Posts by Triggerfish

Re: Insects...

To add to that, ants eggs taste a bit like Lemon Sherbet.

@Doctor Syntax

I beg to differ

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/life/2016/05/25/1464165135/

Some of those picture might not suit the squeamish.

Re: @ Pen-y-gors

How curvy is a banana? Or cucumber?(did they retract that one for being too pedantic?). Or what can be called jam? Or apparently the size of a drink in a pub?

You do realise there's a reason for standards don't you? And that things like bananas weren't banned for curve shape?. And that a lot of the appearance of fruit and veg in stores is dictated by a mix of what the consumer wants to see and what the retailers think we want to see? Which is why some of the classifications of things like fruit came about.

What a delicate flower you are - there are large parts of the world where it is consistently that temp or substantially higher for major parts of the year.

It's called adaptation it takes a while. You don't just step into somewhere that's twenty odd degrees hotter than what your body thinks is a really sunny day and instantly adapt, the body registers only a couple of degrees as a temp change, It's a process that takes months. I currently think 18C is a bit nippy, last year in the UK I would have been sleeping with the window slightly open all the way down to near 0C with just a light duvet.

Also those people in hot climates. If it's humid especially they suffer as well, there's a reason people in hot countries often take siestas. Real feel this year was hitting 48C in the cities there were plenty of locals who suffered, not as badly as me, but enough that there was articles in the paper about how deadly the heat could be.

Re: Quentin Sommerville

And also a bit of drop the dead donkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXYnisZP9c

Re: RIP free speech

It's not a public service.

Free speech applies in this way, set up a shit load of kit, do the coding, run your own version of twitter.

In fact by imposing rules on the people running twitter and silencing their right to dissent against these racist groups you are actually calling for the suppression of their own rights of free speech.

Re: Poor relations

As someone living in a country were the daily wage is low, there is some truth in it provides work that is equivalent to a a not bad, possibly little above average wage.

Thing is though plenty of people on this average wage, have also some pretty poor conditions. At that wage you can't afford health insurance, and state hospitals can be inadequate as a generous description someone I know recently had to share a bed with three others in a hospital while they had dengue, likewise affordable housing can be of a lot lesser quality than we grew up with, 12m square of living space for example. Or places we would consider as a decent master bedroom being occupied by multiple people.

I am a little ambivalent on this, part of me realises it provides work for people that in their countries may be considered a living wage and as such cutting it off could be disastrous for them, part of me thinks there really should be nothing wrong with paying a little over, a company could still pay a decent wage and make savings and improve someones life for only a little extra expenditure. I don't think there is an easy cut and dried solution.

Re: Whaaat?

What happens to those with opposite opinions? Are they to be ignored because they aren't in the select group of "internet pioneers" that signed the letter?

What you mean people like Ajit Pai, Verizon, Comcast? You're right they don't have enough of a voice, they are not getting a chance to promote their ideas anywhere.

Re: Note to self...

That's a kid with some biz sense.

Re: Softbank

It's not the only one they invested in they put $2b USD in grab, an Asian version of Uber.

Re: Note 3...

Was contemplating finally upgrading my Z3. I can still buy them new where I am. note 4 is about £200, Note 5 is about £250, do they still hold up? Was contemplating a note FE or 8.

Re: What if ...

They have your record for the payment though.

Re: Who would pay for BBC access?

I'd likely pay as someone abroad, to stream r6, and have access to things like the Blue Planet 2 that's on now for example. I'd probably happily pick up the comedies like QI and Have I got news, and the odd bit like that as well.

@AC

In a way I admire their audacity, and attempt to bring world peace to the planet if only for five minutes.

But yeah career wise dumb move.

Re: Just been migrated to Orifice 365

UI that many aspects of which seem to have been designed by a marketing reject whilst out of his head on Spice

Oh don't worry they seemingly change it every year, usually for the worse.

Re: I have an odd psychological response:

I do exactly the same thing, I have to fight to stay awake on car journeys as a passenger. I have been asleep within minutes of being in a vehicle, turns out I am the same on boats to.

Re: Helpful tips to make the above concept better welcome. @Dropbear

As I say YMMV but I live abroad and phoning someone and speaking their own language is a bit beyond me at the moment, text has some advantage over that.

Here FB is so entrenched I don't even know some peoples phones numbers. People don't do calls av wage is low, it's money thrown away when someone can use leeched wifi and FB. People over here even have phones that don't work for calls because they are broken doesn't make any difference to them.

Whatsapp tend to be among the more Westerners and even then it has advantages, from a quick text message to parents with couple of nice pics to reassure them I am alive (or being able to give me a call via Wifi), and friends back home, shared groups and messaging people in other countries. It has advantages that are very hard to beat. Without having to try and get everyone across to a new style of thing, including technophobic family members, it's not really practical.

In the UK I avoided FB, easy enough to say call or text, over here its the communication tool of the whole of the region, genuinely unavoidable, if you would like to talk to people and find things. Whatsapp likewise.

Re: IBM

My boss uses

International Billing Machine

Re: I must be in the "Beta" programme

next-door neighbour is arbitrarily designated as the custodian of all my undeliverables

I used to work for the council one of the duties was taking calls for bins, the amount of delivery people who thought a bin was a good place to store stuff, calls from people asking if you can go through the dump for an item.

Re: I kinda want a drone

Agreed the little microdrones are fun and cheap, I had a little Hubsan X4 cost about 30 quid, fine to fly indoors, in the office or your garden (it really won't reach any height to worry about).

No good if you want to do photography but for mucking about perfectly fine.

Re: Real world usage @Brangdon

MY Z3 is just starting to make me think I should replace it. Give Sony this they make not bad phones.

Looks like him is that enough now for being convinced and taking action? should we dox him? maybe get his address out? set his house om fire?

I mean the guy in the article is obviously loathsome, but lets not just start this pogrom shit here ta, especially as it's all based on you an AC ffs, who has absolutely no evidence.

Oh look there's a cat that looks like hitler let's get it...

Well its been done with pole dancers

https://nextshark.com/50-pole-dancers-perform-sexy-dance-atop-jeeps-for-a-special-funeral-in-taiwan-tung-hsiang/

Re: Wow...

Oh I dunno, not defending the UK gov. But Homan square?

Re: Well....

Actual just turn the props into dynamos, get charged as they spin during the plummet, course the whole journey could be like the Vomit Comet.

Re: No you haven't heard it all, yet

Maybe I should have said you won't walk through the park and look at the Mallards in the same way now. :)

Re: The single failure with all "Flagship" these phones. @ royprime

I actually do you my phone a lot when out and about, including relying on GPS, and all the other bits I have on it. It can quite deplete battery life during the day, it's a pain around late evening if about to go out and having to charge up because the charge is low.

Re: Where I used to work,

Well you know if they are good at what they do fair enough.

In this case I am guessing thinking admin/admin for access is probably a sign they didn't study up for the role.

Re: My boss will hate it @Solarflare

Change users :)

I read that as 'bell-end curve' for some reason

Easy mistake to make considering the subject matter, you could say he is / at the bell end of the bell curve.