The TPU UK Clubhouse

[dorsetknob]

Is it wrong that I actually, quite literally want to murder many of the people I am reading about in the Paradise Papers report on the financial fuckery firm Appleby.

And is it not ironic that one of Appleby highest Clients is Apple

Can imagine the Conversation

" Hey Appleby help us hide/dodge our EU Tax problem or we Sue you for tradmark name infringment"

just a poor Bloke thinking here

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Is it wrong that I actually, quite literally want to murder many of the people I am reading about in the Paradise Papers report on the financial fuckery firm Appleby.

Ther accumulation of wealth and lack of redistribution by what are effectively, shysters, is something that turns my inner core to molten hatred. Wealth is pure evil.

So long as they are not adversely affected directly. They have no reason to care....

As a society its pretty much all gone to the dogs and sadly this will most likely continue. The rich people will just have to be a bit more smart when it comes to where they hide invest their money.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Just popped in to Poundland and discussed their recent price rises with a cashier.

We concluded that the stores should be renamed..........Everythingroundeduptothenearestpoundland

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Just popped in to Poundland and discussed their recent price rises with a cashier.

We concluded that the stores should be renamed..........Everythingroundeduptothenearestpoundland

ForEverythingElseTheresMasterCard

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Bargain Booze have upped the price of Stella by 26p for 4 x pint cans....bastards, thats another shop trying to ruin Xmas for me.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Bargain Booze have upped the price of Stella by 26p for 4 x pint cans....bastards, thats another shop trying to ruin Xmas for me.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

thats me with a different accent.



Edit
just for clarification.........im not a vicar

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

One to follow


A British explorer has vanished on a quest to reach a lost tribe of headhunters just weeks after urging people 'not to rescue him' because he 'may be some time' in the country.

Benedict Allen was dropped by helicopter into the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea three weeks ago and has not been heard of since.

His wife Lenka is frantic with worry because he is supposed to have started his journey home by Sunday.

The 57-year-old father of three, who has explored the Gobi desert and the Amazon in a lifetime of adventuring – once eating his own dog to survive, has no phone or GPS device.

He was on a mission to reach the Yaifo – a tribe thought to be one of the last on Earth to have no contact with outsiders.

They live in the crocodile-infested jungles of East Sepik, a province lacking proper roads or navigable rivers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41998842/missing-explorer-describes-meeting-papua-new-guinea-tribe

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Maybe they ate him? Which brings me to a nice segue Into religion... Namely Buddhism

Sri Lankan authorities take strict action against perceived insults to Buddhism, which is the religion of the island's Sinhalese population.

But what the Sri Lankan prison guards did goes against the ethics of Buddhism.. "made sexually-explicit remarks to her and she was forced to give police money"

Thats not the right behaviour of any practising buddhist or 'God-fearing' individual(s)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Just got back from Comic-Con at the Birmingham NEC. What a waste of time... 80% of the expo are just stalls selling shit. Saw some pretty decent cosplays, Nothing outstanding as I have seen in the past at the eXcel/Custom House Docklands here in London. While I expected the event to me more 'comic' orientated like cosplayers from Marvel or DC franchise. There were in great majority shop stalls that were selling Japanese orientated merch and more than a handful of people dressed as characters from their favorite Japanese Anime (non-comic)

The line between Anime and Comic has been so blurred that Even if you were to walk into a farmers convention, you'd still get a handful of stalls selling you random junk like lifetime supply of sweets, keychains and pedants that has nothing to do with farming itself.

I dont mind people dressing up as their favorite Anime character, Im totally not against it, but this is Comic-Con, not Anime-Expo.... Either get the costume right or go as steampunk/Goth or just a normie... Its called Comic-Con for a reason.

Twitch had quite a share of the floor, People were queuing for 30-40mins to game with/against some 'famous' UK twitch streamers on a game of Fortnight or PUBG for 30mins.... Twitch at Comic-Con??


The whole thing has become way too commercialised and the way I feel about it is the same way Jesus felt when he came to find the stairs of the church littered with beggars and shop merchants selling their tatty wares. He told them to f**k right off.



Despite my love for anime, comics or movies. I've never been hugely interested in going to events like these as there are just too many people for my liking . My friend had a ticket spare so I decided to go with him to the Birmingham NEC to see what it was all about. Sadly Im disappointed and wont be making another trip to Comic-Con at the Birmingham NEC again.

My friend was surprised that I never bought anything. But all i saw being sold was just utter junk... cups/glasses with some sort of plastic imprint that would peel after a few washes, cheap keyrings, Cheap pocket watches bought from amazon and significantly marked up and a dude trying to sell me a fake zippo for £10 when i can easily get the same thing for £3 off amazon...

"But its all about the experience!!!"

and you can f**k right off!!!

 

[kurosagi01]

Just got back from Comic-Con at the Birmingham NEC. What a waste of time... 80% of the expo are just stalls selling shit. Saw some pretty decent cosplays, Nothing outstanding as I have seen in the past at the eXcel/Custom House Docklands here in London. While I expected the event to me more 'comic' orientated like cosplayers from Marvel or DC franchise. There were in great majority shop stalls that were selling Japanese orientated merch and more than a handful of people dressed as characters from their favorite Japanese Anime (non-comic)

The line between Anime and Comic has been so blurred that Even if you were to walk into a farmers convention, you'd still get a handful of stalls selling you random junk like lifetime supply of sweets, keychains and pedants that has nothing to do with farming itself.

I dont mind people dressing up as their favorite Anime character, Im totally not against it, but this is Comic-Con, not Anime-Expo.... Either get the costume right or go as steampunk/Goth or just a normie... Its called Comic-Con for a reason.

Twitch had quite a share of the floor, People were queuing for 30-40mins to game with/against some 'famous' UK twitch streamers on a game of Fortnight or PUBG for 30mins.... Twitch at Comic-Con??


The whole thing has become way too commercialised and the way I feel about it is the same way Jesus felt when he came to find the stairs of the church littered with beggars and shop merchants selling their tatty wares. He told them to f**k right off.



Despite my love for anime, comics or movies. I've never been hugely interested in going to events like these as there are just too many people for my liking . My friend had a ticket spare so I decided to go with him to the Birmingham NEC to see what it was all about. Sadly Im disappointed and wont be making another trip to Comic-Con at the Birmingham NEC again.

My friend was surprised that I never bought anything. But all i saw being sold was just utter junk... cups/glasses with some sort of plastic imprint that would peel after a few washes, cheap keyrings, Cheap pocket watches bought from amazon and significantly marked up and a dude trying to sell me a fake zippo for £10 when i can easily get the same thing for £3 off amazon...

"But its all about the experience!!!"

and you can f**k right off!!!

I was seeing what "stalls" will be about in the Birmingham on their website to see if its worthwhile attending or even available games to play. Turned out it wasn't worth it from your experience and the fact it was smaller convention personally, definitely would stick to Excel for "any" anime, nerdy, comic merchandise and games. Although this october been my worst time in terms of finding something to get as nothing peaked my interest. Purely because i don't really have space for any of the figures i would of been interested in buying,lack of interesting games/deals to look out for, none of the anime blu-ray wasn't at the stalls(Gundam part 2) and i only walked away with Nier Automata OST.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I was seeing what "stalls" will be about in the Birmingham on their website to see if its worthwhile attending or even available games to play. Turned out it wasn't worth it from your experience and the fact it was smaller convention personally, definitely would stick to Excel for "any" anime, nerdy, comic merchandise and games. Although this october been my worst time in terms of finding something to get as nothing peaked my interest. Purely because i don't really have space for any of the figures i would of been interested in buying,lack of interesting games/deals to look out for, none of the anime blu-ray wasn't at the stalls(Gundam part 2) and i only walked away with Nier Automata OST.

I did manage to Catch up and interrogate the owner of the GundamMad stall. He is ALWAYS at these conventions as its his bread and butter. He had some 'limited run' or 'limited edition' Gunpla going for something like £690. When i asked about the price he told me he'd already sold 4 of them. To me it didnt quite make sense. He'd managed to get 5 (or possibly more) of these to sell on and that alone sounded extremely fishy to me when they were supposed to be a limited run or maybe they made enough for him to purchase 5 to sell on? Granted, He's in the business of selling this stuff to make a living so I cant really give him too much grief about his pricing seeing as the availability of Gunpla stores both on and offline that are available in the UK is extremely limited so he's more or less providing a service for model kit fans to get some good loots.


on a side note, i was extremely tempted by the fake zippo... It was a metal one that had a 'PC MASTER RACE' picture engraved on both sides... Had it been an authentic Zippo, I would of had no problems paying the Zippo price. I dont even smoke but I want a Zippo just to show off when my friends go out for a smoke.... I can be the classy bastard with the Zippo when everyone has their cheap ass bic or clipper lighters.

Some of the sword stalls were quite interesting (as always) I was wanting a 'bamboo sword' that the blind samurai from Zatoichi uses cuz they are cool as shit.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

online Zippo engraving
https://www.zippo.co.uk/engrave-it


his and hers.............done by me

 

[Tatty_Two]

I did manage to Catch up and interrogate the owner of the GundamMad stall. He is ALWAYS at these conventions as its his bread and butter. He had some 'limited run' or 'limited edition' Gunpla going for something like £690. When i asked about the price he told me he'd already sold 4 of them. To me it didnt quite make sense. He'd managed to get 5 (or possibly more) of these to sell on and that alone sounded extremely fishy to me when they were supposed to be a limited run or maybe they made enough for him to purchase 5 to sell on? Granted, He's in the business of selling this stuff to make a living so I cant really give him too much grief about his pricing seeing as the availability of Gunpla stores both on and offline that are available in the UK is extremely limited so he's more or less providing a service for model kit fans to get some good loots.


on a side note, i was extremely tempted by the fake zippo... It was a metal one that had a 'PC MASTER RACE' picture engraved on both sides... Had it been an authentic Zippo, I would of had no problems paying the Zippo price. I dont even smoke but I want a Zippo just to show off when my friends go out for a smoke.... I can be the classy bastard with the Zippo when everyone has their cheap ass bic or clipper lighters.

Some of the sword stalls were quite interesting (as always) I was wanting a 'bamboo sword' that the blind samurai from Zatoichi uses cuz they are cool as shit.

I can let you have a well used 18 inch Machete, still has some old stains on it, got a fair bit of history, gotta be better than a bamboo sword but there again I was always a substance over visuals kinda guy.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I can let you have a well used 18 inch Machete, still has some old stains on it, got a fair bit of history, gotta be better than a bamboo sword but there again I was always a substance over visuals kinda guy.

Interesting....

Tell me more about your trophy. How many lives has it claimed? Im guessing it must of seen some action back in 'Nam or somewhere in Africa.

online Zippo engraving
https://www.zippo.co.uk/engrave-it

Just going through some of the Customisation options. For some reason. I want to have one engraved with a picture of a Diamond with the words 'Diamond Geeezah' on the lid

On a side note. Ive just rebuilt the front dust filter on my 760T using 3mm dust filter foam sheet purchased of ebay. I've used these foam sheets to make my own custom dust filters for many years now. they arent really too restricting when it comes to airflow and they dim the leds on the fans ever so slightly which is great as the Corsair ML fans are really bright.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Brunei initially, it was issued as I went on a jungle Warfare course, then 1st Gulf War, Rwanda, 2nd Gulf then Afghanistan. To be honest, they are not that practical apart from doing what they were designed for which of course is hacking away at trees and undergrowth but they work a treat as an incentive when your in a tight spot and need information quick.

 

[kurosagi01]

I did manage to Catch up and interrogate the owner of the GundamMad stall. He is ALWAYS at these conventions as its his bread and butter. He had some 'limited run' or 'limited edition' Gunpla going for something like £690. When i asked about the price he told me he'd already sold 4 of them. To me it didnt quite make sense. He'd managed to get 5 (or possibly more) of these to sell on and that alone sounded extremely fishy to me when they were supposed to be a limited run or maybe they made enough for him to purchase 5 to sell on? Granted, He's in the business of selling this stuff to make a living so I cant really give him too much grief about his pricing seeing as the availability of Gunpla stores both on and offline that are available in the UK is extremely limited so he's more or less providing a service for model kit fans to get some good loots.

I am curious to know what his profit/loss is as the way i see it he must be making decent profit seeing as he doesn't sell kits by just their grade but the "build quality" of the kit. Most HGs i've seen on hobbylinksjapan(HLJ) are about £10 but he would sell them at like £20-£30. So he is making say £5-10 profit on each sale as importing kits on(HLJ) for cheapest rate is about £5.
He also helps with selling manga ent licence DVDs and blu-rays aswell,i've only spoken to him on two occasions,which first was like 10 years ago and then last year at MCM in london on checking to see if they have blu-ray i want.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I am curious to know what his profit/loss is as the way i see it he must be making decent profit seeing as he doesn't sell kits by just their grade but the "build quality" of the kit. Most HGs i've seen on hobbylinksjapan(HLJ) are about £10 but he would sell them at like £20-£30. So he is making say £5-10 profit on each sale as importing kits on(HLJ) for cheapest rate is about £5.
He also helps with selling manga ent licence DVDs and blu-rays aswell,i've only spoken to him on two occasions,which first was like 10 years ago and then last year at MCM in london on checking to see if they have blu-ray i want.

I think the average price of his cheapest kits started around the £70 mark. At least that is what i saw so im guessing around £10-20 profit depending on which model it is. the newest models tend to sell for more imo. I dunno whether he chose to set his stall up that way but I didnt see much in the way of Gundam Seed related kits... There probably were in the MG/HG stack but from the Perfect Grade line up it was 90% Unicorn stuffs. He used to sell a lot of Armored Core models for a while. I cant remember seeing any of those this time.

 

[kurosagi01]

I think the average price of his cheapest kits started around the £70 mark. At least that is what i saw so im guessing around £10-20 profit depending on which model it is. the newest models tend to sell for more imo. I dunno whether he chose to set his stall up that way but I didnt see much in the way of Gundam Seed related kits... There probably were in the MG/HG stack but from the Perfect Grade line up it was 90% Unicorn stuffs. He used to sell a lot of Armored Core models for a while. I cant remember seeing any of those this time.

At excel london he had tons of HG available to choose starting from £20 and mixture of MG and few PG,most likely he brought out the popular ones which atm i think Unicorn is popular. He did have the metal Destiny gundam grade which was EXPENSIVE.
Most likely he is only selling the ones that will sell easily,i remember buying a Armored core model kit cheap from him.

Anyways..Black friday offers this whole week is tempting me to get Ryzen 5 lol.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

At excel london he had tons of HG available to choose starting from £20 and mixture of MG and few PG,most likely he brought out the popular ones which atm i think Unicorn is popular. He did have the metal Destiny gundam grade which was EXPENSIVE.
Most likely he is only selling the ones that will sell easily,i remember buying a Armored core model kit cheap from him.

Anyways..Black friday offers this whole week is tempting me to get Ryzen 5 lol.

black friday has been a little shitty so far tbf.

 

[kurosagi01]

black friday has been a little shitty so far tbf.

Tbh it needs to stop but it has settled down since they are now splitting it to a whole week and not just on a day thing.

What are people thoughts on Gigabyte motherboard these days? My first build i used gigabyte and i quite liked it.

 

[phill]

Morning all I hope everyone is alright?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

well happy


its taken 11 months but ive finally got an appt at the only specialist headache clinic in Wales. maybe after 10 years of pain i will finally get a diagnosis and treatment............


aaaaaaaaaaaaand


an out of the blue refund for overpaid bank charges amounting to quite a significant sum of money. ( and 8 years of interest on that too)...................



aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand



its my wifes day off so its " no trouser tuesday" again......................

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

well happy


its taken 11 months but ive finally got an appt at the only specialist headache clinic in Wales. maybe after 10 years of pain i will finally get a diagnosis and treatment............


aaaaaaaaaaaaand


an out of the blue refund for overpaid bank charges amounting to quite a significant sum of money. ( and 8 years of interest on that too)...................



aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand



its my wifes day off so its " no trouser tuesday" again......................

Celebration time!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

the bank sent the overpayment cheque 3 weeks ago and it hasnt arrived so i rang them yesterday. The operator said they would cancel it and issue another one which could take another 28 days.

i asked to speak to her manager who told me that was how the system works. I asked him to look behind his keyboard and reach into his human nature and try and do his best for the customer ( like i would). Without too much persuasion he told me he would get a hand written cheque issued this morning and on his break he is going to deposit it in his local branch for me.



the moral of the story?

just cos the computer says NO doesnt mean a human cant say YES