Comments on: No election!

By: The Common Humanist

The Common Humanist — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:01:00 +0000

Result! I hate campaigning in the cold!

TCH

By: Rohin

Rohin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:14:37 +0000

â€œPeople from the Punjab(either side) and North West Frontier Province in Pakistan have pretty good physiques for rugby.â€

Yes.

No. The modern rugby player cannot be divided so easily into back or forward, more and more players are now huge, ripped and devastatingly fast. Punjabis can indeed be big and can be fast, but are rarely both. Several notable sprinters have been Punjabi, such as Milkha Singh, but they and he were the most slight competitors in their event, as is the case for many Indian runners. They’d get walloped in rugby, believe me I know – I used to run against some seriously fast Punjabis.

The big Punjabis, like that American wrestler fellow or the pehelwans from the pind move like molasses.

I heard that the actor Rahul Bose was on the Indian national rugby team at some point. They are 88th in the world, out of 95. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_national_rugby_union_team

By: Vikrant

Vikrant — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:09:08 +0000

Haha this place is supposed to one of the top 5 for engineering in US. Some dudes are working on porting Symbian OS to iPhone…

By: Ravi Naik

Ravi Naik — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:07:10 +0000

“Apple bricked my iPhone and iâ€™m pissed off. I have a $500 paperweight. Take my advice dont ever buy Apple.”

I am sorry, Vikrant, but why should any one listen to your advice when you managed to turn a $500 iPhone into a $500 paperweight?

I am not sure I can fault Apple on this one. They did warn before installing the update that it would brick your device, so… just wait a few more days, and I am sure the hacker community will sort it out.

By: Vikrant

Vikrant — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:57:24 +0000

Well under laws of State of Illinois, i am perfectly on the legal side in unlocking the phone. They simply cant destroy my property!!! Unlike software iPhone is a piece of ~~shit~~ hardware, which is owned by the end user rather than “rented” as in case of software.

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:55:08 +0000

You mean don’t buy Apple, unlock their products thus violating your warranty right?

By: Vikrant

Vikrant — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:05:14 +0000

Aye fellas… sup? Have been out of the loop for a while.

Apple bricked my iPhone and i’m pissed off. I have a $500 paperweight. Take my advice dont ever buy Apple.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:52:27 +0000

For busy cat-lovers everywhere;

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clips/severed-mechanical-hand-hacked-for-cat-petting-307947.php

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:29:33 +0000

“People from the Punjab(either side) and North West Frontier Province in Pakistan have pretty good physiques for rugby.”

Yes.

By: Jai

Jai — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:02:18 +0000

Welcome back, Chairwoman Auntie. I hope you are feeling better.

Please convince Katy to return to PP. If necessary, myself and “the boys” (ie. Jagdeep and Sunny) will administer some Punjabi-style “advice” to her tormenters in order to “encourage” them to stop hassling her about anything I/P-related…..

*cracks knuckles and dusts off his most dangerous-looking kara*

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:29:20 +0000

You keep telling yourself Boyo.
If you believe, you can achieve, as we saw yesterday on the rugby pitch.
Me?
I’d rather be a little more objective.
As for disliking the Scottish coz they don’t like us(or the Catalans, Basques, woemever) I’d rather not sink to that, if I can help it.
It’s just as pathetic as the two-bob and tawdry small country jingoism that feeds it.

By: Boyo

Boyo — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:27:44 +0000

Oh I’ll be cheering on the Argies too, for entirely negative reasons – ie, I’m English and I’d love to see the Scots lose.

I never used to feel like this, being brought up to be British, but that’s all over now and I can’t bear the Scottish chip any more than the Aussie one.

As for Gord, I disagree – sadly I think this will clearly mark a turning point, the beginning of the end.

He has single-handedly revitalised the Tories and made them appear electable while at the same time as undermining his own reputation (and that of his govt.) on so many levels. We will not see a fourth term I’m afraid. I’m not kidding – it’s actually now for the Tories to lose.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:13:18 +0000

As for Gordon.
He clearly bottled it and because of that he has clearly lost some respect. No questions.
But it’s not terminal for him.
He needs some luck though — i.e. that a nailed-on slowdown in the economy and housing market in 2008 doesn’t spiral into something worse.
It is that simple.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:08:02 +0000

Ha ha Boyo, that’s hilarious!
I’m also reminded of the guest Kiwi on Radio 5 Live last night, which I listened to while driving to my in-laws in Kent.
I can’t remember the Kiwi’s name but he was asked in the build up whether the earlier shock result between England and Australia changed anything. His reply was that it didn’t because the All-Blacks could adjust to playing against England. It just didn’t register with him that France might have got a psychological lift from the England game to pull off a similar surprise by beating the Kiwis and getting to the semi-final in their place.
And a few minutes later he predicted that France would not get within 20 points of NZ.
Don’t you just love Chabal?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GUa9P-KnNVk

I’m not a rugby nut although I used to play. It can be quite boring sometimes too. But occasionally it is a wonder to behold. Sheer unbeatable heroism.

By: Natty

Natty — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:55:53 +0000

Check this out:

Fundraising and positioning American Style:

Hilary Clinton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7028619.stm

Rudy Gulliani
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7029079.stm

A very different approach to the UK and fixed term elections.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:48:11 +0000

Shame Fiji couldn’t deliver the tri-nation coup de grace.
Hope you don’t mind Douglas and PP’s Scottish community but I’ll be supporting Argentina this evening — for positive rather than negative reasons, you understand.

By: Boyo

Boyo — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:22:57 +0000

Why it was such a sweet victory….

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22538573-2722,00.html

Poor Aussies, they just don’t get it!

By: Don

Don — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:12:45 +0000

Good to hear from you again, Chairwoman.

You should have clipped the officious jobsworth around the ear with a hardback copy of ‘Identity and Violence’.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:00:19 +0000

Lol at kabbadi. I used to play that at school in India.

Chairwoman, that’s quite sad I guess. I would order vegetarian food on ethical grounds, not religious, but I suspect they’d give it to me on the grounds of my skin. Silliness indeed.

Next time you should learn some punjabi swear words from us in advance! If that doesn’t convince them, nothing will. Heh.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:07:14 +0000

Kabbadi was great… bring it back! (Though I no longer have a TV to watch it on, heh!)