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No argument here.

I just finished watching the first series of Continuum. It was very silly. Probably Canadiaian.

I discovered a hair on my chin. I have plucked it. Will it grow back? :fear:

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I just finished watching the first series of Continuum. It was very silly. Probably Canadiaian.

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No argument here, wolf boy.
At least they tried to go someplace with the last episode.

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I discovered a hair on my chin. I have plucked it. Will it grow back? :fear:

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Yes. Only it'll be grey next time.

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Dewds. Picked up a WDTV gen 3 last week for the parents, to replace a Netgear eva2000 that was used to play stuff off thumb drives (moved that to the TV in their kitchen), which I previously got them. It's pretty awesome. Kind of like a really simple htpc without the ability to run other than the pre-installed software.

Thus far it's been fantastic. Runs all files that have been thrown at it, including heaps of mkvs with different formats, which never works well with simple media players and such in my experience. And it's mostly over wifi, from network shares, at that. All in all, it's perfect for parent-types who don't do computers too well, once set up, and it's really cheap for what you get. I recommend it.

I'm thinking of getting one for the screen in my bedroom, even.

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Totally agree. I've enjoyed mine. Best of the media player bunch, IMO. Cheap, and just do what they are supposed to do. Network option sure beats placing stuff on thumb drives, or burning.

Why don't you foreigners just plug your hard/thumb drives directly into the TV.

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Why don't you foreigners just plug your hard/thumb drives directly into the TV.

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Because a TV only has a limited amount of codec support, so if you have multiple file formats you're fucked. :slap:

Yep, those x264 fucking things, or whatever the fuck they are just tell me to fuck off on my usb port on my tv, too. It'll play divx and other weird formats, but that's fucking it.

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Jebus.
GB just won gold and bronze in the triathlon. The guy who won it ran the 10000 metres around a minute slower than Mo Farah the winner of the 10k track gold, and one second slower than the second fastest British athlete after he'd already done the bike ride and the swim, and he slowed down to a jog for the last lap, wrapped himself in flag and walked over the line while clapping the crowd.

Incidentally, there was copious amounts of pain and suffering endured by the medallists in this event so Idol should approve.

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So far all "our" medal favourties like Simon Whateverhisnameis (he's a loser so I've forgotten about him already)have crashed and burned (literally in Simon What'shisfaces's case - see also Dlylan Somethingorother and the female boxer and the ginger woman triathlete)
Even when "we" do well the officials rob us of stuff (see women's football team).

Actually I'm pretty sure we would be pwning lots stuff if not for drugs and bias officials and other countries cheating and us basically sucking at everything that doesn't involve ice or snow.

Anyway I too was pretty astounded by that poof Brit's run and would be even more so if I knew he wasn't high as a kite on some drug or other.

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Canadia have actually been my second team in the Olympics.
With you turning me on to cycling recently, which I've thoroughly enjoyed this past month, my brain decided that it would be nice if I wanted Canadia to win something.

They've been perfect as they're non-threatening to the point that at one stage I thought they'd decided fuck it, we'll concentrate on Edinburgh 2014 instead.

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Why don't you foreigners just plug your hard/thumb drives directly into the TV.

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Because a TV only has a limited amount of codec support, so if you have multiple file formats you're fucked. :slap:

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Yep, those x264 fucking things, or whatever the fuck they are just tell me to fuck off on my usb port on my tv, too. It'll play divx and other weird formats, but that's fucking it.

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My tellybox has pwned everything I've stuck into the side of it since I bought it, you cheap foreign bastards.

I don't know whether my local supplier, Samsung I think they are called, will deliver to abroad but you guise should look into it :smilie4:

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So far all "our" medal favourties like Simon Whateverhisnameis (he's a loser so I've forgotten about him already)have crashed and burned (literally in Simon What'shisfaces's case - see also Dlylan Somethingorother and the female boxer and the ginger woman triathlete)
Even when "we" do well the officials rob us of stuff (see women's football team).

Actually I'm pretty sure we would be pwning lots stuff if not for drugs and bias officials and other countries cheating and us basically sucking at everything that doesn't involve ice or snow.

Anyway I too was pretty astounded by that poof Brit's run and would be even more so if I knew he wasn't high as a kite on some drug or other.

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Canadia have actually been my second team in the Olympics.
With you turning me on to cycling recently, which I've thoroughly enjoyed this past month, my brain decided that it would be nice if I wanted Canadia to win something.

They've been perfect as they're non-threatening to the point that at one stage I thought they'd decided fuck it, we'll concentrate on Edinburgh 2014 instead.

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It's gotten so bad the official line is that we now need to more celebrate people simply doing their best than them actually winning anything.:(

Anyway if nothing else our boxing commenter rawks as he was carrying on about signing this Mexican boxist over this Irish poof (John Joe Nevin, Ireland 19-13 Oscar Valdez Fierro, Mexico) as even though the Irish poof outpointed him badly the Irish poof would find it hard to run away for anything over 3 rounds in a pro fight.

Also building on the success of turning you on to ghey cycling and as you are a poetry hater but even more so an unapologetic warmonger this is my attempt to get you to admit that not all poetry is bad.

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Because a TV only has a limited amount of codec support, so if you have multiple file formats you're fucked. :slap:

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Yep, those x264 fucking things, or whatever the fuck they are just tell me to fuck off on my usb port on my tv, too. It'll play divx and other weird formats, but that's fucking it.

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My tellybox has pwned everything I've stuck into the side of it since I bought it, you cheap foreign bastards.

I don't know whether my local supplier, Samsung I think they are called, will deliver to abroad but you guise should look into it :smilie4:

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I have something called "If there is nothing on that interests me then I go do something else".

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Yep, those x264 fucking things, or whatever the fuck they are just tell me to fuck off on my usb port on my tv, too. It'll play divx and other weird formats, but that's fucking it.

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My tellybox has pwned everything I've stuck into the side of it since I bought it, you cheap foreign bastards.

I don't know whether my local supplier, Samsung I think they are called, will deliver to abroad but you guise should look into it :smilie4:

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I have something called "If there is nothing on that interests me then I go do something else".

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That's ironic as if there's nothing that interests me irl, then I watch TV.
Doing it the other way around seems mental. I'd never have moved from the sofa while the fortnight long 24 hour a day Joss Whedon telethon was on Sfx.

As to your last, I'm understandably dubious about clicking the poetry link but curiousity will undoubtedly get the better of me in the next few hours. I'll report back and berate you with words when the inevitable happens.

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That's ironic as if there's nothing that interests me irl, then I watch TV.
Doing it the other way around seems mental. I'd never have moved from the sofa while the fortnight long 24 hour a day Joss Whedon telethon was on Sfx.

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Yeah but I have a really big screen and HBO.

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That's ironic as if there's nothing that interests me irl, then I watch TV.
Doing it the other way around seems mental. I'd never have moved from the sofa while the fortnight long 24 hour a day Joss Whedon telethon was on Sfx.

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Yeah but I have a really big screen and HBO.

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I have a fair few acres with horses all over it. :blink:

I see we've got a 'donate' button now. Has that always been there? I only just noticed the fuck right out of it.

Anything we should know, tesco?

Sure but obviously fairs are always entertaining.

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That's ironic as if there's nothing that interests me irl, then I watch TV.
Doing it the other way around seems mental. I'd never have moved from the sofa while the fortnight long 24 hour a day Joss Whedon telethon was on Sfx.

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Yeah but I have a really big screen and HBO.

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Sport doesn't count as TV.
That takes precedence over pretty much anything.

I once timed my missus' contractions according to the clock on the CL semi-final in 2004. It was in extra-time between Arsenal and Chelsea.
She was getting in such a state but the baby didn't even arrive until seven thirty the next morning.

In hindsight, I was absolutely right to wait until the final whistle before driving her to the hospital.

Get a short-arsed, narrow-hipped woman and labour goes right the fuck out the window.

You can plan your children and football matches around a quick snip to the abdomen.

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I see we've got a 'donate' button now. Has that always been there? I only just noticed the fuck right out of it.

Anything we should know, tesco?

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Never noticed it either.
Too bad I just gave that $20 to that silly "help children with cancer" thing or I might be sorely tempted.

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I see we've got a 'donate' button now. Has that always been there? I only just noticed the fuck right out of it.

Anything we should know, tesco?

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I've never noticed it, either.
I remember we had one all of a sudden when the board changed hands and everyone was like WTF OMG and it disappeared.

But people were angrier back then.

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Get a short-arsed, narrow-hipped woman and labour goes right the fuck out the window.

You can plan your children and football matches around a quick snip to the abdomen.

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I should have thought it through.
All women should really do that, even if they're equipped to take all fucking day and night about it.

It's always 'me me me' with women :dry:

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I see we've got a 'donate' button now. Has that always been there? I only just noticed the fuck right out of it.

Anything we should know, tesco?

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I've never noticed it, either.
I remember we had one all of a sudden when the board changed hands and everyone was like WTF OMG and it disappeared.

But people were angrier back then.

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Is that tied to the server problems we've had recently? How much is the monthly bill? Are we getting new equipment/better hosting?

I wouldn't mind helping out a bit, but I would like to know what the situation is. I think a lot of people like to know how their money is being used, and how the user/site is being bettered by donating.

And I want a 6th star, or something... :stars:

EDIT- Require people to donate before they can access the WTO section. :shifty: It'll be like taking candy from [mental] babies...

I don't know any of that stuff. tesco might know.
I think I might have cared once but as long as the board is here, idrc much now.

Isn't the site supported by ads that no one allows on their screen?

Pulling a sicky. Going to the pub. Pub not open yet. Bollocky fucking boo.

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Pulling a sicky. Going to the pub. Pub not open yet. Bollocky fucking boo.

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You'll just have to use some of your green muscle relaxant, instead of the brown. :blink:

Hoi, Bo. You're the only person I can think of who could explain what 'torque' is while not making me fall asleep.
What's torque?

I'd ask chavois, I bet he could explain the fuck out of it, but I found out yesterday that he doesn't drive so prolly wouldn't know plus is approximately 43% less of a man that I had assumed.
What a waste :no:

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Pulling a sicky. Going to the pub. Pub not open yet. Bollocky fucking boo.

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You'll just have to use some of your green muscle relaxant, instead of the brown. :blink:

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Two early, mate. If I get wopped this early I'll be all Ziggy'd out for the remains. Sun. Yard arm. All that.

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Hoi, Bo. You're the only person I can think of who could explain what 'torque' is while not making me fall asleep.
What's torque?

I'd ask chavois, I bet he could explain the fuck out of it, but I found out yesterday that he doesn't drive so prolly wouldn't know plus is approximately 43% less of a man that I had assumed.
What a waste :no:

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I do it as a humanitarian gesture. I should have a non-driving license. And an award for not killing people with two tons of metal and glass.

You just know you are going to pass out from lack of interest part way through the explanation, right about the point when you realise that torque is measured in NM or Newton Metres, so why bother your fuzzy little mind? :blink:

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You just know you are going to pass out from lack of interest part way through the explanation, right about the point when you realise that torque is measured in NM or Newton Metres, so why bother your fuzzy little mind? :blink:

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Obviously I could google and spend 15 minutes reading to find out exactly what it is. I'm sure my fuzzy little mind could cope with basic physics.

But Bo won't bother with all that. He'll give me a five word, max, explanation.
It's why I asked him.

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Hoi, Bo. You're the only person I can think of who could explain what 'torque' is while not making me fall asleep.
What's torque?

I'd ask chavois, I bet he could explain the fuck out of it, but I found out yesterday that he doesn't drive so prolly wouldn't know plus is approximately 43% less of a man that I had assumed.
What a waste :no:

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I do it as a humanitarian gesture. I should have a non-driving license. And an award for not killing people with two tons of metal and glass.

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Never say never, mate.
There might come a time when your tribe has moved out that you'll hanker after a Nissan Micra so that you can spend hours looking at a lake or whatever.

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I do it as a humanitarian gesture. I should have a non-driving license. And an award for not killing people with two tons of metal and glass.

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Never say never, mate.
There might come a time when your tribe has moved out that you'll hanker after a Nissan Micra so that you can spend hours looking at a lake or whatever.

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Had five lessons about two years ago, innit. It interfered with me getting wopped and I didn't like it anyway. The only reason I would ever do it would be to slap it up the missus and make a big fuck off deal out of it. It'll never happen. I promise you.

I'm waiting on my train-fare rebate and I'm gonna buy an island with no roads.

Pub open. Offski. Gonna sidle up beside some gin-soaked degenerate and give him my life story. He's gonna love it, whoever he is.

Sayonara, suckers.

torque is turning force, innit.

how hard it turns, like. :idunno:

That would be fantastic. You don't need a license to drive a boat and you can do it wopped without compunction.
And also; fishing. I'll commission someone that's good with bricks to build me a summer residence there in return for wiring the island up to internets and killing the indigenes.

Manker - I am disappointed you didn't come to me. You seem to have no confidence in my skills.

Torque is the force exerted on an object that rotates. So if your car sends energy to the wheels, then the force acting upon the wheels to make them rotate is the torque (kind of). The magnitude of the torque depends on two things: 1. the length of the object conducing the force and 2. the amount of the force exerted. Example: I am using an allan key to secure a bolt. The allan key is 10 cm long. The force I am exerting on the allan key is 1 Newton. The torque will then be 0.10m x 1N = 0.1Nm.

Obviously, it is slightly more complex than that, but I don't want to blow your little accountant mind. :snooty:

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torque is turning force, innit.

how hard it turns, like. :idunno:

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^ I think you'll find that's what I said :snooty: