* Posts by The Boffin

13 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2008

Legal high fire sale starts now

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Dangerous Baking Products

It is if 40 kg of baking soda drops on your head.

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Re Actually...

as long as you don't fuck me with a big shooting gun.

El Reg insults 'millions of Irish Catholics'

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Green Beer/Red Beer

I tried some Irish red beer in Wetherspoons (other drinking outlets are available) last weekend. It tasted like wellington boots. I shudder to think what green beer tastes like. I'm with your grandmother on this one. Respect to the wisdom of the elderly.

Oz man collared with pigeons down trousers

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What's the punishment?

What's the punishment for smuggling pigeons? Will he end up doing bird?

I thank you.

Librarians redubbed 'audience development officers'

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@npupp

Yup. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt (eventually). My local Tesco insists that any item to be weighed must be on the scales before selecting the item. That 's counter-intuitive to me. I had the bag thing on the 10 items or less checkouts so I gave up on those. I did persist with the other checkouts for a while, but it's quicker and easier to used the staffed tills as I can pack while they scan. Also I go early on a Friday so I like to chat to other people in the queue or have a joke with the staff. (I think working from home is driving me a little batty.)

Fortunately our libraries are still called libraries and long may it continue. My bugbear is the amount of shelf space dedicated to foreign language books. There's more shelf space dedicated to Chinese language than there is to my favourite genres (fantasy, sci-fi and trains, obviously). Not to mention the various Indian languages, far eastern languages, Polish, etc. Just what is the Vietnamese population of Coventry?

I'll get me anorak.

Profs: Eating Belgian truffles will make you buy a Mac

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z/OS

z/OS users eat ambrosia because we are techno-gods in comparison to mere mortals playing with Fisher-Price computers.

US woman shot by cast iron stove

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@ Robert Hill: Moose Recipes

Chocolate moose is my favourite.

Climate protestor claims glued self to UK Prime Minister

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IT Workers Union

"Why do you think there isn't an IT workers union? They could hold the whole country to ransom!"

Because a union requires organization and most of my fellow IT workers (an oxymoron if ever there was one) couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel. They could probably organize a cock-up in one though.

Begun the flame-wars have.

419ers crank up the menaces

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@Jon

"... the gristly and gruesome deaths."

How did you know they were gristly. Did you try frying then eating them with some fava beans and a nice chianti? In my experience international assasins tend to be very fit and, therefore a bit on the stringy side. I'd recommend a long slow casserole.

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Emotional Distress.

I can't wait to get one of these at work. It's got to be worth a couple of weeks of sick leave for the psychological trauma.

Scientists ponder future Moon mission activities

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By-products.

Wasn't one of the by-products of the Apollo program teflon? And where would we be without teflon? No Sunday morning fry-up that's where. Well at least not without having to chisel the eggs off the bottom of the frying-pan.

Also, integrated circuits. Where would we be without those eh?. No computers that's where. On second thoughts, ban the space program: I hate computers.

Japan kicks off electric car format war

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@ Mark_T Re: Safety.

"415v is more than can be trusted to the moron in the street."

And flammable, carcinogenic hydrocarbons are? At least you can't spill electricity all over the forecourt and if you are stupid enough to come into contact with 415 V it's only your own defective genes that you are removing from the gene pool.

El Reg tells you what the Highway Code can't

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@Russell Re: A46

I know well that unmarked Transit that sits over the A46 between Coventry and the M40. I regularly use the exit where it sits. A colleague of mine had the termerity to ask the occupants of said Transit the justification for placing the speed detector there. He was told that it was because of the number of accidents in the vicinity and that the figure also included those caused by severe braking due to the presence of the van. As I say, I use that junction regularly and I am not aware of any fatalities or serious accidents on the carrigeway itself. However, there have been several on the slip roads (where the speed is not monitored) due to dangerous driving.

If they are not fund raisers then why isn't the speed limit put on the same post as the camera warning sign?