Bob The Badger

13 minutes ago, David said:

Getting my Mrs a doorstop this year.

 

Nothing says I love you like a sinister looking doorstop.

2 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

With respect, this ain't the thread for using the word "lucky", regardless of context, and regardless of our personal thoughts towards "The privileged few".
Cancer is a b****** to all classes, and all peoples.

It's unlucky to get the diagnosis. But he is lucky he's getting immediate care. You would even get same day treatment with private health cover  

Context is important and imho, shouldn't be disregarded. 

1 hour ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

 

I read a tweet the other day suggesting that it's basically Love Island now.

People have seen that it can launch an influencer career (see Tom Skinner and Ryan-Mark Parsons, as well as the likes of Katie Hopkins if you go back further) and apply to the show for a shot at fame. The tweet also suggested that this is obvious from the quality (or lack thereof) of the contestants' business plans.

I've not watched it in years so would be curious to know if this is the case.

I watched about half of last years but lost patience when it became obvious they didn't even understand the basics of business. 

And literally every one of them had stupidly white teeth. The kind of white that doesn't even exist in nature. Whatever happened to good old fashioned yellow British teeth? It's an outrage. 

Sugar's a knob too. 

28 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

I'm thinking "Skirt", "Rump" and "Filet" are all worthwhile puns here, but I'm damned if I can organise them all into a post that will escape the attention of the forum decency squad, so for that reason, I'm out!

👀

Don't forget New York Strip.

51 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

That's interesting. I'm part way through season 3, and think it's a huge drop in quality from 1 and 2.

It's like it's written by a different team or something. I'm not at the stage where I'd bail out of it. I just think it's a big drop off . 

I think from memory it may dipper a tad, but the last couple of episodes make it. The last one mostly.

Don't give up!

Rest in peace Pike, you're not really a stupid boy.

57 minutes ago, NottsRam said:

Just onto season 2 of Love/Hate, tremendous viewing.

I thought 2 was maybe the weakest, but 3, 4 and 5 were incredible.

25 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Will it meat her needs? 

I'll stake my life on it.

I send Mrs Badger one and never sign my name, but I've no idea why. Thinking of not bothering this year and getting her this instead.

1 hour ago, Jimbo Ram said:

What’s the place called, I probably know it….

We're between Nanpean and Whitemoor

What was the allocation?

9 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Are you from St Austell Bob? I went to school there. Lovely place and still feels like home despite moving away 40 years ago 😊

I'm actually from Matlock, but after living in Orlando for 14 years we moved to about 4 miles outside St Austell for my wife to be near her family about 3 years ago.

It's gorgeous, but duck me, it rains a lot! Way more than Derbyshire.

Hey @Jourdan and @SK47, I'm looking to go with the missus too. Only an hour or so from St Austell.

20 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

Second season of Kin on BBC iPlayer on 13th February I think. For the few of us who haven't already seen it 

Splendid news. And for the people in here (maybe just you and me @ketteringram ) who are upstanding, decent, respectable and honest citizens who don't brazenly and outrageously steal their TV from the poor, impoverished and defenceless TV stations, and haven't seen it already, here is the trailer.

Finally finished Love/Hate last night - utterly outstanding with a great ending.

Choice now of the latest Fargo or True Detective or Mr Bates v The Post Office.

What order would you lot have those three in if you've seen them all?

1 hour ago, maxjam said:

 

Not sure whether to post this here, in the AI thread, or start a new thread called 'Scary S@%$ coming our way in an AI election year'

13 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

I thought the same about Jaz saying that but I guess he just didn’t think of it at the time rather being particularly thick. I’m not sure Mollie was thick either. I guess, in the heat of the moment, the thought didn’t occur to her either at the time. I surprised myself and quite enjoyed Traitor although I did tend to only half pay attention the first half of each show.

I was joking with the thick comment; I'm pretty sure they'd have been under incredible mental pressure. 

Having said that, Jas suspected Harry for ages (and I think, Andrew) and kept keeping quiet at the round table. Apparently, the normal round tables could go on for 2 or 3 hours, so he had plenty of time and time to think about options before it all started.

Maybe not thick, but. he played the game poorly. And poor Mollie was just smitten by Harry. The worst thing you can do in that kind of situation is to follow your emotions. 

Guys, I think I need help.

I went straight from the end of The Traitors into the US version.

I may not come back from this.

Speaking of The Traitors, how thick were Mollie and Jaz?

All Jaz had to say at the end was, 'If I were a traitor, I'd have voted for the end of the game because I was guaranteed at least half the pot and, in all likelihood, all of it'?

Plank. 

2 hours ago, ketteringram said:

I enjoyed Kin, but I've only seen the first season. It tried too hard to be mean and moody sort of thing. The conversations were slow, with all those pauses. I've never met anyone who speaks like that. 

I'm half way through season two of Love/Hate, and for me, it's way better than Kin. More natural, better pacing, better characters etc. 

Season 3 of Love/Hate is brilliant, better than the first two. And 4 maintained that. Just started the final one last night.

I found some of the moody shots/scenes a bit irritating with Kin too. Especially the ones with Clare Dunne staring off into space. Having said that not enough to taint it, and I still thought it was brilliant.

On 21/01/2024 at 16:04, davenportram said:

That Packets team is scary good for their age/experience. Experience would have got them over the line against the 49ers. 
 

im looking forward to next season

The same could be said for the Rams other than Stafford.

Duck the 9ers though, I've always thought of them like I do Leeds, and the fact that they part own Leeds only cements that.

Go Chiefs!

On 25/01/2024 at 12:49, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Another one, @Carl Sagan. I can’t figure out whether this is real or not. We’re going to be dealing with that question all the time from now on.

 

I'm fairly sure that's legit because it's been reported on, in terms of what he said.

He's talking from an autocue and staying on message. 

37 minutes ago, ilkleyram said:

Serious/not being critical question: so why didn’t you give the task to a more junior member of staff?

 I’m old enough to remember computers first coming into the workplace. The chat then was the same as now - we’ll all be redundant/on the beach. What has happened is that jobs have changed and the workplace has changed and skills required have changed in many places but the overall number of jobs have not. Might not the same happen with AI? 

Almost certainly not.

@DarkFruitsRam7 asked about the music industry, and it would be easy to say people said that about cassette taping and then CD burning. And then they said it about synthesisers and computers in general and also about streaming and illegal file sharing.

This is an entirely different animal because it's going to replace the kind of jobs that replaced the ones lost in manufacturing, as well as some left in manufacturing.

This is not remotely like anything we have ever seen before.

Google released this a couple of years ago. Still brand new, but the potential is obvious if not 100% clear.

In my industry (marketing), AI will/is running a sword through designers, photographers, copywriters, branders and web designers.

On 22/01/2024 at 23:20, Normanton Lad said:

I use ChatGPT instead of reading non-fiction books. ChatGPT allows you to cut through the waffle. Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to summarize a book about False Memory. I then asked various questions about the author's conclusions, e.g. "What examples does Dr Julia Shaw give in her book The Memory Illusion to suggest that memory is fallible." In 10 minutes I had the answers I needed. ChatGPT is a tremendous time saver.

Yeah, but did you really have the answers you wanted?

How can we be sure?