troon_villan Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Andy Townsend once got me sex with a woman. Indirectly. Now we know what you look like then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Checked the Rogues Gallery, have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I am disappointed to have returned home not to discover you the newly appointed minister for culture. It's for the best. I'd have made pretentious music a mandatory part of the GCSE syllabus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Thread fail because this really should piss me off and succeeds. All Underworld albums removed from Spotify. **** that all about then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I am disappointed to have returned home not to discover you the newly appointed minister for culture. It's for the best. I'd have made pretentious music a mandatory part of the GCSE syllabus. But you have the makings of a politician: not content with one portfolio, your next thought is to take control of another (the education) brief, too! (I think Stefan would approve of this ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I feel like that story should remain unexplained. This. It's quite a tale though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Hospital parking charges 6 euro an hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) Linux, what is it like? I would say that it offers a sneak preview of what the world would look like if the dreams of anarcho-socialists ever came true. Everyone would be free to do what they liked but nothing would work. The latter-day Napoleon of open-source software, Dave Shuttleworth, is even exiled on the Isle of Man, just like Boney on St Helena, in a spooky historical parallel between the last guy who promised liberte, egalite, and fraternite and the death of a tyrannical monarchy (King William of Gates). Feeling disgusted by Microsoft's decision to pull the plug on XP and withdrawing Win 7 from OEM sales, and revolted by the cross-platform BS which Metro (Win8) is, I thought I would check out the competition. To my amazement the number of Linux distributions is more than a hundred. All look different and all are meant to cater for different needs and levels of expertise. But are they any good? Not really. While millions of geek-hours have been expended on tweaking the looks, some of which are every bit as good-looking as any Microsoft offering, the basics still leave one hell of a lot to be desired. Even the most highly recommended distributions don't do the things you expect to take for granted (like playing a Blue-ray disk), and some look fantastic (KDE4), come with every piece of software you could ever dream of (PCLinuxOS FullMonty) but haven't even sorted something as basic as the installer and don't survive their first update. The community are every bit as idealistic as your paid-up member of the Occupy movement and are just as big on their promises, tetchily defensive and unwilling to accept criticism of what they fail to deliver. Ten years into the Linux project and it still hasn't delivered what it promised - freedom from the tyranny of Microsoft et al - they have just created their own. Linux tyranny comes in the form of the many hours wasted by the millions of users who waste their time just trying to remedy its constant and recursive glitches, which may range from not being on speaking terms with your printer, to deciding not to boot any more. Windows 8 is £85 on Amazon, which seems expensive, but it is cheap compared with the many hours needed to keep a Linux operating system on its feet. It just can't help but completely piss you off. Edited April 10, 2014 by MakemineVanilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 10, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 10, 2014 Well this thread is about to get dull 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I have tried many linux systems over the years it pains me to say I always return to Microsoft. Recently I have been considering it again but wonder if its easy to move a pst over, and back again should I get disappointed with it within weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 All Underworld albums removed from Spotify. Everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Windows 8.1 is actually fairly decent when u get into it ....a few simple settings adjustments to stop the swipe corners a set to desktop default and a quick free download to have the xp menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 All Underworld albums removed from Spotify. Everything? Yeah, they were all there and now they're gone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 All Underworld albums removed from Spotify.Everything? Yeah, they were all there and now they're gone! Wait. Were you hoping I would say Everything, Everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Windows 8.1 is actually fairly decent when u get into it ....a few simple settings adjustments to stop the swipe corners a set to desktop default and a quick free download to have the xp menu Classic Shell? That would be my solution, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Example (the musician/DJ/whatever he is supposed to be). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) Example (the musician/DJ/whatever he is supposed to be). Yeah, I try not to get upset by pop stars, but he is particularly annoying. Edited April 10, 2014 by dAVe80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Example (the musician/DJ/whatever he is supposed to be). Yeah, I try not to get upset by pop stars, but he is particularly annoying. Re: his latest ear hurting nonsense - "Behave like kids again" - did he finish producing that then think "That's good that is". If so, how!? How is it possible to think that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Example (the musician/DJ/whatever he is supposed to be). Yeah, I try not to get upset by pop stars, but he is particularly annoying. Re: his latest ear hurting nonsense - "Behave like kids again" - did he finish producing that then think "That's good that is". If so, how!? How is it possible to think that!! Thankfully I've managed to avoid that so far. That one about "missing the way you kiss me" or how ever it goes, was unavoidable for a time. It was on eveywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Wait. Were you hoping I would say Everything, Everything? Yeaaah. I had an internet high five ready in anticipation. You've let me down, t_v. Frankly, I don't know if I'll ever be able to trust another human being again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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