The totally off-topic thread

[oz_mark]

Yes... I have "fond" memories of doing data entry of many thousand vote slips...... especially the big long ones :evil:

oh the jobs we do when we are young...

 

[Flashback]

oh the jobs we do when we are young...

I'm still young but you'll never catch me doing anything like that any time soon! :shock:

 

[serfty]

As a Uni student it was great (in the 70's); All up, about $120 for 15 hours work - tax free. (back then a slab was about $12)

It bacome a lot less attractive when in other full time employment and it was taxed to the max.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Is this place a good time to say that I brought a house.

Dam I am so broke; and really shouldn't be going to New Zealand in 2 weeks but oh well, at least my brother has moved in and paying me rent so I might be out of debt by 2038.

Positives; closer to work; closer to the city; closer to the airport, but I can't afford to fly anywhere.

Is that off topic enough; oh and I have changed email accounts; still have the work email of course and the hotmail one; but if any of you know the other one delete them as I am not using them.

 

[Flashback]

Is this place a good time to say that I brought a house.

Where did you bring it to ?

 

[vitaminp]

I'm still young but you'll never catch me doing anything like that any time soon! :shock:

And I'm not even getting paid for it...but I do love the feeling when your eagle eyes spot an invalid vote for the other team. Hmm, and I wonder why people give me funny looks when I try to explain what I do in my spare time...

 

[serfty]

... but I do love the feeling when your eagle eyes spot an invalid vote for the other team. ...

That, by definition, is an oxymoron ...

How can it be a vote for any team if it's invalid ... :?:

(although I know what you mean ...)

 

[oz_mark]

That, by definition, is an oxymoron ...

How can it be a vote for any team if it's invalid ... :?:

(although I know what you mean ...)

Was it because the chad wasn't pushed all the way through. Oh, oops, wrong country...

 

[vitaminp]

It's amazing how many ballots have the single "1" next to the candidate. Tends to be the seats with high numbers of Brits, thinking it's First Past the Post.

And the new, inexperienced counting staff let a lot of "invalid" votes through on Sat night..i think the system would explode if they had to deal with hanging chads.

 

[drron]

Ah!Politics now that takes me back to when i was young.Becoming a qualified mail-sorter in 1964 was better though.

 

[JohnK]

Democracy is overrated. It isn't as democratic as it sounds....

 

[oz_mark]

Democracy is overrated. It isn't as democratic as it sounds....

Maybe - but is a lot better than some of the alternatives.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

 

[oz_mark]

Ah!Politics now that takes me back to when i was young.Becoming a qualified mail-sorter in 1964 was better though.

Hmm, I wonder if mail sorters still have to learn all the postcodes.

 

[drron]

Back then it was learning all the stops on the travelling post offices AKA mail trains.
The real education came later when because of my qualifications I became foreman of the holiday student team at the old Redfern Mail exchange-what those permanents didnt know wasnt worth knowing.

 

[JohnK]

Maybe - but is a lot better than some of the alternatives.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

And in the case of democracy in Australia or America sometimes less than half the people elect a government into power....

 

[tuapekastar]

Hmm, I wonder if mail sorters still have to learn all the postcodes.

I suspect postcodes didn't exist in 1964 (at least not in the current format).

 

[NM]

And in the case of democracy in Australia or America sometimes less than half the people elect a government into power....

In the USA, its likely less than half the eligible voters will actually bother to vote.

 

[Keith009]

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Nah, just a v inconvenient hindrance to absolute power.



Best slogan ever on democracy was on a tshirt friends and I wore to a student conference few years ago when our faction had just won control of the state branch of the national student union 6th year in a row: "Democracy: Too good to share." :mrgreen:

 

[straitman]

Is this place a good time to say that I brought a house.

Dam I am so broke; and really shouldn't be going to New Zealand in 2 weeks but oh well, at least my brother has moved in and paying me rent so I might be out of debt by 2038.

Positives; closer to work; closer to the city; closer to the airport, but I can't afford to fly anywhere.

Is that off topic enough; oh and I have changed email accounts; still have the work email of course and the hotmail one; but if any of you know the other one delete them as I am not using them.

Bundy Bear,

Congratulations. That's definately OT :!:

 

[straitman]

57 posts in 5 days. There's life in this thread yet :!: :shock: