* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Gav: A whole lot less

Good stuff. I quite like the US form, it's contrary and arsey. As opposed to 'assy'.

But then again, I could care less.

Tw*tdangler defends Benito Mussolini stunt

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

well

I have to say that I got dangled upside down from a fubar'd fairground ride with about 30 others in a most unfortunate accident some years ago, and that was only for an hour but I couldn't walk straight or think straight for a week. So it is a feat, I'd say.

I kind of like Blaine. I approve of crazy shit for the sake of crazy shit.

Royal Society: Schools should show creationism 'respect'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Secularism?

Wanking gods. Now that's how you get a class's attention.

Parents plant spyware to snare sex predator

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

may I suggest

a swift search for 'ephebophilia' or 'hebephilia'. Definitions are important. Wouldn't defend the guy at all but it's a bit colloquial to refer to him as an actual 'paedo' under the circumstances.

'Phebo? Could catch on.

El Reg drops in on Bletchley Park

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Maybe a charity T-Shirt?

Well, I have heard rumours about Cash'n'Carrion shirts with dosh going to Bletchley and the National Museum of Computing, so keep 'em peeled, innit.

The Hadron Collider: What's it all about, then?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I feel the earth move under my feet, I see the sky tumbling down...

Choon.

Doctors rally for right to call UK.gov quangonista a 'sh*t'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Wimin !!

Um, I'm not sure I'd extrapolate that much, myself.

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Never mind Chrome, think about El Reg

Sigh.

I fucking give up.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Sarah Bee

Tsk, I *know*. God you're fucking sensitive.

[smiley face goes here]

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Internet rich client?

My.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: swearing

Just to let you fucks know, any fucking comments about the fucking swearing in this bastard are getting fucking nixed because it's fucking boring.

Nuke-nobbling US laser jumbo fires test beams

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: You gotta love it!!

I can't take credit for that one - it's pure 100% organic Page.

Brit trio convicted for liquid bomb terror plot

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Locozade?

Heh. Fixed.

Academic wants to 'free up' English spelling

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Sarah

It's not ironic at all. Why, what do you mean?

O ye with your little faith, honestly.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: It gets my vote

>>Over the summer I saw a wax work of Vuk Karadzic and his wooden leg, a true academic revolutionary if ever their was.

That is the single greatest sentence ever committed to a Reg thread. It works on so many levels.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

grr

Pry my apostrophe's from my cold dead hand's, Prof.

Segway shock army to invade Department of Transport

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: 'smart-arse pedestrians'

Dear me, I knew we'd get a flurry of these.

I don't believe David S did suggest that's OK, AC. And I don't think there's any justification for cycling on the pavement, myself. I'm sorry if it's hard out there on the actual road but... look, just get off the goddam pavement.

Hmph. As you were.

Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Just in case the world ends...

You should be so lucky, dear.

McKinnon a 'scapegoat for Pentagon insecurity'

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Yanks Go home

Nah. If you really want to show your disgust in a way that the world will take notice of, there's simply no substitute for an online petition.

Columbia set to resurrect Ghostbusters

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Overrated Originality?

>>Ladies and gentlemen, please direct your attention to the contents of the Tate Gallery... all the exhibits share two traits. Originality and terribleness.

Oof. I really wouldn't go that far. I don't think originality automatically makes things shit, just because it doesn't automatically make them good. But life is more fun when it's polarised, innit.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: anyone else

Surprisingly few films are wholly original - that goes way back, it's not a new thing. Most of them are based on plays or ancient legends or short stories or novels or other films.

Anyway, originality is overrated. Lots of really terrible art is unlike anything that went before it.

BOFH: Lock and reload

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @sarah Bee

Whatever would one do without you, Cap'n.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: This page intentionally left blank...

Heh. If I were to undertake to BOFHinate everyone who crossed me, I'd need an assistant.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: This page intentionally left blank...

Ooh yes, because I'd love to have to deal with the angry "what's the point of this? WHERE IS MY BOFH? YOU'RE JUST RUBBING IT IN!" comments.

Basically, if there isn't a BOFH for the week, you'll know because it isn't there. Seems logical enough. Anyway, there's always the archives which go all the way back to 1979.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: i hate to be pedantic...

Well, don't be pedantic, then, silly.

Episode 28 went briefly to hell, decided it was a bit on the mild side, and is now back in its proper place in the archives.

My name really is Ivan O'Toole, admits Ivan O'Toole

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Check out the shortening before naming the baby

I've met a Jo King. There's a lot of it about.

I knew an Andrew Rowsell. Mr A. Rowsell. His sister was called Louisa. Naughty, naughty parents.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Another...

Clifford Edge.

I kind of like Audio Science, but Pilot Inspektor is up there with Zowie Bowie.

Red Hat buys Qumranet, sidesteps Microsoft

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Continue to support Xen not KVM

Thanks Richard, fixed this now.

Cheers!

Sarah

Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Forget about the browser.

Shoogles?

Google's Austro-Hungarian ambitions laid bare

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "Liebensraum"?

Heh. My German just gets worse. Fixed.

I wouldn't usually let this through but I just like the idea of 'loving space' too much.

UK punters scowl at webmail ad targeting

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

JakeyC

Hi, Jakey. Thanks for your comment. I've fixed the offending snafus. In answer to your question, yes, we do give things a once-over, and often even a twice-over. I'm the only one on the subs desk this week, and since I'm also doing most of the moderating (that means you) I'm going to be a few percent more fallible than usual. Sorry.

Now, run to the caff and get us a latte, there's a love.

McKinnon supporters plan Home Office demo

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: We should make it a crime for the US to call for extradition

If *one more* person says 'if you can't do the time, don't do the crime' I swear I will extradite them so fast they won't know what the hell.

Customs raids tech trade show

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ El'Reg

I moderate this. When I'm not moderating it, others are, but I'd like to think we all have an understanding of the usage of words in a satirical manner, often to highlight the prejudices of others rather than express their own.

Erotic artist urges spanking for Jacqui Smith

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Repression, not censorship

Yes, you're right. Still think there'll be plenty of collateral damage. They'll need something to show the law is working in the way they're saying it will.

Ach, look what I've become.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Good law, well-defined, end-of

Sigh. You realise people are going to flame you now, don't you? And you also realise that I'm going to let them (at least for a bit)?

I'll restrict myself to saying - you can't legislate for fantasy. The phrase 'thought crime' is thrown around so carelessly and often as to be almost meaningless now, and I hate that kind of hysterical cliche-chucking, but really, that is pretty much what we're talking about here.

Oh, have you met this angry mob? Angry mob, Andrew, Andrew, angry mob...

Philips pitches black with monster contrast LED backlight

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Interesting...

For chrissakes, someone saw it and fixed it, Christopher, OK? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP. File closed, theory debunked, little green men put in a blender and made into milkshakes for the FBI. OK?

Jeeeezus.

Internet Explorer - now with 35% less FAIL

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: 'FAIL' IS NOT A NOUN!!!

Well, 'omg' is not a word, is it?

Fail.

Now Hollywood is chasing UK downloaders

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Tiscali - robbed me too!

And me. Went to TalkTalk (yes yes I know) two months ago, Tiscali say they weren't told, so they've carried on merrily billing me.

Hate to do the 'tch, politicians/service providers/banks/etc they're all the same', but really, I loathe them all.

McKinnon loses extradition fight

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

sigh

I'm rejecting your prison rape jokes because they ain't funny, and I don't think you really wish that on anyone else, do you? Especially not a Simple Hacker who hasn't even done anything horrid to children or anything.

If you really do wish that on people then, well, if I were the sort of person who wished it on people, I'd wish it on you. So there.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: This is not about where the crime was committed

Yeah, but our extradition deal with the US is a teeny tiny bit one-sided. Wait till someone in the US does something approximate to this and we ask to bring them over here for a Dose of British Justice, and see how far we get once they've let go of their sides and wiped their eyes.

Y'know.

Password pants-off at Lloyds Bank

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Screw Lloyds

They changed the name on my account and everything pertaining to it to Mrs Sarah Gunn, sent me new chequebooks and cards accordingly, and addressed me as such to my face in my local branch. Then when someone cloned my card later on they accused me of stealing it myself.

Oh and they managed to cock up address change and standing order, the festering douchebags.

Mrs Sarah Gunn sounds like a no-messin' Old West madam, though, so it was kind of funny. Kind of.

Reader comments bigger legal risk than forums

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: So does this mean

What it means is that I'll have a fine white head of hair by Christmas. And finely-ground teeth.

'Child protection' database slammed as plod data mine

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Dear Whitter

Of course. Our apologies. We vow to give 'slammed' the chop forthwith.

Or! Not.

Nuns face off in online beauty contest

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Father Jack

Oh yeah. Well, there's more than one kind of dribble.

Winehouse jibe wins Fringe's funniest gag

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Sarah, you must've known...

Um, thanks dervheid, but what in the hot buttered hell does Robin Guthrie have to do with anything?

Never mind. I still like the Cocteau Twins, regardless of whether or not they are tools.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Waste of space

Well, I bet you if Billie Holiday was around now, she'd get just the same sort of treatment from the press and it would make just as much difference to her talent, as opposed to the difference to the public's perception of that talent, i.e. notajot.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

sigh

I hate you all.

Anyway, objectively that is not a funny joke, nor a fresh one, regardless of who it's about. Nor is the second one. That's a real nasty barrel-scraping bit of misogynist piffle.

The hippo one isn't bad. At least it has the form of an actual joke. It's all in the delivery, anyway, innit.

Royal Navy plans world's first running-jump jet

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "boffinry"

Yes. Boffinry.

DARPA seeks 'perch and stare' spy-fly robot

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Lewis, you're become progressively more incomprehensible!

Good aft, Anon. I suggest this:

1) Read

2) Think

3) If necessary, look up 'extramural'.

Good luck!

Philippine troops battle rampaging MILFs

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Not quite so funny....

Hi Mark. I agree. I'm closing this thread now. Hope you're OK there.