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date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:45:48 +0100,    group: uk.misc        back       
Re: Old Nag dumped on train platform.   
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:13:42 +0100, JNugent  wrote:

>> The same is true of drinking alcohol.  Or eating fattening food.
>
>Is there such a thing as "secondary eating", then?

Yes

>Or are you fed up of going home after a night out with your clothes and 
>hair reeking of cream cakes and cheese and onion crisps?

How about curry?  Barbeques?  Garlic breath?

-- 
Cynic
date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:48:52 +0100   author:   Cynic

Re: Old Nag dumped on train platform.   
Cynic wrote:

> JNugent  wrote:

>>> The same is true of drinking alcohol.  Or eating fattening food.
>> Is there such a thing as "secondary eating", then?

> Yes

>> Or are you fed up of going home after a night out with your clothes and 
>> hair reeking of cream cakes and cheese and onion crisps?

> How about curry?  Barbeques?  Garlic breath?

Do they give you cancer?
date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:29:28 +0100   author:   JNugent

Re: DNS problems   
In uk.misc,  (August West) wrote in ::

>snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) writes:
>
>> August West  wrote:
>>
>>> > Cite please. I'm a bit miffed to hear that, I was pleased with them;
>>> 
>>> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/03/13/opendns-responsible-for-
>> recent-google-redirects/
>>
>> Hmm, fair dos. I wonder why, different ads?
>
>I don't know; it might have been an honest fuck-up (but I don't think
>so) and I dodn't like the fact that they've clearly got the ability to
>dick with the DNS.

Their reply suggests it *was* an honest fuck-up.  They've put their
hands up for it, which is more than most companies do when they cock up.
-- 
Marc

"Work underground as long as possible- publicity triggers the corporate immune system." (Bill Yerkes)
date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:45:48 +0100   author:   Marc Wilson

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