• United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52093229]The new front end doesn't even do anything, it just redirects itself to to pages repeating the same stuff, and then redirecting to pages you've already been to. Then you have to navigate a page with a fine comb to find the one link that actually does anything.[/QUOTE] Funnily enough the new front end made it really easy for me to pay money into my account, but nothing else. Tried to find the page to unregister myself as self employed, and I just ended up calling instead. Place is a fucking minefield, hope it's sorted by next January at least
I'm thinking of applying to universities in Europe in case I can't afford Canada and I'm really sad that I'm probably going to need to pay a lot more money unless Scotland pulls something out of the bag.
fuckin hell it's such a nice day in edinburgh, and it just so happens to be the one day in the past 4 years that I've actually been violently ill. what did I do to deserve this pish
[QUOTE=icemaz;52093514]Funnily enough the new front end made it really easy for me to pay money into my account, but nothing else. Tried to find the page to unregister myself as self employed, and I just ended up calling instead. Place is a fucking minefield, hope it's sorted by next January at least[/QUOTE] The DVLA's website for booking your driving test practical is just as bad. I've had loads of times where I'd book a practical date, go to pay for it ...and it tells me an error has occurred due to the date I've selected (which was previously fine) has been taken by someone else or has been booked for some other reason. [editline]12th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Instant Mix;52094137]fuckin hell it's such a nice day in edinburgh, and it just so happens to be the one day in the past 4 years that I've actually been violently ill. what did I do to deserve this pish[/QUOTE] One of the few days it's nice in Edinburgh and I'm doing my dissertation (while also getting extreme headaches due to my dissertation being on creating an anti-DLL injection mechanism for windows... and Microsoft decided to use WCHARs for almost everything meaning I can't use 'normal' means of writing stuff to files etc (Boost's Serialisation breaks due to it and because it's a pointer... but trying to get around that makes Visual Studio blow an infinite amount of errors at me)). God help me...
it was really nice today so i left work early, began my holiday, read a book on the bus, and then bought some sausages from the shop
Off to i60 tomorrow See you later suckers
[QUOTE=Hezzy;52094924]Off to i60 tomorrow See you later suckers[/QUOTE] So who is going under the desk this time?
[QUOTE=Reagy;52094936]So who is going under the desk this time?[/QUOTE] Nobody, I'm not internet famous enough now
[QUOTE=Reagy;52094936]So who is going under the desk this time?[/QUOTE] i volunteer
[QUOTE=a-cookie;52095152]i volunteer[/QUOTE] may the odds be ever in your favour
i forgot to take teabags to finland with me im fucked
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52097954]i forgot to take teabags to finland with me im fucked[/QUOTE] You are no longer worthy. May the Gods of Tetley's and Yorkshires judge your fate. Praise be to the Breakfast and the Earl.
anyone else on virgin unable to get onto some websites (e.g. facebook)?
[QUOTE=halflife_123;52099651]anyone else on virgin unable to get onto some websites (e.g. facebook)?[/QUOTE] They've apparently fixed that. No issue for me now. Change your DNS to [URL="https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/"]OpenDNS[/URL] or [URL="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using"]Google DNS[/URL].
[QUOTE=benbb;52099901]They've apparently fixed that. No issue for me now. Change your DNS to [URL="https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/"]OpenDNS[/URL] or [URL="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using"]Google DNS[/URL].[/QUOTE] Ah I was using Google's DNS a while ago but forgot to set it back to that after a windows reinstall, cheers.
Can't you set it on your router instead of doing it on every device?
[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;52103596]Can't you set it on your router instead of doing it on every device?[/QUOTE] Some routers (ISP ones mainly) default to their own DNS servers even if you override them. It's happened before with my parent's TalkTalk router (not even sure why. I'm thinking it's timing out and just going back to the ISP's DNS server). But yeah, it's a lot easier doing it on the router instead (if you have access).
[QUOTE=Crumpet;52061914]I've never met anyone from FP face to face but I'm fairly certain I've unknowingly been in the same building as Doozle maybe more than once. Exciting, I know.[/QUOTE] I've met Rowtree and Dain and TRLEChippers before. Dain is the tiniest little racist, Rowtree lives on Birdseye Chicken Dippers, and Chippers is the best at navigating the tube.
All the coal power stations in the UK are completely turned off today (at least for a few hours). Nuclear and wind combined are producing more power than gas right now as well :poot:
Anyone been to Coachella? Looks way better than any UK festival imo.
[QUOTE=Morgen;52107415]All the coal power stations in the UK are completely turned off today (at least for a few hours). Nuclear and wind combined are producing more power than gas right now as well :poot:[/QUOTE] As an update to this since the sun came out Nuclear is now producing more than gas single handedly, and Wind and Solar are both within 1GW of gas individually. Not much power from Hydro today but this is probably as clean as the UK has gotten in recent times. Just short of 80% of electric is from zero emission sources right now.
[QUOTE=jamzzster;52077431]Oh shit yeah the Deepdale greggs guy I remember you, you still in that cue? [editline]8th April 2017[/editline] I'm Euxton (not chorley)[/QUOTE] why are you all from the shit parts of the area, living that penwortham life yo
happy easter gang, have a good one :toot: it's my best pals 21st later so I'm going to transcend this plane of existence
[QUOTE=uwut;52108103]Anyone been to Coachella? Looks way better than any UK festival imo.[/QUOTE] It's only advantage over UK festivals is sheer size really. There's similar atmosphere UK festivals.
[QUOTE=uwut;52108103]Anyone been to Coachella? Looks way better than any UK festival imo.[/QUOTE] american festivals are weird shit, people get dressed up to go to them. a festival isn't a festival unless you're living in your own filth and the toilets don't work, not that you could find them from inside a k-hole
Got a call on Saturday out of the blue from a good online friend's mum (Who I had also met IRL a few times) to say he had died suddenly last week and she had no way to get into his phone/PC to try and let his online friends know and only had my name/number which was written on a bit of paper in his house. Just feels surreal and half of me feels like its not true or a joke, like he's gonna pop up on Steam any minute now or be in TS when I join like he normally is but I know his days offline at the top of my Steam friends is just gonna keep on counting up and up. It doesn't help that while he was drunk a week or so ago he sent me a long soppy Steam message saying I was like a little brother to him and he respected and trusted me more than anyone else he knows.
[QUOTE=uwut;52108103]Anyone been to Coachella? Looks way better than any UK festival imo.[/QUOTE] i'll stick with glasto thanks.
Phoned in sick at work now I have all week off.. and the girl Im trying to ask out is playing hard ball... If anyoneone wants to drop me off some lucazade ill sort ye a q of bud.
[QUOTE=Morgen;52107415]All the coal power stations in the UK are completely turned off today (at least for a few hours). Nuclear and wind combined are producing more power than gas right now as well :poot:[/QUOTE] Do you have a news article or other source? I've searched quickly and can't find anything notable published recently to confirm this.
Lib Dems gonna steal all those seats back
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