Posts by lansalot

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To be fair, I did see a picture of the table in question - and it was definitely asking for it...

He could have at least brought it dinner first though...

ah but..

The major problem with the Nokia N810 is - the Asus EEE Pc. The Eee PC is cheaper and more pc-alike (that's assuming you can get hold of one, of course).

And this coming from an N800 owner. It was a superb device when I bought it - and it still is - but for all the Eee offers for less money (albeit in a bigger form factor), it's getting harder to justify the Nokia.

hmm..

"'the other reason I'm not buying a Blu-Ray player is the fact that there's no guarantee the player I buy today will work with the disks I buy tomorrow.'

No, you ARE guaranteed to be able to play the movie, which let's face it is the important part. It's all the extras that may not be compatible."

Now who's cherry-picking ? If you're content to only have part of the product you paid for working, then good luck to you.

"'I guess any blu-ray manufacturers who aren't Sony can start getting concerned round about now'

Again, No. The blu-ray standards have to be available to ALL consortium members. This is not a sony owned proprietory format, lots of different companies are involved."

Yep, available to all. And since DVD was invented, we've seen that manufacturers just can't adhere to standards - remember when The Matrix wouldn't play on a fair few players? My point is that with a moving target (as people become more adept at BR authoring, they'll push to the latest standards - this has always been the way it works), this situation is likely to only get worse.

hmm...

Poor pun ahoy:

"The girl we found in a club was promised back the next day to the place she was performing. To my distress I discovered she was still with the crew, having a good time, two weeks later.""

Did they Dick-er, Man ?

ah ha ...

>To be honest I was more concerned with "I was on a farm and I saw a robotic arm milking a cow. "

...

Reminds me of an old Emo Philips gag...

(to be read while wriggling about uncomfortably on a chair, waving arms around and pulilng your own hair).

I was on the farm the other day, and my father said "Emo, go milk those cows". I came back later and he asked "How did you get on?", and I replied: "The one with the horns nearly killed me!!". He said, "You idiot Emo - that was the bull!!"

So, now I'm not feeling so bad I only got half a cup...

so...

Does that mean that if I happen across any blue-eyed couples, that I should grab my crufix/pitchfork and denounce them (loudly) as aberrations, in-breeders and general against-God's-law types ?

Cool. But tough luck for you, Iceland. Prepare to burn !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Blue

Yours, Daily-Mail-grabbingly..

aye aye...

"At some point, Linscott told the man she would like to move to Butte County."

Oh, to meet a woman like that ! Best euphemism ever ?

*sorry*

link between film violence and the real stuff ?

I've no idea frankly - but I'm off to buy shares in Black & Decker, just in case.

Yours, Daily-Mail-clutchingly etc etc

ps, how about an icon for torch-wielding-villagers (or Mary Whitehouse, at the very least) ??

Settle an argument

My mate Mark assures me that this isn't so much a job for "Bilbo Baggins", as "Bilbo InBags".

Should he get his coat ?

soo...

"Other than during this very brief transitional moment in the show, Miley performs live during the entirety of both the Hannah and Miley segments of the concert"

So, they start playing a tape of her singing the moment the chap with the cloak appears, so the track is un-interrupted while she gets her kit off ? A suspicious chap might suggest that it was all on tape to begin with and she was - shock! - miming ? Perhaps the fact that she's there at all is all that's needed to justify the "live" tag?

I don't know. My sense of child-like innocence just gets one knock-back after another these days...

and for information

For anyone planning trying this - if you're going to use Grolsch or Champagne, might I advise you to decant it into something else first. Otherwise you're in for a world of hurt.

I thought the icon here was about as accurate as I could hope for.

You're welcome.

and additionally

"They're still on the run," Sgt Pacheco said of the brothers. "We have reason to believe they have international ties."

Well, that's not much of a disguise. They'll need more than a fancy tie to evade detection. Chaps, if you're reading this, some sort of hat may be in order. And consider swapping the tie for a scarf while you're at it ?

Stay away from the Groucho moustache/specs combo though - it rarely works.

And she's modelling for subguns.com and yet didn't shoot anyone ? That's clearly a poor choice of model. Wouldn't have happened if Charlton Heston had been there...

Me @ Pentonville.

ooh err missus

"The troops will just have to go 'bang' themselves when they pull them," said Ian Dalzel-Job of the Scots Guards Association

Brilliant. I stopped reading at that point and thus have no interest in this story in case it doesn't turn out the way I assume it does.

I thought it was just the sailors that were into all that saucy stuff? I can see I've been grossly mis-informed over the years.

ring ?

Was it the one true ring then? Perhaps he was on his way to Mordor, and was in fear of it being nicked by otherworldly-creatures. Seems like he just chose a poor place to secrete it about his person.

The (Japs) Eye of Sauron must have clocked it, I'm sure...

One ring to bind them all, indeed !

downloads ?

Biggest obstacle to me downloading all my hi-def films at the moment is the quota my ISP sticks on me.

As reported yesterday, apparently Brits don't want faster net (aye, right!), so the broadband market is well up for stagnation in the UK by the sound of it.

Result: quota and speed limit for the forseeable future. If this truly is MS plan, then they can pretty much forget it in the UK while this carries on.

you think that's bad ??

If you think that's bad, I had a conversation with him and he called me a "ho" 3 times !!

Foul-mouthed isn't the word. Apparently, "ho" is.

Uranium ores ?

Standing around in their underwear suggest the ladies to be more like common ores to me.

I'll get my etc.

hey!

Great idea !

I'd be only too willing to put my hand in my pocket on this occasion !

Keep it up !

Here's a suggestion

The quickest of looks at their new site made me instantly wonder why they didn't have some very-well established streets (and we're talking centuries-old streets here) in my City Centre not on the map.

This isn't a case of 'just not mapped yet', because I was part of the celebration marking GB being the first country in the world to be digitally mapped to what they defined as 'completion'. And the streets in question have been provided to subscribers for well over the last 10 years by OS themselves, in their landline and mastermap products. The addresses in them showed up in what was once called AddressPoint and of course in their successive product. So how come the streets aren't showing up ?

Incidentally, as they're using OpenLayers on openstreetmap, it would take next to nothing for some enterprising individual to overlay google maps on top of their source, and simply trace through.... thus filling in the blanks OS have apparently put in themselves.

What's up with that, OS ?

wow

"misguided pranks" ?

That's pretty generous, don't you think ?

slow ebay..

'Fraud' only happened to me once with a Gameboy game I bought for the kids. When it turned up, it was clearly counterfeit. So I left the guy some appropriate feedback, but as it actually worked I let it slide. About 2 months (yes, months) later, I receive an email from ebay advising me not to complete the transaction because the seller may be selling counterfeit items.

This was long after I had already paid (through paypal, I might add) and received the item, and the feedback thing had been done on both sides.

Textbook case of shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted. Well done, ebay !

careful

Better watch himself.

He could find himself on his knees in front of the Arch-Bishop after this little transgression.

suggestions

On the Spike Milligan theme, how about "Clearly, I was mentally ill" ?

or

Don't stand there - you'll burst them!

CCTV in action - nork-lifters will be prosecuted

Question: will she be going for the Y-shaped coffin at all ? Or perhaps a little creative corpse arrangement could negate the need for a vase at said site ? Take the Billy Connolly route and give visitors somewhere to park their bike ?