Posts by dogcatcher

There's only one silly error really: assuming they can't be caught.

No, the silly error is a failure to work out their final return on their investment, should they be caught and punished.

Re: It Pays to Advertise?

I now actively try not to buy goods that are advertised and certainly not from the advertisers.

Re: Darlington

It's a suburb of Bombay

Re: Drunks in charge of the brewery

I hadn't even noticed Parliament was sitting - has anyone mentioned this to our representatives?

Re: Sorry to be dim

and if they weren't here in the first place then we wouldn't have to pay Crapita to monitor them.

Re: Tedious WARNING!

Please don't give the local council yet another excuse to avoid sink/ potholes. The Elf and Safety goblins will be delighted that their grottoes remain untouched.

Re: Politics is really for Morons say Machines, and they know you know, you know ‽

Every time I use the 'phone I get some mindless machine on the other end telling me to press button #1 to hear further stupid choices. Isn't it intelligent enough to know that I have used the same telephone for the last fifty years and it doesn't have buttons, just a dial.

Re: WTF!

As a civilian customer I hate EMIS, I wish the local surgery would get some software that works.

That's no way to describe a lawyer

Re: Can be done - small boys doing it already

I got worried when they dropped the rule that only four-engined aircraft could be used for transoceanic flights, that was after they had booted out the navigator and flight engineer. I'm staying home if they introduce a Tesla type system, especially if it is as short-lived as Dragonflies are, as they only fly in the summer and spend most of their lives at the bottom of a muddy pond.

I've never liked hydrogen since my father told me how a good friend of his perished in the R101. I still charge batteries in the open air.

I suppose that writing a chit for the petty cash is a bit inconvenient.

Re: Tips?

Not since I have to put my bin out on the road They got tipped in the days when they collected the bin from the house.

Re: Cost of doing business

Wouldn't it be nice if the €265 million came out of his pocket.

Re: With a little help from the server

Being an old git with memory loss I do find 123456 the best password for NHS sites that ask me for random letters from my password, it saves counting on my fingers.

Re: Per home usage

That's enough to keep my CPAP running as I freeze to death.

Free information and advertising should not walk hand in hand. The answer is simple, Google has to abort advertisements (and advertisers, for they are not sentient beings)

Re: They must of

Sarf Lundun possibly?

Re: Just what the planet needs

and what happens when the sand gets into the works?

Re: Only the Guilty?

I believe in the WWII Pacific theatre that Native American Indians were used to relay massages between ships and naval command.

No, massages would have been provided by locals, no Native American Indian would have been exploited in that way.

So that I have a chance of recognising it and being able to copy it. With two screens open I can manually copy a password; with only one screen I cannot remember the password long enough to transfer it.

Re: GIGO for the goddesses sake!

Wouldn't that be the Light Programme that I can't find on the wireless these days?

You're not suggesting that there are Guardian readers who are also are users of this forum?

Re: Rural coverage

A good thing for people in some rural areas would be to get any sort of coverage.

Re: Horribly broken - not by accident

They can't get the legal aid they need since they changed the rules.

or the Field Marshall, but which caused the most casualties is hard to tell.

Where today can I make a 'phone call for 4d through a friendly operator?

Re: Sigh,

I presume that government ministers will not use their scrambled telephones. GCHQ can lay off half its staff because there will be no cipher traffic to monitor and let's re-establish Civil Censorship of the mails in case anyone has the temerity to send a coded letter.

(With memories of my late mother who worked for part of the war excruciatingly censoring the Irish mail)

Re: "[he will be] transferred to Australia to serve his sentence without the US objecting"

And to think, we used to send them out to America by the shipload until they started demanding independence, then we had to switch to paying for their transport to a holiday in Australia. Plus ça change.

Re: IT helps administrate treatments

From memory the NHS ran faster and more efficiently before computers were invented

Re: The joys of the phonetic alphabet

"Anonymous as I'm a Senior PM and supposed to be a grown up"

............ Yes, Boris.

Does that mean that as a Prime member I can get delivery of what I want tomorrow?

Re: Weight of passengers

In my army days I had to declare either my personal weight or all-up weight with kit and weapon, to any pilot who bothered to ask. The ones flying those liitle dinky rotary-wing aircraft seemed to be more concerned when several of us piled into the last seat.

Yes, but some of us are no longer smart enough to use them or understand the damn things.

Re: Feh.

My mother worked for Fairmile Marine at some stage during the war, ensuring that various boatyards had the bits and pieces to build the MTB/MGBs

Re: XP to the Rescue?

"it's 7 in classic mode"

So Bristol's bus shelters are no longer supported?

Re: Though that one is easier to fix

Bet there's a problem at US border control especially after a transatlantic flight when everyone looks grey.