Posts by David 132

Re: I'll Bite.... Yes, I know he was trolling

I suggested "Here's looking at Euclid."

I'm not accusing either party of plagiarism - such things get conceived independently - but I remember this same joke/pun being used on a Radio 2 comedy show about 15 years ago, "The Ape That Got Lucky". It was part of a list of books supposedly written by the guest academic on the program...

"Here's Looking at Euclid", Geometry In The Films Of Humphrey Bogart

"Pop Goes The Weasel - A Treasury of Vivisection Anecdotes"

...being the only two I can remember.

and spelt out 'Subscribe to Pewdiepie' with the patients intestines.

Ah, the old “your name in lights” joke.

Don’t forget the colon, although if the patient has a colostomy bag it’ll be a semi-colon.

(On a related note, if Casualty 1900s had a storyline about “that time of the month”, would that make it a Period Drama?)

Re: snapd and systemd

I run Mint Linux on a few boxes, and realized the other day that their software repository only has version 2.2.1 of VLC, which is ancient. To get the latest 3.0.4, I had to download it as a Snap... I’d never heard of those so had to do some hasty research. When I read that Snaps come from the ever-prolific Lennart Poettering (the B.S. Johnson of the Linux world) my heart sank, but I downloaded the Snap anyway because I needed VLC and had no apparent choice.

Imagine my delight when it also downloaded ~2GB of support files - basically, a complete OS - just to run a f*cking media player.

That man is a menace.

(Copious upvotes and my eternal gratitude to anyone who can point me towards a way to get VLC 3.x on Mint without snaps...)

Re: Facts - we've heard of them...

”There's a man with an eye on political office”

His name certainly lends itself to slogans... “Cut out the bollocks, Vote Balhatchet”

Re: Ultra HD Fridge

The problem with a high-resolution fridge is that all the food comes out a bit plane.

Re: Alternative interpretation

Lucky it wasn't my old local down in Chelsea: "The Goat in Boots". That'd've been a bugger to get into a duffel bag, kicking and bleating and lashing out with hobnails.

I'd have interpreted that one as encouragement to release the aforementioned goat in my nearest high-street pharmacy, but maybe that's just me. Would certainly liven up the queue at the eye-tests counter.

Re: I can believe it!

Try dealing with the US healthcare system some time. To submit a claim for reimbursement: the provider invoice has to be faxed to the insurance company’s claims receiving dept. Who then re-fax it internally to their claims evaluation dept. who then decide that it’s illegible, and print out a copy of the fax^2, which gets mailed back to you.

(And ironically, the printed copy of the fax^2 is still perfectly readable to anyone with semi-functional eyeballs). Allow 30 days for this process; repeat, try again. Email is apparently far too advanced for them.

Bear that in mind next time you’re cursing the users who print their emailed PDFs.

Lorin Thwaits ”Those with icons remain solidly in the game!”

Well, it’s worked for the Eastern Orthodox Church for a thousand years or so...

Re: Not quite

Per Blackadder, Nelson’s actual signal was:

“England knows Lady Hamilton is a virgin. Poke my eye out and cut off my arm if I’m wrong.”

Re: Oh the Irony!

Youngone ”I do take your point FozzyBear but where I come from, lying to Parliament (or in a select committee is an imprisonable offence.”

...but not, apparently, failing to close your parentheses. And you were doing so well up till then.

Re: For shame!

Pffft, boot Amiga Workbench off an 880KB floppy and have room for pr0n in glorious 256 (I think?) color IFF HAM mode. Mutter mutter, uphill both ways in the snow, jumpers for goalposts, mumble mumble etc

(Yes, I know this is technically cheating because a lot of the Amiga OS was held in ROM. I will never let facts get in the way of a good off-topic ramble.)