Posts by Atilla the Hun (No relation)

BOFH: Can't you just ... NO, I JUST CAN'T

Amen to that!

Just Amen!

Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

Beer. Mmmm, beer!

Beer drinkers beware - if you have to renew or replace your pewter tankard, they're making the buggers in 500ml sizes now as well as pints!

Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates

Plate spinning

I confirm the Bentleys in Chelsea, still look out for them on my occasional jaunts into the Smoke.

Some considerable number of years ago I nearly fell off my motorbike when passing FU2 on the Hammersmith Flyover - believed to be owned at the time by a Fiona Richmond?

As iPhone 4S battery suckage spreads, fixes appear

Copacetic?

<looks it up>.. Oh, I see, a merkin word. You're excused (from the correct side of the Pond).

Verity Stob and the super subjunction

Wibble

I'll have a pint of whatever the author was on at the time. Purely to aid comprehension of course.

Handy radiation checker comes to iPhone

<gurgle>

"The data for the app, called Radiation Information and published by Qnuouo"

How the *hell* does one pronounce Qnuouo?

I tried here in the office and just managed to stop a colleague going for the Heimlich manoeuvre.

Sluggish economy means hard times for US executioners

It'll be the death of me yet

Surely the past tense of 'to wreak' is wrought?

Middle-aged sex is crap: Official

<smug mode>

That is all.

</smug mode>

Competitors vie to provide earthquake-proof radios

Be that as it may..

"Skipping over the huge loss of life and general destruction wreaked by a magnitude 10 earthquake"

Please note that the past tense of 'to wreak' is 'wrought'.

That is all.

Taoist truck driver guilty of unlawful sex

*20* years her senior?

Last time I looked 19+20 didn't get all that close to 55.

Sensible-sounding beak let down by dodgy maths.

UK etailer calls self 'the last place you want to go'

Disappears mysteriously into oblivion

The offending tagline seems to have been removed! It wasn't displaying a few minutes ago but was on the page source, I had to look like I was working (briefly) and upon returning to the source it's gorn.

What can we mock now?

Virgin Media network goes down down south

Score 50% only in Oxford area

Broadband running at the usual standard (read into that what you will)

POP3 distinctly non-there.

No point whatsoever in picking up the phone to the BeardyTeam.

'Our engineer will be getting off his arse quite soon and down to some serious scratching. After that it might get fixed, or we might fuck it up totally, who knows?'

Don't call me Ishmael

Printers

Are always, always, always female!

BOFH: Cable entanglements

Cable order coming up..

Never mind the quality, feel the freebies. Send her round please.

And a return to weekly updates from the Bastard would be most welcome.

So, what's the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum?

Pub....

Which hostelry do you frequent? I want some of that loopy soup!

NASA preps robots for future fake moon landings

Nice to see..

The traditional journalist's long, liquid lunch hasn't entirely died out.