No sense of humour? Avoid Bootnotes

At last some kick ass common sense

Its about time you stood up to the whinging 70's wearing knitted waistcoat It geek crowd.

If you can't have a bit of fun at the end of the day in IT, where would you be?

IT in Germany, correctomongo.

personally...

i don't even work in IT, so it's just the boot notes i read anyway. You sysadmin types can keep you podloading and bytecasting and whatnot.

i'll stick to Bulgarian airbags and Polish people cleaning their undercrackers with Henry the hoover.

Nice one Lester. (and get back to work Sarah!)

fucktard can be placed with....

iTard. You know all those people who walk around with their iPhone in their hand tapping it and waving to make sure you notice so they can feel like they got their $400 worth or assuming you can't afford one so they must be cooler. As is it's impossible someone just doesn't one one until it is up to spec and lower in price.

Opps I guess I should have saved this rant for the next apple iphone story...

What's YOUR IT angle?

Stuff an individual article, what do *you* have to do with IT Lester??

Oh bugger

I filtered out that category and now all I've got is recycled BBC news stories :).

It's an internet thing.

The "I hate this, stop it immediately" appears to be a more apparant on the Internet.

I've seen this before in forums, and comments about websites and other things. Users, readers, commentators and other third parties seem quite happy to attack those who put the effort in to create Internet content for it not being quite what they wanted.

For some reason they seem to believe that websites are public ownership, and that the creators and mediators need to conform to some rules defined by the readership. I've heard of websites being threatened under Freedom of Speech legislation for removing comments just because they were about something other than what the owner of the website wanted.

I wonder if it stems from the "I want the world this way - you must make it so" kind of attitude we live in today. Everything you want, you can have just by demanding. I'm sick of it.

So if El-reg wants to write about Italian goat herders sucking on black New Zealand ummm things - then bloody well shut the f**k up. If you don't like it, piss off to somewhere else.

Rant over! Set the main sail and head for open water Lester and co!

You lot give us stuff we don't need and it's fine

And if somebody doesn't like it tough shit.

But the whole I.T. world is waiting for a 'Where's the Britney Spears angle' icon, it's hard to do without.

Please

@where's the IT angle tossers?

This comment has got me wondering whether "IT angle tossers" are some kind of specialised type of cricket bowlers and if so what angle the IT angle would be.

What's football?

Lester may now write as many non-IT articles he likes. Not that he gives a flying fuck what permissions I give, but still.

It reminds of of a time, not too long ago, that the bulk of a main news cast was about an 'incident' in football. And, now for the sport. Which was about the same incident in the same game and fuck all else. BBC if I remember correctly.

Is it just me who has noticed that footballers are very fit and nimble, what with all the somersaults and stuff they do when they score.

Why isn't ballet more popular? They're better at all that stuff.

And since when was a person running down a pitch exciting. Commentators, calm the fuck down. You are acting like tossers.

And, more importantly:

What _IS_ the Paris angle anyway? I'm curious. Very curious.

Anyone have the video?

My name is Hillary Clinton

and I didn't dodge snipers and invent the civil rights movement to read this sort of crap. And I dare ya to sell Chelsea off into slavery...and I bet you can't get a red cent for Bill. :P

w00t!

I read El Reg since 2000, when the BOFH set up shop over here. Of course I like to read Bootnotes, and get a good laughing on them, especially on a Friday!

Where I come from ...

... it's Phucktards ... it may sound the same, but it's a whole lot more phun to pronounce when you're stuck in Paris.

<--- Duh.

@Lester Haines

Sir,

In addition to all of the above, your punctuation is abominable ! May I recommend Linda Truss's book - Eats, shoots and leaves !! As a punishment, you WILL punctuate this -

woman without her man is lost

Willie Ap Uranus

Two things this has taught me.

1. Don't mess with Sarah Bee unless you just like pain.

2. IT angles are everywhere you're reading it on a website asshat there's your IT angle. BTW I can't tell what ITs angle is (it's really cold in here).

Why I otta

If you dare stop publishing these arbitrary stories, I shall never read them on your site again. That is a promise, sirs and madmen.

@Ishkandar

Woman: Without her, man is lost.

Saddened

I was both saddened and dismayed that the news snippet I emailed el reg about the Japanese porno being made in MacDonalds burger (and now apparently sausages) restaurant was not added to bootnote.

There is FAR too much IT on this webshite. I henceforth withdraw my patronage and you shall now lose...err....erm...actually what do you lose? A drinking partner?

Oh sod it. Just post eee girl again she cheers me up no end.

IT angle thing..

If anybody ever wonder where the IT angle is just remember due to the nature of angles....they're all around us

mines the one at 90º

Paris cause she spends most of her life at 180º and the rest in degrees of stupidity

Wheres the Lester angle?

Where's the Lester angle, eh? I didn't fight in two world wars to read this kind of crap on the register, any more of it and you're out of my shrine for good you lestard!

I'm sorry lester, I didn't mean it.. its just everyone else was doing it.. and you never reply to my calls, and theres robots in the US army, and WE NEED ANOTHER HERO </sing>

I got the IT angle right here!

For any and all of those that have ever actually dared to inquire "Where's the IT angle?", I posit this tidbit of wisdom from my mentor;

"In today's world, with the proliferation of WiFi, and satellites transmitting the internet to every nook and cranny of the globe, every person on Earth now has porn passing through their body, 24/7." - Dhamma Absu

Dunno why, but I get the warm fuzzies just thinking about it, the Ultimate IT Angle!

Too suitable for work

Where's the flesh-toned IT curve?

@Ishkandar & Sarah Bee.

Woman, without her man, is lost.

@Slaine

Probably the fucking distributor cap. That's my fucking guess.

Where's the meat angle ?

AS stated above, although I must say that the shocking lack of manners on th e content-Nazi's should be an affront to El Reg.

Also, where's the follow-up article (promised ) on Bulgarian Airbags and the El Reg Soviet standards thereof?

I didn't miss out on two world wars and traverse 4 'klicks in knee deep snow to log on and fiund out that there is a paucity of NSFW articles.......

Go Lester Go......

Everything is invented in USA first, fucktards.

Since hearing the word fucktard in common usage I have often wondered where it originated. I may have heard it before the winter of 1998, but if I did I suppressed that memory.

I was in the cold high desert of 29Palms, California setting up a encrypted tunnel over a satellite shot to a Marine Air Wing command post. They kept keying their equipment with wrong keys prompting me to slam down the green phone and attempt to yell "Fucking Retards" I was so angry that it came out "Fuck*sputter*Tards" to which my CO and SNCOIC ran into the tent wondering why I would yell FuckTards.

That same exercise spawned the word fuckulate in the form unfuckulate. Usage is:

"Sure the tunnel will come up and we'll get logistics data as soon as I unfuckulate their router configs."

BSD style license applies to both. Use them often I could fucking care less.

@ wayne

1998? I was saying it at school in the early 90s, and we hadn't made it up outselves.

Re: the actual article: hooray. Perhaps relevant to the whole of Odds and Sods instead of just Bootnotes, but humour is definitely a welcome part of El Reg. Sarah-Bee-style metaphorical cold ones all round.

It's all got an IT angle...

Your bloody toaster has a computer in it. And they had to use one to write the article, and so on and so forth. You can't get away from the IT angle any more.

Why can't I click more than one icon? I didn't fight in two world wars to be limited in this way. Come to think of it, I didn't fight in *any* world wars...

ummmm

ah did a jobby in ma pants

那里是它角度, 嗯

我没有战斗在二次世界大战中读这胡扯在记数器, 它并且您是在我的书签外面永远您fucktards.