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Commented on Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
if you love somebody, if you really love somebody, you'll let them reek......
Commented on Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
surely cheaper, in these straitened times, to use the ~actual~ head......
Commented on Boing Boing Video shoot notes: The Mighty Boosh
bOINGbOING crimped!?!? surely this must be the rapture =D...
Commented on Camel's milk chocolate coming to the west
or pro-biotic bacterian?...
Commented on Camel's milk chocolate coming to the west
dromedairy?...
Commented on Anatomical model exhibition at the Wellcome
Reluctantly took the kids to the Wellcome Institute maybe 10 years ago (Wellcome ~is~ Big Pharma)... ...it was brilliant......
Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
North of England - well i'll go to the foot of our stairs... (i'm surprised) she's no better than she should be... (she doesn't measure up to our standards / she's a slut) you'd make a better door than a...
Commented on Swearing mitigates pain
don't you go there wolfie'sma......
Commented on Swearing mitigates pain
for me it's all in the fricatives... mostly 'shhhhh' for pain... 'fffff' for cold... (we didn't have central heating until 16 years ago, sliding naked bodies between icy sheets was definitely made easier with a 'f-f-f-frigg'n'fuck' or even a 'f-f-f-freeeeeezing')...
Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
anonimouse @ 2 - stave off osteoporosis with calcium and excercise and the (old people's) world is ours!...
Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
"A spinster lady can, and very often does, turn into something of a battleaxe with the passing years. A man usually mellows." so, as hormones become less polarized with age, men and women converge towards the median... who'd've guessed... and...
Commented on Watch out for that lampshade!
best menstruation instructionable so far this year...
Commented on If woowoos ran the emergency room
non-brit mitchell and webb fans might possibly have missed robert webb's MASTERFUL comic relief interpretation of flashdance skip ahead to 2.26 or watch this if you have no patience......
Commented on The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Strain, by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band...
Commented on Sir Richard Francis Burton, Cardinal Mezzofanti, and other eminent polyglots
Our own Xeni Jardin is young and well on the way to hyperpolyglotty... "Based in Los Angeles, she travels extensively, and has studied over a dozen languages including Maohi (Tahitian), QuichŽ and Kakchikel Maya (Guatemala), Nahuatl (an indigenous language of...
Commented on Life with a 100 lb rodent that sounds like a Geiger counter when it's happy
Kateisgreat @ 15 - mine too :) I couldn't find the capybara, but here's Johnny with Delilah the gorilla...
Commented on Grant Morrison book signing at Meltdown in LA
13strong - about as impenetrable as Alan Hansen (who seems to get by on uk-wide tv just fine without subtitles)...
Commented on Ahmadinejad sucks at Photoshop
Petkov @ 28 - "Mass Public Deception"? or (uncharacteristically) careless mistake? Acknowledged on the BBC News website today - Update 19 June 2009: an earlier version of our caption was incorrect. We wrongly stated that this was a pro-Mousavi rally...
Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
Brainspore@33... GrimC@34... in the view of the author, I think it might be helpful to re-read it as something like "I knew there was something I liked about tuna"...
Commented on More money-related posts at Credit.com
I don't think it's fair or accurate to equate the "not-so-well-to-do" with those in debt... Plenty of us "not-so-well-to-do" avoid debt pretty stringently - we know we can't afford it......
Commented on Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?
Antinous @ 100 - do you have stats for americans asked those questions?...
Commented on Project to make electronic communication network from raw materials in nature
"Rough Science" is recommended family viewing for anyone who wants their progeny to survive beyond the economapocalpse...
Commented on Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?
how about Trevor Baylis, or James Dyson? minor perhaps, but i'd know them both by sight......
Commented on Obama Supports New Law to Suppress Detainee Torture Photos
troofseeker @ 10 - don't get too confident... it morphs......
Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
test...
Commented on Unicorn Chaser
is that unicorn swathed in masking tape? mucky it up a bit and it'll never be pinched......
Commented on Diary of a UK journalist being hassled by goons at the Bilderberg conference
i'd be surprised if a uk journalist was entirely unaware of the quagmire you can stumble into taking photos of official subjects in Greece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/1363004/Plane-spotters-face-new-charges.html...
Commented on Brand timeline -- what brands do you interact with and when?
(ooh! finally i can comment again!)...
Commented on Brand timeline -- what brands do you interact with and when?
Benson and Hedges?...
Commented on Brand timeline -- what brands do you interact with and when?
Golden Virginia? Old Holborn?...

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arkizzle / Moderator commented on Untitled 1
Damn Buddy, sad to see you go. You added a fine, true tone to the noise. Hope you'll drop back when it suits. You'll be missed....
ridl commented on Untitled 1
you know there's something about it all that no one talks about, or at least I haven't spent that much time mulling over, and that is that even if we fail even if the species dies and the planet is set back hundreds of millions of generations and all the languages are lost we can't fail we can't be lost and it's just not true because our timeline is one of infinite and somewhere we make it somewhere some iteration of me and you and everyone every decision I make somewhere I make the decision that I would make if...
thespaniard commented on Beatbox Rave Oonsk-Oonsking with a Jaw Harp
Awesome youtube links here. These guys are all great! To keep the parade going, here are some other jaw harp videos that I found....
squirrelchaser commented on Obama <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">might</span> ought to get rid of daylight saving time
Yes! Yes! Yes! It sounds too good to be true! Yes please get rid of Daylight Savings Time! Every year, they force us to change the clocks earlier and earlier, and it's all for nothing, it only makes people lose sleep, become more groggy and tired, and causes more car accidents. In the summer I am an avid gardener, I love being outside, till the sun goes down. It doesn't matter what the damn clock says, I'll be out there doing something, and yes I do work a full time day job and I have to get up at 6:00...
johnofjack commented on The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Aside from the weaknesses mentioned above, it's also lazily plotted and poorly written. Del Toro and Hogan start us off with (and leave us with) rote two-dimensional characters, then pile on one clumsy bit of foreshadowing after another, sauntering through 85 pages before anything much happens. The point of view changes so frequently--usually introducing nothing much that moves the story along and justifies the change in POV--that no real sense of dread is created, much less maintained. And the prose itself is bad. Aside from the lazy pacing, the lazy characterization, and the lazy approach to narrative voice, del Toro...

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