Posts by austint

Re: This can be easily spotted:

"wedge-tailed eagle bears"???

...I am NEVER returning to Oz.

Don't think I could bear any more of these...

Re: Galileo

All powered by the finest British-extruded unicorn juice.

Re: Cardinal Fang ..!

The comfy chair?

Re: If this was....

Saw the "remoaner" word, so can safely ignore.

Re: Ban them!

Surely the effective benefits of a (preferably) terminal down-splat of politicians would effectively supersede the potential, and therefore theoretical, risk to an unwary public?

"Come at me with your hardest because I haven't seen anything impressive yet."

And Bubba is only going to see this as an invitation...

Re: Stupid people don't know they're stupid

If you speak out against the idiocy, that's "patronising elitism".

If you speak up with legitimate concerns, that's "project fear".

If you speak out against the whole thing, that's "anti-democratic".

If it ends in failure, "it was sabotaged".

FTFY.

This. Truth.

This is totally true.

Re: Here's a thought

"We've had 7 years of this bullshit in one form or another. 7 years of "tackling the deficit". That deficit continues to sit there, it doesn't go down."

This. And I would gladly pay my new and excitingly increased tax rates if I could see this tattooed on each and every Tory sitting there...

Re: Implausible?

Assuming this story is true, I've FTFY:

Sounds like a b*llock to me.

But if it's true...then that's just a nut.

Re: Luger

"It would have been easier for this chap to have gone down to Lunnon and to have spoken with a few geezers down Morden or Mitcham way. He would then have had access to some of the finest firearms that the Balkan people ever produced."

Was going to call you out on this ... and then remembered, seeing as I actually live next to Morden, that you're actually right on the money. Primarily Czech stuff, funnily enough...

Re: I've reserved mine...

StarDock and their Start8 add-on made Win8 bearable...

...and oh look: they have Start 10: http://www.stardock.com/products/start10/

Snap: bought the same beast for the same reason on the same day as the Chromecast arrived. Lovely piece of dirt-cheap kit, works flawlessly.