It's not racist if you're daft.

[cdave]

When a bus driver turn off the engine at a random stop, it usually means someone's got on without paying. If someone staggers upstairs swaying, you can guess who it was. Especially if they're muttering that the driver is a "dirty foreigner" under their breath.

But the daft part was that he had the broadest Irish accent I've heard since Brad Pitt in Snatch, and the driver had a Cockney accent.

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Mini linkdump!

Apprentice Fan pays five grand to watch episode, from overseas, via mobile broadband.

The Mars Probe has a twitter!
Via the Evil Mad Scientist

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major_clanger points out a series of ever more nifty photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Comments

Down with this sort of thing!

[piesandmash.livejournal.com]

> Apprentice Fan pays five grand to watch episode, from overseas, via mobile broadband.

£4.25 a Megabyte? Fucking thieving shit-weasels.

That and they keep putting out those damned adverts; you know the type, some soft music while a bunch of grinning imbecilic catalogue models wander around with the damn phone stuck to the side of their head calling their "chums". Fucking sickening.

Where's that study that said it was cheaper to relay data via the Hubble space telescope than use a mobile phone network? ;-)

Grrrrr!

> Mars Lander

That was quite a complex landing there, I was pleasantly surprised it landed in one piece.

Re: Down with this sort of thing!

[cdave]

I'd heard the Hubble thing. I think they were using text messages as the example mobile traffic.