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What bemused you today?

Started by greypoint, August 24, 2009, 07:51:18 AM

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spinner

Quote from: deetus on August 18, 2010, 09:20:24 AM
The state of this country.
I've been searching for work for a number of months now in the engineering field and am registered with an online engineering website.
Today they send me an email with details on how to become a financial advisor.  ???

The might explain the world economic crisis then... ;)
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
Ol' blue eyes

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ABERS

Perhaps they thought you might be able to engineer the sales of a few policies and endowments. :legit:

Graham

   Went for a longish walk today and as usual took my GPS device.
   Just checked it and it says I coverd a distance of 62 miles with a top speed of 57.8 MPH!
   It's just possible that I may have left it switched on for the train journey home. :D
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ABERS

#618
I hope you have all done your duty and visited
http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
and submitted your ideas and then you won't be able to say "Well they didn't ask me", which of course it is designed to preclude.

:idea:Please no requests appertaining to somewhere the sun don't shine.

spinner

Had to see the doctor today. While waiting in the lobby I picked up a well thumbed  copy of Wired magazine. First thing that struck me as odd was an article about President Clinton in the present tense. Looking at the magazine's date I saw it was the Nov '96 edition. Was struck by the number of adds from companies that no longer exist. Ads for PC's - a 200 mhz pentium, with 32 megs of ram and a whopping (their word) 230 meg hardrive, for $5,600.00. An ad for Kodak FILM! Articles about the future of computing that were way off.
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
Ol' blue eyes

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Oldboy

Could your PC/Mac handle the files from this camera?

When completed in 2015, the 8.4-metre telescope will regularly sweep the entire visible sky in three nights with a 3.2-gigapixel camera, capturing short-lived phenomena ranging from fast-moving near-Earth asteroids to the flashes of supernovae in distant galaxies.

deetus

Quote from: ABERS on August 18, 2010, 03:05:03 PM
Perhaps they thought you might be able to engineer the sales of a few policies and endowments. :legit:

Nice one Alan  ;D

ABERS

Getting in to see a dentist today, the only one registered with the NHS in our town, after three days of trying to get some attention to a tooth where the filling has fallen out and what remained had crumbled somewhat. Not painful all the time only when I bite on something and the stump in question comes into play. Then it's a couple of minutes before I can get down off the ceiling :doh:

Anyway he says it's got to come out, can't do it today because I only had an emergency appointment to explore the trouble.

I have a choice, pay him £200 and he'll take it out tomorrow or wait for his next free NHS appointment and then he'll do it. That appointment is on Sept.1st.

So I point out he must have a free space tomorrow otherwise he wouldn't be able to offer to take it out for £200.
"Ah well", he says, " I don't do NHS work on a Saturday".

So being of a somewhat awkward disposition and seeing that he thinks that he has got me over a barrel I've decided to live on paracetamol for the next ten days. Bo**ocks if I'm going to put £200 in his pocket. Mind you it's going to cost £45 as it is on the NHS. :o

Oldboy

Quote from: ABERS on August 20, 2010, 06:48:05 PM
Getting in to see a dentist today, the only one registered with the NHS in our town, after three days of trying to get some attention to a tooth where the filling has fallen out and what remained had crumbled somewhat. Not painful all the time only when I bite on something and the stump in question comes into play. Then it's a couple of minutes before I can get down off the ceiling :doh:

Anyway he says it's got to come out, can't do it today because I only had an emergency appointment to explore the trouble.

I have a choice, pay him £200 and he'll take it out tomorrow or wait for his next free NHS appointment and then he'll do it. That appointment is on Sept.1st.

So I point out he must have a free space tomorrow otherwise he wouldn't be able to offer to take it out for £200.
"Ah well", he says, " I don't do NHS work on a Saturday".

So being of a somewhat awkward disposition and seeing that he thinks that he has got me over a barrel I've decided to live on paracetamol for the next ten days. Bo**ocks if I'm going to put £200 in his pocket. Mind you it's going to cost £45 as it is on the NHS. :o

That's the trouble with dentists, they've got you by the molars!  :2funny: :2funny:

spinner

Got a nice flashy email from Adobe, (wouldn't expect anything less) telling me if I buy CS5 Premium today they'll ship it for FREE!. Do they honestly think, saving me $20 will entice me into buying $1800 worth of software?
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
Ol' blue eyes

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ABERS

So that's the reason :o :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11067028

Perhaps if we stopped calling politicians, politicians then they might give up lying!

Oldboy

Quote from: ABERS on August 24, 2010, 08:25:53 AM
So that's the reason :o :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11067028

Perhaps if we stopped calling politicians, politicians then they might give up lying!

I though we called politicians scumbags on a good day!  ::)

picsfor

Quote from: ABERS on August 24, 2010, 08:25:53 AM
So that's the reason :o :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11067028

Perhaps if we stopped calling politicians, politicians then they might give up lying!

No, they work to the system they created that allows them to be creative with what they mean.
Take the expenses scandal - read the linked story and try not to smile. You couldn't make it up...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/838763-mp-told-to-claim-six-times-as-much

Oldboy

Quote from: picsfor on August 24, 2010, 06:08:16 PM
Quote from: ABERS on August 24, 2010, 08:25:53 AM
So that's the reason :o :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11067028

Perhaps if we stopped calling politicians, politicians then they might give up lying!

No, they work to the system they created that allows them to be creative with what they mean.
Take the expenses scandal - read the linked story and try not to smile. You couldn't make it up...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/838763-mp-told-to-claim-six-times-as-much

Add to the fact that every Prime Minister get £100,000 a year as expenses when they have left office.  :(

spinner

Quote from: picsfor on August 24, 2010, 06:08:16 PM


http://www.metro.co.uk/news/838763-mp-told-to-claim-six-times-as-much

We had a similar situation here, with a City Councilor being criticized by fellow councilors for buying things for his office with his own money and not using any of his allotted expense account.
And more, much more than this, I did it my way
Ol' blue eyes

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/spin498/

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