Posts by FartingHippo

Re: Hmmm

My thoughts exactly.

Jaguar, anyone?

Re: Brilliant

You missed a bit:

"Sorry wrong department, I'll just transfer you over"

*click* ... *dial tone* ... *scream*

Re: The problem is how many electrons in an Ampere.

"roughly pi giga seconds in a year"

Tsk. No. About 10 x pi megaseconds, unless your definition of roughly is very different to mine. Back to school, young man.

Re: A method

There are many situations where a small hole, rather than a large one, is preferable.

For more info, check out "wizard's sleeve" in the Profanosarus.

Primes

Even more interestingly, there's another species which runs on a 13-year cycle, so they'll only meet the 17-year bugs every 221 years.

Insects are cool.

Re: Schmidt

He's friends with Ted Stevens and his series of tubes. I don't think I need to go on.

Re: Laudable but...

Huh? That's either far too obscure or far too clever for me.

Re: Flame in three, two...

[citation needed]

Re: Oh Lewis!

So Lewis did some stupid things as a kid. Big whoop. I feel for you if you can't say the same.

Kids will be kids and do stupid things. I bet much, much more harm is done falling from trees or diving into shallow water than with messing around with under-the-sink chemicals or fireworks. To punish curiosity and tomfoolery using anti-terror laws is f*cking absurd - that was the point being made.

Actually, 64% don't.

Re: Standards Dropping

Quite right. Here a link for other disappointed commentards.

"that picture"

@AC No.2

Your psychic powers are amazing. You knew all that was true just by reading his (or her) post!

If you do spoons too, then you are truly the successor to Uri Geller.

Re: It's about time!

I blame the immigrants. Porn has also reduced the value of my home.

(c) Daily Mail

Re: Slippery rings

Without a picture, that makes almost no sense at all (to me). But it sound very convincing!

Re: Eric, fixed that for you:

Yes. We got that implication. First sentence of article:

when head hypocrite honcho at Google Eric Schmidt

See what they did there?

Re: Betteridge's Law says 'No'

I don't think any country should ban the swastika (even if you put aside its use in Hinduism and Buddhism).

If people want to identify themselves as racist, antisemitic, cro-magnon morons, that's entirely up to them.

Re: Smartphones are for yesterday's cool kids.

I've never seen 'intriguing' used as a synonym for 'moronic' before. Still, I dare say they'll not be as bad as those miniscule bluetooth earpieces which make you look like a sherry-swilling tramp (merkin-speak: hobo).

Re: Sorry Kobo, I would like a Kindle version please

Calibre (with the Kindle plugin) is your friend.

Even if you haven't got a non-Kindle reader I'd highly recommend it. Who knows what future DRM debacle will render your lovely ebook collection unreadable otherwise.

Re: Could he have survived the flight?

The wheels are also very heavy (unless it was the nose gear they contain brakes powerful enough to slow down several hundred tonnes of aircraft - that ain't light), and are still spinning on retraction.

Given the take-off speed of a long-haul jet is around 200 mph, that's going to be a very messy - and mercifully short - meeting of man and rubber.

Re: We need a relay

Surely the easiest way is just to move the orbit of the Earth (or Mars, if you're lazy) so it's perpendicular to the current orbital plane. Blackouts will still occur, but much less often.

While we're at it, we could re-spin the Earth putting the North Pole closer to Alaska, and thus moving blighty to warmer climes. It's been snowing all f*cking day. In f*cking April, for f*cking f*cks sake!

@ Loyal Commenter

"I am pretty damn sure that my local council hasn't been using anti-terror laws to check if I have been putting my bins out on time" and "hyperbolic rhetoric"

Wrong on both counts, I'm afraid.

Re: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow ...

Aieeeeeeeee......!!!

Re: Zoolander comes true!

Downvoted for making me look at that tw*t, and thus disrupting the harmony of my morning coffee.

Armed bears

The US constitution enshrines the right to arm bears.