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  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,950
    Mr. Away, fair enough.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406
    murali_s said:

    Mr. Away, isn't there a new Elite game out?

    probably but I don't want to play it . Might ruin the memory!!! Ready for docking!!
    Original Elite was a classic! Many a ruined weekend!!

    After a three year gap, I've gone back to playing WoW. Now, need to drug the wife and somehow cope with 3 hours sleep every night.

    Yes, I am sad....
    New expansion coming soon.

    You could apply to my guild www.final-evolution.com ^_~
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    My mum bought me an Atari for about my 13th birthday/xmas - it was £100 back then and an enormous sum.

    I was hooked on computer games for years - and clocked/High Scored arcade/pub machines. I avoid them now as I know they can waste days without me noticing. I do it with TV shows instead.

    Or DIY or whatever!

    Dr. Prasannan, not familiar with either. I had a very old Donkey Kong handheld game, and my brother, later, had a Sega Game Gear.

    Mr. JS, mine was an Amstrad. Not sure of the model.


  • LibDems - speeding here!

    I misread that as "Spending here" and thought "They are centre lefties, of course they spend". Then I reread it .....

    Hi Bev, hope you are well :)
  • Not sure McIntyre is a Tory either - he doesn't seem at all political and I can't find a single source online saying he is a Tory. He may be but I think Plato's post is conjecture

    He is a Spurs supporter.

    He did attend this with a few well-known Tories and others who are not (at least publicly):

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/30/david-cameron-a-listers-cool-britannia-party

  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380
    I'll bite Re: Video games

    There used to be a link to a valid source for The Greatest Console Of All Time.

    It related to the Snes.
  • Blue_rogBlue_rog Posts: 2,019
    Plato said:



    Or DIY or whatever!


    Ooh Err missus :-)
  • UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM
  • dr_spyn said:

    Paul Waugh suggesting that Tory campaign in Rochester and Screwed, due to poor planing and execution of election material.

    http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/107250/rochester_and_screwed.html

    When you have 300,000 members you have a large pool of activists to help and a large pool of people to choose as canditates.

    When you have 100,000 members you have to make do with what youv'e got.



  • Not sure McIntyre is a Tory either - he doesn't seem at all political and I can't find a single source online saying he is a Tory. He may be but I think Plato's post is conjecture

    He is a Spurs supporter.

    He did attend this with a few well-known Tories and others who are not (at least publicly):

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/30/david-cameron-a-listers-cool-britannia-party

    Says here he has never voted:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/9663797/Michael-McIntyre-interview-Maybe-people-just-cant-cope-with-how-jovial-I-am.html

  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Hugo Rifkind ‏@hugorifkind · 4 mins4 minutes ago
    Next to the room in hell where you're stuck listening to the jokes of politicians is another one where you get the politics of comedians.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Plato said:

    I do it with TV shows instead.

    Don't know if anyone posted this; The Australian The Thick of It (more or less)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJwEJnAjLo&list=PLR4N-jIkWWtr3wUsZjwmbxg2teNPBSKqR

    Very good

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited October 2014
    How interesting. He did. I insisted we went.

    His Dad was a trade union branch sec and his Mum a very vocal Labourite who was always talking about it. I think my other half was conflicted - he was told to be a Labourite from birth - then met Tory Me and became an entrepreneur. I'd have him down as a Blairite if I had to guess.

    My parents never talked politics - it was just a perception that you voted Tory if you didn't want to be an oik and had a work ethic. My mother desperately wanted to be upper middle-class in every way - despite growing up from grindingly poor Irish farming stock/married a grocer's son.
    Financier said:

    @Plato

    Marriages conceal a lot of the unexpected to the outsider and that is why some marriages/ partnerships are a complete puzzle to many of us. Unlikely matches carry on successfully and apparently ideal matches founder. In some parts of the UK then the wife voted as she was told, but where I came from I did not hear politics discussed by my parents (in front of me), but my mother had firm political views and my father was a member of a political party.

    Perhaps the awareness of your different political backgrounds meant that by mutual non-verbal agreement, political matters were best not discussed. Did he actually vote?

    Plato said:

    My husband and I never discussed politics - he came from red-stock, me from blue.

    I've no idea how he voted despite 18yrs together. Is this common?

    philiph said:

    snip

    Plato said:

    Michael McIntyre seems to be one and the exception that proves the rule.

    Socrates said:

    I've never heard of Andrew Lawrence before, but his Facebook page is great:

    "Andrew Lawrence
    8 hours ago
    The reason there are no right-leaning comics in this country is because whenever one has the balls to stand-up, they become the target of a witch-hunt. Where there should be balance, there is, terrifyingly, censorship."

    Quite right. But I would like someone inbetween the Boyles/Brookers and Jim Davidson/Bernard Manning.

    A brave, well-informed intelligent centre-right comedian who can satirise to pieces the sanctimonious left-wing comics, deny them the moral high-ground, and tie their tongues in knots through creative wit and riposte.

    I'd go and see them every night.
    David Mitchell is too intelligent to be the lazy'right-on' type . Again I don't think he is politically inclined yet he is obviously politically aware. I think above all he likes things to be logical
    David is exactly what Victoria tells him to be. Who could disobey Ms Coren-Mitchell and survive?
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Violet Attlee was described by The Times, and one of my history teachers as a lifelong Tory Voter.

    The Attlees lived in Woodford Green during the 20s & 30s, there was at least one voter in that household who put a x against Winston Churchill.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,564
    isam said:

    Socrates said:



    "I'm not a political comic..."

    He's giving a good imitation of one.

    The PCC? Labour by 4.1%.



    Isn't he an example of a comedian talking about politics off stage rather than one that tries to make jokes about politics in his act?
    Fair point (I've not heard his act but I assume you're right).

  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited October 2014

    UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

    Nice to see Mike Read in his element. (I assume everyone recognised him presenting, the same person responsible for the UKIP reggae song).
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,950
    Speaking of politics and comedy:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpY16SzdEGk
  • Southam - not a popular topic among PB Tories but what the hell, a couple of new "things I learned about lefties on PB" today

    1. Lefties are bullied at school
    2. If you were brought up in a shithole and don't want to go back there you cannot be a leftie

    Only on PB etc etc
  • dr_spyn said:

    Plato said:

    He's a shoo-in on rhyming slang alone.

    Chingford & Woodford Green: Freddy Vachha
    AndyJS said:

    UKIP candidates:

    Chingford & Woodford Green: Freddy Vachha
    Leyton & Wanstead: Martin Levin
    Walthamstow: Paul Hillman

    https://www.facebook.com/UKIPWalthamForest/timeline?ref=page_internal

    Chingford and Woodford Green have pinned a blue rosette on a donkey time and time again. Can't see UKIP pushing out IDS.


    I don't know, Stella Creasy won a ward for Labour at council election at the height of Blair mania, bullied her way to mayor (of Waltham Forest) and promptly got voted out next time... She had to settle for MP in the Walthamstow seat - and those idiots would vote for anyone wearing a red rosette.
  • Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?
  • anotherDaveanotherDave Posts: 6,746
    UKIP win by 12.08
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    Ha! Honestly - I know what I'm like when I get a fancy...

    I like to call it *high maintenance*...
    Blue_rog said:

    Plato said:



    Or DIY or whatever!


    Ooh Err missus :-)
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380
    edited October 2014

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    On the off-chance you are not taking the piss you should really be in theory piling into the 7s.

    In fact - I'll just assume you are thick.

    You should be piling into the 7s

  • AndyJS said:

    UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

    Nice to see Mike Read in his element. (I assume everyone recognised him presenting, the same person responsible for the UKIP reggae song).
    I recognised him :)
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited October 2014
    Someone must have just placed a fairly large bet on UKIP / Rochester despite the poor odds available:

    http://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/market?id=1.115707446

    UKIP 1.1
    Con 8.6
    Lab 80
    Oth 1000
  • anotherDaveanotherDave Posts: 6,746

    UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

    Didn't the other half of Wham marry one of the Bananarma girls?
  • Plato said:

    Oh what piffle - and victim piffle at that.

    Citing Rush is just risible. Why not Alex Jones whilst you're on. We're talking about mainstream current comics who get most of their income from this genre - in the UK.

    Socrates said:

    I've never heard of Andrew Lawrence before, but his Facebook page is great:

    "Andrew Lawrence
    8 hours ago
    The reason there are no right-leaning comics in this country is because whenever one has the balls to stand-up, they become the target of a witch-hunt. Where there should be balance, there is, terrifyingly, censorship."

    Quite right. But I would like someone inbetween the Boyles/Brookers and Jim Davidson/Bernard Manning.

    A brave, well-informed intelligent centre-right comedian who can satirise to pieces the sanctimonious left-wing comics, deny them the moral high-ground, and tie their tongues in knots through creative wit and riposte.

    I'd go and see them every night.
    The issue with comedian's who self identify as right wing, is that typically the comedy has been aimed at those who aren't in much of a position to fight back, the poor, minorities ect. Rush Limbaugh tried comedy in his 1990's TV show, too frequently he came off as a bully, as have Manning/Davidson ect.

    Whereas left wing humour has typically been about mocking those in power be it big business, politicians ect.

    It can be done thought, PJ O'Rourke is pretty amusing and also right wing.
    Calm down! And I did say PJ O'Rourke does manage it actually!

    When you're thinking of decent Right Wing comedians sometimes you have to come up with slightly obscure answers because there aren't any decent ones!
  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    Mr Bobajob,

    Still a way to go to R&S, I wouldn;t rule out some dramatic immigration move from Cameron if things really start to look desperate.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380
    AndyJS said:

    Someone must have just placed a fairly large bet on UKIP / Rochester despite the poor odds available:

    http://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/market?id=1.115707446

    UKIP 1.1
    Con 8.6
    Lab 80
    Oth 1000

    Yowzer!!!
  • UKIP by 9.22%
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    I've a torrent of my 80s favourites pending. Will linky to it - about 150 in there - with lyrics.

    UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

  • Plato said:

    I've a torrent of my 80s favourites pending. Will linky to it - about 150 in there - with lyrics.

    UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

    Looking forward to it :)
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406
    JBriskin said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    On the off-chance you are not taking the piss you should really be in theory piling into the 7s.

    In fact - I'll just assume you are thick.

    You should be piling into the 7s

    Are YOU piling into the 7s ?

  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,937
    UKIP to win the PCC by 4 votes. I dread to think how many recounts that would require, but it would be a hell of a talking point....
  • Mr. Away, kids today don't know they're born. When I were a lad, it used to take 30 minutes for a computer game to load from the cassette tape.

    [That sounds like a piss take, but it's actually true].

    Today, the PS4 permits shareplay, which means (if you subscribe to some service or other) a friend of yours can remotely play for one hour (can be renewed indefinitely) a game you own on your PS4, provided both are connected to the internet. Even if the friend doesn't own that game.

    I don't own one, mind, I just think it's incredibly impressive.

    Edited extra bit: of course, if a Sony exec follows pb.com and wants to reward me for my endorsement, I would be willing to accept one and/or some money as thanks.

    not only did it take 30 minutes it took constant fiddling with the volume control to load most programmes (for some reason!!!) A slight slip of the volume control and programme crashed on the ZX81
    I remember seeing many cassette decks with a tippex mark on the volume control to show the optimum level
  • Pulpstar said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
    Newark was the only Tory by-election victory this Parliament. Also interesting that Tory vote-share has decreased in every GB mainland by-election this Parliament.

  • Briskin

    Why? Long loser. Good money after bad
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380
    Pulpstar said:

    JBriskin said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    On the off-chance you are not taking the piss you should really be in theory piling into the 7s.

    In fact - I'll just assume you are thick.

    You should be piling into the 7s

    Are YOU piling into the 7s ?

    I shall indeed stick my min bet on right now Pulpstar.

  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    edited October 2014
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2810936/Immigrants-ready-prepared-die-Britain-huge-handed-benefits-says-Calais-Mayor.html

    ''Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark''

    The newsflow is unrelentingly bad for the main parties. That could, I suppose change.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406

    Pulpstar said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
    Newark was the only Tory by-election victory this Parliament. Also interesting that Tory vote-share has decreased in every GB mainland by-election this Parliament.

    Are there any "Reflexes" near Dirty Dicks btw ?
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380
    8.6!!!

    Suck on that Commentariat.
  • dr_spyn said:

    Violet Attlee was described by The Times, and one of my history teachers as a lifelong Tory Voter.

    The Attlees lived in Woodford Green during the 20s & 30s, there was at least one voter in that household who put a x against Winston Churchill.

    Has Sally Bercow ever voted against her husband?
  • UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

    Didn't the other half of Wham marry one of the Bananarma girls?
    Well, she's described as his "partner", so almost!:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ridgeley
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406

    Briskin

    Why? Long loser. Good money after bad

    Yes its no consolation to get more value on your losers !
  • Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
    Newark was the only Tory by-election victory this Parliament. Also interesting that Tory vote-share has decreased in every GB mainland by-election this Parliament.

    Are there any "Reflexes" near Dirty Dicks btw ?
    You mean the night-club? Not aware of any!
  • AndyJS said:

    AndyJS said:

    O/T:

    The mind boggles at the BBC1 schedule for a day such as Tuesday 7th May 1985:

    6am - 6:50am: Pages from Ceefax
    9:20am - 10:30am: Pages from Ceefax
    10:50am - 12:25pm: Pages from Ceefax
    1:45pm - 2pm: Pages from Ceefax
    3:35pm - 3:53pm: Pages from Ceefax
    11:50pm: Shutdown

    http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1985-05-07

    BBC Strike that day?
    That's what I thought originally, but David Boothroyd on the VoteUK message forum says it was normal since Daytime TV on BBC1 didn't start until 1986.

    You were lucky, you ad Breakfast TV. How about this from 1978, Tuesday July 18th:

    6:40 Open University
    7:55 Closedown
    13:30 Bod (Childrens Programme)
    13:45 Midday News
    14:00 Closedown
    15:15 Your Songs of Praise Choice
    15:50 Tybed (Welsh Childrens programme in Welsh)
    16:18 Regional News
    16:20 Play School (repeat of BBC2s airing this morning)
    16:45 We are the Champions
    17:10 Wildtrack
    17:35 The Wombles
    17:40 Evening News
    17:55 Nationwide
    18:55 Hobbyhorse (quiz with Noel Edmonds)
    19:20 The Rockford Files
    20:10 Who Pays the Ferryman
    21:00 Nine O'clock News
    21:25 Cabaret Showtime introduced by Jimmy Logan
    22:10 The Royal International Horse Show
    23:15 Play Golf (someone maundering on for half an hour about playing golf)
    23:40 Regional News/Weather followed by, youve guessed, Closedown.

    If that didn't excite you there was BBC two which had, youve guessed it

    6:40 Open University (with different worthy programmes from Open University on BBC1
    7:55 Closedown
    11:00 Playschool
    11:25 Closedown
    16:55 Its the return of, yes youve got it Open University!
    19:00 News on 2 Headlines
    19:05 Dilemas (was the dilema whether to give the whole service over to Open University I wonder?)
    19:30 News on 2.
    19:40 Schools Prom
    20:10 Eight Pairs of Eyes (something to do with Enoch Powell)
    20:55 Magoon2 (God only knows what this was)
    21:00 Sing Country (some country music festival)
    21:55 Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens dramatisation)
    22:35 A Taste of Britain
    23:00 Multi Racial Brittan. Lecture by Dr Stuart Hall (not that Stuart Hall) presumably also something to do with Enoch Powell)
    23:25 Late News (wot no newsnight)
    23:35 Someone reading out of a book followed by Closedown

    Failing that there was always Coronation St, Crossroads or Emmerdale Farm on ITV....

    Fortunately there were more pubs in those days....
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
    Newark was the only Tory by-election victory this Parliament. Also interesting that Tory vote-share has decreased in every GB mainland by-election this Parliament.

    Are there any "Reflexes" near Dirty Dicks btw ?
    You mean the night-club? Not aware of any!
    There sure is, there is one nr Cheapside about a ten min walk away
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406

    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
    Newark was the only Tory by-election victory this Parliament. Also interesting that Tory vote-share has decreased in every GB mainland by-election this Parliament.

    Are there any "Reflexes" near Dirty Dicks btw ?
    You mean the night-club? Not aware of any!
    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Reflex/@51.512829,-0.094758,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x3e5d0ae85106c1aa
  • Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Taffys

    My bet on the Tories in Rochester is proving to be one of my worst bets ever. I thought I had value at 4-1. They are now available at 7s.

    They are completely done for. Labour voters lending their vote to Ukip where Labour cannot win.

    Perfect storm at the GE?

    Rochester is turning into a reverse-Newark.
    Newark was the only Tory by-election victory this Parliament. Also interesting that Tory vote-share has decreased in every GB mainland by-election this Parliament.

    Are there any "Reflexes" near Dirty Dicks btw ?
    You mean the night-club? Not aware of any!
    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Reflex/@51.512829,-0.094758,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x3e5d0ae85106c1aa
    Oh thanks for that - I thought the only one was in Manchester (the one TSE always seems to mention!).
  • You probably guessed I don't go clubbing :)
  • FlightpathFlightpath Posts: 4,012

    AndyJS said:

    AndyJS said:

    O/T:

    The mind boggles at the BBC1 schedule for a day such as Tuesday 7th May 1985:

    6am - 6:50am: Pages from Ceefax
    9:20am - 10:30am: Pages from Ceefax
    10:50am - 12:25pm: Pages from Ceefax
    1:45pm - 2pm: Pages from Ceefax
    3:35pm - 3:53pm: Pages from Ceefax
    11:50pm: Shutdown

    http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1985-05-07

    BBC Strike that day?
    That's what I thought originally, but David Boothroyd on the VoteUK message forum says it was normal since Daytime TV on BBC1 didn't start until 1986.

    You were lucky, you ad Breakfast TV. How about this from 1978, Tuesday July 18th:

    6:40 Open University
    7:55 Closedown
    13:30 Bod (Childrens Programme)
    13:45 Midday News
    14:00 Closedown
    15:15 Your Songs of Praise Choice
    15:50 Tybed (Welsh Childrens programme in Welsh)
    16:18 Regional News
    16:20 Play School (repeat of BBC2s airing this morning)
    16:45 We are the Champions
    17:10 Wildtrack
    17:35 The Wombles
    17:40 Evening News
    17:55 Nationwide
    18:55 Hobbyhorse (quiz with Noel Edmonds)
    19:20 The Rockford Files
    20:10 Who Pays the Ferryman
    21:00 Nine O'clock News
    21:25 Cabaret Showtime introduced by Jimmy Logan
    22:10 The Royal International Horse Show
    23:15 Play Golf (someone maundering on for half an hour about playing golf)
    23:40 Regional News/Weather followed by, youve guessed, Closedown.

    If that didn't excite you there was BBC two which had, youve guessed it

    6:40 Open University (with different worthy programmes from Open University on BBC1
    7:55 Closedown
    11:00 Playschool
    11:25 Closedown
    16:55 Its the return of, yes youve got it Open University!
    19:00 News on 2 Headlines
    19:05 Dilemas (was the dilema whether to give the whole service over to Open University I wonder?)
    19:30 News on 2.
    19:40 Schools Prom
    20:10 Eight Pairs of Eyes (something to do with Enoch Powell)
    20:55 Magoon2 (God only knows what this was)
    21:00 Sing Country (some country music festival)
    21:55 Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens dramatisation)
    22:35 A Taste of Britain
    23:00 Multi Racial Brittan. Lecture by Dr Stuart Hall (not that Stuart Hall) presumably also something to do with Enoch Powell)
    23:25 Late News (wot no newsnight)
    23:35 Someone reading out of a book followed by Closedown

    Failing that there was always Coronation St, Crossroads or Emmerdale Farm on ITV....

    Fortunately there were more pubs in those days....
    Thats a big improvement on the current BBC offerings
  • OblitusSumMeOblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    edited October 2014
    Have you compared the barometer readings to a properly calibrated barometer? I'd be interested to know how accurate it was. Also, can it use the GPS to find your altitude and then correct the pressure reading to mean sea level?
    Plato said:

    If anyone bar @MaxPB‌ is getting a Sony one - it's me. I'm delighted with my Xperia Z3c - what a sexy phone. Bigger than my tiny ancient Nokia 6300, but for an all singing and dancing bit of kit it's small compared to rivals and even has a barometer. WTF? Hilarious but marvellous as a weather geek!

    Someone will pop up and say theirs does too - YAWN. Let me enjoy this fun - I haven't bought a mobile since 2009.

    Mr. Away, kids today don't know they're born. When I were a lad, it used to take 30 minutes for a computer game to load from the cassette tape.

    [That sounds like a piss take, but it's actually true].

    Today, the PS4 permits shareplay, which means (if you subscribe to some service or other) a friend of yours can remotely play for one hour (can be renewed indefinitely) a game you own on your PS4, provided both are connected to the internet. Even if the friend doesn't own that game.

    I don't own one, mind, I just think it's incredibly impressive.

    Edited extra bit: of course, if a Sony exec follows pb.com and wants to reward me for my endorsement, I would be willing to accept one and/or some money as thanks.

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    Super - just about to get a MX box so will see if it pops up there...
    Scott_P said:

    Plato said:

    I do it with TV shows instead.

    Don't know if anyone posted this; The Australian The Thick of It (more or less)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJwEJnAjLo&list=PLR4N-jIkWWtr3wUsZjwmbxg2teNPBSKqR

    Very good

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    I thought their versions of Cruel Summer and Venus were great.

    Speaking of Ms Farhe [sp] You're History in her Shakespear's Sister persona was super.

    UK number one 30 years ago this week:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7IY1kPafM

    Didn't the other half of Wham marry one of the Bananarma girls?
    Well, she's described as his "partner", so almost!:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ridgeley
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 52,121
    edited October 2014


    13:30 Bod (Childrens Programme)

    We used to call our RE teacher "Bod" on account of him being almost bald :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFoj-gFP2M
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,950
    Miss Plato, but what about Help?
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    Love it.

    I recall when IIRC GMTV went off air in the early 80s and Batman Original got higher ratings.

    I'm now struggling with Gotham - the overacting is OTT and makes me laugh bar Penguin who's super.

    AndyJS said:

    AndyJS said:

    O/T:

    The mind boggles at the BBC1 schedule for a day such as Tuesday 7th May 1985:

    6am - 6:50am: Pages from Ceefax
    9:20am - 10:30am: Pages from Ceefax
    10:50am - 12:25pm: Pages from Ceefax
    1:45pm - 2pm: Pages from Ceefax
    3:35pm - 3:53pm: Pages from Ceefax
    11:50pm: Shutdown

    http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1985-05-07

    BBC Strike that day?
    That's what I thought originally, but David Boothroyd on the VoteUK message forum says it was normal since Daytime TV on BBC1 didn't start until 1986.

    You were lucky, you ad Breakfast TV. How about this from 1978, Tuesday July 18th:

    6:40 Open University
    7:55 Closedown
    13:30 Bod (Childrens Programme)
    13:45 Midday News
    14:00 Closedown
    15:15 Your Songs of Praise Choice
    15:50 Tybed (Welsh Childrens programme in Welsh)
    16:18 Regional News
    16:20 Play School (repeat of BBC2s airing this morning)
    16:45 We are the Champions
    17:10 Wildtrack
    17:35 The Wombles
    17:40 Evening News
    17:55 Nationwide
    18:55 Hobbyhorse (quiz with Noel Edmonds)
    19:20 The Rockford Files
    20:10 Who Pays the Ferryman
    21:00 Nine O'clock News
    21:25 Cabaret Showtime introduced by Jimmy Logan
    22:10 The Royal International Horse Show
    23:15 Play Golf (someone maundering on for half an hour about playing golf)
    23:40 Regional News/Weather followed by, youve guessed, Closedown.

    If that didn't excite you there was BBC two which had, youve guessed it

    6:40 Open University (with different worthy programmes from Open University on BBC1
    7:55 Closedown
    11:00 Playschool
    11:25 Closedown
    16:55 Its the return of, yes youve got it Open University!
    19:00 News on 2 Headlines
    19:05 Dilemas (was the dilema whether to give the whole service over to Open University I wonder?)
    19:30 News on 2.
    19:40 Schools Prom
    20:10 Eight Pairs of Eyes (something to do with Enoch Powell)
    20:55 Magoon2 (God only knows what this was)
    21:00 Sing Country (some country music festival)
    21:55 Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens dramatisation)
    22:35 A Taste of Britain
    23:00 Multi Racial Brittan. Lecture by Dr Stuart Hall (not that Stuart Hall) presumably also something to do with Enoch Powell)
    23:25 Late News (wot no newsnight)
    23:35 Someone reading out of a book followed by Closedown

    Failing that there was always Coronation St, Crossroads or Emmerdale Farm on ITV....

    Fortunately there were more pubs in those days....
  • Miss Plato, but what about Help?

    Mr Dancer, I fear you're guilty of Love In The First Degree :)
  • audreyanneaudreyanne Posts: 1,376
    Is there a link for this competition?
  • Is there a link for this competition?

    Just post your predicted winner and their %-lead (not actual %) in this thread before 11.59 tonight.

    Candidates are: Lab, Con, UKIP and English Dems.
  • Briskin

    Pile your house on. Hopefully that might lengthen the Ukip price enough so I can lay off this certain loser
  • BenSBenS Posts: 22
    Labour - 6.7%
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380

    Is there a link for this competition?

    If it's 8.6 either way I'm claiming it.

  • SocratesSocrates Posts: 10,322
    Calais Mayor: UK benefits system a soft touch for asylum seekers

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29799733

  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 63,121
    Labour by 2.5%
  • Has a party ever been longer in a seat they hold at a byelection? What a fiasco. Worst bet ever
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380

    Briskin

    Pile your house on. Hopefully that might lengthen the Ukip price enough so I can lay off this certain loser

    Your forcing to me to look at the F-ing Forex now-

    I've put 1.6528925 Euros on it
  • audreyanneaudreyanne Posts: 1,376
    UKIP to win by 12.6%
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Socrates said:

    Calais Mayor: UK benefits system a soft touch for asylum seekers

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29799733

    No mention of their dreadful attitude to migrants then.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Labour to win, by 1.45%
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,406

    Briskin

    Pile your house on. Hopefully that might lengthen the Ukip price enough so I can lay off this certain loser

    Just be glad you don't have Scrapheap's bet on this.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Venus by Banarama is one of those tracks which always sounds fresh. Fantastic production.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758



    We used to call our RE teacher "Bod" on account of him being almost bald :)

    We used to call our headmaster Bod - short for BODMAS (brackets, order, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction for any non-geeks who happen to have stumbled on this website by some misfortune)


  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    I haven't tried it against a proper barometer with paper yet [we had one at home... I know...

    There seems to be a conflict about what it does - I'm waiting for a nano SIM to arrive to make mine work. Some sites say it has a barometer - some don't. If it made my bed I wouldn't be surprised right now...This is one - a gyroscope????
    Compass/ Magnetometer Yes
    Proximity sensor Yes
    Accelerometer Yes
    Ambient light sensor Yes
    Gyroscope Yes

    Have you compared the barometer readings to a properly calibrated barometer? I'd be interested to know how accurate it was. Also, can it use the GPS to find your altitude and then correct the pressure reading to mean sea level?

    Plato said:

    If anyone bar @MaxPB‌ is getting a Sony one - it's me. I'm delighted with my Xperia Z3c - what a sexy phone. Bigger than my tiny ancient Nokia 6300, but for an all singing and dancing bit of kit it's small compared to rivals and even has a barometer. WTF? Hilarious but marvellous as a weather geek!

    Someone will pop up and say theirs does too - YAWN. Let me enjoy this fun - I haven't bought a mobile since 2009.

    Mr. Away, kids today don't know they're born. When I were a lad, it used to take 30 minutes for a computer game to load from the cassette tape.

    [That sounds like a piss take, but it's actually true].

    Today, the PS4 permits shareplay, which means (if you subscribe to some service or other) a friend of yours can remotely play for one hour (can be renewed indefinitely) a game you own on your PS4, provided both are connected to the internet. Even if the friend doesn't own that game.

    I don't own one, mind, I just think it's incredibly impressive.

    Edited extra bit: of course, if a Sony exec follows pb.com and wants to reward me for my endorsement, I would be willing to accept one and/or some money as thanks.

  • DadgeDadge Posts: 2,052
    I was going to say Labour will win by 6.7%, but then I noticed Ben said exactly the same thing a few minutes ago! So I'll turn it around and say Ukip by 6.7%.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Harry Cole ‏@MrHarryCole 1m1 minute ago
    Scottish Labour leadership:

    31 OCT:
    Nominations open.

    4 NOV:
    Nominations officially close.

    17 NOV:
    Voting.

    13 DEC:
    New leader elected.
  • Briskin

    So you begin our chat by branding me "thick" for declining to throw good money after bad on a lengthening loser then rub salt into the wound by putting a mere 1.6 euros on the bet yourself

    Good job the PB Lefties have thick skins :)
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380

    Briskin

    So you begin our chat by branding me "thick" for declining to throw good money after bad on a lengthening loser then rub salt into the wound by putting a mere 1.6 euros on the bet yourself

    Good job the PB Lefties have thick skins :)

    I would normally Touche this Bobajob.

    However, standards are going up on PB.

    You Lose.

  • I'll go 7.11% UKIP.

    How ridiculous is it that we are talking seriously about UKIP winning the S Yorks PCC and UKIP being heavily odds-on to win Rochester and Strood?

    A year ago this would have been unthinkable. And who knows what another 6 months of bad news for the main parties will do. Strange times.

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724

    Miss Plato, but what about Help?

    The movie? I love it, and own it. As a menu option another thing. Which app? I expect to spend A LOT of time this week trying to make my various new bits of kit talk to each other wirelessly no matter what 802.11x blah they say.
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited October 2014
    A great shame that TPTB made you take down your superb TOPT content.

    Buzzkillers
    AndyJS said:

    Venus by Banarama is one of those tracks which always sounds fresh. Fantastic production.

  • murali_smurali_s Posts: 3,067
    Pulpstar said:

    murali_s said:

    Mr. Away, isn't there a new Elite game out?

    probably but I don't want to play it . Might ruin the memory!!! Ready for docking!!
    Original Elite was a classic! Many a ruined weekend!!

    After a three year gap, I've gone back to playing WoW. Now, need to drug the wife and somehow cope with 3 hours sleep every night.

    Yes, I am sad....
    New expansion coming soon.

    You could apply to my guild www.final-evolution.com ^_~
    Yep, the new expansion was the draw for me to come back.

    Seems like an interesting guild but will only be a social player for now - just haven't got the time for hard core raiding.
  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,564


    ...

    Thats a big improvement on the current BBC offerings

    Yes, 'tis a matter of taste. I remember Our Mutal Friend as being pretty good, like a whole string of classics production in those days (not least the original and unbeatable Forsyte Saga, but also Vanity Fair and several others) and I liked Emmerdale Farm before it dropped the Farm and went a bit tabloid.

    As with music, I think people tend to like what they grew up with. Nowadays, I don't have a TV (no time really) and just catch up with the occasional thing on iPlayer.

  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,033
    murali_s said:

    Pulpstar said:

    murali_s said:

    Mr. Away, isn't there a new Elite game out?

    probably but I don't want to play it . Might ruin the memory!!! Ready for docking!!
    Original Elite was a classic! Many a ruined weekend!!

    After a three year gap, I've gone back to playing WoW. Now, need to drug the wife and somehow cope with 3 hours sleep every night.

    Yes, I am sad....
    New expansion coming soon.

    You could apply to my guild www.final-evolution.com ^_~
    Yep, the new expansion was the draw for me to come back.

    Seems like an interesting guild but will only be a social player for now - just haven't got the time for hard core raiding.
    I used to play EVE Online... but my god is that game a time sink.
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380
    Bbc going live with we've had enough of thick lefties.

    Hands up thick leftys.
  • VerulamiusVerulamius Posts: 1,549
    Labour 5.14%
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    "Eritrea is the North Korea of Africa. Situated on the Horn of Africa north of Ethiopia and Djibouti, the East African country essentially is one of Earth’s largest open-air prisons.

    Under president Issaias Afeworki, the Eritrean government has achieved the dubious distinction of consistently scoring lower on press and political freedom rankings than even North Korea. And its system of almost indefinite forced military service—in ways indistinguishable from the widespread detention of political opponents—stands out as particularly cruel."


    https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-eritrea-military-service-is-slavery-ea86459c8af4
  • AndyJS said:

    "Eritrea is the North Korea of Africa. Situated on the Horn of Africa north of Ethiopia and Djibouti, the East African country essentially is one of Earth’s largest open-air prisons.

    Under president Issaias Afeworki, the Eritrean government has achieved the dubious distinction of consistently scoring lower on press and political freedom rankings than even North Korea. And its system of almost indefinite forced military service—in ways indistinguishable from the widespread detention of political opponents—stands out as particularly cruel."


    https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-eritrea-military-service-is-slavery-ea86459c8af4

    Strange - and yet they have English as an official language.
  • sladeslade Posts: 2,080
    Labour 9.54%
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,950
    Mr. D, I believe EVE is Iceland's third largest export.

    Certain game franchises are bloody enormous. Destiny cost over £300m, I think, and The Witcher has really put Poland on the gaming map.

    Miss Plato, I meant Bananarama's charity cover of it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJY7KW_YAac
  • Plato said:

    Miss Plato, but what about Help?

    The movie? I love it, and own it. As a menu option another thing. Which app? I expect to spend A LOT of time this week trying to make my various new bits of kit talk to each other wirelessly no matter what 802.11x blah they say.
    I think he meant the Bananarama cover version with French and Saunders :)
  • JBriskin said:

    Briskin

    So you begin our chat by branding me "thick" for declining to throw good money after bad on a lengthening loser then rub salt into the wound by putting a mere 1.6 euros on the bet yourself

    Good job the PB Lefties have thick skins :)

    I would normally Touche this Bobajob.

    However, standards are going up on PB.

    You Lose.

    I am certainly lost
  • JBriskinJBriskin Posts: 2,380

    JBriskin said:

    Briskin

    So you begin our chat by branding me "thick" for declining to throw good money after bad on a lengthening loser then rub salt into the wound by putting a mere 1.6 euros on the bet yourself

    Good job the PB Lefties have thick skins :)

    I would normally Touche this Bobajob.

    However, standards are going up on PB.

    You Lose.

    I am certainly lost
    I know the feeling. If you lived in Scotland you'd be getting the Rangers game within the hour...
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,679
    Labour by 10.12%
  • NinoinozNinoinoz Posts: 1,312
    Labour 12.51% 1st preferences
    UKIP 4.1% 2nd preferences included
  • SocratesSocrates Posts: 10,322
    In the UAE they have constant troubles in the work camps between the Eritrean and Somali workers getting into massive fights. A vision of the UK's future...
  • PongPong Posts: 4,693
    Labour by 26.72%
  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    Labour 3.5
  • LennonLennon Posts: 1,782
    Just for clarity is this the winning margin on 1st preferences or final result after transfers?

    I assume the latter, in which case UKIP by 3.14% but if the former, then Labour by 0.12%
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