“Why do Brits drink warm beer?” “They have Lucas refrigerators.”
> On Oct 17, 2025, at 7:33 PM, bluewater emailtoilet.com via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://youtu.be/O_-1WxTBNHI > > On Oct 17, 2025, at 17:08, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Martin Bishop wrote: > I shall shift into BeerMode, everyone else seems to be there > > [BeerMode raambling] > > British beer is excellent, and always has been. (and, It doesn't need to be > cooled down to the edge of freezing) > My father used to say, "A pint is a pound, the wrold around"; if that ever > was true of British beer, it wouldn't be now, and even as a unit of measure, > a pint is ambiguous. > > > Oil leaks and Lucas Electrics are issues with British cars and motorcycles, > and pretty much not an issue with anything else. > > Many inventions come from UK. Including the parents/grandparents of the USA > inventors. > > Bletchley Park was a major undertaking. > Without Alan Turing, where would we be? > > Current AI, despite being STUPID and hallucinating, could probably pass any > of the earlier Turing tests. > (at one point, cchatGPT was asked for the last digit of PI; > a SERIOUS flaw in current AI design is to never let it answer, "I Don't > Know"! Also, there have been a LOT of legal cases where AI drew up briefs, > and included precedents that didn't exist!) > > Sinclair did some brilliant and clever stuff. > > > There is nothing wrong with British computers. > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected] >
