Neil Hopcroft

“At first there were just a few isolated reports, but soon the nation was in the grip of an epidemic of exploding trousers” (sadly only a partial article available online – evilmattikinz might be interested in finding out some more while he’s in the area?)

One for the conspiracy theorists: N379P

Game reserves, dovecots, towers, fishing rights, theatres, and odd items for sale. “the safest house in Britain…an ordinary-looking 4 bed bungalow on the outside, but beneath is a nuclear bunker” or anyone want to go halves on “74 foot concrete water tower with outline planning permission for a commercial recording studio”?

Just trying out the picture hosting…

Happily some of the tension I had feared from a conversation on Tuesday night wasn’t present…there was no need for tension in the first place and I was annoyed with myself for letting it get that way… Today I was struck by a distinct change in clientel at Tescos while I was buying lemsip for […]

“Create a no-win situation for anti-choice protesters — the more picketers who demonstrate outside a Planned Parenthood clinic, the more donations the Planned Parenthood clinic receives.” Someone buy this man a playstation. “We looked at each other, took a deep breath, and launched the application. The monitor burst into flames….This doesn’t suck” “mysterious cloud formation […]

“This will change the way people drink coffee” “To be frank, the cold pasteurised lattés on offer today taste like sick, and there’s little reason to suppose a self-heating version will be any more appetizing.”

…can you guess which I’m going to be doing…?

Third rate tobacconist steals PIN data The reason, apparently, that ‘Chip and PIN’ is important is that it shifts the liability in case of fraud. If you are signing for transactions then it is the bank (or the shop) checking the signature against the card. It is far more difficult to claim fraud in case […]

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