Posts by TeeCee

Re: silly questions...

No big.

I'm sure that getting a pi in the mush somewhere between the limo and the hall is a recognised occupational hazard for anyone on the Mastery side of things.

Re: sad really

Easy.

Obviously the Bud would taste like shit, so I'd fill the balloons with it, get some mates round and see who could make the highest splat mark on the nearest wall.

Then we could play squeaky-voiced silly buggers for a bit with the helium, before going out for some real beer.

Re: Here we go...

Best thing about SKY's F1 coverage is that there seems to be some sort of celebrity challenge going on.

Which celeb can buttonhole Martin Brundle on his grid walk and keep him talking for longest........

Re: Neutrinos are not dangerous

It doesn't matter how much they've had to drink, it just goes straight through 'em you know.......

Re: The last tale...

As far as I can make out from here, all stricter gun control gives me is the certain knowledge that if and when some dickhead shoots at me, it's almost certainly to be with an illegally held weapon[1] rather than only probably an illegally held one.

Apparently the knowledge that, if I am unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, that nasty hole will have been caused illegally with an illegal bullet rather than illegally with a legal bullet is supposed to make me feel better about it.

[1] Unless it's the cops having a momentary lack of common sense or some target discrimination issues.

Re: Bonkers? oh yes.

I had the same experience listening to a mates brand, spanking new setup, which culminated in a pair of AE100 speakers.

After a couple of minutes I said that there was something amiss with the right-hand speaker, a suggestion which produced an outraged response. I convinced him to shut everything off and went round the back for a look.

He had them biwired and had left the links on the right-hand one. I removed them, we fired it up and I pronounced the problem resolved. Shame he couldn't hear the difference.

Established scientific opinion says: "I can't believe it's not Clovis.".

Re: Wireless DVD player???

".....he thought of a spanner as something which had another person holding it."

Well, these days I tend to think of a spanner as something with Agatha Heterodyne holding it. Does that count?

NB: This also applies to screwdrivers, drills, hammers, ludicrously powerful death rays and other stuff like that.

Re: Why does it take so long to get here?

But if that were true, surely if we just tune to the right frequency we'd be able to hear its gleeful and minutely detailed monologue on all the damage its going to cause?

You can't be a villain and set up certain-doom-at-exactly-this-time without also delivering a monologue. It just wouldn't be cricket.

Also: No countdown-to-death clock, no self-destruct button and hanging around in the sky all obvious-like rather than skulking under a dormant volcano on a island somewhere? Very poor. I'll bet it hasn't even got one frikkin' laser beam to its name either.

@Ru

Thank you for that. I read the Popehat reports, the linked EFF pieces and followed a few others too. Unfortunately, my browsing was brought to a sudden halt by the discovery of the link to the original source of the "Go Shit In A Hat" defence, which would appear to be the American legal equivalent of referring a litigant to the response previously given in Arkell v. Pressdram.

Had to stop there. Poorly suppressed giggling attracts too much attention.

Re: Moon is a harsh mistress

Does wanting to be the bloke running a concession stand local to the desert concerned and flogging baseball mitts to those same clueless noobz make me a bad person?

Re: Moral of the story...

Close.

Now if you could provide an example of a pensioner who buried their savings in a pot in their garden and then went around nailing maps of the exact location and a detailed description of the pot's contents to every tree within a 50 mile radius, you'd be right on the money.

As far as I can make out, nobody ever did that. I wonder why.....?

Re: Welcome to El Reg

Welcome to sarcasm.

I assume this is the first time you've seen it........or you've simply not realised that that's what it was!

"Narcissistic Personality Disorder..."

<Yank drawl>

Now why would you go a-wastin' a load of hi-falutin' $20 words like that, when "asshole" would do the job just fine?

</Yank drawl>

Re: Big mistake

".....how much those are going to cost to replace?"

Never mind the cost, it's the availibility that's the real issue. I mean, those things won't have not been made for years for years[1]......

[1] God this language is shit at time dislocated tense handling.

Re: Costs

Spot on, actually reckoned to be about a one to three ratio. Every seriously injured soldier takes the efforts of three full-time people to look after him. That ratio was first hit in the Korean war, with the advent of helicopter Medivac getting troops who would previously have died to the new-fangled MASH units.

The more serious the injury, the more effort is involved in keeping the poor sod alive and the longer the recovery period, requiring greater investment of care time. Hence the modern deformable nose or "tumbling" bullets of low calibre, which are designed to maim horribly rather than kill.

Re: Independence Day and War of the Worlds

Mars Attacks:

Most of those actors did the thing for scale rates too, just for the hell of it.

I recall Tim Burton saying he was mystified that Tom Jones hadn't made films before, as he turned out to be really bloody good as an actor and a joy to work with, unlike most other celebs-turned-filmstars it had been his displeasure to deal with over the years. When this was put to Tom Jones, his response was that he'd have loved to go into acting earlier, he'd really enjoyed doing it, but nobody'd ever bothered to ask him before.

Re: Coming from the faceless

Yes, but you're not posting on Google, you're posting here where there is only one "Aaron Em", one "TeeCee", etc, etc.

As I see it, posting here anonymously sends one of two messages. Either "I don't want anyone to know who said this, 'cos it's dynamite and could land me deep in the shit" or "This is utter bollocks and I don't want my account name to become forever associated with the word 'plonker' in the minds of other commentards". Which were you going for?

Strictly speaking it tastes of mass...........which tastes like chicken.

Re: "reach out"

You've heard of the long arm of the law?

Well American influence has even longer arms than that.

Re: That new Google button was our idea

It's not the £640K that's important, it's the £4 million in "expanded money" that comes with it.....