Posts by SirTainleyBarking

I've been the same

When a student. Especially when "Herbal Remedies" were involved.

3AM on a Saturday morning, at the local garage obtaining 10 B&H and 20 mars bars

A satisfied customer tells his friends

A pissed off one tells the whole street

Wakey Wakey

If you really are dumb enough to go onto facebook and post those "Oh so funny" pictures of you and the goat, you really deserve all you get.

If somebody googled me In Real Life they would find absolutely diddly squat about me on the web. Thats the way I like it. Its called discretion, or for our merkin cousins "what happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas"

@AC 0836

You've obviously been making your own.

I've actually worked for big farma. The quality control is very thorough indeed. It has to be because failure of a multiple stage synthesis using expensive materials is more expensive.

If you want to have a go, restrict your bile and venom for the marketing and sales people. They are the ones who set the prices

Troll

Hope the SOB

rots

Suggest that this might occur in the UK

And watch the Daily Mails Melanie Phillips head explode

Remote locking? Not sure that will work too well.

I remember there was a move to enforce gun safety by having a proximity sensor fitted to handguns.(Colt IIRC did some work on it)

The idea being that if junior got hold of mommys loaded weapon and pointed at his playmate, nothing would happen as the trigger system would be locked without the prescence of an "Arming dongle" in close proximity.

After a splash of publicity about responsible gun ownership and the like, the idea was quietly dropped as the technology wasn't quite good enough, and when you are dealing with something that can cause big spurting holes in people, not quite good enough REALLY doesn't cut it.

There were two BIG problems. Deactivation of the trigger wasn't good enough, and the weapon could be accidently discharged, and conversely when it was required for a real reason of being fired, the deactivation weren't all that good either. Just what you need if you have to have a firearm for home protection.

Good old fashioned mechanical safeties, and common sense approaches such as securing a weapon and making sure that the ammo is out of childrens reach is cheaper and more effective

Dr Who?

After watching the latest episode, I think they should all be drinking the bottled stuff now

Of course

There are two types of people when it come to masturbation.

The first are those who admit to doing it, and the rest are liars

Paris? Well a young chap has to start somewhere......

Its Friday

Does this mean that when they finally supercede it, the next incarnation will be bigger and better.

Well it will be an Ex - panda

Errrrr

I think I'll skip lunch today

If they are serious about this

How about throwing out the ringleaders in this sorry show of mobbing.

Will it happen?

Probably not as they are paying students too, and money is obviously more important than reputation

The boys are on thier best behavior

Must be an election soon

I love it

But unfortunately I can see me losing it very quickly indeed

well it certainly has a style all of its own

It looks like its just been used in a crash test,

and failed

Its not good is it?

And ain't it a PITA

This just came through on the latest Vista update cycle. The update is less than 10meg for the Win 7 stuff, but boy does it cycle the old PC up and down like a yoyo to get it on there. 3 Restarts and a good half hour of waiting around.

Not the most productive I've been today

Sounds just like

what I'd expect DSG to do

Is it really that difficult

To download Firefox / Opera / Safari onto a PC. I have all three on both my Xp and Vista Laptops.

as well as IE8. Took very little time to do with a very slow broadband link. Hell I've even loaded Opera onto a Win98 machine using DIALUP

Very useful when IE8 doesn't work and refuses to open links, and is behaving like a badly written shonky piece of tat.

I think there are bigger issues that need to be fought here, and browser choice isn't one of them

@AC 16:47

Its a direct quote from the Northern Territory News thats linked in the article....

Though frankly I never thought the Australians were that squeamish about using good old fashioned Anglo Saxon. Certainly the young lady they (Partially) quoted wasn't

Appropriate Shoppage?

I think not!

I've had to look through adverts, and help with layout. What proper, ETHICAL, companies use photoshop for is the following:

Cropping to fit

Assembling an image of a model against a different background

Obvious Zit removal / removing dust spots

Making sure the colour balance is correct

And thats it.

I remember when the Dove real women ads came out (Normal sized lasses in underwear).

Judy in the street loved it. Fashionista in the ad industry hated it. Guess who Dove listened to

@David W

This is the sort of thing that Lomograpy International would charge an arm/leg/other gender specific body part for, considering what they charge for reproductions of cameras that were given away in cornflake packets in the 60's.

The Japanese would take this up in huge numbers as well with a bit of marketing.

Mines the one with the Zeiss Ikon in it, with a box brownie attached to the collar

I'll give up my crackberry

When they prise if from my cold dead hands...

Seriously WTF?

Harriet Harman

The one woman who has put the fight for womens rights back 50 years.

The Governator will ignore her, and if pressed tell her to foxtrot oscar.

Something about an inalienable right to free speech in the US constituion?

The Yanks won't touch THAT one with a 10 foot cattle prod.

Somebody tell her responsible adult, that her village called, and mentioned that they want their idiot back!

Something about Eugenics was it?

It seems our masters are finally letting their mask slip

@ Steve Roper

In the case of your brother and his then Girlfriend, I say unto Thee..........

Pics or it didn't happen ;)

Next time al qaeda should use ex lax

Honestly who hasn't had a dose of constipation that you knew that only a stick of dynamite would shift?

I just hope he didn't use a traditional fuse and a match

AC 17:05 Something Useful

Yes thankfully the guidance is being circulated, which is good.

If it comes from the top that this guidance has to be followed, hopefully the few idiots who give the rest of the force a pretty unpleasant reputation may have cause to think twice.

Failing that they need to be held to account by the IPCC.

Oh and BTW the last photograph I took of a copper was one on duty at the Edinborough fringe festival. He was being followed by an Amy Winehouse look-a-like in drag.

Poor chap had the look which said "Remind me why I joined up again?"

Does this mean

That Tory B Liar lite, also known as David Camoron is actually thinking about proposing some policies. Well it took the useless, chinless wonder long enough.

I'd have more respect for this bunch of wannabes if they had been banging on about this, and acting as a proper her majesty's opposition for the last few years. This smacks of the usual bland opportunism and corporate mind rot that seems to infest our politicians at the moment.

The country is crying out for a change in incumbents. Knocking Neu Arbiet off their perch should be as easy as shooting dead fish in a barrel, yet this mealy mouthed mission statement is all we get.

Bring on the elections and the hustings. I'm gonna have me some fun tearing into rosette wearing wankers of all hues. They should be afraid, very afraid

Special relationship?

Whats that then?

Why would they?

Lets be honest here. What are the benefits of Vista SP3?

Does the workplace need a shiny aero interface, easy handling of streaming video, or multimedia support?

Not unless you are running high end tattyshop or graphics packages, and most of those are Mac based.

No all you need is the ability to run low spec machines, office packages, and network ability. XP just does that. And boots up quickly so the boss can see you working, rather than giving the employee an excuse for a coffee break whilst they are waiting for VIsta *Cough* sorry Windoze 7 to boot

South Birmingham

Last night, Broadband went down about midnight. So instead of surfing for pr.., sorry reviewing product data for work I had to go to bed at a reasonable time instead

The optimum way of using battery power

Seriously, this is the sort of use that electric vehicles are ideal for. lots of stop-start motoring in heavy congestion with long periods sat at idle waiting for the lights to change.

Add into this a potential to improve air quality in the city it really is a no brainer.

proof of concept has been around for 50 years in the form of the milk float.

The only trial here is the quick change battery pack. If that proves reliable and has enough capacity for continuous use without having to go back to base every 5 minutes, I can't see any cab driver having any problems with this at all

Paris? Well it would work in that city as well

Thats a lot of plastic

"It takes model workers about one week to restore the long-necked animal's manhood at a cost of 3,000 euros (2,600 pounds), the spokeswoman said"

a 12" plastic animal appendage? I'm sure that a *Ahem* "Friend" says that Ann Summers sell them for a lot cheaper than that. And they come with batteries.

Corporate bollockspeak 101

I'm not sure Ballmer actually understands what he's talking about, and lets be honest about this.

After the last year of corporate and banking failure due to arrangements that even the combined minds of Einstein and Stephen Hawking couldn't fathom out, the Real World Investors (TM) will be rather suspicious

The defecation habits of ursine mammals...

Occur primarily in arboreal areas.

There really is very little choice out there. Gorgon Broon and his bunch of Fascists, David "Tony B Liar lite" Cameroon, or the Limp Dems

God we're screwed (!)

Me? I will vote, but not for the current incumbents, and I can't bear the thought of voting tory. I have too long a memory for that.

I suppose I'll either vote Lib Dems, or some other bunch.

Ideally a hung parliament would be good. Its at times like this, that the local MP's actually have a bit more influence, so can be "Persuaded" to do the right thing.

I don't know where I read it, but it feels like a truism, that parties don't win elections. The opposition just loses them

Simple marketing

If the retailers dress this up as a free delivery service, and also add "And we'll take you old one away free as well", they'd get consumer buy-in, and be able to amortise the cost by a couple of percent of on cost. The big box retailers in the UK have been doing this for years

Working at Oxfam

Is a blast

Sorry,

Coat

Hat

Door

Very unfortunate

That the poor sod on the tail end of this farce now has his cards marked worse than a photographer, and by the usual standards of this country has probably lost his job and been blacklisted. Thats of course if he hasn't also had to deal with "no Smoke, No fire" idiots that always pop up in cases like this.

The head of the force in question should be summarily dismissed, with no pension rights, along with anyone else who went ahead with this charade

John Wayne Mandelson

You just get the feeling that the Government money was just a con to get news. Presumably they thought that as they have borked vehicle manufacturing in the Midlands, they could say that "Oh its not our fault, nobody was able to take us up on the offer as the were all bankrupt.

As for TATA, I somehow trust the Indians a lot more than the Cowboys in westminster..

I like it

Its Cool As F.....lip, and thats praise indeed from a luddite such as myself

Hell, everyone seems to criticising the German Plod

Just think for a moment if Nazi Gnome (TM) had been in the garden of some English type person, annexing the begonia's, in our leafy suburbs

The PCSO would have a) Demanded their papers, b) Had them shot.

At least Deutsche Plod, recognised that on balance taking the piss is not the same as promoting, even if the local governments attitude to free speech isn't that different in certain respects to what was enforced in 1939

What they sow...

This is starting to backfire on plod.

They really need to inform their officers of what the law is, and how to apply it properly.

I see the same backlash as in Brixton and Handsworth if they continue, and that really is no good for anyone