A free-for-all thread

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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Metalchemyst » Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:42 pm

Gandalf the Red wrote:Like measles, polio and other diseases it was virtually eradicated when I was a kid. Then everyone stopped getting their jabs and it came back. :rolleyes
Immigration has played a part in its return:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19383200

But let's pretend that's not true :-D
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby keera_envenomed » Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:51 pm

Metalchemyst wrote:
Gandalf the Red wrote:Like measles, polio and other diseases it was virtually eradicated when I was a kid. Then everyone stopped getting their jabs and it came back. :rolleyes
Immigration has played a part in its return:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19383200

But let's pretend that's not true :-D


There's still very few cases in the UK compared to the horror stories of epidemics that were circulating a few years back. The biggie was measles and that was because of all that idiotic MMR shite.
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Gandalf the Red » Sat May 02, 2015 5:24 pm

Bleedin' Hell they don't half sling them out of hospitals quick nowadays. A few years back you would of been kept in for a few days after having a baby.
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Jim » Sat May 02, 2015 5:25 pm

I thought that...
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby some_thing_wild » Sat May 02, 2015 11:59 pm

Why do they put pictures of people on the front of crossword magazines?
Like this average looking woman is gonna make me wanna do word puzzles
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Gandalf the Red » Sun May 03, 2015 1:02 am

Well you aren't exactly going to get a model doing crosswords are you. :lol:
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby some_thing_wild » Sun May 03, 2015 1:17 am

Not having a woman at all would make me just as likely to buy it though. Did they have to spend money paying someone to be on the cover?

Maybe the person on the front came up with all the puzzles? Maybe it's their daughter
I really havn't looked into it
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Matty_the_Emo_Slayer » Sun May 03, 2015 1:34 am

Gandalf the Red wrote:Well you aren't exactly going to get a model doing crosswords are you. :lol:



No but you could get one of these two surely.

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Or both. Oh dear heavens both at once.


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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Metalchemyst » Sun May 03, 2015 11:50 am

Matty_the_Emo_Slayer wrote:
Gandalf the Red wrote:Well you aren't exactly going to get a model doing crosswords are you. :lol:



No but you could get one of these two surely.

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Or both. Oh dear heavens both at once.
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby NeglectedField » Mon May 04, 2015 11:09 am

Right, it's Bank Holiday and me and a mate have agreed that we come round mine so we can finally (after years of doing fuckall about it) get him doing some vocals for our joke electronic project. If I can't get hold of him by mid-afternoon I'm gonna wander out. Not wasting this weather unless it's to doing something fun.

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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Nantha » Mon May 04, 2015 12:23 pm

https://www.facebook.com/hellfest/photo ... 36/?type=1

Hellfest set vandalised and set on fire.
It's a bit shitty of them to drop the Catholic Church in it with what looks like zero evidence but I guess they wouldn't without reason.

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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Jobdone » Tue May 05, 2015 10:11 am

Puzzle question that my manager posted to the team:

There are five houses with the outside walls painted in five different ways. David, Ed, Nick, Nicola and Nigel each live in one of the houses. They each drink a certain type of coffee, have a preferred mode of transport and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, the same preferred mode of transport or drink the same type of coffee.

WHO OWNS THE FISH?

1. Nicola lives in the tartan house.
2. Ed has a guinea pig
3. David drinks mochaccino
4. The paisley house is on the left of the gingham house
5. The owner of the paisley house drinks flat whites.
6. The person who drives by car has a squirrel.
7. The owner of the striped house travels by bike.
8. The person living in the centre house drinks double espresso.
9. Nick lives in the first house.
10. The person who travels by train lives next to the one who has a pitbull.
11. The person who has a badger lives next to the person who travels by bike.
12. The person who travels by plane drinks chai latte.
13. Nigel goes everywhere by foot.
14. Nick lives next to the polka dot house.
15. The person who travels by train has a neighbour who drinks decaf.

For the sake of clarity: the houses are adjacent to each other in a line and the directions are from the perspective of someone looking at the houses.
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Fjar » Tue May 05, 2015 4:57 pm

Ahhh fuck that.
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Danroush » Wed May 06, 2015 9:47 pm

Ah bollocks. After barely posting (compared to the early days) for the last couple of years, the 10K mark completely passed me by. Ah well.
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Re: A free-for-all thread

Postby Gandalf the Red » Thu May 07, 2015 2:02 pm

E4 has got the most interesting programme that they have ever broadcast on. A fat bloke sleeping. And now he's woken up and is dancing with a panda. :lol:
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