[quote user="serguey123"]Yes. For another example I don't look both ways in one way streets. Why waste my time on something so unlikely to happen?[/quote]Because it happens routinely around here.  Especially those damn Washington drivers.  Every time I see a car going the wrong way, it has a Washington plate on it.[quote ...

[quote user="El_Heffe"] [quote user="Lorne Kates"] so I sit at a desk (the proverbial "Storm Centre") ...and broadcast from there, getting up now and then for fluid management.[/quote] Is "fluid management" anything like semen abatement? [/quote]Hmmmm, fluid management indeed . . .  

[quote user="El_Heffe"] [quote user="nonpartisan"]which frequently means they're standing outside in the parking lot with the surroundings obscured by the close-up of the reporter against the van.[/quote] I've never understood this idea that they have to show a reporter "at the scene" even though it ...

Our local FOX affiliate (they were an indy until they went to The Dark Side . . . meh . . .) has their "FOX 12 Mobile Newsroom", which frequently means they're standing outside in the parking lot with the surroundings obscured by the close-up of the reporter against the van.  When they're actually on site of a story, they ...

[quote user="Severity One"]  Just some co NO CARRIER [/quote]Geezus, that's so 80's.  How about: Just some co Connection closed by foreign host. [severity.one@winky:~/pr0n]$

[quote user="ObiWayneKenobi"]abridged [/quote]You keep using that word.  I don't think it means what you think it means.

[quote user="joe.edwards"] I've always thought the sound effect was meant to be a judge's gavel strike. [/quote] The distinctive "thunk-thunk" sound effect used in between scenes was created by combining close to a dozen sounds, including that of a group of monks stamping on a floor. The sound is intended to be ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] I remember it being harped on, too, but I don't know why. If you're the kind of person who would correct somebody for saying "three-thousand and forty-two" or who would think they meant "3000.42" then you should have the language centers of your brain lobotomized so you can stop ...

[quote user="El_Heffe"][quote user="KattMan"]Three thousand and forty-two would be 3000.42 The "and" implies a decimal point in American English at least; though I know only a few people that understand this.[/quote] I'm pretty old and have lived in the U.S. my entire life.  I have never once heard anyone ...

[quote user="markfiend"]Maybe She made a bad call. Maybe. But even if I were to accept that she "handled this hugely inappropriately" would that make DDoSing her company website and her personal website, sending her death threats and rape threats OK? Does that make her spineless company firing her OK? Does that make the torrent ...