UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

just get the internet but not use ilx..

Not likely.

Besides, the rest of the interweb is just as bad in terms of timewasting.

The Nigel Havers Imperium (or insert website for whatever the current obsession object is) would have eaten my entire bandwidth in an afternoon.

Dongle is an HSDPA modem that allows you broadband over 3G. They cost about £15 a month for 3GB of download.

I don't really download films or songs that much, would that make sense for me to use, Ed?

If you did d/l films, you'd run out swiftly w/ 3GB of download

Sorry, but um, aaaawwwwww!!!!

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/1206961.jpg

It would actually involve filling my hard drive 3 times over every month. But looking at lots of lovely luscious pouting photos (and obsessively refreshing) would surely do it. ILX would be out, except with images turned off.

All I need to know is would it be an OK option for someone who uses net for email, youtube and the like and what counts as 'download' under the circumstances. And yes, as regards computers, I'm more clueless than I should be.

It's not just stuff downloaded, it's anything you view. If you view it, it's in your cache and therefore sucking at your bandwidth. I don't know what kind of bandwidth YouTube takes up, but would imagine it to be quite heavy.

This is the deal I was looking at:

http://threestore.three.co.uk/broadband/?id=1201

The 18 month contract bothers me, considering the speed of technology change. Will my laptop even last me 18 months? (Well... the old one lasted 4 years?)

And, um, who is cuter, dog or boy? I cannot decide.

Why not get bog standard internet for less?

Because you have to get a phone line to do that. And I don't want a phone line, I bloody hate BT.

Sigh. I am running on pure id today. There is nothing else keeping me awake, let alone functioning. Mutter mutter, grumble.

::looks at picture::

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/1206990.jpg

FEELS MUCH, MUCH, MUCH BETTER.

bog standard broadband that is, not dial-up
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/product.do?id=227

x-post
This is digital. You would need to get someone to come out and install all the stuff(line into flat and install modem etc) but no phone line unless you want one.

Where would we be without pr0nography?

Never leaving the house, I tell you.

x-post are you sure about that? I have some kind of line into the house already. (I think.) But I'm sure BT will find a way to charge for it, even if you don't use their services. :-(

It doesn't use a phone line. It's a line in from outside the street. That's what we have. We also have a line in for digital tv. Then there's a phone line which you dont need to have.

As long as digital is available in your area. Do the post-code check.

I think it is assuming i chose the correct street when i used your postcode you gave me t osend those dvds

I DO NOT WANT THE INTERNETS IN MY HOUSE!!!

Though Suzy may find it useful.

::looks at picture of pretty boy and tries to relax::

Yes, it would seem perfect for what Suzy wants. No need to worry about using too much bandwith on youtube.

Also HATE the word 'dongle'. I am waiting to get a BT line as let's just say I got in a fight with them a little over six years ago about £500.

I'm so made to feel like just a temp. :-(

Dude is going around offering to buy sweets and stuff, and has asked everyone but me.

This is just shitty. I should print out that picture and staple it to my forehead or something.

Hang on a second... is that The Heads, as in THE HEADS?!?!?

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii47/Chris_Rocket/2333387240_f757d5cd4e_o.jpg

Yes

Rocket recordings is a subsidiary of Invada Records

I can go to that!

Hmm, looks like fun and I am, not currently, away then.

The last hour is the worst.

Oh, I can't wait for this job to end.

Half an hour. I suppose I'll go to Foyles after work to try and burn time until this gig.

God, it's like boarding school bullying. Who'd have thought it?

"Oh noes, butthurt, just a bit of fun, have you got no sense of humour?" etc. etc. if you don't go along with it and "be a good sport" with regards to this stupid, cruel, puerile atmosphere.

Are you talking about ILX or the NHS?

I really dislike what ILX has become. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the sheer tedium of this job. I wish I had the willpower to stay off it. 3 more days.

Some funny people out there! No doubts about that!

Funny ha ha, or funny peculiar?

Latter. I don't take it that seriously, it's just a bunch of bored office workers wasting their employers' money.

I find it very difficult to cope with the endless... nastiness. It just creates a poisonous atmosphere, as far as I'm concerned. Something I find it very depressing to be around. If I had a thicker skin, I could shrug off lots of things.

I guess I just have to remember, it's 3 more days of this, and then I can get on with something else. And not have to be back on ILX until the next time I get trapped in an awful contract.

Nigel Havers looks oddly familiar

He looks like Nigel Havers.

I find it very difficult to cope with the endless... nastiness. It just creates a poisonous atmosphere

I agree, some of it makes me cringe and it's corrosive, I don't mind if it's actually funny however, being easily amused

Foyles made everything better. I wandered around there for a couple of hours and blew way too much money, even with the £2 classics section (I thought I'd try to persist with DH Lawrence for £2).

Bought some GK Chesterton and a book about Ley Lines and a complicated maths book about Godel, Escher and Back and a book called "Playing With Fire" which *isn't* about Spacemen 3 (I'm not telling you what it is about because I'm ashamed) and a book about Spacemen 3 which *isn't* called "Playing With Fire" (but probably should be).

And nearly fell over in shock when the whippersnapper at the desk actually tried to chat me up over the Spacemen 3 book!!! (Though he got J Spaceman's name wrong, and I rather icily informed him I was a Sonic fan anyway.)

And Konkakte were great, and the Lionheart Bros. were great and all in all it was a pleasant (though tiring) evening.

And, rehearsal tonight which always cheers me up.

Is this the thread where we idly speculate what that "Playing with fire" is about?

I would have thought that was obvious!

(n.b. it is not about K-Fed. That would be a step too far, even for me.)

Yay, I'm going to Northampton on Friday.

Playing With Fire (subtitled: Nigel Havers - A Cricketing Memoir)

IT's true. I'm so deeply ashamed.

The one book you DON'T want to be buying when getting chatted up by a cuet bookseller.

oh no, it's THURSDAY, not Friday, and so I don't know if I can go to Northampton after all. Whatever shall I do? I can't call in sick on Friday because I'll need to get my timesheet signed. ARGH! I was LOOKING FORWARD to that.

Yawn. So hungry today. I think that might be something to do with not having had enough sleep. I think I deserve some sag paneer at lunch.

Back in the UK. I saw an A380 on taxiing. I think I shall christen it the sky whale and yell 'thar she blows' when I see one.

Welcome home! How long you back for, before you have to go oversees again?

My god, my sag paneer was unexpectedly spicey. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. And they've given me some "healthy" carrot cake for afters. Hrrmmm. Suspicious.

Ah. "Healthy" means that it is as solid as a rock, and tastes vaguely of apple juice.

And I don't have enough change left to get some real chocolate. :-(

Cunt. There it went, my good mood. :-(

Dance, bear, dance.