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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:44 pm
by Felix
Jody wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:37 am
Forgetting why I don't keep my bank card in that pocket while snowboarding
Picture of the other side or it never happened.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:04 am
by McNab
The realisation that I have become the sort of person that looks at a cardboard box and thinks "That's a nice box, it's a shame to throw it away. I wonder if I should save it for something."
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:20 pm
by gremlin
Might come in useful.
Save the bubble wrap too.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:22 pm
by McNab
gremlin wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:20 pm
Might come in useful.
Save the bubble wrap too.
Don't get me started on bubble wrap....
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:07 pm
by Yambo
McNab wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:22 pm
Don't get me started on bubble wrap....
A long time ago I had to deliver 2 rolls of bubble wrap to this guy in Penrith. He was pretty busy when I got there and just said "Pop 'em in that corner over there."
Took me 3 fuckin' hours!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:45 pm
by Rockburner
McNab wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:22 pm
gremlin wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:20 pm
Might come in useful.
Save the bubble wrap too.
Don't get me started on bubble wrap....
I keep finding bubble wrap in the workshop and wondering why the hell I kept it... I obviously
had a reason.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:12 pm
by MrLongbeard
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:04 pm
Youtube deliberately glitching and lagging when adblockers are turned on
Luckily they haven't caught on to Enchancer for Youtube yet
And youtube enhancer has now joined the list of adblockers that no longer work on youtube, so jumped to Firefox with Ublock Origin
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:12 am
by weeksy
I bought 3 books by Iain M Banks as people rave about him. I've tried 1-2 of his previously and felt i recall they were mostly gibberish, but thought i'd give them a go as they're highly regarded. Again though, it's just gibberish and complete random bollox, it's not like it draws you into an imaginary world as it throws in far far too many things that you don't know who's human shaped, robot, anything else.. or where they are in terms of planets, universe, it's just way too random.
I'm going back to death and violence.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:16 am
by Mr. Dazzle
You just need to read the instructions
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:19 am
by weeksy
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:16 am
You just need to read the instructions
*throw in bin*
Yup, that'll be the ones i want.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:19 am
by KungFooBob
weeksy wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:12 am
I bought 3 books by Iain M Banks as people rave about him. I've tried 1-2 of his previously and felt i recall they were mostly gibberish, but thought i'd give them a go as they're highly regarded. Again though, it's just gibberish and complete random bollox, it's not like it draws you into an imaginary world as it throws in far far too many things that you don't know who's human shaped, robot, anything else.. or where they are in terms of planets, universe, it's just way too random.
I'm going back to death and violence.
I loves M Banks, got them all.
If you want sci-fi with a bit of death and violence, try Neal Ashers Agent Cormac series, starting with Gridlinked.
John Scalzi's Old man's war series is good too (little bit less death than Asher tho)
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:23 am
by weeksy
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:19 am
I loves M Banks, got them all.
Based upon that, your recommendations stay in the bin with him too
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:25 am
by KungFooBob
The Neal Asher stuff is proper Hollywood block buster Sci-fi, completely different to M Banks. I've read most of his stuff and it all gets a bit samey, but coming to it fresh you'd enjoy it.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:29 am
by Rockburner
weeksy wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:12 am
I bought 3 books by Iain M Banks as people rave about him. I've tried 1-2 of his previously and felt i recall they were mostly gibberish, but thought i'd give them a go as they're highly regarded. Again though, it's just gibberish and complete random bollox, it's not like it draws you into an imaginary world as it throws in far far too many things that you don't know who's human shaped, robot, anything else.. or where they are in terms of planets, universe, it's just way too random.
I'm going back to death and violence.
Which books did you try?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:34 am
by KungFooBob
If you started with something like Excession I could see why you might give up, should start at the beginning with Consider Phlebas.
My fav is Use of Weapons.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:36 am
by weeksy
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:34 am
should start at the beginning with Consider Phlebas.
Did that one a couple of years ago.
This one is something Windward. or otherwise known as Complete Bollox.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:41 am
by Rockburner
weeksy wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:36 am
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:34 am
should start at the beginning with Consider Phlebas.
Did that one a couple of years ago.
This one is something Windward. or otherwise known as Complete Bollox.
Look to Windward.
Yeah, definitely NOT the best book to start with. Try Use of Weapons, lots of death and mayhem. Or Player of Games, which is focused on one person.
The best order to read is actually the published order because Banks expanded the universe with each book.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:42 am
by weeksy
Rockburner wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:41 am
weeksy wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:36 am
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:34 am
should start at the beginning with Consider Phlebas.
Did that one a couple of years ago.
This one is something Windward. or otherwise known as Complete Bollox.
Look to Windward.
Yeah, definitely NOT the best book to start with. Try Use of Weapons, lots of death and mayhem. Or Player of Games, which is focused on one person.
The best order to read is actually the published order because Banks expanded the universe with each book.
Or not
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:48 am
by KungFooBob
On a complete tangent, if you like death and violence with some very funny moments, have you tried The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie?
It's kind of fantasy rather than sci-fi, it's kind to f a faster paced, funnier Game of Thrones.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pvV ... &q&f=false
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:49 am
by Gregor
The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road are decent non Sci Fi reads.