OTW 2.0

A charity auction is being done for some cool Star Wars/Clockwork Orange/Horror items. It's all for charity so go nuts. https://bid.eastbristol.co.uk/auctions/7797/sreas10467

My favourite is this because I'm a Boba Fett fan

Helen McCrory (Peaky Blinders, Harry Potter, etc)

I first saw her in Shakespeare's As You Like It on the West End about 15 years ago. You knew she'd make it back then.

Dyslexics are swiftly becoming the new vegans.

No-one cares if you're dyslexic, you don't need to put it into every conversation.

I've been doing a lot of lifting...

...glasses of beer to my mouth

Shamelessly stolen from Alan Pope's tweet

Nice!

I'm reticent to change anything that could stop the underlying software from being updated. Things like this need to be decided by committee because it could take a lot of upkeep years down the line. If there is a way to do it without breaking the underlying code then I don't see a problem but we sh...

ajgreen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:24 pm Something for a starter..

This is a keyboard I made during covid isolation

Nice. Did you cast your hands first to get the exact specifications?

notageek wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 4:52 pm I liked his voice acting as Smaug, even if it was digitally altered.

But no. Lex Luthor is someone intelligent. Cumberbatch has a face of a donkey.

To you maybe, to women? They love him

4 hours of crap is still 4 hours of crap

People, I think judging this by how things work now is ridiculous, it's like judging the taste of bananas on the taste of apples. Anything like this would take a major rethink in things like minimum wage, unemployment benefit and holiday pay and saying it's bad just because it wouldn't work the way ...

Everyone is probably thinking about office or manufacturing type jobs, but what does this mean for service type jobs? "oh, yeah, um, you can't get any services done tomorrow because everyone is off... oh, it is your day off and you can't come in on the days we're open?" Are businesses sup...

Naib wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:10 pm

cokey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:45 pm What would you consider a criminal. I think you should define it

Well let's start with violent offender and sexual offender

Parking offender or speeding?

Menelmacar wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:17 pm And STILL you refuse to respond to my criticism of your solution YOU espoused!

You are just reverting to your nationalistic jingoism on how your insignificant country is superior.

I didn't bother reading after "draconian laws" and "tiny little island".

While I agree UK is safer than US... it isn't because of laws... Laws only work if they are policed AND people respect the laws. Criminals by definition do not respect laws and it isn't a deterrent as the risk-reward still makes criminal activity viable. Sure make every crime a death penalty and ma...

Copied from here in the hope that more people see it and donate

Also, my request for him to rewrite systemd was not forthcoming

Whether true or not, that has nothing to do with your post to arm a woman with a knife to protect herself from a knife or gun wielding man twice her size, and the draconian laws that currently prevent women from protecting themselves. Our country is safer than yours and like it or not, laws like th...

notageek wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:58 am

cokey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:57 am Benedict Cumberbatch would be a good Lex. He has the skill to be suave (Lex is a businessman) but also plays a good villan

Nope.

Yup. Evil Cumberbatch is good

allows the splitting of the home life (i.e. looking after kids) so both parents can work more easily without having to pay for childcare So you feed and take care of your kid at friday,saturday,sunday, but then... you go to work like usual? How does it fix childcare issue? You need more free hours ...

that comes back to casting. You need to pick the correct actor for the type of role... and also not to fulfil some woke criteria. Jesse Eisenberg was the worst pick for Lex... REALLY REALLY bad (as I said the Riddler would have been better for his style). Mark Strong might have been good as Lex Ben...