Clam, as in quid > squid > clam

Obfuscated rhyming slang is better than rhyming slang.

Ever wondered where all those glue sniffers from the 80's went?

There are two schools of thoughts on profile pictures.

The first is that you should be consistent with them, so you can be recognised wherever you are. I have hundreds of usernames, but the photo is always me. Different photos of me, but I'm weird and eccentric, so you always know it's me.

The second is that you should be inconsistent with them so you cannot be recognised anywhere you are. This is a better plan if you're a nobody likes you, or if you have one of those faces people just want to slap.

People imitate people they respect. If you're respected - or better yet, liked - you should always make sure people know who they're talking to at a glance.

Personally, I'm like Marmite - brown and sticky. I mean, you either love me or hate me, but it tends to be better to have that consistency than not.

Quote:Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.

-- Greg Henderson

Christy Moore - The Grey Lakes Of Loughrea. Arguably (read "unquestionably") the most beautiful song ever written.

Padraig Fallon wrote the original lyric, though this version has some new verses, and nobody seems to know where they sprung up from.

Geotargetting is uploading a library and adding eight lines of code to increase the amount you can charge somebody for internet traffic in order to save them the hassle of uploading a library and copy-pasting eight lines of code themselves.

I exaggerate slightly, you also need if ($country == 'whatever') { .. } for any country you want to filter. So ten lines of code.


Edit, in fact, it's been years since I read the doco, and I've had significant feature creep in my location services since which has made me over estimate the number of lines you'd need. I think you can actually do it in four.

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require_once("/path/to/geoip.inc");
$country = geoip_country_code_by_addr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
if ($country == 'GB') {
do stuff.. }

Untested, but should do the trick.

He's not preaching communism, he's just saying stop being dicks.

I think it's immoral to have a profile picture without a beard.

It's the English word for what I believe Americans call dead president spondoolies or some such.

Wait for a moderator. It's normal for all new users.

I remember it well because my first posts were about a nasty bug - the wait was frustrating to say the least.

I'm sure it's fine for what it is - it's just not Mad Max.

Most reboots are like this, and not just in film either. I'm especially bitter about Fallout 3 (game), the Dawn Of The Dead remake (film), And Another Thing...( book),

The only reboot/remake that got it right was the 1979 remake of Nosferatu.

Quote:To hate me is to know me. I am a fiend of my promises — if you do not know that, then your hatred of me is shallow and you are a pretender to misery.

-- Sascha Vykos

That's exactly what's wrong with it - Fury Road is nothing like Mad Max, and doesn't fit into the franchise at all.

It's like making a an action-horror movie, calling it Casablanca 2, and acting all surprised when people complain it's nothing like Casablanca.

Marvin The Paranoid Android - Marvin, I Love You

Quote:The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago.... And that was with a coffee machine.

-- Marvin

Just watched the Cycling World Championship Time Trial, and in the lack of any Jorvik interest, the win going to another Viking was the best we could hope for, even if Linda Villumsen is riding for New Zealand for some reason.

But, in the men's sport, once you're on the podium you get pretty ladies who give you alcohol, and some flowers and a fluffy toy to give to your wife by way of apology when she see's you kissing the podium girl.

In the women's sport, you get...uh, pretty ladies who give you some flowers.

Why don't the women get large bottles of alcohol and fluffy toys?

I'm all for pretty ladies in podium ceremonies. I don't race anymore, but when I did, that was the best bit, but if the men can get women in tightly-clad form hugging dresses, why don't the women get a buff men in nothing but tight shorts and a bowtie?

Quote:We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted. We are dismayed by air pollution but not proportionately cheered up by, say, the virtual abolition of poliomyelitis.

-- Sir Peter Brian Medawar

Quote:Never ask a man if he's from Yorkshire. If he isn't, he'll be annoyed. If he is, he'll have already told you.

-- Unknown

Oh, God no. I come from the land of Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye, Guy Fawkes, Dracula, Heathcliff and Cathy, and Brian Blessed. Our flag is a white rose on a blue background - Clixsense just don't offer it.

Nicest thing anyone ever said to me was at this years Tour de Yorkshire. Couple of German lads told me I looked "like film star from Summer Wine program".

Quote:Top military installations: don’t waste public money on erecting expensive razor wire fences! Just string together a load of t-shirt collar labels! That’ll slice up the peaceniks nicely for you AND provide washing instructions for removing the blood stains afterwards.

-- Alistair Dabbs