Pointless But It Does My Head In

[hucks]

EXPERIAN FUCKING CREDIT EXPERT CREDIT CHECKING MOBILE PHONE CONTRACT DENYING UTTER UTTER CUNTS

Bugs the FUCKING SHIT out of me that, because my name (Thomas) is frequently abbreviated to Tom they now cannot find me on the electoral roll, and apparently I don't exist. Now this has obvious advantages, but they appear to have the power of life and death (or mobile phone contract approval) over me.

Seems to me that the fear of the database state is pretty much unfounded if these fucking idiots can't even figure out that Tom and Thomas, at the same fucking address, might be the same person. And for some fucking reason it's up to me to sort this out. Jesus.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Seems to me that the fear of the database state is pretty much unfounded if these fucking idiots can't even figure out that Tom and Thomas, at the same fucking address, might be the same person. And for some fucking reason it's up to me to sort this out. Jesus.

I dunno, one of the biggest concerns people raise is not so much that information is going to be used deliberately for nefarious ends but precisely this kind of cock-up, and potentially far more serious ones. Remember all the fuck-ups a few years back with the CSA? A lot of that was just confusion over people with the same name. Unbelievable.

 

[Sick Boy]

Yeah, all it really means is that you'll get dragged off to the gas chambers for Tom's thought crimes.

 

[hucks]

Yeah, all it really means is that you'll get dragged off to the gas chambers for Tom's thought crimes.

Ha! You're all fucked.

 

[samdiamond]

Maybe they're right-handed but left-eared, or vice-versa? It's a serious disability, you know!

HA! Like the bit on Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David messes up when he has to hold the phone to his other ear. I thought it was ridiculous at the time, until recently I picked up a phone with my left hand, placed it on my left ear and completely forgot what I was supposed to say

 

[bobbin]

We could turn the tide with a series of Nigella's 101 Interesting Things To Do With Root Veg or somesuch. (I'd watch it, that's for sure.)

i think you deserved more winks and nudges for that.

i like tomatos though they are nice.

yes. some of you need to shape up and eat tomatoes. i think i eat at least one big raw tomato (or sometimes a fried one) every day at the moment. that's why i'm so fit and healthy. i didn't like them when i was a kid, but that's no reason. i hardly liked fruit and vegetables full stop. just don't buy the wan, pinkish fellows internally drowning in their own flavourless water.

 

[slowtrain]

yes i have noticed that, they all seem to be girls in skimpy costumes. i dont think they are real people.

I always wonder about those sort of things, like, who the girls the pics are of actually are... Do they know...?

 

[Mr. Tea]

I always wonder about those sort of things, like, who the girls the pics are of actually are... Do they know...?

A lot of people think Facebook make their money from online sponsorship/ads, but apparently they make most of it through the simple expedient of owning the rights to anything and everything you post on Facebook (that's not already owned by someone else, i.e. user-generated content). So if you're female, young/ish, don't resemble a dump truck and there are photos of you on FB dressed in anything more revealing than a burqa, chances are you're going to end up advertising 'dating' sites, mail-order brides and/or porn.

 

[Slothrop]

Restaurants where the waiters ask you 'have you ever been to [restaurant] before' when they give you the menu and then, if as much as a flicker of doubt crosses anyone's face, proceed to give you a twenty minute lecture about the entirely pedestrian ways that their restaurant is marginally different from other restaurants except all the ones that are the same and which is explained in large letters on the menu anyway, eg that the tapas aren't very big so you should order more than one per person.

People who wear multiple layers of clothes in really hot weather. Or rather, the fact that they're looking sharp and comfortable in a jacket while I'm far too hot in a t-shirt. This is envy on my part, basically. I think this must have been an essential bit of training for the British Empire - how to wear a three piece suit in Cairo or wherever while looking relaxed and not dying from heatstroke.

 

[Dr Awesome]

Ugh, DJ'd my first ever set in a club.
New local weekly gig, run by my friend. Only the 2nd week in-operation.
Played the opening slot, 10-11pm. Got there and was confronted by one of those x: one 92 beasts of a mixer, which I've never used before. Terrifying.
Spent so long fucking around trying to get the levels good in the booth/headphones and a few clangy mixes due to the crazy gain set-up I lost all my confidence and just ended up cuing from the last 16. Eventually got it together enough to have a half dozen semi-decent mixes, and got some sort of nice opening vibe goin' on, built up the atmosphere in the place and got people (standing) on the dancefloor.

Next guys take over and blast out terrible terrible power brostep overdriven midrange flange shit and completely kill the vibe, everybody walks out of the dance floor and as if on cue, thousands of 18yr old's show up and start texting, being loud and running around everywhere.

Shitty experience, and I'm well pissed off at my self that I didn't do better. Can mix roughly 10^999^18.2 times better in my bedroom.

Update, opened again last night. So much better, there was a bit of a light in the DJ booth which meant I could see what the fuck I was doing. Those xne's are still really weird mixers, but at least I felt positive about the whole thing. Small cock-up's a few times which I wouldn't / don't make at home (slowing one record down when it should have been speed up in the mix for example) but buy and large nothing too shabby. Did one or two really fucking nice mixes too, played round with the bassline of 28 grams for ages, and right at the end of the set I smacked in three views of a secret over the chase by jack sparrow which got a rewind.

 

[Sectionfive]

Nice one,

One tough lesson I've learned is always remember to practice your 'this is suppose to be happening' face.
Crucial

 

[sufi]

Yeah, sure, agreed on all points. *But* the prewashed-salad-in-a-plastic-bag thing serves its purpose, as a lot of the nice ones have a mixture of leaves, and unless you're making salad for half-a-dozen people it'd be very wasteful and expensive to buy a head of this, a bunch of that and make it up yourself.

Plus, there's the fact that it's convenient. Let's not get so foody-worthy as to forget that convenience is actually a virtue in and of itself; it can be a bad thing if it takes precedence over quality, but that isn't (always) necessarily the case. My name is Mr. Tea, and I buy pre-washed bagged salads...

Concur with jenks re. tomatoes so hard it hurts.

the number 1 top healthy eating tip (for north londoners) is getting yr salad in from the turkish kebab centre @ C£1 per punnet - pass it on

 

[sufi]

i think you deserved more winks and nudges for that.



yes. some of you need to shape up and eat tomatoes. i think i eat at least one big raw tomato (or sometimes a fried one) every day at the moment. that's why i'm so fit and healthy. i didn't like them when i was a kid, but that's no reason. i hardly liked fruit and vegetables full stop. just don't buy the wan, pinkish fellows internally drowning in their own flavourless water.

apparently right, the deep sea is absolutely littered with undigested tomato pips - semibiodegradable with very long halflife

 

[Sectionfive]

Felt abit foolish there for the last few days.
So I checked all the cartons in Aldi yesterday and I they advise refrigerating the eggs so now I don't know who to trust....

 

[mrfaucet]

The term 'London town'.

 

[Mr. Tea]

the number 1 top healthy eating tip (for north londoners) is getting yr salad in from the turkish kebab centre @ C£1 per punnet - pass it on

Every time someone mentions Turkish food in that corner of N/NE London I get madly nostalgic for my stoodent days on the Ladder.

For about 1/3 of the year, one quid would also buy you three punnets of strawberries.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Really depressing Dispatches programme on right now about the prevalence of disabilities among British Pakistanis due to incestuous marriages. They've got some obnoxious holy twatstain sticking his head in the sand, blithely dictating reactionary dogma and pretty much doing the BNP's work for them.

 

[baboon2004]

Really depressing Dispatches programme on right now about the prevalence of disabilities among British Pakistanis due to incestuous marriages. They've got some obnoxious holy twatstain sticking his head in the sand, blithely dictating reactionary dogma and pretty much doing the BNP's work for them.

Marriages between cousins or siblings? If cousins, then man, that happens a HELL of a lot...

 

[Mr. Tea]

Marriages between cousins or siblings? If cousins, then man, that happens a HELL of a lot...

I know. Yeah, (first) cousins rather than siblings, but it's still a REALLY bad idea. The imam on the programme clearly thought the shocking rates of disabilities and congenital diseases in his community was not something the meddling kuffar should be sticking their noses into.

 

[baboon2004]

I know. Yeah, (first) cousins rather than siblings, but it's still a REALLY bad idea. The imam on the programme clearly thought the shocking rates of disabilities and congenital diseases in his community was not something the meddling kuffar should be sticking their noses into.

Yeah, a lot of kids at the hospice I worked at were the chidlren of cousin marriages.

That said, my ex's parents were also cousins...