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Well, er, that's nice?
What pointless world record would you like to break/set?
Alternative question: what's the best animal you've been bitten by?
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:13, 191 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Although you seem (I'm sorry to say) to be the only recipient of it so far.
Have it as your own special 'meme'.
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I read an article when it first came out that 8 people complained.
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I was adopting the position for the purposes of weak comedy.
I had no idea that there had actually been complaints about it.
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I'm a Chilian miner get me out of here!
With second place going to, Pakistanis will fix it for you and you and you!
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My guinea pig bit my cock when I was about 6.
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Alt Q: A dog. Not just any dog. But a special dog.
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Alt Q: Dogfish - fishing for them in a small bay in SW Eire one of the buggers bit me on the calf.
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and just looking like a very overgrown baby. The latter freaks me out.
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Is it even worse when they look in your eyes and go mama half way through
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I don't know whether I could be arsed to make it, but I think I'd be a strong contender for "Longest time taken to make a decision."
Alt Q: probably a rat
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She was such a dick. She's in ratty hell though now.
I've also been bitten by gerbils, hamsters and cats. My dog accidentally bit me but didn't mean it, we were playing rope tug. She looked very sorry.
The most unusual animal would have to be my old pet snake, he thought my finger was a baby mouse. Luckily he was only young so his fangs didn't break the skin. Scared the shit out of me though.
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He's quite big, so there was blood, didn't hurt though.
The rat bite I have on the same hand went through a quarter of my finger. That hurt.
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Gerbil bites are especially nasty as the gerbil will try and clamp its teeth together through your finger and then hold on with all its littly furry might. I've still got a scar from a gerbil bite, it looks like a tiny little bullet wound.
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You can shake your hand in a comedy cartoon fashion and they stay attached.
Trust me.
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If he'd bedded down with a load of spiders and insects he could have been described as being from
Creepy Crawley.
I'm here all week.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:27, Reply)
...and gathered water on a rotating disc. He kept falling over and came last.
(And he was representing Belgium - strange but true.)
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that leapt out of a bucket and hung off my neck as i ran around the garden
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he came back from the beach with a bucket of fish, i bent over it and one jumped out and bit me
it stayed on while i had a spazz attack freaking out
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And probably youtube notoriety.
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Alt: A short, evil, fiercely intelligent homosexual. It actually scarred.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)
but yes, he's quite violent.
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heeheeeheeee come here you pesky little dots heeheeheeeee
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Seems to behave like the birds in the background of thewildernessdowntown.com
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To messing about with the dots. Luckily, I have nothing else to do.
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Over two hours on the phone telling them that iTunes doesn't work, during which they tell me to remove and reistall it. I do. It still doesn't work. They tell me to remove and reinstall it again. I ask why. They put me on hold... and then cut me off.
Cunts.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:37, Reply)
if it wasn't for the iProducts, anyone with sense would use something else.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:42, Reply)
Can't go wrong with Windows media player...
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But I'm with Chomp, there are so many issues with iTunes, not least that it's close to 100mb now to download.
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and fucking aggressive at installing updates, and it's update program is shhhhiiiiiiiiiit.
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There are many other issues though, and a few plus points.
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never had any problems with it. It plays my music, that's all I care about.
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Mother is expecting a parcel that needs to be signed for and I'm the only one in. So I had to be, despite not going to bed til four last night.
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no one will believe it's not for me.
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Or VLC. Both about as minimalist as they come, Foobar probably has the edge as it maintains a library for you, but all the faff, fanny and bloat that slow down iTunes, Windows Media, and sadly even Winamp these days, are entirely optional.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:00, Reply)
ranks up there with AOL and RealPlayer as some of the shittest software around.
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Alt.Q Bitten by a police horse after a Stones gig. Fucking horse.
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I'm pretty much obsessed with it. I love it. More than I should.
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only messing never got into splinter cell though
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:20, Reply)
This is for the original, old Xbox. Something which I still play regularly!
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Was an hour late and now the traffic has taken an hour to make a one min journey. We are now stuck queuing past the RCJ because the BNP have decided tubestrike day is the perfect day to hold one of their protests. Showing they are even thicker than I originally thought.
I would like to hold the record for how many morons I could shoot in an hour please.
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We've previously cleared up that they're not all idiots.
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the boys with good bums and thighs. how's that for a compromise?
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as long as i get to shoot people in cheap cars with mods
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I'm supposed to be writing my CV for my industrial year, but I keep getting distracted. Mostly by my sketchbook. Five pin up girls later, and I've still barely even started.
Alt q: The hamster I was petsitting for a friend, the little shit. Must have somehow known I accidentally killed its predecessor.
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Just be reasonably concise, and say what you learned from various jobs and projects. Done.
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I had some fantastic ones from you. "____! I've failed you! I'm sorry!" Why, what did you do? "I didn't drink 5 doubles and pass out in the toilets..."
And our plotting about the bash :D
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I remember those! They were on my old phone though so are utterly lost :(
And I remember the night in question too, if I recall, I may not have drunk five doubles and passed out in the toilets, but I did do something just as
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Ohhh dear. You are probably the recipient of the highest proportion of my embarrassing texts.
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I assume you got the "3 phrases that should never go together" text. Or maybe I saved it for here.
I think I did, but it might have been the second time it happened
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Again though, it may have been on my old phone.
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And the higher up the jobs you go for, but for a student applying for a placement they're more like a fact sheet.
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As it has relevant experience outwith uni, and has managed to get me 2 interviews within the past week.
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"Look me can use the magic box! Me type and print!
Me also can use ring ring machine and the beepy beep beep machine!"
And a career in paperclip sales will be yours
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I just photocopied my boobs
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{joke about how it would engulf the photocopier and the entire office}
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I didn't work out the line in my mind before I started typing. same as always.
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One new lady wasn't getting the hang of it and bars were spilling all over the shop floor. She was getting a bit wound up and so he turned to her and in a calm deadpan voice said "Look love, the reason stuff keeps falling out of your box is that your flaps are too loose"
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Chris Cairns was a New Zealand cricketer a few years back. As a non-pro, your ICB registration needed to have your occupation listed on it, and his dad owned a confectionary factory. Whether it was deliberate or accidental, Chris Cairns went down in the ICB records for years as "Fudge packer"
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:16, Reply)
Why I'm such a science nerd and why they should pick me etc. It's just like my university personal statement all over again, it basically comes down to "I like viruses! Chose meeeeeeee! kthnxbai"
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I find it easier to write absolute bollocks and look at it the next day and improve on it.
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write far too much about how great you are, then do something else for an hour and read it back, you may have to start again but it'll give you an idea of what you want/need to say.
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why you want to do this course and what you bring to the course.
That's what the Ucas gimp told me last year. And it seemed to work.
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I don't like viruses. Stem cells are so much more fun.
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Self-assembling protein structures that mimic virus behaviour and induce an immune response in humans similar to that of the virus themselves, so can be used as vaccines. I worked for a bit with one for HepB and one for HIV. Interesting but scary.
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that they investigated crimes against particles. Sadly nobody laughed. Stupid Government!
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Mine would be most time sat in silence after the ending to Final Fantasy VII. Sad times...
Best animal I've been bitten by is a hermit crab.
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when I was 5. I'm now 30 and still have the scar and the fear of dogs. I can kick a damn sight harder now, though.
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Had a few light bites from my dog when i have been playing tug of war with her (so my fault)
But I was bit my a fucking evil cat when I was young. It jumped up on to my chair AS I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS bit my arm and then ran away. Stupi evil fucking cats
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having a dog is like opting to have a retarded baby.
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I was like "get a boyfriend, loser".
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And I was bitten by a hyrax in the masai mara. which isn't as much of a euphemism as it sounds.
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scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/upload/2006/04/dassie_rock-hyrax.jpg
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I bet they are a cockhead
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used to get them on the crags when climbing back home, they are evil little things
good climbers though
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It was used to stealing food from tourists I think, so it was pretty confident/aggressive.
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and was about 4 metres up, above scree. a dassie came at him out of a large crack and he did the manly thing of jumping off and nearly breaking both his ankles
he said it was better than being bitten by the "rabid dassie from hell"
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lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+a+hyrax%3F
lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+the+massi+mara%3F
Just noticed I spelt Masai wrong and yet Google still knew what I meant! It's like magic
I hope you're not looking for research jobs....
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Apparently I also know what a hyrax is too.
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I had to look up what on earth a hyrax are, and I saw loads of them in Namibia but they were known as dassies.
I have a soft spot for marmots, though, so that might be why I like them so much.
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spent a week on the orange river a while back, good times
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...is this a bit underwhelmung?
"A "Double Broom" created by a five-year-old boy is one of the most ingenious inventions of the last decade, according to the British .Sam Houghton came up with the idea at the age of three while watching his father struggling to sweep up garden leaves.
Inspired by his heroes Wallace & Gromit, he decided to tie two brooms together using a rubber band, creating what he called the "Improved Broom"."
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Is that really one of the most exciting innovations of the last ten years?
That has just sucked all the motivation out of me.
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The fact he's 5 is more important than the invention.
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Not exactly up there with the wheel or a Hadron Collider is it?
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I am working on a three broom/two rubber band prototype. It's all a bit hush-hush right now but NASA and Homebase have expressed interest in funding my research.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:20, Reply)
Not many people know what the LHC does, or would even understand it if they were told.
Even fewer would care, sadly.
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instead of just beating him with 1 stick, I have attached another stick with barbed wire.
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and I've been savaged by an otter.
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My memory of Animal Magic is a bit hazy.
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That's all.
And now you're having a go at me... *sobs*
EDIT: The Otter was called Edal according to Wiki
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And you are my new favourite interneter
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I'm taking the title of 'favourite interneter' with a massive pinch of salt.
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The original 'Dog Fucker' day had me crying at my desk.
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that Johnny Morris' family took Nutkins to court following Morris' demise, because Johnny was so keen on Tel that he left his house to him. He didn't like his own kids and they got bugger all.
Haha unlucky, Morris juniors!
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:19, Reply)
But didn't realise there was a dispute over it.
Me wonders if Nutkins had some sort of 'hold' over Johnny?
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Tel must have known something about Johnny interfering with animals, that's my guess.
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:23, Reply)
it makes me laugh.
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That ape that kept jumping on him was obviously trying to damage Johhny so he could make his escape.
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Were made to do a CRB check like The Seahorse.
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Shooting the lispy fucker in the face with a very big gun?
(, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 12:09, Reply)
and then I realised I was thinking of Squirrel Nutkin.
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