NigelFrobisher
@NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 5 days ago:
It just occurred to me maybe the headline is about sword-owners who are ninjas, which totally changes the meaning.
- Comment on WH Smith name to disappear from High Street after sale 5 days ago:
Weird to think there won’t be W H Smiths on the high street where I used to go and read the magazines for free as a lad, but there’s still going to be one at the station near where I work in Melbourne.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 5 days ago:
And my axe!
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 5 days ago:
Ninja swords are not actually a real thing, so what exactly is this banning?
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
True, though both of those industries also use a hype cycle to try and shift new content at much higher prices, though every book and CD that ever existed are probably in a second-hand shop somewhere.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
New games have very little offer me, apart from higher specs I’d have to upgrade for. Just played through Prey and the two Dishonoreds, and they’re good but still just revamps of System Shock 2 and Thief, so I don’t regret not paying them at the time. The really groundbreaking games nowadays tend to be indie anyway.
- Comment on Germany to reach out to France and UK over sharing of nuclear weapons 3 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t. The “No” campaign ran flat-out lies about what Britain would be able to get out of negotiations, claiming we “hold all the cards”. We did not.
- Comment on Germany to reach out to France and UK over sharing of nuclear weapons 3 weeks ago:
I’d love it if the yanks accidentally make Europe get our act together.
- Comment on “I Want Every Young Mum Back In The Office Permanently” Says Multimillionaire Childcare Profiteer 3 weeks ago:
All the owners classes assuming that people they can’t see are automatically not working says more about them than it says about us.
- Comment on Florida opens criminal investigation into Tate brothers 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure the brothers will see a single day in prison if the yanks ever find out where they buried their spine after 1945.
- Comment on Michael Sheen buys £1m worth of people's debts 4 weeks ago:
Love Michael Sheen. A company called Tata leaving town sounds inevitable though.
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 4 weeks ago:
Maybe the Tories won’t like it so much now Screaming Lord Farage has split their vote.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 4 weeks ago:
It’s teal.
- Comment on Meow 5 weeks ago:
Toxoplasmosis gang.
- Comment on Proton will no longer post on Mastodon 5 weeks ago:
Is this because everyone gave them shit about their CEO’s breathless praise for a tyrant?
- Comment on A crate for puppy 5 weeks ago:
How’s he going to get to the books though?
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 5 weeks ago:
Honestly don’t give a shit - they’re useless.
- Comment on smort 5 weeks ago:
If only I could be so grossly incandescent.
- Comment on smort 5 weeks ago:
Not true. At the end of Contact, Jodie Foster has to admit that her experience through the wormhole has no evidence and therefore her testimony is faith based- due to this, she is now able to cast pyromancies.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
Wait until he finds about the big room full of brass pipes feeding oxygen and nutrients to the brain of J Edgar Hoover, from where he is still running absolutely everything.
- Comment on let's goooooo 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much Anthropic Principle for biology. The evolutionary niches that led to us are the only ones we believe possible because they’re the only ones we can observe.
- Comment on let's goooooo 5 weeks ago:
Nature also made a creepy looking naked monkey with no tail that walks balanced on its hind legs and which is completely helpless for months after the premature birth necessitated by its grotesquely swollen disproportionate head size.
- Comment on we are not so different 5 weeks ago:
But there’s an icecream here called Golden Gaytime, and the greatest Australian movie is The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert…
- Comment on place yer bets 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but the audience score is at 80%.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
Tbf the Forbes 30 Under 30 is a great predictor of future jail time.
- Comment on Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill 1 month ago:
He should not an entire mining community around digging for the drive, complete with a male voice choir, Mike-Leigh-esque kitchen sink drama and social commentary. In the end the drive will be lost forever but the real treasure will be the vital and invigorating exploration of life in post-Empire, post-Thatcher Britain we made along the way.
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 month ago:
I was literally thinking of Mauldeth Road as an example of where you could do this but absolutely shouldn’t.
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 month ago:
Ford Focus with full body kit and wrap.
- Comment on The Last of Us totally blew me away 1 month ago:
Remember in part 2 you can dive into prone from running.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 month ago:
All we have to do is rename b-trees to “hash tables” and database lookup times will be changed forever.