Posts by Steven

@YEAH!

Seconded :O)

And I for one welcome our new and improved shiney orbiting overlords....

God bless her...

...and all who sail in her.. ;o)

Amy Taylor, 28

Yeah ok! Someone needs to add VAT to that...

Only...

Steve Wright was a fork lift driver.... not a lorry driver.

I believe Jezza was more likely referring to Peter Sutcliffe, still glad to see the MP in question didn't let the facts get in the way of a good rant.

BC

This is precisely why when I received the letter informing me Morgan Stanley/Goldfish had been acquired by Barclaycard I rang them up and promptly cancelled my card with them.

Was perfectly happy with the service I'd received from MS up until then but having dealt with Barclays before I'd vowed that I'd never deal with any part of that organisation!

And the film would star?

<<<< Well obviously?

@Alan

"Speaking as a contractor - this is wonderful news :)"

Amen brother :)

Thesaurus

"would by now be spraying sub-particulate roadkill wreckage like zillionfold femto-entrail hail" - Love it :)

Re: Seán

Please do not feed the troll....

@ Keith_C

That section of the A13 is actually a 40 but I take your point although I seem to recall about a year after construction was finished they still had the 30 signs up for the majority of it ;)x

If I'd bought the house...

... I'd be having a f**king word with the surveyor about that.

"Yes the electrics could really do with replacing but other than that the construction is sound...."

Except for the slight exception that the entire firebreak has been removed from the loft space and you've got some illegals camping in the loft!!!

lol :)

Please use the one...

...in the Soyuz, into which we shall not pass solid's.....

The one next to the incontinence pants.

Well I for one...

...welcome our distant galaxy dwelling overlords / lord?!

;o)

Nice one guys 'n' gals

Good to see the faces behind ASCII characters so to speak!

I for one...

...welcome our Phobos dwelling overlords.

@jai

Amen brother!

@amanfromMars

Bloody hell I think I understood most of that, time for a lay down....

;)

Well

No fucker asked me.

In fact I can't recall ever being asked an opinion on anything that happens in London despite being one of its residents!

Are they really gone?

"Hurst and Sladden's Facebook accounts have been deleted from the site."

Deleted or deactivated? ;)

Bloody hell!

Had never thought about what would happen to one of those if it 'ran away', definitely the right course of action for the engineers was to leg it and capture it for posterity and post it on You Tube! :)

Can you hear that?

It's the sound of a thousand Mac and *NIX fanbois stampeding towards the thread!

;)

Do they....

...chop a small piece off the end of the phone?

Such a business!

@Neal

Neal I think £200M is going to turn out to be chicken feed compared to the overall budget once everything is added up (not that we'd ever get given a figure that was anywhere near correct in any case, I dare say you'll end up being screwed out of more than £200M when all said and done).

What makes me laugh is that people in the rest of the UK don't want it, no fucker in London I know wants it and yet we're all collectively going to end up picking up the tab. And don't get me started about tickets, no doubt they'll all be snaffled up by the corporates and the man in the street if he's lucky will get tickets to some obscure event that nobody has heard of! So we won't even be able to go and bloody see it!!

I live and work less than 10 minutes drive from the site and short of people in the building trade in the area its of no use whatsoever to the local workforce. We've had several clients who's premises were on the site who have had compulsory puchase orders issued against them and received a fraction of the lands true worth so as we see again from this government the man in the street is the first to be bent over.

I for one..

...welcome our flaming molten beryllium, hydrazine snorting overlords

;)

I'm sorry

AC: "overpriced in comparison to Dell's"

I'm sorry? How the f*** can you compare Dell's offering to that of IBM? It's all about bang for your buck.

I for one..

...welcome out sewer-dwelling fibre overlords....

You just knew...

...when I checked my El' Reg RSS feed in Firefox I just knew that Mr Haines would be the author of such a fine article!!

Keep up the good work sir! Although I feel it only appropriate that on behalf of the El' Reg's readership I request that you use your powerful position in international journalism to request a similar study concentrating on Bulgarian airbags!

Legal Action

Hope they take the guy to the cleaners!

Notepad

.txt files still work perfectly ;)

VFR

Exactly how the f*** can a Chinook which im assuming is laden with avionics not be capable of flying on instruments?

Or is the a case of health and safety gone mad and the MoD not 'knowing' how to certify the aircraft as I refuse to believe that Boeing would supply an army spec helicopter to any airforce that wasn't capable of flying on a cloudy day!??!

I mean christ there are flying 40+ year old gas tanks (Nimrod's) in service in a Afghanistan and nobody is concerned about them but heaven forbid our lads could get their hands on some up to date kit that doesn't have the correct paperwork, that would be far to dangerous!!

Cupid Stunts.

Reg Standards

Surely! as! this! story! involves! Yahoo! all! words! in! the! headline! should! have! exclamation! marks! before! each! word! ?

<tongue firmly in cheek> ;o)

Marked Up

I suspect the 46k is purely the 'cost' to Guinness of the lost beer kegs as they would sell 90 kegs for a hell of a lost more than 46 grand!!

Either way you've got to give the perps the thumbs up!

JCDM

This from a force, sorry "service" that capped a Brazilian lad 7 times at point blank range on a train because he looked, and I quote, “foreign”. Oh goody, just what London needs.

Can you hear that?

It's the sound of the Mac and Linux fanbois beating their way to the thread...

Of course the people that are likely to open these attachments are not likely to use Linux of any flavour but that won't stop the fanbois, oh no!

Well that's that then.

Best look the bottle of turps out the garage and start claiming disability allowance in accordance with new government directives!!

Disappointed

I was expecting some p0rn related story to unfurl there.

Mr Haines I would like to register my disgust and demand a refund on my license fee....errr...

IT angle etc etc?

;o)

Sick Note

"Sorry I've not been in work for the last week but I've been off my face after a Georgie Best style bender and have only just remembered where I live.

Oh and if you try and sack me I'll take you to a tribunal as your victimising my 'disability'."

Utter joke, who'd be an employer in the UK.

Darwin would be proud...

Proving once again that the lowest common denominator will always shine through!

Paris could have slid through im sure.

Oh really.

"90 per cent of Londoners"

Nae c**t asked me!

Awww

Awwww poor Chris, have a biscuit :)

To be honest...

...it's really just a case of natural selection. If people are stupid enough to run out in front of me I’m doing the world a favour by turning them into fender meat and I should therefore receive a discount when my road tax comes up for renewal.

I shall expedite the mater to my MP forthwith!

@Joe

Ahhh thanks for clarifying that Joe, for a while I’ve been pondering what the ‘wiring issues’ were related to. I had started to think it was something to do with the ILS approach systems or something important when all along it’s just to do with the in flight entertainment systems!

Yeah but....

Where's the Paris Hilton angle?

...coat already on and taxi has arrived...

;)

@Chris C

Common Chris don't be as slow as the guy that lost the tape!

One would assume that the bulk of the $3m would be spent on arranging credit protection facilities for those that have had their details compromised rather than just sending them a letter informing them of the incident.

Certainly I've seen other large organisations offer this service for 12-24 months after the disclosure to those affected, its the least they can do.