The totally off-topic thread

[Flashback]

It's not just your car that they attack :!:

Tell me about it:!: :evil:

 

[anat0l]

It's not just your car that they attack :!:

What, they're attacking people now?

 

[JohnK]

Unfortunately I don’t have a handicap in Australia, it was easy to get one in HK, but from what I understand, tournament play is needed here to get one, and that’s not my kind of golf. I play in a relaxed manner, I don’t need to be stressed and competing

Who says the stableford competition on Saturday morning at your local golf club needs to be competitive? I gave up trying to be a good golfer a few years ago and I am now much more relaxed on the golf course. Beats staying home nursing an unnecessary hangover....

 

[straitman]

What, they're attacking people now?

Only when the people are drunk :!: Similar to cars really.

 

[Keith009]

Only when the people are drunk :!: Similar to cars really.

Maybe our car was enjoying its 98RON too much.

 

[serfty]

... Beats staying home nursing an unnecessary hangover....

I have found over the years that 18 holes of golf or an hours lawn mowing tends to put hangovers to bed ... I know my preference.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Not sure if anyone has seen this new airline livery,

A new repainted aircraft about to be delivered to[FONT=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva] Kulula (Comair)[/FONT] South Africa. The a.net picture shows one side; the posted picture shows some of the other side.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Kulula-%28Comair%29/Boeing-737-86N/1641994/M/

Yes it is real, I almost didn't believe it when I first saw it.

 

[QF WP]

Thanks for sending that to me earlier today, Bundy Bear. Love it !!

 

[JohnK]

I have found over the years that 18 holes of golf or an hours lawn mowing tends to put hangovers to bed ... I know my preference.

Lawn mowing?

There have been many times when I have bent down to put the ball on the tee on the 1st tee and my head has started spinning. And then the adrenalin starts to kick in....

 

[samh004]

Photos: Boeing 737-86N Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

Is that really where the black box is?!

 

[anat0l]

Not sure if anyone has seen this new airline livery,

A new repainted aircraft about to be delivered to[FONT=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva] Kulula (Comair)[/FONT] South Africa. The a.net picture shows one side; the posted picture shows some of the other side.

...

Yes it is real, I almost didn't believe it when I first saw it.

I love it. It's actually really educational. I had no idea where some of the internal components were before I "read" that aircraft (e.g. fuel tanks, black box)

 

[thewinchester]

Ministers (the political kind): can't live with them, can't vote them out of office soon enough.

Major announcement for my agency today, with a change of direction and priorities. They're still finalising the changes 2hrs after the media release goes out, and I had to make our contract courier wait around for 15min just so we could finish a bulk letter drop for all our customers.

Of course, we're too pov to outsource the job or rent some fold and stuff units for half a day. All printed in house, evil use of MS Word for mail merge job, and 1,100+ letters shipped after throwing every available resource at the job to fold and stuff.

Can't win some days.

 

[Flashback]

Ministers (the political kind): can't live with them, can't vote them out of office soon enough.

Major announcement for my agency today, with a change of direction and priorities. They're still finalising the changes 2hrs after the media release goes out, and I had to make our contract courier wait around for 15min just so we could finish a bulk letter drop for all our customers.

Of course, we're too pov to outsource the job or rent some fold and stuff units for half a day. All printed in house, evil use of MS Word for mail merge job, and 1,100+ letters shipped after throwing every available resource at the job to fold and stuff.

Can't win some days.

That's life, and that's work; get over it......

 

[anat0l]

Ministers (the political kind): can't live with them, can't vote them out of office soon enough.

Major announcement for my agency today, with a change of direction and priorities. They're still finalising the changes 2hrs after the media release goes out, and I had to make our contract courier wait around for 15min just so we could finish a bulk letter drop for all our customers.

Of course, we're too pov to outsource the job or rent some fold and stuff units for half a day. All printed in house, evil use of MS Word for mail merge job, and 1,100+ letters shipped after throwing every available resource at the job to fold and stuff.

Can't win some days.

Reminds me one time in our research centre that one of the researchers had to mail out a survey to over 1,000 residents. That required printing the multi-page survey (6-10 pages, back to back), adding a cover letter and a self-addressed, postage-paid return-addressed envelope, all neatly stuffed into a large packet envelope. Each envelope needed to be stickered with a different address which was being produced by printing a list of nominated household addresses onto sticky labels.

I wasn't in on the project, but I was (with the reward of pay, coffee and a round of drinks) cajoled into helping get the effort out the door by the 4.30pm deadline in time to take all the packets to be couriered off. So I spent the whole day putting together the surveys, stapling surveys, stuffing them into packets and making sure that every single packet was filled correctly. We had a lot of people rotating and stuffing a few at a time, even some of the senior research staff gave a hand, but no less than four people at a time working.

FWIW we did get the entire load completed and out the door at 4.30pm for couriering.

 

[samh004]

Next project: the secret AFF handshake

Taken from another thread as we were really starting to get off-topic but please no secret handshakes, I always fail at anything other than the regular old-fashioned type

 

[Dee Thom]

Taken from another thread as we were really starting to get off-topic but please no secret handshakes, I always fail at anything other than the regular old-fashioned type

Actually, there is a book written by Sandy Thorne, titled "On The Shake Of a Hand", and tells how Rural business deals, stock (animal) sales etc., were done up till the Legal Eagles took over and charged like wounded bulls, for the same outcome..............................

Cheers Dee

 

[Flashback]

Actually, there is a book written by Sandy Thorne, titled "On The Shake Of a Hand", and tells how Rural business deals, stock (animal) sales etc., were done up till the Legal Eagles took over and charged like wounded bulls, for the same outcome..............................

Cheers Dee

So you mean it doesn't happen the way it does in the movie "Australia" ? :mrgreen:

 

[Dee Thom]

So you mean it doesn't happen the way it does in the movie "Australia" ? :mrgreen:

Only when you have an actress who's initials are N.K. trying for a Pomme accent

Cheers Dee

 

[samh004]

Anyone else watching the Grammy’s today? I realise most of you will be at work… there’s a replay on Arena this evening.

 

[Mal]

Well I've learnt something about certain Asian airports and liquid rules ... it seems to be optional to take the baggie out of your bag. No signs up asking for them to be removed, and leaving them in doesn't cause any issue. Makes the whole security checkpoint drill much easier.

Now if only they could get some consistancy with the metal detectors. Why my belt has set off two machines, but not the countless others (even in the same airports) has me wondering - although it is a common issue.