quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: How's things in Botswana, squeeg?
I watched The Gods Must Be Crazy recently - for the first time in many years - and got all nostalgic for Botswana, even though I've only been there once and it's probably nothing like The Gods Must Be Crazy any more. It might be a bit like The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency but I never watched that.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I always pictured the chainsaws spinning through the air, end over end,
Visually, that would rock, but it's not strictly necessary. At high velocity the chainsaws would tumble inside the target, that's where projectiles get their damage capacity from.
I learnt all this from my Port Arthur Massacre fixation.
Just imagine being a tyrannosausus rex with a bunch of throbbing, belching chainsaws dancing around in your innards... woooooah.
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Sorry John, yeah, I won't be coming in today. No, I feel really shitty, yeah. Doctor says it's probably cholera. Well, 4 or 5 weeks at least, and that's if I don't die. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Pretty rough really. Yeah. How? dunno, I was knocking round Rhodesia for a bit on friday night so that could've done it I suppose.
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At an unplanned party some time ago my old housemate got one of our friends to call his boss and say that he wouldn’t be at work because she had just run him over. Despite being Italian, and presumably because of being blind drunk, she decided to pretend to be French for the purposes of this deception. Worked a treat.
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quote:Originally posted by McDirts: Sorry John, yeah, I won't be coming in today. No, I feel really shitty, yeah. Doctor says it's probably cholera. Well, 4 or 5 weeks at least, and that's if I don't die. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Pretty rough really. Yeah. How? dunno, I was knocking round Rhodesia for a bit on friday night so that could've done it I suppose.
Brian's got Cholera again, Sally. You’ll have to cover for a couple of weeks, or forever if it's terminal.
I bet it's just fucking 'man cholera'. If he's not dead within 18 hours I want his bonus.
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Fuck sake. Day off with cholera. What the fuck? These fucking graduates don't know what it means to work in a real fucking office. Cholera. Had it myself last year. Went away on its own after a day or so.
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I was at work one day and felt a sharp pain which I ignored for several hours...long story short, I had what was left of my appendix removed (it had burst) about 30 minutes after the work day ended.
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You know its funny you mention cholera. I turned on the shower and was hit by a very intense smell of chlorine this morning. I can only imagine its preventative measures due to the bloody neighbours. Its pretty unlikely to travel all the way down here (about 400km from the Zim border). Even if some unfortunate soul did make it here I'd imagine we would all be safe.
I do smell like I took a swim before work though. I guess it beats taking time off for cholera. Mind you, with an unemployment rate of 80% in Zim I suppose most people were just fucking about at home anyway.
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Happy day I'm off till Jan 5th 2009 from today !
The start of the holiday is slightly jarred by the fact that I had to run out of work yesterday at three because Femke fell off the patio steps and dislocated her shoulder (meaning I have to pop in MOnday for a couple of hours - boo sucks..) but that's not proper work and I finally get a rest...
-------------------- my own brother a god dam shit sucking vampire!!! you wait till mum finds out buddy!
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Yeah Friday eh, pretty decent result all round. I finally got a call from the insurance company today as well, so looks like we're one step closer to getting the car into a body shop for repairs.
And tonight I'll be having pizza. Yeah I'm feeling pretty positive about the way things are going right now.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: There were too many problems with the chainsaw gun, though. For it to be really impressive, it'd have to be quite rapid fire - like at least 20 rounds a minute. So what form would the magazine take? Who could carry that many chainsaws?
Cannons used to fire chainshot - would that do? You'd have one on the deck of your Navy man-o-war and when the baddies hove into range you'd sling thirty cannon's worth of chainshot at their rigging and stuff. Used to bring masts and sails down a treat. Bit of a single-shot-then-reload scenario, though. Not as good as chainsaws, but can actually happen in the real world.
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No no, it's ok. I wasn't hurt or anything in the accident, luckily enough. Just slippery conditions and the like. Thanks for the concern though.
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We had a huge ice storm where I live. Trees down all over the place...no power, no electric, no estimate on when either of them will be restored. And I had to chainsaw my way out of my driveway this morning due to fallen trees blocking my path.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: No no, it's ok. I wasn't hurt or anything in the accident, luckily enough. Just slippery conditions and the like. Thanks for the concern though.
I... think you have to mention that you were in an accident for people to... you know... know about it and show concern etc.
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Er no, nothing to do with it. I was driving the car on the road, on my way to the post office, and I had an accident where I hit the back of another car. I was just driving along normally.
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I'm not quite sure what you think drifting is, but no. What happened is that I didn't spot the woman ahead of me slowing down until it was too late for me to stop in time, so I hit the back of her. I could make all kinds of excuses, like the fact the brake lights on those Kia people carrier things are woefully hard to see, or that if the road had been dry I'd have been able to stop in time, but realistically it was because I wasn't paying 100% attention because I was looking at a turning so I made a mistake, and as a result I had a car accident.
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Thanks. Perhaps surprisingly, I've never actually had a proper car accident before. I guess I've been lucky. Keep thinking about how I could have done things differently, like mounted the kerb, swerved into the other lane, or just been looking where I was fucking going in the first place. So frustrating and futile.
But there you go, live and learn I guess. At least nobody was hurt.
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