* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

Legless woman falls onto Boston train tracks

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: WOW - this is the most exciting IT news ever !!

I'll let the commentards handle this one.

T-Orange puts names on dotted lines

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @swaygeo

Well, you're wrong too, but at least you're consistent, I guess.

Eat my dust - it's time for Comment of the Week

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: recursive comment of the week

No.

Wallace and Gromit get the Google doodle treatment

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Tim48

"And we don like potatoes. We like meat. And we like fresh meat."

The x-texting Metrotextual comes out of the closet

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Geezh, lighten up

I know, the gay panic in evidence is most amusing.

"So, did you see the game last night? That goalie needs shooting, I almost choked on my raw steak that I had just carved from the side of a rampaging bull with my own hands."

Hacker charged in $1m cable ISP customer cloning scheme

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @bitemytaco

Ooh, harsh, AC. And er, a little sweeping. There are broadly ethical and unethical journalists and many wallowing in the grey areas between (depending on your definition of 'ethical').

I could fancy a council job, though, until it got utterly depressing.

Charlize Theron to travel Mad Max's Fury Road

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Needs a pretty girl

Right, TSPC. So the thought of the tall blonde world-renowned beauty Charlize Theron in the altogether leaves you cold if not actually slightly queasy, does it? Blimey, you've got high standards.

New Doctor Who is 'simply the best'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Complaint.

I approve. I hope many other commentards follow your noble example in demanding their own censure.

Giant iPhones invade Florida

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Very clever and all

It's the US - Halloween costumes are just fancy dress there, it doesn't have to be specifically spooky.

Apple blueprints the iShoe

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: iRan

But how many ran?

Clock stopped for McKinnon extradition

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

well

I now support whatever course of action would mean I would never have to moderate this thread ever again.

Guardian in hot water over activist face flash

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Agree with The Guardian

Having your photo printed and distributed on a vast national scale is not quite the same thing as being at a protest where you could be seen by a certain number of people for a limited time. I don't get how people make that leap, personally.

WTF is this country called America?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: You... you people.

Wow, that is one obscure film reference. And I do concur. This thread is unbelievable. All of you go outside and get some goddamn fresh air whether you are in Britishland or Americanville, for chrissakes.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

gosh

What a thread. I'd collate all the various viewpoints into some kind of pie chart or other graph but... I can't be bothered. You do it.

Musos demand Guantanamo Bay playlist

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Track I'd least like to be tortured with?

'Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs' by Brian and John. One of the worst singles ever released, about one of the most unappealing artists who ever stubbed brush on canvas, *and* they can't even get the name of a common household item right.

And at least one of them had a ghastly beard.

And the fucker was number one when I was born. Doomed to a life of uncoolness from the start.

El Reg launches 'Comment of the Week'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: One flaw in the plan...

I'm impressed by your insight and candour, John, I can tell you that.

I think I can manage one comment that makes me smirk in any given week. Just about.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Dear Moderator

Certainly. Would you also like me to send over that video of you and that horse? Or should we meet in person for a friendly discussion? That cafe next to your bank is very nice.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sorry...

Back in your basket.

Atheists smite online God poll

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: How to fix the poll

LOL

UK.gov prostitution proposals caught with pants down

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Good article...

*deep breath*

The Register has always carried articles relating to politics and entertainment as well as IT. Is that a problem?

Historian slams 'absolutely crazy' UK time zone

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

time for tea

Personally I advocate peanut butter jelly time.

Oracle and Sun fingered for Sidekick fiasco

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

RE: Ms Bee

Not really, no. Do you think I have time to actually read and digest and consider every post on a thread like this? Balance schmalance. I don't have any bias, I just feel inclined to keep a lid on the most antagonistic posters from time to time.

Just... try and conduct yourself with a little decorum, OK? That goes for everyone. I can't be expected to pick up the toys *every* time you throw them out of the pram.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Dear Sunshiners (and fanbois)

Dear Matt,

I don't know what happened to your previous comment - someone else may have rejected it, or it may have been published without you noticing. I'm not going to go footling around looking for the truth on that one. In any case, you are boring and I am busy and I'm going to reject anything else you post today because you are over your word limit.*

Mwah,

Sarah

*My word limit.

Lily Allen exits Twitter, bins BlackBerry

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Oh FFS

You may not like Lily Allen, but Katy Brand is absolutely awful. She has never, ever been funny for an instant.

Microsoft thinks it can sell one copy of Windows 7 for every four people

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Terminology

The correct collective noun is a smugness of fanboix, I believe.

The right tube stop is of course Theydon (Fan)Bois.

Windows 7 - the Reg reader verdict

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: A Mac users perspective on W7

Thank you for that.

I'm off to post a lengthy piece on an article I've just read about a new cat product which will give a dog owner's perspective. I think it's needed for balance.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

just to say

Can we keep this thread clean and free of shouting and abuse for once - I'm rejecting any sniping about fanboyism because it's boring and irrelevant. Please keep it to your verdict on Windows 7, good or bad (I have no bias on that). Ta.

UK telly in coke blizzard shock

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @@ Michael Fremlins and crowd

"Ello! Ello! My name's Terry and I'm a law-abider."

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Frank

Could we not suggest certain specific individuals may be full of gak, please? I would like to keep my job (well, bits of it, at least). Thank you kindly.

UK fatties demand 'hate crime' status for lardo-baiting

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Sarah

Heh, very good.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Sarah

Well, I'm glad you've been able to cope with whatever slings and arrows have come your way from other people who've decided to judge you on some aspect of yourself, but not everyone is that robust. I don't see why anyone should have to put up with actual abuse whether it's something they've brought on themselves or not.

I don't have a problem with judgement, we all do it, I do it all the time; but I think if you feel the need to express that judgement through chucking your burger wrapper at a fat person or tripping them up or yelling something incisive like "FATTY" at them then you are in fact a worthless scumbag, and no one should be an apologist for it or suggest the object of such shenanigans should 'just man up a bit'.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Pansys the lot of them

You wouldn't be a white middle-class male of average height, build and colouring, would you? Just doing a little research, like.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I'm fat.

Well done, Stuart, but just because you haven't seen it yourself doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I hadn't seen any serious street fights happen in Soho until the other week but I'm sure they were going on.

She might be the kind of person who provokes others or she might not. You have to be wary of blaming the victim.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: You missed one...

Good point. A grievous oversight (or fat dullard).

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "someone being beaten up should be a crime"

Yeah, hilarious. I'd love to hear the recording for xtra lols.

It was undoubtedly a stupid comment but I suspect the implication was 'for being fat' (which you can debate the validity of - oh, you have, sort of) and it was said by someone without the proper media training. It's amazing how dumb your words can sound when they've been recorded and transcribed and printed, even when you think you've been Brian Sewell.

Anyway, whether or not they're full of it (and I think anyone who is hassled or assaulted deserves a modicum of sympathy), people being beaten up is not funny. I saw a couple of thugs out of their minds on vodka kick the crap out of each other recently (well, it was fairly one-sided actually) and they were clearly scumbag idiots but I was still concerned about the guy who was kicked in the head because, you know, it's another human being.

Oh, don't mind me.

Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Bah

It's semantics really though isn't it. What is a funeral? What are the basic components once you take away things only humans can bring to them? Of course taking that literally is absurd as is suggesting animals have anything approaching religion, but they have what you could describe as rituals - mating rituals, eating rituals. No reason why they shouldn't have some rudimentary death rituals. It's just headline-grabbing shorthand to refer to them as 'funerals'.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: corvids

Pigeons don't seem to care about their dead. I saw one perched on the dangling body of another which had come a cropper sticking its head through the window of a derelict building. Must have been more comfy to sit on.

There are plenty cases of dogs keeping vigil next to dead people or other dogs and all that so it wouldn't surprise me to see that some of the more intelligent other animals do similar.

Japanese algorithm 'can tell if you're about to die'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: who needs an algorithm

See also: "I'll be right back". And women who have been told by James Bond that he loves them. Etc.

Adam Curtis uncovers the secrets of Helmand

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Smile

Wowser.

Blogging vicar casts Tina Turner into hell

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Hollerith

I said 'at least', Hollerith - I wouldn't mind avoiding the really nasty old bits. But then if I was healthy and the world wasn't in a complete mess, yeah, I'll take whatever I can get... it's only that I don't have an ambition to live to 100, I spose.

That funeral sounds ghastly. I went to one a bit like that - young guy of 26 who died suddenly, he wasn't godly in the least but it was mostly pretty Christian in a sad modern church that looked like a grotty community centre.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Sarah Bee

You don't get to choose how long you live? Why did no one *tell* me? I've got it all planned out! I thought... I thought... etc.

You are Dave Gahan and I claim my tickets for Depeche Mode at the O2.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ sarah

Only occasionally. I have to amuse myself somehow.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Sarah

Oh AC Whose Name I Can Still See, someone had to say it, I suppose.

I intend to live at least into late middle age so, y'know, bear that in mind.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @AC "Religion and the Empty Shell..."

I found that a bit harsh. Your body carries you around for decades, I don't see a problem with treating it with some respect once you've left it. I'm happy to donate most of my usable bits but I'd rather not have any med students play keepy-uppy with my brain or anything. (And yes I am an atheist etc etc)

Aside from anything else it'd be a bit unfair on the binmen to just have yourself chucked in a wheelie. Imagine the back strain.

VoIP hack suspect fugitive extradited back to US

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: 12345

Sigh.

Robert Crumb begets Book of Genesis

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: hmpfff

Oh - I rejected that comment because it wasn't especially amusing and was barely coherent.

Also, AC (whose name I can still see, if you didn't know) I'm not sure if you meant to call me a moron in another thread but consider it a strike if you did. (If you didn't, well, you need to work on your grammar.)

Now if you'll excuse me there are 152 comments in the queue.

Tories would scrap 50p broadband tax

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @AC 11:05 GMT

Alright, simmer down now. Please be nice.

Beeb gets grief for Humpty Dumpty rewrite

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "That is how the yob is born."

>I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Hah, we really need to put that on a t-shirt, because it is almost always applicable.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: It makes me [sic]

You 'cosset', you don't 'cosset away'. It doesn't make sense.

Home sec puts McKinnon extradition on hold

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: And ...

May I just say how thrilled I am to be moderating this thread with all its fresh new perspectives on this case.