>>20571
It strangely pleases me that the MK I and MK II threads I created eons ago have caught on...

Anyway, hardly anything to rant about lately - people ranting is largely segregated to the work annoyances, but I guess... Any news about the royals always makes my eyes roll.

>>20572
Rotating in a new thread is like rotating in new tape as the old reel reaches its end. Which is to say the technique pre-dates electronics, nevermind the internet.

>>20571
You sound entitled and needy.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>20575

Can you describe this sound in the language of love?

The current maintenance work on the trams in Manchester which in turn makes the train commutes even more of a hassle as you have to walk an extra 15 minutes (30 if it's crowded and people do that stupid thing where they walk slow and occasionally stop in front of you) in between Deansgate and Piccadilly station or take the Oxford road train which is less frequent than Piccadilly.

What's particularly annoying is the work is for 14 months. Sure they'll say services will resume on a reduced scale after summer holidays but everyone knows it means "no trams during your schedule".

I just chucked up most of my lunch and now I feel utterly physically drained. I can't imagine how bulimics do this on the reg; I feel wrecked and I can feel a headache coming on. It's hard to think that your average stick-thin 14 year old recreational puker is made of sterner stuff than my obviously fragile body.

>>20577
They've slightly bigger things on their plate today, mate, if you're noticing it's particularly bad.

>>20579
Well that road is going to be closed for about 2 months.

Seriously I don't understand how in a town near me they built a fully functional hospital in a matter of months meanwhile I had to take replacement buses to work for two years when they were rebuilding the exterior of the bus station.

>>20580
Indeed, it will likely have heritage status and they won't be allowed to patch it up before anyone actually gets around to doing it.

>>20578
Don't be soft. Throwing up on purpose is a skill like any other. You're just a bit rusty having rarely if ever done it.

Google forcing their Android design decisions onto desktop users.

Google maps works great on my phone. However having an enormous and mostly empty bar scroll in from the left of my PC monitor is completely pointless. It results in far more extra clicking just to save a tiny fraction of screen space.

>>20579

Science has gone too far.

I hate how when you're reading a hardback book the dust jacket always seems to slide out of place ever so slightly presenting a crumple risk. It might sounds like a minor issue but a decent condition dust jacket can often fetch more in value than the book itself.

Speaking of which, people who put stickers on books are worse than ISIS.

>>20585

Why would you resell a book anyway? It's meant to sit and gather dust on a shelf to make you look more cultured when you have guests.

>>20586

So that's what books are for. I've been using them as mousepads.

>>20585

Take it off when reading, m7.

>>20571

My Mum has made me soup unprompted and now I'm worried she lurks here.

>>20589

How can a woman have more cleavage than actual breast? Well, cake, one supposes, but there's something awfully wrong about it.

I've missed the best days of Summer my corner of blighty has had so far this year, housebound with the bastard flu.

In my mind there can only be two explanations for this, both of which appeal to the chronic sense of victimisation by the Universe I've been harbouring for many years.

Sage for wa wa, woe is me.

>>20617
You don't even think the remaining 14 days could turn out to be the best ones? Fat chance, perhaps, but still.

>>20618

Is that you, Sun? I'm sorry, I wasn't angry at you. It's just jealousy because I can smell BBQs.

Shine on, space cowboy!

>>20620

Are you a fan of Cowboy Bebop by any chance?

>>20622
Or The Steve Miller Band?

I've eaten too many clementines today and now I've got a bit of sloppy uncertainty with my arse.

>>20622

Are you telling me, that when you imagine our parent star burning alone in the void, you don't picture it as a sort of Roland Deschain type figure?

Also, yes. And no. I like that quote and thought it was appropriate in context. On the other hand, anime isn't really something I watch a lot of because it tends to be super weird.

>>20625

I've noticed a sharp decline in the quality of the humble clementine recently. Not just them, but satsumas, tangerines, all of them no matter which supermarket I've bought them from have been really dry and not at all juicy.

Commiserations on the arse trouble.

>>20623

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJnP4Qb0fw

I love it.

>>20627
Are there any differences between the names you listed? I am bad with fruit and vegetable names. What's the difference between apricots and nectarines?

>>20627

Well you know who's behind that don't you.

>>20629
They all kind of merge into one. Mandarins will give you smelly arse fingers and tangerines are more tangy. I don't know the difference between a satsuma and a clementine, shape?

>>20627

I'm not an expert on oranges, or even citrus fruits in general, but I think it's because of all that drought happening in California probably.

>>20634

I know some supermarkets don't stock Israeli produce on protest grounds, namely Co-op, but I would imagine they grow oranges? They grow everything else it seems, half of the veg you see in Tesco is from Israel, we could get them from there.

I've just conjured the image of the man from Del Monte slipping Sajid Javid (Yes, I had to google him too) a wad of notes saying "It's ok... you don't want any of that Israeli muck."

I'm attempting a career change, and I keep getting very polite emails explaining that I'm simultaneously overqualified and lacking experience for their training positions.

>>20635
I think most of them are from South Efrica.

>>20635
> I know some supermarkets don't stock Israeli produce on protest grounds, namely Co-op,
I never knew this. If it's true they will be getting more of my business.

Posted from Linux Mint.

>>20638
I only shop at Co-op because I have an NUS card, it brings their prices more in line with other supermarkets.

>>20636

This is what CV tailoring is for lad.

What matters is that you are capable of doing what they want once you get your foot in the door, you just have to tick the right HR boxes to get through the newbie filter. You might need to be somewhat flexible with the truth, but don't think of it as dishonesty. Think of it as using initiative.

Bakeries and biscuit companies using the word "thin" as a noun.

"Sandwich thins"
"crackerbread thins"

"each thin contains xxx calories"

FUCK OFF.

[x] Autism

>>20646
What the fuck is a sandwich thin? I only noticed them after I got my job at the supermarket. Are they new? Have people always eaten 'thins'?

>>20647
They've been around 4 years or so, people will buy things if they think they're healthier.

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/371124.article?

>>20648>>20647
They're just a twatty way for Warburtons et. al. to charge more for the same amount of dough.

>>20647
>>20648
>>20650
They're actually quite nice, though. Decent crust on them. I sometimes have them just because they can withstand a manly buttering where bread would rip to bits.

>>20651
I swear bread can't take a buttering like it used to. Either that or butter is getting harder.

>>20652

Your hands are just getting softer.

>>20628
BROTHER???

I've already got my coat, don't worry lads.

They should rename Who Do You Think You Are? 'Second World War Stories'.

I would really like BBC documentaries to stop using that one fucking The XX track over and over whenever they need to on-so-subtly underline that 'this depicted situation is sad, feel sad now, here are the over-reverbed guitar chords we always use to indicate that you should feel sad.'

>>20671
I wish the Beeb would just stop doing documentaries since they dumbed them all down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuIYBvsYVGI

>>20673
Why would you ruin something so good?

>>20673

Are you trying to force a meme or something?

>>20674
Biggie deserves better.

>>20701
No mate, fuck that fat fuck. Stop ruining good music.

>>20702
I didn't.

Affectionately called Sports Soccer or Soccer Sport in most of the circles I hang about in.

There's just SO MUCH FUCKING STUFF. You can't see the shit you're looking to buy either for all of the other shit they've got, which is not helped by the fact that the space between the shit is so small that one inconveniently-placed fatty (an altogether-too-frequent occurrence) means that you have to try to trace a whole new path around the shop. It might be easier to just ask the staff, were they not more concerned with flirting with each other and actually had any interest at all in the sports related to the shit they peddle.

It's 2015 and Mozilla still hasn't pushed out a 64-bit production build of Firefox on Windows.

>>20716
As a layman I'm curious, how much does 64-bit matter for web browsers?

>>20712
On a related note. They bought a load of old respected brand names like Karrimor, Slazenger and Dunlop. This gives them a licence to manufacture sub-par shite by the truckload in glorious People's Republic and slap on a nice logo.

The proles and I, can't tell the difference, all they see is the logo and the pricetag.

>>20720
Besides the obvious (issues around the 2GB memory mark) there are usually some performance gains to be had on heavier workloads on 64-bit, which tends to include things like moving graphics and video decoding.

>>20723
>issues around the 2GB memory mark
Why 2GB and not 4GB?

>>20724
In 32-bit land, Windows reserves the upper half of the address space for system use. With a little tweak you can shift the balance from 2:2 to 3:1. On a 32-bit system, this is the total space usable, while on a 64-bit system it's per-process.

By comparison, for 64-bit processes the address space is 48-bit, and before you hit that 256TB limit you'll more likely hit an artificial cap based on which edition you're running.

>>20722
I was in a Sports Direct yesterday; I guess this explains why the Karrimor shirt I bought cost significantly less than the Nike shorts. Oh well, they are both made of some synthetic material that will wick the sweat off my balls as I bench press, who cares.

>>20725
I was about to make pretty much the exact same explanation myself, but then noticed a gap in my knowledge. I'd appreciate it if you or anyone else could answer this.

I do understand the differences in RAM usage between 64 and 32-bit windows, but I can't quite understand if there are any specific issues with using a 32-bit process within a 64-bit OS. Can a 32-bit process still use its theoretical limit when the system has access to more, or am I right to assume that its RAM usage is limited by the need to run an emulator within windows?

>>20731
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384219(v=vs.85).aspx

>>20725
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx

My testicles are really a weak spot, they're so soft and exposed. I might buy an athletic cup.

>>20735
Don't get a Reebok one, they're a real odd shape and it's more or less impossible to get both balls covered at once - and I have some pretty small balls.

>>20736

That's a jock strap though.

>>20731
Each 32-bit process on 64-bit Windows gets its own address space, and can keep being allocated more memory as long as there's some available and there's room in that process' address space for it. I think.

>>20738
Do I have to quote the linked documentation for anyone to read it?

>If the application has the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag set in the image header, each 32-bit application receives 4 GB of virtual address space in the WOW64 environment. If the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag is not set, each 32-bit application receives 2 GB of virtual address space in the WOW64 environment.

>>20739
Yes, that's what I said. Where's the problem here?

>>20743
That you chimed in with what you "think" when more authoritative and detailed information had already been posted.

>>20745
No need to get upset, tearylad. If he'd wanted to read the documentation, he'd have read it rather than ask here.

>>20745>>20747

I too was going to post a summary of that information because those links that were pasted were as dry as a camel's fanny.

Authors who write themselves into their own works of fiction should be put against a wall and shot. Only an American has it in himself to be so utterly classless. Tsh.

>>20752
>Only an American has it in himself to be so utterly classless.
And teenagers.

>>20752
>>20753

I was about to chide the pair of you but taking a better look it does appear that the majority of (semi)autobiographic romans à clef (at least those written in English) written since the renaissance have been by Americans. Well, I live and learn.

>>20752
Do you mean the Stephen King kind of writing himself in, or more like Douglas Coupland in Jpod, where he's doing it directly (and with a wink)?

I find both a bit uncomfortable, but the former is just horribly tactless.

I'm slightly unsure what you see as an author writing themselves into the work as being.

>>20755
How could you tell?!

>>20737
It's a jock strap which holds a box/cup in place.

>>20752
The Martin Amis character in 'Money' and how the narrator describes him is hilarious. It's a classy '80s novel with populist appeal, one of the writer's very best.

'Bret Easton Ellis' who narrates 'Lunar Park' as an alcoholic sex addict professor who can't finish his terrible new shocking book Teenage Pussy is pretty funny too.

It is a cheap old literary device called metafiction if I remember correctly but if it's done well can be great, not crass.

>>20758

Oh, I just thought they were for giving gay guys boners.

>>20759>>20755
When I mentioned teenage writers, I was thinking that >>20752 meant something more along the lines of authors who are writing pure fictional work, but include a main character who is a glaringly obvious extension of the authors own ego.

What about Slaughterhouse-Five?

>>20765

How would that protect my testes?

>>20765
I was going to say Goodbye Blue Monday.

Potatoes are overrated.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>20755
>Stephen King

I swear every book of his I've read has had as a main character an alcoholic/recovering alcoholic writer from New England. I'll let him off the hook since he can spin a good holiday yarn.

>>20769
I've probably read more than a dozen of his books and I can tell you this isn't the case in the majority of his works.

I was asked to invigilate an exam as a last resort as they were short of people to do it. Now I'm sitting here at the back of a disgusting, uncomfortable lecture theatre doing some work when I could be sat in my office because there are FIVE OTHER FUCKING INVIGILATORS HERE.

Pic related, it's the back of some thickos' heads.

Gypsies. Hitler had the right idea about them.

>>20777
So what, she's not thick because she's an eskimo? Is that how it works over there at that university?

>>20784
>thickos'
Plural. They're all thickos because they're all doing resits. And they're all thickos because they chose to come to this university in the first place.

>>20785
Whatever you say, Simon, whatever you say...

>>20785
I'd guessed they're doing resits (the room's empty) and I had imagined you're at a shit university because you don't care if anyone recognises the room and reports your rudeness. There are four students in the picture not wearing a headscarf. You can't see the back of the fifth person's head. My joke about cultural sensitivity was terminally unfunny but you missed it and are now bleating on about plurals like that makes any sense whatsoever. Notice how I said NOT thick.

Good luck getting a decent job, smartlad.

>>20774
It's a theme that recurs often enough to warrant a wikipedia entry of a list of books written by fictional writers that feature (often as protagonists) in his books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books_in_the_works_of_Stephen_King
Though I'll confess that after dragging myself through some of his most famous books as a teenager (Misery, It, Salem's Lot and The Shining - all of which feature writers as protagonists, as I recall) I was pretty much done with him and his shit, irrespective of the author-surrogate-as-protagonist shtick. His writing style is just awful.

(Not >>20769, btw.)

Gypsies. The world would objectively be a better place without them.

Drunk racists who keep repeating themselves for attention.

>>20793
Now that's not fair. ARE NIGE isn't here to defend himself.