Posts by Steven
77 posts • joined Friday 9th March 2007 14:42 GMT
Posted in Hubble packing shiny new camera
@YEAH!
Seconded :O)
And I for one welcome our new and improved shiney orbiting overlords....
Amy Taylor, 28
Yeah ok! Someone needs to add VAT to that...
Posted in MP calls for Jezza Clarkson's head
Only...
Steve Wright was a fork lift driver.... not a lorry driver.
I believe Jezza was more likely referring to Peter Sutcliffe, still glad to see the MP in question didn't let the facts get in the way of a good rant.
Posted in Barclaycard follows Barclays offline
BC
This is precisely why when I received the letter informing me Morgan Stanley/Goldfish had been acquired by Barclaycard I rang them up and promptly cancelled my card with them.
Was perfectly happy with the service I'd received from MS up until then but having dealt with Barclays before I'd vowed that I'd never deal with any part of that organisation!
@Alan
"Speaking as a contractor - this is wonderful news :)"
Amen brother :)
Posted in LHC downed until after Xmas - Boo
Thesaurus
"would by now be spraying sub-particulate roadkill wreckage like zillionfold femto-entrail hail" - Love it :)
Re: Seán
Please do not feed the troll....
Posted in Jeremy Clarkson tilts at windmills
@ Keith_C
That section of the A13 is actually a 40 but I take your point although I seem to recall about a year after construction was finished they still had the 30 signs up for the majority of it ;)x
If I'd bought the house...
... I'd be having a f**king word with the surveyor about that.
"Yes the electrics could really do with replacing but other than that the construction is sound...."
Except for the slight exception that the entire firebreak has been removed from the loft space and you've got some illegals camping in the loft!!!
lol :)
Posted in ISS toilet fails to suck
Please use the one...
...in the Soyuz, into which we shall not pass solid's.....
The one next to the incontinence pants.
Well I for one...
...welcome our distant galaxy dwelling overlords / lord?!
;o)
Posted in El Reg celebrates 10th birthday
Nice one guys 'n' gals
Good to see the faces behind ASCII characters so to speak!
Posted in Virgin taps Boeing for 787 compensation
@amanfromMars
Bloody hell I think I understood most of that, time for a lay down....
;)
Well
No fucker asked me.
In fact I can't recall ever being asked an opinion on anything that happens in London despite being one of its residents!
Are they really gone?
"Hurst and Sladden's Facebook accounts have been deleted from the site."
Deleted or deactivated? ;)
Bloody hell!
Had never thought about what would happen to one of those if it 'ran away', definitely the right course of action for the engineers was to leg it and capture it for posterity and post it on You Tube! :)
Posted in Redmond puts key Vista update on ice
Can you hear that?
It's the sound of a thousand Mac and *NIX fanbois stampeding towards the thread!
;)
Posted in Israel gets kosher phone service
Do they....
...chop a small piece off the end of the phone?
Such a business!
@Neal
Neal I think £200M is going to turn out to be chicken feed compared to the overall budget once everything is added up (not that we'd ever get given a figure that was anywhere near correct in any case, I dare say you'll end up being screwed out of more than £200M when all said and done).
What makes me laugh is that people in the rest of the UK don't want it, no fucker in London I know wants it and yet we're all collectively going to end up picking up the tab. And don't get me started about tickets, no doubt they'll all be snaffled up by the corporates and the man in the street if he's lucky will get tickets to some obscure event that nobody has heard of! So we won't even be able to go and bloody see it!!
I live and work less than 10 minutes drive from the site and short of people in the building trade in the area its of no use whatsoever to the local workforce. We've had several clients who's premises were on the site who have had compulsory puchase orders issued against them and received a fraction of the lands true worth so as we see again from this government the man in the street is the first to be bent over.
To be fair...
...only being £100M over budget by government standards is quite good. You should wait and see how much the Olympics in 2012 is going to set us all * back.
* Of course when I say all I mean the council tax payers of London, because despite this being a HUGE benefit for the whole country (the politicians emphasis not mine) we are the only one's that get to pay for it! How lucky are we! Because its not like my wallet doesn't get raped enough by the state as it is. We'll be paying for this for the next 20+ years and for what, a overgrown sports day for 3 weeks.
PH Icon because even Paris knows, that blows.
Posted in Spy satellite to slam Earthside
I for one..
...welcome our flaming molten beryllium, hydrazine snorting overlords
;)
Posted in IBM hands server tech to Lenovo
I'm sorry
AC: "overpriced in comparison to Dell's"
I'm sorry? How the f*** can you compare Dell's offering to that of IBM? It's all about bang for your buck.
I for one..
...welcome out sewer-dwelling fibre overlords....
Posted in Polish scientists quantify perfect legs
You just knew...
...when I checked my El' Reg RSS feed in Firefox I just knew that Mr Haines would be the author of such a fine article!!
Keep up the good work sir! Although I feel it only appropriate that on behalf of the El' Reg's readership I request that you use your powerful position in international journalism to request a similar study concentrating on Bulgarian airbags!
Legal Action
Hope they take the guy to the cleaners!
VFR
Exactly how the f*** can a Chinook which im assuming is laden with avionics not be capable of flying on instruments?
Or is the a case of health and safety gone mad and the MoD not 'knowing' how to certify the aircraft as I refuse to believe that Boeing would supply an army spec helicopter to any airforce that wasn't capable of flying on a cloudy day!??!
I mean christ there are flying 40+ year old gas tanks (Nimrod's) in service in a Afghanistan and nobody is concerned about them but heaven forbid our lads could get their hands on some up to date kit that doesn't have the correct paperwork, that would be far to dangerous!!
Cupid Stunts.
Reg Standards
Surely! as! this! story! involves! Yahoo! all! words! in! the! headline! should! have! exclamation! marks! before! each! word! ?
<tongue firmly in cheek> ;o)
Marked Up
I suspect the 46k is purely the 'cost' to Guinness of the lost beer kegs as they would sell 90 kegs for a hell of a lost more than 46 grand!!
Either way you've got to give the perps the thumbs up!
Posted in Met Police to pilot Tasers
JCDM
This from a force, sorry "service" that capped a Brazilian lad 7 times at point blank range on a train because he looked, and I quote, “foreign”. Oh goody, just what London needs.
Can you hear that?
It's the sound of the Mac and Linux fanbois beating their way to the thread...
Of course the people that are likely to open these attachments are not likely to use Linux of any flavour but that won't stop the fanbois, oh no!
Posted in Beer set to hit four quid a pint
Well that's that then.
Best look the bottle of turps out the garage and start claiming disability allowance in accordance with new government directives!!
Posted in Frenchman spit-roasts 550kg camel
Disappointed
I was expecting some p0rn related story to unfurl there.
Mr Haines I would like to register my disgust and demand a refund on my license fee....errr...
IT angle etc etc?
;o)
Sick Note
"Sorry I've not been in work for the last week but I've been off my face after a Georgie Best style bender and have only just remembered where I live.
Oh and if you try and sack me I'll take you to a tribunal as your victimising my 'disability'."
Utter joke, who'd be an employer in the UK.
Posted in Woman finds boyfriend dead in catflap
Darwin would be proud...
Proving once again that the lowest common denominator will always shine through!
Paris could have slid through im sure.
Oh really.
"90 per cent of Londoners"
Nae c**t asked me!
To be honest...
...it's really just a case of natural selection. If people are stupid enough to run out in front of me I’m doing the world a favour by turning them into fender meat and I should therefore receive a discount when my road tax comes up for renewal.
I shall expedite the mater to my MP forthwith!
Posted in Airbus delivers first A380
@Joe
Ahhh thanks for clarifying that Joe, for a while I’ve been pondering what the ‘wiring issues’ were related to. I had started to think it was something to do with the ILS approach systems or something important when all along it’s just to do with the in flight entertainment systems!
Yeah but....
Where's the Paris Hilton angle?
...coat already on and taxi has arrived...
;)
@Chris C
Common Chris don't be as slow as the guy that lost the tape!
One would assume that the bulk of the $3m would be spent on arranging credit protection facilities for those that have had their details compromised rather than just sending them a letter informing them of the incident.
Certainly I've seen other large organisations offer this service for 12-24 months after the disclosure to those affected, its the least they can do.
LOL
55378008 Surely? :)
@Rick
Dammit man there you go starting the fanboys off again!!
The apostles of Jobs will be foaming at the mouth starring into their flaming iBook/MacBooks composing some MS bashing comments as we speak!
Posted in Channel 4 cans Celebrity Big Brother
@ Steve
"Ms Goody famously (well, it was probably in Heat magazine) compared her vagina to said meaty snack."
A badly made one with the trimmings hanging out I would assume?
*shudder*
ROFLMAO
I'll get me coat...
(Sorry been one of those weeks)
Mr President el Cabron!
And which country do you think has done more than any other to keep Cuba the way it is?
Yes you guessed it, those good 'ole boys in the US of A, perhaps without 50 years of trade embargo's Cuba wouldn't be the way it is. Perhaps if the US concentrated on matters a little closer to home rather than persecuting a Caribbean island < 100 miles away the people of Cuba would have a better standard of living. And before someone trots out the Cuban missile crisis as an excuse, this all started way before that happened.
