moustache! Isn't that nice!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:26, 145 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Also, why aren't you all discovering planets you lazy fucks?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16612181
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:29, Reply)
light pollution, thats kind of the point isn't it?
DUH
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:35, Reply)
You do it on the interwebz and you use information from the keppler sattelite.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:36, Reply)
You have to turn the lights off first though

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:38, Reply)
Now bbc news won't load for me.
What have you done sportscow WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:39, Reply)
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
nothing
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:40, Reply)
oh man, something the bbc havent mentioned in there is the interest should still be his... i think.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:31, Reply)
I doubt it, but this story did remind me about a classic bou event
b3ta.com/talk/5788560
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:34, Reply)
There should never be a technical issue with bank transactions.
The system should be tested so it's on par with a computer that can not lose a game of tic tac toe.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:41, Reply)
Can that be done?
Bank errors can be good if the are not on the USD9.8bn scale.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:44, Reply)
To be honest it's more likely to be some hungover bloke typing a number wrong, the system refused to clear it.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:48, Reply)
Kinda, you can't miss-key an account and you shouldn't be handling that kind of cash if you can.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:50, Reply)
On their budgets and timelines, yes, mostly, 99.99999999%
This is why as a developer I'm so disgusted at those who have developed the NHS and DWP systems, they've spent silly money, millions and millions. That could buy a development team big and strong enough to create the perfect infrastructure.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:48, Reply)
I am dealing with Fujitsu at the moment in their dispute with the NHS.
They are fucking hopeless.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:49, Reply)
I don't want to justify the bollocks that they produce,
but the main problem with the dwp and nhs systems is that the contracts change every month or so with new requirements procedures access patterns etc, which makes designing them an incredibly complicated bodge job.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:55, Reply)
It's both sides.
They don't bother varying the contract when they make changes too, which makes it incredibly difficult to manage. Then, when the IT provider puts in a massive bill, it gets paid without too much scrutiny.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:58, Reply)
Too fucking true,
you should have seen some of the things I've had to point out after reading a contract that's been signed off.
Most recent was "erm who pays for this?" project manager "I'm not sure but I'm sure its come up"
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:10, Reply)
I read in the metro yesterday one of the major guys behind the Obama campaign as replicated Facebook but with a buisness in mind, and that they're going to just give it to hte NHS for organisational issues.
Makes sense to me.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:03, Reply)
Ok, only looking at page titles here, but we're talking about the billions....
www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=NHS+computer+system#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=NHS+computer+system+cost&pbx=1&oq=NHS+computer+system+cost&aq=f&aqi=g-j1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2833l3571l0l3707l5l4l0l0l0l0l251l661l0.1.2l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=79c69f040104696b&biw=1353&bih=805

.... Google themselves wouldn't cost "billions" to repoduce.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:04, Reply)
... purely on a software level, to repoduce... not talking about IPs and buisness logic. I'm talking about the software and hardware it's run on.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:05, Reply)
As a professional software tester, may I just say
There is no such thing as a perfect system and even one that is 99.99999999% perfect will still fuck up once every 10,000,0000 ( may be out may a decimal place or 2, maths is not my strong suit)times which, given the number of transactions processed in a day, let alone a year by any major bank, would still cause a fair number of fuckups. sometimes shit just happens.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:00, Reply)
Thats why there should be parallel systems coded seperatly for that sort of thing, if they don't come to the same conclusion they block any payments.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:09, Reply)
This would be good.
However you'll still get mistakes. just less often. I imagine there are also budgetary constraints.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:27, Reply)
The error was more likely somewhere between a chair and keyboard, I'd hate to debug the issue.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:02, Reply)
Aaaaah... fuck
We might as well declare and head for the beach.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:34, Reply)
I declare.
*heads for the beach*
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:38, Reply)
I'm (almost) at the furthest point in England from any beach.
My nearest beach is in Skegness, ffs.
I'll just head up to the canal, shall I?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:13, Reply)
You just North of Oxford, correct?

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:14, Reply)
A bit further north than that
Reppin' for the C.O.V. here
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:17, Reply)
You know what phrase I hate
"you're more than welcome"
patronising cunts.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:38, Reply)
I hate when call centre people say "FOR you"
Like "Yes ok Miss Roota, I can do that FOR you" like it's a special favour but not too special because the emphasis is on FOR and not YOU.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:44, Reply)
Or if they want you to think they are posh and can talk proper, like
They will refer to you as "yourself"
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:05, Reply)
I hate "life's too short"
Compared to what, exactly?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:44, Reply)
Your penis.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:44, Reply)
hahaha!
EDIT:

Actually, this means you are "bigging up" Darth's lightsabre here
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:46, Reply)
I thought that...

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:49, Reply)
My face is officially set to stunned

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:50, Reply)
It means he 'knows'

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:50, Reply)
Non nom nom.
I only realised that after I typed it. Dunce!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:50, Reply)
Someone's doing the Internet wrong

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:53, Reply)
Hold on, hold on.
I'll get the hang of it in a minute.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:55, Reply)
You should start digging UP soon

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:56, Reply)
I prefer it this way round actually

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:57, Reply)
Lol

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:11, Reply)
taht gervais isn't funny either
all those short jokes just cos he's a midget, i don't make jokes about him just cos he's a fat grubby looking cunt do i?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:47, Reply)
I only ever knew one person who thought he was funny
So who is making him all this fame eh?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:50, Reply)
The Office: Season 1&2
and thats it, he did something that some people liked and now he's excused from all the other shit he ever made
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:51, Reply)
Actually Gervais makes plenty of jokes at the expense of his own appearance
I've not seen Life's Too Short though, looks too smug
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:51, Reply)
i didn't say he didn't, girlfriend

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:52, Reply)
I don't think it is meant as a comparison
The point is more: you will not live for a very long time, so why waste what little time you have on futile things... er... like this post...
*thinks about what I've done*
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:11, Reply)
Yeah, but life is the longest thing any of us will ever know
so perhaps it's not the best way of expressing such a sentiment
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:15, Reply)
Unless you get Alzheimers

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:16, Reply)
You can't cope with concepts of time longer than your own life, Trotter?
Anyway, I prefer the more pessimistic version of the phrase: You're a long time dead.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:20, Reply)
That poor guy is in for a massive ball ache.
The exact same thing happened to me just before Christmas (not quite billions though). Some Scottish car company transfered 25 grand into my account by mistake and I basically got accused of massive fraud before the bank then said someone had tried to steal my identity. They are not my friend at the moment.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:51, Reply)
You should have trousered it.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:52, Reply)
In an ideal world maybe.
Apparently you should never be honest with banks, because they will fuck you. Who knew?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:57, Reply)
Oh man, I would love that.
I'd refuse to give it back until they proved it wasn't mine.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:57, Reply)
If you spend it I'm not sure there's too much they can do about it?

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:59, Reply)
yeah except the whole fraud thing mentioned up there you pleb

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:00, Reply)
They aint neva gonna give a mortgage neiva

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:01, Reply)
They had a receipt for it which proved it wasn't mine unfortunately.
I say unfortunately not because it meant I didn't end up with the money but because it shouldn't have meant a 2 week accidentally extended block on my account happened.
And the world is not awesome enough to just gift me loads of money like that :(
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:01, Reply)
That does suck, and every time you ring up about it
you talk to someone new and have to explain everything again.

The world should be that awesome dammit!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:05, Reply)
WHY HAVEN'T YOU ASKED ME ABOUT MY EATING PLANS FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY, CHOMPY?

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:08, Reply)
'cos I will
LUNCH!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:11, Reply)
I'm not telling you.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:12, Reply)
Then I'll tell you
I had lobster*! Also, tiger bread and olives stuffed with cheese.



A 98p tin of dressed lobster
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:13, Reply)
I'm not reading that

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:14, Reply)
Dont make me tell you again
*STERNS*
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:15, Reply)
Pastrami, Emmingtal, sauerkraut and mustard mayonaise on rye
WINS!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:16, Reply)
You go to the same cheese shop as Gonz

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:17, Reply)
I have pasta with roasted mushroom but I've gone off my dinner now Roota's told me off.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:17, Reply)
For what?

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:18, Reply)
For sniping at the Loon.
She does have a point but I didn't start it. I got carried away with the thread.

Go and tell her I'm sorry and be my fwend again.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:19, Reply)
What? He's a cunt
She knows fuck all, ignore her blousie I say it's ok to snipe
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:22, Reply)
No, she's right.
Soz Roota!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:23, Reply)
Why can't we all just be friends

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:27, Reply)
: (

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:28, Reply)
None of us know fuck all, apart from those two.
Airing it on here makes them both look like nutters.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:29, Reply)
I wasn't telling you off, I was helping you out.
You following him round the internets and sniping on his posts and bringing up details of your relationship makes you look mental and bitter and not over him. Do you want that?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:28, Reply)
To be honest..............doesn't really bother me.
But you are right.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:30, Reply)
It ent wurf it

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:33, Reply)
I've eaten my pasta now.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:34, Reply)
Was it spirals or dickie bows?

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:35, Reply)
Spirals.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:35, Reply)
Best

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:36, Reply)
Nice.
No other pasta seems right with mushroom. Just spirals or dickies.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:37, Reply)
There are rules

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:41, Reply)
There is.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:42, Reply)
Roasted mushrooms and what?

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:35, Reply)
Just roasted mushroom.
I didn't want anything fancy.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:36, Reply)
I fucking love mushrooms
One drop of Worcester sauce in them when roasting is fucking excellent!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:56, Reply)
Quite the multicultural meal
You're so European, Apo.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:18, Reply)
It's all about you tangled.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:12, Reply)
He rang them up?
Like they wouldn't notice that much money was in the wrong account.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:13, Reply)
Why didn't you link to the wanker on Countdown story?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16627873
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:20, Reply)
Rude words are funny Lol

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:22, Reply)
I'm more shocked that Nick Hewer is the presenter.
And who the hell is Jeff Sterling?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:23, Reply)
Jeff Stelling is a legend of Saturday afternoon football on Sky
Fucking top chap
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:27, Reply)
Football presenters are all fucking cunts
Dixon's alright I suppose
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:28, Reply)
Stelling is fucking brilliant
Watching the other presenters try to do his job on the midweek football is painful compared to how he does it
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:34, Reply)
I recently caught a bit of a football programme at a friend's house.
I was amazed to discover that the premise of the show was to watch two men sitting at a desk, watching some matches and telling the viewer what they could see. I understand that it is something to do with someone else owning the rights to show the match, but still... Madness.
They weren't even particularly photogenic men.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:37, Reply)
I know nothing of football or Sky
Saturday afternoons are for pubs or kipping. Preferably both*.


*Realistically neither. Bloody kids.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:31, Reply)
He was too busy having a wank.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:30, Reply)
That makes sence
You alright?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:36, Reply)
Oo! Have you seen this?


Did you know you were a brand of scooter?
This one has only done 700 miles, apparently.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:40, Reply)
I have seen one of these before
but this one looks waspish. And slightly evil.
I like it
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:42, Reply)
You're in luck.
It happens to be for sale. I saw it last weekend.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:44, Reply)
You could also get rapewank.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:03, Reply)
He does look sweet.
I imagine his students will treat him with reverence and respect after his honesty.
Remember that story from New Zealand a few years ago where the same sort of thing happened and the couple took the money out and legged it? I wonder if anyone has found them yet.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:31, Reply)
Afternoon b3th
How are you this fine* day?


* not fine
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:36, Reply)
Up to my whatsits in job applications
which is good, but also soul destroying. I really hate writing covering letters, cos you have to be all 'oh look at me, I'm brilliant, I am, and you definitely want to hire me' and I find that incredibly difficult.

Also, I'm dreading zumba tonight.

How are you?
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:38, Reply)
Fucking tired
Been stuck working until 10:30pm / 11:00pm every night this week so far and most of last week. Meh
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:51, Reply)
but u iz cashed up blud

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:53, Reply)
I have done so much overtime I ran out of overtime claim form and had to start another
In two weeks, I've done another week of work. I need coffee and some kind of chocolate
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:54, Reply)
I got free chocolate the other day.
Best of all the chocolate. It's still in the fridge though as I've not felt like eating any chocolate.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:56, Reply)
I feel a Sainsburys trip coming on

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:57, Reply)
I'm quite partial to their cheese rolls.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:58, Reply)
It is a blessing and a curse that the nearest shops to both home and work are Sainsburys

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:06, Reply)
Sainsbury's - Making life taste better
life sportscow taste be get fa
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:20, Reply)
I gave up chocolate for the new year.
Also crisps. Staggeringly, I seem to have put *on* weight because of this decision.
*sadfaces*
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:58, Reply)
1/2 a stone down for me

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:00, Reply)
I hate you.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:04, Reply)
I hate him too.
Let's bully him on the internet.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:05, Reply)
Yay!
Bully me with breasts!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:06, Reply)
Totally.
You kick him up the bum, and I'll tell everybody he smells.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:06, Reply)
This will never do

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:07, Reply)
Shut up, stinky!

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:13, Reply)
That cuts me deep b3th
*showers in bleach and scrubs clean with Brillo pad*
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:16, Reply)
Sorry
Double motherfuckin' Decker!!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:05, Reply)
it's not always about having decent morals though.
I mean, would you want the hassle of looking over your shoulder like those Kiwis? I'd rather be poor.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:38, Reply)
That's lucky

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:38, Reply)
ERE!

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:39, Reply)
You could pay someone to look over your shoulder.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:40, Reply)
A kiwi!

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:41, Reply)
A banana.
They can see round corners.
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:46, Reply)
Not if the EU have their way etc etc

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:46, Reply)
Bloody EU faceless beaurocrats!
It's PC gone mad!
(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:54, Reply)
hahaha!

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:55, Reply)
The cheque is in the post : )

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:57, Reply)
New thread please, this one is shit.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:15, Reply)
Your face is shit.

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:16, Reply)
I concur

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:18, Reply)
i dun new fred

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:19, Reply)
I dun replied

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:20, Reply)
Shit, I'm still posting in this one!

(, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:21, Reply)

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