The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

[Kieran76]

I saved a sheeps life today. I was out walking with my family, I am in Wales at the moment, and we saw a sheep with it's head firmly stuck in a metal fence. I went round to the other side of the fence and tried to pull the wire apart so the sheep could free itself. The animal was so stupid that it kept trying to move forward rather than backwards. Eventually our lass and me pushed the sheep's head backwards while my step mum pulled him out from behind.
The sheep had obviously been there for a while as it had eaten all the grass next to it's head and the area near it's feet was covered in mud and had been churned up.
I am a real hero.

[Alastair]

Good on ya. I found a stag trapped in a wire fence in Petworth park quite recently. It was super agro and had massive pointy antlers. I didn't save it




Although I did call the estate to get the number of the game keeper and reported it, used my boy scout like location reporting skills to tell them where it was, they seemed in no rush to come out and save it however so I didn't hang around for hours to see if they did. About 45 mins later I did hear two gun shots though, hope they didn't 'put it out of it's misery'. Maybe they had it for dinner!?!

[Kieran76]

Good on ya. I found a stag trapped in a wire fence in Petworth park quite recently. It was super agro and had massive pointy antlers. I didn't save

I wouldn't have tried to save a stag. There's a massive difference bewtween a stag and a docile sheep.

[kernow]

We are about as significant as a peanut.



See the big picture here.

I'd love to understand space. I really would, and the universe, theres obviously life on other planets, people who say there isn't are mental.

[Spatial]

Great. My Interweb connection has just died on its arse in spectacular fashion. Can't connect to anything.

My router was running really, really hot yesterday - what's the bets something has boiled itself to death inside.

[Ady]

We are about as significant as a peanut.

Sobering.

[Welrain]

yet peanuts can influence our very lives....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy

[Spatial]

Well the good news for me is that my router hasn't melted.

The bad news is some BT gremlin has broken my local exchange and manged to break the Internet for the whole area.

Over 12 hours of DNS errors. Thank God for mobiles with Internet access!

[kernow]

Just use different DNS servers temporarily until its resolved.

https://www.opendns.com/start/

Our nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.

[Spatial]

Cheers kernow but I've just given that a try and it's not working. Whatever they've done at the exchange, they've broke it good and proper.

edit: seems they've fixed it overnight.

Thank the gods! :woot:

[kernow]

excellent

[ChrisF]

Wassup with Parcel Force? They've had a parcel, ready to deliver, since last Thursday (according to the tracking it's been at the depot and then "out for delivery" since last week). The delivery date is estimated as tomorrow, and the service is Parcel Force 48 (it's come from overseas).

Now, I can only assume they're holding onto it until said date, just to prove a point that the "48" service is slower than their regular service?!? Why not just deliver it already and free up some storage space!

[VR46]

There was obvioulsy a lack of football shaped parcels in the depot so they decided to hang on to yours for a couple of days longer to practice their skillz.

[ChrisF]

Oh now they really are having a laugh. I just tracked it, and it was indeed delivery today, to a one "Ruby Murray". Yeah right.

[EJG1980]

My brother is at Gatwick this morning on the way to Las Vegas for a week. He just texted me to say that Virgin Atlantic charged him £30 because he booked his flight using the name Alex when the name on his passport is Alexander. It's an electronic ticket so all they had to do was add 5 extra characters to a field in their database! No wonder Richard Branson is rolling in it.

I know it's his mistake as I can remember being told to make sure the names match exactly when I've booked tickets in the past, but £30 to correct it is ridiculous. I'm sure all airlines do it but as I've never experienced anyone else doing it, I'm boycotting Virgin from now on