* Posts by Paul Tribe

6 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2007

New tap turns water into super-cleaning potion

Paul Tribe
Childcatcher

Cue the inevitable

TV advertisments insinuating that children and kittens will die of food poisoning/bacteria/viruses unless you fit one to the kitchen sink.

Ofcom boss warns of low interest in 'superfast' broadband

Paul Tribe

This is perfectly possible to do on a 50Mb connection. Just not "legally" yet.

UK.gov threatens to 'pull plug' on smart meter rollout

Paul Tribe
FAIL

"Let the utilities pay"

Who pays the utilities then? We do of course. We always pay in the end and it is actually cheaper for us to pay them directly than to introduce more layers of bureaucracy that skim a "handling" fee at every opportunity.

If you don't believe me, just ponder on Defence procurement for a bit...

Feds probe naked Scarlett Johansson outrage

Paul Tribe

Who's Scarlett Johansson?

Bloke ordered to remove offensive numberplate

Paul Tribe

Am I the only person...

...who finds the "FCUK" logo offensive?

One number plate or a million T-shirts? hmmm

Lawmaker shows nudie pic to high school seniors

Paul Tribe

More HoH...

This reminds me somewhat of a recent Youtube video - It was a captue of an American news broadcast reporting an alledged shooting of a suspect by the local law enforcement while he was complying with the demands of the officer involved. The footage showed in a very graphic way (albeit rather grainy) the close range violent assualt - but the victim's understandable vocal reaction to the excruciating pain was beeped out by the TV station!

Obviously swearing whilst being shot is more likely to offend the average American punter than actually being shot! ....