Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 13:37 GMT
El Reg prohibited vocabulary usage alert!
Collapse of civilisation imminent!!!
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 13:37 GMT
Brilliant, the law does apply to cabinet ministers, now all we have to do is make sure that if they sell honors or start illegal wars they get nailed. Not that I can imagine that ever happening, of course.
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 13:37 GMT
I can't be the only one to read it as 'a large hippopotamus' can I?
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 14:26 GMT
I picked this up on Wikipedia, so it's true (TM):
In Alzheimer's disease, the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage; memory problems and disorientation appear among the first symptoms. Damage to the hippocampus can also result from oxygen starvation (anoxia) and encephalitis.
"Damage .. can result from oxygen starvation.."
So do the cabbies get didjeridoo lessons beforehand or what?
Can they simultaneously in- and exhale?
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 14:26 GMT
No - I read it as "a large hippopotamus" too.
I don't know about anyone else but the number of times I've had to give directions to taxi drivers (sometimes going from our house back into the town centre ! ) I suspect that the University of London study is probably not very good.
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 14:26 GMT
Shame he didn't get caught smuggling illegals into the country so that we can get rid of him and hopefully replace him with someone that will actually implement any sort of border control.
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 17:20 GMT
What a shame the odious little shite was caught before he did us all a favour and drove into a wall.
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 17:20 GMT
End of the world will commence in...
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<connection to reality terminated>
Posted Friday 2nd November 2007 21:36 GMT
This is the same Government Minister who has touted the idea that persons including those who have ancestral ties to the UK and originate from the old Commonwealth must be subjected to having their citizenship application delayed if they have broken the law through minor traffic violations. Considering the blatant disregard by the Home Office to actually abide to laws passed within the UK by successive governments - such reckless conduct comes as no surprise.
Posted Saturday 3rd November 2007 22:41 GMT
Apparently coverage of the great battle hasn't reached all corners of the globe yet.
Full report here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/01/mobe_liberated/
It still makes me smile to read that. :)
Posted Monday 5th November 2007 10:45 GMT
"What a shame the odious little shite was caught before he did us all a favour and drove into a wall."
Alternatively: "what a relief the odious little shite was caught before he drove into a pedestrian or cyclist."
I feel the latter is a much more likely scenario.
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