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• Commented on Slider Stuffing
  So that's why I can't have one here in Englandland, then? Bah. I could go a sack of tiny, greasy burgers about now......
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  I've had problems as a child with trying to check out 'Adult' books (Dune, to be precise). However, there were books in the kid's section that were up there with Hubert Selby sex & violence-wise, they just had juvenile-looking covers....
• Commented on Replacing a switch on an electric shaver
  My ENTIRE HOUSE could be on there, I fixed it......
• Commented on Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience
  Also, I imagine, ultra-cheap VPNs (it's already only about $7.50/m). How d'you like that? Fisted by the Invisible Hand! Sweet....
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  That's because you haven't been elbow-deep in enough shit....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I remember in the late '70s/early '80s, we head a Speak & Math delivered to us by mistake by some catalogue company, which we cheerfully kept (early parental influences in my Chaotic Neutral character alignment...). It used rather odd mathematics,...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  I think what you're after is a Marmalade Spoon - not the nonsensical efforts that come up if you google the term (some kind of long-handled teaspoon with a Uri Geller-style kink in it so you can hang it from...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  If the TSA only hired people who could figure out how to calculate the volume of a sphere (without dipping it in anything), the world would be a much nicer place......
• Commented on Peter Tchaikovsky (and Friends) Messing Around With A Wax Cylinder Phonograph
  That is now my favourite definition of what was my favourite classical music record as a child. It does, indeed, have one bit that goes BANG!...
• Commented on Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?
  Meh. Only scored 40. Anyway, 'scuse me, have to go play Borderlands now......
• Commented on Folk covers of punk classics
  Nope, I reckon I'm with you there....
• Commented on Put This On: web video series for dudes on "dressing like a grownup"
  LeMons AMC Gremlin with Rising Sun Denim Jeans interior! It must happen!...
• Commented on How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
  If you're in a state where you must drink this bottle of wine, right now, even if you are in the street and have no corkscrew, I don't think it's much of a problem......
• Commented on Italian politician sues 4000+ YouTube commenters
  Yeah, but go to YouTube. Read some comments at random. Don't you wish you could sue the buggers?...
• Commented on 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera
  The flashmob won't help, here's what you do: Get a vet. to take pics and subsequently be harrassed by these jerks. Publicise it. Get it picked up by the press. Make 'em look like assholes. Unfortunately, a bunch of photographers...
• Commented on Eagle Vs. Reindeer
  This works just fine for the soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_eqLdzO0Y I'm pretty sure eagles like Bathory......
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  Ummmmm, no, not really. It's definitely the word 'Military' that bothers me. You?...
• Commented on LEGO recreation of Buddhist temple in Kyoto
  I love you just for not saying 'Legos'....
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Too late, Bubba, far too late......
• Commented on Yes Men pwn Chamber of Commerce over climate change legislation
  Anonymous could never be a force for good. They're definitely Chaotic Neutral......
• Commented on French fry coated hot dog on a stick
  Home-made version, anyone? I'm game to try it. I How does one bind the potato pieces to the sausage? I'm thinking a mixture of potato starch, egg yolk and MSG, myself......
• Commented on Life: Detroit and WWII image gallery
  Ah, simpler days; when a gentleman wasn't fully dressed if he went outside without his hat. Even if his excursion involved driving a card down the middle of the freaking river. Excellent....
• Commented on EFF comes to the rescue of Texas Instruments calculator hackers
  Why? Because they borrowed a lot of money to get through law school and they NEED TO PAY IT BACK!...
• Commented on When Country Bear Jamboree was serious business
  Wait, is that Eric Morecambe?...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: The Gummi Bear Gets It
  Foolish loosely science-based Sky show Brainiac had an excellent little section in this vein, called 'Will it Fizz, or will it Bang?'...
• Commented on Glow-in-the-dark mushrooms
  Bah. By rights, a glow-in-the-dark mushroom ought to make you trip balls....
• Commented on Franken passes law denying fed contracts to companies that support rape of employees
  Can the government not, ultimately, say 'we make the laws, we've decided that this particular clause of your contract is, in fact, some seriously egregious bullshit. Now, would you like to remove it, or go to jail?' I know, I...
• Commented on Strap-on autonomous vehicle kit
  #20: What would be better would be, if every time it saw a traffic warden approach, it lurched forwards 20 feet or so, then did it again. And again....
• Commented on Comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage
  This. Is. Fucking. Awesome. Plus, I'm with Babbage on street music - well, bagpipes, anyway. I believe his personal bugbear was the barrel-organ. Me, I'm in favour of airstrikes on all bagpipers. That and enormous, clanking, mechanical computers, natch....
• Commented on Strap-on autonomous vehicle kit
  #4: Oh, I dunno. Colour me intrigued......