Posts by Rich Lock

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  • Up Front: Boning Up,

    How about a robotic exoskeleton?

    Well, if we're talking a cross between female corsetry and exoskeletons, we can't go past The Mother Of All ExoCorsets.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Up Front: Boning Up,

    How very kind of you, but I was thinking more in terms of how screamingly inappropriate a man-corset would be on me ...

    S'alright Russell. Other famous hardcore emblems of masculinity are in denial, too.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Up Front: Boning Up,

    Words have not yet been invented which can adequately express my loathing of The Neck Tie as an 'indispensible' item in the wardrobe of every office-male in the western world.

    It's that particular combination of pointlessness, physical discomfort and mandatory conformity that really tickles my rage guage.

    A few more options would be nice. I'd be quite happy strolling into the office every morning looking as dapper as any of these three gents

    Still, the wiki article is quite fascinating. 24 (24!) ways to tie the knot.

    And to partly answer a question someone asked earlier:

    Before the Second World War ties were worn shorter than they are today. Around 1944, ties started to become not only wider, but wilder. This was the beginning of what was later labeled the "Bold Look;" ties which reflected the returning GIs' desire to break with wartime uniformity. Widths reached 5", and designs included Art Deco, hunting scenes, scenic photographs, tropical themes, and even girlie prints. Typical length was 48".

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  • Up Front: Boning Up,

    Corsets take ages to put on, AND ages to take off...

    I think as long as there is (ahem) 'access', it's probably not an issue.

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  • Hard News: The Casino,

    Our US-based server died. Totally smoove work by Karl from CactusLab to have things back up so quickly on a new box.

    Now all you have to worry about is the Agent Smith virus running throughout PAS and gradually turning every thread into the copyright thread.

    All your comments are belong to S92A.

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  • Hard News: Not Helping,

    Has anyone seen my kitten?

    Murray McCully borrowed it

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  • Hard News: Top of the Populism,

    where on earth are private companies supposed to be cutting costs to turn a profit on prisons?

    Oh, we'll just turn to this guy for some inspiration. I reckon we could start with housing them in a tent city somewhere on the central plateau. Cheap, you see - we don't have to worry about buildings or anything like that. Just some old tents the army has no more use for, and a few barbed wire fences will do fine.

    Food you say? Weeeell, out-of-date or condemned old crap is probably all they need. I hear Fonterra has plenty of old contaimated milk it needs to get rid of. We'll start with that.

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  • Hard News: Just shoot me,

    Well, I take your point as far as it goes. But I'd add that there was a serious question about why a fuck-wit like Ross had just received an 18 million pound contract from a public broadcaster that was in the process of laying off two or three thousand staff (after a similarly deep round of staff cuts two years before). And it's not as if Ross didn't have form for on-air outbursts that sounded like they'd come straight from a circle-jerk in a public school changing shed.

    I am largely indifferent to Ross, Brand and any of the other overpaid self-obsessed fools like Frank Skinner who clutter up the UK airwaves.

    My point was more how stuff like this - tasteless, ill-thought out, crass, etc - seems to generate a highly disproportionate response. I'm not saying it shouldn't be criticised, but the response does seem to be insanely out of proportion to the 'crime'. I used a UK example (Ross/Brand) because the story we are discussing is from the UK. I could have used the superbowl wardrobe malfunction for a US example.

    A whole bunch of reasons have been offered as to why this 'rush to judgement' happens (celebrity obsessed culture, culture wars, rise of the fundy right, a media that has dropped hard reporting in favour of trivia and naval gazing, and so on). But to me, none of these offered reasons seem to quite be a perfect fit.

    The phenomenon itself is what I find interesting, not the incidents themselves.

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  • Hard News: Just shoot me,

    There's still something weirdly fishy about the intensity of the brouhaha.

    This wierd sort of self-feeding media firestorm appears to be the norm in the UK at the moment. Just ask Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand...

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  • Up Front: The Missionary Position,

    being a motorcycle rider myself

    I find that 3-4 hours of high-speed worship on a sunday morning almost always fills me with a deep sense of spiritual calm...

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