The totally off-topic thread

[cove]

I crashed at LGW in my flight simulator experience. Just call me Mr 50% and don't bother asking me to do a landing for you.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

My sister is playing a logo game and has come up with an airline logo that we can't work out so I'm throwing it out to the brains trust.

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Ka-ching!

I was thinking it looked a bit like NASA but although there's similarities it still wasn't it. I knew it looked familiar & I just realised I'd seen it on a DC-10 on a recent episode of Air Crash Investigation so therefore.....




The sphere around the circle in the logo is slightly different but the pic above may have been an updated version or an earlier one.

An aircraft manufacturer is still not an airline so technically the question in the quiz isn't correct.

 

[markis10]

Ka-ching!

I was thinking it looked a bit like NASA but although there's similarities it still wasn't it. I knew it looked familiar & I just realised I'd seen it on a DC-10 on a recent episode of Air Crash Investigation so therefore.....

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The sphere around the circle in the logo is slightly different but the pic above may have been an updated version or an earlier one.

An aircraft manufacturer is still not an airline so technically the question in the quiz isn't correct.

Close, but if its not boeing it's not going

http://www.yourlogoresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/boeing-logo.jpg

 

[samh004]

On the logo question, it was boeing, and later I found airbus, only got it because of the same line of thinking...

 

[Blinky]

I was in Sydney yesterday for the funeral of my favourite uncle, Bob, who closed his innings at 93. I caught the train from domestic to Circular Queue, and caught the ferry to Balmain. The plan was to meet my sister at the pub just around the corner from the church, the London. So here I was at 11.30 walking up the Darling St hill in long dark pants, a long sleeved shirt and black leather shoes pulling a carry on the kilometre or so to the London. As I said to my sister, I would rather die on a noble quest getting to a pub than waiting for a bus that might not come.

Anyway, I survived the 40+ temperature and had the best beer I've ever tasted.

Despite the ridiculous weather, the church was full. Eulogies were delivered by two of Balmain's finest, Dawn Fraser and John Singleton, who knew Uncle Bob very well. Afterwards we went back to one of Singo's pubs, which used to be the Working Man's Club, where one version of ALP history holds was it's birthplace. The bar was open until the last person left, of which I was one. Despite our best efforts, we didn't drink the place dry.

I burnt points to fly, and returned in VA Business Class. I could get used to it.

I know tl;dr.....

 

[amaroo]

Went to a great dinner party this evening....they played one of my fav songs - Al Green - Let's stay together - YouTube Tomorrow, I'm sure I'll wonder why I posted this......I'm a little tipsy

 

[JohnK]

I knew there was a reason I avoided going into the city and public transport.

Freaks....

 

[PrincessK]

QF127 delayed (van hit plane on tarmac and a structural engineer needed to assess it). Captain is coming through the plane greeting what I assume are the P1s and WPs.

 

[Major]

Has anyone started a thread for AFF reaching 700,000 posts yet ?

 

[drron]

Has anyone started a thread for AFF reaching 700,000 posts yet ?

I dont think any of us are close to that number!:shock:

 

[JohnK]

Has anyone started a thread for AFF reaching 700,000 posts yet ?

Nope. Next thread will be 750,000 posts (coming very soon) and then the big one....

 

[Shelf]

Someone should call farmer brown and let him know his herd have escaped, boarded qf690 and show no sign of hurrying up!

 

[serfty]

Nothing like timely notification!

 

[Flashback]

I dare say there will be a lot of that here tomorrow also due to it snowing again today (and is right now). My wife commented that the National Rail website on Friday said all was OK however when getting to London Victoria station it was a different story altogether... looks like it's not just a MetroTrains issue

 

[Bundy Bear]

They weren't kidding about the amount of hi-vis in the Perth Qantas lounge, one flight to get home.

There is a transfer bus to get you from the international to the domestic airport.

 

[penegal]

Nothing like timely notification!

Did any trains leaving Carrum actually run?

 

[penegal]

Now - where's the Taittinger?

In the F Lounge - unfortuntely there is no delivery service

Good man, I'm glad you've seen the light. Put down that glass of water and pickup a bottle of wine :mrgreen:

Shortly after posting that I attended an urgent meeting at an establishment across the road

 

[penegal]

Jeans for an interview, well that is an unusual approach.

I was pondering the other day how I'm going to react when the current crop of young people with tatts everywhere make their way into the interview rooms as candidates for professional roles.

The scary thing is when they get the job and get paid more than us!

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On a more serious note, the world is changing.

Our entire creative digitial team wear tight jeans to work everyday, its like a uniform, just the way the rest of us wear suits. Start-ups and IT organisations generally don't have a strict dress-code.

There was an interesting article by Richard Branson contemplating whether attire and work output were correlated at all. I will try and find it, but I suspect a Virgin fan boy will beat me to it.


For those playing at home, I still wear a suit and tie everyday as that's what is expected

 

[SeatBackForward]

The scary thing is when they get the job and get paid more than us!

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On a more serious note, the world is changing.

Our entire creative digitial team wear tight jeans to work everyday, its like a uniform, just the way the rest of us wear suits. Start-ups and IT organisations generally don't have a strict dress-code.

There was an interesting article by Richard Branson contemplating whether attire and work output were correlated at all. I will try and find it, but I suspect a Virgin fan boy will beat me to it.


For those playing at home, I still wear a suit and tie everyday as that's what is expected

My theory is, they allow the blurring of work/leisure so that you're accustomed to working even when you're not "working"..<removes tin foil hat and replaces with shirt and tie>

 

[blackcat20]

The scary thing is when they get the job and get paid more than us!

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On a more serious note, the world is changing.

Our entire creative digitial team wear tight jeans to work everyday, its like a uniform, just the way the rest of us wear suits. Start-ups and IT organisations generally don't have a strict dress-code.

There was an interesting article by Richard Branson contemplating whether attire and work output were correlated at all. I will try and find it, but I suspect a Virgin fan boy will beat me to it.


For those playing at home, I still wear a suit and tie everyday as that's what is expected

I work in research, so jeans tend to be ok. I would never turn up to an interview in them though!