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At what time does despair at an incoming Monday manifest?
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 13:43, 223 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 13:46, Reply)

and lives his life like a anaesthetised automaton, finding his only release from his internal struggles on a board of people he claims to hate be fears to love.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 13:52, Reply)

I did order some but they couldn't fill out my order but didn't tell me 'till 2 weeks later. So today I went trapsing through the shops and ended up finding some misslabbled ones so I got £80 pare for £30, which are the one model up from what I ordered anyway. They're pretty good, the sounds great.
I almost bought a new ipad too, but I was a good boy and am waiting 'till I get paid on friday as I said I was gonna do that 3 weeks ago when I almost bought one, and did the same thing two weeks ago, and the same thing yesterday. BUT NO, I SHALL WAIT. And on saturday, after work, I'll go buy one !
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 13:58, Reply)

I'm quite looking forward to work Monday, the Italy game tonight however is a cause of concern.
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Very useful for damp rooms. Or cellars, in my case.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 14:54, Reply)

If the humidity is a problem I will have to give you some advice on tanking.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 15:03, Reply)

Try UV lamps and probs an anti-fungal coating.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 15:14, Reply)

Meant to be getting my car serviced but the dad doesn't seem to be moving
I typically have off on Monday, I have off till Wednesday :(
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 15:16, Reply)

Then again I haven't had a job I hated for years, so the prospect of having to drag my arse out of bed on a Monday morning doesn't really grind me down, unless I've had a shit night's sleep.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 15:19, Reply)

I came home at pub chucking out rather than going back to Stunned's and hence I am not cripplingly hung over. I have done laundry AND a hell of a lot of washing up, and am about to go to the shops. Go me!
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 15:28, Reply)

As I really enjoy my job I don't despair about Mondays, although I do have to go to Burton on Trent tomorrow.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 16:48, Reply)

Except most of London is dogshit rough
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No such thing as Monday-Friday for me now - especially not over the next couple of weeks, so it's all a permanent manifestation of despair.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 17:27, Reply)

I think the pics are uploading to facebook now.
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there's rice in it and tomato and green beans and cayenne pepper.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:17, Reply)

The guys who set up my website have gone bust.
I need a change and they will do it but I suspect I'll not get much support any more. Of greater concern is what will happen to any queries that are directed via my contact page.
You have to remember that I regard IT as a dark art. If you're going to explain, pretend you're doing so to a 5 year old.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:08, Reply)

perhaps "...pretend you are doing so to a 55 year old" would be more apt
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:18, Reply)

And as I've mentioned on here before, us "A-Stream" kids at school were discouraged from taking a computer studies course at O level because it was regarded (in 1983) as about as useful as domestic science.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:22, Reply)

A website comprises of three main things.
A) the domain name. This is the words www . mysite . com and the James@ mysite .com. Think of this as a PO Box address.... no spaces.
B) the hosting. This is the phsyical computer that the domain names points too.... think of this as a house.
C) the 'website', this is the code and configerations and assets.... this is the stuff that lives in the house.
You've just been made evicted, told to pack up your shit and leave. Your contract/deal will say if you own the PO Box so you can point it to your new house, and it'll say if you own the furniture inside the house. You more than likely do.
So what you need to do, is move house.... find some new hosting. If you can get "FTP Access", then you can get all the stuff out of the house and move it to the new place, that should be easy if the company is cooprative. They might even have a contingancy plan to do this for you (perhaps at a cost, or as a jesture of good will).
It's the same with the domain name (PO Box), you need to see who 'owns' it, and make it point to your new house (hosting). If you move your stuff in first, then it would be basicly seemless, although complicated sites with databases and stuff might the job harder (which I doubt you have). You'll have to re-set up your email addresses with your new hosting, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone who knows what they're doing.
The whole thing can take about two hour's work split over two days, but only if the old landlord (the company who does your site currently) is co-oprative.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:28, Reply)

Right - my former landlords have got better paid employment elsewhere. They are co-operative, they're sorry to have let me down but they've gone for the bigger money.
Effectively, then, I can find another company who would take the whole thing on as a transfer? I'm sure that the old lot will be happy to pass it to a new host and one of my clients has an extremely good site. If there's a cost I'd meet it.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:41, Reply)

Now, one of the things is, there is no need to be excravigant with the hosting unless you're hitting at least a few hundred people an hour, and even then, you'd only need to start on the ladder. Someone like www.ukreg.com / www.fasthosts.com / 123reg.com would be more than good enough... the words you want to look for are "single site hosting" or the very base ones. They should be able to set it up, it would take them 1/4 of the time it would take me 'cus they know their way around the neighbourhood (so to speak).
In fact, tell me the following that you possibly know, and I'll find you a good hosting deal.
- How much traffic you get; how many people view the site every month.
- If you have a 'dynamic' site... can you update it yourself without going into any code or having to 'ftp' ?
- How many email addresses you use that go to different places (eg, "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" going to the same place = 1 address, for the perpouses of setting it up).
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 18:58, Reply)

-Traffic - no idea at all - that's not really how my business works so I've never worried/wondered about it. Maybe I ought to.
-No I can't update my site myself.
-One email address. I could consider more but this is getting into areas that I don't understand.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:07, Reply)

it's all there and more
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:09, Reply)

But it wouldn't be clearly explained to me. There'd be an assumption that I knew stuff.
Gonz is making it very clear.
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( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:18, Reply)

Traffic is actually very key to knowing how well your buisness is doing, think of it as not knowing how many people walk into your shop. Whoever you get to do it, get them to install "Google Analytics", it'll take them less than an hour. It'll tell you a lot more than you need to know, and it'll be information overload, but its well sign posted. It'll also help point you in the right direction if you wish to expand with advertisment.
Cool, I'm gonna go on a limb here and say your site is 'static'... does the links end in ".html" / ".htm" ? The move will be easy. You do need that FTP access though, or even better "A zip file containing everything to do with the site; including PSDs if available", they'll know what I'm talking about, PSDs are photoshop files. A zip file is something that contains many other files, like a folder.
Cool, no wories, what I always do is point everything to one place, so [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]..... the bit before the @ being irrelivent; it'll still get to me. How do you view your emails? Do you use something like Outlook, Thunderbird, Google Mail, Windows Live (etc) ?
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 19:17, Reply)

This is my website:-
www.sheridanlandlordservices.co.uk/
I don't know how it works - I get my business primarily by knocking on doors and selling me and my product. I'm a very good salesman (we've talked about this before) - I have no idea whatsoever about the on-line presence of this.
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I'm debating watching some more Revenge.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:37, Reply)

At least it is so far. I'm halfway through Season 2.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:39, Reply)

embarrassingly I never got round to the last few episodes of season 4.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:40, Reply)

I practically had a Televisorgasm at work when I saw it.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:42, Reply)

I keep getting hold of really good shows, recommending them to people who love them, then forgetting to finish watching it myself. Still got last three episodes of Justified to watch as well.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:44, Reply)

It is kooky. But quite funny in parts. The kooky angle actually distracts from some quite funny stuff.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:47, Reply)

and Justified is excellent. New Girl is on C4 isn't it?
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:52, Reply)

but Season 2 is pretty good. And Season 3 looks potentially AWESOME!
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:06, Reply)

Sorry Al but what I saw of the Walking Dead was pretty shit.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:14, Reply)

too many cakes will do that. In an apocalyptic zombie world there will be no cake.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:23, Reply)

Made ham and cheese toasties for me and the wife.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:15, Reply)

but ciabatta is one of the best breads of all for sandwiches, yes.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:18, Reply)

When I just wanted a butty.
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( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:25, Reply)

The feckless cunts.
May once have been an under 25 feckless cunt
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:22, Reply)

She introduced me as her grandma. They looked well confused.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:29, Reply)

yet instead of getting himself a job after leaving school, he's choosing to sponge off his parents for at least another decade.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:30, Reply)

I hope we lose, just for the lols.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:24, Reply)

The defence is still a bit shaky, but the keeper has been excellent.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:36, Reply)

so I've seen all the big matches recently. It's more interesting after a few.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:38, Reply)

aren't you in the basement clearing up turds and dead firemen?
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:38, Reply)

need to watch the news, sir.
Todmorden flooded as was Hepden Somethingorother, just along the road.
Real life drama.
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I'm in the valley but the house is built up higher than the street. Only my cellar was ever so slightly affected.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:48, Reply)

The houses behind yours are higher than yours and the field in front of yours is lower than your house. That to me means you are on a hill.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:50, Reply)

the end days, Al. Some geezer up the road was building a boat and there have been pairs of animals outside her door all day.
Other than that, if you look up there ^^^^^^, you'll see she bought a dehumidifier.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:49, Reply)

My time is more precious than that.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:51, Reply)

There were actually kids outside waiting to be splashed by the passing cars. I wondered about telling them about the sewage but then thought, fuck it.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:46, Reply)

My shackles have a rust proof coating on them thankfully. Cost a little more but worth it I think.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:48, Reply)

to 'Yes, Mistress Blousie'
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:55, Reply)

Second line was.
"We love your hills and indeed your valleys."
Third line was.
"We promise not to play wit our woggles."
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 20:58, Reply)

The meds have made me about as sexually aroused as Mary Whitehouse with a headache.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:00, Reply)

I can cover for you, if you like.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:02, Reply)

"Dib Dib Dib,"
"We'll Dob Dob Dob"
"Akela we'll do our best."
FFS, how do I remember that?
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:15, Reply)

to do my duty to god
to serve the queen
and to help other people
and to keep the brownie guide law
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:22, Reply)

and does a good turn every day.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:24, Reply)

Only got one as a guide, thoyugh.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:27, Reply)

about a billion as a guide, mostly in crafts. Except the one in public speaking
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:31, Reply)

were the days, Cavy.
No standards these days.
I'll wager the hoodies at the end of the road don't know how to make a fire by rubbing two girl guides together.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:25, Reply)

i really don't know how they do it.
At least we *know* our team is shite.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:17, Reply)

find it comforting that I have absolutely no emotional attachment whatsoever. I can even appreciate the game. Sometimes.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:21, Reply)

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You can get pissed, involved and loving it.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:35, Reply)

( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:42, Reply)

A good ODI will turn your head and you can get ratarsed whilst watching.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:44, Reply)

But here's a little promise - next year, come to a ODI at Headingley with me - I think it's New Zealand and India next year.
I'll buy your piece. I defy you not to have fun.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:51, Reply)

The funny thing is that I know what ODI means. LOL
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:52, Reply)

I even went on a fishing trip once with an ex. Bored out of my brain and I got sunburned. It can't be any worse than that.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:54, Reply)

West Stand - I'll try to get somewhere between C and H.
I might get a bit obsessive but there'll be snakes, blow up toys, rampant shouting, calling the stewards cunts and all sorts of stuff.
On the field there'll be some action too.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:01, Reply)

But watching cricket is a huge laugh. It's a big crowd thing, far more than football.
When we get closer to the time, and if we're both still on here I'll remind you. You'll have a blast - I promise you.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:08, Reply)

There are bars all around so you can drink yourself into oblivion if need be.
Edit - of course you loose. You have to put up with me getting excited about cricket all day.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:17, Reply)

Was a baked-bean coloured chav and she didn't even get her bra off.
As my mate pointed out - it was like getting 50 yards from the moon then turning back.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:31, Reply)

I may wear shorts but only if the temperature gets above the core of the Sun.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:35, Reply)

Not only would he love it, but he might even give you a happy ending at the end of play.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:21, Reply)

When it's warm and wet, pacamacs make me sweaty.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:17, Reply)

Mother always taught me to buy good coats and shoes. Cheap stuff is a false economy.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:20, Reply)

If anyone could account for the last few hours of my life I'd be grateful.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:16, Reply)

now I am drinking milk
later I will be having a shower
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:19, Reply)

You should wear it as often as possible.
This morning I bought one of those massive ruffley petticoat things. I thoroughly intend to wear it as soon as possible.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:31, Reply)

I tend to err on the side of hippy chick.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:32, Reply)

but I have a lot of dresses, and they suit me, so I like to wear them when I can. Not having a work dress code means I can feel a bit scruffy if I don't make some kind of effort.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:42, Reply)

Working in an engineering factory means wearing stuff I don't mind getting dirty.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:43, Reply)

I have too many curves to look good in that style though. i do rock a mean dress.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:46, Reply)

You look good in a dress but I don't.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:47, Reply)

in fact, apart from the disproportionately enormous boobs, I'm a bit of an apple myself. I just carry all my weight on my front.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:50, Reply)

It's probably just me not feeling pretty in anything other than a bin bag.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 21:52, Reply)

that alcohol doesn't do much for my football-watching stress levels.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:13, Reply)

I expect that's it for England now.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:16, Reply)

All yer time-shifting stuff I'd forgotten about.
I'll keep quiet for a while.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:18, Reply)

We're up to date now. Fast forwarded the boring bots.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:20, Reply)

Hodgson's got two years to knock a decent team into shape.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:41, Reply)

But I can't help remembering how my England team have gone wrong when the top order has been mucked about when it matters.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:47, Reply)

but before that they did seem to be playing top class football, which makes a change for England.
I like the tactic Roy seems to have adopted of bringing on a younger side. Now all he needs to do is drop Rooney and give the Walcott / Wellbeck pairing a fair crack of the whip, and they might be a better team.
( , Sun 24 Jun 2012, 22:49, Reply)
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