I finally flashed a custom ROM onto my Galaxy Tab 2 this weekend
I also cut my hand quite badly when removing the pedals from my bike. I thought I'd got away with a scrape and then suddenly my thumb started gushing claret all over the lawn.

When did you last hurt yourself?
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:24, 146 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

i have blisters on the balls of my feet from playing tennis bare foot on saturday
what does this ROM thing do to your tablet?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:28, Reply)

It stops the chocolate from melting in your hands

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:29, Reply)

THe impression I got is that it would make it this incredible piece of tech that can do anything and
will encourage young ladies to suck me off.

But in reality it simply makes the screen look a bit different and I have to set up all my homescreens again.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:30, Reply)

wow sounds like it was worth the effort

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:30, Reply)

I have come to the conclusion that people that think Android is some sort of wonderful thing
are as fucking retarded as people who like Apple products.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:34, Reply)

it lets me get email and do internet while out an about
it's not gonna change my world
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:35, Reply)

I like Windows Phone 8.
It's a shame that its not taken up so much.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:11, Reply)

I stubbed my toe yesterday.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:29, Reply)

I did that on the corner of the bed a few weeks ago

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:30, Reply)

I kicked a suitcase while trying to pacify a screaming baby.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:30, Reply)

maybe if you hadn't put it in the suitcase in the first place...

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:32, Reply)

hahaha

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:38, Reply)

i was a wee bit tipsy and trying to remove a load of tortilla wraps from the oven
left me with a stripy hand for a while
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:31, Reply)

I smashed my head on the low ceiling in the cellar this morning.
It hurt enough that I had to have a little sit down.

alt: oh, you didn't do an alt. well, this is awkward.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:38, Reply)

any excuse for a little sit down eh windy

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:39, Reply)

i could do with a little lie down tbh

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:40, Reply)

Its not your best chat up line
but you win... I'm in
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:42, Reply)

i do love a good sit down.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:47, Reply)

Yo Windolene. YO.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:40, Reply)

Alright Mr. Boyce,
my dogs are scared of the thunder. They are all hiding under the sofa.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:46, Reply)

Poor little Porter

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:48, Reply)

You unreasonably tall prick

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:15, Reply)

I tend to hurt others rather than myself.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:39, Reply)

When I 'tend to' I do of course really mean 'gain a deranged sexual gratification when I'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:40, Reply)

you hurt me with your cruel, cruel words

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:40, Reply)

Shut up and fuck off.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:40, Reply)

this is interesting (edit the FT link was more interesting, but because tangles complained, this is just for him)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380548/Is-McDonalds-McDouble-cheapest-nutritious-bountiful-food-existed-human-history.html

i am playing squash on wednesday for the first time in quite a while. so i'll be able to answer your question on thu morning.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:42, Reply)

I don't see what is so interesting about a newspaper charging for online content

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:45, Reply)

oh
i didn't realise, we subscribe to it here. it was an economic article about the cult of home ownership.

fine, have a DM article about cheezburgerz instead...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:46, Reply)

i'd quite like to read the originally linked article about being a home owner

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:48, Reply)

it was good
if you google financial times, cult, home ownership, you'll find it somewhere, i'd have thought
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:49, Reply)

i don't subscribe to FT,
i wonder if there is a way around the pay wall.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:51, Reply)

is it this one?
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/00bf5968-f518-11e2-b4f8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aRFVOPd4
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:52, Reply)

yer
that's the bad boy
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:55, Reply)

there doesn't appear to be a paywall.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:56, Reply)

i don't know, as mine logs in automatically
maybe it pops up after you try to view more than one article or something?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:59, Reply)

maybe,
it is a good article though. It goes to show that people ought to get proper financial advice and not just jump on the housing ladder quick as a flash.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)

yes, i was very torn
i think it makes good sense, and it shows that home ownership is not this golden wonka ticket that the governments have tried to make it out to be. add some people's greed and some people's poor advice, and you end up with some people paying a lot more than they can afford, and risking it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:14, Reply)

it makes sense though really,
if you can afford to buy a house, and still invest in other things, and consume and so forth, then buy a house, but hamstringing yourself by getting a mortgage and barely spending or putting anything back in to the economy in other means is bad economics.
It's society as much as the governments fault for making housing the status symbol it is.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)

yes exactly that. plus they could invest in shares or businesses and perhaps make far more money than relying on the housing market to change over 10 years
the other factor that is driving the SE and driving prices up beyond wages at the moment is foreign investment. i saw someone comment on that article who suggested a residential restriction, ie you can only sell it if someone is going to live in it. hmmmm. is that fair, to tell someone they have to sell their property to the lower bidder, because the higher bidder won't be living in it? but then, who wants ghost developments where the flats are unused? difficult.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:23, Reply)

it is difficult.
you need people to own property to rent to others, and i don't like the idea of every rental property being owned by either the government or huge companies.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:26, Reply)

i also find it a bit guilt-tripping to say that you're lucky if your grandparents had a house. i get the point, but -
my grandparents worked fucking hard for their house (my mum's - my dad's only ever rented as they knew they couldn't afford a mortgage). i don't think they'd call it lucky, and they wanted their grandchildren to benefit from their hard work, as would anyone with relatives, i think. it's a damn sight luckier if you're born looking like naomi campbell or playing football like wayne rooney and make millions out of your grandparents' genes. some things in life ARE about luck!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:34, Reply)

Oh fuck off, your grandparents didn't "work really hard for their house"
affording a house even thirty years ago was a fuck site easier than it is right now, and buying one fifty or sixty years back was easier still.

What don't you get about teh fact that the price of a house has outstripped earnings to a ridiculous degree, simply because people view them, or at least were encouraged to view them, as an investment by a government who created an artificial wealth bubble the effects of which will ripple on for decades to come.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:37, Reply)

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. your view is partly right, but it's too simplistic to say there is only one reason and one view
for example, prices may have gone up, but if my grandparents hadn't hauled arse out of bed every day from 21-65, they wouldn't have had a house. my other grandparents had seriously hard, physically demanding jobs, and one worked til he dropped dead at 54, and the other until she was 70. i think that counts as hard work.

and there are other factors too. what about overseas investors, for example?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 15:04, Reply)

Oh my god, your grandparents worked between the ages of 21-65?
That's fucking unbelievable! They must be totally unique amongst people!

And you've also not helped your argument by saying that your other grandparents, who couldn't afford a house, were the ones with physically demanding jobs. This implies that the ones that could afford a house weren't actually working as "hard" as they could otherwise done.

I get up every day and go to work. Until we had the baby, so did my wife. We both put in long hours, and we're both incredibly lucky, we're both university educated (the time at which was paid for by our parents) and have jobs that pay way, way above the national average. And even then, we still needed help from my parents to get a mortgage on a small house on the edge of London.

The reason being that there aren't anything like enough houses in the country, and those that do exist have been treated as an investment which has artificially inflated their costs to unsustainable levels.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 15:11, Reply)

why should physically demanding jobs be harder than brain demanding jobs?
i do like to wind you up, but i genuinely don't understand that one. grandma a worked in a mill. grandma b was a teacher. both are fucking hard work. have you ever seen how much time teachers spend planning lessons, assemblies, school trips, marking work, exams, government regulations, staff meetings etc? why denigrate that, just because it's not physical labour?

so are you saying there are too many people in the country? that's very DM of you...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 15:20, Reply)

I'm clearly saying there aren't enough houses.
So build more of them. We don't need less people unless they want to go somewhere else.

And you are having a laugh if you think that teachers 50 years ago spent as much time planning lessons and following government regulations as they do now. Teaching is a rewarding job, but it's harder now than it has ever been in the past.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 15:29, Reply)

i think you'll find that you MOST DEFINITELY said
go home brown people, you smell.

you should be ashamed of yourself.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 15:34, Reply)

What a really stupid thing to do would be for the government to act as a gaurentor
to people who cannot afford to buy houses normally thereby allowing the prices of houses to artificially inflate once again.

I mean, you'd have to be a major league spastic cunt of the highest order to think that doing something like that would be a good idea.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:35, Reply)

Or someone with no further thought than the next election.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:51, Reply)

On closer inspection it appears that I could view the article for free if I fill in a form first.
I'll stick with the alternative DM link.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:04, Reply)

I flashed a custom ROM onto your mum's tits last night, Al
YOUR MUM GEDDIT YOUR MUM AHAHAHAHA YOU KNOW, YOUR MUM!!!!!!!!!

YOUR MUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:43, Reply)

oh ho, that is drole as FUCK mush!

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)

I accidentally hit myself in the balls while trying to kill a daddy longlegs.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:44, Reply)

Ha ha ha

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:47, Reply)

spastic

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:47, Reply)

lolololololol

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:48, Reply)

maybe you just need a trim

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:49, Reply)

UNPLEASANT IMAGE WARNING
Last night I was seated on the leather (this bit is important) in just my dressing gown having got out of the shower...

I reclined the seat and was drinking a very nice glass of wine when I needed to get up again. Unfortunately I had slide down in the seat somewhat and unbeknownst to me the leather had come into contact with my nuts...

As I slide forward to get off the seat my bollocks stayed stuck to the seat. That smarted somewhat
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:48, Reply)

I hurt my hand when I donkeypunched YM.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:53, Reply)

Textbook YM usage.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)

what model is your motor?
I am going to look at a couple this weekend.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:00, Reply)

V70 Estate.
2.4 Turbo Diesel SE Lux.

Speaking of looking at things, when are we visiting Richer Sounds?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)

that sounds like code for a strip bar

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)

Nah. Waste of money. Mr Stunned is going to help me use a stereo.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:07, Reply)

I am free Tues, Weds and Thurs this week.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:08, Reply)

Wednesday works for me.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:12, Reply)

are you going for beers afterwards?
if so, i will stick a pic of you on one squashball and stunned on the other, and hit them TWICE AS HARD
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)

Charming.
I hope you have a heart attack.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:18, Reply)

unlikely
you could hope that i run into the wall and break my nose, or get a ball in the eye, or a racquet up the arse, though?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)

The other members at this gym likely to do that, are they?
It really is true that nobody likes a ginger.
( Kroney, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:21, Reply)

ha, no, the gym doesn't have squash courts
we are joining a club, but having a couple of practice sessions at a local leisure centre first. so it's just my friend.

she loves me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:25, Reply)

Oh so the racquet up the arse is a sexual thing? Fair enough.
The other stuff seems like a pretty rough way to go about foreplay, though. Still, consenting adults etc.
( Kroney, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:28, Reply)

I got hit by a Squash ball
It left a welt and a bruise about the shape and size of a fried egg
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:30, Reply)

If you can juggle two peoples balls at the same time, how is it that you are still single?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)

did you not see the names on the balls?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:20, Reply)

harsh

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:20, Reply)

i was just implying that battered's were so small that there would only be yours left to play with, my sweet
and one ball isn't juggling
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:21, Reply)

My poor old lonely bollock!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:22, Reply)

rub it in butter
call the cat over

done
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:24, Reply)

Let's do that. There are three in the City.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:22, Reply)

Richer Sounds is the only shop that I love, while simultaneously hating the staff.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:07, Reply)

I can't go into my local town without nipping into CEX
But it reeks of "games workshop" and the staff are completely and utterly socially inapt.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:12, Reply)

I have been looking at the V60
2litre SE R Lux
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:09, Reply)

V60 is a smart looking car, a little smaller than mine, but only slightly. Good choice.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:11, Reply)

www.1stfortoys.co.uk/vehicles-83/noddy-toys-and-car-3243-2899_zoom.jpg
( wanderlust, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:14, Reply)

I thought we were friends :'(

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:15, Reply)

We are.
xxx
( wanderlust, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)

How come talk has that new post indicator thing and in here doesn't?

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:12, Reply)

They never really wanted to start off topic, seeing as how there was already a /talk

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:14, Reply)

I can't say I really understand talk
whenever I have a look over there it's not very busy and nobody is talking about much (except with this suicide guy). What's the appeal?
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)

one word answers
no need to think
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)

My understanding is that back in the day before there were other websites, it was a little more fast-paced
Apart from that there isn't much to understand.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)

It was quite good but then all the good people fucked off.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:23, Reply)

Because it works by taking the highest ID and storing that....
...and from there when you reload the page, any post with a higher ID would be 'new' so they mark it down.

Because OffTopic has threads, that wouldn't work without re-coding that bit and getting code updates on this place is like pulling teeth.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:22, Reply)

I was looking at getting rid of the bloatware on my S3 mini
I've decided against it as, knowing me, I will probably root the whole thing.

Im rubbish with new fangled technology and computing
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:16, Reply)

*something about YM's bloatware*

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)

I don't really understand the issue with this "bloatware" people bang on about
if you don't want to use it, don't it doesn't affect your phone.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:25, Reply)

Takes up memory/space
Too may google add ons. And they automatically update. I've hidden them but I *know* they're there!
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:27, Reply)

You can block the updates without uninstalling them.
That said, it's incredibly easy to root the phone and uninstall the stuff you don't want. You don't have to change the launcher or the ROM.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:33, Reply)

I'm quite a technology moron
I'll have a google.

it's more for my own OCD's than anything else!
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:39, Reply)

THere is a little program you can download called the "Samsung GS3 toolkit" which actually does all the tricky work for you.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:39, Reply)

Will look it up, ta :)

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 14:43, Reply)