Sam Nelson
@crediblywitless.ssrl.scot
Rejoin. Yes. Grumpy and getting old, not the other way round. Sysadmin, freshly retired. Bodger. Engineer to non-engineers; non-engineer to engineers.
It's sad, but this stuff is happening roughly a century late, and will not work.
December 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It's sad, but this stuff is happening roughly a century late, and will not work.
When the school-bus stop is several miles away along crap roads and the school is in the opposite direction to work - maybe?
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
When the school-bus stop is several miles away along crap roads and the school is in the opposite direction to work - maybe?
I was once provided with a Fiat Cinquecento as a courtesy car instead of my Renault Laguna estate, and I had to take it back for something bigger because I couldn't get me and my two small children and their stuff into it. Other than that...
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I was once provided with a Fiat Cinquecento as a courtesy car instead of my Renault Laguna estate, and I had to take it back for something bigger because I couldn't get me and my two small children and their stuff into it. Other than that...
Pretty damn sure that a "three-foot length of pipe" might just about have been crammed in to my Toyota Aygo successfully.
December 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Pretty damn sure that a "three-foot length of pipe" might just about have been crammed in to my Toyota Aygo successfully.
I remember 66 5.25" diskettes to install SCO Unix, whenever that was, and the bit during the installation where it did kernel-tuning by asking you how many "small, medium, and large programs" you needed to run.
There was no decent Linux until I discovered Debian Etch.
There was no decent Linux until I discovered Debian Etch.
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I remember 66 5.25" diskettes to install SCO Unix, whenever that was, and the bit during the installation where it did kernel-tuning by asking you how many "small, medium, and large programs" you needed to run.
There was no decent Linux until I discovered Debian Etch.
There was no decent Linux until I discovered Debian Etch.
Bloody Normans, coming over here in their small boats, taking our land, compiling encyclopaedic reference books about everything...
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Bloody Normans, coming over here in their small boats, taking our land, compiling encyclopaedic reference books about everything...
Sam Kydd would be a pretty good choice, because that way you'd get to watch just about everything British made between WW2 and 1980.
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Sam Kydd would be a pretty good choice, because that way you'd get to watch just about everything British made between WW2 and 1980.
Tilda Swinton, maybe?
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Tilda Swinton, maybe?
Well, it is Glasgow, after all.
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Well, it is Glasgow, after all.
The taxi folk know it's a seller's market, if it's a market at all.
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The taxi folk know it's a seller's market, if it's a market at all.
If it was the lowest tender, though...
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
If it was the lowest tender, though...
Might be a flat £1000/day for unlimited callouts?
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Might be a flat £1000/day for unlimited callouts?
Egyptian Reggae, by any chance?
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Egyptian Reggae, by any chance?
Anything that makes Scotland more dependent, huh?
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Anything that makes Scotland more dependent, huh?
The lawsuits will be interesting.
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The lawsuits will be interesting.
They don't already? Boggle.
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
They don't already? Boggle.
A questioner could have asked you about that line, which would have made it harder to cut - the Paul Daniels Strategy.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A questioner could have asked you about that line, which would have made it harder to cut - the Paul Daniels Strategy.
What, no details of the venue? Gobsmacked...
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
What, no details of the venue? Gobsmacked...
Then the Russians just wait a few years and do it again - and it really will take just a few days, next time.
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Then the Russians just wait a few years and do it again - and it really will take just a few days, next time.
"...And now I'm going to interview one of the same half-dozen or so people I always interview about it"
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"...And now I'm going to interview one of the same half-dozen or so people I always interview about it"
Hanging out with the obsessive contrarians at UnHerd isn't a good look. She's about to publish a book making the case against assisted dying.
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Hanging out with the obsessive contrarians at UnHerd isn't a good look. She's about to publish a book making the case against assisted dying.
She's an academic philosopher, really, and has no idea about the real life interaction of points of view. I'd have another shot at her, but last time she lost she called me a muppet and blocked me.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
She's an academic philosopher, really, and has no idea about the real life interaction of points of view. I'd have another shot at her, but last time she lost she called me a muppet and blocked me.
Standard stuff, really. Deprive people of employment, then offer jobs in stuff they otherwise wouldn't put up with.
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Standard stuff, really. Deprive people of employment, then offer jobs in stuff they otherwise wouldn't put up with.
Also filled a Friday evening with Bugs Bunny and Bridge at Remagen.
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Also filled a Friday evening with Bugs Bunny and Bridge at Remagen.
Del Amitri's 1998 effort has aged well and still works.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Del Amitri's 1998 effort has aged well and still works.