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The rusty bottle opener of truth

My words, and sometimes even thoughts


Phone
I do not think that means what you think
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I am now back to my old mobile number. Look in my memories to find what it is.

Twitter
Monogram
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Am now on Twitter as "draxar".

Who else here is?

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In other news...
awesome
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I appea to have discovered some BT man's canoodling spot. I've found him there with his lady friend twice now...


iPhone: End of day review
boom boom boom
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I like it. Not yet perfect with the keyboard, but not too damn bad. Glad I've gone for it.

In other news I can heartily anti-reccomend the Euston road Pizza Express. Never been that much of a fan of the chain (if I'm getting a pizza on it's own as a meal, it should be fairly big) but this one was hellish. Essentially one big room, and nothing to stop the sound. Today I discovered that my sensory oversensitivity can generate overload from sound as well as light, and I still have a splitting headache


[Off Topic] Seeking more tabletoppers.
Cheesemaking
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(Crossposted from my own journal)

A bunch of us from the Knights of the Living Dead (specifically, Andy, Simon and myself, plus sometimes Mike of the Hortons) currently do tabletop roleplaying once a week, on wednesday and we're looking for new players. We've had as many as eight players turning up, but right now we're down to just the three of us with regularity.

We could really use some more people. As such, we're asking here as you're all sufficiently crazy lovely people who might be interested.

Current games ongoing are a Scion game that's been running for a while, and a Fireborn game that's been specifically designed to have people drop in and out. We generally play at my flat, which is in between Russel Square and Kings Cross – about 10 minutes walk from the College arms. Arrival time was 6-7 for starting at 7-7.30, due to my work meaning I get back to the flat 7-7.30 it's now a bit later (but that may shift as and when I change job). We often finish early enough to go down to the pub and have a pint or so before time is called.

We're very much up for people wanting to run games, whatever you want really. There's a fair amount of interest in someone running Exalted or WoD (be it n or o), but really, whatever you suggest can be discussed and quite possibly done. Other games played have been Shadowrun, Fading Suns and Earthdawn, which may well reappear at some point.

Edit: Day of this gaming is Wednesday

PSA: SaltyPhone
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My phone recently got dropped into salty water, and as such isn't working very well (randomly losing its connection to its SIM, restarting, lacking backlight, etc).

Thus, phone is not, for the moment, a reliable means of contacting me.

Avians are flavour of the month...
Monogram
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Via [info]spurious_logic

Mostly for Mark
fucked up
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Via [info]warren_ellis

Choose Rapture
Do you like me now?, Libertine
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Choose Rapture

Decent London plumber?
Dude?
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Can anyone reccomend a good London plumber? My loo, which had been slightly wonky is now just plain refusing to flush. As such, it needs fixing.

Someone who's not going to claim it's something far more expensive than it is, someone reliable, and someone not too expensive. I'm given to understand plumbers in London are expensive, so I understand if that is in fact accurate, and there will be a fair level of expense, but the lower end of that would be better than the higher.

Any suggestions?

You can't make this up...
Tourettes
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"I see my lot have murdered someone again. Oh well, shit happens." PC Hayter wrote on facebook.

LARP weirdness
gopher shock
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I think that rather takes the cake insofar as unusual games go.

Firstly, there was the 11 vampires clad in naught but their boots about to do monomacy (ritualised combat).

Someone pulled a dead guy through time, just so he could watch it (despite the fact he would then return to where he was about to die, and not remember watching).

A yell is heard "That bastards back, I'm going to kill him again!", and Baal (horrifically powerful vampire turns up), makes everyone in the room try and kill each other (which in one persons case involves setting off C4 in the walls of the building).

A suprisingly low death toll in the end. And a lot of "Bwuh?"

Ugh.
fits of rage
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Note to people that make carbon monoxide alarms:

Yes, you want people to be aware they need to get a new alarm. Doing so via once a mintue PAINFULLY LOUD AND HIGH PITCHED BEEPING, which can only be stopped by taking a chisel to the battery pack, however, is not practical as a means of reminding people after the immediate 'it's stopped working', and is intensly annoying to have to deal with.

Do you feel safe?
Monogram
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A new post mortem says Ian Tomlinson died from an abdominal haemorrhage not a heart attack after contact with police during the G20 protests

Off to Maelstrom
arrPink
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See some of you today, many tommorrow, and the outside world in 5 days...

Grah!
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For some reason my PC is refusing to notice anything put in any of its USB ports.

Which, given my Mice are USB, is annoying.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
Monogram
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!

no... I don't think that quite encapsulates it...

!!!

or perhaps

!

... no, still not there....

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..... no, I realise now, that I cannot tell you what this is, I must instead show it to you.

Large amounts excited squee related swearing that would otherwise be the cut text have been redacted for the sake of your eyes )

A petition against bureaucratic stupidity (or some of it, anyway)
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Was planning to post this a little while ago, but got distracted. There is, however, still lots of time to be able to make your voice be heard on, and given the sheer depths of stupidity behind this policy, I think it's very much worth doing so.

Because I think she explains it very well, here is [info]oxfordgirl's description of the situation:

A dear friend of mine is currently being refused medical treatment on the NHS for a debilitating condition which seriously threatens her health, in one of the most vicious, idiotic and arbitrary Catch-22 policies I have ever had the horror to encounter in my frequent skirmishes with British bureacracy.

She has created a petition to attempt to get the government to recognise the inhumane treatment to which she is being subjected, and to compel the Primary Care Trust in question to bring its policies in line with the rest of this (apparently 'civilised') country.

Please consider signing the petition here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/gdoxpct/; I would consider it a great personal favour.

Please also propagate this link. A minimum of 200 signatures are necessary for the petition to be considered.

ETA: A clarification of the Catch-22 in question, from [info]sebastienne

"To further explain the Catch-22:

Gender reassignment, in the UK, is mediated through specialist clinics. For the south of England, the specialist clinc is at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In order for Charing Cross to put you forward for surgery, you have to demonstrate that you are functioning day-to-day, living in your target gender.

In order to get funding out of Oxfordshire PCT, you have to demonstrate "extreme need" - and pretty much the only way to do this is to be so depressed as to be at risk of suicide. A state of mental health which then makes you ineligible for treatment by Charing Cross.

Oxfordshire PCT will only fund your gender reassignment when your condition, through non-treatment, has made you too ill to undergo surgery."

And a link to the full report referenced in the petition explanation, which gives some history as well as details of exactly what Oxfordshire PCT are doing wrong, and how they're doing it: PDF Article by Outen et al.

Netiquette...
shouldn't have done that
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/me questions the validity of "You'll see" as an description of what's being sent when someone asks if your email can handle 150MB attachments...

This is why you don't mess with Jon Stewart
don't give a fuck
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Edit: I'm aware that the video boxes don't seem to be lining up quite right, but as they still seem to play the video, I'm not that motivated to hunt down the issue. If it's causing friends page issues for anyone, I can cut it.

Also, because I forgot when I posted it...</a>

Via [info]zarq, who has more interesting comment and links at his post.