The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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Nice Video . Little relevance to your quote of my post though, even as an indirect "reference" to bald people.
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It was in reference to the safety of British cars, actually. I'd been a bit careless on trimming the quotes, I guess.
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One is reminded of the condom vending machine with an official sticker reading "Engineered and Inspected to meet all British Government Quality Control Standards".
Underneath, someone had hand-written "So was the Titanic".
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That's right up there with the notice attached to the coffee vending machine that said “the water in this machine has been passed by the Environmental Health Officer”.
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So was the Titanic
Was the captain of the Titanic engineered and inspected to the british government knickers control standards? There was nothing wrong with the ship until he drove it into an iceberg.
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There were some flaws.
- Poorly made, brittle steel. There are arguments that the damage would likely have been reduced had the steel been better made, even by the standards of the time.
- The lowest section of the ship was separated into 16 "watertight" compartments that could be sealed as necessary to prevent a break in the hull from flooding the entire ship. Unfortunately, these compartments had a serious flaw: water could overflow from a sealed compartment into the next compartment.
- The wall known issue of not having enough life boats.
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There were some flaws.
The biggest flaw apparently was that the White Star Line's management were assholes. What a surprise!
I know this particular piece of information because my great-grandfather turned down an offer to work (in the band) on the Titanic for that reason, though the exact words that have been handed down through the family are more polite. I gather that he preferred working for other steam lines.
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Was the captain of the Titanic engineered and inspected to the british government knickers control standards? There was nothing wrong with the ship until he drove it into an iceberg.
Shouldn't matter what standards the captain was found to comply with, given that the ship itself was unsinkable.
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Unsinkable? Unthinkable!
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Unthinkable? Not really: thunk by an itheberg.
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Thuffering thuccotash?
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And that's why you're the (second) fattest country in the world.
We are apparently 9th. http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html
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A toilet attendant asking people to tip based on their penis size
Every once in a while I'm glad I'm not wealthy. Not being able to afford restaurants with toilet attendants is a big plus.
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I do and I am. You can ask my wife how good I am at tuning out things in my environment.
Mine is very good at disrupting any tuning out.
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I think that's a hamster, not a mouse.
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I had some ice cream and a jar of hot fudge topping, the kind you heat up in the microwave. I really had to fight the urge to leave the ice cream alone and eat the fudge by itself.
When I was a bachelor I would buy the plastic jars of frosting.
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@Jaloopa said:
Also, if I remove my goatee and moustache I look 14 again and can't get served for alcohol or tobacco anywhere.
Hah. I haven't been asked for ID since I was 14 (with legal age being 18). The one time I actually was, I was so genuinely confused by the question that the cashier just gave me the smokes. I haven't even been carded in the UK, even though they allegedly are supposed to ask anyone who looks under 25.
Even today I usually get confused looks from people when I tell them their guess of 27 is about seven years off.
When I was 17, I could buy liquor without getting carded. By the time I was 27, I could not even buy beer or wine without getting carded. The last time I was carded I was 45. It did not appear to be a joke.
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@FrostCat said:
But I told him that if he kept coming here, once I recognized him I wouldn't ask him.
I like those people. I have a ton of local spots where I'm common enough that I never get carded. But it always throws me off when I recognize the bartender from multiple visits, and they still card me.
You see fewer bartenders than they see customers.
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Not being able to afford restaurants with toilet attendants is a big plus.
Why? It's not like you would be required to leave a big tip like me ...
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I predict the first few seconds will become a "Nope!" meme.
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@anonymous234 said:
And that's why you're the (second) fattest country in the world.
We are apparently 9th. http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html
We're slimming down, baby!
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Or is everyone else getting fatter?
Also, countries with <100,000 people should be excluded from global statistics by default.
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Was the captain of the Titanic engineered and inspected to the british government knickers control standards? There was nothing wrong with the ship until he drove it into an iceberg.
[Quote=codlnghorror]Doing it wrong!™[/quote]
Filed under: ...and Jeff's life goal of becoming a meme was finally complete
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Every once in a while I'm glad I'm not wealthy. Not being able to afford restaurants with toilet attendants is a big plus.
+1 for the extremely delayed reply. Kudos!
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Every once in a while I'm glad I'm not wealthy. Not being able to afford restaurants with toilet attendants is a big plus.
Toliet attendants creep me out too. I can't go if I think they're watching.+1 for the extremely delayed reply. Kudos!
I will endevour to start eating less toblerones. There is a 99p shop that sells giant toblerones for 99p each!
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Can you imagine how pissed off the staff must get in those places?
"How much is this?"
"99p."
"And that?"
"That's 99p too."
"What about that?"
"It's 99p as well. This is the 99p store, every fucking thing is 99p you fucking moron how do you have enough brain cells to earn enough to spend 99p but not enough to understand that everything is 99p in the 99p store?!!?!!?GARGLEFLARGLE"
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Sometimes you get two items for 99p!
ZZTop have an enjoyable story about having two dollars in the dollar store.
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I wouldn't know, never been in one. Nor Poundland for that matter.
The Co-Op, now, that's a different story entirely.
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What, it costs £1.10 due to Osborne fucking up the economy?
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What, it costs £1.10 due to Osborne fucking up the economy?
Worse. Some stuff costs less than a pound. I hate saving money.
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So do what I do, and fuck off to The Co-Op.
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@Arantor said:
This is why I've grown tired of the 99p store. I don't like walking around with pennies. I feel dirty just thinking of them.What, it costs £1.10 due to Osborne fucking up the economy?
Worse. Some stuff costs less than a pound. I hate saving money.
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Can you imagine how pissed off the staff must get in those places?
in the context of this:
@DogsB said:Toliet attendants
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Surely the correct term for them would then be 'pissed on' rather than 'pissed off'?
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Worse. Some stuff costs less than a pound.
Poundland special offers: Doing It Wrong™!
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So here's the question, the regulators are apparently approving Poundland buying out 99p Stores. Does that mean we're going to see 99p stores selling things over price, or Poundland under price?
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Does that mean we're going to see 99p stores selling things over price, or Poundland under price?
Both.
Both companies will then sell everything at 99.5p.
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1/2p hasn't been legal tender in about three decades. Should prove interesting.
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They will probably the merge, getting the JOIN wrong and charge £1.99 for everything. Worse case scenario is where the only valid purchase would be having a 99p item and an identical £1.00 item
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Mai'q The Liar cosplay
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Mai'q The Liar cosplay
That's you, isn't it.