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  1. Re:Face it . . . on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 1

    If you enjoy simulated murder and mutilation that is your business, if you get your kicks from that I feel sorry for you.

    The new generation are decadent and soft.

    We should return to the golden age of Germany, when they murdered and mutilated for real.

  2. Re:Oh common... on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is no way that just video games alone made this person go on a shooting rampage.

    Video games didn't exist in 1939, let alone 1914 and 1871, so what was the excuse then?

    Perhaps krauts just like shooting people, especially ones who can't shoot back.

  3. Re:A-levels? on 8-Year-Old Boy Sets A-Level Maths Record · · Score: 1

    2013 is recent?

    Can you tell me when the stock market will bottom out (or rather did bottom out, from when you're standing)?

  4. Re:The title should read... on UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist · · Score: 1

    You don't think that policy makers should understand how it works? What nonsense! You'd expect economic departments to understand economics.

    How long will you be performing at this venue, and is there anything from the menu you recommend?

  5. Re:Or in other words... on UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd say kudos to the bobby for 1) applying some common sense and 2) knowing that those higher up the command chain don't have any.

  6. Re:Who watches the watchers? on UK Gov. Clueless About Own Internet Blacklist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the people who apply for the job are just the people you don't want doing it.

    Are we talking about jobs at the IWF, or with the government?

  7. Re:Precious Snowflakes on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    It took me a few days to adapt to driving on the right in the UK, but I survived.

    You must be very lucky, because we drive on the left.

  8. Re:Why? on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Post 16 education (such a this example - a 6th form college) is voluntary.

    Seems you skipped reading comprehension rather often.

  9. Re:News on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The public might be footing the bill for the BBC over here, but there is no option as to whether to pay or not while watching any tv.

    Lots of things are taxed. If you don't like it, do without. Or leave.

  10. Re:News on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    citizen journalism has its place, but there is no substitute for trained professional reporters.

    I agree with you, but around here that's going to be taken as rather elitist - usually expressed as -1 flamebait.

  11. Re:News on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    And while it has publicized things the governing Labour party would prefer it didn't, I don't think anyone claims it is a puppet of the Conservatives.

    Now no. But back in the miners' strike, the BBC was frequently accused of bias in favour of Maggie. One particular incident springs to mind - the news showed stones being thrown at police followed by a "retaliatory" cavalry charge; in fact the sequence was the other way round.

    I'g guess you're not from Britain and have never been there, or you're under 12 years old.

  12. Re:Its like watching an animal drown on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    filtering the "teh aliens what was the ones who did it" and the "I heard from my neighbor's sister-in-law who heard it from a guy standing on the street waiting for a bus.."

    You got a problem with that?

  13. Re:So it doesn't run on water at all? on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 1

    Could easily use beer as the thrust media, if the support boat was a Budweiser tanker.

    Presumably before you filled it with beer, you'd have to empty the Budweiser out?

  14. Re:Hmmmm.... on UK Conservatives Slammed Over Open Source Stance · · Score: 1

    What the hell is "We are you a product of our fine education system" supposed to mean?

  15. Ob on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 5, Funny

    This idea is absolutely mormonic!

  16. Re:Jings crivens & hulp ma boab! on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 1

    My accent's perfect, I just can't spell. I'm not very good at geography either.

  17. Re:This reminds me... on Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Sometimes one glass of beer is enough to get me quite relaxed.

  18. Jings crivens & hulp ma boab! on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am not suggesting embracing a *Forth* Reich

    Och, are ye nae?

    *Surly* the communists were at the time

    A braw bunch o miserable bastids, aye, that they were. Och.

    Noo awa wi ye, or I'll put the heid on ye.

  19. Re:Well, someone has to say it. on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 1

    It's the superlative degree of the adjective "bad".

  20. Re:At last... on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guess there are some judges out there that drive while intoxicated.

    Fixed that for you.

  21. Re:80 hours on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh me if you like, but it's 10-12 hours every day.

  22. Re:80 hours on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Seems there's a bit of an echo in here.

  23. Re:80 hours on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Talk to any lawyer, management consultant or finance professional in one of the top tier firms

    I'd rather not, if you don't mind. They're so boring, all they ever talk about is work.

  24. Re:Progressive Insurance (in the states) on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 1

    Which would you say was right? I'd probably relax, to be honest.

    I'm guessing they wanted to hear C, but you could make a good case that A is better for the company. It could be the other way around, depending on how individualistic the company culture is.

    That's why these tests are generally a bag of shite. That and we probably answer how we think we should be, or how we think the listener wants us to be, or how we wish we were - anything but how we really are.

  25. Re:Slow connections! on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    I theory cabin boys were there to do the washing and cleaning, but I suspect their duties went a bit further than that.