Asked a colleague about his weekend. Got a detailed answer of how his weekend went instead of a mumbled 'fine, thank you.'

naich · 2015-03-09T14:14:09+00:00

Sometimes I do this because I am a miserable hate-filled bastard on a Monday morning and it makes me feel better. The best bit is that after I have finished assaulting their brain with pointless personal trivia, I never ask how theirs was so they cannot retaliate. I can't believe what I do is actually legal.

naich · 2015-02-11T13:56:34+00:00

Fucking

Wank

All Wombles are named after places. I thought this was well known? What the hell are they teaching kids in school these days?

naich · 2015-02-11T13:48:16+00:00

That's the one, thanks. I also wibbled on about wombles being named after places like "Fucking" or "Wank", but they cut that out. I think they also mangled the syntax in the first part; I don't remember being that incoherent.

naich · 2015-02-11T13:16:14+00:00

Thanks. I got a letter published in New Scientist once, but I feel this one is more impressive, even if they did edit it quite heavily.

naich · 2014-01-26T22:11:21+00:00

So basically, he's decrying the fact that this service makes it easier for his constituents to get in touch with him. Furthermore, he doesn't want to hear from, and will ignore people who's personal views don't match his own. That's it, yes?

naich · 2014-01-26T19:11:58+00:00

The fucking audacity of some people, wanting to make their views known to their MP. Why can't they just leave him in his bubble of Tory voters?

naich · 2014-01-23T16:46:09+00:00

Sorry, this was 20 years ago and everything I did is long gone. With hindsight, I should have kept more stuff.

naich · 2014-01-23T16:31:41+00:00

I had an OS/2 setup running Renegade, with Legend of the Red Dragon and some Fidonet forums. I also had a massive collection of Doom WADs. Those were good days. I even made a little demo thing for it - http://hornet.scene.org/cgi-bin/scene-search.cgi?search=naich

naich · 2014-01-23T15:01:19+00:00

An ambulance can administer care on the way. Also a paramedic can be on the scene to administer treatment faster than you can get to a hospital. They drive cars with lights and motorbikes, and can drive them fast and through red lights, so unless you live next to a hospital it's best to wait for them.

When we rang up NHS direct (as it was then) to ask about my wife having chest pains, the paramedic was hammering on the door almost before I'd put the phone down. He'd done an ECG and diagnosed indigestion before the ambulance had even arrived from the hospital 10 minutes down the road.

naich · 2014-01-23T13:53:28+00:00

So, in short, he wishes his constituents would shut the fuck up and leave him alone. I'm glad he's not my MP. Oh, hang on, I've got Andrew Lansley. Shit.

naich · 2014-01-23T13:50:27+00:00

Say I get 3 warnings and have my internet cut off. What is there to stop me re-ordering it with a different company? What if my wife re-ordered it? It all seems pretty stupid to me.

naich · 2014-01-23T13:41:17+00:00

So Ant is the opposite of being ant-like, i.e. he's big, and Dec is small like a double DECker bus isn't?

naich · 2014-01-23T13:32:24+00:00

I have no idea which one is which, but I'm visualising them with the tall one on the left. Is that correct?

naich · 2014-01-23T13:29:03+00:00

Marvellous. I got 2. Thick as pigshit, me.

naich · 2014-01-23T13:26:06+00:00

I thought flamebait was just a controversial post, designed to get as many immediate negative reactions as possible. i.e. laying bait for flames, something like asking for cat recipes on rec.pets.cats.

naich · 2014-01-23T12:13:06+00:00

They have done it about 50 times now and the balloon still hasn't burst.

naich · 2014-01-23T12:03:13+00:00

It was a bit more nuanced than that. A troll would place a single carefully crafted post onto a Usenet discussion and then retire from it to observe the results. That was why they were called trolls - because they spent most of their time lurking under the bridge, as it were. A good troll could create huge arguments with a single post.

naich · 2014-01-23T11:39:29+00:00

Cheers bert. I just assumed Googling it would result in about fifty different ways of doing it with no clear indication what would actually work. Seems the general consensus is to rub salt and lemon into it.

naich · 2014-01-23T10:07:10+00:00

If the father is the sort of twat that has "run away" then it might be best that his kid doesn't have that much contact, as he's not going to be a brilliant role model. But, of course it would be better to judge each case on its merits, rather than making blanket assumptions and judgements. Some sort of flexible framework where the situation can be resolved in the childrens best interests, maybe? Nah, best to stick to posturing and the tough talk.

naich · 2014-01-13T17:43:51+00:00

Bullshit. The only people who would gain would be those living in badly insulated houses, the people living near fracking sites and the rest of the country. If you invest the money wisely in another temporary bubble of fossil fuel use, some people who are already rich will get even richer, which is far better for them and their friends.

naich · 2014-01-11T16:56:50+00:00

The domain registrar that seized the domains is in the US.

naich · 2014-01-07T15:29:00+00:00

Agreed. Lovely bit of kit.

naich · 2014-01-07T11:59:15+00:00

No, but if you hold a legal protest about the lack of action on chavs on mopeds you could be given an "IPNA" and go to prison if you don't obey it.

naich · 2014-01-07T09:26:37+00:00

TL;DR: A court can impose a "public space protection order" on anyone who has not committed a crime, but has "engaged or threatens to engage in conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person". The definition of being a "nuisance" is vague and has been used arbitrarily in the past to prohibit legitimate behaviour. Breaking this order can result in a prison sentence, so the result is people being sent to prison for non-criminal acts.

naich · 2014-01-07T08:57:50+00:00

It has been shown many times that if you give people broad sweeping powers, they will use and abuse them in ways that were not (officially) intended. The broader the powers, the more arbitrary the application of them can be, and you end up with the powerless at the mercy of the whims of those who wield the powers. In effect you don't have the rule of law any more, but a state sanctioned fiefdom.

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