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Vote where?

Some day you really must tell me where you buy your perennial gloom. I should like some for the spare bedroom.

I was merely going to raise one eyebrow. But I'm English, so that's nearly the same thing as machinegunning and pit-burial.

I absolutely agree. Modern nutters aren't a patch on the nutters of yesteryear.

Had some more bad news on the work front last thing, so needed some comfort food that was cheap-ish. Fried some beef shin until the fat crisped, then added water and a big bag of fresh spinach. Black pepper, chicken stock cube, paprika. Boiled until spinach soft, pureed with stick blender, added a cup of milk. Loads of nutrients.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-day-Jesus.html Because as we near the celebration of the birth of Jesus I always think "You know how Jesus would spend the festive season? Buying an assault rifle and hammering rounds at the White House. That's how." I nearly put this in the funny thread, because his argument seems to consist of "But, d'you see. I LOOK like Jesus."

Are you drunk? *sobs* No.

The pint (edit: 'point'. You can tell it's Friday) may be, Krez that they are hoping WE learned more than them from the World Wars. They're hoping for appeasement. The old 'peace at any price'. That map of territorial claims you posted is awesome. Shown like that they look like they're taking the piss! I presume it's based off some half submerged atoll at the south end?

Noticed this in the sig file of an email I received:

In theory they're a competence buffer to abosrb knock s and collect fail notices. But in reality there's almost no connect between CS and operational behaviour. Policy is almost always top down. There's some good reasons for this. You only have to review customer complaints for a very short time before you get the impression that most customers are completely insane, or attempting fraud. But there's a lot of sane and sensible stuff that comes in, too. It gets mangled by rage occasionally, but not that often. My current favourite for customer service has to be BE broadband. They treat you like an intelligent adult (even when I'm not behaving like one - router cable fell out, I thought the service was down), and are so not procedure bound that when I asked if my new router would get me adoring ladies they actually sent me an email explaining why it would! But more importantly they react in an agile fashion to every problem I send across, however miniscule. Althugh I don't have many ecause they've clearly thought tehir polciy and offerring through well, so they already do what I want without me asking. Compare that to the behaviour seen here, where reasoning is kept hidden behind a wall of lawyers, and commitments to change procedure are not followed by action. That's a case of a customer service head who is either too feeble or too lazy. Time to make like Sun Tzu and the concubines...

These enormous firms have 'customer service' that is nothing more the a 'blame buffer'. Steam are pretty responsive, even when I send them emails and I'm drunk. EA, Bioware, Relic (weirdly)... I should like to remind you chaps of my proposal that we form a union.

How about a toast sandwich? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918

Not much point investing in non-state of the art military hardware, Krez. That's like investing in a hand of tens.

I probably did say something bad. I'm not saying she's mental. I just don't work well with fine sensibilities. Ironically.

Just invest in a cell phone jammer. They come as cheap as $135 dollars and fit in your pocket. ROFL brilliant!

Finally I have music for my metiere: chap hop

On principle I have to object. In practice I've known some appalling racist griefers who shouldn't banned, only so they can be found and flung into a furnace.

I have a feeling I inadvertantly offended her. I have a positive GENIUS for doing this to women. I should write a book. For the record, ~Di. You're awesome. Post more often. EDIT: At another thing today, where a bunch of ostensibly important and clever people COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF TURNING OFF YOUR PHONE. I'm trying to perfect a visible facial twitch so I can convey my irritation better. I'm also beginning to see a trend in this behaviour correlating with being a smug oily tick. Them, that is, not me. FURTHER EMPHASIS: I actually wrote one of the bastards out of the running for a project. Phone went off with some sort of choral symphony, and he let it go on for at least twenty seconds before turning it off, with an expression you'd normally reserve for watching a seagull defecate on an empty beach. EVEN GREATER EMPHASIS: Do you think I could get away with using one of those illegally powerful laser pointers to blind people, if I worked it into my talking and claimed it was an accident?

Story with pictures I'm thinking it's purely to mess with our tiny little minds.

Talking about the spread of tech, rather than new tech, the Mexican cartels have begun building their own microwave network...

You know a bunch of accounts got hacked? I'd cancel your credit card and get a new one issued.

To be best of my knowledge, Raithe is correct. English cuisine not only benefited from being at the centre of a vast empire, but our lower classes ate better than many other nations. Admittedly because we were taking bread and rice directly from those nations, but the point is sound. I might also point out, since it is Remembrance week, that much of our changed habits in eating came about following the first and second World Wars. You Euros might spare a thought for our contribution to fighting against the subjugation of the whole damned continent, with all its sacrifices in the kitchen, before acting so bloody superior. We were on rationing until well into the 1950s, you know.

I just finished playthrough of Borderlands. It's lightweight, and enjoyable. Glad I only paid 4 quid for it though.

Was that you, chasing those swans around Hyde Park?

Observed the two minute silence, albeit with a hangover. Made me think about all the poor sods who died wanting a drink, and how many thousands or even tens of thousands who died 'dry', Methodists, Muslims etc. All churned up by the wars. Wars do change, Fallout notwithstanding, or at least they take the people who fight them by surprise. I thought about what the next big one would be like. Am now listening to excellent radio adaptation of Len Deighton's Bomber on the BBC. Mixed drama and real people talking. Bomber command, luftwaffe, ground crews, German civilians...