Posts by Psyx

Re: Thanks Andrew...

"They are also the price of living in a society saddled with federal welfare programs for the hapless, the hopeless, and the outright criminal, which I think is where the commenter to whom you reply sees a problem. "

And there haven't been people at the *top* freeloading off taxes since the dawn of time?

Unfortunately, tolerating the wankers is the price of a supporting society. I know it sucks balls that for every twenty grannies not dying due to the NHS and social services we've got a couple of scum-buckets sitting playing X-Box and masturbating all day and some rich bastard skimming off the top, but the price of doing away with those three bad apples is the twenty grannies. And to me I'd rather not cut off a gran's nose to spite a chavscum's face.

Re: Bigger pic

"The economy isn't some sacred cow you know."

I don't give a crap about 'the economy' as a whole.

Or indeed Sony.

Or Bono.

I give a crap about the artists who work hard and get next to nothing, partly because it's not seen in any way as morally wrong to steal from them and make them work for free. They aren't rolling around in limos, and a fiver for a CD actually makes a real difference to them.

Re: Disposable Income

"If you've got a disposable income problem and a computer you've got your priorities wrong."

What century are you in? That's like saying that if you've got a 'fridge and no disposable income, you've got your priorities wrong.

Re: Bigger pic

"We know most people actually like buying stuff. "

That's a stretch, based on capitalist-centric perceptions. I would personally enjoy a Bentley more if someone gave it to me than if I had to starve myself for years saving up for it.

I don't think many people seriously enjoy doing a boring job to earn money to spend it on stuff.

We do it because that is the way in which our society works and because since we have been told from an early age that taking stuff for free is bad. Not because we specifically enjoy doing it.

"So because we haven't "been bombed" that means they are effective?"

That, combined with the fact that there are several cases in court at present prosecuting people for planned attacks. In case you weren't paying attention, an attack was foiled in NI *yesterday*. To claim that our Security Services don't prevent terrorism is provably false.

"You think because someone was wearing a police uniform that they were not SIS/MI5 ?"

They weren't uniformed, which shows just how well you've followed the story. It was a unit of the Met. Feel free to look into it. Although, surely seeing as how MI5 are such failures at being secret according to you, you'll easily be able to prove that they weren't Met or something, right?

"And during the entire London bombings and aftermath, where was the security service then?"

Oh, right: So they aren't allowed to miss *anything*. Unless they have a 100% success rate, they're useless. Can I hold you to the same standards, professionally. Never miss anything?

"If you think the police are the only people involved in anti-terrorism then you have no idea how it works. Clearly, you are the one who has no clue sir, you believe what the media tells you... which makes you not the sharpest tool in the box."

I don't even know what you're waffling on about any more. Of course Police aren't the only people who look into terrorism, because such work has been carried out by Five and a slew of others for over 20 years. However, it was *police* who pulled the trigger on an innocent person.

Stop just pulling statements out of a hat without any basis in reality.

"What did you expect from the least secret, least effective security service in the world."

Been bombed recently have we? Nope. In fact yesterday the police just happened to somehow catch a bunch of people conveniently red-handed before a terrorist attack. And are the names of the top twenty executives of Five in public domain? Nope. So nothing like half the security services in terms of secrecy there, either.

"Look brazillian plumber, or just random geezah shoooot him and lie about it afterwards!!!"

That was a police operation, not Five. Nothing to do with the security services.

Clearly, you have no clue what you are talking about.

Re: You forgot to post the whole comment

That's far too complex, and frankly uncivilised.

Proper spies simply order a fish course and if their companion orders red wine with it, they know they can be safely gunned down as an imposter.

Re: @JDX

"On that logic I can't know anything about whisky unless I drink at least a half dozen drams a day? Or about sex unless I do it six times a day?"

It's more like not being able to drive competently if you've only ever driven 20 miles a week. Or telling Tony Hawk how to skate because you go skating at the weekend sometimes.

I am simply enormously reticent to take 'tea lessons' from those who merely dabble, or over-ceremonalise a fairly simple process.

"as Eadon would say, LOGIC FAIL"

I don't think quoting Eadon strengthens any argument!

Re: Brilliant

As an ex-PG drinker, I will recommend Twinnings Strong Breakfast and Yorkshire Gold. Both worth a try. Yorkshire Gold has got that lovely reddish clay-like colour, too.

Re: To confuse things, masala chai

Order a Nan?

That's a bit rude.

I always *ask* mine if I can have a cup of tea.

Re: It all depends on the water!

"As I understand it the water in Yorkshire is very hard and Yorkshire Tea works well with hard water, where as the Scottish water is generally very soft and Yorkshire Tea made with soft water tastes terrible."

That would perhaps be disproved by the fact that they make a different tea for hard water.

Re: Boiling water a necessity

"American tea"

The only thing worse than American tea is American cheese.

Edit: ...And American bacon.

Re: infuse not mash!

"And by Jove, only silver spoon granulated sugar if you require sweetness."

Actually, fruit sugar is nicer, if we're being picky.

Re: What is wrong with you all?

"Tea should always be brewed in a pot not a mug. You might as well serve in a styrofoam cup while at it if brewing in the mug. This is a (primarily) British website so I am very dissapointed in you all, bunch of heathens the lot of you."

That's a nice ideological theory for amateurs and part-timers to spout on about, much like armchair generals might pick apart the campaigns of hardened veterans, with an mind obsessed with theoretical strategy, rather than the realities and practicalities of combat/tea-drinking.

Some of us drink dozens of mugs of the stuff each day in order to survive the workplace without killing anyone. We have neither the time nor tea-pots to pander to such luxuries.

We need our fuel, like M1 Abrams need JP-8.

Re: Brewing Time

3-4 Minutes!!

It's a theoretical Nirvana that is divorced from the pressures of the modern office, I fear.

At 10-15 Mugs of tea per day*, I think my boss might start objecting to that amount of time spent standing around next to the kettle.

My tea is lucky to get a single minute, during which it is frantically swirled around and squeezed against the side of the mug.

*Let's be honest: If you're drinking less than half a dozen, then you don't really have any grounds for lecturing us pros on how we should be doing it...

Re: Local Dupe " Manning will get 112 days taken off any sentence he receives."

"Try putting your reflexive anti-Semitism"

Condemnation of the Mossad, Israel, or Israelis is NOT anti-Semitism, Matt. A country is not fu**ing immune from criticism just because of a single hyphenated word.

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Re: Fuck them all - this is a TOTAL farce.

[citation needed]

Re: This is an outrage

I was thinking the same about 'Centipede'; the first game I ever saw with a trackball.

Re: I wonder

"That's nuts. You wouldn't buy a car if the salesman says that it'll break down all the time, he doesn't know why, but hitting it with a hammer seems to fix it..."

No, but I'd buy an AK-47 that you *can* hit with a hammer and fix over a ray-gun that you can't.

[In reality I would (and do) buy cars that are perhaps less reliable and that I can fix myself with a hammer over something with a big plastic cover over the engine bay and more electronics than Maplins, but that's just me I guess!]

"A problem occurred. They don't know why at this point in time."

...because the thing is in space. So it's unfair to strictly demand answers now. They *will* look into it, and the device will be better engineered next time as a result.

"but until they start having regular flights without serious problems like this their credibility isn't so high."

Really? Just look at how many spacecraft fail to orbit. Look how many people NASA has managed to get killed over the years.

Re: I wonder

"Compare and contrast with what Mr. Musk did in the Tesla situation :-("

You mean doing a root cause analysis (checking the telemetry), repeating the experiment (asking others to perform the run), and said they'd install further charging points