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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 11:52:04 GMT
Run a business on leisure machines and you get what you deserve... Absolutely but so many do it  |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2016 11:55:20 GMT
Video conferencing in real life...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 11:59:22 GMT
LOL - because of my recent medical issues I am unable to travel so only attend meeting via Lync and in virtually every meeting something like depicted in this video occurs lol
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2016 12:04:53 GMT
Me too!
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 23, 2016 14:19:07 GMT
Had various versions of all those faults over the many meetings to the US on Skype.
There have been so many and I'm getting off light now as I wind down and out (thank you so much !)
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 24, 2016 7:16:57 GMT
An early one today.
Out first thing with the dogs in the garden as they did what they needed to do and pottered around.
Fairly big garden with plants ans shrubs around.
I'm with 3 of the Jack Russels/crosses
2 close to me and 1 a distance a way.
Like many dogs they hate squirrels with a passion
So there they are pottering around and I see a young squirrel trotting across the garden between us.
I watch the dogs .......
Nothing.
Totally oblivious to the demon squirrel who was risking life and limb being anywhere near any of the 3
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Post by steveeb on Apr 24, 2016 12:20:51 GMT
I was walking our Parsons Jack Russel down the road, with him trotting along next to the garden walls. At one driveway we passed a fox sitting there - and he walked straight past totally oblivious! Couldn't have been more than three feet away. I had to pull him back to notice as the fox calmly walked back down the drive. They get so locked into a scent it seems and a particularly chilled fox.
Funny how he never misses a chance to roll in their shite though!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 24, 2016 13:08:25 GMT
Ha!
I was once walking his mutt-ness along a road and spotted a cat sitting on the outside window ledge of a house we were approaching. I imagined that the cat would scoot off before we got there but it kept its nerve until we were about a foot away. Merlot still hadn't seen it and was sniffing the ground as he walked, no doubt following the scent of a cat! Anyway, the cat made a leap off the window ledge and used the dogs head as a stepping stone, landing behind him and then tearing off down the street.
That was about 4 years ago and, up until about 12 months or so ago, he still looked up nervously every time we got to that point on walks, wondering if any more cats were going to fall out of the sky.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 24, 2016 17:35:57 GMT
Ha !
My lot missed out on a deer just now.
Amazed they had no idea it was there across an open area. Perhaps the wind was wrong or maybe they aren't as good hunters as they think !
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Post by MartinT on Apr 29, 2016 10:01:50 GMT
We were browsing around upstairs in the new John Lewis store in Basingstoke. Suddenly this godawful music blasts out, sounding absolutely dire (all shouty and hard). To satisfy my curiosity, I sauntered over to investigate only to see a couple being given a hard sell by the salesman.
The object of their attention? All I could see was the Bose badge and already I had started laughing. I *think* the salesman didn't spot me!!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 30, 2016 8:20:33 GMT
This BBC News headline:
'Weasel shuts down Large Hadron Collider'
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Post by MartinT on Apr 30, 2016 8:42:04 GMT
There's no need to speak of the project funder like that!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 30, 2016 8:45:39 GMT
Ha! No, apparently an inquisitive mustelid stumbled into a transformer and fried a circuit (and itself).
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Post by MartinT on Apr 30, 2016 9:45:44 GMT
A few MeV put paid to it. What a way to go!
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Post by Slinger on Apr 30, 2016 10:46:34 GMT
'Weasel shuts down Large Hadron Collider' is definitely my headline of the year so far. Sadly, they went on to report that "the weasel did not survive the encounter." No big surprise there then.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 30, 2016 10:54:10 GMT
I think there's scope for all sorts of interesting experiments here. Does anyone fancy helping me develop a Small Mammal Collider, for example?
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Post by MikeMusic on May 1, 2016 8:27:35 GMT
You'd think it was ok to put a basket of freshly washed laundry in a basket on the floor. Lucy the Jack Russell thought it made a lovely bed  |
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Post by Chris on May 1, 2016 16:57:00 GMT
The program "How not to DIY". Ace.
Especially the electric bits and folk felling trees into their houses.
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Post by Tim on May 2, 2016 8:38:08 GMT
During my morning walk down by the lake I could smell the fumes of fuel, so turned around to see what it was. This was next to a water sports centre and two of the staff had just refuelled a jet ski for the next customer. Now the Chinese are very different when it comes to clothing convention's like us westerner's and I have seen well groomed Chinese women out walking in woods in cocktail dresses and high heels, but this made me laugh out loud. The next customer was a guy in shiny black street shoes, a black business suit and a crisp white shirt and it's 30 degrees! The two staff dressed in shorts and t-shirts put a life jacket on him and off he goes. TIC as the ex-pats often say (this is China). I have to say I thought he was under dressed as he didn't have a tie on  |
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Post by MikeMusic on May 2, 2016 8:40:36 GMT
So much of it is learning on the job. Those that survive hopefully learn
I had a bonfire many years ago. Couldn't get it going.
Ah, no problem, drop of petrol,
Hmm still no good
Some more petrol, splash it on all over
*BOOM*
Right, won't be doing *that* again
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