Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3028624 times)

Giraffe · « **Reply #28550 on:** 31 May, 2022, 09:30:28 am »

How does one extract said safety information from inside BEAR er, safely?

ian · « **Reply #28551 on:** 31 May, 2022, 09:43:20 am »

Carefully.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #28552 on:** 31 May, 2022, 10:40:43 am »

I expect it’s like those umpteen pages of safety information you get in the manual of any anbaric device you've bought in the last thirty years before they grudgingly include a blurred diagram telling you where the on/off switch is. There are no user-serviceable parts inside a BEAR, and they don’t have an on/off switch.

ElyDave · « **Reply #28553 on:** 31 May, 2022, 01:08:28 pm »

nu, but they do have a hibernate switch, in some cases

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #28554 on:** 01 June, 2022, 01:56:42 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/01/corgis-sex-pistols-and-the-royal-bedtime-tipple-take-the-platinum-jubilee-quiz
8/18 so no bunting for me

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #28555 on:** 01 June, 2022, 06:18:21 pm »

Also 8. Yay! No kniggethood for me!

Beardy · « **Reply #28556 on:** 01 June, 2022, 06:19:41 pm »

Only 8? Phhh. I got… 8. Oh.

Basil · « **Reply #28557 on:** 01 June, 2022, 07:22:03 pm »

Ha! 9.

Got the dog right even though I had no idea. Just a stab of the finger.

ElyDave · « **Reply #28558 on:** 01 June, 2022, 07:52:47 pm »

11/18, surprised at some of those i got wrong

SteveC · « **Reply #28559 on:** 01 June, 2022, 07:59:01 pm »

12/18

Some were pure guesses though.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #28560 on:** 02 June, 2022, 12:23:03 am »

9 for me. I feel really affronted that there are forummers who know less about Brenda and her clan than I do. And I did know the majority of my answers and guessed only one.

barakta · « **Reply #28561 on:** 02 June, 2022, 12:53:23 am »

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #28562 on:** 02 June, 2022, 01:06:00 am »

EO Aquitaine sez you all have to stay behind after school and revise. No jelly & ice cream until you're fully cognisant of all Missis Kwin facts. Or you'll get your head chopped off.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #28563 on:** 02 June, 2022, 09:24:52 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 June, 2022, 12:23:03 am

9 for me. I feel really affronted that there are forummers who know less about Brenda and her clan than I do. And I did know the majority of my answers and guessed only one.

Barakta has utterly trounced you (and everyone) in the "I don't know and I don't give a fuck" stakes.

citoyen · « **Reply #28564 on:** 02 June, 2022, 10:56:57 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 02 June, 2022, 09:24:52 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 June, 2022, 12:23:03 am
9 for me. I feel really affronted that there are forummers who know less about Brenda and her clan than I do. And I did know the majority of my answers and guessed only one.
Barakta has utterly trounced you (and everyone) in the "I don't know and I don't give a fuck" stakes.

1 - don't know, don't care
2 - don't know, don't care
3 - haven't the foggiest
4 - ooh, I know this one - but it's not actually about Brenda so does it really count?
5 - I know this one too - everyone knows this one, surely?
6 - DILLIGAF?
7 - somewhere outrageously opulent maintained at taxpayers' expense, I'm sure
8 - this is taking the piss - two subjects I haven't the remotest shred of interest in
9 - one of those "it's got to be the most surprising answer otherwise they wouldn't bother asking the question" type questions, so I can guess the answer to this one quite easily
10 - I know this one - it's one of those facts smartarses can't help telling you to show how clever they are
11 - got to be the obvious answer
12 - I'm not even interested in her speaking English
13 - wevs
14 - I know this one
15 - the answer I want to put isn't an option...
16 - oh fuck off
17 - stupid question that only stupid people will get wrong*
18 - I know this

So 8/18

*nothing to do with knowing about the queen, more a case of knowing whether the last London Olympics before 2012 was more than 75 years ago. Like duh!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #28565 on:** 02 June, 2022, 11:09:49 am »

Nice deconstruction!

I actually got number 5 wrong. I can never remember which of those two (or the Jonathan) is which...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #28566 on:** 02 June, 2022, 11:11:42 am »

I thought the Olympics one was a trick question because I had forgotten about Missis Kwin jumping out of a helichopter with Bond James Bond

Rod Marton · « **Reply #28567 on:** 02 June, 2022, 11:52:41 am »

Six. Most of those were guesses, as I take zero interest in the monarchy. Though I was disappointed that Elizabeth von Saxe-Coburg und Gotha doesn't speak German.

barakta · « **Reply #28568 on:** 02 June, 2022, 12:53:55 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 02 June, 2022, 09:24:52 am

Quote from: Wowbagger on 02 June, 2022, 12:23:03 am
9 for me. I feel really affronted that there are forummers who know less about Brenda and her clan than I do. And I did know the majority of my answers and guessed only one.
Barakta has utterly trounced you (and everyone) in the "I don't know and I don't give a fuck" stakes.

Someone else seems to have got a 6

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Beardy · « **Reply #28569 on:** 02 June, 2022, 01:00:29 pm »

FlightRadar has just bombed out on me. Also I didn’t get to see any of them overflying Suffolk because although they were only a mile or so south of me, they were only at 800 to 1500 ft.

So I’m watching the fly past on the TV, the only bit of jubilee coverage I shall see.

Kim · « **Reply #28570 on:** 02 June, 2022, 01:11:11 pm »

I seem to have got a solid 7, based mainly on guesswork and knowing things that aren't about the queen.

1. Guess incorrectly - London seemed too obvious.
2. Guessed 15.
3. 7 ought to be enough for anyone.
4. Applied genuine Queen Victoria knowledge from primary school, for the correct answer.
5. Safe to assume it wasn't David Attenborough, I guessed incorrectly.
6. Guessed correctly, but none of those are things.
7. Guessed incorrectly.
8. Knew she wasn't an Aries, guessed incorrectly from the remaining options.
9. The saga of Charles's Prestel account is well-known, but didn't realise she had form for ARPANET.
10. Guessed correctly.
11. Knew she didn't have a driving licence, in spite of Landrover 5k|11z. Guessed correctly.
12. Guessed incorrectly.
13. Went with the rude option. Was wrong.
14. Was the year of the E. coli 157 outbreak, I remember the puns.
15. Wot no Horlicks?
16. Clearly a setup for a pun on royal seals.
17. The 'Make it look like an accident 007' meme refers.
18. Off-by-one error.

Feanor · « **Reply #28571 on:** 02 June, 2022, 01:19:25 pm »

6/18, and the vast majority of those were guesses.

Orf with his head!

T42 · « **Reply #28572 on:** 02 June, 2022, 02:31:22 pm »

9/18. Not a royal-watcher, got most of those I did get on remembered stuff from when we lived in the Yuke.

hellymedic · « **Reply #28573 on:** 02 June, 2022, 03:04:10 pm »

I did OKish on that quiz yesterday but got full marks today, showing my short-medium term memory for trivia is fine.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #28574 on:** 02 June, 2022, 04:27:42 pm »

I'm normally a little miffed when a farmer muckspreads, but the distinct and unavoidable aroma of shit hanging around today fits the jubilee to perfection.