Posts by Glenturret Single Malt

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The MIGHTY Scotch egg

Re: Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The MIGHTY Scotch egg

In this part of the world, Stornoway black pudding is the connoisseurs' choice.

It’s payback time as humans send a probe up alien body

Hoots, mon

Should have been made clearer that the reference to Scotland was related to the CRICKET World Cup.

Bullish Vodafone barges back into UK consumer broadband market

Is this a piss-taking competition to see who can use the largest number of abbreviations/acronyms in the smallest number of words or are these messages all real and meaningful?

I can't tell.

GOD particle MAY NOT BE GOD particle: Scientists in shock claim

Re: Just to be clear...

I am in sympathy with your observation. The sentence sounds clumsy and sort of wrong. However, my Chambers Dictionary (1994 edition) defines data as "n.pl. (but commonly used as singular)". So I fear that you are fighting a losing (lost already?) battle.

Microsoft's TV product placement horror: CNN mistakes Surface tabs for iPAD stands

Re: I hate product placement...

My response to product placement is more usually along the lines of "Oh, look, they've got one of those things the same as we have/used to have" rather than "That looks good, I must get one for myself".

IT jargon is absolutely REAMED with sexual double-entendres

Re: Pegging order?

Alistair: Keep your pecker up!

iCloud fiasco: 100 FAMOUS WOMEN exposed NUDE online

Re: Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande

Having googled Kate Upton, I was pleasantly surprised to find that she does have some flesh to display and is not one of those anorexic stick insect creatures that inhabit many fashion photographs nowadays.

Windows 7 settles as Windows XP use finally starts to slip … a bit

21 to 14 is a drop to 67% of the initial value, 31 to 24 is a drop to 77% of the initial value.

I make the first one a faster decline.

It's Google HQ - the British one: Reg man snaps covert shots INSIDE London offices

Re: It behooves one ...

Americans say "behooves", Brits say "behoves" (according to my Chambers Dictionary). I think the word behooves has been a back construction from "behoof" which doesn't really have anything to do with behoves.

Don't put that duffel bag full of cash in the hotel room safe

Emirates economy class hands out metal cutlery.

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

Re: Nearly

Palemoon now on v24.5 - not so very far behind FF in frequency of updates