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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
When does the EU start charging the UK to use their satellites?
Is it this time next year as well?

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

crispix posted:

I really think that's what we'll be hearing for the rest of this year. It is very inevitable that we will get another dramatic no deal deadline showdown at the end of the year because the pattern is now very well established of the tories doing gently caress all but impotent sabre-rattling until they run out of negotiating time and duly capitulate to whatever the EU asked for as a starting point

This, but with Boris 'saving the day' by signing over everything the UK has to the US.
Boris wants the limelight, to show how big of a leader he is. He won't care if the plebs get the dregs.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Jedit posted:

So, the GFA is broken and the Troubles are coming back.

E: 4 is my pick in the sweep for "number of days until the next IRA bombing on the mainland".

It won't be the IRA doing it this time around.
It will be the unionist UVF who will kick it off.
If Boris continues with the 'no checks needed, oh no, blimey, NI will need no extra red tape' and then throws NI under the bus at the last second and tell them there will be more red tape, this will disenfranchise the loyalists, not the IRA.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Darth Walrus posted:

The IRA will probably start getting fighty as the calls for Irish reunification start getting louder (and the British government refuses), though.

But if they are smart (unlikely I know) they would hunker down, and let the UK destroy itself with Brexit and such.
Don't need to risk trying to get a bomb to a UK town center, when a new 'trade' deal will destroy it for you.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Apraxin posted:

This seems kind of bad?

1. They don't have enough trained to do this. So possible long waits.
2. There's no where to do this without having them queue in the roads.
3. 'Just In Time' Delivery companies are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked..
4. Extra costs all around on transport.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
Problem with Bond is that Austin Powers ruined it.
The grim dark Bond makes him just another action hero.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

The DPRK posted:

What's so bad about these guys?

They pretend to be for the people, but are snapping up buildings and government contracts for themselves.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Guavanaut posted:

Hidden under an enormous black cap.

That's not a problem, it needed doing.

Like with Airplane and the airport disaster movie, or Blazing Saddles and the formulaic black hat white hat western, or Scary Movie and teen slashers it was necessary for the time.


It's a problem in the way they can't just do stupid campy poo poo again.
Bond can't do stupid poo poo today like dress up as a clown to get to a nuclear bomb, or have two space armies firing lasers on a moonbase.
It would be laughed out of the place.
And a major facet of Bond's uniqueness is hosed too, the gadgets. Once upon a time we were amazed that they could fit a radio, or small bomb into a shoe heel.
The best today is an app to drive a car from your phone. Mission Impossible beats Bond with its gadgets too.

JAM TROUSERS! loving useless Q.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Comrade Fakename posted:

Austin Powers isn’t really a parody of Bond films, it’s really more of a parody of the legions of sub-Bond ripoffs that floated around in the sixties, like Man from UNCLE and In Like Flynn.

The best Bond rip off is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K._Connery

MST3K did an episode on it, so easy to youtube search and watch. Funny as hell.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug


Saith posted:

I feel bad for the Irish

This is how we see them in Ireland. I use these all the time.
They are scummy ATMs btw . There are youtube videos showing how they prey on tourists by showing higher than normal default amounts to take out.
And they use waaaaay outdated exchange rates that will rip you off.
They are ok for local withdrawals though, they can't scam you that way.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

OwlFancier posted:

Flat earth ice wall makes a lot of sense if you start from the assumption that the earth is flat. Gotta have something to keep the water in. And the concave earth is more complicated.

Problem with that is the stars.
How do the stars look different to everyone in the southern hemisphere than in the north if they are on a flat circle?
The outer ring sees one set of stars, while the inner one sees a different set.
Then again Jews came from space. Not kidding, this is an actual theory.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Ash Crimson posted:

Philip Schofield is gay

Well he was in a closet (broom cupboard) for the first few years.

Joke for the oldies that one.

I'm here all week folks.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

But redefines 'mansion' as a house or collections of houses that total greater than X area squared*.

Meaning terraced houses, tower flats, are now considered mansions.


*To be defined as just above Jacob Rees Mogg's mansion measurement so can dodge it.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

floofyscorp posted:

RE: ambulance waiting times, I found this interesting map showing median response times to life-threatening injuries. The data's from a few years ago but you apparently really don't want to be living in the east of England:


Sorry to everyone who's lost someone recently :( My grandpa and mother-in-law passed away just before Christmas and it really sucks.

It tells you the time period when you hover over, my area in NI is from 2011-2014.
So its obviously worse now.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
If he was behind, his hands would clash with the others.
Would make them look if holding hands.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

OwlFancier posted:

The Last Leg just did a musical number about boris being bob the builder after reading out the tweet from the guy stuck in immigration in schipol.

It's literally saturday night live with trump.

I now understand what posting cringe is.

I never really watched this show, is it worth watching?
Is it more or less cringe than Mock the Week these days?

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

thespaceinvader posted:

Neither has been worth watching in years. Last Leg started out vaguely leftist and has trended more and more liberal/fake neutral over the years, MTW lost its bite when it lost Frankie Boyle and Hugh Dennis got oooooooooooold.

Granted I only watched the one ep of it, but was checking out some Youtube vids of the recent seasons there, and it seems they have moved from dark humor to loving kindergarten word puns.
As if they all turned into Milton Jones.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Al-Saqr posted:

Dick Dorkins reaches the natural conclusion of his career:-

https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/1228943686953664512?s=21

You know I think he is trying to say the infrastructure is there already to kill humans mass scale.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
Hey peeps, did you hear that Starmer was at some meeting recently with General Murder and the Assetgrab Boys there as well?
loving hell.
Bit dodgy this one I think

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
Going to be fun walking into the dole office and finding out you will be shaving pubic areas of patients soon or lose it.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

You know, I don't think I had £500 of stuff in my fridge if you totaled up the last 10-12 months.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Coohoolin posted:

I thought he meant the fridge itself?

Yeah, you are right, had to listen to it again a few times.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

JollyBoyJohn posted:

People who don't wear a dressing gown constantly at home, I'll never understand

Underpants and socks only here.
Dressing gowns are for when company is over.

Back in my student days a flat mate would go about the house in his dressing gown.
There were a lot of accidental penis appearances that we banned him from coming down stairs in it.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Coohoolin posted:

Lmao who's excited to read this? My comic book friends are all loudly groaning on Facebook.

https://news.stv.tv/entertainment/marvel-to-introduce-new-british-superhero-team-the-union?top

Only if their arch nemesis is 'Paddy Wack', the Irish super villan who wants to bring Papal Rule and red passports to the UK.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Jel Shaker posted:

He’s supposed to be fighting dr octopus but there’s just panels and panels of him committing genocide in India?

His only known weakness is kebabynite.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

baka kaba posted:

Does he make fantastic deals with the villains?

No but hes good at making imigrant restaurant workers understand what he wants by shouting english loudly.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

feedmegin posted:

I think I saw a comic about this, but the place got renamed to Megacity One?

Judge Dredd.

Mega City One(Two and Three) is the US cities.
Brit-Cit is the UK one.
Emerald Isle is the Ireland one.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Guavanaut posted:

Wait I take it back, the high definition housing has been sorted already.



I think its a bit small for those Boomers.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

And he was one of the saner ones.
At least his experiment would have proved or disproved it if it worked.
Others dribble water over footballs and claim this is proof of a flat earth.

Sciman Dan on YT is a great source if you want to watch flat earthers.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Guavanaut posted:

Guess that's why I'm not a daredevil pilot flat earther.

Don't have to be, you could just dig.
If the earth is flat, you will eventually break through to the other side.
And claim it for Queen and country.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Jippa posted:

A steam powered rocket sounds crazy to start with.

I bet you he used this is because some Flat Earthers claim normal space rocket fuel is fake and cant work in space.
There's nothing for the rockets to push 'against' in a vacuum.
But somehow steam works.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
This is even worse than £££ from home though.
This is 'throw your money at the stock market/money exchange yourself'.
No mention of how rich his family is.
No mention of how much money he started out with.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Julio Cruz posted:

e: actually £470 on his first day seems really suspicious as well, either that's a massive profit margin (that I am given to believe doesn't really exist in ForEx) or he did indeed have a very large amount of capital to start with

I messed with ForEx for a while, and it was either a massively fluctuating day that day. As in massive drops/increases a few times. So his selling price returns were like a high odds bet winning (20/1 a few times during the day, 200/1 once for example).
Or he had a large sum of money to start with, and was lucky with one price drop/increase to get back pennies on it..

Edit: Ah, just what you just said. gently caress, I cant read atm

happyhippy fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Feb 23, 2020

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

The Question IRL posted:

The development of British currency.

2019 = British Pounds

2020 = Brexit Pounds

2021 = Post-Brexit Pounds

2022 = M. Bison Pounds

I want us to have the currency in Aliens, the dollarpound.

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug
The plague is confirmed in Ireland now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51665704

quote:

Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said the adult had travelled from northern Italy via Dublin.

Seeing how Dublin airport is just one massive crowd in one place, its time to nuke us from orbit.
Only way to be sure.

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