Posts by Robert Ramsay

Cheeky Amanda Palmer reference?

Inquiring minds need to know...

Goodbye to...

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As the old joke goes...

"It actually says *CELEBRATE*!!!"

more common than you might think...

Just type "Yorkshite" into Google :-)

Costa Wi-fi

Last time I tried to connect to the local Costa wi-fi, it wouldn't even let me establish a secure link to Google. Needless to say I fired up my phone's hotspot instead.

Life On Mars got there first.

Is it Gene Hunt? Is he beating up a nonce?

Guess What?

The EU are in the process of deciding whether our mass surveillance is illegal or not. I'm guessing this is what her rubbish dog-whistle is actually about. Unless she really wants to torture prisoners.

Unobtanium?

Fuckoffium more like!

As Michael Palin put it in "A Fish Called Wanda"...

"Good."

As Emo Philips said...

"Luckily, it proved not to be so proficient at kick boxing..."

Good idea!

Just a shame they had to wait until after Terry Wogan died! He stopped presenting it because of the dodgy voting blocks...

So this is where we are...

To get publicity for your career, you have to look like an enormous dickhead on purpose instead of by accident, as is usual.

Despite helping found the KKK...

Nathan Bedford Forrest. Sorry to copy from Wikipedia, but...

" In the battle of Fallen Timbers, he drove through the Union skirmish line. Not realizing that the rest of his men had halted their charge when reaching the full Union brigade, Forrest charged the brigade single-handedly, and soon found himself surrounded. He emptied his Colt Army revolvers into the swirling mass of Union soldiers and pulled out his saber, hacking and slashing. A Union infantryman fired a musket ball into Forrest's spine with a point-blank musket shot, nearly knocking him out of the saddle. Forrest galloped back to his incredulous troopers. A surgeon removed the musket ball a week later, without anesthesia, which was unavailable."

" In December 1862, Forrest's veteran troopers were reassigned by Gen. Braxton Bragg to another officer, against his protest. Forrest had to recruit a new brigade, composed of about 2,000 inexperienced recruits, most of whom lacked weapons. Again, Bragg ordered a raid, this one into west Tennessee to disrupt the communications of the Union forces under Grant, which were threatening the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Forrest protested that to send such untrained men behind enemy lines was suicidal, but Bragg insisted, and Forrest obeyed his orders. On the ensuing raid, he showed his brilliance, leading thousands of Union soldiers in west Tennessee on a "wild goose chase" to try to locate his fast-moving forces. Never staying in one place long enough to be attacked, Forrest led his troops in raids as far north as the banks of the Ohio River in southwest Kentucky. He returned to his base in Mississippi with more men than he had started with. By then, all were fully armed with captured Union weapons."

Brainhacking

So magick is becoming "respectable" now they are calling it "brainhacking"?

That photo...

Which one's him?

"Armando Iannucci's TED talk on reincarnation was well received"

We've bin spendin most our life

...livin in an Orwellian spy paradise...

Misunderstanding

I thought you meant the Cray ran hot enough to cook your BBQ on it...

Bwahahahaha!

Remember, kids, being a fuckwit is independent of race, creed or colour!

Although one of these three will give you a head start!

Requires a valid nonce?

I hope it's just my out of date terminology knowledge...

That photo you used...

...always makes me think "We're the knights of the round table, we dance when e'er we're able..."

I just hope the poor fucker in the picture got paid loads for having to do that pose :-/

Please please get his hairy bumhole face off the front page.

Please could you make the active link cover the whole top bar and not just the bit in the middle with the text on it? Ta!

Full marks

for the excellent phrase "peeling a handy sheep"

Anti-virus

Can anyone recommend Windows antivirus that doesn't suck donkey balls and/or suck up all your resources?

Giant bank IT cockup of 2012 'could have brought down ENTIRE financial system'

...again...

I'm getting a Fiio X5 for my birthday.

That is all, thank you.

My hotspot is called "Google Surveillance" and no-one's ever bothered me at an airport :-)

I really enjoyed it.

And I didn't roll my eyes once. Lots of excellent, inventive bits. Mixing humour and horror like the best stuff. And the monsters were genuinely scary and exciting. And it's taken me until last episode to realise that I didn't like Clara because she was previously (and probably will be again) written TERRIBLY. These last two episodes she actually came over as an actual person.

I like to think that all the warming we're doing is counteracting a new ice age which we should have had by now :-)

"Where now for Mark Zuckerberg raised by badgers?"

Purposes

since phones are now getting way too big, put it on vibrate and shove it up your arse?