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john why is there meat in the server

We appear to be having some trouble with the servers. Nothing to worry about, I reckon! I’m sure RPS will be back on its feet and up to business as usual in no time.

Until then, please enjoy the music after the jump.

37 Comments

  1. 01/04/2011 at 10:23 Paradukes says:

    April fools?

  2. 01/04/2011 at 10:23 Stense says:

    Probably a sign of an invasion from the tech savvy Velociraptors that are going at website infrastructure by smearing jam over the servers, for their own evil schemes. Damn them.

  3. 01/04/2011 at 10:25 BooleanBob says:

    Phew/ For a moment I saw the pic and thought that RPS was going the (sad, sad) way of UK:R.

    If only ’42’ was the answer to either of these tags I think we’d have solved the great problem of life, the universe & everything.

    • 01/04/2011 at 13:55 Carter says:

      Gah just found out, wondering what to do with my collection of swirls now : (

  4. 01/04/2011 at 10:27 Meneth says:

    We need more posts tagged as “why is it on fire again”

    • 01/04/2011 at 11:41 McDan says:

      More things should be on fire in general, it’s a good time.

    • 01/04/2011 at 14:12 BooleanBob says:

      “Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.”

  5. 01/04/2011 at 10:29 DanPryce says:

    This is what happens when Quinns swivels on his chair too hard. Pick the damn thing up and reboot it.

  6. 01/04/2011 at 10:30 Acosta says:

    That is some fantastic music (another reason to be an anglophile.)

  7. 01/04/2011 at 10:35 Kaira- says:

    That picture reminds me of Life on Mars, and it horrifies me greatly.

  8. 01/04/2011 at 10:35 xGryfter says:

    That’s a real BBC thing? I always thought it was just something made for Life on Mars. Between the Music and the creepy clown doll I don’t know how you guys weren’t permanently scarred as children. I guess it’s a good way to get your children to go to bed on time before the evil clown doll comes back to take your soul.

    • 01/04/2011 at 10:52 Malibu Stacey says:

      They used to show it back when I were a lad in the 80’s if you stayed up too late past when BBC1 “switched off”.
      It’s been redundant since they started showing loads of repeats of their shows with sign language added during the night and/or switching to News 24.

    • 01/04/2011 at 10:54 Vague-rant says:

      Wow, you must be really young. It was still in use in my youth, back in the heady mid-90s, too.

    • 01/04/2011 at 11:07 Shadowcat says:

      If it wasn’t a real thing, it wouldn’t have been nearly so good an inclusion.

      It’s not a patch on this, of course:

    • 01/04/2011 at 11:49 robtoo says:

      You haven’t been paying attention. We were all scarred for life.

    • 01/04/2011 at 17:12 xGryfter says:

      Not young just not from the UK, we had the equivalent here in the states (normally some kind of waving flag bs, or eagle footage with patriotic music or a similar bar pattern and the station logo) in the 80s so the concept isn’t new to me I just found that picture to be unusually creepy for something so mundane so when I first saw it on Life on Mars I just figured it was made for the show. Now I know otherwise, and I still find that picture creepy.

    • 02/04/2011 at 20:04 eclipse mattaru says:

      Same here. I live in South America so the reference completely flew over my head, but I still found the girl and the clown to be one of the best things in the show.

      I’ll remember forever the “Do you not like me with my clown? I can see I make you frown.” line, which is quite a feat since it’s competing with all those Gene Hunt quotes.

  9. 01/04/2011 at 10:40 Alexander Norris says:

    Does anyone know what the tracks in the video are actually called? They’re really good and I need to add them to Fallout: New Vegas.

  10. 01/04/2011 at 10:44 Stuart Walton says:

    I’m old enough to remember seeing this on the telly. There were times when there was literally nothing on the TV. You would still leave it on though, just in case.

    That’s until we got home micros \o/

  11. 01/04/2011 at 10:45 Ruadhan says:

    So what you need is a new 503 page, right? Right? :)

  12. 01/04/2011 at 11:01 Fwiffo says:

    Using the arcane powers of tabbed browsing, I shall be playing this music all day.

  13. 01/04/2011 at 11:14 Eddeman says:

    Meat in the server eh? I guess Mr. Walker is trying to find out if you can get yourself a nice meal by removing the CPU-cooler and replacing it with a juicy steak.

  14. 01/04/2011 at 11:59 AdamK117 says:

    Classic BBC tuneing card there RPS =)

  15. 01/04/2011 at 11:59 Gap Gen says:

    My, is it Jape-ril again?

  16. 01/04/2011 at 12:00 Urael says:

    I’m old enough to remember seeing this a lot in my youth. That bloody clown….I don’t hold with this whole ‘clowns are scary’ rubbish that propagates nowadays but by god that IS a scary-ass mother-diddling clown.

    • 01/04/2011 at 12:53 Chris D says:

      I can’t say I find the clown particularly scary. The little girl, on the other hand, is terrifying.

  17. 01/04/2011 at 12:38 frenz0rz says:

    I wish I was old enough back then to come home pissed at 4am and listen to this on TV.

    • 02/04/2011 at 10:41 Phydaux says:

      Ha at 4am it would usually have been static.
      Firstly you’d have God save the Queen then maybe Pages from Ceefax with this sort of music, the test card with this music, the test card with a test tone, then static. But some times it just went straight to that test tone.

      The test tone was a horrible thing and woke me from many a drunken sleep. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee….. and so on.

  18. 01/04/2011 at 13:19 lorddon says:

    Why did they misspell color?

    • 01/04/2011 at 13:35 Gap Gen says:

      I was wondering this as I turned on the taps this morning while observing a fried egg on the pavement by the car park outside. I considered writing to my Minister of Parliament about it, but I was out of A4 paper.

  19. 01/04/2011 at 19:10 ManaTree says:

    Oooh! Oooh! Let the awesome begin.