* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

Home Office spawns new unit to expand internet surveillance

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: it was widely assumed progress on IMP would slow →

Too many cooks spoil the broth, though. I think we should just let the dog see the rabbit.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: it was widely assumed progress on IMP would slow

But if you buy a pig in a poke, there's no use crying over spilt milk when the horse has bolted.

Sorry. As you were.

Aussie censor balks at bijou boobs

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: 2) Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction

I like that you're an amazing stud but are far too modest to tell the internet about it.

Aussie man convicted for Simpsons smut

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: OK the biggest problem here...

I doubt very much that there's a lot of correlation between consumers of cartoon child porn and consumers of real child porn. People have different preferences - some are going to prefer the cartoon stuff, it'll be their thing, and it doesn't mean that they're going to 'progress' to the real nastiness. Some are going to go that route, inevitably, but making that assumption/projection in all cases is ludicrous, and dangerous.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I'm sue if it was a second offence with rel child porn it would have been a longer sentence still.

Good grief. What a depressing comment. I really hate to use the expression, but what you're talking about here is the support of punishment for thought crime, in effect.

I shall now stand aside and await a massive onslaught of words to this effect to be moderated forthwith. Happy days.

Entire UK will be on ID database sometime in next 3 millennia

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re: I meant chipped!

(I'm actually laughing at that suggestion. Not outwardly, of course. But on the inside I am roaring with mirth. Proofreading comments? I would be here for TWELVE millennia...)

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I meant chipped!

Can they bollocks.

Bloated Office 2010 kicks dirt in face of old computers

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Neither dude nor dud

NINE. By God.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Tired of overly-cynical Microsoft bashing

Bye then.

Loud sex ASBO breach woman spared jail

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Funny to reject my last (joke) comment...)

Yes it does, Andus. Generally my own rule of thumb is that if it makes me slightly uncomfortable, moderately irritated, or inclined to run screaming into the street brandishing a machete, it gets rejected. You and everyone else just have to accept that there's a chance your hard work won't see the light of day on these pages.

You lot are being especially difficult today.

New music file aims to sink piracy using blogs and Twitter

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Srsly?

Good lord, that's the internettiest comment I've seen in quite some time.

Can the iSlate kill off Web 2.0?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: What's the difference?

Pfft.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

FYI

From another thread: the commentards have finally made it on to Speak You're Branes. Puff out your pigeon chests with pride folks!

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/2010/01/25/absolute-certainty/

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: underestimate

I think you meant Da Kidz there.

Today, whenever I look at how many comments there are in the queue to be moderated, there are 82 or 84 of them. Regardless of how many I've just done. Just saying.

I guess we need comments on the internet because it gives people jobs - just as we need people who drop litter in the street, if you think about it.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sarah Bee and the Register

I see what you did there.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Happy are the days

I can't wait for the day when comments are silenced. Then I'll be free to pursue my dream of opening a cake shop in Penrith (one that serves fine wine, obviously).

Oz firm seeks talented IT developer

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: YES! FINALLY!

Haha!

Ha!

This pleases me. This pleases me no end.

Oracle prez admits 8 1/2 years with billboard woman

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: it angle?

Let me give you my considered response to that in terms you'll immediately understand.

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Swan couple in surprise divorce

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Registered Trademark?

It's the Reg tag, innit. It's on everything here.

Congratulations on being the first person I've ever seen to raise that non-issue. (Now I'm trying to work out how many comments I've moderated in two years. I wish I hadn't started on that one.)

The Equality Bill: Hidden agenda?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: WASP KILLER

Yeah, you guys could really use a break.

NASA pegs Noughties as hottest decade on record

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I am more worried by the deleted posts

OH MY GOD!

It's just moderating, Mark, I only wish it were as exciting as CENSORSHIP.

Police arrest MD of dowsing-rod 'bomb detector' firm

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Bad Science

We know who Ben Goldacre is, ta, and that story was from last November so I don't see the need for a hat tip here. But thanks.

IFPI wants another stab at OiNK

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: greedtards?

I think in this context the suffix '-tard' has become akin to '-phile', as in 'showing fanatical interest in/devotion to'. Or just to indicate membership of a collective mindset. Like commentards. The original meaning has been discarded. Or um, distarded.

Anyway, there's plenty of offensiveness around these parts but I don't really feel that's still a source of it. Bubba jokes are still the bottom line for me (yes, I said 'bottom', please be quiet).

iPhone keeps buried earthquake victim alive for three days

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Gary F 1

Wow, you're all heart, aren't you. Sheesh.

Google taps Gmail for more clicks with ad tweak

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: We all pay whether we see the adverts or not

Loads, probably. Why don't you have a think?

I rely on advertising for my job, in the end, whether I like it or not. This is the case for many people. It's objectionable, yes, but it's thoroughly integrated, and all the smug ad-blockery posturing in the world won't change that. Sorry.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Price rises.

Oh balls, Gall. Gmail ads are eminently easy to ignore, and also provide entertainment occasionally in the form of inappropriate ads based on some Freudian interpretation of one's messages. Googlemail is free. Ads are a fact of life. I don't think a momentary snag on my attention equates to 'payment'. (The sole exception being the Go Compare telly campaign, which is like 1000 Michael Winners assaulting my brain.)

Wrists playing up? You're shagging too much

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Two Backs?

I think Shakespeare probably meant any position. There are still two backs involved, no?

Anyway, I think half you beasts don't deserve a second back, on the basis of your comments.

Too much sitting can kill: Official

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: lol

We'll wait with bated, mint-smelling breath, Lionel.

ASA bans tyrannical German boss ad

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I've had enough of this...

"Now, there's no need to resort to violence."

"Ah, sure there is." *thunk*

Really, Richard 39? A 2x4? You haven't considered just, like, forgetting about it and continuing to live your life? Just a thought. It's a lot less labour-intensive.

Windows 7 users to fly without SP parachute

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Backspace

Yes. And it is annoying and I wish the offenders would stop it. I've tolerated it till now but I might just start rejecting it. What's wrong with <strike></strike>, anyway?

Cadbury flakes in face of Kraft bid - cuts expected

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: May I recommend...

Montezuma is indeed best.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Im sure this won't get posted...

Why would I not post that? How very odd.

If they fuck up Green & Black's I will be round their gaff. SAY NO TO HERSHEYFICATION.

Hey ho. It's still going to be easier for me to source decent chocolate than it will be for people to find new jobs, so can't grumble for a second.

Avatards rush to name sprogs Pandora

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: So?

'Spat out at me' is an awfully aggressive-sounding phrase that doesn't quite marry up, in my mind, with the actual process of clicking and reading required for you to absorb this story.

I could work here for a thousand years (and god knows some days it feels like I have already) and I'd never get to the end of you IT-angletards. I can't even be arsed to explain our editorial policy any more - in future, I'm just going to make this sort of droning noise in the back of my nose and leave it at that.

McKinnon: The longest ever game of pass the parcel

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: God Love You, Sarah Bee

I'll take it.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Ship the dud off to the U.S.

You are twelve kinds of idiot and I'm rejecting your sorry butt for the rest of the afternoon.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

FYI

There have been 122 stories to date on the Reg mentioning McKinnon. I will have moderated comments on most of them. Pity me. And remember that your chances of fresh insight at this point are slim to the point of you should probably just fuck it off and go to the pub about now.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Do the Crime, Do the Time

If one more person employs the phrase 'If you can't do the time don't do the crime' or variations thereof, I myself will do time.

Pull a new smug rhyming phrase out of your arse to summarise your wearisome opinion, ruminants.

World braces for Lindsay Lohan sex tape

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: RE: D'oh

Of course it's not by design - at least not all the time. It's an occupational hazard for a girl - you can't always tell what's going to be see-through under different lighting, and you often assume black covers everything. Also, some women are just berks who don't learn.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: You are being short sighted

I believe Paris accrued what is known as a fuckstack of cash in the years since the vid. She really made it work for her - she's very nifty in playing up to people's preconceptions about her. Not that I think she's secretly a classical scholar - she's just embraced a certain public image in a clever (and quite brave) way. She was lucky because she wasn't very well known at the time, and wasn't trying to be taken seriously as an actress. Since people's opinion of her is generally low, she plays to that, and knows that it can be an advantage - when people expect little of you as a frivolous slut, you can only surprise them.

It's sad for Lohan because she's trying to clean up her image and doesn't have that clean slut-slate advantage that Paris did. She's going to have to just er, take it on the chin, and wait for it to blow over.

Oof, I see what I done there. What a mess.

China's doomed attempt to hold the world to ransom

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Excellent article!

What do you mean, 'recently'? We have a long and proud tradition of tabloid garbage.

Seriously, though, it's always been a broad church here and will continue to be.

West Country pagans tie horses in knots

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Jemma

Oh, play fair, EA, that's not even universally bad grammar. C'mon.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Dissapointed

Get knotted, Francis. (Do you see what I did there DO YOU SEE.)

Also, you can't spell 'disappointed' and so your right to criticise or otherwise carp is hereby suspended for the rest of the week.

Swedish Weight Watchers bring down the house

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: funny with whats the relevance

Commentard hordes, you know what to do.

Modern Warfare 2 outsold Avatar, claims developer

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: You go too far Mr Spleen!

Titanic has many faults but it's a staggering cinematic acheivement overall.

Also, I'm slightly disturbed by that commenter's apparent desire to see horrible torture inflicted upon Meg Ryan.

Men more different from chimps than women, say boffins

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Turning a new page in human evolution

They are both descended from apes, obviously.

Spam filters stuff Canadian Beaver

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

beavering

They could just call it Standing On Coyotes' Necks After They've Chewed Their Own Feet Off Digest, but that might be a bit long.

French top MOT failure league

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Are you taking the p1ss?

My experience suggests otherwise. I had a Vitara for a year or so - it was about 15 years old when I got it and nothing ever went wrong with it, it was as solid as anything. It only failed its MOT on rust. It was a brilliant and totally reliable car.

So ner. Oh and less of the hysterical semi-racism, please. What is it about the internet that makes everyone so angry?

Avatar renders this earthly life meaningless

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Imagination

So, film is an intrinsically inferior medium to the book, Peter?

Come on, have a go, I feel fighty today.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Marketing

You're saying you don't believe there are people with fertile imaginations whose lives offer them such little fulfilment that they could be sent into a depression by experiencing a stunning and frustrating glimpse of something they see as better (and which was designed in this case to evoke strong and deep feeling through powerful visual stimulus)?

It happens all the time. People get depressed by reading aspirational lifestyle mags or just seeing others enjoying life more whether it's real, fictional or a reality-based contrivance. I bet you've watched something that's made you sigh a bit about the inadequacies of your existence, the choices you've made, the things you will never do or see or feel. You probably just squashed it for your own sanity, rather than tottering onto the internet in a desperate attempt to find others who feel the same.

Not that there isn't marketing genius at work here. Haven't seen it yet - I fully expect to be gobsmacked by the visuals, irritated by the script and only vaguely wistful that the most spectacular thing I will do this week is buy a new washing machine.

'Google' crowned word of the decade

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Dopey words

Automated deelies to find most popular icons? No. We don't care. Bye!