Used to be a Volvo round here wearing SPL 1F. That's right, a Volvo.
Posts by Spot the Cat
44 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2009
Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates
CERN's boson hunters tackle big data bug infestation
Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]
Oxford adds woot! to dictionary
Parmo v poutine: Your cut-out-and-keep pdf guide
El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane
Middle England chokes on Nice Baps
Bloke with hammer fixes London's Olympic clock
Cobalt-barrel machine guns could fire full auto Hollywood style
Cornish pasties awarded protected status
HP gives Lou Reed a right shoeing
Rare metals found in Cornish tin mine
PARIS laid bare in intimate snaps
Great white sharks menace Blighty
Man wins $650k for stripper shoe eye snafu
PARIS lifts skirt on hot CAD teaser
OED goes the way of all flesh paper
Premiership footie ticket scam targets Barclays users
Cashpoint mugger flashes distractionary chesticles
Swedes decline to FCKU2MF
PARIS pumps up a Mk 2 release mechanism
Xmas kicks off on 2 August
Leica Pinmaster rangefinder
UK polling stations turn away 'hundreds' of voters
@ Code Monkey
Here, here, sir!
And so many idiots missing the point - if queues are forming outside a polling station then it's up to the returning officer to lay on more staff, booths etc to make sure everyone can vote, or so the Electoral Commission say, but, hey, what do they know?
And what about the polling station which managed to run out of ballot papers?
Live PARIS GPS tracker test tomorrow
Muso turfed off train for 'suspicious' set list
Oh no you don't.
"We employ highly-professional rail community officers who work closely with the British Transport Police in protecting the security of passengers on the rail network." Nope, you employ minimum wage numpties in hi-viz jackets and idiots like Stwewart and you're not really protecting anybody from anything.
Do your job- get the fucking trains working properly!
Incredible Hulk snared on Street View
Castleford locals storm Tickle Cock bridge
'Clumsy' French cop tasers schoolkid
Michigan man in DIY rocket sled explosion
Major helicopter reorganisation for RAF and Navy
Re: All looked ok...
Upto a point, but totally agree about the PFI bit at the end. The thought of the sort of fatcat gobblydyspeak fuckwits who seem to land all the major PFI contracts being let anywhere near the magnificent Air Sea Rescue service fills me with horror. If they can't even run a hospital (which is fixed to the ground, but given their profit above all ethos, probably not very well), god knows what they'll do to a squadron or two of helicopters. My heart sinks. If you want to see just how good ASR is, google 771 Squadron, and weep for the future.
State attorney nabbed in car with stripper, Viagra and sex toys
Ares I: What's the point?
Guardian hitches ride in Mercedes Bunz
Oppressed snappers focus on police in London and Chatham
Vote now to name El Reg space plane
Watchdog bites Mattesons saucy sausage ad
Kent Police clamp down on tall photographers
Kent Police - Not Surprised
We were staying in a pub in Chatham for the weekend a few months back. Went down to the bar at about 5.30 on a Friday afternoon and the place was crawling with plod, uniforms, dog handlers, dogs, plain clothes, WPCs outside the Ladies. and probably a SWAT team outside as well. When they all finally left, we asked the manager person what the frikkin hell was going on. "They're just checking my licence" came the answer. I can't imagine what they'd do if they had to go in to break up a fight.
The pub is described as one of the jewels in the brewer's crown. If that's a jewel f*** knows what the rest of them must be like. OK, the pub was the Ship and Trades and the brewer is Shepherd Neame. Not going back while I've still got a pulse so don't care.
Too thick to boil an egg? Buy 'em preboiled
'Non-compulsory' ID cards poised for a makeover?
More bollocks
Like anything else about ID cards and databases (and most everything else, come to that) put out by this clapped out power crazed excuse for a government, this latest is a mixture of weasel words, dissembling, half truths and probably lies as well.
Oliver Cromwell to Parliament: "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go." That was in 1653, and pretty damn appropriate for 2009 too.