Posts by TRT

Re: Ha

Company: "Hmm... sounds expensive. I mean, it's going to be cheaper just to get a fleet of minimum-wage Joes to do it."

HMG: "We'll subsidise it..."

Company: "We're in!"

Re: Ha

Are you SURE the suppliers didn't want it? I mean, it would have enabled them to get rid of huge swathes of staffing costs, like meter readers, and consigned a particular genre of pr0nographic narrative to the anals annals of history.

Electric supplier: "I've come to install your smart meter"

Me: "Fuck off. I'm not in."

Re: SMETS2?

The broadcast network is different, I hear, between the north and the central and south regions. It's not really hit the press much, probably because it's (a) incredibly dull and (b) par for the course, but wireless telecommunications providers have been smacking each other over the head and lobbying parliament so that there's no nationwide monopoly on the contracts resulting from farming out to private investors what should really be a national infrastructure program. Capitalism at its very finest.

Re: No windows in my building please.

That's fine. They prefer the dark.

Actually... who DO you call when the walls start sprouting fruiting bodies? Linda McCartney?

Simply Enigma. Although Macallan got there first, I think.

Re: coffee cups

Dosed with hot coffee on the other hand...

Is it also peanut proof?

Well let's hope they don't look to, say, the US Navy for ideas about implementing waterproof control interfaces.

Re: I predict they will go to state Pen

Alternatively, one day in the court house...

Official: "Names... OK, you are... scheduled in court on We.... hang on... I'm sure that screen just changed. Well, it says here that you are free to go, and *querulous tone* I'm to give you $10,000 each and a hall pass for a threesome with my wife? Well, OK. I mean, the computer can't be wrong."

Pen-testers: "FAIL".

Re: Where I lived

Not so much a pothole as a pitfall.

Re: Council..

They would definitely report it if it kept going off at 10% BELOW the limit for the road.

Re: Optional options

And you tried to report the pothole to the council how, exactly? Via a webform perhaps?

Re: 1500 HP?

Seawolf, Seaview or Seaquest? Oh, hang on... PAUL Allen, not Irwin Allen. My bad.

Re: 4 hours of air...

Of course, yes. Diesel's need air too, so only surface running. Still, you don't want someone to step on a frogman, as it were.

Re: No Das Boot here

No, they all ended up in the navel yard.

Re: Vinegar volcano...

I'm going to go with science project here, rather than anything related to vinegar strokes.

Re: The Obvious Comeback...

I'm going to go with that one coming from the bloopers reel. Along with the one where Sean Connery is left tied to the slab and all the crew have gone off for lunch leaving the laser on (for a joke, of course). "Union rules, isn't it, mate? No more than 2 hours without a tea break and only special effects technicians are allowed to operate the controls..."

Re: Just avoid Amazon

Cold. Not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. Impersonal. Not like a fist thrown in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly. Again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.

Are you forgetting the scenario where Brexit is such an appalling cock up that the corporations move out of the UK altogether and thus aren't eligible to pay the tax at any rate, 0% or otherwise?

Re: Bug?

A series of images held for the purposes of testing automatic nudity censorship algorithms... or at least, that's my excuse.

Re: Soft-core porno

I'd suggest it's not a control study. That individual doesn't look like a wild type. Definitely a manipulation.

But was it a bug or a boob?

Re: Could be worse

"a tiny hammer that strikes once and sounds like a wine glass flicked with a fingernail,"

Just makes them stop and check their iPhone for a text message. Thank God that Apple haven't added ding-a-ling-a-ling as an alert tone!

Re: Could be worse

Well there's an equal duty on all road users to share the road responsibly. If the pedestrian deliberately did not make use of a refuge or other opportunity to allow the vehicle to pass safely, then they would be at fault - not that in such a situation there would be actual damage to make reparations for. I mean, possibly if someone walked along a road blocking it deliberately and the human heart you had on ice in the car was spoiled by the extra delay the pedestrian caused by being an a*hole and not standing aside... Someone being an arse doesn't give you the right to run them down with impunity.

Re: Could be worse

Right of way is a misused term. You actually mean "priority", because both the pedestrian AND the cyclist have right of way over a shared cycle path. Cyclists, however, do not have a right of way on pavements (sidewalks for clarification) except where signed or in order to gain access to their own property across a dropped kerb which has a vehicular right of way for them. It's also a misconception that pedestrians always have priority - the false belief appears to arise from the direction given to magistrates and judges that in these cases, presumption of the larger part of any fault to be decided should be levied against the operator of the vehicle involved. It's not that they have priority, just that cyclists and drivers are held to a higher level of duty of care; because a vehicle is more likely to cause damage, the operator of that vehicle must be more cautious.

Indeed I had a very close call near Angel. I was on the centre island, looking left, the traffic behind me was on a red light about to go green, nothing was coming, so I turned ahead and stepped down onto the road. I got clipped by a cyclist who had taken it upon themselves to go around the island on the wrong side of the road against the red light. They were doing a fair lick too as that's a long downhill stretch. If I had looked right, I would have seen them of course, but you don't expect traffic to be going around the wrong side of a traffic island when the lights are red - except emergency vehicles of course.

Not the case in nearby Watford, where there's a bridge over what was a road and is now a pedestrian walk cutting through the shopping centre. Cyclists, to a one, NEVER dismount. The shopping centre is so fed up with it, that they're blocking off the road with some doors. They eventually won their 20 year battle to effectively stop up the road. So it's not so much the roof that has the effect as the presence of a door / threshold.

But if they ban shitting in the pedestrian shopping area...well, all I can say is they've no respect for maintaining the historical stench of the town.

Re: All I can think of is a statement about this

Given the precipitation outfalls from the raised walkways criss-crossing Hemel's shopping area between the car park and the stores... and the use that local inebriates make of said walkways...

piss pour planning.

Re: density

Lifting the lid on baked beans...

Re: density

"Why on earth would my fridge manufacturer reject a tried and tested cheap reliable effective design in favour of a less effective option that costs more and consumes more energy? It doesn't make any sense at all."

Progress.