Ronnie

18 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

I do now, yeah! @patiirc you had an absolute shocker here.

Found it:

You had to explain it to me!

On 1/27/2013 at 1:53 AM, Ronnie said:

I didn't have a clue what the attempted joke was in patdfb's comment so asked Gladders. Apparently he was trying to write "The World according to G(ladstone)-arp" as a play on the film "The World according to Garp". So, as G(lastone)-arp says, "even if he had got the parentheses correct, it would still be a terribly shit gag".

37 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

I don't recall that!

I think it was something like "(The world according to )Gladstone-arp". Does that ring a bell?

6 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Who was the originator of "Stainontrousersforth"?

Dangerously. What was the nickname Pat once used for you? Something ending in "derp", wasn't it?

2 hours ago, Max Power said:

There was a letter printed in Powerslam (I think) hammering this forum - the accompanying thread on here was brilliant.

Ah, yes: the arrival of Bubble Ray and accompanying meltdown of Mo Chatra: 

A couple of people mentioned Megan Midas earlier. It's all here, minus, the original photos of Midas in the pink tent: 

The wonderful LedByDonkeys have made it pretty easy to just how lax Johnson has been. "He's not Churchill. He's Chamberlain."

5 minutes ago, Chris B said:

But if I own .com, I should be able to maintain consistency with an existing email address?

Oh, if you wish choose to continue sending from the old one, sure thing. Anyway, you know how to got hold of me once you've got .com and want a little bit of guidance

21 minutes ago, Chris B said:

2 - Redirect the .com domain to the new .co.uk domain.

I can help you with that once you've got possession of the .com. It involves placing a tiny bit of code on your server. That code also contains a message so that search engines know to index the new address instead of the old one.

21 minutes ago, Chris B said:

4 - If I figure out that, keeping continuity of the existing .com email address. They're using RoundCube.

Presumably you'll just want to receive email sent to that address rather than send from it because you'll be replying from a .co.uk address. The easiest solution in that case would be to set up .com to forward to an equivalent .co.uk address. You would need to own .com to do this.

"They are literally hanging from the rafters, Brain!"

32 minutes ago, TheSurgeon said:

bugger, I searched for religion and found nothing.

Not your fault. The search function is pretty much useless here because it seems there are huge parts of the search index missing. If I need to search for something, it's Google to the rescue.

Pro-tip: You can limit Google searches to a specific site by using the site: keyword:

site:ukff.com religion

18 minutes ago, Statto said:

https://voca.ro/aFPgBHqheMH

Wife went to the supermarket.

That was great! I'm giving myself a little bonus for knowing that you were going to follow "weighing three hundred" with "and twenty-eight pounds"

5 hours ago, RancidPunx said:

I see some decent courses in Python on Udemy and they see like a good way to learn ! Also seems to be a lot on YouTube also. 

I use the common web languages (HTML, (S)CSS, PHP, MySQL, JS) to different degrees. Most of it has been a case of learning what I need when I need it over the course of the last 13 or so years. I've made a more concerted effort over the past year or two to learn them in a more structured way, and can really recommend some of the courses on Udemy which I've used. They frequently have sales where the courses costs £13 or so, so don't get tempted to pay the full price.

I was about to write that it was some consolation that he made it to a ripe old age but then I've seen that he was born in 1950 and hadn't yet hit 70. I would never have guessed that the Fink most of us grew up with was in his thirties and early years of his forties.

What a delivery he had. And he was loyal to a fault. I'm glad he got to announce himself as NOOOO-EST MEMBER OF THE HALL OF FAME because it clearly meant the world to him.

I'm sorry to read that, Nick. Even if your relationship with your parents isn't good, I imagine you don't want one of them to be suffering.

13 hours ago, Fog Dude said:

I met some Esperanto speakers at the London Language Show back in November and they were certainly an interesting bunch.

I may have been one of them, since I worked all three days. There were usually more people working at any one time than were needed, so I was AWOL a fair bit helping out at the Teach Yourself stand or perusing the floor. You'll know if you met me if you recall somebody looking like The Gruffalo (or La Krubalo, as we call him).

13 hours ago, Carbomb said:

The one phrase of Esperanto I remember I owe to Red Dwarf: "Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo."

Nearly: you're missing a couple of accents. That laŭŝajne is a bizarre choice anyway. I only got 106 hits for it in a corpus check; the standard verŝajne reached the maximum 1000 hits in seconds. There's a bit of bad Esperanto dotted around Red Dwarf quite regularly: the word nivelo (level) appears fairly often stencilled onto a wall. Unfortunately, it's the wrong word, a natural result of somebody receiving a list of contextless words and just returning a single translation instead of having the sense to ask for clarification about the sense or providing alternatives to choose from. (It's supposed to be 'level' as in 'floor' or 'storey'. Unfortunately, the translators provided the word to mean 'a grade', 'a position on a scale'.) There could've been a lot more Esperanto in the series but the translators didn't truncate anything, so their responses weren't usable. Where the English might be a new term like 'holomatter', the translators parsed the response literally, with answers along the lines of 'solid-light projection technology'.   

58 minutes ago, Fog Dude said:

Doesn't @Ronnie usually weigh in whenever this subject comes up as well?

Yes, I suppose I probably do, but I don't have too impressive a record as far as speaking languages goes: I'm functionally fluent only in French and Esperanto. I'm not too bad at speaking Italian in short bursts but I've only ever had the opportunity on holiday so we wouldn't be having a chat about the rules of darts or anything like that, which I could do easily enough in the other two.

If I looked through my collection of foreign-language novels, I'd find examples in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan, but those languages are all so closely related that it's not so challenging once you've got a couple of other relatives behind you. It sounds impressive but it's not too dissimilar to reading something in Scots if you're a native English speaker. I've read one in Romanian too but that was really hard; it's sufficiently different from the other Romance languages that doing a couple of textbooks wasn't nearly enough preparation for a novel.

If anybody's looking to use their new-found downtime to learn a language, Teach Yourself are offering 80% off several of their ebooks. There are the usual ones (French, German, Spanish, Italian) plus Swedish and Esperanto too. I don't have the dedication to do more than dip into languages personally; seeing my other half with a 500-day streak of at least 30 minutes of Russian a day plus watching TV only in German or Croatian for the last few years has really hit me over the head with just how difficult it is to get actively competent in a language.

It's not the first time:

This wasn't placed by the Conservative Party itself but by the individual candidate, Peter Griffiths. Labour pushed the Tories to disown this MP, who actually won his seat on a swing in a Labour heartland. They didn't, with 25 of them even walking out of the Commons in protest.  

37 minutes ago, FelatioLips said:

Also this really bugged me because we had just seen him without a mask. I get the idea behind it, but it’s very jarring.

I was the opposite in really liking that change. It's Anakin in his prime. If the Force Ghost could have perfect skin and regrown limbs, which he did in the original version, it made sense to me that he would also revert to the Anakin of a better time.

It also made sense to me to have the Force Ghost of a man who died aged 45 not taking the form of a 77-year-old actor. Given all the other changes made in re-releases, I struggle to understand why Sebastian Shaw's face was kept in the unmasking scene.

2 minutes ago, Lord-Mountevans said:

but what better way of climbing up the shit heap & "protecting his spot" than what Triple H did?

He knowingly got himself a life sentence.

He can never, ever wrong her without severe, no-expense-spared retaliation from his father-in-law, and the risk of a Benoit- or Warrior-ing, the antithesis of holding his spot. I think it's pretty clear that whatever the benefits of marrying her might have been, they pale to the consequences of cheating on her or leaving her, which he would've known. (They even broke up in the early days of their relationship on Vince's orders.) On balance, I think the simplest and likeliest explanation is that, three kids and no negative stories later, he genuinely loved and loves her. And she's still clearly enraptured by him. Good luck to them both.

7 hours ago, Dazzer said:

However some words not used in the UK because they are insensitive can be commonplace in the US and are used in the mainstream.  Two specific examples of the are the aforementioned "Spaz" and the "Special" Olympics.  No mainstream outlet would use those phrases here but I have heard both used on US TV in the last month or so.

Occasionally a US firm will unwittingly introduce something into the UK market which is a touch problematic:

21 minutes ago, Lord-Mountevans said:

I am not suggesting he was clean, but he was reducing the use of something?

The Wellness Policy is probably why he was undergoing testosterone-replacement therapy, I suppose. He'd have been fine whilst he was taking roids as always but once that stopped being an option, he would've shrunk. He was on testosterone-replacement therapy because he was unable to produce his own testosterone but I suppose he didn't just smoothly transition to the loophole so there would've been a period where he wasn't getting any extra testosterone and wasn't producing much of his own.

11 hours ago, LWOLeN said:

he passed all wellness tests.....mind boggling. 

If I remember correctly, he passed the tests because he was on testosterone-replacement therapy under a doctor's supervision, having destroyed his body's own capacity to produce the hormone because of the amount he'd abused over the years.

I loved Canada's Greatest Athlete, "Iron" Mike Sharpe.

Unlike the other jobbers, he was a huge man. But what really drew me to him is that he made noise constantly. He was so loud, even walking. Plus he had his gimmick, the loaded wristband:

Reading in one of Foley's books that he was a neat freak and that the boys would prank him by putting a crease in his trousers, obliging him to get his iron out, made me love him even more.

If he were alive today, he wouldn't have been caught out with the panic buying: after he'd died, Velvet McIntyre told a story about being upset about not being able to find toilet paper. No problem: Iron Mike opened his suitcase and shared one of the six rolls he carried with him with her.

1 hour ago, Uncle Zeb said:

And I assume (hope?) I'm not the only one who got a text message about it today.

My InfoWars-influenced best friend did too, judging by his FB status: I wonder if anyone else finds it interesting that the text message the government is sending everyone has "Save the NHS" then "Save lives"? Kind of makes me question the government's priorities.

Somebody points out his misquote ("protect the NHS"), and then he gets a commonsense explanation or two: Stay at home -> protect the NHS -> save lives. It seems like a logical sequence of events to me.

Nope:

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Or, what they're more concerned about is put first. In reality should protect the NHS even be on there? What are you protecting the NHS from? Finding out where it has failings? Surely if a situation shows us a problem with the NHS, that's a chance for us to fix that issue and make the NHS provide a better service, right?

I'm really mad at him for having allowed himself to digest so much of that InfoWars bullshit that he's gone down this rabbit hole. I don't think there's any way back once you've ignored the lies about Sandy Hook. I suppose we should've spotted it back when he was telling us about how Lesnar can't wrestle, that he's only got one move.

I'm really glad that he had such a long life, and that it wasn't this villain which got him:

Asterix (who is 60 himself!) is one of my quirky little hobbies. I think I might try to reduce the unread pile by one this evening in memory of him.

Edit: Didn't he have the weirdest pen-holding style?!

I've thought that this person is a prize prat every time I've had the misfortune to meet him. Of all the subjects to get like this about.

What a codiv.