does God have an opinion of the extreme pricing of PS3 games when they arrive.... Essentially, yes % Moof: enjoying life in moroco? skel: it seems to be a lot of waiting so far waiting? for signatures to take to ther departments to get more signatures to get the bit of paper that says I'm entitled to live where I live so I can take it to the office that does phone lines to get a phone line to get the piece of paper signed to get the official certified piece of paper stamped to show I have a phone number and am its owner so I can then get internet gah (if God so wills, that is) can't you go in, wave a knife, drink tea with the head honcho and then get on with it? % I *am* very happy brillient s/e/a/ o/c/e/a/n/ % typo: anyway, I thought you'd want to know about I, Claudius so you could watch too :) nononononon clavdivs see the titles Trapper|zzz: For a minute there, I thought you said chavdivs, and it was a program about social class barriers in say, Essex o_O % i dreamed of you Sel u were complaining abiyt dai and tim ( i thinkk) not being able to put a sentence togetjher or sth hehe % * flip downloads the new office beta at 5Mb/sec :D * Grazz ignores the office beta at 5Gb/sec % unhamboobers: we should make a list of odd queries and I'll share them around our residen t helldeskers over the next week or so ;) Trapper: take a random key off a random keyboard and then go to helpdesk and say it doesn't work leave it there for them to find the keyboard it goes with % god! what is it with pigeons having sex all of a sudden!? Stotty: well, they got fed up waiitng for the bee, and eventually the stork. % that will be a requirement for my next mp3 player I imagine the other major requirement of mine is that it has to be hangable thats my requirements for housemates % perseid meteor shower tonight ben, thought that was last night they have sky+ they can watch it whenever they want % "On behalf of the Institute of Economic Affairs, I am pleased to enclose the brochure for the upcoming 'Enabling Government Efficiency 2006' conference" to be held in March 2007, presumably? % need pie ideas we have cherry, rhubarb, blackberry, apricot and plum need to work as a pie or crumble so banoffi is out :( what is this in aid of? our new webserver we have two machines in a cluster for the backend - pie and crumble and we have 6 front ends.... we also have a couple of load balancers on the front which we want to rename from pivot and fulcrum to cream and custard :) so, any visitor to our website gets a complete dessert :) % [talking about photos of an attractive acquaintance] the... naked photos? The what? * Morti whistles. Morti: stiiiiilll archived. for posterity, you understand I'll bed. *bet Ahem. % any C++ coders here? what's the question? "any C++ coders here?" >.> % I'm a total dumbass. I thought my wireless connection wasn't working so I googled a bit and apt-getted some stuff to make it work. Then I noticed that I hadn't plugged my network cable in. So I was using the wireless connection to google for info on how to make the wireless connection work. % * kimble notes some impressive offers at netto this week: [URL] just in case anyone's in the market for a trumpet or chainsaw... ooh, chainsaw oh dear * Trapper knows who ben would use it on whoever buys the trumpet % yahoo games is dangerous. might get sucked into literati (scrabble for family-values americans) i've not got over the time i had all the letters needed to spell out "bollocks" and it wouldn't let me % damn housemate needs to learn to aim should be glad its just pee Because water's a bitch to clean up. no matter how much you try to rinse it away, it just keeps spreading % hey guyz i'm listening to the new record by paris hilton. it's fantastic!!!!!!!!!! * rince goes for a quick lobotomy % maybe they're just waiting for sufficient tips lord lucan on shergar in the 3:15 at chepstow? % * barakta never did understand film certifications cartoons == U. normal films == must have swearing so as not to get non-cartoon PG cert. guns == 15 sex == 18 people who dress in black and angst, but keep their sex life private == 12 oh, there's also 12A, which is people who angst about guns. and possibly PGA, which is golf. % Well personally, I pitty da foo' i don't need your pity % * Stotty trots up to uni on all fours ? doesn't work so well with people ;) banging two empty halves of coconut together would do just as well :) % Jibbler: note down time and what you ate whenever you consume anything BleanD: I wouldn't do that I'd be forever writing stuff 10:01 biscuit 10:03 biscuit 10:05 biscit etc. heh 10:45 crumb 10:55 wrapper % you appear to be going to bed, can i help you with that? erm, that was a clippy impression, not a proposition % it's more gamey than chicken; sort of like pigeon if you've had that no I've had peasant % ka: syn asked me to remind you to: ignore next tell and get some ice cream (Set: Wed Sep 06 15:57:00 BST 2006 (@664.58)) ka: you asked me to remind you to: office and stuff (Set: Wed Sep 06 15:56:43 BST 2006 (@664.39)) % should have more free time then and less of the worky worky, InsomniaCity :P but worky worky pays lotsa lotsa money! pah, who needs money? o/ there's always one! % but i have an excuse. i had a date for tonight. he stood me up. you're such a loser i mean who'd do that christ. % o/~ Rule! Britannia! o/~ Britons never never never shall be slaves except to the Labour government :-/ % * ka ponders actually going to spacesoc this year. thorpe park, alton towers and a trip to switzerland in the works :o why are space nerds going to thorpe park? o.O so they can go on the rollercoasters and makebelieve they're astronauts ahaha TO INFINITY AND BACK AGAIN % Some psychologist Dr David Sheffield got 100 students to fill in forms usually used to assess gambling addiction and found that their responses showed addictive behaviour" lol Turned out that 90% of them said that they took their mobiles everywhere * evadmobile joined #tagsoc % mmmm cold bath mmmm Rah: i know a way to cool you down if it involves starving foxes ravaging my testicles i'm not interested % earlier, i tried running limewire, just out of interest and it worked (over sbs) i found one user he/she had the most amount of pr0n that i've seen in a long time % * ats peers suspiciously at this CD of Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and notes that he's heard less hissy *LPs* ats: maybe you need to decrypt the hiss, to make the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Code % there was a fucking huge spider in the bath this morning footprint larger than a Ł2 coin I hope you let it finish % All alcoholics go to meetings, do they? yes, it's called a "pub" % i use my floppy disk drive as a sacrificial dust anode % you don't USE IE, you just blame it for the decay of morals in the western world... % urgh i could do with a massage right now any volunteers? cutter|workies: I know how to give good massage but, I'm not exactly anywhere near you yeah, you gotta be within arm's length ideally % * Guest11 peers at Channel 4 programme tonight: "The World's Biggest Penis" "...and how he won the US presidential race" % * reggitsti|manchester proddles reggitsti wales on second thoughts perhaps not, I've heard it makes you go blond blond or blind? :P blond seemed an amusing typo so I left it ;) % * ats notes the CS forums server seems to be called "neuth", and wonders if there are also servers called "webpageth" and "ethethaitch"... % Kitty: dan walks into a bar ... the rest is a bit sketchy. % * RGT freaks as he accidentally kills VLC and has to re-watch parts of a star trek ephisode that is about time loops and things repeating... erm Bits of this ep are repeating but I now have NO idea if its because I've seen this bit before or if the ep is actually repeating bits... % it's an exciting page

well, it's important for designers to exercise control over how those empty strings are presented... yeah. White space looks wrong with serifs % * Whatever pokes a stick into the channel and stirs things around a bit *** evad is now known as Guest4265 *** InsomniaCity is now known as Guest4275 hmm, perhaps i shouldn't have stirred so vigorously % there's just been an ad for 'http://www.yourclear.co.uk/' on telly my pedant-o-meter is going off the scale % * Atuin|Work names his application "ROPE" Rota, On-call, Paging and Escalation does it use SOAP? % Yeah, so if the KKK started handing out biscuits, you'd be okay with them keeping the name and the hoods? they can keep their name and their hoods its their white supremacy ive got a problem with % the guy i lift share with is separated always says never to get married : ) * Atuin decides to go to sainsbars on the way home from the airport tomorrow to get married? convenient place to get married, i guess good idea maybe in the drink aisle no worries about catering lots of nibbles and you could really get trollied % I ended up at a Haloween party with no costume. I decided to just open my eyes really wide and stand too close to people. Scariest costume there. :D % Deeps: You asked me to remind you that i have mel at 12 thank you monty! tbh id love to raptor) thats great, but im not going to raptor you monty % how do I close a pm in irssi? /wc /wc ./wc *** Oziris|sbs has left #tagsoc [] % today is a good day!!! you've pulled? better! i chooned into MoreFM and it instantly started playing "together in electric dreams", right from the begining and i've had a uber lush cookie for breafast and will go out for pizza at lunch what could be better! pulling? flying eating more than one cookie % W00T! my inbox is empty \o/ well it was % Trapper: where did you have dinner typo: ask i just did % oh gawd, my mum has started spelling my bro's nickname with a 'z' - Antz instead of Ants Atuin|Work: the question being is it her spelling or his? I guess his but it's nasty it'z very bad shh Jibbler, that hurtz! % interesting question on debian-curiosa what order do names appear in Japanese or Chinese phone books? pass. Are they numbered like on the menu? :) I'd like to ring a number 35 please....and an egg fried rice % [regarding wedding reception plans] that reminds me. Got to poke Piglet we're having a hog roast \o/ % we should *sooo* have a Trek-off at some point trek-off? sounds messy Moof: engineering exam, xenobiology exam, history exam, etc BleanD: you realise you're not managing to make this sound any less dirty? Moof: shows how kinky he really is it's not kinky unless you use the whole tribble % fucking javascript when i say 150 + 20, i assume you're bright enough to realise i want the answer to be 170 not 15020 % o/~Dali se desdibuja, tirita su burbuja al descontar latidos.... (note for those of you trying to work it out: This is advanced spanish poetry, word form is part of its beauty, and as such may be a little free with word construction, as it's trying to imitate dali's surreal painting style) in other words, it's jibberish? ;) nope better than jibblerish o/~ zomg % * Moof implores the mister to accept his salutations the most distinguished. remind me again why I decided to take a job in a country that requires me to write formal french letters? % Moof: whats arabic for "if the french were really intelligent, they would use english?" Kitty: let me ask. Moof: groovy, can you get them to write it in arabic, and latin alphabets please? Kitty: approxiamtely: "squiggle" % and my pension contributins but I get those back at some point if I don't die tbh if you die you dont need it... % * mop giggles as she notes the banshees flirting with the cleaner in an attempt to get him to take out the bin "sorry, i don't date bins" % its times like this that i wish i'd brought my violin with me to uni why? cos i cant play it % divine comedy covered no one knows o_O * iBot shakes the psychic black sphere... It says 'Yes Definitely,' syn i know they did. foolish mortal % Basically with a solution rather like [very long URL] that's quite an URL I've seen bigger * pilch whaps Arcturus with a censor % lolz0r ahem sorry ahd a bad case of the jibblers there % * ben notes someone on freecycle after a chainsaw I wonder if that really works "WANTED: wood chipper, bin bags, vanish stain remover, CT2" "OFFERED: Fresh meat" % I like fortran I like FORTRAN alot You've probably just doubled its user base % [playing BattleSquare on IRC] There is now a battle between Roxas and Kitty! Randomly picking who gets to attack first... Kitty gets to make the first move! !attack weapon of DIE YOU DIRTY STINKY ******** DIE! Kitty has missed! % "Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had their penises measured precisely, down to the last millimetre." FILTH! Penises are measured in INCHES! thus spake the channel's penis expert % "Smokers prescribed Viagra to quit" well it gives them something else to stick in their mouths i suppose % [elate watches Lord of the Rings] * Stotty hears DOOM heehe DOOM and vibration ROAR BANG GRUNT ARGH ROAR ARRRGH! SCREECH Clink, RERRRRRRGH! SPLAT ARRROOIH! OOF! KERPOW! kaCHINK! etc. % I was given a ponsettia for christmas :/ a what? is that some kind of sex toy? % * daisuke pokes irc #tagsoc.spawnLife(); *** Seraph has joined #tagsoc yay eww Seraph spawn % Christmas nicks yay. :D * k takes a grenade and puts it in morti's mouth so it explodes and decorates the channel with bowels of morti * synDongMerrilyOnHigh takes the bowels and uses them to knock out all members of the Hall family % If religion was a business it would be the Starbucks of our society. % so .. i'm about to pour beer no. 11 into my glass :) *wobble* .... and yet i'm not THAT pissed ^_^ you're on irc trying to demonstrate your sobriety I'd say that was a bit of a give away ;) % !choose washing up or another CD washing up bastard traitorous bot % right the RIAA are sueing allofmp3.com for roughly the equivalent of the GDP of Italy Stotty: more revealing, it's more than twice the GDP of russia. yes nearly as much as a return train ticket from London to Birmingham % o/~ Sexy bot argh! Stotty|lab: we all know you have a thing for Monty % Fixing my c-64 :-) whats up with it ? Tape drive isn't doing anything ok bring it down sometime, we can put a scope on it * BOfH sniggers at owning a computer a scope can keep up with :-) % Having lived in Canterbury kinda destroys any romance associated with the names Rocester and Chatham, surely? % * ats peers at a recipe calling for "1 1/4 sticks cold Unslated Butter" I do prefer unslated butter; the little bits of stone in the slated butter are bad for your teeth "that butter is crap" % Where's the Maths department? start at your current position, translate 20 units in the x axis and 5 units in the y axis reflect in the y axis and rotate 90 degrees and you have your position vector % the iPhone shuffle one button it calls a random freind % you have a greencard thingy then? Sort of. That is separate from the work authorisation though, which i got a few weeks ago. the "green card" is (for me anyway) primarily going to allow me to stay! I had that approved on Monday, pending an FBI name check :) hmm and they monitor internet traffic to the us? james reed is a well dodgy bloke bwahaha ;) *** james_ has quit [Ping timeout] blimey, that was a quick assasination % pros and cons of hitchhiking ? pros: free cons: cold % * drb starts work * drb starts irc. synonymous :) It's just...I have nothing to do. you started work before you started irc??? dedicated! % * dmc|home finds a thread on uk.railway about flange greasers which falls apart a bit after someone asks where he can get one for his wife :) % she's talking to shirpa now Shes not a mountain guide from Nepal :) Its Shilpa :P % i wonder how many of them got the worst case scenario uni book for xmas... that the one that tells you how to survive falling out of planes, veloceraptor attack, rutherford breakfasts, etc? close enough :) trick is of course to feed the breakfast to the raptors, who will then die and cushion your landing got it in one % i was tempted to answer that the isrealites went to egypt on a train would have been easyer in hindsight but adrew loyd webber would have been stuck red_pill: nah, he'd have done "Starlight Exodus" or perhaps "Exodus Express" % gives me an hour to stick in my contact lenses them things are tricky! yeah :S could take your whole eye out yep that's my method, i yank my eye out, put the lens on it gently, then pop the whole thing back in again % Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 551G 466G 57G 90% /mnt/storage * pao goes to buy shares in kleenex % Jibbler: 32st is good for me *31st blimey - you like 'em big then :) % [talking about BleanD selling his car] I thought you were getting rid of it cos it was costing too much for servicing? ;) no, he doesn't like cars to be anywhere near the age of his girfriends ;) % quad core is fucking pointless all it is is an e-penis extension a high clocked dual core will outperform the QX6700 for gaming so unless you're doing a lot of rendering work, what's the point I don't do gaming though I do a lot of rendering :) % * Stotty|lab hears an olaf I can hear him grinning % Southeasterns site has been bought down by snow There's only one thing to do Email The Register % I'm so proud of my little sister... she keeps logs of all our internet chats specifically so she can blackmail me later :3 % My machines are like girlfriends: only I may see their ttys, nobody else may have access to the box, and definitely no third party back door access. % it's valentine's day tomorrow and does that mean i should get a present? it'll only be two weeks since i met you! i dont know do you have a hoover? % oh dear, becca has just informed me that I have my tshirt on inside out and annoyingly, she is correct :-/ comes to something when your two year old has to tell you how to dress :) % * Moofdrid cuddles SuperMatt * InsomniaCity puts a banana in SuperMatt's pocket Moofdrid: cue... is that a hardon in your pocket, or are you not pleased to see me? % ARGH! I called the dwp their answer phone message is in welsh1 dwp? department of work and pensions even the bloody dutch version of the dwp had the decencey to abuse me in english % Also - if anyone ever asks you do do CORBA stuf, politely refuse and then return with a shotgun % moprhine and the "clear *zzzzzzap*" machines exist for a reason D i forget what theyre actually called though at the moment defibrelators thats the ones though "clear *zzzzzzap*" is much better. you all knew what i meant and i didnt have to use long words \o/ % lady Chatterly's lover +++ * Rah imagines cluedo based around that 'the gardener on the kitchen table with the...' penis? screwdo then % Kitty: Yes, I watched 'Preaching to the Perverted'. I knew that film was sado-masochistic when I first noticed it was in NTSC format. % bt.com has a mail server run by muppets you can't spell muppets without smtp % Spammers don't seem to appreciate the irony of sending weight loss emails to an email address with the word "skinny" in it twice %