Well thanks for inviting me over. Do we get tea and biscuits as well?Gawdzilla wrote:It's home.Brian Peacock wrote:So, what is this place?
What is this place?
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Sure, I make great tea. Crumpets with that?Brian Peacock wrote:Well thanks for inviting me over. Do we get tea and biscuits as well?Gawdzilla wrote:It's home.Brian Peacock wrote:So, what is this place?
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I'm always up for crumpets, with Marmite of course. . .Gawdzilla wrote:Sure, I make great tea. Crumpets with that?Brian Peacock wrote:Well thanks for inviting me over. Do we get tea and biscuits as well?Gawdzilla wrote:It's home.Brian Peacock wrote:So, what is this place?
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We have cucumber sandwiches if you prefer?Brian Peacock wrote:I'm always up for crumpets, with Marmite of course. . .Gawdzilla wrote:Sure, I make great tea. Crumpets with that?
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Remember to cut of the crusts and polish the best silver tea set .Gawdzilla wrote:We have cucumber sandwiches if you prefer?Brian Peacock wrote:I'm always up for crumpets, with Marmite of course. . .Gawdzilla wrote:Sure, I make great tea. Crumpets with that?




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You're spoiling me now.Gawdzilla wrote:We have cucumber sandwiches if you prefer?Brian Peacock wrote:I'm always up for crumpets, with Marmite of course. . .Gawdzilla wrote:Sure, I make great tea. Crumpets with that?
What's the catch?
Have I got to call you Daddy or something...?
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I usually do that while the teabags are boiling.mrenutt4 wrote:Remember to cut of the crusts and polish the best silver tea set .Gawdzilla wrote:We have cucumber sandwiches if you prefer?Brian Peacock wrote:I'm always up for crumpets, with Marmite of course. . .Gawdzilla wrote:Sure, I make great tea. Crumpets with that?
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Welcome Brian!Brian Peacock wrote:So, what is this place?
Hope you enjoy the show.

Although it may look like a forum, this site is actually a crowd-sourced science project modelling the slow but inexorable heat death of the universe.
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Thank you for the warm welcome. I have successfully wasted an hour here, the first of many I fear....Faithfree wrote:Welcome Brian!Brian Peacock wrote:So, what is this place?
Hope you enjoy the show.

P.S.Do I take it from your username that you have not taken Our Lord Jesus Christ into your heart?
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I thought I knew, but apparently I was waaay off.soul_biscuit wrote:I have no fucking idea.Geoff wrote:I have a suspicion, but OK, no guessing.Charlou wrote:Red Katie wrote:Don't guess. I chose a new name for a reason.Pappa wrote:Hi whoever you are!
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I'd swear someone posted that preRaphaelite painting as a fave in some art thread back at TAF but I can't remember who, can't be arsed to look, and well... that might not even be a clue. Oooooooh this is just like Scooby Doo!Mysturji wrote:
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Have you ever tried one of those things out on a pig carcass or something similar just to see what would happen if society heads down that whole man v machine route?leo-rcc wrote:
Still need to put the wiring in this one and armour it up.
This one needs repairs/
This one needs a new drive train.
And those are just the small machines that need to be ready next week.
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Those vacuum cleaners are never going to work on dog hair in a shag-pile carpet. Back to the drawing board I think...
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No we havent, and I wasn't planning to. We've had a few near misses and broken bones from these things so we rather test them inside arenas against other robots.owtth wrote:Have you ever tried one of those things out on a pig carcass or something similar just to see what would happen if society heads down that whole man v machine route?leo-rcc wrote: And those are just the small machines that need to be ready next week.
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I know what anti-armor weapons do to water buffalo.leo-rcc wrote:I am quite sure I know what these things do to flesh and bone.
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