Posts by Ben Bonsall

Re: "making it about one million years older than the solar system"

Here is the long term weather forecast for the next million years: Changeable, with a high probability of ice ages.

Like Anvers? Or Bruxelles? Or Gand?

Re: How do you know....

If you've ever seen the film 'the million pound note' that's how money works for the rich.

Re: Orbit

Apogee: To apologize for a speech impediment

Perigee: 6 letters later than Perrier

Re: BRASTRAP and...

After it fails to spot something and gets updated, it can be called

Newly Optimized PANTIES

or even

PANTI Extended Location/Evasion/Swerving System

Mary had a little lamb,

Now she's doing five years for bestiality.

Check This! 10 things you never knew Aussies could do from afar!

1) Unlock your car!

2) Fill this jar for you.

3) If the Aussie is Danni Minogue, she can do anything she does from as afar away as possible as far as i'm concerned.

4) Something involving the Arapaho.

5) Err...

Re: Brass?

" Ion drives (which we all know do actually work) produce nothing more convincing than a slight blue glow, which is barely enough to believe in at all."

All hail the blue glow!

"I sympathize. I am personally in that camp. A slightly modified (give me my fucking up button!) "

Personally, I want an un-fucking up button, for when someone fills their PC with crap by clicking ok without reading... Or deletes files with names like system.ini, or finds regedit.exe and thinks it can post edit their Reg posts...

Re: Point of Issue

Buggerate is the one that gets me. Admittedly, from Urpeons who learned English from American TV.

When I first encountered the use of the verb 'to bugger' instead of 'to bug', I corrected them... But having a senior colleague stick their head in a meeting and ask if they can buggerate someone for five minutes had me banging my head on the table, and said someone replying that the meeting was nearly done and could they bugger them when they were free almost had me on the floor.

Re: Meh

Doing rock-all, surely?

Re: Gotham

If they are officially employed, can they really be described as vigilante?

WANTED: Security Guard for road sign. Must have own cape.

Re: anti-sex morality groups

By dividing down the middle?

Solar panel -> 12v Battery -> 12v bus

Works fine for caravans and boats. Only need a backup charger in case of emergencies like 6 weeks of rain. Or an English summer.

Next time I wire our house there will be some kind of 12v and balanced serial bus cabling installed so lighting, sensors and switching need no batteries or wireless between themselves, and the MCP can live on a computer in the house with no access to the internet.

Could even have a 12v fridge freezer so the smart meter brigade can't turn it off :)

Re: The next step...

lol, I just had the highly amusing mental image of helplessly kicking legs as he was fed into a giant pencil sharpener...

Re: I felt a great disturbance in the Force,

Really? It sounded as if a hundred thousand people had said "wop'' to me.

Surely an autonomous car would be spying on it's own driving habits?

Tickets like 0.92g of gold dust at current price, if they're 100gsm copier paper and around 7cm * 15cm, that sounds about right...

I believe the FAA only regulates military air traffic when it is using civilian infrastructure, so not when they are killing brown people. Also, this notice relates to model aircraft- at 48ft wingspan, predator drones are probably not classified as models...

Re: "Gonzague Gay-Bouchery"

Not to mention, illegal in many jurisdictions.

god awful lame acronym chosen through invoking creative apathy.

Re: lock him in

Why bother with a door? Implies you might want to open it again...

Re: TRAITORS

Re: hanged/hung, there's really no difference, they've always been used interchangably.

But I believe mobs 'lynch' :)

Re: Sharing Absurdities

"Handcream? It could be so much worse."

ie. superglue?

Re: Who ate all the pies?

Knifewrench! Practical and safe!

Re: Gaelic

Pretty sure they retracted that as it was bollocks.

Mecano came in sets called A, B, C etc...