slawkenbergius

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• Commented on CNN reporter says bad things about the TSA, gets hassled every time he flies
  Tazers Solve Arguments...
• Commented on Tortoise hates cats
  Strange how the tortoise has somehow become a turtle......
• Commented on Climate change denialists winning the race for "Best Science Blog"
  Newton has gone unopposed for too damn long. Actually Einstein already disproved Newton's theory of gravity......
• Commented on TV commercials for 1970s Planet of the Apes dolls
  "Zira, the woman scientist."...
• Commented on Steampunk Dalek!
  Very nice work, but I've got to prefer the clean(er) lines of the original. The caterpillar trax would make a good addition to a Special Weapons Dalek....
• Commented on Fun Rube Goldberg style promo website
  I suddenly feel as though my life is missing feestvlaggetjes....
• Commented on Gracenote's Music Map
  Funny that the top 10 artists are mainly 60s/70s supergroups, with a nice selection from the UK. Pity none of our homegrown talent seems to be doing so well nowadays. Is Radiohead the only British band to have made it...
• Commented on Man placed on sex offenders register for sex with bike
  Must've been one of those mountin' bikes....
• Commented on Best Buy won't refund "hard drive" that turned out to be a box of bathroom tiles
  Conspiracy theory #4: this is all a clever hoax, invented by a rival company to discredit Best Buy....
• Commented on UK Minister detained at Dulles airport
  To all the folks referring to Malik as a 'PM' in the United Kingdom, PM = Prime Minister = Gordon Brown. Malik is an MP = Member of Parliament....
• Commented on Keyport Key Thing In Production
  In the UK we also have Chubb locks, which require bigger & bulkier keys. I'd like to see a version that tried to incorporate those too....
• Commented on Failed futuristic predictions
  Just a couple of thoughts... «Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.» Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895. I guess Kelvin never went outside much to look at birds, bees, etc? «I see no good...
• Commented on Taser death at Vancouver Airport
  @RyanH: I don't see how you can tout those CBC articles as better reporting. Airport security called the Mounties for assistance after an unidentified man began pounding on windows and throwing chairs and computer equipment in the customs area shortly...
• Commented on Poll about belief in strange phenomena
  When I was in Africa, alone in this wooden hut in the middle of nowhere, I witnessed what seemed to be poltergeist activity. While failing to get any meaningful sleep, I heard this extremely loud scraping, like a chest-of-drawers being...
• Commented on Dumb lawyers and Flash screw up "No to Knives" campaign
  The dumbest thing about the website is the length of time it takes to load. Most of these knife-crimes kiddos are impatient and have ADHD and 56k modems....
• Commented on Thought balloon in the real world
  @Dean: There's a great party game waiting to be made out of that portable whiteboard version. You caption each other's thoughts - the proviso being that the captionee isn't allowed to see what's written before it's rubbed off....
• Commented on Disney's coprophilic cookbook
  Cat: What are they doing?. Lister: Well, just lining up in ... in some kind of firing squad. Woah Woah! Hang on, hang on. Someone's being brought out, they're tying him to a stake. It's Winnie the Pooh. Cat: What?...
• Commented on Disney's coprophilic cookbook
  It hurts me to think that this is what has become of Winnie-the-Pooh in Disney's hands. I was alright with those movies, but this really cheapens the image of one of the best children's books ever written......
• Commented on Gabe & Max: now YOU can ask them how to get the Dream Life of YOUR Dreams.
  When I was young we had a mouse in our kitchen that kept on running across the top of our cooker. One day my mum saw it and - freaking out - squished it with a hot frying pan. Most...
• Commented on John K. shows you how to draw Bugs Bunny -- video
  Oops, wrong thread......
• Commented on John K. shows you how to draw Bugs Bunny -- video
  It hurts my eyes to read the screen too much. Are there any plans in the future to release a book of the internet?...
• Commented on Snitch-chips embedded in UK school's uniforms
  England gets scarier everyday. It's odd how they can so easily ignore the slow drip of fascism into their lives. o.O What? It's not like all those CCTV cameras are actually functional. "80% of CCTV pictures are of such poor...
• Commented on Chumby ships to early orderers
  Damn... I read Chumbly there. As in the cute/annoying robots in the old-time Doctor Who story, Galaxy 4....
• Commented on HOWTO wash your hands and beat the flu
  Even if it doesn't work against bacteria, you might avoid getting an infestation of pinworm in the intestine....
• Commented on BBC announces that it may NOT deliver Linux/Mac/older Windows version of iPlayer -- sorry, 25% of UK, no iPlayer for you!
  What exactly is the point in it when everything turns up on UKNova anyway?...
• Commented on Fun with Google's Image Labeler
  Good thing I watch so much Yank TV. You get much higher scores if you use American names for everything. I had to call a 'dummy' a 'pacifier', and use 'soccer' when I meant 'football'....
• Commented on Cartoonist's car doused with used engine oil
  That joke about Stevie Wonder wasn't funny in the slightest. The guy's an arsehole. He probably deserved it....
• Commented on DIY tooth-pulling
  I live in the UK, in a small village outside Cambridge, and can say this report bears no resemblance to my experience. My local dental surgery is a place I actually like going to, as it employs charming and attractive...
• Commented on Scan of 1961 kids' book: Gordon's Jet Flight
  On my childhood visit to the cockpit, the captain actually allowed me to fly the plane, kind of. He told me to adjust this dial for the autopilot thingy, which made the plane bank a bit....
• Commented on Public radio station in NYC won't air "Howl" for fear of the FCC
  If you've any doubts about Ginsberg, listen to him reading America here. One of the best poetry recordings I've ever heard....