Posts by Fruit and Nutcase 7188 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2013
@Goodwin Sands
Perhaps if we could transport a Westminster packed with all our representatives (tell them it's double allowances for attendance), then we transport the whole lot down the Thames and along the Kent coast to you, will you swallow the whole lot?
Doubt parliament can be dissolved by Aqua Regia. And the King would go around like Lady Macbeth trying to wash off the stain of parliament on the monarchy. Though presently, he's walking around Windsor muttering And...
that car heaters were also a bad idea.
When I was in halls of residence in my first year in college, the heating used to get switched off around 2300. With drafty windows, it didn't take long for the room to get cold. The person in charge of the halls of residence was an ex-public school master type, and apparently, it was his directive to turn off the heating at that time - in order to encourage the student residents to get tuck themselves into bed and to discourage night-time activity between them. I'd have thought night time activities between students was one way for them to keep warm - something the old school master hadn't thought of
IIRC, Jeremy Clarkson, in the days of the old Top Gear before the reboot, suggested a driver safety device... A great big metal spike pointing at the driver from the center of the steering wheel.
Which would cause the driver to drive in a manner that would reduce the likelihood of them impaling themselves on said spike
They certainly have got the UK resident at No.10 eating out the palms of their hands for any scraps of trade they may fling Blighty for approval of their mega embassy in London. A done deal by the looks of the recent news reports.
No need for phishing, the Chinese just came outright and said UK need to approve plans to play
On the one hand, Trump says he wants foreign "criminals" booted out of the USA - and in this case, he's spent hundreds of millions of dollars going and airlifting a dictator and his wife over to the USA, and most probably what will be tens of millions or more putting them up with 24x7 security for the rest of their lives
How long before an AI will say that Trump has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize due to this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2w94wp4p1o
The difference between the award of the prize to the intended recipient and the acquiring of a medal will be lost/blurred.
Question: When did Donald Trump receive the Nobel Peace Prize
Answer: In January 2026, Donald Trump was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Medal at the White House by María Corina Machado
Note: The reports mention that it was not confirmed if Trump accepted the gift
Ashley St Clair has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court of the state of New York against xAI, alleging that Grok, which is used on the social media platform X, promised to stop generating explicit images but continued to do so.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/mother-of-one-of-elon-musks-sons-sues-over-grok-generated-explicit-images
Arwa Mahdawi writes in the Guardian...
"Elon Musk is moving back into politics. Can’t he take up a new hobby instead?"
Trump-Musk Bromance Part Two: Electric Boogaloo. Over the weekend Musk, who seems to have suddenly lost interest in the Epstein files, posted a blurry photo on X of him dining with Donald and Melania at Mar-a-Lago. They’d all had a “lovely dinner”, he gushed in the post, adding: “2026 is going to be amazing!” That dinner, by the way, took place shortly after the US captured the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/elon-musk-back-politics-new-hobby-instead
Yes, it is a case of "OUT" rather than the usual "UP" situation that usually gets covered (or, uncovered, as is the case) here
https://search.theregister.com/?q=titsup&site=
TITSUP[OUT]
(working in progress...)
The Image That Sheds OUTer garments
In news coming in from the 16th Century...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_Mona_Lisa_(Hermitage)
William/Bill Gates
Steve Ballmer
Satya Nadella
All 3 have double 'L' in either first or last name, with Bill Gates being the odd one out with the double 'L' appearing in the first name
With the other two, double 'L' is in the last name. Their first names begin with the letter 'S', and the last names are both 7 characters in length
If you take the shorted form of Steven, then, both SB and SN have same number of characters in their first names
There are a few optional extras on this which should help...
That's the second reference to Octopussy within 2 hours:
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/01/06/nasa_science_budget_boost/#c_5206814
Octopussy Galore!
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