Reply to: All your data belongs to us

[Peoplesoft bloke]

How about tatooing all new borns with their Name, NI, Place of Birth and Date of Birth?

There are many benefits too;


Helps police identify all those people who go wondering off
acts as an ice breaker when asked for ID

Or a barcode?

[Zippy]

How about tatooing all new borns with their Name, NI, Place of Birth and Date of Birth?

There are many benefits too;


Helps police identify all those people who go wondering off
acts as an ice breaker when asked for ID

So when an agent asks you for those details you simply pop over to his office and get your kit off? Nice.

[PinkPoshRat]

How about tatooing all new borns with their Name, NI, Place of Birth and Date of Birth?

There are many benefits too;


Helps police identify all those people who go wondering off
acts as an ice breaker when asked for ID

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Well If you think that is personal you are a big shirt lifter.

Well at least you've given up trying to justify the unjustifiable I suppose.

[minestrone]

It is personal. I get out plenty.

Well If you think that is personal you are a big shirt lifter.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I hate having to explain humour. It makes me feel incompetent.



You didn't follow the link, did you?



It was being alluded to in the title of the thread, but incorrectly. I did the thing on it to highlight my acknowledgement of the OP's allusion as nobody else had done so. The pluralisation error is inherent in the quote.


Somehow, it doesn't seem so funny any more.

Sorry - I did follow the link (although I'd already recognised the reference in the thread title) but it just didn't click - some days it doesn't.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If you think calling someone a Luddite is personal you really need to get out more.

It is personal. I get out plenty.

[TriggerHippy]

If you think calling someone a Luddite is personal you really need to get out more.

..well, he might not support Ned Ludd ...

[minestrone]

As for calling me a Luddite, I was trying to stick to the facts (and throw in a few opinions) without getting personal

If you think calling someone a Luddite is personal you really need to get out more.

[TriggerHippy]

its ok RC, I got it and your right it should have been "all your data are belong to us"..

...or, to phrase it another way ..."all your datum is belong to us"??

[DiscoStu]

its ok RC, I got it and your right it should have been "all your data are belong to us"..

Take off every zig

[chef]

its ok RC, I got it and your right it should have been "all your data are belong to us"..

[RichardCranium]

I hate having to explain humour. It makes me feel incompetent.

So data (plural) is correct in this case as the ID card database will contain > 50 items of personal data

You didn't follow the link, did you?

"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that was central to an Internet phenomenon, or meme

It was being alluded to in the title of the thread, but incorrectly. I did the thing on it to highlight my acknowledgement of the OP's allusion as nobody else had done so. The pluralisation error is inherent in the quote.


Somehow, it doesn't seem so funny any more.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Yes.

So data (plural) is correct in this case as the ID card database will contain > 50 items of personal data

[RichardCranium]

Isn't datum singular though? Isn't it like saying all your foot are belong to us?

Yes.