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Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:52 pm
by Michael Wallace
Jon Corby wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:This needs bumping because I've been reminded of NotAlwaysRight, which is basically a lot of funny customer service nightmare stories. Example. Fantastic procrastination tool.
They all look totally made up.
Really? I've read plenty that seem entirely plausible (especially when considered alongside stories I've heard from friends who've worked in similar jobs).

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:48 pm
by Andy Wilson
Saw this and just thought i should circulate it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:03 pm
by Alec Rivers
Andy Wilson wrote:Saw this and just thought i should circulate it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Excellent video. I've seen it before (having seen almost all of TED's offerings) but it was good to watch again. I think it should be compulsory viewing for all policy makers in education.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:48 pm
by Charlie Reams

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:16 pm
by Jon Corby
I haven't watched the video (tl;dw) but couldn't you have an exceptionally short game by opening with some ridiculous 'deal' (e.g. "I'll pay you £1500 if you guarantee me that if you get hotels on Mayfair I can stay there free") which leaves you with no money, and then rolling a 4? Are there any rules about what deals you can/can't strike?

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:34 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Jon Corby wrote:
I haven't watched the video (tl;dw) but couldn't you have an exceptionally short game by opening with some ridiculous 'deal' (e.g. "I'll pay you £1500 if you guarantee me that if you get hotels on Mayfair I can stay there free") which leaves you with no money, and then rolling a 4? Are there any rules about what deals you can/can't strike?
I don't think it mentions deals in the rules, so I guess that means you can't strike any deals, in the same way you can't strike deals in Scrabble, for example.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:41 pm
by Jon Corby
Jon O'Neill wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
I haven't watched the video (tl;dw) but couldn't you have an exceptionally short game by opening with some ridiculous 'deal' (e.g. "I'll pay you £1500 if you guarantee me that if you get hotels on Mayfair I can stay there free") which leaves you with no money, and then rolling a 4? Are there any rules about what deals you can/can't strike?
I don't think it mentions deals in the rules, so I guess that means you can't strike any deals, in the same way you can't strike deals in Scrabble, for example.
Really? So you can't swap Mayfair for Regent Street + £100, and shit like that? In my experience games would never end without such deals.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:46 pm
by Matt Morrison
The official Monopoly game I had on my PC a few years back allowed you to make deals, that's all I know.
But yeah including deals would make for a pretty pointless video.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:51 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
I vaguely remember the rules saying something along the lines of you can make your own house rules with regards to trading properties between each other and bartering over price etc so it is acceptable. However the video demonstrates the quickest way to lose the game just by landing on certain spaces, buying properties, getting certain cards etc where all prices are fixed.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:56 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Yeah, there is the old house rules caveat. Well you can just as quickly say, let's make a deal, you lose, and if it's agreed, the game's over. I had a quick look for tournament monopoly rules, but didn't find anything concrete. They do have a World Championships don't they?

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:57 pm
by Michael Wallace
This is apparently quicker.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:19 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Jon O'Neill wrote:Yeah, there is the old house rules caveat. Well you can just as quickly say, let's make a deal, you lose, and if it's agreed, the game's over. I had a quick look for tournament monopoly rules, but didn't find anything concrete. They do have a World Championships don't they?
They might, but surely it would be pretty pointless. I can't imagine there being players that can consistently beat others. Too much luck.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:29 pm
by Charlie Reams
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:Yeah, there is the old house rules caveat. Well you can just as quickly say, let's make a deal, you lose, and if it's agreed, the game's over. I had a quick look for tournament monopoly rules, but didn't find anything concrete. They do have a World Championships don't they?
They might, but surely it would be pretty pointless. I can't imagine there being players that can consistently beat others. Too much luck.
They do indeed, I remember reading an article about it in the Sunday Times many years ago. The tips from the world's "top" players were things like "always be the iron, players may not see your piece and thus forget to charge you rent". What an utter load of shit. Monopoly is one of the worst games ever invented and certainly the worst to have gained significant popularity.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:30 pm
by Michael Wallace
Charlie Reams wrote:What an utter load of shit. Monopoly is one of the worst games ever invented and certainly the worst to have gained significant popularity.
QFT

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:51 pm
by Ryan Taylor
I've never played Monopoly and hate all quiz questions associated with it.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:17 pm
by Ian Volante
Ryan Taylor wrote:I've never played Monopoly and hate all quiz questions associated with it.
"Pay a £10 fine or take a chance?" Isn't that tough really though is it?

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:21 pm
by Matt Morrison
Ian Volante wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:I've never played Monopoly and hate all quiz questions associated with it.
"Pay a £10 fine or take a chance?" Isn't that tough really though is it?
Excellent :)
Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:What an utter load of shit. Monopoly is one of the worst games ever invented and certainly the worst to have gained significant popularity.
QFT
According to Wikipedia this either means Quit Fucking Typing or Quite Fucking True/Quoted For Truth, which are particularly different responses. I thought I'd seen all the nonsense geeky abbreviations here, but there's another new one on me.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:29 pm
by Michael Wallace
Matt Morrison wrote:According to Wikipedia this either means Quit Fucking Typing or Quite Fucking True/Quoted For Truth, which are particularly different responses. I thought I'd seen all the nonsense geeky abbreviations here, but there's another new one on me.
YOU POSTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS DISCUSSION :evil:

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:29 pm
by Matt Morrison
BAH. (That's just the noise "bah", not an abbreviation for "Bollocks, arse hat.")

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:07 pm
by James Doohan
Mel Gibson tells it like it is, what a pleasant chap

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:30 pm
by Ben Hunter
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Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:03 pm
by Liam Tiernan

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:59 pm
by Lesley Hines

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:07 pm
by Jon Corby
I like cats fine, and that's someone's pet and all, but the outrage over that story is ludicrous. There's plenty more deserving targets of people's venom. Why don't The Sun out some yobs who are making residents lives a misery, that kind of thing?

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:20 pm
by Lesley Hines
Jon Corby wrote:
I like cats fine, and that's someone's pet and all, but the outrage over that story is ludicrous. There's plenty more deserving targets of people's venom. Why don't The Sun out some yobs who are making residents lives a misery, that kind of thing?
Yup. It is despicable what she did, no two ways about it. However, I'm really tickled by the irony that she was outed on Facebook to a huge outcry, and yet Raoul Moat got >80,000 followers. There's nowt as queer as folk.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:32 pm
by Chris Corby
If that cat is the one that keeps crapping in my garden, it got off lightly.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:03 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Lesley Hines wrote:However, I'm really tickled by the irony that she was outed on Facebook to a huge outcry, and yet Raoul Moat got >80,000 followers. There's nowt as queer as folk.
Probably different people.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:19 pm
by Jon Corby
Michael Wallace wrote:We have Bit Trip Beat, it makes my sexy.
Image

8-)

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:27 pm
by Kai Laddiman
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Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:00 pm
by Kai Laddiman

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:52 am
by Jimmy Gough

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:00 pm
by Charlie Reams

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:04 pm
by Matt Morrison
Charlie Reams wrote:Not really sure what to make of this, but I'm pretty sure it's great.

Edit: Reminds me of Nathan Barley.
That thing totally kicked off. I posted it on my wall (via VICE magazine, somewhat ironically) and about 20 of my friends, half of which I don't speak to much, and most of which are caricatures right out of the video anyway, reposted it before the day was out. Seems to have struck a chord in the cool scene for sure. I chuckled.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:50 pm
by Robert Baxter
:arrow: here is about as good as Apterous. :D


Best bit: It's free!!!!!! :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:10 pm
by Ben Hunter
Matt Morrison wrote:Seems to have struck a chord in the cool scene for sure. I chuckled.
Made a load of people on my facebook sweat like they'd just had 6 small picked against them, they're all embracing it though in the hopes of damage limitation.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:26 pm
by Matt Morrison
Ben Hunter wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Seems to have struck a chord in the cool scene for sure. I chuckled.
Made a load of people on my facebook sweat like they'd just had 6 small picked against them, they're all embracing it though in the hopes of damage limitation.
One girl on my list was a touch offended, properly felt like she was having fun poked at her. "98% of my friends are dickheads then."
She still ended up posting it on her wall though, as some kind of self-assurance dickhead validation power play thing.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:29 pm
by Ben Hunter
Matt Morrison wrote:She still ended up posting it on her wall though, as some kind of self-assurance dickhead validation power play thing.
Exactly. It set a cat amongst the pigeons.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:13 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Charlie Reams wrote:Not really sure what to make of this, but I'm pretty sure it's great.

Edit: Reminds me of Nathan Barley.
Yeah, it's quite enjoyable and everything but it seems to be a fairly arbitrary collection of traits - not something where I thought "Yeah that describes certain people really well".

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:19 am
by Matt Morrison
Thought some of you geeks might enjoy this:

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Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:47 am
by Andy Wilson
Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoKcsN8wM8

Edit: Mind still blown by this. Incredible. Must have taken months.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:18 pm
by Martyn Simpson
Very clever advert well worth a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:35 pm
by Charlie Reams
Martyn Simpson wrote:Very clever advert well worth a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY
And as usual, one of the top-rated comments spoils the ending. Don't read them.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:03 am
by Andy Wilson
Nice. My mind is still blown by Mr Blu though. Been toying with the idea of heading back to Bologna for the entire summer 2011. Nice to know he lives there.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:01 am
by Charlie Reams
Andrew Feist wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Serious? Satire? You decide!

Note, NSFH (Not Safe for Homeopathists).
I now believe satire need not be intended. "Makes the building now not in structure form," indeed.
Further riffing on the theme of accidental satire, I bring you this gem.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:27 am
by Michael Wallace
Charlie Reams wrote:Further riffing on the theme of accidental satire, I bring you this gem.
These are the lengths you're going to to get us to respect you?

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:32 am
by Matt Morrison
Do you love vaginas? Do you love naked flesh? Do you love intimate close-ups? Do you love the sounds of joy?

Then you'll love this! *

* May or may not be NSFW

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:13 pm
by Charlie Reams
Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Further riffing on the theme of accidental satire, I bring you this gem.
These are the lengths you're going to to get us to respect you?
It's more the obeying that I'm excited by.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:07 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Charlie Reams wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Serious? Satire? You decide!

Note, NSFH (Not Safe for Homeopathists).
I now believe satire need not be intended. "Makes the building now not in structure form," indeed.
Further riffing on the theme of accidental satire, I bring you this gem.
Are these fuckers for real? Where's my gun?

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:38 pm
by Charlie Reams
I posted this on Facebook. Jack Hurst thought it was great, Matt Morrison did not. Whose opinion is best? Now you can decide for yourself.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:51 pm
by Ian Volante
Charlie Reams wrote:I posted this on Facebook. Jack Hurst thought it was great, Matt Morrison did not. Whose opinion is best? Now you can decide for yourself.
Has the man not heard of pubs? Or do Cambridge students vet potential friends before they arrive? :o

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:48 pm
by Oliver Garner

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:31 am
by Andy Wilson
Right lads, everyone round this side of the table for the photograph.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:30 pm
by Matt Morrison
Wonder who this was written about?

My Apterous Angel

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:49 am
by Andy Wilson
Matt Morrison wrote:Wonder who this was written about?

My Apterous Angel
HA!

This is gorgeous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQuzkoc ... r_embedded#!

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:10 pm
by Matt Morrison
Expect some of you have bumped into this already, but:

Google Beatbox
  1. Go to Google Translate
  2. Set the translator to translate from German to German
  3. Copy and paste: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
  4. Listen
  5. Create your own - who can do the best?!
I just knocked up some nice drums here: pwk bsch ds bsch bsch ds pvk pvk tsch ds

Apparently:
zk = suspended cymbal
bschk = snare
pv = brush
bk = bass
tk = flam1
vk = roll tap
kt = flam2
kttp = flam tap
krp = hi hat tap
pv = short roll
th = hi hat

...but as you can see from the one I freestyled you can just use your own. Have fun!

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:28 am
by Adam Gillard

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:48 pm
by Ryan Taylor

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:04 pm
by Charlie Reams
You can spot a Jew a mile away by that special glow on his/her face
lol.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:30 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Charlie Reams wrote:
You can spot a Jew a mile away by that special glow on his/her face
lol.
Not me who wrote that by the way.

Re: C4C Link Dump

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:58 pm
by Adam Gillard
Ryan Taylor wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
You can spot a Jew a mile away by that special glow on his/her face
lol.
Not me who wrote that by the way.
I thought you'd like that video, Ryan ;) (I expected you to be the first to comment). Also, I think someone got a little carried away with that comment you've quoted, Charlie! Anyway, I thought it was a fun video and those of you who enjoy popular music doubtless recognise the tune that is being covered.