Happy Mutant Profile
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Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
October 9, 2008 1:36am
Man flies personal jet wing across English Channel
September 27, 2008 2:19pm
Watched it live yesterday but all the lead-in time of the programme before the flight on Nat Geo was pretty crap.
I did it the hard way myself (with a swimming hat, googles & speedos) only four weeks ago. Knowing the effort that goes into a channel swim, i found it a bit hard to get really excited about it. Although I'm not denying the undoubted risk that the guy took.
Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0
June 23, 2008 12:24pm
#22 Gilber Wham, the answer to your question is yet again Amarok. I mostly use Krusader and there's options for Amarok.
In the default nautilus file browser though there's just a option, which I guess you could "adjust".
Imperial pint glasses declare European conformity
May 3, 2008 12:59am
Wow. how to add to some the euro bigotry. I'm with Luc and #25.
#29. You ever heard of a country called Ireland? Where btw way, we just call it a pint (and drop the imperial) and if anyone is laughing...it's us at the idea of spending $7 for a pint glass...even with a weak dollar.
As for ABC & John...that Euro-committee for regulating pint glasses belongs to the same range of myths that say the EU tried to regulate bananas so they are straight or that classified a snail as "land-based" fish. All nonsense and all derived from the british tabloids, especially the Mail.
Both Ireland and the Uk always had a department regulating weights & measures to protect consumers AND government tax/revenue, which used in Ireland at least to be part of Customs & Excies. My dad had a small shop in the 70s/80s and once a year we used to have to take any free-standing weights we used to a local office for verification.(e.g. for potatoes, too dirty for expensive digital scales back then)
Untitled 1
April 26, 2008 9:13am
phd research Proposal;
Title: "Mark Frauenfelder's semininal "Untitled 1" and the zeitgeist of the early 21st century".
Abstract: Like a stone dropped into a pool, the ripples from Frauenfelder's mid-career explosive work spread in a 360 degree field, coming finally to be recognised as the definitive modern post-post-modern socio-political commentary, and as the cultural impacts widened the increasing amplitude of the shocks both deepened the ennui of many populations while simultaneously heightening the exuberance of certain other cross-cultural neo-tribes.
Discuss.
Lamb leg hurled during sports event
March 24, 2008 1:25pm
Appropos of nothing...Leg of spring lamb is the traditional easter sunday dinner here... and is the finest food in the world bar none imho. Rosemary, garlic & olive oil. Nothing else. Goose fat roast spuds. Made it yesterday for myself & herself. Ate ourselves into a stupor.
Beating The Bounds railwalk project shut down
March 10, 2008 1:47pm
All that aside, she knows the number one rule for research thesis... that happens is good...(for more pages).
In Which I Melt Down Over the Troika AM/FM Radio
November 29, 2007 1:33am
I love radios. Currently I my main set is an old Marantz AM/FM/LW that I bought off ebay for €15. A couple of digital radios around the house, but most recently I bought the Bush re-issue of the old radio everyone in Ireland & the UK had in their houses in the 60's & 70's. Seen on this page 2nd image from left on top.
http://www.albaplc.com/html/Brands/Bush%20Radio%20LP.htm
(I also have the wind-up one which also has a torch built-in, on the bottom right, but in red)!
I gotta say though.... on Joel's link....they might be Design Store but they have no idea how to design a website, and I'm not a designer or a programmer.
Financial Crisis: Who is going to bail out the euro?
October 9, 2008 2:08pm
Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners
October 1, 2008 10:23am
Open Rights Group call for photos on Britain's march into the surveillance society
September 29, 2008 3:32am
Netgear's open hardware router
July 1, 2008 7:24am
Untitled 1
April 24, 2008 2:16pm
No friends yet.


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Wow!. Yes wow. It's amazing to me, as an Irishman who has spent his entire working life listening to American colleagues unable or unwilling to correctly pronounce "Ireland" (2 syllables not 3, not exactly hard) or my name, to see a willing embrace of ignorance like this. He thinks it's pretentious to be correct? I'd guess he left the US.
Of course I've spent my last 20 years online fighting a lost battle reminding people on forums etc that not only Americans use the 'tubes.
And Parmesan is Italian not French!