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Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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This thread smells funny

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Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Solefald posted:

corned beef hash for tea tonight lads!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I'm jealous..I made us a nice pasta bake and I wish I'd had Corned Beef hash now.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Depends on the green tea tbh..

I can't stand matcha or hojicha but regular green tea is alright.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Although that new Starbucks matcha with strawberry cream is drinkable because of the strawberry cream

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

They've turned the Horlicks factory in Slough into "luxury" apartments in something called The Horlicks Quarter

Saw that on a YouTube video, some guy called "wandering turnip". He goes and looks at lovely cheap houses or dead high streets.

Anyways he popped over cause the Horlicks chimney. Looks like a nice play tbh

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Lady Demelza posted:

Papa Johns pizza is better than Domino's. There, I said it.

I agree, but that's lactose more than anything..I can. Digest Papa John's fake American cheese and I can't with dominos

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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mrpwase posted:

Hot cross cob

Hot cross teacake

Hot cross bap

Hot tick bun. :colbert:

Edit..

Is it just me, are they around for far loving longer now? I swear when I was a kid, you'd get HCBs for a week or so maybe.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Butterfly Valley posted:

One of my closest friends died today of monkeypox. I spent every summer of the last 14 years of my life with him in Turkey, chasing good times and connecting with so many people. I had to call his ex-girlfriends and friends to tell them. The fact that so many people are grieving him is testament to a short life incredibly well lived and loved. poo poo sucks.

Thats poo poo. Sorry mate. Monkeypox though? Wow.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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We went to see Macbeth the other week in London and Voldemort was playing Macbeth. It was actually very good, I just found "ye older speech" very tiring after awhile and I checked out. I loved the modern day costume design and set though.


We're going to see another one soon but that's only because I want to see Gandalf in person and I can't imagine he's got many more years of theatre left in him.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:

"Gandalf" is a character, like the "PG Tips Chimps" or that loving "Lombard Direct" phone.

Yes, I'm well aware. I want to see Sir Ian. I notice you didn't quote me on calling Ralph by his harry potter character, Voldemort. Did something trigger you?

Of course I think wizards are real and Gandalf the gray is who I'm meeting and then we're going to get on wonderfully and he is going to give me the one ring and finally Introduce me to some hobbits.




(I'm actually gutted I missed my chance years ago, to see Sir Ian and Patrick Stewart on stage together when they did King Lear)

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Oh yeah..I've not eaten yet today. I should go find some food.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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I best go find somewhere else to post then..:smith:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i am hoping this is because they fell for the "shows a user their own profile when they click it" trick, rather than responding to starbucks or the thread title

I was just going for a cheap laugh. :smith:

Edit: and for clarification I didn't want to make the joke at anyone else's expense. I can't imagine there's any actual nonces here..we're all too old for them for a start.

Ragnar Gunvald fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Apr 2, 2024

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Dr. Cool Aids posted:

an admin can definitely scrub the probe reason if you want. but hopefully anyone snooping the rap sheet will clearly recognize a joke lol. nae nonces round here. need to go to windsor for that

I don't mind, I thought it was funny! I'm sure I can ask an admin in the unlikely chance it becomes an issue, but I'd like to think people here are smarter than that for the most part.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Starbucks posted:

The dog has worked out if she forces me to get up to go a pee she doesn’t need to pee but I will give her a little treat. This has now resulted in a large reduction in my quality of sleep so it is now ending.

Required photo:

Oh we had that. Bless. How olds the doggo? Mines started sleeping really well recently thankfully. She just turned one a couple of days ago and now she wakes up at like 7am and jumps on the bottom of the bed with us till she's ready to get up and pee now.

I'm glad those puppy days are mostly done. Getting up every 3-4 hours for months on end was brutal.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Puntification posted:

While toilet training our dog we tied a bell to the handle of the backdoor so she could let us know when she needed a wee, it initially worked really well but it quickly devolved into being the bell to get extra attention whenever she wanted it.

We had the same problem, now she just barks and points with her ears towards the door and that works great.

I love our dog, I dunno why we didn't do it years ago tbh.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Torquemada posted:



Ringo barely tolerates being photographed

This is one handsome motherfucker. Bingo should let you take more photos.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Dysgenesis posted:

W**king in a new hospital as of today.

You moved to London Clinic so you stick a finger in Charlie's bum?

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Absolutely no hate or judgement on people with those issues, but I've never been a big drinker at all. I've got a few very nice bottles of whisky etc here and I can never bring myself to drink anything. I'll have the odd beer and that's it.

I've never smoked or done any drugs either. I have a terrible relationship with caffeine and chocolate.. I doubt it's comparable though.

(I just finished watching Loudermilk on netflix and that's about a bunch of recovering addicts and it was a very enjoyable dark comedy)

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Starbucks posted:

I have to say booze I am fine with, but a packet of hobnobs that I can do in one go.

I don't trust anyone who can't destroy a whole packet a hobnobs tbh.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Dr. Cool Aids posted:

the toothless community are devastated

They can suck them tbh. That would still work...

I'm listening to some older albums for the first time in a while, rather than just Spotify playlists etc and I can't believe it's been 22 years since audioslaves first album. Where the hell did the time go?


Edit: holy crap, it's 7 years since Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington commited suicide.

Ragnar Gunvald fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Apr 3, 2024

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Christ, I used to live down the road from his pub actually. Was a nice little place.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Trainee PornStar posted:

I had a small bonus this morning, a free bit of weed came through the post.
It's was from a darkweb vendor I've used before thats decided gently caress it & moved to telegram.

Very nice of them & I've joined the channel out of politeness ;)

A lot of that stuff on telegram these days but it's not as safe and secure as people think... So just be sensible about what you post and where.

In other news, my internet died yesterday and they can't get an engineer out till Monday. Yippee.

I'm so bloody bored..it's used for literally everything these days and the 5g connection in my place is awful cause of all the hight rises and concrete everywhere.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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oh no computer posted:

that gaming chair is too small

:bravo: this is an under appreciated post..

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Dr. Cool Aids posted:

got any books? i haven't read in forever, really ought to

That's a good shout actually. I got a couple of Cybersecurity/OSINT books awhile ago and didn't get around to reading them yet.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Starbucks posted:

I pay :10bux: a month for critical care so have a 12 hour fix time.

Who's that with? That's kinda cool tbh. Im with community fibre, it's only them and Hyperoptic that service our building.

I can't complain though, all the other buildings here have standard broadband DSL speeds, I couldn't cope with that these days.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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NotJustANumber99 posted:

Community fibre is an entity is it? I just assumed it was lots of disparate little things

They're actually a really good firm and well priced. This is l think the first long term issue we've had since we signed up 4 years ago. I'm just bitching cause I hate being without the internet.

I've been mainlining the internet since the 90's. It's poo poo having to go almost cold turkey. I'm expected to talk to my wife.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Starbucks posted:

Zen Business, I work from home enough that it is pretty important. It has gone off at annoying times.

Like the World Cup, it went out then and then got an aerial installed for my TV pronto as didn’t want to use backup 4G for it so I WFP then.

I am not sure exactly how much difference it means, it goes down to the Openreach level for support else I wouldn’t have got it as don’t use their equipment as use my own router.

I do always recommend people backup 4G if not just tethering to your phone in some way.

AHH, my Step dad is with Zen as he knows their head sales guy, I love their customer support. Those guys really do know their stuff and they're able to pinpoint faults etc down to the distance from the house within a few meters. I'd use them if they had service here.

He had an outage a little while ago and they managed to tell him right away that based on the distance it was likely the cable at the top of the mast outside (which it was) the guy on the phone was even able to see the last time that cable was replaced (was over 13 years at the time) and they got an engineer out the next day to resolve it.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

I'm sorry to say an SLA on a service delivered to home means nothing - it's just a statement of confidence since the physical infrastructure is the same. SLA only means something if the last mile is subject to one. I've had both Zen business and home services to my home and they're exactly the same in terms of the technical side and also the support side. That isn't to say the business one is bad, just that the home one is good.

Community use their own infrastructure, which has been great in my experience so far. The reason I actually chose them over Hyperoptic is that Community fibre is literally fibre to my router, where Hyperoptic was fibre to the building then about 1000ft of copper cable.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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JollyBoyJohn posted:

Tried various mustard crisps since the great brannigans purge and nothing quite worked, hopefully these are worthy successors

Have you tried those very, very mustardy pork scratchings? I think Tesco sell them and they're obviously Pork and Mustard, not Beef and Mustard, but they're very, very good.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Took the Mrs out for a late night coffee and slice of cake tonight as we fancied a bit of a walk.

We just started playing some dumb mobile game that requires you to walk a bit like Pokémon Go and 2 little cunts nicked my Mrs phone out of her hand in the way back. Tried the chase the little bastards and twisted my ankle in the process.

I've seen the same 2 jack other people's phones in Olympic park before now too, if I see them again I'm curb stomp the little bastards. Don't really care about the device, it's the loving principle. Get a job like every other fucker has to.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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It's pretty accurate tbh.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Saw them nick someone else's phone about 75 yards in front of us too and the woman fell over, face first chasing after them.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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All this talk of American food has me hungry..I've got my foot elevated with an ice pack on it now as Nurse Wife won't let me walk around on it..

I'm.ordering McDonalds. It's the closest thing to food I can get quickly I think. Plus their chips are great.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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The_Doctor posted:

Have you tried KFC chips lately? They suddenly got good?? Admittedly you have to eat them the moment you get them in the place so they’re still hot and fresh and crisp. Otherwise they’ll get cold on the drive home and are then terrible. The seasoning on them now is really nice.

I have! They're actually pretty good, I agree. KFC and McDonalds are the only places here I can get delivery 24/7 in about 20 mins..I just didn't fancy chicken.

Generally our food always arrives hot still unless the drivers get lost..

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Solefald posted:

THANKS SADIQ KHAN

Also, better him than Boris!

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Toxic Mental posted:

Having extremely swollen ankles to the point of not being able to walk, not seeing a doctor about it, and then ordering fast food is a quintessential American experience

That's what I was going for tbh. It's not broken, it's just twisted. She wants me to go A+E tomorrow and I'm "that person" who never goes to the GP unless it's hanging off and turning green..

So that's going to be an argument tomorrow. I really don't wanna be dragged to A+E for 8 hours.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Microplastics posted:

You don't need to go to A&E

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sprains-and-strains/

If your wife insists, then call 111 and get their advice

(imagine if it was your wife answering the call though lol)

I know, she's a nurse though, she knows better apparently... don't marry a nurse or a Dr, they always know better than you and how you're feeling.

Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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kecske posted:

if you go to a&e you'll also meet a dozen people who are there because they couldn't get a GP appointment for some minor ailment

Or something the GP said "go to A&E as we can't see you right now".

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Ragnar Gunvald
May 13, 2015

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Microplastics posted:

a nurse knows better than.... the NHS? the nhs is made of nurses, hundreds of them. surely a hundred nurses would know better than one nurse

It's funny, cause I had this discussion with my GP a few weeks ago and he literally said he made sure he didn't marry someone else in the medical profession for that exact reason..

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