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109 posts • joined Thursday 18th October 2007 09:49 GMT

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What?

Where are the mp3 samples to go with that review so we can hear how great they sound?

thefutureboy
Badgers

Ha!

All iPhone users please apply this woollen garment to your head so it may be pulled down sharply to cover one's eyes when instructed to do so by Apple.

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Alert

So looking at the photo...

If someone removes that blue and yellow prop will the whole car tip over or will just the wing mirror fall off?

thefutureboy
Welcome

A more important yet unanswered question...

What was the name of Schrodinger's cat?

And I, for one, welcome our Paradoxically Simultaneously Both Dead And Alive Feline Overlords.

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Top Work!

Give that girl a job animating the Reg's Playmobil creations.

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I'll have £50 please

Whoever all the way up there said it was to do with import duty is spot on.

Also, you can decide not to upgrade at the cost of not being able to log into the PSN. Now, whether that is fair or not is a another question!

And thirdly, if the chap wins I'll happily accept a cheque for £50 or so for the loss of the ability to install another OS!

thefutureboy

Charlie Brooker had it right!

Magic coins is the way to do it, read it here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/charlie-brooker-iphone

(iPhone owners may want to skip the first half of the article ;-) )

thefutureboy
Grenade

A spud gun in the pub?

Either you are a very old looking 8 year old or a rather sad over 18...

(Hand grenade cos there isn't a spud gun icon)

thefutureboy
Unhappy

And then...

All your base are belong to Google.

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Ha ha ha ha

That is one of the funniest things I've seen... :-)

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Huzzar!

And hurrah! About time really.

thefutureboy

What the...?

"Wala!" Good grief...

thefutureboy

Or...

...maybe this year's tree climbing kids are better at it than last year's bunch of no-hopers and hence haven't fallen out as much?

thefutureboy
Dead Vulture

Is it me or is it you?

Are you the biggest fools for thinking it's real or am I the biggest fool for thinking you think it's real? Vote now!

thefutureboy
Unhappy

Disappointed!

I thought they'd be snatching enemy planes from the sky with some robotic King Kong arms!

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Joke

EW

Why does Edward Woodward have so many Ds in his name?

Cos if he didn't he'd be Ewar Woowar...

I loved The Equalizer when I was younger. Always wanted one of those long overcoats...

thefutureboy
Happy

Red Dwarf

LISTER: What I want to know, is how the smeg can you remember what dice

you threw at a game you played when you were seventeen?

RIMMER: I jotted it down in my Risk campaign book. I always used to do

that so I could replay my moments of glory over a glass of brandy in

the sleeping quarters. I ask you, what better way is there to spend a

Saturday night?

CAT: Ya got me.

RIMMER: So a six and a three and he came back with a three and a two.

LISTER: Rimmer, can’t you tell the story is not gripping me? I’m in a

state of non-grippedness, I am completely smegging ungripped. Shut the

smeg up.

RIMMER: Don’t you want to hear the Risk story?

LISTER: That’s what I’ve been saying for the last fifteen minutes.

RIMMER: But I thought that was because I hadn’t got to the really

interesting bit…

LISTER: What really interesting bit?

RIMMER: Ah well, that was about two hours later, after he’d thrown a

three and a two and I’d thrown a four and a one. I picked up the

dice…

LISTER: Hang on Rimmer, hang on… the really interesting bit is exactly

the same as the dull bit.

RIMMER: You don’t know what I did with the dice though, do you? For all

you know, I could have jammed them up his nostrils, head butted him on

the nose and they could have blasted out of his ears. That would’ve

been quite interesting.

LISTER: OK, Rimmer. What did you do with the dice?.

RIMMER: I threw a five and a two.

LISTER: And that’s the really interesting bit?

RIMMER: Well it was interesting to me, it got me into Irkutsk.

thefutureboy

If only...

...they could train the cane toads to eat the rabbits....and then introduce something even more prolific to eat the cane toads.

thefutureboy

Does it take into account?

Being a Star Trek security guard who's never been seen before but is joining the landing party?

Being the young soldier in the platoon with the picture of his bride to be/soon to give birth wife that he shows around the night before the big battle?

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@DarkNerd

Ha ha ha, I saw that high five fail as well. Thoroughly entertaining!

The bloke who blanked the high-fiver just seemed to pack his bag and go home. Obviously doesn't get paid overtime.

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It...

It made me feel slightly seasick just watching the video...

thefutureboy
Paris Hilton

Restructure pencils?

What, are they going to put the lead on the outside or something?

Maybe they'll add a chip that tells you when your lead has run out and you need to buy HP's own special refill for three times more than generic lead?

Paris as she's experienced more lead from more pencils...

thefutureboy

It's an R.O.U.S.

Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?

Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

[Immediately, an R.O.U.S. attacks him]

(Thanks to imdb.com)

thefutureboy
Linux

If Linux and BC is so important to you

I'll sell you my fully working 60GB model complete with BC and other OS support for £500 inc p&p (UK mainland only) and I'll even throw in a SixAxis controller.

thefutureboy
Coat

Disgorge

What an excellent word! Should be used far more often, along with "buffoon" which I heard again recently.

Disgorge my coat, you buffoon! It's the one with the link to chambersharrap.co.uk online dictionary in the pocket.

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WD40

Quick squirt, wait a few minutes and it'll pop right out with a bit of a tug.

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4:3 Stretch?

Shudder!

Next you'll be moaning about the "black bars" above and below a 2.35:1 ratio movie.

thefutureboy

All your...

...teeny-weeny base are belong to us.

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So Rock Band etc

"by making it only playable by those who've purchased a bonus (and potentially expensive) gadget."

So Rock Band, Guitar Hero etc don't count? Hmmmmmmm. Not a very good point to make really, Mr/Ms Journo.

thefutureboy
Happy

So...

...did they have little pitchfork and burning torch smilies you could insert in the messages?

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I'm Impressed!

He lasted "several kilometres".

thefutureboy

Maybe...

...you should ask Sarah Bee to pop round and "have a word" with them?

thefutureboy
Coat

Russian Punting Dog?

Not heard of that breed...could be handy in these days of floods.

thefutureboy

FotC

Can someone please

Remove these

Cutleries

From my knees...

thefutureboy

Afghanistan Bananistan

They should've just hypnotised the manager to open up the safe when told a magic phrase.

thefutureboy
Alert

It's Us v Them Over and Over Again

"The iPhone is rubbish."

"No it's not, it's brilliant"

"Rubbish."

"Brilliant."

"Rubbish."

"Brilliant."

Repeat ad nauseum...

thefutureboy
Boffin

Only Level 3?

They need to put in a bit more game time to get those stats up. Get grinding chaps!

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And...

...if you'd read any of the books after the first one you'd realise Ms Rowling had taken a rather good kids' adventure story and completely ruined it with a lack of direction and focus, and with a large helping of general disappear-up-your-own-backside-ness.

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Wearing a loud shirt in a built-up area

And "Walking around with an offensive wife" of course...

thefutureboy
Coat

Stradivarius and Rembrandt

I went up into the attic and found a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt.

Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made lousy violins.*

Pass me my coat, the one with the fez in the pocket...no not like that, like that.

*(c) Tommy Cooper RIP

thefutureboy
Joke

@Sarah Bee

Don't worry, most of the blokes on here have never spoken to a real live woman face-to-face...

thefutureboy
Unhappy

I have a kind of battery dyslexia

Which means I always put at least one battery in the wrong way so the gadget doesn't work...would hate to check several thousand to find the one that's wrong.

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Death Star Canteen

This will explain Lord Vader's eating habits, I'm sure:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hp69rg6Hdlo

Does contain some swearing and Eddie Izzard. And also some written comments from people who believe it can't be funny as he is gay/transvestite/transsexual etc...

thefutureboy

@Apocalypse Later

Re Tesco refunds: That certainly used to be he case but I believe Tesco now only refund the difference (it may be double the difference).

thefutureboy

How about...

...Hubble Bubble.

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@Sarah Bee

"you divot."

Top insulting!

thefutureboy
Boffin

Silly Question...

Am I correct in assuming that disconnecting the bell wire will not have any effect if one's router is plugged directly into the master socket?

(Boffin icon as I need a boffin to answer)

thefutureboy

Good Heavens!

"Ofcom reckons that consumers make their choices of which service to go with based on content not the features of different platforms."

These Ofcom chaps are sharp as a knife, aren't they?

thefutureboy
Coat

So...

...it was a good job it wasn't called....er.....um.....something that would be really funny if you took all the letter ts out.

I'll ge my coa

thefutureboy
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Too right!

A big thumbs up for whoever came up with "twatdangle". I would award multiple thumbs up if it allowed me to add more icons.

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