Posts by Elmer Phud

Re: Balaclava anyone?

" Wonder what ads they will play for me standing there with a bike helmet on..."

Oh, any old Top Gear related tat, I reckon.

Re: as an aside...

"Scan a barcode and it will show you who owns the brand..."

You'd have to keep up with the constant shuffle.

Re: Will they block themselves?

"Is there a pre-filtering device that will sit between your phone and the wall socket"

I think that was possible with the old I/O cards from Creative - check number on list, connect/not connect/play answer machine

Re: Clue Number 1

" and can I replicate it and view it for myself?"

Worth it for the looks on faces when you go:

"Wahey! It's not working properly! Great stuff!"

Leave at least 10 minutes before explaining, you need it to get round a bit .

Re: I sort of wondered

"I-I-I-daho

I-I-I-daho

Whoa, oh, oh, oh

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Get out of that state

Get out of that state

You're living in your own Private Idaho

Livin' in your own Private Idaho"

Re: ok.

" I'd love to be officially classified as a different species than the rest of you."

You are Nobby Nobbs and I claim my five pounds

Re: What a bunch...

We don' need no steenking badges!

I think the 'very few' is far, far smaller than that --possibly zero.

Re: A complete failure to understand (in)security is common.

"You seem to be forgetting that NOONE that has any sort of technical nous would be caught dead working on a Helldesk."

Not any more anyway -- I did helldesk for BT broadband until it all went from logic-based to screen prompt based and then to a far distant part of the old Empire.

We were told not to look and analise test returns but use the overall pass/fail message.

We could tell where a fault was on a cable, what type of fault, if there was a fault, the best way to fix it, etc.

Even to the point of clearly seeing it was not an exchange or customer issue but a line fault - but, rather that send an engineer out (costs money) best to send the job round the houses by following screen prompts.

They could never admit that the whole system was built around showing process had been followed (no matter if it was bollocks) rather than actually customer focused.

Eventually I took the money rather than follow the 'stress' route and go postal at work.

Re: Loopy

Oh, I dunno - one of the many updates

Re: I always read it as 'Clit Bang'

Promises everything -- gives average performance?

Re: You have to admire the Chinese

When Chris Patten was governor of Hong Kong the Chinese called him a 'running dog' and I don't think to this day he understood what they meant.

"Yes, that is really freedom. You might want to look up the word in a dictionary."

"Freedom is being free from the need to feel free"

Funkadelic - 'Free your mind and your ass will follow'

Re: Interesting

But what is the right size of head in space?

Is it a Southern or Northern pint?

Or the effect of one of those Co2 capsules -- worse than a thrown about can of Guinness on a hot day?

Re: @Trevor_Pott RE: "I hope they all get cholera."

"3.10 10. Death of the firstborn (מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת): Ex. 11:1–12:36"

Being the second child I can wholeheartedly agree with that one.

Which is my best profile?

Depends on which profile you choose to use.

Maybe its time for another two or three FB profiles depending on where I'm going to shop.

T'internet is becoming like Mr Benn and the fancy dress shop -- who will I be today?

Bashing bits together

" "allowing the pair to get jiggy at their next available convenience. " "

When I were a lad that were called 'telecottaging'

Re: Facebook's world-class algorithms.

"Like all men (I assume), Facebook feeds me near-constant "Meet nubile young women with loose morals in your area!" ads."

Nah, mine's locked down tighter than a camel's bum in a sand storm.

And at my age I really don''t need any nubile women to remind me what my age is.

Maybe I ought to put more total bollocks in my profile, I can't think of anything there that is real.

Re: Top Googling top

Slight typo -- 1. 'Try to' Use Bing for a whole day

Re: Somebody should tell West Midland Safari Park

"All their 4x4's are painted like this in animal stripes"

That's North Atlantic camouflage (or camelflage).