Posts by Anonymous Custard

Re: Error 524

Nah, it's just the newly launched spy satellites from the X-37B being thoroughly tested...

Re: Praise or accusations of work not done?

It's called the Hawthorne Effect.

And remember, Big Brother is watching you...

Re: "Mundane staff"

Haven't we all (to both statements)...?

It was one of the most valuable lessons I learned in post-graduate academia - always know who actually moves things along and gets things done, as opposed to who appears to be in charge but just orders them to be done. And to get on their good side and in their good books....

Forget being nice to professors and directors and suchlike, if you were on friendly terms with the secretaries, storesmen (or probably storespeople these days, although back then they were all white-coated males) and technicians you could get anything done and circumvent all sorts of delays and bureaucracy.

And it was amazing how quickly and easily things got signed off by the senior staff when you went via their secretaries, whom you took care to always be nice, friendly and helpful to of course.

Re: I might watch it sometime

And it stars James Corden, so there's at least one tit in it...

Re: Alive and ....?

I'm sure my landlord would say the same about me...

Re: Proof of the Illuminati

Well it's the one future event (ok one of two if you include being taxed) that is certain to happen at some point for everyone...

That's just Goofy - stop taking the Mickey...

Re: "plasma breams"

I was also wondering how many layers would be required before they had to upgrade to sharks...

A wise man once said...

@BoldMan - as the old saying goes:

Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad...

Re: Glad I bought a "dumb" competitors' model.

So did my wife - she just pointed to the Dyson and told me to clean the floor up.

Re: Mine runs perfectly safely on a Raspberry Pi

And the base irony here is Kodi do not actually make any hardware or "boxes" at all. It's just the software that 3rd party vendors use (as it's free) and stick on there and then pollute with all the piracy add-ons (also not produced or endorsed by Kodi).

Kodi itself (as downloaded from their website) doesn't come with any media sources pre-installed at all, and is just a very flexible and powerful media player.

It's even a violation of their trademark policy to do so, not that no-name Chinese vendors bother about such trivial legalities as trademark, copyright or the like.

Re: Testiculate

Or another one that seems to resurface around here every so often:

Chesticulate

originally defined as a male describing the figure of a woman, but lately seems to have migrated to meaning when a woman is animatedly describing something by waving her arms about.

Re: Fibre / POTS

I still think the even older definition of fibre is more appropriate.

After all, given the amount of shit some of these companies produce, they must be consuming enough fibre to fill several breakfast bowls...

Bran flake anyone?

Re: Regenerate a few more fingers?

@wolfetone - That'd make her 19th, as you'd have to shoe-horn in Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbend and Hugh Grant in too.

I know the Tardis is bigger on the inside, but even then it'd be a squeeze...

Re: Two comments

They're mostly not too different from the original ones (Ecclestone notwithstanding, or indeed not staying):

Hartnell - 3 seasons + a couple of episodes

Troughton - Just under 3 seasons (2 + all except the 2 episodes above)

Pertwee - 5 seasons

T Baker - 7 seasons

Davidson - 3 seasons

C Baker - 2 seasons + 1 episode

McCoy - 3 seasons + start of the TV movie

McGann - TV movie

Hurt - 1 episode

Ecclestone - 1 season

Tennant - 3 seasons + the "gap year" specials

Smith - 3 seasons + 2 specials

Capaldi - 4 seasons

It's only Pertwee and Tom Baker who did long stints, everyone else is mainly 2-3 seasons.

Re: Oh and female Timelords ...

The Corsair anyone (well at least one or two of their regenerations, to get even more geeky...)

Anyway Dr Who's already been there - Matt Smith's companion Rory Williams ( aka Mr Amy Pond) was a male nurse...

Cold caller spam?

Are you sure you've never been mis-sold PPI or been in an accident recently?

Re: One week at Bigger Blue.

Brings back memories of a customer of ours (now closed) who used to insist all us support engineers must wear shirt and tie when working on-site.

Not so unusual you'd think, except I work in the semiconductor industry - they insisted we wore shirt and tie underneath our cleanroom suits when installing and setting up (and kicking repeatedly at times) the manufacturing tools we were supporting and installing.

Suffice it to say words were had with HR, and some sense was eventually knocked into the customer's heads before our guys revolted and refused to go on-site.