Beer
Beer isn't a GOAL or even a goal, it's a resource.
Beer the currency for debts that mere money can't settle.
Beer the tranquilliser
Beer the emotional crutch for those who can't socialise when sober
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Remember the man with the chair leg? Police snipers shot him dead in the street because a "reliable source" had told them he was an IRA terrorist and the chair leg was a gun.
Remember the two Asian brothers who heard someone breaking their front door down in the small hours? They went downstairs to see what was happening and the police shot them on sight because a "reliable source" had told them the brothers were Muslim terrorists.
The "reliable source" turned out to be a mentally ill youth.
The "reliable source" excuse should be automatically FOI-able: no anonymity for false accusers or for the fools who believe them.
We'll all regret this foolishness when the Yanks invade us, no doubt invited in by a government we're desperate to get rid of.
Learn Welsh, Latvian, Punjabi or proper urban slang ("the filth brung 'im 'ome an' she went f*ckin' radio!") or whatever they talk down your way and don't tell the septics what it means!
Er, no, I mean I for one welcome our new alien overlords...
What's happening here is that A-B, which is part of a huge conglomerate, goes to law on the slightest pretext and keeps appealing every nitpick for as long as it can. The lawyers' fees and court costs are money tied up until one side wins decisively and the loser has to pay both sides' costs. That's a drop in the bucket to A-B, a lot of money to Budvar. Also, it's a gamble: if A-B lose they can delay payment so as to spin the game out longer, but if Budvar lose it could bankrupt them.
So it's corporate bullying by A-B.
They ought to spell it as they pronounce it: "Badweiser". In the UK that'd attract more teenagers (it was MY idea!) but in Germany it'd imply the product's bathwater.
Is there nothing more important for the government to waste my money on?
Global warming, nuclear weapons, obesity, the extinction of the plants and fish we depend on for food, the richer rich and poorer poor that are the ills of which a nation dies...
Forget the future, rude drawings must be exterminated!
In fact, round here they're noted for it - see our local paper:
"A Tesco store in Woodley has been caught selling booze to children following a police crackdown on underage drinking.
The sting operation saw a 15-year-old go into the Tesco Express in Loddon Vale Centre accompanied by undercover officers and attempt to buy alcohol. The employee was issued with an £80 fixed penalty notice for disorder after illegally serving the underage teen with booze.
This is not the first time Tesco has been in trouble for selling booze to underage youngsters in Reading.
The Extra store in Napier Road, Reading, and the two Tesco Express shops in Bath Road, Southcote, and Church Street, Caversham, were previously caught in test purchases in April/May 2006 and all given £80 on-the-spot fines for selling alcohol to a 15-year-old boy."
<http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2038141_tesco_caught_selling_alcohol_to_children>
They don't put a window in the floor because the avionics are under the flight deck.
They'd block the view.
But how would pilots stay awake in a flightdeck without even windows to watch the clouds go past?
And who'd want to fly an aeroplane where you couldn't even watch the clouds go past?
...and next morning he sent the slave to market. On his way home the slave fell down and died. The farmer went to the dealer and complained: you told me this slave was healthy but already he has fallen down and died! Quickly the dealer replied: but he never did that when he was with me!
That's from ancient Greece, but some linguists researching accents for Reading University recorded the same joke (though about a horse) in Berkshire in the 1950s.
Web filtering policy works like this:
Sites are blocked (apparently at random) UNLESS they're specifically excepted. Sites are specifically excepted if someone puts up a business case OR if someone in the BOFH department wants the sites herself.
So...
@Bastard: you can work that out by reading the article.
The US government spends vast sums on "research" designed to find harmful effects of cannabis, dammit, no matter how long it takes.
Meanwhile in the UK, bicycle helmets are a scam: they actually make most cyclists less safe, but there's money in selling them and they shift the blame for accidents onto the person who got hurt.
A welcome addition to the Reg, indeed, Sir.
How powerful a laser pointer do I need for blinding street CCTV? Will the normal 5mW conference type do it?
BTW the police helicopters that fly over our estate are lower than people have suggested: 1-200m. Not terribly safe but if the pilot couldn't see he could climb for safety, at least up to the bottom of the Heathrow holding pattern.
I'm British. I haven't merely a right to act strangely, I have a moral duty to act strangely.
Morris dancing, bus-spotting, playing Mornington Crescent while queueing for bizarre public entertainments, they're vital to our traditional British way of life.
If you care about public safety, start by preventing road accidents and food poisoning - they kill far more people.
My employers hired the Mekon as head of IT. He outsourced it and left.
That was about 1999, since when we've been battling against the odds to get the alien invaders to actually DO anything. There are lots of them and fewer of us, but each individual alien is assigned a year's work every month. Consequently nothing gets done and alien wastage is huge.
Another new alien's just flashed past the window. Looks'if it was trying to fly to the other building, got caught in the downdraught. They don't give them time to adapt to Earth gravity. Or mains electricity or pelican crossings or bison-grass vodka - could someone collect it and put it on the pile downstairs? I'll ring for another one to go and fix the printer...
...since four casualties don't normally have five right feet.
You'd think they could tell *something* from the trainers. Were they sport trainers or fashion ones, genuine branded or fake, same month's style or all different ages, what secret compartments for samples of dodgy white powders, kinda thing.
Looks like a conspiracy to me.
There's really nothing special about it - this UK specimen can carry a passenger *or* cover 800 miles on a tankful:
http://www.pmaviation.co.uk/ct.php
It's almost an aerial motorcycle, and probably about as comfortable.
They seem to be readily available, at least in remote parts of Wiltshire, though apparently if madam needs to ask the price, madam can't afford it.
A cult is "not enough people to make a minority".
Nobody objects to seeing their picture in the local paper over captions like "Fans of the cult TV series queued for hours to see their heroes".
So maybe what the clams objected to was the word "dangerous".
In what way is scientology dangerous? Other than harmful to wealth, of course - you can easily get rid of them by telling them you're penniless.
[Declaration of interest: my gran was a Suppressive Person]
The IT unit here used to have water leaking through the ceiling from the canteen kitchen above. They fixed it with a length of B&Q plastic gutter which led the water into a large potted plant, which evaporated the water in lieu of aircon.
We're moving soon to a new building where the server room will be below canal level and next to the town's internal ring road.
amanfromMars makes comparative sense.
If gasholders were soft targets how did they survive the Second World War?
The 2001 building collapse happened because New York didn't enforce its building code, which required skyscrapers to not fall down if they were set on fire. Regardless of the size of their acre feet.
On a related note, structural neglect is the world's top-performing cause of dam collapses.
We've got Labour, the corrupt party of Big Business, and Tory, the corrupt party of Big Business. And various wingnut groups like the British Nazi Party or UKIP. My area has no Monster Raving Looney Party so who can I vote for and not hate myself for doing it?
People caught driving without licence, tax, insurance and/or MoT have *normally* stolen the car. See the Magistrate's Blog for details and intelligent discussion.
I'd agree with crushing any car driven without an MoT, and flogging off the uninsured car unless it was stolen from someone not known to the defendant, but theft is the main issue.
Aaargh, a serious comment! The nerd icon.
At that date, Scotland was near the Antarctic, in the barren heart of a vast supercontinent where the technologically-advanced giant clams were just on the point of wiping each other out in a war to end wars.
Until now the Government has covered this up because the clams
++ NO SIGNAL ++
I want you all to know that if I'm machine-gunned by panicky Yank invaders while manning any barricades, I want to be stacked in Trafalgar Square, not hidden from the eyes of the world.
Helicopter, because we'll never see tanks in Trafalgar Square (though only because they'd fall through the streets into the Underground).
There are already no honeybees where I live.
Wild honeybees have been wiped out by Varroa mites, so the only ones left are hive bees whose keepers protect them. There are no beekeepers within three miles of my garden.
I see quite a few Bombus and every year the beautiful Adrena armata make a mess of my lawn, but overall pollination is very poor.
I'd keep bees myself but I have back trouble, can't lift the weights.
Who can honestly say they'd rather see their taxes spent on despoiling Afghanistan than on conserving harmless useful bees?
The vulture, because it doesn't look very healthy either!
When I was a Boeing minion I was told that when they were showing the prototype 747 to customer bosses, they had their chief test pilot fly it past a few times, and on impulse he barrel-rolled it.
At that time Boeing was on the brink of bankruptcy and the joke in Seattle was "Last person leaving Seattle please switch off the lights". The Boeing bosses pretty near shat themselves but they couldn't admit the stunt wasn't part of their plan and they couldn't even sack the pilot.
IME stories like that, where there's a tinge of natural justice, are usually wrong.