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Re: Pedantry

RR needed Bristol Siddeley technology to get the airbearings on the central shaft working. RR couldn't stop the bearing from whirling and seizing. BS knew what they were doing, RR didn't.

And don't forget the Concorde engines were a BS design

Re: More common than you think

"Quite why he couldn't do the squat-stand like other self-respecting OCD geeks I don't know."

Because standing on the rim of the WC and squatting is bloody difficult, if not hazardous as ones feet tend to slip off the rim and into the bowl........

We had that problem at a certain once well-known now defunct Muslim-owned PC company sited midway between Blackburn and Burnley (yes.....you know who I mean). At least half the staff were unschooled immigrants (many illegal) from Pakistan and they quite simply didn't know how to use a flush WC. Most of them, when faced with the new horror of a normal toilet, stood on the seat, crouched, clenched and dropped from high, with turds splashing onto the walls and floor.

You have to understand - these guys were uneducated tribesmen who had never seen tap water, let alone a flush toilet. In the main they were either illegals, or else brought into the country as the husband of an unwilling British-born bride in a forced marriage, usually a cousin or other close relative.

What made their problem worse was the need to wear trousers - with a normal asian dhoti you can just lift it clear and dump (assuming no underwear as normal). Wearing trousers means you have to DROP your clothes to your ankles- and if perched balanced on a loo seat, try to avoid crapping into your pants without falling off.

Given that, the chap who was crapping into a plastic bag deserves praise for finding a working solution to the impasse

Re: In the old days...

"how the hell do you manage to take a dump in the bin/drawer or whatever without peeing all over the place though?"

Easy for men.....now ladies tend to have more of a problem. Paul - did your mother make you pee sitting down?

Re: Early modern

"the possibility of a group of Neanderthals being come across by some roving band of mercenary soldiers"

which is exactly what happened when the Hanoverians went to Scotland and wiped out most of the Highlanders. Who do you think all those red headed Scots are descended from - they're Neanderthals, they even share the same hair and skin pigmentation

"Mind you, it should also be painted pillar box red..."

What????????? Thunderbird 3 was ORANGE (and incidentally for info the main power source was three particle accelerators, though take-off used liquid fuel rockets for initial thrust)

Re: Silly question

what a stupid question.

What you do is submit another nude photo showing the same details to prove its you

i.e. make sure the same birthmarks, caesarean scars, stretchmarks are all there for comparison

Of course Google would have to keep copies of those in case the take-down was challenged

Re: Bloodhound.

Apparently 0 > Mach 2.5 in 3 seconds

Re: Have fun, China

god forbid that their music exports become as successful as Detroit's........

Re: There is one place cheaper

If Apple offered for sale globally products manufactured by prison labour they would be in breach of the Geneva conventions. I nearly got caught once on a big contract purchasing a pharmaceutical intermediate from China - we did a last minute site quality audit and found the manufacturing site was actually an army-run prison labour camp. If we'd carried on with the contract we'd have got instant go-to-jail cards

Re: What the Chinese did with it?

As I said before...when cross matched with the medical insurance data they've already ripped off they have a lot of info on a lot of potential targets thats going to have a very very long shelf life.

As of now, everyone on that list is a potential target for threat blackmail or extortion. That by implication means no-one on that list can be trusted. Everybody - and I mean everybody - with a security clearance is going to have to be turned over and checked thoroughly. Its going to make the McCarthy era look like playtime.

Re: Vodka with rawit

you had me there for a second.......I read that as "3 or 4 rawits in a nasal dish......."

the thought of the pain up your nose..

Re: Streaming tech

Fashion

just wait

12 months time will see The Beats co-ordinated fashion collection of hats gloves shoes eyeshades underwear and earphones all with Apple designer chic and all intended to give perfect haptic visual 3D+audio immersive media playback. The clothing becomes your own personal mobile wearable simulator

Re: I hope the woman in the photo gets happy soon

no -try dialing 666, you'll find it more fun. Take that plastic brick out of your handbag first though. It is a brick isn't it?

Re: I hope the woman in the photo gets happy soon

no its not because it appears NOT to be of Kelly, and was certainly NOT written with any thought or intent toward her. If the photo is of her then I apologise totally, but - as I pointed out in my last post - the origins of the photo appear to be elsewhere

Re: I hope the woman in the photo gets happy soon

thanks - but personally I prefer cheesy biscuits

As to the ID of the young lady, it appears to be a random street photo taken in New York which has been ripped off from this Flickr site

https://www.flickr.com/photos/proimos/5931054200/in/photostream/

Wikimedia tried to attribute it as open source, but it clearly isn't. El Reg seems to like using it a lot though

Re: I hope the woman in the photo gets happy soon

give me her phone number and I'll make her happy, I know just the kind of input she needs.

amazing the energy you can develop if you attach the sub-woofer to a vibrator