Posts by Gianni Straniero 281 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2007
Reading the comments here reminds me why I stopped reading The Register. You are a bunch of blinkered, bloody-minded, knee-jerk, off-with-their-heads man-boys, the lot of you.
Seriously, how is "they are handling stolen goods, therefore they deserve to be shamed, internationally" a nuanced, adult response to this story?
Feel free to downvote this comment into oblivion.
(without realising that the more of you do so, the better, frankly)
If you want to see how much warning you would have got between the p- and s- waves in Tokyo, 376 kms from the epicentre of the 8.9 quake in March, look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU1bYspMyQw
It's not much, but it might save your life.
As with everything in earthquakes, the further you are from the epicentre the better, on the whole.
Our lack of helicopter lift is frequently cited as a contributing factor to our casualties in Afghanistan.
But if Our Brave Boys are in big, fat Chinooks, won't the Taliban switch from IEDs to shoulder-launched SAMs instead, as the Mujahideen did when they gave the Soviet Union a thrashing?
Or do they lack a Charlie Wilson-style benefactor to supply such kit?
Just remembered something else. I gave a friend one of those vouchers that gives one £30 off a LoveFilm subscription.
He said: "What the hell is a Love Film? Is that some kind of porno?"
"No, no," said I. "It's love FILM, not LOVE film".
Funny how you can subvert a brand's meaning simply by changing the stress on each word.
Hmm. Getting a boner while remembering Mom's pumpkin pie is probably not something Freud would have classed as "nostalgia".
The reference to a "Pavlovian response" reminds me of something else. Certain newsagents have started giving away family-size Dairy Milk bars with newspapers. I now salivate every time I see a copy of The Daily Telegraph. Most inconvenient.
The Oven Pride controversy is by no means an isolated phenomenon. A huge number of TV adverts in the UK have the recurring stereotype of "idiot Dad", who fucks up the DIY, knocks over the telly, or puts red knickers in the wash with the whites. Cue pubescent daughter rolling her eyes skyward, and Mum shaking her head ruefully, yet indulgently. "Silly old Dad," they think.
Today, the 40-something white middle class male is the only demographic you can get away with belittling on TV. I feel for them, I really do, because as a group, 40-something white middle class men are among the least privileged members of our society.
I thought the ad was in mildly poor taste, not because of any supposed sexism, but because it implies that anyone with an amusing Mediterranean accent is some kind of moustachioed lothario who does little else but grope women, or daydream about doing so. Same with that "Juan Sheet" bullshit advert for kitchen paper. But hey, it's probably just me, and I didn't run screaming to the ASA...
P.S. I love the "some of my best friends are women" comments in here. You're all so full of shit.
"... the bookies had [the Netherlands] at considerably longer odds than Spain, Brazil, Argentina and England (you wot?)."
The odds offered for England were not just an expression of the probability of their victory, but a hedge against massive losses should they do the unthinkable and win.
Not wanting to piss on your fireworks or anything, Lester, but the image flip-flopping might have more to do with the comments on Peston's blog than your excellent, timely coverage of this saga.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/06/bbc_removes_gold_plate_from_pe.html#P97766479
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