Posts by CrazyOldCatMan

did no-one listen in Civics 101?

No - they were probably moaning about how it breaches their "liburtee" to be forced to study..

how long would it take to spend a billion bucks....

I dunno. Give me the billion and, in a few years, I'll write you a report[1]..

[1] Which will mostly consist of "haven't done it yet. Few more years please.."

Re: It reads like an Orwellian novel, only it's real

slowly boil the frog

You do realise that that tale is a complete myth don't you? The frog realises that the water is starting to hurt their skin and, like any sensible amphibian would, jumps out..

Re: If only there'd been some evidence of past performance to assess her on before appointment

Well - she'd managed to go to the right schools and make the right friends..

The roads in and out of Plymouth are a bit special too

The only one that mattered to me was the one to Plympton cos that's where my now-wife lived..

Portsmouth

Yup. Got sold tickets to Portsmouth quite a few times when visiting my now-wife in Plymouth. Nowt to do with Navy - I suspect that the semi-literate yoof that we had selling tickets in our local train station had heard of the Senior Service..

Sir Drake

His 'little ships' had a *much* smaller draft than any modern ships. In fact, I susect that a modern warship exceeds anything before (maybe) 100 years ago.

Re: Sill they be armed with…

sheer numbers of morons sat in the 3rd lane from the left is shocking

Almost as bad as some of the yoof round here that are frankly baffled by the concept of cycling on the road as opposed to on the pavement[1]..

Kids cycling on the pavement I don't have an issue[2] with. But once they get big enough and experienced enough they *should* be on the road and leave the pavements to pedestrians and dog walkers[3].

A nice missile strike would recify the situation I think.

[1] "But where should I ride if I'm not allowed on the pavement" one whined to me as I wouldn't move myself and the dogs out his way.. He really didn't seem to comprehend that the road was usable.

[2] And I believe there is an explicit pernission in the Highway Code for it.

[3] It's not especially busy on the roads here except for 8:30-9am and 17:00 to 17:30. So I don't have an issue walking out into the road to give space for other people or kids. But I do object people trying to force me into the road so they can illegally ride on the pavement.

Re: Fake PII FTW.

You *need* nothing from me beyond a method of payment and an address

A lot of the better vendors allow checkout as guest where the only thing required is an email address and the payment is handled by their payment processor. Since I run my own email server (and no - it's *not* MS Exchange) I generally use $firstname-$sitename@mydomain.blah.blah as the email. That way, if I start getting spam to that address I can dob them in to the Info Commissioner on GDPR violations..

Re: Boilermaker?

My fave was a pint of snakebite (strong lager and strong cider)

At my 21st (many years ago in a town far, far away) I was force-fed[1] Guiness and Southern Comfort[2] by my then fellow-students. Presumably on the basis that it would get me amusingly drunk quite quickly. What they didn't realise (not being close aquaintences) is that I'd fully inherited my dads ability to drink almost everyone under the table [3].

[1] Well - they offered to buy al the drinks and it would have been rude to refuse. I was bought up to be polite after all..

[2] A commbo that covers the deficiences of both drinks and almost produces something drinkable. But, as intimated above, the drinks were free and that dramatically improves the flavour.

[3] One of the few useful things I inherited.. I won several "draughts with whisky" competitions at the student bar.. (draughts with whisky shots - you take a piece, you have to down it in one. I used to have a pint of mild and a nice sausage and bacon butty beforehand to act as a buffer)

Re: Boilermaker?

Less a cocktail, more just lining drinks up

And thus spoiling the taste of both. Mined ewe, if it's American "whiskey"[1] it's probably going to be improved by the application of beer (especially American beer - a case of two wrongs really do make a right)

[1] As the saying goes: they call it sippin' whiskey because only someone with no taste buds takes more than a sip..

Your 3 - 6 rounds overly ambitious for a muzzle loader

Not for the British army of the time - they were expected to be able to fire 2-3 rounds a minute (even the riflemen and their longer and rifled muzzles made loading more awkward).

It was one of the things that allowed Wellington to kick the French out of Spain (along with good tactics, support from the guerilla army and Napoleon foolishly deciding to start a war on a second front..).

Re: "has only left people scratching their heads"

was today put in extreme danger by the delivery driver from a well known supermarket chain

Which why my wife handles all the deliveries and everything (except cold stuff) goes into the dining room for quarentine and fridge/freezer stuff gets wiped down with detergent and rinsed. We then both wash our hands (I do the drying of fridge stuff).

But for people on their own I can see how it's going to be a problem. I hope she gave the supermarket some feedback?

(PS: None of the delivery drivers we've had have been a problem.. and they've all kept their distance.)

Re: "has only left people scratching their heads"

Hello from Cornwall

Kernow bys vikken!

Re: It's all bollocks

Those of us of a certain age were advised not to go out at all and arrange for food deliveries

I have the good 'fortune'[1] to be part of the vulnerable group and (eventually) managed to get priority delivery slots (and to be fair, it was a lot less hassle with Asda rather than Sainsbury [2]) so we at least managed to get food for us and the pets (within the limits of stock availability - bread flour? Don't have any mate..)

[1] I'd rather not have to take immuno-supressants or diabetes medication but life is what it is. You can't change what's happened, only your response to it..

[2] They consistently said no until I realised that I had to change my login to match the email address used with my Nectar card. After that, it worked fine.

Re: It's all bollocks

virus might consider a variant which only killed those below a certain IQ?

IQ isn't the determinant - tp put it into RPG terms, the problem is a lack pf WIS, not INT. Or, in RL terms, the determinant is selfishness and "me first" (AKA Chaotic Neutral). All of which are pretty prevalent in all levels of IQ.

Re: "only to insist there was an error with the car."

size of the so-called 'Mini' continues

I have a friend who is a old-style Mini enthusiast.. he has been known to spit on the ground if someone mentions the BMW so-called Mini.

With good reason. The original Mini was designed as a small, cheap, easy to maintain car. The BMW reskinned 1 (AKA Mini) is none of those things.

Re: Good

you're an American when your a mutt

Same thing for the UK - my surname comes from (probably) the Forest of Dean, my mothers side is pretty much all Welsh, my Dad was from Yorkshire.

And I have a blood group that is very common in Celtics whereas my wife (Devon/Cornish extraction) has a blood type most common in the Iberian Peninsula.

Anyone that talks about purity of bloodlines is a moron. None of us have 'pure bloodlines' - especially those restricting their gene pool to keep things 'pure'.

Re: Good

decent candidates that aren't geriatrics

It takes a lot of time to raise the cash to buy the elections in the US..

Re: compared to Trump he's an elder statesman

either of my cats would make a better president

Likewise any of mine. Except the youngest one - she's a bit feisty..

(Oh - and the one that craps on the front door mat - she's probably not suitable given her complete lack of anything resembling brains[1]. But she's *very* cute..)

[1] Which is why she's the only one of the seven cats that can't handle the road outside the house. Which is why she only has a small stump of a tail left and a pelvis held together with titanium with no head of femur on her left-hand rear leg. She still climbs onto the garage roof though and chases her daughter round the house.

Re: Aimless Anglos

Though I'm not sure we ever really did

Sure we did - keep those pesky Continentals in their place, invade and subdue about 1/3 of the world by figting against people at a lower tech level than us and then extract vast abouts of cash from them. And beat them up if they dare to complain. While forcing the Chinese to buy drugs from us while we are committing industrial espoinage to steal the only thing that they were selling us so that we could grow it elsewhere in the countries that we've stolen..

Oh - and to drink warm beer and cold gin while playing^W watching a game that takes 5 days and can still have no clear result.

(PS: I actually like cricket. Something about those bails is so... alien. And tea is the true drink of the gods.)

Re: QR

imbibing in a location known for local produce of a liquid kind

Or alternatively, being unable to organise a mass sexual experience in a house of negotiable afeections..

Re: QR

I get the feeling Britain is going to get a nasty lesson in January

..from which absolutely no lessons will be learnt. After all, they haven't learnt from any of their previous disasters^W learning opportunities..