Posts by Mrs Spartacus

Re: Better mockup needed...

My English teacher would rap the knuckles of your English teacher for not using a capital "E". Those wooden rulers hurt.

Re: All the same...

Don't start me on the size of Waggon Wheels, it's all too painful.

Re: Fly where?

I get that. But when I used to play around years ago with flight sims, it was the technicalities of take offs and landings, and short hops, that appealed, something to keep the brain active.

I did a few long hauls, but always requested my wife provide an in-flight trolley service to keep things real. She drew the line at the mile-high club simulation though....

Re: Ouch

Ah yes, but at least he didn't circle back, be thankful for small mercies.

Re: err...glass houses, throwing stones etc

Brave browser. Other similar browsers are available. It just works for me. No survey, no ads.

Re: New workaround to be blocked

To be honest, a large number of much older children already appear to be lobotomized, so I'm not sure that will help...

A million people look like me? Dear God, the horror, the horror.

Re: The King's English

It's bad enough to be considered stupid. Opening your mouth and removing all doubt is a mistake.

Re: May not repeat but it rhymes

I'm going to binge-watch all the "Space 1999" episodes... I didn't realize until now it was a documentary. Moonbase Alpha, here I come.

Re: M&S Store shopping - no stock at the best of times

Spot on. Although, being 6ft 4, with longer legs than a normal human being, the standard 'long' legs of 33 inches is no good to me. 'Long' used to mean 34 inches back in the day. An extra inch makes all the difference, so I'm told.

That was my first thought. Reply to their acting-dumb response by seeing their dumbness and raising a dollop of even dumber. Simply film yourself typing out the email to them....

Re: HP still cheats

That's fascinating, and potentially opens up a whole new avenue of questions. Will those documents print directly from LibreOffice? If not, will they do so if first created in LibreOffice rather than MS Office?

Re: What is this article about again ?

I hope we are generally a little above average in that respect...

However, many school leavers today sadly only achieve pre-school levels of attainment, and scare rather easily when asked to think.

Re: re: more securely than Angela Rayner's knickers

I think it's rather because she is a bit of a loose chav.

Re: Shafted three ways...

Hang on, I'll just go and get dad's credit card that he hides in his sock drawer. Three ways you say? Oh goody.

the USA is the biggest producer of the world's crappiest porn. FTFY.

So I'm told, anyway...

Re: Lol...

Hang on, are you the Chancellor of the Exchequer? That would explain a lot.

Re: "prevent future pandemics"

It would seem lots of people who get scared of hurty words actually believe it.

Re: Advised out-patient procedure

As long as these "type writers" of which you speak can bluetooth to a phone, otherwise people won't know what to do with them....

Re:. Mattress

Getting a mattress picked up by the council around here is something you have to plan months ahead for....

Re: What next?

We're already there... one word... Cyclists.

Re: Sad day

It was probably a SJW who was triggered into a red rage that there was someone out there in the real world who doesn't know about their pet project!

Re: Take the red pill

All those down voters feeling hurty when they hear the truth. Bless.

Re: Understatement there.

Being English, I'd have gone with "I say !" delivered with a Kenneth Williams drawl.

Arrrrggghh!

Don't start me -my (older) Lexus displays the current time in 12 hour format (unusual for a Japanese car, or not?)

For my whole adult life I've been using, writing and thinking in 24 hour format. My Lexus does not have an option to display that. It cannot be turned off, and sits at the top of the dash, mocking me with impunity. When it's clearly 1500 hours it stubornly displays 3:00, daring me to beat the crap out of it with a hammer.

But it does have an option to change the length of time the footwell lights remain lit, an option to adjust exactly how much the dash lights dim in bright sunshine, and a setting which automatically turns off the radio as soon as it detects a politician speaking (I may have made up one of those, sadly).

I firmly believe this complete travesty of misplaced priorities is the primary teason I have no hair left.

Seconded

Spot on. Most cars these days are much less likely to rust into a pile of shavings after 5 years (1970's Rovers and Jaguars, I'm looking at you)

My dearly beloved 1995 Jaguar XJ, by contrast, passed away after a full 25 years and 310,000 miles on the clock. Wipes tear from eye....