Rugster Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 8 minutes ago, hk blues said: The head is a new one on me Navy term 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 5 minutes ago, hk blues said: The head is a new one on me You sometimes hear it on films. "I gotta hit the head". Apparently it's the word used for the toilet on a boat. Think I heard it from that boring bint Dent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 8 minutes ago, jimbaxters said: You sometimes hear it on films. "I gotta hit the head". Apparently it's the word used for the toilet on a boat. Think I heard it from that boring bint Dent. Cheers - I've possibly heard it used on films but would have associated it with something different albeit related. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 48 minutes ago, jimbaxters said: You sometimes hear it on films. "I gotta hit the head". Apparently it's the word used for the toilet on a boat. Think I heard it from that boring bint Dent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 4 hours ago, Blue Brazil Forever said: Toilet, littlest room, wc, lavvy, loo, john, bog, the head - no wonder the Americans get confused. I know P & B can come up with other terms for a place to perform intimate bodily functions. The throne room, the crapper, the trap, pointing Percy at the Porcelain... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 Just had an email from our External Relations fuckwits, full of self praise that they had been awarded some award for best email communication 2023. The email had a typo. It was retracted and an amended version came out 5 minutes later. Still with a typo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 1 hour ago, RawB93 said: I was at a gig last week and a girl at the front had a book out to read before any bands came on. Freak. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 9 hours ago, tamthebam said: The throne room, the crapper, the trap, pointing Percy at the Porcelain... ...dropping the kids off at the pool... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 A regular traveller on my regular last train from Cork to Cobh has a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his neck. Clearly known to locals, of which, I'm not (yet). Has the genetics to be a bouncer, though clearly doing a regular (ish) job. Not a threat, just an illustration of the diverse world we live in today..... Through time will understand his background/story..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 1 minute ago, Ken Ickie said: A regular traveller on my regular last train from Cork to Cobh has a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his neck. Clearly known to locals, of which, I'm not (yet). Has the genetics to be a bouncer, though clearly doing a regular (ish) job. Not a threat, just an illustration of the diverse world we live in today..... Through time will understand his background/story..... Or a quick photo innocently looking at your phone, then scan at home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 16 minutes ago, Ken Ickie said: A regular traveller on my regular last train from Cork to Cobh has a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his neck. Clearly known to locals, of which, I'm not (yet). Has the genetics to be a bouncer, though clearly doing a regular (ish) job. Not a threat, just an illustration of the diverse world we live in today..... Through time will understand his background/story..... Sneak up behind him then shout BEEP and see what happens. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 (edited) Is Hitman a regular (ISH) job? Edit : Oh, you're in Ireland. Silly me. Edited October 5, 2023 by Derry Alli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Maybe he just likes Slipknot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 18 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Just had an email from our External Relations fuckwits, full of self praise that they had been awarded some award for best email communication 2023. The email had a typo. It was retracted and an amended version came out 5 minutes later. Still with a typo. "cancrete" ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 3 minutes ago, Swarley said: "cancrete" ? "cuntcrete" Im beginning to think it may have been deliberate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 9 hours ago, TxRover said: ...dropping the kids off at the pool... ...snapping off a yard of spine... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Heard some data was purrrged A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard. So we're told by a source, who heard the tale on one of the regular weekday calls held by the US government department with its CIO, during which recent IT problems are reviewed. We understand that roughly 100 people – contractors, vendors, and employees – participate in these calls at a time. On a mid-September call, one of the participants explained that while a technician was reviewing the configuration of a server cluster, their cat jumped on the keyboard and deleted it. Or at least that's their story. Kurt DelBene, assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is said to have responded on the call with words to the effect that: "This is why I have a dog." There was laughter and not much more – it was a short incident report. This is not an unheard of problem. Anecdotes of feline data vandalism abound in various online forums. This reporter has personal experience with typos introduced by an orange tabby conducting a keyboard crossing to reach a sunny spot by the window, and one of El Reg's editors has suffered similar issues. So we asked the Department of Veteran Affairs to confirm the yarn. VA press secretary Terrence Hayes responded promptly with the following statement: "On September 13, 2023 the Kansas City VAMC [Veterans Affairs Medical Center] experienced an issue with image transfer within Vista due to an inadvertent deletion of server profiles. The issue was quickly identified and the system restored within four hours. There have been no further issues or direct impacts to veterans from this incident." Vista, in this instance, refers not to Microsoft's much-maligned Windows operating system of yore but to the VA’s Veterans Health Information System Technology Architecture Imaging system, often rendered with a trailing capital, VistA. An installation guide [PDF] provided by the VA makes it clear that it would be no fun to deal with cat-edited configuration files in the administration's electronic filing system. No mention was made of the cat in the VA's statement. And when The Register explicitly asked Hayes to confirm the involvement of a problem with paws, he declined to comment. We informed him that we would be reporting what we heard and to let us know if our source's account was in any way not purrfect. We've not heard anything further from the VA, so we're left with a Schrödinger's cat scenario, where the cat both exists and does not exist in different tellings. We note that Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), who is also Kurt's wife, does report having a dog named Reily. Our source reports that occasionally the dog's tail can be seen wagging into frame during his video calls. ® 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Just realised that Brass Eye is on the channel4 app https://www.channel4.com/programmes/brass-eye 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 My new favourite politician. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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