Posted by
WarHead, around 3rd January 2007:
ASBOs? We don't neeed no stinking ASBOs.
Mob burns house of village thug
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 3rd January 2007:
yay, the bully gets it
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 3rd January 2007:
*sigh*
gas them like badgers!
doc gets a job on the surrey comet.
Surrey Comet:
Marksman called in to kill Kingston’s pigeons
A specialist marksman will carry out a "humane cull" of pigeons in the Memorial Gardens, Kingston's Town Centre Management announced this week.
The cull will be done by a private pest control contractor from Cobham as part of a three-year programme to reduce Kingston's pigeon population.
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Posted by Martin Wildoat on 10:56am Wed 29 Nov 06
I agree with this action. Pigeons carry all manner of diseases like AIDS, malaria, rabies and mad cow disease to name but a few. They are also very aggressive and I can vouch for this as I was attacked by a flock and pecked severely while on my way home from flower arranging classes. In fact I would be more than happy to help in the killing of these evil creatures. Well done Kingston council keep up the good work.
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Posted by: Norman Ski on 10:13pm Wed 29 Nov 06
This is preposterous! Pigeons performed a vital role in assisting communications in both World Wars and should therefore be encouraged to breed in higher numbers in order to remind us that we must never forget. Perhaps the money would be better spent erecting a large memorial of a Rock Pigeon or perhaps a Feral Pigeon - I'll leave that decision to the council. I don't think a Wood Pigeon memorial would be particularly appropriate because I don't think they did too much for us during the war. Other than food.
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Posted by: Fancy Coo-Coo on 12:57pm Thu 30 Nov 06
I'm horrified at the very idea anyone might want to harm these gentle creatures. I myself was raised by pigeons after being abandoned in Trafalgar Square as a young nipper. Therefore I know how noble and generous a species they really are. If anyone were to kill a pigeon in this way, it would be as though they are slaughtering one of my own family. It's murder, I say!
Posted by: Free Willy on 3:24pm Thu 30 Nov 06
I know what you mean, reader. I was raised by yaks but I'm sure the experience was similar. How about a council worker cull instead.
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Posted by: Mrs Dallinger on 5:18pm Thu 30 Nov 06
Dear Margaret. As you can see I've finally mastered this email thing! Sue and John came to visit today, which was nice, and it was Sue who taught me how to use the email. I shall be writing to you often now that I have figured it out. Please send my love to Helen and the boys. See you soon Love Mum xxx
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Posted by: Hugh Jarvis on 9:46am Dec 1
Can I just say that this letter column is rapidly degenerating into a farce, a French one with bedroom doors opening and closing and men running around with their trousers round their ankles and fancy women pottering about in high heels. And what's that got to do with pigeons? Nothing! That's right! NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!
Posted by: General Pigeon. on 10:16am Wed 6 Dec 06
Dear Mr. Town Centre Manager,
You cannot destroy us. We too much strong.
All your borough are belong to us.
hey, Mr Stoat is an iamcaller...
You really are a laugh a minute today, aren't you?
I had too much caffeine yesterday. Someone gave me some "weight-loss" gum - the cheek. Turns out it was full of hoodia and caffeine. :/
even where i don't agree with him, i love boris johnson. for the same reason i (more guardedly) like ken livingstone. a politician acting Professionally, in the sense of focussing on trying to do the notional job rather than trying to feather his own nest, more focussed on his view than his social status, is a rare and valuable thing.
although obviously it would be better if they focussed on their constituents. but, you know, half a loaf is better than polonium.
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion...
Now we are only taking a family holiday, and I don't think Zeus or Jupiter would desire anything so extreme. A single cow would be about right. If I were an ancient Roman setting out on a family holiday, I would get some old milker and do her up as if for a party. She'd have her hair washed and combed and cut, and there would be ribbons and purple woollen fillets about her horns.
Then my chums and I would decently cover our heads and we'd drone loads of stuff in Latin and chuck some sacred meal about the place; and then one of us would hold a handful of food under the poor old girl's nose, and as she bent her head to snuffle it up we would take this — praise be! — as a sign that she had assented to her death, and at that auspicious moment she would be whopped hard on the side of the head and her throat would be cut; and then Jupiter would nod, and Olympus would tremble, and the whole family would be able to go off on holidays with a clear conscience.
THIS is valuable for geeky types. the new apple airport express is actually no longer a wifi router, it is now a Network Disk & Print Server.
better, the Disk (disks? not clear) it serves is not hardwired into the server but is merely plugged into it. this is awesome. only 5 years ago, this sort of functionality cost thousands of pounds. even 2 days ago, a network disk would set you back at least £100 over the price of its disk capacity, AND not only were you were hardwired into that fixed disk, but you were also forced to use windows files system, so you had really irritating file name & file permission restrictions.
unfortunately (insanely?) it's only USB2 rather than firewire, so bites the big one in terms of speed. (theo.bandwidth is NOT the same as throughput). but, still...
Airport Extreme -- Sharing
have you guys seen this? i've only just run across it: Google Trends. stick in a search query and it'll graph up how common it was over the last 3 years, then show where in the world people were doing that query from.
there's at least *minutes* of idle curiosity there.
eg, apparently 2006 was a big year for it, and living near the black sea seems to trigger it:
www.google.com/trends?q=ana...
doc's been fairly stable,
www.google.com/trends?q=+lu...
but his absence in september is now explained:
english.pravda.ru/news/worl...
oo! you can compare different searches in one graph if you put commas in.
if you stick some iamcallers in, it seems sul and cal are neck&neck in the global popularity stakes of people stalking them. mostly by brazilians too...
www.google.com/trends?q=sul...
"All humans used one single weapon against this danger. They started to resist with a crust which was welded with human brain and willpower. A coating which was formed by compressed human brain molecules was protecting the earth. Earth was turning into a dust cloud under every attack and was hiding behind the protecting shield."
Turkish Star Wars. surreal.
www.freemoviescinema.com/in...
Looks good. A quick flick through revealed a man jumping around with boulders attached to his legs, set to that iconic Star Wars fanfare: the Indiana Jones theme. Not enough of this in Hollywood.
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 13th January 2007:
Bored of wordy London whores? How about trying out some
Glasgow Nightbus Driver action instead?
Have you lot heard of Will Dance For Food? Their myspace is
www.myspace.com/willdancefo... and their purevolume site is
www.purevolume.com/willdanc.... You will like them! I do!
Posted by
Desmond, 14th January 2007:
oh will dance for food are a brilliant band, i can't stop listening to them.
also, water buffalo
every time i try to listen to water buffalo, they get angry and charge
but i don't WANT to PAY for my interest in wildlife. where o where is a limewire for wildlife? i want a free buffalo. i have a linksys, but it's not the same i tell you
Posted by
Desmond, 16th January 2007:
well you see, water buffalo only really like heterosexuals
Posted by
Grim..., 16th January 2007:
Hahahahah - I like him already =]
Posted by
bumdog, 16th January 2007:
Didn't someone use to spam here constantly about water buffalos back in the "he's inersant" days?
yeh I remember that too, so I'm cautious
innersant until proven water buffalo
only on iamcal
someone spammed about water buffalos? Deary me! I hope you banned them! Whatever would we do with water buffalo spammers on iamcal?!
by the way, does Cal have black hair? and is kind of stubbly? I thought I found a picture of him but I wasn't too sure!
Posted by
Desmond, around 17th January 2007:
a fellow lover of water buffalo? bring him to me.
i will strike him down with my knowledge of water buffalo.
I forgot my last password so made another account! And it wont let me reset the last one, Cal you need to get that checked out =P but I have brought news that the picture I saw is really Cal!!
look at him go =]
Posted by
Desmond, around 17th January 2007:
that is some funky facial hair cal has going on, i'll go for the cal look
Posted by
WarHead, around 17th January 2007:
Doofus, that's a young Russel Crowe.
Posted by
scrybl, around 17th January 2007:
iamcal=the domain of handsome geeks, no wonder i keep coming back
handsome geeks and desperate freaks.
sounds like an album.
Posted by
bumdog, around 17th January 2007:
...or a Judd Apatow penned episode of The OC, if you want to go a bit more obscure
this is kinda interesting: it's a googlemap of all the disasters around the world
RSOE Havaria: Emergency and Disaster Information Service
EDIT: cal should note the first type of Emergency in the Glossary:
hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/icons...
This strikes me as a site you'd enjoy reading Salty -
infosthetics.com (that's if you don't already).
and another link that made me giggle -
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...
Posted by
WarHead, around 18th January 2007:
I hate those damn quizmania things on TV. They're all a rip off, without exception. And they seem to be on so many channels late at night, even MTV.
Not that MTV has much actual
music on it these days. It's either Newly-fuckin'-weds, Pimp My Pile-of-shite, Celebrity Deathmatch, Cribs, Date My Milf, etc. etc. They should rename it STV.
Salty: It's quite disturbing that "bee's" has been given an aphostrophe.
Did you know 95% of domestic accidents happen at home? That's a fact!
WHAT? Never! I hope ITV News hears about this!
I work for a certain New York newspaper. They have certainly NOT heard about this. Maybe I should write an article on it. What will the headline be? Any suggestions?
Posted by
ITV_News, around 19th January 2007:
ohh we've already heard about it, and we believe the outcome is that eric_retroid_2 likes men
also, water buffalo are the third largest creature in the world. wait, that's largest penis.
Posted by
Brock., around 19th January 2007:
Well it looks like we have a severe case of the "script kiddies" again, go ahead cal
%$£&^$
hmph. anti-leeching done killed the jpg
Posted by
scrybl, around 21st January 2007:
I've had a haircut. What d'yez think?
Posted by
Grim..., around 21st January 2007:
You need new tiles in your bathroom.
Posted by
WarHead, around 22nd January 2007:
Yes, and avocado suites are SO passe. But the haircut is hawt!!
Posted by
scrybl, around 22nd January 2007:
We've had those tiles in there since 1976.
the avocado is so retro it's come back into fashion and gone out of fashion again..
the haircut suits you but your eyes scare me a little.
u bst not b disrespctn ma main man scrybl or ill pop a cap in ur ass
oh, how rogue of you, you working-class oaf..
Posted by
scrybl, 23rd January 2007:
Ta lots Frankie.
but your eyes scare me a little
Yes, I put violet contact lenses in to see what effect they would have. They don't suit me very much and my own brown eyes look warmer. :)
And YOU are a FAKE and a FUCKING LIAR. Just remember that when you're eating your rice and ,,, rice with your fingers.
could you not have said rice twice? why not say a meat?
Posted by
channel 4, around 25th January 2007:
this is class t.v.
I reckon jade goody was racist to shilpa.
now i'm going to look like josh coelho a bit more and say lots of long words to make me seem funny and clever
Posted by
WarHead, around 25th January 2007:
Still trying to think of some long words?
This is ace. It's a video, though. Needs sound on.
screaming pug
Posted by
WarHead, around 28th January 2007:
This is ace. It's a video, though. Needs sound on.
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 30th January 2007:
Really interesting documentary-type-thing on the "most important 6-second drum loop in history".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sa...
Well worth sitting through if you've ever had an interest in sampling within music.
Posted by
channel 4, around 31st January 2007:
no. no-one has sul. not even channel 4.
Posted by
Grim..., around 31st January 2007:
Salty posted that
about a year ago, Sul =]
Posted by
Sul_DUPE1, around 31st January 2007:
Ah well. At least I'm finally up to speed.
Posted by
Desmond, 31st January 2007:
i've just wasted five and a half minutes of my life watching warhead porn, it's not that great
Posted by
aeiou, 31st January 2007:
i think we should all go to Games Workshop and re-enact the battle for Gondor with tiny Lord of The Rings characters. I hear warhead works/lives there.
Posted by
Desmond, 31st January 2007:
warhead was an orc in the movies, he didn't need any make=up
