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Alec Rivers

JimBentley wrote:But then again it was was probably the idea of some random bird in the back of a fucking taxi so it's not surprising that there's no consistency.

Or was it?

Alec Rivers

nOW, CAN ANYONE TELL ME A WAY TO CHANGE MY TEXT BACK TO LOWERCASE WHEN i'VE SELECTED caps BY MISTAKE??? Do you mean change the text you've already written? Yes. I don't touch type so often type loads before looking up and realising I hit the caps lock somewhere along the line. I've investigated thi...

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Sue Sanders wrote:nOW, CAN ANYONE TELL ME A WAY TO CHANGE MY TEXT BACK TO LOWERCASE WHEN i'VE SELECTED caps BY MISTAKE???

Do you mean change the text you've already written?

Alec Rivers

You can click on the bar at the top, and click on 're-open (or undo) closed tab' I find the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T useful for that feature on Firefox. (Don't know if IE does it, though.) EDIT: Phil beat me to this one while I was putting my post together! :| By far the most underappreciated...

Alec Rivers

Any economists or scientists on board? Not me, but common sense would seem to provide some relevant responses: If someone in Sweden has a huge forest and is making money by selling the trees to make paper, he'll want to plant more trees and make more money. Wheras [sic] if too much paper gets recyc...

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I think the real purpose of our being encouraged to recycle, unplug things, walk more, etc., is preparation for an otherwise difficult future, not the short-term benefits per se. The powers-that-be understand that we need to leave the unsustainable, wasteful, throw-away society behind and move inste...

Alec Rivers

Strictly speaking an 'open sandwich' is one without a top slice of bread (or bottom slice, I suppose but than would open up a whole new can of worms - which is on my top ten of least favourite sandwhich fillings. I think "bottom slice" is in my top ten least favourite sandwich fillings. l...

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A topless sandwich isn't popular is it? Unless you're Dutch - they invented them I think, with their anything goes attitude; they put peaches on ham sandwiches which is just craisee, man. I'm half-Dutch and I grew up with open sandwiches (should be in the oxymoron thread, perhaps). I particularly l...

Alec Rivers

Charlie Reams wrote:I suggest the book "Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air", by David MacKay ...
Best of all, you can read it for free at withouthotair.com. And it's quite funny.

Duly downloaded.

Alec Rivers

Kai Laddiman wrote:... a Japanese breed of dog.

Can I call you Kaihuahua, then?

Alec Rivers

Talking of definitions of place names, I still like this one from Not The Nine O'Clock News:

SHOEBURYNESS: The uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

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WARNING: ADULT CONTENT

Charlie Reams wrote:And an anagram of SOTERIAL*, because there really should be an 8 from that selection.

ORALITE (plural ORALITES). A droplet or glob of fluid involuntarily expelled from the mouth or nose when coughing or choking during oral sex. Etymology: ORAL + ITE (cf meteorite).

Alec Rivers

When an eco-nut moans at you for not unplugging a phone charger (0.4W = 35p/year) then boils a full kettle to make one mug of tea! (150 secs @2500W, 5 mugs a day = £19.02/year; my method (one mug of water in kettle): 20 secs @2500W, 5 mugs a day = £2.54/year, and it's fresher, and I don't have to wa...

Alec Rivers

Lesley Hines wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IVuGK7sAw

lol.

Alec Rivers

If you fill a glass with ice cubes and then top it up to the brim with water, then wait and let the ice melt, what hapens to the water level? That's be great if most of the global ice cubes weren't waiting to slide into the glass... Where are those "global ice cubes now"? Antarctic ice is...

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James Robinson wrote:Here's a tricky little one: I SEND A BANGER BRA WA

I dunno, but WANDERING ARAB BASE is a pretty cool anagram of it.

Alec Rivers

Sue Sanders wrote:My mum came back from Tesco's rather pleased with the latest addition to the 'value' line - a packet of shortbread biscuits costing 9p.

I'm sorry, but I love 'em. On the packet it just says vegetable oil - how do you know it's palm oil?

Alec Rivers

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:If you fill a glass with ice cubes and then top it up to the brim with water, then wait and let the ice melt, what hapens to the water level?

It goes down.

Alec Rivers

Thanks again for all your hard work, Jeff.

Alec Rivers

And sorry, Alec, you can't have PORNOS, as far as the ODE is concerned, anyway. It's only given as an alternative spelling of PORN, which is a mass noun. That still confuses me because I always thought 'a porno' was 'an item of pornography', as in the question: "Are you watching a porno tonigh...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:I like this.

lol. You missed out the word 'look'.

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Haha Alec you bastard! Actually I was born a bastard and my mother's maiden name was O'Neill.

See, I'm psychic! lol

p.s. Lovin' the new avatar.

Alec Rivers

Sue Sanders wrote:It's the virtual equivilent of having someone crawl under your restaurant table and give you a blow job!

I'll be dining at the Prince of India, Cheriton, tomorrow night 8pm.

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I'm going to start with Jono as my basic model, ... cross pollenisation with Dinos http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu203/SpiritmanProductions/DinosONeill.jpg Damn. That's the bastard twin brother made from the leftover parts! We don't want a ginge!! http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu203/Spiri...

Alec Rivers

Chris Philpot wrote:Omelette's just served up a blinder of a selection:

FUNKS?

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Kathleen Batlle wrote:... but I won't go there today or you'll all be bored out of your minds!

That doesn't stop the rest of us.

Alec Rivers

Sue Sanders wrote:I'm going to start with Jono as my basic model, ... cross pollenisation with Dinos

Alec Rivers

Sue Sanders wrote:Just imagine the better place we'd be in now if George W hadn't swindled his way into power ...

aka George WTF Bush.

Alec Rivers

Julie T wrote:... it's amazing the music mixing and video effects that can be done at home these days.

Well, here's one I made earlier. Watch in HD.

Alec Rivers

Sue Sanders wrote:You've got that smudge application on your photosuite haven't you?

It's the Retouch tool on Paint Shop Pro (type: Soften, size: 5, opacity: 21, step: 1, density: 100, shape: Round), since you ask.

Alec Rivers

... and I don't know what a file path is. A file path gives the location of a file. A couple of examples on my computer: "C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VSTPlugins\iZotope Ozone.dll" is the path for the file 'iZotope Ozone.dll' "D:\BGT 2009\Images\BGT Logo.jpg" is the path for the f...

Alec Rivers

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:"D:\BGT 2009\Images\BGT Logo.jpg" is the path for the file 'BGT Logo.jpg'
Britain's Got Talent?

It certainly is.

Alec Rivers

Boy, those BB micros - they were amazing: Processor 6502A Speed (MHz) 2 Ram (KB) 16 Ram expandable to (KB) 32 ROM (KB) 32 Weight (g) 3700 Cost £299. lol. A little more recently, I remember when the top processor speed in PCs was 120 MHz and the guy in the computer shop tried to convince me that 600...

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... and I don't know what a file path is. A file path gives the location of a file. A couple of examples on my computer: "C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VSTPlugins\iZotope Ozone.dll" is the path for the file 'iZotope Ozone.dll' "D:\BGT 2009\Images\BGT Logo.jpg" is the path for the f...

Alec Rivers

For more info from some people in the know (i.e. not the politicians), visit TED and select Global issues under Show talks related to.

Alec Rivers

A commendable poll, Sue. I have voted in the spirit you intended for it but, unfortunately, I might come across as a bit of a killjoy here. Strictly speaking, the planet is fine and will always be fine (well, for another 5 billion years, anyway, until the sun dies). When you say 'planet', I know you...

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2613776875

For only his second game this is super impressive

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? ...

Alec Rivers

Obviously faked, seeing as they've apparently never met. Plus technical stuff about image quality, which I am sure Alec could explain better. The main giveaway is antialiasing – look at Carol's edges. I've done a 1-min bodge-job to improve it slightly and make it a little more convincing: http://i6...

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Jason Larsen wrote:America, here comes Rachel Riley, if she wants to be that brave and daring. I doubt it.

Apart from having to cope with the über-paranoid authorities, how is going to America brave and daring?

Alec Rivers

Steve Durney wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote: That was my post!
Soz. Deleted the wrong bit! Superb win though!

np. I was just being childish cos I really like that emoticon.

Yes, brilliant win. Had me jumping up and down quite a lot. (For the pedantic: Yes, the 'down' part was inevitable.)

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Steve Durney wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote: ARSENAL 3 - 0 TOTTERING HOTSPURTS

That was my post!

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Fulham - 3 - 1 - Liverpool

Off:

Carragher
Degen

LIVERPOO

ARSENAL 3 - 0 TOTTERING HOTSPURTS

Alec Rivers

Derek Hazell wrote:Phredd, please don't say "cunt" on the programme.

Shocking.

Alec Rivers

It can do, but your own original example wasn't "There is..."; it was "There's about 20 people waiting outside", and the contraction "there's" sounds a lot more natural than "there is" in this context in informal speech. Otherwise, to use a contraction but re...

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Actually, they were really good letters!

+M = NOMINATES, +G = NEGATIONS, +D = ANTINODES, +S = SENSATION, +V = INNOVATES, +L = TENSIONAL, +T = INTONATES, +C = ENACTIONS.

Alec Rivers

Innis Carson wrote:I have no idea how this happened, but:
(pic)

Maybe it was confused, thought it was Goatdown, and was waiting for you to click R for ANOINTERS.

Alec Rivers

Ian Volante wrote:Well saying it that way reeks of southern poovery in my book.

lol. I'm not the one wearing pink antlers.

Alec Rivers

I agree with the "mis- cheevy -us", but how the blimmin' 'eck do you say it then if not saying "mis- cheev -us"? Mis -cheev-us. Ah, it's the emphasis, now I see. Oh, and you're utterly wrong of course. If it's anything other than the fact that it ought to have been phonetically ...

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Ian Volante wrote:I agree with the "mis-cheevy-us", but how the blimmin' 'eck do you say it then if not saying "mis-cheev-us"?

Mis-cheev-us.

Alec Rivers

Contrary to how it might look, I wasn't actually taking the mickey. I found it amusing in a good way.

Alec Rivers

My usual technique in that situation is to whip my foot off the accelerator so the car slows down but without the brake lights giving the berk behind a clue, so that he suddenly finds himself closer than even he is comfortable with. Give them a short sharp shock like that and they almost invariably...

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Congrats, Kirk, and all the best.

Alec Rivers

Every new pic I see of Phil makes me think, blimey, wouldn't have recognised him. He must be one of those 'rubber-faced' actors! You might get a kick out of this . (I do.) I like this one: http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu203/SpiritmanProductions/icon_laughat.gif http://i648.photobucket.com/alb...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:I'm loathe to believe it is prevalent.
You meant loath of course.

Oh, drat. Yup.

Alec Rivers

area s ... There isn't any in Whitstabubble, is there? Is this irony? I'm sorry. In my mind the unabridged, unadulterated sentence was: "There isn't any heavy traffic in Whitstable, is there?", which I think is a reasonable question despite the mention of 'areas' in the plural, because Wh...

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Jon Corby wrote:Yeah, I er... did that deliberately, as...um...part of the joke. About getting things wrong. See?

Okay, then.

Alec Rivers

http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/mini.html Well, how disappointing to see dictionary writers using weasel words and failing to provide any citations or other evidence to support their claims. I read often but I don't recall ever having seen the so-called variant spelling in any quality publica...

Alec Rivers

Sue Sanders wrote:... I don't cycle in heavily traffic [sic] areas...

There isn't any in Whitstabubble, is there? (Until you get to the top of the hill, at least.)

Sue Sanders wrote:I think a fat 40 something, puffing up behind him, seething, and stoving in his windscreen might have taken him by surprise!

lol. What a great image!

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:Very true, although I do think that, unlike me, most people would still recognize them as the same person, wouldn't they? Maybe we could have a poll.
My other half, who is neither a blindy nor (as far as I know) any sort of autistic, thinks they look very different.

Ta, that's good to know.

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