Tickled_Pink

Pretty sure this is close to 700 pages. It feels like one of my old law textbooks. Not sure why they wrapped it in cellophane, though. To protect the secrets of the car until the new owner has to actually figure something out? It'll ONLY fit in the glove compartment. It won't fit anywhere else. Which is a good thing. I must have scraped enough tobacco out of the last one's glove box to make 20 cigarettes. There's now no room for the wife to mess this one up.

They never sleep. They walk amongst the dead. And then they strike when you're too bleary-eyed or hungover to notice that you've just pledged $5000.

@x=usr(1536) I suppose you should kind of expect it in LA but not around here. I think it's still the biggest, or second biggest, known to hit the UK. We have had a few but that's the only one I've ever knowingly felt. There is a small fault line under the Menai Straits, which is the reason Anglesey's separated from the mainland. On that occasion, we were probably about 20 miles from the epicentre. Weird thing was me thinking it was a truck going past. We lived in a housing estate with fairly narrow streets. It was basically a square. No chance of a truck of any description making its way around there.

If the FAQ has a section on sticky pages, I think I'll pass.

@Atarian7 Yeah, you're right. Didn't think it looked right. 😂

That is a pretty car. Think we're going for a Kia Sportage. We're too used to SUVs to go for anything lower down these days.

put that shotgun away/ before the birds make you pay

He also played the chancellor of Unseen University in one of the Discworld TV movies IIRC.

Weird thing is that I never actually had any Lego growing up. Not strictly true. I had some but I think they were hand me downs or something as I don't remember ever being bought any. I used to have Meccano and Airfix kits.

How long does it take to build one? I struggled to build a £20 Marvel one for my grandson a couple of weeks ago.

@GoldLeader They found their audience when they branched out, particularly into licensed products. Hard to imagine now that Lego were in danger of going broke before they did that. Those boxes for the collectible stuff are big. They contain several thousand pieces (the AT-AT has more than 6700, the Falcon around 7,500). Just went onto the website of the store where I can pick one up locally and a popup said that they'd sold 50 Falcons in the past 24 hours.

@Albert Yeah. I went to a toy store that was the main rival to Toys'R'Us over here a few weeks ago and there was a Millennium Falcon costing more than £500, and an AT-AT costing more than £700!! Looks like another chain store with a branch more local to us has them as well. And yet, they wouldn't be making them if people weren't buying them.

It seems that the main issue of the case was that he lied about it to his employers and tried to cover it up instead of just saying he'd made a mistake. If there was an employment Darwin award ...

History has shown that it's not that easy to remove dictators. And Hamas, it seems, have done a decent enough job for the people of Gaza to not be too bothered by having them around. Kind of like how Germany saw the Nazis. They could have been the greatest Government Germany had ever known, had it not been for the megalomania, psychopathy and murder. Like Germany, the residents of the Gaza strip are now paying the price.

@dudeguy Is that what your media's been telling you? That no one else ever helps? The UK got dragged into both Afghanistan and Iraq because of the US. In this instance, it's unlikely that many outside of the immediate Hamas hierarchy knew what was going to happen until the day. Israeli intelligence has operatives and informants within the organisation but they were seemingly caught with their trousers around their ankles. There will be a war between the US and Iran at some point. Unfortunately, it looks like there needs to be. It's something that's been brewing ever since the US murdered the last democratically elected prime minister of Iran and installed a right-wing puppet dictatorship.

I've often wondered what the UK was like 2000 years ago, with far fewer people in it. Now I know that I just need to go to Wyoming to find out.

I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

Weird. I'm not getting that. I'm getting what looks like a list of recently active threads across the entire forum.

I've always been the same. However, I'm trying to get tested for ADHD as I have many of the symptoms. I was supposed to have an appointment a couple of weeks ago but that got cancelled at the last minute. Have one next month now.

@Zylon Yeah, that's kind of why I bought the Vader. I wanted to have a go at repairing it and selling it. Because the box, inserts, joysticks, original Pac-Man cart and pamphlet were together and in decent enough condition I decided to swallow the "loss" and keep it, annoying the wife in the process. It was actually the first time I'd bought any retro stuff in many years.

So, imagine my disappointment when I bought a Vader on eBay last year for a good price because it was listed as not working, but turned out it was working just fine. Seller probably didn't know how to tune it in. Goddammit!! Should have raised a refund ticket as it wasn't as listed.

As far as I know, no incidents as yet but the affected schools are being closed as a precaution. One of the issues with this concrete is that it's full of air and when it starts to crack or crumble, water can get in and start attacking the rebar. The island has five high schools. One is relatively modern, having been built in the 80s, so it's of brick construction. The other two schools are my old school and Llangefni, which I would have gone to if we hadn't moved in '78. Both schools are almost identical in design and are currently being examined. They were built in the 50s, which is around the time the concrete was mostly being used.

The graininess is actually down to a "cinematic" filter they have. It's deliberate. You can turn it off. I dialed the graphics all the way down. Still some freezing but it's not as bad. I'd already cut back my startup programs a couple of weeks ago.

Just spent a couple of hours on it. It's kind of like a cross between Skyrim and Mass Effect. In some respects, the combat is more enjoyable than in Skyrim and the interface seems to be slicker IMO. BUT there are some issues on my system with the audio. It also freezes for several seconds as it seems to be constantly loading content, which usually causes dialog to be mismatched with the NPC's mouth. Just checked the specs and everything apart from my CPU is at the recommended. When it doesn't freeze, it runs well with everything cranked up to Ultra, although I've noticed some graininess in the image. Possibly due to FSR.

@bent_pin Then why haven't they made him disappear? Got to have some kind of insurance in place.