Quick Question Thread

[SANTAN]

31 minutes ago, Funky Nosejob said:

TBF, it’s a lot more complicated than just counting. They have to type each subsequent number into Google Image Search as well.

I had never thought, then they'll need to save the image and reupload it, riveting stuff. 

[jimbaxters]

48 minutes ago, Stormzy said:

Why would I jump up and down when I type?

Your lack of humour is certainly very bizarre. Even if you have bland patter it still doesn't exactly explain why it was removed, I'm guessing you reported it? 

Correct. Thanks mods!

[SANTAN]

19 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:

Correct. Thanks mods!

 

[Bairnardo]

10 hours ago, Mr. Alli said:

Since there's no 'out the loop' thread. 

What was the posters name who made up he lived in - I think - Chicago and kept the act up before (extremely creepily) started posting pictures of a young girl and acting like she was his girlfriend? 

I think I remember he got banned but come back? 

Cerberus who I believe is now @Theroadlesstravelled

[GordonD]

5 hours ago, Funky Nosejob said:

TBF, it’s a lot more complicated than just counting. They have to type each subsequent number into Google Image Search as well.

And some folk need a calculator to find out what the next number is.

[hk blues]

17 hours ago, Funky Nosejob said:

TBF, it’s a lot more complicated than just counting. They have to type each subsequent number into Google Image Search as well.

You say that, but if you'd followed the thread you'd have seen how hard some find something as simple as that to do

[Moomintroll]

Does anyone have any experience of those We buy any House type outfits that operate out there?

We don't have a massively onerous mortgage but as it would appear that I am incapable of functioning as a normal human being, I need to look at alternatives if I am not capable of bringing in a wage to help cover expenses.

We will never have any dependents so Inheritance is not an issue,  my question is will there be any ongoing fees to pay while living in the house after we "sell it" until we both cark it or do the company that buy the house just wait like vultures?

[Sweet Pete]

Does anyone remember a horrific BBC program about a teenager from a broken family who gets made homeless, sleeps rough, makes pals with another rough sleeper and eventually one of them gets murdered by an ex soldier who routinely kills homeless people? What was remarkable about it was that it was on in the middle of the day on weekdays in the slot that would usually be occupied by the likes of Padraig Post. Think it was a mini series. Saw it as a kid in the early 90s when I would have been off primary school ill and it struck me as really odd for a show like that to be on in the daytime. Possibly called Link or similar?

[Markka]

Does anyone remember a horrific BBC program about a teenager from a broken family who gets made homeless, sleeps rough, makes pals with another rough sleeper and eventually one of them gets murdered by an ex soldier who routinely kills homeless people? What was remarkable about it was that it was on in the middle of the day on weekdays in the slot that would usually be occupied by the likes of Padraig Post. Think it was a mini series. Saw it as a kid in the early 90s when I would have been off primary school ill and it struck me as really odd for a show like that to be on in the daytime. Possibly called Link or similar?

I don't remember a TV show, but I had a library book as a teenager with a very similar, possibly the same, plot. Think the boy ended up going home in the end only to find that his maw had killed herself. Right cheery story.

[The Moonster]

37 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:

Does anyone remember a horrific BBC program about a teenager from a broken family who gets made homeless, sleeps rough, makes pals with another rough sleeper and eventually one of them gets murdered by an ex soldier who routinely kills homeless people? What was remarkable about it was that it was on in the middle of the day on weekdays in the slot that would usually be occupied by the likes of Padraig Post. Think it was a mini series. Saw it as a kid in the early 90s when I would have been off primary school ill and it struck me as really odd for a show like that to be on in the daytime. Possibly called Link or similar?

This? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_(Swindells_novel)#Television

[Markka]

This? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_(Swindells_novel)#Television

That's it. I knew a journo was involved in the story somehow. Must have got the ending mixed up with some other grisly young-adult book

[Sweet Pete]

14 minutes ago, Markka said:

42 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:

Does anyone remember a horrific BBC program about a teenager from a broken family who gets made homeless, sleeps rough, makes pals with another rough sleeper and eventually one of them gets murdered by an ex soldier who routinely kills homeless people? What was remarkable about it was that it was on in the middle of the day on weekdays in the slot that would usually be occupied by the likes of Padraig Post. Think it was a mini series. Saw it as a kid in the early 90s when I would have been off primary school ill and it struck me as really odd for a show like that to be on in the daytime. Possibly called Link or similar?

I don't remember a TV show, but I had a library book as a teenager with a very similar, possibly the same, plot. Think the boy ended up going home in the end only to find that his maw had killed herself. Right cheery story.

 

4 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

This? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_(Swindells_novel)#Television

That's the fella. Jeezy peeps that makes for grim reading! What was that doing getting broadcast during the day on school days?

[The Moonster]

Just now, Sweet Pete said:

 

That's the fella. Jeezy peeps that makes for grim reading! What was that doing getting broadcast during the day on school days?

Nominated for Best Childrens Drama at the BAFTAs too! Will need to have a gander at this I think.

[Sweet Pete]

1 minute ago, The Moonster said:

Nominated for Best Childrens Drama at the BAFTAs too! Will need to have a gander at this I think.

Admittedly I haven't seen it for over 25 years, but it was very sad.

[Sweet Pete]

3 minutes ago, Markka said:

8 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

This? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_(Swindells_novel)#Television

That's it. I knew a journo was involved in the story somehow. Must have got the ending mixed up with some other grisly young-adult book

They all seem to be like that, don't they? Never been a fan of harrowing young adult fiction personally. Especially not when I was a young adult. Womans Weekly or a Take A Break for me thank you very much.

[Markka]

That's it. I knew a journo was involved in the story somehow. Must have got the ending mixed up with some other grisly young-adult book

Bit of digging has revealed my memory was conflating "Stone Cold" with a book called "Shadows" by Tim Bowler which also involves teenage homelessness. It wasn't quite as grim.

[Bairnardo]

That's the fella. Jeezy peeps that makes for grim reading! What was that doing getting broadcast during the day on school days?

I remembered the book. We read it at high school.

Link the stink

[Sweet Pete]

I remember another similar book called Junk that was also about teenage runaways leaving abusive families and rough sleeping then getting full of the broon. Cheery stuff.

[Miguel Sanchez]

I read quite a few Swindells books when I was at school. I'm sure he did one about a nuclear holocaust in Britain. 

[Sweet Pete]

12 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

I read quite a few Swindells books when I was at school. I'm sure he did one about a nuclear holocaust in Britain. 

Google suggests it was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_in_the_Land