Posts by Chimp

Re: "just got too fat and had to waddle instead"

Definitely sounds Australian... Fatty waddling around, clutching his didgeridoo.

Re: Sounds fascinating...

I don't think it's real. There isn't a single use of the word 'quantum'.

Re: "Hello, Google? Yes, I'd like some advice, please"

Don't forget Alice

Re: Sea Fury

Prop is wrong. Nice, though.

It's not abdication...

... it's usurping. The progressive mantra is that the masses cannot be trusted.

No, Minister.

No, think outside the box. Tell the Sir Humphrey types that you're a lesbian clown with an interest in phases of the moon. Use the resultant shower of cash to fund your product.

Thinking, see?

Re: You have to admire the Chinese

Actually, they called him " criminal of a thousand years". The implication being that his role was to subvert the process of returning Hong Kong.

I never really understood the " running dog" translation. More like " tail following dog" actually... so, in modern parlance, " poodle". Not at all what they accused Mr Patten of.

Re: Germany...

Dead is dead. And no, let's not except two world wars.

Best.

... comment ever.

Re: I can see the headlines now

You forgot "... and reloaded five times"

Re: I fell for a scam like this ...

I don't understand the icon.. .

Re: The noun is licenCe

Look it up. You're wrong.

Re: Plank in thine own eye?

You need to notify the dictionary people that they're wrong, Ted. They seem to think that the two spellings are legitimate variants for both noun and verb forms of the verb.

Or you could be talking out your arse.

Re: Could be interesting

What a wuss.Chuck a few slabs of tinnies in the back of the Holden and a real bloke is right as rain in the bush

Re: Morons wasting time.

Give is arguably ditransitive. 'Give me it'sound s a bit rural, but it's defensible.

Re: What amazing modern MS Office facilities do they need?

Actually, there are some possible reasons. Support for MS formats is pretty bad. Formatting and embedded charts seldom work properly from .odt to .doc/.docx or vice versa. .ods spreadsheets lack quite a lot of the functionality of .xls. Sharing spreadsheets with MS users is fraught as the user programmed functions don't work.

I understand the issue is the secretive nature of MS file formats. I have standardized my own company on Open Office, and it works well for us. We keep a copy of MS Office handy though.

Re: Meaning?

Goo in Chinese... tonal language, so depending on how you say it...

drum, mushroom, ancient, guess

Numerous other possibilities, though none particularly rude.

Re: SOGA should be mandatory teaching in schools

You were doing fine until the last paragraph, when you admitted to fraud, which makes you just as big a tosser as the companies that don't live up to contacts of sale.

Basically, this is the wrong site for you. Most of us are in the biz as well as being consumers.

Re: Hmmm, Let me think awhile

Well, yes.... But think.

All those financials that you need to keep, but would rather not bother the revenue with. I mean, either side of the pond it's effectively wide open to government level scrutiny... But what will happen if Her Majesty, or one of her loyal servants, wants a peek at a data store in the PRC?

Sure, the commies can see your data, and in some cases, that may be a problem. However, I see this being very popular with a certain crowd.

Re: Declaration of War!

Yes , kudos for an exemplary, if slightly (but convincingly) inarticulate, man in the street with pickup and guns point of view. Well played, sir.

A good idea, as...

... people who piss him off tend to have terrible accidents with baseball bats in public places.

Of course, it could be worse....

Re: 2013??

Mr. Prickett-Morgan writes really thorough, informed articles. There are always a few grammatical clangers... Kind of his seal of authenticity.

Enjoy them for the content... Genuinely outstanding, sometimes.

Re: Move along - nothing to see here

Nothing wrong with a landy, in the right place, and at the right time. The wrong time, obviously, is when a load of composition B goes off under your arse.

Re: hold on

300k on a flash motor and a watch would get you laid a lot more reliably...

Re: @ misotonic - A bit low...

Log burners are much closer to carbon neutral than, say, mains powered heating.

Re: Welcome to canada

It's in .223, bolt action and a four round mag....