peter 3
Oh come on, that was one of the funniest jokes I've ever read on el Reg.
Back by popular demand, here is our Annual Hall of Stupid, leavened with a few moments of genuine wit. It's a Stephen Fry Free Zone. Almost. “The City Is A Leisuresuit For Surviving The Future” Ben Hammersley of WiReD magazine Tweets his Deepest Thorts. The Ham is now advising the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: your taxes …
I sadly missed all the Lesbian stuff too (except the Playmobil "Secret Scandinavian Lesbian City"). Maybe it all happens in those newfangled moving 'Flash' thingies, which wont play on my computer because I'm too lazy to keep up with the changing "standards" on my ten year old Sun workstation (not a plug).
>I loved seeing my name, face and the words British citizen on this tiny piece of plastic.
I've just checked my Spanish id card and it says Nacionalidad: REINO UNIDO, just like that, in bold block capitals so I can be doubly proud of it. Funnily enough it's also got my name and a picture of my face it on it, however it doesn't incite the same level of euphoria as this woman experienced but admittedly I'm not as pretty as she. God knows how she's going to react when she gets one that doesn't have "SPECIMEN" plastered across it.
Oh, and I can top her nationality, name and face, mines also got a thumbprint on the back.
“I genuinely felt proud and excited when I was finally handed my card. I loved seeing my name, face and the words British citizen on this tiny piece of plastic. That’s who I am, and why shouldn’t anyone know?”
If El Reg reporters had any decent sense of humor, they would have equated the 'eager beaver' reporter as portraying the same character Steve Martin plays in the movie 'The Jerk'. Ok so maybe its a 'classic' because it was probably filmed before the El Reg reporter was born and I'm showing my age... :-P
The point is that there's a scene where Steve Martin jumps around in Joy because '... the new phone books are here!, the new phone books are here! ...' (Yes, before there was the internet, people relied on either calling a live operator for directory assistance, or opening up an annual publication called 'a phone book'. The character was excited because his name was in print and he was now a 'somebody' and no longer a 'nobody'.
Sure El Reg can mock the joy some people take because they now have something that establishes themselves as a 'somebody' but please at least attribute this mockery back to the comedian who first pointed this out...
Yeah I know. Mine's the winter coat as I go out for my cup of coffee. :-P
(Now ducking out before the oil cans start springing leaks.)
Please don't do this too me again. The quotes are funny, but you should have added a couple of words explaining who Nicky Haslam is. I didn't recognise the name, so looked him up. I now know that he is an ancient aristocratic ponce ... sorry, Ponsonby. I was so pissed off at this waste of my time that I will probably remember the name forever. One day I might even make myself look a right tart in a quiz - "Nicky Haslam? Oh yeah, he's an interior designer and his middle name is Ponsonby."
>Well, what did we miss? Let us know.
What about Kent's priceless "[BT Webwise] will most definitely be online by the end of the year"... followed (shortly after a rights issue) by BT dumping them and Phorm claiming "It is not a great surprise to us, to be honest" and "we have never had a definitive date on a launch".
Or the cringe making moment Kent told the genius inventor of the web Sir TBL he was ignorant about the way the internet worked.
...you mean that El Reg's spelling "furor" with an "e" is _correct_ in "The Queen's"?
Well, I'll be damned. And, here I thought it was a persistent typo. I only mention it because, as my fingers often outrun my brain as I type, I often accidentally add the "e" to "furor" (American spelling) and promptly delete it, as in American, there's no "e" in "furor".
You learn something new every day, I guess... but still, pronouncing it "furor-ay"? That's just silly. Sounds like the title of an old Italian pop song.
She seriously needs locking up, for her safety and our sanity!
I love watching X-FIles and Twilight Zone, but that sickening drivel in the Manchester Post was probably the scariest thing I have ever read.
Moonies brainwashing techniques are a alive and well and working out just fine for the UK Gov!
...is a good hard kick in the crotch for inflicting their tortured use of the english language on the us and for thinking that we should give more than a gnat's bollock sweat drop about what they say.
Anyway, enough grumpiness.
Happy New Year everybody!
"when you’re the first member of the public to be issued with a brand spanking new national identity card, it’s a seminal moment."..
.. “I genuinely felt proud and excited when I was finally handed my card. I loved seeing my name, face and the words British citizen on this tiny piece of plastic. That’s who I am, and why shouldn’t anyone know?”
I wonder what the first recipient of a yellow star i Nazi Germany thought that meant to his sense of national identity.
I for one welcome our bewildered overlords.