Good morning !
What a lovely day it is today, fills the weekend with promise of good things to come.

I discovered a new resturant last night, just behind my flat. They do the nicest kabab I've ever had, 3 different types of salad, rice, loads of meat, a huge big flatbread.... £8 all in too. They do loads of different turkish kababs, there must be at least 15 different types on the menu.

What's your plans for this weekend? Up to anything fabulous as usual?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:07, 77 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

studying madly away.
maths exams are on monday and wednesday, and then I can forget everything until I go to uni!
My dad gets home tonight finally. He's been away all week.

I must confess, I don't think I've ever had a kebab of the sort you're talking about.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:16, Reply)

Nice one, hopefully it'll go well.
Most cultures throughout the world have a kabab type dish, I'm pretty sure it would be a staple of aborigional food at some point. The idea is that the stick conducts heat and cooks it on the inside as the charcoll cooks the outside. It's a peasent food really, for the most part, but if it's done right it can be great.

In europe, the turks and to a lesser extent, the greeks... are the people who are known for their kababs. but in aus/asia, I'm guessing it would be the more tribal cultures, such as mongolians and the smaller oriental/indian countries.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:38, Reply)

yeah they sound nice in theory.
I'm just a bit wary of trying new stuff.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)

I think you should see one being prepared before you decide to have one.
They vary from great to road kill.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:44, Reply)

that's my worry,
I don't want to eat roadkill.

Also, question - I'm looking on the National rail site - what does a red circle with a blue horizontal line through it next to a service mean? I'm trying to work out trains and stuff, but I've got no clue if it means bus or underground or what. I can't find a key anywhere.. :(
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:48, Reply)

don't want to eat roadkill
but coming to britain. some things you're just going to have to get used to
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)

I killed a little birdy with my car today.
It flew into my windscreen and near gave me a heart attack.
I maintain it was a suicidal bird but nonetheless I felt really bad.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

my friend accidentaly hit a badger
he felt bad, but that badger really managed to get his own back on the car. It was all dented and he had badger fur in the wheel arch for ages afterwards
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)

How big was the freaking badger?!

(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

I think the red circle with blue horizontal means that it's a London Underground station
But since I generally avoid London, I'm not 100%.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)

Thanks PoDs.
I'm a little nervous, we don't have those kinds of trains here, I've only ever caught the train in to Melbourne.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Are you having someone meet you at the airport?
They will get you through the wonders of London transport. It's easy after the first couple of steps.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I think so... I told them they didn't have to because my flight gets in a bit early,
but I'm fairly sure I am. I'm sure I could navigate it on my own - I've just got no clue as to where I buy tickets and maps and stuff.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

There are plenty of ticket offices with little windows to buy tickets.
Provided there is not a huge queue, the people will be pretty helpful.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)

oh good.
The one time I had to ask for help melbourne they were horrible to me. :( There weren't even any queues behind me for them to have a reason to be horrible, they just were.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)

Hey, you speak english, of a kind.
Most of the people trying to buy tickets, won't have that advantage.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:22, Reply)

helpful? London? reeeeally?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Yeah, we can be helpful when confronted by a nice person.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)

zing!
although I still think you lie
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Red circle - blue line: London Underground
I think. If you google maps london you'll see tons of them and you can hover the mouse over to see the lines.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

That's the London thansport symbol.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

thank you!

(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)

Thansport?
Football for the dead?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)

I have a cold.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Good morning Gonzo.
Have your guts settled down now? Now you are making pots of money, make sure you don't turn it into a pot belly.

I'm off to the New Forest soon, to see my good lady. I hope I don't give her my snotty cold.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)

More or less sorted, it's only really bad for a couple of weeks in every two months, when the treatment stuff is sorting itself out.
Well, it's bad most days, but I mean, bad to the point where I have to think twice about goign out.

I'm not quite the billionare yet, but next week they're starting me on a New Project, which will eventually have billions of hits, which really gets my juices flowing. Think of it as going from creating a film in art collage that'll be seen by friends, family, teachers and classmates... and then creating something not-quite-hollywood, but at least british-film-council.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Can you sneak in a little reference to b3ta?
Or even yourself.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:37, Reply)

<? /* Nobody would see this one, AWW DUDDIMS */ ?>
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Neither can I

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Oh lol, it strips out comments.
There is a load of code that goes like this....
<!-- WOO YAY -->

If you read my comments on my code, I write like I'm writing to myself.

// Right, now we're going to grab the user
[code to grab the user]
// Now we're going grab the _POST data and strip it
[code to do blah blah]
// Let's update it now
[code to update
// Did it work? Let's plonk up the All Done message
[All done message]
// Refresh the user vars
[code to refresh user vars]
// Right, sorted, continue on as usual.
[code to continue
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I'm glad to say that this looks impressive, but I don't understand a single bit of it.
I think I see what you are doing though, in very general terms.

Please don't bother to educate me, I'm happy to remain ignorant in this case.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:48, Reply)

Heh, cool, it's just that I write bits in the code that read like a short paragraph story so when I look back it's ovbouse.

( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Those are the bits I understood.
Where I work, the engineers delight in putting no comments or even decent titles in the software. This ensures they get called out when something goes wrong and no one can understand the programme.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)

I used to do that, but now I try not too because I look at it like this....
"[Company] are paying for the code, they own it. Although it's nice that they would have to come to me and I can charge what I want 'cus they'd be desporate... it's a bit like getting a builder in to paint your living room and he choosing a colour that only he can supply, even though you're the one paying for the paint".

Sometimes I can't help it, like I made a short function to do something (won't bore you with the details), and I called it the SQLCodeSelectStringCreator, which makes sense to people who know what code is, but I had to type that out 30 odd times so I just called it "SSC" (the 'SQL Code' bit being ignored), which means that nobody outside of my head would know what that does without looking at that function.

The trouble is, when Developer 2 comes along, they'd ask me what on earth that does, which means it takes more time explaining it.
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Good analogy.
The other month I refused to pay a contractor who finished a job, left it working, and sent me the code. It had no words on it at all. I had written in the specification that a description of the code was required. His reposte that "it works, doesn't it?" cut no ice with me.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

spanta and cleaning and i got another pumpkin to carve
and i was just at the big tescos and i was in the bread aisle and right there in front of me was the same woman who stood in front of me at the till on my last tesco trip and i remember thinking last time that with her old face and black hair and shit she looked like a witch

i was well freaked out
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)

Don't discount the idea that she is a witch.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:35, Reply)

and then right im at the fucking till and right in the middle of the woman in fronts shopping is the bread i wanted
but they never had any. what. the. fuck.

im so fucking freaked out right now.
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:44, Reply)

she's the breadwitch
it's like a sandwitch only different
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:48, Reply)

i get to my flat and i get like, FOUR fucking texts messages all at once
and they were sent at different times... i just got them all at once.

freaky just ent the word for it
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)

shit reception.... or SORCERY????

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)

spooky things man
freaky
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)

He he.
My pretty.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)

But Rosie, there _was_ no freaky witch women. Well, there was, but she died in 1908, can't of been the same one, could it?

( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:44, Reply)

i PAY i GO to the car i PUT MY SHOPPING in the fucking boot
and the witch walks by me with her bags. no word of a lie.

freaky fucking shit.
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)

Do you look like Jill Dando?
Because I think you have a stalker.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)

i thought I was going out for breakfast with my friends, but no one's called :(
I think I'm going to a party with other friends this evening, but they haven't called either :(

billy nomates
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:37, Reply)

Ring them.
You don't want to be by yourself tonight, do you?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:38, Reply)

I already sent a text
perhaps if I hear nothing by later this afternoon I will just go round there with a bottle of booze and demand fun
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)

That's a plan.
Booze can get you in almost anywhere.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)

i hoped they'd call me sooner
it is probably going to be fancy dress of some kind so I need at least an hour or so to put something together
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I think ring them and talk,
Texting is so easy to ignore.

From a land line as they probably have your name against the mobile number.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)

mm, that's a positive message there
'call in a way where they can't recognise who you are so they won't ignore you'

I don't think it's that bad
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Sorry, I'm rather devious, and I know people do this sort of thing at work.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)

its ok
more likely, they're just being a bit crap, the danger is that it'll get to a point where they are like 'shall we bother?...nah' and then I have another boring evening. Hence why I shall just drop in and demand entertainment
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

I have to do that with my mates
or its like 6pm on Friday and its "let's go round a mates and drink and play games" again.

Mind you, my suggestions are very similar, it's just sometimes it's "oh and I haven't eaten yet so we'll all order a curry" whereas I'm in the middle of cooking MY fucking tea and if I'd known earlier a curry would have been quite nice.

ahem.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

this about a million times over!
The silly one is when people who live over an hour away forget to tell me they are coming over until they are in the city itself and halfway through some crappy fishfinger based tea before suggesting going somewhere.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)

there are one or two serious offenders
My brother is one - we have a lot of the same friends and invariably they will let him know the plan around Saturday lunchtime and ask him to let me know and invariably he doesn't do that until 6:30. Argh.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Gutted
I'm going out for lunch with ma', and then I'm going to blitz the whole flat, make it real pukka.

Movie and a take away tonight?
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)

no, been on my own most of the week
thanks to half term and being dumped, so I am bloody well going to someone's house. Even if it's a complete stranger
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:49, Reply)

oh man getting dumped is well shit

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)

REBOUND REBOUND REBOUND !
/ac

I signed up to OK Cupid this week, time to jump back on the horse, so to speak.
( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

Most of the people they have suggested to me really ain't my cup of tea.

( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

answer a lot of questions
I seem to have ended up with a mix of views not shared with many others, unfortunately.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Is this to make a good impression for the imminent arrival of the Badger?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Yup +DDD

( G/PP &#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128169;&#128, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

Zombieing later.
Listening to Carpathian right now. Got a hangover to shake off.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Dressing up and getting pished. Going to be fairly good, I imagine.
I'm yet to have a kebab, and I live with a fucking Turk.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)

im all about the mixed
lamb donner chicken shish no salad extra chilli sauce boss
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

My local place stopped doing the chicken kebab cos so few wanted it
I do like kebab meat and chips from time to time. Sin city.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 12:58, Reply)