Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Next up - Boston Celtics

You got good written evidence for how the British Gauls pronounced it ?

Anyone it's not what they called themselves, it's the Latin translation of the Greek name for them.

Re: Jerry Cans?

So you were using a cheap English knock-off of a genuine Jerry can?

Not surprised that filling it was verboten

Re: what Belgians do.

Maybe there's a lost commandment against putting mayonnaise on them?

Re: When are we going to ban the use of "Washington" as a name?

Why ? It's a lovely little town in Durham

(Durham - not some made up county)

Re: MongoDB next?

Assuming WindowLickerDB will upset someone in Redmond

Re: Stupid game

The first nations youth center here has a mural of typical plains Indians on horses with feather headresses and bows and arrows - straight out of a John Wayne movie. Except we're in the Pacific North West and these are coastal Salish people.

I suppose it's no different from a school having Spartans as their football team.

You mean the "liberty sandwich" with your "liberty cabbage" and "freedom fries"

No they are big fans of the helicopter names, some tribal leaders even blessed the latest one

It turns out that having the army naming attack helicopters after you because of your fearsome reputation in fighting the US cavalry is way cooler than a web server.

Re: British... bad guys in movies

When the baddy just has more muscles or guns they are played by an American, when they have to be intelligent and organised evil super-villain they are Brits.

I don't only play villains - I play very interesting people (the great Rickman himself)

Re: Bit ridiculous

I once had to justify to a Student Union that a showing of Die Hard didn't portray racial stereotypes because the Germans were (spoiler alert) - just crooks not terrorists

Re: Bit ridiculous

>. Ask the Califormians about floods and water - ..., in Australia, and 2021 in Europe (somehere in Germany or Belgium

That's punishment for their sins.

California is notorious for wearing clothing of different fabrics, Australians throw shrimps on the barbie, Germans love a pork sausage and we don't need to mention what Belgians do.

Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

Time to rename New York as Inferior Copy York

Re: Oracle? Sun? Java?

After an overzealous lawyer at Sun tried to sue the island of Java, they published an April fool letter suing the star at the center of the solar system for trademark infringement

And they expect you to be working normally on UK bank holidays that they don't know about - while scheduling you as cover for all the US holidays because you don't do thanksgiving

Even weirder in the land of the weird - you accrue sick time

Since you can never take this, because they can fire you if you are sick, you get paid out for it when you leave.

For government jobs you end up with cases where somebody has worked there for 30+ years and has a few years of unused sick leave which is paid when they retire - so their final year's salary is 3x their normal salary. Since govt salaries are all public there is always a scandal story by certain news organisations about a school janitor or binman refusal disposal operative "earning" $200K pa

Re: Suit or seat?

Can't you put a suit in the rocket going up? Put suit on and come back wearing it?

Re: 'no evidence of a cyberattack at this point'

This is not just ordinary incompetence, it's special Federal Agency incompetence

Re: Just after Patch Tuesday? Hmmm.

You think the FAA have updated to windows?

I'm betting a 2000s era IBM mainframe emulating a 1980s IBM mainframe running an IBM mainframe OS from the 60s with an app written in System360 Assembly

Re: "but which aren't known about enough in advance to publicize by other means"

After the slightly silly renaming of fishermen to fishers (they were always trawlermen in Yorkshire so are now presumably trawlers)

They could rename anyone who flies a plane as "airs" or perhaps "airers". Or since there are no longer any flight engineers or navigators or radio operators - couldn't it just have been "Notice To Pilots" - again except that it would have involved changing a lot of forms

Re: "but which aren't known about enough in advance to publicize by other means"

And were known as Notice To Air Men for 70years until somebody noticed it was sexist.

There was then a long and involved process to come up with a new pronoun freindly version that wouldn't involve changing lots of software and paper forms

Plus "Air Missions" makes you think of Top Gun while flying a 5am commuter flight to Minneapolis

Re: Bum

The conspiracy goes much deeper:

Phones get bigger

Pockets in women's clothes get smaller

Women are forced to buy handbags

And the richest person in the world is now the guy that owns the luxury handbag brand LVMH - and he's French so probably a super-villain

Re: Bum

That's the problem with new flagship phones, it's hard to get something less than 6inches ( oh err missus)

Isn't the "man" in the middle Carol ?

Although I guess that's a boys name in Poland

Re: Had it been a success....

That makes it part of France, not part of Europe.

France is whatever the French government says it is, but Europe is a continent.

Re: Pity Sir Clive isn't around

But can he leap over a computer ?

They use meters which are much more robust than feet.