The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

[Ouenben]

So i've been browsing this yoville (habbo hotel-like, simipler version of Home) game on facebook. It's hilarious! filled with scammers trying to get ingame currency, pervs looking for their dirty talk fix and best of all "yoville couples" (90% of which are going out with each other within an hour of meeting)

I just saw this comment from someone I was friends with (till i realised she was bat **** crazy)
shes gone out with some guy she met a couple hours ago and left him a message. Oh man what a doozy
will upload a pic of it shortly.

all i've really done in the game is go around telling off scammers/spammers/beggars/pervs and made a few friends to chat to.

LOL

[toythatkills]

It's a pretty popular day to turn 34, it seems!

[kernow]

what one person?

[gunrock]

But if you don't spend all your money on kids, you can hire people to look after you in your twilight years, and they won't be hoping you snuff it at any moment so they can get their grubby paws on your will and suck the last drop of water from the well, along with the government. On the contrary, assuming they want to stay in their job, they have an interest in keeping you going.

Actually, just to get serious for a moment, I have personal experience of these places getting old and sick people, to rewrite their wills to benefit the home or the individuals and in my family's case, actually persuade her to spend lots of money on hifi's, latest model TV's and tons of furniture all within a day of her death. Then they asked to keep the stuff when it was delivered!

[Kieran76]

Why is shopping with women such hard work?

[VR46]

Because you/we were bad in a previous life.

My missus is off to Lakeside tonight to get something to wear for a wedding we're going to on Saturday. Dodged it like a good 'un and she is going with a mate instead, phew.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Because you/we were bad in a previous life.

My missus is off to Lakeside tonight to get something to wear for a wedding we're going to on Saturday. Dodged it like a good 'un and she is going with a mate instead, phew.

Doesn't matter, she'll come back with something then decide tomorrow it's not quite how she thought it would look. She'll have you over there tomorrow night going over all the outfits she tried the day before, before picking out something hideous that you'll say looks lovely as you want to go home. She'll wear it Sat, her mate will tell her it looks hideous, in the best possible best mate way, and you'll get it in the ear for agreeing to it.

You can't win, it's the Law.

[VR46]

You're partially right, she is going tonight, so if she can't find/doesn't like it she has Friday as a back-up. Gulp.

[toythatkills]

Plus without you she'll spend 5x more than she really should

[Kieran76]

Back from hell now, worst bit was when I needed to nip off to go to the toilet while she went in Jane Norman. I said to her, take my credit card and you buy the stuff, she says it's alright I wont be buying anything. 10 minutes later she rings me up "Can you meet me in Jane Norman, I am at the counter"

[chopemon]

So I live in a semi detached house in a very quiet suburb and for the entire night I have been hearing strange thumps. Occasionally I would get up from my lair of videogames and try to see WTF was making these noises. A couple of times as I got up and went to the front of the house I saw cars pulling away from other drives so just assumed it was car doors.

About 10 minutes ago I heard a rather persistent thumping coming from my front door. Turns out that the thumping I'd heard through the night had been my neighbours banging on the wall and here he was at my door shouting about how he doesn't know what the hell I'm doing but the noise is going right through their house.

A couple of weeks ago my ex moved out and I finally got my surround sound set up and from what I can tell, it has been some kind of hell for him as they have had to listen to the sounds of FEAR 2, Street Fighter 4, Burnout Paradise and now 50 Cent Blood on the Sand coming through the walls. I apologised profusely and he was ok in the end (I was genuinely sorry as I didn't think it would have affected them). Why does suburbia always conspire to ruin my fun?

Does anyone have any recommendations of surround sound headphones they've used by any chance?

[charlesr]

Just turn off the sub.

Nina and the neurons, kids TV science thing. Nina's singing an Eco song about saving the planet and riding a bike to school. Except the bike she is riding is clearly on the back of a lorry....

[ChrisF]

I hate Nina. And Miss Hooly. Different shows, I know, but the hatred is the same.

[ChrisF]

Does anyone have any recommendations of surround sound headphones they've used by any chance?

You wanna get deaf 90 year old neighbours like I have. Although that has it's downsides as it's often them with the TV up loud.

However, theres a thread for 5.1 headphones over in the Audio section. I have a pair of Sharkoon XTACTIC 5.1 headphones and love 'em. Didn't break the bank and allow me to whomp the volume up loud even when the lad is asleep.

[Ouenben]

urgh, had a bunch of christians trying to convert me.

I told them what I always tell religous people:
The day you can give me a good reason for all the suffering in this world is the same day I will believe in God.

And don't give me that "God wants man to have freewill" bull****