Lizard
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I love ploughmans
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Post by Lizard on Aug 16, 2023 22:05:26 GMT
Every single day I get my delicious muffin buttered by the nice men or women in the shipping container across the road.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 16, 2023 22:30:51 GMT
If only the malformed people of Lincoln could see you now. Getting your muffin buttered, all good and proper.
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Post by Danno on Aug 17, 2023 10:57:55 GMT
Every single day I get my delicious muffin buttered by the nice men or women in the shipping container across the road. Yes but what butters your low hanging fruit
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 17, 2023 10:59:13 GMT
He's already told us: the nice men and women in the shipping container. User Lizard is fluid.
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Post by minimatt on Aug 27, 2023 2:43:49 GMT
my cat wishes it be known that gravity still affects bedside table lamps. this is the same result as acheived yesterday morning but it is anticipated the experiment will need repeating many times in the future to acquire statistically significant results.
in unrelated news: did you know the food bowl was empty?
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Post by Danno on Sept 27, 2023 2:18:15 GMT
Oh wait, this is the one we actually use.
Fucking insomnia.
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X201
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Post by X201 on Sept 27, 2023 4:13:02 GMT
Police sirens wailing all the way up the valley and down the other side, then back again as they chase some twat.
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Post by simple on Sept 28, 2023 3:41:05 GMT
Nothing quite shocks you into alertness like a child staggering through and puking onto your bed.
This is going to be a long day.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Sept 28, 2023 9:02:20 GMT
Ugh, yes nothing quite beats scraping up a load of puke from a set of bed sheets or cleaning the carpet etc and having to remake the bed etc, as well as dealing with said child in the middle of the night, extra points for when it's your own bed. Our youngest has always been pretty good, he'll (usually) sprint to the bog if he thinks he's about blow, the eldest just lies in bed or wherever and will just let it happen wherever he is. Mrs Mercury has a vomit phobia so it always falls on Muggins here for puke duty.
And who can forget when they're quite young the first time their vomit changes from friendly milky vomit to the real deal. /or at least she's always said she has a puke phobia, Hmm. 🤔
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addyb
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Post by addyb on Oct 5, 2023 2:59:24 GMT
Here!
FFS
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 9, 2023 3:14:03 GMT
The world is just fucked these days.
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lukasz
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Post by lukasz on Oct 9, 2023 10:56:31 GMT
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Post by minimatt on Oct 26, 2023 2:05:23 GMT
did anyone ever program a VHS virus? it's feasible that some VHS players had RAM, and read the contents of tapes into that ram for some sort of signal cleanup processing. it's feasible the ROM which holds this program isn't entirely read-only - perhaps it's flashed at the factory by means of sticking a tape in? at this point we can go down to BlockBuster, rent Die Hard, selotape over the tabs, and write a virus (sure, probably only manufacturer/model specific, but they sold *a lot* in the day) which displays "Bruce Willis is a ghost! (in another movie)" to the tv. but how to replicate? sure we can write to re-writeable tapes, but what we really want is to infect the whole damn video store and how to bypass the punched out tabs on read only rentals? is it purely a mechanical process which disables the record head, defeatable only with physical actions (like selotape) or is there a path to nix that instruction with code?
anyway - this is what my brain decides is absolutely vital to ponder at 2am, and thanks to the first page of results for "vhs virus" being all about viral haemorrhagic septicaemia it can rattle round your brain at 2am till you're forced to get up and google too if you wish. or - you know - just go to the second page of results, like anyone does that.
and wait, what happened to the second page anyway, is google on some sort of infinite scroll now? when did that happen?
apparently none of these are questions which can wait till daytime.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 26, 2023 4:29:56 GMT
You’ve just described the plot of Ringu.
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Post by minimatt on Nov 1, 2023 3:42:28 GMT
an object (phone) at rest remains at rest unless acted upon by an outside force (cat)
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 1, 2023 4:12:47 GMT
Hello to 04:12
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mcmonkeyplc
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Dec 26, 2023 4:03:44 GMT
Ah hello all. Newborn baby cuddled up to me refusing his moses basket means I've returned to this thread.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 26, 2023 8:05:52 GMT
Congrats on number 2!
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Blue_Mike
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 17, 2024 3:59:34 GMT
Been lying here awake for a while unable to turn my brain off, and after a couple of months of worsening depression, amid the reflecting and questioning, something has just suddenly clicked in my brain and made me decide "Fuck it, I'm going to get some shit done instead of allowing this to continue."
I'm going to finally book a driving instructor so I won't have to put up with the shenanigans of the local bus company, I'm going to book my first dentist appointment since before Covid, and I'm going to knock carbonated drinks on the head for a while and do a bit of exercise for once.
In an effort to reduce the clutter I live in, I'm also going to invest in a shelf unit thin enough to bridge the gap between the end of my desk and the doorframe, so the desk itself will no longer look like a table of random old crap at a car boot sale.
Why I can't make decisions like this during the day time, I do not know.
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Post by grey_matters on Jan 17, 2024 4:32:27 GMT
Been lying here awake for a while unable to turn my brain off, and after a couple of months of worsening depression, amid the reflecting and questioning, something has just suddenly clicked in my brain and made me decide "Fuck it, I'm going to get some shit done instead of allowing this to continue." I'm going to finally book a driving instructor so I won't have to put up with the shenanigans of the local bus company, I'm going to book my first dentist appointment since before Covid, and I'm going to knock carbonated drinks on the head for a while and do a bit of exercise for once. In an effort to reduce the clutter I live in, I'm also going to invest in a shelf unit thin enough to bridge the gap between the end of my desk and the doorframe, so the desk itself will no longer look like a table of random old crap at a car boot sale. Why I can't make decisions like this during the day time, I do not know. This is an inspirational post. You do your thing the way you want to, but recently, on driving matters, I'm starting to think that going automatic rather than manual is the correct approach*. There are plenty of autos out there right now and with EVs taking over soon you'll be extra golden in the coming years. *by which I mean the approach that has the fewest hurdles in place to slow us down.
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dmukgr
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Post by dmukgr on Jan 17, 2024 5:39:44 GMT
Years ago I always advised people to learn in a manual so that they can drive anything but that advice is redundant these days and autos are pretty ubiquitous- even if they do seem like driving a go-kart to me 😊
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ned
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Post by ned on Jan 21, 2024 5:58:34 GMT
Couldn’t sleep at all past 4, so totted up everything I spent related to gaming in 2023. About £1900, includes two consoles.
Minus hardware it works out at around one £69.99 game a month.
Bored myself back to sleepiness so job done
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Duffman5
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Post by Duffman5 on Jan 21, 2024 7:09:45 GMT
Used to frequent this and the 3am thread a lot back on EG. My sleeping pattern continues to be atrocious, several years and counting. Many factors to this including my brain kicking in and waking me up after a maximum of 4 hours sleep, no matter if I go to bed at 22:00, 23:30 or midnight, IF I am lucky enough to get the uninterrupted rest it will be for 4 hours and then I will wake and just can't get back to sleep. My work shift pattern also doesn't help as on alternative days I finish at 21:30 and then back on site at 06:30 (I actually get in around 6am) the following day. Another factor is my autistic teenager son, he has no regular sleeping pattern! Oh well onward and upward
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 23, 2024 5:14:53 GMT
This cough is insufferable. Not even sure I've slept all tonight, just keep coughing every, I don't know, 20 minutes or so.
Think it's a dry cough, not really coughing any mucus up. Just get the throat tickling, like I want to cough something up but it's just dry.
Might have to go and get some night nurse tomorrow, don't think I can do another sleepless night.
Coughing and lack of sleep is also giving me a headache.
It's probably enough to get the day off work though.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jan 23, 2024 6:34:01 GMT
Night nurse will sort you out. Morish tho.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 23, 2024 6:35:21 GMT
Definitely sounds like the cough we've all had. It does loosen eventually.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 27, 2024 6:52:47 GMT
Not impressed at being awake at 6am on a Saturday. Grrr.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 8, 2024 7:45:22 GMT
Did wake up twice last night after experiencing what could be called nightmares. I really get nightmares so it was interesting.
I know other people's dreams are usually boring but I did find these unusual, so I hope you forgive my ramblings.
In the first I was some kind of paranormal investigator. It almost felt like a computer game, but real, if that makes sense.
Anyway was investigating this house where a poltergeist (I guess) had been in a kids room. There was some fun subtle scares, like the eyes on the cartoon dog on the wallpaper changing direction when I wasnt looking. Basically ended in a pastiche of the chair scene from poltergeist, a lot of furniture moving silently as my back was turned for a moment.
But there was also a crippling sense of dread and the air thick with malevolence, not so much the events that unnerved me but the atmosphere.
Anyway, fell back to sleep and had a more terrifying dream. Had gone away with work, for some reason, and was in a hotel, or hostel, with work colleagues. Only some weren't colleagues but old friends. You get the idea.
Anyway I looked out the window over a playing field and just saw a huge black mushroom cloud rising over the horizon. And I somehow knew that it was in the direction of where I usually lived. My colleagues swore and the people on the playing field stopped playing and turned to look at this horrible rising spectre. Then another one cloud started to rise, further away. There was an attempt to panic text family but it was doing that dream thing of unintelligible writing.
Then I woke up, around 6.
Nothing like a sense of impending nuclear devestation to start the day. Maybe I should watch Threads again.
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drakesmoke
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We gotta talk about that ride kid. Next clue to the case!
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Post by drakesmoke on Feb 8, 2024 11:46:55 GMT
I’ve often had dreams about nuclear war or the threat of, or of witnessing a plane crash, in times of high stress.
I swear the plane crash imagery started with that episode of Emmerdale all those years ago (which both captivated and terrified me at that age).
They tend to happen when I feel I’m losing control and being stressed and controlled by outside factors too much. I think the symbolism of the nukes etc is nothing more than what the geopolitical climate news pumps into your brain.
Edit: by outside factors I mean nothing more sinister than finances, work, if something bad has happened in the neighbourhood, social obligations and stuff like that.
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Post by Danno on Feb 8, 2024 12:13:03 GMT
Ha that episode. Was it Zac Dingle that got jetfuel in the eyes? Truly an Oscar-worthy performance
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