Posts by Richard 81

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It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing.

My experience

In my experience, flights are a strange (very un-English) microcosm, where people who're annoying tend to be dealt with as a collective. If it's 4 in the morning and everyone's trying to sleep, and someone starts yacking, everyone will glare them into silence pretty sharpish.

Of course I've never been on a flight with drunken men or women (sorry ladies but I hear you're the worst), going to a stag or hen do. I can only imagine what special kind of hell that must be.

Median of $52,000?

Really? That's over £30,000! Lucky bastards.

Good

"On the EU, for example, the Foreign Office posted a lengthy defence of Britain's role in Europe in response to dozens of furious calls for total withdrawal.

Public demands for a complete ban on immigration were similarly rejected by the Home Office."

Good. Just because a few thousand BNP and UKIP supporters care enough to shout at the government, doesn't mean they should make it policy.

I'm sure they'll ignore plenty of sensible suggestions, but these to nationalist examples are best brushed aside.

Anyone read Monstrous Regiment?

I can't help but be reminded of the increasingly psychotic decrees of the god Nuggan (only deity worshipped in Borogravia, but elsewhere known as the God of Paperclips, Correct Things in the Right Place in Small Desk Stationery Sets, and Unnecessary Paperwork).

According to the Book of Nuggan, cats, the colour blue, Dwarfs, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, babies, cheese, the smell of beets, ears, jigsaw puzzles, crop rotation, shirts with six buttons, and rocks were all Abominations unto Nuggan.

Umm noooooo

Surely it means Mac users have more disposable in... Oh, someone said that already.

Hah, I guess fabois are all a bunch of wa... buggerit.

We dodged a bullet

Not that I'm at all a Tory-boy, but much longer under NuLab and we'd probably be looking at something similar here. Phew I say.

3D

OK, 3D because you have a matrix of pixels in three-dimensions. It doesn't really provide a sense of depth though. It just looks like 3 screens.

So...

So, because the solar power that might feasibly be captured in the Sahara isn't enough to supply world's demands on its own, the whole idea is bunk?

If your numbers are correct, then clearly the statement that "If just 1 per cent of the Sahara Desert were covered in concentrating solar panels it would create enough energy to power the entire world. That's a powerful number ..." is a gross exaggeration. I accept that.

It still sounds like a good idea though. If nothing else, Africa always needs more infrastructure.

Ah

Ah, nothing like good old fashioned regional pricing. They may not have any good reason to do it, but they'll continue to shaft us anyway.

Well

"she and her husband had asked for their charges to be consolidated into a single bill"

If that's the case, then presumably she's not going to get anywhere with this.

"I felt an almighty tug on my rod"

Funny? What's funny about that?

Nothing but appropriate angling terms here.

Education store

Earlier today I could access the usual UK store, but the education store was a no-go.

Not that I was interested in the iPhone 4. I was looking at the price difference of the Mac Mini.

Harrumph

"They said there was nobody available"

Yet they managed to divert someone to nick him.

I know police forces can be overstretched, but "there's no one available" just isn't an acceptable answer.

Godwin's Law

"an Apple employee's main objective to do whatever they believe Steve Jobs wants them to do."

Isn't that basically how the high command of Nazi Germany worked?

Just do what you think would please Hitler?