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By Herring (Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 01:47:03 AM EST) (all tags)

For best results, oven cook from frozen. Ensure product is piping hot before serving.

Har! I am teh administartor again. On the other hand this means doing work. Well, reinstalling all the stuff I need to do work. Most people are still fucked though.

Last week, one of the wags in the security team managed to change the "Ready" message on all of the HP printers to say "Insert Coin". Very funny. Now will you please get on and pen test my application.

Also last week, somebody discovered a feature with the web app which we can use to play around with our pay and benefits. The pay "rises" had been decided, but people hadn't been told so they made the proper URL point elsewhere. The "real" URL however did point to the site with the updated pay information. Someone found this out and it got around. Management aren't happy (actually, nobody is happy at the moment so I guess that's only fair).

Rich children taller and slimmer says study. Give your opinion in the Speak your Brains poll.

The plan is to go to the gym at lunchtime. I know it's a hell of an ambitious plan but we all need something to shoot for.

Does anyone know why Nero Vision Express makes the sound go out of synch? It seems to far out of synch to be the PAL/NTSC frame rate thing. Any ideas what to do? I now having two sodding useless DVDs of the first four Dr. Who episodes. The original AVIs are fine.

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Partly genetics by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 01:59:05 AM EST

As on the whole the taller you are, the more likely you are to be sucessful. So rich people tend to be taller. Plus richer mums tend to be healthier ands don't drink and smoke during pregnancy.

Simpler by Phage (4.00 / 3) #2 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 02:02:34 AM EST

Cheap food is crap. Then add Sky and a PS2.

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: Sounds like my life! by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 06:01:50 AM EST

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Hmm by DullTrev (4.00 / 3) #3 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 02:51:15 AM EST

I'm tall and fat. Does that mean one of my parents was rich, and the other poor?

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Height by extremely tedious HuSer (2.00 / 0) #4 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:03:22 AM EST

Aren't toffs descendants of the Normans, and the rest a Celtic/Anglo/Saxon mix? I remember reading somewhere there used to be racism between blue and brown eyed Britons.

: No by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #12 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 04:01:27 AM EST

Well, I'm glad we've cleared that up.

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WIPO: show me the data by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:18:11 AM EST

1.5cm and 1kg over what sample size? Also, what does a mother's graduate status have to do with affluence? Graduate mothers marry richer guys, or (hahah, stop) earn more? Let's see those data as well.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.

Shhh! by Herring (2.00 / 0) #6 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:24:00 AM EST

If media reports about scientific studies had to include stuff about sample size, statistical signifiance etc. then the public would be bored and/or confused. What they want is: "Boffins prove beards cause terrorism".

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SIlly man by DullTrev (2.00 / 0) #7 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:24:25 AM EST

Graduate mothers go back to work, and leave their children in a creche. So they get a nutritionally balanced diet, and deep rooted abandonment issues.

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Oh Brave New World by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #8 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:32:14 AM EST

I don't know why we even let broads have babies any more, when glass jars are so cheap.

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Glass jars are too fragile by DullTrev (4.00 / 1) #9 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:38:19 AM EST

Woman can take a real beating without breaking in any important way.

Yes, I can take it beyond sexism, straight through misogynism, all the way to senseless violence.

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Well, I am shocked, SHOCKED by Rogerborg (2.00 / 0) #11 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 04:00:23 AM EST

That you didn't caveat that if you hit them to often, they start to make an incessant whining sound.

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: Start? by DullTrev (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 04:01:33 AM EST

I find it is the only way to make them stop.

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that's because by martingale (2.00 / 0) #19 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 06:29:47 AM EST

You're not tall enough to reach teh really expensive, shatterproof glass at the top of the shelf.
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Secret pay URLs by Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 03:46:56 AM EST

We had a similar thing happen last year. In the run up to being told what rise (if any) people had got, a colleague noticed that while that option was unavailable on the SAP web front-end, your pay is listed on your benefits statement, and this had been updated to reflect the change.

Muppets.

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I'm of the opinion by nebbish (4.00 / 4) #14 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 04:28:17 AM EST

That the taller you are, the better you are. It's quite simple.

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rubbish by Dr H0ffm4n (4.00 / 1) #16 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 06:04:03 AM EST

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Shortarse. by hulver (4.00 / 1) #17 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 06:11:41 AM EST

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: heightist by Dr H0ffm4n (4.00 / 2) #18 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 06:16:09 AM EST

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I can see your bald spot [n/t] by Herring (4.00 / 2) #20 Tue Apr 19, 2005 at 07:37:40 AM EST

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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