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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited February 2016
    The fact that IT bods, software engineers etc often appear to be and are portrayed as anti social figures lacking people skills.

    Yet I assume those self same people successfully develop predictive software and algorithms etc which, by definition to work efficiently, must require a certain knowledge of human behaviour and empathy.
  • This furore over Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson:

    variety.com/2016/tv/news/joseph-fiennes-michael-jackson-casting-diversity-hollywood-whitewashing-1201690020/

    I could understand if it was a 70s Michael Jackson, but in 2001 he was pastier than Mick Hucknall.
  • Ploughman's Lunch.

    Why pay for a sandwich they can't even be arsed to put together for you?

    It's like ordering a pepperoni pizza and being given a pizza base, a tomato, a block of cheese and a sausage.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited March 2016

    Ploughman's Lunch.

    Why pay for a sandwich they can't even be arsed to put together for you?

    It's like ordering a pepperoni pizza and being given a pizza base, a tomato, a block of cheese and a sausage.

    It's just a plate of pickle

    Gourmet burgers as well - it's just a glorified cheeseburger.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148

    Ploughman's Lunch.

    Why pay for a sandwich they can't even be arsed to put together for you?

    It's like ordering a pepperoni pizza and being given a pizza base, a tomato, a block of cheese and a sausage.

    It's just a plate of pickle

    Gourmet burgers as well - it's just a glorified cheeseburger.
    So fillet steak is just glorified braising steak then? :wink:
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Chinese take away menu. I always end up with no sauce on anything!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,841
    Why I can't poo without also doing a wee.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600

    Ploughman's Lunch.

    Why pay for a sandwich they can't even be arsed to put together for you?

    It's like ordering a pepperoni pizza and being given a pizza base, a tomato, a block of cheese and a sausage.

    It's just a plate of pickle

    Gourmet burgers as well - it's just a glorified cheeseburger.
    So fillet steak is just glorified braising steak then? :wink:
    Depends where you buy it.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,241

    Ploughman's Lunch.

    Why pay for a sandwich they can't even be arsed to put together for you?

    It's like ordering a pepperoni pizza and being given a pizza base, a tomato, a block of cheese and a sausage.

    It's just a plate of pickle

    Gourmet burgers as well - it's just a glorified cheeseburger.
    So fillet steak is just glorified braising steak then? :wink:
    Depends where you buy it.
    Morrisons im certain just throw any bit of the bovine out as fillet. Their fillet is offensively bad. Really felt bad for a cow giving it's life to be desecrated by morrisons like that
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    MrOneLung said:

    Why I can't poo without also doing a wee.

    Just be thankful it doesn't work the other way around...
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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Doing some bite training with JJ (unsuccessfully) due to the presence of our other two dogs, when it got a bit chilly so I put another top on (Thanks Mum) Suddenly everything starting working well. Confused as to why?imageimage
  • The current TV advert for 'new Live Photos' on your phone.

    We've had them for years. They're called videos.
  • I know that technology has evolved a lot but was watching the West Ham v Man Utd replay on the BBC the other week and they showed Joe Cole scoring one of his first goals.

    That wasnt what confused me... Instead the picture quality looked terrible...

    It seems as though whenever there are highlights these days from past matches, the picture gets edited to make it look old, whilst they photo-shopped the ground so it looked like it was from the 80s.

    In a couple of years time the Sergio Aguero title winning goal will be shown, it'll brought to you by Pathe, will be in black and white whilst the Man City crowd will be this lot going mental!!

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Jarman said:

    Kendall & Kylie Jenner. Just what is the fascination?!

    Hmm good question... until I googled it.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Dazzler21 said:

    Jarman said:

    Kendall & Kylie Jenner. Just what is the fascination?!

    Hmm good question... until I googled it.
    I thought it was going to be Howard Kendall and Kylie minogue having a centre circle experience. Very dissapointed.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Life, the meaning of life, and, generally everything.
  • 1) when you see/meet someone and you are not 100% sure whether they are male or female
    2) whe you communicate with someone in business by email and then find they are the opposite gender when you meet them.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    The amount of effort scum fans have gone too on social media laughing at our relegation, making posters etc, when this whole time I was under the impression that they don't care about us???!!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,732

    I know that technology has evolved a lot but was watching the West Ham v Man Utd replay on the BBC the other week and they showed Joe Cole scoring one of his first goals.

    That wasnt what confused me... Instead the picture quality looked terrible...

    It seems as though whenever there are highlights these days from past matches, the picture gets edited to make it look old, whilst they photo-shopped the ground so it looked like it was from the 80s.

    In a couple of years time the Sergio Aguero title winning goal will be shown, it'll brought to you by Pathe, will be in black and white whilst the Man City crowd will be this lot going mental!!

    image

    It's a case of us all being spoilt. People will look back on a few years time and think how horrible normal HD looked back in the day.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103

    The amount of effort scum fans have gone too on social media laughing at our relegation, making posters etc, when this whole time I was under the impression that they don't care about us???!!

    "Charlton fans don't like us. We're obsessed."
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    edited April 2016

    1) when you see/meet someone and you are not 100% sure whether they are male or female

    So you ask them their name & they say Chris :-)

    A couple of seasons ago, we'd been to an away game and were in the pub afterwards.

    There was someone sitting on a table close by & we had a total split on what gender, we thought they were. (Not that it matters, we were just intrigued).

    Anyway, I had a bright idea. We'll wait until they go to the loo.

    2 rounds, 1 hour later, they hadn't been and then they left the pub. Boo.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Victoria Wood
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    Please tell me that's fake.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    I'm hoping it's a charity thing.
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    Apparently it's part of a new Nivea sponsorship deal.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    buckshee said:

    Victoria Wood

    This post.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    LenGlover said:

    The fact that IT bods, software engineers etc often appear to be and are portrayed as anti social figures lacking people skills.

    Yet I assume those self same people successfully develop predictive software and algorithms etc which, by definition to work efficiently, must require a certain knowledge of human behaviour and empathy.

    You would think so, and yet...

    Being serious, the old days of the shut-in developer/IT person are ending. Increasingly you have to have communication and people skills beyond coding. A lot of software/IT is very binary (pun intended), so traditionally it's not a field that attracts people like myself who think that life is one big grey area up for negotiation. Again, with Agile and self-empowered teams (all part of my secret plan to institute workplace democracy), we're seeing that those types of people need to be able to interact within a group setting.
  • A solitary full stop in a post.
    And this can be flagged, LOL or liked.
    What is the significance of it?

    My #1 of things I don't quite get on Charlton Life.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593

    A solitary full stop in a post.
    And this can be flagged, LOL or liked.
    What is the significance of it?

    My #1 of things I don't quite get on Charlton Life.

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