* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

Apple threatens Java with death on the Mac

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Who the hell do you think you are?!

OK. You're done now. I'm stopping this scrap. You can have it elsewhere.

Top cyber crime cop lied under oath, says judge

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Jeezuz, Haitch, El Reg. ...

Please stop griping about every rejection, and stop being insulting, or I will zap you.

Seagate-Steve trash for Apple-Steve flash pash

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: doublethink

Oh yes, shit, we totally forgot to add "HOW MUCH???!!!!" in there. A grievous oversight.

I've got a second-hand Macbook, which I bought with five magic beans.

Cinema iPhone pirate escapes jail in test case appeal

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: But

Wow. When I finally snap and murder a commentard, I want you to defend me, Andrew. Your reasoning is impeccable. I bet you'd get the poor bugger's family sent down for glaring at me in court.

Somali rebels threaten mobile banking group

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Would said Eye-Slammo Turrists have problems if the mobile

I love it when people get all, "If you reject this comment, well, there will be consequences". As if it's so intensely controversial that I'll sit here sweating when it comes up in the queue.

I don't have a god, anyway. But thanks!

Penthouse founder Guccione dead at 79

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Eh?

Letters get edited.

One-third of iPad fanbois don't download apps

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Who's with me?

That's because you're bourgeois.

Cameron cocks up UK's defences - and betrays Afghan troops

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Lewis

I love how you just got to the point right at the end there and kind of negated your entire post.

Politics is to the Reg as stupidity is to the comments. You'll never see an end to either.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Offtopic - please focus on technology

The Reg has always run non-IT stuff. You could always not read it?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Defence articles

It's never really been explained why there are comments, either.

Er, it's because people read it, like. Or just comment on it.

Vatican confirms Simpsons as Catholics

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: A library card bookmarks the*

"reverse mysogyny"

Well, that's an interesting reading of it. I think the women are more or less equally fallible and there's no suggestion that Homer is somehow in thrall to matriarchy, but if that's how you see it, I'll look forward to your paper on the matter.

And you mean 'misandry'. Sounds like it might be a handy word for you to incorporate into your vocabulary. You're welcome.

Google's Street View broke Canadian privacy laws

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "Open door" analogy is inadequate.

Ah but what if it's a CAR that you leave outside your house etc etc etc

Dixons risks future of humanity with Star Wars-themed ads

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Well now...

But it is a children's film... that's what Lucas set out to make. Same as Harry Potter is a children's book. Innit.

Sorry.

Man wins $650k for stripper shoe eye snafu

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Sarah 1440

You wouldn't have had a happy time of it. I was very, very angry.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Self defence?

It sounds like a reflexive thing rather than a calculated defence. Think about it. This would all have happened very quickly.

I didn't immediately swing a punch when something similar happened to me but I'd understand it if someone else reacted that way.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Heel, part 2.

I do have access to the writer, but I wasn't going to pass on your admonishment because it was incorrect, as you know. And I do take your point.

I'll forgive you anyway, sweetie, because that little get-up you've got on today makes you look so fine, hubba hubba.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: What a heel ...

Why would you think I automatically know about shoes, Jake?

You can get platform stilettos. The platform bit is at the front. The stiletto bit is at the back. I know this not because I'm a girl and obsessed with shoes but because I have sufficient awareness of the world, and of shoes, to figure this out. And also Google told me.

I was going to post a link here but I didn't want y'all to get too het up.

Manchester cops hit Twitter - spoof feeds fall down stairs

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "Police stop man and find he is not wanted."

I know, I felt a bit sorry for him myself.

Great white sharks menace Blighty

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Endangered

If you're serious then you're awesomely ignorant. If you're not, then er, I don't get it.

Florida cops tase naked jogger

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: A few things about this ....

"Man rape"? Don't be so ridiculous.

Hefty physicist: Global warming is 'pseudoscientific fraud'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: RE: What a great test . . .

I'm letting this through so I don't have to deal with any whinings about rejection, but for fucksakes stop using the ridiculous non-word 'sheeple'. It gives me a twitch. You're articulate enough to be able to put your point without resorting to that. I think it might be the nadir of language at present - it makes the misuse of 'random' sound like poetry.

Please stop, then. Thanks.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: A conspiracy, surely not?

Yeah but Collateral was really good.

What?

Robot goes berserk in Balkan lab: 6 boffins given dead arms

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Make love, not war

Ew.

Germans develop sleepy-driver car 'warning' system

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Christoph

What difference does it make?

Ryanair wins ihateryanair.co.uk because of £322 ad revenue

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: there is text here shut up and look

Excuse me?

Margaret Thatcher celebrates 85 years

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sir

Oh God I cannot imagine the original commenter was serious. We are not having this discussion. Shush.

Microsoft's Bing to slurp Facebook users' data and likes

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: We're all screwed anyway

You may have a point but I think that's a bit of an extrapolation to make from that particular evidence.

Jobsian fondle-slab in SEXY FILTHGRAM CRACKDOWN

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Veil not vale

Is it? Is that all, sir? Is it?

Correction is incorrect.

British bank cuts 4,500 IT jobs

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Cause/Effect entirely wrong

And what do you do for a living, Mr Burns?

Apple trade marks 'There's an app for that'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Workaround

Surely this is the opposite of copyright whoring. Copyright chastity?

Windows Phone 7: 'Different, delightful'... and unfinished

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Sarah Bee

They don't pay me enough for me to do anything so strenuous as shilling.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: It's not boring or negative, it's neutral

It's hilarious how people here shout 'shill' at each other all the time. As if there aren't just people who hate or love stuff and like to spout about it on the internet.

Ballerina canned for flashing her assets

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Give me Nigella or Dawn any day...

I appreciate the sentiment but there's no need to refer to her as a 'thing', is there? You don't have to dehumanise her just because you don't find her attractive.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Reply to post: What she chooses to do in her own time

Yes, that.

Men suffer most in recession

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Sarah Bee

Didn't surmise. Merely expressed weariness.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Not that difficult

Oh yes, because that's how it works.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: citations required

I don't have a source to hand (wait a few minutes and I'm sure others will chuck some in your direction - I'd look but I've got 400 of you little sods to moderate at this point), but it's pretty common knowledge that girls outperform boys throughout school, at least. Isn't it? It has been for years. It's always cited around exam time. It's not exactly controversial, as you apparently think it is - although they haven't figured out why this is the case.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: And the drawbacks of being a guy in the workforce

Well, who could argue with that astute assessment?

Christ. It's gonna be a long day. Perhaps if I claim I've got my period and am all hormonal and weepy, I can get the afternoon off, yeah? That's how we roll, after all.

WinPatrol blames McAfee for lost business

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Just one small typo

Thanks Bill, fixed this.

Distressed cock whipped out of wheelie bin

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: And who will you give it to?

Don't be daft. It's OK to give a shit about these things inbetween giving a shit about all the others. You can't rank everything in order of ultimate importance.

It's very glib to suggest animal issues get more attention than human ones - people just come out with that when they want to wring their hands over how no one cares about what they should. Except that they do. Just not everything all at once. If you did that you couldn't get out of bed for angst.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: How about...

What's your point, caller?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Cock and Bull story

I don't think anyone's saying that's OK at all. It's just self-evidently nasty and pointless to put any living thing in this specific situation.

Doctors' appointment system goes tits up

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Plan B

I'm sure you have some horrendous stories but that's pretty vicious. Surely no one deserves that.

eBay Meg still chasing California's top job

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @b166er

Easy now boys.

McCanns join CEOP quango row

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Sarah

You figured it out on some level, didn't you? If you express an opinion, that's one thing, but making rash declarations of what should happen to people is another. See?

Beer always good. The rest of you - I'm not getting into a discussion about this and if you try and post anything limit-testing, I will zap you till you can't sit down.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I tried saying it twice yesterday,

Oh - I just read back over your previous comments and found that it was me that rejected them, and I stand by it, cos they were a bit dodgy, I'm afraid...

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I tried saying it twice yesterday,

Believe what you like, post what you like, it's not always going to get through. Refer to the comment guidelines. There's more than one moderator and we use our own discretion. It's not complicated. Sorry if you feel it's unfair on occasion. Wording is crucial and we are bound by UK libel law... and I'm not gonna lose my job over someone who thinks they're an expert making some wild accusation, so I'm careful, y'know?

I am pleased it's Friday. Two whole days with one less worry.

Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Indeed, must be FUD Friday.

Oh honestly, you lot are the *limit*.

'Blogging'? Just because it's on the internet doesn't make it a blog, you know.

If it makes any difference to any of you, I wrote the headline and sub-head. Also, I have never seen Bill in a compromising situation with an iPhone. In case you've forgotten - we have a pop at everyone. Just not at the same time.

Three new 'nauts head off to ISS

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Maybe a silly question

You know men can have sex with men too.

But I don't want to ruin your fantasy.

The Register comment guidelines 2010

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Gravedigging I know

Um, no. Rein. Think about it. Or look it up.