Elegsabiff Forum Posts (695)

RE: High maintenance

Well, as I am quite cheap to run in financial terms, hell yes

Did you even read the comment?

I am fantastic value. And modest, too.

RE: Cryogenics .

one of my favourite SF stories was re a shipload of colonists being shot off into space for a 2000 year journey to a new planet. Of course within 100 years space travel was so dramatically advanced that new ships were sent and by the time the original lot arrived and came out of stasis there was not only a thriving civilization but, as you say, they were vastly backward and primitive.

I don't think 150 years would be too drastic, though, and that was the OP's suggested term We've learned a lot technologically in the last century or so but haven't evolved physically in any meaningful way. Just a bit taller, and more prone to a whole new range of illnesses no-one even suspected would exist, 150 years ago.

RE: Who do you trust more for accurate news coverage?

During 9/11 when the rumours were becoming hysterical and none of the UK news sources seemed to know what was going on I looked on the Business Day website (a South African newspaper) because it is always factual. They had the known facts and turned out in retrospect to have given the best coverage.

Tended to check with them ever since when rumours are flying - which, these days, seems to be all the time.

They can't possibly last, of course. No one wants facts.

RE: Who do you trust more for accurate news coverage?

Agreed

The competition is now all about

(A) who can tell the most believable lies
(B) who can tell the most outrageous fabrications and still convince at least a few people
(C) who can rubbish the truth more comprehensively

RE: Cryogenics .

A 14 year old girl here recently won the legal right to be frozen just before she died of her terminal illness. Her mother supported her legal battle from the time she decided to try for it, her father wasn't keen but eventually came round to it.

Maybe mother and daughter were hoping there'd be a cure in a few years, ten at the most. I don't know what the father was thinking but I know I'd not be keen for my daughter to be revived far in the future amongst total strangers in a completely different world. 14 is a sad, sad age to die, but it is a frightening age to face alone without family and loved ones.

For me, though, oh yeah, like a shot. Bored with the here and now, it would be like doing a really slow trip into the future! Well - I guess it wouldn't feel really slow to me.

The bit before the freezing probably wouldn't be a barrel of laughs

RE: how long you been on site

Or incredibly picky. 2.5 years in my case. So I have 6 months to find my forever guy?

No pressure then I've had 2 tries already, 3rd time's the charm.

RE: how long you been on site

I'll drink to your success

RE: how long you been on site

Some have got younger. I did once. Absentmindedly went back a year instead of forward.

Now I choose to say I am actually older than I am so people can be blown away by how good I look for my age.

RE: Spring of love within

Does this mean my application is rejected?

I can pretend to be completely nuts, you know? I'm very good at faking

RE: Belly muscle

Good grief she didn't even look like she had a belly until she started jiggling it. Mine's not huge but if I twitched it like that it may never come to a halt

RE: Spring of love within

Where do I apply?

RE: Why girls look rich man ??

That puzzled look the waiter gives you before he goes off to buy a rubber chicken ...

RE: Good Men & Good Women

Moi?

Yeah - not entirely sure I buy Vinny the angel either.

I'd like to - oh, hang on. Incoming on skype. *quick gargle*

RE: Good Men & Good Women

Well, not to blow my own trumpet but if I had been, he would be looking a great deal more dishevelled

RE: Good Men & Good Women

I know

RE: Good Men & Good Women

One of the good guys, eh? Pfffffffffft.

RE: Good Men & Good Women

I really REALLY should not glance back at posts once I have logged out

RE: Good Men & Good Women

whoa hahaha Secretagent he's not biffing banging or walloping me, that little matter of several THOUSAND miles all he's doing is pushing up my profile excellently, thank you poppet

I can talk for Scotland on skype, what you see in the photo is him sagging sideways as he started to fall asleep. I took the picture, then blew a police whistle to wake him up

RE: Good Men & Good Women

I've got so many flaws and faults I couldn't list them if I pushed this little box to its max, and hey, I like at least half of them and I'm not about to change.

All I ask is a nicely flawed, not too obnoxious, bloke to muck about with a bit. Precious few of those.

RE: If your neighbor has a chicken farm and one gets in your yard, can you eat it?

English and Scots don't love each other much. There's a story about a Scot owning hens and one went every day into his English neighbour's garden and laid an egg. The Englishman, call him Ian, always kept the egg and never offered payment, it was driving Jimmy mad. Finally he tackled him about it and suggested they try an old Scottish solution. Each would take turns kicking the other in the crotch. The one who got to his feet fastest after the kick won - if it was Ian, he could keep the eggs, if it was Jimmy, Ian had to either return the daily egg or pay for it.

Jimmy got first kick. Ian rolled around in agony for nearly 7 minutes, then staggered to his feet, popping-eyed and sweaty, and said hoarsely "my turn"

"nay, pal, I changed mah mind" Jimmy said happily "youse can keep the eggs".

RE: 14 August, what happened over theEarth?

I released a new book, my 15th, which should make a huge splash. There are only 5384 new books in the same category released in the last 30 days.

You know what that means? That means there are (today) 271 068 books in THAT CATEGORY now available.

In all, over 107 thousand new books have been released in the last 30 days. Last time I checked there were only 10 million titles available on line, I got a little too depressed to check that again today.

Tell you what, stop chattering away here and go write a book.

Oh, hang on, got that the wrong way round. Stop writing books and go chatter on CS instead, okay?

Oh well, I like a challenge.

RE: Dumping SomeOne

Dumped, that's a harsh word.

Recently but it was more trickled away with a feeling of relief. Probably mutual. It should have been mutual

RE: inventions

Found a website of a few inventions even the OP would consider useful. The circular saw - COBOL, one of the early computer languages - emergency flares - the emergency brake on industrial machinery - the automatic dishwasher (thank you!!) - windscreen wipers - Kevlar.

RE: post your current mood

So tired.

Why am I so tired? Pisses me off to be tired when I've done nothing exciting.

RE: CS Dating History

No-one you know. And I did say 'slightly' eccentric.

RE: We love the Brits thread

Scottish castles are better, AND we have lochs and mountains

RE: CS Dating History

Oh, AWESOME. Always best when they start as virtual, you've talked through your fantasies, the thrill when you realize you have a match on preferences is the biggest buzz EVER.

Ignore the usual suspects, jealousy makes them ugly

RE: CS Dating History

Oh, I'm over the disappointment now, darling. I was CRUSHED at the time. We could have been Gable and Lombard, Bogie and Bacall, Rebel and Biff could have been the stuff of legend ...

or of course hated each other on sight. Always that exciting element of uncertainty

RE: CS Dating History

I would have been. Well, some of the time

Oh well, water under the bridge now. Not likely to be heading anywhere near Alicante again.

RE: CS Dating History

Well, hell yeah. I mean who could turn meeting ME down? Eh? And I was flying into Spain to see family and was going to be a mere 2 hours away?

Pin him down firmly before you fly, that's all I'm saying