Posts by Pedigree-Pete

Massier...

Have an upvote just for massier. Kudos for not saying "much more massier". PP

Re: Gasbags

@Susan. I don't think it's considered Trolling if you bait politicians around these parts. New icon required. PP

>>'cos it's Friday Eve

Re: So how does this work then?

@CrazyOldCatMan.....Just so long as they don't play Scotland the Brave. I just find that patronising. PP

@silverfern ref Germany.

"Don't give him your name Pike". PP

Bob's your Uncle....

@the good Dr. S. I understood Uncle Bobs other half was traditionally Fanny.

Bob's your Uncle and Fanny's your Aunt. PP

ICON:>>>>>Friday Eve.

Re: Cambridge to Horley

@ Loud Speaker..available via Victoia's Secret what??? Enquiring mind etc. PP

Re: Just a little question...

In the UK we don't have many houses with numbers > 3 digits, in the US it seems that 5 digit house numbers are common. Most people know their house number.

In the UK we have 6 digit postal codes (ZIP Codes?). Most seem to be able to remember at least 1 of those. I know the post code for my house, my office, it's warehouse, my Mum & Dads even my old bank (tho not my new one).

I don't get the "I can't remember a 4 digit number" brigade. PP

Medical exceptions, accepted.

EMP

I'm going to round up all the pre-transistor components and ... oh wait, probably too big to fly. PP

Re: Minority of 1?

@jmch"Payday loan" companies aka loan sharks. I would also include all the betting, particularly sports betting ads. They pay lip service to the idea of "responsible" gambling, but their business model, just like that of tobacco companies, is to target young people and get them addicted. Just as with the loan sharks, their primary demographic is lower-income people, they are simply preying on the most vulnerable.

Have an upvote.

Anyone else watched late night/v.early morning commercial TV?

Funny how these gambling ads seem to increase in frequency then. PP

@ AC re: Changing Gravity suppliers.

You were about to get an upvote for soliciting business to your alternate Gravity Supplier but posting AC makes that pretty tricky. PP

>> but have one of these for the 1st working day of the week. (at least for much of the UK).

Re: Another idiot republican politician

@ BlankReg. I suspect they are taught it by their predecessors. PP

Re: California and Cali

@AC. God strike down anyone who refers to San Francisco as "Frisco". A lesson promptly learnt in my short visit to that fine City. Then, I'm not a Jackson. PP

Re: Correction!

Totally agree AC. Once in a while is fine. I reserved my Double Whopper for the 4 times a year, drop/collect from Uni trips. I doubt that'll kill me. :) PP

Icon> Later washed down with...

Re: Galactic Federation.

.........they didn't come and rap our knuckles when we unintentionally fly tipped on Mars so I guess that proves there really is nothing there. As for Saturn..we have to wait and see (or not). PP

>>ICON for the boffins that make this stuff happen.

Re: One to read...

Oh wait VinceH, Have one of these too. PP

Re: LeGere shows how it's done

@Pompous Git. snatch? I sincerely hope you meant snack. Enquiring minds and all.... PP

Re: Programmers should code for failures

Have +1 Sir. and kindly explain that to my customers who expect 100% HD video conferencing over the Internet with 1080P 60fps content sharing. PP

HMS Thetis

I had relatives in Moelfre, Anglesey N.Wales and spent many summers re-reading the accounts of HMS Thetis posted there.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj7j63tpJLTAhVFvRoKHY5mA5YQFggfMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailypost.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2Fwhats-on-news%2Fhms-thetis-submarine-disaster-honoured-7178377&usg=AFQjCNE0S9Yn-dLeN6o9xwl7pSYnyq8-nA

PP

Re: "slayed"

I know a few guys who'd disagree with you.

Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim Lea, Don Powell,

Similar issues with 'Coz, Crazee, Noize and don't get started on Come. Oh errrr. PP

ICON> Friday Eve.

Re: Apple, so disappointing now.

Once upon a time Hercules graphics brought MAC type graphics to the PC. Downline we managed to establish a company in the UK that produced high end audio/video realtime editing PCs and did pretty well at it.

Ah! Those were the days in the early 90s. 1152 x something in 24 (32) bit colour ON A PC. You know who you were guys. PP

Re: Wi-Fi

Try Ethernet over power plugs, some are even WAPs. That'll use your house electrical wiring to get the main WAP signals through the walls. :)PP

Re: Doritos

Take a peak into the world of Tournament Paintball (at least in the USA) Doritos ARE cool. This side of the pond we call them Tea Bags. PP

https://www.facebook.com/CPPSpaintball/

Re: Skycrane.

Yep Bohboh. The Skycrane was a bats idea that worked perfectly 1st time out. Creative thinking NASA. You should be allowed to do more of that. PP

Re: Luddite Revolution

How about a Butlerian Jihad. PP

@ Resigning AC.

Good for you for resigning. Sexist AND racist CEO at least.. PP

Have one of these, it's Friday Eve.

Elite (Amiga)

I played for years as Chewie to my friends' Han Solo. His daughter was called Sarah which got us into the Hex editor. We progressed more rapidly through the ranks and when promoted finally to Elite, we became an "Energy Bomb". I suppose that's simple justice for those willing to use "workarounds". :) PP

Re: Guns...

To answer your question AC "sufficiently powerful sufficiently directional RFI" would be ehem....sufficient. :) PP

Millennium Falcon

I have a friend who built one from one of those 2 year monthly subscription mags. Does the Haynes manual show you how to fix the Hyperdrive..might be necessary.

His next project is to build a half scale R2D2 which actually works. PP

Re: To Netflix...

or indeed Hoover the carpet, tho' I do know people who Dyson their carpet. We G-Tech ours. :) PP

Icon > 'coz Friday.

Hoth

anyone fancy living there where the some of the natives smell worse on the inside than the considerable honk they give off on the outside? PP

Re: How about..

RE: Seeing as it comes from Glasgow how about why wasn't it HMS Clyde or better, built in Rosyth? PP

Potato-Muffler....

much like sticking a banana up the tailpipe. PP

Re: Chatbots could totally be a trillion-dollar industry

@Mage "If true, it would prove either that Marketing are geniuses or too many consumers are dumb."

I know the former isn't true so it must be the latter. :) PP

ICON>> Friday.

Re: Gunboat Diplomacy

@Ledswinger. "If the Straits of Hormuz are blockaded, then oil becomes a problem, but you'd need more than a navy to fix that because the trouble will be local"

I suspect if someone blockaded oil shipments there'd be a few more interested parties than our couple of carriers, many of whom are already local and quite well healed. PP

Re: While we're on the subject of TI...

My 1st "scientific" calc was a TI too. Had logs, cosigns, tangents etc. Not that we could use them in exams tho'. Had to use bloody slide rules and tables. '77-80! Stone age. PP

Re: Which way round

Phew! I'm not the only pedant to turn around improperly loaded bog rolls. I sometimes catch myself wanting to fold a nice point into the next sheet to dispense. Must be my earlier career in Hostility. PP

Icon for Gratuitous Hostility.

Re: Is it OK if I just rip their bloody arms off?

And beat them over the head with the soggy end? PP

Re: "That these products broke is an indication of defects in their TLS implementations,"

Well done with the Windows 10 ref, where do I send the £10 AC? PP