Posts by Simon Bacon

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Hot Spanish tongue action

Suggested improvement

Some people find the slightly spongy texture a problem. This can be improved by pressing the tongue, placing a weight on top of it while you rest it overnight.

Forget the climate: Fatties are a much bigger problem - study

Web site request

Can the Register please implement a filter by author on their web site so that I can exclude the ill informed rantings that a few of their journos seem to get away with. (Page & Orlowski I am looking at you.)

Bloggers spring 'baccy happy landlord from slammer

If you don't wish to join us, then don't

If I don't wish to join you then I am excluded from my own local. A place I happen to enjoy all the more for it being smoke free.

Opt-in/opt-out is a non-argument. Pubs had that choice before the ban, but the economic arguments for banning smoking will put any pub that does at a disadvantage until all pubs are smoke free.

>Well? I see no rants from we smokers.

Then I suggest you look more closely.

Before the deluge

Before the smokers start ranting, you are still a minority.

No the smoking ban is not solely responsible for the number of pubs closing.

I for one would be deeply upset if pubs returned to their unpleasant, smelly, past.

UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime

You know you are in trouble when..

..Both of the big parties are in favour.

Darth Vader tops movie misquote poll

Minor corrections

Random Coolzip - Pretty sure it was a .44 magnum.

Nano nano - Yup, "nice Chianti" rings as false as a tin bell. In the book it was a "big Amarone".

Mmm Amarone.

Gordo's DNA database claims branded 'ridiculous'

False positives

By the same statistical analysis, as used by our beloved PM, how many false positives would have been generated?