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Progress: “My new phone has a digital compass on it. While reading the 96 page booklet that came with the phone, I noticed it stated that using the compass drains the battery very quickly. Fucking great! So if I get lost in the bush for 10 days I have to take the charger with me.”

12:05 pm · 27 February 2005 · comments off

Rob, this one is about as good as the American legal requirement for braille on the buttons of their drive-up Automatic Teller Machines.

Makes you want to throw a half-dozen boneheaded R&D engineers out in the Simpson for a week or so to put your point, doesn’t it?

weezil · 28 February 2005 · 7:44 am

The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with "arguments" from the Tory press." Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915.

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