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Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:22 pm

why doesn't my job have call waiting music?

Post by **peter** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:51 am

___ wrote:
sgt.null wrote:daylight savings was done for farmers wasn't it? same with the months kids go to school.
Wrong, and wrong. You know, there are sources of information at your fingertips. Why, if you took some of the time you spent here posting crap, and dedicated it to learning something, you might one day know something.

C'mon ___, say what you mean!

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:21 pm

peter wrote:
___ wrote:
sgt.null wrote:daylight savings was done for farmers wasn't it? same with the months kids go to school.
Wrong, and wrong. You know, there are sources of information at your fingertips. Why, if you took some of the time you spent here posting crap, and dedicated it to learning something, you might one day know something.
C'mon ___, say what you mean!

he is just jealous of my beautiful post count - pay no attention.

btw - read something that says dst was the result of wars and rationing fuel. but that Ben Franklin had proposed it to save candles beofre that.

summers off says Beck is a way to ensure we fall behind the world in educated children.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:41 pm

There you go. It was bad for the farmers, and it makes kids go to school in the dark, not the other way around. It is also interesting that most of the world leaders who supported DST were avid golfers who wanted to get in an extra round. As for post counts...if I wanted to, I could have stayed at the top of that list. I prefer quality over quantity.

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:53 pm

___ wrote: I prefer quality over quantity.

i have no idea what any of that means...

Post by **peter** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:48 am

sgt.null wrote:summers off says Beck is a way to ensure we fall behind the world in educated children.

In that case it's working

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:43 pm

peter wrote:
sgt.null wrote:summers off says Beck is a way to ensure we fall behind the world in educated children.
In that case it's working

won't anyone think of the children?

Post by **Auleliel** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:55 am

Darn cassette tapes keep jamming in the player this week. At least 6 times in 5 days, during class. One of the tapes broke. How am I supposed to teach if the little kiddies can't sing their songs about the weather and clothes and Jack the Mechanic?

Post by **Vraith** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:50 pm

Auleliel wrote: Darn cassette tapes keep jamming in the player this week. At least 6 times in 5 days, during class. One of the tapes broke. How am I supposed to teach if the little kiddies can't sing their songs about the weather and clothes and Jack the Mechanic?

Damn those luddites who never heard of CD's, mp3's, or iTunes!

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:34 am

damn my computer will not always play youtube vids right away. takes forever to buffer. woe is me.

Post by **peter** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:19 am

My boss just e mailed me to say we won't be given a public holiday for the forthcoming Royal Wedding as will the rest of the country - we will have to work as normal while everyone else partys at Prince William and Katies request. BASTARDS!

Post by **Orlion** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:07 pm

peter wrote:My boss just e mailed me to say we won't be given a public holiday for the forthcoming Royal Wedding as will the rest of the country - we will have to work as normal while everyone else partys at Prince William and Katies request. BASTARDS!

Well you at least get paid more? If not, then damn them! Damn them to hell!

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:41 am

Guess that means you must be in the UK Peter.

--A

Post by **peter** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:56 am

For my sins Avatar - for my sins!

Post by **TheFallen** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:40 pm

Avatar wrote:Guess that means you must be in the UK Peter.

--A

peter wrote:For my sins Avatar - for my sins!

For your sins? The UK's some sort of earthly Purgatory, then?

Well, okay, I'd be more than prepared to accept that not even Dante could have envisaged anywhere more soul-sappingly depressing than Slough or Reading, but in general, I'd rather not live anywhere else.

And that's having spent 6 months living in the US. The three things that drove me nuts were:-

1) The complete inability of anyone in the US - including restaurants and speciality outlets - to make a good cup of coffee. Okay that's partially down to the fact that you can't get any decent ground coffee over there anyway, but Hellfire!

2) The fact that the only cheese sold there is bright orangey-yellow and bounces if you drop it.

3) And do you think anyone has an electric kettle? Do they Hell!

Damn total American failure when it comes to any understanding of the art of hot drink making!

Post by **Auleliel** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:10 pm

TheFallen wrote:And that's having spent 6 months living in the US. The three things that drove me nuts were:-

1) The complete inability of anyone in the US - including restaurants and speciality outlets - to make a good cup of coffee. Okay that's partially down to the fact that you can't get any decent ground coffee over there anyway, but Hellfire!

2) The fact that the only cheese sold there is bright orangey-yellow and bounces if you drop it.

3) And do you think anyone has an electric kettle? Do they Hell!

Damn total American failure when it comes to any understanding of the art of hot drink making!

I strongly protest the bolded statement, as one of my biggest complaints about living in South Korea is the fact that there is no cheese at all except that sliced processed "cheese food" (which I believe is neither cheese nor food, and which is deceptively labeled "cheddar cheese" in SK, grr...), whereas in Wisconsin I was able to choose from a wide variety of good cheeses of all colors, shapes, sizes, and flavors. I miss cheese...
I do agree about the coffee and the electric kettle (what on earth is an electric kettle?). In my home in America, we had a special hot water tap which had water that was the perfect temperature for tea, coffee, and cocoa. I miss that too.
Darn all the little conveniences which are so inconvenient to obtain in S. Korea!

Post by **TheFallen** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:06 pm

TheFallen wrote:Overdependance on the coffee percolator, I suspect.

More like overdependence on the coffeemaker. And lately, overdependence on Starbucks -- which makes the only decent instant coffee I've ever tasted. Damn American ingenuity and its inability to make decent instant coffee for most of my life!

I'm starting to see electric kettles for sale now in the US. But for a long time, there weren't any at all.

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Erm... I never wrote this post?

Post by **Orlion** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:43 pm

I've got an electric kettle. It has a wire strainer that I can use to brew tea within it

Post by **Auleliel** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:32 pm

TheFallen wrote:As to electric kettle, it's no more than a mains-powered device to boil water quickly - great for tea and instant coffee (by which I do NOT mean that Folgers muck). You'll find one in quite literally every kitchen in the UK, so I was probably naively staggered that it was so hard to find one in the USA. Overdependance on the coffee percolator, I suspect.

Ooh! I want one! Didn't need one at home in America because of the special hot tap, but now it would come in handy.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:24 am

Orlion wrote:I've got an electric kettle. It has a wire strainer that I can use to brew tea within it

No man, that's just wrong. You need to pour the boiling water over your tea. Not boil the water with the tea already in it.

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