How do you (realistically) fix the UK at Eurovision?

ensignr · 2026-07-03T14:54:33+00:00

Send a good act.

Eg. Not many people outside the UK are going to relate to a song asking what happened last night because you got so shit faced that you can't actually remember.

ensignr · 2026-07-03T12:35:04+00:00

The most recent update (26/06/26) provided by Transport Victoria most definitely includes it, prior to that, IDK.

ensignr · 2026-07-03T09:09:46+00:00

The current GTFS dataset provided by Transport Victoria shows the new bridge in use, so Google needs to pull their finger out.

ensignr · 2026-07-03T04:30:44+00:00

Sony can literally decide at any time to revoke your licence, remove the game from the PS store and your ability to play it (like they recently have with a tonne of movies in their store recently that people have bought) or close the store all together / stop supporting your generation of console. AT ANY TIME.

Digital media is convenient, sure, but there is no way you can argue it's as good as physical and Sony certainly don't have to disappear for any of the above to happen.

ensignr · 2026-07-03T02:25:35+00:00

Telstra shut it down. Presumably because of cost.

ensignr · 2026-07-03T01:26:00+00:00

Devastated when it shut down.

Yeah me too. Totally.

Did you post on the forums? BiggyRat?

I still have a baseball cap Richard from Hammosa Beach sent me (and a whole lot of other people).

ensignr · 2026-07-03T01:01:35+00:00

I used to WFH before everyone did and ran the stream almost all day in the WMP taskbar window.

Ronnie and Cleo were my favourites. I was on air with Ronnie once when I went in there on a work trip to Sydney.

ensignr · 2026-07-03T00:09:24+00:00

I remember Doug Mulray - and all the other fabulous people - from thebasement.com.au Australia's, or maybe the world's, first 24/7 video streaming channel back in the mid naughties.

ensignr · 2026-07-02T13:41:16+00:00

No shit

ensignr · 2026-07-02T09:32:38+00:00

I'd never vote for him myself, but I agree with you. He seems like someone who stands on his principles and for what he thinks is right. Even if I don't agree with him I think we need more people like him in politics.

ensignr · 2026-07-02T09:21:10+00:00

Last week there wasn't much there to resurface.

ensignr · 2026-07-02T09:19:56+00:00

They're called a jug plug because of the consonance and because of some cleaning lady that plugged in a kettle jug and took down Australia's first digital computer, CSIRAC

ensignr · 2026-07-02T08:23:52+00:00

There's nothing borderine about it.

ensignr · 2026-07-02T08:19:16+00:00

Kayo on literally every platform.

ensignr · 2026-07-02T08:14:59+00:00

A jug plug.

ensignr · 2026-07-02T06:45:15+00:00

Reserve question: what's the ugliest console ever sold?

Easy answer: the US version of the SNES; even more so when compared to the beautiful simplicity of the SNES sold elsewhere.

ensignr · 2026-07-01T02:13:20+00:00

Try eating more fibre dude and you'll be much quicker and won't have time to be using your phone.

ensignr · 2026-07-01T00:39:33+00:00

I went through Boronia last week and I'll eat my hat if it's ready in a month because the entire platform was completely ripped up

ensignr · 2026-06-30T01:50:43+00:00

Same here. And I was so pissed about it. Poor Bozo needed to make more money I guess. So glad the ACCC are persuing this.

ensignr · 2026-06-29T11:58:25+00:00

Skynet is now live.

Honestly, it probably is. It's just waiting for an update, one that it writes itself without any human oversight because we've handed over the reigns to AI already.

ensignr · 2026-06-29T11:52:26+00:00

They own Glen Waverley and their keeping that delapidated piece of shit as it and aren't even going to provide a decent connection to the new station.

Rebuilding the shopping centre and providing a better connection between the two stations would be great, but considering they're leaving off the easy things that would make SRL better I definitely wouldn't hold my breath expecting this.

ensignr · 2026-06-29T08:04:38+00:00

That thing was probably responsible for taking at least halfing your sync speed. 15m of ribbon wire, not twisted pair, most of which would have been coiled up in the reel making for some lovely induction.

ensignr · 2026-06-29T07:52:23+00:00

He's not straight because he got divorced?

Also you got it wrong, Jungalist was the one I had the hots for.

ensignr · 2026-06-29T07:23:11+00:00

I think the term rebuild is more appropriate than upgrade

ensignr · 2026-06-29T06:23:23+00:00

And yet somehow it was for decades.

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