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Geldof <3 Blair

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BBC – Poverty campaigner Bob Geldof has called the G8 summit “a farce” and used strong language to describe the leaders of the nations attending it.

That’s the usual rhetoric from someone who seemed okay at Live Aid but who has sunk since. Everyone knows that these things are nothing but an ego-fest. Expecting anything to actually get done is beyond foolish.

He praised Tony Blair, who he said had “gone out all guns blazing” in an effort to get the eight nations to deliver on previous aid commitments.

Get a grip Bob – of course he can say what the hell he wants. He is no longer in power – he is powerless, his words are empty and the other leaders don’t give a flying one for him. He’s not in the game. But is Sir Bob examining Blair’s record? Fact is that Tony Blair’s record isn’t so hot either so maybe if he had played the game and played it properly his performance now would mean something. But he didn’t.

So Bob, gear up for the next summit where you can go confident in the knowledge that no matter what is done you will find some excuse to jump on the soapbox and look to be a hero. Excuse me while I yawn. Again.

Judge Francis Gilbert is an incompetent.

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Four Plymouth women who goaded toddlers into fighting and filmed it have been given 12-month suspended sentences. ….. [He said] they posed no risk to the public

Those nasty scheming vile excuses for humanity should have been locked up.
A man would have been.

That makes Judge Francis Gilbert sexist. Pathetic, clueless, deserving of every piece of criticism he gets, entirely at fault should ANY of those children have harm come to them, sexist and a complete moron.

My chicken got censored!

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We were going to have chicken fajitas tonight. We’d bought the chicken, got the ‘yellow box’ of ‘ingredients’ and I was quite looking forward to it. But for what may seem an arbitrary reason we decided not to have the chicken tonight. We thought instead we would have it tomorrow. Possibly the next day. I thought it was just putting it back some time, or delaying it. But no.
It is much more serious than that.
It’s censorship.

The BBC has postponed the broadcast of a story about western hostages being executed in Iraq as concern grows for missing BBC journalist Alan Johnston.

The author, Hanif Kureishi, criticised the decision as censorship, saying: “It all seems rather arbitrary”.

“It seems to me that as a journalist, he would be against censorship,” he told the Guardian newspaper.

So postponed=censorship. I’m sure the journalist concerned would be against censorship – after all, he was in a war zone – but to equate the delaying of a piece of fiction to the real life dangers of a man and then to pretend it’s “censorship” is ludicrous.

Mr Kuresihi – get a grip and stop being an complete idiot. And apologise.

The girl who won’t come home

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The house, the party, the £20,000 bill.

“Mrs Bell ….. “I haven’t forgiven her as yet because she shouldn’t have had an unauthorised party in the first place.
“”Rachael has broken my trust and I don’t think I want her back in the house.” Journal

Mr Bell – as just heard on the radio “I hope she has some remorse”

Do they sound like parents you would like to have?
“Remorse” – wtf are you expecting? Doesn’t this idiot realise that the girl must be feeling terrible about this already? Don’t they know that it is in their hands to make her feel better or worse and they ARE making it worse? How is he going to measure this “remorse”?

Isn’t remorse a term you use about someone you don’t know? It’s a distant term. It’s not one you use for someone as close as a daughter should be.

They trusted her enough to leave her – maybe they are to blame in some part.

And the girl that won’t come home – she’s scared. Why should she be scared? Maybe her parents have something planned for her?

The mother of a 17-year-old girl whose party guests caused £20,000 of damage to her parents’ home says the family may have to permanently move out

Oh FFS. Get lost you dramatic piece of junk. It’s a house. It’s mendable. You just want to milk this for all the sympathy YOU want.

Neither of you give a damn about your daughter.

What you should have done? Freaked out, ranted, raved, talked to the police. And then asked your daughter to get some friends around to help clear the junk. Oh yes – and you should have told her that you loved her.

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Has anyone anywhere ever said “Hey, you know what, that search I just did for information can take a back seat for a while because after all, my search for information to fix my problem just cannot be important”.

I think not.

That is THE most infuriating forum message EVER.

You know what I think it means? “We need time to get our act together. Speedy we are not. You just get older while you gaze at the stupid message”.

Just show me the information!

Make them take a test

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6,891 CAUGHT USING PHONE AT WHEEL (the Daily Express do like their CAPITALS) (are they the british aol of the print world?) and the idiot drivers get a £60 fine and 3 penalty points. Well whoop-de-bloody-do. Don’t fine them. That’s pointless. Just take their license off them and tell them they can’t have it back until they have re-taken and passed the full driving test – that’s theory as well.
I don’t expect a single driver to agree but then every driver is safe – it’s the other clowns who are the unsafe ones isn’t it? Points and fines don’t matter. They might accrue but for plain idiocy they don’t work. Pull the driver over, tell them to get out and tell them to phone a friend to come get them because you just revoked their license with immediate effect. Do that to a few people and then things might be listened to. All or Nothing. There is no middle ground – not when people are killing others because they were on the damn phone.

Annoyed.

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The recover password procedure in Gallery appears to be as friendly as smashing your face with a brick. Why can’t you just login to phpmyadmin and use the md5 hash? It works for WordPress. The one I just fixed would not send the email – it does for every other app on the server – and unless you have ftp access you seem to be stuffed too. Annoyed comes close.

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Ages ago I installed Gallery for someone.
I get an email, they have lost their password. They cannot remember what email they used.
I go in to cpanel – phpmyadmin and change their password. If I was using WordPress then my intervention would stop here.
The password does not work. I have no idea why.
So I change their email using phpmyadmin and tell them to do the Lost Password thing. No email gets sent. This server sends WP comment notify emails daily but right now, nothing.
So I have to go and do the lost password thing, get the admin screen, get the sequence of letters/numbers. ftp to the server and copy that sequence and then click buttons.
And THEN it lets me in.
Long winded. Okay so they shouldn’t have the memory of a gnat but that’s beside the point.
It’s still much much longer then WP and I can’t see the point.

To Lisa Morgan, Chief Exec, The Game Group PLC

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I – like I am sure many others – placed my order for a Wii when it clearly stated on your website that you had stock. If had not said that then I would not have placed that order. I don’t care for the weasel words about “expected” or “anticipated” I care only for the fact that your website had the words ‘in stock’ on it. This strikes me as inefficient would you not agree? I not only didn’t get the machine on the day but I did not get told about it by you until several days later – this inefficiency strikes again. In an email that same day I get told I will get a controller on the day of release – despite that day being in the week before. Do you pay these staff? I phone to complain and I am told by the girl on the other end that she would never order from your company. Why ? And then today I get another email…..

we will be unable to fulfil your order before Christmas. We are sorry to bring you such disappointing news and although we may receive more stock before Christmas there will not be enough time to despatch to you for the 25th of December.

Now what does that picture – taken from the website RIGHT NOW say? “until 2.00 pm on the 19th December to order in time for Christmas – or 2.00 pm on 21st December for items which are despatched by Special Delivery” and yet here I am, on the 18th with your company saying that it’s too late. Now it’s either too late or not too late. A box in a warehouse that can be delivered is pretty much the same as another isn’t it?
So where are they then Ms Morgan? Why are your company throwing pre-orders away? Stocking them in the shops maybe? No, you wouldn’t be THAT bad would you?

but there again maybe you really don’t give a flying one for the “already caught so we have their cash” customers.

I have spent hundreds of pounds in your stores, right from when it was the tiny Electronic Boutique operation and this time you just blew it all away. Every bit of loyalty has gone. The market is too open now for fuckups. Had your site been honest and I was sitting here without one, fine, no problem. Honesty is good. Don’t pretend, just say it as it is. But you said you had when you obviously did not – and that’s wrong. I have Virgin, HMV, Tesco, Choice, HMV and other places to go for games. I did buy from you, I no longer will. Not that my few quid matters much but you are paid the big bucks to run what you would like to think is decent company and this will hopefully have dented the loyalty of others who trusted you to deliver…..

Lisa Morgan, aged 35 … immediately prior to her joining the Group, was part of the commercial team at Dixons Group plc.

Now to whoever appointed her that is where you went totally wrong. Never get anything from Dixons.

That f****** bear

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I hate this night on the BBC. All of it.
Do the decent thing all the time and not when your strings are jerked.
And celebs needing a career kick – that’s half the bloody cast.
Wogan.
That F****** bear.

We were sat in a pub a few years ago. A quiet pub. Really quiet. Someone came round with a C-i-N bucket – “Put some money in the bucket and have some fun!” What?

Looks like film time then :)

Filezilla. Random site manager list

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Filezilla. On the left of the toolbar is the site manager. Just next to that is a small arrow which when you click it a drop-down of all your sites appears. Now maybe I have a wrong setting but WTF is it in random order? I cannot – and believe me I have tried – get it to display in alpha order but it won’t. I’ve searched with google, I’ve searched sourceforge, I’ve searched google groups and it is not even mentioned. It’s this sort of detail which drives me nuts – and if it wasn’t for the fact that I cannot find an automated way to turn Fz’s exported .xml file into something another ftp program will swallow then I’d have a “free” copy of something else running. If I cannot get this sorted then I will indeed wear the eyepatch. Anyone got a clue?