Posts by Ben 22 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Sep 2008
Yes, the video is a bit old.
On the other hand, you don't go publishing your evidence on the internet so that any old Tom, Dick or Ahab can come along and scoop your research paper - the reason that this has only just come to light is because the study (and video) has only just been published.
The good news is that as an old sea salt, Lewis is well aware that whales are mammals, and so we've been spared a 'Fish fingered' joke in the headline.
The problem with Mallard trying to break the record, again, is that the last time it set the record it ended up leaving nuts and bolts all over Lancashire as they tried to get the bloody thing to stop again. Not entirely sure the NRM would want to pick up the tab for AA recovery on that one...
"Maybe we could find a galaxy that acts as a mirror on the other side of the galactic lense? Or if space is truly curved, a big succession of them that loops back round on itself to get a hugely magnified view of your bum?"
I think you're mistaken. That's actually Uranus you're looking at.
Mines the one with the gravitational pockets...
"No doubt all the episodes of Clangers were lost when the video tape was re-used for Blankety-Blank, and we shall be denied the definitive DVD collection of his work."
Not so - they're available on DVD from your local massively-overgrown online, tat emporium.
The Clangers used to be my standard breakfast viewing before regattas, as Channel 4 would show them early on Saturday mornings. Happy memories...
It's not actually illegal to join, but it's deemed to be incompatible with certain jobs. If a BNP policeman arrested a black suspect the defence lawyers would create merry hell, for example.
It's not exactly the Republican Party, unless they've recently invested in some of those pillow cases with those natty little eye-holes.
Meanwhile, my pregnant girlfriend has been threatened online by a BNP supporter after commenting on a thread about this sort of thing. Nice to see the BNP still standing up for free speech, democracy and British values. Bastards.
Says it all, really. Anxiously scanning for your name, were you? The BNP's position would make Britain weak by making it an international pariah state.
I'm uncomfortable though with the BNP being singled out for special treatment by the police, education authorities etc. It'd be better to ban all party members from state employment to try and enforce some kind of impartiality and reduce the chances of political shenanigans and inbreeding.
"Curricula vitae" would be correct if you're speaking in Latin, but in English it tends to be abbreviated to a non-latin "CV". In this case, slapping the standard English plural on it makes perfectly logical sense (although I'll sit on the fence as regards the use of the infamous flying comma).
Oh, and for the person who doesn't know about photo's being a correct form of photoGRAPHs; either photos or photo's is acceptable since photo is commonly used and understood as a correct morpheme. So naaah.
Interesting to see that at least some Republicans have mastered the modern world - shame they've turned up on El Reg though.They're obviously struggling to read McCain's words, so let's revisit them:
"I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself," he said. "I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.".
He's not learning to get online by learning how to flex his shoulders, numbnuts, he's struggling to learn how to double click on an icon. Besides, over here in Blighty, Stephen Hawking is happily using his Tomy Speak'n'spell to write best-selling books - so don't tell me that a dodgy shoulder is all that's stopping McCain.
Whilst we're at it, remind me how this "war hero" got his injuries again? Actually, don't - I know this one. It was crashing his plane for the 5th time whilst trying to bomb peasants in a third world country (typically he survived - the moron couldn't even master the basics of kamikaze). McCain is actually responsible for destroying more US aircraft than most Viet Cong generals. There's also archive footage of him giving a Viet Cong interviewer far more than unit, name and number: just the sort of courage under pressure that a president needs (just like Bush, who bravely hunted the Viet Vong in, er, Texas). He's not a "war hero" - he's a very silly boy who was only allowed to play with expensive airplanes because Daddy asked nicely.
Finally, if you think that his dodgy shoulder stops him using a keyboard safely, why the hell would you want to give him the nuclear button?
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