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UK/R.O.I GAF - Thread of geopolitical confusion

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Mikeside

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I feel the same for people who work 12 hour shifts. 8 hours is enough for me. In a perfect world 4 to 6 hour shifts would be amazing.

Thanks to smokys bso teachings I have learned a decent bike is out of my reach this week.

Thanks for saving me a good two hundred quid that I would nave spend on a better looking bso.

I will now go to sleep depressed since my hype for buying a bike tomorrow has been destroyed.

1. find where dave lives
2. steal one of his (he has a spare, it's not even a crime, really)
3. masturbate and feel good - you just saved £200
4. send me £200
 
Wii-U Premium for £300 at Amazon. Ha-ha-ha-ha :| I'll give it one month before it drops down to £200

Edit: must also remember to keep my mouth shut about Breaking Bad this weekend in case I spoil it for Musha and end up sleeping in a cardboard box outside.

Fucking right. In fact if anyone spoils it for me on here I will hunt you down.

I feel the same for people who work 12 hour shifts. 8 hours is enough for me. In a perfect world 4 to 6 hour shifts would be amazing.

Thanks to smokys bso teachings I have learned a decent bike is out of my reach this week.

Thanks for saving me a good two hundred quid that I would nave spend on a better looking bso.

I will now go to sleep depressed since my hype for buying a bike tomorrow has been destroyed.

Why don't you look second hand?
 

Mikeside

Member
I keep meaning to get back into Breaking Bad.
I enjoyed season 1, which I watched about a year ago... I think I'll probably end up watching through it over Christmas.
 

Darren870

Member
Fucking hell.

A guy I know has been working 17 hour shifts recently.

I really don't know how anyone could do that.

I've been working a lot lately. Did about 12 hours on Monday, and 10hrs most days this week. Sucks. Have to work on Saturday too.
 

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
The end of the most recent Breaking Bad season (5 and a half?) was stunning. I'm not giving spoilers but the last five minutes was just dripping with dread and my wife and I were freaking out watching it wondering what was going to happen. And IT DROPPED and we spent the next half an hour freaking the fuck out. And now we need to wait a whole year to see what happens next! ARGH!

Everyone, catch up.
 

Mr. Sam

Member
Three things I've seen in Camberwell this morning:

1. A man wearing a backpack on his front with the most spectacular "Like I give a fuck" face I've ever seen.
2. A homeless man seamlessly blending walking and jiving. I think it might be a new craze before long.
3. A man walking his children to school, with his wife, with a buggy, with a fag in one hand and a Stella in the other.

Classy place.
 

Juicy Bob

Member
100% agreed.

On the plus side I don't have to do the awkward admitting to it being my favourite radio show thing anymore cos people look down on me for it

Fuck what other people say. They don't have the right to tell you what you should and shouldn't like. For instance, I think
Dr Who
is terrible, but I don't feel the need to say that whenever someone brings it up because I know other people like it.
 

Xun

Member
I've been working a lot lately. Did about 12 hours on Monday, and 10hrs most days this week. Sucks. Have to work on Saturday too.
That sucks.

You going to be able to make the meetup?

Also does anyone else want to go to Thorpe Park soon? I have the urge to go.
 

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
All you people who listened to radio 1 should start listening to Absolute Radio in the mornings. It's Gold.

I'll go you one better - podcasts and albums! I have an hour commute in the mornings, Marc Maron and Dan Savage saved my live. I can't do morning radio, they're far too energetic for my liking. I like a nice gentle ramp up to the day.
 
I'll go you one better - podcasts and albums! I have an hour commute in the mornings, Marc Maron and Dan Savage saved my live. I can't do morning radio, they're far too energetic for my liking. I like a nice gentle ramp up to the day.

I like a bit of humour to start my day. Plus I need the travel info, news etc.

Listen to my iPhone on my commute though, don't get radio on the tube.
 

Mikeside

Member
All you people who listened to radio 1 should start listening to Absolute Radio in the mornings. It's Gold.

Oh yes - love the OC show.
Do you listen to the hometime show in the afternoons? Pure gold.


I'd be up for a Thorpe Park day, but can we be sure of a weekend with the weather on our side?
 
Oh yes - love the OC show.
Do you listen to the hometime show in the afternoons? Pure gold.


I'd be up for a Thorpe Park day, but can we be sure of a weekend with the weather on our side?

Nah I only listen to the radio in the morning when I'm getting ready for work.

Weather is never guaranteed in this country.
 

Mikeside

Member
Nah I only listen to the radio in the morning when I'm getting ready for work.

Weather is never guaranteed in this country.

Ahhh fair enough - I've called into the hometime show a couple of times. Consistently funny shows and I think I have a mancrush on Geoff Lloyd.

Jedeye - I genuniely struggled to figure out who the fuck you were with that "hi mike". Noticed it when I first arrived at work and it took me a good hour or so to click.
 
Yea, shouldn't be a problem. Just hope I am as fast as I think I am.

Perfect opportunity to come up with some dirty reference to finishing early but I can't be bothered to think too hard about it :p

Ahhh fair enough - I've called into the hometime show a couple of times. Consistently funny shows and I think I have a mancrush on Geoff Lloyd.

Jedeye - I genuniely struggled to figure out who the fuck you were with that "hi mike". Noticed it when I first arrived at work and it took me a good hour or so to click.

I've called in to the OC but never got picked.

Outside Gaf interaction eh? Exciting!
 

Jedeye Sniv

Banned
Ahhh fair enough - I've called into the hometime show a couple of times. Consistently funny shows and I think I have a mancrush on Geoff Lloyd.

Jedeye - I genuniely struggled to figure out who the fuck you were with that "hi mike". Noticed it when I first arrived at work and it took me a good hour or so to click.

Ha! Am currently downloading all your photos and organising them by sexiness :D
 

Mikeside

Member
I've called in to the OC but never got picked.

Outside Gaf interaction eh? Exciting!
The OC show has a bajillion callers all the time - I got picked once on the hometime show and the other time I sent a text in and they called me wanting to talk about it. Was pretty boss.

Ha! Am currently downloading all your photos and organising them by sexiness :D

Easiest job ever - you'll only need one folder for that. I guess the ones with our horse in them might have 'specialist interest' potential...
 

3Sixty

Member
Today I met a guy who wears his apple shop employee t-shirt when he is not working.

I don't want to live in this world anymore.
 

Mikeside

Member
Today I met a guy who wears his apple shop employee t-shirt when he is not working.

I don't want to live in this world anymore.

Why? I think it's great that we can see who THESE PEOPLE are outside of work now. If only KFC employees had to do the same thing.
 

Mikeside

Member
Ah crap - somebody posted a LTTP: The Smiths.

Well that's me listening to nothing but The Smiths for the forseeable future.

I cover the Apple logo on my Macbook with a Windows one and then hang out at the local Apple store.

I'd like to go to an Apple store with my Nexus 7, then pull out my iPod Touch and use it as a coaster for a cup of tea, or to prop a door open.

I'm actually really sick of the "I'm an Apple"/"I'm a PC"/"I'm an Android" (unless you're actually an android) bullshit. If you identify as either of those things then you're nothing but a brainless consumer without the intelligence to make your own mind up about individual models of very similar things.

I mean, I love my Android devices but if I liked the look of the iPhone 5S/6 then I'd happily get it instead of a SGSIV or whatever is out at the time - why waste time labelling yourself and looking like a dick when you feebly argue against everything else?



...and where has this stupid rant come from?
 
Ah crap - somebody posted a LTTP: The Smiths.

Well that's me listening to nothing but The Smiths for the forseeable future.



I'd like to go to an Apple store with my Nexus 7, then pull out my iPod Touch and use it as a coaster for a cup of tea, or to prop a door open.

I'm actually really sick of the "I'm an Apple"/"I'm a PC"/"I'm an Android" (unless you're actually an android) bullshit. If you identify as either of those things then you're nothing but a brainless consumer without the intelligence to make your own mind up about individual models of very similar things.

I mean, I love my Android devices but if I liked the look of the iPhone 5S/6 then I'd happily get it instead of a SGSIV or whatever is out at the time - why waste time labelling yourself and looking like a dick when you feebly argue against everything else?



...and where has this stupid rant come from?

I hate Morrisey, annoying Jeremy who can't sing.

I would never buy a mac, but I love my iPhone.
 

Kentpaul

When keepin it real goes wrong. Very, very wrong.
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Screen i took yesterday to show my Work in progress S3 main screen. Some apple news feeding right into my eye sockets.


Today I met a guy who wears his apple shop employee t-shirt when he is not working.

I don't want to live in this world anymore.


Perhaps he was walking home from work or something ?

I don't get changed till I'm in the house.
 

Mikeside

Member
I hate Morrisey, annoying Jeremy who can't sing.

I would never buy a mac, but I love my iPhone.

I hate Morrissey, but I love his songs. Well...the Smiths stuff, not so much recently.

When you say you'd never buy a Mac - is that because of the OS, the lack of software compared to a Windows machine, brand loyalty or other?
 

Meadows

Banned
Anyone else really love what Radio 1 is doing these days?

Heidi
Annie Mac
Mistajam
Annie Nightingale
Nihal
Skream and Benga
Zane Lowe

all sick, especially Heidi.

I hate Morrisey, annoying Jeremy who can't sing.

I really want to like Morrisey because he's one of Manchester's seminal musicians or whatever but I really, really don't get it. He's a knobhead AND shit. Some of his songs have good instrumentals but that's about it.
 

Kentpaul

When keepin it real goes wrong. Very, very wrong.
That's what I first thought/hoped but I asked him if he was off to work and he said "No I've been off all week". What a scrote.

Did he have thick black framed glasses on with white ipod earphones in his lugs? ?
 
I hate Morrissey, but I love his songs. Well...the Smiths stuff, not so much recently.

When you say you'd never buy a Mac - is that because of the OS, the lack of software compared to a Windows machine, brand loyalty or other?

It's because I have used Macs and I don't like them. I like my pc, I know my way around my pc, and if anything goes wrong, I know how to fix my pc. Can't do that on a mac. But wait, I hear you say, Mac's never go wrong. Yes they do.
 

Kentpaul

When keepin it real goes wrong. Very, very wrong.
I couldn't use a pc with anything less than a 6 core cpu. Lifes to short to use a third world PC
 
I mean, I love my Android devices but if I liked the look of the iPhone 5S/6 then I'd happily get it instead of a SGSIV or whatever is out at the time - why waste time labelling yourself and looking like a dick when you feebly argue against everything else?

This is what I think whenever I see people on this forum arguing about Apple, the WiiU, and other similarly irrelevant things. Just not worth it.
 

Ikuu

Had his dog run over by Blizzard's CEO
It's pretty hilarious how much certain people will defend and attack in those threads, it's like they take anything negative as a personal insult :lol.
 

Cindres

Vied for a tag related to cocks, so here it is.
I'm pretty sure AMD's 6 core processors have been way behind Intel's quad cores for years now.

Hex-cores were a joke.

Kent, what are your PC's specs? Always wondered seeing as you've done a fair bit of pc gaming.
 

Mikeside

Member
It's because I have used Macs and I don't like them. I like my pc, I know my way around my pc, and if anything goes wrong, I know how to fix my pc. Can't do that on a mac. But wait, I hear you say, Mac's never go wrong. Yes they do.

Yeah - this is basically my reasoning too. I sure do think they're pretty and I appreciate that they're great for some tasks (I loved using them on my Music Tech course) but the world of Mac just isn't for me. Though this may start to change when we see where Windows 8 goes. I'm really hoping for MS to quickly admit that they've Vista'd it up and Win 9 can fix things like 7 did.
 

SmokyDave

Member
Screen i took yesterday to show my Work in progress S3 main screen. Some apple news feeding right into my eye sockets.

Well, you've got two clocks so I can tell I'm looking at a custom Android theme ;)

(This phone war shit is awesome. It's so much more savage than the console wars, yet even more pointless!).

Glad to hear you're getting pumped about biking. It's great fun and a cracking way to stay fit.

It's pretty hilarious how much certain people will defend and attack in those threads, it's like they take anything negative as a personal insult :lol.
Fuckin' peacenik. I bet you own a Blackberry handcrafted from raffia.
 

Mikeside

Member
Fuckin' peacenik. I bet you own a Blackberry handcrafted from raffia.

The ONE exception I'll make to hating brand generalization stuff is that Blackberry are fucking AWFUL.

It's like a counter-intuitive alternative to a smartphone. How are they so popular with kids?
 

Meadows

Banned
GAF, I've been going through hell for 4 weeks. I've been dizzy beyond fucking belief.

I first went to my doctor in Manchester 3 weeks ago, complaining about dizziness, which was coinciding with a spell of anxiety I was going through. This was probably down to moving to a new city and being a bit terrified about it.

My doctor, appearing at first to care, did my blood pressure, despite me saying my readings were always higher at doctors (I have "White Coat Hypertension" ), and, of course, it was very high (167/100 or something like that). Alarm bells started ringing, despite me saying it was only high on visits to doctors. I was referred to have my blood tested and an ECG, both of which came back perfectly (as I said they would).

I suggested taking readings at home with a home-kit blood pressure monitor, which I did for a week, coming in at perfectly fine average of 127/78 (120/80 is perfect).

That's when my surgery in Manchester gave up on me. The fopped me off to some mental health care facility, saying that my rapidly worsening (and now constant) dizziness was "all in my head" and "down to anxiety". This was so fucking scary. I couldn't go out, I couldn't drive. I was so scared, what if I would be like this for the rest of my life? I withdrew from life, spending all day in bed, only kept company by my sympathetic GF and GAF.

My parents clearly agreed that it was anxiety, and said that I needed to stop being so soft (obviously less bluntly than this). They took me home (by this point I'd been dizzy for 3 weeks) to Wales, where I've been for the last week, insisting that taking my mind off things would make me better, but it had been getting worse and worse. They were doing a presentation of WRC Cars last night in Llandudno and I felt so dizzy and disorientated with all the revving. When would it end?

I felt so, so fucking alone. Everyone thought I was mental but I kept saying it's a health problem, that I was used to anxiety and I'd never had dizziness before. My GF, my parents, my doctors, all thought I was losing it. Words can't describe how lonely this made me feel.

Against everyone's advise I went to a doctor in Llandudno, a hail mary move. I didn't know what I'd do if they couldn't find anything. Maybe I should be committed? The dizziness feels so real.

I went this morning. I have a massive ear infection.

Cunts. At least I'll get better now.
 
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