Patrick Dodds

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• Commented on Hugo Chavez, cannibalism apologist
  Hear hear phisrow - nationalism and patriotism are often misapplied as concepts that are somehow something to be proud of when, like serving in the army, should be something that give others pause for thought when attempting to assess character....
• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  I don't know what it means, but I like the sound of "laser sintering" - can it be done on the NHS?...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  I can't hear what you are saying but your eyes tell me you are letting go. Our tears have dried. I can see your eyes and I know you know. The last lights of resistance wink out and the transformation...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  Ah, god bless the TSA - small boys in long trousers....
• Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
  If barefoot is good, how much better is naked?...
• Commented on Russian boy accordion genius
  If he is the same guy Bilsko, he looks about 30 years older and isn't as good - maybe its the years in the beet cannery that have taken their toll. Up until seeing the first video, I'd liked the...
• Commented on Avalanche caught on helmet cam
  Whew scarey. I know those guys who came to rescue him were probably following drill and doing all they could as fast as they could but crikey, the worst bit is when you first see them and then they start...
• Commented on Office Karaoke Video Makes Cubicle Life Fun
  Put me down for another "she's not necessarily a fun hater" - I thought she was just a bit shy. I wish I worked in an office where this was even remotely likely.... ah well....
• Commented on How to memorialize friends who have passed away on Facebook
  "I delete people who are deceased from my friends list, partly because I'm no longer going to be able to contact them through myspace and I like to limit my list to current contacts that I'm really going to interact...
• Commented on Ultraminiature model train
  "It is going to be a model train village inside a model, so it is very postmodern" Because that is the very definition of postmodernism.......
• Commented on BMW drives on top of other cars in parking lot (video)
  I'm with you freetard - yummy mummy, probably on the phone with a misbehaving labradoodle in the back. Either that or a RoadWarrior (FFS - sales rep) with a hangover. As for surveillance cameras - what IS the point? They...
• Commented on Father kidnaps daughter's killer
  Ah, gives a new meaning to restorative justice....
• Commented on Music made from YouTube baby videos
  I would hereby like to entirely reiterate ifthenwhy's post. That is all....
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  Jeebus it sounds bad in America. And what sounds worse is the blase reaction to this shit - "its not like they are offering candy in the back of a van...." No, sure, they're offering the opportunity to think that...
• Commented on Communist-era store windows
  They look like photos of what Britain will be like after the bankers have finished with us....
• Commented on Two Good Reasons To Always Read the Methods Section of a Scientific Paper
  "chicken parmesan"? Eugh....
• Commented on Laura Levine photography at Brooklyn Museum exhibition of Rock & Roll photography 1955-present
  So she's up all night playing pool (or in a pool? Not sure which) chatting to Bjork who agrees to a photo shoot at her friend Ben's house the next day. At the shoot Bjork takes her clothes off and...
• Commented on Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees
  @ Murray - sorry, I was feeling snarky and out of sorts and anyway kind of hate OJ as it reminds me of the UK in the 70s where it was served as appetiser / starter in restaurants, it was...
• Commented on Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees
  I clearly have some work to do on my relationship with OJ....
• Commented on Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees
  @ DjHop - I guess. But more than that I think it is a new world / old world thing. The very thought of a gallon of OJ disturbs me and makes me feel a little unwell. Maybe if I...
• Commented on Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees
  What is up with this measuring orange juice in gallons? Who NEEDS a gallon of orange juice?...
• Commented on Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees
  Off topic: Any chance the hundreds of people who know the trick of white teeth could simply tell the rest of us and move on? Thanks. As you were....
• Commented on Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
  Wow, the moralising - where did the fun people go?...
• Commented on Typhoon, Floods in the Philippines: first-person BB report from Audrey N. Carpio of The Philippine Star
  Covered in the British media: Hundreds Dead AND ONE OF THEM WAS FROM ENGLAND!!!!! - shameful....
• Commented on Trailer for movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
  Mmm, loved the book but the trailer suggests a fair amount of deviation from the plot, not just in relation to the "wife" but in relation to the need for all that killing, fighting and so forth. Sure there was...
• Commented on Beware the Bearsharktopus
  Technically, isn't he a barktopus?...
• Commented on Ant Army wall-stickers
  Thirty quid????!...
• Commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
  Noah had a drink problem?...
• Commented on Burning Man's burned man denied appeal
  If one were to send Mr Beninate a gun, there's always the slight possibility, not to mention hope, that he might off himself accidentally given that he is clearly lacking in the interior-of-the-skull dept....
• Commented on The blog of Philip Garrido, serial rapist and kidnapper: "sound control" gadget hallucinations.
  Crikey, there are some scary people commenting on his blog. And the blog itself seems to clearly indicate he's bonkers, and not just bonkers, but stark raving bonkers - so much so one wonders how he managed to function in...