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39 posts • joined Monday 17th March 2008 20:44 GMT

Old Painless
Holmes

A toolkit,some sticky tape...

....and some secret instructions on how to build a REAL spaceship

Old Painless

BYOD - because I'm worth it...

I don't want to make any rash judgements based solely on my own prejudiced and "happening-as-we-speak" experiences - but I wonder just how many of the Good roll outs are demanded by Director types who want to use Something Shiny to flaunt before the minions? Like having the corner office and the reserved parking space..

Old Painless
Stop

..meh..

..I drive a chieftain.It has no ABS, and I'm not that bothered if I slide it into things.I think we should all have one, would certainly solve a lot of speeding issues. although garage forecourts would have to be a bit bigger.

Old Painless
Angel

?

what an angry little man - i presume you are an exemplary driver, and have saved countless lives with your selfless and highly skilled road use? what an example you are to all of us!

Old Painless
FAIL

demeaning..

..this whole "money" concept just makes us look a bit tawdry as a species really doesn't it? I mean if you can really solve the problem by printing more "money", we might as well just switch over to using leaves, or drawing our own notes at home.Honestly, as a species, is this the best we can do? What a bunch of cocks..

Old Painless
Thumb Up

..or even better...

....LAUNCH Ann Widdecombe..."God bless her, and all who sail in her"

Old Painless

Bored already...

..just let them all get tooled up, drop them in a desert and see who walks out at the end. It'll be cheaper than lawyers anyway

Old Painless
Alert

Touching but unlikely..

...our "Security Forces" is off this week, he came in with a note from Matron Monday teatime

Old Painless
Pirate

It just isn't cricket...

.. to accelerate, deify and pornographically chase obscene, unfettered capitalism;let it fuck up; give it a shit load of money to pay itself back;let it fuck up again; and then shout "Look, the black guy broke it!" What a bunch of bastards!

Didn't that George W bloke raise the debt ceiling SEVEN TIMES, whilst simultaneously wasting 3 trillion dollars trying to break the US Army on Iraq?And that is just the money - forget the thousands and thousands of DEAD PEOPLE..

And another thing while I'm at it, and getting annoyed -why does the US working class so happily collaborate in its own enslavement by foaming at the mouth whenever someone mentions "socialism"? What - you'd rather doff your caps to the big money nobs while they are screwing you out of every penny you own?Why isn't there a labour movement in America?Its second only to China for worker mistreatment and abuse!

Well, that should invite a few fair and balanced replies anyway..

Old Painless
Mushroom

Email is for pussies...

..i'm going to go the whole hog and install a bent OS (Red Star linux!)and then make the foreign intruder sick with my constant and colossal perversions.Victory to the imperialist lackey running dogs! *pulls pin and shouts "share that amongst you,unspecified foreign agents!"*

Old Painless
Mushroom

Why bother?

Tweeting? He could ask some of his nastier departments to arrange accidents for the Tea Party;or maybe disappear a few "pour encourager les autres". Whats the point of being President if you don't get to press the Special Forces button now and again? Lame! Use a big stick Obama, we'd all understand! They're nutters!

Old Painless
Coat

who ate all the ...

Optimus Pies?

Old Painless
Mushroom

I don't want to seem overly harsh...

..but anyone who uses the meaningless "COULD OF" instead of the meaningful "could've" should be killed on the spot

Firm but firm, thats me

Old Painless
Pirate

again, is this serious?

You must be one of those delusional robots mate - BL cars under their many labels were complete shite which is why you never see them on the roads.I see plenty of old Bavarian motors though!!!

Old Painless
Stop

Is this serious???

I thought that program was a spoof ! This means the idiots on there aren't jobbing comedians, but really are delusional robots who think christopher columbus invented pie and mash

Old Painless
Boffin

I'll do Cyber...

.....is she hot?

And as an idle toff millionaire,i'd be happy to stymie the evil web-boche/hun purely for the 733t hacx0rz lulz. I'll use the hilarious salary to buy pet food for my maid

pip pip!trebles all round

Old Painless
Pirate

spot on sunshine..

..i've been evangelising against murdoch for years for precisely those reasons; its just hard to get people to understand their fun soaraway Sun is in fact the tool of the devil, and is just one big titted distraction while The Beast shits, pukes and pisses all over democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speech.The whole mob of NI and newscorp should be taken out and shot as far as I'm concerned, but I;m just an old leftie. Firm but firm, thats me...Johnny Turk would have known what to do with 'em,,tie 'em to a post in no-mans-land mutter mutter..

Old Painless
FAIL

.."Merlins are great"...

..apart from being unable to take off? How much brass would a sales rep need to gloss over that little nugget? "Sure, she can't take off full, but the toilet is super shiny!"

Old Painless
WTF?

you've got to be kidding...

thy should just rename it "vacuous people", although "people" might be stretching the term a bit for one dimensional meat narcissists...

Old Painless
Pirate

Right, I'm off

I've just whistled for a fast pick up from the mothership, so i'll be off this stinking rock before you monkeys start eating each other when all your cabbages are under 6 feet of ice for 8 months of the year.So long losers!

PS I've given you a 1 out of 5 star planet rating - what with the religious wars, impending cannibalism and everything ever transmitted by Fox news, the whole place is just a bit too "council"

Old Painless
Badgers

I have it on good authority...

..that Microsoft are buying Woolworths next - keep it under your hat

Old Painless
Grenade

nemesis!

ever since they transferred my broadband from pipex without asking, I've wanted talk talk to implode - my voodoo juju is finally working!MUWAAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Old Painless
Terminator

Hang on a minute -

..you are all just assuming the machine was lying when it admitted to a blowing stuff up....

Old Painless
Happy

Too easy...

"The Wizard Prang" -- in honour of the sugar crash that will inevitably follow consumption

Old Painless
Thumb Up

truly a jaw dropper..

saw this monster at Fairford this weekend, and you would genuinely fancy its chances if it was dropped into a dogfight with a cylon - it actually drew gasps from the crowd

the eurofighter on the other hand, brough forth much scoffing and a collective "blehh" - how do we get it wrong every single f-ing time???does NOBODY get shot for their mistakes anymore??

Old Painless
Gates Horns

Everything else is just a toy...

...it does go to show how far the world has moved on in the last 5 years - I only have Windows on one machine now, and it is only ever used to play civ or l4d.Now L4d and counterstrike work perfectly on my main machine using Crossover, i literally have no use for Windows. I've got no intention of buying windows vista/7/whatever in the future - I wonder how many people are doing the same?I've been supporting windows at work for 10 years, but I think XP is the end of the road for windows as far as I'm concerned - I've never seen windows 7 and could no more support it than any other civilian....talk about the retraining costs of moving to Linux sounds a bit hollow now doesn't it?

Old Painless
Thumb Down

sarcasm double bluff?

I like this guys musings too - but I just wonder if this article is really a troll and he is laughing his head off (I've lived in Cornwall too long now, my sarcasm detection system has failed) or if he really was sat foaming at the mouth,banging away at his keyboard like any other unhinged neo-con nuke loving mentalist? Just wondered.

Old Painless
Stop

"no" and "chance"

This Manc won't submit to an enforced ID Card with a gun to his head.Long live the Peoples Republic of Manchester! Barricade the M6!

Old Painless
Linux

Speed is Good

I don't know if anyone else has even tried this, or if somehow I've stumbled on the best kept secret of all time, but I have antix M7 on a Latitude LS400 (thats a P111 at a whopping 500MHz, with 256 MB of ram) -and when hibernated, it goes from a standing start to previously hibernated desktop in 24 seconds.What that would be like on hardware you would actually WANT to use is anybodys guess - it would probably catch fire/make the sun implode, something like that. Fast boot times are ALWAYS A good idea - anyone who supports a corporate environment, and wastes thousands of seconds a year watching "Running Startup scripts" on Windoze NEEDS those reclaimed seconds! We NEED them!Bad!

Old Painless
Big Brother

he should think himslf lucky...

I'm pretty sure HMG wouldn't really be up to tinkering with this no marks interweb, but I hear their "accident arrangers" are quite sharp - and probably cheaper too.I wonder if he has lots of pointy sports equipment?

Old Painless
Alert

Great "again"

I was just wondering when this mythical "great" was.....I say we just whistle up a drop ship and nuke the place from orbit - would the French really mind if we all just decamped to Brittany? I mean REALLY?

Old Painless
Boffin

original?how about ...

....paper?and gunpowder?apples?printing?That original enough for ya?

Old Painless
Stop

Hans, are we the baddies?

Any sensible person knows one thing - Surf Nazis Must Die.

And as far as I'm concerned, anybody who believes fluffy minded cultural relativism can be applied to Nazis is an idiot, end of. We saw "ethnic cleansing" less than 10 years ago in Kosovo, and that was just a pale imitation of what Nazis did, and would do again given the chance. Nazis need to be confronted head on and pounded into the dust, all day, every day, for ever. Firm but firm, thats me all over...

Old Painless
Flame

Turkey/Christmas

Local authorities cosying up to outsource behemoths - its management ignoramii cannibalising their own staff.I'm so sick of this. I'm supposed to be embracing the concept of "one cornwall" in April, but I'm absolutely convinced by the hopeless efforts so far that the entire thing will be an epic fail. Canada or New Zealand? UK = complete waste of effort....what a waste...

Old Painless
Stop

What does a trough-muncher have to do to get fired?

Seriously, how shit at their jobs do they have to be before they get taken out and shot?

And don't give me that crap about not buying US kit " because then we would have to rely on the Americans" - the UK armed forces have been unable to fart without US help for years.

This is all a sick joke and I just don't think I'll bother getting out of bed today : (

STOP because -well, just make it all stop

Old Painless
Linux

SCi-Fi codswallop implosiontastic

please let it be Buffy, or maybe Spike ..... Hey! he was already in the other Who show!So this time, it Sara Michelle Gellar! Or Cordelia at LEAST...PLEAAASSSEEEEE

Penguin cos Mepis is the only live CD that works on this brokn Tecra : )

Old Painless
Gates Horns

Home,home on the range...

I don't want to insinuate that EDS are cowboys, but I've personally seen them go live for large govt dept , on the day some whitehall mandarin came to visit, with no trained staff , no PC build, and, in fact -no pcs or phones on the desk....well, you get the picture. Sharp exits all round - HP, what are you thinking you clowns? Michael Dell will be laughing his nuts off -and good luck to him!!!

Old Painless
Gates Horns

arse backwards

has anyone wondered how funny it would be if the Iranians parked a frigate half way across the Channel and boarded the odd cross channel ferry? It might finally put Eurotunnel into profit....

Old Painless
Pirate

The end is nigh...

Does anyone REALLY care anymore? I've already decided XP is the last Muppetsoft OS I'm ever going to us without a gun to my head, and I've officially lost interest in Vista, the desperate follow up to Vista, and the undoubted last gasp that will follow it a year later. Does anyone here intend to be PAYING for an OS that doesn't work 5 years from now? Thought not...

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