Ginge or not, I liked this.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_cloud.png

 

Yeah, saw that - very nearly posted it myself )

I liked this too:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...rfectly-designed-box-for-icloud-201106073914/

 

I just posted that on the Big Gay Fanboi's wall

 

this is my favourite recent mash:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...ttack-kills-endoflevel-baddie-201106063909/

it's a gamer thing, mind.

 

The bit about moving diagonally absolutely killed me.

Also reminded me of this quote from bash.org

#261501 +(13666)- [X]
<jeebus> the "bishop" came to our church today
<jeebus> he was a fucken impostor
<jeebus> never once moved diagonally

 

Was there ever so much shite talked as in this Apple cloud. "We will own
and control all your data and apps, and the access to them".
No I don't fucking think so MF. I'll use an internet based resource to back
up my "stuff" and so that I can generally get it from anywhere at any time.
But I'll have it all stored locally on my own hardware devices, those will
be my primary reference points, I'll use a handy little App to maintain
synchronicity, and I won't have to rely on a working Internet connection to
be able to do any fucking shit whatsoever.

 

My favourite is this
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...kes-mockery-of-their-allegiance-201101313487/

It just rings so true

 

cf. Apple fanbois. No matter how many times they change the hardware/
software/arseware/whatever, if it has the word "apple" on it, they
worship it.

 

are you going to reply to my email about the Hyde Park thing?[1]

[1] yes, Zymurgy, hypocrisy is rife.

 

Yeah.

Need to negotiate with V first. I'm at Glastonbury the weekend before
and when I said something about being AWOL the following weekend she
seemed rather unimpressed.

Not insurmountable...

 

On a similar note, #2 sprog has purchased a ticket for Reading (going
with his mates) - any comments about Reading in general and any tips
for a first time (18 year-old) festival attendee?

 

It's a shithole.

I suspect it's changed since I last went in 1982. Beware the chilli
sauce on the kebabs[1]. My mate thought it was ketchup so put it
liberally all over and I then amused myself by watching his lips swell
up.

ObBike: we went two-up on my RD200, with tent, sleeping bags etc.

[1] I don't think kebabs, and chilli sauce in general, had made it as
far as Hampshire in 1982 so it was all a new experience.

 

I've not been since 2002, but basically it's a bit shit. You can't take
booze from the campsite to the arena unless it's in one of their
cardboard cups and it all shuts down at the end of each night.
Glastonbury it ain't.

Unless things have changed, it's fairly laid back for the first two days
and then goes downhill fast on the Sunday when the mini-moshers turn up.

Things will kick off in the campsite on the last night when the 12 year
olds get drunk away from home for the first time.

Tell him to get a ticket for a decent festival next year instead. Or,
rather, the year after, because the decent festival isn't on next year.

 

A mate of mine was working backstage on a show last year. One of the
scenes was a party so various members of the cast had the role of
standing upstage, pretending to chat and eating from trays of nibbles.
So to liven things up a bit he injected some of the items of
confectionery with tabasco.

 

My sprogs have been for the last few years think #1 is giving it a
miss this time in favour of the Isle of wight. They usually book the
VIP camping IIRC because it's less of a trek and prebook their car
parking.

 

noted. He's only going because a) his mates are & b) it needed to be
festival after he's finished his A-Levels & c) it was cheap(ish)(of
course this is because the line-up is mostly shit). But Enter Shikari
are playing, so that'll do him....

 

car parking - don't make me laugh - unlike where I grew up, and
everyone who possibly could got a bike licence at 16 or a car one at
17, hardly anyone in NE London seems to get a driving licence/car
until they're in their mid 20s at least.

#2 sprog & mates are intending to use the train / a taxi at the other
end.

I can't criticise really - when I was 18 I was travelling around
Europe and to North Africa on trains and ferries.

 

VIP camping. Good grief. Nothing quite like that authentic festival
experience, eh?

That's how I always got there. **** the taxis, it's only a 20 minute
walk from the station to the festival site. Also useful for picking up
tickets from touts by the station if you've failed to score any in
advance.

The year they closed the line between Burnham and Maidenhead was a bit
of a bastard.

 

I'll let him know.

they all have tickets already.

 

My abiding memories of Reading are:

The flushing bogs in the arena having shit piled up *well* above seat
level after being stuffed up with bogroll by mini-moshers on the Sunday

The queue for the customer toilets at John Lewis in town, operating a
one-in one-out policy for anyone under 50, as festival food compelled
people to go for the luxury of a porcelain shit

Teenagers running back out of the crowd crying and nursing cut lips and
bruises after going down the front for Green Day, not realising they
weren't quite as big and hard as they though they were

The year of luxury camping - porn taped up into the clear panels on the
tent (at which point we became something of a navigational aid), a
picket fence out front made of wooden stakes and hazmat tape, and an
all-star barbecue made of four beer cans and a cooling rack from the 99p
shop

Falling asleep mid-afternoon to the Libertines, then being woken up by
Rancid

Waking up when an oil drum (doubling as a bin) hit my tent and narrowly
missed my head when it all kicked off on the Sunday night

Realising I was too old for that shit and promising myself to stop going
to Reading when other, better, festival experiences were available,
where the teenagers are on MDMA, not Carling.