* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

Terrafugia Transition flying car redesign - first analysis

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: one fatal flaw

I have no say as to new icons. You could just try saying 'meh'. That should work.

Carnivorous plague mice 'wiping out towns' in US Midwest

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Why are Register articles written so as to include arcane Brittish words and phrases?

Yes. Next question.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: More work for boffins?

>if you will

I won't.

Indonesian parliament gets smut eyeful

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: why block it

You meant 'tenets'.

The rest of you - I've immediately and simulataneously thought of all possible permutations of the joke on 'religious tenants', and none of them are funny, so don't bother.

Besides it's nowhere near as good as the berk the other week who thought 'disciples' was spelt 'decibels'.

Saudi Arabia beats UAE to BlackBerry ban

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Fruity Plurality

No. It's a brand name. This affects the plural form.

I love my job. No, I do.

Women, gorillas likelier to have sex with men wearing red

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Not convinced.

Well, it's obvious nature doesn't want you to breed, then.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Makes sense.

I'm colour-blind. This makes me *special*. It's a sign of intelligence, you know... cough.

I wouldn't know about it if I hadn't failed those dotty tests. It only affects me in that I can't see the numbers in those dotty tests, and I can't be a pilot (just like the kid in Little Miss Sunshine). And I occasionally can't tell if something is yellow or green. But that's about it.

Red does have an effect on people - it draws the eye. Wear red, get looked at - get red in photos or designs and they will get looked at. It wouldn't surprise me if they discovered all sorts of other stuff about it. Like, teens have moved on from iDosing to staring at red things until they experience a "high".

Pentagon Wikileaks probe reaches MIT

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: It's called a Criminal Conspiracy

Yes, it was horrendous, and it was also a one-off. And er, 'the Brits' didn't do it. Some of the police did.

Don't be so smug. I don't know where you're from but I try to keep xenophobia and other such off-colour nastiness off the threads so I'd appreciate your not adding to it. Cheers.

Solar plasma aurora storm to hit Earth tomorrow today!

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Meeeeooooow!

>But I agree with you.

Well then. Don't you 'meeeeeoooow' at me.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "Boffins"

Oh shut up.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Boffins?

We always say 'boffins'. When has the Mail ever said 'boffins'? What's it to yer?

It always amuses me when commentards shake their heads sadly and say they expected so much more of us. Why? Surely you should know us by now. Don't try to change us, baby.

Android surges past iPhone in smartphone sales

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: android and iosx

Mmm. Do you want to talk about it, DEAD4EVER? I sense a certain hostility in... everything you ever say.

Seriously though. Behave please.

Lindsay Lohan released from screaming lesbian ordeal

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Er. . . so wot?

And yet look how much time and effort you put into posting a comment to explain how little you care about this person you've never heard of.

You're a special kind of smartarse.

It appears today is Kick A Commentard Tuesday for me. Anyone else want some? Alternatively, you could just stop being annoying.

ET voted fave family film fodder

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Re: ET

That means you are old.

And have no soul.

QED.

Apple as a religion: How the iPhone became divine

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Nice!

Good grief. Stuff White People Like is a very silly, very flippant blog. It isn't 'racist'. Please preserve the gravitas of this very loaded and serious word for actual instances of bigotry. It serves us all to do this, and same goes for 'sexism', 'homophobia' et al.

Thanks.

DfT denies deliberately misleading on speed cam stats

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Orwell wasn't warning about the use of technology

Yes indeed. Because contrary to popular belief, not everything in the world ever is 'Orwellian'.

Is it all over for Mars Rover?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Why the title is required, and why it must contain letters and/or digits?

Hey, has anyone got a pertinent xkcd link? I for one would like to see one.

Nude trampolinist bounces free from court

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Sarah

Well, good for you, but I'm just saying there's a certain attitude that emerges in these threads and while it may not be your own, all these comments tend to add up to something bordering on the unpleasant.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Non-specific but undeniable example

This argument has now reached the top three of the most annoying, tedious, cyclical Reg thread arguments. Can you resolve it once and for all or just give it a goddamn rest? You may have good points (nb the operative word being 'may') but it gets perilously close to woman-bashing the longer it goes on.

There should be a gender-issue equivalent of Godwin's... Dorkins'? The longer a gender-related argument goes on, the greater the chance of someone invoking Andrea Dorkins?

(NB No I don't bloody agree with her.)

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I second Sarahs request....

That's an interesting way to illustrate a double standard, No, I will not fix your computer.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sex offenders register?

*Ten*? Dude. I think that merely reflects quite poorly on the judge, who should have looked a bit beyond the photo and questioned what sort of idiot couldn't tell a ten-year-old from a 16-year-old after talking to them for any length of time.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: sexual equality...hmm

Yes, thank you for that. Give us an example?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: IT?

It's in the Bootnotes section you blithering cretin.

Never has so little had to be explained by me to so many so often.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Huzzah!

Aw.

Satnav leaves family stranded in Outback for three days

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Why bother risk others?

Ladies and gentlemen, a round of polite applause for AC who has never made a stupid mistake in his life.

DfT 'unwittingly' bigged-up speed camera benefits

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Big up = fail

No, it still works. The DfT did big-up the benefits in the sense that they praised them. Yeah? I know what I'm doing. Do not question me.

Fragrant tech thief stalks Whitehall

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: My little grey cells.

Wow! A gay joke!

Papal crackdown on bare-kneed tourists sparks hypocrisy claims

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: @Christoph

(Yeah, yeah, so you can change sex or nationality - the point remains and you know it does.)

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Christoph

Mmm. It's sort of a fair point, but your logic is off, considering that list is made of people belonging to groups they did not opt into, or at least could not opt out of. (Race, gender, nationality, religion - one of these things is not like the others.)

I suppose it's just evidence of how thoroughly the credibility of the Catholic church has been smashed. But then I doubt most commentards, being of a generally atheist bent, would have given it much credibility to start with.

Swiss do lady-friendly iPhone 4 launch

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Annwyn

Excellent. I left yesterday before the comments on this started but oh joy! I get to do them today.

So, women, eh? Chuh!

Chilean tarantulas menace Bolton

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I for one...

Sigh. There's always one.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sic the adders on them

Heh.

Russian gang uses botnets to automate check counterfeiting

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: CHEQUE

I should add another bit to the comment guidelines: yes, this is a UK site, but the US writers at the US office use US English. They always have.

Please, please no more comments on this. If you want to get into an argument about it, take it up with the editors. I need my nap. Thanks.

Serpent imprisons rattled Yorkshire family

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: a title

I'm offended that you think I'd be offended by the fuck-word.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Solution...

The man is an idiot. All snakes have teeth. Not all of them have fangs. And if it's brown and olive-green then it's likely to be a grass snake. I think he should be confined to his house to protect others from his stupidity.

Sorry, but for chrissakes, look it up, man.

Brigitte Bardot demands flying donkey action

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Yesss....

Woman gets old and looks it over time shock.

NatWest sets lawyers on student site

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Assumptions

"When you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you, and umption."

Cops taser Somerset chap's nether regions

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Don't butt in silky boy....

Eh?

Facebook tops half-billion users, wants your innermost thoughts

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: Uh-huh.

And I use words quite a lot.

In all, that was a rubbish attempt at a smackdown. 2/10. Must try harder.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Uh-huh.

Hey, I've *earned* it.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: None of the functionality offered by twatface, err facebook......

Why do people always assume I'm 'upset'? I just find it bemusing how worked up commentards get about Facebook. And how they trot out the smug line about how they have REAL friends in REAL life. Sigh. It's just wearying.

Wearying, fella, not 'upsetting'. Still, we women are emotional creatures. Maybe I'm upset but I don't know it. I JUST DON'T KNOW ANY MORE. PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND MYSELF.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Is that 500,000,000 *people*

No. You could try expressing your opinion with words instead.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Twatbook & Twatter

'I really must tell everyone my thoughts on social networking because they are so important and thus by extension so am I'

We're really not so different. Let's join hands and sing!

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Humbug to half the commentards above.

Wow, it's a backlash against the backlash. I thought it'd never happen here. It's true that it has become tedious listening to everyone scream about how awful it is. But it is what you make it, and if you have a carefully-selected bunch of good friends who post witty and interesting things and use it to augment and organise their lives and invite you to things then it's great.

Still, getting really exercised and aggravated about something you hate for reasons you can't quite identify is way more fun.

Cross-dresser shags mutt at historic castle

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: American

(Not you. Just in general. I had to go there.)

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: American

'Commentard' is pronounced 'why-ner', though.

'Howling lesbian gangs' greet jailed Lindsay Lohan

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Re: iT angle?

It's Bootnotes it doesn't need an IT angle HOW MANY TIMES?

Couldn't you tell from the headline that this was going to be a frivolous story? How many hours of your time did reading it waste? Hmm?

Bleedin' 'ell.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: censored ?

He's not agreeing with the Sun, he's critiquing it by simply displaying how absurd the reporting is. It's satire. Don't worry.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Stereotype

Sun journalists are exceptionally intelligent people. They just don't have the same er, moral qualms as the rest of us, in the main. They're brilliant manipulators, it's what they do. You have to admire them, kinda. Oh wait, no you don't. They could have put their brains to much better use.

Ach well.

Cameron asks Obama for McKinnon compromise

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Re: Re: He did the crime

And then, yes, I will do the time.