Fruitbat
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Fruitbat
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"I'm Boris Johnson"?
July 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I did something similar with my phone, and got a new account all set up, and then sat wondering if I had missed anything before pressing 'delete'.

Immediately I realised I'd just thrown away all my phone contacts (as I never use my phone for calls, I'd completely forgotten).
June 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Unlike in America, however, I am entitled to an opinion.
June 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I just can't be bothered any more. This is the first series I've not watched since 1974.
June 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It's nice to see it looking so smart.

I have lots of happy memories of visiting you there with Duncan over the years.
May 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Here, it's the entirely agnostic "Does the Pope shit in the woods?".
May 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I remember it looking very different. What, 30 years ago now?
May 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I do now have some which mark the speed on the actual plug, or have a red ring around the plastic where it plugs in. We did tell the implementers forum quite forcefully that their design was a disaster at the time.
April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My custom USB C cabling system has red cables for things that are charging only, blue for cables that transfer data at high speed and black for "fuck alone knows".

I tried using electrical tape to mark special cables, but as I always lose the key, black + tape means "fuck alone knows".
April 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I used to quite enjoy the nude Black Hole, and it was so far from anywhere that you could ride on it non-stop for the last half hour.
March 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's an improvement on "Sudden thundery showers in the vicinity of Rita".
March 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I've always loved travel posters. I've got a set of Pan Am ones. And yes, having travelled on Pan Am, it definitely felt like five days.
March 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I can't be dealing with that. All my albums fit in the memory on my phone, although I do occasionally press "Shuffle Entire Library" at which point I get several songs from Steps, "Flight From Edoras" from Lord of the Rings, something in Swedish from a 1970s Eurovision and the theme from Eastenders.
March 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My only record of going there is their pompous response to a letter I wrote where I said I've never been to a theme park with such appalling crowd control. This was the year before they pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the safety of visitors to the park.
March 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I've been on it. Oakwood was a strange place. A definite sense of decay about the place, and half full of Irish tourists.
March 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's not the same since bid-up.tv folded.
February 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It sounds perfectly OK to me.

I am fond of the old quiz question 'Which is the only underground station containing none of the letters from the word 'mackerel'' but there are now two of them.
February 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I probably wouldn't even notice those messages in between the 'review your order of our product', 'review our service', 'how did your order process go?', 'have you received your order yet?', 'rate the product', 'rate the seller', 'the seller is still waiting for your review'.
February 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I know one windows emulator implements flashing as "extra bright" so there's not a direct compatibility with the original.

I worked mostly in mode 7 because I didn't have 20k to throw around putting lines on the screen.
February 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The only one I still know by heart is *FX200,3 which disables the BREAK intercept so you can make all the computers in Dixons print "BIG COCKS" on repeat and none of the staff knew how to stop it.
February 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It's always nice to remember how You've Never Had It So Good.

So here's an explanation of how to change the colours on the 32K BBC Micro.
BBC Micro User Guide: Advanced Graphics
central.kaserver5.org
February 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM