* Posts by Winkypop

5635 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

British Medical Association calls for long, slow rollout of NHS 111

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0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

Sing along now....

CRACK made by quakes FOUND ON MOON

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Mushroom

Cheesus Chrust!

The moon lives!

Squirrelled away: seeds survive 30,000-year winter

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Ice Age

So that's what happened to the acorn...

Australians like the NBN: poll

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Megaphone

Bring it

I'll use it

Police probing ‘threats’ over Canadian internet privacy bill

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WTF?

O' Canada

Oh dear in deed...

Microsoft explains bland new Windows logo

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Windows 8?

Why then, are there only 4?

Canadians revolt over draconian internet privacy bill

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Big Brother

RE: Re: Latex moose grooming

A thinly disguised piece of control that leads to the tin edge of the surveillance wedge.

Twitter gets hit with defamation suit downunder

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[cough]Bullshit[cough]

Get a grip man.

Texan TSA crew accused of nude scanner ogling scheme

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All your millimeter wave technology units are belong to us

Failed mall-cops with too much technology.

Netherlands plans to make 'copyrighted material easier to use'

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Devil

I find copyrighted material very easy to use

Oh!

You mean legally....

Fair dues.

Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL

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Alert

Careful with that address Eugene.

Name and shame the CEO's/Managers/Fuhrers...

More Chinese shopkeepers hide their iPad stock

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Pint

Meanwhile, back at the Samsung secret bunker...

It's pop-corn and drinks all-round.

Sony 'fesses to Whitney Houston price hike 'error'

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Devil

Re: Re: Re; Electric goat jam

It's the music industry, they like to shaft everyone, alive and dead.

Dwarf galaxy yields up middle-sized black hole

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Who needs the Wooooo?

When you've got Science!

Hey Commentards! This pre-populated 'reply to' is for you

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Re: Can I get a Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Rewind?

Excellent

Child abuse files stolen from council worker in PUB - £100k fine

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Windows

Social workers

There's just no money for social workers.

Social workers and prison guards.

Pay peanuts, expect the odd chimp.

Pope's PR says Vatican in grip of WikiLeaks-style scandal

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Facepalm

Hello, the 21st century called

You, the men in dresses with pointy hats and invisible friends.....time to grow up.

Iranians get some services back

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FAIL

Religion and politics

Always a dangerous mix.

</my5cworth>

CERN boffins to lift LHC beam power

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Mushroom

But we need to know

Does the big red dial go all the way to 11?

Sun hacks cuffed after being DOBBED IN by News Corp

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Trollface

"Lets keep the Sun, ..... and improve the quality of its journalism."

They employ journalists at the Sun?

Who knew?

IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

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Guns solve very little

Apart from on just about any situation on pretty much every US TV show.

Just sayin'.

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Squirrel hunting

Came across a nest of commie-ass squirrels once, all packing AK47s.

It took me and me buddies hours to root them out with semi-automatics and some C4.

Music fans not welcome in RIAA-backed .music

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FAIL

Gosh Batman

These guys really are that stupid.

Indian ministers quit in parliament smut flick scandal

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FAIL

Real or not

Idiots

Google will swap you a box of crisps for your web privacy

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Stop

$25 a year?

Now $25 an hour and we might be getting somewhere.

iPad 3 shell shots spied on web

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Boffin

Yeah, yeah....

...but when?

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

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Devil

Easy solution

Just sell Roof Tickets

Use the income to buy high pressure cleaners to remove evidence of 'customer loss'

UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing

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FAIL

"It wasn't forced on him"

No, not at all.

Choice one: Clink with the (less than delicate / intellectual) lads of E wing

Choice two: Chemical castration

He probably preferred a third option, leave me the fuck alone.

US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos

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These are not the human rights you are looking for

Classic playmobile reconstruction, pure genius.

Piss taken, thoroughly.

Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse

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Core business

Forget good films, forget decent TV, forget memorable music.

It's all about suing for rights infringements now.

It's no wonder that popular entertainment output has become so lame.

Dead gamer sat unnoticed for nine hours in net cafe

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Unhappy

It's just a machine running a game

Get up

Go outside

Take a walk, climb a tree, ride a bike....

Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet

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Goldilocks zone

Porridge based life forms?

Eeek, run away, run away!

Snaps confirm new CPU for Apple iPad 3

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Happy

Just one question

When?

Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says

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FAIL

I'm not touching this one....

....said the young [cough] lady [/cough] to the punter.

The Register Comments Guidelines

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Unhappy

Awwwwwww

I never make these lists.

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I want frequent commenter points

5 off for every dud post.

It's only fair.

Japan takes second shot at extraterrestrial sampling with Hayabusa 2

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Alien

Japanese look for life (signs) in the universe

Meanwhile, the Americans have quit manned space vehicles and are eager to teach Intelligent Design as science.

Obama refuses to respond to MPAA bribery claim petition

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Unhappy

Not suprising

But still disappointing.

Ukraine file-sharing site disappears

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6,000 TB

Wow, that's a whole lot of Linux distros!

Why I'd pay Apple more to give iPad factory workers a break

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I much prefer to pay people a working wage*

If it's good enough for me, in my country.

It's good enough for them, in their country.

* not some discounted, slave-like, equivalent just because 'local rules' are lax.

NASA: Solar system may have alien origin

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But we need to know

Can one surf the Bow Shock?

Imagine the rush.

Ex-staffer: Apple assigns new workers to made up projects

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FAIL

Working on a fool's errand?

Now that's gotta be motivating.

Playmonauts could down airliners, Canuck flyboy warns

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Feeble weather ballons are BAD

Flaming chunks of Russian probe is OK...

US entertainment lawyer casts doubt on Megaupload case

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Flight risk

I'd say!

Imagine sitting next to him in economy.

The guy is HUGE

Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades

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Not smart, too greedy.

School wheezes and japes:

Rule # 1:

Don't tell anyone!

This often helps with the primary objective:

Don't get caught.

Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state

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But what about the Nazi base?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

Oh I get it, they can become US citizens too, like the V2 scientists did in 1945.

Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT

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More utter amazement

Just 6 days!

6.

Wow...

Flag-waving Lego Canuck soars to 80,000ft

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Playmobile or it didn't happen

...oh!

iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins

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iPad users also risk....

....looking like prats.

Mine's the one with the iPhone in the pocket.

Ah, here it is.

Pope praises Twitter and your 'profound' tweets

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"Authentic questions"

Would they be the dogma-controlled, do what you're told, don't ever change anything type of authentic questions or actual real enquiry?

The former I suspect.