Posts by TeeCee

Re: Not really

Absolutely correct regarding the weak lager.

Many years back, a mate and I proved conclusively that it is impossible to get drunk on Hofmeister. Drinking Hofmeister continuously for a 48 hour period we found that once a certain level[1] of mild inebriation is reached, equilibrium is achieved. The alcohol is metabolised as rapidly as it is physically possible to process the liquid content via the kidneys to make room for more crap lager.

We did toy with the idea of a secondary experiment involving drinking the Hofmeister, waiting a while for the alcohol to take effect and then forcing regurgitation to see if this improved matters. Unfortunately for scientific method, the requisite drinking of more Hofmeister put us off this one and we just got hammered on Thunderbird instead.

[1] By sheer coincidence, the level that allows you to sit and chat about nothing of importance for 48hrs while drinking Hofmeister.

Re: Futhermore

You can only 'find, chase and catch' thiings like trout and mackerel?

Let me guess; you're a really good swimmer, but can't run for toffee. Yes?

Re: Was it just me?

To baldly go where no fucktard has gone before.

"...they're still spelling 'colour' wrong."

I think you'll find that they are spelling it either wrongly or (rather better here IMHO) incorrectly.

To have them "spelling it wrong" would require Merriam-Webster to go the extra mile and recognise Estuary English. Since it would appear that they've only just managed to get their heads around plain old English, I do not hold out too much hope for you there.

Re: actually

Hmm, we appear to be getting into Buttered Cat Array theory here.

Also hmm. It would seem that search engine results for such are no longer returning the original from the usenet oracle, but someone's later recycling of the concept as a competition entry to Omni magazine.

Precis (all AFAIR): The toast is immaterial to the effect. The staining properties of the "butter" are important, as are the properties of the surface over which the cat is dropped. Optimum results are achieved by buttering cats directly with Tikka Masala sauce and releasing them over white Axminster shagpile carpet, as this combination causes the cat to remain suspended and rotating in mid-air even while carrying a significant additional load.

Large Buttered Cat Arrays are used by aliens to provide anti-gravity effect for their flying saucers. Alien spacecraft are often reported as generating a humming noise, which is actually the sound of many thousands of moggies purring in unison.

Re: Robert Camping is very wealthy

Hmm, he's not noticed the small print about camels and needles then?

Re: SuperDrug

The do indeed.

I'm still waiting for Boots to sell wellies though......

Re: irrelevant really

So, like most hard disks, if it doesn't work you bung it in the freezer overnight?

@Pointer2null

Cue downvoters there.

I'm in the opposite position, Windows only on the desktop at work and both at home. I have to agree with your analysis though. The distros have come on leaps and bounds since I started with it, but it still lacks that end-user-suitable polish.

ONe of my favourites: When the little context-sensitive help widget, invoked via the question mark on a KDE window, pops up saying there is no help and offering you the opportunity to contribute to the community by writing help text for what you're trying to find help on. I find that one even more risible than the "hit 'Start' to shutdown" of Windows.

Re: Wait for it...

And if you tolerate this / Then your platform will be next.....

"The chips are properly beef-fat fried."

Hmm, I remember many moons gone buying chips in Scarborough. Those were fried in proper beef dripping.

There was a slight chill in the evening air and the bloke I was walking with ahead of the group held up a chip, turned to me and said: "I particularly like the way that it forms dendrites of fat as the cold air hits it.". <eats chip>

Me: "Mmmmmmm. Yummy." <eats chips>

Group within earshot behind: "OMFG!" <Retch. Vom. Chips in bin. Etc.>

Re: If you trust Gov.UK to run secure web sites...

Don't knock it. If we can get the yanks to spend their hard-earned buying knob pills from the British Government rather than Canadian pharmacies, we can pay off Sweaty Gordon's legacy with bent US dosh rather than British taxes.

Re: Poor little lost planets

Er, no. The problem here is that even after you take into consideration the mass of all the Galaxies in the Universe (which, by definition, includes any loose planets wandering about in them), we're still a shedload short.

I believe that you'd have to postulate that were more planets wandering around untethered in intergalactic space than there are in Galaxies for that to be a runner. IIRC, that would put something of a nasty dent in the Standard Model.

Avoidence of responsibility

Too true, but all too common.

A good example I saw the other day was in one of the wife's trash mags (and yes, there was a significant rise in blood pressure on reading it). Some stupid woman turned on the hot tap for kiddy's bath and then went to answer the door. Kiddy fell in bath and damned near boiled itself to death.

The result, rather than an acceptance of fault (try running the cold at the same time or even not leaving unattended toddlers next to a bathful of water) is a bloody campaign to force domestic hot water systems to only allow a maximum temperature of 40 degrees. Obvious first objection, bit of a pisser if you have a large family and can no longer provide sufficient hot water for bathing / showering etc. from one tankful.

I'm looking forward to the knee-jerk legislation resulting and then a good long snigger, as the UK goes down to an epidemic of Legionnaires disease and other such nasties that delight in a nice tankful of warm water.

Is always "society's" faults and not mines yes???

Vodafone NL and KPN doing DPI?

I wonder what phorm that inspection takes?

@Some Beggar

Doesn't seem to stop any of those who actually use 'em regularly.

The standard of literacy on FaceWank and Tw@ter is piss-poor even when compared to the worst of the worst around here.