Posts by tony2heads

@Timmy Cratchit

I wish I could give you many upvotes for the Windows-Celine Dion analogy. It should become a new meme!

Eds: Get rid of old Paris please; she's gone to the (nano-pomeranian) dogs.

Icon: dump Paris!

Re: @Mark 85

killed less people - SO FAR

But they are trying hard to catch up.

@Da Weezil

Having sampled TV in several countries I can conclude that most TV is abysmal.

Even so there are a few BBC programs that I would pay to watch when abroad, but simply don't get the chance.

Re: Hang on, am I too old for this?

obligatory xkcd

http://xkcd.com/378/

Trouble is: it is so hard to get the butterflies

@ Ledswinger

I would have a severely negative baggage allowance

However if I were running an airline I would split up any group of children so that no two sit next to each other; I remember how some boys would always misbehave at the back of the bus on any school trips.

@Sir Runcible Spoon

To be honest when I saw the list I had no idea who 99% of them are; not that I have any idea now of what these 'celebrities' are celebrated for.

But then I am probably not the target for the phishing; running a exe file indeed ! Without uploading and chmod +x

@luker

But people have different aesthetic feelings; My taste might be more dadaist, and yours more Vermeer.

Similarly some perfumes irritate my nose.

What is 'nice looking' is not a universal value; some people don't even like Paris - see icon

Re: Not forgetting regional variations

Aye but we had it tough! 'papword' was the most we could afford

coat! Its just a piece of newspaper

Re: finian

Must be a reference to Finian's Rainbow. Anything with Fred Astaire & Petula Clark as 'Irish' pursued by leprechauns

@Christian Berger

What about SL4A, qpython and ruboto for your android?

Learning some scripting language on a phone is quite possible

Re: Let's get it over with...

I think you mean New World Order.

Icon: I doubles as a Faraday cage when I put the hood up

@John Tserkezis

I remember seeing this memorable quote:

The main expertise of telecoms companies is not telecoms, it is billing

This fits most situations I have seen when dealing with them.

Re: Suffering

What about the pain and suffering we are given from crappy and irritating music in shops, shopping malls, gyms etc. It annoys me a lot and for my wife (a musician) there are some shops she cannot bear to enter.

Icon - the volume and sound quality

Re: Seeing a big hole in the page

They think you don't want to see it using its RUBBER GLOVES

Re: Questions for rocket scientists:

Are we simply talking about radiation pressure here?

If so, why not just use mirrors - like a solar sail?

haul on the bowline ye lubbers

@corcoran

A Precise Puppy maybe?

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyPrecise

Re: I guess their Tweet is better...

NO WAY is it better

What I expect is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvm_RMlkok

also with "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the^W Blues^W Brothers^W Mark Zuckerberg HAS been approved."

Re: Hmmm

you're golding it wrong