Posts by fruitoftheloon

@Joey M0usepad - f'wit in residence

Joey,

you can fuck right off...

So I have been imagining my life falling apart over the last four years, silly me.

For further info, feel free to read/ignore/dismiss haughtily my posts on El Reg.

If you have kids you may want to research alternate techniques to the 'stiff upper lip' when they need or ask for help (assuming they will bother asking you at all that is...)

I hope you and yours never have to deal with serious mental illness, because if you do, and things get really tough, someone may end up homeless and then living in a cardboard box.

/Rant over

J

@Heisenberg

Heisenberg,

that is nice for you, as you state that you haven't worked in the public sector (in my opinion, only half in jest that can be an oxymoron anyway), I wonder how well qualified you are to speak about working in the public sector.

One has had the 'good fortune' to have worked in both camps at various points...

J

@Elmer Re: @Sporkinum: When I was in the Airforce

Elmer,

if I wanted an opinion from Google, I would have sought it, which was I asked the person the posted the post instead...

J

@JJSmith Re: This isn't about energy, it's about ideology.

JJSMith,

so I presume you bring your animals inside for the winter, spin/weave/knit your own clothes and have a [suitably large mammal] to pull your plough across your wheat field?

Which animal do find you get the best yield prior to preserving the meat, as of course you wouldn't want to have a fridge I presume?

Just wondered...

J

@a pile of shit: Re: Ah right...

Is what you are talking, how you can join up those dots and come to your conclusion is so sad I genuinely find it to be rib tickling...

J

@Neil Barnes: Re: I) prepare meals from the raw ingredients up

Neil,

you got that right, I am amazed how many people do not realise the mark-up there is on vegetables that are in some nice placcy wrapping, as opposed to those that you put in a bag yourself, it is ENORMOUS!

Cheers,

j

Re: 1930s

Jim,

likewise my grandfather was one of nine (most of them died very young), they lived in one of two rooms in a slum in East London with no heating, running water, toilet or electricity, he was born almost exactly a hundred years ago.

I think things have moved on a bit since then for the working class...

Re: Spot on

Mr syntax,

so you presumably don't have a problem with some families historically having received more in benefits than Mr Average would receive in salary for working full time?

Disclosure: I am currently in receipt of ESA benefit and my mum is disabled, so my father gets carers allowance etc, I am quite familiar with the price of a single tomato and can tell you down to the nearest penny what my sons school lunch costs.

We eat modestly and COOK our own dinners, hence our family food budget is a fraction of many people we know.

I do not believe the world owes me a living or that the state should be responsible for looking after my family, I do however appreciate the [significant to us] help that we do get at the moment, I look forward to when my health fully returns and I will be paying tax again rather than drawing upon it...

But I believe the bedroom tax is flawed in every way possible.

J

@ac: Re: How about some more?

Dear Ac,

Europe: too stupid & uneducated?

Perhaps we should follow your lucid and helpful example of what constitutes a clear, well argued and focussed narrative.

Or maybe not.

Those pesky Europeans eh...?

J

@AC Re: No sympathy @Tony Green

Ac,

you're quite right, I can't outrun a gun.

But I guarantee that if more people in the UK had more guns, then more people would get shot by guns in the UK.

Which means IT IS NOT VERY LIKELY to happen in the UK!!!

My grandfather was a boxing champ in the Navy and (by all accounts) a pretty good brawler, his advise re fighting was (in order)

1) don't get into the situation in the first place

2) if you can, walk away

3) run

4) find something to hit the one with the biggest mouth

5) pray, as by now you're probably f*cked anyway

Btw my formal training is in risk mgmt (stats & probability) so I believe that gives me a different viewpoint to most folk re guns and the UK.

Thanks for your contribution to the debate anyway.

J

Re: No sympathy @Tony Green

Ac,

Wrong country....

J

@CABvolunteer Re: Why do they think gun licencing should be done on the cheap?

So I presume you have never ever broken any elements of the road traffic act, and if you did you deposited a sworn statement of such at your local cop shop, then left your vehicle and driving licence too and walked home, awaiting your appointment with the beak?

Just wondered....

@Dave Bell

Dave,

Couldn't agree with you more, if I were more of a cynical bent I would suggest it is because plod knows where the licensed guns are and doesn't put quite as much effort into finding the unlicensed ones.

But hey, I have been wrong before...

J

@Tony green Re: No sympathy

Tg,

You are a narrow minded twat.

Most of the flying lead in this country gets aimed at bits of paper, which generally don't mind as that is their job. From my experience (working class lad) many shooting ranges and clubs have members from all levels of society.

But imho the 'knob quotient' can be a little higher at CLAY BIRD shoots, why don't you check out one near you, I could be wrong but I think you would fit right in....

Did you miss the bit in the article that had the sums in it? Try reading it slower this time and leave your biases a little further away this time eh?

I mean we can't be running around with people enjoying a sport that you don't approve of can we now?

Just out of curiousity what sports/hobbies tickle your fancy?

J

Chemist Re: Darktable

Chemist,

yay for Darktable, I also like Entangle.

Cheers,

J.