Posts by Rich 11

Re: Given how long it took them to get Brexit finished...

Oh wait, they still haven't managed to finalise Brexit have they.

Why do you think it's up to the EU to carry out Brexit?

TrumpCare? Isn't that where the patient is led round the back of the barn and shot with a captive bolt gun?

Re: Lets play 'suppose'

Lets play 'suppose'

Let's not.

Re: Mmmm

Better a sob than a grunt.

Re: Unqalified 'Z' list Celeb talks rubbish

Thanks, though I hadn't noticed. I was thinking only of representatives who would reliably represent the spectrum from ignorant to stupid to vicious, which coincidentally is also alphabetic. Hmm.

Re: Millimeter wave auto-immolation?

Left the house the same day.

You mean he went outside where his body would be subjected to cosmic ray cascade showers, increased solar radiation and the same neutrino flux as indoors? Damn. I hope he didn't forget his tinfoil hat and lead sunscreen.

Re: Our IT professor had us stumped for a long time

He renamed a one-letter drive allocation to have two characters, and got that to work in an OS which didn't yet support spaces in the file system? Sorry, but it sounds a bit iffy to me. It implies the design oversight (if that's what it was) must also have been supported when parsing files like config.sys and the PATH environment variable.

Re: To be clear ...

Can we even be sure that 'is' is 'is'?

Re: google translate anyone?

I can't remember how I got it back to English.

Another opium war?

cheques will be a matter of historical curiosity within a decade.

People have been making that claim for at least the three decades that I've had a chequebook.

Re: "two metres (six and a half feet)"

Where I live we're being told 1.5 meters.

You really need to hire some taller television presenters.

Re: Nothing to see here, please disperse

Of course we can control it. Maybe we need to optimise our social distancing, though.

Land area of UK = 240,000 square kilometres

Population of UK = 67,000,000

Which means we each get... scribble ... scribble ... carry the ... scribble ... about half a football pitch each.

I bags the local Tescos. The rest of you can split the remainder of the country between you. Quickly now.

I pity the poor sod who ends up with the Old Man of Hoy.

Re: Re:Carol V

One of my friends visited the Countdown studio 20-odd years ago, being a friend of one of the producers (or the director; I forget). She was shown around the set and introduced to Carol Vorderman, who invited her to play the part by taking some number cards off the desk and putting them up on the rack. Turns out Carol is short and she has a box to stand on behind the desk, to bring her eyeline up to normal camera height. She said to my friend, "Gently now, you're standing on Carol's box."

Re: You have to wonder...

How was that info collected?

By the police tipping the council off that they've had to issue a warning to the homophobic racist and that anyone reporting a further problem to the council regarding that tenant should be directed straight to the police re. this case number.

Re: Visions of a lackey tapping out 50,000,000 messages on his T9 keypad

you are going to clog up the toilet and won't be able to sit down for quite some time.

On the contrary, I don't think you'll be standing up for quite some time.

What's wrong with marrowfat peas? They're delicious.

Re: Perhaps someone can explain something to dumb old me.

And this accretion disc

It's not an accretion disc. The animation shows you how the appearance of a disc is formed.

Re: St Peter's

He's the patron saint of software crashes.

Re: WWZ

We need to learn from zombie apocalypse movies.

What exactly do we need to learn? Never go to Glasgow?

Why does that elicit images of frat boys and a lake of vomit?

"...OK, one last time, Dougal. These are small... but the ones out there are far away. Small... far away... ah forget it!"

Surely you're producing your own material for a shish kebab? Just add paprika and stir.

Re: Obvious Reason Why

Pity impeachment wasn't successful.

That debacle at least showed that power mattered more than principle to the majority of Republican senators. The only one who voted to impeach stated that he did so from fear of his god rather than out of his duty to uphold the constitution, which basically says that if he hadn't been reminded of his oath of office at the beginning of the hearing he wouldn't have given a shit.

Re: Whisper's Chinese financial ties

your usual unfounded speculation and bickering

Merely one method of surviving the working day.

Re: Conservatives

"After long and hard negotiations with the Treasury, the minister is pleased to announce that the first tranche of the IT replacement programme will take place from September this year, which will see 25% of the current long-service Windows XP laptops being replaced by a cost-efficient modern alternative computing device, the abacus. Court staff will be able to request training on a limited-place basis, starting from April in the subsequent financial year. The second 25% tranche is pencilled in for the following September."

Re: There is no icon

It also covers I.

Re: Dwarfs or dwarves?

(uppercase D)

Do You always write Nouns using an initial Capital? If not, does the same Rule that applies to Dwarfs also apply to Giants, Eagles and/or Centaurs?

Re: I've had marketing disabled since 2017, had the email

they're still hoarding it like Gollum hoards his precious

Someone needs to warn them that it didn't end well for Gollum.

Re: Penny for a cup of tea, guv?

About 20 years ago I used to walk to work through one of the main parks in town. One morning I passed a bloke who had clearly been sleeping on a park bench all night and was just getting up and packing his sleeping bag. He asked me if I could spare 20p so he could buy a small sachet of shampoo, because he had a job interview that morning. A likely story, I thought, but I gave him the 20p anyway and wished him good luck.

About three weeks later I ran into him again in town. He was dressed in new clothes and came over to me, and said "Remember me? Here's the 20p I owe you. I got the job. Thank you." I don't now care if I do risk getting scammed by handing anyone who asks some loose change, because if that good outcome is repeated just once it will make every single loss worthwhile.