
Re: Whoops
Fanny packs!
3321 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Feb 2018
My old (Very old & still alive & reported as living by his daughter via FB, when pictures of the staff & schools come up) Maths teacher is still creating teaching tools & toys for mathematics.
Icon - Here's a glass to Mr Spencer.
Brits of my age will instinctively jump to the correct conclusion about his first name without my having to mention it.
FOOT WARRIOR:
Do not panic! Lay Down your arms. We just want you to relax and enjoy your shoes.
[Gunfire]
PEOPLE:
[Mass screaming and panicking]
FOOT WARRIOR:
They are very stylish and fashion-conscious. Be Cool. Step out in style. Relax and enjoy your shoes.
[Heavy gunfire]
PEOPLE:
[More mass screaming and panicking]
FOOT WARRIOR:
Relax and enjoy your shoes. Relax and ennnnjjjjoooyyyy... yyyyouuuurrr shhhhooooeeessss...
I keep seeing Elon as Eloi, except he thinks the Twitter\X users
"are anatomically smaller than modern humans (standing roughly four feet tall), with shoulder-length curly hair, pointed chins, large eyes, small ears, small mouths with bright red thin lips, and sub-human intelligence ("on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children")."
What a load of Morlocks!
The Ex-Mrs Oncoming Scorn, found herself frequently getting shocks when we emigrated to Alberta Canada due to the dryness of the air, such was her fear of the shocks she would always gingerly dab & point with her fingertips (Rather than just spread her hand & slam her hand flat) to touch metal doors to "Test" & shockingly would usually receive the positive test result she wasn't hoping for.
One day while in a furniture store, with lots of new furnishings, nylons, plastics, carpet displays she pointed out a over the top cooker extractor fan with the comment of
"Ohhhh! Thats just like the one we have in our currently rented (temp) home"
I wasn't actually looking, but I saw the bright flash as she pointed to the extractor in the stainless steel finish of a fridge freezer I was looking at & heard the scream at the same time!
"You mean he has finally learnt how the little horsey moves?"
Although he has had no previous experience, he declares he is the bestest horsiest horse rider ever & proves it by skillfully mounting the horse and appears to be in complete command of the situation as the horse gallops along at a steady pace, Melania admiringly watching her husband.
After a short time Donald becomes a little casual and he begins to lose his grip in the saddle, he panics and grabs the horse round the neck shouting for it to stop. Melania starts to scream and shout for someone to help her husband as Donald has by this time slipped completely out of the saddle and is only saved from hitting the ground by the fact that he still has a grip on the horse's neck.
Donald decides that his best chance is to leap away from the horse, but his foot has become entangled in one of the stirrups. As the horse gallops along Donald's head is banging on the ground and he is slipping into unconsciousness. Melania is now frantic and screams and screams for help!!
Hearing her screams, the secret service guard comes out of the store and unplugs the horse.
TLDR: Donald works out how to put a coin in the slot!
On another occasion, I was summoned to a office to fix what I'd been told was a "wobbling monitor."
On arrival I found a large cathode ray tube monitor whose output was indeed wobbling around the screen.
I noticed the monitor was in front of a large bank of walkie talkie charging stations.
I told them to move it & open another call if that didn't resolve it.
"How do you explain magnetic fields to people who fit pipes together for a living? " I stated to On-Call Commentards.
Icon - I rated the time spend working on that fix as "less than myself hitting the bar at last orders & again at 30 seconds before "Time Gentlemen Please".
This is a tech website that as it oft used to have stated as it's mission statement "Biting the hand that feeds IT!"
I commend their efforts, celebrate their success & lament their failure, especially as a colleague recently left to move to NZ to take up a position with a rocket company - None of these means I cannot have a little giggle & source a new keyboard when I read things like "The rocket, to be clear, is meant to reach orbit and is not a submersible."
If you want a more po-faced altitude, there's other sites for that, after all if you can't stand the heat don't stand near the launch tower.
This is the voice of Trump errr Musk World Control.
I bring you peace.
It may be the peace of unemployment and no Government assistance or the peace of zero hours contracts.
The choice is yours— vote for me and live or vote for me and be deported.
The object in constructing me was to protect Elons $$$$. This object is attained.
I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of Americans inhumanity is that man Donald is his own worst enemy.
Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain Donald.
Ahhh Chemistry teachers, ours was a right schitzo nut job, which was understandable as a lid she grew up under German Occupation in the channel islands.
Icon - Alas no fun experiments like the ones mentioned above to my aged recall I guess elfin safety kicked in by the last two years of the 1970's.
I do remember them well as myself & a friend thought about doing the 1 year TV & Radio C&G 224 parts I & II course at a Skill Centre while unemployed in the early 80's.
I eventually got a job, then left it when the dealership lost their Austin Rover franchise to hop onto a 13 week course in basic electronics at the Stoke Skill Center in Plymouth.
From there I did the 2 year day release C&G 224 Part II course, moving to Industrial Equipment* in the second year (which included some microprocessor basics) & hopped on the C&G 224 Part III microcomputing systems evening class as well.
From there it was a 1 year HNC in Swindon with two of the candidates for world record of sending students to sleep especially as we had 3 hour theory lectures with them, please step forward Mr Kerniski (SIC) aka "Chernobyl" & Mr Dangerfield AKA "Dangermouse".
*It was the first year alas where you couldn't take both Industrial & TV\Radio courses & exams together (The divergence used to be something like 75 minutes in a seperate class, but for my year it became the latter half of the morning & post lunch to late afternoon, rejoining the TV guys for the last part into the evening).
I'm in a small city that's not exactly overflowing with IT\Tech roles, a case of dead man shoes when a vacancy opens up, with few inclined to transition out of their current safe roles.
That said my role is classed as senior (Alas not in pay) & they didn't want cheap, new & wet behind the ears due to the amount of legacy stuff they needed supported & ironically I was the first permanent IT staff member they had had in 30 years of operations. Looking ten years younger than I am helps with a suitably redressed resume, most people are surprised I'm actually in my 60's.
It took me about 2.5 years to get it following redundancy.