this is quite good tho
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/06/london-blitz-bomb-map-september-7-1940
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:26 (fifteen years ago)
WTF@ the comments on that daybreak live blog piece (which is conceptually atrocious in every way imaginable) people taking such meaningless fluff seriously, WTF. For god's sake, get a grip Guardian readership!
― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:38 (fifteen years ago)
Taking meaningless fluff seriously is pretty much the number 1 class signifier in 21st Century England.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:39 (fifteen years ago)
take it to the pulp thread, see what happens
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:41 (fifteen years ago)
that blitz thing is good
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:42 (fifteen years ago)
Actual economic impact of carpet bombing during WWII seriously over-estimated in the general public consciousness iirc.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:44 (fifteen years ago)
[lame joke based on the idea you meant 'bombing carpets']
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:47 (fifteen years ago)
Hongro Horace
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:49 (fifteen years ago)
Thank you :D I might see the year out with some old school Speccy shouts
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:50 (fifteen years ago)
brb, off to form a chillwave band called Nodes of Yesod
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:57 (fifteen years ago)
dun darraghmac
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:02 (fifteen years ago)
Luna Jetman
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:07 (fifteen years ago)
dammit I wanna use those
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:07 (fifteen years ago)
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:39 (19 minutes ago)
Aren't the Guardian all about a 'sardonic', 'off kilter' approach to sleb culture? Unlike the poor stupid people who all take it really seriously and Heat 'in some ways can be seen' as replacing religion or other sources of meaning in their lives.
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:08 (fifteen years ago)
Dun Darach is more or less my fave Spectrum game ever, alongside those other Gargoyle adventures.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:08 (fifteen years ago)
xxxp where are these coming from?
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:09 (fifteen years ago)
ah spectrum games? u guys.
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
"Dun Darach", "knight Lore" and "Highway Encounter", a 3-way tie for 1st place.
― mc banhammer (Pashmina), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/index.html
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
xpost to nakh
Well yeah quite:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/ill-try-anything-with-a-detached-air-of-superiorit,10679/
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)
Target Renegade narrowly beat Barry McGuigan Boxing for me (training mode on the latter was a game-changer imo)
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:12 (fifteen years ago)
mercenary!
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:13 (fifteen years ago)
I had Jim Watt Boxing. You jabbed pointlessly for 4 rounds then went in with the heid and finished it in the 5th.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:13 (fifteen years ago)
Mercenary is fucking dope btw but not a Speccy exclusive.
Excellent de-rail btw guys.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
Must download this actualy
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
are video games worse than they used to be
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
exclusive to me, i never had a c64, they're the enemy xxp
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah obviously
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:16 (fifteen years ago)
When you loaded a game the stupid C64 tape machine didn't even make an awesome noise
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:10 (2 seconds ago)
Ha yeah but the comments kinda give lie to that. Some bored civil servants ardently responding to a livebloggah detailing the voodoo coronation of the Chelmsford Ceaucescu's fluoresecent fuckbuddy and one of Business Lunch's foremost alumni. So it cuts across class lines I guess.
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:19 (fifteen years ago)
Chaki Egg
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
Matt Dizzy
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
Albatman
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:23 (fifteen years ago)
Albatman: The Caped Crusader
Albatman: The Movie
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)
xhuxk e. egg
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)
HI DERE Encounter
(It was that or Dan HI DERE: Pilot of the Future)
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:28 (fifteen years ago)
Super Cars-mody
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:29 (fifteen years ago)
PineFoxx Fights Back
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:30 (fifteen years ago)
Didn't they have any other sources of meaning in their lives in the 1980s apart from Spectrum games?
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)
racist indie stars
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)
DG's Quest for Tires
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)
The life and career of Normski
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
My 80s was basically first third = footie down the park, second third = SPECCY SPECCY SPECCY, third third = ACIEEEEED, occasional uni tutorial
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:34 (fifteen years ago)
Some crossover between thirds
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:35 (fifteen years ago)
That good old acid + football combination.
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:37 (fifteen years ago)
just going to interrupt to harrumph over a lil bit of dumbing down: "The tea fields of Ceylon [as Sri Lanka was then known in the UK] are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo."
why not put "[the battle not the station derp]"?
*goes out to buy telegraph*
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)
Presumably the writer or the sub was frightened that using the historically appropriate name might make the readership get a bit testy.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:42 (fifteen years ago)
The lion at Waterloo
Sounds like a pub to me. What lion anyway?
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)
i *think* it's outside the entrance that leads sort of diagonally on to the concourse?
― i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)