Posts by Captain Hogwash
279 posts • joined Monday 23rd February 2009 19:33 GMT
Re: Come in Major Eadon!
A laughing gnome?
Re: grammar?
It was a joke.
Re: Age restricted sales = ID card preparation
Similarly, I was asked for ID at a hotel bar in California in 1996. I was 30 at the time. During the eighties I was drinking Guinness in pubs and buying cider at offies from age 13 with no greater challenge than to be asked my age and maybe what year I was born.
Re: "hydrational expansion-coefficient"
Just leave some space at the top of the flask. This was a common method for the overnight preparation of dried tares and hemp seeds for use as fishing bait when I was a kid. We only had glass flasks back then but now you can get 'unbreakable' metal ones which should help too.
The Year Of The Sex Olympics....
...IN SPAAAAAAACE.
Re: *garians
Hungarians? Bulgarians? Vulgarians?
Re: SWMBO
I'm the only one WMBO in my house.
Re: "...taking EastEnders off the air"
Now that's what I call public service broadcasting.
Re: Paris because she's a lady who certainly does turn!
Yeah. Stomachs!
Re: "There are still villages and towns...full of unemployment..."
And now the current crop of Tory bigwigs are pointing at those very people and blaming them for being a drain on the system.
"...the watchdog believes punters will expect "moderate restrictions"..."
We should tell them that we don't.
Li Ker-Ching?
That is all.
Re: in the former there's no crime except
Taking without consent (TWOC in the vernacular) sounds about right.
Re: grab a useless "celebrity"
You could dress the whole thing up as a, um, talon show. Call it something like The X Raptor.
Ok, ok, I'm going.
Re: the red-headed stepchild of desktop operating systems
As there should be.
Re: I refuse to be drawn...
+1 for Soylent Green
Re: No mention of
I mentioned it earlier. Seems quite interesting in the light of social networking, Google Glass etc.
Re: SF is not just about "big ideas", it only looks that way...
"Related are here "supernatural" stories and "magical-realism"."
<joke>Maybe you're confusing Science Fiction with Pseudoscience Fiction</joke>
"A narrative which goes way beyond cowboys and Indians since in this case it's about freedom, suppression, authority, desire for immortality and fame and so on."
So, like a film about General Custer's run in with the guys at Little Big Horn then.
Re: All but
Watch both versions of Solaris. They are very different in both cinematic presentation and philosophical depth.
Re: Re: Re: Sunshine vs Solaris
Quite so.
OK, so maybe not a classic but...
Brainstorm has a few things to think about.
Re: Sunshine vs Solaris
Surely you mean without thinking. As far as I could see it was an attempt to appear to have the substance of Solaris yet actually have the intellectual rigour of Star Wars.
Re: Tarkovsky
I couldn't agree more.
Cor blimey!
"why do grown men these days feel the need to unbuckle their belts and lower their trousers while standing at a urinal?"
Do they? I have never seen this happen.
Posted in Bacon sarnies can kill: Official
Re: Noooooo!
*government approved meat replacement product* is peop... er, horses.
Posted in Bacon sarnies can kill: Official
Re: Why is bacon "processed"?
The curing process is what makes it bacon rather than pork.
Re: "Researchers reckoned...
Think it through in the context of why a cull is being proposed.
Posted in Reg readers brew up the ultimate cuppa
Re: cool to jump on the bandwagon
It tastes of aluminium. I had no idea there was a bandwagon or that I was somehow 'cool'. Also, I didn't specify pigs or any other type of animal. I simply used an expression that to most people would indicate that I thought it unfit for human consumption if not actually harmful.
"Researchers reckoned...
...that 53 per cent of muntjac and 60 per cent of roe deer need to be wiped out instead of the previous recommendations of 30 and 20 per cent, respectively."
But earlier...
"...muntjac***, a "non-native invasive species"..."
Surely the correct figures then should be 100% of muntjac and possibly some other number of roe.
Posted in Reg readers brew up the ultimate cuppa
Re: Brewing Time
Tetley is fit only for animal feed.
Posted in Honk if the car in front is connected
Re: ...people will start turning it off.
Really? You think that will be possible?
Steam Box?
I thought they were calling it the Gabe Cube.
Re: quaint old thing called a 'land line'.
Did you not read the first paragraph of the article?
Bye bye femtocells
Other implications still being studied.
Re: I think I read recently that they're part owned by Sky.
Apparently they're owned by the BT Group.
Re: You've got to be kidding!
Gold drives a man to dream.
Re: blip?
Your penultimate paragraph is right on the money. As it's unlikely music will ever be widely available as FLAC downloads, I'll be sticking with buying CDs and ripping them until the format is discontinued or I am.
Acetone
...might have something to do with it.
Re: Vision - sounds too strategy-boutique
This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream.
The mind revealing itself to itself.
etc.
"...taking evidence from homeopaths"
Isn't that what the current Health Secretary DOES think we should be doing?
Re: No Dave!
Not on Freeview either if you are fed by a local relay.
So much for infallibility
See title.
Posted in El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa
Green is the colour
Maybe with jasmine sometimes. Loose if you have time to relax, bags at work or when you're in a hurry. Water just off the boil. Brew for 2-5 minutes depending on current needs. No milk. No sugar. No substitutes. No messing.
Re: It's just a penis.
Quentin, is that you?
Swift-Tuttle was in the early nineties but the one with two tails was Hale-Bopp in 1997. Hale-Bopp was a lot more impressive than Swift-Tuttle to this observer.
Re: What is the difference between royalties & licences
I'm royalty so I can do whatever the hell I want. You're not so you need a licence.
