Posts by Anthony

Wünderbra! German policewomen take 'Action Brassiere'

I don't know the German language but...

Bablefish (http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com) reckons "Kugelsicherebusenhalter" translates to "Ball safe bosom owner" :)

Branson unveils Virgin Galactic mothership

They'll be trashing the planet just to have a look at it from space.

"Maybe, just maybe the more people - especially those with money, power etc - who get to see our beautiful, little, blue-green planet from the splendour of the stratosphere - the more people will realise quite how important it is that we don't trash it."

Hmmm... I wonder how much fuel, and therefore carbon emissions, it takes to get that thing up and passengers in to space?

Virgin Galactic to unveil tool to fling rich people into space

Shouldn't the title of this article really have been....

"Virgin Galactic people unveil plans to fling rich tools into space" ?

Government kids website pays £6 for every visitor

They're not interested in what the adults have to say...

There's a link on the home page which says:

"If you are an adult you can respond to the consultation here" (http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/consultations/conDetails.cfm?consultationId=1543)

but clicking it takes you to an error page saying:

"A system error has occurred, we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused."

I guess they don't care what parents might think!

eBay UK pimps users' privacy for targeted ads

Well they've not thrown me off the site (yet)

After reading the article I thought I'd update my ebay preferences, so i disabled the AdChoice settings but haven't received any threats to close my account.

Have to wait and see...