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  1. Re:1, 2, skip a few, 99, 100! yay! on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    A couple is around 7 or 8, if you're talking about beers. At least, if I pop out "just for a quick couple" that's how many I usually have.

  2. Re:Editors? on Mother Sues After Bebo Story Hits Press · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tabloids occasionally print the truth.

    A stopped clock is occasionally right.

    And they occasionally do fact checking... more than can be said for the "establishment" mouthpieces that are the newspapers and media "outlets" of today.

    Do you find that when you say that face to face, people nod as if they agree with you, then their eyes sort of glaze over, then they start glancing at their watch and ... umm, gotta go - dental appointment!

  3. Re:Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to BS on Mother Sues After Bebo Story Hits Press · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because the person who published and the person complaining are the same person?

  4. Re:Editors? on Mother Sues After Bebo Story Hits Press · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'd think that having incorrect information would tend to dissuade customers from parting with their money

    If that was true most of the tabloids would have gone bankrupt years ago.

  5. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    Are you saying the NT is Bible 2.0?

  6. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since it is not an issue of doctrine, there actually ARE married priests in the Catholic church. There is an established procedure for such. However, these are rather rare at the moment.

    If I understand correctly, when the C of E allowed ordination of women, some vicars weren't happy about it and joined the bead-jigglers. And since right-footed vicars were allowed to be married since Elizabethan times, one can assume some of those crossing the floor were and remain so. It would have been a delightful irony if Rome had forced them to divorce!

    I don't know if it's only allowed for switchers, though.

  7. Re:They may be paying for portability on Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000 · · Score: 1

    I was just wrongly using lbs instead of the pound sign. Being a pitiful, ignorant benighted oik I don't know any better.

    Corrected that for you, old chap.

  8. Re:So let me get this straight... on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    The letters on a license plate aren't random, even if they're randomly chosen.

    That's far, far too deep for me to cope with on a Friday afternoon.

    That or you're talking total and utter bollocks.

  9. Re:Bullshit. on Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home · · Score: 1

    only the corn farmers and associated industry and lobbyists like Ethanol.
    I like it!
  10. Re:Remember: Sexism's Only Alright If It Favors Wo on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    400lbs? If that's one and a half, then one is still about 270! No prizes for guessing where you live!

  11. Re:Do women write better code? on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've clearly never used COBOL.

  12. Re:Remember: Sexism's Only Alright If It Favors Wo on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    So so I. Turn right at the White Swan, left at the King's Arms and if you reach The Frog & Ferret you've gone too far.

    Of course thse landmarks tend to be a bit more static and longer lasting than the red Ford van and the crazy homeless guy - I've been given directins like that before.

  13. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1

    Right, because all elections only have two parties.

  14. Re:So genetically modified has stopped being evil on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1

    which can be raised to about 30% efficiency full cycle. (which is a LOT better than using it to power humans btw, who are at best 3-5% efficient in using plant energy
    Even if cars are 10 times as efficient (your figures) most [non-American] people weigh less than a tenth of what a car does.

    There's also these things called buses. They're like a car but with a lot of seats. For perhaps a fourfold increase in engine size you can move ten times the number of people.
  15. Re:that's the ideal on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1

    Frankly, if we haven't at least colonized the outer edges of the solar system by then, we really deserve to die out.
    We should learn the lesson and not go the way of the trilateral purple Q'pw'eheap of Klazk'mon VI.
  16. Re:that's the ideal on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or do it at night.

  17. Re:Public perception on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1

    Solient? Isn't that near the Isle of Wight?

  18. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1

    However the Nazi's never got more than about a third of the vote in free elections So what?
    That doesn't necessarily contradict the statement that they won the popular vote.
  19. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 1

    I think you're about ten years behind. Recently the trend has been more to appointing them on the basis of merit in some field or other.

    Of course merit is somewhat subjective and there's a noticeable whiff of cronyism in the air.

  20. Re:Free Phone service on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    You, if you just don't want to pay any money to service providers in the first place
    Irrelevant. Where did I say that?

    maybe you should simply forget the whole iPhone idea.
    As far as I'm aware Elizabeth II is still on the throne, not you. But since I wouldn't consider buying such an overhyped overpriced piece of tat in the first place, I wouldn't be able to comply with your order^H polite suggestion.

    Thus you'll have your phone without giving any money to those evil corporations.
    Another strawman. They aren't doing you a favour with the rebate; it's your money anyway. That was the point. Stop ranting like a mad fanboy and look up - maybe you'll see it.

    Or simply get an iPod Touch.
    Wouldn't be seen dead with one. I'd consider it bad for my image to be associated with, how can I say, the likes of you.
  21. Re:You need a contract on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    why not the phone company giving you some rebate as they're going to make wads of cash from the monthly fee any way ?
    That would be nice if the money they're giving you wasn't taken from you in the first place.
  22. Re:Seems reasonable on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    A polititician, or the CEO of a telco?

  23. Re:ER, non-story on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    You can just call us Limeys. Or 'Sir'.

  24. Re:ER, non-story on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    great Briton is an inhabitant of that country who is either (a)notable or (b)obese
    Hence the TV series - that frightful bounder Clarkson's one on Brunel was excellent (Churchill won, however).
  25. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    When your arse is as fat as most Americans', one bike just isn't enough.