Passing the time

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Re: Passing the time

#361 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:14 pm

I was thinking of a certain bearded friend... :mrgreen:
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Re: Passing the time

#362 Post by MBH » Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:18 pm

Never heard this story before :shock: Weird!!!

One line was a bit worrying:
Spiderman and Sponge Bob do well - complete with red and yellow "deposits" respectively.
:( Sounds like a trip to the Docs is needed there :o

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Re: Passing the time

#363 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:21 pm

You REALLY must stop eating all the red M & Ms, MBH... :lol:
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Re: Passing the time

#364 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:43 pm

This requires no skill whatsoever but is relaxing and mesmerising. :D http://www.kongregate.com/games/Reflexive/music-catch-2
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Re: Passing the time

#365 Post by MBH » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:08 am

That was nice - I played a half-dozen frames of this game. Very relaxing music. :D

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Re: Passing the time

#366 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:11 am

I thought so too. Mind you when it came to the swaying one I thought I might suddenly hear someone saying "and when I snap my fingers, you'll come back into the room 3-2-1"! :lol: K thought the music sounded like "something off the Sims" :roll:
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Re: Passing the time

#367 Post by LAT » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:13 am

I couldn't get it to do anything - I just had a big black square. :(

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#368 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:33 am

It did take a wee while to load...
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Re: Passing the time

#369 Post by MBH » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:17 am

An unexpected visit back to another forum lead me to THIS little gem (for any of you posh-folk who keep up with technology and have an iPhone):

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

Page 2 is better than page 1, but I didn't get too much further for laughing :lol:

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Re: Passing the time

#370 Post by dramaticat » Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:55 am

I loved housekeeping on page 2.

I got as far as page 5. Evening with the wife, gum and awkward request on page 3 are worth a look!
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Re: Passing the time

#371 Post by giraffe » Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:52 am

I have similar problems with predictive text, sent one saying I was going shopping to buy drugs!

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Re: Passing the time

#372 Post by Bunnylump » Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:54 pm

We end up calling people the names predictive text gives them. For example, I have one friend called JERKEW and another one called TRIPI... :lol:

They are dangerous things, mobile phones. Once I sent one message to my daughter and another to my old boss in quick succession, and my phone amalgamated them. To my horror, as I clicked send I saw "Hi Ian, yes that's fine, see you Monday ...love you loads" :shock: :shock: We also had the unfortunate situation that my sister in law's phone was accidentally left with the key lock off in her bag, and it rang my other sister in law without her knowing. OTHER sister in law could then overhear us referring to her as the "hippy contingent" and moaning about how much she drinks.... :oops: :oops:
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Re: Passing the time

#373 Post by giraffe » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:19 pm

I'm forever getting those accidental calls where you can hear what they are doing. It comes from being last in everyone's contacts list. :roll:

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Re: Passing the time

#374 Post by Scurra » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:29 pm

Bunny, it's not that I think it serves you right but... it serves you right. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Passing the time

#375 Post by clvrlad » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:46 pm

giraffe wrote:I'm forever getting those accidental calls where you can hear what they are doing. It comes from being last in everyone's contacts list. :roll:
i seem to call the last person again......
so you could just be popular ;-)
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Re: Passing the time

#376 Post by giraffe » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:51 pm

Unlikely :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Passing the time

#377 Post by Bunnylump » Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:18 pm

Scurra wrote:Bunny, it's not that I think it serves you right but... it serves you right. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Charming!!

Although to be honest I'd probably have said the same to her face. You know me, no holds barred... :lol: I don't do diplomacy. :D
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Re: Passing the time

#378 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:11 pm

A couple of youtube clips which had me giggling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlITw1YPj0

And this mummy gets quite a shock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlMSSRweLWM&feature=fvst
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Re: Passing the time

#379 Post by giraffe » Wed May 18, 2011 12:31 pm

I've just found something to play with!

I was on the national rail enquiries website trying to work out if it was possible to get from platform 1b to the Victoria square entrance of Birmingham New Street station. (You have to go up to the concourse, down to another platform and up to a different concourse) It needs to be idiot proof if I am to send Kingsley on her own.....and it is :D

It tells you how to do it with pictures! Go through this door (picture) walk forward 5 metres (picture) turn right (picture) :lol: :lol:

Now I'm tempted to see how many strange routes round the station I can find. :mrgreen:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/ ... lDoors=Yes


Makes you think they must have lost a few people in the station and come across them starving in doorways weeks later!

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Re: Passing the time

#380 Post by Bunnylump » Wed May 18, 2011 4:50 pm

Good lord. Mind you, that's good for uncertain travellers like me.
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