Session Start: Sat Apr 19 07:07:29 2008 Session Ident: #sevtrek [07:09] 6starting judging session with Sev Trek [07:09] My parents saw your parents today [07:09] In the optician [07:09] :O [07:10] I was too busy having bright lights shone into my eyes for 20 minutes straight. Never had so long before [07:10] 6I'm reasonably sure its ALIEN. [07:10] keep [07:10] alien abduction ...? [07:10] Also, they puffed my right eye SIX TIMES to get the pressue because the first three didn't work :0( [07:10] keep [07:10] neutral [07:10] Neutral [07:10] "it's" [07:10] i nearly did it in a training as diagnostic printouts ("Oh hai! Im in ur kernel") [07:10] cut [07:10] cut [07:10] 4ALIEN is cut [07:10] 6Somehow I don't think ASPIRIN will do the trick... [07:10] Guido <3 [07:10] cut [07:11] cut [07:11] cut [07:11] Hey! [07:11] *Slaps* [07:11] but, but! [07:11] now, now...play nicely, people [07:11] neutral [07:11] Cut [07:11] Keep [07:11] Or maybe neutral. For all it matters [07:11] 4ASPIRIN is swallowed [07:11] 6It ATE my scanner. [07:11] cut [07:11] keep [07:11] Cut [07:11] neutral [07:12] Guido - I still say you need to do that one day. Or write something in lolcode [07:12] cut [07:12] keep [07:12] 4ATE is consumed [07:12] 6You should BLOW your nose more often. [07:12] emma: might do [07:12] neutral [07:12] cutr [07:12] keep [07:12] cut [07:12] neutral [07:12] Keep [07:12] 3BLOW is kept [07:12] 6I'm gonna get all kinds of skin DISEASE! [07:12] cut [07:13] cut [07:13] cut [07:13] Neutral [07:13] cut [07:13] 4DISEASE is cut [07:13] 6I'm returning it to DUTY. [07:13] cut [07:13] cut [07:13] neutral [07:13] cut [07:13] cut [07:13] Neutral [07:14] 4DUTY is cut [07:14] 6Well, the ENSIGN is still alive. [07:14] cut [07:14] neutral [07:14] keep [07:14] Keep, I think alive needs to be italicised or something [07:14] I don't get it? [07:14] neutral, because I suspect I'm missing something [07:14] Well he's not dead... but that's about all that can be said for him [07:15] jazzy - said thing was formerly a redshirt [07:15] I have no idea what that is :) [07:15] cut [07:15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt [07:15] 3ENSIGN is kept [07:15] 6Dammit Spook, I'm a doctor, not a what-the-HECK-iologist! [07:15] red-shirted security ensign [07:15] cut [07:15] keep [07:15] keep [07:15] * Dhraakellian likes this one [07:15] cut [07:15] * Dhraakellian is biased, though [07:15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_%28character%29 to be precise [07:15] cut [07:15] wait... [07:15] no [07:15] cut [07:16] wrong one [07:16] I like the *next* one [07:16] Neutral [07:16] Thanks [07:16] heck can go there [07:16] 4HECK is damned [07:16] 6It's LIFE, Spook, but I don't want to know it. [07:16] keep [07:16] Keep [07:16] darned, surely? [07:16] keep [07:16] keep [07:16] keep [07:16] neutral [07:17] 4LIFE is kept [07:17] 3life is kept in the right colour [07:17] 6MIND meld with it and tell me! [07:17] cut [07:17] cut [07:17] cut [07:17] cut [07:17] neutral [07:17] Cut [07:18] 4MIND is cut [07:18] 6You've got to stop taking ensigns on away MISSIONS [07:18] cut [07:18] there were too many ensign/redshirt-rehashes and mccoy-is-incompetent punchlines [07:18] Cut [07:18] cut [07:18] cut [07:18] cut [07:18] cut [07:18] 4MISSIONS is cut [07:18] 6I must NOTIFY the captain that it's a female. [07:19] cut [07:19] keep [07:19] cut [07:19] Even Kirk has his standards [07:19] keep [07:19] Cut [07:19] switch2 neutral [07:19] cut [07:20] 4NOTIFY is cut [07:20] 6It has a PULSE, but not as we know it. [07:20] keep [07:20] Neutral [07:20] cut [07:20] cut [07:20] cut [07:20] I'd cut, since I like LIFE a lot better, but as I said, I'm biased [07:20] Keep [07:20] But not especially enthusiastically [07:21] 4PULSE stops [07:21] 6No RED shirt, so I've ruled out death... [07:21] cut [07:21] cut [07:21] cut [07:21] cut [07:21] cut [07:21] 4RED is dead [07:21] 6We need a bigger SFX budget! [07:21] cut [07:21] cut [07:21] neutral [07:21] keep [07:21] cut [07:22] 4SFX is cut [07:22] Cut [07:22] 6I'll tell you when it SPITS out my nurse. [07:22] cut [07:22] keep [07:22] keep [07:22] neutral [07:22] That is far better than TOS SFX would have been :0P [07:22] cut [07:22] Keep [07:22] i'll take that as a compliment :-) [07:22] I watched one of the ollllld dr who and the daleks earlier [07:22] omgsobad [07:23] Heehee [07:23] 3SPITS iskept [07:23] 6After I find a place to insert the THERMOMETER, I'll let you know . . . [07:23] It was fun watching Daleks in Manhatten with Guido [07:23] speaking of dr who, when does season 4 start? [07:23] keep [07:23] Two weeks ago [07:23] Keep [07:23] Nemiguel: regarding the aliens inside the saltshakers: http://i4.tinypic.com/15guxic.jpg [07:23] woohoo, it's bit torrent for me! [07:23] cut [07:23] cut [07:23] JC: MM's encodes are on mininova [07:23] go with those [07:23] cut [07:23] noted [07:24] After the first scene with them (with the dramatic entrance and all) he turned to me and said "I presume those are known aliens" or similar [07:24] 4THERMOMETER is cut [07:24] And it's just so hard to conceive of someone not knowing what a Dalek is... [07:24] 6time to vote4... [07:24] You should BLOW your nose more often. [07:24] Well, the ENSIGN is still alive. [07:24] It's LIFE, Spook, but I don't want to know it. [07:24] I'll tell you when it SPITS out my nurse. [07:24] 6vote4! [07:24] Even though I understand why [07:24] vote4 life [07:24] vote4 life [07:24] vote4 ensign [07:25] e: you've seen the first time a dalek ws seen on german tv [07:25] Yeah, I know [07:25] vote4 spits [07:25] I can understand *why* you didn't recognise them [07:25] But it was still really weird for me [07:25] Dalek vs. Panzer? [07:25] Panzers can probably manage a flight of stairs [07:25] at least downwards [07:25] Because that's like... not recognising, erm... a routemaster [07:26] vote4 life [07:26] 6final tally LIFE 3 ENSIGN 1 SPITS 1 [07:26] yay! [07:26] a winner is you? [07:26] hmm, probably LIFE wins, anyone left to vote? [07:26] A winner is not me :0( [07:26] even without my vote, it would've been ahead. nice [07:27] 6moving onto Twist cartoon... [07:27] and what's this german Dalek thing? [07:27] 6This mountaintop better have CABLE! [07:27] keep' [07:27] What do you mean Dhraak? [07:27] that you and Wizzard were talking about [07:27] * Dhraakellian should get ready to leave [07:27] cut [07:27] The episode Dalek from the first new series [07:27] cut [07:27] cut [07:28] cut [07:28] I watched that with Guido on German TV. Which was the first time a Dalek had ever been on German tv [07:28] (He says) [07:28] ah [07:28] 4CABLE is cut (ha ha) [07:28] 6It's Mount Everest, not Mount EVERYTHING! [07:28] keep [07:28] cut [07:29] Neutral [07:29] neutral [07:29] I didn't really get this contest [07:29] cut [07:29] * Dhraakellian goes to get ready to leave [07:29] * Dhraakellian has to catch a bus at quarter till [07:29] Also, having hiked up mountains where the only way up is by foot or pack-mule, then found a bar at the top with a large refridgerator... [07:29] keep [07:29] 4EVERYTHING is cut [07:30] 3EVERYTHING is kept after Nemi's vote [07:30] 6What do you mean you didn't bring the EXTENSION cord? [07:30] keep [07:30] keep [07:30] Keep [07:30] (that was actually Ben :-P) [07:30] cut [07:30] (as is this) [07:30] keep [07:31] 4EVERYTHING is kept [07:31] 6Move it buster, this slope is for EXTREMISTS! [07:31] dang, 3should've been green [07:31] Cut [07:31] er, extension [07:31] cut [07:31] cut [07:32] cut [07:32] 4EXTREMISTS is cut [07:32] 6You forgot the FOOD!? [07:32] [07:32] 6You forgot the FOOD!? [07:32] oops [07:32] cut [07:33] cut [07:33] cut [07:33] cut [07:33] Cut [07:33] Mrawr [07:33] 4FOOD is consumed [07:33] 6Wait a minute. Where's the GENERATOR you were supposed to bring? [07:33] cut [07:33] cut [07:33] cut [07:33] Any votes or petitions about noise at an airport should have a qualifying question: "did you move to the area AFTER the airport opened" [07:34] Cut [07:34] :) [07:34] 4GENERATOR is cut [07:34] 6Steve's friends never offered to help him MOVE again. [07:34] someone complaining about EMA again? [07:35] (Also, I wanted to slap the people who complained that the airport is going to put up four wind turbines. that's hardly any worse than an *airport*. And then bitching that "it's only a token effort anyway" - they're going to generate 10% of the power used in the airport, that's quite a lot!) [07:35] Mmm. Politics Show evidently doing a feature on it this weekend [07:35] I never understood people complaining about the noise from wind turbines [07:35] cut [07:35] keep [07:35] They sound really strange, yes, but they're hardly loud [07:35] After seeing that turbine in Denmark I can slightly more understand not wanting to be near one ;0) [07:36] If you lived next to an airport, you really can't complain about wind turbine noise :0P [07:36] Herford had at least one, and Southend's got a farm of them [07:36] Keep [07:36] so I don't mind them at all [07:36] neutral [07:36] haha yes, much ow [07:36] 3MOVE is kept [07:36] (to the danish kablooie) [07:36] 6When Bob said he needed help MOVING "a few little things," this wasn't what his friends had in mind. [07:36] cut [07:36] cut [07:36] Ooh, the guy who founded my optometrists is from Southend. Or trained there at least [07:37] cut [07:37] I spent THREE HOURS at the opticians today, so I had time to browse their little bit about the history of the practice :0P [07:37] hee [07:37] cut [07:37] 4MOVING is cut [07:37] 6You did bring the POPCORN, right? [07:37] keep [07:37] keep [07:37] Cut [07:37] How did you spend three hours there? [07:37] cut [07:38] 3POPCORN is kept [07:38] 6Dude, I don't care how low the RENT is, the commute isn't worth it! [07:38] Got there at 1415 (which was my appointment time, kind of) but it was about 5 minutes before I then got my peripheral vision and pressure tests (done by an assistant) [07:38] Keep, but lose the dude [07:39] neutral [07:39] cut [07:39] Then had to wait until 1500 to actually see my optician - turns out my 'real' appointment time was 1445, and they were running a little late [07:39] cut [07:39] My exam was about 45 minutes then [07:39] keep [07:39] and lose the dude [07:39] So that takes us to 1545-50ish [07:39] 3RENT is kept [07:39] 6No, I DON'T think it would be safer to ROPE us all together! [07:39] cut [07:39] Then we spent 30+ minutes choosing new frames [07:39] neutral [07:39] keep [07:39] Neutral [07:40] cut [07:40] 4ROPE is cut [07:40] 6This is what you call ROUGHING it? [07:40] cut [07:40] Then had to wait whilst they rang the manufacturers of my lenses to ask if they could physically cut a lens of sufficient size from the lens [07:40] Then we got the legs fitted to me now rather than later [07:40] So, yeah. We left at 1700. Bit under 3 hours there [07:40] cut [07:40] Cut [07:40] neutral [07:41] 4ROUGHING is cut [07:41] 6We just lost the guy with the kitchen SINK, you know! [07:41] cut [07:41] By that point I was being offered an optomat (photos of your retina) because I'm signing up for their nifty payment scheme thing which is saving me about £50 and means it would be free instead of £25. But by then I was so tired that I said I'd have it next time I went in :0P [07:41] Cut [07:41] cut [07:42] btw, I have to go in 4 minutes so we better finish up quick :-( [07:42] 4SINK is cut [07:42] 6How come you get carry the SNACKS??? [07:42] cut [07:42] cut [07:42] cut [07:42] However, they have said that they *can't* email the pictures to you. So I will be able to have it as my wallpaper [07:42] Cut [07:42] cut [07:42] John - next time cull a few lines? ;0) [07:42] Erm. *can* not *can't* [07:42] 4SNACKS is cut [07:42] hee [07:42] 6What did you just say? You're TIRED? [07:43] cut [07:43] cut [07:43] Cut [07:43] 4TIRED is cut [07:43] 6Well, you should've thought of that before we left... or carried the TOILET. [07:43] Emma, I know, I forgot :-( [07:43] cut [07:43] cut [07:44] cut [07:44] 4TOILET is cut [07:44] 6"The guy with your WASHING machine just fell to his death!" [07:44] How many years have you been doing this John? :0P [07:44] Cut [07:44] are we down to just 3 judges now? [07:44] cut [07:44] cut [07:44] I'm here [07:44] No [07:44] computer was beeping at me [07:44] Five [07:44] 4WASHING is cut [07:44] 6Whaddya mean you think this is the WRONG mountain?? [07:44] cut [07:44] cut [07:44] keep [07:44] You're just cutting very quickly :0P [07:44] cut [07:44] Neutral [07:45] 4WRONG is cut [07:45] 6I thought YOU had the remote! [07:45] keep [07:45] keep [07:45] keep [07:45] cut [07:45] Cut [07:45] 3YOU is kept [07:45] 6vote4 stage... [07:45] It's Mount Everest, not Mount EVERYTHING! [07:45] What do you mean you didn't bring the EXTENSION cord? [07:45] Steve's friends never offered to help him MOVE again. [07:45] You did bring the POPCORN, right? [07:45] I don't care how low the RENT is, the commute isn't worth it! [07:45] I thought YOU had the remote! [07:45] vote4 extension [07:45] 6okay vote4 [07:45]