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jhnbrbr

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Nice of you to drop in, Mat. How's the lucid dreaming going? Sorry we have to casserole you, but rules is rules!
 

jhnbrbr

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Excerpt from popular drama series The Forsytes' Aga

"Soames! The bloody thing's gone out again!"
 

jhnbrbr

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Problems of conversing with the argumentative

"Why do you contradict everything I say?"
"I don't!"
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Starkle starkle little twink
Who da hell you are you think?
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in a goosegog pie.
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Continuing in drunken nonsense mode ........

30 days hath Septober, April June and Nowonder
All the rest have eggs for breakfast
except grandma and she rides a bike



Your turn John ...........
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jhnbrbr

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It's a mad world

Hi Rojo!:) Hope the hangover's better, Mike! :cry: Now this thread may be a bit crazy, but there are even madder people out there in the real world. At our local tip (or "Waste Reception Site" as they call it for short) there is a sign at the entrance which reads something like this ...

So that we can close the site on time, these gates will be locked 10 minutes before the advertised closing time.

Honestly, I'm not making it up.
 

rojo

(Ret)
Well, to be honest John, I think I know why they write that; because often there's a large number of people who get places at the last minute, and then there's a line up, and then the place doesn't get closed until after the said hour of closing. Although it does sound ridiculous, they probably lock people from entering 10 minutes before closing, and only let who ever is left in, out. Hope that made sense. :crazy:

That said, I'm in complete agreement with you on the fact that there are truly mad people out there, and it is a mad world indeed. I'm trying desperately not to dwell on that fact. Lately, I find it ain't easy. Good thing there are fun threads like this to bring some comic relief to my world. :) There's good mad, and bad mad, I guess. In any case, on with the drunken nonsense! :ut:

Btw, it just occurred to me that this thread is in the open debate forum. Was there something that was being debated? :crazy:
 

jhnbrbr

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Well, to be honest John, I think I know why they write that; because often there's a large number of people who get places at the last minute, and then there's a line up, and then the place doesn't get closed until after the said hour of closing. Although it does sound ridiculous, they probably lock people from entering 10 minutes before closing, and only let who ever is left in, out. Hope that made sense. :crazy:

Yes, but why don't they simply advertise the latest admission time? As a customer it's of no interest to me what time the staff want to go home, what I want to know is what is the latest time they'll let me in. Imagine driving 10 miles, thinking you've got 9 minutes to spare, and then finding the gate locked. :scold::banghead:

Btw, it just occurred to me that this thread is in the open debate forum. Was there something that was being debated? :crazy:

Rojo, I had a feeling you were going to say that sooner or later! If you want to move it to the chit-chat forum I won't object (and Mike's too drunk to notice anyway :cheers:).
 
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jhnbrbr

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Education, education, education

There's a well-known saying (which, btw, I don't agree with) which says:

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

At teacher training colleges, they have their own version of this saying:

Those that can teach, do teach. Those that can't teach, teach teaching.

And at the colleges where they train the staff for the teacher training colleges they say:

Those that can teach teaching, do teach teaching. Those that can't teach teaching, teach teaching teaching.

And at the colleges where they train the staff who train the staff who train ....

What? You've had enough already? OK, I'll shut up. :crazy:
 

jhnbrbr

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Motoring Madness

Here's an amusing little game you can play the next time you're in your car. It's natural to think of the car moving and the earth being stationary, but if you try hard, you can reverse this situation, in your mind at least. Think of your car as being absolutely fixed in space, and think of the earth as being an enormous ball, rotating beneath the car's wheels. It takes a little concentration, but if you persevere, you will find you can maintain the illusion for up to a couple of minutes at a time. The next stage is to imagine that the controls you are using - steering wheel, brake, accelerator - are no longer the controls of your car, but are instead the controls of the earth. Step on the gas a little, and you will be able to feel the earth spinning just that little bit faster on its axis. Now turn the steering wheel a few degrees, and (incredible though it seems) you will actually feel the earth - that enormous sphere of molten magma - tilting on its axis, bringing a fresh piece of road beneath your wheels. Getting the hang of it now? Weird feeling, isn't it ....

HEY! WATCH OUT FOR THAT LORRY.....!!

Oops. Too late.
 

Mat

Sr. Regulator
Staff member
Sr. Regulator
Regulator
Are you sure it's a good idea, John? One may actually try to play your game and cause an accident. And who's got better chances of surviving in case of such encounter - the lorry driver or you?

Never mind, don't listen to me. I shall go back to lucid dreaming ;-)

And rojo, what are these?
 

Dorsetmike

Member
@ Mat, ^^ usually used on forums to "point" to the immediately preceding post,

sometimes used like this ^^:) to mean laughing at the preceding post, or

^^^WHS^^^ translates as "What He Said" (in the preceding post)

Don't know if your keyboard layout is significantly different from the English/UK one where the ^ symbol appears above the 6.
 

Mat

Sr. Regulator
Staff member
Sr. Regulator
Regulator
Thanks for the explanation, Mike. Indeed, there's a ^ above the 6. And I also have three green LEDs on my keyboard. But I guess they appear not only in my country ;)
 

rojo

(Ret)
Yes, but why don't they simply advertise the latest admission time? As a customer it's of no interest to me what time the staff want to go home, what I want to know is what is the latest time they'll let me in. Imagine driving 10 miles, thinking you've got 9 minutes to spare, and then finding the gate locked. :scold::banghead:
Durrrrh.. hello. Of course, yes, I see your point now.

Rojo, I had a feeling you were going to say that sooner or later! If you want to move it to the chit-chat forum I won't object (and Mike's too drunk to notice anyway :cheers:).
:lol:

Well, it's debatable. :crazy:

Perhaps we best leave it here, so that Mike can find his way back to it, in his drunken stupor. :p

There's a well-known saying (which, btw, I don't agree with) which says:

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

At teacher training colleges, they have their own version of this saying:

Those that can teach, do teach. Those that can't teach, teach teaching.

And at the colleges where they train the staff for the teacher training colleges they say:

Those that can teach teaching, do teach teaching. Those that can't teach teaching, teach teaching teaching.

And at the colleges where they train the staff who train the staff who train ....

What? You've had enough already? OK, I'll shut up. :crazy:
:lol: And then there are those (like Mozart, for example,) who actually do, (or did,) and teach (or taught.)
 
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