Posts by TeeCee

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"...taken inspiration from King’s Cross and St Pancras International railway stations..."

I can't see any St Pancras influence in there.

While they do seem to have captured the "concrete shithole" appearance of King's Cross, they seem to have omitted the rather fine brick and iron construction behind its facade.

Also, an artist's impression is supposed to be of how the thing would look, not how it would look if you were to take a picture of it with a wide-angle lens. Unless of course it's supposed to look as if it were designed by Picasso while he was off his face on Absinthe.

Gin memory?

Surely that runs the risk of alcoholics breaking into the system and drinking the data?

"..the ancient ancestor of the modern horse first appeared four million years ago..."

...and three million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety five years ago, Tesco launched their value beefburger range.

I'll miss him.

If it hadn't been for Conroy, I might never have had an excuse to come up with this.

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Can't be long now until Summer Wars becomes reality.

I remember thinking, after the first time I watched that; "Hell, we're actually bloody doing this....".

If I ever see a bank or similar offering the "convenience" of logging on with your FB credentials I'm going to find a deep hole, climb in and pull the ruddy thing in after me.

"Funding leader IVP has published a list of ten reasons why the app is worth it."

I have read them and will summarise, so you don't have to:

1) It's something to do with mobile stuff and mobile stuff is really, really big right now.

2) They had a really impressive powerpoint slide with a graph and long words on it.

3) It's also something to do with pictures and pictures are really, really big right now. Also, these are mobile pictures (see 1).

4) The yoof like it and those blokes in suits who invest in shit like it too. This is quite clever as they don't usually like the same things.

5) It's got "entrepreneurs" and "vision" behind it. We need those words for a house in wankword bingo.

6) Other people with pots of cash have already pissed a big stain on its wall. We can bleat with the best of them.

7) It's something to do with "social networking", which is really, really big right now. And pictures. And mobile. That's like having three aces in poker......right?

8) Someone else started something else fairly close by and that was hugely successful. One of the lads looked at a map, they're less than an inch apart on it and everyone knows that success is actually a contagious disease.

9) They have clever people. They must be clever, 'cos they work in a place where you can see girls in bikinis on the beach through the window. We work in a dingy office in a city and we're kicking ourselves for being so fucking stupid.

10) They said they were only taking money off carefully chosen people. This made us feel very special. Almost as special as that nice lawyer from Lagos who personally chose us to..........

Two hundred years from now.....

Six people injured in that annual traditional Spanish event, the running of the balls.

"Pitting one area of the country against another sounds a bit sleazy."

Not HP with the sleaze though. Someone else thought it was a good idea to offer companies a fat bung to move to their bit of the country. Where did they think the jobs they were trying to create were going to come from, the New Jobs Out Of Thin Air Fairies?

Rule #1: Every time you see some intiative to entice employers to somewhere, somewhere else is losing out.

Supermoon.

Is that also known as The Moon of Steel?

"...Itani wins this month’s Spirited Away American Dub..."

Ah. You've never seen any of the BAD (Bad American Dubbing) anime compilations then?

My personal prize example is home-grown though. That's the (now very) old Crusader Video dub of "All purpose cultural Catgirl NukuNuku", which features the two henchgirl pilot types with comedy Brummie accents. Hysterical.

Many years ago, at an anime convention, one of the lads I'd been hanging around with proudly produced a copy of this which he'd just picked up secondhand, saving him the cost of the three individual NukuNuku videos he'd been thinking of buying. I pointed out that the woman who had been behind Crusader Video was on the other side of the room and I was sure that, if he asked nicely, she'd sign it for him.

I can be a right bastard at times......

Hang on....

Gartner, right?

Surely in that case, "Management consultants" should be scattered all over the thing like fleas on a dog rather than confined to three blobs in the bottom centre?