[The Commander]

Fox, on 13 September 2014 - 10:45 AM, said:

Apparently it's not fake. In fact they put radioation in all sort of products back then.

They still do.

[Hendricks266]

(Old-school) glow-in-the-dark wristwatches*; tritium surveying markers.

*Not the modern "press button for LED light" kind. Radioactively iridescent ones.

[Fox]

[The Commander]

Live Event

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom all connected in the same event to announce proof that the NZ Government has lied to the public and shit.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Remember Surge?



They're selling it again.

[The Commander]

Comrade Major, on 15 September 2014 - 05:21 AM, said:

Remember Surge?

Must only have been an American drink because I ain't ever herd of it.

[ReaperMan]

Edit: Wait never mind i remember what Surge is now.... its that Mountain Dew ripoff from Coka-Cola that tasted like shit. But i hate Mountain Dew anyway.

[Hendricks266]

Comrade Major, on 15 September 2014 - 05:21 AM, said:

Remember Surge?

They're selling it again.

I hate all the idiotic news coverage headlining this as "Wacky 90s Nostalgia #ThrowbackThursdayOnAMonday". #GoFuckYourSelfie.

It's back because it has a cult following of people who like the actual damn soda. Not because it's cool, retro, fashionable, or some horseshit. Fuck the human race.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

The Angry Kiwi, on 15 September 2014 - 06:46 AM, said:

Must only have been an American drink because I ain't ever herd of it.

No, you only herd of sheep.

[ReaperMan]

Comrade Major, on 15 September 2014 - 02:30 PM, said:

No, you only herd of sheep.

They do other things to the sheep too.

[Jeff]

I was wondering when this light would come on. It's been years since I've seen it. Thing just started beeping like crazy 5 minutes ago. Spooked the cat.

[The Commander]

I have never had to replace a CMOS battery before...

[X-Vector]

Hendricks266, on 15 September 2014 - 12:49 PM, said:

Fuck the human race.

[Jeff]

The Angry Kiwi, on 15 September 2014 - 10:08 PM, said:

I have never had to replace a CMOS battery before...

It's a UPS battery.

[Person of Color]

The Angry Kiwi, on 15 September 2014 - 10:08 PM, said:

I have never had to replace a CMOS battery before...

Jeff, on 16 September 2014 - 05:35 AM, said:

It's a UPS battery.

Fucking noob.

Actually, whenever I repair an older laptop, I always try to change out the battery if possible. If they kick out within months you're stuck gutting the piece of shit again.

[High Treason]

I had a patch earlier in the year where all the new batteries I put in things ten years ago ran out within days of each other... It sucked. My UPS (Old beige APC 3000) still has no batteries, I should get around to getting some for it. Even though I live less than a mile from a power station the electricity isn't always stable here.

Speaking of hardware, I think I'm going nuts; I'm thinking of buying and old PCChips motherboard cheap just for the novelty.

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Not speaking of hardware, I'm in a good mood right now.


Long version;

Spoiler

My cooking is legendarily terrible; I can only do toast well well done, my bacon is extra extra crispy and the last time I cooked for someone else I never saw them again after they called the paramedics... There's also that time I was meant to cook for a girl when I was a teenager which involved me barricading the kitchen door and running off down the back alleys of the estate to the nearest chippy. Let's just say, it's bad and luckily I don't have to cook for anyone but myself these days.

Either way, a few days back I opened the fridge only to find I had no bacon left which sucked. Still wanting something meaty I found a tin of hot dogs. Being from Britain, the general thing to do is boil/heat things in water and ensure they taste as bland as possible and I didn't deviate, simply heating them in the brine. But it struck me, what would happen if I fried them instead? Frying things usually improves them. Better yet, what if I fried them with bacon? Bacon makes everything better. Heck, why stop there - what if I added cheese? Cheese also makes everything better.

Weighing up that this snack would probably contain ridiculous amounts of salt, fat and completely unknown calorie content (Stuff I don't care too much about) I dismissed it as a lightly amusing idea and forgot about it. Until the next day I was reminded, having several sausages left. I did some research and discovered that similar snacks had been invented already - what I ran into was a Danger Dog (Seemingly Mexican) and a Francheezie (Seemingly from Chigago, USA), the latter isn't a million miles away from what I had in my head... The UK is boring, we don't really have stuff like that here. Knowing someone else had thought of something like it somewhere else in the world though, well, that kinda told me it maybe wasn't as bad of an idea as I first thought...

Today I was out of almost everything and went to the supermarket. This evening I was bored and figured I may as well attempt to make this thing. My method was to slice a line down one side of the dog and stuff cheese into it before wrapping it in bacon and frying it to death. The end result was a kitchen with smoke hanging in the air and a rather greasy thing in a hot dog bun... It tasted awesome. Could maybe have used a little more cheese but it actually worked!

So on the up-side I've discovered a rather tasty thing to eat. On the down-side I'm contemplating more cooking so my house is likely to end up in smouldering ruins. Also, I find it funny that I have just shoved something so unhealthy down my throat when I'm at hospital tomorrow to have a camera down my throat to investigate ongoing stomach problems.

Nonetheless, new favorite snack discovered.

Short version; I'm terrible at cooking. I made a rather unhealthy snack that didn't suck, it was awesome. I am in hospital for an upper GI Endoscopy tomorrow.

[Fox]

[Hendricks266]

Amnesty for pro-Russian rebels?



Into the trash it goes!

[ReaperMan]

Why haven't we tried that in the US?

[High Treason]

Well, the endoscopy went fine... Though it wasn't the most fun thing I've ever done in my life.

First up you get this anesthetic sprayed into your throat that burns and tastes nasty, then of course they have to ram the scope down your throat which isn't fun as you start to feel like you're choking on it. The longer you're lying there the more you're starting to breathe fluid and your airway is all slack from the anesthetic. Overall though, tolerable enough and I now know what the inside of my stomach looks like.

It was discovered that I have a severely inflamed gullet, hopefully after years of complaining about it to the doctor I may finally be able to get some treatment.

[Person of Color]

High Treason, on 18 September 2014 - 02:46 AM, said:

Well, the endoscopy went fine... Though it wasn't the most fun thing I've ever done in my life.

First up you get this anesthetic sprayed into your throat that burns and tastes nasty, then of course they have to ram the scope down your throat which isn't fun as you start to feel like you're choking on it. The longer you're lying there the more you're starting to breathe fluid and your airway is all slack from the anesthetic. Overall though, tolerable enough and I now know what the inside of my stomach looks like.

It was discovered that I have a severely inflamed gullet, hopefully after years of complaining about it to the doctor I may finally be able to get some treatment.

[Jeff]

[Idiotska]

SCOTLAND FOREVER! (part of the UK)

[Lunick]

[Fox]

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Idiotska, on 19 September 2014 - 02:15 AM, said:

SCOTLAND FOREVER! (part of the UK)*

* - Until the next vote

[Kyanos]

Protected by Viper, on 03 September 2014 - 11:23 PM, said:

The real issue is that Tim Cook sucks.

Anyone who follows tech can tell you that he's going to run Apple's reputation into the ground within the next five years.

He takes shitty care of his customers, produces subpar products, refuses to innovate and pushes out his best engineers. He's the bizarro world version of Ballmer. He's a gigantic faggot - literally. He's actually a faggot in both senses of the word.

He insists on running Apple solely based on brand identity - the same thing that John Sculley and Michael Spindler did before Steve Jobs had to come back and rescue the company from the ashes. The guy literally does not give a fuck. If this happened under Jobs' watch heads would be fucking rolling right now, and it might have never happened to begin with because Jobs attracted the elite of the elite.

Well, two weeks since the whole cloud leak, and you've been pretty dead on with your assessment. I am pissed to have that damn U2 cd. Of all bands why U2, I specifically don't like Bono or U2 since Achtung Baby was overplayed soo much in the early 90's. That fucking joshua tree song sucks too. Now it looks like I bought the newest U2 album... Fuck that, 33 million album sales my ass.
http://www.marketing...py-itunes-users

Then this one is too much. A dead Joan Rivers comes back to facebook to brag about the new iphone 6 she never ever saw.
http://www.cnn.com/2...-iphone-6-post/

[Kyanos]

[High Treason]

Hmm, I ought to forward that to everyone I know and see if they're stupid enough to try it.

As the rest of the world plays with a new gadget, I test out an old one, you know what they say -
"There's nothing quite like a McDonalds"


Not sure I'll be allowed back in now... This is a sign of things to come.

[Fox]

I wouldn't forward it. It seems quite dangerous, they may end up like Two-Face in The Dark Knight.