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---- !!GP vs. CA 24/07/06 San: 15/80 I have made many comments over the years about Capetonian drivers and their quirks, but after being back up in jhb for a little while now I have to say that there is no going back. People do what you expect them to do, stupid or otherwise. Although it is amusing to play on the overwhelming awareness of crime and roadrage there is these days. Some punk cut me off yesterday so since he was going in the same direction as me i deceided to have some fun. It was mind-boggling to see how many back-road routes he was willing to take to skip one or two traffic lights on a 3-lane, high capacity road. The moment of realisation took him a while but it was well worth the wasted time and petrol, I didn't know a Corsa Lite could do 160 :D !!!Power Supply I like the way SABC has introduced the power meter thingy in primetime TV. A very cunning ploy indeed, they tell you to turn off your lights, stoves, heaters and all other appliances ''apart from the TV''. It's not a public service however, since to know what's going on you have to watch TV and therefore you have to watch all of the primetime adverts as well. How much more would advertisers be willing to pay knowing they have a captive audience? Exactly. Capitalism at it's 'best'. !!!Nescafe 90210 It wouldn't be CLAW if there weren't issues. I was one of the worst perpertrators of this when I was around in CT so no blame will come from my side. It's just interesting to see how complicated and intertwined people's lives become, sometimes with happy endings. I suppose this is a question more than a comment since I don't understand why it happens. Is this unique to CLAW or small societies in general? Is there something about roleplaying that makes relationships (platonic ones as well) tend towards this sort of thing? !!!TFTD ''"I am living proof of intelligent design - and yet i am puzzled why so many are trying to turn themselves into monkeys"'' - God ---- Contact me [[mailto:seanlouw@gmail.com|here]] if you really want to. Changed lines 272-284 from:
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!!The 'Real' World 10/04/06 San: 25/80 (The tentacles! The ''tentacles!!!'' Ha-ha-ha-ha-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!) ''Yes!'' I have returned many years later to add to what I started. A year in the workplace has taught me many valuable lessons about human nature and the nature of stupidity (which appear to be close cousins). One hears many jokes about the incompetency and myopia of management and think that maybe they're exaggerating. Afraid not. The ability for management to consistently ignore long term, strategically important objectives while simulataneously highlighting them as ultra-priorities at strategy discussions astounds me! I'm supposedly doing R&D here at the moment but since we lost other people from the dept I've been sandbagged with routine crap and standard analysis, no freedom to do the groundbreaking stuff the future of the company depends on. The hiring 'process' has so far been going for over 6 months with no sign of an increase in pace or for that matter of any new recruits and I know for a ''fact'' at least 1 capable person has been interviewed. It really makes one wonder what it takes to be a CEO, possibly a severe case of Ed Zachary disease coupled with mild brain damage. !!!More Power Does anyone believe this crap about the loose bolt screwing up the turbine in the Koeberg reactor? Isn't it a slight coincidence that a short while after they had to effect an emergency shutdown (because some fool shut off the coolant to the wrong reactor during mainenance) now there are serious mainenance issues with the one that got shut down? Is it not more likely that the damage resulted from this emergency shutdown? I'm not even going to get into the brainlessness of Alec Erwin who denies saying the word 'sabotage', lying fartbrain. Since the refuelling is coming I suggest much bracing for impact since winter causes ''much'' larger power drain so it's going to be rolling blackouts again more than likely. !!!TFTD Why did they use Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta? What is the need for producers to use americans (with ''horrible'' accents) in films set in the UK? |