Posts by iamzippy

MASM

ASSUME NOTHING

'kelker shows?'

Early Smirk!

Love it Verity. Cracked me up.

Life On Mars

...is where I got all my 'OU know-how'. Me and my mate Sam Tyler.

Perp NARU'd, Natch

Jeezus H already.

Imagine how much of this is actually happening. Like, at Thiefrow.

And these f*cktards think they got 'a good idea?' Smart thing to do?

WT flaming F?

Class Article Lewis

Writ like it ought to be. I have this image of a crowd of physicists all jabbering at each other in high-pitched voices, trying to keep a straight face.

Har har!

Re: Security Question - Why Oh Why Oh Why...

How many in your family know your mother's maiden name?

You should NEVER submit the true answer to any of those questions (pet name, first school, inside-leg, blah).

It's a key-value pair FFS, and you're the only one who knows what you set as the answer. That's the whole point. There is only one right answer, there's no true/false connection, and only you know what it is.

Q: Mother's maiden name? A: SHITC*NT-666

Likely not how most people would naturally find themselves thinking, but that's how it works.

Chrissakes.

@How To Tell If Your Home Secretary Is...

Give that AC a cigar. Good example of how politicians need to phrase the rhetoric carefully, lest it be turned on them thus.

Could do with more Baroness Millers in positions of influence, to save us all from NuDoom.

Y'naah?

@Paul Hurst Dammit!

Dude you keep rapping on about those gennies. So much detail, you must be using gennies for some purpose to know all that.

And for extra tax on fuel to piss you off so much, you have to be using commercial quantities.

So what are your gennies doing? I notice you've avoided going there.

What is it? Heat, light and irrigate a skunk farm? Has to be something similar, where you keep your business exes to y'self.

So It's Hoist Then

...and always was.

Dude, you may well Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects but just remember that Notlookinglikeatotalasshole is just a click away if you can be arsed to do it.

RealPlayer Blows Sperm Whales

No RP on this box, so sharp intake of breath anytime I ask WMP to play a video from the BBC site, feckin thing either does nothing or crashes browsers left right and centre. End Task, Don't Send, Beam Me Up, etc.. Open in new window? Takes parent out with it, God damn.

Last Friday, WMP wouldn't play Kermode's live stream on R5. Desperate, stuck the URL into VLC and it played just fine. Quirky I'll admit, but it gets better with each release.

Shove RP where the sun don't shine. Where's the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy icon?

Disqualify the Swines

This is not new legislation, just a shift in the guidelines, folks. CPS has been made aware that it's let too many offenders off kinda lightly. That's my take on it.

I'm an ex ADI with BSM. I learned on the job that the visual and physical co-ordination required to control a moving car is not something all people are blessed with to the same extent. IMHO there is such a thing as 'motor dyslexia' (that's 'motor' as in 'moving your limbs').

Co-ordination in motor function is linked to your 'kinaesthetic sense', which is something that people who can fly helicopters (black or otherwise) have in abundance.

The extent of one's peripheral vision is also part of the mix. Testing the extent of your peripheral vision was part of lesson #1 if I taught you to drive. I got to be very aware of what would put a learner on the fast track or in the slow lane to a driving licence. I would even observe how you walk. If your right arm advanced in sync with your right leg, I made a note, you bet. Ex-squaddies will know where I'm coming from with that.

OK, cut to the chase. There are too many things in an individual's makeup, dictating what sort of driver they are or can be, to legislate for.

I dare say that some people are talented enough to juggle ping-pong balls on their eyebrows while they're driving, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing to do.

The licence is a privilege. If you offend even under the existing legislation, the courts already have the power to take you off the road.

Short of an event involving death or injury, i.e. manifestly dangerous driving, jailing should not be an option. Society picks up that tab.

Make the offenders pay all the price, do all the suffering. Mess their lives up real bad; domestically, socially, job-wise, down the toilet.

Take them off the road. Disqualification. It's a no-brainer.

To demonstrate how far off the pace just about every driver is, here's three questions that I've not yet heard answered correctly even by a driving instructor:

1. What is a ROAD?

2. What is a ROAD USER?

3. What is a HAZARD?

Enjoy.

Merry Season...