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This guy probably made a fortune from his previous end-of-the-world predictions and will make even more money from this one and the next one and the one after that.
Meanwhile, we - a bunch of software developers - are calling him a pillock.
Just putting that out there.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: Meanwhile, we - a bunch of software developers - are calling him a pillock.
We all need something to get away from daily work problems .
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Indeed, and a nice, easy, lucrative and almost entirely work-free gig in numerology and/or God-bothering could be the ideal solution!
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98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: 98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
This scheme was made on the spot I presume.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Absolutely. The best ones always are.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Depends much upon what one believes is "The Bible".
Since my version-of-choice doesn't include his 'body of proof' then I've nothing to worry about. The rest of you: : duck and cover!*
* the above contains 33 words - which more or less make me the New Messiah to some.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Maybe North Korea is about to launch it's nukes and start the nuclear apocalypse
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I'll just restore from backup afterwards. No worries!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Oh! oh! oh! can I go first?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You will have to wait in line, like everybody else. AND: I saw it first!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I just heard that Jonathon Frakes revealed that at least one of the new Discovery episodes will deal with the Mirror Universe (of bearded Spock fame). Considering the fact that this Mirror Universe concerns a darker, more brutal Federation (The Empire), how will anyone tell the difference between that and the darker version of Star Trek the new series is supposed to be?
In addition, I saw the first episode of The Orville the other day and I (and everyone I have spoken to so far - without fail) think it is brilliant and how Start Trek should have been!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 17-Sep-17 14:58pm.
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I thought The Orville was derivative and ridiculously contrived. The robot on the bridge even sounded too much like Data.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I agree. It was attempting to be too funny and failed. Besides, the female commander needs to go back to Agents of Shield.
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I found out today that it's supposed to be a satire of Star Trek. That doesn't change my view. It ain't funny at all. Special effects are pretty good though.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The Orville was excellent. Great fx and mildly amusing without being ridiculous. I'll watch the new Star Trek but losing interest - too many versions and changes.
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You been hiding under a rock on Zebulon 3?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I'm mildly concerned that the obvious abbreviation for the show title is STD.
On the other hand, Yeoh as a captain is kind of awesome.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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The Orville's not bad- at least they've generated some stories to hang the jokes from, and there was often humor in the ST series. I'll definitely keep watching.
They did have an unnecessary plot hole in the first ep. They were called in to take away this big macguffin, which needs to happen ASAP. But... let's stop to snack on a super-seed first?
It would have worked better to have a station underling taking them to meet the director, who had no idea of the emergency.
Mirror universe, maybe all the characters still have goatees, but they're actually nice?
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Oh great - now I've got to avoid The Lounge for at least a week to avoid spoilers!
STD (titter ye not!) isn't showing in the UK until 25th September. And although Fox UK have announced they'll be showing The Orville, they still haven't told us when.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, episode 3 has just shown here and the big twist at the end is ^%^$%^##*((%()*&^ with a pineapple!
Note: I might have made up the pineapple bit.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Once again, but on a different system, I find my desktop icons all alphanumerically rearranged for me after exiting hyper-v. I should just learn to live with it, instead of expecting things to stay where I put them...a lot less stressful.
On another note, this is the first time I've used hyper-v on this laptop and everything's working fine except for networking. (through wifi adapter) I can get it to work on the guest and the host, just not at the same time! Eventually, the vm will get migrated to a new server I'm putting together and this won't be an issue. I'm done with it for now anyway...and done for the weekend!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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