Re: 60 calls a person
"Hello". "Hello, is this Mr. Smith?" "Who wants to know?" "This is Jennifer/Roger calling from BT" [strong, almost incomprehensible Indian accent]."Click".
s/Click/Fuck off and die;
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A flat earther will say that the curvature you observed while on Concorde (so jealous by the way) was due to the curved windows distorting the view outside.
A flat-earther will thus insist that we return to the days of rectangular windows on the Comet.
(I'm not going to provide links. Look it up for yourselves.)
My mum flew on a Comet once. Fortunately she lived for another 62 years.
NASA ain't got a mission of any magnitude since how many years ago?
I think you'll find they're still being kept quite busy.
Anyway, how do they explain satellites in orbit, how GPS works, how compasses work, that we can measure our rotation relative to the moon, sun and planets, observe them with telescopes, the phases of the moon, and the above point how otherwise could you sail or fly round the planet?!
Epicycles.
Think we’re going to need the Queen to ask God to save us from this self inflected nightmare.
I wish I could think of a good grammar joke based on James' self-inflected typo, but this Brexit business is so depressingly dismal both in theory and in practice that my brain is refusing to cooperate.
Maybe we are not equal to start off with?Like it or not testosterone is a behaviour altering substance.
Like it or not, you might be a little behind the times on this one.
and taped a cardboard flap over the power switch
This was a standard part of the installation procedure for some types of cases through most of the 90s. There were some very poor designs. I think the worst I saw was a Tiny midi-tower which, when kept underneath the desk, could be accidentally switched off with a knee.
To most, trying to follow a header is like trying to read Etruscan.
Etruscan isn't actually that difficult to pick up, if you've ever studied Latin. I don't know what proportion of children ever study Latin but it's still taught in about a thousand secondary schools; it's even offered in some primary schools now.
Sorry. Complete aside. I agree with your point.
He noted that Labour had been responsible for handing Carillion one-third of its contracts, with one-third being awarded by the coalition government, and another third by the current government.
This is a politician seeking to share the blame with other parties, but what this suggests is that the number of contracts issued to Carillion per year is increasing. Sorry, I mean was increasing. Yes, Minister?
And don't bring him his standings with the Fox viewers unless they're positive. Show him his inauguration crowd photos again, if you need him in a good enough mood to cope with the day's list of executive signings and photo ops. "Look, Mr President, three million, easy. Everyone says so. Far more than that Kenyan ever got."
We had one of those too. Confusingly, it was also used for flood warnings after 1953 (not that our area ever flooded, although the river did get a bit close to the top a few times). They'd test the siren twice a year but most people never saw the notice in the local paper, so it just got ignored. They finally took it down in the late 80s, after the threat of nuclear war was judged to be minimal. Naturally the river burst its banks the year after.
It's the kind of thing Obama would love, tho.
You just can't help yourself, can you? Like Trump, you blurt out any old nonsense to fill your need to slag off his predecessor.
You must think this was all a bad idea.
Please don't tell me they also take their personnal mobile phones along with them for the ride too?
Cast your mind back to the Iraq war and you may recall that soldiers' personal mobiles were the primary form of communication between many units because the newly supplied radio gear was so naff. The partial Bowman system first issued to infantry squads was quickly nicknamed 'Better Off With Map And Nokia'.
Gordon Brown cost us about £5 Billion
And George Osborne cost us hundreds of billions when he decided that protecting the UK's triple-A rating was more important than investing in industry and in training to boost the economy and get us out of recession. The ongoing cost of that decision is still present, with the double-whammy of low wages and precarious employment hitting people in an everyday environment of artificially high asset prices, a structural deficit not expected to be cleared until 2025 instead of 2015 as first promised, and Brexit looming on the horizon.
It's almost like the country has suffered for generations under chancellors who didn't have a fucking clue, serving their time before blithely walking away to take up highly-paid directorships in the City, the bastards.