ah
i never knew!
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
internet says it's 1972
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
I did not know (although it was mentioned on this thread ten years ago) that there was a Wimpy computer game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. The box looked like this:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Mr._Wimpy_Coverart.png
However, the original cover art as designed by Bob Wakelin* for Ocean Software and rejected by Wimpy, was... this (click through):https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:Mr._Wimpy_(Original_Artwork).jpg
The game was apparently not very good, in case you hadn't guessed.
* if you played any games on 8-bit micros or the Amiga circa '84-92 you've probably seen Wakelin's art before: https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin plus many others
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 3 September 2017 10:44 (seven years ago) link
It was a version of Burger Time iirc, i think I liked it
― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 September 2017 11:57 (seven years ago) link
more information than you probably need here:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003312
― koogs, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:20 (seven years ago) link
(it's kind of hilarious how those tiny thumbnails on the side there are actual 1:1 spectrum screenshots, 256x192px)
― koogs, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:22 (seven years ago) link
I can remember the Spectrum/C64 rivalry being quite sectarian at times, and almost spilling into real hate and violence at my local community centre computer club!
― calzino, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
the connective tissue between wimpy and prog rock has been disappointingly underexplored thus far, it's true
They come up in Jethro Tull's "Up to Me" too.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link
xp yeah but Speccy owners were right :D
― a big sausage-handed small-eared guy (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:54 (seven years ago) link
don't get me showing unflattering images of the much better graphics and colour qualities of the C64 version of Uridium, next to the Spectrum version!
― calzino, Sunday, 3 September 2017 12:59 (seven years ago) link
That link to Bob Wakelin's art, annotated, is brilliantJust wasted too much time on WOS, shame a lot of links have gone
― kinder, Sunday, 3 September 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Made it. Sitting in not my local Wimpy but the Eltham one
― imago, Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
It's long, thin and tawdry. My burger will be appalling, my mocha worse. Hurrah!
― imago, Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
#awaydays?
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link
This is atrocious but quite nice
― imago, Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
No, I'm between lessons haha
:D
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
Oh god I feel actually sick
― imago, Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
It's long, thin and tawdry.
I thought this was the burger you were talking about at first.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
yeah me too, only just worked out it was the shop
― hard to be a spod (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:23 (six years ago) link
Well, it's what Giles Coren et al get paid for, after all.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
One of those thread titles that make you sing along..
"Oh no don't ask why..."
― Mark G, Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
Do the burgers still have a definite gristle taste?
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
Did we have this exciting and definitely wholly accurate article yet?
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/11331933.Brad_Pitt_has_a_taste_for_Wimpy/
(found while searching for Swindon Wimpy, because for some reason I felt a strange urge to see the picture of it I posted upthread which is now a broken link)
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
fizzy drinks
― j., Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
I really want to visit the one near(ish) to me in Eastcote
― MaresNest, Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Phil Lynott in a Dublin Wimpyhttps://brandnewretro.ie/2012/02/17/old-adverts-52-wimpy-dorset-st-dublin-with-phil-lynott-1968/
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
"rendezbvous for showband" :D <3
― hard to be a spod (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/12/article-2172701-14075D65000005DC-164_964x677.jpg
Joe Strummer and John Peel @ Wimpy
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
not an advertisement for wimpy's health benefits tbh
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Sunday, 28 January 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Fosters? really?
― calzino, Sunday, 28 January 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
I guess sometimes you might need a diuretic, but otherwise I wouldn't use that piss to clean my boots.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 January 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
Just time for a quick look at the papers... pic.twitter.com/65EhPNHhQd— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) August 11, 2018
― soref, Saturday, 11 August 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-46760299
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
Oh man I've eaten there more than a few times :(
― I can't dérive fifty-feev (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
i am moved to ponder the mysterious confluence of culture, circumstance and economic trends which has somehow led essex to have 18 surviving wimpys, the most in the uk
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
Gonna guess massive racism
― I can't dérive fifty-feev (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
i'm happy to accept that as correct until i see persuasive evidence to the contrary tbh
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
A preference for stuff that you had when you were a kid vs stuff that is much better but has no nostalgia value?Looking on the Wimpy website it seems that I would have to travel 30-40 miles from Cambridge to find a Wimpy, but if I did so, there are 8 to choose from, forming a ring of Wimpy around the neighbouring counties. Peterborough, Cheshunt, Loughton, King's Lynn, Colchester, Maldon, Borehamwood, Billericay. If they opened a branch in Thetford it would be perfect.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
It's probably posted upthread but the last time I had a Wimpy, several years ago after probably a decade or more of abstinence, it was crushingly disappointing
― I can't dérive fifty-feev (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
there's one a mere 4.68 miles from my front door
and it's... closed until friday? wtf
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
I last had one when I was working in Lewisham about a decade ago, it was not good.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
maybe this will whet yr appetite
Talk about a Happy #NewYear! Our new specials are here and they’re priced to please! Click here for details>> https://t.co/PeCCX6pZbL pic.twitter.com/tgfMepsBnr— WimpyUK (@WimpyUK) January 7, 2019
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
god imagine being in charge of wimpy's social media, tweeting shit like this to an audience of 4,431 comprised entirely of bots and people who clicked 'follow' by mistake and haven't realised it yet
That looks absolutely delicious! 🍔😋 https://t.co/c0PvdPLcgs— WimpyUK (@WimpyUK) December 30, 2018
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
The burger emoji looks tastier than the actual thing
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
what does danger mouse have to do with wimpy? why is he visiting schoolchildren? what exactly was the prize frankie won? is this real or am i in a coma, imagining symbols of my childhood smashing into each other in a signifier-free melange of empty nostalgia?
Look who visited @RayleighPrimary School this week! A massive thanks to our prize winner Frankie and his class of future Danger Agents for giving us a warm Wimpy welcome! #DangerMouse #secretagentskills pic.twitter.com/E2lFeWi1u3— WimpyUK (@WimpyUK) December 5, 2018
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
Post-colonial irony iirc
― I can't dérive fifty-feev (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
Honest to god the state of that burger and those chips
― I can't dérive fifty-feev (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
this feels like a prime candidate for the 'real england' thread
Dear @WimpyUK,Here are some more photos of your cheeseburger shops that @sadcaptains and I have visited. We have been to 25 now so we are a third of the way to visiting every one!These ones are #Basingstoke, #Beckenham, #Billericay and #Clacton.Kind regards,CTD3 xx pic.twitter.com/zvTwlmpcvz— Captain T Duck III (@captaintduck3) September 14, 2018
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
this tweet made me a vegan
Thanks for the amazing feedback @TinyTroyeSivan! 😍😍 https://t.co/VI8ZbbFD7L— WimpyUK (@WimpyUK) November 16, 2018
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link