Posts by Bleu

Re: Baldly go?

You are truly a 'murican and you have seen no sign of those things?

Always postfixing adverbs is not part of American english as a very interesting set of dialects, I love the speech of the mid-west, the south.wbut, as I said, advice from moronic teachers, very recent. Barbaric as it is, the motive is fear of splitting the infitive.

Re: Baldly go?

More than occasional, the cases where it really should be avoided are those that jar because of style and those where the meaning varies with post- or pre-verb placement (normally, etc.).

Otherwise, the 'rule' is a crock.

People with education 'split infinitives' in speech all of the time.

Re: Baldly go?

You have cut-and-pasted part of your post, neither using quotation marks nor giving attribution. Shame on you.

I agree with the sentiment, though.

The reason the split-infinitive is such a fave error for spotting by the semi-literate is that even an idiot is able to spot it (a high rate of false positives from the idiots, prepositional 'to' frequently being identified as the start of a 'split infinitive').

In 'murica, it seems that many teachers tell their students to always (see what I did there?) place the adverb after the verb, even where it should naturally precede it.

That idiocy is all about avoiding the split infinitive. Unbelievable.

Then again, 'murican teachers also seen to advise their charges to avoid 'with' at all costs, except in such inane new formulations as 'I met with him at noon'.

Many more.

I like that. How feminine an image did Brad ever manage?

Not much. Sure, with the army duties, not much time, but most of that seems to have been expended on the big dump to wikileaks, with which I agree 100% that it was the right thing to do.

I am also surprised that infantry PFC's are 'intelligence officers' in the US system of now.

Re: Boffinry!

Personal jet packs have long existed, been in movies and on TV, they just don't seem to have much staying power.

The New Zealand crew attempting to do something similar with fans seem to have a good idea.

One would imagine that it would still be as noisy as hell for the person mounted in the thing.

I gather he had, he did serve in Afghanistan, although whether he did or didn't made no difference to his insane murderers.

Re: Hmmm....

If you think about it, neither TeeCee's comment (clearly intendedas levity) nor the reply makes any sense, unless we know the referent within the article.

Pyrrhic victory: victory with unexpected bad consequences.

So, Pyrrhic defeat: defeat with bad consequences for the victors.

Looks like the kind of post aimed at boosting sheer numbers of posts. The reply to it, likewise.

TeeCee, I don't think the Reg has platinum or plutonium badges to aim for through sheer weight of asinine but inoffensive comments.

Re: This is a very good example

F-N

I didn't correctly point out what you say I did, it is not an offense here, if done discreetly, and away from places where it causes real offense, I don't think it should be an offense at all, except if done in a specifically offensive way.

I live above a small car-park, too many people relieve themselves there in high summer, I do not like it, but I don't think they should be arrested or fined, usually quiet, also, for women, the vehicles provide a little shelter.

BTW, sincere thx for pulling me up on the auto-input slip.

I often tell people when there is a toilet nearby 'excuse me, there is a public toilet/shop with a toilet you can use just a few metres away', including at the afore-mentioned carpark if I happen to be arriving home or departing at the same time, although there, it is understandable if people who are not from the area don't know where they are or are lost, it's a bit like a labyrinth. Would never dream of doing more than embarrassing them.

As for FA players, I don't like the mentality of soccer in general, so I just about never watch it.

While not agreeing on all things, I would truly like to hear in more detail what you meant about problems with guiding a wheelchair-bound person about in the first comment.

People who piss in the car-park that I live above, they make it a little stinky in summer, but I clearly see that they don't make a problem for the people in wheelchairs who live in and travel about in the area.

Re: Why are you posting as AC?

Indeed, why not?

I just assumed that people only use AC when the post may endanger them in some way.

Clearly incorrect.

Re: This is a very good example

You may explain the degree of suffering. I do not support people or dogs 'pissing across the street', but dog owners allow it, here most pick up dog shit (thankfully), but most allow their territorial markings.

If I am caught short in cold wind, I generally know where the nearest shop with a toilet or public toilet is.

If not, plants or a drain, which nobody can see.

I guess you are talking about summer, *sincere* congratulations for helping a wheelchair-bound person, but can't see the point of your post.

Re: Wow.

Be careful there. You may inspire Mrs. K to a major media career, after all, Kim Kardashian was only copying Paris Hilton by releasing video of herself having sex, and pretending that it was leaked.

Never watched any of that, but I really do want to watch the Mrs. K and not-Mr.-K in the lift video, it sounds so wonderfully tawdry, pissing on the floor of the elevator is a great touch.

I would not want to see that elevator at the time or have to ride it a short time later, but the whole is really making me laugh.

Re: If Gold rust then what of iron.

I've only read about it, but it gave me a much deserved laugh.

Seeing the video or video of the dirty people selling it to to the TV station would, I imagine, quell the hilarity.

Why are you posting as AC?

I don't agree with all you say, but some of it is valid.

I must admit, this article and thread have really got me laughing, even though it is disgusting behaviour all around, pissing in a lift on camera (and knowing that), someone at the security company or council selling the video to a major TV channel, the TV channel broadcasting it, the regulator (IMHO) making the right choice against the complainant, although those who sold the footage should also be shown the door by their employers, that wasn't the complaint Ofcom was considering.

Biggest laugh I've enjoyed on the 'net so far this year, will have to watch the video if I can track it down.

Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

Lift attendants in posh places that still have lift attendants appreciate people pissing in the lifts?

A level of perversion that I never imagined, and have trouble believing.

Re: She seems to have turned

Are you implying that Mrs. K was at the top end of plus-sized?

Re: sigh!

I would rather see the cult of the cat video or photo wiped from the face of the 'net, maybe we have a little of a start with major media playing the same thing up for a few years now, surely that is depriving it of any appeal to coolness?

The video of this sounds a little more interesting than one of your cat having a dump, and the acts likely left less of a stench. Cat shit is putrid, I know cat lovers enjoy the smell, can never understand why.

Re: Pregnant women + very drunk

I was imagining it as an office party, sounded like that, but I suppose that was never stated.

While you are correct

in principle, it is very hard to imagine that the CCTV watchers handed it to the TV channel without being given some money.

Re: Dazed and confused ...

You and many others with the same kind of thinking should have thought twice before the CCTV wave arrived from Northern Ireland.

You can watch old documentaries and movies to assure yourself of that, if you didn't already know.

Personally, I have no intention of tracking the video down, but it sounds hilariously bad, like an early Paul Morrissey or John Waters effort, except that nobody was acting.

Writing that has changed my mind, I now want to see this tawdry pile of excreta, but if never able to do so, it will not break my heart.

That is an insult to the long-deceased mammoth.

I always think of them as hippopotami.

Re: I'm thinking that a mammoth is itself

Really unfunny.

Is it true that some down there enjoy licking the skins of cane toads or drying then eating or smoking the skin for a psychotropic effect?

I am sad that a nearby public garden has only toads, never frogs. The water is clean enough for frogs to live, but between children 'collecting' and carp, I have never seem a frog there.

Netscape

provided decent support for other character sets.

Laugh at this

I am not an Apple hater, had a stint as admin. for an Apple network, wish I had the space to set up an old jelly-bean eMac, just for the retro-future feel.

... but really, the cult aspect is so absurd, and that the cult continues in spite of so many basic design flaws, this is only the latest of many!

I truly hope their watch has a similar fuck up. Might take that to discourage the worshippers at the shrine of St. Steve.

Then again, I suppose nothing will stop their devotees from being devotees, even the site gathering these complaints has an Apple-cult feel.

Re: available for phone AND Tables?

You naughty Nash, you know you don't really.

One does see these 'bellends'

The ones who feel it looks cool to walk around with a headset and mic. combo. and look like they are talking to themselves.

Hasn't really caught on with Japanese people (one sees a few), but big among some segments of SE and SW Asian people, occasionally Chinese and Koreans, less often, the occasional westerner.

When I listen to what is being said, though, it never sounds like they are doing anything other than making a phone call.

I will have to listen more closely, but I suspect that I have never seen anyone using Siri or whatever the Google one is called, Cortana is a non-sequitur in our market, since current-gen. Windows phones are just about non-existent, quite an oversight on their part, because they did quite well here with CE and Pocket PC.

As I was saying on an earlier post, different thread, I much prefer a map, knowing where I am and the time of day, maybe a compass.

I certainly don't want to help to train these systems, maybe if the manufacturers were paying me much money.

Suggesting a new game, people who have access to these 'services' and who use them, try to train them to fuck up as much as possible. I suppose they rely on the search engines and text-to-speech, but there must be ways to subvert them, since the corporations are relying on users to train them, gratis.