* Posts by Sarah Bee

2823 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2008

Verizon's open-door policy yields dip stick

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Naughty

You missed a meeting. 'Mobe' is kosher these days.

Mobe.

Baptist church in assault rifle giveaway

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

@Mr Fury

But Birmingham doesn't kill people. At least, not on purpose.

If you don't see the potential to be genuinely aghast that lethal weaponry is given away by any organisation* as an incentive to join, then something is amiss. Amiss!

*OK, I concede that a gun club giving away guns might be a degree less OMG-inducing. But still.

Busts 4 Justice battles Bulgarian airbag tax

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

weighty issues

If I've rejected your comment it's because it's excessively rude. I know it's tempting, but please play nice.

Criminal record checks could hit over 14 million people

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Superiority points???

Tisn't.

But you lose even more because your name is even less like a real one. Good one, though, you should show it off.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @Cyclist

I fear you lose superiority points by not posting under your own name (not that it even is your own name, unless you are standing for the Monster Raving Comment Party).

No, of course it's not objectively worse that it's a teenage girl and not a fund manager. I seem to remember rather a lot of sympathy for the Manhattan employees of Cantor Fitzgerald. Still, you didn't address the car issue. And, well, the guy sounds like the worst kind of cyclist arsehole who gives other pedallers a bad name. That kind of we-don't-stop-for-no-one attitude is bullshit.

Regardless, all that 'distortion of victimhood' (wha?) stuff makes me suspect that I should probably turn my attention to these Danish pastries and leave you to muse upon it on your own. I mean, I know that's less fun for you, but...

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: cyclist

He still ran into her. Why is this her fault? What if he was in a car and he honked but didn't stop?

And I seem to recall the girl was 14.

Microsoft kicks Ubuntu update in the hardy herons

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Ahhh El Reg

Quite right. We're scum.

Love, Chief Censor

Woman finds Lithuanian living in shed

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Child labour gardening!

Heh.

Fears mount over missing Webroot founder

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Some decroum please

Yes, it ain't funny.

Davis increases majority, says goodbye to Tory front bench

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Okay, hide the comments

Sigh. I'm a moderator, not a censor. But if the latter definition better satisfies your need for drama in this age of shrinking personal liberties, hey, fill your boots. I usually reject comments on sight that have the word 'censorship' in relation to comments, if for no other reason than that the irony fills me with glee. Because that's just the kind of guy I am.

We've now fixed the percentage issue - thanks to everyone who pointed it out. We generally don't publish comments about snafus because we prefer to just fix them and then send big kisses to the pointer-outers by email. Feel free to mail me direct if you spot anything. I mean, you can have a strop about it via the comments form if you prefer, it's just not that likely that anyone else will see it but me or my moderaminion.

sbee@theregister.co.uk

Thieves take out Cable & Wireless centre

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Google Map URLs

Yes, I very personally dissed that URL and made it cry. Of course a simple return-click will do just as well.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Google maps

Folks, if you're gonna post a link to a Google map, please run it through Tiny URL first or it ballses things up a little over here. Ta.

Trust on the slide, Chris Moyles on the up at BBC

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: But what about me?

We've got a loose set of rules and I'm working on a guide to 'em, EG, but the one rule is that we reject what we want to reject, in the end. However - the c-word is a good way to get binned right away. We have to think of other people's work filters and all that. Sorry.

Not that I disagree in this instance, nor that it offends me personally, but we've got to have some standards, innit.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: The Chris Moyle's Criticism

I first heard Moyles when he was on my local radio station, pretending to be Steve Wright. The enormous smug plonker.

Damn right, Radio 4. Damn right, cup of tea.

Moyle's what?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Chris Moyles

Well, I'm almost convinced by your heartfelt plea, but I'm afraid that you can't get around the sticking point that Moyles is objectively a horrible talentless tossbag. He is verifiably a twat. Scientific fact.*

*YES I KNOW IT'S NOT REALLY ACTUALLY A FACT, STOP TAKING EVERYTHING SO DAMN LITERALLY.

NXP sues to silence Oyster researchers

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: ample time, money likely the excuse

Thanks, URL fixed now.

Facebook value drops $11.25bn

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: "Drop the M$ non-cleverness...

Nope. Still not clever. Dumb.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: M$ never valued it at $15b

If you're talking about the commenters, they're commenters, not commentators.

If you're talking about actual commentators, well, as you were.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: M$ never valued it at $15b

Oh, and when is everyone going to drop the 'M$' non-cleverness? It's getting terrifically boring now.

Google's spycar revs up UK privacy fears

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Spycar?

>>I'm reminded of Homer Simpson's attempt to catch Apu selling dodgy food with a giant camera concealed in a huge cowboy hat - it was not exactly subtle.

Worked though didn't it.

"But this is just between me and you. Smashed hat."

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Privacy?

Come on - I don't think it's unreasonable to hope not to be at risk of ending up spread all over the internet because you leave the house now and then (and most embarrassing thing are accidental, no?). But even if that isn't realistic, I honestly don't get why people suddenly decide not to bother to value privacy at all just because it's harder to achieve these days, and it seems to be some kind of luxurious frippery. I don't know when it became normal to sneer at anyone who thinks privacy as a concept has intrinsic worth.

But then, people who think privacy is an outdated bit of bullshit and an unlamented casualty of tech advancement probably don't own underwear, and have one of those flippy-flappy old-person plastic-strip curtains instead of a bathroom door.

Meh.

O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Thwarted at the last post....

Way to shoehorn that in there, AC. Surely if you earn upwards of £OMGCASH, you can... I don't know, bribe someone at Apple? Pay some genius to build you a bespoke iPhone that's even better than the real thing? Smack an iPhone owner in the face with a wad of notes and steal it while they are incapacitated? I mean, use your loaf, moneybags.

Although of course these things are a mighty bummer for us all. The 3G iPhone - it's the great leveller.

Consider yourself Moderatrixed

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Loath and Loathe

No no no no no. No.

I am loath to point out how much I loathe the rampant misuse of 'loathe'.

And don't get me started on the crotch/crutch issue. Jeeesh.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: boyfriends

Well, yes. That's what that other poster said. About his boyfriend.

So... did you have a point?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: FAO Sarah and A&LiAR

I love how you felt the need to explain what bipolar disorder is. WE KNOW. And so do we. Ha! Oh no, that's schizophrenia. Well, the point remains. No it doesn't. Yes it does. Shut up. You shut up.

It is an overwhelmingly male-dominated area, though. Do you not agree? Of course women go mad under the circumstances. I myself am this far from laying waste to the whole gaff with a golf club.

David Davis tells El Reg that Labour is 'mesmerised' by tech

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: He's right y'know

Whose law did we agree it was that's just been invoked here?

(Sorry.)

Geldof backs Davis 'For Freedom' by-election

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Rational hatred rant time…

Oh yeah. Personally I think anyone who's ever had another career or interest should be banned from anything remotely resembling political engagement. Musicians especially are all entirely self-centred morons by definition, and should stay true to themselves by sitting at home counting their money and going "pfft, not my problem" whenever it comes to their attention that bad shit is happening in the world.

I mean, that whole 'attempting to use your influence for good' charade - what bollocks!

Mind you, an interesting aside - if being a musician automatically disqualified you from future involvement in international politics, there would have been no Tony Blair PM. Discuss. Or! Don't.

The Moderatrix will see you now

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Moderatrix

A bit of both, really.

You should see the ones I don't let through.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: I'm gonna be a dad again

That's great, congratulations.

I can't help you with any nappy enquiries. But you've done all that before, anyway. I should probably be asking you why you're so pleased to be putting yourself through it, but selective amnesia is a wonderful thing isn't it?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Where's the IT angle?

Strike one, Mr Pritt. That joke is beneath someone with such a very amusing nom de net.

Virgin warns 800 punters for file-sharing

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Cocks

Songs don't rust, though. Unless they are by Bob Dylan.

Alan Sugar leaves Amstrad

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

£800

Yes, I thought that was a good one. Bit like the stand-up I saw, talking about his bumpkin upbringing and his dad's enthusiastic suggestion he should move to the city: "Go to London, son, where the streets are paved..."

Nvidia throws itself under the bus with chip defect, delays and lost sales

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Re:Re: UK Spell Checker

Of course I don't really believe that. You and I both know I would step over my own gran to get to an errant apostrophe.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: UK Spell Checker

Futureboy - our American colleagues always publish articles on this site in US English, and so I'm afraid it is 'somber' after all. Keeps things interesting, no?

I mean, I know this is my job and everything but um, there are more important things oh God I can't believe I just admitted that to myself and the internet.

Court slaps UK BitTorrenters with landmark damages award

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ AC (no the other one)

>>I guess when the other party has to resort to making up insults it only serves to demonstrate further how that party realises it has no other recourse than covering weak arguments by attacking in such a way.

Freetard.

What?

How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Hmm...

(I love it when a discussion inevitably degrades into a "grammar/spelling police" investigation rather than the topic in question)

It's a beautiful thing. I feel quite emotional. *snif*

Japanese military shamed by USB device

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: SP?

Why don't you home over cere and tay shat?

Photos fool cigarette age-verification software

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: If they don't want to sell to kids...

Heh.

Who will be the next Doctor?

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Jessica Alba for Doctor

You big perv.

French handbag eBay over fakes

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: @ Sarah

Put it away, Stephen.

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: sarah bee

My bag is a fake Anya Hindmarch bag that says 'I'm not an Anya Hindmarch bag'. I am actually quite committed to not lusting after designer handbags.

But perhaps I'm lying to myself. Or am actually a bloke. OMG!!

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: luxury

Designer handbags are ridiculous and anyone who buys them from wherever at whatever price is an idiot. That is all.

Isn't it a lovely day today?

Family Guy creator's sellout to Google almost complete

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

@ 'ballbag'

Now, now. There's no need for that.

Or, is there?

(Not really.)

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: The good old days...

Yeah, yeah, everything that used to be good sucks now and everything that was never any good sucks even worse.

I blame Comic Book Guy for this prevailing attitude, personally. But by my calculations Family Guy could be 200% more smugly self-referential and cynically 'outrageous' than it is and it would still be 500% better than 97% of everything else available to look at with your eyes.

Anyway, did you know Seth McFarlane was booked onto one of the planes that hit the WTC, only he missed it? So really the entire series is all about how you manage to live your life after dodging a terrible fate. That, and dick jokes.

Mini-Me sues online celebrity muckraker over 'stolen' sex tape

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Liberal arts ftw

Quiet you, or I'll tell everyone your name (wow, I bet you hate your parents).

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

sigh

Yeah, that's right! Because, like, he's really small! LOL!

Sometimes, I read the stories on the Reg concerning threats to humanity immediate and distant, and feel a strange, unaccountable warm glow.

Singapore forum 'scammer' faces caning and prison

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Judge not, lest ye be judged

Ah, Fridays.

US hackette ponders jub-powered iPod

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Fantastic!

No.

And it's 'commenter', not 'commentator'. Schoolboy aggrandising error...

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Carbon Credits?

Erm, I'm happy you have such a lovely buxom ladypal, Anonymous Chap, but since I'm not sure she'd be pleased to have you quoting her in front of a lot of Friday-bored IT industry dribblers, I feel obliged to nix that comment.

I'll accept the usual kickback for saving your relationship. The rest of you, use your imaginati... ah, you're way ahead of me.

YouTube rant missus hauled into court

Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

Re: Benny Hill

"Skanger"?

Good grief.