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« Reply #300 on: April 23, 2011, 09:42:29 pm » |
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Some girls will be oblivious to how it really looks and just think they look super cute (a lot of the "porn star" emblazened clothes I've seen are bright pink and sparkly), others will know what they look like and still think it's a good thing. You can question the parents* but I'd like to know who the hell is designing these clothes?
*Actually you can't, they go off at you.
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« Reply #301 on: April 24, 2011, 12:08:10 am » |
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For all the Girl Genius Fans out there: In the Pub I just visited, there was a cocktail called 'blackcurrant monster' made of blackcurrant sourz (sounds horrid already) and monster energy drink. There was also a drink made of Jagermeister and Monster. It was called Killer Monster. Why did they not call it Jagermonster?  that was my immediate thought when I saw it. |
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« Reply #302 on: May 05, 2011, 02:37:55 am » |
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High schools here sometimes have different programs, for people wanting to go different directions. Today on the radio, I heard of one which has a program especially for those wanting to be bus drivers. Three years spent in preparation for driving a large car around on a fixed route. I feel it´s rather sad if some people have that as their Plan A.
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« Reply #303 on: May 05, 2011, 03:11:33 am » |
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Johnny Cash did a version of "Come Take a Trip in My Airship". WTF?
Bigger WTF- Youtube does not have video of it!
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« Reply #304 on: May 05, 2011, 04:12:18 am » |
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High schools here sometimes have different programs, for people wanting to go different directions. Today on the radio, I heard of one which has a program especially for those wanting to be bus drivers. Three years spent in preparation for driving a large car around on a fixed route. I feel it´s rather sad if some people have that as their Plan A.
Tee hee hee... I'm a bus driver part time (sometimes... they, like bartenders, frown upon mental health issues). Took me all of three days to get the license. Sit in a class, watch grusome videos/pictures, then drive on iced over roads in a 37ft long, 8 foot wide, 15 ton bus. It was NOT my Plan A... In fact, it was a last ditch effort to get SOME form of employ after being out of work for a couple of months. GREAT job for recovering alcoholics though, what with the Zero Tolerance laws... |
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« Reply #305 on: May 05, 2011, 12:22:36 pm » |
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Our college does a course called E2E. It's about entry to employment.
It actually teaches young girls how to be part-time single parents, go to Tesco once a week and they train you up for your spot on Jeremy Kyle.
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« Reply #306 on: August 12, 2011, 09:43:18 pm » |
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Our college does a course called E2E. It's about entry to employment.
It actually teaches young girls how to be part-time single parents, go to Tesco once a week and they train you up for your spot on Jeremy Kyle.
Classy. I got a phonecall from a recruitment agency this morning (they woke me up), and they said they'd email me the details of a job offer, waited a few hours, no email. So I called back, and they said the guy who rang me would call me as soon as he'd finished with his current call, and I waited and waited, and still no call... WTF are they thinking? |
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« Reply #307 on: August 12, 2011, 09:55:21 pm » |
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I got a phonecall from a recruitment agency this morning (they woke me up), and they said they'd email me the details of a job offer, waited a few hours, no email. So I called back, and they said the guy who rang me would call me as soon as he'd finished with his current call, and I waited and waited, and still no call... WTF are they thinking?
knowing recruitment agencies, it will take several days before you get that e-mail. The agency through which I`m working now, actually once promised they`d call on friday at 3pm. They actually called the next week on tuesday morning, and were then surprised I didn`t pick up (I was in class). |
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« Reply #308 on: August 13, 2011, 01:08:11 am » |
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I'll call them again on Monday, hopefully someone will be willing to furnish me with the required information. If what you said is the case, they should really think about sorting themselves out.
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« Reply #309 on: August 24, 2011, 02:31:50 am » |
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Not too long ago, after a lifetime in private school, parochial school, and homeschooling, I spent one year in the wilderness that is the American public school system (for the record, I am now in college). Oh. Dear. Lord. Where to begin:
The time I saw a girl come to school in her pajamas. And I don't mean the pajama-pants look. I mean a sea foam green flannel pajama set with yellow duckies on them. To school.
The words: I hate reading. (This doubles as "Things That Make Me Go GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH?!?!?!")
During a "Preparing for College" seminar, I heard a girl behind me say to her friend, "I'm not even going to college. I'm just going to get married and have babies."
Televisions wired into the classrooms.
Televisions wired into the cafeteria.
Kids wearing flip-flops to school.
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« Reply #311 on: September 03, 2011, 06:25:32 pm » |
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There was also a drink made of Jagermeister and Monster. It was called Killer Monster. Why did they not call it Jagermonster? that was my immediate thought when I saw it. That is the usual term for the drink, unless it's a drop shot (a third of a small can of energy drink to one shot Jager) in which case it's a Jager Bomb. |
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« Reply #312 on: September 04, 2011, 04:04:34 am » |
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That really depends on where you go. Hereabouts, a Jagerbomb is a full 250ml can of Red Bull with a shot of Jager. If it's a different energy drink, it has a different name.
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« Reply #313 on: September 06, 2011, 10:18:38 pm » |
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Someone invented a quite different drink called a Jägermonster, consisting of Jägermeister layered on grenadine layered on orange juice. The different thicknesses let the layers float on each other without mixing, creating a distinctive, sweet, effeminate-effete striped drink that not even the rare Girl Jäermonsters would have anything to do with. Try to imagine offering Jenka or Mama Gkika something like that!
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« Reply #315 on: September 07, 2011, 02:13:19 am » |
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The instructions on a Mrs. Smith's pie that says:
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« Reply #316 on: September 07, 2011, 02:21:26 am » |
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About as bad as the "Caution: Hot Coffee" on the outside of the coffee cup. Soon, it will include warnings to wait for contents to cool to a suitable temperature before drinking.  |
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« Reply #317 on: September 07, 2011, 04:13:18 am » |
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About as bad as the "Caution: Hot Coffee" on the outside of the coffee cup. Soon, it will include warnings to wait for contents to cool to a suitable temperature before drinking. Surely there would be a Thermometer Reading (as measured by Lord Kelvin) on said side of container to indicate the maximum optimal temperature for imbibing said beverage?  |
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« Reply #318 on: September 07, 2011, 06:45:13 am » |
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The first time I visited a newly renovated theater I saw that they had braille signs on the washroom doors. For some reason I brushed my hand across it on my way through the door to feel the bumps...
there weren't any. It was a photocopy of a braille sign.
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« Reply #319 on: September 07, 2011, 06:53:42 am » |
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The first time I visited a newly renovated theater I saw that they had braille signs on the washroom doors. For some reason I brushed my hand across it on my way through the door to feel the bumps...
there weren't any. It was a photocopy of a braille sign.
Nice try folks.
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« Reply #320 on: September 07, 2011, 06:58:16 am » |
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My jar of peanut butter warned me that it contains peanuts......AND MAYBE OTHER NUTS!!! OMG!
Seriously?
Also, how come my glass bottle of mineral water that has "filtered through volcanic rock for centuries to be bottled at source" must be drunk by 31st May 2013. What will happen to it after that? It has been underground for thousands of years, but they only think to bottle it now, when it only has about two years to go.....before what? It turns into hedgehog piss? IT'S WATER.
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« Reply #321 on: September 07, 2011, 08:14:58 am » |
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The first time I visited a newly renovated theater I saw that they had braille signs on the washroom doors. For some reason I brushed my hand across it on my way through the door to feel the bumps...
there weren't any. It was a photocopy of a braille sign.
Nice try folks.
Let me guess. The visual sign was a plastic sign with a male/female figure etched into it? Or something like this perhaps? Nope, it was actual braille, a white sign with a pattern of un-raised black dots on it. |
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« Reply #322 on: September 07, 2011, 08:28:45 am » |
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Our college does a course called E2E. It's about entry to employment.
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« Reply #323 on: September 07, 2011, 08:30:32 am » |
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My jar of peanut butter warned me that it contains peanuts......AND MAYBE OTHER NUTS!!! OMG!
Seriously?
Also, how come my glass bottle of mineral water that has "filtered through volcanic rock for centuries to be bottled at source" must be drunk by 31st May 2013. What will happen to it after that? It has been underground for thousands of years, but they only think to bottle it now, when it only has about two years to go.....before what? It turns into hedgehog piss? IT'S WATER.
OH, gods, the manufaturer is putting his nuts in your food before his ships it out. EEEEWWW! In many cases the water from springs, no mater how pure, contain bacteria or other 'critters' from the environment. The bottler filters and sanitises the water via distilations, osmosis, UV ect and then soften the water through water softening salt pellets (because hard and soft water are not completely interchangable for all purposes). The water is cirtifiably safe for consumption upon bottling. But even the best processes would assure that past a certain date critter from air in the bottle or the inside bottle surfaces won't climb back up to levels that can be iffy. stagnant water is a breeding ground. Add to that the idea of water sitting in a bottle made via chemical processes and potential leaching over time... The first time I visited a newly renovated theater I saw that they had braille signs on the washroom doors. For some reason I brushed my hand across it on my way through the door to feel the bumps...
there weren't any. It was a photocopy of a braille sign.
Nice try folks.
Let me guess. The visual sign was a plastic sign with a male/female figure etched into it? Or something like this perhaps? Nope, it was actual braille, a white sign with a pattern of un-raised black dots on it. I think the point he was trying to make was that if you could feel the door and on it there is a figure in a skirt either raised or sunken below the door sufface than lettering would be redundant (unless you are at the annual kilt festival). A female symbol you can recognise by touch is braille short hand for female just like you don't need to read the word women if you see the image. Try swapping the words for each image, few will notice and most everyone will use the image as default. |
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« Reply #324 on: September 07, 2011, 08:36:51 am » |
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Sorry, still nope. The spelled out word "women" was on the door and probably could be felt and read by someone who was blind. But that still doesn't explain why someone had photocopied a braille sign which presumably said the same thing (I hope) and posted it up on the door for the convenience of the non-sighted.
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