Posts by Little Mouse

Re: Irish alchohol licencing

"asking any village shopkeeper"

No chance. Not since watching League of Gentlemen...

Re: Old IT joke

Not a true story. Agreed - we've all heard it. You missed off the punchline about putting it back in the box and sending it back because "You're too f'ing stupid to use a computer".

However I have seen a PC that wouldn't power up despite everything being plugged in. The plug from the multi-adapter that fed the PC / montitor etc was plugged back into one of its own spare sockets instead of the wall....

Re: Observed many times ...

many people's brains will basically go limp

I've seen this in techies too.

An old colleague of mine took great pleasure in seeing what ludicrous things he could get other techies to do "as a quick favour"

"Could you check something for me? Go to the desktop. Press ctrl-a. Now hit Delete? ...

Yep, I thought that would happen" <walks away>

Re: but do you want to work for the likes of

"their policies of milking HMG raping UK taxpayers for every penny

Been there. Done that. Got out in time but still feel dirty.

Re: Then she realised:

Any word on whether she has a bit of string dangling from her mouth?

Re: Families divided over police support

I remember a piece I read in a Thai newspaper a few years ago, which, in all seriousness, reported that a convicted paedo had committed suicide in custody by bashing his own head repeatedly against a concrete wall. No-one there raised an eyebrow when I brought it up.

"Life on Mars" didn't only happen in the 70's I guess.

Re: How do we know?

There are 666 of them. I read it in a book somewhere.

Re: Ada?

Would Linda be so celebrated if a man had played her bit-part in the history of pr0n ? Of course not.

Celebrate ( and employ ) women for what they achieve, not for being the best person-with-vagina at doing their job. Anything else is patronising. And sexist

Re: Straight glass or handle?

a lady doing something unmentionable with a beer glass

Was she drinking Fosters?

Re: Ah joke wallpaper ...

In the 90's there was a fad for free "comedy" screensavers, featuring badly animated sprites doing unfunny things. E.g. Bill Gates as a window cleaner - Pasta shapes dancing the "Macaroni" etc etc.

They all had two things in common: They were always described as "hilarious", and they were all as tedious as hell.

(Except for Johnny Castaway of course)

Re: Cyber security buck stops with me, says Dido Harding

Or maybe, to paraphrase Colin & Fergus, Dido could follow in the footsteps of the Dodo, Dodi, Di & Dando.

Sorry. A bit tasteless, I know.

Re: Degrees of naughtyness

Tom Cruise was hacking air gapped computers twenty years ago...

Re: Well thats the primary school competition done

The "postcards" in the few phone boxes that still exist round my way were most definitely NOT designed by children.

They'd certainly make for a more interesting national flag though...

Re: Good work, but why worry about CO2

Re "bad for the economy"

Economies grow when your actions add value - i.e. you make something better than it was before or create something that people want.

Making someone else tidy up after you merely prevents that person from doing other, more productive, work.

Gravity. And if that were the only force at play then there would be also be a tiny bit of atmosphere out there too. Not much mind, as the higher you go the thinner the atmosphere gets.

However, unlike the ISS, the atmosphere is made chiefly of air, and as such blows and boils away very easily. (See Solar Winds, etc)

Re: "What trash are people buying"

The kind bought by people who don't know the difference between "Cheap" and "Good Value".

Re: Ah

Fond memories of White Dwarf & Thrud the Barbarian though. They were pretty anarchic IIRC.

Re: why is this on the reg

Personally I think the spiral began when Ms Bee left and the original amanfrommars stopped posting...

Re: Struggling with BT

Re: "much more interesting things to stream"

Nice - You almost had me there. Your correct use of apostrophes gave you away though.... :)