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- Sat May 18, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
- Replies: 27
- Views: 196
Re: Exaggerate a film or TV title....
Schindler's Encyclopedia.
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
When he started to play for England May's main (only?) attribute was his pace. However, unlike some others he worked really hard on improving all his weaknesses. At his best he was lethal in attack and could score tries from nowhere. Even when he started to lose his pace, he continued trying to imp...
- Sun May 12, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Depluralise a film or TV show..
- Replies: 50
- Views: 840
Re: Depluralise a film or TV show..
Dead Poet's society
The Grape of Wrath
The Grape of Wrath
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Northern Lights UK
- Replies: 27
- Views: 508
Re: Northern Lights UK
Hampshire
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722266
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
As I stated elsewhere earlier this morning... And the narrative will now go along the lines of... "We hear you, this result clearly shows us our plan isn't racist and cruel enough" We are seeing the Tory version of what Labour went through in the early 80s. They are doubling down on the l...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722266
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official F1 Thread
- Replies: 2613
- Views: 99748
Re: The Official F1 Thread
Everyone remembers the anniversary of Senna's death... very few acknowledge the first death that fateful weekend, Roland Ratzenberger also lost his life at the circuit, in qualifying. https://youtu.be/Rg_5n62yAGw?si=tCEd8tjL8pPrfBtL Max Mosley, to his credit, went to Ratzenberger's funeral and said...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722266
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Saw my fourth robbery in London this year today. My fourth police report closed within 3 hours without an investigation as well We had a rare moment of competence last week. Found people using our bin area to do drugs, called plod who were there within 2 minutes. One chap arrested. The minor bad po...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Travel Thread
- Replies: 158
- Views: 5986
Re: The Travel Thread
The only place I have been in Germany was the Mosselle valley, on a school trip in 1992. Of course it been 30+ years but I remember it being a very nice part of the world. It’s a country I’d love to see more of having really enjoyed Hamburg and really, really enjoyed Berlin (if that’s the right wor...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: UK Post Office Scandal
- Replies: 110
- Views: 4623
Re: UK Post Office Scandal
Amnesia strikes again. Crozier this time. “I genuinely can’t remember,” Crozier says. Former chief executive of the Royal Mail Group Adam Crozier has said he did not have a “developed understanding” of the way in which Royal Mail carried out prosecutions. “I was not aware of that, no.” And I don’t ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: UK Post Office Scandal
- Replies: 110
- Views: 4623
Re: UK Post Office Scandal
The Post Office MD Alan Cook has just claimed that he had no idea that they had the power to prosecute their own cases. Hundreds of sub postmasters prosecuted during his tenure. Incredible. It beggars belief that the senior management didn't understand what they were doing and how they did it There...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Heart conditions that deserve a thread
- Replies: 68
- Views: 1270
Re: Heart conditions that deserve a thread
I have developed an irregular heartbeat that needs investigating. It took 19 months from being referred until the first appointment. I've just received the followup appointment - 12 months after the 1st.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722266
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Also I am not sure that many folk pushing the private sector realise that the private sector trains very few if any doctors, nurses or other professions - they depend solely on NHS staff or international staff to staff their private hospitals. Without the NHS training staff then the whole of the me...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722266
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I just saw short interview with Dr Hilary Jones, the ITV guy who was asked if he supported the Junior Doctors who are going on strike. He explained that a 35% wage rise sounds unreasonable until you realise that what they are asking for is a rise from £15/hr to £20 per hour. A quick google tells me...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722266
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I just saw short interview with Dr Hilary Jones, the ITV guy who was asked if he supported the Junior Doctors who are going on strike. He explained that a 35% wage rise sounds unreasonable until you realise that what they are asking for is a rise from £15/hr to £20 per hour. A quick google tells me...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Gaming thread
- Replies: 635
- Views: 55020
Re: Gaming thread
Been forced into Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim (Anniversary edition). Only problem is son keeps dropping in and pointing out the decision I've made that are wrong and cut off quest possibilities. Restarted three times thus far :wtf: This is one massive game folks, every time I think I've finished a quest ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
Like I said, I don't think any career goes extinct. But 1 human can oversee 5 AI conversations, only having to intervene here and there, rather than needing humans for each one etc. Programmers are saying that AI can do a huge amount of coding for them, but can't do everything, making them massivel...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
Home or away, it makes no difference as to the bowel loosening insanity that is a Quins match. Never leave before the end of a 'Quins match :lolno: I was trying to think of the nearest to the end of a game where I actually thought Quins were going to win and was then proved wrong. Take a bow Ben Bo...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Not Heineken Cup 23/24
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 37791
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18162
- Views: 980652
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
I dislocated an eyebrow when they passed up an easy 3 in the last few minutes to go for the line; amateur hour stuff. Three points wasn't going to change much. Quins were always going to go for a try and they won by four, which is more than three. Glasgow looked gassed at the end which was a surpri...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Pro cycling thread
- Replies: 196
- Views: 7623
Re: Pro cycling thread
For years the team’s managers have been blaming the race organizers ( see this year Paris-Roubaix about the new chicane), but I also saw a lot of articles where the riders are blaming the riders for tacking too much risks. yesterday crash https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a60394830/2024-paris-roubai...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: UK Post Office Scandal
- Replies: 110
- Views: 4623
Re: UK Post Office Scandal
The thing I dont get is where has all the extra cash gone? It is clear the external audits didn't pick this up but that's no great surprise! There is a strong suggestion here that someone was able to syphon off money from PO accounts overnight using the external IT links and possibly deposit elsewh...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: UK Post Office Scandal
- Replies: 110
- Views: 4623
Re: UK Post Office Scandal
Vennels should be locked up as soonest Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells was briefed on allegations that a “covert operations team” at Fujitsu’s Bracknell headquarters could remotely alter sub-postmasters’ accounts — two *years* before she gave evidence to MPs, according to a Channel 4 exclusiv...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Whisk(e)y Thread (Irish, Scottish, Miscellaneous)
- Replies: 146
- Views: 5929
Re: The Whisk(e)y Thread (Irish, Scottish, Miscellaneous)
There's over forty distilleries in Ireland, over a hundred and forty in Scotland, but who knew there are forty nine in England? Not me. English v Scottish in the Torygraph. A few of the guys at my old group loved Japanese whisky. I always liked it, but thought Scotch was far better value pound for ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Whisk(e)y Thread (Irish, Scottish, Miscellaneous)
- Replies: 146
- Views: 5929
Re: The Whisk(e)y Thread (Irish, Scottish, Miscellaneous)
There's over forty distilleries in Ireland, over a hundred and forty in Scotland, but who knew there are forty nine in England? Not me. English v Scottish in the Torygraph. A few of the guys at my old group loved Japanese whisky. I always liked it, but thought Scotch was far better value pound for ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Superwoman makes history .........................again.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 805
Re: Superwoman makes history .........................again.
I nearly put this in the 'Things that don't deserve their own thread' but decided it did deserve its own thread. Glasgow vet Jasmin Paris becomes the first woman ever to complete the Barklay Marathon. A race so hard that there were no finishers at all from 2017 to 2023. In 2019 she was the first wo...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Things that don't deserve their own thread
- Replies: 2648
- Views: 141234
Re: Things that don't deserve their own thread
In a previous life I was interested in tools to capture and represent engineering information, and I remember looking into the tools Autonomy were putting together. These always seemed to promise a lot but actually do very little, in the rare cases I saw it used. It turns out that it probably alway...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Entertaining Pictures Thread
- Replies: 1868
- Views: 188161
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Royal family in the news again...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2433
Re: Royal family in the news again...
Who the fuck is Rose Hanbury? To paraphrase Twitter, "a hills-have-eyes version of Kate Middleton" She's married to some guy many years her senior who spends his entire time living in France with his confirmed bachelor friend No doubt he's also a lover of musical theatre. I thought the ge...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - Wales v Italy
- Replies: 166
- Views: 3192
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - Wales v Italy
Sky Italia reporting some very good TV numbers, plus a lot of news coverage. Small but important steps! I was in Rome a few weeks back on a non rugby weekend. A couple of bars in the centre - one Irish, one Italian - said they were expecting good attendance. I could definitely see myself making a t...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Gaming thread
- Replies: 635
- Views: 55020
Re: Gaming thread
Complete all 27 steam achievements in No Man's Sky. I picked up 7900XT for a very good price recently. Very happy with it so far. ASUS RTX 2080ti needs a home if anyone wants it? (Gratis, paying it forward as I was gifted it a few years ago) That would be an upgrade on my 2060. Interested. That's a...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Gaming thread
- Replies: 635
- Views: 55020
Re: Gaming thread
How many years of a gap does that give you between upgrades? We got 10 years out of our PowerColor R9 280X. :grin: About 5 years max. I'm patient so don't need to pay a premium for the latest and greatest. Not fully up to speed on these things but does upgrading graphics mean upgrading motherboard ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Gaming thread
- Replies: 635
- Views: 55020
Re: Gaming thread
About 5 years max.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:40 am How many years of a gap does that give you between upgrades?
We got 10 years out of our PowerColor R9 280X.
I'm patient so don't need to pay a premium for the latest and greatest.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Gaming thread
- Replies: 635
- Views: 55020
Re: Gaming thread
So what are folks picking up in the Steam sales? I'm a big fan of old games so Mass Effect legendary edition is one of the ones I bagged. Some really good discounts on older EA Games. New PC is currently being built. 4070 graphics card. Mount & Blade II Bannerlord is 40% off. That might be a go...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official F1 Thread
- Replies: 2613
- Views: 99748
Re: The Official F1 Thread
C'mon! Horner's PA knows everyone in the paddock. She's worked with them all for years. She released the messages from the anon email account. This is a Red Bull/Horner/employee issue, no other team is trying to derail their season like this with scandal. Pointless really because the Red Bull is ap...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: President Biden and US politics catchall
- Replies: 6612
- Views: 293342
Re: President Biden and US politics catchall
What. The. Actual. Fuck..... $100 to the person who can tell me what this means: "I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I ...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Hairy Biker rides off into the sunset..
- Replies: 11
- Views: 562
Re: Hairy Biker rides off into the sunset..
Yup, all of this. Seemed like genuinely nice people in industries where that isn't always the case A chap I see from time to time works on the show. He said one of them is really nice. Still really nice? Or used to be. It's been a few years since I saw him. He said you should be able to tell from t...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Hairy Biker rides off into the sunset..
- Replies: 11
- Views: 562
Re: Hairy Biker rides off into the sunset..
Always enjoyed the Hairy Bikers series. A bit twee at times but they obviously enjoyed each others company and relished the subject. RIP indeed Yup, all of this. Seemed like genuinely nice people in industries where that isn't always the case A chap I see from time to time works on the show. He sai...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations Round 3 - France v Italy
- Replies: 128
- Views: 2726
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations Round 3 - France v Italy
- Replies: 128
- Views: 2726
Re: 6 Nations Round 3 - France v Italy
Italy's line speed and defence is pretty good. Not having much trouble keeping the French at bay until there's broken play.